Why Good People Are Not Attracted To Politics
Frequent commenter Greg Chick writes:
I am not sure why good leaders are not in politics. Possibly good leaders can make lots of money (in the private sector) …
The single best answer I can provide is that the political process as it exists today is utterly repugnant to good people. I’m sure there are many fine people with noble aspirations to make a difference in our world, but they immediately meet with the cruel reality: getting elected and staying in office is about raising money and repaying it in favors, not voting one’s conscience and doing what’s right for the majority of the people.
Can you imagine the catfights and back-stabbing that is the essence of local politics? From there, jump to the idea of running for a seat in the U.S. Senate, where the cost of a successful campaign is measured in the hundreds of millions of dollars. Let that idea sink in for a second: nine figures. That money doesn’t come from college students’ $5 campaign contributions, but from sources of money and power beyond your or my wildest dreams. And guess what: they want things in return that have nothing whatsoever to do with your or my happiness, or the welfare of our children.
Looking at this another way, there are plenty of good people in politics, desperately trying to improve our system of government from the outside. The answer, of course, lies in radical campaign finance reform, including a constitutional amendment limiting the power of corporations to influence our elections. I use the word “radical,” derived from the Latin for “root,” because the current system needs to be pulled out by the roots.
Under today’s laws, ExxonMobil, which made a mere $41 billion in profit last year, can spend as much of that as they wish to ensure that Congressman A is elected and that Congressman B loses. Call that what you will, but it’s certainly not democracy, my friend. And if you wonder why we in the U.S. are moving so slowly in the direction of renewable energy, you really don’t have to look much further.
Speaking of good people, the folks at MoveToAmend are working feverishly to pull off this constitutional amendment; they’re making some headway, and they deserve our continuing support.
Craig, I wholeheartedly agree with your assertion that bribery and “corporate personhood” are the first injustices needing to be remedied and prevented before any other progress can be made.
It’s been long observed that government and laws are made necessary by the inability of persons to restrain their passions and would be unnecessary if people were angels – well, as we can see by a quick review of history, people are anything but angels.
As embodied in law among democratic republics like our own once arguably was, the existence of government is to be solely by the consent of the governed and – at least in theory and according to ideals – is conceived to be an arm of the people to establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for their common defense, promote their general welfare, and preserve the blessings of Liberty for all time.
Originally accessible and answerable only to white male landowners in the US, our population has struggled successfully to expand that opportunity and power to all law-abiding adult citizens.
What our government has increasingly become, however, is an instrument tightly held in the hands of the extremely wealthy that they use familiarly to defend their own interests, and to socialize the most horrendous costs of their activities, while they continue to extract and hoard all possible goodness from the society and the bioshpere.
This trend will continue until enough of us stand up together and say, “ENOUGH!” – and at the same time make it clear that we know that it is we ourselves, together, who hold the true power (as we have demonstrated again and again).
Good post!
We know more about how the Human Mind works now than at any other time in our History. We should be holing ourselves and others to higher and higher standards and some of us do. Yet it seems as though to many of us do not. The government WE THE PEOPLE have elected has why too much control over our lives and is way too inefficient and why too corrupt.
If you study language you can feel the bias of group agreement that cements prejuduce of the word GOOD as being the right of the the thug mob. When you consider the word Intent, you realize tha man’s forgerey is symbolic. We are in the greatest min shift known to human developmen. Hearts are guarded by the paralasis of agreed pretense thatt the ggod of man is centered around and in the mono-construct of the word right. that is a human error where we value synthetic make believe good over the genesis purpose of humanity. we are in error as we process hnunmanity with these iconic devices. we treat people like trash because we learn trash after the age of five. We are in a mononomeric differential, a bio-stigma where the eyes contrat with the written word made us mad over 3000 years ago. we are still under the spell of this mono-asphasic spell. some are waking up to the great con of man, some are institutionaly asleep. the omegas, are word converts to a wholey mind-control reality, It is called empowered word. when this ceases, so will evel and so will the human condition founded in nerosis fear, the capitol reason for most jobs today and the advent reality of all sin. James p. Beyor, Guarded Heart Journals.
