Blathering for Peace
Can anyone, anywhere tell me what the hell Deepak Chopra is talking about?
Inside ourselves we’ve always carried the seeds of creativity. The next creative leap isn’t a mystery. Millions of people are ready to join in harmonious interaction with Nature — and with our own complex inner nature — to create a world of peace, harmony, laughter and love. Let us strengthen our intention to create that critical mass of peace consciousness. Every tear can be a drop of nourishment for the new world that wants to be born and is making itself known little by little, every day. Each one of us can help create this critical mass by becoming the embodiment of peace conciousness through peace practices:
Being Peace
Thinking Peace
Feeling Peace
Speaking Peace
Acting Peace
Creating Peace
Sharing Peace
Celebrating Peace.
Is this really what we’ve come to? Is this really what passes for thought today? Can anyone dig through the foggy pink clouds of prose to tell me what it means?
Compare Chopra’s fuzzy ramblings to this:
The long-known and the long-expected has thus taken place. The forces endeavoring to enslave the entire world now are moving toward this hemisphere.
Never before has there been a greater challenge to life, liberty, and civilization.
Delay invites greater danger. Rapid and united effort by all of the peoples of the world who are determined to remain free will ensure a world victory of the forces of justice and of righteousness over the forces of savagery and of barbarism.
Or this:
We must guard against complacency. We must not underrate the enemy. He is powerful and cunning-and cruel and ruthless. He will stop at nothing which gives him a chance to kill and to destroy. He has trained his people to believe that their highest perfection is achieved by waging war. For many years he has prepared for this very conflict-planning, plotting, training, arming, fighting. We have already tasted defeat. We may suffer further setbacks. We must face the fact of a hard war, a long war, a bloody war, a costly war.
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If any of our enemies from Europe or from Asia attempt long-range raids by “Suicide” squadrons of bombing planes, they will do so only in the hope of terrorizing our people and disrupting our morale. Our people are not afraid of that. We know that we may have to pay a heavy price for freedom. We will pay this price with a will. Whatever the price, it is a thousand times worth it. No matter what our enemies in their desperation may attempt to do to us-we will say, as the people of London have said, “We can take it.” And what’s more, we can give it back-and we will give it back-with compound interest
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We are fighting today for security for progress, and for peace, not only for ourselves but for all men, not only for one generation but for all generations. We are fighting to cleanse the world of ancient evils, ancient ills.Our enemies are guided by brutal cynicism, by unholy contempt for the human race. We are inspired by a faith which goes back all the years to the first chapter of the Book of Genesis:
“God created man in His own image.”
We on our side are striving to be true to that divine heritage.
We are fighting, as our fathers have fought, to uphold the doctrine that all men are equal in the sight of God. Those on the other side are fighting to destroy this deep belief and to create a world in their own image-a world of tyranny and cruelty and serfdom.
That is the conflict that day and night now pervades our lives. No compromise can end that conflict. There never has been-there never can be-successful compromise between good and evil. Only total victory can reward the champions of tolerance and decency and freedom and faith.
Where is our Roosevelt? Where is our Churchill?
Have we only Chopras among us?
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Seems rather simple to me. Since the beginning of recorder history the naive among us have thought that they had some majic formula that would produce world piece. It is not that it is not a worthy goal it is but it is one close to perputual motion. A wonderful idea but is it really possible?
The answer is no. No matter how much you preach love and tolerance the plain fact of the matter is that the terrorists will not rest until all women are veiled and they have established a Taliban style government worldwide. no matter how hard we preach these lofty values, they are not even close to their valuves.
Jamie, thank you. My wife, save her liberal soul, could not read this and draw the obvious parallels between Bush and FDR. Simply put, what I see is an FDR that would be a Republican today! I will have to draw the parallels for her. Thank you for the links to FDR's addresses. We must not concede to the tactical efforts of terrorism ("Leave the Middle East and achieve peace") without seeing the strategic goals of terrorism, to enslave the Middle East in Muslim theocracies, destroy Israel, and wage war on all "infidels" from inside and out!
No. I'm haluucinating. I ingested crack and didn't know it. My hot flashing has gone too far. It can't be that:
My Jimmie is quoting Depak Chopra on The Shack. The Rapture must be nigh.
It wasn't worth the bandwidth, dear friend. Depak is far below you.
Now taking on Thomas Friedman, that's your action, my dear. In writing this, I'm handing over the left's best guy.
Just looking out for you, with love from The Loyal Opposition.
Grace – whatever would I do without you?
Still, it does rankle that a triplespeaker lik Chopra gets huge ink on a place like the HufflePuff Blog while other, far more worthy, writers have to hack out their own audience. I"m not talking about myself. I'm content to hack.
Friedman – I'm not really sure what I think of him half the time.
Right you are to complain about Chopra getting ink on HufflePuff–assuming that the blog's orientation is political, as it surely seems to be. (As a personal aside, it seems to me that Chopra's writing frequently comes off as being translated from some other language, where the definitions of words like "peace" don't have any direct analog in English.) Regardless, I agree with Grace–don't waste your time on Chopra; even most of the Left is aware that he's discussing philosophy, not policy.
We'd all like to live in a world at peace, and if we all agreed that war and conflict were the worst thing in the world, then indeed, we could achieve that goal. Most of us don't think that–yes, even among the liberals, you've got to be pretty far out on the fringe to think that there's nothing worse than fighting–in other words, that nothing is worth fighting for. Don't worry about those people; there's an inherent contradiction in their thought, that will always prevent them from taking action….
Much as you liked War of the Worlds, this particular passage is more reminiscent of another Wells classic–Chopra's philosophy in this passage is perfect for Eloi.
Thanks, Erich. Some of the stuff I read have really caused me to wonder what all of us find worth fighting for. People like Chopra, or the others I mentioned in the post before that, really don't seem to find anything worth fighting for. I am concerned, lately, that what we're fed every day through our media outlets carry that same message.
Could it be that the message that there really isn't anything worth fighting for (and if our very way of life isn't worht fighting for, what is?) has permated our thoughts that much?
Speaking of Huffing Propellant . . .
Deepak Chopra discusses consciousness over at the Huffington Post. Huffington. Heh. UPDATE: Ohhhmmmm . . . . ohhhhmmmm . . . pass the Redi Whip . . . man, I can almost see Xenu! UPDATE 2: Jimmie from The Sundries Shack has more Chopra quotes!…
Those who adore such a mass of words that mean nothing are in love with feelings and the workings of their own consciousness to such an extent that they seek a way to elude all outside constraints.
I think this is a prominent feature of "New Age" thinking and the reason for its great attraction. You get the feelings of superiority without having to get into the down and dirty of sacrificing for your beliefs.
Well, its always easy to slam those ideas and expressions that require you to step outside your hardened ideals. Depak Chopra deals in the world of non linear spiritual and philosophical concepts. As a lifetime linear thinker and pragmatist I wouldn't try to compare Depak's philosophy with those world views that surrender the sorry state of the world, as it currently exists, as a core operant reality that can never be evolved. All the man is trying to do is bring awareness to a world that, for the most part, is convinced that the status quo, warfare, violence, consternation and negativity, are unchangeable paradigms. The fact that it is difficult to follow at times does not make it new age gibberish . . . simply unfamiliar territory to those steeped in a Newtonian approach to reality.