Sed fugit interea, fugit irreparabile tempus,

"But sometimes time flies, flies irreparably"....VIRGIL

For anyone who has complained via email that I've not posted,anything new here in many months,  it's been due to my having to constantly reply to emails from yourself and others.  I'm not going to tell you to get a life.  I'm going to tell you thank you.  Each email from each of you has been powerful inspiration for me during the past months as I fought for my life.

Also, I've taken on new commitments that involve my time.  Afterall, it's all about the kids, isn't it?

Enough about me.  Let's discuss something important.

Immortality is yours for the taking, giving & sharing. 

Religions have fairly well made an industry out of selling immortality to those too busy, lazy or intellectually incapable of seeking it in a universal all encompassing form.  Some religions actually preach there are a limited number of seats for immortality and in order to be on the 'guest list', you must adhere to their beliefs.  Some espouse that the only way to attain immortality is to accept the founder of their faith as your own savior.  Do you remember the Heaven's Gate people who committed mass suicide in order to venture from Earth up to a great space ship in the sky where they would become immortal? 

Cynicism is my forte.  I can remember at age six being exposed to churches for the first time and knowing it was a hoax. Yes, at that age I instinctively knew they had it all wrong.  Needless to say it made for memorable childhood episodes with my grandparents the summers I visited them.  By the time I was thirteen they'd quit attempting to bring me into the fold, or they became exasperated with me and my questions they weren't capable of answering about their own beliefs.

Reading all philosophers, both religious and secular, provided me background and strong points of reference in my search for assigning a meaning to what happens to us all after death.   After so many years it was only a matter of boiling down the matter of Immortality to it's pure essence.  Someone did it best 2,100 years before me.

"Let no one cry, mourn or celebrate my funeral ;
For I am yet still alive, 

Passing back and forth on the voices of men."

epitaph of  QUINTUS ENNIUS, age 70, in the year 169 B.C. 

As testament to his immortality, the written works of Quintus Ennius would be completely lost to us in the 21st century had he not been quoted by so many literate Romans over the next 400 years.  He was right.  He remained alive because men spoke his words and name so long he's indeed alive after 2,200 years.  That qualifies as Immortality, doesn't it?

Immortality, by the definition of Quintus Ennius, is wholly achievable within the context of Seventh Generation Thinking.  Not only is such a definition of Immortality realistic, it is already yours for the making.  

Should you follow the law of the Iroquois in honor of the Seventh Generation it is assured you'll be remembered well and honored long after you have passed.  The Seventh Generation will be grateful for "our consideration in every deliberation... for our skin as thick as the bark of pine... and for asking of ourselves what they will have after us, because we deliberately provided for them."

Living an exemplary life, leaving a vital legacy of problems solved in your lifetime rather than negligently passed on to all who come after you and challenging others to do the same, but not follow you should be enough to be remembered so long your name and deeds will become Immortal.

The prospect of heaven, as defined by those who ardently believe in it and its God seems a bit less inviting that following the example of Quintus Ennius.  I'm not sure I'd mix well with a God who jubilantly accepts men who wear explosive belts in order to slaughter masses of people.  The entire concept that he might reward those men each with seventy virgins and unlimited wine makes me believe he needs my help more than I need his.

Don't just sit there.  You have work to do.  So do I.

Be Good.

Teach Good. 

 

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Just a few thoughts........

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In order to fully grasp the subject matter of this blog,

please start at the beginning

The Weight Upon Us, As On Atlas.

Somewhere, somehow, we lost the vision of our ancestors who made actual sacrifices to provide a better world and nations for our generations.  We have allowed ourselves to become a self-centered generation, expecting governments to legislate to our wills and whims, provide for us what we cannot or will not achieve on our own.  Now we are seeing the truth and our collective errors. 

Our collective demands upon our nations are beyond the abilities of society to fulfill.  We wanted and expected more than 'they' could produce.  Understanding we were supposed to always stay focused towards laying foundations for the next generations becomes the weight we must bear.  The generations before us gladly bore the weight.  We cast it off and now upon our shoulders, unaccustomed to being burdened, it will feel heavy. 

We can't say we'd rather not get involved.  We're not given a choice.  Either we provide a better future for the next generations, or provide less than that.  Either way, what we leave as a legacy is all they inherit. 

