The House Must Be Put in Order

 There is something we need to do before we try to save the world.

 We need to tell the truth about our own house.

 Not because we hate our society.

 Not because we hate our history.

 Not because we hate our accomplishments.

 Not because we hate our learning.

 Not because we hate ourselves.

 Not because everything we have built is evil.

 And certainly not because we believe our civilization has no value.

 Quite the opposite.

We love our home, our society, our history, our accomplishments, our learning, ourselves.

We also love our communities, our connected world, and a hope for something better.

 We examine ourselves, our communities, and our histories because we believe we are capable of something better.

 Ethics and Reciprocity.  We must Burn the Golden Calf as Moses Did.  We must Reject Satanism, Murder, Torture, Cannibalism, and Vampirism as Moses Did.  We must stop allowing our children to become extinct through mis-education, poisoning, and evil systems.

 And if we truly believe that every human being possesses dignity, then we have to be willing to look directly at the places where our own behavior contradicts that belief.

 No excuses.

 No tribalism.

 No convenient blindness.

 No double standards.

 We cannot demand honesty from everyone else while protecting our own lies.

 We cannot demand mercy for ourselves while celebrating suffering inflicted upon someone else.

 We cannot demand empathy from others or ourselves when we show none to others.

 We cannot condemn murder when our enemies commit it and then search for clever language when people on our side are responsible.

 We cannot say that children are sacred while tolerating their exploitation.

 We cannot say that human beings are free while building systems that consume their labor, their attention, their families, their communities, and sometimes their very sense of meaning.

 We have to be honest.

 **Some things have gone profoundly wrong.**

 But acknowledging that does not require us to hate ourselves.

 It requires us to change.

 ## The Child and Healthy Family Must Come First

 If we want to know whether a civilization has a soul, look at how it treats its children.

 A child should never become a commodity.

 Never a weapon.

 Never a sexual object.

 Never a laboratory for spiritual warfare.

 Never a laboratory for ideological warfare.

 Never a laboratory for physical warfare.

 Never collateral damage.

 Never a disposable statistic.

 Never something sacrificed for the ambitions of adults.

 Whatever our politics, whatever our religion, whatever our nationality, there should be one point upon which we can agree:

 **Children and Healthy Families deserve protection.**

 That means confronting trafficking.

 It means confronting sexual exploitation.

 It means confronting abuse.

 It means confronting institutional failures that allow predators to operate.

 It means keeping families together when appropriate.

 It means allowing families to flourish.

 It means not poisoning people through food and environment.

 It means people being allowed to grow their own food.

 It means protecting children from violence without turning that protection into another excuse for authoritarianism.

 And it means having the courage to investigate allegations seriously—without hysteria, without predetermined conclusions, and without protecting powerful people merely because the truth would be uncomfortable.

 Truth does not need us to manufacture evidence, or manufacture pretexts for wars, have manifestations of hippocracy on our honored consciousness, or destruction of priceless civilizations.

 Truth needs us to stop hiding from evidence.

 That distinction matters.

 ## We Must Learn From the Darkest Possibilities

 Throughout human history, people have accused other societies of terrible practices.

 Some accusations have been false.

 Some have been exaggerated.

 Some have been propaganda.

 And some terrible practices have, in fact, existed.

 Human sacrifice has existed in human history.

 Cannibalism has existed in human history.

 Slavery has existed.

 Eugenics has existed.

 Forced sterilization has existed.

 Mass killing has existed.

 Genocide has existed.

 Illegal STD Experiments were performed on Black Service-members

 Children have been murdered by police

 Children have been murdered by racists

 State-sponsored experimentation on human beings has existed.

 Depopulation Agendas have and are being run

 Excuses were made to imprison large swathes of the population and to disrupt their families
There is a System that separates families called Family Court System.

There is no oversight for certain projects.

There is no civilian oversight for certain projects.

Corporatism is creating conflicts of interest in direct conflict with civil society both nationally and globally.

 DNA Edited Virusus have been released [ deliberately or non-deliberate is a separate discussion ]

 DNA edited Humans were recently reported in the News.  Human Cloning has been illegal but there are some issues with reporting previous cases due to current law.

 And powerful institutions have sometimes convinced ordinary people that horrifying things were necessary for some supposedly greater good. – [ thank you for adding this note credit goes to ‘Bro.Richy’ ]

 We should therefore neither believe every terrifying story automatically nor dismiss every disturbing allegation automatically.

 We should investigate.

 We should preserve evidence.

 We should demand transparency as appropriate.

 We should protect whistleblowers.

 We should allow thoughtful, empathetic, mutual, progress initiating, analytical, and logical discussion.

 We should prosecute actual crimes on an individual basis.

 And we should refuse to let ideology or associations determine what counts as evidence.

 That is how a mature society deals with darkness.

 Not through paranoia.

 Not through denial.

 Through truth, empathy, honesty, and action.

 ## The Danger of Eugenics

 There is a particularly important lesson in the history of eugenics.

 Whenever human beings begin dividing people into those whose lives are supposedly more valuable and those whose lives are supposedly less valuable, we are approaching a moral cliff.

 The language may change.

 The technology may change.

 The political ideology may change.

 But the underlying temptation remains:

 **Who deserves to exist?**

 That question should terrify us.

 Because the moment a society decides that some human beings are fundamentally expendable, every vulnerable person becomes dependent upon whoever holds the power to make that judgment.

 The answer must be different.

 Human dignity cannot depend upon intelligence.

 It cannot depend upon wealth.

 It cannot depend upon productivity.

 It cannot depend upon race.

