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Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Fight the Slog or Advance to VICTORY?

For what cause will you fight?
Are there any chess players out there? Are there any that look at our current political situation and see a classic match underway? Do you see the citizens of this country behaving as pawns for the politicians that are dominating and controlling the game? We argue out all of the issues that the politicians want us to battle each other over. Hashing it out with fellow Americans because we are told that the left/right issues are the important issues. More important than determining whether our foreign policy decisions are making us more or less safe, moreover, whether they're moral and just. We're told that the left/right issues are more important than examining the salaries, budgets and perks of members of Congress. And more important than getting corruption out of government and constructing a fairer election system.

Who do you think is controlling the message? Is it merely coincidence that the issues that get discussed ad nauseum in the media are the issues that seem to shield politicians from scrutiny and unite the political bases to defend their parties, to the detriment of the country as a whole? Which makes me wonder: can we stop focusing on the issues that divide us and instead cooperate on fixing the issues that would really create some positive change in the government and drastic improvements to our quality of life?

After all, how do you win the game of chess? How do you vanquish an opponent that has all of the powerful pieces on the board when your ranks have been reduced to a handful of pawns? When those pawns work in concert, they can traverse the board, take the fight to the powerful and when they reach the opposite side, they become a queen!

OK, not a perfect analogy. But the queen is the most powerful piece on the chessboard. A queen can take out all of the other players and turn the game around.

Why defend politicians when we instead could harness our power, become the most dominant force on the board and control the game? So, as much as I never imagined that this would ever be my rallying cry... BECOME A QUEEN WITH ME!

~R. Charan Pagan
information systems technologist, musician, writer, filmmaker
Los Angeles, CA 90017
http://www.reclaimingourbirthright.blogspot.com/
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3 comments:

  1. RussAugust 14, 2013 at 4:36 PM

    A 21st Century Continental Congress could use the original Continental Congress as a model for how people can collaborate and cooperate to reform government and the political system. This would be a reform effort that would be independent of any government influence and would be ratified directly by the majority of US citizens. Would such an effort have a greater chance for success than leaving all of the decisions in the hands of politicians? I think so!

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  2. LouAugust 28, 2013 at 6:13 AM

    My college philosophy professor said in class one time: "All of history is the history of thought. First, someone thinks something; then, something happens". That may be obvious at first glance, but the underlying concept has a deeper correlation to modern political operations. The reason why so much money is spent on elections is because the people with money want/need to influence voters in order to get "their" candidate in office. It's all about controlling people's thought processes.

    I invite readers to my blog, particularly my piece "An Idea Is Like A Virus", which I wrote during Obama/McCain election cycle.

    http://the-moderates-perspective.blogspot.com/2011/09/idea-is-like-virus.html

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  3. LouAugust 28, 2013 at 9:45 AM

    You asked "Who do you think is controlling the message? Is it merely coincidence that the issues that get discussed ad nauseum in the media are the issues that seem to shield politicians from scrutiny and unite the political bases to defend their parties, to the detriment of the country as a whole?"

    Of course it is not coincidence. The wealthy forces who control this country want the general public to be at each other's throats. Creating extreme positions keeps average Americans far enough separated from each other so that we won't actually listen to each other - and therefore not as likely to find out that we have more in common than we think. If that happened, we would figure out that we're being manipulated by the very-wealthy few.

    I came across a very good article in AlterNet just today, that I think you and your readers should find interesting.

    http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-right/teaching-people-hate-their-own-govt-core-project-destroy-middle-class?page=0%2C1

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