Where this is all coming from

There a collective shift in the consciousness of humanity taking place right now.  People are being confronted with the frightening reality that the social order that has been in place for generations is beginning to break down.  It is no longer serving the collective good and has instead become a tool for oppression.

Maybe it has always been a tool for oppression, and people are finally waking up.  I choose not to believe that.  I believe that the American Experiment, the Constitution and limited government over an educated people free to make their own choices so long as those choices do not harm others, is the single best form of government that has been devised.

I also believe that the above stated form of government needs to be tested.  Because while those words and those ideas presumably still exist in one form or another, they do not seem to have been embraced by those who have been elected to represent the American people.

I also believe that I have probably put enough keywords and syntactic clues in this blog so far that it will hopefully be saved by the vary surveillance technology that threatens the very ideals that deserve to be strengthened.  By saved I mean collected, stored and filtered for long term retention while being cross correlated with similar Internet content.  Because that is what happens these days.  Thoughts, ideas, expressions of a collective humanity are collected, sorted, cataloged and categorized to identify trends with the intention of allowing others to get out ahead of, shape and if necessary, indirectly or even directly oppose them.

Who would want to oppose positive thoughts of peace and prosperity?  Well, that is what this series of blogs intends to find out.  And that is where this is all coming from.  An experiment into whether or not an "Average American" has any chance of championing a positive intent for world peace and wide spread, shared economic prosperity.  An experiment to determine whether or not the American people are ready for it and whether or not the world is ready for it.  Ready for it, open to it, accepting that there is a way forward that does not involve war and organized, orchestrated, violent conflict with our fellow human beings.  Ready for the idea that as a society, we do not need militarized police states and corporate control mechanisms to hold society together.  That in fact, those very mechanisms that have been put in place to keep things going, are actually hastening the decline of what those who leverage those mechanisms are trying to save.

Power.  Power and the ability to the wield it effectively to maintain order and bring about a better world.  The question is, where does it belong?  Does that power belong in the hands of the few because they are better positioned to see the "entire picture" of what is "really going on"?  Or does that power belong closer to the people who are directly impacted by the consequences of wielding that power.  Those who are sent off to war.  Those who are faced with limited choices for "health care" that makes them sick.  Presented options for "fast food" that barely qualifies as that.  Presented with pre-selected options that have been made for them by others.

But that is what the question is.  The saying goes that "People get the government that they deserve."  Do Americans deserve to be self sufficient?  Are we ready for the responsibilities of being in control of our own lives?  Are we evolved enough to accept responsibility?  To realize that in order to be free, that you cannot point a finger at someone else and blame them for the way things are?  To realize that in order to be free, that you must make choices and act in ways that promote freedom?  That you must prove, to yourself and others that you are worthy of being free.  That you can be trusted.  That you can work towards the collective good for your family.  For your friends.  For your community.  Are Americans there?