Getting to
grips with the ‘W’ word.
Isn’t it politically that the elephant in the room always
seems to be the why word?
If like me you are always bereft as to the reasons for things
not working out as you had hoped/believe they would or had been told they would,
then isn’t it just the most sensible option to ask the question that could lead
to an understanding of the issues before you?
If we are not courageous enough to ask, then will we ever
know the reality of how valuable truth and clarity is?
As the election looms upon us and many party leaders vie for
a spotlight to deliver their rhetoric on how things could be better, I would
urge each and every one of us to ask with un-faultering voice and in one
accord, why things are not already working as we were promised on numerous
occasions of the past.
Whilst we are listening now to all of the conversations about
policy and what the problems are, we would do well to investigate the reasons
behind the fact that, we are actually having to deal with many of these topics
in the first place. We are now in the
twenty first century and have a wealth of catalogued history and record keeping
at our disposal to review and evaluate strategies, what has and hasn’t worked
socially and economically throughout all that time. It would seem that since
the live debate last week that almost none of the party leaders can stand to
discuss the real issues we as a nation and civilization on the planet face, whilst
they first have to get the economy and its ramifications out
into the open and say what they will do to get it back on track. What
about Climate change? Haven’t they understood that without a planet, air to
breath and water to drink, we as a species are on our way out along with the
Black Rhinoceros, that I recently heard has now joined the myriads of others
this past century. There will be no economy without a place for that or
resources to trade with one another, or people.
I find it sad that nearly all of them except Natalie Bennet, made
it abundantly clear that we (the collective ‘we’ that is now
responsible for the devastating effects
from the problems caused predominantly by the one percent) don't have to pay
back our debts before any real changes can happen and we can tackle the daily
issues that most of the population of our once great nation have to face. Incidentally
the people that have caused the financial state of our country are also the same
one percent, whom never appear to be paying any of their profits back into the
system that they have helped to break, and restore the balance of fairness and
trade. Well why should they, justice and the law is not able to make them do
this?
If the economy were so important then why does the debt seem
so great that if we worked for a hundred years we could never ever pay it back?
Surely the maths doesn’t add up, and George Osbournes figures have not been
transparent enough to show these truths to his voting public. Please look a
little harder and you will see the truth. The Fiat money fractional reserve
system is set up to never be paid off. Debt is the only way it can, and has worked
so far. The growth that these leaders are always talking about, is the way they
cover the lie that productivity can continue the way it is forever, when
clearly the facts show that in a finite resource commodity market, eventually
things will run out. And this includes the food service and air and water
reserves we have and need to continue living here on mother earth. They are
abundant but currently being harvested as if they will last forever, yet they
are in fact depleting at an alarming rate globally.
So if these arguments come even close to the reasonableness
that I believe they do, couldn’t we discover the reasons why we have not learned
anything from our combined and collective review of history and the lack of
wisdom we had already shown many times before?
Why do we not look at what we have done and discuss seriously
and openly the lessons we should have learned and what we will subsequently do
to alter the outcomes we have faced?
Let me share with you something that I have looked at, and
have subsequently taken a dedicated stand towards based on its wise council.
There is something, the
knowing of which would change everything.
What is that something?
What about, if we do
what we have always done, we’ll get what we always got.
In these two phrases I see the wisdom of not continuing with
policies, actions, or even patterns of behaviour that are not working for the
good of all people, given that all politicians say this is their most important
mission in taking the stands that they do. You don’t need to be a rocket
scientist to realise that if you harm others, indirectly you are also hurting
yourself. That if you are greedy and selfish and don’t pay any care to the
needs of others, then they will suffer and subsequently so will you too. The ripples
of the pond go out and often we cannot know where they cause an effect. How we
treat others will inevitably come back to reflect upon us, both for the good
and the negative. I hate to sound like a preacher, but I do think that
somewhere deep within each of us, we need some guidance on how to see what is
before our eyes and how to interpret that information and make it beneficial
for everyone. Look within yourselves and feel the connectivity that has been
the only way we have ever been great on this planet.
It may be that when we ask why, we find that certain
aspect of our behaviour come out to sully our reputations and make us look
selfish. It may be that we are saddened by the answers and what this says about
us as a race, a species and as a dominant inhabitant on the earth. We may even
see how hypocritical we really are. But most importantly we may see that we are
in fact not doing anything close to what we say we are, or could do for the
benefit of the inhabitants of the earth as a whole.
In terms of the political debate in this current arena of transparency
when we ask why there are people suffering, why there are wars and why
treatments are not available to those without financial resource, that we see
how poor we really are in achieving such noble goals. Is it not because we make
money the driver of all we do, that we achieve only limited success? May it not
be that if we put people ahead of profiteering that the standard of living and
the access to security and wellbeing would automatically increase ten fold?
Ok, so maybe what I am asking you to consider is way too
utopian and simplistic. But is it not beholden upon each and every one of us to
at least strive to understand the answers to questions that never seem to have been
answered by politicians clearly and effectively. Have a quick look at the
debates in the houses of commons on television and decide if it doesn’t remind
you of a school ground and not the seat of democratic representation. The
ceremonies take so long that the debates get a few minutes of consideration per
vote, and so what really matters is demeaned to a level not fit for the welfare
of people of our nation.
To end I would like to ask just one more brace of questions
that will fit in with the title of this article. I hope that you will go away
and let this all sink in before you come back with a recourse and more
searching questions.
WHY do we as a nation spend far more money, give far more of
our attention to warfare and strategies that devastate and end lives of humans
and animals than those initiatives to save lives and help people live in
security and abundance?
And WHY do we not make love the law and hate the enemy of the
state?
Thank you for reading and I hope that we can enter into an
open and balanced discussion about your findings of these and many questions that I hope it has raised in you.
To ask why, is not a crime. It is almost the first thing we
repeatedly asked our parents as children, for our enquiring minds needed those
answers. And maybe they still do….
Look for the Green in your soul.
Love and Peace.
Peaceful Warrior.
