Soft and weak, we buy the dominators' comforts

We Americans have become soft and weak, accustomed to physical comfort and ease. Out of touch with our physical and spiritual sources of power, willing slaves to Mammon, we have forgotten what it means to be free and strong and brave.

We no longer take pride in service to the community, we no longer eschew selfishness. In our media we glorify cruelty and greed. Physically weak, spiritually weak, we are ripe for the world’s dominators to pluck and eat.

It doesn’t have to be this way. Look around you. Everyday, everywhere, people are being kind and cooperative with one another. People give and help and share, overcome trama, build and build again. People hold hands and make love. People feed their neighbor’s children and pray that even their enemies would someday come to a place of peace and abundance.

Why do we buy into the dominator lie that we are by nature lazy, greedy, and cruel? Why do we buy their comforts and securities with the rare coin of our freedom? Why is easier, faster, and more considered "good" and tough, slow, and less considered "bad?"? Who does it serve that we are suspicious and afraid of one another? Who decides what is real?

We have what it takes to recreate the world. Why don’t we? What stands in our way? Tell me, who decides what is real?
Love,
Lilly