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Are you patriotic?

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  1. karen
    Love Being

    Patriotism - my country invaded, occupied and oppressed peoples all over the world for centuries in the name of empire building.
    Millions lived and died horribly violently because of it, cultures were decimated and people genocided. And they tell me,love my country. Love my freedumb. Love the city in which my family and friends are herded in order to feed the economic machine which knows nothing of my needs. Never mind the shit on the streets, feed the machine!
    Now the Empire builder is the USA and the violence is televised and sold as entertainment, as is the freedumb. And the citizens are herded there just as readily as they are here. I saw a youtube yesterday - Tibetans marching outside the UN building in New York, beaten by police. Keep on rocking in the free world!

    Patriotism? No thanks.

    Imagine a world without nationhood, without empires, without boarders, without the violent oppression of 'others'
    It's only our perception of self and other which gives rise to the violence and the systems of power which require the violence! But you and that boy in Afghanistan and the soldier in Iraq and the mother in Gaza are me! We are all one... Part of the same whole which would be incomplete without us!
    I hope, pray and will that we we rediscover our unity.

    Posted 7 months ago #

  2. karen
    Love Being

    No sweet T, not one world government, One world, No government! lol OK, no quite 'no' government, but an end to centralised governments and nationhood.
    Clans and tribes worked fine in days gone by, hunter gatherers and small scale farmers and crofters.
    This world of people has such a vast array of cultures, and they should be preserved, but empire dilutes and decimates culture in the name of the superiority of the mighty. Empire IS one world government, or it would be.
    And it's not just governments. Indeed, in the West governmets have become the enablers and shills for the 'free' market - The Bankers and corporations!!
    So now we can buy a bigmac in Egypt, while the farmer in Africa can't compete with the agricultural giants of Europe and therefore can't feed his family, so he borrows from some social fund which forces him to buy seed from....

    No honey, I'm not in favour of one world government, no more than I'm in favour of empire or homogeny(sp).
    Vive la difference! Seriously! this world would loose so much by way of cultural differences if it were subject to one world government.

    Posted 7 months ago #

  3. karen
    Love Being

    "social anarchy, yes?" Yes! 'A'narchy(they put the 'n' in just to help the word flow!). An end to hierarchy and oligarchy. And the creation of all that your beautiful description describes! :o)

    But yes, they will try to sell us their dream packaged as ours.
    The dangers are obvious. - They have had a century of practice at manipulating us and by now they are very good at it. (Did you see the BBC documentary series 'The Century of the Self'? If not take a look at my new toy, my vodpod - http://kazz67.vodpod.com/ - I've got the full series in there. You can create your own vodpod too. It's too easy for words!)
    But I perceive a sharp rise in what I call 'conscious awareness' amongst us ordinary folks. The hope is that we will be aware enough, and numerous enough, to counter* their attempts at manipulation.

    *I'll put something in 'stream of consciousness' about that.

    Love ya T... but then, you already know that! :o)

    Posted 7 months ago #

  4. karen
    Love Being

    It is said that the greatest disappointment of enlightenment is coming clear on the fact that it has nothing to do with you, but has everything to do with allowing everything else to be free. "Self" originated action no longer directed on behalf of the self, but rather to the benefit of everyone else. Acting on behalf of the "Self", and thereby becoming no one. Now, that is a oneness the world could really use.

    But you know that already, don't you? Oh, wandering meditator and observer. . .

    No, fiend T, I honestly didn't know that... at least, not in those words, not that structure.
    But I knew the essence of it. - 'Know yourself' to me means know your essence (love), know that you are part of the whole, one with the whole. Actions, including thoughts, then become something undertaken for the benefit of the whole and small self (ego) evaporates. :o)

    Posted 7 months ago #

  5. karen
    Love Being

    Image didn't work... I'll try again later.... *rollseyes* :P

    Posted 7 months ago #

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