It is better that a crisis be lived through than that a destructive collapse seize the whole organism.

172.  It is better that a crisis be lived through than that a destructive collapse seize the whole organism.  It is possible to live through a crisis, and such shock may call new forces into life, whereas disintegration and rot but infect all the surroundings.      -Morya:  Brotherhood 1937
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                    -summit of Shasta from the southwest

       Many in this country are perplexed as to why assault rifles are so popular and why Congress is not motivated more by common sense on the issue of assault rifles.  I am one of these perplexed and bewildered.  

  I could be wrong but this is what hit me today.  We live in a twisted-up society that is extremely polarized especially economically; common sense and culture are not very big in America but what is very big are these:  Babylon the Great, love of money, and market theory as applied to money, power and population control.  

  In my view we don’t have leadership to any real degree, we don’t have a constitutional government to any real degree, we don’t have real health, sanity, wholeness, brotherhood, justice—I’m sure there are more items to be listed but that will do for now.

  In Russia, China and North Korea the macho/tough guy game rolls along, but in contrast the US Democratic Party--as much as it leans left--it also wants a ban on selling/owning assault rifles.  This is strange, this contrast of political systems and their psychologies; but when I dropped back to market theory and population control manipulations, the riddles began to simplify somewhat.  O, not toward reality, decency, common sense, no, but toward why political parties behave as they do:  because divide-and-conquer and manipulation of others are both very commonly used techniques in order to gain  money/power/manipulation and mass control.  

  Well, I don’t think this is very helpful, culturally, ethically--this whole review I’m doing is rather sickening obviously as soon as one realizes that this drivel of psychologic madness we experience in our country presently is pretty much the hole we are in.  Yes, a pitiable thing indeed, and I don’t wish to hold a negative picture at all.  But I wanted to share these observations anyway, though on the Feast of the Last Supper one has to wonder what  is up.         -R