The Global Citizens Problem
The globe has become interconnected in important areas that bring each of us in front of one another such as the Internet, communications and economies. Unfortunately, citizens around the world are being left out of the political process in national and global decision making. Consolidated global military and economic power combined with leadership's unwillingess to recognize fundamental human rights has created an environment of helplessness. How do so many of us around the globe recognize the opportunity to collaborate and make our world a better place but so few with power resist mankind's progress and in fact, digress into a global feudalist system?
Current leadership is corrupt, self-serving and unwilling to conduct research and collaborate with it's citizens to solve the problems the global leadership themselves created. Instead, governments are blaming one another for large-scale theft purpotrated on it’s own citizenships and then adding injury to insult, attempts to silence or crush the economic or military rape victim with police states, violence and political misdirections.
Consolidataion, Tryanny and Collapse
Most media I read reports global events of various nations as two blocs East and West. This course of human history is societal evolution, consolidation of nations and unions. Conlicts get bigger through consolidations but so do the periods of peace as individuals within the national or international community integrate and share the best each individual or sub group has to offer with one another and forms consensus and mutual goals.
Governments that once work as tool, a security mechanism and servant of the people, becomes the security guard OF the people to deprive them of possession. The oldest debate surely must be whom has a right to another’s productive fruit. If you can't figure out the answer to that debate, then I and others should at least take the time to understand why. When opportunity to benefit an individual or population is stolen or stripped away and tryanny follows, productivity of the people plummets, a tryannical government can only whip it’s servant so long. The government or union collapses as the productive no longer support the non-productive and the process repeats itself. The Romans learned representative government from the Greeks, establishing fixed rule of law (Republic) in an attempt to curtail a side effect of Democracy, mob justice. If you wondered how a nation such as the United States is quickly killing itself, understand that it no longer operates as a Republic, respecting the rule of law. Without law protecting property and other God given rights to make choices to better themselves or learn from mistakes, you begin to have anarchy. Human nature being cyclical and in almost all cases, completely predictable as is the inevitable corruption of a government or people. Pain is the catalyst that forces a nation or bloc to change it's own destructive course or in some cases, the government collapses or becomes to weak to defend itself and is conquered.
Plato opined about tyrants, stating that both subjects and tryants are caught up in the cycle of servitude, slaves being doctored by slaves. While the West is now in the middle of such a cycle to the downside, acting as poor economic stewards this last decade, the East is vying for the economic power and control that is slipping away from the West. I think of this economic and probable military clash between East and West mankinds final global Clash of the Titans. The rule of thumb is to follow the money if one wishes to understand the real story behind the propoganda. It is government advocating hatred of individual nations or blocs, but it is fair to say some critizism is deserved by outside observers. If you blindly choose sides based on nationality, race, religion then you are already considered fodder for the Titans to play with. Nor do we need to spark a physical revolution to throw the shackles off from our global tryants, despite whom gets to further wield the global feudalism torch, East or West.
In attempting to practice the value of humility and speaking with citizens all around the globe, I can say the majority of us want the same thing, the pursuit of liberty, providing for our families, solving challenges that face our human race and the right to not be robbed at will by global gangsters. ‘The Clash of Civilization’ age that governments and there mainstream media puppets promoted as they looted us, was nothing but a pile of dung to distract us from the crime. Citizens in the East have talents and culture that is fascinating to discover and I hope others feel as I do about citizen’s in the West.
What Can Each Individual Global Citizen Do
It has been said a citizenship gets the government they elect. In other era’s a citizen could vote with there feet, moving from one province or nation filled with tyrants to areas of relative freedom. But how does one go about improving a life when the whole earth is becoming filled with tyranny and oppression? We get busy representing one another in the absence of responsible global representation, conduct research, share resources and create solutions. For in the end, the world will continue to bring people together in consolidation, in this final societal evolution. The global feudal experiment will fail and the cracks in the damn are becoming big fissures.
As emerging responsible leadership, we can create solutions now, based on benefitting from working with one another rather then economic or military sticks or 'might makes right' attitudes. Real power is in collective collaborations as equals with each having something to offer one another that improves our collective quality of life.
While we make progress slowly but surely in our mutual problem solving, we may just succeed in mitigating the misery and death toll of the final attempted consolidation by force. The Pen is only mightier then the Sword when the truth is widely distributed and acted upon. I cannot dictate that truth to you nor can anyone else force you to accept it. The truth of the best way to live must be discovered through collaboration and learning with one another, created and voted on by the worlds citizens in the form of a global manifesto and then syndicated widely. We can learn from other nations or empires mistakes but there is more to learn from the success of promoting liberty, justice and equality. WE the global citizen will shape the new era, we are no longer powerless because we know others around the world en masse feel the same way, that there is a way forward. That is called opportunity worth investing in. Those in power will do there job of further attempted global slavery and conclude this era, probably with a literal bang in attempting to hold onto the old, dirty ways of centalized power and control. Let us do the UNTHINKABLE in beginning to build the framework for a new global era together, one that involves all citizens in it’s management and benefit.






7 Comments
StevenHansen
Jason, what a refreshing philosophical post.
having now lived most of my adult life in foreign lands, i realize the happiest people are those who work together - either in family or social units. it does not matter if they are rich or poor financially. there is always someone there to help you with your burden - and share the joys and pains in your life.
we worry about the economy and the politics. we are better served to be worrying about each other.
ptownman
What "thehand" said, I think we all miss very much.
trader1
Good one Jason
DianeB
What a wonderful article, Jason! We do need to all unite, and come together as nations. Stop the wars and looting of our countries of its treasure. Thank you!