Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness
It being a holiday, the series on detoxification will yield to some reflections on violence. Health concerns will continue in the next post.
As a pacifist, I am against all wars and all forms of hostile interaction with others. I do not believe that anyone, whether a president or king or emperor, has any right to oblige others to do his bidding much less to take risks on behalf of the state . . . nor to face punishment for refusal to perform deeds that violate the interests of the individual. How else should we interpret the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?
Turning back to the sixties and seventies, the Vietnam War was framed as retaliation for an event, the so-called Gulf of Tonkin incident. We now know that no such event took place. In reality, based on classified documents, the “Vietnam Conflict” was a distraction from domestic issues surrounding integration. Sometimes, what is observed by boots on the ground never climbs the ladder high enough to get the attention of the brass or president. However, in the case of Vietnam, it was Lyndon Johnson who gave the order to write thirteen lies. Then, he would choose which one to propagate.
Somewhere between two and three million people — combat troops and civilians — died for the twisted synapses in the brains of psychopaths promoting the Vietnam War. Countless additional people were widowed or orphaned or lost sons for absolutely no justifiable reason.
When propaganda is used to promote heinous ambitions, some people are swayed by the arguments, but as trillions are spent to enlarge the scope of the aggression, people start to catch on and become protestors and dissidents.
The Flower Children played an important role in bringing the conflict in Vietnam to an end. We now see a revival of this passion in the crescendo of world disapproval of the Netanyahu Regime. As with most treachery, dealing from the bottom of the deck is the last resort of scoundrels, but playing the anti-Semitic card is not working because the humanitarian issues far outweigh whatever nightmares people have of persecution and injustice.
I don’t want to go too deeply into the politics and atrocities. My purpose today is to focus on proper means for conflict resolution. In this situation, it appears that sane and mature minds have used the institutional means available to insist on a civilized solution to the conflict. If this can happen in the Middle East, it can happen anywhere.
In Korea and in Vietnam, there was no ethnic or religious card to play. Both were essentially Buddhist countries with small minority populations. The communist card is then played to the hilt . . . as we see now in Ukraine. However, political and economic systems are no more the issue than religion . . . since the underlying issue is the abuse of power and misdirected ambition.
This is much more conspicuous in the conflict in Ukraine than in the other examples cited. It does not matter whether one takes sides or simply observes: neither side has exhibited political expertise nor battlefield acumen. In reality, in my opinion, Russia had a lot of reasons for concern as the bioweapons laboratories were placed along the border between the two countries, but these issues could also be documented and presented to international courts. They were not a secret since the U.S. Embassy in Kiev posted the locations on their website. In short, there is no reason to kill innocent people in order to dismantle the laboratories.
Does paranoia underlie the Russian initiative? Anyone who studies the history of Lab 247 on Plum Island where Lyme disease is believed to have originated ought to see that Russia’s concerns are legitimate. However, legitimate means must be used to shut down the illegitimate operations.
As for territorial ambitions, a simple plebiscite would solve the problem. Has the situation in Ukraine finally reached critical mass? If it has not, critical mass must be very close. However, the country cannot be put back together again whereas a Palestinian solution would allow co-existence if all parties would accept it.
Allowing or encouraging expatriation is another matter entirely. It puts pressure on other countries to accept refugees, and this has financial and cultural repercussions.
Both capitalism and communism have the tendency to obliterate the roots that are part of our identity. It serves their ambitions to homogenize people and to assign them to whatever tasks they wish. This interferes with important psychospiritual processes that are crucial to shaping our identity as individuals and as souls. As such, capitalism, even when masquerading as a form of freedom, is actually just as atheistic as communism in that divine inspiration, and the aspirations that should arise from the inspiration, are unseated by the goals of the moguls at the helm.
Many people today are uneasy because they cannot see around the corner and are uncertain of the outcome of all the changes that are occurring geopolitically and financially. What I see is that the reign of the bullies is being choked by the banding together of those who have an axe to grind. There are many events occurring almost simultaneously, such as regrouping of alliances, revamping of an obsolete financial system, and a post-colonial revival of opportunities for those who were exploited for centuries. Concomitant with these movements, there is a quest for truth that begins with dismantling of propaganda and will entail much rewriting of textbooks and history as the truth surfaces. All of this is occurring under the nightmarish specter of artificial intelligence, to which all parties have almost equal access. This means that anyone can game out any strategy to explore the outcome. This has risks as well as the potential for optimizing results that are beneficial to everyone.
Many are asking what will happen to the U.S. since it obviously cannot persist without significant changes. I had predicted back in the 60s (in an interview for a Hawaiian newspaper) that the U.S. would become a post-industrial agrarian society. That was before the days of GMOs so the question today is what kind of agriculture will be practiced in the future? I hope there are a million or more family and community organic farms that bring us back into relationship with Nature and restore health for all those who have lived for decades without really experiencing optimal vitality and mental clarity.
Am I sad for those who lost their lives for worthless causes? Am I sad for the families of those who miss their sons? Yes, of course. It is a pity to have missions in life that are aborted because of the ambitions of those with power, but we will reincarnate and try to complete our destinies no matter how long it takes. In the meantime, we must improve opportunities by granting the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of whatever brings us true happiness.
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Another terrific post! Thank you, Ingrid.