{"id":7176,"date":"2013-11-18T10:47:55","date_gmt":"2013-11-18T15:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/?p=7176"},"modified":"2013-11-20T17:26:48","modified_gmt":"2013-11-20T22:26:48","slug":"worldwide-discussioncan-we-make-kennedys-death-mean-something","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theglobalconversation.com\/blog\/?p=7176","title":{"rendered":"Worldwide Discussion:
CAN WE MAKE KENNEDY’S DEATH MEAN SOMETHING AFTER ALL?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Can the people of our world transform and \u201cshake free\u201d the consciousness of the past and enter into — through the creation <\/i>of it — a New Era for Humanity? Can we do it before it is too late?\u00a0 The remarkable essay on the life and times John F. Kennedy re-printed in the current What Others Are Saying <\/i>column of this online newspaper from a blog at Tikkun.org<\/em><\/a>, concludes with the asking of that piercing question.<\/p>\n

Its author, Peter Gabel, who is the editor of Tikkun <\/i>magazine (an online publication of enormous intellectual and social value), offers us this observation, among many…<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is no way for the forces of good to win the struggle between desire and alienation unless people can break through the gauzy images of everything being fine except the lone nuts, a legitimating ideology that is actually supported by our denial of the pain of our isolation and our collective deference to the system of Authority that we use to keep our legitimating myths in place.\u201d<\/p>\n

In other words, nothing\u2019s going to change unless and until we let go, at last, of our collective notion that \u201ceverything is fine\u201d in our world except for a few crazed people or groups who just don\u2019t \u201dget\u201d how to behave. The fact is that nothing is working. I mean, nothing.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s time to be honest here: Not a single major system that we have put into place on this planet is functioning correctly. Not our political, not our economic, not our environmental, not our education, not our social, and not our spiritual system. None of them are producing the outcomes that we say we want.<\/p>\n

In fact, it\u2019s worse. They\u2019re producing the outcomes that we say we don\u2019t want.<\/em><\/p>\n

And not just on a global scale. It gets down to the personal level. It gets right down to you and me. All but the tiniest percentage of the world\u2019s people are caught up in struggle. Daily struggle. Struggle not merely to be happy, but to survive, to get by, to just stay afloat.<\/p>\n

And now, it has gone past even that. Because now, even those people who are living the \u201cgood life\u201d are not having a good time. Not even them. Personal happiness seems mysteriously and frustratingly elusive. And even when people achieve it, they can\u2019t hold on to it.<\/p>\n

Now that\u2019s the greatest clue, that\u2019s the biggest hint, that\u2019s the surest sign that something\u2019s amiss. When even those who should be happy by any reasonable measure are not, there\u2019s got to be a serious systemic problem in a society\u2019s culture. You can tell that a social formula is askew when even if the formula is working, it\u2019s not; when even if everything\u2019s going right, something\u2019s desperately wrong.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s where we are today, and I think it\u2019s time for a New Message to guide humanity. I think it\u2019s time for a brand-new cultural story to be embraced by our species.<\/p>\n

The question is, what will that take?<\/p>\n

It will take the combined energies of all of us. It was take nothing less than an Evolution Revolution. It will take you. And me. And all of us. Each becoming involved directly, each participating in a visible way.<\/p>\n

To learn more about how you can become part of this global shift, click on the blue box on this front page labeled EVOLUTION REVOLUTION. President Kennedy died 50 years ago this week. Isn\u2019t it time that we stepped into the \u201copening of desire\u201d, as Mr. Gabel so wonderfully put it in his essay, that John F. Kennedy created in the hearts of all humankind?<\/p>\n

I remember, to this day, stirring words which President Kennedy\u2019s included in his inaugural address, in which he placed before humanity a new vision for a new kind of world:<\/p>\n

\u201cAll of this will not be accomplished within the first 100 days. Nor within the first 1,000 days. Nor perhaps within our lifetime. But let us begin…<\/p>\n

\u201cWith a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love, asking His blessing and His help, but knowing that here on earth, God’s work must truly be our own.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If God’s work truly your own? Then consider finding out more about The Evolution Revolution<\/strong>, and joining in that effort today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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