There never was a time more appropriate to being totally devoted to the music wrought by ALL human beings. From Louis Armstrong, to Pat Metheny and Sevara Nazarkhan, I have seen the world's responses and gleaned some semblance of the TRUTH.
There has scarcely been a time more needful of harmony among the peoples of this planet.
Religion, though in its most sincere form a particularly useful vehicle for creating a real and potentially lasting peace, has proven of late (due to a variety of circumstances and decisions
around the globe) to be a bit of a washout. The list of intentions and mis-intentions is as long as it's undistinguished.
Every generation thinks they have a handle on the problems (being those of unaccountable greed, failed trust and just sheer nihilism in the face of the logistical nightmares surrounding actually getting along).
Always these well-intentioned seem to lose sight of the real goals (putting an end to turf wars and rampant tyrants with the will and means to punish the thoughtful and unthoughtful citizens of Planet Earth for wrongs real and imagined - not to mention rampant
capitalists and xenophobes at home and abroad with a will to stamp anything considered non-productive into the ground before there is any chance that nuggets of wisdom from which these ideas or philosophies or products ... or whatever ... sprung can start to be realized).
There has scarcely been a time more needful of harmony among the peoples of this planet.
Religion, though in its most sincere form a particularly useful vehicle for creating a real and potentially lasting peace, has proven of late (due to a variety of circumstances and decisions
around the globe) to be a bit of a washout. The list of intentions and mis-intentions is as long as it's undistinguished.
Every generation thinks they have a handle on the problems (being those of unaccountable greed, failed trust and just sheer nihilism in the face of the logistical nightmares surrounding actually getting along).
Always these well-intentioned seem to lose sight of the real goals (putting an end to turf wars and rampant tyrants with the will and means to punish the thoughtful and unthoughtful citizens of Planet Earth for wrongs real and imagined - not to mention rampant
capitalists and xenophobes at home and abroad with a will to stamp anything considered non-productive into the ground before there is any chance that nuggets of wisdom from which these ideas or philosophies or products ... or whatever ... sprung can start to be realized).
So if I mean to say it's time to find alternatives to war, I am immediately inoculated against speaking it too stridently by the world I see available to me. In the wake of human suffering, and in spite of the latest and greatest perpetrators in these most recent
manifestations of ancient and embedded hostilities, an answer needs to be forthcoming.
Yet what compromises our "security" in the face of such a staggering complex of motivations and means? The only sure thing is that our security breeches will come from unexpected directions.
The real journey can begin when we realize the falsehood lulling in the sweet, comforting arms of borders language and culture. So busy extolling careworn platitudes, our leaders abdicated their choices...as we languish within these increasingly-chaotic diplomatic
vortices.
Rather they should be spreading seeds of cultural plurality, as sagacity demands, in order to protect the innocent as much as possible, while building real understanding in the process.
And from real understanding can spring the beginnings of real TRUTH - acceptance of humanity (both angels and devils all) in toto. The realization of the spirit embodied in the one race we all depend upon for survival - the human race.
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