The Sovereign Voice Issue 2 | Page 64

Would that person be within their rights? Or would such a person in fact be guilty of breaching your trust for committing such an action? Obviously, all these are examples of major breaches of trust. Trust is not something that can be created by violence. And this is why slavery system in which we live today must provide the public with a basic illusion of freedom – because the status quo cannot afford, at the moment, to have too many people become fully cognizant of the enslavement that is happening all around them. There is a reason why the slavery system resorts to tricky financial mathematics and deceitful legal semantics in order to create tacit contracts and enforce parasitic monetary policy upon the people rather than simply openly telling them via Fox News and/or CNN that they are considered as commodities and “chattel” who exist only to serve the banks. The fact that they still have to invest – even today – at least a bare minimum of resources into actively deceiving the people of the world conclusively shows us that humanity has the power to alter the status quo. So, what do we do about this? I would suggest that the most important thing any of us could do would be to build trust back into our lives, in every possible way. This means not only developing the discipline to stick through with your word when it comes to dealing with others, but it also means making a commitment to self-honesty as well – it means taking a conscious moral stance that you and you alone are the owner of your mind. It means becoming consciously aware of ALL those ideas by which you live your life. And, when necessary, it means taking the time to change them when they turn out to be less than helpful or simply untrue. We must heal ourselves by falling in love with the Truth. We must dedicate ourselves to lives of learning – because the more we fully understand the world we inhabit, the more we can provide for ourselves, and our community. We must not withhold the knowledge we acquire through life but instead we must share knowledge freely with everyone, and learn to respect the life-sustaining power that information can have. When we are ready – when we have acquired definite knowledge of our greater context – we MUST lend our informed effort towards making sure that our neighborhoods are safe and that our friends have food and water available to them. And if corporations posing as governments chronically prevent us from taking care of our neighbors and ourselves, then they have chosen by their own free will to become obstacles to humanity’s future, and we must do everything we can to reclaim that future which is our collective birthright, or else we share in the culpability when systemic oppression goes unchecked. Whatever you allow the government to do to others it may end up doing to you. So if you care about your freedom, then don’t simply defend it for yourself, but defend if for others as well. Today, we are like inmates holding the keys to our own prison, yet, more often than not, refusing to use them. But we could choose differently. We could choose to cooperate – we can choose to deepen our care and extend our knowledge and heighten our perception. For regardless of what is written down on paper here or there, the fact of the matter is that the price of admission to a truly sustainable world is an informed, caring, and brave humanity that has rebuilt its trust. TheSovereignVoice.Org