a couple of days off… yayyyyyyy
on some thread, can’t find it now, but anyway on some thread,
I mentioned how I flow from the inside to outside…
when I walk into a room, I think that I am the smartest person
in the room… that is my basis for my interactions with the world…
now many people have different basis upon which centers them…
some might have as their basis their looks or their money…
I am better then you because I am rich or I am better looking then you…
that is the center from which they engage the world with…
some aspect of who they are is the center of their understanding
of who they are and from that, they engage with the world…
that center, that core of understanding is ground zero for our engagement
with the world…….
if we somehow lose that center, I might discover I am not as smart as
I thought I was, I am not the smartest guy in the room… I lose my centering
core, from that which I engage with the world…I become lost, disconnected
or alienated from who I am… I have no core anymore from which I then
engage with the world… If I engage with the world as being wealthier then
everyone, then what happens if I lose my money… I lose the core of my
understanding of who I am…
but this single act of engagement that we individually go through, also
applies to us collectively…
we have ism and ideologies that play the same role for us collectively as
my being smart plays for me or wealth plays for someone else or looks…
what happens if we lose our identity? so, what happens to us collectively
when we lose our identity, when we lose our core believe about ourselves…
we become disconnected, alienated from the society…
when I was a kid and for many years thereafter, I heard about how America
was the home of “truth, justice and the American way of life”
what happens to us collectively when we lose that ideal, that core of who
we were… what if being American is no longer about “truth, justice and the
American way of life”… then what does it mean to be an American?
if we have lost our core believes about ourselves, then what are we to base
as our “core”, as our understanding of what it means to be American if we
no longer hold to “truth, justice and the American way of life”?
that is the real danger IQ45 brings to us… because of the lies and injustice
endemic in the IQ45 administration… if the lies and injustice of this
administration has cause us to lose our core values, the values which make
us American’s has been shaken to its very core, then we question what
it means to be an American…….and in the very act of questioning what it
means to be an American, we admit to ourselves we have lost the core, the
basic understanding of what it means to be an American… if we no longer
believe in “truth, justice and the American way of life” as the core basis of what
it means to be an American, then what do we believe in?
as nothing has rising to take its place, we have no other standard or core judgment
as to what it means to be an American, then we are disconnected from,
alienated from what it means to be an American…
over and beyond the obvious damage this administration and the GOP has
done to America, this destruction of the core basis of what it means
to be an American must rank as the highest crime against America
that this administration and the GOP has done…
what are the core beliefs of being an American?
you can’t tell me anymore then I can tell you… that there doesn’t
seem to be anymore core beliefs that hold us together as American’s seems
to be evident, as least evident to me…
and thus we have the rise of the dictator… once core beliefs are lost,
destroyed, then we have no other possibilities to consider as core beliefs
except for the domination of the dictator… this is the clue as to why countries
turn to dictators and dictatorships… they have lost their core values of what it means
in their country and now to hold, to maintain some core beliefs they turn to
dictatorships… it at least allows the people to hold some sort of values…
that they can affirm as being of their country… Hitler rose because the basic
values of what it meant to be German was lost and in floundering because they
had no other values to turn to, so they turned to the loudest voice with the
“answers”…….and that cost millions their lives… the loss of values as to what
it means to be a citizen within any given country
can be quite dangerous to all involved, so we need to take this very seriously…
“Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
the blood-dimmed tied is loosed, and
everywhere the ceremony of innocence
is drowned; The best lack all convictions,
while the worst are full of passionate intensity”
the centre cannot hold because there are no values within
the centre to hold… the GOP attack upon the basic values that
have hold American together, the centre values, have been denied,
negated, the nihilism of the GOP has destroyed the values of what it
means to be an American…and we shall be a lost people until we find
new values to replace the destroyed values of “truth, justice and the
American way of life”
and in finding new values, we find a new centre from which we can
begin to act and interact with the outside world…if I lose my core
value of being the smartest person in the room, then I must find
a new core, a new basis upon which I can react to and interact with the
world…perhaps I shall take as my central values, my new core, the
values of kindness and love and charity… and these become my
core values, the basis upon which I act with and interact with the world…
so as a people, if the old values have been grounded into pulp,
then we must find new values, a new core from which we can
proclaim ourselves as America’s with…as the old values of “truth,
justice and the American way of life” is no longer our core values, then
what core values should we hold and make as our core values?
the materialism that is the heart of the America experience, the
American way of life is the ongoing and soul crushing values of
America today… if we reject this ongoing materialism of
the ever increasing search for profits, then with what do we
replace this core value with?
if we reject capitalism as the core value of being an American,
then with what do we replace it with?
this is why we are feeling disconnected and alienated from
our society and each other… because the core values that
allowed us to remain connected to each other, has been degraded
and devalued and must be replaced…so if capitalism has been
degraded and devalued, it must be replaced… with what becomes the
question…
if because of capitalism and it relentless pursuit of profits has
meant the rejection of such human values as love and charity
and honesty and hope and justice, then what values should we
then adapt?
and it always become a question of values…what values are
we going to be…what values should we hold as both human beings
and as American’s?
if one loses their values, both individually and as a people,
then what is next? a search for the new values which has begun
even as you read this even though people won’t think of it that way,
that is what is happening… so ask yourself…
what values are my values and what values should I bring to
the collective us?
for we are never alone, we always exists with others and so values
must not only have an individual aspect but it has a collective aspect…
so what values are to become the new “truth, justice and the American way of life”?
Kropotkin