Other anamolies that permeate our society that are inconsistent with what we want the result to be:
Our government claims to want healthy (my meaning of healthy encompasses these three components – physical, emotional and pyschological) citizens YET THEY DO LITTLE TO ENSURE THIS OUTCOME.
examples: Society expects it’s citizens to abide by laws vs. society’s lack of conviction through education and walking the talk of this expectation.
I am not expressing myself as clearly as I had hoped or as clear as it is to me inside my thoughts. Let me attack this point another way.
In my life I have felt an enormous pressure by my parents, teachers and all the others who have crossed my path to conform to certain “standards”, the problem I found personally and I see it in the lives of others is that we are all expected to somehow rise to this certain LEVEL, shall we say which represents a full functioning, law abiding, law respecting, citizen and you are expected to find a means to pay for your “support” as you live, unless of course there are other factors at play preventing this. But for the sake of my argument I will only be speaking in the ideal of people who have all the potentials present to evolve into a “good citizen”.
We want people to know right from wrong, yet as a society we do nothing to ensure this from the beginning. We allow families huge latitudes in rearing with no support, no education, no preparation (yes, I agree there are some physical supports but very little for emotional or pychological) standards to be met, no clear cut initiatives to instill the same moral values across the board to all new citizens. This realm is left hazy and unstructured left up to the family themselves to navigate through. Some families have evolved well, there belief structures are strong and they are able to model this strength and commitment to their offspring which in turn gives them rise to grow but other families in America are not so lucky. They have been mired down in abuse, addictions, deceit, which in turn makes the focus of there family one of secrecy, denial, usually dishonesty must be present to keep the negative behaviors working. You cannot openly abuse or commit negative actions on children now without some fear of repercussions so this mandates that families still afflicted with these burdens must deceive and hide to enable their way of life to continue. Clearly these families mired down historically in deceit, racism, preying upon, manipulation of others, stealing, lying, cheating, any and all these negative life circumstances really have little incentive to change coupled by the fact that they have no idea how to achieve a want outside the family dynamic or create something they have never experienced for themselves. They become most adept at reliving and re-inventing the same “life” that was familiar to them. Change can be frightening and seem insurmountable. Yet with a structured methodology, a plan that allows for human flaws, a specific initiative to move away from that could change much in peoples live. It is always easy for ”outsiders” to look in on these families and only see the superficial, preferring to believe that if they just tried harder, if they just believed in God, if they just loved themselves, IT IS NOT ABOUT THAT FOR MOST OF THESE VICTIMS within these types of families. From young ages, these children become indoctrinated through various ways dependent on the particular family dynamic, and until some tumultuous event eclispses their lives, they are incapable of leaving a past without a clear path and support on that path to a new and different future. Just being told it is good, it is right, it is the LAW is not enough motivation for years of opposite teachings. There must be much more involved with having, building and maintaining a family if society expects ANY good from it’s majority of citizens. This is not provided for adequately by any means. Yet the expectation is enormous from our schools, governments and our fellow citizens who have clear paths. They continue to judge and mitigate from there stellar perspectives, using there understandings when this will achieve very little. The cure must come from within the torn families themselves for the effects to be biting and effective. Just like an addict must first come to terms with their own addiction BEFORE they could ever hope to control it, so must the dysfunctional family unit still massively present here in America today, own up to it existence and destruction. I do not blame for the past damage, I look to learn from it. I seek to initiate and motivate for serious changes in our basic fabric as Americans. We need to support families and education more than any other ideal in this country today. That should be the most important aspects of all of our lives. We need strong family units, who will ultimately provide strong citizens educated to move forward in more aspects of their lives than than finding a way to make a living. These people in these families need acceptance, support and they need mentoring from those stronger to help them redevelop themselves away from the negative family dynamics present. Most of the blame lies within us all collectively as a “society” and our lack of concern, lack of commitment, lack of dollars used. Just like EDUCATION in America, we relegate family life and child rearing to the winds of chance. (You know, I have heard it said a zillion times, “some people are born lucky, some people get all the luck”). This is poppycock nonsense, while there is some credence to statistics and odds and such, this in my opinion does not apply. We just choose to let some things go, we do not include all, we do not live where we embrace one another’s sucess seeing our own success from it, we divide and conquer, we judge and characterize, dehumanizing people(families) who just don’t fit. Homosexuals is a great example, and I have my own opinion about this, but regardless of my opinion, I choose to let others make their own choices as long as those choices do not directly impact me negatively. I choose to believe that we are responsible for our own choices and with that responsibility comes ACCEPTANCE of the consequences that might ensue. So many people I have met and known claim to be responsible for their actions, but the truth is when that responsibility is called into question they DO NOT ACCEPT their role. They work diligently against acceptance of there choices. This must STOP IF WE WANT THE WORLD TO CHANGE FOR THE BETTER!!!
Intolerance, hatred, violence are some of the present consequences in our lives today but again, the ones doing the hating committing these acts will still have to face what they choose and what consequences will come to them. I would rather choose from tolerance, compassion, support, comraderie and so forth. Wouldn’t you? Live and let live is my creed, yet within this there must be a viable plan, a collective goal that allows for all types of personalities to manifest and bear positive fruits from its soul; seeing and knowing the value of living with honesty, compassion, awareness of the impact we have on those around us, awareness that we can change because we think, we reason, we create and we destroy.
THINK, REASON, CREATE, DESTROY
These 4 truths about mankind is the single most powerful tool on the planet Earth we have to making our world what we really dream about. We do not have strong open honest sexuality in this country, we only deal with ideals of sex and love on the surface peppered with scientific knowledge that is allowed so we can be ”healthy” but no across the board acceptance of our sexual nature as normal natural, our suppression of this, by this suppression we are telling each other it is not really valued, even though underneath sex is highly valued. We do not as a society make that value known openly as good, normal, happy, life sustaining, we allow it to remain hidden, secret, dirty, you know what I mean, but this suppression is what gives rise to and substance to all the perversions attached to our sexuality. Let me just state I am not so naive to believe if sex ed was embraced and we could all come out of our closets and deal with human sexuality honestly, sensibly and openly compassionate we would respect ourselves more immediately, but over time this 180 degree turn would foster the seeds for such a thing to evolve and pornography in all of is many forms would not have a leg to stand on. There will always be a black market mentality for some, some who never conform, some who will always take the road not chosen or used, even if that road is covered with pitfalls and dangers there will always be human souls willing to take those risks at the expense of others and this is the soul in our cosmos that needs re-education.
