Small Waves, Big Currents: How Our Lives and Systems Shape the Tribe
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Small Waves, Big Currents: How Our Lives and Systems Shape the Tribe
WARM UP. Good greetings to all the readers that joined us today. We just recently returned from the sanctuary and there was a lot ‘said’ amongst the waves. I am not here to translate those messages to you, however let us presume they motivate some of the words I write in the proceeding lines. The waves are astounding to me. Years ago I caught myself out on a long pier at the local beach, Lake Lansing, watching the waves. It was one of those moments I went out for a meditation and somehow a thought, moments of thoughts, changed the way I observe for the foreseeable future. So the last few times going to the sanctuary the observations began coming back into view. What came back into focus is the ‘larger’ waves are collections of ‘smaller’ waves. Next time you are near a body of water, look at the surface of the water. Notice that moving water has waves, tiny little ripples, or ‘smaller’ waves throughout. ‘Larger’ waves have an incredible amount of ‘smaller’ waves ripping around through them, as if the ‘larger’ is just simply a collection of the ‘smaller.’ To go deeper, my brain looked across that lake and thought “there are more lives lived throughout history than each individual ‘smaller’ wave that exists in that lake. When I am out at the ocean, it's crazy to fathom there have likely been more human lives lived than the entire oceans worth of waves!
I too have lived many lives. There are many renditions of how my brain tends to operate in given situations which are likened to living different lives. One consistent pattern I have encountered is the need for my brain to be problem solving. Meaning orienting my life around patterns of solving my problems. My most recent problem solving endeavor is my sole-focus in my career. Problem solving is at the core of what I attempt to impart and guide people to begin to do with their health. There have been a handful of times I told people what their ‘doctors’ were going to say and do. Telling them precisely what seems to be the problem, free from high-end scanners and technology, simply off observation and built upon experiences. That’s when I refer to myself as ‘Dr. Turner’ when they confirm what their doctors told them. Oh the position of being an unaccredited amateur. Try not to envy me folks! There was a time I was selling people luggage and business bags. If I had to label a problem being solved at that moment I’d call it ‘travel solutions.’ I then went into shoe sales which I would label as solving a ‘i need to fit in with the current culture without being made fun of’ also ‘I need to fit into the most recent trends in fashion,’ problem. Yes those are exaggerated and certainly not what I was mentally processing at the time. If only I could have been so altruistic!
Now go back to the image of smaller waves making big waves and let us focus on thoughts as smaller waves and bigger waves as leading to action. I am reminded daily of how little greater swathes of society understand the structure of how we have organized ourselves. Our daily lives have revolved around tribalism for nearly as long as humans have existed. Within the tribe you were given a structure of how to behave within the tribe in order to fit in. At one point in documented human history you see that many tribal societies organized themselves around religion. If you used archaeology as a guide to understand this you would see that the largest buildings in these tribes were temples. If you take a look around in current US societies, you see that the largest buildings are banks and corporations. So following this logic you should know where the dominant cultural concerns lie. That is, the tribes are currently structured around the market economics of the banking systems. We have all chosen that this is the best way to progress as humans, progress as a tribe. There is a lot to be said on the topic, I am not in the position to express all my own thoughts on the topic, however it is my observation that the market system we follow seems to work against our own tribal survival. There are more measurable metrics than ever to point to a rapid decline in our internal and external environments. As much as people tend to want to point to exceptions to rules, some outlier ‘reasons,’ for these rapid declines, the answer lies in the system. Every system has outcomes, and it is the inputs into the system that yield the outcomes. It is very dynamic at the same time very simple. Market economics is what rules our everyday decisions. Whether or not you are a problem solver or problem creator, your ability to have food, clothes, shelter, healthcare that is not full of poison depends on what the market economics of today dictate.
COOLDOWN. The idealist in me thinks there has to be a better system put into place. Ditch the propagandized ideas of socialism or Marxism or ‘isms.’ We have been separated for long enough. Think about the waves. There are storied human geniuses that have existed when they ‘came up’ with the next great technological discovery and theory. Most people do not recognize that that same genius is simply working off the generational ideas of others. The concept of “lift yourself up by your bootstraps” is a way of saying “you get what you earn.” Every person that exists in our current tribe owes everything to our predecessors. No matter how hard you think you are working, you did not earn your electricity, you did not earn your computer, you did not earn your vehicle. To earn these things you need to be able to build them. You do not have the slightest clue what it takes to make electricity, build a computer or build the mechanisms and chemistry it takes to have a vehicle. You are born into more or less privileged tribes, not of your choosing. It would behoove us all to learn what the mechanisms of market economics entails so when you are shown propaganda, you can see through it. See through it to the root of it.
Right now our Earthling crisis lies in the inability to move beyond our conditioned, propagandized system of economics. Critical thinking, communal thinking will lead us to better outcomes within a new organized human tribe. It is time for me to sign off on this. This certainly wasn’t a direction I expected to go, seeing as I write these without expectations it is always a surprise!
Take Care,
G$