Is the pope catholic? 😉
Great words, Jon…

THE AMERICAN DREAM IS ACTUALLY A GERMAN DREAM

What makes you feeling awake, being alive ? The other, contact with the other, your neighbor, your second self, the one who send you back your image, like a mirror but an active mirror, not matter the quality nor the quantity of others, basically, as long as they accept to share some time with you, some words, some understanding. A smile does the trick, from far away for the desperate.

But before friends, brothers, children, family or relatives comes the partner, the all in all elusive partner, the one you find or don’t but the one you dream of in the deepest of your heart. She or he may not be that star your mind has created, that perfect being everyone has wished in vain for years but like before with relatives, a simple person, like yourself, in the end, perfectly fits. You may be deceived, you may still dream of your hidden idol but the one who will appear one day to be the possible reality will do the trick, if you’re not a fool.

This second self, as different as he or she could be won’t come out of your dreams. You got to get out of your cave to find him, her. He, let’s stay with ‘he’, will not be an image on the wall of your mind but a real being, bringing his self in the picture, his particular identity, his own message in a living bottle. No perfect glass but no transparency, a spark of life, good and bad, bad and good. In the same way you’ll have to reach out to him as he will have to cross the river too for an encounter.

Check. Sunny day, fog, we’re there. I is dead. “I” was living one’s death in life. “I” is no more, that’s “we”, that’s life. Whatever, good or bad, high or down, that’s together, not me myself. Check. We are. Are we ? It was not up to you when being alone, to be alone. Now it is, up to you, to be together. What a change man ! I had no choice and I now have one. And more, I still can dream but the dream comes after the reality instead of being that very reality. What’s best ? Your choice.

Not only … Your ability to accept your fall. What fall ? The fall from a dream. Big deal ! Go on YouTube, Ray Charles for instance. Read the comments. They’re bright, all of them. No bashing. No jerk. We’re together, all different but all in the line, the line of being together. That’s life, sharing. That’s what we need, where we are, alive. Sharing. No other way except dreams, sorry dreams, living death. But YouTube is virtual, YouTube is a golden cage that fits the illusion of being together.

What moves the world is in the street. Meeting is in the real world, the outside but that is difficult, that is not usual for mental slavery, mental loneliness. What the powers that lead are afraid of is the street, meeting in the street, being together for real, taking one’s dining table out on the pavement and inviting one’s neighbour, the bystander, you and me. That’s the way to change. Dining in the street, talking, sharing, getting out of the dream and make life happen, for real, for once, for ever.

Escaping the dream, with strengh, with will, with empathy, with good and bad, but with patience, with love.
What is the American dream ? The opposite. Individuality. Closed doors. A house … closed. A car … closed. A mentality … closed. A dog … on a leash. A soul … in private. Everyone should be happy … alone, behind one’s own door. Madness, folie. A house, a car, a woman, children, inside, in private. Outside ? Nothing, appearance, being polite. In Israel, for instance, people always complain that people are not polite toward one another. Israelis dream of Europe where people seem to be careful of you, where they say please, forgive me, thank you …

Theater. No one cares. F**k you, with a bright smile. Dream. American dream, oh, no my brother, German dream. Teutonic dream. Hell’s dream. You’re my ghost, my lovable ghost. I don’t have anything to do with you except for a purpose, except if you’re of my club, my hell angel’s club, my Lucifer’s spirit. Leave me alone. Don’t sit too close. I don’t know you. I’m armed, beware. Don’t you see ? Do you want a proof ? Alas, there have been, there are so many proves that I prefer you dead than sharing my meal, aren’t they ?

No trespassing, don’t thread on me. You’re a danger, you’re a stranger. To me. Me myself. Me my dream.
Stop being your dream. Stop being a living dead. Quit your American, your German dream, your Devil’s dream. Set your table in the street, meet your neighbour, share with him, be a human – being, grow a life, your life, our life, God’s life. Move out of your illusions since illusions are not yours but the masters’, illusions are a false reality, illusions are implanted by those who benefit of everyone’s loneliness, loneliness between you and me. No illusion, no dream. Life is here, for all of us, in the outside, in the reality, in the street. Love is waiting, all the time, like dogs who wait for their walk, children waiting for a hugging, women who wait for a word from your heart, men who wait for … For what ?

