Aren't blogs wonderful?
A few years back, I started relying on the internet more than the newspaper or the television to get my daily dose of what was happening in the world. I found that I could interact with the topics much easier using this medium. It offered me the chance to tell the world what I thought or felt about an event or idea. Ranting to my husband, in our living room, about this or that subject just didn't tell the world out there how I felt or what I thought about it.It didn't accomplish anything. Once I started posting my opinions and thoughts on different world matters to the various blogs I visited, I was linked into the world all over again in a new way.
Maybe we should all be hooked in on this idea. If freedom and democracy are ever going to mean anything again, it is going to take everyone getting involved in the topics that are important to them individually. And expressing what is important to each person individually and then all of us globally is how humanity as a whole can free itself from power, greed and oppression. As long as we rely primarily upon an outside system of laws that are imposed upon us by an elite group that we call government, there will be the abuse of power that is now frustrating all of us in our search for individual expression and freedom from oppression.
If we really want to see the world change for the better, a dramatic change must take place in the schematics of individuality. Individuals must learn to start taking responsibility for what goes on in their world. Most of the new age thinking gurus have told us that it all begins with the individual. They tell us that all suffering in this world is something that we are individually responsible for. If we want to change anything, we must first see how our own personal choices allow that thing or situation to exist in the first place. I always found myself asking, how can I be responsible, in any way, for the injustice of someone else upon his fellow human being or any other life form, heck even the ravages we exact upon our planet. An oppressive sense of powerlessness in our situation exists and must be overcome for positive changes to take place.
In the past, it was hard to see the connection. Even if seen, an individual could shrug their shoulders and say that there is nothing to do but live with it, but the world is changing. It is, in large part, due to the computer and the internet that we can now begin to see our individual responsibility in everything that happens around us. Most of us do not want to see it, and it is a painful realization to say the least, when the knowledge dawns on us. It is this realization, however, that is going to change everything someday.
Pink Floyd brings an important idea to bear here in the solution to our human dilemma in a song on the Division Bell recording that says, "It doesn't have to be like this. All we have to do is just keep on talking". The internet allows us to do just that. That is what is going to make the world change in ways we cannot even imagine yet. When human beings see each other as just that and drop the petty intolerance with other peoples imperfections, a new door can open for us. A new world governed by self directed and self disciplined individuals, not governments and the system of laws we so easily lean on, can start to form. An entirely new humanity will come to be from all of this. We can and will have transcended, to a great extent, the need to have laws that govern our morals, actions and more importantly our interactions with each other and the world we live in. We will be able to see that moral behavior starts with each and every one of us individually and begin to govern ourselves first, without regard to what we expect from others in the world out there.
The disease we now suffer from, called intolerance, will have run its course and we will be one step closer to being a free race of people. It all begins with expressing ourselves so we can define ourselves to ourselves. In the process we change and the world around us changes.
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