Ok, that is very sweet. Thank you. But here’s a fact. It’s not just me. There are a hundred million Americans, maybe two hundred million, who would write a list like mine of what they like — and want to fix — about America. We’re in better shape than we fear right now. It’s the last one hundred million that has us unnerved. But there will always be more of us than there are of them. The only way they win is if we do little or nothing.
Your statement that "we're in better shape than we fear...." gives me hope Michael. I've lost hope so many times since the 2016 presidential election but I've also gained a new perspective and that is to be more educated in order to dispel the lies and strongly vocalize the truths. I am more aware now than I've ever been and know that you can learn and explore at any age, even if, like me, you're over the hill. Thank you for what you do.
Gutting the reconciliation bill from a Bernie 19 trillion to a now measly 1.7 trillion. gerrymandering and voter suppression to win the midterms, over 400 conservative judges under Mitch McConnell, 3 supreme court justices under Trump. We are SOOOO Not winning. Still, Out of AF. so good one there Joe.
And lets not forget, Trump starting his own Media Platform, so he won't have to deal with Culture War cancelling from Facebook or Twitter anymore. He has a higher Approval rating than Biden, and 78% of the GOP support. I am very scared, why aren't you.
We came for work to the US several years ago and just recently my wife and I became US citizens.
When Trump won we felt I needed to leave. I have seen already directly a country going in the same spiral of self destruction, using very similar methods of attacking the democracy that Trump and his Republican allies are using.
Now reading your posts I get new positive energy, We need to change the bad that there is in the US. We need to help and try to change those things.
The US has given so many good things to the world. We need to demonstrate that despite a percentage of us who are living in alternate and fake reality we can save ourselves and in the process save this planet. Not an easy task for sure.
Please don't give up! Come to Canada. We are not a melting pot, we are a mosaic. I love my country and I love my neighbours to the south. Together we can tough it through with friends like Michael Moore.
It's why I applied for dual citizenship but got put on hold with the pandemic. I'd like to settle in New Denver BC but have a feeling that won't happen. Seems it will be Calgary, kind of like Denver, with a place in the hills.
Wake up!!! If the USA crumbles, neither Canada nor any other nation is this hemisphere is a safe haven. What is Canada's population? Get real! There's more people in California alone, than in the entire nation of Canada.
I am woke! I was really just supporting Michael Moore and all of his efforts to save the world. I do realize that if the USA crumbles, Canada goes down with it. I rarely post comments and now I know why. Have a nice day.
Please don't stop. Differences are unavoidable, mostly because of our fear, insecurity, projections and expectations of our world order as our dreams clearly indicate. This is why discussions are so important that Michael is helping us to have to bring us together in a troll-free environment.
But we're still human beings. We're not always at our best addressing issues to keep things from getting too intense.
Our levels of consciousness fluctuate from unconscious content that dreams reveal, especially from any intense reactions of like/dislike or especially, love and hate.
Lao Tzu would say to back off and see what's really going on in prayer and meditation that Oprah echoed. Seeing a depth psychologist or Jungian analyst can help. It did for me.
I hope you don't think I'm making this all up.
We all need to keep our head above water, symbolically speaking.
I pray Mr. Comeau will and apologize, more for his sake by seeing what is really going on for him.
Thank You for your comment and support of Michael.
Is this the best way to present your view by putting someone down?
If someone doesn't agree with you, does it mean that they are not "woke?"
What did Buddha say about our levels of consciousness that Jung confirmed?
If you must act like Trump or New Age Zealots, that is what you may need to do to "wake up" and find out you shouldn't, if you want to coexist and know peace in yourself and have friend of like mind.
I love Canada because of the vast majority of people like Annie, offering support that you basically have spit on. The spirit that moves you is wrong.
Please watch your dreams to see what so compels you to put her down and her country and amend this as soon as possible. Karma has no patience.
Anymore harsh comments and put-downs will get you blocked.
I maintain that if the USA crumbles, so will the remainder of the nations in this hemisphere and that's only reasonable even if it comes across as harsh. I'm not putting Canada down! Just stating facts. Canada is my father's native land! I'm a first generation American and a veteran of over 30 years service and two wars. I have no starry scenarios about any nation's chances of survival if the USA goes under. All I suggested is that Annie wake up to reality,,that's all! How this puts me in line for such severe treatment as you're dishing out, is a mystery to me and I'm sure to others. I didn't "spit" on anyone! It sounds to me like you're waaay over-reacting. I love Canada as well as you do-- nothing I wrote suggest otherwise and as my name suggest, I come from there! O Canada, terre de mes ailleux!!!
Thank You for your service for the sake of our Democracy.
Freedom Isn't Free. I know this personally, Mr. Comeau.
But please note how you get upset with me being harsh with you.
Maybe if you hadn't been harsh with Ms. Annie?
Why were you?
Telling someone to "Wake up!!!!" is a red flag of judgment and superiority. Do you honestly think you can make friends or build teamwork and a support network?
You don't think you were acting like Trump?
We all have to watch for it in ourselves.
I'm blessed with grandchildren who hold me to it.
Differences are unavoidable, and that is why discussion is important to get all the projections, expectations etc, out.
Hopefully, respectfully.
My questions remain.
Do we all need to wake up to your scenario?
Is this the reality of it? Isn't there any other possibility?
History indicates there is, other than total collapse.
