I'm sorry - I just gotta have this rant. I have been keeping it under control, it's been boiling away for a while now but has been fuelled by Sarah Toa's latest blog.
I am watching with glee and some consternation as the patriarchies fall. I will gloat a little here. I have been theorising for a long time that matriarchal institutions and systems are overthrown by outside forces (think Romans and Celts/Brits) but that patriarchal ones are destroyed from within (think Rome - they get too big, too arrogant and too greedy). It's just another archetypal matrix, the way energy systems work.
So I have watched with impatient interest, events of the last few years, and then months, unfold. The beginning of the end for the US was most probably 9/11. Another case of assassination from within is the patriarchal News Ltd empire. Now the US government, all those stupid blokes arguing, holding out for power and greed so desperately that it looks pretty certain they have successfully unravelled their own economy - it was inevitable whatever they did.
Consumerism, waste, economies that rely on growth and exploitation, societies driven by self interest. This madness just has to stop.
I watch in consternation because I know that unfolding events are going to hurt a lot of people, always those who are struggling already. But perhaps now we can start to look at economies that are sustainable, fight back and regain some moral ground - things like ethics and social conscience have long disappeared from the debate. I don't care if it's politically correct or not. I think we have a responsibility to the planet, to each other. I am so unbelievably fed up with the way we are living and look forward to change. There are many, many wonderful people out there who still care.
The Falling Man is a photograph taken by photographer Richard Drew, of a man falling from the North Tower of the World Trade Center during the September 11 attacks in New York City.
5 comments:
A marvellous rant, a great theory and an amazing photograph!
"There are many, many wonderful people out there who still care."
yes and some of us will be the ones falling out of the building
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I think the beginning has been a longer time coming - 911 was just another blatant landmark.
I can't say that I'm disappointed to be leaving (though of course the euro isn't doing so well these days either). I will miss the land, though.
Yes Neighbour, when I made my comments I was aware that many of the wonderul people will be the ones being pushed from the building. And if it were within my power I would change that. It makes me very, very sad. It's interesting to hear from an American citizen, that you think things started unravelling a long time ago. As an outsider of course I only see the major events.
Australia has been arrogantly crowing about its good economic position, as if we are immune, just because we have commodities that China wants at the moment. But I have been warning that we can't help but be affected. If China doesn't have markets then they won't need our resources. The mining boom has created a two-tiered economy and only about 200, 000 people work in that industry anway - a lot of Australia is doing it tough with huge hikes in utility costs. Food here is expensive, in fact nothing is cheap.
I work for the government and my job is not that secure. I have no idea what effect unfolding events will mean for me either.
Joan said:
What an appalling, tragic image, of the man's headlong dive from the doomed tower!
Thank you for your rant: saves me doing it. The zeitgeist won't be deflected. Do we call it Karmic Justice or the natural order of things?
Maybe both and we won't be protected from it either. We have all contributed....willingly or not. I'm just surprised it has taken this long to get to this point.
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