The time for individual recovery is over, we need to heal as a society first. People are so busy with the hugger mugger daily scrum of life, that there's no time left over for personal healing. Trying to heal everyone one at a time, is just too slow. It's not working fast enough for us as separate individuals, we can't keep up. We need to heal as a unity. I think we may already have an idea about how this can work. Our individual problems just aren't that important in contrast to the real problems of the world as a whole, and we worry way too much about just ourselves only. Yes it's true, we all do need to ask for help occasionally and must appreciate the blessings of other peoples support. But when our societal addiction is in fact about the abuses lying and lying to ourselves, well then, that is a common social problem. And all of our personal problems come from this shared social dimension.
We have just gotten to see how a candidacy of blatant popular lies, foisted upon us. A media addicted gullible public was swayed under the favorable auspices of a hostile economy of conspiracies vying for the throne of populist paranoia. Most people, regardless of bias, prefer to deny that propaganda is always just so much fake news before it has become popularized. But when we expand the boundaries of our own personal awareness to include others, our petty populist fears and blaming can come into clearer focus. We can embrace the understanding of the real hardships of living. We can be released from our own trivial selfishness by a healthy loving Rage of Compassion. If we aren't a little pissed off about the state of the world, well then we haven't learned anything. If we don't care about the welfare of the world and all it's peoples and creatures, well then I must feel for you. Your emotional poverty is real, and I wouldn't wish that emptiness on my worst enemy. Money wont cover up the emptiness. The lies are out in the open now, spilled out like so much waste cluttering the family table. The lies are out there where everyone knows about the racism and the misogyny and all that twisted Right Wing Religious Political Correctness. Of the hateful Flag Pins, and vicious Pro Life and those arrogantly deluded Christian Moral Majority Fascist Family Values. The all American bigotry glut fest buffet. You sad peoples of the white bread country, can't buy yourself enough drugs or sex or possessions, to keep a healthy person from having face the emptiness of a selfish life, which is not worth living. You as individuals can no longer be helped. You "as individuals" were never the issue. Your chances of recovery are probably coming to you much too late. We may need to start thinking about what other people need first, for a change. Then maybe we can find the grace to forgive ourselves by accepting each other, with all our common needs.
I suggest that the Biologic of Mutual Study is already happening and that we can see it happening all around us. But man still does see it. Yet. The bodhisattva rests.
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