I won’t reiterate all of the things we already know and
mostly agree upon. Corporations rule the world both first and third, with
government puppets. They have imposed a culture of capitalism and in turn
produced class warfare. The industrial drive to progress and produce has reaped
irrevocable havoc upon our planet; Earth.
However distant the insane monarchies of middle age Europe
seem, we are living in one. Despite illusions of evolution and democratic
progress…we live under the tyranny of a handful of wealthy people. These elite
have no connection to the working class, or the state of our cities, our
oceans, our water, our families. They live in bubbles of Elysium-like purity.
We are even getting to a point where most of the people
agree that the problems facing our economy and our planet are hand-in-hand. To
get to this point, however, we must learn to see through the corporate veil. As Pulitzer Prize winning author Chris Hedges
states in a recent speech to students: “The corporate state rather feeds the thirst
for illusion happiness and hope, it peddles the fantasy of endless material
progress, it insists (and this is globalization) that our voyage is
unalterable, decreed by natural law. It is part of the march of human progress
and those who challenge this myth are heretics.” This entitlement to progression is a curse,
it is a mental illness which no person who values humility would ever justify.
I say no. Human ‘progress’ is a myth; a linear path of existence is a model far
too outdated and desperate to be replaced.
It falls to those who dare to be idealistic to envision
parts of the future. It falls to those who care enough to seek an alternative;
those who refuse to be a part of the destruction. That is bravery beyond
measure. And, because today the problems are global, it is further requiring an
element of universal care within all those seeking to change the system.
And, in the face of such an all-consuming, greed driven, ruling class what
better tool for change than love and peace? It is something industry does not
understand. It does not understand it because it was made by people who fear
the unseen, people who fear faith. Sounds strange…but faith is really the
opposite of fear, it is a form of love. Not in any religious sense of that
word, faith, but in the sense of taking that giant leap of faith in the face of
fear. The hero of our human story takes that leap of faith because of love.
Love for her people, her homeland, love for herself, her way of life, her
culture, and her conviction of what is True. At a risk of slightly over simplifying…We, the
collective human that is our entire species, is now standing on that precipice. 
It’s hilarious the juxtaposition of our culture. On one hand
we have this monostory about a hero who defies all fear and impossibility in
the name of love and goodness. He is altruistic and just and caring, the type
of person all our politicians try to portray with their swagger. Yet, everything
about our economy and our system shows a complete lack of that type of faith or
love. There isn’t a C.E.O. on the planet who would take a financial leap of
faith for the third world; and you’d be hard pressed to find a president who’d
do that. It’s bad business to take such risks, and those who do, or even
suggest something like giving stuff away are ridiculed out of the business.
Within this picture money represents our fear of faith.
People hoard money because they fear that the Earth, their community, the
government, will not provide what they need. It’s a safety net that seems
insane to dismantle. When locked into a cycle of fear this deep, the only thing
that can really bring people out is love. And, it HAS to come from both sides. People
who have found a new way of life must learn to love people who ridicule them for
it; they even have to start giving stuff away to these non-believers in an act
of faith. Those who don’t believe in alternative forms of living have a
responsibility to find love for people who are living alternatively and talking
about it. Part of love is patience and an open ear; it is an initial act of
faith to dare to dream.
Even popular culture reflects our disdain for those who ‘care’
in characters like Lisa Simpson who can’t catch a break, or through unfeeling
characters like Peter Griffin of Family
Guy who is quite obviously a sociopath. We have to bring back love in a big
way and make it cool again to care. This is why flower children and free
spirits always start the revolution. They aren’t afraid to have faith in each
other, or to love without condition. What does the hero always learn once they
leap? That the fear was an illusion to begin with and all you really have to do
is take one tiny step to find out that there’s a bridge. 
It is in people that we must place our faith, our neighbors,
our schools, our forests, our farmers, our artisans, our homes, our families,
our soils. You can love a corporation to death but it cannot love you back, it
is a false entity created by the fearful to do nothing but protect its money,
it is a dragon. Love for the people at the head of these entities, or those who
make up the bodies of them is good. These people are slaves to their fear,
working ever harder to support this dragon of consumption and illusory progress.
Those who have detached from the fear entity can show others, through their
commitment to undying and unconditional love, where to cross that bridge. Your
time is over “dog-eat-dog” culture, it is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius when
peace will guide the planets and love will steer the stars.
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