Dignity to Despondency

There was a time...

don't ask me when, it hasn't been in my lifetime...or for a long time, for that matter...
when people had less things, yet had strength of character, critical thinking, taste, and actual admirable traits.

When people polished their shoes, and wouldn't step out of their homes until they were decent. And did so everyday.

Now, I'm not harking back to ye old grand times. People wore absurd fashions and lead Dorian Gray lives.

But I am getting concerned about the trade offs being made, and have been making for so many consecutive decades (despite all the technological-teething-toys we've been given to pacify our over amused selves).

The results are beginning to show, as all erosion tends to eventually horrifically reveal.

As society, and as the market place, dictates what our values are, despite them being of no value what-so-ever.
We continue to be imperceivably shaped. Re-formed. Deformed.
Been put upon a spinning lathe by unseen, unskilled hands.

We have been reduced to a crooked first attempt by unskilled tool handlers, and left (or deliberately cast), unbalanced, illogical, easy pickings, and mentally starved of the intangibles we actually need and want.

Why is that?


Other than, someones sheer unadulterated profit somewhere-along-the-predator-food-chain-of-things line
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Why have we all accepted this as the model in which we all must conform, when it does nothing for us?


Why have we allowed it? Why do we enable it, and not ourselves?

How can we ever create a new model, when we are so ensconced, entombed and bound like a baby in a bunting.

How can anything good or new come out of our current climate, when every-existing-regime is in place to squash anything good or new? Or as we are witnessing in Tibet, not one single regime is interested in going to the aid of these ancient, peaceful and dignified people. We are witnessing the systematic enforcement of oppression, if not the actual destruction, of an ancient, proud and peaceful culture right before our eyes. We are witnessing what every lost culture in our history experienced, and that we may never know about through their successful eradication.

This is not "news". This is loss.

Tibet personifies, a principle, and principles are /were part of the intangibles our world needs andn used to have.
Tibet, and their world reknowned monks, possess the strength of character to live simply and simply live - despite time itself - and everything that's being shouted and told around them. That takes strength.

An admirable intangible I bet many wish they had the strength to walk themselves, particularly when billy clubs are employed.

Where is our strength and dignity? Or are we despondent because we know we lost such a quality a long time ago?

How are we to ever grow to become that which we ought to be - that which we were meant to be - if never left to be?

If we're never given a modicum of freedom to stop, think, discover, learn, practise and develop, as we would if ever given a natural, quiet, moment of peace, to individually find all that we possess within us, and to be able to share and contribute and put forth for others to learn and grow and be able to share from - then what on earth are we doing?

Such a surge in population, and yet fewer and fewer doing anything of true, undeniable, significant and worth for the world.

How is that possible?

Why do we accept, so defeatedly, a society that prevents us from having the time, the energy, the dignity, to explore and discover our own intangible depth within ourselves, with enough left over to rush to the aid of all those who need our help and protection, across this violent world of ours?

...when we are all needing the same things.


I know I harp on this subject, but it is truly one puzzle that needs figuring out.

We're worth saving.