December 12-A, 2022

The Fentanyl epidemic 
is fueled by a culture
that has to have more/better/faster/Now!

Commercial TV (Etc.) is grounded
on the premise
that we don't have everything (anything)
we desperately need NOW!

Commercials sell us everything we don't have yet,
or have enough of yet,
and don't know what (All) we need NOW!

The commercial culture is in the business
of creating need
that it is quick to supply
for the low, low, price
of everything we have.

Capitalism is commercialism.

Capitalism is the root of all our problems today.

Or, as Jesus said,
"The love of money is the root of all evil."

Take a bow, Jesus!!!

Commercial TV (Etc.) creates the milieu,
the umwelt,
the lived environment
of the entire planet
grounded on the premise
that we don't have enough of what we need
to be happy with our life as it is.

And we can never have enough.
Which means we can never be happy.
And Fentanyl is right there 
to compensate everyone for what
they don't have
by helping them feel better (Great!)
about what they do have,
and to care less about what 
they will never have.

And, of course, Capitalism benefits
from that as well.

Capitalism gets us coming and going.

Capitalism is the addiction that kills.
Everyone.
Sooner or later.
(The environmental crisis
is Capitalism's baby, too, you know).

The cure/preventive/prescription
is to withdraw
into emptiness/stillness/silence,
return to our original nature
and to the innate virtues that are ours
from birth (The characteristics/qualities/traits
that define us,
identify us,
and set us apart from everyone else
whoever lived,
the way our fingerprints 
and our retina cones do).

Distance ourselves from our desires
and our fears,
and live "as one thus come,"
just as we are,
who we are,
where we are,
when we are,
how we are,
doing what needs to be done
when, where and how it needs to be done,
and finding our joy in living
like that
in each here/now of existence
all our life long.

It will take, in other words,
a complete re-writing of the script
we are now handed at birth,
turning the light completely around,
flipping the cultural perspective,
and transforming life as we know it.

And there is no time better to start
than right now!

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