Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Think....and then act.


It is not as though when we are reminded of the numerous weather related disasters on the rise around the world that we should expect a seismic mental shift in the modern thought construct. Folks are simply trying to get to the next weekend, like a safe zone in a children’s yard game. It is enough that we need to absorb the realities around us, but we need to also simply concentrate on our own drama. Are we losing patience with the larger picture? Understandably so.

When governments fail to anticipate and protect, private industry displays what we knew a long, that the profit motive generates plenty of very private motives. The jobs leave and the cohesion a community relied upon for a half a century has loosened, shifted, or evaporated altogether. The old heroes are dead or dying and the “we want to-be heroes” prove simply not to be. Understandably so.

The question moving about is asking what we can do to save our planet, build back up the pride of citizenship (both globally and from sea to shining sea), generate a sustainable living, and live a meaningful existence while we inhabit this space. He's thinking that beyond our sense of survivorship playing out currently, that most have these deeper questions weaving through the background. Understandably so.

His father used to say, “Think first, think again, then act.” This proves useful considering our developing circumstances. Before we can really commit to the changes that may eventually be required, we need to make a conscious shift to acknowledge a “limited” life. By limited he refers to the un-American concept of restricting our consumption, and accepting the reality that we live in a resource fixed planet. We cannot, and should not, “have it all.” This will become a reality one way or another. Our acceptance of this reality will be the beginning of the reconstruction. Understandably so.


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