(Concluded from Part 1, above.)
Here’s another new rail. Another name for a world that works for everyone, seen from my view, is a “cooperative commonwealth.” A cooperative commonwealth is distinctly new track.
It was first recommended in the early 20th Century. (1) A Canadian political party calling itself the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation was largely responsible for bringing in universal medicare.
Medicare is the jewel in the Canadian crown, as far as I’m concerned. I’m dedicated to seeing that every country has universal medicare. Soon there’ll be no excuse for denying medical assistance to anyone.
A cooperative commonwealth is not competitive like social Darwinism (only the fittest survive) and not elite-driven (trickle-down economics) but a free, democratic, and egalitarian commonwealth.
Please don’t use the CIA’s tactic of ridicule on me, calling me a “socialist” and a “communist” for supporting cooperation and sharing. (2) I’m no such thing.
The CIA supplied that strategy in the early 1950s and the elite took up allegations like that to squelch our native compassion and generosity. A commonwealth is a governmental form that recognizes that government functions to serve its citizens.
Not to make war on others. Not to drain wealth from all nations and commit it to the 1% who controlled government and whom government served.
Sharing the wealth is how this will be done. Currency holders have the opportunity to lead the way in sharing – globally. We have the power and ability to model a whole new way of being – open-handed, open-hearted assistance to all those who for centuries have been trodden under.
This the elite opposes but sharing must win out in the end because it’s of love.
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The cooperative commonwealth is one way of creating a government that serves the people – of the people, by the people, for the people, as Lincoln described it. (3) It’s only one idea. There’ll be others.
Often if we let go of one familiar branch without having an unfamiliar but equally solid branch to grab on to, we feel unsure and hesitate. New governmental forms cannot be created from a space of hesitancy. Boldness is required, as Murray said.
I know that we’ve heard the quote many times, but it’s so relevant that I include it here:
‘“Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one’s favour all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamt would have come his way. I have learned a deep respect for one of Goethe’s couplets:
“‘Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it.
“‘Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it!’” (4)
We may not want to play on a global stage ourselves. If we don’t, that’s fine.
The only thing I ask of us is to empower those who do, rather than insult, belittle, and criticize them. Lightworkers fighting lightworkers is simply importing Third Dimentia into our work of building a new world and will hamstring us in our globally-ground-breaking work.
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What I’m trying to do with this article and others on the same theme is to help us get over our hesitancy at taking on the building of a new world by seeing that strong commitment is the antidote. Let’s start from the top down and commit ourselves. Is there anyone who cannot commit to the overarching idea of a world that works for everyone? Is that not new track?
It can be scary to leave the familiar. And so I’m trying to offer a stable platform for us, while we stop the train, dismount, and lay new track.
Then we continue on in a workable direction with our personal and collective lives.
Let me end by saying that I’m seeing lightworkers beginning to write. You may be seeing new faces appearing on these pages. And, if one or two of them start out with a few rough edges, please forgive. This is all part of raising a brigade of lightworker writers, journalists, commentators, and activists.
Footnotes
(1) Laurence Gronlund, The Cooperative Commonwealth in Its Outlines. Inbunden: Engelska, 1884; c2016.
(2) The policy of ridicule was developed for use against witnesses of unidentified flying objects. See, for instance, George A. Filer <[email protected]>
Director – Mutual UFO Network Eastern MUFON Skywatch Investigations”National Policy Of Debunking UFOs Began With The Robertson Panel,” at https://www.rense.com/general3/rober.htm
(3) “We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain — that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.” Abraham Lincoln, Gettysberg Address, at https://www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/speeches/gettysburg.htm
(4) At Goodreads, Inc., at https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/128689-until-one-is-committed-there-is-hesitancy-the-chance-to