What’s your script?
Everybody
lives by a script—whether implicit or explicit.
We get scripted through the process of nurture, formation and
socialization, and it happens without our knowing it. The dominant script
in our society is one of technological therapeutic military consumerism. It is a script enacted through advertising,
propaganda and ideology, especially in the liturgies of television, promises to
keep us safe and happy. That script has failed. The script of technological
therapeutic military consumerism cannot make us safe or happy.
The
work forward is dynamics of hope for a habitable planet, just and equitable
wealth/resources, and peace sustained by a counter-script that follows a
spiritual/psychic re-birth, what is spoken and opined for hundreds of years—to
denounce the dominant script.
Enlightened
forms of counter script are nurtured, formed and socialized by work of those devoted
to work out skillful means, practices, collaborations, community/group/disciplined
work* affording relinquishment of the dominant script and embracing of a counter-script,
which is crucial, pivotal and indispensable in society precisely because there
is no one to challenge the dominant script and present the counter-script other
than those engaged in this vital work that offers a dynamic hope for the planet,
species, and peace of a third kind.
*E.g.,
Socratic dialogos and dialectic, Jesus’ sayings (writings) [not modern
Christianity per se], Buddhist Dharma, philosophical traditions with perennial
and returning reductions ever honing the human niche in a complex universe.
Image: Zealot:
The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth by Reza Aslan
Counter Script, See Walter
Brueggemann, Counterscript:
Living with the elusive God, The Christian Century