Both Parties can be blamed but the buck stops with WE THE PEOPLE! We know more now about how the Human Mind works and how it can be controlled and we are allowing ourselves to be controlled. WE THE PEOPLE need to educate ourselves and take control of our own lives. The government is not the answer it is way to inefficient. Those of us that can run our own lives are willing to help those that need help: IF they are willing to be helped. If we slip into the situation were 51% of need the government to survive the system will collapse and it will take a long time to recover. As a nation and as WE THE PEOPLE we have lowered our expectation of ourselves we are Divine Beings having a human experience NOT worms of the dust. Most people that read this will see that I am right but how many will do something about it? Most Americans will do the right thing when asked to!!! The right thing to do is to take Personal Responsibility for you own life!
Craig… the most important step is to ask the right questions and engage the conversation. You have hit on two dire points here – government and our mental economy. What does that boil down to? Moral persuasion? Perhaps.
Cameron put it perfectly – “together, we hold the true power”. Cooperation is clearly the answer to our failings. Therefore, we need to seek out divisiveness and understand, as you said Craig, the “roots’ of the problems. As for individualism and the state, only our personal choice to be more radical, to take initiative, to combat our own self-deception and our passivity in placating it in others.
To this I see the very root of the problem as being the unscientific yet publicly venerated idea of “self-interest”. We have entered into a time where self-interest as a sole focus is suicidal and yet complimentary to the current power structure. If we are to make progress, we need to unify and press our collective message, putting all of our energies into identifying our own delusions and hypocrisy, and working them out together. There just is no other way.
At least we can sit comfortably as we push for diplomacy, civility, and progression, and we can use both the tools and principles of science to make sense of the dire situation we face and the ways to not only overcome, but flourish in its wake.
Thank you for providing a medium where people can converse and converge, albeit under the influence of 300 milligrams of caffeine.
Peace,
Rick
Exactly. I am one of Eco worrier and a National political things are not easy. It is all about back stabbing and who know who and how you know the specific person. It is not about what your passion, your dreams and your qualification. enthusiast. That is why I am Changeling the way people extract and use natural resources from Mother earth and how we redistribute it amongst all the humans plants and animals. I trust I will achieve something from the work I do than been a politician who have not grown a think skin.
So I am a Green giant!!!
John Galsworthy said: Idealism grows in proportion to the distance that separates us from the problem.
Good people are wise and realize that the corruption is so great that it would take thousands of good people to make a difference. Remember that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
When human nature comes in contact with temptation it takes a lot of will to overcome. It is evident that very few are left, or fit.
I say, honesty and morality have to be well impregnated into the new generation so it´s expected and watched over, sadly, that is not the case.
I am an Idealist, and will not be able to change that. I will also continue perusing public education. Mantas, out, facts in. We need a mirror for people to look in to for seeing clearly our choices. We are mislead to our current opinion. It isnt really moral, it is error in judgment. We use great logic, but based on myth from Media.
Greg Chick, Trainer for Green Plumbers
Craig;
Let me put a little different perspective on this; but first, a little background.
I was born in Iowa and spent the first 34 years of my life there. 38 years ago, I moved to Ottawa, Ontario, which many of you will recognize as the seat of the Federal Government of Canada.
In both places, I have met many politicians; many good, some great, some not so good. But here in Ottawa, I have been close enough to realize what an immense job it is to run a country the size of Canada. This must apply even more to the U.S., with its 10 times larger population. To be a politician at the Federal level is a daunting job, and it is no surprise that some might not feel up to it.
Governments are not run only by politicians. There are “bureaucrats” galore; ministers, aides, various offices and their Heads, secretaries, etc.; close to a third of Ottawa’s million+ population works for the government in some manner. There are a million places for things to go wrong.
This also means that when a citizen needs to interact with the government it is often hard to know where to go, espescially when it comes to voicing an opinion on government policy (and politicians do listen to opinions, when you can reach them).
When politicians seem to listen to the wrong voices (oil companies, etc.), we need to make it known, and we need to shout. But where and how do we do our shouting?
Realizing the problem, a group of political activists here in Ottawa started a program called LeadNow, which organizes
contact lists for government officials and departments, identifies issues of public concern, and makes it easy for someone to circulate or sign a petition, and ensures that they will get to the right person or department, and copied to the heads of political parties for comment.
