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2009/02/07
 
What, no Wheels?

The Emperors of Japan found a interesting way to concentrated power AND a way to even the playing field. Wonder how they did it? They ritualized a decentralized and localized warrior class (Samurai), then empowered them with ‘certain’ rights of stewardship and control of the ‘Emperors’ land. Oh… and their primary method of keeping everyone from over-empowering themselves over others - they made possession of wheeled carts used for locomotion punishable by death.

Yessirree, until 1860, if a Samurai caught you with a wheel, it was an instant trial, judgment and sentence - and off went your head! The interesting thing… it somehow made sense… not the killing, but the scaling of human power to a strictly human level formally enshrined in ritual practice at the core of their society. Instead of nature toppling humanly contrived over-empowerment, strictly trained masters of body, mind and emotion did it on behalf of the Emperor’s world.

That ‘worked’ in the sense that their little island empire was populated by only those who could effectively manage under their own power and the power of a few creatures they managed to domesticate. And that scale of self imposed restriction on allowable human power led to centuries of incredibly intelligent mastering of what was at hand in the landscape of the mind and nature itself. Too bad we changed their pattern for them. Within just two generations of white euros hanging around, we sold them on the wheel and they had lashed out with a vengeance… and now we have the bomb.

Perhaps we can imagine a world of all folk living and working at such a scaled down level of authority in the land… sounds pretty idyllic and not likely. But if truth be told, a pattern of ultimate control and reason must be alive and well in the population. Their is no real way around that. We all ‘learn’ harmony as a solution to our maturation out of the necessarily blind cycle of birth and death. Until we are irresistibly attracted to a perfectly oriented example of rightful livelihood that comes not from the backs of others kept deliberately from the truth - then we are doomed to more and more benign forms of instituted ignorance.

Chuck Burr, author of Culturequake offers an end view, but what will be the calling card that draws us that way… stuff, rules, reasoning, emotion… ? The fact is that as currently set up, very few on the planet are capable of exercising personal vision sufficient to manage any kind of social sea-change in their region, let alone between their ears. But until some do, it’s the tower of babel and the blind leading the blind - over and over and over again.

Without living examples of autonomous folk living in universal harmony, we will all swirl around endlessly following lost followers. That’s the human condition. As long as we are not leading the way, we follow and wonder where we are going. And from where do you think a perfect, irresistible example of right livelihood is likely to emerge?

The Pied Piper of this age must emerge in the personal experience of us all… That’s the query we need to see and answer to in the mirror every morning. But don’t take that blank morning look as anything but your true position. The fact is, until we, ourselves, are actively engaged in revealing the potential gradient to excellence in all things that surround and sustain us, we will continue to see little more than that collective ‘blank look’ in the mirror. That’s more or less where we are now… at the ‘blank look’ stage. We need an ignition source to get off our ass and onto the job of being the true, complete human beings that destiny continually promises. Got a light?


scribbled by MrHobbit at Saturday, February 07, 2009  | talk to me here



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