In these increasingly dire times we have plenty of warners, but what we desperately need right now are more arks.
As Michael Ventura wrote: “[A]ll of this passing things on, in all its forms, may not cure the world now—curing the world now may not be a human possibility—but it keeps the great things alive. And we have to do this because, as Laing said, who are we to decide that it is hopeless? And I said to my son, if you wanted to volunteer for fascinating, dangerous, necessary work, this would be a great job to volunteer for—trying to be a wide-awake human during a Dark Age and keeping alive what you think is beautiful and important.”
~ James Hillman and Michael Ventura, We've Had a Hundred Years of Psychotherapy and the World's Getting Worse.
So, with that in mind, here's a little something to stow away safely in your ark, as we make preparations for the dark times ahead of us.
“Some want to turn the clock back, harkening back to some golden age of nostalgia, when women, children, the lower class, parishioners, and people of other races and creeds knew their place; not back to the 1950s, but further back: to Dickensian times and to (corporate) feudal fiefdom. They want to wind the clock back to a time before the hard-won battles for civil rights, social reforms, and worker representation. A time long, long before the ‘woke virus’, ‘illegal immigrants’, and gender identity, when life was more conservative and white lives mattered; though with a new, fundamentalist, Christian nationalist (or Islamist, or ultra-Zionist, or even atheist) and isolationist twist. And some will go to any lengths – and I do mean any desperate, violent, draconian lengths – to bring this vile and unholy vision about.”
~ Preface to Beyond a Shadow of a Doubt, a story of resistance:
Available at The Internet Archive's library;
And in full, as a PDF, at the Facebook groups Mystical Faction, Caravanserai and ishraqi institute in the Files section.
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Image: Titanic-lifeboat-colorized / J.W. Barker (Carpathia passenger) / Wikimedia Commons / Public domain.