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America In Transition

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« Reply #15 on: July 28, 2008, 09:16:18 am »









In our last column we proposed that the stymied state of public discourse in the USA makes it hard for Americans to use our intelligences fully. We discussed the dualistic way of looking at life that has begun to monopolize our approach to just about everything: to questions of great import (“Is the country going in the right direction? Press your keypad Yes or No.”) as well as to questions of not-so-great import ("Should Carmen Diaz stay a brunette or go back to blonde? Enter the People Magazine poll!").





It is difficult to escape the values of pop culture. They are as all-pervasive as the wrap-around advertising now covering walls and floor in the San Francisco subway station. But for those whose intention is the nurturance of consciousness, we must make it our business to observe these trends without identifying with them.

Being inveigled to come down on one side or the other of a hot news story is bad enough (“Should Paris Hilton be released from jail?”); but, for the seeker of self-awareness, being snookered into labeling our very identities that way is downright dangerous. “Are you a political or an apolitical person?”



Political vs. Apolitical

The political-versus-apolitical distinction, in particular, sounds like it was invented by a group of bored pundits. Like all faux-oppositions it crumbles into meaninglessness when we look at it closely. Is “apolitical” a designation we can adopt as easily as an aesthetic idiosyncrasy—like having a taste for anchovies? (“I’m a cat person, I like cross-country skiing and I’m apolitical.”) Does this imply that only “political” people are supposed to care about Nigerian slavery, or child prostitution in Thailand, or the fact that the right of habeus corpus is being suspended in the USA?

What exactly do these words mean to us? In the USA the once-venerable term “politics” has come to connote little more than the over-hyped stagecraft that goes on between the two ruling political parties, an obscenely wasteful spectacle of which the media has made a cash cow. If this is all “politics” means, is it any wonder so many Americans hold it in disdain?

Typing ourselves as either “political” or “apolitical” steers us away from, rather than towards, our own truth.The larger problem here is that the superficiality and corruption that have tainted the Dems-vs-GOP horserace have preempted a more meaningful understanding of politics. The mass disillusionment that has set in, thanks to the **** of insincerity that is the national electoral process, has in many people’s minds spread to include just about every other kind of current event as well—even those of immense global and humanitarian relevance. This is bad news for the country’s collective intelligence, and it is bad news for individual Americans of conscience.

Typing ourselves as either “political” or “apolitical” steers us away from, rather than towards, our own truth. We should rather ask ourselves this: When we are fully tuned in to the soul-wisdom that illuminates our innate structure—astrologers might call this "being grounded in our chart"—are we not instinctively repelled by cruelty and bloodshed? When we are in touch with our birthright sensibilities, are we not quite naturally inspired by justice and peace?

No ideological affiliation is required for responses like these. When we are centered in our beings, we cannot help but be moved to champion truth and life over mendacity and death.
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