Oligarchy: a form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique; government by the few.

Sometimes I’m late at catching the small shit in life. It took me fourteen years of listening to the Dire Straights song “Money for Nothing” to realize that Sting was singing backup vocals with Mark Knopfler. But sometimes I catch things quick like when I knew right away that Don Henley was singing backing vocals on the Roger Waters song “Watching TV” about the Tiannamen Square Massacre.

But you would have to be a cosmic idiot not to know that America is run by the few at the expense of the many. And I’m not talking class warfare here but rather how the decisions about national policy are made and what influences them. See, this country was born in a fury of local politics but its likely to die a sad death in a fever of displaced nationalism where a small group of individuals with access to the wealth and people resources of the world are making short term decisions that benefit no one at the long-term expense of everyone alive and those yet to be born.

The Bush administration has been rather successful at running elections pitting certain demographics against others but this will not work as a long term strategy for solidifying a party base. Take me for example. I was a huge Bush supporter in 2000 on through 9/11 and even up to the re-election in 2004. But something happened last year. It was like a switch was thrown and every other word out of his mouth became a rotted turd steaming in the sun without meaning. But I still believe that he was the right man at the right time for the job, if that makes sense.

But times change and so do jobs.

Being President must be like wearing Sauron’s ring–a position so corrupting that it warps the very fabric of your existence until you become a wraith of humanity, moving your mouth only to hear the scraping of nails down a chalkboard when you talk.

But on the other hand, one has to ask the “Progressives” of the world exactly what they would do were they to miraculously wrestle power away from the Oligarchy. How would you distribute the workload? Because the fact of material existence in human society is that we live in a world of scarce resources and these resources must be allocated to support an overall style of living.

As humans, we each have different standards of living and different visions of happiness and if rumor holds true, we are each endowed from birth with the inherent right to pursue our visions of happiness provided we do not infringe upon the life or property of other citizens to achieve it (and what success is worth all that, finally)?

The hard truth is that we cannot defeat an Oligarchy when we live in an oligarchical paradigm of existence–just like you can’t defeat a theocracy when you live in a theocratic paradigm of existence. It’s like drowning in an ocean and wishing you were on land–that kind of revolution has no meaning and is the playground of fools and zealots.

The only way to beat a merciless God is to eradicate it from the minds of those who cling to the fear of its graven mental image.

So if you want to beat the dragon, you have to take away his cave, all his treasure and everything he’s ever known to be reality–everything that is worth defending. Not only will this break his will to control the world, it will break his will to even fit into the new world he is put into.

So, how does one go about changing a paradigm? Well, here is the rub–the only paradigm we each control is the one we live according to–the one inside our own heads.

Krishnamurti was fond of saying that we are the world and the world is in us. Reality is a hell of a flimsy thing–a long series of lies we all agree to overlook. There are gaping pot holes in the fabric of our everyday existence and what we tell ourselves is a smooth silk sheet which runs from birth to death is actually cut up skivvies with doo doo brown stains that we’ve assembled into a pattern like the ancient Greeks gazing at the stars after a nice mug of lysergic mead.

The trick to altering the paradigm in our head is to find one of these potholes and fixate on it until we fall into the rabbit hole and lose everything in order to gain more than we can possibly imagine. When enough people understand this, when a critical mass of the empty of head but full of spirit is reached, then you will see the dragon put outside the cave and the reign of the Oligarchy broken.

The only revolution worth showing up for is the one that begins and ends in each of our minds because that’s the only one that is real.

And once again, the revolution will not be televised.

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