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Tired of Fear
I am sick...and tired....
By Hugh Lipsius
01/28/06 "ICH" -- -- I am sick of being told who and what I must
fear. For over two centuries now, our administration in
Washington has exposed demons, marginalized races of people,
described threats, and effectively turned the American public
into a fearful race of people who cannot think for themselves or
accept that there are other cultures in this world apart from
our own. They have not in any way attempted to help us
understand the goodness created by the diversity of the world,
but only what we should fear because it was not to their liking,
or other nations would not become like ours. These are always
presented as a threat to the national interest or security, yet
never naming what interest is threatened or what the threat is.
It's merely the language used that makes what they proclaim so
ominous. It is the justification behind whatever is desired. In
this process, over the last century, but especially the last
five decades, I have watched as the rich got richer, and the
poor became more numerous through the agencies of this fear that
we are continuously fed in order that a few can obtain our
homage...not only our own nation, but throughout the world.
But it is a forced homage. There is nothing free or voluntary
about it.
It would seem that if they are in the business of creating
perceived threats at a rate that far surpasses any other
nation/state, then perhaps it is something we all need to
consider as to why we have so many national enemies, and what
exactly we are afraid of.
First, we have come to depend far too greatly upon the
corporations that back this government. Our food, our
livelihoods, or children, our homes are all provided for in some
way or another by what we've grown fond of. Yet, because we have
come to rely so heavily upon this system, we are helpless when
it commits the abuses and atrocities we wish only to condemn
other nations for. We fear too much to lose if we oppose
anything. We are not even interested in what these perceived
national threats are as long as individually we are not affected
by them. In this way we give all our destinies into the hands of
those we are dependent upon.
This is by no means freedom. Nor is the fear of losing what we
depend upon called faith.
What threat has this nation imposed on the national interests of
other nation/states so that they may create this atmosphere of
fear that we are all now forced to live in? Whose visions have
we been led to follow, and why? What national interest has
become more important than the sovereignty, dignity and the very
life of another people for the sake of our own comfort; and not
another people, but members of our own human race?
Second, are we so special? Have we exalted ourselves to such a
degree?
I am tired of being afraid anymore based on the word of another
and fortified by my own ignorance, innocence, or naivety so that
these can gain their power by it. All this is being done while
much of the human race rots under this type of oppression.
When I see the myriad of problems facing our own country's
society based on these same visions of fear, I recoil in
disgust. I see the destruction it has caused in the lives of
some of our very own countrymen, let alone what is not even
under our watchful eyes in relation to the rest of the world.
One thing I've learned to do for myself is to no longer take the
word of anyone in determining what I should be afraid of when it
comes to peoples or societies. I’ve learned that what others
fear is mainly out of ignorance and a laziness to discover for
them selves any beauty in the diversity of this great sea of
humanity, instead relying on our governments as well as the word
of others to determine these things for us. To this end, they
will see the fruits of their inactivity, blindness and
ignorance. And against this end I make my stand.
And so...because I have grown tired of fear...and have become
sickened by all that it has created, I have determined in my
mind to discover for myself what exactly it is that must be
feared, or should not be feared. I have determined to confront
the fears that others say I must have, not allowing them to
determine them for me; but rather embrace those fears in every
effort to overcome them. And what I've found is that those who
incite fear have every reason to be afraid because of their own
actions...which I do not own.
Their fear also lies in being discovered. But I also do not need
to own the same fears they do, nor do I need to support them in
their attempts to justify and excuse their own actions through
the propaganda of their fear. It is this very atmosphere of fear
that has given rise to some of the most corrupt and violent
entities and evilness man has ever known. Aggressive wars in
general are not fought for the protection of a nation’s people,
but rather are fought because a nation’s leadership fears
loosing the power they crave, desiring only more of it. These
are the real national interests they say are threatened. Yet
they are not national interests, but collectively individual.
As a lamb who will lie down with a wolf, or a child who has no
fear of placing his hand over the mouth of the cobras den, I
will no longer be told who the wolf is, or where the cobras den
is hidden, but instead seek it out for myself in order to
determine that. And what I have all to often discovered is that
while there are many wolves in sheep’s clothing, so also are
their many sheep in wolves clothing, not to be feared, but to
put upon them the proper skin, and call them what I decide for
myself...whether they be wolf , sheep, or cobra, according to my
own self, and not according to another.
I like it down here on this level plain with the majority of
humanity. It's where I find a greater diversity of culture to
enjoy; and I would not wish to be a part of the fearful
governmental heavens on earth, those who have set themselves
over the thoughts and emotions of man. Whose visions of fear
that they will be uncovered as the wolves they are, has them
cowering in the mountain heights like sheep.
I can accept my own shortcomings. I have even learned to live
with them, which makes it easier to accept those of others. I
won't attempt to fix theirs as I have my hands full fixing my
own, yet in owning these shortcomings, I can fully appreciate
the true meaning of grace. And despite what some may have us
believe about them, we all have human flaws that do not allow
anyone to pretend superiority over another.
It is the ones who wear an outside covering of moral superiority
that generally have the most to hide. It is these who should be
trusted the least for not having the courage to see their own
flaws. If these were only able to push aside their fear, what
that opens to me is not a fear of who they are, but an
appreciation for the wonderful gift that they are.
