Tuesday, January 31, 2006
We are the ones we've been waiting for
Every time I check out a news site or turn on the radio news, I have the strangest feeling, a mix of dread and hope: has it happened?
But what is "it"? What am I waiting for?
When I push myself to answer this question, all I can come up with is: Some kind of catalytic event that will propel the world forward into change. It might be a catastrophic event (hence my fear) or it might be a world-changing positive event, such as the rise of a powerful enough social movement to ignite social change (hence my hope).
I have had, for a long time now, this constant sense of impending change, and at this point I have to say I am actively desiring it, even with the knowledge that it may come in the form of a catastrophe I won't survive.
What now seems like the worst sort of torment is the slow, draining, creeping sludge of relentless bad news. The particulars change but the overall message remains the same: our leaders are corrupt, greedy, selfish and hopelessly short-sighted; militarism drives economics and politics, and hence social policy; the environment of our planet is under severe chemical and material assault, and the process of environmental destruction may now be irreversible; and through it all the people with the most power to demand, create and effect change are asleep on the job.
We're not all asleep. But not enough of us are awake. It is the critical job of those of us who see the impending disaster to sound the alarm and try to wake up our sisters and brothers while there's still some time to try to avert the final catastrophe.
The words of that possibly apocryphal saying of the Hopi elders keep sounding in my ears:
It is time to speak your Truth.
Create your community.
Be good to each other.
And do not look outside yourself for the leader.
....
Banish the word struggle from your attitude and vocabulary.
All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration.
We are the ones we've been waiting for.
This says to me that I should stop waiting for "the news" to tell me what's happening. I know what's happening, deep in my gut. The catastrophe is happening, in slow motion, constantly. And the social movement is rising, also, constantly, in slow motion.
There may not be one dramatic moment in time when Change overtakes us--no storming of the Bastille or assassination of Czar. But the period of change we're in is just as intense and momentous as in those epochs.
My task is to remain awake and alert to opportunities to create positive change, in however small the increments; and to be a source of inspiration and encouragement to the emerging changemakers around me, just as I draw my inspiration from those who are further along the road than I am.
Together we can become the social movement we've been waiting for--and we must. The alternative is too awful to contemplate.
But what is "it"? What am I waiting for?
When I push myself to answer this question, all I can come up with is: Some kind of catalytic event that will propel the world forward into change. It might be a catastrophic event (hence my fear) or it might be a world-changing positive event, such as the rise of a powerful enough social movement to ignite social change (hence my hope).
I have had, for a long time now, this constant sense of impending change, and at this point I have to say I am actively desiring it, even with the knowledge that it may come in the form of a catastrophe I won't survive.
What now seems like the worst sort of torment is the slow, draining, creeping sludge of relentless bad news. The particulars change but the overall message remains the same: our leaders are corrupt, greedy, selfish and hopelessly short-sighted; militarism drives economics and politics, and hence social policy; the environment of our planet is under severe chemical and material assault, and the process of environmental destruction may now be irreversible; and through it all the people with the most power to demand, create and effect change are asleep on the job.
We're not all asleep. But not enough of us are awake. It is the critical job of those of us who see the impending disaster to sound the alarm and try to wake up our sisters and brothers while there's still some time to try to avert the final catastrophe.
The words of that possibly apocryphal saying of the Hopi elders keep sounding in my ears:
It is time to speak your Truth.
Create your community.
Be good to each other.
And do not look outside yourself for the leader.
....
Banish the word struggle from your attitude and vocabulary.
All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration.
We are the ones we've been waiting for.
This says to me that I should stop waiting for "the news" to tell me what's happening. I know what's happening, deep in my gut. The catastrophe is happening, in slow motion, constantly. And the social movement is rising, also, constantly, in slow motion.
There may not be one dramatic moment in time when Change overtakes us--no storming of the Bastille or assassination of Czar. But the period of change we're in is just as intense and momentous as in those epochs.
My task is to remain awake and alert to opportunities to create positive change, in however small the increments; and to be a source of inspiration and encouragement to the emerging changemakers around me, just as I draw my inspiration from those who are further along the road than I am.
Together we can become the social movement we've been waiting for--and we must. The alternative is too awful to contemplate.
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I can't believe it! I know that feeling.
Hey, and my email never seems to make it through to you email. You stopped by my blog some time ago and asked if I was interested in making some contributions somewhere and I was but everytime I responded the emails bounced back.
So today I decided to do a search and look where I found you?
(sorry for the any other business. But I do so identify with that feeling.)
Hey, and my email never seems to make it through to you email. You stopped by my blog some time ago and asked if I was interested in making some contributions somewhere and I was but everytime I responded the emails bounced back.
So today I decided to do a search and look where I found you?
(sorry for the any other business. But I do so identify with that feeling.)
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