TAKE CONTROL AND MAKE THE DIFFERENCE BY CHANGING WHATEVER NEEDS TO BE CHANGED.
I have received, lately, all kinds of sharing comments about the inconformity with what is going on, worldwide. On the TV, biased, daring and clownishly mimicking gurus of all types. On the internet, emails, pictures, acid commentaries, about all political and social maladies, blaming leaders and followers alike.
Interestingly, ninety nine percent of the negativism is focused on the United States and its present crisis. Comments flourish with all types of barbs based on policies, non policies, actions, non actions, race and non racist justifications. It is a circus. A very colorful one, to say the least!
Let´s get back to the title of these comments of mine. Let´s dissect it, piece by piece.
STOP BLAMING OTHERS. Yes, and let me tell you why. We can spend all our life, or what is left of it, blaming others. The government! The politicians! The savage capitalists! The manipulators! The socialists! The leftists! The rightists! The one in between! The middle classes, the poor and the paupers, the literate and the ignorant, the buffoons and the clowns! And the list can go on forever.
I have done the same, before. It is so easy to blame others to avoid blaming ourselves. Why do I say this? Because it allows us to endlessly perorate about circumstances, causes and details without never getting to the core of the issues.
GET TO THE CORE OF THE ISSUES. And what, the hell, all this means? Because the real and fundamental core of the issue is the self! In other words, we, the human beings that populate this earth and dilapidate its resources as the most cannibalistic and self destructive virus we would ever, or could ever, visualize it exists.
And viruses are overwhelmingly virulent, active and abundant in the myriads, inside of us all, and all around, wherever we are or go.
Not many weeks ago I was mesmerized and innerly shaken up while watching up a documentary about what the earth would look like if humans disappeared from its face.
The documentary, produced and aired, I do not remember well if History Channel or National Geographic, took us through a astonishing and whirl winding time trip in a succession of seconds, universe time lapses speaking of.
In it the earth purges itself from the atrociously negative effects of human doings, deeds and makings, using among many ways, the most astonishing ones because of their simplicity, as the grasses and their roots, the birds wastes and the water and the soluble salts disintegrating the most solid things we have been able to devise, steel and concrete.
THE SELF, I, YOU, WE, YOURSELF AND OURSELVES! We should start taking responsibility for ourselves. By this I mean we should stop avoiding the inevitable presence of the self, as we have turn it into. The virus I was referring before.
Because all human race is a self, and individual one, every one of us, and a collective one, the families, the communities, the nations, the races, the whole human world.
So, whatever it occurs is a consequence of what we are and what we do. The essence, by way of our innerest tendencies and cravings of our human being-ness and the way they sprout into life and express themselves will determine our most fundamental even if hidden and disguised motivations.
In due course these motivations will dictate our actions, deeds or misdeeds, and this is what we must take responsibility for, without blaming others, even if in a collective way, because all started with a single and sole human being in the first place. And it is here where change and restoration must take place so retribution and real progress and well being can be obtained.
Human beings, we, all of us, without exception, needlessly complicate things, and consequently mess up living, ours and that of the rest, all around us.
We confuse well being and happiness with abundance and profligate enjoyment and personal satisfaction of our cravings at all costs.
When discussing all this one of my closest ones vehemently insisted that since the beginning of every human deed all has been the same. Titles, names calling, philosophies, regimes, social mores, have only outwardly, as a chameleon, changed.
In the near future new voracious and ruthless leaders, and compliant followers and opportunist will arise. Just the name will change. And the wheel of destiny, as the wheel of fortune so wildly popular in the TV will come to a new crisis stop, in waiting for a new name calling and actors so the show can go on.
And this is natural, logical and consequential. It is embedded in the human self. Let´s analyze why.
At this moment I would like to refer to some catholic religious tenets. I know that many of my friends are not catholic, but for the effect of the analysis I have not found a better comparison parameter up to date.
Interestingly, ninety nine percent of the negativism is focused on the United States and its present crisis. Comments flourish with all types of barbs based on policies, non policies, actions, non actions, race and non racist justifications. It is a circus. A very colorful one, to say the least!
