I've Pivoted

Saving the world is a daunting vocation. After Covid, I finally realize it’s impossible for one person. Jesus couldn’t have saved the world without controversy, dynamic jimmy rustling, some press and a growing multitude of disciples, far beyond the scope of 12 dudes he hung out with most often. Otherwise, he’d just have been a guy in a village that the world forgot. Even as the living son of God, he didn’t do shit all by himself.

Fierce individualists tend to forget or worse, ignore this. We (my apologies for speaking for the individualists as a collective) often say to ourselves, “if you want something done right, you have to do it yourself.” Then, we (there it is, again) proceed to work alone, isolated and exclusionary and expect a Jesus type, revolutionary result. It’s shocking this approach hasn’t worked yet. (sarcasm)

I think Gandhi said something to the effect of “be the change you wish to see in the world.” I used to think that had something to do with advocating an absence of governance. But, the truth is, that’s not a thing. After 2020, it became obvious that people largely crave governance of some type to keep the wheels turning. It’s not just because they are confused or lazy or hadn’t considered the alternative to government (as I once thought), but because they deeply and profoundly distrust themselves (throw out your Candles In The Dark playbook now. If you can’t start with the premise of trusting oneself with freedom, then the rest of the framework doesn’t work). Many individualists still haven’t noticed the obvious or will deny it profusely. The metric of denial tends to correlate perfectly with the investment in or profit margin from the notion that “enough people can be convinced to give up government to save the world.”

I even took that notion seriously, myself until I noticed some of these same people suggesting that the solution to “bumping up those rookie numbers” was to team up with literal communists, hear them out and invite them into the fold. If you didn’t just say, “Wait, what?” or if that idea sounds somewhat reasonable to you, I don’t think you understand what it is we’re fighting for-or against. Sure, top down governance sucks. It’s the evil we know now, but “ground up” governance as I heard the apt description recently in a talk by Lionel Shriver, “needs to be ground up.” Historically speaking, there has never been a more catastrophically flawed ideology of governance than communism. Communism has never, ever, ever existed or worked even on a small scale absent government. It still never really worked. And make no mistake, governance by the people is still governance. It’s what the US has been suggesting is the lesser evil from its inception. It has been a nice alibi for everything that goes wrong. Well, it’s what YOU wanted!

The thing that should make the flaws of the communist ideology obvious is how few communists (the ones who will never be in charge of anything absent violent imposition of said charge) own property. Anyone with two brain cells to rub together and something to lose can see the madness of giving up all of one’s property for the greater good.

But all that aside, one only need notice the ready willingness to collaborate with the enemy as the sign that these people understand the futility of finding enough people who don’t want to steal (at this time at least) that will accept a life without governance.

Getting people to reject the current government is always easy, but getting people to take care of themselves, takes more effort. It makes it especially hard to convince anyone of letting go of external governance if one is selling the idea of complete independence, complete responsibility and total sovereignty without practice, without help, to people who are not already taking care of themselves, largely. I don’t mean merely paying the bills. Most people are spending all their time, energy and money just to scrape by paying their bills. Also, most people work tirelessly on other people’s meaningless ventures. So between that kind of work, sucking up their entire lives and then negotiating childcare, credit card debt, housing costs and insurance, there’s little time for anything but the color drug (TV) before crashing out and starting this meaningless drudge all over again. People who aren’t really living can’t conceptualize freedom much less a world without governance taking care of everything so they can keep getting by. That’s what we’re selling people after all is more responsibilities, more obligations.

So, I am pivoting toward teaching well being, not by myself but for myself and others. If life is drudgery or you’re feeling unwell, government or no government, it’s useless. Since I haven’t learned everything I know about well being by myself, I am bringing in my helpers to instruct my audience, whomever wants to learn about wellness. If we (there’s that word again) can figure out who to turn to for answers (even fierce individualists need help) and how to start living lives of meaning and purpose, lives of well being and fulfillment or if we can just figure out how to better care for ourselves, the leap to less invasive government becomes fathomable.

Also, in loving and caring for oneself, a response of good loving care from others is elicited, expected and even demanded. This is where all good boundaries begin!

Call me crazy, but that’s where I land with all this. Let’s take on our personal well being first and save the world tomorrow. In so doing, the effects ripple out into social salvation regardless.

As you may recall, I interviewed Sarah Thompson last week about her homeopathy practice. She mentioned an upcoming webinar teaching the fundamentals of homeopathy. As I mentioned in the call and outside it, her webinars for me have instigated some of the single most groundbreaking work I’ve done in my life for personal transformation of health, emotional well being and mental alignment. Time is running out to take part in this next webinar. I’ll be there. It’s offered at a discount to her substack subscribers, and I’ll be taking advantage of that discount. I strongly encourage you to check out this webinar and learn more about simple, low-cost tools you can incorporate in your life for dynamic transformation!

Looking forward to this week, I’m interviewing Tim Phares, an affirmative prayer practitioner and how this particular form of prayer plays into a life of well being and assists particularly through grief.

Join me here each Wednesday to elevate your well being.