In a previously published piece I wrote that the world in which we live is in large measure the externalization of our interior states. Our joys and our frustrations, our hopes and our fears, the deep seated assumptions that we cultivate about life and our fellow inhabitants of the universe around us become concretized in the world around us.
Where we cultivate fear we find expressions of hate. When greed is the prime factor in our behavior we cultivate inequity. Where there is hopelessness we will find expressions of despair that negate the drive for accomplishment. The coming together of these life-suppressing energies create conditions in which violence thrives; and in such conditions none of us are safe.
The constant drumbeat about the insecurities of individuals and communities and states, is sourced in the recognition of the operation of these negative energies in our reality. Unfortunately the prescriptions for addressing these defects in our communal experience are often based on a denial of the real issues that drive them. In some circumstances these prescriptions are designed … by unscrupulous political operators … to mask the real problems in our body politic in a bid to exploit the already volatile conditions for political and economic gain.
And so we find that the building of more prisons and the militarization of police departments are given priority over addressing the very real inequities that inform the despair that underlies the violence we witness daily. The building of walls to keep out the people of nations that have been plundered and otherwise destabilized for the economic and political supremacy of “developed countries”, become their way of denying the responsibility they have to those they have exploited to build their “wealth”. The widows and orphans we have created now become the dwellers in tent cities to be further victimized by the same vampires responsible for their dehumanization.
The corporate multinationals developing and peddling weapons of war to individuals and the security apparatus that they rely on to keep the hoards at bay must realize that ultimately there is no weapon that will keep an iniquitous dynamic intact. The universe tends ultimately toward balance… Justice that is. Advances in modern weaponology will engender a false sense of security. In the end however, sticks and stones will break our bones; and the truth will always offend those who thrive by living a lie.
There is no wall we can devise that will protect us from the defect of injustice from within.
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