The Sad Tune Of Aquarius
We cannot expect to be free until we accept responsibility for the actions or better yet the inactions we as citizens exhibited by becoming so complacent that we choose not to pay attention to the degradation of our society through the actions of our government and the continued assault on societal norms, we are as much to blame as the politicians that we elect to hold the offices of power and until we as a society come to grips with this fact we will never be able to advance any further then the restraints that we have allowed to be placed upon us. We now have a norm in society where as we would rather not accept responsibility for our own actions and we see this exemplified by the words and actions of our leaders when they choose to pass the blame off on those that came before, all the while taking us down a path that they set forth. It is so much easier to blame someone else for failures that you might make even if events and circumstances of others did play a role in some of the decisions that brought you to this juncture in time.
We cannot change the events of history be it personal or societal, we can move forward though and learn to accept shared responsibility that led us down the paths that we have embarked upon, doing so not only takes courage but also conviction to set aside a sense of personal narcissism that clouds common sense to prevail. Mistakes will always be made, that is a fact and once we understand that no matter how right we would like to think that we are in all the decisions that we make that there is always the outside chance that we might be wrong and that we will affect those around us for good or for bad we will never be free from the bonds that bind us. In society today we have lost the sense of honor, we no longer honor those who came before us and the sacrifices that they made, we in many respects do not even honor those closest to us in our desire to satisfy our own personal agendas. In many ways we have been conditioned over time to live our lives under the concept of a “me and free” norm where it is all about ourselves and that we are owed everything instead of consideration to others and how we might affect them in the process.
This was seen to develop as a standard in what is now so lovingly referred to as the age of Aquarius when ” Sex, Drugs, And Rock and Roll ” , man what a crazy trip we are on! “Peace, Love and Good Times”, now this is a great way to live! F’ the man he is just holding us down, “Say No to war and Yes to the power of the People!” What a concept, what a deal let’s all live as if there is no tomorrow, groovy man this is the age of Aquarius, the man owes us and it is our time to take what is ours! What is mine is yours and what is yours is mine, let’s live communally and save the planet while we are at it and the sense that what I am owed I deserve, it is my right you can’t take that away from me concept of accountability moved to the forefront instead of the understanding that what I might do or what I might decide that might be best for me might not be best for you decision making. Yes we are all guilty of living our lives as such and we are all just as guilty of placing our personal agendas before consideration of others and we in turn have walked upon the emotions and general welfare of so many in doing so. Are we truly free when we do not understand that every action that we incur results in an opposite reaction when we choose to place our personal narcissism and agendas above those that we may affect along the way? Is passing the blame off for our own actions that much more enlightening to make us feel better for the mistakes that we made than the honor that we can feel for taking personal responsibility and learning from those transgressions?
The dangers that the concept of living for today at the expense of tomorrow we are seeing metastasize today with the way that we are willing to sacrifice future generations once again for short term gain and the long held beliefs that we are owed something even if we might not have earned it. Generations will pay the price for the “free and me” generation, the family unit has paid the price with generations of broken families. So many these days do not even know how to hold it together because when they look at those before them all they witnessed were parents that were all about themselves and what gain they could get from a relationship and when the hard times hit it was easier to bail then to do the harder honorable thing and attempt reconciliation and commitment, but heck why would they do so when free love and good times were the way of the day! Why would the concept of commitment and honor be considered when we have been raised to believe that we have to live for ourselves and damn those that we may affect along the way? Why would we ever consider that the tune of the piper might be playing in the background as long as the crazy trip that we are on benefits us? One could also look at the fact that the “free and me” generation that are still stuck in a time and mindset that never truly existed are still reaching for straws that keep getting shorter and shorter day by day and have been doing all in their power to reach a goal that is unachievable by all laws of reality. This is not to say that as many grow up and entered society and start to raise families that the pipers tune starts to play in the background and we realized that not only do we have to live for today but to consider those who come after and we are starting to see this with how so many have thrown off the tie-dye’s and have picked up the signs and flags and have once again returned to the public square to protest the “man”!
The irony to all this is that the “man” this time around are those from the same generation that we are from but have yet to come to terms with the fact that the whole concept of what is yours is mine and mine is yours just does not play out when it comes time to cash in on what is considered to be owed to them. The sad fact that so many are still willing to sacrifice tomorrow for today just goes to show that the haze and penetration of socialism into the mainstream in the time of our youth went so unnoticed that so many moved on to teach the future generations this misguided ideology and sacrificed the core principles and morays that would otherwise have guided them only goes to show how if you become so full of yourself that you become willing to set aside even the basic concept of faith and charity to follow on generations and we become so complainant that we start to even believe the lies of passing off responsibility for our own actions unto others and further tighten the chains that weigh us down.
Robert Rohlfing
www.thedrumbeatofliberty.com
