THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION ...
Posted on Jul 3rd, 2008
by
Michael
was NOT a social but a political one ...
said John Brewer in his introduction to the chapter entitled "Ideas of Revolution" in the book which accompanied the "1776" exhibition at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, London, during 1976.
The raison d'etre of the exhibition was to tell - The British Story of the American Revolution.
John Brewer went on to say ...
" IT WAS NOT intended to bring a new class to power, and many of its leading ideals were neither novel nor socially subversive. Its chief concern was with individuals' rights and the political, not social, mechanisms designed to preserve them. But what was distinctive and revolutionary was the way in which familiar ideas were transformed from pious ideals into political action and European theories adapted to special, American conditions.
The Declaration of Independence began the process which only ended with the American constitution of 1787. It was a watershed in the conflict between the British Government and the American colonies. On the one hand the bulk of its text looks back, surveying and recapitulating American grievances against George III and his ministers; on the other, it looks forward, laying down in the bold clear prose of Thomas Jefferson's opening paragraphs, the principles on which any future American government would be based: the equality of men and the existence of 'unalienable Rights'. "
AS a NEW DAWN approaches for American politics, IT WOULD INDEED BE APPROPRIATE that the principle of unalienable rights be extended by the USA, as leader of the NOW GLOBAL COMMUNITY, to OUR SPECIES as a WHOLE.
HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY to one & ALL.
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Oh my dear Michael! I felt I had been outside the circle of your creative consciousness for such a long time! It has been perhaps months since I connected with you. This creates a little “nagging” within some level of my awareness, that “I miss Michael, what's he doing? He's so wonderful and I haven't taken five minutes to go see his blog,” but then I get distracted and so it goes on and on like that, day after day. I know that from the perspective of Infinite Mind we have never lost contact, and with Lynnie too, but from my pedestrian perspective, I've missed you and hearing about your life! And the odd thing is, today I told myself, “Oh, look at Michael's avatar. You've just GOT to see him today! Do it!” And here, Michael, there are really tears in my eyes! Here is THE quotation that, probably in the WHOLE world I most needed to read today! Thank you! Thank you SO much! You have given so much to me! Given and given and given! How can I thank you?
JUST continue the ACTION of zBlogging THE WORDS … AS YOU DO
Let's hope the NEW DAWN has enough consciousness to get people on the planet clean water to drink. It should be a basic human RIGHT. How can we solve the world crisis' when we have yet to save children from starvation and thirst? It amazes me…the political machines…the money…the greed….the selfishness that surrounds this country.
I appreciate “freedom” …but it is time for a major REVOLUTION…..again….a conscious social revolution of love and concern for others on the planet. America is a great place to start a peaceful war for basic human rights that are trampled into the ground.
A child dies every five seconds in this world because they don't have enough to eat. It wakes me up in the night….HOW can we just “go about our business?”…HOW can we enjoy the fireworks above our heads when people crawl on the ground searching for food and water?
Sometimes I wish I knew HOW to enjoy “normal” American life. Last night when the fireworks were going off, and my pets shook with fear, did anyone else shed a tear? Did anyone else consider the BILLIONS we spend on frivilous celebrations? The money we spend grilling hotdogs made from animals killed with cruelty?….junk food….make-up….high cost sporting events?
AND GUNPOWDER? …to see the sky light up.
I hope we see the light soon, and choose to lead this global community to a place of sanity.
There is a way….I just know it.
Thanks Michael.
THERE IS definately a way …
which will require the establishment of …
“an understanding” of the inevitable consequences of past actions and …
an awarenesss of the need to ACT NOW to allay those consequences …
” The G8 states ought to be ideally placed to deal with such issues. They may account for just 14 per cent of the world's population, but they produce 65 per cent of its wealth and control 72 per cent of its military expenditure …
BUT THE WORLD NEEDS LEADERS NOT ROBOTS ”
The Telegraph article about G8 sounds reasonable.
It does not offer the perspective rather lauding pramatic action in case of Canada. Which is ok .
So co-creating the right alliances in ones own house is a challenge.
Europeans especially are called to this understanding. No use of wanting to be galactic.
So the Spiral Wisdom is again confirmed:
Check the tectonic plates from global change from bottom up. Intitating Change and transformations from understanding of the first tier shifts . Here we go…
But how to do without crystal clear realization of verticality and complexity?
We have not even in France, UK and Germany a common understanding of leadership…
Now what?:):)
Albert
EXACTLY … What NOW ??? … might I first suggest that we start by accepting that …
OUR SPECIES as a whole is comprised of …
Individuals - families of individuals a NATION of families & a FAMILY of NATIONS …
and that, as has been so since the outset of human evolution, the leadership of families, nations of families and the family of nations has itself evolved.
WE NOW NEED to evolve a set of leadership values, appropriate to the global community, embodying crystal clear realization of verticality and complexity, which will address the ” profit before people versus people before profit inbalance”, which has been established because of the lack of a common understanding of leadership … to which Albert, so rightly, alludes.