If we leave them with debts for our excesses and political issues that have been procrastinated for too long is up to us.  If we choose to leave them a better world I cannot begin to envision the sacrifices, sweat and labors we will have to endure.  I just know that I am willing to begin.  Maybe I have already begun and don't realize it yet.

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Honoring and Dishonoring God or Man

I hope your cup is empty.  This is bitter tea.  This tea will be particularly bitter if you have squandered and wasted what had been handed down to you from those before us.  You have.  I have.  We all have.  We have all thanked God for giving us so much for so long.  We let ourselves believe he'd blessed us.  No.  It had nothing to do with God.  It had to do with us losing our purpose and vision.  It had to do with politics and leaders who only led us where we asked them to lead us.  It had to do with us forgetting why we are here on this earth and pretending the future doesn't matter.  Either God or the government would take care of everything.  No, God had nothing to do with this.

Not a day goes by that I don't hear or read someone invoking the name of God in the incomprehensible struggle before us.  You probably hear and see it as much as I do.  It angers me to witness this because these are likely the same people who praised God, and prayed for more and more from society as they produced less and less.  I don't hold them at fault.  They knew no better.  I hope they have become wiser. 

I deprive myself of prayer as I struggle to find the path back to all things we have forgotten.  The answers aren't in Scriptures.  God didn't mislead us.  We should find our ways back and not call His name for help.  I  hope he never answers prayers from those seeking guidance through the collapse of a nation and society.  I believe God will have pride in us each as individuals and a nation for bravery and conviction to face all obstacles and overcome this. 

This will also compel us to grow, become more reliant on ourselves.  A parent who runs too quick to the aid of a child only deprives the child the opportunity to grow and prosper from experiences.  I think of my own son, at three who couldn't wipe himself until one day he grew tired waiting on me to get there.  He did it himself, found new pride and I learned from it.  Even the smallest accomplishments can bring pride and deserve praise.

We should go to God, not to beg help or forgiveness, but for his praise, acceptance and blessings for our accomplishments and strengths.  I cannot go to God as a man in need of forgiveness, but as a man who strives never to need it.  I cannot go to God as a man in fear for the fate of his soul, but as one assured of it.

I will not go to God for aid and help.  I will go to offer mine.

Eternity holds no mysteries for me, but, still I have no less a monumental task ahead of myself, as do each of you.  With or without others I am going to work to preserve, repair and enrich all of this world, society and government that I can.  Seven generations from now I want people to honor my name for what I will have done for them.  That is the closest one can achieve to a sense of eternity on this planet.  Perhaps my efforts will be enough to make me worthy for more than that understanding of eternity on earth.  I will accept it, but never ask for it or expect it in return for my efforts.

I've endeavored slowly over years to develop a sense of personal ethics higher than religions' codified moralities.  It was not intentional in the beginning.  It started with reading the works of Ayn Rand who referred to asking for forgiveness as being the same as 'asking for permission... after a transgression.'

From there I began learning to live a life in which I would do nothing that would warrant the need to ask forgiveness.  It meant controlling my temper to avoid speaking harsh words I'd later regret.  That in turned led me to understand anger and find its root.  Once I'd found the common denominator for all anger it was easy to control. All anger towards people comes from one's own disappointment in the actions or words of others.  Only those people of whom we expect most can anger us when they ail to live up to the expectations we impose on them.

My word, my oath and promise giving a commitment of my actions or support is my most treasured possession, and thus given carefully.  Everyone should feel their oath to be so important and make it so.

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A Casual Observation and Questions

The Ankh; Egyptian symbol of eternity, so we're told.  Eternity in any conception of it, is far away and an unimaginable duration of time.  This symbol has been assigned many explanations and origins.  Most of them  have overlooked the obvious, the simplest.

The path to eternity is a journey of unknown perils and miles.  The Egyptians went to great lengths to provide the dead with all they would need on the road to the afterlife.  What purpose could this abstract symbol have served towards that end? 

But then, why are we assuming it is an abstract symbol and not a depiction of something that would be needed and vital on the long journey?

Here is an example of the understanding capable through 'an empty cup.'  A mind filled with its own preconceptions and misconceptions will find what it expects, or doesn't expect to find.  It makes more sense than other explanations.  It is simple and obvious.  On the longest of journeys what could be more important to an Egyptian than a strapped sandal? 

What else do you really need?

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Things started some where and some how and here we are now.

