Big Bubble

Today is the seventh anniversary of the second worst attack on American soil (I count the British attack which burned the White House during the War of 1812 as the worst attack but I don’t measure by body count).  This is the day that the Illuminati of our country would like for us to come together on to renew our hatred of all things Islam and our commitment to the war against Arab control of our planet’s fossil fuels.

But I’m not going to renew that commitment today.  I’m going to propose something different.

Instead of congregating to affirm our hatred and commitment to war for resources as the primary driving engine of our economy; how about if we commit instead to improving the human condition through application of our creativity, ingenuity, and compassion?

What if instead of sending aid to foreign dictatorships and struggling democracies, we allow those tyrants and starry eyed freedom fighters to wade into the evolutionary gene pool of history and test their own meddle to see if they have the stuff it takes to found, fund, and fight for a Republic based on individual freedom?

Despite what the haters of George W. Bush say; he and his father and Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld and the entire cadre of oil warriors did exactly what needed to be done to preserve the possibility of making the choice that we Americans are about to make (and I’m not talking about the pending national election here).  Those Oil Warriors had to secure what little remaining fossil fuels are available on this planet because the function of any organism is to survive and the blood of our country is oil–love it or hate it you must accept this fact.

But just because it’s a current fact doesn’t mean it has to be a future fact.

We can make a choice right now to act responsibly in our environment beginning with the demands we make on ourselves and our families in our own homes.  Then we must hold our elected representatives responsible to these expectations as well.  We must hold the businesses we work for accountable for their actions and if they refuse to comply–this is an at will work world my friends and we have the power as individuals to choose where we dedicate our time and skills.

Responsibility begins with individual choices, continues with individual expectations of our political and economic systems, and ends with confirmation that these expectations are being carried out.  And severe punishment should fall on any system that doesn’t comply with the will of the people up to and including it’s total and absolute dissolution.  This is not a new idea–go pick up the Declaration of Independence and you’ll bear witness that the scream I just made is but a dismal echo compared to the group of men who layed it all on the line 240 years ago to create a society based on the pursuit of individual happiness where protecting each citizen’s body and one’s property was the only business of law.

So I don’t blame our 43rd President for the state of the world any more than I can blame Abraham Lincoln for the Civil War.  These men were products of their time and their presence and function met a need of history.  But the needs of history change and if the citizenry is too demoralized, too ignorant, and too apathetic to follow the current when it changes, they will end up in a stagnant swamp–sinking to the depths and drowning slowly.

Like Maynard said in “Swamp Song”:

My warning meant nothing–
you’re dancing in quicksand.
This bog is thick and easy to get lost in
when you’re a stupid belligerent fucker.
This bog is thick and easy to get lost in
when you’re a dumb ass belligerent fucker–
I hope it sucks you down.

The war for oil has served its purpose–the purpose of giving the global human community a choice of whether we ride the wave of change that history, ecology, and the better angels of our natures are demanding of us right now or if we retire to the evolutionary cess pool to await the inevitable drop at the gallows pole.

We still have the capability of turning this slobbering and bloody machine around.  It’s time we grew some balls and did it.

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