I'm electric with vertigo, even though I'm on the ground, vertigo like I felt once when I stood on the edge of a high cliff in Arizona and looked straight down.
I spent the beginning of my focus on activism by doing what most everyone else was doing; blaming other people and institutions. Don__ like the war? Let__ blame the president, congress, or lobbyists. Don__ like ecological disregard? Let__ blame this or that corrupt corporation or some regulatory body for poor performance. Don__ like being poor and socially immobile? Let__ blame government coercion and interference in this free market utopia everyone keeps talking about.The sobering truth of the matter is that the only thing to blame is the dynamic, causal unfolding of system expression itself on the cultural level. In other words, none of us create or do anything in isolation _ it__ impossible. We are system-bound both physically and psychologically; a continuum. Therefore our view of causality with respect to societal change can only be truly productive if we seek and source the most relevant sociological influences we can and begin to alter those effects from the root causes.
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I spent the beginning of my focus on activism by doing what most everyone else was doing; blaming other people and institutions. Don__ like the war? Let__ blame the president, congress, or lobbyists. Don__ like ecological disregard? Let__ blame this or that corrupt corporation or some regulatory body for poor performance. Don__ like being poor and socially immobile? Let__ blame government coercion and interference in this free market utopia everyone keeps talking about.The sobering truth of the matter is that the only thing to blame is the dynamic, causal unfolding of system expression itself on the cultural level. In other words, none of us create or do anything in isolation _ it__ impossible. We are system-bound both physically and psychologically; a continuum. Therefore our view of causality with respect to societal change can only be truly productive if we seek and source the most relevant sociological influences we can and begin to alter those effects from the root causes.
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