Governing, our Selves … (09/11/14)
“The real danger we face is not from terrorism, but rather from what is being done under the pretext of fighting it.” ~ Michael Parenti
War in any form is not only inexcusable, it is patently counterproductive … We the people have been programmed to react differently — programmed to respond to aggression wit aggression; to respond to evil with “evils” of our own. And though we the people ARE allowed to wake up and dismiss this cancerous delusion at any time we wish, our politicians, our government officials and our military “leaders” have no such excuse. Each & every one of them knows damn well (pun intended) that war never works — that self-defense never brings real safety — that violence cannot bring nonviolence — that killing terrorists actually creates more terrorists — that a people made meek & pliable by the fear of being overrun from afar has already lost the far bigger battle at home & within.
AND YET I’ve got some really GOOD NEWS for all of you out there listening in:
*Your real enemies are NOT the members of al-Qaida — or the militants of ISIS — or the soldiers of the Taliban — or any other admittedly violent “terrorist cells” currently raising Hell in the world …
*Your real enemies are NOT “the damn Democrats” if you are a Republican or “those damn Republicans” if you are a Democrat …
*Your real enemies are NOT Muslims if you are a Christian or Christians if you are a Muslim …
*Your real enemies are NOT immigrant Mexicans if you are an unemployed Texan or immigrant Americans if you are an unemployed Canadian …
*& your real enemies are NOT “those liberals” if you are conservative or “those conservatives” if you are liberal.
Your real enemies do not resemble any of these illusory threats to you & yours … No, my dear Friends, your real enemies — the ones who are indeed direly threatening the status of your livelihood and the quality of your health and the very viability of your freedom — are the governmental officials you are still blindly trusting to “save you” … along with your own feeble ego that is allowing them to so callously do just the opposite.
Well, it’s time to wake up to a different Way, my dear ones … It’s time to take your Happiness back from the ones who given you only discontent … It’s time to take your Contentment back from the ones who have sold you only dis-ease … It’s time to take your Peace back from the ones who are still selling you war … And it’s time to take your Love back from the ones who are spreading only fear.
YOU are the only one who can repair your neighborhood now … YOU are the only one who can make your community alive & well again … YOU and your neighbors with you are now the only ones who can fix what is broken and fortify what is not.
It’s time for us all to stop watching the news, and to start tending community gardens instead … It’s time for all of us to stop hiding behind polls and retreating to voting booths, and to start openly & actively caring for those in need instead … And finally, it’s time to stop attending political rallies & supporting particular politicians or particular parties, and to start being the change we wish were seeing instead.
There is no politician currently alive who will make things one bit better for you or yours or your community or your world … for YOU are the leader you have been waiting for.
Amen … Let it be so.
“Our greatest duty to our children is to Love them with unconditional enthusiasm and affection. And our second duty is just as important — if not a direct corollary of the first: namely, we must teach them to govern their own lives with compassion and kindness and justice — and to resist all those who attempt to govern them otherwise. And we must do so not by frightening or forcing or intimidating our children into adhering to these principles, but rather by showing them the same — by actively governing our own lives with the powers of Peace & Principle, so that our children might see our courageous caring and thereafter emulate that most noble example.” ~ inspired by Richelle Goodrich
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