Authenticity, Truth, and Hope Are Back: A Dawn of Cultural Awakening? - SillyMickel Adzema
Dialog
Authenticity is Back. People want more than anything else not to be lied to anymore. People want the truth. And, through the election of Obama, and the unprecedented support he has polled since, people are saying that "they can handle the truth." None too soon, as our very lives and those of all species on this planet demand that we not merely face, but succeed against all odds in dealing with the most difficult challenges humans have ever had to face...I mean, ever.... to be the heroes this coming era will need...heroes willing to tell the truth to power, no matter the consequences... courageous people choosing authenticity. Our current President is someone who did just exactly this, in his rise to the Presidency. And when a person offers their real self, like Obama did, you see that anything is possible, even the most incredible and magical. The times may seem hopeless right now. But at least here, lighting this one little candle, we can add our voices to many who have already started, saying, "Yes, We Can!!"
Description
When there can be no doubt that much is going very wrong and very fast, we would do well to take a page from Obama's book, to become our nobler selves...to say "Yes, we can." For it was that lack of noble souls, that lack of authentic people, that lack of brave people, arising in a backlash to 60s Idealism, spearheaded by Reagan's popular rhetoric defiantly demanding an end to the spread of universal values of fairness, global egalitarianism, and planetary concerns in favor or a return to the simple and familiar values of me-first egotism, nation-first bullying, and "healthy" American preoccupation with values of family, finance, and food, strung together with the cowboy social values of competition, greed, indifference to other's suffering, and winning at all costs; and thus the hypocricy, lying, and worse required for that, renewed and reinvigorated by Bush, which has led us to this all-time, only-one-chance, jam of all jams. So the cause of our backslide into this whirlpool to Doomsday being the rejection of the earlier nobler, more selfless values,
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