Willie Nelson

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J-Liddy produced a video version of “A Peaceful Solution” to go along with his earlier mp3 version. He brings an important sensibility to the project from the Hip hop style, a sensibility of contemporary newness not remixed retro, a cultural precursor to a global reality shift.

Few things in human affairs command the awe of a reality shift. A shift in reality allows inventions and events previously undreamed of to sprout wings and fly.

Once upon a time everyone knew the earth was flat and the center of the universe. These facts supported a belief system that represented reality to them.

Everyone knew these facts and from these facts any number of logical arguments descended to prove that everything was as it was because it could be no other way, given the facts. Generations of people were born, lived and died subscribing to such constructed realities.

Reality shifts because it must, because it no longer adequately describes the current situation. When a belief system no longer accounts for the events of every day life then commonly held facts are subject to examination.

A round earth orbiting around a small sun very far from the center of the universe seemed to become accepted fact with breath taking quickness. New belief systems arose that enabled everything we take for granted today.

Now we face a shift in reality capable of shaking global belief systems to their roots. Ways of life dependent upon unending unlimited growth are finished.

The fallout from global warming and the downside of peak oil join centuries of destructive farming practices and exploitative resource extraction united under a common umbrella of financial, commercial and political collapse. This is no accident of fate, no marvel of coincidence and certainly not the retribution of an angry God.

This is the collapse of something people intentionally built. It is collapsing because it was based upon profoundly flawed if not just plain wrong facts.

Now we wait to see the extent of the social and cultural collapse that inevitably follows. Our very humanity is at risk as in no time in the past.

We saw during the Katrina debacle that what collapsed was not the social and cultural fabric but the systems of authority. It was these systems of authority attempts at reestablishing themselves by threats of force that interfered the most with the good intentions of people looking after one another.

Hope can be high for humanity even as we witness the failure of human systems designed to benefit a few at the expense of many. The question remains as to what kinds of systems will be created in the future.

Without a doubt many will attempt to maintain or resurrect the old way of doing things long after their futility has been proven. Survivors will only have to stay out of their way.

The true turning point will be when people realize that living in peace with each other and in harmony with all life are necessary facts for a useful belief system. When people decide to take care of themselves instead of the privileged few playing their financial games within a militarized arena reality will shift profoundly.

This is why a peaceful resolution provides for a peaceful revolution. With a peaceful solution accepted as a required fact a compatible belief system and view of reality will follow.

Will we make this shift as intact communities transitioning from the old way of life or as isolated tribes reduced to an impoverished stone age? While it is now plain to see that things physically cannot go on as they have it is still our choice on how we deal with the collapse.

We can take back America.

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