Let´s get back to the title of these comments of mine. Let´s dissect it, piece by piece.
STOP BLAMING OTHERS. Yes, and let me tell you why. We can spend all our life, or what is left of it, blaming others. The government! The politicians! The savage capitalists! The manipulators! The socialists! The leftists! The rightists! The one in between! The middle classes, the poor and the paupers, the literate and the ignorant, the buffoons and the clowns! And the list can go on forever.
I have done the same, before. It is so easy to blame others to avoid blaming ourselves. Why do I say this? Because it allows us to endlessly perorate about circumstances, causes and details without never getting to the core of the issues.
GET TO THE CORE OF THE ISSUES. And what, the hell, all this means? Because the real and fundamental core of the issue is the self! In other words, we, the human beings that populate this earth and dilapidate its resources as the most cannibalistic and self destructive virus we would ever, or could ever, visualize it exists.
And viruses are overwhelmingly virulent, active and abundant in the myriads, inside of us all, and all around, wherever we are or go.
Not many weeks ago I was mesmerized and innerly shaken up while watching up a documentary about what the earth would look like if humans disappeared from its face.
The documentary, produced and aired, I do not remember well if History Channel or National Geographic, took us through a astonishing and whirl winding time trip in a succession of seconds, universe time lapses speaking of.
In it the earth purges itself from the atrociously negative effects of human doings, deeds and makings, using among many ways, the most astonishing ones because of their simplicity, as the grasses and their roots, the birds wastes and the water and the soluble salts disintegrating the most solid things we have been able to devise, steel and concrete.
THE SELF, I, YOU, WE, YOURSELF AND OURSELVES! We should start taking responsibility for ourselves. By this I mean we should stop avoiding the inevitable presence of the self, as we have turn it into. The virus I was referring before.
Because all human race is a self, and individual one, every one of us, and a collective one, the families, the communities, the nations, the races, the whole human world.
So, whatever it occurs is a consequence of what we are and what we do. The essence, by way of our innerest tendencies and cravings of our human being-ness and the way they sprout into life and express themselves will determine our most fundamental even if hidden and disguised motivations.
In due course these motivations will dictate our actions, deeds or misdeeds, and this is what we must take responsibility for, without blaming others, even if in a collective way, because all started with a single and sole human being in the first place. And it is here where change and restoration must take place so retribution and real progress and well being can be obtained.
Human beings, we, all of us, without exception, needlessly complicate things, and consequently mess up living, ours and that of the rest, all around us.
We confuse well being and happiness with abundance and profligate enjoyment and personal satisfaction of our cravings at all costs.
When discussing all this one of my closest ones vehemently insisted that since the beginning of every human deed all has been the same. Titles, names calling, philosophies, regimes, social mores, have only outwardly, as a chameleon, changed.
In the near future new voracious and ruthless leaders, and compliant followers and opportunist will arise. Just the name will change. And the wheel of destiny, as the wheel of fortune so wildly popular in the TV will come to a new crisis stop, in waiting for a new name calling and actors so the show can go on.
And this is natural, logical and consequential. It is embedded in the human self. Let´s analyze why.
At this moment I would like to refer to some catholic religious tenets. I know that many of my friends are not catholic, but for the effect of the analysis I have not found a better comparison parameter up to date.
I am talking about what is known as the 7 Capital Sins.
PRICE! AVARICE! LUST! GLUTTONY! ANGER! ENVY! SLOTH!
The shortest and more accurate synthesis of all the social turmoil,
PRICE! AVARICE! LUST! GLUTTONY! ANGER! ENVY! SLOTH!
The shortest and more accurate synthesis of all the social turmoil,
maladies, crisis, abuses, thunderously murdering genocides, and we could go on, and on!
PRIDE! Al all types! Racial! Social! Financial! Political! Religious! Spiritual! Carnal! Homosexual! Lesbian! Keep on naming, you will always find another one to deal with! And this is the root of the rest of the chain of abuse. because in every case pride becomes self-deception, discrimination of all types, and consequently, abuse!
