I don’t watch the news that often to avoid being inundated by “bad news” while I’m trying to relax at the end of my long day. Whatever is presented to us as “the news”, is a series of selected, reportable, events, most of which blown out of proportion or misinterpreted. We are not informed about all the miracles that have been taking place, except, perhaps, for those “happy brief notes” at the end of the program, which are usually not enough to keep people from being discouraged or depressed.
As a result of my “news abstinence”, I realized I can no longer keep in my memory the names of the government ministers or those of the members of the parliament. Some of you out there might judge me for that. I used to know who they were and kept track of cabinet shuffles or developments in the political scene. I am not saying that I don’t know what is going on in the world. Now that I am not focusing on the “details”, I have seen the bigger picture, and now, that I don’t know who the ministers of my country are, I finally understand what is going on in the world.
How can they be “memorable” when they are not making a difference, not in the world, but in this little country they have been assigned to govern? The bigger question is, however, would they be “allowed” to make a difference, in the remote case they wanted to?
I think, I can answer the last question. And so can you, if you think about it. Who has really been making a difference in the world, from ancient times up to now? Is it politicians? Is it politics that has moved us forward? If you can call this “forward”. Where is our true advancement? The world has remained, for millennia, a world of separation, borders, and enemies. Do truly advanced people live in war and enmity or do they enjoy peace? Have politics shifted us from being individualistic and materialistic? Or have they enhanced these “qualities”? Is it politics that promoted and established –to a degree- civil rights, women’s vote, gay rights, children’s and animals' rights, and the rights of all marginalized people? Or was the political system forced, by a massive shift in consciousness, to make adjustments? Who shed light into the dark ages? Wasn’t it Michelangelo and Leonardo Da Vinci?
The global system in which we exist has made infantile steps towards advancement. Behind the seeming “progress” in technology and lifestyle, behind the impressive urban landscapes, behind the illusion of democracy, you can still find an imperialistic empire, or even, a dominating oligarchy, which is keeping us all limited and controlled. Where is the freedom in that? Is consumerism making us free? Material things, are, precisely, what is keeping us distracted and oblivious to truth.
I would say, true advancement is measured at the level of consciousness. The system in which we are trying to exist, is keeping our consciousness in a cage. Politicians are those who are “nurturing” the system, even if they don’t know who they are really working for. It is poor and underappreciated artists, who have given us the light, throughout the centuries. They are the ones who truly have made a difference in the world. From Homer and Plato, to Khalil Gibran and Richard Bach, from Da Vinci to Dali and Chagall, from Beethoven to Janis Joplin and R.E.M. They are the ones who have spoken to our unlimited self within and kept us going, until we’ve started remembering who we are.
There have been, of course, few inspired leaders in the political world. However, their fates show that they were not tolerated. They were either assassinated or imprisoned, but they made history. Gandhi, Martin Luther King and Mandella are more “memorable” than any world leader will ever be.
We live in “tricky” times, to say the least. Some of us feel that the world is unbearable. Those who rule us keep us afraid of each other, thus easily manipulated and controlled. Sadly, most people like their state of “blissful ignorance”, to the point that, if they ever read this article they would say it’s “mumbo jumbo new ageist stuff”. Then, they would fold the paper, go shopping under a chemtrailed sky, eat at Mc Donald’s, watch the late night news and go to bed. It seems that our lives have been programmed for us, so that we won’t have space to think. But we are reaching a time when our level of consciousness, thanks to all the impoverished, underappreciated artists and philosophers, will make it imperative for the world to change. And, hopefully, an era of true advancement will begin.
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