New Age Life Boats This nation born in bloodshed, grew mighty by bloodshed - and perishes in bloodshed. Or maybe not. Is it unreasonable to imagine we have as good as a 50/50 chance? Help! Call 911! Done. Now what? The alarm clock rings and none can silence it. The people of
world fear and tremble. The great warrior nation goes again to war.
The war on terrorism, like great wars on poverty, crime, drugs, disease, education and family, will never be won, or ended. This is because people who profit from war, write rules by which we agree to live. As long as business and government have unlimited credit, backed by workers, taxpayers, and consumers, war will continue and expand. America will perish.
The message of 9/11 is change or perish. The people of America are getting message. How about you? Have you heard message? Have you learned to count your blessings, which include ability to change your ways and by so doing those of your neighbors? Have you learned you can no longer depend on people you trust with your very life? Have you decided to abandon sinking war machine for a life of peace and harmony in little lifeboats of New Age? If so, welcome aboard, we desperately need your help. If not, we'll try to save you a place and do without you - no hard feelings.
The name of New Age lifeboats is Independence, unfulfilled promise of our founders. From birth we have been dependent on others for necessities of life; food, clothing, shelter, love, caring, companionship. You name it. We demand others provide it and we pay whatever price we can afford. The more we can afford, more is supplied.
We pay top dollar for doctoring and get greater disease as treatment only spirals in cost. We die for lack of money and cure. Does this make sense? Of course not. So why do we continue this fraud that kills us, makes us weak and foolish?
One of key answers is Tell-A-Vision. Once a week, TV news will tell us to pursue a healthy lifestyle. Get regular exercise. Drink more water. Eat more fruits and vegetables. Eat less meat. Get more rest. When typical viewer/watcher gets this message, paid for by corporate sponsors, s/he will have received 100 messages telling her to watch more TV, drink Coca Cola, eat burgers and Doritos. Get new drugs from her doctor. Turn off this electronic mind bender.
How did we learn alphabet, our math tables, science, history? We learned by repetition, repetition, repetition. Science has proven that anything repeated often enough becomes accepted as truth by subconscious. By this simple method, Machine Age has created entire nations of uncritical, unthinking, uncaring robots. There is hardly one of us that wants to be a cog in machine that is Enron, Exxon, Arthur Anderson, World Com, Quest or America, because we perceive machines are breaking down, as they always do. America is looking for its soul - and finding it. Hooray for America!
The message of Tell-A-Vision is consume, consume, consume. We have lost so much respect for customer of yesteryear, we are called consumers. Implied in that label is idea we produce nothing of value and our purpose in life is to consume what we are told, and like it. We are nothing if not obedient and we are sad to learn how much truth there is in this implication. If and when we learn this truth that oils machine.
If we should decide we will no longer sail ships of state or competitive nationalism, rather than go down with captains, we must totally abandon ship. To leave one foot in ship of state and other in New Age lifeboat, is to cause kind of pain image suggests. It's all about choice. You choose to change or you are changed by those who pay for privilege of training you. If you don't choose freedom, you have chosen slavery, no matter what you call it. As Shakespeare might have said, A slave by any other name will smell as foul.
