"The Eye Of The
Universe Isn't
Watching"
from "In Defense of Rural
America"
By Ron Ewart,
President
National Association of Rural
Landowners
and nationally recognized author and
speaker on freedom and property rights issues.
©
Copyright Sunday, November 10, 2013 - All Rights
Reserved
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"All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who
have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark."
Swami Vivekananda, 1863 - 1902, a key figure in the introduction of
Vedanta and Yoga to the western world
In the grand scheme of things, man
is but a very young and successful species on the third
planet from a common star, in a garden-variety galaxy among billions of similar
galaxies, in a Universe, the dimensions of which are not yet fully
known. It is preordained that one day, we as a species will simply
disappear. Earth will be but a burned-out cinder as the Sun writhes in the
death throws of its Red Giant phase, on its way to becoming
a White Dwarf. The Universe won't even take notice of the event,
as the death struggle of stars like our Sun, is a common
occurrence throughout the trillions upon trillions of suns and the billions of
galaxies that are known to inhabit what is visible to our eyes and our
instruments.
The question is, will man hasten his demise by his own hand, long before we reach the Red Giant phase of our dying Sun, some 3 to 4 Billion years from now? It remains to be seen if man can continue his "successful species" status. But no matter what we do to ourselves, the Universe won't shed a single tear.
If one were to project man's
current path into the future, "successful species" may turn into apocryphal
extinction. Irrespective of what Mother Nature can do to us in an instant,
man's only hope of long-term survival is the overwhelming expression of the
great goodness that lies within all of us. That goodness in man overrides
the evil within him best, when he lives under the umbrella of
freedom. That goodness will be the single most important tool in meeting
the challenges we face, both foreign and domestic.
Only one country on Earth has
shown the best in man and what can be accomplished under
the combination of inalienable freedom and our God-given goodness. If
we lose that freedom and the goodness that flourishes under it, we shall surely
descend into the abyss of the evil within us, where greed and avarice are the
rule, rather than the exception. We are dangerously
close.
Some ordinary men, with vision and the wisdom of age and experience
in a time of turmoil and confusion, gathered together on the distant shores of a
new land and laid down a 'blue print' for free men and women with common purpose
and resolve to live out their lives and govern their individual and collective
affairs by adhering to that 'blue print'.
The guidance of that 'blue print', through 160 years of significant
change, allowed a free society to pioneer, grow and prosper into the strongest
nation in all of recorded human history.
In the early 1930's a much heralded shift in the 'blue print' was
made by a not-so-wise group of people, responding to the perceived national
threat of the Great Depression, forever altering that "blue print' to such an
extent it would have filled the hearts and minds of its founders with loathing
and disgust. The alteration was
deceptively simple. Just pervert
the phrase in the U. S. Constitution where it states '........ and promote
the general welfare'. And
promote they did. As anyone with
any vision at all can see, their promotion has brought them decades of
immense power and signaled the beginnings of a drastic erosion of our individual
freedoms and liberty. But we have been warned on
numerous occasions, not only by our Founding Fathers, but so many
more since then who realized the danger of a government abusing its powers and
spinning out of control. Senator Benjamin H. Hill, in March of 1887,
(120 plus years ago) delivered one such warning,
when he addressed the U. S. Senate with these words:
"I have said I do not dread industrial
corporations as instruments of power to destroy this country, because there are
a thousand agencies which can regulate, restrain and control them; but there is
a corporation we may all dread.
That corporation is the federal government. From the aggressions of this
corporation, there can be no safety, if it is allowed to go beyond the
well-defined limits of its powers. I dread nothing so much as the exercise of
un-granted and doubtful powers by the government. It is, in my opinion, the
danger of dangers to the future of this country. Let us be sure to keep it
always within its limits. If this
great, ambitious, ever growing corporation becomes oppressive, who shall check
it? If it becomes too wayward, who
shall control it? If it becomes
unjust, who shall trust it?"
Indeed!
