tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8317310.post115318915851767464..comments2023-11-02T09:28:05.181-04:00Comments on Daily Revolution Archive: In Search of Cosmic SanityBrian Donohuehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03247660397233913297noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8317310.post-1153255036080235192006-07-18T16:37:00.000-04:002006-07-18T16:37:00.000-04:00As always, Miss B., your comments are wise and gra...As always, Miss B., your comments are wise and gratefully received. Last year, I wrote and self-published a book called "Drinking From the Darkness" (previewable <A HREF="http://www.lulu.com/content/145575" REL="nofollow">here</A>), which was intended as a guide for individuals navigating dark times. I've got a 12 year old daughter, so that's my vested interest in seeing a transformative movement in this culture. She will have to grow up into the world we've made today, and so far it isn't promising. But I have a feeling that can all change, and I outline a few high-level views of how it might happen in the last chapter of that book. The reason I say that no human institution can do it is because I feel as if nothing less than a dramatic transformation within <I>individuals</I> will really work. As I've mentioned before here, the way to the universal is through the individual heart; societies are transformed when each person is changed from within.Brian Donohuehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03247660397233913297noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8317310.post-1153241197301575822006-07-18T12:46:00.000-04:002006-07-18T12:46:00.000-04:00"That's all. It is very difficult to be either hum...<I>"That's all. It is very difficult to be either humorous or objective about this stuff, this moment we're in. I teach that every darkness is penetrable—I wrote an entire book on the point. But this one we're entering now seems especially thick and black and poisoned with the fecal stench of Power. There is no human institution, government, or policy that will deliver us from this hot and rigid night of destruction."</I><BR/><BR/>I find myself hanging onto something a commenter said on another blog about a year and a half ago, just a few months after the 2004 election:<BR/><BR/>"Take heart. All empires contain the seed of their own undoing. The arrogance of this administration is that seed."<BR/><BR/>(quoted in this post: http://missbitty.blogspot.com/2005/02/reminder.html)<BR/><BR/>I want very much to believe this, that evil cannot sustain itself indefinitely, that 10 years from now we will look back on this time with sadness, but from a vantage point of a better Earth than the one in which we currently reside. Surely, it will be better, surely this madness cannot last much longer...?<BR/><BR/>It has been increasingly harder to believe that, that this admininstration and it's terrible, terrible consquences will ever be undone. What price will we pay, in the end? What price will the world pay, or our children, or their children? By the time we awake from our collective stupor, will the damage be irreversible?<BR/><BR/>I find myself continually on the cusp of despair at things ever getting better. As an optimist by nature, and an idealist at heart, this is a state of being I have a tremendously difficult time getting through. <BR/><BR/>But in the end, I <I>have</I> to believe that it can be undone, that there is light somewhere to lead us back, though we can't see it now. I have to believe that, in order to keep going and keep jumping back in the fray. Not because I alone can change the world, but because the only way it's going to happen is if we try. And if not me, then who?<BR/><BR/>I guess I don't really have a point, other than to nod my head in agreement.Bittyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01559013235379520937noreply@blogger.com