Can you feel it?
The tensions rising along with the sea levels.
Awareness rising in the corruption that has contaminated the entire world from micro to macro levels and everything in between.
I know you can feel it. I can too.
We’re coming to a tipping point in the Systems we’ve built throughout the previous centuries.
These Systems can’t last if we want to last as a human race.
The game of Power, Corruption, and Deception are fading, making way for an up to date and well founded System.
Is it difficult to believe that it’s possible to have Systems built on Trust, Cooperation, Shared Success, and Forgiveness that disciplines with love and does not punish mindlessly?
When a baby is learning to walk and they fall, do you punish them?
Do you tell them “You’re no good. You’re never going to be able to walk. Don’t even try it. Go to your crib.”
Or do you lift them up and encourage them, knowing that they will walk one day.
In life, when we humans are learning to “human,” and we make a mistake we are usually punished for it.
There’s no love in punishment so there’s no real growth. I understand if you believe there is love in punishment because that is what recent generations have been raised to believe. But many many studies show how punishment is not working!
Here is an article from Psychology Today discussing the many ways punishment impacts your child, including how punishment does not teach your child accountability. Also 10 ways to guide children without punishment is included in this article.
Here is a Pinterest page sharing many articles on how to love your kids and others unconditionally as well as how to deal with aggressive or inappropriate behavior in others.
I don’t know the full solution but I do know that discipline with love would help.
Is that hard to do? Absolutely.
And it’s easy to punish.
We all know that beautiful things take time to flourish, such as a flower. It needs cared for and nurtured to grow. If we punish the flower by cutting part of it off it will never be able to blossom into the flower it is meant to become.
Of course there will be resistance and some discomfort against the new System, as there is with all fights for justice, but in the end “the arc of the moral universe bends toward justice,” as MLK Jr. once said.
They say if it’s not broken don’t fix it…But we’ve got ourselves a broken System.
I do love my country but don’t you also want a better life for future generations of all backgrounds?
Education. Politics. Athletics. Business. Hollywood. And just about all current Systems have some corruption within them.
You can’t blame them though. That’s just how it’s been.
But it’s a new day. It’s a new era.
The shame blame game will hopefully come to an end and love with discipline can take its place.
No one is perfect, and until we can fully realize that and change how we deal with all our imperfections and how we treat each other, we just won’t last.
Who am I to write this? Just a flawed fellow human on this journey of life, trying to figure it out.
But we adapt. That’s what we do as humans. Look at history.
Shall we adapt once more?
If you believe in a new System you might also like this relative & unique rap song I recorded in the studio called “Cloud 9”
What methods do you believe would contribute to a more stable and just System?
With Ken Thompson 