Isn't it important to join together and speak out like Michael?
The lessons of Vietnam have yet to be learned.
We may know another un-civil war as predicted.
But will that result in total collapse?
There's no question it could.
But couldn't we keep a focus on doing what we can to prevent that while supporting one another, as Michael is doing and Annie clearly offers?
I'm heading up your way as more snow falls.
Let me know if you'd like to meet up.
SE BC, the powder highway.
Please consider how our levels of consciousness fluctuate because of the vast number of psychic or spiritual elements in us that Buddha clearly warned of that Jung confirmed.
What do you suppose the Dalai Lama meditates on daily?
"Mostly negative stuff." We all need to, to know peace in us.
We all have wounds, issues, demons and desires to tend to.
We're less likely to act out or take our stuff out on others.
Oprah would ask, "What is really going on?"
Who said, "Everyone into Heaven before me?"
More importantly, why?
Why do Rabbis ask, "Who can stoop so low?"
(as in humbling oneself)
Why did Jesus pray for deliverance to His dying day?
What did He want us to wake up to? (cf Matthew 15:19)
Who established empirically that reality is relative?
(hint: E=mc to the second power)
This is serious stuff, Mr. Comeau. More people have been killed in God's Holy Name, same as the insane who claim God told them to.
Jung had to help more than a few with the spirit that moved them.
Wouldn't it help to avoid any unnecessary conflict?
Or possible total collapse?
Doesn't it begin with caring for one another as brothers and sisters should, The World's Family, as prophets have said?
From a biblical, spiritual and psychological viewpoint, the dynamics at work can't be ignored as prophets have warned in what would make for peace, that we might know peace in ourselves.
The Judaic prophet and Christian Savior Jesus said it best:
Luke 19:41-44 New International Version - Bible Gateway
“If you, even you, had only known on this day what would bring you peace—but now it is hidden from your eyes. · The days will come upon you when your enemies will hem you in on every side."
Micaiah warned 2,800 years ago to know what spirit moves us for it will claim us, especially waging war when we shouldn't.
(1 Kings 22: Note who sends deceptive spirits and why)
Didn't Plato later warn of the shadows of false ideas on the wall of our mind that can hold us bound to our ruin?
How might we, "get out of it?"
Again, this is what we need to "wake up" to as Jesus said.
Jung confirmed it.
Michael sets an excellent example like prophets speaking out against the madness, speaking truth to power that Jesus refused.
As a result, people around the world have joined in.
“A civil war is, may we say, the prototype of all war, for in the persons of fellow citizens who happen to be the enemy we meet again, with the old ambivalence of love and hate and with all the old guilts, the blood brothers of our childhood. In a civil war – especially in one such as this when the nation shares deep and significant convictions and is not a mere handbasket of factions huddled arbitrarily together by historical happen-so – all the self-divisions of conflicts within individuals become a series of mirrors in which the plight of the country is reflected, and the self-division of the country a great mirror in which the individual may see imaged his own deep conflicts, not only the conflicts of political loyalties, but those more profoundly personal.”
― Robert Penn Warren, The Legacy of the Civil War
Ever see Full Metal Jacket by Stanley Kubrick?
Peace / Born To Kill / Duality of Man / The Jungian thing, Sir
If more of us tended to our shadow or dark side as Jung said, we're less likely to go to war with anyone. President Lincoln did all he could. He never claimed to be right.
I've worked mostly with disabled war veterans in sport settings, seeing the trauma of illegal, mismanaged wars. After what they've been through, they're afraid of nothing, except the VA and taking themselves off as too many are, more than the enemy has killed.
They do a whole lot better doing things they once did, having fun and some camaraderie. It helps with sudden flashbacks and reliving the nightmare of war, having it out with the enemy to have some peace. Even apologizing to them in meditation for having killed them and forgiving them for the harm they caused.
It is how we can have human and divine connections.
I do apologize for causing you difficulties. It wasn't my intention.
But I saw a red flag I hope you'll see.
It's not for us to tell anyone to "wake up."
We need to speak our peace, peacefully.
Like Michael.
We can then leave the rest to God, Goddess , Karma, et al.
Dreams don't lie. Someday we'll return to The Eternal Dream.
Let me know if you'd like to meet up Mr. Comeau, maybe earn some turns bc or hang at ski area if we must, but only on a weekday. There's great peace and quiet bc year 'round.
Michael, you said that by the 2040’s, white people in the US would be a minority. Over the last 15 - 20 years I’ve noticed a huge change. The children in my kids Catholic school were mostly all Caucasian, when they were enrolled there. This was during the late 80’s and 90’s. There’s a big difference walking into this same school today. I have to admit, the first time I saw the student population it was startling! There were Indians, Hispanic, and African American children in the lobby, barely seeing any white kids. Growing up in the NW suburbs of Chicago, we were shielded from seeing minorities. I remember only one black family in our neighborhood. No other ethnic groups were represented. Now, I have a clearer understanding of why the white supremacy, militant groups, and the conman’s cult members are so afraid and worked up. The face of our country is changing. I want to represent the face of Americans that can grow and change with the times.
