Inaugural Thought

I guess I am a little jaded by all the political hoopla. In the words of Ben Harper in "Black Rain" I think the spin doctors have been "Selling false hope like some new dope we're addicted to."

I think there is a reason that young people are motivated by Barak Obama though, and it is really the only thing that I "hope" for. I hope we have a president that understands and experiences the world in a different way.

I would guess we are moving from a president who thought and experienced the world in Red/Blue to a president that thinks and experiences the world in Orange/Green. I think that's really what the election boiled down to also.

That would mean we have a leader that is moving towards a level of greater complexity, creativity, concern and care. That is something to "hope" for.

For further reading from someone much more astute than I.

"How can the same leader ask Reverend Warren to provide an inaugural invocation; seek an unprecedented Keynesian stimulus package; seek to further socialize health care; have a private dinner with leading conservative intellectuals; and consider how to rein in devastating and unrealistic long-term social security and Medicare liabilities? How, indeed. Embodying an integral view of the world, by definition, means seeking to integrate, to fully include everyone under the umbrella while also transcending the narrowness and partiality of each. (This, incidentally, is why every group that looks at Obama claims him as “one of them.” This is the ultimate litmus test of an integral leader.) A great leader is one whose sense of self is not threatened by a vigorous war of ideas, and an integral leader is one who wages the war from a worldview of love and abundance."