"Another Long Sermon"

We've inherited a particular political template. No mater left right middle...it's the same game. Some one or groups of some one's tell us what to do.

Part of it is how our brains are wired. We've been tribal for near a million years...that's impressive, However we're just starting to think they may be alternatives.

We've been wondering about that for several thousand years, and getting serious about it for perhaps three hundred. Cutting to the chase if we survive as a species through the current ecological crunch I think we'll eventually make a break though. Like when we started rituals, and arts during the last ice age a major breakthrough there for our imaginations.

A similar leap is inevitable if we don't die out in the chaos of the major earth changes that have already started by our hand...mind you we didn't know at first it was us, but we do now. We might adapt. Nature favors not the strongest as we know, but the most "ADAPTABLE".

Some feel that meeting this great challenge will be one of the sparks of that great leap to rationality. I'd love to be visit say twenty thousand years from now to see how we did. Eh,...if we're still here.

While on the subject.

A world without Kings or Bosses. In the west one could date the beginnings of that idea in the era of the Peasant's Revolts of the 14th century. There's a line from that to the enlightenment, and that movements greatest experiment the formation of the United States of America.

An ongoing experiment with rather profoundly mixed results.

Still, and again I speak only of the west. Still this nation gave rise to a rebellion against slavery. Which lead to all the movements for further enlightenment since. Woman's rights labor rights public education ending child labor, and soldiering rational civil engineering/sanitation expansion of personal freedoms for traditionally tormented communities most lately Trans-sexuals.

Concurrent with that equally powerful movements of retrenchment against all this. We're in such an era now. Three steps forward two steps back. Maybe Stalin, whose quote that is didn't mean it exactly the same way I do, but ya gets the point. If we survive a few more centuries get serious about dealing with limiting the damage we do the very Earth.

Get more with the idea that tribalism is suicide as is the nation state, and that Kings, and Central Committees are just a bunch of assholes that rob, and murder us. That as free people we can run ourselves so why don't we.

All that.

There was a reason that factions of the Communist militias during the Spanish Civil War took time out from fighting fascists to kill Anarchist. Them sweet folks could have actually given the world it's first for real "Free" country.

Something not in anyone's interest .

Not the fascists not the Nazis most certainly not Stalin, and his boys.

...so here we are.

Much work to do.