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But I'm less practiced at dealing with my own fear. I've been dripping with outrage at the world's injustices pretty much since I was old enough to have a political conscience.." Sounds just like me - good to know i'm not alone. Perhaps nothing infuriates me more in the situation we're in than the friends who substitute cold, analytical dissociation for what's truly appropriate: outrage, and then action.<BR/><BR/>My partner and i are exploring alternatives, including draft-animal power. We have learned tons and found much deep satisfaction, though it's been far from easy for either of us. <BR/><BR/>There is hope for the future, provided you qualify and don't get too optimistic. As Carolyn Baker pointed out, we are far beyond the stage where there are "solutions" for "humanity" - what remains now is options for individuals.<BR/><BR/>Get prepared!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8221748.post-82179806348944927722007-11-13T07:22:00.000-08:002007-11-13T07:22:00.000-08:00Thank you, Sharon. As I'd like to end this commen...Thank you, Sharon. As I'd like to end this comment on a positive note, let me say two short things first: I assume you meant you honestly have NO doubt whatsoever that being prepared is better than not being prepared. But I would appreciate your confirmation.<BR/><BR/>Also, you say that the only way you can imagine being fearless is to be stupid. I'm afraid another possibility, and one we're seeing at rather high levels these days, is madness. See, e.g., some of the late, great Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.'s last public statements, and some of what Paul Craig Roberts has written on the CounterPunch website (you can find them all with a little googling). CounterPunch is a site I highly recommend, by the way, for those who want to keep track of what we have to fear, and seek to repair. Perhaps the pre-eminent source, for me, is Noam Chomsky (quoted below).<BR/><BR/>Recently I was asked to prepare a reading for a bar mitzvah. I'm afraid I began drafting with R.D. Laing's reflection in 1967 from "The Politics of Experience" on how society trains and highly values its normal men, who had at that time killed perhaps 100,000,000 of their fellow normal men (and women, and children), in the prior 50 years. I began attempting to update the figure for the following forty years, but thankfully realized that quoting Laing would have been wildly inappropriate. So I admit I somewhat surprised myself by coming up instead with the following, which I'd like to share in response to your statement:<BR/><BR/>There has been substantial progress in the unending quest for justice and freedom in recent years…. The crises we face [today] are real and imminent, [but] in each case means are available to overcome them. The first step is understanding, then [at times, individual action can be effective; at others, we need] organization and [collective] action. That is the path that has been followed in the past, bringing about a much better world and leaving a legacy that can be carried forward from a higher plane than before.…[1] <BR/><BR/>Therefore, may we have not only strength, determination, and will power, but understanding, compassion, patience, persistence, and the courage to “speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, [to vindicate] the rights of all who are left desolate,”[2] and to work in cooperation with our neighbors and the world community, that our world may become just and therefore peaceful and safe, and that our lives may be blessed.[3] <BR/><BR/>And let us say: Amen.<BR/><BR/>[1] Adapted from Noam Chomsky, Failed States, and “Imminent Crises: Threats and Opportunities,” Monthly Review 17, June 2007. <BR/>[2] Proverbs 31:8.<BR/>[3] Adapted from Jack Riemer, Social ActionAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8221748.post-60524334990116543082007-11-11T17:50:00.000-08:002007-11-11T17:50:00.000-08:00It is scary stuff: http://www.peakoilassociates.co...It is scary stuff: http://www.peakoilassociates.com/POAnalysis.htmlClifford J. Wirth, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, University of New Hampshirehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00604482549497831495noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8221748.post-35164636288063087062007-11-11T16:11:00.000-08:002007-11-11T16:11:00.000-08:00Good work as the only cure to fear, I believe that...Good work as the only cure to fear, I believe that, good work meaning serving to a greater purpose than personal gain.<BR/><BR/>The hardest sort of fear is fear of the future, a fear that all our "good work" can be evaporated in an instant, making action in the world futile.<BR/><BR/>I'm not religious at all, but it's funny my mind twisted the words around in the title from "Scared" to "Sacred" - perhaps an unconscious reminder that power exists from within as much as the material world.<BR/><BR/>I think also of Russian Writer/philospher, Fyodor Dostoyevsky and his book The Brothers Karamazov, a quote I copied.<BR/><BR/>Great hope can lie in loss and failure, forcing us to give up safety and see deeper sources of power within.