Life As it Is/Was and To Seek A Newer World

How many of us have received spam email letters from foreign countries (mostly Nigeria, in my case) asking for assistance in the transfer of funds?

Well, a friend of mine just shared with me a similar such plea that I didn't realize was the same kind of spam, but happening in my "Real World":

Dear American:

I need to ask you to support an urgent secret business relationship
with a transfer of funds of great magnitude.

I am Ministry of the Treasury of the Republic of America. My country
has had crisis that has caused the need for large transfer of funds
of 800 billion dollars US. If you would assist me in this transfer,
it would be most profitable to you.

I am working with Mr. Phil Gram, lobbyist for UBS, who will be my
replacement as Ministry of the Treasury in January. As a Senator, you
may know him as the leader of the American banking deregulation
movement in the 1990s. This transactin is 100% safe.

This is a matter of great urgency. We need a blank check. We need the
funds as quickly as possible. We cannot directly transfer these funds
in the names of our close friends because we are constantly under
surveillance. My family lawyer advised me that I should look for a
reliable and trustworthy person who will act as a next of kin so the
funds can be transferred.

Please reply with all of your bank account, IRA and college fund
account numbers and those of your children and grandchildren to
wallstreetbailout@treasury.gov so that we may transfer your
commission for this transaction. After I receive that information, I
will respond with detailed information about safeguards that will be
used to protect the funds.

Yours Faithfully Minister of Treasury Paulson

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The Virtual Reality
This letter wasn't actually sent to me. It was sent to my Representatives. What worries me and takes hold of my heart is that I'm not at all confident that my Representatives will represent my interests and wishes.


My Outer Reality
I live in the United States of America and call myself a citizen and vote in every election (and here in California, I not only get to vote for representatives to serve in my Federal, State and Local governments, I also get to vote directly for State and County and City Initiatives which has helped me to believe that I have a more direct hand in shaping the governance of my community). Since 2000, it has become crystal clear to me that I don't live in a democracy as I had come to understand the word. When the Supreme Court decided who my president was, I realized that the democratic process that had been created and tested in this country for over 200 years had finally been broken.

In the past eight years, the reality of my external world has sunk into my bones. I live in a capitalistic society that is ruled by oligarchies.

And yet, I still live my life as if I believe that I live in a democracy. That's the insanity of my external reality.


My Inner Reality
I am a hope-filled person. I am a joyous person. I believe that every single human being on the planet has the seeds of goodness within them (this belief includes George W. Bush and even Dick Cheney and Karl Rove).

I am an individual. I am a citizen (of the United States of America but, more importantly) of the world. I have a voice.

My Current State of Being
I am tired of fighting. I am still recovering from wounds I suffered when I tried to make my external reality match my internal reality, in my twenties and in my early thirties. I cannot fight like I used to fight anymore. And, more to the point, I do not Wish to Fight anymore.

I am Seeking a Newer World.
Who would like to join me in This Quest?