It’s hard to be objective about a society that one has grown up in, been shaped by, and been continually told to accept but this is what needs to be done. For a moment imagine being an outsider, looking in at how earthlings have shaped society. The whole system is based on supposed scarcity. Scarcity of resources, scarcity of wisdom, scarcity of love, etc. However, are we really lacking these things in a fundamental sense? OR is it because we have been told that this is how things are and therefore impose self-limiting beliefs upon ourselves. The earth provides more than enough for everyone to live comfortably IF we arranged our societies to be TRULY efficient. This means treasuring and conserving nature, creating only technologies that work with the earth, consuming what is only necessary, never hoarding, trusting each other and natural law, having a healthy respect for the other species we share the planet with, basically the complete opposite of how we live now.
Currently, we are faced with the constant threat of scarcity. “How am I going to pay this month’s mortgage bill”. “If this country secures access to this water supply, we will not have enough”. “I must obtain higher education because there is not enough jobs for all of us”. Again, this is not fundamentally true, it is what is propagated down from the top and oozes out of every media source. It is what is true BECAUSE we chose it to be true. It may not be a conscious choice but we all give up the feeling of natural abundance in order to feel secure and safe. Of course we never actually achieve this feeling of safety because change is constant and there is no such thing as a stable reality. However, this is a reason to rejoice. Change is a beautiful thing and if we put our faith in oneness, change will only teach us more about ourselves and bring more joy.
The majority of us go to jobs we don’t like, that are excruciating boring, why? Because we are told we are lucky to have them, that there is not enough for all and we should be grateful for the scraps we are given. The only way they can get us to go to these jobs is to pay us, of course we would not do it for free. How is this natural, should life be a drag? Should we play only in limited time frames and even then only to refresh so we can be more ‘productive’ for work? Should we spend the majority of our waking hours, in the prime of our lives, working for a lifeless entity. Working so that one day when we are 70, with poor health, low energy, and finally without a feeling of financial scarcity, we can start to live? Than another scarcity comes into being, energy and time. None of these beliefs would be possible without the propaganda of scarcity, that is force fed to us in every possible way. What if instead of spending trillions of dollars on war, weaponry, and defense, these resources were used in a productive way, a lot of imagined scarcity would disappear. This is only one way resources are being squandered, there are thousands of others, that either bring no productivity or true efficiency or actually bring destruction and a lower quality of life. What if instead of the smartest people in the world going to work for finanical institutions, coming up with more complicated, more clever ways to screw people out of money, what if they used their talents to help make the world a better place instead of lining their pockets, while making life worse for millions of people.
We have a society based on winners and losers and there are much more losers than winners. The motivation of the winners, is to keep on winning, gaining more and more resources at the expense of others. The motivations of the losers is to one day be a winner. Of course, noone tells them that the rules are made by the winners, that the odds are stacked against them ever feeling free of financial scarcity. But the propaganda system is so instilled and so powerful that people will sacriface almost anything in order to achieve that fabled ‘american dream’. However, the cracks of this myth are beginning to appear and more and more people have begun to see the transparency of the current system and are becoming disgusted with it.
The key is to change motivations. To be motivated to make the world better for all, instead of just for this sack of skin we call ‘me’. To create new societies, new ways to live, new relationships, that will come to the forefront when the old systems collapse under the weight of their greed, corruption, and inability to provide for all. To realize that we can do much more, with much less effort if our beliefs, attitudes, and behaviours were overhauled to truly reflect the abundance of nature. Nothing is permanent, the Roman empire fell, much like Rome, our society is not providing for the majority but spoiling a small minority and even the propaganda machine we call media can not hide this fact for much longer, this too shall pass. Be ready.
- Q
