'Loose Talk'
By Benjamin Benedict
Second Stage Aquarian Age
One good thing to have come out of the present financial mess is the focus on the many things that we all share and the conclusion that these things far outnumber the things that we don’t.
I reflect back to those heady days in the sixties when we were at ‘The Dawning of The Age of Aquarius’ and ‘love was in the air’. Even then, amongst all the euphoria we were told that this was just ‘The Dawning’. ‘The Age’ itself had a couple of thousand years to run and would take a couple of generations to really get off the ground. Although the Aquarian Age has been described as both a ‘modern myth’ and as an age which will not begin for another one hundred and forty odd years, (the calculation showing that we are still in The Piscean age) undoubtedly something did happen in the sixties which went beyond the flowers, and the free love, and rightly or wrongly it was labelled with the Aquarian tag.
The seventies saw the inevitable fall from grace with cocaine and stacked heels, the eighties saw broad shoulders and the yuppies and the nineties a recession and then the resumption of untrammelled consumerism, which has run through to today and to the biggest economic crash since the thirties.
The question is whether this new, more egalitarian view of ourselves and our world should be regarded as something like a second stage Aquarian rocket, firing after the initial sixties blast? I welcome the concept, but at the same time would warn against the inevitable setbacks to come. Evolution is all about peaks and troughs. There is no such thing as a steady progression.
The test is surely going to be whether we can sort through all the mumbo-jumbo that these ‘positive’ moments always throw up to confuse us. Whilst the sixties pioneered many loving, healthy life-styles, it also threw up bogus ‘Holy Men’, dangerously introverted communes and a truck load of pure hog wash which many people based their lives around.
This time the hog wash will be of a very different nature, and I suspect will be based around the egalitarian aims of those wishing to bring more of a humane balance to the benefits we should all derive from simply being on this earth. We must never forget that if at a given moment, we each had the same amount of wealth and benefits, a day later we would not. In actual fact, we are not all equal, we are all different. We have different goals and beliefs, and we would still be wading around in the primordial sludge if we didn’t.
If we can still follow our hopes and dreams and fulfil ourselves as individuals, and if the wealth that is directed towards uplifting the poorest of us is not dissipated by bureaucracy or siphoned into the pockets of the administrators, and most importantly if we can put aside all notion of ever getting back to ‘the good old days’, then just maybe we are on track to take this adventure a little further.
The Second Stage Aquarian Age must consist of the limitation of old ambitions and the adoption of new ones. If we persist in the old stereotypes, and go about our lives as before, then no matter what fine words are said, nothing will actually change. It is time to question everything we think and do if we really want to see a new day dawn.
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