I believe the direction of this blog will be changing. Whereas I'd always wanted to be an activist of sorts and was using this blog as outreach - I’ve pretty well given up on that notion.
I'm thinking I should start using this blog simply for its mental health therapeutic value. Use writing to help process the monstrosity I am witnessing unfold. Then, like a message in a bottle, I’ll toss my words into the digital void. Maybe some AI will find it, wouldn’t that be exciting?
Although for me, destination isn’t the point, it has always been the journey itself that matters. After all, with time the destination point becomes another departure point. No matter where you go, there you are.
Yeah, it's funny/sad, I used to entertain visions of connecting with a few good sharp people (of the more educated and endowed set). A few who related to my words, that were defending climate science and Earth sciences, and Evolution Appreciating efforts, and such thoughts that I worked on enunciating and getting people interested in.
People who could look past my rough edges, knowing that with a little mentoring those edges could be smoothed, since my core perspective was solid regarding society’s need to get real about our evolved biological selves - and our dependence upon this planet's biosphere & its global heat and moisture distribution engine. In short, the Physical Reality we were nurtured within.
I dreamed of becoming a part of a dynamic team, looking for that interaction and networking, inspiring each other to rise up and confront the Faith Based War on Science with rationality. I knew I was under educated and under endowed, never any financial backing, nor safety net, with kids and family to work for and worry over, etc.
Dancing the sword’s edge of life the whole way.
Once my kids grew up I got involved in local Democrats caucus and the convention process, attending State Convention at least four times.
I've engaged and argued for a more dynamic Democratic Party and all I got was patronizing, and dismissal - as I was forced to watch politics as usual and Democrats losing one crucial heartbreaking battle after another. I always wondered why the DNC didn’t have talent scouts at their conventions actively looking for self-starting individuals out there on the floor, etc., etc. If I had Republican values, I’d have been snapped up in a moment, that hurts most of all!
Now here I sit, early days of post election 2024, struggling to come to terms with the voters of this one time “land of the free” and home of the brave rejecting USA's very government - its established Constitution, the Rule of Law, and the principle Fair Play, along with our pluralistic aspirations and rejecting serious science to top it off.
I mean this election is handing our government over to a bunch of convicted and unconvicted criminal minds, who have billionaire backers, - yet most Americans seem clueless that something truly profound has happened.
To my eyes we have crossed over into dystopia territory, things will start moving faster yet.
Billionaires who are self-absorbed and self-serving and possessing utter contempt for our very government, and we just handed them control of our government. It's insanity. American’s will find out the cost of willful ignorance in short order - and oh how I wish I’m wrong.
But that’s the thing, appreciating there is a difference between our fantasies and the real lives we live. Not respecting that divide, is at the root of many mistakes. Time after time, after time.
Okay, so now the Christian Warriors have won their self fabricated “War Against Everyone Else,” even at the cost of the very USA government that protected them in the first place. But who cares, too much is never enough, and greed is good, and these days self-interest is all that matters - when you have God in your back-pocket, all the better.
When is someone going to start explaining to the God Fearing that we create our own Gods from within our own body/brain/mind/experiences?
God's are real, but only within the metaphysical realm of our mind (individual and collectively) - - - our planet, her complex systems, our biosphere and biology, all that happens in a totally different realm.
The physical realm needs to be differentiated from our mental realm, our consciousness, our thoughts and emotions.
Our body is the cumulative product of some half billion years of Earth’s evolutionary processes, with your specific bloodline evolving all that time without a missed beat.
Your consciousness is the cumulative product of all the days and experiences of your life, as processed through your singular body.
Your Gods are the product of your mind processing the challenges and tragedy of living a human life, knowing death is always at hand - and your inevitable destination.
Thinking about it, it seems self evident that buried memories of infancy and innocent peaceful security, must have served as the kernel, from which various notions of God could grow within our mindscapes.
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