NEW DIRECTION

⚪️🔴🟠🟡🟢🔵🟣⚫️ NEW DIRECTION Ed. No. 176

- A BETTER VISION A BETTER FUTURE

WHO WAS WALT DISNEY?

The 'Unisphere' centrepiece symbol of the (1964/1965) New York World's Fair. / PIC: Neville Williams (2011)

A BETTER VISION A BETTER FUTURE

At least they had a go back then at presenting a dynamic ‘model’

for what our world might become.

We should continue to give ourselves visions of hope for our better well being.

Time to break out of our own created prison cells?

WHAT SORT OF A SUB STANDARD

SOAP OPERA WORLD ARE WE LIVING IN?

The current slops spewed across our media involving celebrities, accused soldiers, randy royalty, dysfunctionally busy businesses and over governed governments, gang behaviours, money, drugs, tobacco manoeuvres etc. etc. makes us a kind of soap opera/cheap reality TV caricature of a species in this world.

We did it to ourselves. (*But we don't want to face any of that sort of suggestion.)

Haven’t we had enough of being force fed for too long a muck raking gambit of trials, theatrics and just plain bad or petulant human behaviour ripping apart reputations and lives across the full spectrum of our western civilisation?

If it makes us feel better to see that other people are so stupid then perhaps there is a need to ask what sort of inadequate behaviour is that in itself?

When this clown fest of silly infotainment is passed off as legitimate news we need to start asking ourselves some serious questions. A person has to reflect on what we have become?

Yes surprisingly for some we are responsible for this muck.

It comes from us and is regurgitated back onto us.

But can I focus here on the high stakes example of the human histrionics with the shutting down of the Strait of Hormuz to try to understand/explain(?) just what we are doing to ourselves.

Our world, that is the world you and I participate in every day, is starting to smell off. We have filled our lives with a swill of sewage. It is making us sick. We need a great enema and that looks to be what we are precipitating from a sphincter choked Strait of Hormuz.

This current Middle East imbroglio in essence can be distilled down to diametrically opposed differences in ideology. On one hand we have a culture being the melting pot of a “deeply rooted religious based system, ancient Persian traditions and an increasingly secular population in private life”. This looks and sounds to be very ‘status quo’ maintenance orientated, disciplined even incredibly strict, perhaps overbearing and stiflingly so!

A pressured way of life.

This is being met head on with a Western Capitalist culture demonstratively opportunistic, aggressive and competitive. A ‘who gives a stuff”, “anything goes”, “as long as I’m OK”, “take it if we can”, "charge of the light brigade" entitled pro-active mindset.

Also to be noted an increasingly pressured way of life.

Two extremes where human beings who were all at one time just little bundles of joy cradled in their mothers arms with big wet sloppy grins across their faces having been gradually programmed over lifetimes with ideas and belief systems that have brought them to where they are today…stuck at loggerheads.

Neither the humans of Iran or America owns the Strait of Hormuz or any of the oil✱ passing through that area. Even if the oil is being extracted from within the gulf it is not actually “owned” by these humans. Not really. These are just resources that we mine as users for our own increasingly fuel hungry dysfunctional/distorted ways of life.

No one "owns" anything in reality. The life we have been given is a gift on loan to be enjoyed for milliseconds in the vastness of time yet somehow humans have got it all twisted into a desire for immediate gratification, greed, ownership, entitlement, ideologies and whatever the whim of over the top, over-crammed human minds can fit into themselves.

When nature really does put its foot down we will be smashed like guitars (to borrow a phrase). Looks like we’re heading down a path though where our disconnection from our own true natures will look after the correction anyway. Emptiness has its own laws in nature that can cause great destruction trying to fill itself. Or alternatively with sensible planned choices we can make great creativity.

The increasing interest in electric vehicles is long overdue. Why does it take acts of arch bastardry against fellow human beings to get us to do what we should responsibly and voluntarily be doing anyway?

We could be choosing to pro-actively phase out our oil dependency (some are) but there’s all of that greedy self interest getting in the way.

There seems to be so much planning, work and commitment needed to point ourselves in a suitably positive direction. But we want it all so easy. Making it impossibly hard for ourselves though is not terribly smart.

If we’re not feeling good then we’re not doing good on the planet.

Blaming someone else is just not accepting responsibility for one's own life.

So few seemingly have the courage to take on the challenge of their own life.

It is laziness to blame the other. This just leads to wrecking the place.

How well do we really know ourselves?

Sorry but in too many cases it’s not much at all.

THOUGH WE’D ALL BE HAPPY IF WE DID. - Neville Williams

FOOTNOTE

✱Multiple news reports state that 20% of the world’s oil passes through the Strait of Hormuz. Shouldn’t this get us wondering? Is some of the Media over-reacting on the fuel shortage front? I mean 80% of the world’s fuel being available from other sources should mean that we only need to pull in our belts by a notch and share better rather than listening to some of the alarmist reporting that is happening?

But that's not the way it works is it?

We are so locked into an immovable way of thinking presently.

And then why are the markets not reacting at this time to the oil blockade? I dunno!

They're more interested in the explosion of A1 and what it can bring them.

Jeez, like spoilt kids with toys.

But you don’t need to be a brainiac economist to understand

that bad human behaviours make us all pay dearly in our lives.

Undoubtedly if you rely on fuel to make your living there is justifiable concern. But we've got to start to educate ourselves to be able to see and react to a bigger 'sustainable' picture if we are going to survive the on-coming future. If we don't we are putting ourselves on a course of self destruction. We do so not like change but are having our noses rubbed into it on practically every front presently. And yes it certainly does hurt.

* The first step in solving a problem is to face up to the fact that we have a problem - us. We are also too the solution. - N.

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