I’ve learned so much from you, Michael. You’re honest, share facts, and have great ideas for making our country a better place to live. Your thoughts are based in love and acceptance for your fellow man. You are a person we can all emulate. Thanks for being you!💜
Thank you. Here's #14, at least for me. I lived in the 3rd world for over 6 years, and the very first thing I did when I came home was, I took a great big breath of air that was cleaner than anything I had breathed in a long, long time. It was Christmas Eve, late evening and of all places, I was at the Port Authority in NYC getting on a bus. Don't laugh; it's really true. The air in Cairo is so dirty that it's like smoking a pack of cigarettes every day.
We have a really beautiful country, too. Not only should we protect it and take care of it, but we should love it. Really, really love it, and all the people and animals in it. I think the best thing we should work for is to work to replace the bad with the good. They are our greatest danger, the Trump cult and the GOP.
I love your response, Michael! I smiled and agreed all the way thru those wonderful 13 things. You are a great friend to me and even though we've never met, I know you're there with your voice and written words. It's always nice to have a friend! :)
What more can I say, Michael, except that I really love you and what you say and how you say it and I gladly chip in my Social Security $$ to support your ideas and this substack and I will send your brilliant message to everyone I know and love (and even others) because you describe the America that I was brought up to believe in and now after 84 years I'm still working hard in my community to help others and keep our dream alive. Thanks...stay safe...and blessings!
I think being able to live on a university campus and learn stories from my neighbors about their countries certainly gives me many first hand reasons why I love America. The fact we have a statue that has such an audacious invitation to immigrants and a lamp to light the way in HER hand. Fifteen things to like!
I prefer to think of our nation as a melding pot not a melting pot. This definition of meld in the Collins dictionary: if several things meld, or if something melds them, they combine or blend in a pleasant or useful way. Not that right now things are often pleasant or useful. But we can aspire to this goal.
but i'd like to express that it is so uplifting to know someone like you that does not waver from his exceptional good values is always there as a person to rely on to do so much to engage good.
Thank you Michael! First - I am so glad I came in from my veggie garden after listening to your podcast and decided to become a member. And second - after reading this beautiful post I had such a shift! I have been paying too much attention to the negative message of Trump and his base and letting it overcome my thoughts at times...how can they possibly??? I say to myself. After reading your words I was able to reflect on the words of Abraham-Hicks and David Hawkins from Power vs Force and notice that my energy is just feeding their energy and in fact sure they might be stupid but really they are just BORING! And once I came to that realization I could stop feeding them and let them go and as Hawkins says one person vibrating/calibrating around 350 (acceptance) can COUNTERBALANCE 90,000 below 200 (courage). How much not fun is it to give boring people any energy? I'm up for that shift personally, it feels so much better than standing in my own negative energy and aligning with positive hope and expectation. Thank you again!!
It was Hitler's tactic to provoke the worst in others, same as Trump and his white nationalist-supremacists are doing. It's why we can't hate anyone, especially those who hate. Jesus prayed for His enemies. He could've destroyed them but chose to suffer them.
Who said: "When the power of love overcomes the love of power, there will be peace." (?)
Love this! I agree and would like to all immigrants, refugees, and undocumented people who have made it here and worked to help our country become better. If not for them, I (we) would not be here! Keep up the great work!!
I just love this list, Michael. I love that I can count on you to point out what needs fixing AND to have gratitude for what doesn't. Your optimism gives me hope, always. Sending love to you.
I am Canadian and I like America too. I even love your country, it's spirit, its dynamism. But if you truly want to improve your chances of benefitting from its inherent fought for gift of freedoms, then you must get off the bandwagon of supporting and perpetuating the intrinsic and systemic corruption of the corporate two party duopoly that insideously excludes truly progressive alternative parties who would represent the real needs, interests and longings of the majority of citizens who are disastrously unrepresented. If you are more interested or willfully blind to this reality, just to be accepted on mainstream TV, then you are committing a grave disservice to the cause of actual repair of a failing democracy.
Hey there, Steven, my man. Got my Moosehead cap and Moosehead cycling jersey on. Got the Moose logo on my Pearl Izumi shorts, swigging a bottle of the finest Moose you-know-what after a good ride on a beautiful Autumnal day in the USA, thanking God for Canada.
Even my bike is Canadian, eh, the original Cervelo S2 carbon, the aero design others copied.
And I am glad for what you say, but you're preaching to the choir, boss. What do you suppose we've been doing? Sitting on our arse?
The main thing is appreciating one another, especially Michael, who brings us together, totally troll-free. It's a breath of fresh air we can breathe freely, to help us evolve as Michael has indicated all his life. It can then help our country evolve and be the country we've yet to be and have. Those who refuse to evolve have every right.
Even the great psychiatrist Carl Jung proclaimed "The eternal rights of man."
Hell, even God gives us a choice. Excuse my language. It's the Moose you-know-what.
But no one has the right to infringe or violate the rights of others. It's why we have laws.
If we don't pull together in our households, communities and country on the common ground of Liberty, Justice and Equality for All, well, the prophecies of the Ghost Dancers at Wounded Knee will come true. It's historical and biblical:
"Civilizations are like waves upon the shore." iow they come and go
Our nation has yet to live up to its creed, as Dr. King said.
Max Blumenthal in his epic Goliath said it best: "No Goliath or tyranny lasts long."
(he's the son of the late Sidney Blumenthal who helped shaped Oslo Peace Accords)
(but then an Israeli Zionist assassinated PM Yitzhak Rabin for it)
And what takes its place devolves into tyranny and dictatorship for the love of power.
