Saturday, July 28, 2012

Broken Ideologies


Our world is broken. Our societies are broken. Our society as a planet has just begun to form but is not moving forward in a healthy manner. This formulation of one planet, one people, is headed for disaster. This world social formulation is headed to a broken state even before it really begins. A large concern is that too many countries and energies are working against each other.

I ask myself why all the time. I have questioned this question now for at least 40 years. I keep finding the same basic conclusions, Broken Ideologies! Ideologies that people hold dear within themselves. Ideologies that individual people and organizations refuse to modify so that they can accept that other populous actually live on and share this amazing planet. Broken ideologies of religion, political awareness and political philosophy, monetary need, power through dominance, with the inability to look to a future where everyone needs everyone. This is about survival of our planet. This is about the overall health of our planet and the population that inhabits the Earth.

Religion and the political philosophy understanding of the day are two of the most broken ideologies that we experience. Religion is about faith. Faith is about what ever you decide to believe in; a Supreme Being or a creator of life. Faith is not religion. Faith is inside an individual and not an external force.

Religion is an external force. Religion is the organization that is formed and spun out from someone’s desire of faith. A religion is a political movement and really nothing more. A religion is a people driven organization built around what an individual or group of leaders wants to push and hold a population too. Religion is the rules and regulations as understood by the power hungry people who build the religion. These rules and regulations are how the leaders control other people. Instead of allowing people to understand and believe and have faith the leaders tell common people what to believe and how to believe.

This leadership convinces the followers through threat and forced persuasion. The leaders compel their understanding and form of belief onto others. Therefore faith is removed and numbers of followers is increased. The ideology of organized faith is now broken. The ideals of religion are broken because of the desire for power and the corruption that ensues.

Political ideology follows a very similar route as religion. There are no totally bad political philosophies. They each have very strong ideas that in their pure form are good for people and good for society. The down fall of political ideals is in how they are executed by their leaders. It is the corruption of the ideals for a greater power retention by the leaders that makes political philosophies fail. They all fail due to the desire for power not because of the political philosophy.

Both political reality and religion are institutes that have become a control of movement, thoughts, and ideas. They have become a way to control people and society. The organization tells society what to believe and how to believe and how to act. Whether it is the acts of a monarchy, an authoritarian government, military, so called communism (Russia and China as very poor examples), and most democracies that are very much controlled by the wealthy and capitalist bearings. Even in open societies there are strong influences that invade the simplicity of the political idea. Each of these experiments has ended as a Broken Ideology and a broken society.

A major influence that causes our societies to become broken is the great influence that money has on people and society in general. We will explore the influences of money on the greed of power and the corruption of society in the future. Broken ideology is the results of a combination of influences that are human existence but are being learned as not profitable for society and people, and our planet as a whole.