Truth

Jeremiah Wright, the much maligned friend of Mr. Obama, is a speaker of the truth. And I do not mean HIS truth only. Part of the popular furor he has raised is akin to the whining resistance of a sleepy child who resents being roused from its blissful sleep. A greater part of the cynical negative propaganda against Wright comes from the fascist Right Wing of the Republican Party.

The poor are poorer than ever in the US. The Iraq War is an abomination. The Bush administration is corrupt and evil. The Congress is impotent. Racism is alive and prospering in the US in many different forms. The people are suffering at the hands of the greedy, wealthy and powerful, whether those privileged classes are aware of it or not. The rich are richer than ever and paying less of their share of the public funds.

The truth hurts those who choose to deny it or ignore it. Wright is simply saying what should be said regularly on the public airwaves and in the press. Those forums have been kidnapped by the Right Wing.

It is easy to dismiss Wright as a crackpot. His style is histrionic. But Martin Luther King would be saying the same things if he were alive today. King's style was also histrionic. Jeremiah Wright is a brave man to follow in King's footsteps. Fascist assassins have good aim. Cowardly Liberals too readily defer to the Right Wing's brutality.

Practice is difficult and dangerous. It does not make you popular.

Economics

The human economy reflects the folly of the human denial of the human condition. In general, human beings live their lives irresponsibly. This is grossly obvious in the state of the planet, which human beings continue to consciously pollute and abuse every day.

The vast ignorance and denial of the inevitable consequences of overpopulation among human beings of all social and educational levels is obvious in the lack of discussion of overpopulation by world leaders, scientists and educators. This too is irresponsible.

The economics of the human species are less science than manipulation of markets and money to perpetuate the power of the few at the expense of the many. The current turmoil in the global human economy is evidence of this reality.

Humans spend their lives trying to balance their conditioned denial and religious illusions with the reality of mortality and their own irresponsible attitudes toward their own species and the rest of the planet. These contradictions will not be balanced. By letting this farcical play fall apart, the human mind awakens. By embracing mortality and taking a determined path to make the world a better place with daily right action and right thought (practice), human Being can be happy Being, liberated from the pain of constant uncertainty and illusion.

Potentates

Today, Herr Ratzinger is in America to manipulate the media and the masses. Can intelligent people be so naive to believe this man represents goodness and light? He is simply a walking anachronism, the representative of a dead and decaying mafia of tyrannical domination and brain-washing. He is the Osama bin Laden of his organization. Our own corrupt and fascist leaders are flocking around him. This is appropriate. It shows us clearly what and whom they represent.

Olympics

The Olympic games have historically been bound to politics. The bright light of the current international upset over the Beijing version of this politicized event is simply this: Some intelligent people are waking up to the new corporate fascism that is becoming a worldwide threat.

The current Olympic games are still patterned on the 1936 Olympics in fascist Berlin. The torch ritual was resurrected for that event by Hitler's Reich, which patterned itself on lunatic concepts of the Greco-Roman origins of the Third Reich.

Yes, Olympics and Fascism have walked hand-in-hand before.

One truly Greco-Roman concept was this: Give the masses bread and circus, and they will be distracted from the corruption which enslaves them.

Time

Reading this sentence is time lapsed.
Lapsing time evades. We waste it.
It pours through our minds, our hands.
Mirrors suck it dry with nonsense.
Banks hold the folly of lapsed time.
Lapsed people lie in timeless crypts.

(for Eniko)

Role

I recently spoke with a group of medical students. At the end of our time together I was asked to state my core message to the students about their relationships with their patients. I encouraged them to not become their role.

We all must assume a role in an industrial society to make a living or to contribute to our community in some capacity: Doctor, mayor, nurse, teacher, etc.. The role is a tag to promote confidence and covey a message of legitimacy.

Some people, as they age in their roles, allow their personalities to fuse with their roles. They begin to behave in archetypal ways, imprinted upon them by media and example. Some become rigid and patriarchal. Some become duplicitous and corrupt. Some become haughty and condescending.

To remain genuine, vulnerable and human within your role is an extremely conscious and demanding process, as the repetitive functions of the role become more and more automatic and routine. The functions of the role often improve in speed and efficiency with this repetition. However, boredom and increasingly mindless efficiency have a corrosive effect on human enthusiasm and opennesss.

Treating each case or each human contact within a role as fresh, interesting and worthy of full concentration is terribly demanding. Practice is difficult. But, the reward to the person who remains alive within a role is life itself.