Thank you Nobu for forwarding this to me!
David and Goliath January 17, 2008
Distractions are abundant. Successful attempts to busy the mind in order not to notice the essential. Why such fear of the essential? Who profits from these distractions? The men with the money. The industrial world-dominating machine. Turn the human race into robots and you control everything. Allow man and woman to open the third eye and you have a revolution.
I am pessimistic. The revolution will never happen. The human race has a tremendously high tolerance for suffering, for blindness and for obedience. It doesn’t seem to matter how many people try to do good, try to expose the truth. As long as they remain the minority, the machine succeeds. There may be some individual countries that have it right — such as Sweden or Norway. Or do they? Does racism not exist there too? Does violence and exaggerated consumerism not roam the alleys and streets of their cities? How much is good enough? Is Sweden good enough?
The world must be seen as a whole. One can not pay attention to the invisible borderlines created by long gone warriors. Glance across a river and you don’t need to care if the children are dying of hunger. You are told, given permission not to care. The problems are a whirlwind, a downward spiral that the minority struggles to stop.
What is your responsibility for being born? What is my role? Am I a nut, a window, a wire? Or could I possibly be the wrench that loosens the bolt, the hammer that breaks the window, the scissors that cut the wire?
It is dangerously optimistic to think that if the minority organizes and strengthens then it doesn’t matter if it is smaller in size. Could David and Goliath repeat itself on a grander scale? I will always in the depths of my heart and soul believe in a better world. My frustration is that I have not found my place in the organizational chart of the minority. I am still young and full of hope. There is much conditioned fear to challenge and overcome. There is still much growing to do.
Yet…
Failure is NOT an option.
