Comfortably Numb

“Hello/Is there anybody in there/Just nod if you can hear me/Is there anyone at home?/ Come on out/I hear you’re feeling down/I can ease your pain/Get you on your feet again..”- Comfortably Numb, Pink Floyd

Caitlin Johnstone wrote a wonderful piece on a growing global awakening. She and I seem to think on similar planes but with different perspectives of said planes.

I agree with her that we are in the midst of a global awakening. I wrote something about it a couple of years ago, which I will post separately. However, I see things about this in ways different from Caity. I see awakening as being an extremely painful process for many, one which they resist ferociously. They are unable to loose their grip on what they believe they have “known” their whole lives to be able to open their eyes to reality. It’s like they have been living in the dark most of their lives and now trying to come out into the light. Many fight to go back into the shadows, to force their eyes closed, to hide from the light. Their minds have difficulty comprehending the expanse of the world, the very thoughts which are laid before them.

I will not ease your pain. I used to have compassion for these people. Not so much any more. Too much information has been made available to them. If they reject it, they have nobody to blame but themselves. Yet that is the problem. They cannot think beyond themselves. They refuse to think beyond themselves. Ultimately, I refuse to have compassion for those who have no compassion for others.