Individuality is Under Attack

Submitted by john dennison on Mon, 10/31/2011 - 10:46

In case you haven't noticed, individuality and the freedom to be yourself are confusing concepts these days.

On the one hand, the excess of individuality is decried as evil, with Wall Street protesters attacking corporate profiteering as greedy insensitivity to others' struggles that keeps them from diverting those profits to some nebulous greater good.

On the other, big government and big business tag team us to take ever-more of our money, privacy and freedoms while forcing us into neat little packages that better fit their needs to control our behavior and get us to go along with their vision of how we should be.

Yet despite it all, a growing movement is taking shape that encourages us to "find ourselves," to live in joy and passion even when it doesn't bring the same idea of prosperity we once knew (or tried to), and to work to build a better world even when the one around us is swirling, seemingly ready to be flushed down the drain.

What's a Self to do?


Systemic Reform

"The systems and institutions upon which our civilization is built must evolve or be replaced by new ones that better reflect our expanding consciousness." - John





A Culture of Greed
We each are born into these physical bodies to experience life as the center of our respective universes, totally immersed in the experiences life brings. In other words, I'm born to live my life, while you live yours.

Unfortunately, such egocentrism is the reason our world is in the state it is in. Most are out to get what they can to serve their own interests, even when others are hurt or disadvantaged in the process.

Nowhere is this more obvious than in the conduct of our public affairs.
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"If you want peace, work for justice." - Pope Paul VI


Systemic Reform -- Why Do We Need It?

Thomas Jefferson"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered." - Thomas Jefferson 1802

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How We Got Here

Magna Carta Lest we forget, here are our roots:
Declaration of Independence



Other Resources

Many good people have already added their contribution to a new foundation. Perhaps you might consider some of what they've contributed, too.

Then there's always:



Declarations of Interdependence







Projects of Note



The Doom and Gloomers


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