The Fork in the Road

There is a lot of panicky talk in the news regarding the financial world and the government. I am always struck by how out-of-touch the various finance “ministers” and heads of state appear to be. For three years now, they have stubbornly refused to admit we are having a recession, and perhaps rightly so, for it is really a “restructuring” that is occurring. Anyone who care to look at the whole picture will see that our world is being restructured.
 
This includes everything…our relationship with Mother Nature and the Earth, our dependency on jobs instead of work that is meaningful to us, our move away from state-funded education to something more relevant related to life, the shift from religion to personal awakening, our use of energy, our views and attitudes toward money, and most of all – our need for a nation and its clunky, corrupted ways of managing our relationships with other peoples around the planet.
 
The authority of government is held in place by the financial system which guarantees that we are so distracted vying for bits of survival that we don’t stop to question what is happening. The jobs issue is a particularly illuminating example of how this distraction works. Politicians keep squawking about creating more jobs. Why? Because having a job keeps people too busy for things like protests, riots, and revolutions. A job is the means by which people get the money to feed their habits and addictions whether that is food and drugs or big TVs and entertainment.
 
Without jobs, it’s only a matter of time until the government is challenged by those who, with free time on their hands, will begin to see how much the government has taken over our lives. In fact, you can measure the degree of control government has usurped by the amount of blame it receives for everything and anything, which includes everything from prices and wars to industrial regulation and bad weather.
 
Is it bad for government to decide what we eat and wear, what medicines we take, how we will travel, how we build houses, what we drive and how much gas costs, how private our cell phone conversations will be, and what kind of science research is permissible? Those are personal questions whose answers will be just as personal – i.e. meaningless to others.
 
The real questions are, “What is the work that restructuring calls us to do? Can we work together well enough to preserve the unique form of life that is indigenous to Planet Earth?”
 
We are finally at that fork in the road that the little men in brown robes called “choosing an alignment.” The choice is between a path that leads to greater life, and a path that leads to self-destruction. As they said so long ago, “If you don’t want to align with life, you needn’t do anything differently, for you are already on the path to destruction. However, if you choose life and creation, you will have to do many things differently.”
 
So here we are. What is your choice?