I\u2019ll freely admit that one of my greatest fears is being irrelevant. And I worry about getting caught up in the mundane, materialistic world and living a life of pleasant distractions (as opposed to the unpleasant distractions I\u2019ve been dealing with) while accomplishing little or nothing of ultimate importance.<\/p>\n
But the last blog entry and the PeaceBang essay that inspired it have got me thinking that I\u2019m chasing the wrong thing.<\/p>\n
What if we really can\u2019t change the world? What if even our best magic isn\u2019t strong enough to fix the big problems of humanity? What if I really can\u2019t be a fixer?<\/p>\n
Beyond the undeniable logic of both Thomas Moore and Rev. Weinstein, there\u2019s the current situation with the Religious Right, who are coming to the conclusion that all their efforts to use politics and government to turn America into a theocracy just aren\u2019t going to happen (see the entry below on the Newsweek<\/em> article on The End of Christian America). If the Religious Right \u2013 with all their financial and political resources \u2013 couldn\u2019t fix the world (in the way they thought it needed to be fixed), why should we think we could do any more?<\/p>\n Pagans are sometimes accused of trying to live a fantasy. Perhaps I am\u2026 only not in the way that\u2019s usually meant. Perhaps the fantasy is that we can fix things. I want to fix things. But if that\u2019s simply not possible, then I\u2019m wasting my time (and causing myself endless frustration) trying.<\/p>\n So what\u2019s left? If we can\u2019t fix the world, all we can do is to model the values we hold most dear \u2013 to become a holy person.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I\u2019ll freely admit that one of my greatest fears is being irrelevant. And I worry about getting caught up in the mundane, materialistic world and living a life of pleasant distractions (as opposed to the unpleasant distractions I\u2019ve been dealing with) while accomplishing little or nothing of ultimate importance. But the last blog entry and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1129,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n