The Global Movement: Many Uprisings Fighting For The Same Cause

By Liam Fox, News Junkie Post

The current global uprisings are neither ideological nor sectarian in their genesis. Some individuals or isolated groups that articulate their values and principles through the context of particular theologies, or political ideologies, have joined in the uprisings but the uprisings themselves find their roots in a much deeper foundation than religion or organized politics.

This is a movement of individuals whose realities and fundamental needs as human beings have fueled a political event… not individuals who are acting out in furtherance of a political party or the proselytizing of an authoritarian theology. The principles being expressed, defended, claimed, and championed, are the fundamental rights and needs of human beings. These principles can only hope to be expressed through doctrines, constitutions, laws, and political institutions; they are not derived from them.

The nature of these uprisings — from Tunisia to Greece, from Libya to Ireland, and from Egypt to America — is not the product of our attempts to communicate and codify these principles. These uprisings are based on the unadulterated principles themselves. The principles defy the need for articulation. They are intrinsic to our nature.

The most profound ideas are often the most simple. Their purity is unassailable. Equality, emancipation, justice, self-determination, and liberty. While the depth of their nature may be explored by philosophers, they do not require an ideological treatise to convince of their credibility. Intellectualized and litigious political ideologies serve more often to justify the violation of these very simple, yet very profound, principles. It takes a lot of work, and a lot of words, to justify why equality can only be allowed for some, why poverty should be the natural state of the vast majority, and that the sole value of our existence is based on our commodification.

What value we represent to the economy, rather than what value the economy is to us, has become the inversion that the global community is reacting to and endeavoring to correct.

~ more... ~