Choose your actions carefully confident and move forward. Not in aggression; but assertion you have the right God given to exercise Free Will.
My choices are not for everyone yet few have my education by experience. Keeping my journal, now sharing it freely, I have become aware of what motivated my choices and can essentially, face-to-face help you as M helped me to heal indecision, ambivalence and confusion. When I asked why me she replied, "You are not a whiner." On another occasion when asked about, or suggested that, she counsel PTSD victims, she replied essentially similarly using if not the same words something akin. Add that she like I have encountered hundreds if not thousands of people on a personal basis: face-to-face. I am convicted by humor fluid and by ernestness rigid able to balance each appropriately.
In the democracy of death there is no debate passing as dialog. Neither God nor Nature do revisions of history. It is impossible to blame any one class of wealth or poverty for the current problem described as 'recession' or 'depression.' It makes more pragmatic sense to simply say of our current time; 'adjustment.' . . . to borrow John Kenneth Galbraith's conclusions regarding the last Depression. Yet the consequences were obscured by those who had money and the demands of a World at war. The problem of power is its use of force to maintain stability. We still have free speech and other liberties important to growth but are nearly a police state seeking control or safety.
The issue seems an imbalance between material objectivity and artistic licence to create new truths. The first codifies by law it's truth. While the latter implies other and newer truths possible. In times of economic crisis the arts are first cut from educational budgets. Truth defined is difficult to grasp without myth and metaphor or illusive ideas dancing like leaves in the wind. Connecting the dots is impossible if there are no dots! Thus we have those who are experts at control in charge in a collective monolog as to what & how needs doing. Nothing stands still for long without becoming subject to the winds of change.
Here I must of need use my life as example identifing with the poor yet coming from relative wealth absent from my savings account. Worse I'm White. Typical of my parents time were the words; "Children are to be silent not heard until a certain age." Implied or infired; that age never comes because parents give up their youthful priviledge reluctantly acknowledging their impending old age and death. It has become more difficult for 'children' to assume power since we now have a cult of youth controled by the collective power of those who rule and profit from exploiting youth.
Women and men in the combat arms of military service face a potential of rapid and unrecoverable loss. Those I've known and followed respected everyone within their command conscious that as responsible leaders they must be replaced if fallen in combat. I did not advance above any responsibility above beind a Private yet I was respected as all above and around me. To shirk or milinger was impossible because no one else did and we were the best of the best by tests.
"Most men lead lives of quiet desperation" yet there are some who rise to positions of power and influence never realizing their limitations thus enforcing upon others failure. While hiding behind rank, badge or postures of ingnornace. This makes sense if you listen to veterans who knew what fraging was for: leaders who knew theory but were unable to force the enemy to comply. Veterans knew how to adapt, improvise and prevail. Therefore learning constantly from The School of Hard Knocks. Fully conscious that a leader addicted to theory would get everyone killed sooner or later.
Under such circumstance widson is contagous -- walking the walk -- talk is left behind . . . as it should be. While whiners repeat slogans. Conscious people become aware of solutions to specific problems disabling them from a fully lived conscious life. Disablity like death is fact not fantasy, if you wish to lessen the blow think of your inhibitions or the scretes of you life's shame and guilt.
If M&M have any answers it is not to questions but the process of perception and origin of thoughts. The capacity of others to fully live or merely exist. As stated we came from similar childhoods and learned early on to observe threats to our lives. Where some become passive others become violently aggressive resulting from such an education. Pragmatic politics in democracy is difficult but not impossilbe since it implies compromise towards what is possible versus ideal. Imperial forces all to the rule of one at the expense of the all.
“A leader is best When people barely know he exists. Not so good When people obey and acclaim him. Worse when they despise him. But of a good leader Who talks little When his work is done, His aim fulfilled, They will say 'We did it ourselves.'”
“A mans excellence is like that of water It benefits all things without striving It takes to the low places shunned by men. Water is akin to Tao.... In all the earth nothing weaker than water, Yet in attacking the hard, nothing superior, Nothing so certain in wearing down strength There is no way to resist it. Note then The weak conquer the strong, The yielding outlast the aggressors.” --Lao Tzu
"If we did not bring to the examinations of our instincts a knowledge of their comparative dignity we could never learn it from them."
-- C. S. Lewis
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