In yet another superlative post, Sharon asks us, “Why aren’t the peasants rebelling?”
I ask myself that same question every single stinkin’ day. Cause friends… if you aren’t terrified right now, you aren’t paying attention. Our Constitution is crumbling, our government is tightening the fist of oppression tighter every day (did you catch this one about what was happening on the “let’s make it easy to poison the population” front while we were all focused on the banks?), and yet the vast majority of folks I talk to listen to what I’m saying (and Dmitry is saying, and Naomi is saying, and Sharon is saying, and the freewayblogger is saying, on and on and on), blink a few times, say “you’re scaring me” and then move on to easier topics.
Fear, says Gavin de Becker, is your instinctual brain telling you that something is terribly wrong.
What is it going to take to get people to do something about what’s happening here? I’d like to invite my readers (all four of you) to think about where your personal line is. What is it going to take to finally outrage you into taking definitive action? Did your representatives vote for the bailout? Find out, and give them a piece of your mind. Have you talked to anyone “in power” about Guantanamo? Torture? Suspension of habeas? Human rights abuses in the USA? The “war on terror“? Suppression of the right to assembly and the right to free speech? Internet censorship?
Please, take an hour or two, do some mental digging, figure out where your line is, and what you might do, to protect your families and promote change. Don’t be like the vast majority of our couch potato nation, willing to hand it all over to someone who falsely guarantees to keep us “safe”, as long as there are still Big Macs and football. We’ve been trained to compliance, away from critical thinking and observation and god forbid, questioning. It’s time to stand up and demand answers and action from your elected officials, your religious leaders, and your neighbors.
Wake up. Before it’s too late, and you end up in the history books as “those people who did nothing to stop it”.
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If you do nothing else, search Sharon’s Occtober archives for her quickie food storage plan. It is concise, well-researched, and easy for everyone. Use the plan for your family and provide the link to your friends. Seriously, you will feel so much better just knowing the food is there. With plans we can face this stuff.
Yup, fear is instinctual; but don’t let it paralyze you. Use it. And don’t be afraid to start where you are at. If you don’t know who your representatives are, find out. If you don’t know who your neighbors are, find out. It takes communities. It takes neighborhoods. It takes families. It takes reaching out, helping out, and speaking out. And asking questions. Never, ever stop asking questions.
I’m reminded of this poem: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came...