I am but a humble writer who
believes deeply in freedom and liberty ..... a freedom and liberty for the
individual. An individual freedom and liberty that is natural, as
comes from nature, not from governments, a freedom and liberty that was
envisioned by our Founding Fathers and codified into the law of man through our
Declaration of Independence and our Constitution. I believe that when
governments, or groups of people attempt to stifle freedom and liberty, or
remove man from them, man's progress through time is depressed and he retreats
further backwards into depravity, immorality and serfdom. I believe that
freedom and liberty are our strengths not our weakness and if we inhibit
freedom by any means, we as a people become weaker. If we as a people
become weaker, we lose our creative ability, we lose our ingenuity, we lose our
industriousness, we lose our productivity, we lose our can-do spirit, we lose
our pride in our accomplishments, we lose our strength and courage to right a
wrong when we see it, we lose our generosity and finally, we lose our great
goodness. I believe that if the people look to government to
solve their problems and acquiesce to its unauthorized power, they abdicate
their duty and responsibility to control their own lives and hand it
over to a collective. Having done so, they are no longer free men.
And further, their actions encourage the government to usurp even greater
power.
But any
government, even ours, no matter how all-encompassing are its constitutional
safeguards for individual rights, will eventually, on the guise of making a more
perfect society or protect us from ourselves, exert more and more control over
the individual lives of its citizens, if those same citizens abdicate their
right and duty to hold their government to within its constitutional
limits. The increasing and
pervasive nature of that control will arrive slowly, bit by bit, so that it is
hardly noticeable. Each succeeding generation will succumb to wider and
deeper restrictions on their freedoms and will lack the capacity or the will to
resist in any meaningful way.
Perhaps
the "Eye of the Universe" may not be watching what happens on planet
Earth, but we know who is. The rest of the world, whether they admit it or
not, is looking at America to fulfill its promise of freedom, liberty and
goodness and show the way for all other peoples that our 230 plus
year experiment in freedom is still alive and well and is the light and the
beacon for all others to follow. They may say they hate us, but what they
really mean is they envy us and would like to be like us, or have what we
have. Other nationalities are trying desperately to come here. Very
few are trying to leave. Unfortunately, the culture of most
countries is so ingrained in tribalism or socialism, they cannot fathom ever
reaching or touching where we have been and where we can still
go. We can show them the way, unless we lose our heads and our
goodness.
Daniel
Webster admonished us 230 years ago with: "Miracles do not cluster. Hold on to the
Constitution of the United States of America and the Republic for which it
stands -- what has happened once in six thousand years may never happen
again. Hold on to your Constitution, for if the American Constitution
shall fail there will be anarchy throughout the
world."
You may not realize just how
important are these words we write. What America
does will determine the fate of the world. If we
forsake freedom, if we sell our sovereignty for expediency or a few pieces of
silver, if we break the bonds of our Constitution, if we abdicate our right and
duty to defend freedom for ourselves and future generations, we shall descend
into the mediocrity, apathy and self-loathing under which the rest of the world
operates and will be pulled down to their level, never to rise
again.
The few of us who truly care about America and
freedom, cannot hold up its flag by ourselves. All of us that write about what is happening to our country are
the crescendo of change in America. We are being heard and we are changing
minds ..... slowly. If the pens and voices of a thousand conservative
writers go silent, who will be the vanguards of freedom? Who will fill the
gap? If you do not help us, and those that defend freedom, we shall
do as the Greek God Atlas did, when the world became too heavy. He just
shrugged and threw the Earth into the void. We shall surely "shrug" if so
few understand the gravity of our words, or if they do understand, lack the
courage to join with us in the defense of freedom and goodness.
In the end, the Universe will take no
notice. The Universe contains the seeds of intelligent life, but it
doesn't provide instructions on how that intelligent life will, or should
behave. It's all up to us to get it right. But getting it right
remains to be seen, if we have lost our courage to remain free ..... at any
cost.
History has laid out for us the process from
freedom to tyranny. First comes a slow rise in tyranny. Second comes
the knowledge of tyranny. Third comes the resistance to
tyranny. If resistance to tyranny does not result in the return to
freedom, then comes violence against tyranny. This process has played out
so many times in man's rise from the jungle that it is getting very old.
Unfortunately, in the 6,000 years of civilization we have lost what it takes to
survive in the jungle ..... knowledge and raw courage. The Universe
doesn't care one whit that we refuse to gain knowledge, or have lost our raw
courage.
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