Multiple generations have now long subscribed to doctrines scripted to advocate strategies of affirmation which claim to teach desperate followers how to manifest wealth, abundance and self-esteem.
All with a strong focus on Me.
Three notable contributors include best selling author Louise Hay’s “You Can Heal Your Life” (1976), and the ‘transformation’ teachings of Werner Hans Erhard, and the movie The Secret (2006) prescribed the montras of ‘I am valuable just as I am,’ ‘I love myself,’ or ‘I deserve all that I desire.
Me. Me. Me.
These teachings while claiming to make one feel good, they can be detrimental to the global concern if they are devoid of consciousness, responsibility, and moral choice. Those who accept like sentiments negate the veritable difficulties and concerns of life.
Consequently, they run the risk of becoming disenfranchised, vulnerable, unconscious, to the rest of humanity.
In American culture it is safe to say many are of a mindset our communities, the nation and the world are comprised of the ‘haves’ and the ‘have nots.
We are struggling on the battlefield between the values of self-responsibility and the values of entitlement. The aforementioned calls for freedom, and freedom has never been free.
It requires genuine vigilance and effort. It occupies that space of unselfish concern and acting despite our fear.
If we abdicate self-responsibility, we will become silent observers of our lives. We relinquish personal authority and are then enslaved to merely follow.
It’s time to turn Me into We.
For me, there is no me without you, and none are free, until all are free.
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