November, 2023

Hate, fear and greed are the primary motivators.
Peace, love and compassion have no chance against them.

"The Woke masses are going to take your guns!
And the people of color are going to eat your babies!"

Repeat that over and over from the pulpits
and the talk shows
and you have recreated Hitler Germany
and its unrelenting attacks upon the Jews.

What's the antidote?
You will not like the idea:
The right kind of emptiness,
stillness and silence.

Waiting for the mud to settle
and the water to clear.

While the other side stirs up the mud
and brings the water to a boil.

Which is to say there is no antidote
and that is why the world is as it is,
rolling in hate, fear and greed,
as it has from the beginning,
is and ever shall be.

And those who know have to live
as though they know
in a world that doesn't know
and doesn't care to know,
because it thinks it knows
and that's that.

But.

"The light shines in the darkness
and the darkness cannot put it out."

Children of light have to be children of light,
and let nature take its course.

It is the way.
The only way.

Being who we are,
when and where and how we are,
not caring what our chances are,
anyway, nevertheless, even so.

Finding our solace, our strength
and our courage
in the right kind of emptiness,
stillness and silence,
and the right kind of company--
and living on, living on.

The Sisyphean Task
of being the light in the darkness
through the ages.

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