Off and on this weekend, I thought of what I would write about today. No ideas came with any clarity. I awoke this Morning, still no ideas. I decided I would write about why I am writing. I sat down at the computer; the internet was down. This is an hour or so later. The internet is restored and I am ready to go.
Why do I want to blog? Well I like to write. That should be enough. And, I have learned a lot. I have failed and I have succeeded. I have been married twice. I have six children. I have been rich {well very modestly} and I have been poor {with a little more reality}. I have been in business by myself. I have worked for others. I have lived off the land. I have pursued the pleasures of life. I have pursued a spiritual understanding of life. I have been involved in politics. I have eschewed politics. I must have learned something.
I look around at the over seventy folks in our social group. I realize there is enough knowledge and wisdom to run the world, in our little group; well, at least better than it is run now. But no, I am not one of those oldsters that is bitter about being shunted aside. I don't feel like I have been put aside and I love being retired. I can just 'be'. It is the best time of my life.
Regardless, I would like to write. I have always wanted to write. But, what got me started was the awareness that a great change was coming. Coincidentally with all the prophecies, or because of, I could see our present society collapsing and a new one emerging. Aside from that input, the economist that I paid attention to, made it clear our present system was not sustainable.
For awhile it appeared that a system of economics and government could work with capitalism at its core. However, over the last fifty years, capitalism lost any integrity it had and came to be a naked worship of money. It has evolved, that corporations only purpose, is to make money for their stock holders and any public service is, at the very best, window dressing.
We are at our core, loving beings, we could not tolerate a system based on greed any longer. It had to collapse. It is not what we want. It is a very greedy snake eating its tail. It was never, if it would collapse, it was when.
I know, I know, most people go on blithely like it will go on forever. Well, they got history on their side. It is amazing, how the powers that be, have avoided a complete take down of our economic system so far.
But I don't doubt what I see. The crumbling has been going on for a long time. Will it speed up or will it be a gentle collapse?
If our economic system goes, so does our agriculture, our food distribution, our medical system, our educational system, everything that depends on our greed based system.
It seems to me that people need to stop and consider; how would we get along without money for a month, two months, a year? Perhaps we should grow a garden; maybe raise some chickens? How will my family do? How about my community?
Rather than see this as a tragedy. I see it as good riddance. But there will be a transition time between the collapse and new systems emerging. There are many, many people in agriculture, business and finance who are loving beings hoping to be of service. They have felt like fish out of water in the old system and they will emerge at the forefront in the new world.
It is not going to do any good to complain about the horrors of our present world. The media is painting a very grim picture. Fear sells.
It would be well for us to take our focus away from the collapse and visualize new systems of agriculture, medicine, education, business etc. based on love, the integrity of people and care and nurture of our Mother Earth.
Love and Peace, Gregg
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