Could it be we, North Americas, are in essence like an unfamiliar audience attending a symphony?
Where the majority doesn't know the piece of music, or wasn't able to read the way it was being performed, to know if the last note of a dramatic orchestral arrangement means this epic saga is over and....
should they applaud?
can they applaud?
is it too soon to applaud?
should they applaud now?
can we applaud at all?
what? we can applaud?
okay then, who's going to go first?
It's palatable, this uncouth truth.
Imagine if we are jeopardizing our own ecological, conservation and necessary lifestyle change, negatively affecting generations to come, simply because we were unfamiliar with what an epic piece of dramatic, heart wrenching and inspiring piece of music sounds like, or when the last note is released.
In order for us to affect previously unseen positive change we need to recognize;
We're the type who need to see instant mega results.
We're the type who need a tremendously large 'why-carrot' dangling in front of us to motivate us,
We're the type of people who require cash incentives greater than any Government scheme could ever fulfill
We're the type of people who need a lot of others to go first.
Only then....if it seems there really is money to be saved, or earned, by unplugging a lot of things we didn't actually need originally, but accepted anyway because everyone-else-has-one-syndrome, and not consuming or buying into the old and done for American way of waste, will anything well and truly lasting ever come about regarding our sustainability issue-crisis.
So then, how might this human behavioural trip switch in our collective minds be circumnavigated?
Here's an idea.
Freedom.
I'll attempt to explain once you've stopped your hyena-like laughing.
By freedom I mean self-governance.
By self-governance I mean, people generally don't like being 'told' or forced to do anything, but when people are given the freedom to make-their-way, when each are allowed to do what they will to earn for what they require or desire, knowing each will be as different, but that alone is freedom to be, but in enabling people, not enslaving people, people will be naturally compelled to comply with self-regulated responsible restrictions.
There is no need to inflict force or tyranny - we're not savages.
And when and if we exhibit savage traits, look again, because last I checked we are living under tyrannical rule. Release that and you release hope, ethics, morality, creativity, a true market place will flourish, people would thrive, having been given the freedom to learn and discover and do and create what they need for and and of themselves.
It sounds over the top, and silly, buuuuuuut if you stop and really think about it....we can only experience the opposite of what currently exists when we turn that leaf over, not until then, will we ever know the other side.
And no one - not even the wealthiest of the wealthy, lives in a world where there is freedom.
Force is the tool of the tyrannical fool. That is someone, or a government or leader who doesn't know any better.
The only way people will ever change, is if they are given the ability to change. We're not even given that much!.
That is evidence enough we live in a tyrannical system.
Not all will behave or agee - just know they aren't allowed to rule anyone but themselves.
But more would behave according to more natural ways, which would see the slow return of reason, common sense, logic, needs, understanding and foresight and forethought and consideration than wouldn't.
This is about quality of life not quantity.
A quantity mindset is what created the violent unbalance we see in the world.
Freedom and self-governance would compel people the world over to behave naturally, in accordance with what works for them, at their own pace, which alone would make a compelling case for change, but it would mark a new leaf being turned in our lifetime.
Isn't it about time?
All life, everything alive and organic, deserves more than this.
1 comment:
freedom eh? delicious
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