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Dry, brittle iterations of last year's formula for health, wealth and happiness. Blah, blah, blah. So many talkers. So many content with words.
When did words shift from being descriptors of reality to substitutes for reality? When did visions go from being vivid images that inspired energetic co-creation of the future to dogmatic recitations of a prescripted story line?
Words have power when they call into being that which was previously but an idea. "Let there be light." A blessing. A promise.
Words that float and hover with no responsible grounding in the complex intricacies of life are deceptive and dangerous and result in outcomes like violent strategies for achieving peace and justice in the world; marriage vows binding people to abusive and/or vacuous relationships; leadership practices that reduce people to their skills, talents, and gifts (i.e. usefulness) in order to build a company or a church or any of a number of noble causes.
Blah, blah, blah. Ya think? Tell me something I don't already know. Whatever. The signs of verbal fatigue are everywhere. And then there are those words humanity has never quite been able to shake: "Do unto others..."