I've been slow to give weight to the former truth, with my paychecks coming that way. Politics and spirituality are too easily polarized. My engagement in the kinds of activism listed above has drawn criticism, from some new-age folk, that it's served nothing but ego, illusion, and the endless seesaw of conflict. On the other hand, in political circles, it can be risky to confess one's private leanings to self-centered aims, to art, to any inward focus. It's hard to argue either point.
People can be political or spiritual in a way that neglects the wholistic balance.
Politics, especially the conventional variety, is all too often tainted with self-serving conflict of interest, compromising legalistic restriction, or sheer personal bombast. Legitimate grassroots struggles, however, do need the active involvement of a maximum number of people, in order for a campaign to carry any weight. Now there's still the valid criticism that we can't very well all do that in the way of the suburban ostrich and let the monsters rape the earth . I hope that in my writing I can reach out to people to communicate on a basis of what is real and meaningful in human life, including everything from blockades to kid's building blocks. For me it's more of a whole picture, going beyond and below action to enlarging our consciousness of how life should be lived.