Society & Fear
21 July, 2006
Walking down the street, lately I have noticed most people cannot look you in the eye. Some do not even say hello in their own neighborhood. I could hear the phrase ‘fear based society’ echo through my brain. Fear seems to dominate our society these days. I see it everywhere.
At the top of the list, fear of not getting your share, fear of terrorism fear of people, fear of death, fear of speaking or hearing the truth . . . the list is endless. I am speaking of this as a condition of the human race, from a cultural perspective, not as an over generalization.
Whatever happened to respect for your fellow individual? When one is full of fear, they cannot trust, nor love. I look around and see many are disassociated from real life. One convienient way of doing this, which I see all the time, is staying too busy to connect.
I wonder when community will become important again? When love and support for humankind, will replace the violence and disconnectedness.
“The universe is already a harmonious oneness; just realize it.”
The Hua Hu Ching
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23 July, 2006 at 10:46 am
I believe that community is becoming important again the world over. I believe the more we are threatened with divisness the more the builder and weaver within us sets to work to produce the fibers that bind.
I believe that many of us bloggers are creating community in cyber space. Granted thats its a different kind of community than next door neighbourliness kind but IMO it’s a very powerful force that will move us towards peace and cooperation that breaks down national boundaries. Most of all I believe that the open source community that underpins WordPress provides a remarkable base for movement towards “community” and “inclusiveness” in the blogging realm and beyond it too.
I want to thank you for commenting on my blog at http://coyotes.wordpress.com and to let you know that I’ve linked your blog to mine in my blogroll.
I’ve read your “about” page and was delighted to find that we have so much common ground. My husband is a potter and I am a painter. We lived in Edmonton before moving to the west coast where I orginated from. I have always walked and talked, danced and drummed my feet to my own tune.
It’s great to meet you.:D
23 July, 2006 at 11:40 am
Thank you for commenting timethief. I have recently started following your blog via RSS, and have been enjoying it immensely. I like what you have to say about community and it is my hope that you are right.
I have other blogs, yet I am really enjoying the sense of community at WordPress. Thank you for linking to me. I shall do the same. You must really be enjoying the west coast, I know I certainly did when I was there.
Wonderful to meet you as well … see you around cyberspace.
10 September, 2009 at 7:43 am
Hi! I was surfing and found your blog post… nice! I love your blog.
Cheers! Sandra. R.