<BR/><BR/>Here's the extended quote I reread at times, a conversation between a younger and older man<BR/><BR/>... "That life is heaven," he said to me suddenly, "that I have long been thinking about." And all at once he added, "In fact, I think of nothing else." He looked at me and smiled. "I am more convinced of it that you are, I will tell you why later on." <BR/><BR/>I listened to him and thought that he had something that he wanted to tell me. <BR/><BR/>"Heaven," he went on, "lies hidden within all of us - it lies hidden in me now, and if I will it, it will be revealed to me tomorrow and for all time." <BR/><BR/>I looked at him. He was speaking with great emotion and looking mysteriously at me, as if he were questioning me. <BR/><BR/>"And we are all responsible to all for all, apart from our own sins. You were quite right in thinking that. And it is wonderful how you could comprehend it in all its significance at once. And in truth, so soon as men understand that, the Kingdom of Heaven will be for them not a dream, but a living reality." <BR/><BR/>"And when?" I cried out to him bitterly, "When will that come to pass? Will it ever come to pass? It is not simply a dream?" <BR/><BR/>"Then you don't believe it." He said, "You preach it and don't believe it yourself. Believe me, this dream, as you call it, will come to pass without doubt. It will come, but not now, for every process has its law. It's a spiritual, psychological process. To transform the world, to recreate it afresh, men must turn into another path psychologically. Until you have become really, in actual fact, a brother to everyone, brotherhood will not come to pass. No sort of scientific teaching, no kind of common interest, will ever teach men to share property and privileges with equal consideration for all. Everyone will think his share too small and they will be always envying, complaining and attacking one another. You ask when it will come to pass; it will come to pass, but first we have to go through a period of isolation." <BR/><BR/>"What do you mean by isolation?" I asked him. <BR/><BR/>"Why, the isolation that prevails everywhere, above all in our age - it has not fully developed, it has not reached its limit yet. For everyone strives to keep his individuality, everyone wants to secure the greatest possible fullness of life for himself. But meanwhile all his efforts result not in attaining fullness of life but self-destruction, for instead of self-realization he ends by arriving at complete solitude. All mankind in our age is split up into units. Man keeps apart, each in his own groove; each one hold aloof, hides himself and hides what he has, from the rest. He ends by being repelled by others and repelling them. He heaps up riches by himself and thinks, 'How strong I am now and how secure.' And in his madness he does not understand that the more he heaps up, the more he sinks into self-destructive impotence. For he is accustomed to rely upon himself alone and to cut himself off from the whole; he has trained himself not to believe in the help of others, in men and in humanity, and only trembles for fear he should lose his money and the privileges that he has won for himself. Everywhere in these days men have ceased to understand that the true security is to be found in social solidarity rather than in isolated individual effort. But this terrible individualism must inevitably have an end, and all will suddenly understand how unnaturally they are separated from one another. It will be the spirit of the time and people will marvel that they sat so long in the darkness without seeing the light. And the sign of the Son of Man will be seen in the heavens. ... But, until then, we must keep the banner flying. Sometimes even if he has to do it alone, and his conduct seems crazy, a man must set an example, and so draw men's souls out of their solitude, and spur them to some act of brotherly love, that the great idea may not die."Ares Olympushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09726811306826601686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8221748.post-87577333684854637892007-11-11T13:31:00.000-08:002007-11-11T13:31:00.000-08:00Sharon,As usual, I agree with 90% of your offering...Sharon,<BR/><BR/>As usual, I agree with 90% of your offerings.<BR/><BR/>However, your "nation of farmers" is your state of denial, your form of salvation from what awaits us all - soon.<BR/><BR/>...or so it seems to me,<BR/><BR/>~Mike Porter~<BR/>aka dreemes, aloe vera, jackieblack999toktomihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17091526139146902291noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8221748.post-68744780324305902362007-11-11T11:38:00.000-08:002007-11-11T11:38:00.000-08:00Sharon,One of your finer efforts. I wish more peo...Sharon,<BR/><BR/>One of your finer efforts. I wish more people would get their minds around the notion that you can't wait around for enlightenment to dawn before you start acting responsible and facing facts, however unpleasant. Because actually, enlightenment tends to emerge from acting responsible and facing facts.Lilihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07830026836784894562noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8221748.post-54620467883011562232007-11-08T12:08:00.000-08:002007-11-08T12:08:00.000-08:00It sounds strange...I really draw on the lessons f...It sounds strange...I really draw on the lessons from the "Ring" movies. I am not a fan of those types of movies, but they really have been speaking to me, now more than ever. How brave am I? That seems to be the question of the day more and more...K.J.