Pay no attention….

Have you ever stepped back stage?

Even if all you’ve ever done is a grade school performance you should be aware of the concept that all things have a hidden aspect, something that’s outta sight

And outta sight is outta mind…

The most obvious example is the theater with its proscenium arch and curtain.  What you see in front of the curtain isn’t even half of what is going on in that space, at that moment.  I’ve been on the stage, behind the curtain, in the dressing room, in the light booth, and out front working the house.  While you are, hopefully, comfortably seated and enjoying the performance, people are scurrying all around you managing your encounter, and the ones you see aren’t all the people involved in crafting your experience.  People who are not even present at the moment, had influence and input into your perception.  What you see is just the first ripple of the moment.  This is even truer for film than stage.

Think of the cooking show that takes you into the kitchen, the ‘back stage’ of the restaurant, and then realize that has a whole nother back stage.

What you see is never all that is there.

When you look at another person, do you see their brain, heart, guts?

No, if the person is alive and healthy, you don’t see all that.  You just accept that’s all there, cuz you’d really rather not see all that, cuz if you do see all that, then there’s something wrong….

OK, back track from the wild tangent, and think about all the back stages there are in real life.

And then ask yourself why you think you know who is really running your life?

The republicans and the democrats and the rabid right nut jobs are all actors.  They are the show, what’s in front of the curtain.  Let’s think about the back stage.  Let’s consider how much time, energy, and money is being put into this show, and ask, who’s the director? Writer? Producer?

In theater and film you get a list of cast and crew.  Where’s the crew list for modern politics?

Just who is it that is running this show?

I’d like to know.  Cuz they are really screwing things up.

We, the people of the planet, have the resources and ability to provide a comfortable and sustainable life for most everybody on the planet.

So why aren’t we?

Why do we have people starving?  Why is anybody living homeless?  Why are people dying from treatable illness?  Why is money always the greatest public concern?

Do we really have to bomb people into the stoneage to be safe?

I'd be willing to bet that if most people had enough to eat and a comfortable place to live, they wouldn't be so interested in taking things away form someone else.

Why do some people get fifty rooms all to themselves while someone else is living in a card board box?

If we live in a free market economy, why are we subsidizing any business?  What, exactly, happened to survival of the fittest?  How did we get anything that's too big to fail in the first place?

It's time for average people around the world to wake up and start demanding answers.

It's time to demand to be allowed back stage.