- October 3, 2008 • 1:35 pm PDT
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So it's the next mornin', the election is over. This afternoon we are going to dinner a neighborhood meeting over at the house of one of the neighbors.
Whose house do we want to have this meeting at? Who is going to host the party where more gets resolved?
I want to relax, and I'm going to eventually, because no one can maintain non-stop anxiety without some time to let go. I get to know people really well (maybe well enough to vote for them or marry them) when we have worked side by side with them or shared a network link with them for many years. We get to know them when we sink into the same big couch or around a central table in the same living room (and maybe the seating breakdown isn't quite set up to keep us all neatly in our own pieces of furniture or on opposite sides of the room).
Now the problem is, we have to discuss something with the other attendees at this dinner party, who we do not know very well.
And might it turns out, that a win by our side or 'theirs' didn't mean that the other people disappeared or are no longer sharing our country, our town, our street, our building, our elevator?
Oh yeah, and our food supply, our air supply, a transportation system that ties together our little ones, and that we use, our opportunity to experience the beauty of the Earth,
How will we work together to share these things? Who will create a table to host us all? Who will support all of us feeling like a part of this country? So we can live our own way to the best of our abilty within the framework of 'no harm' to our other citizens.
Who will help the rest of the world see us as a nation to relate to, rather than to bomb?
Where will the resources be, to create jobs, to create schools, to give our kids a good education, to make sure that no area goes without foodmarkets and places to work, to create jobs that increase productivity and usefulness, qualities that ADD value to our economy?
Who will lead us as a nation to decrease, hopefully end, activities like war, destruction, our usual industrial habit of designing appliances and other big ticket, big resource items for short term use and longer-term disposal? These are activities which SUBTRACT value from our resources, which take more or more dirty resources to get rid of, clean, or maintain.
Who will work with the agencies who have been studying this? The understanding that has evolved, that the same money will go farther, if it creates good, supports people to grow up or to raise people to become good (and you can look at it like this--we do our best, and we work toward the goal of having more of our economy and financial recources contribute to things and activities which support more quality of life)
Who will lead us to live within our own means as a national government, and even work to pay back the generation debts, the financial time bomb we've allowed the present Administration to gift future generations with.
And, after all of our dividing ourselves off into two parties (the two viable who were allowed to participate in debates and got national exposure there), behind two tickets for the Presidency, well, it turns out we all may actually have strong allegiences to little group(s) that matched some of our actual issues, regardless of what the man we voted for represents.
(Sometimes, this can be a useful way to incubate and formulate ideas and concerns that we are have.)
Who will have the interest in creating a table for us all to sit down at, who will govern all of us, by including all of us? Who will support our understanding of each other rather than our ruling over each other?
Will we be able to create bridges of good will and working relations to the International community? Who will cultivate this country's strengths and creativity for jobs here?
Whose house do we want to have this meeting at? Who is going to host the party where more gets resolved?
I want to relax, and I'm going to eventually, because no one can maintain non-stop anxiety without some time to let go. I get to know people really well (maybe well enough to vote for them or marry them) when we have worked side by side with them or shared a network link with them for many years. We get to know them when we sink into the same big couch or around a central table in the same living room (and maybe the seating breakdown isn't quite set up to keep us all neatly in our own pieces of furniture or on opposite sides of the room).
Now the problem is, we have to discuss something with the other attendees at this dinner party, who we do not know very well.
And might it turns out, that a win by our side or 'theirs' didn't mean that the other people disappeared or are no longer sharing our country, our town, our street, our building, our elevator?
Oh yeah, and our food supply, our air supply, a transportation system that ties together our little ones, and that we use, our opportunity to experience the beauty of the Earth,
How will we work together to share these things? Who will create a table to host us all? Who will support all of us feeling like a part of this country? So we can live our own way to the best of our abilty within the framework of 'no harm' to our other citizens.
Who will help the rest of the world see us as a nation to relate to, rather than to bomb?
Where will the resources be, to create jobs, to create schools, to give our kids a good education, to make sure that no area goes without foodmarkets and places to work, to create jobs that increase productivity and usefulness, qualities that ADD value to our economy?
Who will lead us as a nation to decrease, hopefully end, activities like war, destruction, our usual industrial habit of designing appliances and other big ticket, big resource items for short term use and longer-term disposal? These are activities which SUBTRACT value from our resources, which take more or more dirty resources to get rid of, clean, or maintain.
Who will work with the agencies who have been studying this? The understanding that has evolved, that the same money will go farther, if it creates good, supports people to grow up or to raise people to become good (and you can look at it like this--we do our best, and we work toward the goal of having more of our economy and financial recources contribute to things and activities which support more quality of life)
Who will lead us to live within our own means as a national government, and even work to pay back the generation debts, the financial time bomb we've allowed the present Administration to gift future generations with.
And, after all of our dividing ourselves off into two parties (the two viable who were allowed to participate in debates and got national exposure there), behind two tickets for the Presidency, well, it turns out we all may actually have strong allegiences to little group(s) that matched some of our actual issues, regardless of what the man we voted for represents.
(Sometimes, this can be a useful way to incubate and formulate ideas and concerns that we are have.)
Who will have the interest in creating a table for us all to sit down at, who will govern all of us, by including all of us? Who will support our understanding of each other rather than our ruling over each other?
Will we be able to create bridges of good will and working relations to the International community? Who will cultivate this country's strengths and creativity for jobs here?
