Co-Equal/Collegial Interactive Governance the True Government of the Founders of the USA

Last time we spoke about Hierarchal Governance and how it rules over people not rules through people.  To understand that we are not saying that a hierarchal government in not ran by people.  The difference is that through people means that people are communicating equally the needs of all it’s people and representing them all in a equal plane.  This is the style of Government that the founders of the United States of America first initiated when they revolted against the Crown of England (a form of hierarchal govt).

They didn’t have a fancy name for the style of government they started but they communicated well with each representative of each state and all agreed by creating a Declaration of Independence and a constitution by which all men in these States were going to live by and treat each other.  Via this document we can see that these men were God fearing men who knew that ALL men were created equal in the eyes of God, and that God had given them freedom to the pursuit of life, liberty and happiness.  This country was to provide an atmosphere that would encourage hard work, sound morals and respect for their fellow man.

Co-equal/Collegial Govt has an ultimate leader but this leader makes no moves on his own to promote any group over the other.  He is merely a representative of the people who oversees the decisions that would affect the protection and promotion of the individual States and their populace.  This is why they left each state to govern themselves.  Each State was to collect taxes of interstate commerce so each State could operate and in turn help to fund its military or State Militia.

A Co-equal/Collegial Government was never designed to be a Hierarchal Government, it was designed as an alternative to that which man has lived under for millennia which always led to oppression and aggression toward the people in whom it governed no matter if it was a Monarchy, Imperialistic, or Socialistic.  Co-equal Governance was created to insure peoples basic rights to their religious beliefs, along with peace, prosperity and the pursuit of happiness.

It was just that as our, meaning the United States of America, grew, the men who were appointed to leadership after our founding were unable to grasp the true concept of a Co-equal/Collegial government and therefore were at a loss on how to continue in a Government that was truly based on the peoples need for the freedom of the pursuit life, liberty and happiness, and equal justice.  So they modified the style of Government to fit what they felt would help with the increase of the populace, a modified Hierarchal government.  This is what we are living under today and it will progress into the control by one man or group of men over the rest leading to oppression of the masses with limited liberties, just like it has always done.

Now the question that begs to be answered is, can we return to the original Co-equal/Collegial Interactive Government that the founders had established before the 1830’s?

One of the problems as I see it was the establishment of a Central Bank.  In 1781 just two months after the Colonies won their Independence from England, Alexander Hamilton among the others in the Continental Congress chartered the first bank for the Independent Colonies, the Bank of the United States.  When ever you centralize your money you will begin to have a breakdown in any Governance other than Hierarchal, because Banks promote and depend on having control over the borrower because of the loan in which they issue.  This banking system is hierarchal by nature and would not allow for the free pursuit of religion, liberty, justice and prosperity.  Banks are designed to enslave not promote prosperity.  The Colonial Congress did have an Idea though that would keep control over the banks ability to enslave the people who borrowed, however that idea was lost to time past and to those original founders as the banking systems of the world quickly saw the profit in investment in America.

The solution to the United states of America’s current situation is multi-fold but functional.

1) Stop allowing the banks to run our country.  2) Return taxation, education, welfare, health care to the individual States with their contribution to the central govt of 10% of their States tax revenues. 3) Each State maintains their own state guard.

The Federal Govt maintains 1) active military for protecting boarders, 2) Immigration and Intl customs, 3) maintaining the safety of our embassies, 4) maintenance of peace treaties. 5) the Federal Govt levee taxes on Intl commerce and trade.  But each State levees taxes on Inter-State commerce and receives part of the federal taxes from Intl Trade.

Each State has equal representation of the people in those states in the congress and the senate for distribution of Intl levee and the protection of personal rights and liberty provided under the constitution, and bill of rights, and all the amendments added thereof.

WE need to be a people united on common goals of the pursuit of life, liberty and happiness.  Co-equal in our communication and representation with one another no matter what race, religion, gender, age and or handicap.

Let’s return to the true form of Government for the people and by the people based on the pursuit of life, liberty and happiness.  With the ethics and morals of hard work, self and mutual respect, family centered and peace among men.

Selfie Communication Is Not Co-equal or Collegial

Today we see the era of the “Selfie”.  Most know that a selfie is a picture one takes of themselves and posts online in their facebook or other social media web sites.

But what are people communicating via the selfie?

There are a few things we can gather from the selfie that may help you to improve your communication of your self image.  Self image is what you think of yourself.  And in today’s self conscious generation the selfie has become the biggest outlet of egotistical individualism I have seen in my life time.

Why has this come about?

