Our New "Steady-State" ??
My "Hits" now exceed 7,000! Thanks, to all my readers around the World! As I write this, U.S. Embassies have been closed in several countries around the World (mostly Arabia, plus Africa). Yet another "Terror" alert that is "non-specific".
For those of you who started reading The OWL early, (this is blog # 411), you might remember my story about Ginney Gerechter in San Francisco in 1960. Later, when I was purchasing a house in Lawrence, KS, my real estate agent was a young Jewish lady, and I told her about Ginney. She responded enthusiastically, that she had relatives who, like Ginney, lived daily in fear of the "knock on the door" that would bring back the horrors they escaped. This generalized "paranoia" can become permanent. We have politicians who have made out like "fat rats" plying this paranoia for their personal gain.
Just as the old saying goes: "We might be paranoid, and still have something real to fear". Such is our new "steady-state" as we struggle to live our lives. The strange thing about this type of paranoia is that it amplifies the other "bad" things we have to struggle with, like greed, racism, religious strife, fear of people who are not "like us". It even exacerbates other tendencies, like; males who have difficulty "hearing" females; whites who can't truly "see", "hear", or acknowledge the humanity of non-whites.
Religious faiths become radicalized under this blanket of fear. Murderers, like Zimmerman, become "heroes" to those who are Hard Right and Racist, among our citizenry.
Our institutions erode, and become dysfunctional. Hope dies slowly. The spell hardens as those who profit, whip up the hysteria.
The secret to breaking this spell is to refuse to succumb to fear! FDR told us this, several decades back. We can adopt a strong resolve to not "let the bastards win"!! We have to take charge of our lives (capture control of our time) and create our own occupations. We have to focus again on basics like food, clothing, and shelter; the way the entire country was focused during World War II.
Stay Vigilant!, and, Free your mind!
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