Krishnamurti: “It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”
Is it normal to be happy? Is it a good thing your not? The natural world/universe is a wonderful interesting place and I suppose many of us would spend a lifetime exploring without much worry. Our everyday lives are filled with so much bullshit that no wonder so many of us are unhappy. We must labor to pay for our homes, electronics and taxes that make others vastly more wealthy and then we become toys for others to use. Not for our benefit mind you.
Our American society is truly a predatory one. We work all our lives for money, search our souls in churches and bring up our children to value the things that we have learned to value even though the vast majority of us know that we are a part of a broken system. From the monetary system to our politics, Jacques Fresco mentioned that the way we do things will become part of a horror movie in the future. But how far ahead need we be? Even the way various people idolize god, celebrity, and royalty are inherently naive and misguided, All of these things are various institutions made from the ground up to become beacons of wealth, power and self preservation . How can we overcome these things?
I don't believe we can in our current system. And its not just one system or a few......its the whole entirety. I reason that if we start with the monetary system we will see large gains on a different world. Follow the money. From corrupt politicians, super huge corporations, religious corruption, banking centers and nationalistic fervor, all these things stand in the way. Or more precisely the people who would believe that they would loose something along the way to a transition. Ask yourself "Is this the best we can do?" Ask yourself "Do I even really want to be a part of this?"
I think once you say yes to the former and no to the latter, you or people can begin to question the way we do things. Propaganda slogans like "support the troops" or "Our war on terror". These both mean nothing but seem to mean a lot. Pure propaganda. These notions and many others drive us to wars and poverty where the only winners are the same people who started the slogans. People and businesses like Cheney/Haliburton, Condolezza/Shell Oil and Blackwater.
This is a good little facebook page article http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=4822989870 . There is much to say about such a massive topic such as "social reconstruction", so it takes much reading and more importantly an objective mind.
Check out "The Silver Bear Cafe", "The Venus Project" and "Zeitgeist Movie"