Instead of our fellow man, as prophets proclaimed.
Domestic and civil violence keeps escalating. Women and children suffer immeasurably. We could end up with numerous factions fighting one another as in other countries if we don't pull together. (Shiites and Christians are slaughtering each other in Lebanon as we speak)
Michael clearly gives voice to those who've been silenced. More of us need to.
I have to ask if you contact PM Trudeau prn and stay in touch with your MP rep?
Do you support those like GreenPeace, PETA et al?
You may know that dozens of lawsuits have been filed against the white supremacists at Charlottesville and the Capitol terrorist attack. This can open the door for more to join us.
Truth based on the facts and evidence must prevail. Hitler lied until he died.
This is what we're up against. Those who are blind usually end up seeing a psychiatrist.
Jung saw how our dreams can keep us out of denial or self-deception.
That is if we can't listen to anyone and what they're saying, like Michael.
The prophet Micaiah saw what happens when we deceive ourselves. (1 Kings 22)
That was 2,800 years ago. We are living in Apocalyptic times because of the evil of Man.
It's why prophets came. Like Michael. That we might be the change the world needs.
It begins in our families and relationships. It almost brings tears to my eyes when my grandchildren ask if I've been good and remind me to take my quiet time. It helps keep me from getting more upset than I do and end up in timeout.
But eh, that's what the powder highway is for in BC. I'm strictly bc BC.
Let me know if you're out that way this winter. Eh? Bring your boards.
Cheers Steven! We'll turn the Moose loose and boil a few too, if I hear from you.
Trivia:
Who wrote the avy handbook that set the standards?
Hey Stan, As a guy who watches bike porn, I envy your Canadian Cervelo S2 (but manufactured in Asia, owned by the Dutch, but who's counting! ). I'm only preaching to the choir of the like minded when unable to break through the reflexive patriotism that most Americans insist is reality and worth preserving, in defense of their own brainwashed, self delusional defense. Things won't change enough unless this systemic, cultural, societal and political mindset is broken. Happy riding. Love to join you for a spin in the future....
Don't think I can ride with you Steven, you ignore what I said, split hairs about my Cervelo and you watch bike porn. Why is that?
We have to understand ourselves. I asked you some questions.
Please answer. If you don't, you think we can ride?
I love my crew and will ride with anyone for the camaraderie.
Same with skiing, tennis, climbing et al.
Please Note: Cervelo is based in Canada, designed and engineered.
It's a Canadian product.
Cervelo Cycles Company Statistics:
Location: Canada. While owned by a Dutch company, Cervelo was started in Canada and operations remain based in Toronto and Santa Cruz, CA. Materials Used: Carbon Fiber. Frame/Bike Point of Origin: Cervelo bikes are engineered and designed in Canada and manufactured in Asia.
Cervelo Cycles Review and Manufacturer Profile - Fit Werx
You owe me a case of Moosehead boss, for suggesting my bike isn't Canadian.
(NB a full case of 24 bottles, bucko, no 20-23 packs, and a litre of Revelstoke)
I wonder if you really are, Canadian. You're not like those I've met and stay in contact with. Differences are unavoidable, but are generally workable when there's common ground in our civic laws, Constitution and the light of reason as Plato indicated. Socrates knew the work of education never ends, even for him, and they way he mistreated his wife, Xanthippe. Then look what they did to him.
Even then, we need to be reminded. If not for my crew and all of us keeping an eye on each other, we'd have gone to each other's funeral by now.
America seems safer, funnier, more likable with You in it, MM. That is on my list. I like your brain, and almost et al. Don’t like hot dogs but that is a cool fact you presented. Thank you and yours for giving me a smile again today, and the comfort of your point of view.
Know what I like about America? Michael Moore
Ok, that is very sweet. Thank you. But here’s a fact. It’s not just me. There are a hundred million Americans, maybe two hundred million, who would write a list like mine of what they like — and want to fix — about America. We’re in better shape than we fear right now. It’s the last one hundred million that has us unnerved. But there will always be more of us than there are of them. The only way they win is if we do little or nothing.
Your statement that "we're in better shape than we fear...." gives me hope Michael. I've lost hope so many times since the 2016 presidential election but I've also gained a new perspective and that is to be more educated in order to dispel the lies and strongly vocalize the truths. I am more aware now than I've ever been and know that you can learn and explore at any age, even if, like me, you're over the hill. Thank you for what you do.
But we are doing too to little and they are winning.
Gutting the reconciliation bill from a Bernie 19 trillion to a now measly 1.7 trillion. gerrymandering and voter suppression to win the midterms, over 400 conservative judges under Mitch McConnell, 3 supreme court justices under Trump. We are SOOOO Not winning. Still, Out of AF. so good one there Joe.
And lets not forget, Trump starting his own Media Platform, so he won't have to deal with Culture War cancelling from Facebook or Twitter anymore. He has a higher Approval rating than Biden, and 78% of the GOP support. I am very scared, why aren't you.
I don't want to be a fear monger, but I do want to Slap Dems/progressives in the face and shout WAKE THE "Insert expletive here" UP!
That's more than matched by the progressives and Dems, I'm certain. LOL.
Idiots and morons shouldn't scare anyone!
lol, idiots and morons run this country, that makes me scared.
I'm with you, Kathy!
Thank you Michael for this post.
