A beautiful rant - "Let us now speak with dolphins". Mark Morford

[TomInTib]

Let us now speak with dolphins, and this time, let's listen
- Mark Morford
Friday, August 25, 2006


Are we not overdue for the next mind-blowing cosmic breakthrough? Are you ready?

We are overdue. Long overdue. For some sort of great breakthrough, some sort of unfathomable shift, a great cosmological ideagasm that rearranges our perspectives and challenges our dogma and makes the church wince and recoil and scream out its denial even as it slowly melts away, leaving only a black hat and a broom and a puddle of slimy green goo.

Yes, we are ripe. It's way past time for something to smack us out of our wicked human solipsism, out of our vicious infighting about religion and land and oil and which portion of hot barely habitable dust-choked earth God tossed aside for his most favoritest people and which he just shrugged off and let devolve into, you know, Orange County.

Do you feel it? Do you sense the overarching need, the spiritual craving, the pregnant sensation that something's gotta give and it's either going to be gorgeous and unexpected and something so profound that it causes everyone on the planet to suddenly stop in the middle of the street at the same moment and take a deep breath and go, Oh yeah, that's the real meaning of it all, or spin off into World War III or a great global-warmed cataclysm that will send us back to the caves, bleeding and broken and yanking each other around by the hair and saying dammit dammit dammit, we were so close?

The rest is here:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/08/25/DDGBAKO44V1.DTL&hw=mark+morford&sn=002&sc=882

[The Traveler]

1. I like this rant, and agree, and yet

is not that what the fundamentalists so strongly desire in "The Second Coming"?

We really need a breakthrough, but breakthroughs come seldom. Most progress is made one painful step at a time. We really need a breakthrough, but its failure to manifest grants us no excuse. We must slog on, one painful step at a time, to greater wisdom, compassion and knowledge.

And as Ringo observed, "Ya know it don't come easy ..."

[LizW]

2. I love that.

Love it. Love the idea. Love the writing of it. Love it all.