For ages the priests, the church, the government, the hierarchy told the people what to think about the mystery. Today, coming from the midst of human energy and human community, the traditional becomes alleviated by the truth that comes from within our unique experience and understanding. Catharine Clarke is a creative counselor, which is, to act as a guiding agent of understanding, for people who believe in walls that hinder or bar access to expression and sequitor, that these walls may diminish and the sunlight of rebirth be a gift of life.
Well Darth Vader at Google does appear in the video, and all kinds of thoughts just based on the superficiality of exterior structures, but, If you set out to draw lines between Apple, Google, and Facebook, you come up with a triangle of huge online media. And, there is something to proximity that twists the mind to visions of a holy order, or, is it unholy? Chances are the great materializing of the baby world wide web is less understood than might seem possible, after the Roman Catholic Church spent 2K years of polishing their concept of salvation. I'm ignoring other religious entities, not because America is Christian, it's not, but because in Christianity, GOD IS LOVE. In this, our unholy trinity, GOD IS SHARING.
Apple the father, Google the son, and Facebook is the holy spirit, the incredible social dynamic of God is Sharing YOU.
Yes this may seem simplistic, but the fact is, these three companies have simplified life for everybody, if upping the ratchet of capability is simplifying, Henry David Thoreau would have a commentary but I doubt if the mind can extrapolate 19th century capability with 21st century, but, then Apple does think making a book look like a book is the cat's knees....
We are making these companies richer, and with their help, are transforming who we are faster than any other type of human entities in the world today, and that means, the evolving concept of God.
One of the amazing things about the State of Maine, and people I'm talking about, not government, is the way they re-use and value discarded and thrown-off items. 50 years ago, everybody here keep their junk in the front yard so others could peruse it as they drove-by. Making a deal was high opera, as two terse forces met over the vaunted item, and still, to this day storytellers here recount the fables of Maine deal-making.
But all that has changed, and most all yard sales are temporary, one or two day events, and junkyards have been relegated to back lots, and businesses like Elmer's Barn, just twenty minutes from the capital in Augusta. A way of life changed as more and more people from away moved into Maine, forcing new zoning laws to clean-up the neighborhoods and keep Mainers from taking everything and anything for profit, as measly as it was.... Formerly Mine was a great vacationland, or hunting lands as men came up from places south, arriving in the night at L.L.Bean's 24/7 hunting store on the way to Moose country or salmon fishing.
Elmer says it best, If you need it, I've got it. And if you think he's joking get down here and check it out. Perhaps more authentic than any art museum in the state, this is it!
The Dark Ages were for hundreds of years unchanging. Today change is so rapid because markets demand that we don't stay the same. Cars are the great metaphor of change built into a changing pattern of purchase. Now people have gone outside America for...better built, better operating, and hence, a better status symbol. I'm saying creativity has to have value, -too much creativity is meaningless. Put the ideas in the closet. Stop drinking Starbucks. We're spinning out of control. The essence of creativity demands destruction. Tearing the old way of looking at it to create a new vision of it.
What is the bottomline? A New Value to... Everything!
Business as usual, and comparisons as usual don't quite draw the conclusions we can believe in. While it is finger pointing at government and business, what's on the minds of the people is the core issue. Not particularly accessible to a critic who can compare the thirties with the eighties, but we are in the 21st century. How people think, work, play and hoard is completely different. Hoarding is the great American pastime. So whatever anybody thinks, lets get the government back to it, -hoarding. No no no, the time is for a massive re-addressing ourselves to, not the misery our news loves to print, to exporting our wealth and youth and expertise into the far corners of the world. Our pre-eminence demands that. Our gravy is our gift to others. Now is the time. The curious contradiction we live is our support of Israel, when we live here as states bound to each other. How can we support a two state solution, when clearly we have learned to amalgamate and help-up our brother and sister. Now is the time to NOT maintain the status quo, but create an America of sixty states, or more. We cannot help ourselves without helping others, in fact, until we become great in joining and gifting other peoples as one, and lose this hoarding mentality, we are nothing.
Listening to tales of corruption and bureaucratic ineffectiveness while boating off Panama City, I thought America might do well if they packaged systems for basic services, to be uniform in the entire world, of licensing automobile and truck drivers. There is such a thing as weaving a better fabric, and the gain would be a compatible and defining of an entire planet with a system that would serve people in efficiency alone. Manufacturing weapon systems, waging police actions, and much more expensive programs would not be eliminated, oh no no no; but working to contrive beneficial systems would encompass all peoples. Such a project would be illuminating.
