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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