Our Predicament

[Erothyme]

"All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers." - Francois Fenelon

Our predicament is that we have inherited a worldview which underestimates the value of gratuitous grace. Our culture is not a generous one, or it is only generous provided that there is an established reward for generosity. Everything has a catch. When you try to give someone a gift, you are assumed to be a salesman.

It seems the lights are dimmed in whatever chambers of the standard first-world mind are responsible for conscience. The belief that we can avoid being accountable for our actions assumes that causation stretches no further than immediate consequences. Willingness to maliciously exploit the weaknesses and vulnerabilities of other humans is indicative of the failure to understand that your neighbor's problem is yours as well. Endless complacencies have dulled our sense of responsibility to the point that we no longer have any clear understanding of ethical behavior. We daily exhibit perversions of ethics in the form of manners while the human spirit is suffering by way of neglect.

In the use of the term "ethical" I refer to no science or dogma so much as the effort to be sensitive to the predicaments of others. Apathy is a degenerative disease, and awareness is the cure. Apathy and awareness do not sit well together; when one is truly aware of the depth of the human problem, one is unlikely to remain apathetic. It is through awareness that we can maintain our empathy and our drive for good will. It is through awareness that we can use our relative wealth to the advantage of humankind rather than strictly to the advantage of some shortsighted private interest. We in the first world have a tremendous abundance of opportunities for grace and some outrageously large percentage of them are squandered without so much as a sigh. With the awareness that we are in some sense responsible for the world we will live in tomorrow we can begin to address our predicament instead of burying it behind trivial distractions.

Awareness is the light at the end of the tunnel. We will either deliberately embrace it or stumble ashamed upon it while the world burns.

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[IJesusChrist]

You make good music, AND good arguements

I completely agree - the three most important emotions of our time (or states of mmind): Apathy, empathy (awareness), motivation.

We have become products of the weight of time, the crushing of greed, money, debt and politics. We have been raised to believe money above all, that everything can come from money, and that should be your goal, not to be happy, but to have money, materials, wealth. When we realize that money isn't easily obtained in a country of 600 million, and that even the intelligence of great men can fall to debt, we sit, and watch T.V., happy with our new found digital friend. We sit on the internet, and surf youtube for funny videos, we anonymously speak to others and disagree, spreading discontent that we have gained through bitterness of wisdom with little insight.

However, there is light, and it is people like you and I, who wish to spread our thoughts, our wishes, and the feeling of empathy. How to over come the predicament is to subdue it. To slowly break from it ourselves, to slowly explain to others the realities, including that of money, energy, greed, and power. The fact that one person affects 7, affects 7, affects 7.

IT is no longer enough to spread your words on the internet, however it is never looked down upon, it has become time to push. To overcome social fears and boundaries, and let others know what should be looked down upon. We are still surrounded by hollywood, infomercial, capitalist drones though, still waiting to be cracked.

pm me if you make a new album