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July 2009 
America's knees hurt, but it's all good
Posted on Feb 13th, 2009
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Katya
Katya
You know that aching knee pain when you're 14? Clothes stop fitting, everything hurts, you don't understand why you feel the way you feel. Ahh the memories. I was always tall for my age, so I remember this difficult process well. Being the tallest girl in class also didn't help. But that's another blog post. As I sit here on the couch, a lot of things come to mind: Darwin's theory of evolution has been accepted by the Vatican as NOT anti-creationist; the Discovery channel special on the Science of Love where they break our concept of love into scientific bits, the TV special on California's tectonic plates, oh and of course the economic mess.
It seems to me that evolution is everywhere; it's only getting faster and harder to keep up with, and to top it off, we're the test case.
Its pretty easy to see that the world is changing rapidly. I was born in the U.S.S.R. - a country that no longer exists. And back in Soviet Russia, we wore school uniforms, learned about Lenin, and were told God didn't exist. Next thing I know we're in NYC, living in a Dominican/Hasidic community, and boy did we have to evolve. And boy did it hurt! It hurt all over! The language, the customs, the new races we've never seen before, the food. Oh the food! Let's not start. We had to adapt to the new environment, old habits died, new ones were formed. Man stood up.
And now America is going through the same thing, again.
History brilliantly shows us that we are run by the necessity to expand or contract. Science teaches us that nothing really stands still. There is always a process happening in the background even though we may not see it. But what is that process? Is it certainly the weeding out of irrelevant, unnecessary objects? I think so. Except it's not only objects. It's also thinking. Human traits have evolved - the mating ritual has changed to fit the modernity of the woman, so why not thinking? Everyone going green, doing yoga, eating organic, and being nicer - it's all the the same thing. We simply need these new traits to survive, because what we were doing before is no longer working.
America brought something fundamentally different to the world - something mostly unseen. It was born in England in some ways, but really evolved in the States. This concept of freedom. It's totally radical! It was not seen in other places. People in New York walk around in their pajamas as students; they wear jeans in all ages, and you will often not know someone's worth based on their tennis shoes. Europe didn't have this. The Soviet Union certainly didn't have this. This country is unique and beautiful, and it's given something to the world. With all the B.S., it's given it hope, hope to so many people that something as radical as freedom can exist. It's imperfect, as all human systems are. After all, we are imperfect ourselves. But it's shifting and evolving as is everything in the world.
The Vatican approved the theory of evolution. What the hell?! I mean this was NOT a possibility some years ago. This is a huge thing for the planet. There are lots of Catholics! A black president in the US? That's a huge thing as well! It's like thinking is being bent on a global scale. We are all evolving. We are growing or dying, but we are never standing still.
And I know that people say that we are all in on this together. But really, it's true. We, all of us, are the face of the world. Those of us who live in the US are the face of the US, and we are all partially responsible for everything that happens globally as a result. Surely it doesn't mean we blame ourselves for political blunders like Iraq (ahem), but we are all partially responsible, as we are part of the living and breathing organism that America is.
It seems to me that evolution is everywhere; it's only getting faster and harder to keep up with, and to top it off, we're the test case.
Its pretty easy to see that the world is changing rapidly. I was born in the U.S.S.R. - a country that no longer exists. And back in Soviet Russia, we wore school uniforms, learned about Lenin, and were told God didn't exist. Next thing I know we're in NYC, living in a Dominican/Hasidic community, and boy did we have to evolve. And boy did it hurt! It hurt all over! The language, the customs, the new races we've never seen before, the food. Oh the food! Let's not start. We had to adapt to the new environment, old habits died, new ones were formed. Man stood up.
And now America is going through the same thing, again.
History brilliantly shows us that we are run by the necessity to expand or contract. Science teaches us that nothing really stands still. There is always a process happening in the background even though we may not see it. But what is that process? Is it certainly the weeding out of irrelevant, unnecessary objects? I think so. Except it's not only objects. It's also thinking. Human traits have evolved - the mating ritual has changed to fit the modernity of the woman, so why not thinking? Everyone going green, doing yoga, eating organic, and being nicer - it's all the the same thing. We simply need these new traits to survive, because what we were doing before is no longer working.
America brought something fundamentally different to the world - something mostly unseen. It was born in England in some ways, but really evolved in the States. This concept of freedom. It's totally radical! It was not seen in other places. People in New York walk around in their pajamas as students; they wear jeans in all ages, and you will often not know someone's worth based on their tennis shoes. Europe didn't have this. The Soviet Union certainly didn't have this. This country is unique and beautiful, and it's given something to the world. With all the B.S., it's given it hope, hope to so many people that something as radical as freedom can exist. It's imperfect, as all human systems are. After all, we are imperfect ourselves. But it's shifting and evolving as is everything in the world.
The Vatican approved the theory of evolution. What the hell?! I mean this was NOT a possibility some years ago. This is a huge thing for the planet. There are lots of Catholics! A black president in the US? That's a huge thing as well! It's like thinking is being bent on a global scale. We are all evolving. We are growing or dying, but we are never standing still.
And I know that people say that we are all in on this together. But really, it's true. We, all of us, are the face of the world. Those of us who live in the US are the face of the US, and we are all partially responsible for everything that happens globally as a result. Surely it doesn't mean we blame ourselves for political blunders like Iraq (ahem), but we are all partially responsible, as we are part of the living and breathing organism that America is.
And now it's evolving again. Into something else. Because what it was was no longer working. And enough people understood that and realized that survival was more important than being prejudiced against a black guy.
Survival always was smarter than logic, always has been. Survival is a lot more powerful, and we have relied on it silently since we were born as a species, however that may have happened.
And seriously people, look at the world and what it's become! This is not the world of 10 years ago. Countries are getting up out of the dirt that they've been in for generations. People are getting educated. Women have a new voice. Races are mixing and blending. Evolution is everywhere!
And we should not resist it but instead learn to flow. Flow with it and understand that we are so very very impermanent. But a leaf in the wind. And we have no idea what the planet's agenda is.
I myself have found myself being afraid in moments. Asking myself "what's next?" "Are we all going to be ok?" And somehow I think we are. Because no matter what happens, it's all part of our growth and development as a species. My knowledge is a collection of all the people before me, and I thank all those who died eating crazy poisoned food, crossing oceans, catching new diseases. So I realized at some point that if my head falls off because I use the cell too much, the world will have gained something. Maybe someone will remodel the way we use these devices, and I may return as a butterfly in a field in Montana. Which may actually be really very nice. And if not, then so be it.
And we should not resist it but instead learn to flow. Flow with it and understand that we are so very very impermanent. But a leaf in the wind. And we have no idea what the planet's agenda is.
I myself have found myself being afraid in moments. Asking myself "what's next?" "Are we all going to be ok?" And somehow I think we are. Because no matter what happens, it's all part of our growth and development as a species. My knowledge is a collection of all the people before me, and I thank all those who died eating crazy poisoned food, crossing oceans, catching new diseases. So I realized at some point that if my head falls off because I use the cell too much, the world will have gained something. Maybe someone will remodel the way we use these devices, and I may return as a butterfly in a field in Montana. Which may actually be really very nice. And if not, then so be it.
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