There has been a reckoning happening in our world for the past several years. All manner of disasters have been taking place in order to wake up our collective consciousness. The terrible crimes that have been committed against our fellow man (and even against our own family members) the corruption in our government, the lies we have told ourselves, and the truths that we refuse to see, are being exposed bit by bit. For the past four years, an evil force has occupied our White House. By himself, Trump isn’t much of a threat; but those who follow and support him, who are driven by the same hatred, and who have no moral compass, are a threat not only to our democracy, but to our entire planet. These people, coupled with the pandemic in which we find ourselves in the midst of, are a symptom of the disease that has infiltrated the human species. The fate of human life – and of all life – lies in our ability to awaken to, and make amends for the wrongs that we have allowed to continue.
We have made some great strides in exposing the truth, but only time will tell if we have done enough to reverse our descent into the great abyss. Several generations have hid behind the deceit of christianity, making their weekly trek to Sunday services to show their neighbors that they are good, while raping their daughters, their sons, or their slaves during the week. Priests used their sacred disguise to hide the hideous sexual abuse of their congregants’ sons’. These things were never, ever talked about. Later, when Boy Scouts of America was founded and parents believed they were doing right by their boys, we have since learned, had become a cover for deviant, homeosexual behavior by its leaders. There was incest in families where lies were harbored for decades, or taken to the grave. The movie, August-Osage County, which aired in 2013, brought home the reality of trauma caused to children and other family members, when those lies begin to fester. In a more recent drama, Uncle Frank, we see the often devastating repercussions of ignorant attitudes towards gays. Many excellent movies have been made, where superb acting brings home the atrocities committed to blacks, native Americans, and Jews – by white supremacists, by redneck cowboys, and by dictatorships. Movies have supplanted the tradition of storytelling; which, unlike a news story, can touch people at the heart level.
Grown men are still suffering from having fought in useless wars; then coming home to live hollow, empty lives. We still have murderers, sexual predators on the loose, poronography, and underground slave trades; but the truth is slowly being revealed. Alcoholism and drug addiction are a symptom of the spiritual cancer that pervades our world. Many of these people drink or self-medicate because they were victims of the aforementioned crimes that were committed against them. Their pain is too great. Often, they commit suicide.
This is the world that my great-grandchildren are being born into. They cannot see the beauty that once existed here because the previous generations have destroyed it. If we wake up before it is too late, we can teach them to have awe and reverence for our planet and for each other. This time of reckoning is our last hope to set the human race (and all life) on the path to recovery. Are you willing to make the necessary changes, for the future of those children?
