Searching For A Messiah.

Friends, the image above symbolizes most of the human race. In it, we have one person on a stage addressing hundreds of thousands of persons. They hang upon his every word as if he possessed all knowledge, had all the answers, will change their lives, lift them out of mediocrity, take them to the Promised Land. They applaud, shout, stamp their feet in adoration.

For ten thousand years humans have been doing exactly the same thing: blindly following this person or that: a king, a czar, a religious guru, a pope, an emperor, a president. It’s as if the thought of them being equal to those who they follow never occurred to them. Even when someone as ridiculous as George Bush comes along, what happens? He gets re-elected for another four long years.

The bottom line is that we are all humans. We all have brains. We all have intelligence. We are all capable of thinking for ourselves. Unless we have handicaps, we can all make our own way through life without having to follow anyone, without having to conform to whatever script we are handed.

It’s time to debunk the idea that we need messiahs, that we need politicians, that we need corporations, that we need religious institutions, that we need armies, that we need wars, that we need a profit-based health system, that we need schools with strict, sterile curriculums, that we need a job, that promotion is good, that we can only retire when we’re old and frail, that a car is a status symbol, that a mansion shows we’re better than most others, that we must be loyal to our country and be willing to die for it.

We need to wipe the slate clean. We need to change ourselves then bring up our children differently, teach them to be independent, to question, to have faith in themselves, to seek broad options for their lives, to view all messiahs with suspicion, to see themselves as part of a natural cycle, as mortal, to view themselves as unique but also as part of a worldwide human family which must care for the planet to ensure survival.

If we achieved this then we wouldn’t need messiahs. We, each one of us, could help to set up a world which was for everyone rather than a wealthy few, one that was peaceful, caring, compassionate.

While we seek messiahs we achieve the status of sheep and, like them, we can be easily herded and manipulated.

This can’t happen to humans who think for themselves, that bow to no one.

Down with all messiahs! Become a thinker.

Become free.