Well, we finally got our new computer up and running. I had to call the Apple people and spend, what seemed to be, a half a day getting things working. I finally caught the problem myself. I made a spelling error when I inputted some info. A learning experience.
I just listened to an interview, with Chris Hedges, at the scene of the Wall Street Occupation. He is a reporter who has covered many demonstrations and movements. It is his opinion that this movement cannot fail to bring about desired changes in how our society functions in the political, economic and social areas. You can see it on "What really happened" dated Oct 18.
Chris is one of many pundits/reporters that feel this movement will go the distance; that it won't slow down until real progress is made towards a just society. People are realizing that they create the government. That it is there to serve them. The government is not there for the purpose of serving corporations. A student of history might ask, "When did the government quit serving the people? When did the the government begin to be the facilitator for corporate money making?" Was it always so? In any case it is time it stops.
Americans have been fooled into thinking they are free. They feel free as long as they accept societies structures and don't attempt to move out of their cage. Religion reinforces these authoritarian structures and makes any variance from the norm 'a sin'. If you want to know how free people really are, have some in depth conversations with dyslexics, homosexuals, eccentrics of all stripes, anybody a little out of the norm. Not to mention Blacks, Hispanics, Orientals, Native Americans and all the other groups the larger society has frowned upon in the past and present. It turns out nobody is free, not the judges or the judged. We need to discover what freedom is. Now we are more expert on what it isn't. Can I do or be anything as long as it doesn't impinge on anyone else? We really won't understand these things until we know the reality of Love. When we can "see", that is, view each other with unconditional love; then we will understand freedom.
Well I need to get some chores done. Potatoes need digging, apples need picking....................... sounds like a song.
Love and Peace, Gregg
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