I read this article online titled:
Man Gets Prison Sentence For Collecting Rainwater On
His Own Property
Pasted
from <http://yournewswire.com/man-gets-prison-sentence-for-collecting-rainwater-on-his-own-property/>
And I realized a few
interesting things by my reaction to reading the headline alone. Reading the
headline first of all triggered a fear inside myself, which was based on a
thought along the lines of 'oh no, the
government is trying to take my rainwater!' and with looking into that reaction
I realized that it is essentially showing that I have a fear of 'the
government' and that I seem to have created 'the government' as the boogieman
in my mind. The government is not my friend, it is my enemy. It is made up of
corporations and greedy people who are only after my money and who don't care
about me as an individual, therefore I must defend myself from the government
and be wary of whatever it is that the government is trying to implement.
That is basically
the attitude that I have programmed into myself when it comes to the word
'government', and this through all the
articles that I have read over time and stories I have heard from other people
about what the government apparently did to them or about how there exists
corruption in government, how people are stealing our taxes, how the individual
in society is being robbed of their hard-earned money by deceitful lawmakers who misappropriate that money into
their own pockets and how corporations make dirty deals with government
officials to privatize public resources like water and forest land and end up
polluting the area that we live in, etcetera.
So with that
attitude of 'my own government is after me', I feel as though I am all alone in
this world having to fend for myself and thus I am in survival mode. So upon
reading an article that is about a government jailing a citizen for trying to
fend for himself and his survival, I react with fear for my own survival which
then results in me getting angry at this government for jailing this guy 'just
because he was trying to survive'.
But it
is actually fascinating that in this whole story, I don't in any moment stop to
question my own reaction or question why it is in the first place that I have come to accept that my government
is 'the bad guy' and why it is that I feel the need to protect myself from my
government's decisions. I mean, I immediately trust my initial reaction of fear
and anger as protection and defense against the apparent evil that is
threatening my livelihood but at the same time it is because of this very
reaction that I am not seeing what is going on in reality and I am not seeing
for example the absurd way in which things exist.
Things such as the
fact that a government is supposed to be a structure of people who organize a
society in a way that supports the beings in it, so that no person has to be in
survival mode. I mean isn't that the whole purpose of things called 'public property',
meaning that these things should go to 'the people' and serve to ease the
survival of people in that society? Isn't that the purpose of the things we
call 'democracy', 'economy', 'social service', 'public officers', and all
things pertaining to 'social' and 'public' industry and activity, in that it
should actually serve the 'public' in ways that is best for the public?
Somehow preventing
someone from collecting their own water to sustain themselves doesn't fit that
definition. However the fact that someone feels the need to collect their own
water and to go against the law in doing so doesn't make sense either. So, looking
at my own initial reaction to reading this article, it is quite fascinating to
notice that we would become angry at the government for not allowing this man to provide for his own survival but we
don't even notice the underlying faults in the design of our government that
this case is actually revealing, which
is that we shouldn't feel the need to pull away from the law and adapt a
self-interested way of living, according to 'every man to himself', in the
first place.
We don't seem to ask
ourselves why it is that we have a government at all when it clearly isn't
providing a supportive structure for all of us to live within and when for a
great part most of us even exist in fear of and conflict with our government to
the point where in the back of our mind we are thinking of ways to potentially
provide for our own survival 'just in case', through for example collecting our
own rain water.
And this is a very
valid question to ask ourselves, of what our government is actually doing and
why we even have it when it clearly isn't functioning in our best interests.
So, since we do have a government that doesn't work in OUR best interest, then
in whose best interest is it in fact working? Why is our government not coming
up with ways to make sure that no one will ever have to fend for themselves and
that each living being is supported in the best way possible? I mean, we give
them that power, we place people in office which we believe to be capable of
making decisions in our name and hope to have the skills to organize large groups of individuals in
ways that works out best for everyone.
Yet when people are
being sentenced to jail for trying to collect resources because they aren't
getting those resources from their government who 'owns' those resources, then
the decisions that are being made and the ways that our government is operating
is definitely not in our best interest. The judge sentencing this individual to
jail should have investigated why it was that this man felt like he needed to
fend for himself in the first place. He should have investigated what went
wrong in the relationship between the system and this individual where a lack
was created which caused a person to have to go into survival mode and make
self-interested 'unlawful' decisions, which is what a judge who rules according
to and based on the actual best interest of society would do. So the fact that
judges don't take this approach would be our first sign that somehow the
government that we have created and allowed to direct our society and our lives
does not exist in the best interest of us all and thus should be changed.
Investigate a Living Income Guarantee, the only logical step any government should take to show its consideration of and care for the existence and survival of its citizens.
Hace tiempo ya, que el GRUPO DESTENI y algunas otras personas estan llamando la atencion a los seres que habitamos este planeta de cambiar su actitud y modo de vivir para que asi tambien cambie nuestro entorno.La realidad es que el cambio individual es urgente; mientras cada UNO no cambie, es muy difisil que los gobiernos y todos los abusadores cambien.Necesitamos reeducarnos cada UNO.
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