We came for work to the US several years ago and just recently my wife and I became US citizens.
When Trump won we felt I needed to leave. I have seen already directly a country going in the same spiral of self destruction, using very similar methods of attacking the democracy that Trump and his Republican allies are using.
Now reading your posts I get new positive energy, We need to change the bad that there is in the US. We need to help and try to change those things.
The US has given so many good things to the world. We need to demonstrate that despite a percentage of us who are living in alternate and fake reality we can save ourselves and in the process save this planet. Not an easy task for sure.
God help us.
Please don't give up! Come to Canada. We are not a melting pot, we are a mosaic. I love my country and I love my neighbours to the south. Together we can tough it through with friends like Michael Moore.
It's why I applied for dual citizenship but got put on hold with the pandemic. I'd like to settle in New Denver BC but have a feeling that won't happen. Seems it will be Calgary, kind of like Denver, with a place in the hills.
Wake up!!! If the USA crumbles, neither Canada nor any other nation is this hemisphere is a safe haven. What is Canada's population? Get real! There's more people in California alone, than in the entire nation of Canada.
I am woke! I was really just supporting Michael Moore and all of his efforts to save the world. I do realize that if the USA crumbles, Canada goes down with it. I rarely post comments and now I know why. Have a nice day.
Please don't stop. Differences are unavoidable, mostly because of our fear, insecurity, projections and expectations of our world order as our dreams clearly indicate. This is why discussions are so important that Michael is helping us to have to bring us together in a troll-free environment.
But we're still human beings. We're not always at our best addressing issues to keep things from getting too intense.
Our levels of consciousness fluctuate from unconscious content that dreams reveal, especially from any intense reactions of like/dislike or especially, love and hate.
Lao Tzu would say to back off and see what's really going on in prayer and meditation that Oprah echoed. Seeing a depth psychologist or Jungian analyst can help. It did for me.
I hope you don't think I'm making this all up.
We all need to keep our head above water, symbolically speaking.
I pray Mr. Comeau will and apologize, more for his sake by seeing what is really going on for him.
Thank You for your comment and support of Michael.
-and may your day be pleasant as well. We agree on Michael Moore!
Wake up?
What makes you think she isn't?
Is this the best way to present your view by putting someone down?
If someone doesn't agree with you, does it mean that they are not "woke?"
What did Buddha say about our levels of consciousness that Jung confirmed?
If you must act like Trump or New Age Zealots, that is what you may need to do to "wake up" and find out you shouldn't, if you want to coexist and know peace in yourself and have friend of like mind.
I love Canada because of the vast majority of people like Annie, offering support that you basically have spit on. The spirit that moves you is wrong.
Please watch your dreams to see what so compels you to put her down and her country and amend this as soon as possible. Karma has no patience.
Anymore harsh comments and put-downs will get you blocked.
Thank you for your support!
Always
I maintain that if the USA crumbles, so will the remainder of the nations in this hemisphere and that's only reasonable even if it comes across as harsh. I'm not putting Canada down! Just stating facts. Canada is my father's native land! I'm a first generation American and a veteran of over 30 years service and two wars. I have no starry scenarios about any nation's chances of survival if the USA goes under. All I suggested is that Annie wake up to reality,,that's all! How this puts me in line for such severe treatment as you're dishing out, is a mystery to me and I'm sure to others. I didn't "spit" on anyone! It sounds to me like you're waaay over-reacting. I love Canada as well as you do-- nothing I wrote suggest otherwise and as my name suggest, I come from there! O Canada, terre de mes ailleux!!!
Thank You for your service for the sake of our Democracy.
Freedom Isn't Free. I know this personally, Mr. Comeau.
But please note how you get upset with me being harsh with you.
Maybe if you hadn't been harsh with Ms. Annie?
Why were you?
Telling someone to "Wake up!!!!" is a red flag of judgment and superiority. Do you honestly think you can make friends or build teamwork and a support network?
You don't think you were acting like Trump?
We all have to watch for it in ourselves.
I'm blessed with grandchildren who hold me to it.
Differences are unavoidable, and that is why discussion is important to get all the projections, expectations etc, out.
Hopefully, respectfully.
My questions remain.
Do we all need to wake up to your scenario?
Is this the reality of it? Isn't there any other possibility?
History indicates there is, other than total collapse.
Isn't it important to join together and speak out like Michael?
The lessons of Vietnam have yet to be learned.
We may know another un-civil war as predicted.
But will that result in total collapse?
There's no question it could.
But couldn't we keep a focus on doing what we can to prevent that while supporting one another, as Michael is doing and Annie clearly offers?
I'm heading up your way as more snow falls.
Let me know if you'd like to meet up.
SE BC, the powder highway.
Please consider how our levels of consciousness fluctuate because of the vast number of psychic or spiritual elements in us that Buddha clearly warned of that Jung confirmed.
What do you suppose the Dalai Lama meditates on daily?
"Mostly negative stuff." We all need to, to know peace in us.
We all have wounds, issues, demons and desires to tend to.
We're less likely to act out or take our stuff out on others.
Oprah would ask, "What is really going on?"
Who said, "Everyone into Heaven before me?"
More importantly, why?
Why do Rabbis ask, "Who can stoop so low?"
(as in humbling oneself)
Why did Jesus pray for deliverance to His dying day?
What did He want us to wake up to? (cf Matthew 15:19)
Who established empirically that reality is relative?
