Time for change

Now is always a good time for change. But before we change others we need to change ourselves. The first mind to change is your own. Now is as good a time as any for that simple change. Nobody can stop you. Nobody can police your mind though many have tried and many are still trying. How they succeed is in the fear they instill in ones heart that shuts down ones mind. But still the mind refuses to shut down. The tongue can be stilled but the mind cannot. So change your mind and change your heart. Choose humanity. Not only in thought but in deed. Choose humanity with dignity. You own your humanity. You possess your dignity. Nobody can take these away. It is yours to give away. You give away your dignity when you choose to follow dignifying orders and policies such as hurting others on command. You give away your humanity when you treat another without dignity or humanity. Choose to keep your dignity and your humanity intact and you will change the world. The world as it is today requires indignity and inhumanity in order to prosper. Deny it your blood and it will shrivel up and die. A world that has no policies of humanity cannot survive in a crowd of people with humanity. It requires the inhumane treatment of humans by other humans to continue. Stop participating and it cannot continue. It requires your participation ether as an inhumane oppressor or as a inhumane victim. Become neither. Mahatma Gandhi did not oppress and could not be oppressed because he held up his dignity and his humanity. So did Madiba, Nelson Mandela. So did Jesus. So did Buddha. So can you.

Change with dignity

Much change that is proposed are driven by self interest or group interest. This may be a reason why most of the changes do not take hold because we live in a global village where change is required by more than a special interest group. Change is easily identified by someone in the global village as being unjust and that cry for justice can be heard throughout the global village via twitter and Facebook. In the past only the privileged had access to being heard and being considered but today all have a voice to be heard even though those in power have not realized yet that all must be considered for justice sake.

Change through will

Most people do not realize their own strength. Very few realize the strength of their own will. It is probably the most powerful force in the world. Will changes the world. If you will it you can achieve it. What will does is focuses a life. A focused life has all the human qualities at it's disposal and can overcome any obstacle through human creativity and ingenuity. Will is like a nuclear power plant inside a human body. It provides all the energy required to generate any change desired.
So consider and contemplate how you would focus your will to change the world and it will be so.

Guided by conscience

We can each decide one day to live by our consciences. We can decide to do actions that are driven by conscience. When we serve on a jury we are expected to vote our conscience. In the US when we elect a public official we are expected to vote along party lines following policy and dogma rather than vote our conscience. Some independents decide to vote their conscience. We seem to live in a three party state. The democrats, and the republicans who cancel each other out and the independents who actually decide the outcome of an election. We should strive to be a multiple party state guided by our consciences. Dogma has replaced common sense.

Change of heart

What we need to create genuine change is a change of heart. Too many have become complacent to speak words that do not conform to actions. Many structures have been erected to provide a cover for good altruistic works but are self interested rewards. Many will say they care about the homeless but would not provide shelter. We all know what a good samaratin would do but few can actually rise to the occasion and do it. Many donate to charity at the end of the year in order to claim a tax credit. Many will give away that which they would have thrown away. We see the church and charities as the structural institutions to ease our consciences for the misery we encounter and ignore. In some cases the corporations that cause the misery will donate to an institution to indirectly ameliorate the situation in order to avoid direct responsibility.
The first person to change is oneself and the first thing to change is ones heart. Synchronize the heart to actions. If each of us treat humans with humanity we will feel good and so will other humans.

Violent change vs. Nonviolent change

Violent change is unsustainable but it's the preferred short term solutions of governments and empires. The US empire has invested heavily in violent change since it is an empire builder. The war on terror is an empire war on all opposition who can easily be labeled as terrorists and assassinated by drone if necessary. It is aimed at nongovernmental agents but crosses sovereign boundaries at will. It is however doomed to failure. Since all who know this do not have the will to admit it and quit a likely scenario is failure through bankruptcy. Wars do end when soldiers cannot be paid.
Nonviolent change on the other hand is a long term solution. It is embraced by ordinary citizens and actively opposed by all authorities. The social structures set up in western societies after colonialism are designed to maintain oppression. The structures include police, prisons, armies, and the military industrial complex all geared to suppress nonviolence with state legalized violence.
To change the world we need to change the paradigm. We need to support nonviolent long term solutions and we need to oppose violent short term solutions.

Wall street change

The wall street protesters are generating change. The normal reaction to change is intransigence and ignoring. The wall street corporate leaders are intransigent and the media is trying to ignore the protesters by ridiculing what they can and minimizing their efforts. Some of course are crying wolf to shut them down lest they succeed in revolution. This is a standard scenario to escalate the crisis to a higher level of conflict. The crisis is already being primed for violence by the roughhouse arrests. While the public are very tolerant toward police violence during arrests they are ripe to blame any protester who is charged with violence during the arrest process. The protesters must have video coverage of every incident before it occurs to discredit any such allegations. It is standard practice for authorities to use violence in order to clear up protesters and justify it as a response to violence. The public is used to accepting that script from dictatorships to democracies. now we wait since both sides have their strategists working to control the situation.

The worst of times

We are living in the worst of times while others live in the best of times. Some people are unaffected by the economic downturn because they caused it and planned for it by having bailouts handy and politicians, lawmakers, and judges bought and paid for. They continue the gilded life of kings even as more and more suffer for their pleasure. The paradigm was set in stone early in another age. We simply inherit the madness of wealth and poverty, war without end, and peace reserved for heaven. The times need changing as it has needed changing for generations. While we allow these injustices in the name of justice and lawlessness in the name of law we become embedded in the change for the worst even as we espouse change for betterment. We are responsible for all the bad changes that brought us here to this point in our common history unless we put positive effort into the good changes that will bring us back to sanity and humanity. Each is responsible for his or her own actions. Would you take an action that bolsters the current status quo or will you take action to replace the injustice with justice, the rush to inhumanity back to a shared humanity once again?

The act of change creates change

Currently there are antiwar protests and sympathy wall street marches in Chicago. They are all but ignored and laughed at by the national media but in their action there is change. They are changing. They themselves are being changed by these actions. They are generating change in others who are with them and those who are not with them. They are influencing history. They may not control history though unless they focus their actions with greater intentions. These will follow and affect the presidential results. But most of all they will affect the future of America because they are being written on the quilted history of American fabric.
These are some of the unintended consequences of the Arab spring. The American fall.

Change is the natural order

Change is the default. Change must occur. People try to control change and sometimes it seems people can accomplish any change desired but over time in the long term changes become unravelled. We are at such a stage of the unravelling of the colonialists and the economists.

Precipitating incidents trigger change

The world is always ready for change. Change is inevitable. Controlling change is the key. Those who have power and make plans set the world on it's course and meet regularly to adjust the course. Many people feel left out and abandoned but as long as they are isolated, marginalized, divided, or eliminated the world keeps turning. Many plans are made for change and they may even be executed to compete against all the other planners. They reach an uneasy compromise of sharing power and eliminating the disempowered until the precipitating incident occurs. Like an earthquake it shakes the very foundations of society and all bets are off on who gains control. This triggers real change. Revolutionary change. The collapse of the economic system and the failure of governments create an earth shattering precipitating incident which became an opportunity to the Arab spring. It's aftershocks have reached the offices in wall street. Change is coming.