 It cannot depend upon nationality.

 It cannot depend upon physical ability.

 It cannot depend upon political usefulness.

 It cannot depend upon whether someone is wanted by the powerful.

 **A human being has value because a human being is a human being.**

 That principle has to survive every technological revolution.

 Especially the ones that give us unprecedented power over life itself.

 ## What We Call Progress

 We need to ask uncomfortable questions about the word “progress.”

 Progress toward what?

 More consumption?

 More control?

 More surveillance?

 More efficiency?

 More profit?

 More technological power?

 Or more human flourishing?

 A machine can become more efficient while a human life becomes more miserable.

 An economy can grow while families collapse.

 A society can become richer while people become lonelier.

 A technology can become more powerful while our ability to control its consequences becomes weaker.

 That is not necessarily progress.

 Progress should mean that more people have the opportunity to live meaningful lives.

 To love.

 To raise children.

 To create.

 To worship—or not worship—according to conscience.

 To work with dignity.

 To participate in their communities.

 To disagree without fearing one another.

 To grow old without being discarded.

 To die without being forgotten.

 That is a civilization worth building.

 ## The Vampirism We Must End

 Perhaps “vampirism” is a useful word— because we need not to imagine monsters hiding among us, but because they are actually there running the machinery of our lives.  Civilians who are honest, strong, capable and stand against evil must make the world again while taking hold of the current machinery.

 A system becomes vampiric when it continually extracts life without restoring life.
When the leaders are abusing, murdering, eating, and killing human people and human body parts.  The children, women, the elderly, the men, and the family.

 When attention is harvested endlessly.

 When addiction becomes profitable.

 When loneliness becomes monetized.

 When human beings are valued primarily for what they produce.

 When workers are treated as disposable.

 When communities are hollowed out for short-term gain.

 When fear becomes a business.

 When outrage becomes entertainment.

 When suffering becomes content.

 When war becomes profitable enough that peace becomes inconvenient.

 When children are exposed to markets before they have developed the wisdom to understand what those markets want from them.

 A healthy society should not merely ask:

 **“What can we extract?”**

 It should ask:

 **“What can we restore?”**

 Can we restore families?

 Can we restore neighborhoods?

 Can we restore trust?

 Can we restore meaning?

 Can we restore dignity to work?

 Can we restore beauty to public life?

 Can we restore the possibility of forgiveness?

 That is how we defeat the vampirism of our own systems.

 We stop feeding the machine with human beings.

 ## Ending the Worship of Death

 And if we want to use spiritual language, then let us be precise.

 We do not need to hunt imaginary enemies.

 We need to confront the principle that makes human life expendable.

 Call that principle Satan.

 Call it evil.

 Call it the adversarial spirit.

 Call it dehumanization.

 Call it the worship of power.

 The name matters less than the fruit.

 Where there is deliberate cruelty, we should oppose it.

 Where there is exploitation, we should oppose it.

 Where there is murder, we should oppose it.

 Where children are harmed, we should protect them.

 Where people are enslaved, we should liberate them.

 Where people are dehumanized, we should restore their dignity.

 And where we discover those things within ourselves, our institutions, or our communities, we must have the courage to confront them there too.

 We cannot defeat evil by becoming cruel ourselves.

Stop Being Cruel

 We cannot defeat hatred by learning to hate better.

Stop Being a Hater

 We cannot create peace by humiliating everyone who disagrees with us.

Stop Being Deaf

 **The means become part of the world we create.**

Stop Being Alone on an Island in the Sea.
– ‘We are Land Animals not Sea Crocodiles.’  -Bubbi’s quote.

 ## Empathy and Accountability

 Empathy does not mean excusing evil.

 It means remembering that human beings are complicated.

 We can we blame someone for being violent without quelling the violence in ourselves.

 We can understand our own trauma while traumatizing others.
-Hurt People Hurt People.-

 We can understand the history behind hatred without accepting hatred as inevitable.

 And we can hold someone accountable without declaring that they are beyond redemption.

 Justice says:

 **What happened matters.**

 Empathy says:

 **Your humanity still matters.**

 Wisdom says:

 **Now what do we do about it?**

 We need all three.

 ## Reciprocity

 If we want peace, we must practice reciprocity.

 Protect the innocent on our side—and theirs.

 Defend religious freedom for ourselves—and for those whose religion we don’t understand.  When conflict arises.  Go through and manage conflict on an individual basis with education, support, analysis, logic, and counseling.

 Demand transparency from our governments as appropriate for effective civil governance.   Put an end to De-Facto corporate governance.

 Condemn atrocities committed by our enemies—and atrocities committed by our allies first.

 Protect children regardless of their nationality.

 Prosecute those who harm children wherever they are or wherever they run.

 Respect civilians regardless of their political identity.

 Give dignity to immigrants without requiring citizens to abandon their own culture.

The whole beauty in our nation is that we have people from everywhere in the world living in peace and happiness where we can live learn share and be part of a global community.

Don’t ever let anyone take that from you.

 Defend our own traditions without declaring everyone else’s traditions inferior.

 This is what moral consistency looks like.

 It is uncomfortable.

 Good.

 Morality should sometimes be uncomfortable.

 ## We Don’t Need to Destroy Ourselves

 We don’t need another revolution built on hatred.

 We need renewal.

 We don’t need to burn everything down.

 We need to repair what can be repaired, replace what must be replaced, and preserve what is genuinely good.

 We don’t need collective guilt.

 We need individual and institutional responsibility.

 We don’t need self-hatred.

 We need repentance.

 Real repentance does not take away it gives.