There was a period in human history when it was a lot easier to live in the here and now than it is today.  For the longest time, life was pretty much the same, yesterday, today, and tomorrow, for as far as the eye could see in either direction.  If you were a farmer back in the middle ages, there’s a good chance that nothing much changed in your lifetime, other than the stone wall your grandfather had started building when you were a lad got a little bit longer throughout your days. Sure, you got married and had kids, and I guess you could worry about the Lord of the Manor conscripting you for his army, but not making judgments as to whether life was good or bad, it’s pretty much a fact that back then, day to day was pretty much the same.

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The last post spoke about achieving higher consciousness and improving the world by starting with the subject you know best… yourself. Less complaining about all the other doofuses out there and more focus on being the shining light you know you can be… the very best “you” possible. Well that goes for me, too, the guy writing this blog. The old saw, “Do what I say, not what I do,” just doesn’t hold water anymore. If I want you to believe what I say then I have to lead by example.

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It’s hard not to throw your hands in the air and cry, “I give up”, when you look around at all the stupidity, dishonesty, and downright evil that exists in the world today. From ethnic violence to corporate greed to partisan politics to the destruction of Mother Earth and so much more, the human race is not demonstrating to the rest of the universe that an intelligent compassionate species lives here. And for someone who tries to live by a higher standard, it’s very easy to merely waggle you finger at others and say “naughty, naughty”, there are so many worthy targets to choose from.

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When I was a lad there were a lot of middles.  There was middle America, and middle age, and the middle class, not to mention the ubiquitous middle of the road, which could be used to cover anything from politics to issues of social justice.  Sure, there were always people on either end of the philosophical spectrum on just about any subject, but most of the time you could reach consensus, because the majority were… you guessed it… right in the middle of the road.

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I was raised in the knowledge that “seeing is believing”.  Something that someone else saw might be suspect, and hearsay was definitely a no-no as far as credibility went.  But if you saw something with your very own eyes, well, by gosh, that had to be true.  Didn’t it?  And that went for photographs, too.  The camera does not lie.

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A friend of ours had a baby last week.  One minute she’s huffing and puffing and twenty pounds over fighting weight, and the next minute… actually 27 hours later… she’s lying in a hospital bed breast feeding a beautiful new addition to the family.  Pretty awesome when you stop and think about it.  As for me, I couldn’t help but stop and think about the kind of world little Ella Rose has come into and what life might be like when she’s my age, in 2080.

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If a butterfly flaps it’s wings in China, so the old saying goes, a hurricane in Britain will not be far behind.  The point, of course, is that even though we may not be able to see it, everything is connected and just like an inflated balloon, you can’t push it in here without something popping out over there.  Well, thanks to a conflation of modern technology and the ancient forces of nature, we now have another example to use.  If a volcano erupts in Iceland, people will be sleeping in airports all over the world.  Count on it.

Last post we spoke about how money is becoming more and more important in American politics to the point where you have to be filthy stinking rich to even consider running for or holding any kind of state or national office.  Well it’s even worse than that.

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In case anyone hasn’t noticed, the reality of American politics and the democracy it purports to uphold have changed quite a bit since that day almost two hundred fifty years ago when a new nation was born with the intention of giving voice in governance to the people rather than leaving that role in the hands of the aristocracy.

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