Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Edward Twitchell Hall III

Stop the NDAA, January 3, 2012, Times Square, NY
Photo: Stacy Lanyon


There were so many things that were drawing me to Occupy Wall Street. Prior to Occupy, I was really working with revolutionary innovators, and since I was a little boy, I was really concerned with the lack of sustainability in our country and the world, so I felt it quit imperative, like life and death, that everybody get activated.

I think that our nation is going through some pretty deep realizations and that currently we have to face our demons, and they go very deep. They are very human issues. We've been ignoring the horrific aspect of our past, the fact that millions and millions of people were massacred as we took over this very large piece of the American continent, and it has continued. In a way, we have become what we were fighting against when this nation was founded. We did not want to be subservient to an empire, and we’ve become an empire. We've been killing innocent people for decades for no reason, and we’ve seriously lost our country.  

What Occupy definitely can do is prepare people for the fact that we have to take care of the fundamentals of our country, while it is being destroyed by our leaders. However bloody and in some ways immoral some of those acts were, the way we are acting now is bloody and immoral, even the occupiers are bloody and immoral, but we don’t even recognize that. It’s just part of the blindness of the context of time, and there’s no reason to be blaming people. The only thing we need to think about and worry about is what’s happening right now and what has led us here, not to blame the past but to take responsibility for our actions now and not let the past rule our actions.

I really hope that Occupy stops all the lies. I heard someone say, “2012 is the year that everyone stops lying.” We've all got our lies, and we don’t have to tell everybody. We don’t have to confess anything. We just have to be honest with ourselves and honest with each other, and so much can happen with that. We need to start looking at our real teachers, and we really have to start investigating truth. I really hope that Occupy opens up that door.

I hope that Occupy gives people an opportunity to find their own truth, to find something greater than themselves to work for, to work for humanity, to recognize we’re all one. There are a lot of problems that actually make humanity pretty weak, that make it so we won’t survive, and that’s our disunity. That’s the fact that we are not recognizing each other as family, and I think Occupy can help in people seeing that, to see that this weakens us, and it’s so beautiful to see that we’re one. We’re one spirit in many bodies.

I also do believe that Occupy is a part of a natural process. It’s a part of a natural process of a death focused system, a system that actually disobeys every law of nature. The Universe doesn't destroy itself. It wouldn't exist if it did. If that was in its fundamental make-up, we wouldn't have a Universe. We wouldn’t have life if life destroyed itself, and that’s how we’re acting, so we can do it for a short period of time, but that which does follow such a path will die, and so this is a natural process of humanity starting to save itself from itself.

Before Occupy, my major hope was that Occupy would insure that life on Earth flourished. Sustainability is, like, the most screwed up term I've ever heard of. Life does not sustain itself. Life flourishes. We’re supposed to have flourishing life. We’re supposed to have new species. We’re killing them, and I really can’t wait until the point where I can die as an old man and know that I helped ensure life’s flourishing on this planet and humanities station as the guardian of life on this planet. That’s my prayer and hope for Occupy.

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