(hint: E=mc to the second power)
This is serious stuff, Mr. Comeau. More people have been killed in God's Holy Name, same as the insane who claim God told them to.
Jung had to help more than a few with the spirit that moved them.
Wouldn't it help to avoid any unnecessary conflict?
Or possible total collapse?
Doesn't it begin with caring for one another as brothers and sisters should, The World's Family, as prophets have said?
Doesn't Michael set an excellent example?
Shouldn't we follow?
How am I doing so far?
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/197193.The_Family_of_Man
From a biblical, spiritual and psychological viewpoint, the dynamics at work can't be ignored as prophets have warned in what would make for peace, that we might know peace in ourselves.
The Judaic prophet and Christian Savior Jesus said it best:
Luke 19:41-44 New International Version - Bible Gateway
https://www.biblegateway.com › passage › version=NIV
“If you, even you, had only known on this day what would bring you peace—but now it is hidden from your eyes. · The days will come upon you when your enemies will hem you in on every side."
Micaiah warned 2,800 years ago to know what spirit moves us for it will claim us, especially waging war when we shouldn't.
(1 Kings 22: Note who sends deceptive spirits and why)
Didn't Plato later warn of the shadows of false ideas on the wall of our mind that can hold us bound to our ruin?
How might we, "get out of it?"
Again, this is what we need to "wake up" to as Jesus said.
Jung confirmed it.
Michael sets an excellent example like prophets speaking out against the madness, speaking truth to power that Jesus refused.
As a result, people around the world have joined in.
We can never forget our duality.
Robert Penn Warren saw this:
https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/842838-the-legacy-of-the-civil-war
(excerpt)
“A civil war is, may we say, the prototype of all war, for in the persons of fellow citizens who happen to be the enemy we meet again, with the old ambivalence of love and hate and with all the old guilts, the blood brothers of our childhood. In a civil war – especially in one such as this when the nation shares deep and significant convictions and is not a mere handbasket of factions huddled arbitrarily together by historical happen-so – all the self-divisions of conflicts within individuals become a series of mirrors in which the plight of the country is reflected, and the self-division of the country a great mirror in which the individual may see imaged his own deep conflicts, not only the conflicts of political loyalties, but those more profoundly personal.”
― Robert Penn Warren, The Legacy of the Civil War
Ever see Full Metal Jacket by Stanley Kubrick?
Peace / Born To Kill / Duality of Man / The Jungian thing, Sir
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMEViYvojtY
(1:18)
Ever read the book The Seed and The Sower?
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2074490.The_Seed_and_the_Sower
The movie Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence is based on it.
We can't hate anyone, only what we may do.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AALrrgEOlvU
(3:34)
Martial artists like Morihei Ueshiba know that when we fight with one another, we're only fighting with the worst in ourselves.
He's a non-violent Bruce Lee. I know this personally.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morihei_Ueshiba
If more of us tended to our shadow or dark side as Jung said, we're less likely to go to war with anyone. President Lincoln did all he could. He never claimed to be right.
So must we. Michael is leading us.
Jung: ending our civil war as read by Alan Watts:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15pjQRA80bs
(8:04)
NB
The name Michael in Hebrew means "Who is like God?"
IOW it's reminder no one is and to not act like God
It was God's chief complaint.
Greek mythology shows what befalls mortals who act like Gods and Goddesses, doing whatever they want to whomever.
Can we save ourselves? Why couldn't St. Peter?
Same as us. Our warlike pride. In living by the sword, the Church nearly perished from it. Look what it's done to children.
Jung would say to know how much good and evil we're capable of.
Who else said that?
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/588138.The_Hero_With_a_Thousand_Faces
BTW
I've worked mostly with disabled war veterans in sport settings, seeing the trauma of illegal, mismanaged wars. After what they've been through, they're afraid of nothing, except the VA and taking themselves off as too many are, more than the enemy has killed.
They do a whole lot better doing things they once did, having fun and some camaraderie. It helps with sudden flashbacks and reliving the nightmare of war, having it out with the enemy to have some peace. Even apologizing to them in meditation for having killed them and forgiving them for the harm they caused.
It is how we can have human and divine connections.
I do apologize for causing you difficulties. It wasn't my intention.
But I saw a red flag I hope you'll see.
It's not for us to tell anyone to "wake up."
We need to speak our peace, peacefully.
Like Michael.
We can then leave the rest to God, Goddess , Karma, et al.
Dreams don't lie. Someday we'll return to The Eternal Dream.
Let me know if you'd like to meet up Mr. Comeau, maybe earn some turns bc or hang at ski area if we must, but only on a weekday. There's great peace and quiet bc year 'round.
And Archetypal Dreams
Scary scenario Kirsten, I hope Trump or somebody like him never gets elected again here.
The future is uncertain but we can definitely try to help and make this country a much better place to live for everybody.
Michael: we need to wake up many more Americans and alert them of the dangerous path that the Republicans are now walking.
Michael, you said that by the 2040’s, white people in the US would be a minority. Over the last 15 - 20 years I’ve noticed a huge change. The children in my kids Catholic school were mostly all Caucasian, when they were enrolled there. This was during the late 80’s and 90’s. There’s a big difference walking into this same school today. I have to admit, the first time I saw the student population it was startling! There were Indians, Hispanic, and African American children in the lobby, barely seeing any white kids. Growing up in the NW suburbs of Chicago, we were shielded from seeing minorities. I remember only one black family in our neighborhood. No other ethnic groups were represented. Now, I have a clearer understanding of why the white supremacy, militant groups, and the conman’s cult members are so afraid and worked up. The face of our country is changing. I want to represent the face of Americans that can grow and change with the times.
