There is no fate but that which we make... Rx

Rx - There is no fate but that which we make

I have been seeing videos of shoplifters routing stores.  I have seen many storefronts closed (before Covet - 17).  The police are now unable to keep the peace.  

Economies are crashing.  Governments are printing money and handing it out.  Many people are now praying to God.  Others are scavenging what they can.  

People are being paid to still sell us alcohol.  There is a mass diversion occurring on the internet. 

I just saw a video of citizens chasing down and tackling a shoplifter.  I am seeing now on social media people finally questioning the collective consciousness.  Even openly criticizing it and disagreeing with it--for the first time in years.  or decades.

Our collective welfare is based on either cooperation and trade or the law of the jungle.  If you live in a community.  If you live on a farm or in the woods, I am guessing you already protect yourself.  And have spoken with other farmers or people in your vicinity: to protect your sustenance and peace.  In the cities we are faced with doing the same thing. 

I suggest town hall and secret meetings and decide how to protect our sustenance and livelihood and peace.  I suggest speaking your mind openly and freely.  I suggest thinking hardabout what you value most and if and how you want to protect it.

I suggest honest conversations with family and potential family.  I suggest maintaining an armored education and growth chamber for our children that is protected from this divertimente.  So that they all will be viable spiritual and material beings.

We determine our reality.  We have determined it up to this point.  We will determine it into the future.

We determine education.  We determine trade.  We determine parenting.  We determine what our children become--what society becomes.  We determine our government.  We determine our laws.  We determine our spirituality.  We determine our material well-being--either individually--or in cooperation with others.  We determine our safety--and mutual safety and well-being.

In reality, the police can't help us that much.  The government can't help us that much. Depending on our participation in any given society.  Only we can help ourselves.  It takes courage on an individual level.  It takes communication in a group environment.  And  any cooperation and trade that we decide is good--or necessary.

Things have come to a reality check.

Our governments have failed us.  Have we failed ourselves?  When I saw regular citizens chasing down and holding down a shoplifter, I gained hope.

If there is a problem, it is up to us to solve it.  We can use love with each other.  And our children. And we can limit aggression and psychology and force to keep the peace.  Or allow or embrace violence and tribalism and scavenging and rape and murder and theft.  

We can try and form governments that facilitate our cooperation, trade and basic safety: rights--and stop theft, murder and rape.  Or we can institutionalize theft, murder and rape.  Individual rights and voluntary association allow material and spiritual wealth and health and community.  More coercion (force; control) leads to more destitution materially and spiritually and collectively.  

And this is reflected in how we look; our sex lives; our distribution of wealth; our spirituality--our actualization--individually and collectively.

Do you believe you own your mind?  Do you believe you own your body?  Do you believe you own your clothes?  Do you believe you own your shoes?  Do you believe you own your vagina?  Do you believe you own your soul?

Where is the coercion leading?  From where is our security derived?  Where does our love grow?

Where is the theft leading?  Where is the labor leading?  

We can be an organism of nature--and coexist with it.  And protect and enjoy it.  And be a part of it.  Or we can allow the jungle to overgrow the cities--our communities.  It is an option to run.  But I don't know if you can actually get away.

We have determined our entire society.  Our entire world.  And our individual welfare.  In reality.  And we will protect our well-being--both spiritually and materially.  Or we won't.  And we will reap the fruits of our labor.  Or apathy.  Or fear.  Or love.  And strength.

There is no fate but that which we make.