What America Needs...

I am not romanticizing the past or even attempting to be specifically prescriptive...

I am editorializing today,,,rather than philosophizing!

YET...from a philosophical viewpoint...

I have been thinking about the needs of our society...

The list is long...too long to waste yours or my time...

As I worked to organize and reduce the list to the "vital few" worth writing about, my mind wandered to a time is the US' past that was VERY turbulent yet the participants made major strides in improving our society...

The 1960's and 1970's!

A time of hippies...and Jesus Freaks...and Mother Earth'ers...and War Activists...and Segregation Fighters...

Nearly everyone who was anybody had a cause and fought diligently for it!

It was a time of LOVE and PASSION...

It was a time of great unrest!

It was a time of change...

and CHANGE we did!

and then we resumed a life of comfort and apathy...

Just like the people that we criticized and fought!

It was a time of thinking!

It was a time of soul-searching...

We knew what we needed and we worked diligently to achieve it!

There are few activists today, in the public...of the caliber that arose in the 1960's and 1970's...

They are here...but they are not doing what the past's change agents did!

What America needs is for those people to arise...

What America needs is for those, who were passionate "back in the day" to come out of their comfortable retirements and apathy...with all of the passion that they once had...and rekindle...NO...Set ablaze the fires of change!

We are living with a lot of accumulated baggage...much of it is worthless trash...

We need to dance around the bonfires of change... discarding the stuff that got us to this place and use the ashes of change as the nutrients from which a better world can arise...

We believed that back then...WE believed that we could make a difference...AND WE DID!

America needs us...to come back in the power and love that we had back then...