rational hatred -vs- voluntary submission
The soft spiritualists are afraid of anger. The angry materialists are pissed off at the hippies. The so-called masses are submitting themselves, their efforts, their lives to feed a system of irrational hatred, violence, separation, manipulation and exploitation. We do so voluntarily. Is it not rational to hate this situation?
Is it not completely rational to want to rage against this machine?
To know that I have grown up a privileged life on massacred ground; to know that my comfort comes at the expense, the toil, the pain of exploited peoples; to know that more than half of every single tax dollar (in the US) is used in military endeavors; to know that ultimately these tax dollars that we are supposed to believe are protecting us end up in the pockets of an exclusive few; To know all this, simply sucks.
And yet it is. And I must find peaceful acceptance in myself of the situation and grow in my awareness of exactly how i contribute to this machine. I long to step out. To live in full awareness that my thoughts, my words, my actions, and my resources are directed in full support of peace, harmony, joy, and love… all that i know to be true and beautiful. Without Compromise.
The wise experienced voice may now say full of resignation, but life is full of compromise… it must be, how else can we get along with others? how else can we contribute to the momentum of society?
No. If we continue in the direction we are going, we are likely to end up exactly where we are heading.
Please join me in a real, deep, true exploration of these questions:
How to step out?
What to step into?
with love, compassion, hope and a fiery rational hatred,
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.:.joshua