Though the group, I signed two different petitions voicing opposition to the Northern Gateway Pipeline project. One was sent to Joe Oliver, the minister responsible, the other to Prime Minister Harper, and both copied to the leaders of the opposition parties.
Did they listen? Well, I don’t know about Mr. Harper and Mr. Oliver, as I have so far received no response from them; but I received four responses from the opposition parties; two from Green Party leader Elizabeth May, and one each from the leaders of the New Democratic Party and the Liberal Party. All were supportive; Elizabeth May even forwarded to me an open letter she wrote in response to Joe Oliver’s open letter criticizing opponents of the pipeline.
As a result, I now know exactly how each party stands on the issue, in detail. That’s important to know at election time.
Don’t leave government only to the politicians. It’s your government; get involved. If you don’t, you’ll get the government you deserve.
David Behn notes an excellent maxim, “It’s your government; get involved. If you don’t, you’ll get the government you deserve.” Another way of saying this is: Those who ignore politics will be the victims of it.
This maxim illustrates yet another reality making so very much more visceral Craig’s central points about the ever more rampant ‘positive’ and ‘negative’ bribery of our leadership and the outright purchase of our candidates and elections by the top tier of our society.
Of course, by positive bribery, I mean the funds given and positions promised (rewards) with the open understanding that “donors” and “future clients” will enjoy access and influence as a direct result. Negative bribery may be defined as the threat of funds made available to be used on behalf of the target’s opposition or competition (punishments) should the target fail to prove sufficiently cooperative.
The human residents of our social stratosphere most often and most potently achieve these positive and negative ends through paper fictions that we call corporations, which insulate them from legal and financial liability for their acts and decisions, and distance them from the unfavorable impacts on humanity and the rest of the biosphere that result from the very conditions they impose to generate their revenue streams.
By the blinding lights of their philosophy of greed and their glorification of self-interest, our highest judicial body has now fraudulently claimed that money is speech, and that legal fictions are entitled to exercise rights under the Constitution as equals to natural persons.
Speech is an idea communicated, it is not the various media through which the idea is disseminated, nor is speech the volume nor the frequency at which it is broadcast. Money is merely a medium of exchange that is used to control and purchase media (and people). Money can be used to restrict or to facilitate speech, but it is not speech.
A corporation is a creation of law and it is subject to those specific legal definitions under which it was instituted. Additionally, a corporation is taxed based on its profit (its ‘disposable income’, as it were).
A human is a creation of biology and – by their innate status as a natural person – each and every human has inherent and “inalienable” rights that are recognized and enshrined by our Constitution, yet these rights are not ‘granted’ by that revered document. Further, natural persons are taxed based on their entire revenue, not on their ‘disposable income’.
Thus, corporations and persons are not now, nor have they ever been equal under the law.
Rick chooses – in my view wisely – to emphasize the hugely powerful concepts of cooperation and sharing for mutual benefit. Indeed, our progression from small fluid groups of nomadic hunter-gatherers to large agrarian villages and cities and presently nation states has proceeded only by the liberal application of these concepts.
These concepts have been subverted and overthrown by an exclusively modern faith in greed and self-interest – and against the preponderance of evidence, people still cling fervently to that cold and ruthless worldview.
Government is not inherently inefficient – indeed many of the accomplishments that facilitate our ‘developed’ and ‘advanced’ way of life are the direct result of our people cooperating and sharing through government: the national highway system, the internet, public finding of medical and scientific research and water distribution.
The US Postal service is a great example of a public good embodied in government that has been targeted by greed. This wonderful institution was never intended to have profit as its purpose. Like the early free press, it was heavily subsidized by the whole taxpaying population through the government to serve a vital public need. It provided the transportation and delivery of letters and packages to every American settlement no matter how remote for a small and uniform cost. Even today, forty-five cents takes a letter across town or across country.
The post office has long been under assault on many fronts: notably through continued refusal by ideologues in Congress to allow rate increases on a pace comparable to overall costs, and by the unusual requirement that the postal service employees’ retirement funds for forty years out be included as current liabilities. Corporations are held to no such standard. Remember also that the Postal Service was never intended to turn a profit.
