How is one suppose to feel when their leaders lie?
They say that they are compassionate.
That they will protect the environment!
That they will leave no child behind!
That Iraq has weapons of mass destruction!
They make wonderful speeches, but they are all lies!
Their environmental policy is a photo-op in a national forest created by
someone else.
Their educational priority is to spend more money for prisons.
Their every act in Iraq has been supported by manipulated intelligence.
They preach God but make war.
They are masters at manipulation.
Our Kings are wearing no clothes.
Any child in the crowd can clearly see this.
But many adults cannot. Why?
What is it that I don't understand?
Are some very afraid of change? Or what is it?
Do they really see our future now as assured?
What keeps me from seeing the same future that they do?
What must I learn from them? What must they learn from me?
I admit to a sense of rage about all this.
It does not make me proud.
It doesn't help me reach out to others.
The rage is very deep, cellularly deep.
It comes from concern about the quality of future human life,
the legacy we are leaving to the next generation.
We call it sanity to not express that inner rage as anger.
But the rage is often there. The seeing and knowing is just too painful.
I recently participated in a group imagination exercise regarding the
future.
The assumption was that somehow human life continued for 200 years.
In the exercise part of the group role-played that they were from this
future while others of us remained in the present.
The future asked what part did we, the present, play in ensuring that life
continued?
They asked really tough questions.
And they responded with incredible gratitude to our answers.
At the end I got to ask the future questions.
I asked about my grandchild's grandchildren.
Victor Bremson
August 29, 2003
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