Tuesday, April 23, 2013

The Age of Consciousness

Economic sanctions are the worst way we can alter a countries future. Economic sanctions do nothing but crush the middle class. Do you honestly think we hurt Fidel Castro in Cuba? No, we killed his middle class, which in turn made it very easy for him to stay in power. The people on top do not care if change comes, business as usual for them, the people on the bottom have little potential for change. We are running the risk doing the same in Iran, Syria, and North Korea. It's time to reevaluate things we have been doing out of a knee jerk reaction. We are killing our own country in this way. If we lose our middle class, we lose our greatest ability to change. Growth and change come from the middle. The strength of any country comes from the middle and knowing that is where the power really is. Can we again awaken our authorship? It was our middle class that rallied in WWII, it is the middle class arising in China bringing change and strength to China. A perfect storm is coming for change. It can be elegant or a nightmare, what will you choose? How will you choose? America is known for it's freedom to choose. What will you begin doing right now to alter that future? It doesn't have to be a big thing, just some awareness for now, just a little bit of attention in a new way perhaps. The info age is coming to an end, not in it's influence, but as the driving force under all we do. This is the beginning of the "Age of Consciousness", or even the "Age of innovation". What will, or can you innovate? What can you become more aware of? That is a way to participate with elegance and choice, in a time aligned with a new paradigm now beginning. Be the first to take new steps. Will you lead or follow? The new degree to have coming up will be MFA's. People taught to and who can create and imagine will be the people most sought after. They will lead innovations that will take the obligation of logic and reason out of the beginning of the creative process. Form Follows Function. Find the need, create the solution. We went to the moon once like this. We wanted to go, and we found an innovative way to do so. Imagination can loosen the bonds of logic. Not to throw logic away, but to enhance and add a facet, for a new synergy of mind and solution. Lets get creative, our American ideals of freedom allow this elegantly. Control is the antithesis of Freedom, Love and creativity, three things we are in dire need of.