I’ve been a liberal, progressive Democrat my entire life but I’ve got to tell you: Poor people are not poor because rich people are rich. The very well intended motive to redistribute the wealth and resources of the rich to the needy poor is the one of the most chronic and futile strategies for producing collective happiness in the history of mankind. Note: IT HAS NEVER WORKED. It has never worked because it is based on a false premise and strategies based on false premises can never work and until we overcome the denial around this, masses of humanity will never overcome the malaise of poverty and scarcity. As with every other quality of experience, wealth and abundance is based on a state of consciousness. It is impossible to have an experience that does not associate with and express the state of consciousness from which it emerges. Here is the key: you cannot “redistribute a state of consciousness” to those who do not already own it and who have not already built it. A very apt analogy can be applied here. Other than wealth, abundance, and financial well-being, what other prized qualities of human experience might we want to “redistribute” to those who suffer from their lack? How about musical talent, physical fitness, emotional intelligence, or artistic genius? How unfortunate that the great mass of humanity does not possess the musical prowess of Beethoven, Bach, Gershwin, Miles Davis, or any musical genius you could name. Surely, this is a great tragedy of human experience, the great lack of musical resource and expression that most humans lack in comparison to the great musical adepts of the ages. One might be tempted to think “let’s balance this unfortunate inequity of human experience and expression. Let’s redistribute the musical talent, expertise, and wherewithal of those humans who possess such qualities in great quantity to those musically needy humans who could benefit in so many ways from their acquisition”. Immediately, the absurdity of such a strategy becomes apparent. Great musicians, for reasons and practices, sacrifices and applications known only to them, have built up the necessary quality of consciousness that associates with and then expresses great musical capacity. Personally, having been born without any apparent musical aptitude, I have spent the rest of my life not doing anything about it (except coveting the prowess of those who I admire who have built up their expertise over a lifetime of hard work). Thus, I do not have the consciousness of a great musician and cannot expect to experience and express that wonderful quality at this stage of my existence. How much I would like to have the musical aptitude of my favorite musicians “redistributed” down to me. Those rotten, greedy musical geniuses I love so much who have so ravenously cornered the market on the apparently limited resource of musical talent at my expense! How dearly I would love to have a little Sting, a little Dave Matthews, a little Peter Gabriel, and a little Bruce Springsteen redistributed my way. These gluttonous musical scoundrels have unfairly accumulated and hoarded so much of the limited resource of musical talent that I have been made to suffer and go without my entire life. Any fair, just, and compassionate society would rightly make it a top priority to enact a series of taxes, laws, and conditions that would resolve this grievous inequity. Obviously, when it comes to musicianship, my scarcity of talent and lack of aptitude is because a very small percentage of a favored and overly fortunate special class of humans have wrested control of the vast majority of it and are selfishly controlling it with the intention of passing down this precious resource to their own progeny. I am a poor musician because a small number of rich musicians are hoarding the talent, the aptitude, and the wealth of great musicianship at my expense. Not true. An entirely false premise. The great talent of extraordinary musicians cannot be redistributed to me. Even if they wanted to give it away directly to me, it would not work. “By right of consciousness” applies here. The only way I get to share in the joy, the pleasure, the experience, the expression of musical abundance is if I build up that quality of consciousness within my own self. No one else can do this for me. Not Jesus, not Buddha, not Karl Mark, Not Andrew Carnegie, not F.D.R., not Obama, and certainly not the Federal Government. Qualities of consciousness cannot be redistributed, they must be built up over an extended period of time, with diligence, patience, intention, and sacrifice (of previously held limiting states of consciousness). The motive to take from the financial “haves” and redistribute it to the “financial have-nots” represents the highest motive of altruistic and compassionate mankind, yet it is notoriously and eternally futile, for it is based on the false premise of a redistribution of a state of consciousness, the consciousness of abundance, financial health, and fiscal well-being. As noble as the motive is, as it is built on a false premise, all efforts made to enact change based on it will only serve to deepen the problem it was intended to resolve. Mankind is addicted to this “redistribution of resource” consciousness and like any addict, will keep trying the insane and dysfunctional strategy to produce happiness over and over and over again without effecting any change whatsoever. Until we, as a race, as a species, as a society, overcome this denial of the nature of consciousness and how it really works, any attempts to redistribute wealth will necessarily fail. Redistribution of wealth is not only built on the false premise of transmitting the consciousness of financial well-being to those who do not yet possess it, it is also built on the false premise of a limited and restricted supply of abundance that results in a very small percentage of humanity hoarding the goods while the vast majority of humans have to go without because there’s only “so much good to go around”. The real and authentic solution to the worldly dilemma of inequity of resource is the overcoming and replacing of these false premises, supplanted them with premises bases on Truth. Until we overcome this denial, we are consigned to the societal equivalent of the addict’s insanity: We will continue to do what doesn’t work, has never worked, and will never work, over and over again, with nothing changing at all.
Posted on: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 20:37:01 +0000
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