Well is has come about via a few social educational venues.  1) From the educational system pushing the Esteem yourself agenda from K through College. 2) reinforced by the all avenues of mass media, and 3) The natural inclination of self centeredness of man as an individual.  All three of these have displaced the communal care for one another and replaced it with the care for one self above all else.  This is a root in poor communication because a self centered person is one who is hierarchal in their style of communication rather than Collegial or Co-equal.  Whole of society for 40 years has been switched from Collegial interaction to Individual introspection, where one feels and thinks of ones self above all others.

The selfie is taken from different directions because the individual is concerned about how they look in the eyes of those around them.  They are seeking positive attention from all directions everything is self centered in its motive.  In a world that sought to enlighten them to self esteem the whole experiment failed.  The seek your own direction, define who you are, and be yourself Esteeming program of the Neo-educational program failed to produce well adjusted and collegial interactive individuals but created a whole generation of misguided self centered people who have little or no true self esteem.

The communication they engendered in ourselves, our brothers and sisters and in our children was not one of equality and fairness but one of self centered, self promoting and self caring.  The hierarchal relationship is reinforced in this type of education process brought through our schools and mass media.  It was part of the social experiment to take away freedom and truth and replace it with the submission and control.  I am not saying it was purposely done, I think the intellectuals have thought themselves better at choosing what was good for us and in the end created a monster they can no longer control.  And it all has to do with true open, honest and free communication that we no longer possess in our world today.

In order for anyone to over come these erred engineered social education is to reach out and Esteem others better than yourself, learn to communicate openly and honestly without fear, and be willing to go the next step in that communication and develop it and educate others.  The selfie generation has many lonely individuals, who know not what to do or how to communicate properly in a world that is fast approaching self destruction.  If I care more about what others think of my looks or my personality then I am part of the selfie generation.  I am not against one personal hygiene or neatness of appearance, those things are very important in relationships, I am saying that if you care more about what others think or say your fears are misplaced and you leave yourself open to harm and not help.

The selfie is the reflection of a society that no longer cares about others but only about ones self.  Solomon said, Favor is deceitful, and beauty is vain: we can learn from such words.  To look to men for their favor, respect or even self for esteem it is deceptive.  And remember that our outward beauty is only for a short time and it is empty in the end and holds nothing for us.  It is the inside man that makes the difference it is the development of the inner persons beauty, the heart, that matters more than any outward appearance.  You must have a strong self opinion or you will seek it from someone else and they are not after your best interest but their own.  This gives them hierarchal leadership over you when you seek what others think of your look or attitude.  You must look within and have some sort of guideline as to what is good and acceptable morals of self image.  The self image starts in the heart and projects itself outward not the other way around.  If you have a strong inner self not based on outward appearance then you are strong enough to develop co-equal relationships with others.

Selfies communicate self centered hierarchy and lacks the collegial communication that is necessary in developing co-equal relationships with people.  Co-equal Collegial Communicative Relationships are where successes begins, without them failure and self destruction await more often than not.  Set aside the erred teaching of your past and grasp the true and open freedom you were meant to experience in Co-equal Collegial Relationships.  It all starts with learning to communicate Honestly and openly without fear.  Learning to communicate will develop a co-equal relationship with others and lead to success in almost every area of your life, including self.

Solutions Are Never Simple No Matter How Simple They Sound

Since my last blog entitled “Where has all the power gone” a few of you have written and asked what my solution is for our current Governmental Problems? 

I want you all to understand I don’t have all the answers, but I have for the last 6 years been contemplating deeply with  prayer and insight as to what kind of solution is needed for our country to get back into a position that it is self sufficient and independent.  And at every corner of thought, two main themes keeps coming into the equation. Clear and concise bi-directional Communication, and self responsibility also equal to personal self governing in the family and local community.  It is truly the basis of the original governmental process that was established by our nations founders and that is Collegial Interactive Leadership.

It is not as simple as just laying out road map, though basically that is what it is.  First we must establish a nationwide address, it must be made by a sincere person willing to do what is right for all the citizenry of our great country.  And for all the people to hear and agree to do their part on a personal level.  An open communication via all levels of society is what is needed to first get the ball rolling, that is the essence of Collegial Interactive Leadership.  This clear and concise communication is the first steps in rolling out the road map for this countries future. 

But it must start with involving all the people on many levels of society.  Today ee see people dividing themselves into factions, groups, ethnic races and gender, while these may seem good for those individual groups, it is what divides not unifies.  The founders of this nation knew that if we are divided we will fail to be a country.  And right now that is what is happening to this country, a divisive element has been injected by a biased media and corrupt individuals in a direction that is meant to hurt and not truly help this country.   No, what is needed in this country is not a divisive course but a unifying course.  

Do we truly believes that all Men are Created equal and that each man has been given naturally endued rights to pursue personal  Peace, Liberty and Prosperity?