So many people believe they understand.  Do they?

There's only one way to fully understand anything;

Forget what you believe you understand, and learn.

If you wish to understand anything, Do this.

A Cup of Tea

Nan-in, a Japanese master during the Meiji era (1868-1912)

received a university professor who came to inquire about Zen. 

Nan-in saved tea. He poured his visitor's cup full, and then

kept on pouring.The professor watched the overflow until

he no longer could restrain himself.

'It is overfull. No more will go in!'

‘Like this cup,'  Nan-in said.

‘You are full of your own opinions and speculations.

 How can you understand anything unless you first empty your cup? '

"Seven generations. I have 2 granddaughters along with ten nieces and nephews, all dear to me. Using a calculator, and estimating a 'generation' at being 30 years with an average birthrate of 2.5, I am able to estimate that in the year 2320 there will be 7,324 descendants of myself and my siblings. There are 7,324 people in the future of whom I may meet a few and the things I do and stand for today will directly effect their lives more than my own."

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Part I

Where things came from ..more or less

One thing that always amazes anthropologists whose job it is to unearth ancient communities, is the clear evidence of vast lines of trade between prehistoric civilizations.  In North America seashells from the Gulf of Mexico made their way to Minnesota while arrowheads and flakes of flint found in southern Alabama originated from cliffs in Kentucky. Amber from the Black Sea has been found in Crete while 4,000 year old Minoan pottery has been unearthed in modern day Belarus.
With an absence of national borders or common languages, prehistoric men and women went far and wide to not only trade but trade regularly, freely and peacefully. We owe them our sincere gratitude and reverence for many ubiquitous legacies they bestowed upon us through ancient trading practices.
By the time writing evolved, common weeds had already been cultivated into valued food products. They were as vital to prehistoric civilizations as they are to us today. We would be nothing without their contributions of wheat, rye, oats, barley, corn, rice and the Inca's resourceful cultivation of potatoes. Also from the times before written history came tomatoes, onions, peppers, spices, mined salt, squash, melons, beans, apples, pears, plums,peaches, grapes, cattle, swine, sheep, ducks, chickens, and geese and basic cabbages.
By the time men developed writing these crops upon which we still depend were well developed and  spread far beyond their natural ranges.  Wheat, originally an inconspicuous weedy grass of the Middle East, had been spread by unobstructed trade throughout Europe, Asia and North Africa.  In the process it lost its ability to survive and compete in the wild, becoming wholly dependent upon the men who cultivated it.
In the prehistoric Americas another grass, just over knee high with a small cluster of as many as nine to twelve seed kernels, began its long transition into what we know today as corn, spreading far and wide from its homeland in central Mexico.
To help us get a deeper understanding of commerce in prehistory, you need only look to the variety of freely traded crops and livestock.  All of which were traded far beyond their original ranges ~ all this and more, before the invention of writing.
A Babylonian farmer who may have run his domesticated ducks and geese through his wheat fields discovered they made easy work at of eliminating ravenous grasshoppers. This farmer would have had a definite advantage over another who hand fed kept his fowl kept securely couped.  The first farmer who figured out that he could either break his back preparing a field or use an ox to do a better and faster job was the Bill Gates of his era.  Just imagine the discovery that mud could be shaped and baked into pottery.

To push the point even further, aside from the Incas and their 16 varieties of potatoes, can you name one ancient civilization that did not rise from the cultivation of grains such as rice, wheat or corn?  

Egypt? ~  Mesopotamia? ~  Rome? ~  Greece? ~

China? ~ India? ~ Japan? ~ Mississippian ~

North America? ~ Aztecs? ~ Mayans? 

Maybe that mundane loaf of bread may

never look the same to you again.

..."And give us this day, our daily bread"...

The next time you hear those words take a moment

to thank the people who made that bread possible.  

We owe them more than gratitude.

We owe them everything.

The Basic Flaw of
Centralized Control of Anything

"I've never met a socialist who willingly worked in order to

give away the rewards of his endeavors to his own disregard.

Nor will you ever meet one. 
However, you'll meet many who'll
extol the virtues of you doing it."

