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Why all of these items have been brought together in today’s issue of the Los Angeles Free Press

by Steven M. Finger

In my best effort to be brief – so that you’ve more time to read and ponder what’s presented in today’s issue – here, without, the usual prose is the gist of the several articles:

The Voice of the Future [1] let’s you hear what was said in the past, easily you can see it applies to the situation of today.

The next article [2], as usual, seems not to be connected at all… but says much about how almost an entire lifetime of 65 years can go by, and so few things have come about.  We recognize, of course, that it is further compounded by an interest of one over another.  And, as an unfortunate note, neither for the greater good or with the self-preserving benefit of one’s own interest strongly determined and constantly acted upon.

The first and second articles urge you look back so that you can do better. [3], on the other hand, is a straight on look at what is coming.  Not a maybe, not a perhaps, but what is already in gear.  If what was said in the first article, and what was advised in the second resonates with you at all, determine now what you could do to make a future more like the one in which you would want to spend your time.

Finally, we are at [4].  It is an explanation of what happens to us when we just let things happen to us (prose again, sorry).  This is a key article on how societal change comes about.  It is, in a way, a telling of the essence of what we try to present each day.  It is another note of the warning we are sounding… change is coming, don’t let it arrive like tsunami, consider what is that would be best – for us all – and then bring it on.  (Or as you can see in [3] it will be at the shore before you even know it!)

I’ve always let it go unsaid that you should read the remainder of the article – not simply be satisfied with the portion we post.  Today, not only do I urge you to read the article but, further, to the lively discourse that follows in the comments to it posted at the original site.

I hope this, once again, brings you full circle with thoughts about what is happening to our society, how our culture is undergoing an insidious and massive change, and providing enough to make for interesting conversation.  Surely, today, just as on all other days, we’ve only addressed a facet or a few.  And as they say, talk is cheap (we’re free), and action is what counts.  I’ve not taken your time with a list of things not done that could have made a difference; I know you know the truth and consequence of doing nothing, and am hoping that I am leaving you something that makes you think of doing something.  Join the counter-culture; make sure it is not counter to the culture you, yourself, want to be part of.

Here are today’s keywords (hope they provided a clue):  Economic Bill of Rights, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Obama, political humor, false wisdom, hindsight, Oliver Burkeman, Cindy Jacobs, Exorcisms, Lt. Governor Duke Aiona, New Apostolic Reformation, Andrew Joseph Stack III, Anger, Sasha Abramsky

Links to the above articles:

[1] http://losangelesfreepress.com/the-voice-of-the-future-president-franklin-d-roosevelts-economic-bill-of-rights/

[2] http://losangelesfreepress.com/this-column-will-change-your-life-what-i-wish-id-known/

[3] http://losangelesfreepress.com/they-do-exorcisms-burn-idols-are-taking-whole-us-states/

[4] http://losangelesfreepress.com/look-ahead-in-anger/

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