Upheaval Dome, Colorado Plateau, Summer of 2011
There are parades and then there are parades. Whenever we see a despot nation or centralized nation parading their military about we are witnessing a disaster in the making. This is a sign that we let some nation centralize power and institutionalize violence. We is the international community or United Nations. Why in the world does someone want that kind of power and control? They do though, and they keep creating the next god-king. God-kings or queens lead to corruption and institutionalized terrorism. I believe the same about the industrial capitalist god-kings. These god-kings are not much different except the excessive power and violence is less direct in most cases, but very real.
We have been witnessing the high price of eliminating god-kings from their position of power. Aspiring god-kings, semi-established god-kings and well established god-queens are taking note and evolving their thrones of power. Not one is needed, just as I am not needed. We are not needed, but we are. We are not needed to wield excessive power and violence, but we are needed to be willing and free participants in the guided efforts to improve our lot. We all have wonderful skills, talents and knowledge to share in creating or evolving a more sustainable, green and compassionate society.
All nations on this Earth have in recent times wielded excessive power and violence in a way that created more chaos than good. Those countries that have wielded this type of power internally like Iran, North Korea and many others, large and small, have been creating the least sustainable, green and compassionate nations. The US and others can certainly improve a great deal. The US especially needs to deal with this problem of excessive power and violence in its industrial capitalist elitists. The undeserving god-kings and queens have also been throwing things out of balance, which has contributed greatly to our recent economic disaster. They continue to harm us and parade their weapons.
The protesters are in the right. However, we need to take these protests to the eligible voters and consumers in the US in order to make a difference. The patent system was not developed in order to create god-kings and queens. It was supposed to help create economic incentive to invent and innovate. The people that do the actual inventing and innovating are not being rewarded in many cases. A fairly new class of opportunist has been hijacking this system for ungodly excess. They don’t do anything but control patents and leverage taxes out of us all. These hijackers are intelligent and bold, but they are driven to rake you for all they can. You see, they have been using excessive power and violence to extract blood, sweat and tears from us all. I recommend that you vote for reason.
It is time to make reasonableness a central issue in politics. As human beings we have the right and need for sustainable, green and compassionate government and industry. We need incentives to help people to exceed the norm, but we need reasonable incentives. And, we don’t need incentives set at excessive levels in order to create false god-queens and kings to choke the inventiveness and innovation out of others. What would have happened if we gave an exclusive patent for the hammer or the action of hammering? How about toilets? How about for the idea of having clean water? How about paved roads? How about the idea for lines on roads? How about the idea for adding two numbers together?
I encourage everyone to dream big and try to make a difference. If you have the desire to be worshiped, I hope you can let go of the idea of becoming a false god. We don’t need any. However, we need your true god-like effort to contribute to everyone’s pursuit of happiness including your own.
Daniel A. Jones, October 23, 2011
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