Politics - The Art of The Possible
Imagine What We Might Do If Changing The World Was Truly Up To Us
WHAT IF THE FATE OF THE WORLD WERE UP TO US?
Most of us do not think of ourselves as politicians - but in truth we are all politicians - engaged in politics from the moment we are born.
We are brought up - socialized - to think only the powerful and rich can be politicians - the well born sons and daughters of the dominant ruling class who lord it over us in our dominance hierarchy civilizations.
We are not taught to see ourselves as skillful negotiators and powerful individuals who can learn to identify what we want and to work steadily to obtain exactly that.
We are part of a classic dominance hierarchy which teaches us from birth that we had better fit in or suffer the consequences of being extricated and alienated from the crowd.
In this situation life becomes a long battle to fit in with the mainstream and to regard popularity as the mark of a winner.
But then we look around at those who are marked as winners and see that the popularity contest they inevitably win is an empty victory to see who can die with the most toys it becomes less attractive.
So how would the world change if everyone saw themselves as being able to become a skilled politician?
It would depend on the morality, intentions and spiritual engagement of those people - shallow people who have no moral fiber to speak of create shallow societies and those with negative antisocial intentions make a mess of everything they touch - in or out of politics.
People who have the best of intentions - who live in accordance with spiritual intentionality - such as wishing to treat others as they would like to be treated themselves - who can move well beyond the cult of personality to raise the bar higher for political and social engagement are rare and quite obviously would be the first choices for a just and equitable and free society.
But our society has grown to value the cheap and easy road of selecting for the easy and for a readily obtainable consumer paradise.
As long as we get what we each want we no longer care about the status quo or such a thing as “the good of society”.
It is every man and woman and child for his or her self from birth onward - and it is the ones who die with the most toys and who win the cult of personality who are highly regarded.
In such a society the desire for real and lasting meaningful engagement with anything worth having is relegated to the “also rans” - the vast majority of people judged ordinary against the “hail fellow well met” Chamber of Commerce mentality of the cult of personality.
This is in effect what we now have - a vast moral and spiritual wasteland of the prosaic - punctuated only by rare encounters with great art and music - and by infrequent forays into the natural world.
Whatever deeper engagement with nature or art or politics we wish to have is precluded by a system which lives in fear of being discovered for exactly what it in fact is.
And that is a comedy of errors which reveals the ever deeper unfolding of intersecting circles of hell.
Every civilization we have tried to build has collapsed at our feet and no one has successfully uncovered the precise reasons.
I believe we live in times which point directly to these reasons and leave us howling at the moon in protest.
Because in a so called civilization in which we obtain not a toe hold of personal power and agency but must bend over to the will of overlords and take a knee to the sycophantic neurotic enablers who support the overlords - no really capable cadre of leaders can emerge to in turn to recognize and to make possible the heights the rest of us may raise to.
This creates a mediocre and lackluster society that no one is that enthused about living in and limits the amount of focused - and morally and spiritual worthy human energy - which is coming into the system.
And if we consider human culture and society to be under the laws of the universe - which I see no reason to argue against - then the laws of physics basically decree that the integrity of any system is limited to the quality and quantity of the incoming or available energy.
Human culture and society are totally dependent on the quality and quantity of the human energy which can be utilized by the system.
And by abstraction by the consciousness which these humans cultivate and manifest.
There is a tremendous ocean of mutual trust available to use to create the beauty we are capable of creating - if we put our minds to it.
Trust has been broken now between us regular people and the overlords - and I would not be expecting this trust would be regained anytime soon - or maybe not ever.
Relationships are built on trust and the trust once held here between our so called leaders and our proletariat “ordinary people” selves has been totally breached.
We are at a place now where the consciousness we share together will determine our present and our future - with everyone a politician in this matrix.
For the consciousness we all choose to cultivate determines both the present and the future.
Beautiful consciousness creates and manifests a beautiful present and a beautiful future.
Essentially what this means is that we can become anything we choose to become.
Our consciousness sends ripple outward in all directions and ripples across the many dimensions of space time - reflecting the original intentionality - whether the intentions are of love and compassion - or of anger and hostility.
Across the ripples of all of the possible dimensions of space time our thoughts manifest the beauty or the lack of beauty as the choice may be.
We exist at a fateful crossroads currently - all the potential beauty of space time and the strength and hope and trust in those creator conferred unalienable rights are ours to possess.
This is a great statement: "Most of us do not think of ourselves as politicians - but in truth we are all politicians - engaged in politics from the moment we are born."
It reflects the truth and reality of human society, and as you point out we are socialized into forgetting it - the common refrain 'don't talk religion and politics' I think is a dogma planted in the social consciousness for that purpose.
Thank you so much - appreciate the restack!