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00438270359862562236noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8221748.post-34158324632610105212007-11-08T11:41:00.000-08:002007-11-08T11:41:00.000-08:00Karen -- actually, I keep thinking of that quote, ...Karen -- actually, I keep thinking of that quote, too.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8221748.post-71643726670985465432007-11-08T09:46:00.000-08:002007-11-08T09:46:00.000-08:00Sharon, your posts always make me cry. I just rem...Sharon, your posts always make me cry. <BR/> <BR/>I just remember laying in bed, nursing my son, listening to the news on the radio and crying and crying over the babies in the refugee camp in Darfur. <BR/> <BR/>I need to remember that - whenever people want to argue about whether or not global warming is caused by humans, to redirect the discussion back to the issue of overconsumption, instead. <BR/> <BR/>And like Karen said, to think of what I can do right in this moment, whether it's walking back downstairs for my metal spoon when I get up to the chili cookoff and they're giving away plastic ones, or to buck up and get on my bike even if it's dark and cold.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8221748.post-27678418273423460792007-11-07T22:50:00.000-08:002007-11-07T22:50:00.000-08:00O.K., I'm gonna mess this up....but I'm reminded v...O.K., I'm gonna mess this up....but I'm reminded very much of a scene from Lord of the Rings, where Frodo is talking to Gandolf and saying he wishes the ring had never come to him, and that things were different, to which Gandolf replies that we don't get to choose the time in which we live, we have to do the best that we can in the time given. A bit of a malaprop, I'm sure, but I think the sentiment is true. We are here now, and we all have a purpose to serve, and I love the idea of just finding the next right thing to do. We can all do that....just the next right thing. I think will so much dire news floating around us, the best thing you can do is stay in this moment. What can we do in this moment?K.J.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00438270359862562236noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8221748.post-15347763776731946232007-11-07T19:49:00.000-08:002007-11-07T19:49:00.000-08:00There is hope:http://transitionculture.org/And in ...There is hope:<BR/><BR/>http://transitionculture.org/<BR/><BR/>And in your part of the world:<BR/><BR/>http://relocalize.net/<BR/><BR/>What I'm trying to say is, you're not alone in feeling the fear.<BR/><BR/>You're also not alone in doing something about it.<BR/><BR/>Be brave. Be strong. And know that there are thousands of other mums out here trying to 'do our bit' to repeair the world too.Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15497683565965322222noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8221748.post-42119160137291316802007-11-07T16:50:00.000-08:002007-11-07T16:50:00.000-08:00Well said, Sharon! Thank you.I'm very afraid, mor...Well said, Sharon! Thank you.<BR/><BR/>I'm very afraid, more than I've ever been in my 56 plus years. I refuse to be in denial and, although, under much daily stress due to our awareness of reality my husband and I have committed ourselves to relocating out of South FL. This area where my husband was born and where I grew up will definitely be under water sooner than most of us think. Yes, it will be painful to have to leave and abandon (nothing is selling around here)our paid for five beautiful acres and simple house that we built 14 years ago. Our family (husband and two young adult sons)are grateful that we have the option to leave, others who are heavily in debt most likely have no options.<BR/><BR/>I also receive Carolyn Baker's e-mailings and am thankful for her helping me to prioritize my actions as well as to not be in denial regarding the "terminal triangle" of Peak Oil, climate change and economic collapse. And most importantly, Baker and others have helped me to not be in denial about the non-existence of U.S. democracy or the death of our constitutional republic. Patriot Acts, Executive Orders and Military Commissions Act of 2006, along with election rigging, have trashed our remaining rights. If there are mass protests, all these existing laws will be enforced. Detention centers have already been built (by Halliburton) and I'm sure Blackwater will patrol the streets. <BR/><BR/>As a peace activist for the last five years in particular, I 've come to the conclusion that now it's time for me to move on and focus at this point on building lifeboats (to use Richard Heinberg's term from his book "Powerdown") which will save lives and whatever is good in our civilization. I hope!