Posted by Society is moving towards a level of transparency never before seen, and this is a good thing, even with so much bad news in evidence at the moment. The internet is facilitating this, however hard the authorities try to stop it.
For those who have been following the financial markets and the global economic indicators, such as shipping, insurance risk, currency exchange rates, energy shortages, supply chain difficulties, and bond market volatility which directly affects pension fund stability, they will know that there is a global downturn looming.
Although the authorities are trying hard to block and censor the release of damaging data and information, truth and transparency is filtering through. We are now becoming aware that the coming global collapse has been engineered, with the intention of increasing control over humanity, and is not due to natural occurrences beyond our control.
But a devastating downturn doesn’t have to be entirely negative. It may cause people to work together again, like they did in WWII. In WWII, people had tremendous hardship, which brought people together.
Society may break down, and then reconstruct itself using a different model. Perhaps communities will build up locally, whether that be in agriculture, education, financial transactions, legal dispute resolution, or the production of other goods and services. Breakdown can be something to look forward to, with the prospect of a better future ahead without the tyranny we are increasingly subjected to now.
Perhaps we can even have leaders who operate spiritually, and ethically.
We need to start playing an active part in the future we want.
As Plato said over 2,500 years ago, the penalty for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. We need to get back to the politics practiced by Vaclav Havel, who lived under a totalitarian regime in his early life, and by Mahatma Gandhi who fought British rule in India.
The politics practiced by these great men might be called “anti-political politics”. This is politics that doesn’t have power and manipulation as its essential condition, but is based on protection and service to people. For instance, Havel wrote that ‘love, friendship, solidarity, sympathy and tolerance were the only genuine starting-point of meaningful human community’.
There must be a moral and spiritual basis for political life, the need to resist the impersonal, greedy, selfish, uncaring basis of politics today. Gandhi practiced non-violence as a way of living and governing, and for that he was shot dead, just at the moment of his greatest achievement, a few months after India’s independence. His killer, Nathuram Godse, stated that he killed Gandhi because he feared the kind of non-violence advocated by Gandhi would ‘lead the nation towards ruin’.
Fear is our biggest weakness. We even fear the arrival of a fairer, less violent, more transparent world because we worry about how our illusion of comfort will be affected.
The message is this: We must not let the emerging transparency and exposure of greed in the world be crushed because we are asleep, lethargic or unaware.
14 October 2022
Piers Morris Blogspot 