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Bigger than Money
Robert Run
- I was working on a
video for this special dispatch, but I just could not get things quite
to the standard I felt they needed to be to address such an occasion,
so I decided to write something instead. Most of what I put on this
blog has to do with the energy debacle, and I do approach the subject
from a conscious perspective, in a way that takes into account the net
positive effect that readily available energy has on our evolution. I
address the issues of consciousness and objectivity in my videos and
writings here, so there is plenty of room here for Dr. King.
It's a Holiday
for some people, a Federal Holiday. A three day weekend. Why not a
National Holiday? Is it because of money, work, profits? Dr. King is
bigger than money. The events surrounding Dr. King's life are certainly
significant enough. This is the man who held our Constitution up to our
faces so we could see it. Then he dared to live it. His life was taken
by a killer because he made a decision to snatch back the rights he was
born with but was deprived of. I'm not sure how people call him a
martyr. A martyr is someone who gives
their life. The Dr's. life was taken through murder. I think we are
missing something if we try to create the impression that he was not
trying to live
his life. I doubt that he died willingly. If I'm splitting
hairs, then so be it. For me the term "martyr" dismisses from our minds
the gravity of his efforts. I get the impression
that he was very much interested in living fully, and with self
determination.
- Self
determination is the operative term. The movement behind King was a
conscious decision of self determination. The lesson runs deep for all
people, and it needs to be understood as such. It was an evolutionary
moment., and don't assume that term means that the people rising up
were not "evolved" before they stood up. It was evolutionary because
people who were observing and fighting against the inevitable were the
ones who were being challenged to evolve. Dr. King and all those people
embodied a document that their enemies had sworn to uphold, but they
had yet to read it. The Civil Rights Movement reclaimed what was their
birthright in the first place. What they did was take us all one
evolutionary stage closer to
the day that
there is just
one
law that
applies to all people.
- So, here comes King with a speech about a dream, and
even though for 400
years his people had been deprived of their birthrights, he expresses
the inclusion of the children of his captors in his dream. I was born
in 1964, grandchild of immigrants, and when I read the phrases about
all the children playing together, I feel so grateful and special to be
included in that dream. I simply cannot imagine living my life in a way
that won't help to bring that dream into fruition. It is a superior
dream to the one in the Constitution, and the grace that this man had
to want to see his dream included in the Constitution written by his
captors never ceases to move me. There are far too many people who have
not learned this lesson. There are far too many people
suffering for the ignorance of others. I have been hearing
the I have a Dream
speech my whole life. It lays out the framework for a far better world.
I have been reading the Constitution since I was a boy. While their are
flashes of brilliance, and plenty of contradictions, it allows for it's
own adjustment. The framers gave themselves an "out".
- When
the framers wrote the
Constitution, they actively lessened the value of other groups of
people under their "law", and they actively deprived groups of people
from rights that they had previously. No doubt they told everyone that
the fledgling nation was in a state of emergency, and that it was
important that they keep things under their control. All people are
born
equal.
When we are forced to live without rights, it is not because we are not
worthy of them, or because we have not earned them, it is because we
are being deprived
of them,
there is some kind of circumstance or injustice that is separating us
from what is ours. Whether it is a culture of people, whether it is a
spouse, or an abused child, this is the case.
- Still, some
people have more rights than other people. This has been the way that
our world has operated as far back as we can tell. Some people have to
follow rules that others do not, even if these rules are not in
writing, and some people do as they please, regardless of the harm
their actions do to others, and they cry that their rights are being
infringed on if they are told to back off. These are very confused, and
unfortunately very powerful people.
- What about the laws? Well, what about them? They are
written by the
people who enforce them, and they are enforced arbitrarily, based on
the needs of those who write them. The day can come that there is just one law that applies
to all people. Imagine that kind of world.
You must assume that there are a lot of people that would love to see a
world like that. Conversely, there are a lot of people who would be
opposed to seeing a world like that, because it would mean that they
would have to be honest and earn their living rather than use force and
deception to steal it from others. How the world would change if there
was just one law that all the people had to respect, or bear the
responsibility of disrespecting it, even if they are members of
government, or police forces.
- The movement behind King made a lot of plans, they
took the steps they
needed to take in order to get their rights added to the Constitution.
These were acts of consciousness. They decided that they
were going to have their rights, they planned how they
were going to do it, and then they executed
their plan. These are great lessons for all
people, not
just as individuals, but for our society as a whole. How do we want to
be? Who are we going to be? How will we be remembered? The actions that
they took during that time created the conditions that have allowed for
the improvements in our relationships for subsequent generations, and
it allows us to prepare for the society in which there is just one law that applies
to all people.
- In times like these, it is great to have a Holiday
that allows us to
reflect on these things. We need a National
three day weekend of reflection. How ironic that the Holiday
is only given to the people it applies to, (with pay) and not the rest
of us. We ought to do something about that, that's the way I feel about
it. I'm not working on King Day, I'm having a National Holiday, but
then, nobody wants to go to the gas station anymore anyway. Evolution is a Decision. ~RR~
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