<BR/><BR/>My heart aches for the poor of the world and of our country who have very few or no options. Our suffering will pale when it stands next to theirs.<BR/><BR/>To Sharon and everyone, thanks for sharing. I find solace in this blog.<BR/><BR/>"We are not alone!" -- Michael Franti<BR/><BR/>Peace!<BR/><BR/>~Vegan/Leaving So.FLAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8221748.post-34376044029173705442007-11-07T09:36:00.000-08:002007-11-07T09:36:00.000-08:00Thanks again, Sharon, for a wonderful post that is...Thanks again, Sharon, for a wonderful post that is (again) spookily in tune with what's going on in my life. I am more aware every day of how much work I have to put into maintaining my optimism and cheerful attitude. Some days, it's all good; and other days I wake up with the weight hanging over me and I have to consciously work to overcome the feelings of dread and uselessness. Like many people reading your blog, I'm sure, I want to find the place where I should be, doing the things I ought to be doing to help me, my loved ones, and my community to manage the rough road ahead.<BR/><BR/>Sometimes it's just tough to know that what I'm doing is what I ought to be doing. And sometimes I have that feeling of wishing that I could blank out on the knowledge and just coast, like so many people I see out there. But of course I can't... and I really wouldn't want to.<BR/><BR/>This is certainly a weird time. I think we're all getting used to levels of stress that are pretty off the scale -- as though we're sopping up the stress ration for our society as a whole. Maybe things will start getting better when the general realization starts to sink in out there that this is not just about a few polar bears and CFC bulbs. Some of the crazy stress for me comes from that bizarre disconnect between the urgency I feel and the biz-as-usual tone of the world around me. I'd like that schism to start closing up, thanks.Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11070930052244044086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8221748.post-33081720021110381102007-11-07T09:13:00.000-08:002007-11-07T09:13:00.000-08:00I'm glad, in a perverse way, that I'm not the only...I'm glad, in a perverse way, that I'm not the only one who is scared almost beyond reason. I've had the sense we are living on the edge for years (all my adult life, certainly) but there is a difference betweent that and realizing that were are now wildly waving our arms as our feet leave the ground.<BR/><BR/>Most of the time I can kid myself into functioning calmness (denial isn't all bad) by considering that my daughters will mostly be okay if we have a slow crash, and even some members of my immediate family -- but that flies away when I try to plan for friends (I can't make a plan that look workable for a single family) and is spotted orbiting the moon as I consider some of the soup kitchen clients and their children.<BR/><BR/>But I take a deep breath. And I figure I can either keep going, or --what? What does one do if one doesn't keeping going?<BR/><BR/>So, I keep going, and try to keep going in the right direction. That I think is the important part, that even as we live with fear, we try to use it as goad to keep us in the right direction. (I'm not going to define the right direction here -- just take it to mean the direction you think you should be heading in, not the one you'd be mistakenly flee to in blind panic, only to discover you were in such a state that you didn't even put your shoes on.)<BR/><BR/>MEAAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8221748.post-45944847620347524202007-11-07T07:39:00.000-08:002007-11-07T07:39:00.000-08:00Thank you for that post Sharon. I find that using...Thank you for that post Sharon. I find that using those lesser emotions such as spite and rage and desperation helps quite a bit. And that doing good works does go a long way.<BR/><BR/>I am in several 12-step fellowships and we talk a lot about acting ourselves into right thinking. Rather than getting into some heady argument with some prickster who refuses to face what's going on in front of our very noses, and rather than fancying myself as some messiah come to rip off other people's "denial b'ankies", I strive to zip my lip and practice acceptance of the current moment and find the next right action. I do it because I don't want to pick up sugar or booze again and get to 300 pounds or more. <BR/><BR/>(Let me just say here, in print that every single American is a qualifier for Al-Anon. There is rampant addiction in this world, and IMHO, all one has to say at an Al-Anon meeting when they ask "is there a problem of alcoholism or addiction in a loved one or a friend," you can say "I'm American--hell yeah!" I prefer AA meetings myself, but that's just me.)<BR/><BR/>I follow your blog and Carolyn Baker's and I've decided to try and work with a mentor on this stuff as well. It gladdens my heart that I at least I'm not going through all this pre-suffering on my own. :)<BR/><BR/>Something I heard too, FWIW--Fear: An acronym for "Forgot Everything's All Right."Cinnumeghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17011468446738740812noreply@blogger.com