Please.....

[poliphilo]

All through the 90s I was an optimist. And a bit of a New Ager. I thought we were on the brink of something- of some big leap forward in human consciousness. I wasn't sure if it was going to happen because of scientific advance or because lots of advanced souls were reincarnating to push things along or because the aliens were about to intervene but- whatever- I had great expectations of the 21st century.

And then along came Karl Rove and people like him and stomped all over the tender young shoots.

And I went from being a starchild to a grouchy misanthrope.

A pity really.

These first seven years of the century have been pretty damn awful. 

But Rove's gone and he's gone because the mix of cynical machiavellianism and crass materialism and brain-dead religious hoodoo which he stood for has been tested and found wanting.

Is it foolish to hope for change?

If I'm lucky (?) I could have another 30 years on this planet.  That's a long time.  Please let it be about something other than stupid wars for stupid oil and the icecaps melting.

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[michaleen.livejournal.com]

There's a saying in economics: a thing that cannot go on forever, won't. The problem with declining empires is how they react to the ebbing away of power. Some go quietly, some strike out agressively in all directions and at home, disappearing over history's horizon with a final blaze of glory. We might be seeing that just now in the Middle East and South Asia.

There's still time for a soft landing. It's never too late to return to our roots, the humanism that informed this government at its birth.