Super Tuesday

Greetings, hope that you are having a super Tuesday.

I guess that this event embodies the hopes and aspirations and maybe fears of many. In some ways I feel that our participation in the political process, like the other areas of endeavor in our lives, is ultimately informed by our quest to meet personal and collective needs.
That these activities emerge in response to what we perceive our vital needs to be and how they can be met. In that paradigm, the question about the power equation and cultural integrity are extremely important. We have spoken about work, education and other personal responsibilities to ourselves and families and seen the contradictions that exist within the available structures. Whether it be the educational, economic or political process the results we expect seem illusive and we struggle to understand what went wrong.
The question today touches, gently, on the why these particular models dominate and more critically what is the underlying belief system.
I suggest that these societal practices and beliefs are driven by an underlying anxiety about the availability and distribution of resources. The sense that we have to compete over limited resources is an ancient but ever present dynamic, that I believe trumps and may even be the seedlings of certain ideology and value systems.
In other words that we construct our identity, good or bad, healthy or not, dominating or submissive around cultural beliefs that address our essential needs for survival and reproduction in effect the continuation of the species.
The reason why we may remain in an abusive relationship, tolerate unfair treatment, repeat that we have to choose between "the lesser of two evils or is it the evil of two lessors and that the devil you know is better than the devil you don't know etc. etc., is because of this dynamic of fear. Because of the belief in the all powerful, omnipresent system is the only thing we can really depend on, so fear rules.
Taking the risk of being too simplistic, I offer the example of the globalist juxtaposed with a realist philosophy, that the latter postures that there is limited resources in the world and if I do not control it you will , to my detriment. The globalist proposes that if we share the limited resources in the world, it will go a longer way for a greater good.
But in the competitive world, even working for the greater good is driven by that idea of deficiency, that success and achievement indeed survival, means that I must be number one, I must prevail and dominate. Could it be that this same belief system is at the root of the competitive nature of western society, a thing rather than a human oriented society as Dr. Martin Luther King observes and warns about the resulting evils of militarism, racism and materialism. Because of our perception and fear that there is only so many "things" and we need to guard against other humans and even other life forms , robbing us of our "dominion over all things". But who decides?


"I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin...we must rapidly begin the shift from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights, are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered."


I will pause to ponder and let you ponder the implications of this stream of thought.
What if we were not afraid? ( Woke up and found out that we did not need the oppressors bribes.) Would the beast retire, or chase after us?
What if we do have the inherent capacity to live our lives as informed by our own sovereign humanity and worth?
The significance of Super Tuesday, well it is very important, but will we vote in fear or in awareness of our own inherent value.