I was ruminating over the lyrics in the Indigo Girls song Perfect World on the treadmill today. I kept repeating the line, 'can we learn to live another way', over and over again in my head. I get all discouraged about that, and sometimes I think the answer is yes, most of the time no. Then I found this while I was reading Krishnamurti this afternoon:
As one travels over the world and observes the appalling conditions of poverty and the ugliness of man's relationship to man, it becomes obvious that there must be a total revolution. A different kind of culture must come into being. The old culture is almost dead and yet we are clinging to it. Those who are young revolt against it, but unfortunately have not found a way, or a means, of transforming the essential quality of the human being, which is the mind. Unless there is a deep psychological revolution, mere reformation on the periphery will have little effect. This psychological revolution--which I think is the only revolution--is possible through meditation.
I'm just not sure how we get to that point. When does the revolutionary movement gain enough momentum?
Revolutions happen only when the masses realize there is something better. I don't think we're there.
Posted by: words words | April 22, 2009 at 02:01 AM
Sigh. I was re-reading Marx's bit on religion and was wondering if tv is the new opium of the people?
Posted by: Mel | April 22, 2009 at 08:07 AM