What is it about politics that brings out the least cooperative, most combative part of us? We divide up into clans with our own colors, our own logos our own slogans. And then we argue and fight and strategize how to attack and defeat the other party/person whoever they may be.
We could discuss the issues and find solutions in a cooperative, constructive way with benefits obvious for everyone. That’s also a possibility. Isn’t that what we’re trying to do with our politics, find solutions, solve problems, make it better?
Everyone has good ideas and everyone has dumb ideas. Say it out loud. Sort it out. Shouldn’t be that hard. Common sense and discernment can sift thru that. A little applied intentionality to be rational and find the common benefit. Or just go on fighting and arguing forever.
Now 9 nations have nuclear weapons. We’ve got better weapons than ever before and spend zillions on building the next even better one but we spend zilch on trying to come together and live in peace, live in tune with our biosphere, the biosphere that supports us and every living creature on this planet.
It’s not a bad idea and lots of people believe in it. I’m not the only one. It’s like an undercurrent, it’s like the bedrock under our feet. It’s there supporting everything, we just don’t see it.
It won’t be uncovered until people are ready to blow their cover, come out from under the covers and claim their personal peace. If people aren’t experiencing peace there’s no way it will happen in the society they belong to. Right?
I think I’m right about that but nobody pays attention to that - it’s all about fixing the society. How about fixing the people then the society would fix itself automatically.
We live in money dominated society. The world has become a marketplace. Everything is bought and sold. That’s why the actual people have been reduced to a number and a form and an application so they all can be efficiently channeled into some sort of economically useful diatribe . . . er discipline . . . . er device . . . devious device. That’s what it is. A great mill that eats people and spits out consumers grinding away at the great wheel of commerce. Our wars are forever and our consumer urges are endless.
I mean I don’t want to start a revolution but I do want to say that we are meant to be humans not cyborgs. What exactly that is, each one of us has to discover for our own selves it seems to me. Isn’t that so? How could you be a real human by following someone else’s definition?
And so I submit to you dear reader that the real revolution is interior, the hero’s quest is interior - the quest to find our peace, our strength, ourselves. More powerful than an atomic bomb is one person who has realized themselves. That’s a pretty good slogan. I’ll buy that. Certainly for that person it is more powerful. Atleast.
An atom bomb can transform a city into dust, realizing oneself can transform a cypher into a person with all the creative power of the universe at their disposal. Another good slogan. We can use that for the sign. When we get ready to march. I’ve been trying to think of a good one. NO MORE HATE NO MORE FEAR. Is that too long? Six words. I think it will fit.
Thanks to Mose for the music ‘Raise Your Voice’ with Suyana. Perfect.
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