The Despondent Generation
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“The Despondent Generation”
Monday, June 24, 2019
Participants: Mary (Michael) and Rose (Quillan)
[Excerpt begins]
ROSE: You know, sometimes it feels like humanity is running towards a kind of a dystopian scenario and no matter what I do I can't stop it and I can't change it, and… You know (pauses while searching for words)… I don't even know if that's right.
ELIAS: Stop for a moment, breathe for a moment and attempt to define to myself what is your frustration.
ROSE: (16-second pause) Oh, I think my frustration has to do with… (another 16-second pause)… I would want humanity to develop towards... not a rose-colored future but towards... not more drug addicts but less drug addicts and less painful context – not only for rich and wealthy but… for in general, for everyone involved. It's difficult to verbalize. It's such a confusing thing, even though I thought I was very clear about it, but obviously I can't even verbalize it.
ELIAS: Shall I express it and ask you if it is correct?
ROSE: Ja.
ELIAS: Therefore, what you are attempting to express is that you would like to see the world moving in the direction of more appreciation and satisfaction and less disillusionment and less turning to disassociating and disconnecting, but rather more in the direction of connecting. Not as much disconnecting in relation to expressing epidemics of drug use, or disassociation, but more movement in the direction of enjoying their reality and involving themselves in their reality.
ROSE: Yes, you can say it like that. If you feel more connected you would care more for the environment and for nature and the environment of, let's say, housing. You could create creative houses instead of having people who work like slaves and some people get rich and the other people have such painful lives that they only are wanting to numb the rest out, you know? I mean, I'm speaking in strong contrast to illustrate points. You could say...
ELIAS: I understand, but let me also express to you that (slight pause) I am aware of this global phenomenon that is occurring presently and how many people are moving in the direction of that despondency and involving themselves with substance abuse and what you term to be drug abuse, and in that, what a tremendous expression that is presently and the difficulty that it is incurring. But most of that is not being expressed because the people that are involved in that are so oppressed. It isn't descending from a situation in which most of the people are being responsive to oppression or that they are expressing in response or reaction to being less fortunate. That is a misconception. That is not the reason that this is occurring in such epidemic apportions.
ROSE: Okay, what IS the reason?
ELIAS: (Pause) What I would say to you, genuinely, is that it is significantly a generation of individuals that are expressing dissatisfaction and a lack of self-empowerment and are expressing that as an example to the generation after them. And in that, what I would say to you is, it isn't that these individuals, these masses of people in that generation, are turning to drug use and escapism because they are so oppressed; it isn't that. Many of them are NOT oppressed in a societal capacity – many, many of them.
ROSE: So do you mean they have forgotten that they are creating their reality and feel disempowered in that sense, and that's the reason?
ELIAS: No, they are not also what you automatically think of as spoiled-rotten younger individuals. No; (with emphasis) they don't perceive that they have anything to look forward to. Therefore, what they are doing is they are occupying themselves solely in the now and in that, not actually knowing WHAT to do with themselves. Therefore, they do whatever they choose to do that feels good in the moment.
ROSE: Okay. Elias, it’s…
ELIAS: It is a NOT a situation about being disenfranchised. This is not a situation about being oppressed.
ROSE: Okay. I heard that, Elias.
[End of 10-minute excerpt]
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