I’ve never been very big on holidays.  As a kid I hated them.  I wanted to love them but, well.  When I was married to Maggie and my daughter was a little girl I loved them.  It was the most normal time of my life then.

I especially find Thanksgiving to be irritating mostly because we are giving thanks for stealing this land from the original owners, but, I do try to look beyond all that and realize that for most it’s a time to be thankful for the things that we have.  This year it’s a slim list.

Are we thankful that we live in a free country?  A nation where our citizens have the right to gather together with a unified voice and disagree peacefully with our government.  I suppose we do as long as you like tear gas as cologne.

Ok, ok, I’m trying here.  I really am.  The world has gone completely mad and we are right there in the front of the line.  At least we haven’t started killing our protestors like they are in Egypt but how long will it be before we are doing the same thing.

We are finding ourselves thankful that the Super Committee is going to fail, oh yea it is the greatest indicator that our government, our politicians and the state of our nation is basically in dire straits right now. 

This new awakening gives us the opportunity to finally take off the rose colored glasses of conservative idiotic religious paranoia and start finding real, intelligent solutions to our problems.  First thing that would be nice is for this ridiculous government of ours to figure out a way of getting people back to work.

That’s not an unreasonable request.

See I’m thankful for things like being able to finally realize that I am bat shit crazy sometimes and that there is something I can do about.  I’m thankful that I spent a large part of my life trying to self-destruct and was able to see the error of my ways and find the sheer act of being alive as the most exhilarating thing there is about being a human being.

I am grateful for the times that I humiliated myself so that I could finally stand back up, tall and not to badly bruised or broken and start again.

The problem I see with our country is that we are not able to be humble.  We are not able to look at ourselves and say, “Wow!  We really screwed up this time didn’t we?”  No we will go to our fiery graves holding onto our pride.

The reason the occupy movement is working, is a complete success is because it is humble human beings who are willing to say, “We really screwed up” and are willing to do something about it.

Things do seem to be spiraling out of control right now and not just here but everywhere.

See, we could be involved in all this fixing and democracy and bullshit that we shovel to the rest of the world as long as we were making things, especially money, but, when we are also part of the spiraling down, well that is when the American idea becomes very, very dangerous.

All we have to do is look at the whole circus that is going on with the upcoming election.  My God where did all of these freaks come from?  Where did this much acceptable ignorance leak out from?

Of course we are seeing the American people react with voting down terrible laws that the ignorant got passed during a moment of fear and the recall elections that are going on is a great example of the people taking back their right to a just and fair government, but, what about the violence that is going on with our peaceful demonstrations in this country, and, how long will it be before it gets worse.

Do you not understand that this only fuels the mission?  See, the people cannot lose.  We the people are the United States of America and we as the citizens of the world are the owners of the world.  We do not bow to your ridiculous demands anymore.  You are here to serve us Mr. Politician, Mr. Business person, Mr. Government.

Every single day we should all get up and walk outside naked and let whatever the weather is hit our skin and remind ourselves that we are a part of all of this. We are a part of each other.  We are connected to the earth and to the infinite universe.  We are aware of our consciousness even if just for a few seconds and maybe a few seconds will become a minute and a minute more and a whole day and a week and a year and then forever.

cool peace

hippy mike

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