A weapon ? A punch ? A beer ? A football game ? To feel a “man” ? Prehistory was a paradise, yeah man ! We’ve stepped into hell. But the remedy is still there, as long as the illusion has not overwhealmed all humanity, as long as some people, here and there feel for others, in the street. For how long ? Horrible thought, frightening feeling. Got beer ? Drugs ?

There is a “Change” we, yes, We must believe in … Outside. This is the only thing that frighten the tyrants. Not the guillotine. THE STREET, and US, Together, Happy TOGETHER.

Best ! Love U !! See you outside …

NB: Don’t put it upside down ! Family is the center, the unit, the only basis of mankind, but family is not the goal, in itself. The goal is the people, all of us.

NB2: Don’t mix up too ! The individual is the corner stone of family & humanity, but not only a strong individual who cares for himself and his property but an individual who cares for his world, at large, who does not restrict his love to chosen closed circles, an individual who dreams of a better life in the outside and not in front of his TV stars.

PS: The German dream is a leading class isolation taken to the slaves in order to have them isolated from one another them by their own ‘will’. It is not especially German in the root but Germany is the perfect example of that.

In the following excerpt from his 1987 book: Science, Order, and Creativity, Bohm describes “societal degeneration” is as a physical process in Nature.

[Comments in brackets are mine]

“How do societies of appreciable complexity begin to decay? A basic reason may be that as new knowledge and institutional structures accumulate, they tend to become ever more rigidly fixed [Religious, scientific and political dogma]. Eventually it seems as if the whole order of society and the security of each individual would be endangered if these structures were to be seriously questioned or changed. In order to hold things fixed, therefore, the culture feels itself forced to react in ways that are basically false, for example, by becoming fragmented [polarization of the people].

This fragmentation is part of a broader process in which society and culture “defend them-selves” against acknowledging the actual facts [loss of liberty] that call for change. Thus, the [“consensus trance”] of society is then caught up in the general process of “playing false” in order to create illusion and delusion. This leads society into collusions [war on terror, on drugs, on guns, on conspiracy theorists, etc.] in order to defend the illusions and delusions. This attitude has also been called “bad faith.”

Clearly this process is a breaking down of the basic generative order of the society [Liberty to create solutions]. Those [Liberty movement] who see this will call for a fundamental and revolutionary change. But this provokes only fear and hatred because so many people believe that society cannot function in any other way and, for many other reasons as well, do not wish for change. Even in those cases where change is able to take place, it is limited by the very factors [unjust laws and excessive regulation] that lie behind the original decay in the generative order in the first place. People now become disillusioned by the ultimate and deep failure of their efforts to change. They are lost in despair, or else they entertain false hopes which are essentially based on fantasy [tax and spend our way out]. This leads to a further stage in the breaking up of the generative order in which those in authority attempt to establish more and more rigid control [more regulation and police state measures] in order to prevent further deterioration. But rigidity is ultimately the very source of this deterioration, so things can only get worse in the long run. Indeed, the whole process of breakdown is sustained and constantly extended, because all the proposed remedies are actually different forms of the same illness that they aim to cure.

The breakdown in the generative order of society is more than mere decay, which might be regarded as the opposite side to a natural process of growth, in the generative order of society. Rather, the rigidity in the generative order constitutes extremely pervasive and far-reaching blockage of free play of the mind, and this makes for the constant spread of false play and prevents creativity that could adequately meet this situation. Indeed, as with the individual, to the extent to which society is no longer creative in its basic generative order, it becomes destructive to itself and to everything that it touches. Thus both with regard to human beings and society as a whole, the basic distinction in the generative order is not between growth and decay, but rather between creativity [Liberty] and destructiveness [Tyranny].

Becoming caught up in the false processes of a destructive generative order, as described above, has been the ultimate fate of all known civilizations. But is this inevitable? If so, the outlook for the human race is very grim indeed. For the means of destruction are now global and almost total, and no part can be isolated from the rest of the world.

Need this cataclysmic failure of the human race necessarily take place? Can it be avoided by a creative approach to all areas of life? What is needed is not simply a new creative surge but a new order of creative surge….“