Freedoms to excel, achieve and attain are the core principles of capitalism.  They foster a competitive nature that encourages production of the best and most over the worst and least.  Overproduction is a significant byproduct of freedom's inspired competition.  Isn't it always better to have too much than not enough?
Lack of freedom, the result of any form of centralized control, extinguishes or diminishes the drive to excel by eliminating the full rewards for the individuals.  Focus is diverted from individual progress in achieving and attaining once rewards for their labors are diminished.  Underproduction is an invariable consequence of centralized control.  What's in it for you to spend more energy than you have to produce enough to feed more than yourself and your family?
That's why massive famines and shortages have always and will always follow from even partially free markets to controlled ones.  Look no further than the millions of famine deaths in the years after the Russian and Chinese communist revolutions.  Due to malnutrition over a half century of malnutrition, communist North Koreans are three inches shorter in stature than their free market South Korean counterparts.
In no small part, a government and culture steeped in rigid centralized control is one reason the most scientific and technologically sophisticated civilization of 4th through 7th centuries never even came close to becoming a dominant world force.
As Europe devolved from the Roman Empire into Dark Ages,  a near millennium ahead in its inventions, medicines and science, China stood.  'Stood' is the operative word.  In spite of mechanical clocks, gunpowder, hand guns, printing presses with movable type, paper for writing and the toilet, many medicines, an accurate calendar, incomparable navigational advances and much more, China stood.
It was a case of trickle down stagnation.  The emperor, ruler of the land was best best loved and admired for doing little, or even nothing but presiding as the center of the empire with all else revolving around him. The feudal society and classes were not only enforced by lords of the lands but by the predominant religions of China.  Taoism, which means, 'the way', taught and embraced the concept that things would not change.  What you were born into was what you would die being.  That was the way it was in China. 
Farmers cultivated fields belonging to landlords would only to take enough for themselves, surrendering all surpluses as rent.  There was no profit, no reward in innovating and moving from a crafts oriented industry to any form of industrialization.  Merchants could make profits however they would die merchants.  Their invention of the compass never moved beyond being considered a novelty.  As a result to their culture, most of their inventions languished short of their potential applications.
By contrast, consider the monumental impact of Gutenberg's printing press on western civilization in a mere two centuries.  not one aspect of the western world escaped its influence.  There's not one person in the western world today who would have the life they have had it not been for the innovations of printing in the western world.  It changed western religions by making the Bible free from arduous hand copying and accessible in other languages than Latin. 
As books became plentiful, learning to read became less an occupation only for monks and scholars.  Ideas and philosophy printed in Italy could be read in France, Germany, England, Spain and several other nations, all at the same time. 
In our age this means little.  In the years when Gutenberg began printing, people were accustomed to waiting years for a popular hand copied book.  Printing in western civilization began the Renaissance, the Reformation, and eventually the development of schools for students other than the elite.
(Trivia ~~ Gutenberg didn't originally plan to construct a printing machine.  He was foremost a Goldsmith.  His plan was to make a machine to mass produce stamped gold jewelry that at that time, was all tooled by hand.  He adapted his invention for printing only when he was pressured to begin repaying the loans he'd received for his business venture.)


I've been laying the foundations of our society before you so you can eliminate one of the following.  Pick one and imagine a world without its influence.

• The Printing Press and all it set in motion.  No public schools. No newspapers.  Unless you're one of the elite or royal, you'd currently be illiterate, unable to read this.
• Cultivated food and all it has brought about for the development of society.  Get up each day and go forage.  No supermarkets.
• Pottery, no plates, cups.  That would in turn mean no need for knives, forks or the development of glass.

Our way of life is the product of all the innovations before us since the beginning of human innovations.  We are not separate from the past.  We are extensions forward of the generations before us.  We must learn our roles, and leave for those who come after us a world that is better than the one we've inherited.  If we do not, we will have failed in the purpose for our existence.

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The Gowlands Steps,  of Gibraltar

They're only symbolic to me.

I walk out of my way each day to go around them.

In his time, My grandfather scaled them daily.

His grandfather scaled them daily.

The grandfather of my grandfather's grandfather scaled them as well.

One day I want to feel worthy to walk on them.

Seventh Generation Political Perspective

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This is not about me, or you.
This is about people you don't know.
You haven't met them yet.
I hope you have the chance to meet a few of them in your lifetime. 
They are more important to me than I am to myself.
I'm a well calloused, and thick skinned strongly opinionated man. I've had my fair share of reason to mourn, grieve and cry. I stopped crying decades ago. I rediscovered deep meaning to mourn, grieve and cry as I researched a single seemingly insignificant line in a newspaper. I won't lie anymore about it. I can't work on this for more than thirty minutes at a time without crying, grieving, mourning. You too will see reasons to grieve, mourn and cry, for yourselves as I do it for myself.