AND WE ARE WILLINGLY PAYING THE PRICE!
AVARICE! With its two faces of the same coin: GREED AND AVARICE! Greed to get whatever and much ever we can. Avarice or denial of the responsibility to share with the rest what overflows and go beyond the reasonable limits and horizons of our needs.
AND WE KEEP ON PRAYING THE PRICE!
LUST! Or the unreasonable and unrestrained desire to get what is normally within our domain. Starting with sex and its perverted deviations, ending with the lust for dominion and control, by all means of manipulation, deception and suppression of the rightful needs and desires of the rest!
AND WE DISREGARD THE PRICE!
GLUTTONY! Or the, again, unrestrained and uncontrolled addiction of any type! It could be of food for the lesser but privileged ones, while the immense majority go unnourished and sick, even if natural resources and production processes abound and are available or on hand. It could be any devisable crave that bloats our flesh, mind and spirit, if we allow it to do so.
AND SO, WE SUFFER THE CONSEQUENCES
ATTACHED TO THE PRICE TO PAY!
ANGER! The disguised as rights, violated and claimed back! Or the cyclical outburst of the reaction to the abuses not because they are abuses per se, but because they are inflicted upon the ones who see themselves discriminated and kept apart from the privileged ones!
AND THE PRICE CONTINUES TO BE EXACTED
AT GREAT PAIN AND COST,
IN THE FORM OF VIOLENCE, REVOLUTION AND DESTRUCTION
IN THE FORM OF VIOLENCE, REVOLUTION AND DESTRUCTION
OF WHAT HAS BEEN OBTAINED,
AND SHOULD HAVE SERVED
AND SHOULD HAVE SERVED
FOR THE EJOYMENT OF ALL!
ENVY! The necessary ingredient for the less daring and bold! Those unwilling to risk their lives as the ones who lead the outburst detailed in the paragraph above, but willing to support them, with hopes of potentially accessing the leftover and over spilling pieces of the looting of what was enjoyed by the few, before.
EVEN IF IS NOT UNDERSTOOD
THAT THE PRICE PAID WAS AT THE EXPENSE
OF PERSONAL AND COLLECTIVE DIGNITY,
INTEGRITY AND MORAL STRENGHT!
SLOTH! IDDLENESS! LAZINESS! The cowardly scenario for the self justification efforts by the majority to excuse themselves, and remove all sense of guilt and responsibility, without understanding that none of the corruptional steps laid out above would be possible without our procrastination, laziness and who cares attitudes that pervades and immobilize the masses of the world!
AND THIS IS WHAT I STATE THAT WE MUST GET RID OFF
AND WHAT I MEAN BY TAKING CONTROL
AND MAKING THE DIFFERENCE
BY CHANGING WHATEVER NEEDS TO BE CHANGED.
And don´t tell me that you do not see all this as possible or within your realm or influence because it is no so. it is quite possible, feasible and most of all unavoidable and just.
Even if it looks as an impossible dream, a visionary outburst beyond all attainable goals!
It takes daring, personal resolve and sacrifice, it´s true!
But what life is that of the one who overfeeds and the one who starves, because we do not do our part?
MAHATMA GHANDI did it.
It takes daring, personal resolve and sacrifice, it´s true!
But what life is that of the one who overfeeds and the one who starves, because we do not do our part?
MAHATMA GHANDI did it.
If he was able to do so, why we can not even go beyond where he went and obtained?
It only takes dying like he did, with only a pair of wire rimmed eyeglasses, a pair of worn out leather strips sandals, a bare and almost ragged white cotton tunic, and a badly dented tin plate to feed himself.
It only takes dying like he did, with only a pair of wire rimmed eyeglasses, a pair of worn out leather strips sandals, a bare and almost ragged white cotton tunic, and a badly dented tin plate to feed himself.
But his example moved multitudes, who bled and were bludgeoned when crossing a bridge and refusing to leave, with the awesome consequence of the liberation of a continent riddled with all types of social castes´ discrimination, but free to decide its own destiny, after all.
