Know The Storm
“Al Azhar reminds everybody that dialogue stained with blood is doomed, and its fruit will be bitter in the throats of everyone,” the cleric’s statement said.
We as a public of a large republic must demand that the Political conversation be relinquished to The People's conversation. We ought no longer give an insurmountable amount of decisions into the realm of political voice as we hitherto have. Political power distinguishes itself by its smart-suit status; let there be an end to dependence on experts, to they who are given the aura of being an authority on knowledge.
As citizens of the North American region we are A People dedicated to definitions and distinctions and we form into groups based on interests and familiarities. This fractionalization of We The People cannot condemn us to the word dysfunctional. Fractionalization alone is not enough to condemn a people. A people can be fractionalized and still work fluidly with other members of their community; in fact (as I will soon explore) conflict is necessary for the health and peace of a community.
If we do not embrace conflict, we segregate from one another by our interests and familiarity and simultaneously become unaware of the wellbeing of our fellow citizens. By the political conversation and the edifice of our government we can imagine that we are being responsible to one another. And yet we truly are not. Not until we are more aware of our individual responsibility to be involved with those who live near to us. For those of us who stay committedly connected to our conscious this dysfunctional-system of societal-relation is intolerable. For those of us who suffer at the hand of the obvious injustices this system is intolerable.
These claims are not pointing to lite and acceptable causes of injustice. The burdens each American must lay claim to are so greate and painful that many prefer to quiet their hearts and minds under the relief of talk and physical comfort. Sharing news and communion are only profitable to the moral and practical concerns of a people when the speech is the conduit to expose the action and consequence of its owner.
Our society, if it at all assumes to be a community involved in and responsible for the wellbeing of its neighbors, should have us feeling stagnant and disbelieving in our own power. We are adept at noting symptomatic pains and have forgotten our responsibility to note how we are ailed. We often do not take the next step; imagining what better is possible and then creating that imagined solution.
But there is more than hope, the change is upon us and so is the moment to act. Do you feel it yet? Willing or not we're all in this together.
We as a public of a large republic must demand that the Political conversation be relinquished to The People's conversation. We ought no longer give an insurmountable amount of decisions into the realm of political voice as we hitherto have. Political power distinguishes itself by its smart-suit status; let there be an end to dependence on experts, to they who are given the aura of being an authority on knowledge.
As citizens of the North American region we are A People dedicated to definitions and distinctions and we form into groups based on interests and familiarities. This fractionalization of We The People cannot condemn us to the word dysfunctional. Fractionalization alone is not enough to condemn a people. A people can be fractionalized and still work fluidly with other members of their community; in fact (as I will soon explore) conflict is necessary for the health and peace of a community.
If we do not embrace conflict, we segregate from one another by our interests and familiarity and simultaneously become unaware of the wellbeing of our fellow citizens. By the political conversation and the edifice of our government we can imagine that we are being responsible to one another. And yet we truly are not. Not until we are more aware of our individual responsibility to be involved with those who live near to us. For those of us who stay committedly connected to our conscious this dysfunctional-system of societal-relation is intolerable. For those of us who suffer at the hand of the obvious injustices this system is intolerable.
These claims are not pointing to lite and acceptable causes of injustice. The burdens each American must lay claim to are so greate and painful that many prefer to quiet their hearts and minds under the relief of talk and physical comfort. Sharing news and communion are only profitable to the moral and practical concerns of a people when the speech is the conduit to expose the action and consequence of its owner.
Our society, if it at all assumes to be a community involved in and responsible for the wellbeing of its neighbors, should have us feeling stagnant and disbelieving in our own power. We are adept at noting symptomatic pains and have forgotten our responsibility to note how we are ailed. We often do not take the next step; imagining what better is possible and then creating that imagined solution.
But there is more than hope, the change is upon us and so is the moment to act. Do you feel it yet? Willing or not we're all in this together.