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seen thoughts skip to main skip to sidebar seen thoughts my personal thoughts on the state of things sunday march 15 2009 the hump sometimes i think we re gonna make it over this hump i feel like the tide is turning and i have george bush and al gore to thank for it here s why since i was a kid i believed in gene roddenberry s vision of the future the basic idea is that humankind has left behind the desire for wealth material possessions the need for mass religion and most importantly the desire to dominate each other that we as a people have come together left race issues behind grown up enough to understand that wealth comes from knowledge and creativity and that the planet is more important than we are he had a lot in common with another great mind of the day john lennon i relate to this because i have never had a lot money i am painfully lower middle class and have always thought that it is what s in your head and your heart that is more important than what s in your wallet or your financial portfolio like roddenberry i ve nurtured the idea that we need individual enlightenment and respect for all living things not mass cultish religion to fill the spiritual needs that we have so why do i thank w and al gore simple george bush showed us the absolute worst in humanity he felt that individual rights were nothing but a farce and proceeded to wipe them clean with the patriot act and couldn t have cared less about the environment he actually went out of his way to prove it by dismantling all of the environmental agencies that we have and by ultimately showing that he has absolutely no regard for human life and was driven by power and greed these are not light accusations but all can be easily backed up at the same time that this was happening al gore began his campaign to save humanity by teaching us and warning us about the climate crisis i say saving humanity because we ll be wiped out the earth will survive although badly bruised so here s where i become optimistic because of these two events happening at the same time a majority of people roughly 65 70 of american s have begun to open their eyes to things other than themselves they ve bought in to a president who say s it s about you not me it s about us not i that s a huge philosophical leap from the me decade of the 80 s and the plunder bubble decade of george bush hell it s even better than the 90 s when we prospered as a nation let me list some of the signs of positive change 1 the decline of mass religion this tells us that people are taking spirituality in a new direction let s not confuse spirituality with religion as joseph campbell points out religion is a mask and spirituality is a transcendent truth which seeks the unknowable so why not peel away the mask and seek the truth even atheists believe that you can have spirituality on an individual basis but it doesn t have to come with the trappings of my god is better than your god it can be as profound as i am my own god and or god is within me that takes away the power of influence from someone dictating their dogma to you and is transformational in you taking responsibility for your actions while you re on the planet here s a novel concept you won t be forgiven for your sins so how about not committing them in the roddenberry example everyone is free to worship the deity or themselves as they see fit but in a way that has no political geo or national or dominating agenda 2 the concept of green living this hits home in many ways for too long the dominion theory has dominated pardon the pun the way we have behaved on earth there are two interpretations the one i m speaking to is dominion over the creatures and the planet not that the one about the rapture the concept here is simple and it s looked at two ways one god has given us dominion over animals and resources of the planet to do with as we please because god made us the center of the universe or two since we re the only sentient beings on the planet this has been proven false that we have right and intelligence to be the stewards of the earth well we may have the intelligence but we clearly don t have the right or the morality to be the stewards time and time again we ve proven that money trumps morality and that the majority of people would love to tear down a beautiful mountain to put a nice house on top of it or build a strip mine to get at the coal or build a dam that changes the whole ecosystem of an area for energy don t get me started on petrochemicals again i m feeling better about this because we re seeing the light about the fact that you can make money by using the green sustainable business model and people are as a society embracing the idea that we can be prosperous at the same time we re doing the morally correct thing plus and here s the kicker it s becoming chic to be green and nothing says progress like trying to keep up with the jones here s a conundrum for you since hunters are dominionists again not the rapture version how come they believe in taking care of the environment that to me is a cognitive dissonance on a grand scale but at least their doing something and you gotta eat 3 the end of imperialism again i thank george bush for making this so black and white as he raced to be the king of the world and decided that he alone could make the middle east a new democracy on nov 4th 2008 this policy was handily rejected in favor of one of tolerance and understanding of other cultures not to say there aren t bad people in the world but to take out a whole country is a bit absurd as a country and with the world watching we as a people declared that we aren t the power hungry global dominating country that we have been so adamant in fighting hitler s germany ussr and china to name a few we stand for a higher principle we ll lead the planet with great innovation wealth education and be the shining city on the hill but we won t put the barrel of a gun in your