What Are We Fighting For?
Q: What Are We Fighting For?
A: First of all, I hope to God I am wrong. When I look ahead, and I don’t have to look far, I see a civil war…and I pray it’s only a metaphor. In actuality, I think we are already here—men killing each other out of preference. It is a sad day and still, there is possibility for change.
Looking to November 2020, I see a dead race. Regardless of who wins the Iron Throne of the United States, we will collectively attend the Pluto Return of America within this next presidential term. It feels more like a funeral than a celebration and who will lead the causalities? It doesn’t matter.
Truly, ask yourself, do you feel inspired when envisioning voting for the next president? Most likely many of us, no matter your party, will have a sinking feeling in our hearts. There will be a false sense of enthusiasm as we ‘get behind’ whichever leader one assumes to be the lesser of evils.
If you care about your right to bear arms you will most likely vote for Trump. If you care about Trump getting out of office, you will vote Biden. In the end, one will win and that sinking feeling will remain. It will remain, not because of your ties to a specific political party, or the outcome of the election, but because it may very well be your intuition realizing the truth before you can. Maybe, just maybe, it is the feeling of ‘no choice’. No choice equates to karma and the ‘only’ choice we have when facing karma is who we are going to ‘be’ throughout this experience.
Whatever the vehicle that delivers the poignant message of truth ahead, just know that there will be losses on all sides. There always are when facing a national karma such as ours. Again, we will have to reconcile our relatedness to power as a country. We will have to pay for any abuses of power or control of which we have inflicted upon others. How do you feel upon reflecting on the US and its questionable use of power? Even keeled? Inspired? Or nervous?
If we ever did have a civil war on US soil again, repeating history as we do, there will be simultaneous battles. One of violence, and one of inner work. The first is external and will consist of greed, ignorance, and death. The other is an internal battle and will consist of diligence and duty while taking self-responsibility, making observations, and meditating.
What are we fighting for? Regardless of how the battle actually appears we might as well accept we are all fighting for something. There are two camps within this divide. Those fighting (externally) to hold onto the rigid mind of the past and the other who is fighting (internally) for the new mind of the future. The new mind is not violent and yet it will protect itself if threatened, it is intelligent after all. Still, it will not initiate change with violence, as true change occurs upon the internal battlefields of the mind. Do not waste energy fighting to a bloody death when we must conserve this precious resource for the true fight, the inner work.
This would not be a battle of states against states or even reds against blues. Perhaps if there is an external war it will be waged by conservatives and liberals alike, each fighting for their views to rise to the top of the heap of current intellectual and patriotic garbage amongst every other who is lost. Those who currently protest guns may be found wielding them if they lose their centers of gravity to fear or feel forced to protect their families. Perhaps it is only through our faith, that we will ultimately find our truth.
If there is no ‘actual’ physical civil war (beyond the current metaphor we are living now as Americans of abominable racism, mass shootings, media hysteria, big pharma induced addiction and death, political corruption, sexual malignancy, and scandal), then the karma could play out between the US and those vying to be the next world power…will it be Russia, China, or maybe an alliance? If we become culturally enslaved to another, severely and publicly humiliated, and demoted from the high horse of which we see ourselves (most other respectable countries already consider the US laughable at best) then perhaps there will be a time where deeper healing can occur.
When a friend posed a rhetorical question asking why our economy is broken over the current crisis, I could immediately feel the graveness of our current broken economy upon our broken system. And this is the idea of ‘Great Again’?
There is no going back, only forward. And each of us will march in the direction of our personal choice in this ‘no choice’ moment in time. To be or not to be is where we find our individual dilemma. One is of a possible future, and the other our demise. We still have free will and we will live and observe each and everyone’s choice together.
“An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
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