Laboring together

It’s the fact of life: people need to feed and eat, by laboring together to achieve that which is not possible otherwise.

Let me hold that for you. It’s a wrap (we hear that on the film production set).

I love the showing of film credits, from costume to casting, from screenplay to directing.

Sydney Lumet, Sydney Pollack followed by directorial debut by actors e.g. Jodi Foster, Paul Newman and Robert Redford ( ” I can’t swim”).

I saw Forsaken. The Sutherland, Father and Son, play themselves in it. Both want to be pacifist in a world that wouldn’t allow them to.

The Wild West (more so when the town sheriff had already left, hence, gangsters emboldened).

It’s a blend of man-woman, father-son love (eros and filial).

But above all, justice, when push come to shove.

Justified violence. Bullets piercing through window glass. Forget tinted glass that we all want to see the coming of the Lord. Here on Earth, it looks as if we are abandoned, if not forsaken. We all wish for an abundance of affordable health care and child care, yet it’s the upper class lawn care that are prevalent.

We go about “influencing”, “thought leadership” and world ordering…until we could no longer do so (poor LBJ and Biden).

Limits to growth, and limits to lead. We are given a window, a lifecycle…like Fortune 10 some decades ago (with only 3 or 4 American companies appearing, joined by Japanese and European, per Fareed on Charlie Rose talk).

Machine-aided, chemically induced, and socially assisted, we limp along.

Tranquilized and mortified. The affairs of the world is beyond us. Then we stop and think, ponder and reflect. Wait a minute. We can do this but we need to labor together. Like a film production, with casting and costume, screenplay and directing (not to mention editing and sound).

So here we go. Just a pause, reflect and play. Let not the problem of the world (news) trouble us too much.

And there is no need for a High-Noon lone wolf. Competition with collaboration, freedom in safety. A mix of mature consideration and childlike ambition. When we no longer operate on win-lose, then we go places.

Share the spaghetti as in Bambi. Sacrifice just a bit to jumpstart Karma. Once it’s cranking, and its wheel churning, justice will be done. How long? Not long. We are not forsaken. It’s us who forsook old principles once found true but long forgotten: scratch each other’s back.

Sometimes A Great Notion.

Folks need to eat, children/elderly need care and work flow require collaboration. Live and work together, die alone. Go and get another Covid shot.