It's Time For Real Change
It’s Time for Real Change
Junious Ricardo Stanton
Many
Westerners are coming to the inescapable conclusion their culture is creating a
psychological malaise that is rapidly metastasizing throughout the society, stifling empathy, enthusiasm and any sense of
meaning, purpose or real fulfillment in our lives. We find ourselves like
laboratory mice or hamsters on the proverbial treadmill going nowhere fast,
depleting our energy and finances with nothing to show for it but tons of planned
obsolescence stuff and suffocating debt.
There was even a mindset propagated in
the 80's and 90's that said the measure of one's worth material possessions at
life's end. They said "greed is good" which fueled consumerism,
materialism and a dog eat dog, winner take all mindset. If the measure of your
being, your self-worth and success are based upon the amount of gizmos and
gadgets you have, what happens if you lose them, they become obsolete or you
can no longer afford them?
Wealth inequality, homelessness, depression
and despair hang over this country like a thick fog while many are succumbing
to various addictions as a way of numbing their misery and frustration. Opiate
prescriptions are at an all time high in America
Many thinkers, philosophers and reformers have warned that America US
American history is fraught with moral
contradictions, blatant discrepancies between their professed creed and their
actual deeds. How do you talk about
"life liberty and the pursuit of happiness" while aggressively engaged
in policies and programs of genocide, extermination, slavery, dehumanization
and ecocide?
The continuing consequences of the sins of the
"founding fathers" are still being visited upon successive
generations as the ruling class attempts to keep their criminogenic culture (a
system, situation or place causing or likely to cause criminal behavior) intact
and expanding its reach on a global level.
The
ruling class and their minions have more weapons at its disposal today than
ever before. Today they have a pervasive technological network that manufactures
a reality that dumb us down, disorients and discombobulates us, they poison us
with GMO Frankenfoods, pump us with pharmaceutical and illicit drugs to numb
our minds and push us towards stultifying addiction.
All this is designed to discourage
resistance to their nefarious agenda. As a result America
What can we do to improve ourselves
and our situation? We have to build
values producing institutions: create and support our own schools, develop our
own pedagogical theories and practices, expand economic networks and capital
formation groups. Most importantly we must formulate a cosmology to replace the
decadent Western values of selfish alienation, materialism, war and hedonism.
We can do this. We already have the
model, traditional African values and cosmology. We already have the concepts,
models and action of Sankofa, going
back to retrieve that which is good, bringing it forward and adapting it to
present realities. We were the first
humans to do all this. We have done it many times in the past in our history;
we can begin to create a brighter future for ourselves and our children.
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posted by Junious Ricardo Stanton @ 5:20 PM
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