“Maybe America is what happens when a cookie is Never Enough”- Jammy

Maybe America is what happens when the cookie is never enough.

Interesting, how Pete talks about how we start at the earliest of ages, learning that if we are not feeling good, something external will fix it.

A treat
a toy
a cookie
designer jeans
a car
a big house
a beer
a case of beer
a bigger house
invade a country?

This paradigm of finding something in the outside world to make us right in our inside world can be argued to be the source of many problems we face, obesity, addiction, annoying devotion to a particular sports team, a loud coffee can exhaust, low self esteem and all it’s wonderful side effects . . . .

I don’t know about how to teach a crying child who wants a cookie how to have the existential “ah haa” moment realizing that the cookie isn’t really going to result in true happiness, but it sure is an interesting question. Most chubby little babies look like buddha, perhaps they can find inner peace and well being and actually be buddhas.

Are we creating a society of increasingly externally gratified persons who will just keep searching and searching the world for happiness when all they really need to do is search within?

Respect & Love,

Jammy