Seventh Generation Political Thought

The inspiration for Seventh Generation Politics came from an newspaper online editorial and comments regarding the founding documents of the United States. A writer had written a letter adamantly professing that the United States and its founding documents were rooted in the Bible and more specifically, the Ten Commandments.
A commentor responded that the governance of the Iroquois Confederation had a far greater influence on the American government's roots than the Bible. He offered no links, no quotes no clues about what he based this assertion on, and a pretty 'out of the far left field' assertion it seemed. It tweeked my curiosity. It was time to rely on my friendly internet search engines and explore.
I didn't have a dog in this race which is to say in no uncertain terms, I didn't give a damned who won that debate. I only wanted to find out what the commentor was talking about.
That led to what I call the 'spaghetti bowl of information effect.' I hate it. Some people love it. Imagine all the germaine information you are looking for is in one strand of pasta out of the handful you're about to cook. All the rest of them have one or two pieces of relevant material encased in them. Cook them. Drain them and throw them in a bowl. Now find the strand with all the information. All the noodles might touch (link) at some point, or touch one piece that does actually touch the exact one you're looking for. Good luck finding it. That's my perception of the internet.

Now assume that you accumulated some interesting information and forgot to bookmark it all for later reference. Now you desperately need parts of that information. It's time to cook another pot of spaghetti and start all over, recreate the original search.
Have you forgotten the debate about which had more influence on the founding documents of the United States yet? Good! That's not an issue here. If that's an issue you care to debate, please exercise your right to do so with people who care to debate it.
In my search I came across scanned images of a 18th century book's text recounting encounters with the indigenous people of the United States. I read through it and regretfully now, didn't bookmark the page. In the time since I stumbled onto that site in the spaghetti bowl of information, I've spent many many hours trying to find it again.
Remember, I was specifically looking for information about Iroquois governance as relating to the Declaration of Independence, Constitution and Bill of Rights, assuming I'd find an article or even a research paper on the subject. The text from a 300 year old book was interesting but hardly what I was looking for at that time. It made for interesting reading, however. Parts of it stuck in my mental file cabinet under the label, 'interesting trivia.'
Notable in the text was an army officer's account of a village of friendly Native Americans experiencing near starvation during a very hard winter. Seeing an opportunity the both help the village and make a land gain, they headed to the village with pack horses loaded with supplies and blankets to trade for a strategic piece of land. When they arrived they were greeted with excitement by starving people. One of the elders of the village spoke to them:

"The grandfathers of our grandfathers kept these lands for us. They protected this land from others so we might have it and use it in our lives, for our good. They hungered here. They were cold here. They are all here on lands they saved for us. For this, we revere their names and spirits and their graves. Our cold winter and lack of food blinds us. The words of the grandfathers of our grandfathers are hard to remember when we are hungry and cold. If we trade this land for food and blankets now because we are cold and hungry where will the grandchildren of our grandchildren hunt and harvest? Will they sing the songs to honor our names and spirits that we kept this home for them? Will they revere our graves or trample them as they call us the old ones that traded their lands because we were hungry?"

In the text the author writes that the villagers, one and all, walked away from the supplies and blankets that would ensure they survival and returned into their homes. The soldiers and officers were confused and returned to their fort. After much debate the soldiers returned three days later with supplies to leave at the village. The account relates that they arrived to find members of a tribe hostile to the villagers and the soldiers unloading supplies, skins and freshly killed game.
It goes on to say that this act was not perceived as a truce or treaty! It was in both tribes' best interests to remain alive long enough to settle their own disputes in their own lifetimes so as to prevent the spill of war into the lives of the grandchildren of their own grandchildren! The food and skins were accepted not in peace, but in the commitment they would fight each other to resolve their differences in their time in order to pass peace to their descendants, and be revered having done so!

Will anyone please find me an example of this in today's world?

Don't waste your time. I did. I could find none.

Aside from the debatable intentions of the vast Federal land reserves and not including our National Parks, consider these items.
Out of the past 100 years name U.S. laws that have been legislated and implemented with tangible praxis to benefit the generations yet to come?