Similarly, the greedy faithful deny the proven efficiency of national healthcare systems across the globe in comparison to the fragmented, care-denying ‘illness profit system’ that burdens our businesses.
Representing the repeatedly polled opinion of a majority of doctors and nurses that national healthcare delivers greater access and better outcomes at a lower cost, Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP) states that it “has published a series of peer-reviewed studies over the past 20 years showing a steady increase in health administrative costs. While some aspects of administrative cost estimation (e.g. physicians’ billing costs) require special studies, others, such as insurance overhead, can be easily tracked from publicly available data. These figures show no evidence of a fall in administrative costs since our most recent (2003) comprehensive estimate that administration consumes at least 31% of U.S. health care spending.”
Further, “Recently, right-wing “think tanks” have released studies claiming that Medicare’s administrative costs are far higher than the official 3% estimate. These estimates add to Medicare’s costs a share of the salaries of the President and members of Congress, the cost of running the Internal Revenue Service, etc. But none of these added costs would go away if Medicare were abolished, or up if Medicare were expanded to cover everyone. Most economists agree that such expenses should not be included in calculating Medicare’s overhead.”
According to a study by the Kaiser Family Foundation, and the Health Research and Educational Trust (HRET), “Since 2001, average premiums for family coverage have increased 113%. Average premiums for family coverage are lower for workers in small firms (3–199 workers) than for workers in large firms (200 or more workers) ($14,098 vs. $15,520).”
Here in the US, our “health providers” make more money the sicker you get, and the biggest payoff for drug research is in the ongoing treatment of symptoms, not in cures.
Over in France, the doctor is paid more the healthier you are. France has a system of universal health care largely financed by government through a system of national health insurance. It is consistently ranked as one of the best in the world.
On a simple value for money proposition our “private sector” system fails miserably. The 2008 figures from the member nations of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) tell us that the US paid 17.4% of GDP on healthcare, with a lower level of access and worse health outcomes than France (11.8%), Germany (11.6%), Sweden, (10.0%) Norway (9.6%).
Approximately 92% of the population is covered by Germany’s ‘Statutory Health Insurance’ plan, which provides a standardized level of coverage. Many of the remaining 8% are wealthy people who have opted for private coverage.
Sweden and Norway have universal public health systems in which the entire population has equal access to health care services. The Swedish and Norwegian health care systems are both government-funded and heavily decentralized. In both nations, the health care systems are financed primarily through taxes levied by county councils and municipalities. Sweden and Norway both regularly come top or close to the top of worldwide healthcare rankings.
All four of these nations have significantly lower infant mortality, more physicians per person, lower expense per capita, lower percentage of government revenue spent, and a higher life expectancy than the US. These improved results over those achieved in our “private” system are not particularly unique to these four nations; these four are simply among the best of many fine examples.
Canada and the UK are regularly trumpeted by private sector cheerleaders as “less efficient” and guilty of “rationing”, but there are many nations where public systems are unassailable by any criteria.
Here we see that – as in so many other arenas – private interests like corporations that are governed by the profit motive simply cannot be trusted to deliver the best services efficiently at a reasonable cost. In these matters of public life and public good, cooperation and sharing have won and will reliably continue to win the contest.
Other areas of public life and public good that need to be protected from the greedy faithful are: fire protection; law enforcement; courts and prisons; the military; elections and legislative bodies and processes; basic and higher education; the delivery of potable water and basic nutrition; the protection of air quality; energy production and distribution (utilities and fuels). Some of these we already understand and appreciate as public goods that ought to be delivered universally through cooperative effort – an extension of that sound logic will lead to the rest.
Let me add a few comments from a Canadian perspective:
Our public health care system (which is administered by the provinces rather than the federal government) works very well. Most criticism comes from the “private sector cheerleaders” you mention.
Unfortunately, governments (espescially our current Conservative government) rely heavily on those right-wing “think tanks” you mentioned, which pose as “experts”, but in fact are thinly disguised corporate lobbying groups. Any statistics coming from them should be viewed in that light. My college statistics teacher (whose name has been lost to memory, unfortunately) had two favorite sayings: (1) Figures don’t lie, but liars figure. and (2) There are lies, damned lies, and statistics.
