It's mind porn, that's what it is.
It's not like Russell Brand is saying anything that millions of people around the world haven't been saying, many of us for years. It's not even like he's saying anything new and enlightening. Everything he says tons of us have already been thinking ourselves.
It's that what he is saying is about a future that comparatively speaking is fresh and wonderful, and even talking about it on the BBC feels so radical because they pretend for so long that nothing needs to change, and what he says about the paradigm-change is absolutely necessary, and he's fucking funny along with it so that it doesn't matter how many times you hear it, it always renews your inner vigour even if you're in the midst of outer fatigue.
It inspires you anew, keeps you going on in this fucked-up paradigm we're still stuck in, where a very small minority of unbelievably powerful people are prepared to fuck the entire world for their own insane benefit. It's like the freedom that whallops in on a kid who has been living in the house of a madman all his life, and who for the first time really trusts his own sanity, and a chink of light floods in. Every time anyone else talks about this stuff, that chink of light comes in all over again, heartens and enheartens.
Hell, it's not even like we're envisioning a world where there wouldn't still be bloody horrible things happening sometimes, and people won't still be suffering and dying. We're not talking about living in a utopia of no suffering. We're talking about living in balance, where suffering is not perpetuated by the few onto the many for the benefits only of the few.
Those running this ship have spent and will go on spending millions trying to convince the majority of the world that what is vision and freedom and sanity is utopian.
But it's not. It's just vision and freedom and sanity for everybody, instead of a paradigm of smoke and mirrors serving the few.
Happy weekend, everybody.
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Perhaps when we start to see the effects of the deals that are regularly done above the heads of our own governments, we will start doing something about the fact that billions of us are being ruled by a very small and powerful group of people
who have their best interests at heart, but definitely not ours - and
nor, seemingly, the earth's.
Perhaps when we see the Global Government of Goldman Sachs Et Al (TM) really really really repress our freedoms we will stand up. The Trans Pacific Partnership, which is in the process of being finalised right now, is one such example of this. In this version of events, the sovereignty of the Australian government will be regularly overridden - they will even be sued if they step out of line - by the real powers in the world, the multinational corporations.
Perhaps we need that to come to hand so that we can all see in front of us - feel its oppression on our own skin - what has been the hidden reality for many years now.
Perhaps if it comes into effect and Glaxo Smith Kline get to override the laws of our own country (however stupid and dodgy they may be - they need changing as well) in the name of profiteering, then we will start to understand the extent of this proposed agreement and why we need to do something about it.
How strange it is that the majority allow such a small band of people to control them. But that has been the history of the world. Perhaps it is going to come to an end soon.
But then there are people who will stand up, like Mulala Yousafzai, fearlessly. My admiration for that girl is just boundless. She is so fearless!! Her courage inspires me. Just as fear is contagious, so is courage. And luckily you don't need to be entirely free of the grip of fear to act in courage. You act despite it.
Is a point going to come when the people in the street start refusing any longer to live under this system we live under? Will we inflate our stymied imaginations and our deflated critical thinking skills to start imagining a world where things can be way different to how they are now? More suitable for us? A win/win world?
Of course, creating that world involves turning aside from what is and dreaming and putting into action what could be. Ghandi's being the change you wish to see in the world. There are many exciting and inspiring people in the world doing just that. But that is not enough. The problem is with the level of domination by these corporations - if we don't do something to stop them, we won't have the opportunity to continue imagining and envisaging and birthing a better world, in the way that so many inspirational people are.
Are we going to one day take back our own sovereignty - or perhaps, to start off with, to even care that it's being taken away from us in the first place? Or are we waiting for Jesus to come back and make it all right so we don't have to lift ourselves out of our own apathy, or our own lovely little shiny New Age world where facing the darkness is a no-no because it's too "negative"?
This isn't about whether you are into politics or not. That whole thing seems to be a mass of mazes and mirrors. It's about taking back what is rightfully ours FROM those who operate within the political spectrum.
If Jesus does come back, I imagine one of the first things he would ask us is why the hell are we so willing to be slaves when there is so much beauty and awesomeness within us bursting to come out, if it has the opportunity? I imagine he would ask where has our imagination gone? And if we claim to care so much about the future of our kids, why are we so unwilling to examine what their future might be if our apathy continues? And he might ask why have we been willing to allow others to destroy the earth and put us in the position where we have to bury our own talents in order to serve the machine.
All very good questions that we should be asking ourselves.
Oh, and I don't much care if this post is "inappropriate" or if I appear angry or self-righteous, if these things make people uncomfortable by their "negativity", because people's apathy about the things happening in the world at the hands of corporations makes me WAY more uncomfortable. I'm tired of watching the spectacle. I can't not speak about these things. They are disgusting injustice. They kill me. They burn in my guts. I simply don't understand how so many people can stay silent or turn away when there is such a sinister elephant in the room.
We have to turn and face this stuff down. It's part of our challenge of being humans on the earth at this point in time. It is not "negative" to turn and face the dark. It is just simply fucking terrifying.
And there are gifts to be reclaimed from that space, things which are rightfully ours, which expand our humanity. Because the vast majority of us seem to be people who wish to and who are capable of living in peace on the earth. This is what we want.
