These are the minutiae of life yet at the same time are the crucial factors in retaining balance in one's life. A little too much that way, a bit less the other way and of such and on such seemingly minor league level decisions is life balanced. Think it not so? Just take a retrospective tour of the landscapes of faces of the American people, top to bottom and back again. Now rate these same faces on a scale of sanity and balance.
And there you have it. There was no balance. Period. Exclamation point! What have you. No balance, no recognition of that out of control whirling and twirling, of that debilitating sense of nausea, as our ship of state was battered, shredded by the winds of war. Worse - no one cared.
That lack of balance in national and international life was reflected right back at us by the distortion of unbalanced private lives. No where to; no there to; no any place to try to rebalance and reset ballasts. The ever growing frantic pace of scrambling feet ate away at any remaining possibilities of solution or sanity. Balance shrinking, control lessening and hope diminishing.
And nothing changed. The irrational partisanship, the nation disappearing under the homicidal crushing feet of the unthinking herd. Nothing changed. Only the names under the pictures. The unbalancing factors and motivations? The same.
We need to reexamine our equipment, its place of production, in fact, the entire underpinnings, the entire ship, from prow to stern. Without that thorough reevaluation, without major change- no balance and no survival.
Time for change. Time for hope, time to reboot and rebalance. Time. And no more time.
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