Declaration of Interdependence
We are one or none.
There comes a time in a nation’s and world’s history when the status quo no longer suffices, and the powers that be refuse to change for the betterment of the people and humynkind. When that moment comes, the governed must rise and reassert their role as the ultimate institutional authority responsible for redirecting those who have been gifted the opportunity to govern yet abuse this privilege.
We the people of this world, united as never before through technology and a shared desire to carry forth this humyn experiment for generations to come so we may know the why of the gift and miracle of our lives and of all beings and nonbeings, rise together to declare our need and love for one another and the planet that sustains us and is us, and to lay bare the truth that must govern all governments whose power remains only as long as the governed bequeath their belief in their justness: We are one, together, caring for each other and the life systems that let miracles promulgate.
At this time in the history of the world, humynkind have never been so connected and yet so far apart. The stories of our cultures keep us whole yet tear us apart as the mutual benefits that once overcame the friction of difference fade as the underlying planetary systems are consumed beyond replenishment.
As we have been abusing the Earth to extend the trinkets and comforts of royalty to all who agree to participate in an unsustainable system of exploitation and violence, so now our so-called leaders, temporarily granted our collective power and facing an end to nature’s bounty encasing them in comfortable lies, turn to demanding the voluntarily powerless attack, imprison, and kill each other, so that these small tribes of the disproportionally enriched may maintain their illusion that suffering, dissatisfaction, and death shall not come for them.
We the people of this world can no longer tolerate the most foolish among us given the power to determine the directions of our lives. The humyns never gifted the wisdom to love the mystery at the root of all being and nonbeing can no longer be gifted the right of rule. Freedom and joy are for all, or they are for none, and it is in our maintenance of the freedom of others that we find freedom for ourselves. Take less so another may have more, and let go when grasping kills the grasper or grasped, and we will move in tandem with the mystery and love underlying all.
The Earth is not a home to all beings and nonbeings, but an extension of the home of the temporary shape of their mortality. Its air gives reason to our lungs, its water moves our limbs. To deny the sanctity of this relationship to deny death is to deny truth, justice, freedom, and love, and a being committed to this path is a being that will drag us all into the unwisdom that closes the eye of their consciousness.
We the people who know these truths demand our leaders know them too, or the right to lead shall no longer be theirs. We are one or none. We accept awaking. We live to love.
I posted this on hellotumo.com as well.