Lost in my notes but not in my memory is a footnote I remember about a Roman politician who seems to have been the first communist.  He was murdered for his idea.  But, even before him a Greek political leader as I recall seemed to have used the peasantry as a support group for his rise to power. 

 

In the first instance, the Roman politician was murdered so nothing came of his idea.  In the Greek instance, the support gained by that leader worked but not beyond his lifetime. 

 

Rome was a Republic early in its history, but Julius Caesar single-handedly set in motion events that would kill rule by the people for the rest of Roman history. 

 

Not until some British nobles decided to reduce the power of their king with the Magna Carta did a political concept or theory stick long enough to filter down to the common people by shear universality of meaning and implication. 

 

The Magna Carta was no doubt the model for the creation of a more explicit document defining the individual as paramount.  The world’s most powerful statement of free will and empowerment of ordinary human beings is codified and etched into a legal frame work by the words… all men are created equal with a right to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness… found in the American Declaration of Independence.  Again this document was created by a power elite in America’s case a landed gentry with their kind (read class) in mind.  It is not clear that the signers all understood and realized how deep this would eventually cut.  The Declaration of Independence was the creation of Thomas Jefferson with some help from Benjamin Franklin.  So we can be assured that Jefferson KNEW exactly what he was doing even if the full implications of the long term interpretation of empowering the common man was far from the minds of the majority of signers.  Nevertheless, it got signed and it became the basis for a nation of free people attempting to live with each other under a code of law that recognized the common man had rights.  Though in the beginning and even now to a great extent the rich and powerful get the greatest benefit from this document it still helps little people if they can organize enough overall support from the population as a whole.

 

The drive to empower the common man has been well established in the West.  It is a predominantly Anglo/Saxon (from the point of view of implementation) notion and for a long time even in the face of the universality of the language an uneasy hypocrisy lived within the White American heart held in place by racism.  But, the conscience of a people was eventually swayed by purist thinkers who could not live with a convenient lie.  If all men were created equal thought the Abolitionist then ALL men included people of color.

 

France almost joined the American Revolution.  The Gallic people did entertain room for the common man to have power over his destiny, but, Napoleon went down the path of Julius Caesar, oddly enough though, in the French mind and heart there was always – Liberty, Equality, Fraternity.  It is amazing how man can live with himself making allowances for hypocrisy.

 

But the drive to give power to the people kept finding a champion.  Karl Marx’s misguided attempt to establish a revolution of the proletariat did find a place on the geopolitical stage and something that was supposed to look like Communism found a home in Russia.  Sadly it had its own hypocrisy and of the two systems that were suppose to give power to the people Democracy found itself having the world vote for it with their feet.  The Evil Empire had to use more and more draconian methods to prevent itself from falling apart of its own inability to convince with prosperity and dynamic internal individual enterprise.  Its oppressive crushing of the human spirit just could not stand the test of time and comparison.

The success or failure of the movements themselves is not what was important.  What was important is that the world is gradually waking up to the fact the individual has rights and those rights need to be respected.  Throughout my work on these pages you will find one very important point that I try to stress.  The point is this – if we as human beings, homosapiens if you wish to be more precise can maintain a continuity of consciousness long enough and keep expanding our ability to communicate broadly and worldwide we will eventually realize that we can live together as Earthmen and Earthwomen first and foremost.  It will gradually dawn on us as a specie that the same engine that runs a white man runs a blackman.  If we are cut we all bleed.  If we are shot through the heart we all die.  We love.  We hate.  We eat.  We drink.  The only real difference between us is the body type and style and that is only on the surface.  Go below that surface and we find a thinking, feeling and for the most part lovable human being.

 

The long and the short of it is that it is Everybody’s world.  It is a fragile world.  It is our space ship.  It is our living room.  It is our home.  We need to realize that it is destructible.  We need to realize that WE can destroy it.  Not just destroy an enemy’s ability to fight back if we aggress against them.  Now we can destroy this planet in a way that it is not habitable by homosapiens or any kind of mammal for millions of years, if ever again.  And in this moment of time there are two powerful forces that are being wheeled by man that can end life as we know it on earth. 

 

Nuclear warfare!  Pollution!

 

It is going to take a conscious worldwide effort to prevent both. 

 

There is one other way Earth civilization as we know it can end, in the short run IT is beyond our control. 

 

Collision by an asteroid or sizable space debris.  But should we get to be a Type One Earth society even THAT could become something we can prevent.

 

For those who have not encountered Russian Astrophysicist Kardashev’s civilization typing theory it goes like this:  Type 0 is the beginning of the homosapien ability to think logically and create technology.  Kardashev correlated his theory to the ability to generate energy, but, for my purposes I am only interested in the idea that you can grade mankind’s ability to act rationally…i.e.… in a civilized manner from 0 to say 10. 

 

Well, going from Type 0 to Type I is probably the hardest evolutionary progression.  Man’s ability to destroy his enemies with more and more powerful technology gets accelerated to a fever pitch during war.  Mankind will always get to the point of creating a doomsday weapon and use it without thinking through to the end how that weapon will affect the user.  Yes, you can do a whiz-bang job of annihilating an enemy, but, you are almost certain to annihilate yourself also in the process.  That is where we are now.  Nuclear weaponry, biologicals which no one can be sure won’t get out of control and a very nasty nanotechnological weapon that can turn Earth into an inert gray mass through a chain reaction mechanism that can’t be stopped once started.  For those of you who read Chapter 1 of Seeds of Heaven you know that the abuse of Crystal power ended the Atlantean world as well as their mortal enemy Thule and in the process ended civilized life on the planet worldwide.

 

Let Seeds of Heaven be a wake up call!

 

This is everybody’s world.  The American civil war ended slavery.  Women marched for suffrage and eventually got the vote.  World War I effectively put an end to monarchy.  World War II ended despotism in a way.  The world today is in the hands of the man on the street, the common man, in ways that it never was before at any time in recorded history.