Taking responsibility for seeing what’s there, in the ego world, and not denying or avoiding it and then knowing that if it’s not contributing to a world that works for everyone, is what we’re supposed to do as citizens of a democracy. You and I, not only have the responsibility to see and act from a spiritually connected place, but the capacity to do so. We have built in shit detectors. Eating shit is not good nor healthy. We can eat it for a little while, and some of us have more capacity for shit than others, but even they will finally get tired of it, sicken or die.
That’s where my hope for democracy comes in. Right now, the shit eaters seem to be in charge. But I’m hoping that as it becomes clearer and clearer that shit is being served, you and I will vote the shit eaters and shit servers out of office. Gross lying and gross, unbelievably bold and monstrous hypocrisy are signs that shit is being served. To perceive these and to say its only business as usual is to eat shit. Seeing gross, unbelievably bold and monstrous lying and hypocrisy is a signal to me and you to stop eating shit and choose something more nourishing. Seeing gross, unbelievably bold and monstrous lying and hypocrisy is a wake-up call, a signal to me and you that it is not business as usual, that both sides are not the same, that there is a life and death difference between the two parties and our votes do count.
The impulse to shift, to stop eating shit is a healthy one and requires that we are able to know the difference between shit and more nourishing stuff. The shit servers want to destroy that natural impulse and our God-given shit detectors. They want you and i to stay asleep in the ego’s nightmare. They want you to perceive gross, unbelievably bold and monstrous lying and hypocrisy as business as usual, that both sides are the same, that there isn’t a life and death difference between the two parties and our votes don’t count. That’s shit in anybody’s book. They want to make politics nasty, dirty, smelly and disgusting so only shit eaters will get involved and the ‘good’ and ‘descent’ non-shit eating public will stay out of it.
Don’t let them get away with this! Life is not shit! Everything’s not shit! Know there’s an alternative to what the shit servers are serving and the moans of ecstacy from the shit eaters as they consume it.
In fact, even the shit eaters and shit servers being children of God and our brothers and sisters in spirit, secretly hope that there is an alternative as well. They only do what they do because they are so full of fear, hate, blame and loathing, so cut off from their reality as spirit, that they think the ego’s nightmare is all there is, denying, not only their feelings but the evidence that shit is not all there is, that there’s more to Life than shit. After all, they too, love their families and children – we hope – have hopes, dreams and ideals. But they lack the courage to move towards them with spirit, from that centered place; and instead of contributing to a world that works for everyone, they seek to contribute to a world that works for a few, the ‘good’ people only.
It’s time to see all of this for what it is and quit eating shit and by doing so, stop enabling the shit servers. Compassion for the shit servers is called for as are efforts for us to awaken and thus to awaken them as well. That’s what democracy and an ‘open’ ‘market-driven’ society are all about. If enough of us stop eating shit, they’ll stop serving it. To say that there’ll always be shit is obviously true, but there’s no reason for us to eat it and wallow in it. Shit is normal, natural and has a place but not at the top of the menu pervaded by our so-called political leaders and media talking heads. Enough, enough, ENOUGH!
You and I can revitalize our democracy, fix our systems and make our individual and national contributions to a world that works for everyone, by becoming more centered in spirit and using our shit detectors wisely and well.
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