Occupation transformed into Liberation

Today is a day filled with messages about occupation, invasion, protest. Citizens of the American Republic pouring into the streets, onto bridges, into lobbies by hundreds and thousands and tens of thousands. Creating a show of force and solidarity against...what?

What is it that they seek? Control, power? A desire to conquer institutions and suppress forces that they fear, don't understand, feel powerless against? When we take away subterfuge and misconception, is it not the case that the citizenry wants to bring these instruments of power under their demense, or even to end their existence - and therefore the power (perceived as a grave threat) that they have over their life?

Good. A noble effort. But is this the best course of action?

Let something else be considered as an outlet for that effort, that passion, and our collective NECESSITY.

The issue that underlies the problems with these instruments of power is the desire for control; for the desire for the centralization of power towards the benefit of the few at the expense of the rest. The psycho-cultural symbolism of occupation is ultimately no more than an attempt to replace one set of masters for another. If the citizens of the American Republic desire earnestly to no longer be mastered, overlord-ed, enserfed, then they must confront their own collective impetus for tyrannical power that they currently strive against.

The things that you own ultimately take possession of you. Changing the guard at the top of a institutionally corrupt and destructive system of power only perpetuates the crimes it commits - it does not amend or end them.

The only way to end the cycle is to confront the cause. Fear is what breeds the insecurity that, in turn, breeds a desire for safety that channels into a quest for power and domination that terminates in the violent struggle for total control.

If instead we strive to heal that fear, we suddenly and radically alter the outcome of the chain of consequences. Those that have made peace with their fears (and fear is a natural response to the very complicated world we live in) through honest confrontation and engagement with them do not, as a result, possess a desire for Total Control. Or perhaps, it is much better to say, they are not themselves possessed, owned, controlled by that desire.

They are Liberated. FREE.

If our focus was peace - and our focus was not upon fear - we would not seek to control or destroy what IS. We would accelerate the transition to what CAN BE. We CAN have a community, a nation, even a species that strives not for Occupation, Domination, Conquest.

Rather, we CAN have a community, a nation even a species that strives FOR Liberation, Empowerment, Emancipation. We CAN focus on our energies on fostering the seeds that have already sprouted even here in the seemingly impenetrable asphalt of the mainstream American Republic socio-economic "consensus" - rather than battling it out over rotting, faltering, dying institutions.

We have the strength, the vision, the compassion, and capacity to help one another BUILD something better then what we have been led to believe we have. But creation is never the product of fear and anger. It is the product of love, of hope - and of peace.

Has not the time come to create anew?

-Three Feather