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- "Build it
and they will come" is the phrase behind most of our dreams,
but we have failed to fall in love with life so we built our
fantasies on the ever-shifting sands of inauthentic lives. We
should not be surprised then, that everything is crumbling now,
or that there are almost no answers anywhere because we put our
faith in all the wrong places, and especially in the wrong
people.
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- We have allowed our owners to
capture all the fresh young years of youth; to imprison the
young so that they never have the chance to ask all those vital
questions such as 'why is the sky blue', or where does life come
from? That 'experience' is then very quickly expanded into an
educational system that has nothing to do with education and
everything to do with blind obedience. The result is that there
is no time for dreaming, for imagination or for "What-ifs."
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- From the cradle to the grave
this society has been molded like farm-raised fish swimming in
their own wastes; never far from overseer's or authority; and
all of this takes place because of the ever-increasing need for
protection: not just from natural dangers but from life itself.
We have not fought these trends, in fact we have scrambled to
enroll our young ever-earlier in the system that keeps on
destroying anything that does not fit into some designer's model
of what we 'ought to be.'
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- The young need time to fall
in love with life, before they begin to even look into what the
future might have in store for them-yet we have insured that
because of FEAR this must never be allowed to happen. Once
initiated the process continues through the whole of any
individuals life usually; or until some stark and life-changing
event can jolt the individual to somewhere far enough removed
from this mass insanity that they can actually see the nonsense
and the chaos that far too many have come to worship and obey.
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- Just look at the emphasis we
place on having a 'formal education.' This sickness continues
for at least a full-third of too many lives that could have
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of a profession of their own choosing: had there ever been any
real choice available. Ironically the really excellent
professions actually choose us, and not the other way round.
Music calls to the true musician, just as architecture or
engineering calls out to those so gifted; It's the same with
writing or painting or anything that requires creative skill and
mental agility to even begin to work at their individual craft:
Today most are content if they can just get a job-any job-just
so that they can stay alive. Except that this is NOT living it's
just an existence that is spent completing tasks that are
nothing more than the footnotes in other people's dreams. Most
do not make the time to ponder this, or much of anything else
because we are too busy trying to obtain all the things that
we've been taught about-things that will somehow make everything
better; but nothing could be further from the truth.
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- Instead we end up contenting
ourselves with mere existence, which is a kind of living death
that is practiced only in the shadows of real life-where nothing
really matters to those that have embraced the remains of
reality instead of the core of actual existence. . .
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- On this path too many have been far too busy
with other people's plans for their lives, to ever have any time
of their own to spend any time at all in someone else's shoes.
In that process empathy for the plight of others becomes a
still-born concept that is quickly done away with; along with
private conscience. Without an awareness of the larger society,
its problems or its potentials; the newcomers fail utterly to
develop the skills required for everyday life, or even just the
basics required for survival if chaos should envelope them at
some unforeseen moment on their pre-selected path to nowhere.
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- From the glories of our formal education we
learned cynicism, and over time we are able to refine
selfishness into a bottomless pit of greed that can never be
satiated. From our 'leaders' we learn about the power-of-lies,
and the fruits of the trees that do not belong to us; but we are
taught how to have what we say is ours, without the need to
actually work for it because too many have now mastered the
magic of investment and Piranha-Capitalism that we have been
able to recreate through vulture capitalism and that
oh-so-important key component-usury-that uses debt to kill the
possibility in 'promise' and creates the transfer of the wealth
from those who work to those who steal.
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- Having turned all of this into our unspoken
national motto for success; how can we now fear the very things
we have created, with such determined efforts all around? The
deeds we have accomplished have created consequences that cannot
be denied-and must be paid for in both blood and treasure, it's
a natural law of nature and will become due and payable with
interest!
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- The philosophies we have imbedded over
decades have taught us to eat our young and to annihilate any
that oppose us; yet now some of us want to believe that someone
'out there' will be coming to save us from ourselves. That is
not going to happen, any more than the rabid dogs of capitalism
will somehow magically loose their appetite for War, War, and
Lots More WAR!
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- Love will win in the end, even if it has to
live in the ashes of this society's nearly irreversible
mistakes. How strange that it has taken such a total and
complete failure to even begin to arouse the public to what's
really going on across this planet. . .
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- kirwanstudios@sbcglobal.net
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