Email or Facebook message or tweet Tony Abbott, Prime Minister of Australia
Tweet Minister for Trade, Andrew Robb
Email Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Perhaps when we see the Global Government of Goldman Sachs Et Al (TM) really really really repress our freedoms we will stand up. The Trans Pacific Partnership, which is in the process of being finalised right now, is one such example of this. In this version of events, the sovereignty of the Australian government will be regularly overridden - they will even be sued if they step out of line - by the real powers in the world, the multinational corporations.
Perhaps we need that to come to hand so that we can all see in front of us - feel its oppression on our own skin - what has been the hidden reality for many years now.
Perhaps if it comes into effect and Glaxo Smith Kline get to override the laws of our own country (however stupid and dodgy they may be - they need changing as well) in the name of profiteering, then we will start to understand the extent of this proposed agreement and why we need to do something about it.
How strange it is that the majority allow such a small band of people to control them. But that has been the history of the world. Perhaps it is going to come to an end soon.
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| Golden Nebula by Fennius (CC noncommercial, share-alike) |
Is a point going to come when the people in the street start refusing any longer to live under this system we live under? Will we inflate our stymied imaginations and our deflated critical thinking skills to start imagining a world where things can be way different to how they are now? More suitable for us? A win/win world?
Of course, creating that world involves turning aside from what is and dreaming and putting into action what could be. Ghandi's being the change you wish to see in the world. There are many exciting and inspiring people in the world doing just that. But that is not enough. The problem is with the level of domination by these corporations - if we don't do something to stop them, we won't have the opportunity to continue imagining and envisaging and birthing a better world, in the way that so many inspirational people are.
Are we going to one day take back our own sovereignty - or perhaps, to start off with, to even care that it's being taken away from us in the first place? Or are we waiting for Jesus to come back and make it all right so we don't have to lift ourselves out of our own apathy, or our own lovely little shiny New Age world where facing the darkness is a no-no because it's too "negative"?
This isn't about whether you are into politics or not. That whole thing seems to be a mass of mazes and mirrors. It's about taking back what is rightfully ours FROM those who operate within the political spectrum.
If Jesus does come back, I imagine one of the first things he would ask us is why the hell are we so willing to be slaves when there is so much beauty and awesomeness within us bursting to come out, if it has the opportunity? I imagine he would ask where has our imagination gone? And if we claim to care so much about the future of our kids, why are we so unwilling to examine what their future might be if our apathy continues? And he might ask why have we been willing to allow others to destroy the earth and put us in the position where we have to bury our own talents in order to serve the machine.
All very good questions that we should be asking ourselves.
Oh, and I don't much care if this post is "inappropriate" or if I appear angry or self-righteous, if these things make people uncomfortable by their "negativity", because people's apathy about the things happening in the world at the hands of corporations makes me WAY more uncomfortable. I'm tired of watching the spectacle. I can't not speak about these things. They are disgusting injustice. They kill me. They burn in my guts. I simply don't understand how so many people can stay silent or turn away when there is such a sinister elephant in the room.
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| Golden Sea by Tonyelieh (CC noncommercial, share-alike) |
And there are gifts to be reclaimed from that space, things which are rightfully ours, which expand our humanity. Because the vast majority of us seem to be people who wish to and who are capable of living in peace on the earth. This is what we want.
Email or Facebook message or tweet Tony Abbott, Prime Minister of Australia
Tweet Minister for Trade, Andrew Robb
Email Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
This guy is rapidly becoming a hero of mine. If we were only collectively to have one ongoing conversation, this in my opinion, would be the one that we need to continue to have.
The Occupy movement received its denigration at the time as being a movement that didn't know what it was on about. But what it always seemed to me like was more of a container than a movement. It was an empty container with a lot of questions. That it was ridiculed only demonstrated the necessity of the question-asking and the discomfort of the people who didn't know what the answers were.
We have only just started having this conversation. In other ways it's been going and unfolding in full force for the past 10 years. It's been a privilege to experience it. When I'm overwhelmed, and my despair is high at the Goliath/Davidness of the situation, still there is always that very small and fervent hope that continues to burn in the hope that love will win.
Cadbury-Schweppes, purveyors of such foodstaffs as Coca-Cola and shit chocolate, today lost its court case against Darrell Lea, purveyors of all manner of sugary yummy foodstuffs to rot your teeth. It had dragged DL through the Federal Court for the past FIVE YEARS to try to stop it from using the colour purple in its packaging because it claims DL's customers will be fooled into believing that they are buying Cadburry-Schweppes products.
This rather unfuriates me, dear bloggers and readers of same. Five fucking years. Multi millions of dollars spent in something so utterly ridiculous. It just beggars belief.
Your foodstuffs are still just as shit, Cadbury-Schweppes. It's just that now you've wasted a shitload of money and now consumers everywhere will (hopefully), when they think of you, keep in mind that you think they have an IQ of a gnat.
Stop wasting everyone's goddamn time.
This rather unfuriates me, dear bloggers and readers of same. Five fucking years. Multi millions of dollars spent in something so utterly ridiculous. It just beggars belief.
Your foodstuffs are still just as shit, Cadbury-Schweppes. It's just that now you've wasted a shitload of money and now consumers everywhere will (hopefully), when they think of you, keep in mind that you think they have an IQ of a gnat.
Stop wasting everyone's goddamn time.
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