Next Generation…
The Next Generation “anything” typically brings change… and that’s really Good News because that previous release was really something wasn’t it?
You Baby Boomers…spent our Social Security…left our schools crumbling…created a healthcare system that can’t possibly continue the way it is…enabled inequality on almost every imaginable level…and left the check for the rest of US and our children, which by the way is now due…all the while people in Boston make plans for beach weather twelve months of the year.
And to all of this I suggest We say… Thank You!
Never in history has any generation created so much good and at the same time so much bad. Boomers kept pressing on the limits of our shared humanity and we kept expanding in every direction. “They” left for the next generation… tremendous advancements AND hopefully a better future because of the painful lessons of the Boomer experience.
Boomers had their “Summer of Love” and took on the mantra of “Turn On, Tune In and Drop Out”...drugs became an unsustainable shortcut to heightened consciousness for some. But when the hangover wore off many found themselves on the path to self defeat and never got off. Those who did find their way found a certain beauty in emotional freedom and used it to unlock their free imagination…and the unparalleled progress of a generation.
Our course to a heightened consciousness is different…it’s “The War on Terror”. Now it will be for you and me to choose a new Mantra to get US off the path of self-defeat. Our hope comes from US choosing well. Our Hope is also in our free imagination and the purposes We find within it.
The “Summer of Love” ended in filth and disease, quite simply because there are no sustainable shortcuts to higher consciousness. When the formula for a life includes as part of the code an inclination to “Drop Out” … well I’m sure you can guess how it’s likely to turn out. How “The War on Terror” turns out will be for The Next Generation to decide. But make sure the new mantra includes the essence of the word “Engage” and the expectation of colossal good coming from our engagement…and it will.
It strikes me; with the power at our fingertips We can raise hell or heaven on earth. No generation has ever been faced with such a choice…with all future generations of species counting on US to choose well!
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