Left, Right and Centered

Maybe it's good that Occupy is going on, maybe even better that some Libertarians are reclaiming the space of the Republic from the corporate sham it has been for a long time. Something tells me neither is yet the final word on the revolution.

I can only stomach so much of the Libertarian point of view, when it comes down to God and guns and such. Was the morality really that great before 1871 anyway, when Indians were being slaughtered, slavery was in full swing, and women were second class citizens? If that's what precious sovereignty leads to, then Americans probably didn't deserve it to begin with.

As for Occupy, it still feels like it was sponsored from the start by whoever tipped Amy Goodman off to the initial coverage. Remember the initial gathering in NYC, when about two dozen people camped in Zuccotti Park? How precisely did Amy know it was going to become the grand leftist movement it has since become? I hear George Soros and others are in on the funding, whatever that means. Mostly, it simply lacks the gravitas I personally feel called by--a quality of suffering which generates global compassion.

I've had some nice moments around Occupy, observing conflicts with police, with obvious denial of free speech and assembly rights. Perhaps it is such very struggles that show us who we are. In the fire of conflicts, we find our true situation, our commitments, and thus our solidarity. Until then, I wait impatiently, while the corporate wars and mind-numbing propaganda and violent systems of injustice continue with the support of my tax dollars.

One way or the other, none of this will stand much longer.

It is also true that I now live in an obligatorily political world. There is no getting away from the global conspiracy or the threat to Life that it creates every day it remains in place. There is no sanctuary anymore, at least in America: to be here and try to live a normal life is to be complicit.This creates a stress that is difficult to describe.

May it be used creatively, to generate a new and more caring world!

Somehow, I must still choose Love here and now, no matter the external circumstances. No matter the heart-closing influences of dirty money, I work to keep my heart open. No matter the evil, I seek to love my enemy. I serve the cosmic Benevolence, in the real time and space of need. I push forward to vibrate the paradigm shift into abundance.