My applogies to this forum for the haste and mispelling in my last message, I do know better. Many people, including myself, spend so much time on these machines I [they] get moon-blinked. At first I was under the impression this was a fluff and buff chat room filled with smiley faces and yuk-yuk. so far, not quite. There are some great and brilliant minds out there, possibly on this sight, especailly?
Cameron’s world political view is right on, David, on Canada, my ansesteral home is very striking, Greg with green notions and personal human concerns is a must see and realize. Accalades to all for thinking out-side “the last reason held” box syndrome.
To my mind, my offering to the world of self-purpose, there are issues which predate our finest views as to what people think, to say. We most assuridly process symbols data as we want insist as, to call it meaning, then, because we agree to the power of the word, mostly word bias, we then call the next pretext-reality…”truth.” Our knowledge itself is corrupt for it is empowered [fixed for one cause, memory enhancement] to serve the top more than the bottom. Money can curently buy truth as armor. How do we know this? By agreed hypocrisy that we can ger away with social degradation by processing the human mind as we do the body which seeks to keep the brain and the energy in that berain pure. Bruce Lipton, on “epeigentic failure.” The top feeds off the bottom, fact no real human being can or will deny. WHY? We process humanity like we do our throw away trash because we are taught to love with iconic indifference and symbolic blame [the truth invested in our systemic binary knowing.
So….I have an idea which involves exactly what Greag and Steve suggest…and that is, to educate our genesis human feelings individually. Share that process. Not by an out dated ersatz agreement, but by an innate sense of self trust the our feelings do belong to a higher power rather than reasons placed on them as not being trust worthy. We are moved by the mover, Genesis. Not by the clever ape who calls himself ‘Civilized” for remebering slogans, jargons and credentialed materials designed to pay well and meant to subvert the mind of man to puppet staus if we turn our will will over to the propaganda imprinted [the contract with the eyes and the remembered binary/pretend written word] as the mindset-head we use a our god forgery. What, to most children before the age of five is a gold star, the prive for remebering what to say. Learning is not available yet. Not till we wake up.
We need to change the world one person at a time. Openly, no closed think-tank back room deviseness we are so prone to endure in this very crucial time Point of the gun freedom [legal bind] and empowered iconic right [seated postions] and the forgery of our social good is on its last leg. Goverments are mostly Imperistic in natue. Ask achient Rome what happened. Private Cults, all of them and institutionally cemented by man-made fear, using genesis fear, of which, befor we feel afarid, is a dear and devine friend. A psysic teller, five to the fifth power. Which, by not trusting the feelings vested in our direct knowing facility [the feeling matrix], ends up being our enemy.
The enemy in us is what we fail to see when we convert a an already seamless life real into the pretense of agreed right, iconic power. Our cold blooded symbols reality is murderous. That we can rule over the memeory mind of man and demand that our brain can sustain its own indifference is ludicris but, our social climate is frought with this ill-will toward our fellow man. It is political and religious in its belief system: fear. We are all infected even though we can feel compelled to share this token view, that there is a break through. Question.
Question until all is serene in us. Is that the answer in the long run. Albiet, it is. Albert Einstein said…Quote: “no knowlede of that which should be will ever come from this one”. Why? Why would a genius shoot himself in the foot for that statement?
The human brain is in a bio-shock and has been for over 3000 years of icon worship [empowered word subjugation] and what it does long term to all of us. We are duped, for the most part, from lack of self-awareness. it is refreshing to know some are awake and willing to question what our heads are full of… People are waking up from a spell over 4500 years old. The bio-Mononomeric Differnetial. Genesis sabotage. Our reality bridge is on fire.
This forum is [could be] a bastion of hope. Let us stay open, question and share the wide rage of brain power here-to-for set forth. Let the heart speak. Guarded Hearts Journsals, 2012. James P. Beyor
“Governments are mostly imperialistic in nature”
Our modern global corporations are also imperialistic in nature, in an even more entrenched way. They are our modern-day pirates, with more polished tactics,lacking only the flag with the skull-and-crossbones symbol.
