Questions Abound.

As the ill intentions of an un-precious and very powerful few begin to overtake and dominate the mainstream cultural channels of thought (meaning the mediated ideologies in every day life that determine how we think about ourselves, and what is and what is not possible in this world); it becomes ever more likely that the tidal wave of ignorance, capital expansion, and rampant consumerism that bind the walls of the status quo will stand. The ‘status quo’ itself then is perhaps the 'enemy' and its persistence is the antithesis of the potential of the human spirit. For if we are always wandering about in the present, in a cycle of work and consumption that spirals endlessly towards some distant future that never actually arrives- our human spirits surely suffer with us, wallowing in the alienated cage of the here and now, a prisioner....when do we stop waiting and start becoming? When do we stop ONLY dreaming and start doing?

It has become all too easy to wander endlessly in the doldrums of passivity and boredom, where many never know, or bother to know, the bounds of what the human spirit can do if it is only given the chance to manifest itself for more than the mere moments when which it is allowed to breathe, in those brief and fleeting epiphanies that come sporadically throughout our hopelessly beaten down lives. Why should we wait for whatever rewards this material world will vomit up for us, as the poisoned “fruits of our labor” which appear in crass and shallow monetary and material forms- when such rewards already reside within us- in our creativity, imagination, and human spirits, begging to be set free if only we would pull the filth away from our eyes and embrace it?

The lies that bind this world together are the greatest crimes against humanity- lies which legitimize the eradication of hope, and justify unrealized potential as a normal condition. What sense can be made of a world which values property and material objects more than human life itself, or the life of the planet for that matter? Any true release from such a manufactured world, or release from the alienation and ignorance that characterizes such a world, is not to be found within the tools or architecture of the social reality that surrounds us, constructed and maintained by the aforementioned ‘powerful few,’ for the only exit from this place is to turn the structure itself upside down, so that human and social relations can overcome and overthrow the shallow commercial and economic relations that lock each and every person onto a predetermined path toward some hollow material heaven that enslaves more that it liberates.

If mental, physical, and spiritual liberation is the goal, then we each must first ask ourselves what we are willing to do to get <there> from <here>…?