chuckh: no, I am not a depressed person. In fact, I’ve never felt more alive, thank you, primarily due to seeing the political illusion in all its horrible effectiveness. At this point in history, we don’t have a choice as to which economic system we might choose – our true power to choose has been eliminated. We are living in a real world in which real, actual people do control governments, events, and global monetary means that benefit the select elite, however you care to define them. It sounds as if you like so many fail to engage the political reality that exists because you have already dis-allowed and dis-qualified any other creative and possible ways that might could emerge if a group of people who seek mutual and common benefits in their social relations really see the political relations as they are. When you or anyone argues for the present system, the status quo, you are stating: I prefer the illusory “safety” of the known distresses which logically can only grow worse and which portends grave consequences for me, my family, and my community rather than investigate deeply and seriously the truth of our situation and face the possibly terrifying and possibly unanswerable question: what can we do now? Our prayers, and we all should learn what it means to pray if anyone has failed to so learn, should be directed to asking for the strength of will and the courage to face that possible terror and that potential question which has no ready answer. My hope is secure. But it is extremely, extremely sad to observe good people voice only the slogans of the controllers while they are “peaceably” being transported to their own peculiar concentration camps.
