Letters to the Editor
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I want to ride the Tilt a Whirl!
LW, I could have written this. Not about my significant other, but about most of the Earth's population. I wish someone could prove the following statement is incorrect: Most people don't give a rip about the environment past their immediate and daily reality. In other words, if it isn't in their 'yard' and if it doesn't immediately affect them, they don't care.... at all.
Last week I was riding behind a shiny detailed ride and bags started coming out of the windows in an area previously known for glorious trees and grasslands. Loads of trash flung out of this nice car including crumpled McD's wrappers, soiled unidentifiable objects and some random plastic crap. Pulling closer for a glimpse I saw an entire family in the cab. Nice to see that for at least a generation, complete ignorance is being passed on.
"Hey, you dropped something!"
Coming to terms with indifference about the environment has been a painful revelation for me too, which is why Cary's idea of accepting others as they are is the only way. Even though we all share the Earth and have limited resources, a lot of people don't recognize the universal truth of interconnectedness. Maybe a persona like Ghandi could, MLK Jr, Mother Theresa, or Kennedy could create change, but can we? People like us who are busy paying rent and mortgages, shuffling off to school and work and God knows what to stay alive? Most of us aren't going to shift another's consciousness even a tiny bit, but we can live by example.
Before I get too depressed, thank you for doing what you can to avoid the destruction of our world. Thank you for living consciously by doing what you can.
Cary, many of us come here for exactly the reasons you wrote above. Let's summon the madman and bring on the unhinged outcasts! You have shifted a hefty chunk of consciousness with your beautiful outlandish idea of radical acceptance, but I still want to beat that carload of morons and everyone else who ruins our natural world.