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"If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich."
John F. Kennedy
(1917-1963)
John F. Kennedy
(1917-1963)
O U T O N A L I M B O N T H E E D G E
Is there a way to help citizens on the fringe lead a productive community life?
When we look at the needs of people who walk on the fringe of everyday life most people take for granted; we can find a pattern of frustration with the status quo corporate leadership hierarchy. The hierarchy that seems to dictate how we live, what we'll have in our lives, why we need to have or do things their way, and where we should live.
As a couple of people who have worked in Banking, Financial Planning, and Education, we also chose to walk the far edge in U.S. society within the commercial trucking industry to try to understand the bottom line of "what moves America"-- the workings of the distribution system.
In all of this we have experienced:
anxieties from too much work, little pay,
prejudices of the economic social structure,
frustrations that led to anger because of the corporate / societal materialistic desires,
loss of friends and family support;
all of which can lead into spiritual depravation that we found common among those that have no sense of community or family place within this corporate hierarchical structure.
We found economic and creative restrictions placed on those that have to live outside of family/societal norms. The feeding of the Corporate machine caused anxieties on every level of life/being. Economic disparities between different segments of society, along with the fact that everyone is constantly being bombarded with "you're nobody until you have this", or being "branded" as the marketing people call it. Making it all the worse that your very livelihood / life depend on feeding that machine. Focusing on what the hierarchical leaders "brand" people to think causes some of the greatest anxieties away from one's personal sojourn in this life and has brought them such spiritual and relationship depravation. All they can see is the materialistic consumerism that drives an economy for the rich. This frustration leads to anger, thievery, and sometimes murder -- and so it goes -- on and on until a whole nation collapses from its own crumbling infrastructure.
When we take a sweeping look at the whole picture, we realize people need a creative outlet, a place to voice their concern without prejudice, and a need to belong. We talked many times of how we would love to harness the energy they expend toward their frustrations and redirect it to a constructive criticism to the "powers-that-be" in making the necessary changes that can affect people's life and that of their family. That which can level the playing field between the rich and the poor, the have's and have-nots; making the basis of the needed change be one of creative outlet sufficient for living rather than an enormous economic feeding machine for the wealthy.
Our journey has led us to realize the most important aspects of life -- how to keep a country "free" without destroying the very heart of it. We realized the main focus should be:
<> maintaining integrity in
one's talents/skills,
health,
relationships,
justice,
community,
responsibility to life,
individual response to community, the nation, and the planet earth
which inevitably leads to a
<> sustainable
creative employment or business / life work,
family life,
community life,
national life,
planet for the global community
The infrastructure then has a solid foundation from the bottom up -- it is not consuming one another's lusts, but working together in a creative harmonious way that gives rather than takes --
for it is in the giving that life gives back.
It is this fringe element of society that we found a wealth of information and needed understanding. For in all their disparity and needs lies the constructive work for maintaining the infrastructure of a community.
Rebuilding community and lives -- come back / give back!
By Debra Holliday
Sustainable Life Info
7-01-06
top of page
Sustainable Life Info Copyright © 2006-2008 DLH Business Associates. All rights reserved.
Is there a way to help citizens on the fringe lead a productive community life?
When we look at the needs of people who walk on the fringe of everyday life most people take for granted; we can find a pattern of frustration with the status quo corporate leadership hierarchy. The hierarchy that seems to dictate how we live, what we'll have in our lives, why we need to have or do things their way, and where we should live.
As a couple of people who have worked in Banking, Financial Planning, and Education, we also chose to walk the far edge in U.S. society within the commercial trucking industry to try to understand the bottom line of "what moves America"-- the workings of the distribution system.
In all of this we have experienced:
anxieties from too much work, little pay,
prejudices of the economic social structure,
frustrations that led to anger because of the corporate / societal materialistic desires,
loss of friends and family support;
all of which can lead into spiritual depravation that we found common among those that have no sense of community or family place within this corporate hierarchical structure.
We found economic and creative restrictions placed on those that have to live outside of family/societal norms. The feeding of the Corporate machine caused anxieties on every level of life/being. Economic disparities between different segments of society, along with the fact that everyone is constantly being bombarded with "you're nobody until you have this", or being "branded" as the marketing people call it. Making it all the worse that your very livelihood / life depend on feeding that machine. Focusing on what the hierarchical leaders "brand" people to think causes some of the greatest anxieties away from one's personal sojourn in this life and has brought them such spiritual and relationship depravation. All they can see is the materialistic consumerism that drives an economy for the rich. This frustration leads to anger, thievery, and sometimes murder -- and so it goes -- on and on until a whole nation collapses from its own crumbling infrastructure.
When we take a sweeping look at the whole picture, we realize people need a creative outlet, a place to voice their concern without prejudice, and a need to belong. We talked many times of how we would love to harness the energy they expend toward their frustrations and redirect it to a constructive criticism to the "powers-that-be" in making the necessary changes that can affect people's life and that of their family. That which can level the playing field between the rich and the poor, the have's and have-nots; making the basis of the needed change be one of creative outlet sufficient for living rather than an enormous economic feeding machine for the wealthy.
Our journey has led us to realize the most important aspects of life -- how to keep a country "free" without destroying the very heart of it. We realized the main focus should be:
<> maintaining integrity in
one's talents/skills,
health,
relationships,
justice,
community,
responsibility to life,
individual response to community, the nation, and the planet earth
which inevitably leads to a
<> sustainable
creative employment or business / life work,
family life,
community life,
national life,
planet for the global community
The infrastructure then has a solid foundation from the bottom up -- it is not consuming one another's lusts, but working together in a creative harmonious way that gives rather than takes --
for it is in the giving that life gives back.
It is this fringe element of society that we found a wealth of information and needed understanding. For in all their disparity and needs lies the constructive work for maintaining the infrastructure of a community.
Rebuilding community and lives -- come back / give back!
By Debra Holliday
Sustainable Life Info
7-01-06
top of page
Sustainable Life Info Copyright © 2006-2008 DLH Business Associates. All rights reserved.
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