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I
watched recently a film depicting the rich mythology of the American
Indians. White man (what is intended by the term is those people of
lighter skin who imagine ourselves to
be separate and different from people of darker skin color)
teaches the world that he is a member of a culture that represents a
departure from primitive ways into a modern world of interesting
opportunities for advancement.
As
I see it, when people grow bored and anxious, they fall prey to any
force that promises relief. What culture offers, as it is practiced,
is a multitude of distractions. What red culture offered is a
difficult quest by each individual to discover inner power of the
person with the promise of fulfillment as a human being through self
realized abundance of a different kind altogether. Once the lighter
skins also taught this other way to their children and grandchildren.
No longer. The way to be a true human being rather than an
entertainment freak is the difference I see.
In
1492, a lot of bored, mentally unsettled young men in Europe were
roped into a plan as a disciplined, trained and armed force crossing
the Atlantic in boats in search of riches. The nature of the
adventure is well documented torture and rape and pillage and
enslavement and murder of millions of people. I was born 450 years
after the bloody affair began and after all the people of a darker
skin color throughout North and South America had been subjugated to
a life in service to the dominant white culture. At the present time,
the entertainment freaks are way out in the lead, worldwide. They
have a web you have attached yourself and your family to. Like a
spider, it catches prey quite effectively. That's about the size of
it. The people caught in the web believe they have found freedom and
praise the spider and bow to it.
Amazing,
how the other way hangs around, though. Tough little bastard, I
reckon. Undeniable. It attracts the hearts of people; and at its own
pace. I am certainly grateful for the chance that came my way at a
critical point in my life to catch a ride with the soaring bird of
the winged life. So, I do not recommend any attempt to change those
freaks, but the undertaking of a difficult quest by each individual
to discover inner power of the person. Perhaps, in that way, some
others will be inspired to rise above the ashes of the suffering
world.
