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Now then onward with our discussion of government

We ended the previous installment from CWG Book 2, at the bottom of page 138, with God seeming a little put out that we called ourselves a “great society” when so many of us experience no such thing, when greatness is reserved for those well-born, or well-place, or exceptionally gifted, while the sick, the infirm, the elderly and the children, those with no voice speaking for them make do with so little.

Neale responds: “You make things sound pretty bad. Yet America has done more for the underprivileged and the unfortunate – both here and abroad – than any other nation on earth.”

God responds: “America has done much, that is observably true. Yet do you know that a percentage of gross national product, the Unites States provides proportionally less for foreign aid than many much smaller countries?”

gene inserts: This is from testimony in Congress in 2004. “U.S. Foreign Aid in Comparison to Other Developed Countries —According to the most recent (2001) foreign aid figures from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the United States ranks 22nd in the world as a giver of foreign aid as a percentage of Gross National Product (GNP). The U.S. level is about one-tenth of one percent of GNP, which is about one-fourth of the average effort of developed countries. In absolute amount of foreign aid, the United States ranks first for 2001, after ranking second to Japan for several previous years.” I cannot imagine we have improved our ranking since then given the almost 1.7 Trillion dollars we have squandered bombing Iraq into a fundamentalist Islamic state

“The point is that, before you allow yourself to become too self-congratulatory, perhaps you should look at the world around you. For if this is the best your world can do for the less fortunate, you all have much to learn.
You live in a wasteful, decadent society. You’ve built into virtually everything you make what your engineers called “planned obsolescence.” Cars cost three times as much and last a third as long. Clothes fall apart after the tenth wearing. You put chemicals in your food so they can stay on the shelf longer, even it if means your stay on the planet is shorter. You support, encourage, and enable sports teams to pay obscene salaries for ridiculous efforts,

(gene inserts: 1997, this book was written in 1997)

while teachers, ministers, (gene wonders in blue, if it is a coincidence that minister and sinister are so similar to each other?) and researchers fighting to find a cure for the diseases which kill you go begging for money. You throw away more food each day in your nation’s supermarkets, restaurants, and homes than it would take to feed half the world.
Yet this is not an indictment, merely an observation (gene observes again in blue, hell, yes it is an indictment, or it is for ME). And not of the United States alone, for the attitudes that sicken the heart are epidemic around the world.
The underprivileged everywhere must grovel and scrimp to merely stay alive, while the few in power protect and increase great hoards of cash, lie on sheets of silk, and each morning twist bathroom fixtures of gold. And as emaciated children of ribs and skin die in the arms of weeping mothers, their country’s “leaders” engage in political corruptions which keep donated food stuffs from reach the starving masses.
No one seems to have the power to alter these conditions, yet the truth is, power is not the problem. No one seems to have the will.
And thus it will always be so, so long as no one sees another’s plight as his own.”

Neale: “Well, why don’t we?” How can we see the atrocities daily and allow them to continue?

God: “Because you do not care. It is a lack of caring. The entire planet faces a crisis of consciousness. You must decide whether you simply care for each other.”

Neale: “It seems such a pathetic question to have to ask. Why can’t we love the members of our family?”

God: “You do love the members of your own family. You simply have a very limited view of who your family members are.
You do not consider yourself part of the human family, and so the problems of the human family are not your own.”
Neale: “How can the peoples of the Earth change their world view?”

God: “That depends on what you want to change it to.”

Neale: “How can we eliminate more of the pain, more of the suffering?”

God: “By eliminating all separations between you. By constructing a new model of the world. By holding it within the framework of a new idea.“

Neale: “Which is?”

God: “Which is going to be a radical departure from the present world view.
Presently, you see the world – we’re speaking geopolitically now – as a collection of nation-states, each sovereign, separate and independent of each other.
The internal problems of these independent nation states are, by and large, not considered the problems of the group as a whole – unless and until they affect the group as a whole (or the most powerful members of that group).
The group as a whole reacts to the conditions and problems of individual states based on the vested interests of the larger group. If no one in the larger group has anything to lose, conditions in an individual state could go to hell, and no one would much care.
Thousands can starve to death each year, hundreds can die in civil war, despots can pillage the countryside, dictators and their armed thugs can rape, plunder, and murder, regimes can strip the people of basic human rights – and the rest of the world will do nothing. It is, you say, an “internal problem.”
But, when your interests are threatened there, when your investments, your security, your quality of life is on the line, you rally your nation, and try to rally your world behind you, and rush in where angels fear to tread.
You then tell the Big Lie – claiming you are doing what you are doing for humanitarian reasons, to help the oppressed peoples of the world, when the truth is, you are simply protecting your own interests.
The proof of this is what where you do not have interests, you do not have concern.”

Neale: “The world’s political machinery operates on self-interest. What else is new?”

God:”Something will have to be new if you wish your world to change. You must begin to see someone else’s interests as your own. This will happen only when you reconstruct your global reality and govern yourselves accordingly.”

Neale: “Are you talking about a one-world government?”

God: “I am.”

We’ll come back to this topic. It is, I believe, inevitable. I do not think there is a way we can continue for much longer to pretend that the invisible little lines we draw on maps matter. I do not think we can continue to pretend that 197 individual states, or whatever the number is up to now, can do whatever they want within their own boundaries to OUR family. I have been saying, and posting, and writing for years, that we MUST expand our definition of family. We do not, most of us, intentionally harm our family, but we define family as siblings, parents, aunts, uncles, cousins – blood and blood by marriage relatives alone. We have to go much farther than that. Do you begin to understand why I chose the name for this website that I did? THAT is the answer. We are one people, living on one world, and we ARE the family of man. Period. We do not blow up our mothers as they have afternoon tea at a restaurant. We do not walk into our children’s school with a bomb strapped to our chest and kill as many of them, and ourselves, as we possibly can. We do not do these things to our family. And all of humanity IS our family. THAT is the view we must take, will eventually, inevitably come to.

There are many ways to do this. One such is to enact a true world government, an elected body with representation from all parts of the globe, with no part of the globe being more important than another. We could base this on the American system of government with a tripartite system consisting of three equal, but separate, branches – legislative, judicial and executive. The system could be based on a parliamentary form of representation, but containing the same elements. Two houses of legislative authority, one based on population – so building consensus will be paramount, and one based as is our Senate of two persons from each country to ensure that the small are not dominated by the powerful. It CAN be done. And eventually, it will be.

What has been has not worked, does not work and will not work for much longer. A new way of thinking must take precedence and all people of this planet must be provided for equally. It is only fair, we all share the same bright blue ball of light and love that God gave us as our home. We need only learn a bit more about how to share it with each other more fairly than we have managed to do so far. And we need the WILL to do this. We aren’t quite there yet. But we will be. There is a new generation of leaders coming who will see the wisdom in what God proposes in Book 2. They aren’t in power yet, but they will be, and the world will be the better for it, and we will come to a time when we will make war no more.

I’ve got a LOT to say about this, giggle. And I’m going to say it here. I’m going to share this stage with Neale Donald Walsch and God – I am happy to have both at my table, may it always be so. But I would welcome Osama bin Laden to this discussion as well, Vladimir Putin and Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton. It is time for statespeople to become in truth what they are in name. So, I’m going to leave this bit for now. I’m not sure I’ll come back to this idea for a bit. I have some other things I want to talk about too from Book 1 yet, and a lot more from Book 2. So, sit with me, read, argue if you wish, or not. As always, much love, :^) gene

If today brings even one choice your way
choose to be a bringer of the light :^) gene