Anti or Pro?

Our ego enjoys the juicy nosh on controversial subjects.  We love to pick a side and chew on the remains of the day.  It's so lovely to debate.  It's so satisfying to see the glint of discord in a fellow beings eyes when you've 'trumped' his opinion for yours.  Which of course is the only true and just opinion to have.  Your opinion has been mulled over and thought upon at great lengths.  You've probably spent a fair amount of energy researching why you're so very correct.  But that's the just of it.  It is just your opinion.  The universe doesn't care about what you think is right, or fair or just.  Wars have been waged over what is thought to be right and fair and just versus the other guys opinion to the opposite.  People are dying everyday over what one believes in friction to another.  Often times the ones so content to be right are the most violent and toxic people this world has ever known.

I ask of you, in what revolution has one ever found success?  In the history of mankind, there is not one.  Real and lasting change does not come from rioting, rallying, nor masses gathering in peaceful outrage.  The Vietnam war did not cease to be because of protests.  Monk self-immolation and the Kent State four did not sway those in power to cease and desist.  These tragedies were mere dramatic epilogues in a beast too large to fell.  Women suffrage did not occur through numbers even though we had them.  It came to pass through the democratic process of lobbying and petition.  The Civil Rights Movement is still moving through years of bloodshed, destruction and disillusionment.

So now I remain confused.  I have been invited to participate in the March of Women to protest Trumps' Inauguration.  Why?  This will not alter the past nor steer the future to a more positive outcome...whatever that means.  It means that a bunch of people will be 'seen' as activists.  Some wonderful photos will be taken and everyone will pat the other's ego in a 'Mission Accomplished' type scenario.  Not only will the foe of today's fight be quashed but the ego can now rest assure that the right side has won out against evil and tyranny once more.  This is a dangerous game to be playing at.  To vilify the other has never gotten society anywhere but deeper into the pit of distraction and dis-ease.  We divert attention to things we 'feel' matter when in reality, this is not so.  The reality isn't that Trump is going to be the leader of the free world although, that is for sure happening regardless of protest.  The reality is that society is crumbling at a ferocious rate and the population is disillusioned and dissatisfied with life as we know it.  People are out of work.  Homelessness, illness, climate change, pollution, rape, inequality...this is the reality faced by so many.  Instead of addressing these real and tangible problems, we obsess over an ineffectual political leader.  Do we obsess because we have no idea how to actually help one another and our planet?  Are we so lazy and self concerned that a 'March' is what will suffice as actual change?  Would we rather debate until our eyes glaze over and mouths turn purple then effect true societal and humanitarian arising?

Civil, Racial and Equal Rights are not going to regress because of the carnage about to enfold in the White House.  They regress because we distract ourselves into thinking about the unreality of nature and forget that we are in control over how we treat one another and the planet every moment of every day.  It's dangerous to think that choosing a side on any matter is going to solve the problem.  We must look deeper.  Deep into our own consciousness to realize that change begins in our thoughts and that leads to correct action.  The ego must not be our guide if we are to survive on this rocket ship around the sun.  I cannot help another if I'm caught in the story I want to tell myself about what is good and what is bad.  Such dialogue leads to picking a side and blaming the other.  Turn the blame inward and that's when real progress begins.

P.S If any reader thinks this was pro or anti Trump in any way...give your head a shake.  The two brain cells remaining may rub together causing enough friction for a fire and rid us of your stupidity.