The Great Geopolitical Transformation
"Something Is Happening Here But Ya' Don't Know What It Is?"
Forward:
This morning I see through the haze of my own doubt and pain that something else besides what the great convocation of good burghers see is at work.
I have from the outset seen a great transformative potential shining through the dark shadows of these terrible times of increasing totalitarianism.
In order to really see it I must defer to my apocaloptimist side rather than indulging in my doom-scrolling apocalyptic visions.
It is all too easy to see these times as end times and to fulfill some vision written in someone’s book.
At the same time I do see these as “end times” just a slightly different version of end times than is commonly accepted - a far more hopeful one.
To me the great spiritual teachers like Jesus never left - are resurrected - and therefore need not be returning.
THE GREAT GEOPOLITICAL TRANSFORMATION
Where do we go when all trust in governments, corporations and institutions are gone?
When all the flash and dash of politicians and TV personalities - is there a difference? - Become just another show ?
We ask better questions and begin receiving better answers.
We return to original principles and since politics is the art of the possible - and since we are all politicians from the moment we draw breath - we knuckle down and begin shaping our own art and science into the political art of the possible.
So what is the art of the possible when all hope is gone?
First of all hope is never gone - ever.
That is doubt and pain speaking - our personal - and political - spiritual journey .
Right now the critically important thing is that America and Americans - and other peoples across the world begin to believe in themselves again.
The one thing which strikes me repeatedly is that individual people create culture, civilization and politics - so individual responsibility is a key element.
The founding fathers of America were correct about one big overarching thing - and that is the unalienable rights they referred to in the Declaration of Independence.
I trust everyone will take the time and trouble to look over this revolutionary document in human affairs.
Document Excerpt
In Congress, July 4, 1776
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.—That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, —That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.—Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
These flawed men - these ancestors who wrote, fought for - and who signed and helped shape and defend the documents which changed the world forever.
They weren’t perfect, we’re in exceedingly difficult circumstances, faced certain death if they failed, struggled to keep heart and soul, hearth and home and family together at the same time.
They were declaring themselves independent from tyranny - in this case of the Britain they were citizens of.
They knew war was inevitable and knew losing was not an option.
As they struggled with difficulty through the Continental Congress of 1776 - they sweated through the hot summer in the confines of Philadelphia’s Independence Hall.
These were strong, highly independent men - lawyers and farmers and regular people and professionals from all walks of life.
The differences between them were far greater than their similarities - except for their belief in a common cause - the need to stand against tyranny became their common cause and united them.
The details of the precise ways they would decide to do this were unknown to them during this Continental Congress - their singular purpose that tyranny must be defeated.
There were no perfect leaders - just fellow flawed men and imperfect people - fellow lawyers and farmers and craftsmen and soldiers.
But a few men distinguished themselves - as writers and creative types, as steadfast citizens, as great generals and strategists whose expertise would be necessary in both war and geopolitics - but personal strength was the unifying factor.
The personal strength to overcome all the uncomfortable and painful personal details and to forego a comfortable life at home in order to sacrifice these to a common cause.
None of these men were strangers to tragedy or to the concessions which must be made to unify around a common cause.
They were - all in their different ways - fine examples of personal responsibility and willingness to sacrifice personal gain for a slim chance of victory.
They were all intelligent enough to recognize that not only was victory remote but that once victory was obtained it would only be the first step in a long and difficult process.
As they persevered through the long hot summer of 1776 and this particular Continental Congress their task was to write and explain, argue and complete and sign a Declaration of Independence.
This declaration would serve as the foundation for all that would take place through the long years of war and through the long seasons of the years it would take to cobble together a flawed but serviceable government.
None of what they did was about the perfection of personal character or of an ideal government.
Many concessions would be made in the doing of this - personal preferences sacrificed for the sake of the unified purpose of the whole - to the point that moral principles such as wishing to abolish slavery had to be sacrificed.
This was not idealistic - holier-than-thou - save-the-world - politics but a knock down, drag out battle to unify as a nation against tyranny.
Uniting against tyranny - and the personal and public sacrifices necessary to do this - were the art of the possible at that time.
Then - as now - the founding ancestors fought an impossible battle - with forces of tyranny everywhere in their midst.
The overwhelming majority of people were in favor of keeping things as they were - by no means were the colonists united in fighting against tyranny - and a huge number supported Great Britain and whatever tyranny she handed out.
It is useful to remember that all of the colonists at the time were British citizens and although the nation which owned the colonies through corporate and political agreements was across several thousand miles of ocean - ownership was ownership.
And the Revolutionary War was in fact far more of a civil war than commonly believed.
In that sense the men who conceived and who fought the revolution were traitors and if they lost would have suffered a traitor’s death.
There were more divisions - divisions which would tear the young nation apart less than a century later - than are commonly recognized.
And as Thomas Paine would recognize -
“Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.”
―Thomas Paine,The American Crisis
Because as a great man would write almost two centuries later this tyranny - marked by apartheid - could not be defeated through war or by the establishment of governments - no matter how noble in conception.
