The 4th of July has come to represent for most Americans bbqs, beaches, bliss and more. We as a country have come to adore our freedoms and our independence, particularly how these two afford us a greater ability to enjoy and live our lives more richly than most other cultures in our present day. But inside of that high standard of enjoyment, how independent are we really??
Cigarettes, booze, meat, dairy, carbs, sugar, caffeine, prescription drugs, illicit drugs, television, entertainment, Facebook and the Internet, the availability of all of these diversions or vices are at the heart of our cultural identity. We are free to live life as we choose, so what does it matter if we ingest things we shouldn't? what does it matter if we are dependent on various substances that we all know when done in excess cause problems...? Most importantly, are we really independent when we can't even imagine our lives without some or all of these elements? I argue we are some of the most dependent Americans that have ever lived.
How many of us are income independent? How many of our schedules are ours to organize? How many of us are emotionally independent? How many of us can say we are in control of, or at least aware and in touch with our emotions and don't need to eat, smoke, sex or drink them away? How many of us are mentally independent, capable of critical thinking that doesn't necessarily fall within the script of our corporate media? How many of us are nutritionally independent and actually aware of what our own and very personal body's needs are, in place of being at the effect of rote response to stimuli from pushed packaged products whose quality decreases as their advertisement increases? Sadly, very few of us are actually independent from this system and the Standard American lifestyle.
We may have declared our independence from the British over 200 years ago, but individual Americans know little of actual independence, because we experience the comfort and ease of being dependent on a vast and very enticing system. The truth is, most Americans are dependent on the status quo, and what's worse is that we pretend this isn't so. We pretend it's the corporations, or our boss, the failing medical establishment, Monsanto, our politicians, the Koch Brothers, or Russia... But that's an absolutely dependent thing to say! A victim-mindset that relinquishes our power and declares definitively that we are not the masters of our own lives. Are we independent or aren't we???
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Yes, some of these forces do indeed have a misproportionate influence on our country and lives, with seemingly greater power than ourselves, but history has shown countless time and again that it only takes a single individual to alter the entire course of the world; Ghandi, Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, and many more have all proven beyond a doubt that power lives within the individual. So instead of pretending to ourselves and each other that we are powerless to direct our own lives and the nation at large, how about we actually honor and respect the ethos of our Nation and take our power back?! How about we celebrate our Independence by cultivating it?
Want to see our nation change? Go vote for a candidate that actually represents you. Do you know how many infamous congress people were re-elected simply because they ran unopposed? Even better, run for office. Want to feel better, have more energy, and live healthier? Ditch sugar, heavy carbs and eat more vegetables. Want to quit smoking? Meditate. Want to stop polluting our oceans and killing our ecosystem? Stop buying plastic packaged products. Want to save the rainforest? Give up beef.
We pretend to be cogs in a wheel, when we are the wheel. We pretend it is our environment that controls us, but the truth is we have simply given up our independence, and surrendered to that environment because that is the easy thing to do, the comfortable thing, despite the many unconscious consequences of such a decision.
We have absolutely forgotten that every thought, decision and action we make ABSOLUTELY effects our environment and the world at large. We have forgotten our power and the ability to truly depend on ourselves. The time has come for a Great American Renaissance in which the people rise up and claim their true sovereignty.
The time has come when we take full responsibility for our lives and our country and decide that we have a say in the matter of our destiny, and are not merely pawns in the design of our life. Hate your job? Start a business. Horrified by factory farming? Go vegetarian. Free yourself from the mental slavery of your dependencies. If they are meant for you they will come back in balance.
Take your power back America. Create your life and your country exactly as your heart desires and live your greatest dream. No more excuses America. Be the sovereign citizens our nation needs. Claim your independence.
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