I’ve learned so much from you, Michael. You’re honest, share facts, and have great ideas for making our country a better place to live. Your thoughts are based in love and acceptance for your fellow man. You are a person we can all emulate. Thanks for being you!💜
Wow. Thank you, Sheri. And you are right. The angry white men know what we know. That time’s up. America is not theirs to control any loner.
Oh my gosh, Michael. Thanks for your response! I’m a huge fan of yours. You made my day!💜
Thank you. Here's #14, at least for me. I lived in the 3rd world for over 6 years, and the very first thing I did when I came home was, I took a great big breath of air that was cleaner than anything I had breathed in a long, long time. It was Christmas Eve, late evening and of all places, I was at the Port Authority in NYC getting on a bus. Don't laugh; it's really true. The air in Cairo is so dirty that it's like smoking a pack of cigarettes every day.
We have a really beautiful country, too. Not only should we protect it and take care of it, but we should love it. Really, really love it, and all the people and animals in it. I think the best thing we should work for is to work to replace the bad with the good. They are our greatest danger, the Trump cult and the GOP.
I love your response, Michael! I smiled and agreed all the way thru those wonderful 13 things. You are a great friend to me and even though we've never met, I know you're there with your voice and written words. It's always nice to have a friend! :)
Yeah, it's amazing, hearing Michael's voice in my head, keeping me from getting down.
What more can I say, Michael, except that I really love you and what you say and how you say it and I gladly chip in my Social Security $$ to support your ideas and this substack and I will send your brilliant message to everyone I know and love (and even others) because you describe the America that I was brought up to believe in and now after 84 years I'm still working hard in my community to help others and keep our dream alive. Thanks...stay safe...and blessings!
You sound like my mom and have my daughter's name. God Bless You Barbara Sarah.
Thanks for the compliment saying that I sound like your mom....and I'm glad to
share a name with your daughter! And we both are so glad to support Michael!
Michael Moore makes 14 things to like.
I think being able to live on a university campus and learn stories from my neighbors about their countries certainly gives me many first hand reasons why I love America. The fact we have a statue that has such an audacious invitation to immigrants and a lamp to light the way in HER hand. Fifteen things to like!
I prefer to think of our nation as a melding pot not a melting pot. This definition of meld in the Collins dictionary: if several things meld, or if something melds them, they combine or blend in a pleasant or useful way. Not that right now things are often pleasant or useful. But we can aspire to this goal.
michael,
i'm not much of a writer
but i'd like to express that it is so uplifting to know someone like you that does not waver from his exceptional good values is always there as a person to rely on to do so much to engage good.
tony, atdjmo2
Tony, you ARE a writer. We are all writers. You just wrote something beautiful. Thank you.
Thank you Michael! First - I am so glad I came in from my veggie garden after listening to your podcast and decided to become a member. And second - after reading this beautiful post I had such a shift! I have been paying too much attention to the negative message of Trump and his base and letting it overcome my thoughts at times...how can they possibly??? I say to myself. After reading your words I was able to reflect on the words of Abraham-Hicks and David Hawkins from Power vs Force and notice that my energy is just feeding their energy and in fact sure they might be stupid but really they are just BORING! And once I came to that realization I could stop feeding them and let them go and as Hawkins says one person vibrating/calibrating around 350 (acceptance) can COUNTERBALANCE 90,000 below 200 (courage). How much not fun is it to give boring people any energy? I'm up for that shift personally, it feels so much better than standing in my own negative energy and aligning with positive hope and expectation. Thank you again!!
It was Hitler's tactic to provoke the worst in others, same as Trump and his white nationalist-supremacists are doing. It's why we can't hate anyone, especially those who hate. Jesus prayed for His enemies. He could've destroyed them but chose to suffer them.
Who said: "When the power of love overcomes the love of power, there will be peace." (?)
I love Abraham Hicks and follow the guidelines of Power vs Force. Thanks for joining!
You forgot doughnuts and ice-cream
Oh, don't I remember those days! Ha ha ha ha
Love this! I agree and would like to all immigrants, refugees, and undocumented people who have made it here and worked to help our country become better. If not for them, I (we) would not be here! Keep up the great work!!
I just love this list, Michael. I love that I can count on you to point out what needs fixing AND to have gratitude for what doesn't. Your optimism gives me hope, always. Sending love to you.
Thanks, Michael. I needed a reminder of the good and possible.
Okay. And so good I had to cry
I am Canadian and I like America too. I even love your country, it's spirit, its dynamism. But if you truly want to improve your chances of benefitting from its inherent fought for gift of freedoms, then you must get off the bandwagon of supporting and perpetuating the intrinsic and systemic corruption of the corporate two party duopoly that insideously excludes truly progressive alternative parties who would represent the real needs, interests and longings of the majority of citizens who are disastrously unrepresented. If you are more interested or willfully blind to this reality, just to be accepted on mainstream TV, then you are committing a grave disservice to the cause of actual repair of a failing democracy.