“The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either - but right through every human heart - and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. And even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained”
―Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn,The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
Tyranny - marked by apartheid - would only be defeated once - if indeed ever - the human heart was healed.
And that is where we stand today in our fight against tyranny - if anything farther away now in the 21st century then were our founding ancestors in the 18th century.
For today all nations of the world stand overwhelmed by tyranny - including the one which our ancestors conceived of and fought for - the one we will celebrate on this Fourth of July with such patriotic pride.
Both Thomas Paine and Alexandr Solzhenitsyn were correct that not only is fighting tyranny not an exclusively American cause - but a human cause - and that the origins of tyranny cast shadows within the human heart - with apartheid being a line which runs deep within the human heart.
And the acceptance that the defeat of tyranny is an earthshaking and ongoing battle which will require not only the art of the possible - as each new battle is fought and either lost or won - one which demands the gradual progress to be obtained in the slow healing of the human heart.
These successive battles of the human heart require an extraordinary degree of spiritual and psychological awareness and the assumption of extraordinary personal responsibility.
But most significantly for us now we must find a way to tear down and replace the totalitarian systems - rebuilding them from the ground up with decentralized and non authoritarian systems based on the concept the founding ancestors expressed in the Declaration of Independence.
Those creator conferred unalienable rights must form the nucleus around which any subsequent systems are built.
And the system we build anew must be built on free speech and on an inquiry-based platform of public discourse and a lifelong - cradle-to-grave system of education to replace the current system of totalitarian indoctrination.
Totalitarianism cannot and will not be successfully defeated unless the origins of totalitarianism and apartheid which lie in the shadowed realm of the human heart are defeated through both free speech and education.
Agreeing to a written declaration is the first step towards the process of unification necessary to success.
As this is an all too human problem we all share it will not be defeated by a few “tear it down and burn it“ revolutionaries - or by those who sing or write about imagining such a thing.
It is easy and predictable to take the impotent action of destruction and revolution - or by preaching the imagining of it - and an entirely different matter to accept the necessity and difficulty of real change.
As always this battle will not be easily won and will not be won without the politics of the art and science of the possible and not without the sacrifice of many sacred cows towards the achievements of it.
But the first step is the formation of and allegiance to a declaration of what precisely we declare our allegiance to - and to what we declare our separation from.
The world moves on and will decide without us if we do not declare our allegiance to a plan which is inclusive of all of the people of all the world.
The concessions made to keep America united proved to be too much of a chasm to bridge and led to a descent into graft and corruption and even the pursuit of the outright demonic.
This happened not only in America but all across the nation states of the world - with none having an adequate defense against this.
This indicates that when we sacrifice personal sovereignty and personal responsibility to the more powerful - to tyranny - we lose everything.
What we face now is a critical transformation into a different kind of geopolitical reality - one where the unalienable rights of we the people are transforming the whole planet into a very different place.
War and the waging of wars of aggression as nation states compete for resources and capital is no longer a viable part of geopolitics and if followed will be proven to be the end of all humanity.
Those who become leaders now will either commit themselves to the will of the people and be committed to peace - or pay the penalty.
POLITICS AS THE ART AND SCIENCE OF THE POSSIBLE
The game now will be won as the art and science of the possible becomes the art of true diplomacy and an understanding of and a practice of geopolitical interdependence.
This will be an utterly new track for all of us - switching from a geopolitical perspective of war and of being on a war footing - something which quite obviously leads to totalitarianism - as we transform into a new geopolitical commitment of working together for the common good.
The internet - far from becoming the instrument of technocratic tyranny some had bet on - is now transforming into the new instant communication device to bring the anti-tyranny art and science of free speech into reality.
When stumped and feeling lost in defeat - formulate better questions - and then engage in answering those questions one by one in dialogue with the world.
That is the art and science of the possible and the great hope of this world.
We will never ever be truly lost and never ever alone as we ask better and better questions.
Inquiry-based education and public discourse - the way forward to a geopolitical future we can all participate in.
And every single Star Seed who is present now will either transcend with the consciousness of the planet to become this transformation or will forever be left to the dustbin of history.
Congratulations Star Seeds - our persistent belief in - and commitment to - the common good are paying off.
And to
and - and to all those who are making SubStack better one inquiry-based step - by inquiry-based step at a time - toward the support of free speech in the very difficult environment of Silicon Valley - my sincere congratulations.Winning the internet for free speech is no small achievement and will go down in history as the people come to decide against tyranny.
As the people overcome fear and doubt to become themselves the change they wish to see in the world - tyranny and the destruction waged by totalitarian forces will begin to die off and disappear.
Where do we go when all trust in governments, corporations and institutions are gone?
Simple... learn to trust yourself.
You are Great.
The Greatest Capital of Humanity is Humanity itself
Do not let them tell you otherwise... you are Great!
One thing is for sure... you can't buy everything...
But you can learn anything.
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