Mutability: Capable of or subject to change; prone to change or mutation. Yesterday I wrote about my vexation over competition between women, yet I am happy to have them in my life. Women embrace their mutable nature. The clearest examples are the changing of hairstyles, fashions, and minds. Often an inner change occurs to elicit these outer changes. Men too have this ability, I know and have seen some who take the voyage inside of themselves and return as altered versions. Men, however, tend to like the stability of the status quo, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. They are sometimes less desirous of delving into an emotional or spiritual depth that takes them away from logic and rationality. I have found, however, that both men and women in today's society are impeded from enacting certain change and they don't even realize it.
The majority of society has been inculcated (To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition) with certain beliefs and thought processes ,since birth, that inhibit their mutable natures. We have been fed what to need, what to desire, what to think, and some of us have been oblivious to the fact that your thoughts are not your own. Doctors, religious personnel, government agencies, the MEDIA, have all told us what is best for us, and we believe them. I was watching a show called "Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution" (ABC) in which a renowned chef goes to Los Angeles to improve the nutrition of fast food restaurants and the L.A. Unified School District. The school district wouldn't let him in the schools, so he went to a conference for school district food services employees. There was a workshop on keeping flavored milk in schools. The presenter said that children drank less milk when the flavored milk was taken out. Jamie Oliver argued that in schools in the UK and other parts of Europe only drink regular milk, why couldn't it happen in the U.S. He was, of course, shut down by the sugar pushing presenter, and the show has been "shelved" during May sweeps. That type of thinking was apparently not in line with "programming."
I work with children of African descent who have told me that dark skin is "disgusting" and that they are not descended from Africa, a continent so rich with ancient knowledge, spirituality, and resources it has been the target of conquerors for centuries. Even though diseases like high blood pressure and diabetes can be eliminated with healthy eating and exercise, people with these diseases opt, instead, to take medications which cause a whole host of other conditions. Obesity, which causes these diseases, is at an all time high, especially among youth, yet so are super sized meals and genetically modified foods. There were 33,808 drunk driving deaths in 2009* up from 11, 773 in 2008**, yet every weekend social pages are rife with braggadocious pictures and comments about inebriated escapades. (FYI...Every site I searched listed a statistic for marijuana related deaths as far back as 1996 as 0). I'm not preaching, just illustrating how even though the truth is before your eyes, many of you seem unable to move towards it. But you ARE able.
As I said earlier, this inculcation began at birth. I liken this to weight loss; it took years to put on the weight, so don't expect to lose it over night. I have decided to abandon any thoughts of giving up on helping humanity regain its innate ability to think and live in love and good health and to remember that mutability is a genetic condition given to us all. I will NOT give up on my fellow humans. As Bob Marley said, "You a grow tired to see my face, ya can't get me out of the race." I will leave you with a poem by Percy Shelly about your nature:
* http://www.centurycouncil.org/learn-the-facts/drunk-driving-research
** http://www.dui-usa.drinkdriving.org/dui_drunkdriving_statistics.php
The majority of society has been inculcated (To impress (something) upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition) with certain beliefs and thought processes ,since birth, that inhibit their mutable natures. We have been fed what to need, what to desire, what to think, and some of us have been oblivious to the fact that your thoughts are not your own. Doctors, religious personnel, government agencies, the MEDIA, have all told us what is best for us, and we believe them. I was watching a show called "Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution" (ABC) in which a renowned chef goes to Los Angeles to improve the nutrition of fast food restaurants and the L.A. Unified School District. The school district wouldn't let him in the schools, so he went to a conference for school district food services employees. There was a workshop on keeping flavored milk in schools. The presenter said that children drank less milk when the flavored milk was taken out. Jamie Oliver argued that in schools in the UK and other parts of Europe only drink regular milk, why couldn't it happen in the U.S. He was, of course, shut down by the sugar pushing presenter, and the show has been "shelved" during May sweeps. That type of thinking was apparently not in line with "programming."
I work with children of African descent who have told me that dark skin is "disgusting" and that they are not descended from Africa, a continent so rich with ancient knowledge, spirituality, and resources it has been the target of conquerors for centuries. Even though diseases like high blood pressure and diabetes can be eliminated with healthy eating and exercise, people with these diseases opt, instead, to take medications which cause a whole host of other conditions. Obesity, which causes these diseases, is at an all time high, especially among youth, yet so are super sized meals and genetically modified foods. There were 33,808 drunk driving deaths in 2009* up from 11, 773 in 2008**, yet every weekend social pages are rife with braggadocious pictures and comments about inebriated escapades. (FYI...Every site I searched listed a statistic for marijuana related deaths as far back as 1996 as 0). I'm not preaching, just illustrating how even though the truth is before your eyes, many of you seem unable to move towards it. But you ARE able.
As I said earlier, this inculcation began at birth. I liken this to weight loss; it took years to put on the weight, so don't expect to lose it over night. I have decided to abandon any thoughts of giving up on helping humanity regain its innate ability to think and live in love and good health and to remember that mutability is a genetic condition given to us all. I will NOT give up on my fellow humans. As Bob Marley said, "You a grow tired to see my face, ya can't get me out of the race." I will leave you with a poem by Percy Shelly about your nature:
Mutability
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
We are as clouds that veil the midnight moon;
How restlessly they speed, and gleam, and quiver,
Streaking the darkness radiantly! -yet soon
Night closes round, and they are lost for ever:
Or like forgotten lyres, whose dissonant strings
Give various response to each varying blast,
To whose frail frame no second motion brings
One mood or modulation like the last.
We rest. -A dream has power to poison sleep;
We rise. -One wandering thought pollutes the day;
We feel, conceive or reason, laugh or weep;
Embrace fond woe, or cast our cares away:
It is the same! -For, be it joy or sorrow,
The path of its departure still is free:
Man's yesterday may ne'er be like his morrow;
Nought may endure but Mutability.
* http://www.centurycouncil.org/learn-the-facts/drunk-driving-research
** http://www.dui-usa.drinkdriving.org/dui_drunkdriving_statistics.php
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