It is a misconceptionthat the ultimate power belongs to the government because the greatest powerhas always and will always belong to the people. The 1% knows this, which is why they divideus, so we can hate and fear each other, thereby disempowering the greatestpower there is, which is the power of the people. It is critical that we stop fighting againsteach other and begin fighting for each other because that is what it means tobe human and that is what makes us whole. TRUTH MEME
Stop fighting the unfairness of this global economic control system run by the elites – it’s what they want. They love it when we waste our energy trying to get ‘justice’ for everyone. It will NOT come from them so recognize that if a ‘just’ and sustainable world is to happen then we must simply ignore them – they don’t have any recourse against that! We must decide to do our own thing and not let them into our ‘sandbox.’ We have to empower ourselves to make this change. Yet, that is possibly the greatest challenge we face individually and as a society. We have been led to believe for so long that change is top down, the very notion that it is really bottom up is ridiculed, and even feared. So many movers and shakers keep telling us we have to ‘fight’ to create this change, but the reality is that we simply have to decide and act on our own,and collective group, beliefs that we are the change we wish to see.
It is too easy to get caught up in thinking that the elites have the power. Note a couple of mainstream stories just from last week. In France, the police all kitted up for a riot against the ‘Yellow Vest’ protestors suddenly relaxed, took off their helmets, and smiled in solidarity with the protestors. When U.S. Vice-President Pence visited Florida last week one of the Florida police welcoming the VP was wearing a Qanon (Question the Narrative) patch on his uniform. Apparently this went viral and the office was demoted, but it emphasizes that many of the ‘enforcers’ that do the bidding of the elites are seeing the way the world is run and also want change. I have said many times on this blog that the mainstream narrative is what maintains our rigid beliefs about the world and that pit us against each other. When we awaken to what is happening and reclaim our power back we will be surprised at how many millennia we have been allowing this to happen.
When we question the narrative and start to talk with each other openly,we will find that we share so much more than the small differences that the mainstreamuse to separate us. No fighting needed,just a willingness to look beyond the minor differences of culture and physicalcharacteristics and see the same humanness that we ALL share. Our innate nature is to be empathic and tolove. Hate and fear have to be carefullytaught. It has been correctly said thatdisaster and catastrophe usually bring out the best humanity in us. These disasters unite us in ways that showhow connected we all really are. Thereis a story of centuries of warfare with the Chinese empire trying many times toconquer the Island nation of Japan. The Japanese though much of medieval historyhad been a group of warlord factions waring between themselves and seeing eachother as separate fingers on a hand. When the Chinese tried to invade, thefactions came together like closed fingers of a fisted hand to act as one solidblow against a common oppressor. Hollywood is always coming out with moviesthat show humans coming together to fight an alien invasion (e.g. Independence Day). My point is that when we are faced with acommon foe we can disregard our differences in favor of common action. We can do it when necessary, how about westart thinking of doing it everyday.
‘Just’ Sustainability – Making sure everyone does OK even as we transition to a sustainable world. My friend Julian Agyeman of Tufts University has written extensively on this topic: “The intentional integration of social justice and sustainability, defined as the need to ensure a better quality of life for all, now and into the future, in a just and equitable manner, whilst living within the limits of supporting ecosystems…In recent years it has become increasingly apparent that the issue of environmental quality is inextricably linked to that of human equality. Wherever in the world environmental despoliation and degradation is happening, it is almost always linked to questions of social justice, equity, rights and people’s quality of life in its widest sense.”
One of the big stumbling blocks for meeting the need for social justice is the use of the word ‘equality (defn: the state of being equal, especially in status,rights, and opportunities).’ In our modern industrialized world we can have equity (defn: the quality of being fair and impartial). and we can have equality, but the two are not the same. We have such inequity (defn: a lack of equality or fair treatment in the sharing of wealth or opportunities) in the world that many people keep trying to promote wholesale equality often without making reference to what it is they want to make equal. If everyone were starting from the same point then equality makes sense, but so many people have a good monetary standard of living yet a poorer quality of life, and vice versa. I have always felt that the dialogue that needs to happen first is about quality of life and standard of living as two separate items – they are not the same. As I have described in more detail earlier, see posts, Reframing and Visualizing a New Society 1; Reframing and Visualizing a New Society 1; VISION – How we focus on what we really Want 3 – POPULATION, ECONOMICS, CHOICE and MORALITY) this has to be the starting dialogue.
An easy example for seeing the difference that I used in my classes was of three boys trying to watch a ball game by looking over a solid fence. (You might want to think about height as a simile for economic monetary wealth.) The tall boy can see over the fence easily. The middle height boy cannot see over the fence without a box and the shortest boy needs to stand on two boxes to see over the top of the fence. In an equal environment where all are given equal advantage – i.e. a box to stand on- all three boys get one box, which sounds fair. The tallest boy, however, doesn’t need it to see the game; the middle boy can now see the game; but the short boy still cannot see the game. In a situation where equity is practiced, the tall boy get no box, the middle boy get one box,and the short boy get two boxes, and all can now see the game – that is fair in that all can now see the game. The problem,however, come with discussions of fairness concerning the allocation of their sources (the boxes). In both scenarios,only three boxes are shared out, but in the second scenario, one boy (the shortest),seems to get twice resources as much as another boy (the tallest). In a competitive world, this second scenario seems unjust, but in a cooperative world, it becomes more fair to share resources equitably so all benefit. At this point, consider how you are now feeling about it all? Your answer may vary simply because you are responding from a first world or third world perspective!!!
TBC……….
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