It Always Gets Worse...

This morning I was reading one of the conclusory chapters in A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn.  He was speaking on the conditions in the nineties when capitalism was a runaway train continued from the eighthies.  Crime was high. I mean, I remember when it was a common occurrence for a kid or teenager to get capped for their Jordan's.  The nineties were ill in more ways than those.  However... have you looked around lately?  We have our first "minority" president.  We are slowly learning that capitalism doesn't really work so efficiently and that local community operations work best for such a large and expansive country.  More and more, people are trying to come together and learn about each other.  

Now, that is not to say that there weren't 5 shootings in St. Louis a few nights ago, or that a Hispanic guy wasn't killed in New Mexico (or Texas, I can't remember now), by some young white teenagers because they considered him a threat for their jobs.  What I am saying, is that things don't seem to be as ill between people (not for the economy), where there is a system for exposing different cultures to each other.  Look at Chicago, New York or Los Angeles (the same places children were being shot for sneakers a few years ago).  These are some of the most populated centers on the planet.  Yet the people that come here (to St. Louis), from there, say that WE are so segregated (which is true), and that THEY hang out with all different types of people in fun, social settings all the time back home.

Back to the point.  Have you ever heard that things always gets worse before they get better?  I think that is what was happening from the sixties to the nineties.  It wasn't just a struggle of the Establishment to keep its power.  It wasn't just a class battle.  It was a general changing of the guard in regard to the types of people that were being born.  Astrologists would separate them as Piscean and Aquarian children.  

Many cultures predicted the end of an age, and by this I mean what I would call a "great age", in the year 2012.  I believe the Mayans and Nostradamus actually predicted the precise date of December 20, 2012. An age (again according to astrologists) lasts about 150 years.  Each great age is an evolution of man, or at least his mind and takes much longer.  So within the greater age of Pisces, there were twelve evolutions bringing us to the next "house", of Aquarius (the water bearer).  Pisceans are characterized by passion, individualism and an effort to be the best.  Aquarians are characterized by a need to help and sustain life, and to commune with nature and people.  Apparently there have been hints at this along the way with the Pax Romana, The Renaissance period,  Enlightenment in the 1700s, and many of the American labor and civil rights movements of the early to late 1900's when more and more Aquarians were being born and many Piscean-natured people already populated the Earth. The date of December 20, 2012 actually brings us back to the beginning of a complete "great age".  Now it seems that all, or most, of the people being born are of the Aquarian evolution of the mind.  So we are seeing a push for more natural technologies, natural ways of producing food and energy and the like.  Also, if you notice the date, there will be another American election around that time.  Will we re-elect Barack Obama?  Is he the one to usher in the next age as the "leader of the free world"?  Or will we slip back into the well crafted forms of control built by the privileged and very wealthy?

Just some thoughts...  Enjoy the rest of your week.

Peace.