Politics of a New Paradigm

As we all begin to collectively realize that the only hope that we have for survival as a species is the adoption of a new global political, social, and environmental paradigm, it becomes clear that we have to let go of the lies that we have been embracing as truth. These are many and varied, from scientists working from false premises to people thinking that myths are to be taken literally.

Why do I say that our survival is at stake? Let me toss out several words: wars, nuclear wars, food shortages, climate change, disease epidemics, environmental upheaval and economic collapse. We need to change our priorities, not for the hell of it, and not to reach utopia. Our very survival depends on the introduction of a new paradigm.

There is a tipping point when it comes to morality, and I think that the Catholic Church provides us with a good example of it. It can be tough to gather up the courage to admit that you broke the cookie jar or smashed your neighbor’s window with an errant line drive, but anybody who has ever watched Leave It To Beaver knows that it’s the right thing to do. But when it comes to molesting children, well…that’s the morally unthinkable, and it’s a criminal offense that carries hard jail time along with it. You don’t admit to those types of things. You lie about them and take your lies to the grave, if you can, and those around you who know the truth will help you cover it up.

We live in a society that is ruled by people who have been doing the unthinkable, quite knowingly and intentionally, for a very long time. And they have led us to the brink of extinction. Global warming is a reality. If you think that it has not been influenced by man, you are in this state of denial that I am trying to shine a light on. But even if it is a cyclical warming that is being felt on Mars as well, the fact that humans have idiotically destroyed the health of the planet that gives us life is irrefutable, and the transgression is so egregious that frankly, if I was mankind’s lawyer, I’d have a tough time explaining why it is that we don’t deserve the death penalty. We have done so much harm to this planet and the other species upon it (those that are left) that the magnitude of the crime is impossible to overstate.

The only defense that I could present would be that the few have led the many into the abyss through economic control and the manipulation of information. Now, it is time for the many to take personal responsibility and obtain our own objective information. We have to jettison the old paradigm because it is nothing but a mishmash of lies, spin, obfuscation, denial, and the sidestepping of culpability for horrendous, unthinkable crimes.

One of these crimes is the illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq. Plainly stated, the United States government and its military is responsible for a crime against humanity in Iraq that rivals any in history. There is no need to overcomplicate the situation. Iraq meant us no harm. They had been under economic sanctions for ten years prior to the illegal invasion. They were weak. They had no means of attacking the United States, and they had no particular will to do so. They had no weapons of mass destruction, and even if they did, Israel surely has them, and they threaten to attack their neighbors just about every day.

It is hard for us as a nation to step out of the vortex of denial, lies and spin that have become the collective American reality concerning the genocidal carnage that we have imposed upon the people of Iraq. We have gone past that tipping point and have swept the magnitude of our crimes under the rug. Part of the reason why we can’t accept what we have done is that our children, and our brothers and sisters and aunts and uncles and cousins and parents have done the killing. We want to see them as heroes, not killers. But they are not heroes. They are pawns who were sent to a foreign country that was no threat to their own, hell bent on seizing it by force and killing anyone who objects. And they continue to do so today, and they will do so tomorrow and the next day as well.

The government used mass psychological manipulation and outright lies to connect the genocide in Iraq with the events of 911 in the collective American consciousness. This is the truth, right? Who can deny it? Let’s climb out of the lies and face reality.

Let me say this one more time. Iraq belongs to the Iraqis. America has no right to it in any way. Our invasion of Iraq was totally illegal. Our occupation of Iraq is morally reprehensible and indefensible in the face of whatever version of God you prefer to tap into on this early summer Sunday.

What America has done to Iraq is an unthinkable atrocity. Do you want to be a hero? Come to grips with the truth. It is a sad one indeed.