how are we to find our way clear of alienation
and discontentment given we exists in a world that
has discounted and voided our individual choices
and possibilities?
for alienation and our winter of discontentment rises
from the very fact we are divorced from any possibility of
becoming who we are given the reality we are but a single drop
of water in a vast ocean…
how am I to impact the world around me given I am but
one drop of water?
How am I to influence or change the vast forces surrounding me
when I have no power or influence to create change?
I must turn inward to make any change but in that path lies
the ruin of the Roman Empire… for the empire became
to powerful and didn’t allow for any individual to impact or change
the forces that dominated the empire toward the end and so people
were left with one choice and one choice only, turn inward and work
their own possibilities with god… but in doing so, the Roman empire
was lost because to fuel an civilization requires, demands the energy of
the people to allow it to function… once the people turned inward,
the empire lost their source of power to power it… and the inevitable
collapse was simple a matter of time…
to fuel an civilization or society or a state, requires energy,
and that energy is derived from the people… we fuel
any state, empire, civilization with the energy we give to
that empire… we are the fuel of empires, just like gas is the fuel
of cars and if we deny a car fuel, it will simply stop working
and the same is of civilizations and empires and the state…
the state simply stops working if the people turn their energy elsewhere,
like in finding their own answers or turning inwards… and the new ism
of Christianity allowed people to turn inwards to escape the destructive
nihilism of the Roman empire… the empire collapsed… simple as that…
so we can look forward to a nihilistic state which denies us, or
which negates us a people and our values……
or we can take our energy away from that empire or state and watch
the state or empire be destroyed from lack of energy………
the question of the state or empire is a question of energy…
how do we get people to buy into a certain state that will
allow the state to gain power to rise and become……
if “we the people” refuse to power with our energy, the state,
the state dies…and this is where we are at right now…
the state, the United States of America has by it nihilistic, negation
of people and their values, has forced people to walk away from,
no longer power the U.S with the power of the people…….
the U.S is no longer a viable state because the power needed to
power the state is no longer there because of its negation of
people and their values… why participate in a state that negates
who you are and your values?
a state, country or empire can only last as long as it is power by
the energy and devotion of the people… once the people have
walked away from the state, it is doomed…
and people aren’t just walking away from the U.S, they are running…
and this is shown by the many millions of people who won’t power
the state by voting or espousing values that make taxes more important
then people’s lives…
we, as a country, hold to nihilistic values that put money/profits ahead
of people and their values… and to do so, means that millions of people
will simply walk away because they don’t want to be negated or devalued
as people……
why fight for a country that simply denies or negates my value
as a person?
why indeed?
and so I withdraw my energy from America and with every single person who
withdraws their energy from America, makes America less strong and weaker…
if enough people withdraw their energy from America, America has a country
is done……. but how do we escape from this given that America
hold nihilistic values?
I cannot, cannot hold to being an American if I am negated and
devalued for money/profits… if money/profits are of greater value
then I am, why would/should I give America my energy?
I don’t………
simple answer…
so, America is on the path to becoming a failed empire because it
values nihilism over people and their values…….
and so, I stand, alone, a drop in the ocean… wondering what
should I do? Should I negate myself in some attempt to save America or
do I simply try to save myself and become accountable, responsible to
just me and me alone?
Kropotkin