Stewardship

Bill Geide leads one to believe that our species is doomed to extinction—if we continue inverting the food pyramid.  From what I gather of man’s history, extinction is not our problem.  Our species has managed to adapt and survive for a million plus years, if Cremo & Thompson are to be believed.  But if we don’t make a concerted effort now we will damage the ecology for generations, no matter who survives.

Our biggest problem isn’t food, it’s water.  Not only are we short of clean water, so are the ocean’s inhabitants.  And that’s in part our doing.  If there is any field of research man needs to expend resources of talent and money, it’s in producing potable water and removing our pollutants.  On this part, I believe Dr. Barlett has us pegged at critical mass.  Hardly a month passes but what we don’t hear of water related problems somewhere in the world, and they’re always in heavily populated areas.  Worldwide disease, famine, pestilence, and insurrection are on the horizon.  We don’t need to worry about the Establishment’s objectives as written on the Georgia Stones.  They sound reasonable, like all Utopias, but the question is how they are achieved.

The world has been progressing toward a universal language since the Industrial Revolution.  We don’t need to do anything about that.  Anyone who is experienced in foreign languages can recognize the trend.  Nor do we need to focus on the other objectives listed on the Stones.  What we do need is to achieve a consciousness that is universal in all countries, one that emphasizes personal responsibility AND accountability.  I’m not suggesting a penalizing system for accountability.  It is rather one of people beginning to care about how their actions, and to some extent attitudes, affect their neighbor.

If you don’t care about putting your garbage in the nearest refuse disposal can, you’re not likely to care about other less visible forms of pollution, like the volume of psychotropic drugs going into our sewer systems which are not set up to trap them.  Or any other number of scenarios, down to being conscientious enough to walk twenty steps at the public library to throw away your own trash.  Or cigarette butt.  Some of the local high school students can’t do this, even though there are receptacles every thirty feet from the library to the school entrance across the street.

I was raised to pick up after myself.  When I got old enough to read adult level books, I discovered many of the senior generation believed your worth as a human being was next to zero if you didn’t clean up after your own shit.  When I entered Basic Training, I discovered there were a lot of young men who were not taught by their parents to do exactly that.  Uncle Sam’s Brother had to teach them.

The raising of consciousness is not just about being more aware of your place in the world, local or at large.  It begins first with acquiring the Habit of Stewardship.  For the specie of Man to make it past THIS hump in the learning curve, it must adopt this habit.  The Rule of Law will not achieve the metamorphosis awaiting us.  We simply have to extinguish the slavery mentality from among us.  This is reflected in the attitude that only government can fix what ails humanity.  Today (Nov 2) we go to the polls—those of us who still understand that voting counts no matter who wins—and presumably set some of us to represent the rest of us in public matters.  What most people have forgotten is that these representatives are not there to fix our problems.  They are not there to make Laws.  They are there to ensure that the will of accountable people is carried out where there is a conflict between a majority and a minority.  They are there to ensure a balance between the two, and nothing more.  They are there with the primary duty of ensuring the Bill of Rights is not violated during the legislative process.  That is why they are sworn to uphold the Constitution of the United States before anything else.

The Experiment in “Self Government” was never about if Democracy would work—or any other form of government for that matter.  It was an experiment to see if people could learn to govern themselves in all their affairs WITHOUT resorting to legalized plunder and coercion.  Jefferson and associates were not interested in public, socialized education for the sake of having an educated populace.  They hoped that in teaching the people about their history and duty toward a Limited Republic, the people would recognize self-government was exactly that—governing their own passions of greed, lust, envy, and rapacity against their neighbor.  It’s no wonder the rising generation has difficulty with accountability.  Around the world in the news we regularly hear: “We don’t know how this oversight happened, but we are looking into it.”  It happens because somebody did not care how their actions affected others.

To summarize, if we don’t start caring about how our individual actions influence and impact the well being of others (no matter where they are on the planet), civilization as we know it, and thousands of years of hard-won progression will be lost.  All Golden Ages of the past were a direct result of people raising the bar of sociality, not technology.  Technology, while improving the standard of living and life expectancy, did not, and will not, save humanity from destruction.

To date, no religion has been able to foster these concepts of “good will toward men”.  Instead it has been the source of most war and destruction since the last Ice Age.  Spirituality was never dependent upon religion, as is clearly codified in the basic tenets of all the world’s religions.  Yet people would rather continue fighting over who is right, and who is in control of the rest by it, than live those basic principles.  Doing away with religion does not diminish spirituality, but in my estimation having been on both sides, religion impedes spirituality and concern for others.  Take any religion on the planet and discern whether or not it has utilized coercion, intimidation, and fear as tools to achieve its supremacy.  Religion is about control over other people, the same as the objectives of the Establishment—in the name of doing so for their own good.

The shift in consciousness so many people are looking for in 2012, can only start with Stewardship.  This is our home.  It is OUR planet.  It is where we began, and to where we will return should we finally break loose from its gravity well. If we don’t individually become stewards of our home, it will cease to be our cradle and become our grave.

Do your research.  Find out how to be a steward.  Implement them and discover the rewards that comes from it.  It is the first step in passing it forward.

Nov 2010
~SethSmee