Shallow, boring, and in complete denial

my views on Spirituality, Politics, Life in America and Existential issues of personal transformation

Monday, February 03, 2014

A tribute to Philip Seymour Hoffman

A very talented actor has died.......and it's brought attention to a deadly form of heroin hitting our streets.....our politicians are promising to rid us of this evil.....hurray for them....

Ahh, not really.......

Here's the truth:     Hoffman was suffering........any time a person is making (what seems to be) a ridiculous (dangerous, unhealthy, illegal, sad) choice, you can feel certain that some tradeoff is happening in which they are participating fully (even if only semi-consciously)...... participating more fully than most of us "non-addicts" will probably ever understand.

Now that he's dead, his suffering is over.   The suffering that remains is with his family, friends, colleagues, fans and yes, the politicians who are "responsible" in the area where this tragedy has happened.....

I wonder if there is something we can REALLY DO to eliminate suffering for all of these good voters...

As I see it, the promises of those politicians are really more about their campaign, image and job, than about the real problems in our society.....they really won't fix anything substantive and we all know it.....even if we don't want to face it fully...

Our Govt can spend several million buck sending black-ops paramilitary forces into our ghetto's to put lots of wounded and abused people into our over-crowded jails, and even possibly rid the region of that particular brand of heroin.  (did you know the US holds 5 percent of the worlds population but 25% of the worlds inmates)

What they won't reduce is ANY of the human suffering.....a new drug or alcohol will be available tomorrow and the families of future drug fatalities (whether overdose or prison) will continue to suffer while our tax dollars get spent "appearing" to address the problem....

Just once, I'd love to hear a politician say that he plans to take the millions we've entrusted to him, and use it to:

  • understand addiction....or suffering....or brain chemistry....or unconscious identity
  • to find a real approach for addressing neurological (bad) habits
  • to get a grasp on the phenomena of limbic-resonance and children's development

Or to simply train us in tolerance for OUR OWN uncomfortable emotions rather than kowtowing to the politically-correct bullshit that seeks to avoid offending anyone......if people are so frail as to be unable to bear the feelings (emotions) happing inside their OWN bodies, it's no wonder they turn to external substances to get out of feeling something....we've trained them to do it...

How can well educated "leaders", with (supposedly) competent advisors, not understand this simple loop that our society has created.....

By promoting and repetitively selling us the illusion that we can and should escape or avoid painful emotions, (the raw stuff of being human), we've trained people to look for a remedy outside of themselves, and then, when the most suffering, abused or desperate among us act on that training, we ostracize, condem and jail them....

I really despise shallow thinkers being in charge of our well-being......lets get people who understand the problems before we let these jokers spend our money pretending to do something....

rest in peace PSH....