Forum Post: Are These Economic Pressures Causing Sickness?
Posted 12 years ago on March 23, 2012, 12:45 a.m. EST by jewieboy
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seems I feel like shit all the time no energy enthusiasm or pep anyone out there feel the same??
Damn, I thought it was just me. Thanks, I feel better now. I think.
Actually, I feel GREAT! But, I do totally understand and sympathize. The current local, national and global climates are all very stressful. There is uncertainty about almost everything, from international agreements and currency issues, down to local problems like unemployment and government oppression.
Stress is a huge factor in most illness, and directly affects things like immune response and levels of dopamine and serotonin in the brain. It sounds like what you're describing is low level depression. It's completely understandable, and more and more people are being diagnosed with it every day.
I was horribly depressed for a while, feeling like nothing was ever going to change, and feeling powerless to do anything meaningful about it. Now I realize that we are all just one tiny drop, but if we all act together, we are a powerful flood. I give supplies to my local occupiers. I call the mayor weekly to tell him that homeowners with jobs appreciate his continued tolerance of the encampment and him not turning our local police force into stormtroopers. When I see the police harassing kids, I ask if they are under arrest and let them know what their rights are. I work hard at my job and feel good about helping the domestic manufacturing industry at a small, family owned company. I work on my house and foster a sense of community in my neighborhood. I take care of my body so that no matter what may happen in the next few years, I'll be ready for whatever physical challenges I may have to deal with.
The wonderful thing that Occupy has done for me is to replace a strong sense of dread with an even more powerful sense of anticipation. We're on the front lines of a movement to save our communities, our country, our world and ourselves. We all know things can't go on this way. A major change is coming. Every day is a gift of time to prepare. I am preparing to serve, preparing to educate, and preparing to lead. Whatever talents you have, we are going to need them. Things may seem bleak right now, but just know that an amazing future is coming and you can be one of the ones that help shape it.
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"The best lack all conviction, while the worst are filled with a passionate intensity."
-W. B. Yeats
Evil, greed, isolation, frustration, helplessness and all the other feelings associated with a negative human order have had the upper-hand for a very long time - supressing the positive power of community, love, creativity, freedom, dialogue and genuine human society the inspires people with energy and hope.
This evil is an energy field - we can feel it in the air - it suppresses out dreams and aspirations and reduces us to mere depressed functionaries.
We must shift that energy field and as we do, bit by bit, we will begin to tap into it's power. The forces of good are greater that the forces of evil, but they must be empowered by courage, action, perserverence and above all, belief.
That will be the begining of the new enlightnment, when we toss out all the old dogmas, chained views of life and it's potential and start anew. The new truth, and faith in the good are an ember still; we must fan it into a torch that lights the way forward for manking to a new awakening.
The Second Coming, my favorite poem.
A Frightening poem, really. Here it is in it's entirety:
The Second Coming:
TURNING and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
--W.B. Yeats
Yeats died in 1939, and I interpret this poem as a warning about the rising power of corporate government (Fascism)
well this sure would be the right time for it to happen
Something is definiely happening, you can feel that too.
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which means Yes it must be sickening you too
I think everybody feels it.