Let your higher self guide you
and you will be able to move past resolution.


Sun 1.1.2012


In Europe they are called Les Indignes (with an accent aigu on the last E, so it's stressed.) We, on the other hand are, The Protesters, i.e., don't do that, that's not fair. To be an indigne, from the word dignity, or indignity, is something quite foreign to this country. Are citizens possessed of dignity? Hardly, people who protest in this country are in for a hard time. They are labeled, dirty, immature, lazy, spongers, crazies, criminals, fornicators, rapists, animals, cretins, welfare chiselers. These are but a few of the well chosen labels hurled at protesters. Here in NY, forbidden to have toilet facilities in Zucotti Park, they were also called urinators and deficators, and for that reason were ordered to decamp.

Do the people deserve dignity? Actually it is the first thing stripped from the individual should that person choose to address the public polity, i.e., the police, the courts, the medical community, the schools, governmental agencies, and increasingly the private sector, (notice how corporations take your money and spit in your face now? And they openly cheat you.) This stripping is sometimes done in a brutal and shocking manner, but more often, it is accomplished by dehumanizing, mind numbing protocols that serve to humiliate and deflate anyone who dares to demand their indubitable human rights as living beings on this planet.

Take the case of Dominique Strauss Kahn, which I wrote about recently. What captured my attention was how the man of power was stripped of all dignity and treated by the press (more about this later) like something that crawled out from under a rock. What? He's rich, he doesn't deserve special treatment? We all deserve special treatment. Dominique didn't get it because, as it's become increasingly clear, a cabal of Sarkosy forces set him up. Someone was more powerful than him, thus checkmating any surety of protection for him. He was handed to the New York Police who took great pleasure in humiliating him, as they would any of us, but more so with this inviolable man.

Our culture is saturated with this commonizing trait. Let not one of us aspire to grace, to decorum, to human dignity. Check the air waves and see how individuals are portrayed as fools, or worse. The press, or what is now commonly (pun intended) labeled "the mainstream media," is the true police of our country. Nothing is printed or broadcast that is not in one way or another meant to manipulate and control citizens. This is done by the strict assignment of dignity to those who the powers that be indicate as pliant, i.e., willing to go along with the program. One can understand how so many people feel threatened by the Occupy movement. Should these movements come to power it could mean a loss of dignity, especially for the working class who toil 24/7 to keep head above water. It would mean the system that accords them a sliver of dignity for their never-ending task would prove to be false thus exposing the truth of their victimization, the horror of their lives. Does the guy swinging from the back of a garbage truck want to hear how badly he's been cheated? The only real revolution that ever took place, when people woke up, was the French revolution, and it wasn't a pretty sight.

I leave you with this one question, Is it your true self you present to society? Or do you go along, tell them what they've been programmed to hear? Perhaps you say, Oh well, it's too much trouble; this person wouldn't understand; I just want to get this over with; I don't want to make a scene; etc., etc., and you don't share your particular truth. You might be ridiculed . . . and lose dignity, so you live the whole of your life without anyone ever knowing who you truly are, or how you feel.

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Current favorite this past month has been Wake Up II