The Real Heroes of Hurricane Katrina
You can be the hero of Hurricane Katrina. YOU.
Human beings are heroes. By nature.
The news media during Hurricaine Katrina has focused largely on the helplessness and destructiveness of ordinary citizens, and the heroism of the authorities. Sure there has been widespread coverage of criticism of the government in response to Hurricaine Katrina, but the underlying premise is the same: GOVERNMENT AUTHORITIES SHOULD BE THE HEROES.
When they're not the heroes, it becomes an excuse for the government to grow larger, so next time it can do it's job as heroes and saviors.
The widespread view of government authorities as our bosses, saviors and heroes keeps us "ordinary citizens" from seeing ourselves, like Neo in The Matrix as "the one." The one for ourselves. The one for our families. The one for our communities. The one.
Footage of the pandamonium and dire situation at the SuperDome and convention center can lead one to think... "See that is why human beings need to be controlled." Yet, I would have you consider, what if we were raised to be supremely sovereign? What if we were raised and respected from an early age to be heroes and visionaries?
Al Gore, the ex-VP, personally paid for and personally flew rescue missions in New Orleans. Whether politically motivated or not, that is the act of a visionary, a real hero. The 3 Duke University students I blogged about a few days ago were acting as true visionaries, real heroes. They saw a vision that called them into heroic action. They made a difference.
In a future of increasing chaos, can we keep looking to "authorities" to save us? What is an authority? They are people like you and I. Often times with power and money, but not much vision. No, usually, so called authorities are limited to their superior's vision or lack their of. And often the chief authority's vision only extends as far as popular opinion will allow.
So, YOU, are your own authority. And you can be the visionary for your life, your community, your world.
I just read an interesting account by a person who was a victim of the Hurricaine Katrina disaster. It is controversial, but so much the better... afterall, visionaries think for ourselves. Check it out, it is titled, The Real Heroes and Sheroes of New Orleans.
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Sept05/Bradshaw-Slonsky0907.htm
Human beings are heroes. By nature.
The news media during Hurricaine Katrina has focused largely on the helplessness and destructiveness of ordinary citizens, and the heroism of the authorities. Sure there has been widespread coverage of criticism of the government in response to Hurricaine Katrina, but the underlying premise is the same: GOVERNMENT AUTHORITIES SHOULD BE THE HEROES.
When they're not the heroes, it becomes an excuse for the government to grow larger, so next time it can do it's job as heroes and saviors.
The widespread view of government authorities as our bosses, saviors and heroes keeps us "ordinary citizens" from seeing ourselves, like Neo in The Matrix as "the one." The one for ourselves. The one for our families. The one for our communities. The one.
Footage of the pandamonium and dire situation at the SuperDome and convention center can lead one to think... "See that is why human beings need to be controlled." Yet, I would have you consider, what if we were raised to be supremely sovereign? What if we were raised and respected from an early age to be heroes and visionaries?
Al Gore, the ex-VP, personally paid for and personally flew rescue missions in New Orleans. Whether politically motivated or not, that is the act of a visionary, a real hero. The 3 Duke University students I blogged about a few days ago were acting as true visionaries, real heroes. They saw a vision that called them into heroic action. They made a difference.
In a future of increasing chaos, can we keep looking to "authorities" to save us? What is an authority? They are people like you and I. Often times with power and money, but not much vision. No, usually, so called authorities are limited to their superior's vision or lack their of. And often the chief authority's vision only extends as far as popular opinion will allow.
So, YOU, are your own authority. And you can be the visionary for your life, your community, your world.
I just read an interesting account by a person who was a victim of the Hurricaine Katrina disaster. It is controversial, but so much the better... afterall, visionaries think for ourselves. Check it out, it is titled, The Real Heroes and Sheroes of New Orleans.
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Sept05/Bradshaw-Slonsky0907.htm
1 Comments:
Hi,
In such an catastrophic occurance as "Katrina" is is difficult to even begin to focus. It has become unsurmountable...It is in this place we can rise to looking within for an Vision of Now. We see many emotional stands, and than we see people riseing to a Stand of Greatness in Humanity. Like the call to Humanity as an natural way of being in light of such an event. Where to begin and where to start and from where does one come from and where is one going. Exactly their is the place for Stands of Honor and Visions to begin from...Michaele's technology is something that is indeed needed and wanted their...
Signing on to an Shift in the Wind,
heryl
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