Another deepfireside chat, as regards psyche, plus a poem…

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a better film than this to use as an intervention as regards what Bill Moyers was talking about in that documentary he did on Poverty in America. It refers not so much to race, although it does address racism and other things, but instead illustrates psyche’s response to things lost, such as personal identity and the fallout. If you look beyond the plot and think in terms of the vast evils done to patriarchal society by corporate culture since the mid-1980’s, you begin to get a sense of a willing herd desperate for any sort of soothing balm tossed it’s way. That was how facism took root once?

Male’s identity comes from work of value of some sort. In this sense, FDR’s model from the WPA is essential especially at this time. To give you an example, today there was an article on orange groves, and a man who tended groves for many, many years, and what is about to happen. Like with the film “Falling Down” this man will not be receiving his gold watch for the years of service to these particular trees. Instead he’s getting the boot. Now, that “gold watch” concept is a lost concept across the board in today’s workplace. How one might go about restoring order in the economy and restoring honor? It would be manly to go after the crooks, for all the world to see. The hastiness of globalization of the food chain has caused a disconnect to land as place.

This is a great writer above that I found who has written extensively about that. There was a farm in the city which was buldozed (ala the orange groves above) for something else. If a culture perceives that there is no heart, only heartlessness?

It occurs to me that few will be able to provide knowledge of “la tierra” once these or any elders, die. Hence a resurgence of the patriarchial spirit is entirely in order at the helm, but that must demonstrate great heart. Why I would say the WPA? Number one, people are entirely broken without some feeling that what they do has value — so a return to an agrarian slower life is in order. This will also help immensely in terms of the global warming — if food can again be produced locally, rather than miles of concrete. Hillary Clinton was going to do that with the creation of green jobs. It’s a fabulous idea. Because of this:

Man Gets Hit By Car and People Look, Comment, 2 Call 911 and the Rest Just Move On