Can we save our country and our world?

First we have to understand what’s going on, and why; how long these mindsets and values have been festering under the surface and how much of it we have inside us. Knowledge is power. We need to know how we are being controlled, who is doing the controlling, and take a long hard look at all of the ways in which we have been indoctrinated.

Next we need to study and learn who our real enemies are; what is the origin and extent of their power over us, how they maintain it, and what are it’s limits. Then we can act by doing what we can to live outside of those limits. There is no solution on the large scale. We can’t eradicate all evil, we can’t create utopia. That false hope might be partly what got us here.

If we are motivated by saving the world or even our country we’ll probably fail. But we can save ourselves and the nice lady at the bus stop and the man we pass on the street corner every day; the coworker we don’t really talk to, the neighbor we’ve lived next to for years; if we can see their humanity and share in it together.

“The light in me sees and honors the light in you.” I need you and you need me. Today we choose interdependence. We can save ourselves by carving out a community of reliance on relationships, not money, not “the system”. We choose joy by sharing resources and being present in the simple pleasures of life, not chasing the American Dream.

We’ll have to give up a lot to live outside the cage they’ve put us in, but it’s the only way.

~~~

Credit to my dear friend Phillipe Kenny for inspiring this piece with his wise words on finding hope and moving forward.