5
Factors That Indicate America Is Over
5. Environment.
Call it, “Climate Change.” “Global Warming.” “Creation Care.” Whatever you call it, the fact is that
industrial and post-industrial society is consuming nature (and itself) at an
unsustainable level. America is built on
a culture of exploitation: of natural resources,
of human beings, and even of relationships and emotions. It is antiquated. It is obsolete. And it is unsustainable. Something new is emerging. Something transcendent is emerging; as it always does.
4. Organisational Evolution.
America is propped up by
behemoth government. It is propped up by
behemoth corporations. And it is even
propped up by behemoth religious institutions.
And amidst these expansive institutional structures, there is an
increasing distance and disconnect between the ordinary person and the
decision-makers. Within this space there
is dissonance. As such, there is an
increasing affinity and practice of “micro” organisations: close-knit entities with horizontal
cooperation, consensus building, full engagement. It is a tedious process of development, but
this organisational evolution is invading all endeavours and playing for keeps.
3. Internet.
Hoards of information are
readily available to the masses. It is
increasingly, excruciatingly difficult to pacify the masses with smoke and mirrors. People want equity. People want genuine opportunities. People are becoming increasingly aware when
this is withheld. And people are
becoming increasingly knowledgeable in how to navigate beyond convention and
make this equity and opportunity so.
2. Obama.
The office of POTUS
(President Of The United States) is historically a symbol of the epitome of
achievement. Power. However, amidst the continuing divisiveness
that exists within the United States, people are gravitating elsewhere. Americans of African descent recognise the
severe limitations and insufficiency of POTUS;
systemic change is needed.
Americans of European descent, whilst abstaining from often publicly
admitting such, perceive POTUS as being “sullied,” and look to other power
structures and symbols to invest aspirations for gaining recognition and
authority.
1.
11 September.
Many Americans seem to
accept the mainstream explanation regarding the causal factors for the
destruction of the World Trade Centre: Osama. Al-Qaeda.
Islamic Terrorism. However, the
plain and simple evidence indicates that 11 September is an inside job: the murders and atrocity are caused by a
carefully executed (most likely domestic) plan for the purpose of causing the
extreme reactionary hysteria and hostility that actually follow the
destruction. Within the ignorance
between mainstream America’s blind acceptance of the mainstream explanation and
the actual cause, there is a widening psychical disconnect, and a woeful
vulnerability, where mainstream Americans are increasingly easily duped and
confused by other frauds and schemes;
the sum of which deteriorates the fabric of cohesion, cooperation, and
safety within America.
5
Factors That Indicate Americans Are OK
(In
Chronological Order)
5. Declaration Of Independence.
Amidst his blatant
shortcomings, Thomas Jefferson pens the crux of the American ethos that rallies
the colonies into political emancipation from Britain. He draws upon the ethos of religious liberty
and material prosperity that are established by the earliest colonial settlers
of Western soil: “Life, Liberty, and the
Pursuit Of Happiness.” Jefferson
proclaims an aspirational ideal for America to achieve through the dissolution
of British bonds: “All Men Are Created
Equal,” and are endowed these rights by our Creator. It is a declaration that exists beyond the
bounds of Jefferson’s, and America’s, then-contemporary and personal
circumstances. Yet, it is a declaration
that resonates throughout America, throughout generations, and throughout
humanity. It is a declaration that we
continue to strive to achieve. And it is
the genuineness of our striving that redeems us and enables us to continue.
4. Industrial Revolution.
Within its infancy,
America experiences a tremendous amount of natural bounty (albeit nefariously
stolen from Native people), a tremendous amount of human labour (albeit
nefariously stolen from African people), and a tremendous amount of ingenuity
(much of which is provided through continuing cooperative ventures with
European colleagues). Whilst recognising
the historic and continuing malfeasances of capitalism and its Industrial
Revolution, the Industrial Revolution does provide invaluable inventions and
solutions for cultivation, production, distribution, construction, and
additionally. From the nascent years of
American New England to the latest development of Silicon Valley, this
methodology for the development and exchange of ideas and solutions provides the
whole of humanity with unprecedented capacities to satisfy the aggregate of our
material needs in life. We simply must
further evolve, socially, to catch up with these innovations and learn to
better share with each other.
3. Emancipation Proclamation.
The progression of America
is also fraught with certain growing pains.
The Civil War is 1 of these. And
within this episode of history, America begins to recognise and admit some of the
nefarious transgressions that it commits simply as a means to exist. Whilst it may be argued that the emergence of
the Northern Industrial Revolution makes African slave labour increasingly
redundant, there is the consideration that the Emancipation Proclamation is
established for its stated purpose of recognising the humanity of all
individuals within society and facilitating equitable standing for all
individuals within society. Whilst the Emancipation
Proclamation falls short of making this equitability an actuality, it does
demonstrate America’s propensity to recognise its own shortcomings and to
change. And as the historic transgressions
of America continue into our contemporary experience, there are lessons to be
learned from the Emancipation Proclamation:
to venture beyond our egos, beyond our pride and sense of propriety, and
recognise what is right and what should be done for the benefit of all.
2. Women’s Suffrage.
It takes a little longer,
and an accumulation of “in-house dissonance,” for America to wake up to its woeful
treatment of women; and to instead,
provide women with equitable rights.
Yet, amidst this progression from oppression to suffrage to feminism, it
is beneficial to avoid the “Tom Sawyer ‘paint-the-fence’ trap” of women effectively
imitating the chauvinistic tendencies of men simply because men make it seem
favourable. Rather than providing women
with equal pay for toting a gun in the military, it is beneficial for women to
utilise this power and influence to encourage men (and women) to recognise the
tremendous value and wisdom that exists within the “feminine”: to quell the ego, to innately consider the
benefit of the entire community, to search for mutually amicable means for
dispute resolution, to dedicate affection towards children, to invest within
education, and additionally. There is
much that men can learn (and our global community can benefit) from listening
to women as women.
1. The
60’s (The 90’s) [And Maybe, The 20’s].
The 60’s represent the
emergence of the “Baby Boomer,” the “Flower Child.” It is the culmination of the Civil Rights Movement. It is the wave of immigration from throughout
the Earth. It is the rise of social
consciousness and development. It is a
transformative period that changes the baseline of America and prepares us for
the next stage of development. In a
similar manner, the 90’s include the coming of age of “Generation X.” It is global activism (from the environment
in Rio, to G8 protests in Seattle). It
is the internet. It is diversity, multiculturalism,
and the beginning stages of the next growth period of the global InterFaith
Movement. It is another transformative
period where the baseline of America shifts.
And it leaves us to consider who are and will be the next generation of
doers, thinkers, and lovers. Who will see
the afflictions that confound America and humanity, and who will venture to
explore, inhabit, and grow our new communities of harmony, prosperity, and
transcendence. We are the broad
shoulders for these existential pioneers.
Love And Peace.
