Do you know what you are creating?
How often do we act, pursuing intuition, strategy or vision, and find ourselves at a destination at the end of our efforts different then what we imagined when we set out?
Occupation is creating. It is building. It is manifesting something new. But from this viewpoint here, I see outcomes and end states that surprise me as much as a sense that they will inevitably surprise the currently entangled participants in the effort.
Recall previously the discussion about the desire to take power, and its ultimate uses? Rotten and diseased structures only produce contagion, no matter who captains them. A melting iceberg is still as doomed even if one Penguin Emperor replaces another.
The rallying cry to take back power - to re-establish control over government - to demand accountability - falls into that trap. The positive intentionality behind these efforts can only fully blossom when it embraces the creative evolutionary forces that subconsciously drive it.
And, unknowingly, it already is.
The crisis of this society resides most definitely with the unwillingness of its participants to PARTICIPATE; to engage with their ownership of it and their own lives. Too much of what it fundamentally means to be Human, to ourselves, to others, has been willfully abandoned by WE THE PEOPLE. The populace has traded (sometimes at gunpoint) demography and ideology for Humanity. And it is, and always will be, a terrible trade.
The creative evolutionary forces that are driving the changes we now see were only let loose because of the collapse of social structures and programming built towards the facilitation of the denial of our Humanity. Consciously, they have at this point manifested as protest and demand against WHAT IS. Unconsciously, they have brought the members of our society together to engage in acts of Common Humanity with one another.
The Occupation encampments are rebooting Humanity in this country in a sense broader than any yet seen before. They are empowering people to work together, to live together, to govern together, to fight together to preserve those things that are most important to them. The living lessons of Human society on display in these camps ARE the point of all of this. They are WHAT IS LACKING most glaringly in our alienated, numb and isolated society. It was only after the liberation of economic and political catastrophe that we could take the steps to re-engage with those most fundamental of Human truths.
It is what gives meaning to the things that we do, for ourselves and for the survival of those around us. Without that meaning, without that sense of Humanity held in Common, our actions become nothing more than hollow signifiers - void and valueless, a series of charades keeping us occupied between now and the grave.
The Occupation movement is evolving, and will hopefully continue to evolve. If the people participating in it, and those supporting it, allow it to run its Own course, there will be - in its own time - a more definitive manifestation of change in this society than the one that, at least most broadly, is currently advocated for by its membership.
And let there be NO DOUBT here: Societies strive for their own survival. This movement is an ardent cry for salvation by our subconscious selves. And this voice, if strangled callously by those fearful of evolution, will turn to Thunder.
And woe then to each and every one of us.
-Three Feather
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