Deep thinking: Avoiding the insanity of western civilization.

 

I never thought deeply about the 1776 Declaration until the year 1976 when our nation widely celebrated it's 200 anniversary. I'd just started dating the young lady of my dreams.  Our first official date was 100 mile bike ride to Tie Siding Wyoming and back from the campus of Colorado State University in Ft. Collins, CO.

I'd always wondered what the future would bring forth. Then in 1980 I got a glimpse after reading the unanimous bipartisan Presidential Commission on World Hunger.  President Jimmy Carter released it then with a stark warning.  Paraphrased:  'unless we end the worst aspects of widespread, hunger, and poverty by the year 2000 humanity will see more wars, revolutions, genocides, pandemics, environmental destruction, terrorism, and refugee problems...'

Now, preparing to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of (delusional) Independence, Laura and I are still married with two children in their 40s.  Unfortunately, our legacy doesn't appear to include grandchildren.   So my intention is to turn my passion for nature and a sane future - into action by exposing the genius fundamental principles within the Declaration of Independence. Too bad, more so called 'patriotic' Americans miss these profound details while celebrating with fireworks under our nations illusion of independence.  I just learned last month that word Independence was never mentioned in its original printing.   This, I believe all started with the catastrophic failure of not codifying the Declaration's wise principles into the U.S. Constitution that engineered 11 years later by a larger group of wealthy white men, most of whom never signed the Declaration.  

This historic document was the universal recognition of freedom as a natural right for everyone born, everywhere, for all time.  An "unalienable" right among others.  With all rights dictated by "the Laws of Nature and of Nature‘s God."  So simple and profound!  Yet so much ignored to this day by powerful leaders, and the rest of us go along believing we will be OK.  Meanwhile, things are getting worse. Much worse. 

Since President Trump’s first election our nation has been going backwards on Constitutional principles. Even before him, its principles could not achieve any of the seven intentions listed in its preamble. Read them. Just failing on the first two makes the others impossible to achieve.  Some progress was made in previous decades....but now, the accelerating decline has been favored by nearly half of all US voters.  Add Trump's recent war of choice - inspired by Israel's leader with the support of a majority of American Christian Zionists, he has unleased the worst foreign policy decision ever. Greater than Vietnam and the 2003 Bush invasion/occupation of Iraq - combined. With unintended but predicable consequences extending into the potential for a global economic meltdown or hybrid world war.

The world will never be the same. Which is good in once sense, but we are unlikely to learn from it given past forgetfulness, lack of caring, or lack of wisdom. 

Trump's bombing Iran for the protection of Israel (now a genocidal theocracy), has torn the bandage off of the Global War Against Terrorism (GWAT) sparked by 9-11 in 2001.  GWAT only accelerated the growth of violent extremism and the numbers of individuals willing to commit suicide in defense of their flawed religious/political beliefs.  Or, their understandable act of vengeance given all the death and destruction US military and foreign policy has perpetrated on Muslims over the previous decades.  

Now even some domestics are motived within a globally context of Islamophobia, homophobia, racism, Christian Nationalism, Zionism, and even fears of AI dominance....just to name a few aberrations of the American ideal of 'liberty and justice for all'.  A rise in lethal righteousness that exist in minds, that turn human bodies into bombs that are nearly impossible to detected pre-boom, without a loss of human privacy at every level.  

And now with increasing affordable access to multiple dual-use technologies (bio, chem, cyber, drones, cars, trucks, even disinformation...) no one is safe, ever. 

I’ve been harping on these threats for decades. And our constant vulnerability to nearly everything, given almost anything can be weaponized.  All on top of the acceleration of Truth decay, security is increasingly a delusion. And mass chaos appears unstoppable.    

This is a self-evident truth to more and more people. And the only thing I can do is try to inform more people to understand this insanity of humanity- and maybe motivate them into action.  It simple, but complicated. When we act on our mental illusion of independence -- a delusion according to Albert Einstein, yet our minds don't like hearing that its thinking is the problem. Yet both the US Constitution and the UN charter, are founded on it.  Thus, we all face a trilemma, wanting freedom, security, and independence.  In reality, we can only have two.  And we must now choose rapidly and wisely.  This primary source of chaos will continue happening, due to our belief that we are independent.  And unconsciously assuming that the protection of national sovereignty with our military power will keep us safe. Unfortunately, it is only be understanding that acting on our interdependence is the protection of all humankind's rights, plus the environment that must be our highest priority. 

There doesn't appear to be a chance of this changing anytime soon.  Humanity failed in 1948 by not protecting the 30 human rights listed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.  A complete list that all nations agreed to at that time. 

Now humankind's best possibility of protecting most of those rights is investing in the only plan that already exists.  Unfortunately, most Americans are unaware of it - the United Nations 17 Sustainable Development Goals. And within these are 169 affordable and achievable sub-goals that are now our only chance (short of the second coming of Christ) of making measurable progress on the vitality of every local community within the US - and globally.  Plus the protection of nature that all life depends on. 

Internationally, thousands of globally minded organizations, all working on vital issues have so far refused to endorse the concept of uniting in simply endorsing Project 250 -as an idea whose time is about 300 years past due.  It's not another organization. Just an opportunity to unite local efforts at working together, many for the first time, in achieving progress on each community's most basic needs.  Unfortunately, the mission ego of most major organizations, fail to grasp the power they would have in uniting into a progressive Movement of Movements (Peace, Environment, and economic/social Justice) into one unstoppable advocacy effort.  Instead, they continue competing against each other, each day and year, for money, active members, media, attention, and spending time with key policy makers.  And expecting a different result.  We all know this is the definition of insanity. Yet they persist.  

Meanwhile, the MAGA minions unite and cleverly divide us further with campaigns they know will distract us.   

Look on the dollar bill for the Latin phrases most relevant to our human nature and survival.

• Top of pyramid:  Annuit Coeptis   Believed to be under divine guidance
• Bottom of pyramid:   Novus Ordo Seclorum   Creating a new historical era
• Eagle side:  E Pluribus Unum      From many into one
• Foundation date:  MDCCLXXVI   A nation founded in 1776

Yet we honor the value of a paper bill more than these Wisdoms of the ages. Then wonder why things are so bad, and only getting worse.   Basically, the systems we have sworn to protect with our lives and lack of honor, the US Constitution, is flawed. And our allegiance to a flag, promising liberty and justice for all, has never happened. A phrase we’ve repeated thousands of times without really grasping what we were committing ourselves to accomplish.

The mind has a genius means of avoiding doing the things that it knows needs to be done. Those Truths that we should all "hold to be self-evident".  Plus the foundational concepts.

This future reality was clearly explained near the end of the second paragraph of the Declaration "...all experience has shown that mankind is more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to write themselves and abolish the forms to which they have become accustomed."  This will likely be our nation’s epitaph.  

May future generations, forgive us for our sins that originated as excuses in our mind, instead abiding they meaning of "Happiness" mentioned earlier, that back then meant the longer term bliss when we use our talents to serve others in our community.   How un-American that is today...except for the soldiers, nurses, teachers, fireman, even most police, but not by most elected officials, who serve their political party more than our nation's founding principles. 

United we stand a chance.  Divided? Expect an acceleration of chaos...and now with Mythos (AI) lose in the world...its time to start preparing for the worse we can imagine.