(A point of history: the skull-and-crossbones symbol is believed by many to be derived from the first-century practice by certain religious sects in biblical Isreal, of “second burial”. The body was layed out in an outer chamber for the flesh to decay, and the bones later collected in limestone boxes called ossuaries. The boxes were only large enough to accommodate the torso; the femurs were laid over it in a crossed pattern and the skull layed on top. The symbol is believed to have been adopted by the Knights Templar, who are believed to have raided some of these tombs around 1100 A.D., including, possibly, the one of Jesus and his family – see “The Jesus Family Tomb” by Simcha Jacobovici and Charles Pellegrino.)
We bow to these corporations at our peril.
“We have met the enemy and he is us.”- Pogo, in Walt Kelly’s comic strip of the same name.
I am a reader from Poland. At present, we face similar problems with our leadership and lawmakers, who appear to have turned vehemently against the society. The recent turmoil in Poland related to ACTA sounds like a proof of corporate governance over governments of the states and over the masses, and the objection against such rule by the society. I think that only a radical change can stop bad governance and leadership.
All my life, I have heard the mantras of being involved. I can’t disagree, but the punishment is now too great. A certain amount of sacrifice was to be expected. Now it is the complete defacement of yours and your family’s lives.
I know a large number of very intelligent people whom I respect. I would bet in advance that they have our society’s best interests at heart. While there is no useful extrapolation from this statement, I will say that not one of them would consider public office. One small data point of reality.
I know a number of very intelligent people who are, or have been, in public office. I also know a number of people who are politically active outside that arena. Both take a healthy dose of courage, for the reasons you mention.
Great article and discussion Craig. Thank you, not only for this article but the many articles that you touch upon these sensitive subjects.
It is nice to read the comments and realize I am not alone in my bewilderment on how our political system elects officials and promotes lack of integrity.
There is absolutely no courage left in politics. No boldness. Even when it comes from wingnuts, it is still tempered by the need for votes from the status qua, funding, and initial access. The entire pipeline to office reminds me of the sewer ol’ Andy Dufresne had to crawl through to get to freedom (Shawshank Redemption). Craig speaks of a radical approach – a simply call this disruption. At this point, the pulverizing mediocrity out there indeed needs to be shaken out of their slumber. It is definitely the time, and Sustainability is that sleeping giant. When a holistic, systemic disruption is proffered, taking into account a prepared acknowledgement and will to act on new found risk literacy, the clouds are cleared away and the opportunities are just waiting there. Courage is what counts now, not cowering or kowtowing to money or affiliation. Transparency when an organization is authentic and ballsy is enlivening, engaging, and begins a powerful narrative that yanks on the tails of those who are just waiting to jump in. We need a positive shock doctrine, one built on cooperation, vision, and disruption. One must always press forward.
I really enjoyed reading this article. So sad, but true. Very well put. If only every voter would read this and decide to make a difference.
As we step up to the plate in a fresh approach to an old, seeming bad spell, ofwhich we and our fore-fathers contracted over 3000 year ago, has reached fruition. Nice comment on SHOCK doctrine, David said. Well said. We need fresh new voices and we need them NOW. The Avitar theory. [the movie AVITAR…by the way…a must see] Change the rules of the game. That is a must. We are doing that as we share with out icon-agrement. The basses of a new world order will not based on jugement of the word intent. The oppertunist good that makes our minions bad and lowly and forever profitable and slavery bond to credentials worthy, is unaccountable to all its collatel damage. The human condition that can not be redeemed by the same agrements that made it. A knowledge that should not be. SO?
The bain of mans An old game which makes more and more deep-pockets for more and mor gold which comes from the bottom of human trust, the same ignorance which liked the historical Christ. David’s score on the Talpiot Tombs documentary was very exacting and the real living-life human beings who saw the rogue Jesus who was in a first Genesis desire to use sound as an equally powerfull comunication device, was quicky taken away by the Omega’s who see the icon, the black-ink-symbol, the documented word as an exclusive devise, a mind controlling device that can be implanted by the eyes to dominate the mindset [sub-conscious implant] of and over the memory was the new hell. Agreement was then sin as the brain’s mind was dimed. Evil became man’s icon trance. The brain started to decay from non-use of its full sense.
