fear has been used to keep us in line forever, if we were good nothing bad would happen, that whole "ignorance is bliss" thing really serves a purpose, don't ask questions, just be good and hope you'll be rewarded.....
fear breeds hate and ignorance, no wonder so many people are crazy now, we were taught by example that if we worked hard and had good intentions, we could take care of our families, we could be different and say "there but for the grace of god go i"....
our deepest held darkest fears are happening now, our security is threatened and some powerful folk, as they have from the beginning of time, are profiting from our cowering in the shadows, where we stay until either the body or mind let's go or both....
we wonder why people do crazy things as we run around too busy to smell any flowers, much less be so lazy as to slow down long enough to plant or nurture them along the way. then we feel guilty and detach a little more, however we have to.....
until we are "bitchslapped by fate" and forced to ask ourselves, our god, and each other the hard questions.... to deal with the fact that survival is learned behavior, that there are no simple answers..... only simple questions...
people need a safe place where it's safe to be honest and share our real stories of experience, strenghs and hopes without fear of sacrificing our families privacy, in that our stories are so intertwined that it's hard to tell them separately ... most of us don't want to be the poster child of the recession
it's our instinct to take care of the people we love.... but for so many americans who have grown up with a false sense of security simply because we don't even realize much less acknowledge that we're lucky.... this kind of deep seated threat to our familys security is new territory for so many, having to think for ourselves how to stay alive but yet still not be able to talk about it....
somehow people are going to have to be able to come out the shadows and be heard and help each other, we should all be able to agree after watching katrina happen before our eyes, we can't depend on the government to save us, or wait for the second coming.... we have to save each other in order to save ourselves, let's start that here and now.... what do we really need to talk about?
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