A New Rattler for the Human Good

America (and the world) needs to think differently and call that newness something else. We have a new snake to catch.

I was reading a Tweet this AM about the forces of corporations, media, government -- the holy trinity of failure or obfuscation. We may also elect to be charitable during harsh times, of course, or become alienated from humanity in spiritual ways … or simply to do as many of us do: have more wine.

But there has to be another option. Another force that is more powerful, overriding, able to cross borders and cultures in a single bound, and that comes together for a different, a unifying purpose. A strength that is not only self-sustaining but well protected by a societal rattle that sounds a warning of wonder to keep us on the right path or that promises to scare away other forces of evil. 

As I was thinking this AM: We need (at a minimum) a name for such a force. And we need to harnesses it collectively to do what needs to be done without someone, anyone (which I can say instead of "something" since corporations are people too!) taking a cut, worrying about their selfish interests, or otherwise controlling and manipulating a key part of that process for their own greed. 

To me, there is a place for the holy trinity within reason: government collect taxes, provide for common defenses (on a limited and smart, peaceable scale) and offer needed services? Ok. Corporations make reasonable profits and pay fairly those who do their work? Sure. The media inform and stimulate debate? Great.

But there is that other thing. What do we call that sense of collective consciousness that activates itself to bring us together and be a guardian "rattler" against the others that seek to slither in and misdirect us all the more? How do we train the former that we want, and learn to avoid the latter, the bad snake of deception and deceit? 

Yep, that’s the something that's missing; that's what we need and need to name. Or so says my post-vacation mind as I jump drive myself out of one desert and into another where the wrong snakes still live?