Set
Yourself Free
I just watched a
documentary on Netflix that flatly makes the assertion that it is the
role of a society to provide an environment that promotes the
happiness and wellbeing of its members. This is typical today. It
should be rare but it is the norm of thinking everywhere and the
source of so much human suffering and depression, loneliness, and
isolation. It must cease.
Society. What is
one? Find one and bring it here and show us a society. Take its
picture. Ask it to speak to us. If it lives it must let us know so we
can ask it to do its job. We must hold it accountable. Perhaps we
should pray to it? We need a symbolic idol to worship named “Our
society”. Wait. We have thousands and thousands such things all
around public gathering spots. They cost a lot of money but just
stand there looking pretty. Normally they bear the carver's name.
That's right! Should we hold the carver accountable for the failure
of the symbol? They are made by the hands of a man or woman. Images.
Powerless to raise a finger to help anyone, not even the pigeons on
their bodies. And the flags! My God, the flags!
You get my point.
This is really sad. It is a disgrace. It is humiliating to think we
are so low in our understanding of the difference between the real
and the unreal.
When will we learn
that there are people here represented symbolically by words and
sculptures and flags and address all our concern, every last bit of
it, to the people who are present and alive? The word SOCIETY, even
in all caps, is nothing but a symbol. It is a reflection of what is
actual. The reflection has no life and no power. The power is in the
people, you and me, brother and sister. We must arise and admit it.
If not, we go deeper and deeper into a fools world where it is said that you laugh but not all your
