Shedding Our Skin
The founders of Break the Matrix are right. We cannot build community without cutting through the outdated political labels that we've grown accustomed to. But I am optimistic, perhaps because I was a lifelong liberal before recently shedding my Democrat skin in favor of a broader, more inclusive (and hopefully more altruistic) American skin.
And while one man sounded freedom's clarion call, the kind of change we need to implement in this country cannot be accomplished by one person. If we want to reclaim our country, our media, and our economic and personal freedoms, we must work together. We have to shed our labels -Republican, Democrat, Greens, Independents, and the apathetic. You know who you are.
Break the Matrix is a fast-growing community of informed, impassioned men and women, tired of accepting the mainstream media's tendency to filter information as they see fit and to avoid asking real questions like: What is the Federal Reserve and why was it really created? OR Do we really need our military in 160 countries? OR Are there really plans for a North American Union? We want to ask the tough questions, and we are not afraid of what the answers might be.
If we can focus on the freedom message and share our knowledge and passion with those around us, our community will thrive; our community will grow; and our community will evoke change.
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Labels allow people to form opinions without using their powers of observation and thought
They're really there just to accomodate the lazy
I believe in the individual ---- the best way to describe an individual is by adjectives, i.e. friendly, talkative, rude, funny, etc. based on direct observation
Group labels are shallow and divisive and remind me of the commercial in which half of a football stadium is yelling "tastes great" while the other half yells "less filling"
So which are you "tastes great" ? or do you consider yourself "less filling?"
If you value originality , labels will never be satisfying
Just plain, old human skin should be comfortable for all people (with some clothes on top if you are walking outside).
This is an excellent topic. Most of the people consider themselves as part of a group(s), accepting those labels unconsciously, even outside the politics. Just remember how many times you said "we" for something that (after some introspective analysis is not 100% of what you are really about).
Other than political affiliation people use this for being a part of sport's club fan group or a professional group or many other groups. This feeling of belonging has a root in tribal societies thought to be a thing of the past. Also, being a part of the group makes people feel stronger, it helps the lack of their individual strength. For some having a label(s) actually helps going through their life. For others it's offensive.
I am all for organizing independent individuals for a good cause (like BreakTheMatrix), but even though I became a member I will never say "we" when referring to this organization. And I will support it, not because I am a member, but for it's goals and results.
This "label free" way of thinking should especially be important in the United States, where the Constitution put so much emphasis on individual rights and personal freedom, almost begging U.S. citizens to step out of tribal community thinking into a new era.
Thank you Lisa, hope to see you at the Venice Beach sometimes.
Americans Won't Submit
You can't fight City Hall. Death and taxes." It's all a bunch of enemy propaganda rolling across our picket line.
We saw it all throughout the Twentieth Century. Now, in the Twenty-first Century, it's time for us to stand-up tall, and to let the establishment know that we're not going to let them cram us into their rat maze anymore. We will no longer submit to their agenda of dehumanization and disenfranchisement.
I don't know about you, but I'm concerned about what's happening in this broken and aching world I wake-up to each morning. I'm concerned about the systems of control that are wielded against us, and about the never ending, circular conflict between power and powerlessness that has been so corrosive to the American spirit. I want freedom, and more of it--not tyranny, and that's what you should want too.
It's up to each and everyone of us to turn-loose just some of the greed, the hatred, the envy, and yes, the fear, because that is their most effective method of controlling us--make us feel pathetic and small so we'll, willingly, give-up our sovereignty, our liberty and our destiny. We have got to realize that we are being conditioned on a mass scale. Start challenging this corporate slave state that rules over us all.
The Twenty-first Century is going to be a new century. Not the Century of Slavery. Not the Century of Lies. It's going to be the age of Americans standing up for something pure and something right.
What a bunch of garbage--liberal Democrats, conservative Republicans. It's all a phony, poorly-staged, left-right paradigm designed to control you. It's two sides of the same coin--two management teams bidding for the CEO job of Slavery Incorporated.
The truth is out there in front of you, hidden in plain sight, but they lay-out this buffet of lies for us to consume. I'm sick of it, and I'm not going to take a bite out of it anymore.
The American people are too good. We're not a bunch of underachievers. We're going to stand-up together and beat the odds. We are going to get fired-up and use our creativity, our energy, and our burning desire for freedom to show Slavery Incorporated that the dynamic human spirit of the Twenty-first Century refuses to submit.
Mike Baker
http://FreedomMovement.info
http://akweb.com
I like your assertion that we need to "shed the political labels" which only serve to divide the citizenry and distract from the underlying problem and attendant culpability.