Next Revolution: The Second American Revolution

Something very disquieting is happening to the very warp and weave of the fabric of American Society. It is not coming apart. Quite the opposite is happening. The true nature of the society we created, what motivations really bind us together, are now clearly emerging from the human and institutional wreckage of our economic crisis. Beyond being quite disturbing, the nature of our motivation is deadly dangerous to our minds, our spirits, and our bodies.

The superficial lies that we tell ourselves and each other, that we are "free," "democratic," and "fair" are wearing as thin as rice paper. Behind this thinning screen we can see the outlines of the true nature of our social and political realities.

Our violent reality is bloodily ripping through our own self-deceptions. One manifestation can be seen through the rapidly growing list of incidents of mass murder. The list is impressive.

Four cops shot dead by one man in Oakland, Ca. Three cops shot dead by one man in Penn. Students in colleges and high schools across the nation going berserk, and killing as many of their fellow students as possible. A man in Alabama goes on long-distance mass murder spree. An ex-Husband dresses as santa to kill his wife and as much of her family as possible.

The list goes on and on. And it will continue to grow as the consequences of the corrupt social order we constructed continues to violently manifest itselve in all parts of our country, and at all levels of society.

The underlying problem, though quite simple, is composed of a very powerful fundamental motivation that we have allowed to capture the helm of our society: Unchecked Greed and Self-Interest.

The first tool that unchecked Greed and self-interest use to protect and perpetuate themselves with is unchecked unilateral violence. The narcotic of greed, backed by violence, is a difficult combination to remove from from the wheelhouse of our ship of state, once they have taken control. The problem is as much psychological as it is physical.

Greed is like a wild fire, or a super-virus: once the fire is set loose in the forest, or the virus in a society, each quickly infects individuals, spreads geographically across the forest, as moves as if it is riding on the wings of the wind, until it has destroyed the forest and ravaged the body.

Once Greed and Self-Interest are loose in a society, they will soon seek to control the political and economic structures of the society, where they can gratify, renew and protect themselves indefinently.

After capturing politics, greed and self-interest can spread to every part of the world our influence touches. Unchecked Greed backed by unchecked unilateral violence is the operational ethic of our country, and it has reinforced its traditional allies, the kings, dictators, and corrupted democracies around the world.

When the satisfaction of personal greed and self-interest, backed by violence, composes the goal and method of your country's terms of success, your country, and virtually everyone in it is in deep trouble.

In this circumstance your rights, your personal security, your property, and broadly speaking, your shared social assumption of some degree of social justice have all been seriously compromised.

This causes the people who were in the US before this spiritual-political darkness took over, to distrust and withdraw from political and social interaction. The generation raised in the shadow of this social darkness seems incapable of competent social interaction.

"Complex" social interaction appears to be impossible for a significant percentage of our population, who have replaced social interaction with the very old school fear/greed interaction.

This type of interaction boils down to evaluating all situations on the terms of "what can I get out of you," or "what are you trying to get out of me?"

Thus we have so many spiritually and socially "dark" people wandering around on our streets, apparently incapable of observing, responding, or interacting with their physical and social environments beyond the constraints of fear and greed.

This, my friends, is a very dangerous situation.

The violence "problem" lays in the difference between what we tell each other we are as a nation, and what we really are. The systems of greed that our "consumers" based their lives on has broken down, leaving behind only the violence part of their equation for success.

What we really are as a nation can only be partially hidden and papered over during the good, high times we just experienced. But now the good times are over. Now the true nature of the society we created is emerging.

Despite the best attempts of patriots throughout American History, our country has opened the pandora's box of greed and violence in our political structure, and this failure has set the stage for the restoration of principal at the center of our individual, social, and political motivations. To achieve this lofty goal, we are going to have to turn America's Corporate Fascist State upside down.

Rather than each individual thread of our national social fabric making its own position stronger by defending each other's rights and wealth, virtually every individual's level of wealth, political power, and social position is based on how effectively they drain the rights and wealth of their fellow citizens.

If you fail, or are a kind and consciouness, you are nothing, have nothing, and will get nothing.

Rather than each citizen having a basic trust in our fellow citizens to act honestly, the honest act is very rare event.

We all know, even if we cannot admit it, that success in our system is established on brutal greed, expresses itself through material luxury, and protects itself with political bribery and open violence. The American reality requires that you either seek wealth and power, or your will serve wealth and power.

There is no longer any middle ground.

Fairness, democracy, and individual rights, the very basis of legitimacy in our society have been swept aside in our relentless quest for yet more wealth, more power, and the quest for greater prestiege. Now this system of brutal greed and corruption is falling down around us, and countless millions of individuals who believed themselves secure have lost everything.

The brutality they once used against each other from within their corporate and political institutions are now being used against them, and these failed cogs in our corporate fascist state are using the same brutal tools they used within the system against the society that created them.

The expectations of a generation of Americans are coming apart before our eyes. And these people are facing their personal failures with the same rules of brutality and greed that define the operative rules of our country.

The locus of the problem goes deeper than politics and ethics. The problem is that we have given over our hearts to the superficial satisfaction that brutal material gratification brings us. We have lost our spirit, and when our society of greed and violence fails us, we have nothing to fall back on, and the same violence and the same greed that we once used within the system to support the system have now been turned against the system itself.

We replaced our principals in theory and practice with greed and selfishness, and now that same force that already destroyed our principals has now been unleashed on our streets, in our schools, and in our homes.

The corruption that was buried deep in every American's heart is now violently emerging in every aspect of our lives.

It appear to me that the cause is quite clear: America has lost its soul. The common assumptions that Americans now share is that the winners get everything in America, and the losers get nothing but screwed.

Couple this with the terms of victory, which is more dependent on greed, bribery, and no more than naked violence. To "win" in America you must cheat.

The massive increase in violence across the nation is a natural, though primitive, psychological response to our broad economic, political, and ultimately, to our failure of ethics and principal.