The Ramblings of the Titanium Don
Explorations of Conscious Reality Creation, Mindfulness, and Other Matters
What can I do? This is the question a lot of us, I believe, are asking. In the face of global warming/climate change, the NDAA, SOPA, atrocities committed in the name of God or money or government – what can I do? With open discrimination and hostility against women, homosexuals, Muslims, and stories of intolerance and acts of utter selfishness against people different from one another – what can I do? In the face of so much death, war, famine,
The Occupy Wall Street movement may not make sense to everyone. But I think the one, simple point they are making needs to be spread far and wide. Wake up! That is, I believe, their primary message. Are We, the people, actually in control of this nation? The answer is simple. No. And that is the point of this movement. Wake up and see who is in charge! It’s not the government, it is not the people – it is
To go forwards, you cannot go backwards. There is a push by reactionary conservatives to take us back to a simpler, more naïve time (that never ACTUALLY existed) – and they are pushing through laws and ideas that are, simply, backwards. The ‘personhood’ issue in Mississippi. The repeal of the criminalization of domestic violence to save money in Kansas. Dismissing unions and their place in organized labor all across the country. Suggesting the uninsured should be allowed to die. These
There is some scary stuff being talked about these days. Class warfare. Letting the uninsured get sick and die. Cutting funds for education. Cutting funding for disaster victims. More and more it is obvious that the effort to separate people and put them at odds with one another is of greater import than bringing people together for the greater good. Everywhere we turn we see division. Red state vs. Blue state. Democrat vs. Republican. Muslim vs. Christian. Rich vs. Poor.
What are your hopes? What are your dreams? Who are you? What do you want from life? What are you afraid of? These are big questions we all ask of our friends, our families, and ourselves. I have been feeling rather introspective the past few days. Part of this is related to what I am reading – Paulo Coelho’s The Valkyries. This is causing me to question a great deal about the above questions. The question, though, causing me the
Once upon a time, “the news” reported precisely that – the news. There were reports on local events, international happenings, financial markets, and then something light and fluffy and human-interest related. No bias, no agenda, just “the news”. And then large corporations acquired the mainstream media. Newspapers, radio and television stations suddenly fell under large corporate entities, far more interested in making money than actually reporting on “the news”. Over the next two or three decades (I am estimating when
Dear House of Representatives, How dare you? How dare you mess with our national economy this way? How can you possibly justify this politicking? The economy is fragile enough as it is – how can you possibly dare to risk our recovery further? Yes, we all know you Republicans want to win the White House in 2012, and anything that might cause the President to be perceived badly seems good to you. But this nation was NOT founded on the
Dear Democrats and Republicans, Hi, remember us? You know, the people who make up the VAST MAJORITY of the nation? The people you are now continuously screwing over for your political infights and your corporate overlords? See, the problem is, YOU DON’T. This impasse over a debt ceiling because you are holding your ludicrous party lines and working against one another in an insane attempt to jockey for position before the next election is completely and totally UNACCEPTABLE. Remember the
Dear United States Politicians, I would like to take a moment to address a topic that YOU spend all-too-much time addressing: Civil liberties. Or, more importantly, ways to curtail civil liberties. We have reached an unfortunate point in our history where in the name of freedom, patriotism, and God we allow our civil liberties to be beaten back. We allow for debate about topics that, frankly, have NO PLACE in politics. They are civil topics. They belong in our communities,
I originally wrote this a year ago. But based on much of what I have been posting lately, I think it is time to revisit, edit, and readdress this. Dear fellow Americans: Stop letting everyone dictate our nation’s direction and agenda with FEAR! Fear is a greater weapon than any bullet, blade or bomb. And fear is being used as a weapon to control our actions DAILY. When did we start to let Fear rule our lives so completely? The