@lukeburgis A hymn of inertia, isn't it? Form and content echoing the paralyzing trepidation, conscious or not, that a coherent advance demands changing *everything* - our means, values and responsibilities as much as minds. The Italian proverb calls: "It is not enough to aim. You must hit."
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Copy of tweet here: "Everyone seems fo be waiting: waiting for the villains to be exposed; for justice to be done; for government to be changed; for climate science to be urgently acted upon; for Truth to be spoken and acted upon; for a tidal shift in human morality and higher consciousness; for a whole systems transition to a global culture of peace; for spiritual values to prevail. We wait as if the future will save us but the toxicity grows while we wait and the present is immobilized by endless commentary on our predicament as we sit on every possible solution to our multiple crises. And yet somehow we will become what we are waiting for if we put more than a toe in the water of real change and transformation and if we give it an almighty shove of creativity.” James O'Dea
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Alex Evans Recovered pictured passage; not a claim to the full source. Passage boundary: Two pictured Jul14,2022 paragraphs only; displayed handle cropped. Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1703137732913221836 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. I see so many climate narratives that are all “people have no idea what’s coming” or “people need to wake up”. I’m not so sure. I feel like people have a pretty good idea what’s coming, but deliberately tune it out - because our stories lack *agency* or *meaning* or *redemption*
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Phoebe Tickell @PhoebeTickell Recovered pictured passage; not a claim to the full source. Passage boundary: Jul15,2022 caption only. Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1703137732913221836 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. I think *also* people tune out because the enormity of what is happening is too big to deal with, in the overwhelm of daily modern life (1), and in a system where individual activism has little impact on systemic pollution/emissions/harm (2).
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: 1 Positive / 2 Given Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1703137732913221836 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. 1/ Positive, grounded responses addressing those specific concerns are well in hand, frankly. Our primary challenge is a majoritarian sense of significance powerfully vested in dominant narratives, and the threat of personal salvation as apocalyptic as the doom that hounds us. 2/ Given the epic personal challenge a genuine response to this mystery implies, is it any wonder the routine of a known but essentially unlived life holds so many of us in its predictable yet paralyzed thrall? The very way we see must end as another version of the world ensues. Quote tweet: Ya gotta start. The territory of homecoming, already spread out among us, awaits a personal invocation. It will not come by waiting for it. 'In order to inherit your freedom, you need to go toward it.' McKenna: "The problem is not to find the answer, it's to face the answer." "Everyone seems to be waiting: waiting for the villains to be exposed; for justice to be done; for government to be changed; for climate science to be urgently acted upon; for Truth to be spoken and acted upon; for a tidal shift in human morality and higher consciousness; for a whole systems transition to a global culture of peace; for spiritual values to prevail. We wait as if the future will save us but the toxicity grows while we wait and the present is immobilized by endless commentary on our predicament as we sit on every possible solution to our multiple crises. And yet somehow we will become what we are waiting for if we put more than a toe in the water of real change and transformation and if we give it an almighty shove of creativity.” - James O'Dea
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: We may however Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. We may, however, safely assume that no matter how daunting our personal and collective circumstances appear in the face of such a transition, no matter how baffling or frightening this metamorphosis proves, a coherent response is nonetheless available to every one of us, wherever we live, in whichever culture or creed we have called our own. We can rest wholeheartedly in this assurance because, as ‘luck’ would have it, we and the ground upon which we individually stand is where our wellbeing and that of our world finds its truest common ground, what we have primary access to, and what we can do something about. Ultimately, Paradise-with-a-home-address is simply a way of living in and with reality that enables it to work with us, where we stand with what we have to hand. We turn back, as upon a hinge, towards the Source of our foundational wellbeing.
Open original document@johnmilbank3 Become the bridge over which we walk and the bridge becomes us - the co-evolutionary dynamism of homecoming to concrete reality as the covenantal realm in which redemptive time comes to ground. Pádraig Ó Tuama: "And the form of prayer, like the form of poetry, can be local, too."
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