Time To Revisit Our Definition of Sanity?
Posted: Monday, December 12, 2011
by Terrence Aubrey
Terrence
The guy shuffling down the street with a “The end of the World is nigh hoarding hanging across is shoulders is crazy, right? The followers of Jesus Christ awaiting his return (with donkey?) are a little detached, maybe? The youngsters that would rather get high than get real are a wasted space?
Maybe it’s time we revisited our concept of normality, or the sane way to live and be. How is your imagination? Fair to middling will do nicely, now let’s imagine that that this very big universe is actually a tree, OK, a very big tree for the nit pickers amongst you, but a tree, none the less.
Now let’s call civilisation two thousand years old, I know, I know, but for the purpose of this article two thousand years will do nicely. If you really have a problem with my reckless disregard to our evolutionary history here is a blank space_____. You can fill it with whatever number will make you feel better, but this article is not about numbers, it is about our definition of sanity!
So here we all are, sitting on this branch and what have we been doing for the past two thousand years? Slowly, but surely cutting through it and worse, cutting through between us and the main trunk of the tree. Is that not a difficult to believe state of affairs!
Actually the reality is even more scary, do you know who is doing the cutting? No not the village idiot, not the intellectually taxed and not even the “little people trying to make their way through life”. No incredible as it may sound it is the people we regard as sane, no, super sane. The leaders of men, commerce, business have been cutting through this branch as if there is no tomorrow and if they continue unimpeded there may not be.
So these people fit our definition of sanity? Are you completely crazy? We are seriously f***ed up! Would you willingly enter the taxi of a taxi driver that is blind? Of course not and yet we willingly submit ourselves to accept the leadership of people whose motives are worse than suspect, they are blinded by their own ambition.
So that crazy guy shuffling down the street with the “end of the World is nigh” hoarding, yes he might well be crazy, but he is in fact harmless. The people that have climbed to the top of whatever greased pole they have chosen to ascend are another story. Be they World leaders, or leaders of commerce, banking and business, their take on sanity affects us all and they are not leading us anywhere that we should be going. You think I exaggerate?
Which ever way you look right now it seems clear that the very people that we relied upon to define our definition of sanity are out to lunch. Pick a subject, any subject, go on, it’s a lucky dip. Those still stuck in the political back catalogue of East versus West can and do still exchange slingbacks. “My system is better than yours. The religions? Not much better I’m afraid, “My religion is better than your religion.
Business, commerce and banking? They have arguably been the most enthusiastic in cutting through the branch of our very survival, how do they rate on the sanity scale? Hopeless, completely hopeless, they seem to have become blinded by the power of their wealth and fail to realise that when the branch is weakened beyond endurance it will be irrelevant. They will fall just as that man shuffling the streets with “The end of the World is nigh”, hoarding will fall.
Perhaps now is the perfect moment in time to revisit our definition of sanity and for the sake of our very survival the sooner the better. Terrence Aubrey.
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Top-level comments on this article: (2 total)Yep, kind of makes you wonder where we went wrong doesn't it? Or where we never went right? Hope you find peace from within my friend because the powers that be are doing their best to make sure we never find it from without. No profit or power in peace and so the beat goes on, or the beat down.Hi David, who was that said that "The acknowledgement of ignorance is the beginning of knowledge"?
It's taken us a very long time, but maybe, just maybe we are getting closer to realising that the so called leaders of men are just as clueless as the rest of us. For sure the evidence of that fact is clearly plain to see.
The problem is going to be what next? Greater or lesser democracy. I think it no coincidence that we have been blessed with two ears, two eyes yet only one mouth! A lot a positive and perhaps even wise forward looking stuff is being shared around the World right now. We just need the decision makers and the rest of the bunch that are hogging the top of the tree to shut up for a while and consider, just consider that maybe there is a better way........
Heard a rich prick once say when asked about the way people were responding to the ever increasing disparity between the rich and the poor, and I paraphrase, "people can say what they want to say and people can do what they want to do, so long as I stay rich." Seems to be the prevailing attitude among the wealthy, of course a few have consciences but obviously not near enough to actually make a difference. Unfortunately for everybody else the only thing that may make them consider the consequences of their actions may be to introduce them to hell. Cheers my friend, that's an English expression I just learned from some of my English friends. heheI worry less about the Rich and more about the "Tonto's", Spanish for stupid. Particularly the ones in power.
Ya all have a good day! Phrase I picked up in the deep south a while back.
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