Hey there, Steven, my man. Got my Moosehead cap and Moosehead cycling jersey on. Got the Moose logo on my Pearl Izumi shorts, swigging a bottle of the finest Moose you-know-what after a good ride on a beautiful Autumnal day in the USA, thanking God for Canada.
Even my bike is Canadian, eh, the original Cervelo S2 carbon, the aero design others copied.
And I am glad for what you say, but you're preaching to the choir, boss. What do you suppose we've been doing? Sitting on our arse?
The main thing is appreciating one another, especially Michael, who brings us together, totally troll-free. It's a breath of fresh air we can breathe freely, to help us evolve as Michael has indicated all his life. It can then help our country evolve and be the country we've yet to be and have. Those who refuse to evolve have every right.
Even the great psychiatrist Carl Jung proclaimed "The eternal rights of man."
Hell, even God gives us a choice. Excuse my language. It's the Moose you-know-what.
But no one has the right to infringe or violate the rights of others. It's why we have laws.
If we don't pull together in our households, communities and country on the common ground of Liberty, Justice and Equality for All, well, the prophecies of the Ghost Dancers at Wounded Knee will come true. It's historical and biblical:
"Civilizations are like waves upon the shore." iow they come and go
Our nation has yet to live up to its creed, as Dr. King said.
Max Blumenthal in his epic Goliath said it best: "No Goliath or tyranny lasts long."
(he's the son of the late Sidney Blumenthal who helped shaped Oslo Peace Accords)
(but then an Israeli Zionist assassinated PM Yitzhak Rabin for it)
And what takes its place devolves into tyranny and dictatorship for the love of power.
Instead of our fellow man, as prophets proclaimed.
Domestic and civil violence keeps escalating. Women and children suffer immeasurably. We could end up with numerous factions fighting one another as in other countries if we don't pull together. (Shiites and Christians are slaughtering each other in Lebanon as we speak)
Michael clearly gives voice to those who've been silenced. More of us need to.
I have to ask if you contact PM Trudeau prn and stay in touch with your MP rep?
Do you support those like GreenPeace, PETA et al?
You may know that dozens of lawsuits have been filed against the white supremacists at Charlottesville and the Capitol terrorist attack. This can open the door for more to join us.
Truth based on the facts and evidence must prevail. Hitler lied until he died.
This is what we're up against. Those who are blind usually end up seeing a psychiatrist.
Jung saw how our dreams can keep us out of denial or self-deception.
That is if we can't listen to anyone and what they're saying, like Michael.
The prophet Micaiah saw what happens when we deceive ourselves. (1 Kings 22)
That was 2,800 years ago. We are living in Apocalyptic times because of the evil of Man.
It's why prophets came. Like Michael. That we might be the change the world needs.
It begins in our families and relationships. It almost brings tears to my eyes when my grandchildren ask if I've been good and remind me to take my quiet time. It helps keep me from getting more upset than I do and end up in timeout.
But eh, that's what the powder highway is for in BC. I'm strictly bc BC.
Let me know if you're out that way this winter. Eh? Bring your boards.
Cheers Steven! We'll turn the Moose loose and boil a few too, if I hear from you.
Trivia:
Who wrote the avy handbook that set the standards?
Bonus question: What province are they from?
Got avy gear?
Hey Stan, As a guy who watches bike porn, I envy your Canadian Cervelo S2 (but manufactured in Asia, owned by the Dutch, but who's counting! ). I'm only preaching to the choir of the like minded when unable to break through the reflexive patriotism that most Americans insist is reality and worth preserving, in defense of their own brainwashed, self delusional defense. Things won't change enough unless this systemic, cultural, societal and political mindset is broken. Happy riding. Love to join you for a spin in the future....
Don't think I can ride with you Steven, you ignore what I said, split hairs about my Cervelo and you watch bike porn. Why is that?
We have to understand ourselves. I asked you some questions.
Please answer. If you don't, you think we can ride?
I love my crew and will ride with anyone for the camaraderie.
Same with skiing, tennis, climbing et al.
Please Note: Cervelo is based in Canada, designed and engineered.
It's a Canadian product.
Cervelo Cycles Company Statistics:
Location: Canada. While owned by a Dutch company, Cervelo was started in Canada and operations remain based in Toronto and Santa Cruz, CA. Materials Used: Carbon Fiber. Frame/Bike Point of Origin: Cervelo bikes are engineered and designed in Canada and manufactured in Asia.
Cervelo Cycles Review and Manufacturer Profile - Fit Werx
You owe me a case of Moosehead boss, for suggesting my bike isn't Canadian.
(NB a full case of 24 bottles, bucko, no 20-23 packs, and a litre of Revelstoke)
I wonder if you really are, Canadian. You're not like those I've met and stay in contact with. Differences are unavoidable, but are generally workable when there's common ground in our civic laws, Constitution and the light of reason as Plato indicated. Socrates knew the work of education never ends, even for him, and they way he mistreated his wife, Xanthippe. Then look what they did to him.
Even then, we need to be reminded. If not for my crew and all of us keeping an eye on each other, we'd have gone to each other's funeral by now.
Ride On Steven Please Be Safe
America seems safer, funnier, more likable with You in it, MM. That is on my list. I like your brain, and almost et al. Don’t like hot dogs but that is a cool fact you presented. Thank you and yours for giving me a smile again today, and the comfort of your point of view.