Daddy? Is there something wrong with me?
“No, of course not my dearest. You are a very unique and special child. You are perfectly alright and I love you very much”.
Yet the problem is temendously real. Schools in the western world are preparing and judging children on their potential to perform in a materialistic system. It is not strange at all that many of the children do not seem to comply. They are not robots, they are human beings.
Our materialistic world wants humans to perform optimally in a financial based organization. It is money that reigns. At the earliest age the children learn about numbers and language, the basics of a numeric, binary, two dimensional, yes/no system. They donot learn about creativity, self sufficiency, spirituality, relational sensitivity, feelings and emotions or self learning as equivalent key factors for successful growing up.
We have given too much power to government to decide what is good for our children. Why did we do that? It is a consequence of a money based system. We call this emancipation, the ability of being economically independent from eachother, but in reality it is breaking up families. And we never became independent, we placed our faith in the economic system.
Of course women and men have the same rights to develop their individual independency. But in a money system such independence represents total individualism where there is hardly room for the children. Both parents need to work for money and the kids are being educated by external parties for money. Love and care has been eliminated along the way. And these represent true values that cannot be expressed in money or be taken over by and individualistic, robotized society.
In a value based system men and women are equal but certainly not the same. The role of each in society and a family is highly differentiated.
The sum of all the issues around children, s.a. a robotized educational system, lack of family warmth, polution and unhealthy nutrician, lack of spiritual guidance, etc. cause numerous psychological and physical disorder to appear. One out of five children are labeled with something that in essence disqualifies them at an early stage from a normal future in a system where performance rules. We have reached the dramatic stage that the system of creating robots our of human beings is producing so many defects that the systems is unsustainable and obsolete.
The children with some kind of disorder enter in a special support program in which they are even further stigmatised with “something that is wrong” with them. A lot of the system is based around the principles of the IQ. However this is only one minor part of the full potential of a child. The EQ (emotional), SQ (spiritual), AQ (awareness) and various more, are very strong energetic components of the human nature that require equal attention. The problem is that they can not be measured through a simple multiple choice test and valued in a ranking. Someone of a high IQ (say 144) would be better equiped to address life than someone with a low IQ (say 72). That is not true. The amount of psychological disorders in high and low IQs are evident and documented. So are the successes of low IQ people which seems to contradict the stearing mechanism used by schools and governments.
To be adecuately equiped for conducting a balanced and purposeful life IQ is not at all significant on its own. A powerful combination of spiritual, emotional, physical, energetic and other factors place the person in the complexity of the diversity of a human life. Knowledge absorbtion as indicated by the IQ makes absolutely no sense if it is not applied in a practical environment. Learning needs to be fed with purpose through experiences and selfreflection as well as creativity. Simply learning what is commonly accepted as a truth does not challenge the individual to determine the truth for himself. Creativity helps to challenge the existing order by giving it a fresh thought without prejudice and learn by autoreflection and self awareness within the context of time and space of that moment, location and surroundings.
Learning does not provide progress at all, creativity and practical applied knowledge in a diversity of situations does. It generates new knowledge. Children need not just memorize common knowledge but apply it to the integral complexity of life as they go through the adventure of living it. They need to receive answers on their questions, not just about 2 + 2 is 4 but also when 2 + 2 is 0 or 5. They need to learn about themselves and how to interact in groups, not just by sitting still and listening to the teacher but also understanding the complexity of being a unique human being among many other unique human beings.
Our current scholing system is life threatning for our children. That is the theme of a conference in Holland. It refers to the fact that the educational system kills the full potential of a child to conduct a purposeful life. It also refers to the environment where education is taking place, that is so poluted that it is often irresponsible for parents to send the children to school at all.
“Daddy? Is there something wrong with me?” is such open question of a brilliant young mind who questions the system that pretends to classify him or her. No, my child, there is nothing wrong with you, on the contrary. There something wrong with the system. Just trust your daddy because I am proud of you, I love you very much and make it my life mission to challenge the system. I will stand beside you and help you develop your own unique, authentic and brilliant life without limitations. Because you deserve it and are worth it!
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Have look also at:
Ken Robinson – schools kill creativity http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG9CE55wbtY
Sugata Mitra – can kids teach themselves? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRb7_ffl2D0
Politics as we know it…. is dead
Left/right wing politics is outdated. It reflects the old world of industrialization where the left had to defend the rights of the working class and the right vowed for the business economies and religions. The middle way became popular in the last couple of decennia as an electorially safe no mans land. But this lacks colour, any public point of recognition let alone charismatic leadership. It is mediocre and tastless.
Even dictatorship is down the drain as young people get educated through internet and stand up against it. Politics as we know it……is dead. Money does not represent value anymore, gunpowder does not either, the powerful are those without power, they are the masses and they are powerful. Just now however the masses need guidance, need true leadership! Not what is being offered by the current world political, business and banking leaders. No, that leadership is dead, unaccepted, disputed, untrusted and blamed for all the problems we face today. This despite their combined efforts to keep going as long as it can. It will all collaps further and needs to collaps. Unfortunately, before it collapses no other leadership will be tolerated and everything is focused on maintaining the living dead. This will not last long. In Egypt it took a few days, in Libya it may take months, in China years just like in the USA and Europe.
But when collaps finally occurs new leaders stand up, often enlightened and visionary leaders that offer a new future. But also dangerous leaders that blame people for the current circumstances and offer ways back to some safe place in the past.