face in order for you to see that and we won t occupy you to steal your natural resources now we are standing and taking the high road and reaching out to the nations we ve slapped in the face and the ones that we refused to talk to and are becoming once again the nation that earned respect using compromise empathy and understanding not the barrel of a gun 4 there s no i in team this is a big one for me on so many levels i once had a boss who told me that it s better to give the credit for your accomplishments to the team and not just to yourself i reflected on this and after years of putting it into practice have found it to be one of the most sage pieces of advice i ve ever received this concept is occurring on a national level even if it s subconscious you can see the results in how we feel about ourselves our nation and our world we re seeing the commons of the united states as being an investment and for the future generations of our nation that we must protect for too long we ve listened to reaganites who wanted nothing more than to break government by letting the infrastructure of the u s become decrepit all in the name of fiscal conservatism it makes the statement it s my money and why should i pay for something that doesn t benefit me directly we now know the folly of that logic intimately and here s how this relates to team we re currently in a global financial crisis and a terrorism crisis and we need everyone s help internally we need a nation that understands that we re in this together and that we all have to sacrifice to come out of this financial crisis we may disagree about how to do that but we believe the majority of us anyway that we re only as strong as our weakest link so we ll help our brother and in return we ll be better for it we re reinvesting in our infrastructure and our commons which will help everyone remember a rising tide lifts all boats so the more we help each other and invest in each other the more we help ourselves next up helping other nations why do we do it because it s the right thing to do and by helping others we become that shining city again and when that happens terrorism isn t as important of an issue when people look up to you their less likely to want to bomb you you think the cool kid in school got in a lot of fights nope he got the chicks we ve just begun our journey over the hump and how we act over the 10 years will be our greatest hurdle that we have in our lifetime if we can change the attitude of the people of this country back to helping each other and looking out for our environment the vision of a global society of people trying to unselfishly better themselves and move humankind forward in a way that not only helps the environment but lifts everyone up will be one that everyone can be proud of and we can all take the credit for see you on the other side of the hump posted by seen robinson at 6 15 pm 1 comment labels al gore barack obama gene roddenberry george bush infrastructure john lennon joseph campbell middle east pnac project for new american century the hump wednesday february 4 2009 employee free choice act please click on this banner and sign the petition when the wages of the middle class and lower class increase everyone wins posted by seen robinson at 10 08 am no comments wednesday january 21 2009 the pendulum swings as i sit at my desk at work and scan the web for interesting stories to read during my lunchtime i m struck by how yesterday was a huge carthartic moment for america and maybe even the world yesterday was as much of a celebration of saying goodbye and good riddance to bush as it was to say hello and where have you been to obama most everyone is so happy that the dark days of the united states of america can now be flushed away and we can start anew that we will now forget what just happened to us over the last 8 years i m a firm believer in the pendulum of social existance which basically means that the pendulum has swung to our side again by our i mean the majorities the middle and lower classes the average joes the people who don t represent the greed and hunger for power i mean me and you if you look back in history you ll see a pattern emerge that happens every generation or so and you can see that it s swings with the arc of a pendulum what occurs to me is that during bush s time it swung so far to one side because of the force of 20 years of reaganomics and our increasing lust for dominance that means war that it kept moving and moving without coming back it scared alot of people including me and started to raise the hackles of an otherwise silent majority that what was happening was not because of us but in spite of us and as we know from our science classes that for every action so the result of that is that it built up the momentum to swing back towards our side and crash through the wall with a force that shook the nation it was surely an incredible bit of chance that waiting in the wings was a brilliant and compassionate person named barack who more than anything in his arsenel knew that if he could get people to believe in we instead of i that he could rally anyone and everyone to believe that the us as the biggest sports metaphor going and if we all channeled as much energy into our country as we do into our favorite team that he would get everyone back on track so i m glad the pendulum has finally swung back to our side and dread the day that it starts to swing back away from us if it follows history this will start swinging in 8 12 years and swing back in 25 30 to the other side which is corporatism fascism laissez faire and for now i ll be watching and participating in goverment with more excitement than i ve ever had for my favorite sports team go team posted by seen robinson at 1 02 pm 1 comment labels bush corporatism faire fascism laissez obama pendulum sports home subscribe to posts atom blog archive 2009 3 march 1 the hump february 1 january 1 about me seen robinson view my complete profile