Good morning America,
It's me, a citizen.
I didn't ask to be a citizen, I was just born here. I appreciate what you've done for me, but it's come at a cost. Resources are scarce and you've protected them so I could grow up healthy, strong and educated. But, you've rigged it so others have almost nothing. You glorify excessive consumerism while painting a shameful picture of poverty. Don't get me wrong, there is no other country I'd rather be a citizen of. However, we are all world citizens with equal and expansive rights. We must operate within the laws of our countries (some of us more than others depending where we live) until we restore our worldly rights to ourselves.
This isn't your fault, America. You've done your best. You stem from the greed in all of us. You came from a time when people saw only divisions. It was always us vs. them. We fought the British. We fought the Native Americans. We fought the South (or North, depending on your perspective.) We fought the Germans, twice. We fought a cold war with Russia that turned hot in Korea and Vietnam. We are now engaged with an enemy that could strike anywhere at anytime from any angle, and we don't even know who they are. We are all very afraid. Maybe that's why we're willing to give up our rights so easily.
But something is happening that's connected all of us. The internet has opened up communication and we're starting to realize we're not that different. Armed conflict is losing its patriotic flavor and looking a little more contrived. The truthiness of war is fading. We the world people want to get together and fix the real problems, not the fabricated ones.
There is nothing I ask of you, America, because you don't really exist. You are abstractions: borders, laws, philosophies, religions, customs, statistics. You are beautiful in concept, beautiful in spirit, but you are a phantom. We have to act as people, as world citizens, individually, together.
Now here is the solution (and I say it knowing full well that it sounds crazy)--the mere act of introspection can change the world. We've had some amazing teachers in the past few years that have delved into the nature of reality. These are ideas that blend science and religion, cull the best ideas of the past and present them in contemporary and precise terms. People like Alduos Huxley, J. Krishnamurti, Alan Watts, Terrence McKenna, Bill Hicks, Robert Lanza, Einstein and many more. These are the explorers of inner-space, the ones who have broken the gravitational pull of accepted theory and tested the boundries of reality.
This is a post dedicated to some of those ideas and how they apply to us. By realizing what we really are, how connected we really are, we can gain critical mass and begin our next stage of existence before we destroy the world.
