Counterevolution

"Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and a house divided against a house falls." Luke 11:17

Two significant problems currently preventing a successful counter-insurgency movement must be overcome.   These two problems are the factors crippling America.

First, we are a house divided among ourselves, and by being divided, we are already conquered.  The enemy has infiltrated us, is among us, and is in us-in our hearts, and in our minds.  We are our own worst enemy. Our perspectives and stories about each other divide us into political, religious, and economic factions. Within our factions, we are further divided by partisanship.  We are divided in every way we can be divided, by our social and economic status, and even within our own races.

What prompts and facilitates these divisions? We live in fear, which breeds the need to control.  The desire to control leads to anger.  Anger leads to rage, and living in fearful out of control rage is the dark side. This has become the basis for much of our American society.  We are afraid of each other and we are afraid to admit it. America's pulpits and politicians preach fear.  Her media sells fear.  Government feeds on fear. But how does fear translate outwardly to cause the division among us? It is what drives our base, mechanical, egoistic need for acceptance, the need to not be wrong, to not look bad, or to be right and look good. Truth be damned.

Rather than being motivated by integrity and selflessness, by the risk of self-sacrifice, or by surrender to both find and be led by the truth that will set us free, We, the slothful People find it easier to engage in our relative distractions and allow the government controlled media and government schools to tell us what is popular to think--how to act, how not to be, hot not to act, how not to be. The end result is that we are victims of silent weapons in a quiet war that has captured our hearts and twisted our minds. 

The primary casualty of this war is the lack of knowledge, and misunderstanding among us and between us.  By knowledge I do not mean public, college education, indoctrination or programming.  There are many educated people in America who are not very smart.  By knowledge I mean the antithesis of the programming of the schools, of the disinformation taught therein.  I meanthe truth. To one degree or another we all suffer from a deficiency when it comes to love, and the knowledge of the truth.  We know what we know, and we know what we don't know, but how many of us have the courage to accept and the integrity to acknowledge that there are things we don't know that we don't know?

No one likes a know-it-all.  No one is a be-it-all.  Everyone brings something with them to the counter-revolution party.  Everyone has something to contribute. Not only is everyone endowed by the Creator with "certain unalienable rights," everyone is also endowed with a particular knowledge, a special gift, talent or ability, each of which is unique and valuable to the individual. I challenge us all to realize this simple fact, and to acknowledge each and every American as an important and significant member contributing to the whole, and viewing equality in this regard.  To this end I trust we will each discover that someone else will show us something about ourselves we were unaware that we did not know.  In this manner we strengthen each other, uniting through our weaknesses, rather than our strengths.  When we do this, even our enemies will find peace with us.

If the divisions among us are not eliminated, if we cannot courageously confront our personal fear, if we cannot humbly acknowledge our weaknesses, we are fools to believe we can embody a successful counter-revolution.  If we clean the outside of the dish but disregard the inside, if we do not rise above an outward projection of being merely a brigand of malcontents while deceiving ourselves as being a significant counter-insurgency force, we are deluded and in the end are merely making matters worse, not better.

On every coin minted by the United States of America is the motto, "E pluribus Unum," meaning: "the many as one." Also written on the coin are: "In God we Trust" and "Liberty."  What we make this fact mean is what we make it mean.  The meaning we add to this fact, the story we contrive about it, the perspective we hold about it, is where we find ourselves in agreement or in disagreement.  Recognizing these stories and perspectives for what they are, not as disagreements but rather as challenges to grow beyond what we are, and through this process to really get to know one another, is where we can begin the reunification process.  The particular perspective I hold to relative to these terms is that these coins bear the formula reminding us of the truth that will set us free: 

"In God we Trust" + "E pluribus Unum" = "Liberty"

To realize the America we want to be, we must embody what it means to truly be an American.

It is time.  Are you ready?