Like many people, I have been worried about the collapse of our nation under Obama (as is obvious to any regular readers I may have). I had guessed that Romney would be insipid and uninspiring. By all accounts, I was wrong, and the feeling I have is that the leftists ascendancy may have just reached its high mark, never to return. True Liberals have been in a fighting retreat for the better part of 70 years; and even though we have had the occasional Reagan, the size of government, and the rationalizations for it, have only grown under ALL Administrations.
We may be seeing an end of that. Conservative cannons have found their mark, and are firing for effect. The indefensible cannot be defended from direct attack. It can only thrive through aggressions against truth, honor, decency, and the defensible.
I want to be clear: we live in a sea of ignorant, unprincipled people, who will vote for people like Obama because he either gives them telephones, or assuages their guilt over racism. But Romney, apparently, showed clearly that conservatism is defensible, and socialism is not. This is a sea change.
This morning I went in to do my work (I work in many different places), and my contact had the sculpture of a whale on her desk, which I had never seen before. Now, you may say that I only noticed the whale because I was thinking about whales, which is of course a common enough artifact of perception, and well documented psychologically. (Watch this video: very few people count all the passes correctly the first time for reasons explained at the end).
Yet, how many whales do you see in the normal course of a day? I can’t remember the last time I saw one, and it was on the desk of my contact, a three dimensional sculpture. I will be paying attention the next day or two, to see what I see.
Things like that have happened many times to me. I will add, that even if you don’t accept the principle of non-local connection between mind and reality implied by the concept of synchronicity, it is still useful to use it to connect more fully with deeper psychological realities.