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Escaping the Past
By backing into the future
We know we have a problem with the truth now. The adage that truth Passes Through Three Stages — first, it is ridiculed, second, it is violently opposed, and third, it is accepted as self-evident — often attributed to Arthur Schopenhauer — is helpful as we are in the violent second stage of the truth of our planetary reality.
We all have had periods when anxiety produces sleepless nights. Many of us have also had times when we felt that stress had pushed us to the brink of insanity. Some of us may have thought we had sometimes slipped across that line.
But our time now is different. One of the benefits of age is that you learn the truth of “this, too, shall pass.” Most things that we fear are not as bad as we think. Even if they are, they, too, will pass.
The problem is usually our acculturated fears and lack of self-confidence. We also must deal with people and groups that threaten to drive us over the edge with their refusal to accept reality, let alone critical changes to achieve our species’ survival. We are now dealing with growing social insanity that is undermining our survival.
Groups that become irrational and threatening are either criminal or religious. Religion is a far more significant problem as it exists outside logic and rational thought. But that has been changing as the traditional religions no longer work except as justifications for oppression and war.
The new spirituality is diverse personnel and part of our global communication. But that is not what we hear about.
Cults are the most significant problem, and we have one of those in America now with Trump as an increasingly insane cult leader, i.e., a pathological narcissist. There are always people who get sucked into those things due to socio-political changes and some form of desperation. Again, those individuals and groups are identifiable.
Understanding the planetary political situation is related to understanding the American Empire’s end times, which can be interpreted as synonymous with the end times of the Modern Age. But it is being replaced with a new reality if that reality has a chance to emerge from our planetary disaster.