Perhaps, in the context of TOO MANY CHIEFS - NOT ENOUGH INDIANS …
we should let the people decide ?
:):) Michael…..regarding the chifes and indians..thx for giving me lots to smile:):)
Even the Integral leadership Review is chewing and digesting about this.
Waht do you think about the themes of recent Kosmos Journal around connectivity , colaboration and collective intelligence?.
Would very much appreciate your honeast comments:)
Cheers,
Albert
The Kosmos Journal has been on its own evolutionary journey for many years and has acted as a powerful conduit of ideas, for ALL the perspectives of the tripartite factions of business, government and the people, in the context of establishing a global community for our species as a whole.
Although generally very well intended it has only been successful in identifying the way to establish a top-down network of “islands of integration” rather than a totally integrated bottoms-up/top-down Global Commons solution … as is often the case when one tries to modify an existing mechanism to provide an appropriate answer to a new problem.
I have been much encouraged of late, however, by the journal's development of the themes of connectivity, collaboration and collective intelligence as precursor components of the process by which a Global Commons solution might be established. I am particularly enamoured with the Coalition for the Global Commons initiative, in the context of addressing the issue of TOO MANY CHIEFS - NOT ENOUGH INDIANS, but skeptical that this will itself become the catalyst of yet another members-by-invite club, which will not operate as an appropriate system for the “global common good” !
The wisdom of knowledge of understanding , to which I have made reference throughout my zBlogging@gaia and its supportive AlphaINDEX of stories, does NOT appear to have been subscribed to by the vast majority of the leaders of either the private or public spheres or indeed by many of the leaders of the commons sphere, as exemplified by John Schmidt's article on Living Leadership in a 2007 edition of Kosmos.
We must now take time to think about what the commons require of their tripartite leaders and which of the tripartite leaders would best serve those requirements.
Thanks Michael!
The new invitation from Nancy -see my blog from July9, is referring to your direction. And I have indices that SDi is awakening in some early adapters to these dimensions too. Even some voices from the global leadership meme…
A Totally integrated bottom up/Top down perspective is my personal burning desire too. And even more:
On a global large scale. Developed countries as much as developing ones.
G8 in Japan is justn over. Other giants already give their “Knock, KNock” at the doors of G8. This sound gets rapidly louder..
its no longer enough in the emerging strata of cultural creatives , small circles of second tier and powerful orange, blue and pre blue populations that the ususal front voices are dominating the stages and backstages of the world.
We need thousands and millions of people who say in the best sense of the word:
“I am the center of the world”
As Marianne Williamson did with her famous quote which was used by Nelson Mandela too. No narcissitic ego trip is meant.
But the full power of embodied, transformed, connected and laser like authentic self.
SUCCESS - will depend …
Speaking of sense…success…children….a NEW DAWN
http://2senseworth.gaia.com/
:)
… a NEW DAWN indeed
… and SUCCESS has MANY PARENTS …
IT IS appropriate, on this day on which Barack Obama will give his speech to the people of Berlin, prior to the 100th anniversary of the FBI on Saturday, that we acknowledge that OSHO was indeed, to a significant degree “a corrupt asshole”, but equally … that there is a propensity for all powermasters to be so, as is the wont of leaders in general, past and present, who control the lives of the people on a day to day basis.
Therein lies the problem & dilemma of our times, in respect to leadership, but as always, without suffering there can be no wisdom of knowledge of understanding of LOVE.
OSHO is my hero, however, because his own wisdom of knowledge of understanding of ZEN was as sharp as an arrowhead and best exemplified by his statement that – Zen means to be so alone that there is NO THING to meditate upon. No object, just subjectivity exists – consciousness without clouds, a pure sky. Zen is not interested in dogma. It is interested in helping you to contact your own being – a statement which Douglas Harding understood for many years before he had even heard of Zen !!!
All of which pre-dated OSHO being captivated by self-sophisticated arrogance, corruption & greed, as is the case with politicians & religious leaders, in particular, who fall into the category of those who are too full of their own importance, doing the wrong things,
for the wrong reasons.
… but as one powermaster has stated …
” It's urgent that we begin to define a new moral, philosophical, and spiritual context that will, in its depth and breadth of vision, be able to embrace the multidimensional nature of the human predicament in all its complexity at the beginning of the twenty-first century.
Some bold pathfinders are already well along in that endeavor. But the most important part of this project, I feel, is actually being willing to transform ourselves, as individuals coming together for a higher purpose, so that more and more of us will be able to directly intuit the contours and parameters of this new context from the evolving edge of consciousness itself …
I am convinced that the awakening of the spiritual impulse in our own hearts and minds is actually an evolutionary trigger—an urgent whisper from the Self to Itself, God’s quiet voice imploring us to relinquish our attachment to our culturally conditioned ignorance, our materialism, and our pathological narcissism. Why are we being called? So we will take responsibility for the evolution of our own consciousness and culture, publicly, in such a way that raises the bar for all of us at the leading edge “
and another has juxtaposed before him …
and raised THE DILEMMA, which couldn't be better exemplified than by this !