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I can’t bear to watch and listen to the thumps and screams or low snarls of the gladiatorial political system. Too much reliance on guile and not enough on actual talk and discussion. And of course even that can’t be relied on; there has to be goodwill, probity and purpose and authority behind all talk and decisions. This item on the talk between Biden and Trump us telling of deep thought and probity.
https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2407/S00001/can-a-new-foundation-be-poured-before-the-complete-collapse-of-the-international-order.htm
Final thoughts from Martin LeFevre’s thinkpiece. . The rest is worth reading with some grist to work with.
Adaptation to collapse, whether conventional or “deep adaptation,” is not possible. Indeed adaptation lies at the root of the crisis of human consciousness, since humans can adapt to anything, even extermination camps.
In short, the spiritual, philosophical and political foundation has to be poured before a collapse occurs to change course when it does.
What can we do as individuals? First look within and be a light to yourself. Then question and ignite insight with anyone who still cares about the future of the earth and humanity.
Some heartfelt and telling criticism.
…The display of Biden’s decline is not just a metaphor for the decline of the United States; it is an apt reflection of it. Just as Trump is the lowest expression of the darkness at America’s core. He embodies the worst of us as he projects the hate in his heart and that he channels.
“I saw western civilization pass before my eyes as Joe Biden drowned,” Sydney Blumenthal wrote in the Guardian. “Biden understands the state of the world. Biden has held together the center of the western alliance.” Precisely, and “the center cannot hold; mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.”
…The sick, unjust world economic and political order decimating the earth and humanity, which the Biden Administration has been desperately holding together, is finished. It will collapse with a catastrophe if it does not collapse into irrelevance when the hideous Trump assumes the most powerful office in the world again…
Besides Biden’s infirmity, and the absurdly poor preparation by his team for the debate (they should have emphasized rest at Camp David, rather than cramming his head full of talking points), there was another factor.
Biden was completely out of his depth in dealing with the evil that Trump spouted with the confidence of the devil. Throughout the debate Joe had a stunned look on his face, transparently showing that he could not believe the crap that was coming out of Trump’s mouth.
Why wasn’t he prepared for it? Trump has been becoming more vile and spewing increasing bile in recent months. The reason is that Joe Biden and Democrats still presume decency and reason still prevail in the American people. They don’t.
It’s time to think about our religions that seem to have nothing to save us from our worst instincts I think. Some advanced individuals stand out as keeping the faith but too few. https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2406/S00050/man-is-dead-what-is-the-way-ahead.htm
…Buddhism didn’t begin with the sacrifice but with the illumination of its founder. In the centuries after Siddhartha’s death, a creative explosion occurred in the region, unlike anything that has occurred before or since in the world. However neither Jesus nor Siddhartha would recognize today the religions founded in their name. ..
It is no coincidence that both sides in the “clash of civilizations” hold the same core belief. Despite all the talk of shared Abrahamic roots, the belief in one God by Christians and Muslims is the most divisive idea that the human mind has ever fabricated. Monotheists don’t venerate God, but the projected power of the human mind…
Whatever the degree of enlightenment of past and present founders of the various Buddhist lineages, the 5th century BCE religious explosion ignited by Siddhartha Gautama no longer holds any sway in our mad 21st century world.
That’s apparent in countries where Buddhism has been transplanted, such as the United States. Despite claims to the contrary, Buddhist spirituality and philosophy, which organically emerged in living Eastern cultures, cannot be grafted onto dead Western ones.
In America, widespread acceptance of Buddhist ideas has not prevented the darkness and deadness of this culture from becoming even more pervasive at home and abroad. Indeed, despite Buddhism’s core mission to awaken people from “the sleep of ignorance,” more people are sleepwalking than ever. With few individual exceptions, Buddhism has pierced no further than clichés about karma and the yoga/wellness craze…
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