Mitakuye Oyasin – We are all family

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D.J. Raspe ha condiviso inizialmente questo post:

I get angry, sometimes. I get really, really angry about the way the world is. And the world..or at least those of you in the world who have any interaction with me…you know it. 

Why am I angry? Am I angry at the Bankers in particular? No. They were born into a society that is set up like a Game. They learned to play the game, and play it very well, and they won the game, or so it would seem.

Am I angry at the Governments of the World? No. They were born into a society that feels it needs them, and they were elected to office to do what Governments do.

Am I angry at Corporations? No. Just like anyone else in the world, the CEO’s and the Board of Directors and the shareholders didn’t make the world. They just live in it, and play according to the rules we’ve set up over the past 10000 years.

Am I angry at the Police of the world, the Armies of the world? No. They were born into a society which requires their services…a society that demands that some humans deprive other humans of their lives or their property or their virtue, while that same society demands that other humans deprive their fellow humans of their lives or their freedom. The Police and the Soldiers of the world, they didn’t make the world either. They just try to live in it.

Am I angry at the millions of criminals in the world? No. We were all born into a society where inequality is enshrined as a paramount measure of the worthiness of human life. We were brought into a society where the measure of a man is not how much good he is able to contribute to the world, but how much more wealth or power he is able to acquire than his fellows. Criminals know openly what the rest of us know privately, which is that the society we have built over the last 10000 years is designed to encourage us to see our natural prey in our fellow humans. Criminals did not make the world. They just live in it…

Am I angry at the millions, the hundreds of millions, the billions of people whom some have called “Sheeple”? The rank and file peasantry of the world who continues to allow the vast human pyramid to rest upon their backs…those very humans in that bottom layer of the pyramid who continue to hold the whole thing upright, day after day, week after week, year after year? No. I am not angry at them. They are born into a society that requires them to be as they are.

So who am I angry at?

Myself. And everyone in the world simultaneously. Because I pity every single human on this planet for the Pyramidal Hell that we have wrought for ourselves over the course of the last 10000 years. I pity that, having grown as a society far past the stage of immediate survival, we have felt it necessary to keep in place outdated understandings about how society must work. I pity that, having flourished and prospered as a species, and having grown our population to almost 7 billion, we have not seen the wisdom that as society grows, society MUST change its structure, or it withers and dies. I pity that, in the past 10000 years, Homo Sapiens have had no known predator, but that we have, instead, preyed upon each other and upon ourselves in equal measure. And in no time in human history are the predatory instincts of human beings laid bare more than in the present Age. I pity that there is ever seen any reason for human beings to starve one another, rape one another, enslave one another, kill one another. I pity everyone on this planet because we have done a terrible, terrible thing to each other, to ourselves…to ALL of us. And most of all, I pity everyone on this planet because….that is the Society we have chosen to keep…

I am angry because I pity. I am angry because I always wanted to live a life of peace and love and harmony and universal brotherhood and sisterhood with my fellow human beings…even in the old days when I had myself convinced that I hated each and every single one of you, deep down, there was an inborn human instinct to love all of you and believe you to be my family…my family of billions, and no amount of war or famine or hatred or despair could ever wipe away that essential humanity that made me want to reach out to all of you and to work together with you in cooperation to build a society that is truly worthy of the name “human”. I am angry because none of us…not ONE of us, ever really got to fulfill the true human potential. And I am angry because none of us, not even those who have won the Game, have ever been able to be what we COULD be if we had just simply chosen, en-masse, a Society built upon the principles of universal siblinghood and peace and love and joy and virtue…

Why am I angry? Because we could be so much more. And we’re not. 

But there is hope…yes, there is always hope, that little ray of light left in the bottom of Pandora’s Box. Hope is a great thing. Perhaps, hope is the only great thing that truly exists. And it is that hope, and that hope alone that drives many of us to continue to attempt to live in a world we were born into which is unfair…

I do not know if I will be able to survive long enough to see that hope made reality. I do not know if I will see your faces one day in the Paradise we COULD create. But I will continue to try to create it, until the day my last breath leaves my lungs, and my heart is shaken by the last, frail heartbeat of my lifetime…

I can not and I will not speak for others on this planet. But I am all-in for the sake of building a new human society. I am angry because I pity, but I hope because I love.

Mitakuye Oyasin – We are all family.