Wow, this is so beautiful and meaningful. It hits home (literally) in more ways than I can explain here. I think the homeless people (many of them have mental health issues) are the outer manifestation of the soul-sickness of our culture. The "I need more and more stuff" people. Maybe the trash is a reflection of the golden toilets that some people have. Thank you for this great piece.
i think most people in this age have some measure of mental health issues but the homeless seem to have gone into full tilt mode and have lost the ability to cope / maybe they are the canary in the coal mine / maybe we need to stop trying to fix them and fix our society instead then we could all fit in
people like prem rawat who offer a practical way to feel peace and have a global reach / i practice daily and make use of his inspiration / it's the only thing i know of https://rohn.substack.com/p/prem#details
Brother Rohn, this is one of your best: personal, political, spiritual, poetic.
Between 1980 and today, the net transfer of wealth from the working class to the super affluent is roughly 50 trillion dollars. That's where all the homeless people come from. That's the reason for our countless and worsening diseases of despair. When we hear the individual stories of homeless people, we are looking at the second-hand on the clock, where tragedies and transitions are visible. Meanwhile, the larger socioeconomic reality moves like the minute-hand and the hour-hand, invisible, inexorable, epochal. You know my jag: it's capitalism versus everything, and everything is losing. I'm not saying it's all over, yet, but I cannot bring myself to ignore the scoreboard. In an interview published 5 days after his death, in 1976, philosopher Martin Heidegger said, "Only a god can save us now."
thank you brother paul that means a lot to me / maybe that god is technology / oh wait that’s just speeding up the transfer / maybe it’s wisdom / oh wait that would mean humans would have to do wake up to themselves / we seem to be comfortably numb / maybe that god is the spirit of mother nature in this great oak tree standing beside me / if we don’t cut it down for flooring / maybe it’s your daughter and all the daughters who awake and alive can change the course of human history
Beautiful post, Rohn! Bless you! I've participated in trash clean-ups here along the river. We have a large homeless population, lots of trash. One interesting method our city has done is make frisbee golf courses in some of our wooded areas. It brings in more people moving through the area and somehow discourages as much "camping." We have public communities with basic individual pods to live in with access to a bathroom and water. However, even this is not nearly enough for our houseless needs.
*sidenote: I have always wanted to use a handful of acorns from my pocket to pay for something.
Wow, this is so beautiful and meaningful. It hits home (literally) in more ways than I can explain here. I think the homeless people (many of them have mental health issues) are the outer manifestation of the soul-sickness of our culture. The "I need more and more stuff" people. Maybe the trash is a reflection of the golden toilets that some people have. Thank you for this great piece.
i think most people in this age have some measure of mental health issues but the homeless seem to have gone into full tilt mode and have lost the ability to cope / maybe they are the canary in the coal mine / maybe we need to stop trying to fix them and fix our society instead then we could all fit in
True. the canary in the coal mine is a warning sign. We should heed it, treat the cause, not the symptom. But how.
people like prem rawat who offer a practical way to feel peace and have a global reach / i practice daily and make use of his inspiration / it's the only thing i know of https://rohn.substack.com/p/prem#details
Maybe all one can really do is practice and intention. Wasn't he the "child guru"? I met some English guys in Japan in 1973 or 74 who were followers.
ha ha yes that was him / he’s not a child anymore but still doing his thing
Brother Rohn, this is one of your best: personal, political, spiritual, poetic.
Between 1980 and today, the net transfer of wealth from the working class to the super affluent is roughly 50 trillion dollars. That's where all the homeless people come from. That's the reason for our countless and worsening diseases of despair. When we hear the individual stories of homeless people, we are looking at the second-hand on the clock, where tragedies and transitions are visible. Meanwhile, the larger socioeconomic reality moves like the minute-hand and the hour-hand, invisible, inexorable, epochal. You know my jag: it's capitalism versus everything, and everything is losing. I'm not saying it's all over, yet, but I cannot bring myself to ignore the scoreboard. In an interview published 5 days after his death, in 1976, philosopher Martin Heidegger said, "Only a god can save us now."
thank you brother paul that means a lot to me / maybe that god is technology / oh wait that’s just speeding up the transfer / maybe it’s wisdom / oh wait that would mean humans would have to do wake up to themselves / we seem to be comfortably numb / maybe that god is the spirit of mother nature in this great oak tree standing beside me / if we don’t cut it down for flooring / maybe it’s your daughter and all the daughters who awake and alive can change the course of human history
https://communitysupportedshelters.org/
Beautiful post, Rohn! Bless you! I've participated in trash clean-ups here along the river. We have a large homeless population, lots of trash. One interesting method our city has done is make frisbee golf courses in some of our wooded areas. It brings in more people moving through the area and somehow discourages as much "camping." We have public communities with basic individual pods to live in with access to a bathroom and water. However, even this is not nearly enough for our houseless needs.
*sidenote: I have always wanted to use a handful of acorns from my pocket to pay for something.
it’s possible / the acorns i mean / i don’t know about housing the homeless/ thanks for the link