Shimmering
Oct. 28th, 2024 07:24 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphilo By a nifty piece of happenstance (now that my name has gone forward to be a Quaker elder) I found myself listening to a podcast last night in which a couple of clever young chaps were talking about eldership in a wider context . Most people in our society, said one of them, never really get beyond the mindset of adolescence with its neediness and concern for status. He cited a Jungian ecologist called Plotkin- whom I should probably get to know better- who distinguishes between the older- who are merely old in years and the elder who have been initiated into true adulthood- and are thereby qualified to be teachers and guides. He spoke of our digital culture as "The Shimmer"- a term so newly minted that the Shimmer itself doesn't seem to have heard of it. I Googled and drew a blank. With its suggestion of glamour and illusion- and beauty too- I think it's perfect. We all live in the Shimmer now, he said, and must learn to get wise to it pretty damn quick or else it will eat us.
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Date: 2024-10-28 01:14 pm (UTC)How about Iran or China eldership witch transformed to dictatorship?
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Date: 2024-10-29 07:28 am (UTC)I see Trump has said he'll stop the Ukraine war, but then he says all sorts of things. Even if he's serious I doubt he has the power. The American Empire is fading, falling away, becoming history....
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Date: 2024-10-29 12:26 pm (UTC)In God We Trust and if the American Empire is failing then God is failing?
Only dreams left for us: https://youtu.be/YkgkThdzX-8?si=WCSBY5PUW0uoIMLE
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