The great un-holy inqusition was frought by nealy 1600 years of out-right willing insanity, fear ruled the life of man and murderous acts went unchecked. No civiled governments ever made it past 200 years, most less tha 100. we, the greast country on earth, the cradel of the best and the worst are faced, again, with an age old problem. Are we the thinkers we brag to be, give credit there-to? People are not sheep or cattle or chattel. Our black ink paper contract, signed away rights a totally rooting ephemra.
The brain can not be backed aginst man’s empwereed iconic wall. For most, then and now, a bio-stigama occured, a neural wither occured, still is, delusion sets in, replacing the brains ability to bio-feel [the biological urge we can all sense as a living knowing] as is the genesis of it own innate, long term self knowing. the bases of a sound reality bride that was buried deep in symbolic pretense [pretending by ersatz agreeing] of binary word-reason. And here we are, befuddled, afraid, forlorn. A sense offence was created. The living orb that makes us feel does not belong to the empowered icon mind of remebering manciple at all. That is why we fear in the first place. Make fear your friend and watch what happens. No more agreements necessary to make you who you are not. Said another way, agreement makes us frgeries of each other. we love with blind self-abandon. The very distant illusion we share, biblically called: evil, it is the great con of man, a deadly icon-agreement [word construct]. Legalized, word empowered to the head-players, a willing trap.
If you go to the non-conical Gospels of the find in Nag-Hammadi Egypt, [Elaine Pagels reseach] the Gospel of Thomas…”and this was changed to that and that to this and all realty is lost.” The general premise for the word: black ink of intent. All are guilty until ajudged innocent. Blacks Law 101. What a head game that must of been for the historical Christ who aske… “and by whos power are you over me?” If there is a concord to the living truth, we will feel it. Imagine standing up to some one who judges you based on intent that never existed in the first place? We know we know, but can’t quite get to it, or knuckle under when we can take the time to question. Apply no reason to what you feel and wait. do it again and agin until the genesis ortal opens..self doubt as to what words are doing in nyour head. Feel it. Albeit you will be able to see in the dark. It is called direct knowing. our own biology is very real and moves us to feel, to be able to sense knowing. We can. We are here to touch our individual gifts and share them openly. No guns needed. Not now, not ever. We must become Avitars of human dignity, not process human beings like chaff and throw-aways. Society still feeds off human misure and its blind trust. Stop this madness. Every person has something to say and we must listen. The purpose of this forum shall it become.
The broken record of our political/religious mouth pieces are all very rich and thier pockets are lined in deception. If we want to continue to be pawns pating for laws which take freedom away [hello]. What did we do before the seat-belt? The stop-sign? wemust awaken from a centues old black sleep. the beginning of the frotified word: intent, slaughter the man nmaed Christ, histrically the beginning of what Blacks law stoled from the Holy Roman Imperial cult. the imprinting of the icon upon the neural memory portion of the eyes contract with the outer world. Strange as it might seem. The written word hates the power of the energy vested in genesis..via anything tha can not be bent into the mind-shift of icon-judgement, the black ink of word. the slavery we live in, the box.
The best memory is one that CAN forgt, not onre that empowers people to be players who force those who understand decission is adjustable, not a rule based all or nothing law [our binary push-button brain on the drug of right and worng] and it will never be from this point on. Let us embrace and face weather the odds are not in our favor yet. Share and question. Non-connical Gospel of Mary Magdalene…the Pista-Sophia…. “and jesus said, make no more laws.” Rome was the beginning of legally santioned slavery over the human will and murder to all who opposed that edict.
Paper laws pay well as does a blind trust given to those who can recieve payment do harm to others by doing that, to use seated positions as they are used; the indoctrinated Omega factor, the word is terminal, defient, empowered and all will is made to be a reactive product of remeber and obey…so they…the advertised version of our willing slavery, as being safe from the word: fear…means, strict obedience to the poweres tha be and make payments and sevice there-to. That is an edvent reality [linier time, icion provocation mind-shift] that is now 3500 years old. We must awaken from its spell.
I was directed to the “Money Movers” found on you tube a very serious documentary with no equal in gravity on this issue or other issues for that matter. Fractional Lending, BC to today. Ethics?, Power? Just look at this.
Greg Chick,
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