I'll start here for now.. typing on my "smartphone" isn't as easy or satisfying as the depression of keys beneath my fingertips or my ability to see what I've written or edit as easily alas, its what I'll use and this will be short.
I'm fairly sure, based on my own experience, people have been speaking out & up since the beginning of injustices and cruelties.. it's the fact that the masses didn't care or wouldn't listen as to why these declarations weren't heard. People consumed with their own struggles or bubbles had to choose what they could personally sacrifice just to listen much less to take action and stand behind truth and justice. So now people who are "important" are speaking out and people are listening but what is actually changing? Is it just the collective consciousness that is slightly shifting that we can publicly be angry and not sacrifice the limited "security" most work hard for everyday OR is it that people are willing to sacrifice what they have by their own means of comfort to stand in solidarity against those who monopolize our resources? People have always been speaking up without the fear of retribution.. it's that now will others who aren't the ones directly affected be the ones to sacrifice in their "listening"? Will you risk a job or a paycheck, will you risk the comfort or basic needs of your family to stand behind and up for someone else who was violated, perpetrated, enslaved, forgotten or dismissed.. that's the question. What are we sacrificing to stand behind and support the truth?
To creates scale of needs vs wants is difficult because so many live paycheck to paycheck but the reality of their lives in this comparison can be and are vastly different. What are you doing for a living, does it support a sustainable life model or are you hurting others seen or unseen to obtain the privileges your nuclear family benefits from or are you doing something that offers you a very comfortable life while others are struggling? So many questions, not enough truth..
people like Oprah, Bill Gates... who give so much yet in relation to how much they have or have "earned" in relationship to those they inspire.. are they really sacrificing anything to change the reality for others day to day? Because at the end of the conversation it is that the way they get to live day in and day out ( because "we the people" were inspired or loved) or what they created is not the same as the majority. They are living the luck they had in their own lives because people followed and supported them, granting them what they have.. the smartest, the brightest, most brilliant, charismatic people were and are still lucky to have the masses appreciate them in such a way that they can afford a life most only dream of having. They SHOULD be our advocates, they should live with less, they should not be able to isolate themselves and the wealth they have acquired without simultaneously fighting and sacrificing for those who work hard and have much much less. They can afford to be the lobbyist of the people. They can organize and fight against corporations and our congress, they can fight for the majority. They can go on less vacations or have less homes, they can be the people's voice.. but they too must sacrifice if the majority are too.
We live on one tiny planet in a universe largely unknown or explored. Our duty is to say hi and make eye contact with others inhabiting this planet, hurdling in space.. or job is to recognize our "smallness" and know that we are not here on this planet alone. Know our neighbors and have uncomfortable conversations, talk about the shadows, look for the truth, seek to understand the unimaginable, work to build a better race... the human race.
