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The Monday Morning Memo

The Lord’s Prayer… translated from Aramaic directly into English. Rather than from Aramaic to Greek to Latin to English (which most of us are used to from the King James version in Matthew ch 6.)

O cosmic Birther of all radiance and vibration,
(Our Father in heaven,)

soften the ground of our being and carve out a space within us where your Presence can abide.
(hallowed be your name,)

Fill us with your creativity so that we may be empowered to bear the fruit of your mission.
(your kingdom come,)

Let each of our actions bear fruit in accordance with our desire.
(your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.)

Endow us with the wisdom to produce and share what each being needs to grow and flourish.
(Give us this day our daily bread,)

Untie the tangled threads of destiny that bind us, as we release others from the entanglement of past mistakes.
(and forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.)

Do not let us be seduced by that which would divert us from our true purpose, but illuminate the opportunities of the present moment.
(And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one,)

For you are the ground and the fruitful vision, the birth, power, and fulfillment, as all is gathered and made whole once again.
(for thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory forever,)

And So It Is!
(Amen)

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“Of the three factors driving social violence, Turchin stresses most heavily ‘elite overproduction’—­the tendency of a society’s ruling classes to grow faster than the number of positions for their members to fill. One way for a ruling class to grow is biologically—think of Saudi Arabia, where princes and princesses are born faster than royal roles can be created for them. In the United States, elites over­produce themselves through economic and educational upward mobility: More and more people get rich, and more and more get educated. Neither of these sounds bad on its own. Don’t we want everyone to be rich and educated? The problems begin when money and Harvard degrees become like royal titles in Saudi Arabia. If lots of people have them, but only some have real power, the ones who don’t have power eventually turn on the ones who do.

Elite jobs do not multiply as fast as elites do. ‘You have a situation now where there are many more elites fighting for the same position, and some portion of them will convert to counter-elites,’ Turchin said.

Donald Trump, for example, may appear elite (rich father, Wharton degree, gilded commodes), but Trumpism is a counter-elite movement. His government is packed with credentialed nobodies who were shut out of previous administrations… Trump’s former adviser and chief strategist Steve Bannon, Turchin said, is a ‘paradigmatic example’ of a counter-elite. He grew up working-class, went to Harvard Business School, and got rich as an investment banker and by owning a small stake in the syndication rights to Seinfeld. None of that translated to political power until he allied himself with the common people. ‘He was a counter-elite who used Trump to break through, to put the white working males back in charge.'”

- Graeme Wood, quoting Peter Turchin in the Dec 2020 edition of The Atlantic

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