Watching and Learning From Ego in the Political Arena

 

One of the penalties of  refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

Plato

It is hard to look compassionately and with forgiveness at those in political power who are doing autrocious things against humanity....and doing so with such great arrogance, self-righteous conviction, dishonesty, and, I have to say, "utter stupidity".  It is hard to believe the fact that these leaders got voted in, elected, and preferred by the majority. It is even harder to accept the fact that they simply represent the collective mind set. It is hard not to automatically go into "fight mode", taking sides, further polorizing,  rallying against "them" on the other side, to hate them and anyone who follows what we judge as "sick ideologies" etc as we ask the universe, "This is how humanity thinks? This is how humanity wants to live? The world is falling to pieces. Is it hopeless now?" 

But accept is exactly what we must do...accept, learn, and grow from what we are observing.

Accept, Learn, and Grow!

It would be easy to get lost in that mindset of resistance, anger, blame, and defeat after a few minutes listening or watching  any news ( that doesn't come from Fox :)) and to feel like the world is falling a part. It would be easy to give into the feelings of hopelessness and helplessness, believing that the human race is doomed and there is nothing to be done about it.

But...

There is another way of looking at this.  

The world is not falling a part ...it is simply changing, evolving as it is meant to do. So is the human race.  Like all evolutionary changes that occur in a species, awareness of what no longer serves comes into the forefront prior to the change taking place. Before that behaviour, that physical trait falls away, the unnecessity of that thing becomes obvious.  That land animal (Pakicetus, for example) transitioning into a beautiful marine whale...no longer needs the tail or legs. The unnecessity of tail and legs becomes obvious before they change to flippers and a fluke.  It doesn't need the teeth for mashing up its prey any more...mouths change. Through a process of many steps, it slowly evolves into an intelligent, highly social and more peaceful creature that is much more suited for the new environment it is in. 

Ego No Longer Needed

What are we seeing, that is becoming so flamboyantly obvious, in our political leaders that represent the social mind? We are seeing ego in its most obvious form.  We are seeing selfishness, and greed.  We are seeing the dangerous use of "I, me, and mine" both in reference to the leader themselves and the nations they represent. We are seeing the idea of "separation" being propagated which leads to defense and attack...and then even greater separation. It is becoming so very obvious that this "ego" does not serve humanity in any way, shape, or form through the flamboyantly destructive actions of these leaders...

It is becoming so obvious, is it not,  that egos are in the way of us achieving what is now needed in this ever changing environment: peace, compassion, harmony, balance, unity, and most of all love? We have to see the separate and collective ego for what it is- how it is anything but useful- before we can put it aside to morph into this more evolved state we are heading toward. What greater way to see it than when it is put in the forefront of our societies, when we see what these egos can do when they are given power.  This becomes obvious: These egos are not only no longer necessary...they are counterproductive to our survival. 

So, though it is challenging to look at those in political power with forgiveness and compassion...we can see that their exploitation of ego is serving humanity more so than it is harming it. We can see how useless and destructive these concepts of "I, me, and mine" are.  This dispaly is assisting with necessary change by allowing humans to see how this mindset does not serve. Change will come from that realization...great change! Instead of putting all our energy into fruitlessly  hating and resisting what is happening in the political forefront, we simply need to sit back and observe knowing that this is taking us to a higher place. 

What about forgiving them?

Remember: these leaders are still in the Pakicetus stage of evolution and they are just doing what Pakicetus' do. They may fear the change ahead and are simply trying to protect what they know. 

They know not what they do. Luke 23:34

Besides...they represent the collective mindset or at least some parts of the dogma we are still clinging to, the egos we have yet to let go of.  They are showing us that we still cling to egos within our little selves. So yes,  they are worthy of our compassion and our forgiveness. They are us. Some parts of each and everyone of us are still clinging to those egoic ideologies these leaders represent.  Otherwise, they would never have been voted in. 

From here...we must accept that all this is happening.  We do not need to agree with it or like it but  what has happened has happened.  There is no changing the past. Then ...we need to observe this thing called "ego" and its destructive nature on this very obvious stage we have been given to watch it on.  Observe objectively. See the importance of "awareness" and "realization" over ignorance, resistance, and judgement. 

Breathe! Breathe alot! 

Instead of giving into the negativity of this experience...start training the mind to see the positive.  Know that change is coming, change is ineveitable, that the the human race is evolving and it it is always going forward, never backwards. The process of adaptation to change, however, involves firstly becoming aware of what is no longer needed for survival.  These power hungry egos so flamboyantly dispalyed in the political arena, and still so quietly hiding in us....are no longer necessary. We need to let them go for the greater good. When we let them go, we can morph into the compassionate, peaceful,  loving and wiser creatures we are meant to be as this world continues to change around us.

This is not a world falling a part.  It is simply a world changing.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

Plato

All is well.