Fellow politicians of planet earth – we have been sorely
remiss in our duties and responsibilities to be good stewards to the resources
of our planet and good caretakers of the well being and dignity of our fellow
living beings – of which the animal and plant kingdoms are equally considered.
To avoid any miscommunication or room for misinterpretation –
in this blog when I say “politicians” or “fellow politicians” I do not speak of
people elected into governmental offces or people who have career or
institutional positions in the various manifestations of “government” in our
world. When I say “politicians” and “fellow politicians” I refer to YOU, who
are reading this document and I refer as well to myself who is currently
composing this document.
There are many “truths” in our world that are not easy to
take in or accept – and here it is necessary for one particular truth to be
made abundantly clear if the purpose and intent of this blog are to be
practically understood:
We, the human beings of planet earth are fully responsible
not only for the conduct of our governments and our world systems – but of our
very own thoughts and our accepted natures. We are at all times responsible for
the degree to which we participate in our own living and our own thinking – and
in innumerable moments throughout our days we are in fact making decisions that
will have a consequence for not only our own lives, but the lives of all around
us.
We, the human beings of planet earth are fully capable and
equipped to make of this planet a place of honor and dignity and expression for
all life – if we would but dare to consider that there is more to life and
living than our personal desires and preferences. We do not stop or allow ourselves
the courage to really consider where our personal desires and preferences are
coming from and whether or not they actually serve our best interest or reflect
our greatest potential if we continue to profess that we want a better world
and that we want what is best for all when our actual personal words, thoughts,
and deeds paint a picture that is contradictory and often in direct conflict
with what we profess to “want” in our world.
It is remarkably easy to profess and “support” the idea of a
better world – a world of unity – a world of peace – a world in which we can
truly walk as equals and all have their most important human needs attended to
not out of obligation but out of common sense and genuine consideration. It is
remarkably easy to say that this is the world we want to live in and this is
the world we are willing to fight for and stand up for – that we are apparently
“ready” for such a world to come into being just as soon as the government
realizes how abusive it is, or just as soon as our global financial systems
have a “change of heart” and start valuing things based on actual human values
instead of exotic equations meant to seek only profit at all costs, or just as
soon as every major corporation begins to take responsibility for the social,
psychological, and environmental impact of their businesses – so long as we do
not have to take the first step or have to hold ourselves accountable or have
to be the very example of what we want in this world – then yes we are prepared
to “support” and “be ready for” and “agree with” everything that everyone ELSE
should do in order to make our world the place we profess it should be.
It is time to get clear with our starting point and face the
actual responsibility that we, the human beings of planet earth have in this
particular moment in time and to realize that our fears are not felt alone –
that we are in fact equal in our responsibility and equal in our absence thus
far.
It is time for us to develop AGREEMENTS with the
understanding that who we are and what we have allowed through our own personal
interests has lead us to a world of consequences – and that we must find within
ourselves the courage to not judge or hold ourselves back due to fear of our
own past or fear of what others may think or fear of what may happen if the
actual truth of ourselves ever becomes exposed – and in this we must, within
our agreement as fellow politicians of planet earth – to never sit in judgment
or separation from one another – that we have had as much spitefulness and self
interest as anyone else and that if we truly seek to restore our integrity, we
must recognize that the same right within all others – to forgive as we would
like to be forgiven.
The hard truth of this world is not as simple as a single
group of elites who mastermind the world to their own benefit – but that a
great and vast majority has allowed this to happen because we have not stood up
for each other as equals, but sought only after our personal survival and our
personal interest at the expense of all others – which is the ‘mark’ that one
can begin to see in all aspects of our world – from our personal relationships,
our communities, our corporations, our governments, and the behaviors of our
nations.
We as the politicians of planet earth – we human beings –
have trapped each other in self-interest and competition as we hold each other
to our judgments and our past and in this we divide each other instead of being
one united house, one united family that understands that we have had issues
and personal conflicts but that such things do not have to define who we are
and that through agreements we can actually learn how to give and support each
other – that our desires and wants do not have to be fought for through
competition when we AGREE that we are better standing together than standing
apart – and that we are better stewards and guardians of this world and it’s
various forms of life when we face ourselves without judgment, forgive
ourselves of that which does not serve us or our ability to stand as a house
united, and we SHOW by example that we can take responsibility for ourselves
completely and insist that others in our world do the same – and stand here in
unconditional support as a reminder that we can let go of our past and our
fears and our separation – and whatever ugliness and darkness we must face and
expose, we do not allow it to be personal – we do not allow it to anymore
define who we are or who we now decide to be – and this we do in honor and
integrity one by one starting with ourselves.
This is the REAL politics of the world and in every waking
second our decisions are being ‘counted’ whether we decide to be aware or not.
Do NOT allow your actions and decisions to be made for you by self interests
that corrupt your political integrity. The world is in danger – and the real
politicians of the world are the only ones with the power and leverage to
change it. Thus I invite you humbly to walk and investigate the Politics of
Self and get to know yourself as your own political body – to assess what
decisions and what policies you are making and whether that is making you an
effective global politician and an example of life, or whether you have special
interests that have lobbied your political interests against your principles –
and to ensure that the face you see in the mirror reflects a political body
that can be trusted and counted on to do not what is popular or feels good –
but what is in fact best for all.
