#EVOLVE: A Political Autopsy

Everywhere these days you see the hash tag or protest sign saying #RESIST

The political elite are like the Borg saying, "Resistance is futile, you shall be assimilated"

I have been thinking about the evolution of human kind and have based much of my novel I am writing on this concept. From Buddhists, theosophists, occult teachers and channeled entities (such as Seth and Abraham/Hicks) we are told resisting is to be avoided and (as the Rosicrucians have said) "Where your thought is, there you are. For you are your consciousness and what you meditate upon you become."

I have been a political activist most my life but more and more as I age my spiritual values and beliefs have been hitting up against my political activism. I wish to be "for" something rather than "against" something. At times it is a razor edge I walk. I have been thinking instead of a #RESIST Movement I would like to start an #EVOLVE Movement. I have been thinking of the phrase "Knowledge is Power." I look around and see our government unfunding education and pushing science to the wayside. It disturbs me.

In history, especially in the 20th century, control was furthered by keeping the populace ignorant. Anti-intellectualism has always been an effective political tool. From Hitler to the Khmer Rouge and beyond tyrants, fascists and authoritarians have hated intellectuals. Our current president seems to have the same propensity.

"Wherever books are burned, human beings are destined to be burned too." - German-Jewish poet, Heinrich Heine

"Our country would be put in order, as soon as all the intellectuals who were meddling in the region were expelled" Argentina

"The youth-oriented Nazi movement had always attracted a sizable following among right-leaning university students. Even back in the 1920s they sensed Nazism might be the wave of the future. They joined the National Socialist German Students' League, put on swastika armbands and harassed any anti-Nazi teachers." - The History Place Nazi Germany 1933 to 1939

But there may be hope! Here are some quotes that show our world and youth are evolving in my mind.

"In the late ’60s and ’70s, amid left-wing militancy and racial strife, a liberal era ended. Today, amid left-wing militancy and racial strife, a liberal era is only just beginning."

The Atlantic January-February 2016 Issue

"Trump’s election may represent the resistance of those who fear this left-leaning future, but it won’t change that future from coming to pass."

Wired Magazine December 19th, 2016

"A report from the Pew Research Center finds a wide partisan gap between highly educated and non-highly-educated Americans. Not only that, but the share of college grads and post-graduates who are "consistently liberal" has grown sharply in the last 20 years."

NPR April 30th, 2016

"People growing up in the 1940s and 1950s ... were raised in a broad culture that was way more conservative than people coming of age in the 1960s and beyond. And with each passing generation, our culture, collectively, has become more and more accepting of ideas that, many years ago, had negative connotations."

Christian Science Monitor May 28, 2015

“Not a huge surprise that the highly educated would be in the vanguard of this. Those with more education have for many decades shown more consistency in their ideological views: they’re better positioned to figure out exactly where they stand in relation to the parties, and expected to take stances that line up. It’s also not a surprise that the movement in recent decades among the highly educated has been toward ideological consistency on the left. The evidence shows it does seem to make people somewhat more cosmopolitan, more comfortable with social diversity, more tolerant of social difference.”

Neil L. Gross, the Charles A. Dana Professor of Sociology at Colby College

"Highly educated adults – particularly those who have attended graduate school – are far more likely than those with less education to take predominantly liberal positions across a range of political values. And these differences have increased over the past two decades."

PEW Research Center April 26, 2016

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