If so we have a unifying course already existing for which we can start.  We must unify not divide, for it is in unity we will find true liberty, peace and prosperity in all levels of our country.  The first rule of unity is to be of the same mind.  This comes by first opening the lines of bi-directional communicative dialog from the bottom up and from the top down known as Collegial Interactive Teamwork.  Where the people present their desires and Ideas, then the leadership appointed by the vote can act in accordance to the needs of the whole community as a Nation on both a State and Federal level.  

This method represents all people ad not just in the interest of selfish few, big business or banks.  Tthough these entities are made up of people that work in these industries, it is not entity that runs our country, it is the people that are to run it.   The establishment of this nations was a government by the people and for the people and it has not been that way for some time now.  When the people are taken out of the equation of their government then the government is not for the people or by the people.  It will be for the self interest of a few in the government.  In this manner the people only suffer, being used to further a minority of peoples interests and not of the majority of the people.  This is how far we have fallen from the tenants of this Nation it is no longer a nations for the people by the people but a nation of the few for the few.

But when was the last time this nation was ran by the people and for the people?

At best, the last time that was so was before 1888.  that is when the fullness of self governing was taken away, via media push and the intellectuals of that day.  these few thought they knew what was best for the nation, and they convinced us to give up those rights and we turned all self governing over to a centralized federal government that we are currently under.  We had set a course that has proven to lead to the destruction of this Nation and not for its success.

First Step is that self governing must be reestablished in the personal  and family structures.  Then upward into the levels of society and local governments followed by the State and then the central Federal government.  What is amazingly simple takes the most work yet the mechanism to self governing is already in place. 

Getting away for the personal and family structures of self governing and accountability for the moment, I want to look at what is in place and what the problem is with that at the moment.

What we have in place at the moment is a singular central government over all people that we basically establishment since 1880’s, but without consideration at that times was our population numbers both within and by immigration has increased drastically and that individual life spans increased dramatically as well.  This in itself caused the already overburdened central federal Government to be inefficient to handle the increased work load no matter how many people are employed.  It has just spread itself to thin to be effective in governing.  The federal government establishing all rule over such a large populous becomes ineffective because it cannot effectively communicate with and to the people on a local level, and so laws are passed over all without regard for the greater populace.

Again the problem is our federal government is to large to effectively handle the job of Governing equally all men.  However the solution is in place that has been there since the beginning.  Now, I know this may sound extremely simplistic. But after all solutions may seem simplistic but often are not.  The whole solution lay before us and it is, the employed offices and buildings are there, the whole mechanism for getting this nation back on track is already in place.  We just need to have the fortitude to see it through over a necessary period of time.

So here it is, and I will try to state it simplistically as possible, it is from this simplistic point a more complex course can be initiated. 

If the problem is too large a central government then the Idea is to make it smaller.  Remember that a smaller operation is far easier to maintain and leads to more effective governing.  The idea is this, return or turnover  a certain amount of the over burdensome offices that are currently in place to each State.  I.e. welfare and social services, interstate commerce, Unemployment and disability services, Medical insurance, the IRS (with each States commitment to 10% of taxes given to the federal government for its operations), and all public lands not including heritage locations and Native Aboriginal Indian reservations.  These are just a few. 

But basically we would be limiting the federal Government to protection of our overall union from foreign attack, protection and security of our borders, International Customs and Immigration, our over seas interests i.e. embassies and foreign offices,  Interstate Highway Maintenance programs and EPA standards to cover all States, but all of it would be contingent only in agreement with the States appointed leaders via Senate and Congress.  But not limited to these.

We just got too reliant on a central government to handle all these needs, that we ignored the fact that our central government is now spread too thin and can no longer handle the burden that we have placed on it.  That being Government rules and we follow.   That is the very Hierarchy Leadership we rejected in the British Monarchy in 1776, and we have now allowed to be established in our overall central federal government since the 1880’s. 

We have effectively taken away the people from the equation of a government for the people, by the people.  I am not talking about people being employed to carry out the actions of these offices, I am speaking of how effectively we have eliminated the power of the people in its government.  We must return to a modified early governmental structure that was in place until the 1880’s, a Collegial Interactive Government where all were involved, where all are accountable, and where all are heard and treated equally without regards for race, gender, creed, and class.

I know this sounds overtly simplistic but it is not.  Over all this will be a process that takes time as we design the details for transaction of government powers from one to the other.  What we need to recognize that all the pieces are in place, we need only to divide the burden evenly to each State so our federal Government can focus on what it was originally created for protecting us from foreign and domestic threat and attack that would want to do harm to the Union of the States.  And some added power to protect lands with in the States that are to be preserved for all to enjoy. 

An Collegial Interactive Government is the only means that will stabilize our nation and allow for all to prosper personally as individuals and collectively as a Nation.