The Revolution is Personal
Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2005 12:00 pm[This has been inspired primarily by the thread about the Holographic Universe, and I'm posting a piece I wrote back in April for cloudbusters@yahoogroups.com. --MK]<br><br>Back in 1969, when I graduated high school and went to college for the first<br>time (only to drop out as per CIA-employee Timothy Leary's advice of "Turn on--<br>tune in-- drop out"), the revolution was something I could see, hear, taste,<br>smell, and participate in. We were so sure that we would be the ones to change<br>the world. In the Vietnam War, we had a huge issue that we rallied around,<br>understood, and agreed upon.<br><br>But in the following decade, that war finally ended, and such a large group<br>hasn't agreed on anything since. Certainly not enough to make anything happen,<br>other than the retaliation, the swing of the pendulum, that we still feel today<br>(like reporters and whistleblowers being killed rather than have them report<br>something they shouldn't.) Someone certainly learned a lot from Vietnam.<br><br>What happened? We still have wars, equally unjust and damaging; our environment<br>needs as much help as it did when Edward Abbey wrote The Monkeywrench Gang;<br>injustice still reigns supreme. Plus, there are issues that should be JUST as<br>big: chemtrails, for instance.<br><br>The revolution never ended. It may have gone underground for a while, as<br>hippies turned into yuppies and started becoming modern versions of their<br>materialistic parents whom they hated when younger... some folks simply moved<br>into the woods and drew their personal parameters inward, to their property<br>lines. But we still raised the next generation on our stories and some of that<br>old protest-mindset was passed on.<br><br>The revolution is now personal. It's about changing ourselves, living as<br>examples to not only our kids but also our neighbors, near and far. This is the<br>new paradigm, really, that we are ripples in a great pool of humanity. We still<br>stir the water in the sea of consciousness, and our efforts are felt,<br>acknowledged and appreciated by others.<br><br>But in order to create ripples, we must take some sort of action. This is why<br>we are here, at this critical juncture in Humanity's history. Despite<br>large-scale blinkered unaware TV-mesmerized people, despite contaminated food,<br>water, air, some of us KNOW the score. We, therefore, have a responsibility, an<br>obligation to act, to create that ripple.<br><br>What have YOU done today? --MaryK <p></p><i></i>