Temperance wisdom question: What opposites most need to reconciled at this time in our culture?
I decided to drop two stones and hope they are opposites or could be made to be!
And I got 18-Moon-Mother of
We need to reconcile illusion and imagination with surface appearances and materialism.
Imagination is a wonderful thing. We need to be able to dream and visualize possibilities before we can pursue them and make changes to the way things are. But often in our culture, our dreams and imagined worlds (and goals) are manipulated to serve someone else’s agenda (to sell something, or some other, more power-hungry agenda). That’s when we need a good dose of reality, often of the surface appearance kind. (If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck . . .)
On the other hand, scientific materialism is the superstition of our age. If an M.D. doesn’t agree with it, it can’t be possible. Religion is the opiate of the masses. Or at least more than a little kooky. You get the idea.
A negative (nefarious?) reconciliation of these opposites was the perpetration of the global warming denial hoax. Smoke and mirrors, bought with very deep pockets and untold political influence, were able to blind people to the plain scientific truth just long enough so that there’s nothing that can be done to prevent serious repercussions. So we might as well burn the climate and environment down. (Hopefully, that’s another illusion that we can awaken from . . .)
A positive reconciliation would be a society that values the two truths, those of imagination and the spirit and those of science and reality. We can dream of a world in which most people live in comfort and justice. Then we can think of and act on a sensible, solid, practical way to make that a reality.
Stranger things have happened!
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