what is the goal here? what are we trying to accomplish?
individually, we cannot accomplish much… you, me, that weird guy
in the corner… none of us individually, can move the needle very much
either way… but together, together we can move mountains
and we can achieve greatness and we can rise above the situation
we find ourselves in… the issues, the problems, the pressing matters
which threaten to destroy us…we can rise above it, if, if we
understand what will happen if we don’t come together and become
one…
imagine a leader who says, what do we want to accomplish?
not what do I want to accomplish?
imagine a leader who isn’t concern with transactional leadership,
but with transformational leadership…
what great things we can achieve if we engage in the transformation
of our lives from being consumers/producers to active participants in
our lives… from the slavery/tyranny of the economic to the freedom
of engaging in equality and justice which includes the economic and
the political…to find ourselves, we must engage not just with who
we are and what are our possibilities, but in who we all are and what
are all our possibilities…
freedom, true freedom is not just about one person finding freedom
and justice… but in all of us finding freedom and justice/equality…
you want to make a better society… simply start with making America
more just…practice equality… which means, we must make
our goals to be about increasing justice and equality, not
increasing our GDP… or increasing our own personal wealth…
the path to a better America is the path of becoming more just…
where justice is truly blind and where equality is the standard
to follow, not wealth…
the path to freedom, true freedom lies with the practice of
justice and equality…this means we limit income inequality…
this means we reject the politics of hate, this means we
engage in the practice of justice over the call of security…
in other words, equality and justice is a higher priority then
being safe…so we reject the notion that we must
devote billions of dollars to the defense of the country…
because if we don’t have equality, that is where people’s need
are meet, if people don’t have food or water or shelter
or education or medical care, then what exactly
are we defending?
if we don’t have equality and justice, then what are we defending?
the question becomes, if we don’t have equality and justice,
then what is the value of society?
now some may object and say, what about freedom?
Freedom can only exist when there is justice/equality…
if we are living in an unjust/unequal society, then what is the point
of having freedom?
now some may say, in this uncertain world, we must be safe…
safe from what? I believe the greatest danger in the world lies
in the believe that safety/security is the goal of society… that
the only purpose of government is the safety/security of the people…
the point of government is to insure justice and equality and freedom,
for without those, what is the point of being safe and secure?
what do the PEOPLE want? they want jobs and well paid jobs at that,
and they want to have equality and justice and they want
their kids to have better lives then they had…
to engage in these goals and not personal goals of increasing one’s
wealth or to benefit the class in which one comes from…
that is the point of leadership… to engage with improving lives…
all lives, not just American’s, but lives of everyone…
to transform… to make better is the goal…
that is the goal or purpose of life…
Kropotkin