If only governmental administrations could do the same they
might begin to learn something from one another. But instead
they are all hell bent on presenting to each other only an image
apart from who they really are. Like bullies in a playground,
they attempt, through the image they've created, to insulate
themselves by intimidation those who they are afraid of the
most....to play as others might, the common folk of the world
who they fear they might have something in common with.
And why? Because they are afraid they might be seen as human
like the rest of us.
It's too bad that pride will not allow them to do this
though...each collective one is determined to be higher over
others. Their own sense of inferiority is demonstrated in this
way. If they are not ruling over others, they are no one in
their own eyes. Like little pharaohs, they sit atop their pride
in fear of the very same ravaged souls that they create for
themselves. In the effort to appear as though they have all the
answers for all of humanity their pride will only stoke this
fear into doing everything possible to prevent that false image
from being unmasked. This includes the destruction of ours and
any other society that interferes with this image they have
created for themselves as man-gods.
I have finally learned to appreciate the full diversity of this
race we call humanity, learning to celebrate it as the rest of
nature does, by ministering to what I've been given to prosper
with, and yielding to whatever has a need from me. In pushing
aside my own created fears, what I attempt only, is to become an
example of a greater way and a greater hope, thereby allowing
the freewill of all concerned.
Perhaps if all governments followed this, they would not need to
build armies that destroy, but rather armies able to build
futures that have hope, lands that prosper, and people that
care. Perhaps then everyone might desire to build, and to help
accomplish a world order that is not opposed like the one being
built today. To build a world order that is not founded on greed
or a lust for the power necessary to control it or the peoples
in it; a world where every mountainous pride is brought low, and
every valley of despair is lifted, creating a level plain that
we can all stand on as a race of humans.
This is not done by fear, or coercion, or bribery, or violence
It's not done by the lust for power or through the agency of
greed. It's not done by any other corruption known to man...but
truthfully, faithfully and simply ...without fear of loosing a
thing.
It takes trust, which at first makes one vulnerable, and some
maybe even afraid, opening the door for abuse. Yet, once found,
it will eliminate fear altogether ...that is , unless one is
deceiving the other...and using that rust only to gain for
himself. It is the nation who trusts the least that all other
nations need to have nothing more to do with, pushing it away as
the runt of the litter, not allowing it to nurture itself on the
milk of human dignity, or the honey of human kindness Until that
fear turns to faith, hope and trust, it cannot become the image
it was created to be and will only be the image it has made for
itself.
I remember a speech by a man long ago, when I was just a
child...I won't mention his name, because the message he gave is
immortal. What he said is this, "The only thing we have to fear,
is fear itself."
These propagators of anxiousness in Washington, as well as other
parts of our nation have been pressing their own fears on the
American public for too long. It is the corporations who back
them that have the most to lose; and until they are able to see
this folly, they can never be changed. And yet, if there were no
need for these, then no one would pay them any heed. Once they
are separated from the rest, they will finally be faced with
them selves and will be forced by this very separation to deal
with their own anxieties.
They are afraid based upon the direction of their own policies
asking the rest of us to defend them, as well as others to
submit to them. And if we have anything to fear, it is their own
fear, which has done more to ruin the delicate balance of human
nature, more to create strife and enmity between nations, than
any effort to correct it or create another balance.
Why should their enemies of the world become our enemies, which
are created out of their own meddling. And because they are
afraid of their own people, that fear will not even allow them
to divulge the true nature of these things. And yet, it is these
created enemies, national threats both within and without, that
the lowly man is asked to fight against, and maybe even to die
for the protection of those who fear them.
But more and more, the American people, behind the whole world,
are waking up to the fact that it is not these created enemies
we need to be afraid of...but rather the fear held by our own
administrators, as well as those corporations who support this
system of things. Because in their fear, they will attempt to
force us if necessary to do their fighting in order to protect
them from what they have created or destroyed.
Of course they won't see this. They will vigorously defend
themselves from this type of honesty...an honesty found by most
every common man who walks the level plain.
I am asking all who call themselves American to pull from within
themselves the courage to confront this fear, with the
understanding that it is created by those who are afraid. That
we all need to call upon that same courage demonstrated by our
ancestors and founding fathers in shedding this yoke of
fear...which has become a burden to us all...and to once again
courageously reclaim the individual freedoms guaranteed under
the constitution as sovereign people who control our own
destiny.
We are not cattle to be herded or prodded. Within each and
everyone of us, despite our nationality or beliefs, we should
push off anything that plays upon those fears as an excuse to
whittle away our right to behold the self-evident truth that all
are created equal in the eyes of God , and in order that we all
may realize and live and pursue our own individual gifts of
life. It is this latter thing that is most often denied because
of the continuous drama created.
In essence, we are becoming corralled as the domesticated
animals and beasts of burden these others so desire. Instead we
should desire to discover once again the freedom that comes from
learning the truth for ourselves rather than what some would
like us to believe, both about others, as well as ourselves. We
all may find out that we have less to fear from these perceived
threats and enemies and more in common with them than we were
led to believe. We need to understand that we have everything to
fear from those who attempt to legitimize themselves and their
governments by it only when when we allow ourselves to believe
what they do and teach.
Hugh Lipsius - Email hughman5_8 @ msn.com
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