We are entering an era of political redefinition. The old ways are dead, the new to be defined. That phase after the crash of a system is a chaotic one. We see it occur all around us in the world (Egypt, Lybia, Tunesia, Arabia even China is worried). As I mentioned before….it is a global transformation through an in depth global crisis. The redefinition phase is extremely volatile.
While everyone at one stage will accept the collaps of an obsolete system the redefinition of a new system has many fathers and mothers. In chaos many still remain in a situation of greed, agression and misery. But some will stand out of the chaos and promise a better situation. They show charisma, a vision, a dream …….. a responsibility! But where various are charismatic at the same time, big struggle appears. Who do we follow? Will the human world break up in fragmented views or learn for once to be a global species with a universal higher purpose that does not allow fragmentation anymore?
The key to success of the new political leader: Authentic sense of Universal Responsibility.
That is what our current politicians lack totally: The sense of responsibility! They reason out of self or party interests and not out of a collective higher purpose and stand point. After world war II politicians and political parties defended a cause. Nowadays no causes are defended anymore. All political activities and programs look the same. The defend the past and themselves. No one offers change, they do not dare in fear of losing their conservitive supporters.
Extremists can take the lead temporary through the easy blaming of people in times of crisis but only offer hatred and no solutions. The other politicians or parties don’t dare to take a standpoint and defend it. The have become mediocre, out of these times, old fashioned, self centered and conservative, no matter what colour they say they are or represent.
We all deserve better.
The entire world is in crisis, not only financially but in everything: food, intellectual, spiritual, educational, water, pollution, mobility, you name it…… We are educating our children to perform as robots in a system. We teach them in poluted environments. We grow older but sicker. We are intellectually blessed but do not use it. We have grown stupid and selfish but cannot finance our selfishness anymore. We allow fellow humans to suffer and die all around the world. It is over!
The new politics are not left wing, not right wing, not even through the middle or even a dictator. The new politics defines key sustainable responsibilities, through enlightenment and idealism but with pragmatism and sense of progress and organization. The new politics accepts cultural diversity and defines new cultures through it. The new politics defines true values and organizes communities around it. It does not care about money but valuable co-hesion, teamspirit and the common higher purpose of the community. The new politics is not democratic but higher purpose driven, sustainable, highly spiritual and for everyone, not just a few.
New politics does not exist yet but is about to be born!
Understanding the responsibility of self awareness
One of the unique characteristics of humankind is our self awareness. What does this mean? It means that we have the mental capability to reflect on our own existence and behavior in relation to our surroundings. We are conscious to what we are and what we do.
This unique capability has served us well. We have been able to reflect intensely on our own weaknesses to survive in a complex world, using our self reflecting creativity to make instruments that strengthen our position. Our self awareness has hence always been self centered to serve our individual purpose. The fact that we were blessed with thought and self reflection while the rest of the living species were not allowed us to play for ourselves a dominant role. We developed a natural nature to seek personal benefit at expense of our surroundings.
For hundreds of thousands of years this worked fine. The size of the human population on earth was insignificant so our selfish attitude remained unnoticed as nothing claimed responsibilities. We were only conciously confronted with our own attitude when we encountered other human self centered communities. Our intellect developed also tools and instruments to concur eachother.
Today the world population is so large and the effects of our self centeredness to significant that it affects our daily routines dramatically. We suddenly become aware that our self awareness cannot just be oriented to self preservation at the expense of everything else. We now become aware that self preservation is only possible if the rest is preserved as well. If we do not preserve our surroundings we end up terminating ourselves.
If in the past we just took intellectual responsibility out of self interest we now have to take responsibility for our sustainable existence. This in depth change in attitude affects our entire nature, individually but also in government and business. When in the past all responsibility was self centered it has now moved to a univeral external scope. We do not survive by taking it all but by saving it all. That is challenging!
When one thing changes in our environment it requires a whole set of new changes to remain in balance. That is the universal law that has created also the basis for the evolution of everything and even our own existence. Now that we are conscious to such basic facts we also understand the responsibility we have to change whenever we change anything just for the sake of our own sustainable progress and survival.
There two types of changes: the ones we can do something about and the ones where we can not. The ones that are beyond our control should never even worry us. They just occur (s.a. natural desasters). We can only react to the unexpected trusting on our intellectual capacity to adapt to ever changing circumstances. The changes that we do control ourselves provide us with the responsibility to consider them within the context of the whole. This should not prevent us from acting but remind us that action always requires further action to obtain true progress.
The responsibility we carry has a social and environmental component in which we encounter ourselves. Self awareness is now placed in the context of the whole and not the individual part making us all a servant leader in a universal mission of adaptive balance. When we now improve our surroundings we will improve ourselves.
What does this mean for you and me?
1. Be aware of your own actions and mentality. What is truly valuable to you? Remember: it is not that what you have that is significant, it is what you are and do. In everything you do value what it will contribute positively to your surroundings (human and nature). If you only encounter value for yourself don’t do it, you will eventually find it will have taken something from someone else or nature and you will be made responsible.
2. Business. Place your competences at service to humankind and the planet through issue driven vision. Remember that every change induces new changes. Be creative and innovative within this servant attitude that will eventually become the image that people will become loyal to.
3. Government. Stimulate your community to be servant by taking responsibility to themselves and their surroundings. This is the true economy of values, one that is expressed in health, vitality and purpose, not in money. Be facilitating by stimulating innovations applied to society instead of punishing or regulating mistakes from the past. Don’t patronize your community but help them to be self sufficient, responsible and progressive in sustainable multidimensional wealth.
So at an individual level: be servant, work for a servant company and vote for a servant party. Be responsible for all your choices, evaluate, adjust and be responsible again.