Now that you're thinking about that, turn it around. From the same past 100 years name the U.S. laws that have been legislated, implemented and stand as evidence that we have become accustomed to stealing from the next generations (future) in order to please ourselves (immediate present.)

Once you see this, understand it and acknowledge it you have identified the single one cause of the current situation of the United States. Once you've reached that point, the solution will be apparent.

That's what Seventh Generation Political Thinking is about; restoring, or in some cases if need be, compelling a sense of rational foresight into government. This has nothing to do with political parties. It has to do with changes in us, the citizens of this nation. If we do not begin changing the way we relate to our own lives in relation to this nation's future as well as it's current well being we can not hold our representatives and elected officials to do it for us. It has to start with us, in our homes, our lives and our own hearts. Once we do that, changing the government's perspective is relatively simple.

Regarding political perspectives, mine are as etched in stone as are many of yours. However, when thinking about the important issues, my political beliefs and probably your own mean nothing. I want the same things you want. All that's separates us is the discussion over how to achieve the same goals.

The people who run our government have failed us in all respects. They show no concern for truth when they speak. Their words seldom, if ever, contain truth. Their words are their tools of influence upon us. They use them to garner our support themselves and their agendas and parties.
They have so corrupted and polarized the media not even they can render truth above partisanship. Media has become the circus barkers of the thoroughly corrupt and self-serving political parties. We have unwittingly become meaningless, expendable pawns in the game of political power. The winner is never the one who stands for what is right or good or even in the best interest of the nation or even tells the truth. The winner is the one with the most corruption and cooperation of the media.

Let me stress this is not a partisan statement. Certainly Democrats are in control of the government now and it appears I am addressing this towards them. When they gain control of the government, do you believe Republicans will put truth above metering their words to influence and sway the populus?

Our once beloved and trusted media, newspapers, radio and television, the very industries that built themselves as our reliable sources of truth have become complicit with political parties as they put dogma and propaganda ahead of facts and information. No longer do they seek to uncover government's covert abuses and corruption in order to expose them, end them. They are more often covertly involved in assuring abuses and corruption are not exposed, not ended! They scoff at their once vital role in the mechanism of the Republic and when seen through as whores of partisan politics, they look at us with contempt and say, 'So what? have you seen our ratings? Truth be damned! Pay attention to the ratings!'

We each, individually must start the change and we can change all of this, in our single generation. We are irresponsible to expect either government or media to raise their own standards until we raise the bar to what we expect of them.

I'm not going to even let myself think that I answers, either all or even some. I just want to start the discussion with people interested in moving away from what is destroying the United States as well as all other governments.

Seven generations. I have 2 granddaughters along with ten nieces and nephews, all dear to me. Using a calculator, and estimating a 'generation' at being 30 years with an average birthrate of 2.5, I am able to estimate that in the year 2320 there will be 7,324 descendants of myself and my siblings. There are 7,324 people in the future of whom I may meet a few and the things I do and stand for today will directly effect their lives more than my own.

Currently, they are not given a votes on the amount of debt they are willing to be born into. They are not considered when a nation goes to war or chooses not to. No one even has a passing thought for the future generations when they face hardships or even inconveniences anymore.  They will inherit either scraps of our myopic self indulgence or a world that we prepared for them, better than the one we received in our turn.

We should. We must. Look back 210 years, seven generations, and try to find people as selfish and shortsighted as citizens of the United States today have allowed themselves to become. People from 210 years ago would be ashamed. If they would be ashamed of us, so will the ones 210 years from now.

Seventh Generation Political Thinking is devoted wholly to raising our generation upwards so we may be remembered for what we did with the legacy our ancestors persevered to leave us so we might add to it, not diminish or deplete it. We should do everything we can to leave less problems and more workable solutions for the generations to come after us.

I don't want them to remember us this way.

 Do you?

Can you?

Think about all this. Take your time. I sure needed mine. The realization that I'm failing over 2,000 decendants over whom I should be considering with every thought and plan is a weight.  You should feel the same weight upon you.  Everyone should.   It is the weight of the world, seven generations from now upon your shoulders.  It doesn't feel like a burden.  It is a purpose.

I've tried to bury myself in distractions to escape 'this.'   I can't do it any longer. I'm past the grieving, mourning and crying. It's time for progress. It's time to look at things from a completely different perspective.

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