I’ve been accused of being a Debbie Downer, and I get that, but at the same time, it’s difficult for me, feeling what I feel and intuiting what I intuit, to just join the crowd in pursuit of distraction and avoidance. So many things are happening that are only going to get worse if we collectively remain ignorant and expect someone else to take care of things for us.

Trouble is, I’m not sure what can be done, except to try and raise the collective consciousness. These problems that we face are not accessible for resolution by any one of us, or even a good number of us, we need critical mass. It’s also not just something that comes up for a vote, such that we just need to get out and vote, to address. Again, it comes down to raising consciousness.

Collectively, we need to re-examine our priorities and critically examine how our most reasoned priorities are represented within our society, or perhaps even as a species. The truth is the institutions that exist which once were created to serve society no longer do. We’ve been lied to or kept in the dark for their convenience for a long time now and the chickens of that deceit are coming home to roost.

No longer can we rely on our political system to do the right thing as it has become far too ‘in service’ to corporations which, contrary to the law that gives them status as persons, are not people. Corporations exist to make profit for their shareholders and, increasingly, those who run them. They do not have an inherent interest in the best interests of the public and those running the corporations do not see themselves as ‘in service’ to the public.

This is, in large part, how and why we are becoming more and more misguided and mentally ill, because money affords us no moral compass to foster cohesive psycho-emotional directives for our collective well-being. Maximizing profit is not an altruistic goal – it’s a selfish, predatory one more often and perhaps even exclusively.

The lights are coming on, as reflected by the increasing critiques of capitalism, but we are not at home. Rather, we are dealing with the risk of losing our home, literally and figuratively, with the mounting evidence of extreme threats to the planet, economic collapse, increasing police state efforts, loss of privacy, and random and general lunacy of the populations.

The problem, therefore, is not that no one is home, as the lights come on, but that our home is at so much risk as to consume us, so that we cannot afford to take in what the light illuminates. Most often, therefore, we willingly close our eyes.

We have left the sight afforded by the light to be seen only by the brave so-called ‘conspiracy theorists’. We glibly disregard them as such, without pausing to consider that there is no inherent flaw to believing in conspiracy. We are, in our human drama, constantly conspiring, every day in every way.

Simply noting that someone is speaking or theorizing about a ‘conspiracy’ does not ipso facto make what they are saying some sort of idiocy. Further, often what is dismissed as ‘conspiracy theory’ is often not talk of conspiracy at all, but rather a review of the culminating effects of actions taken by others.

In short, the primary intent to disregard what we don’t want to hear by calling it a ‘conspiracy theory’ is a transparent one. While many people feel relief within their mental processes by readily engaging in such dismissals, we are not serving ourselves with such smug, short-sighted self-assurances.

As someone who has been trying to make sense of an impending sense of doom for perhaps all of my life, I’ve found the so-called conspiracy theorists to be the only ones willing to speak of anything that might actually offer a clue. Everyone else is just repeating the same old songs and dances that aren’t effectively keeping us in good health or out of danger. They are like the dance band on the Titanic, playing on as the ship sinks beneath the surface to its watery grave.