Game On!
We are living in interesting times. For ... sure.
I've been watching the political rhetoric in this US of A over the last several years and the ante of "anti" seems to have been raised to the point now where we're all in. One side sees the other as the devil incarnate. The other side ... pretty much the same thing. Maybe with different words. Pick a side!
When you caste the situation in absolute, black and white terms I don't see any way forward with that except to some sort of violent confrontation. Scorched earth outcome, when you draw it out to its final end point.
The problem with political rhetoric spewed out in world-ending, cataclysmic terms is that it can put someone or someone's in mind to do something about that.
Pols frighten me with their words. Calling the other the devil, a fascist, a nazi, a war criminal, a murderer, a mad man, a pariah ... them's fightin' words, bruh. I don't get that those slinging that stuff have any more motive in it than to get a vote. So I come out that the socio-political climate is rife with cynicism and prevarication. Doubly troubling, thinking that those who mouth like that don't seem to even look down the road much toward possible, and likely outcomes.
The Psychiatrist and author R. D. Laing hosted a workshop I attended. He posed the question: what can we do to make the world right? My answer: "I will purify my heart". He responded that that "... is the most anyone can do". It stays with me, he's confirmation. I know it's true. The power of the individual is great. When you look at how we and everything are so interconnected, you begin to see the effect it has on the whole for just one soul directed toward The Real.
In his book, Knots, Laing early in the treatment on how we relate ...
“They are playing a game. They are playing at not playing a game. If I show them I see they are, I shall break the rules and they will punish me. I must play their game, of not seeing I see the game.”
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