Is it childish to want change?

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You could be forgiven for thinking this Faith is an amalgam of personal idiosyncrasies, Indian philosophy and Greek myths, combined with a Marxist view of Capitalism and a splash of anarchy. It is that, and it is much more. The Faith of Eleima wants to change the world.

I realise that changing the world is not an easy thing to achieve. I’m often told you can’t change society, let alone all societies the world over. With this, it is meant that you can’t change the way millions of people think. I’m also told it’s pointless to want to resist technology, because you can’t stop progress either. This is what I hear about most things, that they cannot be changed or resisted, and either way, resistance is futile. To think otherwise is childish, or so some people will have you believe. However, I posit that we can change society, and that, in fact, we should.

These days, it’s plain to see that society has spun way out of control, human industries are destroying the planet we all depend upon. So then, why would it be childish to try to change the world? The world is in desperate need of change. Besides, it’s not so much ‘the world’ that needs to change, what merely needs to change is thinking of humans as some kind of extraordinary non-animals. While we’re at it, I say, let’s get at the root of the problem, and let’s change the way of thinking about property and money as though they’re more real than our interactions with the world of Gods and Demons. We can do that, because, as people, we can do anything.

And then, when you think about it, aren’t we all constantly trying to change our worlds around us anyway? We try to change our world by buying new clothes, so that we will become more attractive. We read books and watch films, so that we may learn, and we expect this knowledge to change us into better human beings. Travelling the world, learning new skills, training our bodies. Even when we don’t explicitly announce we are trying to change the world, all of us are constantly trying to modify ourselves, and through modifying ourselves, we are trying to change our surroundings. We want the world we live in to change, and the world is always changing, like it or not. So why would it be childish to notice that the transformation we see around us is the wrong kind of change, and, instead, we ought to strive for another kind of change?

It’s clear that there’s nothing childish about wanting to change this world. It’s just that we’re discouraged from seeing the bigger picture. We are led to believe that we are helpless in the bigger scheme of things. Even though as consumers and workers we are exploited on a daily basis, what we’re actually told is that as people we don’t matter. But it’s simply not true. We matter, each of us matters. Everything we do matters.

The world is changing all around us. This is because society is changing. We ourselves are changing. Instead of feeling helpless, we should embrace change, just not the kind of change that’s presented to us, the kind of change that’s evil and furthers violence. We should strive for meaningful change, we should strive for changing in a way that is pleasing to both body and mind.

What we need to do is to take an honest look at the way we treat our fellow living beings, both human and non-human. We need to re-think what the good life consists of, because all of us want to live the good life. To this end, we need a new tool, and that tool comes with finding a new language for organising our private lives as well as our societies. When we learn to see that people are living in a greater world than the world of shiny, happy goods, then we can leave our belief in the benefits of the material world behind and learn to enjoy the benefits of the invisible world.

There’s still time for change, we’re still free to adapt our needs to what constitutes true welfare. As a society, we need to put our freedom to good use. The pursuit of freedom is evil if it’s used to take liberty away from others, no society should have laws that take necessary freedoms away from the innocent, even if it’s in the name of some greater good. No country may be free to wage war on another country. No political party should be free to deny entire sections of the population the freedom to pursue a meaningful life anywhere they please. Also, there are limitations to the acquisition of wealth. One person’s wealth may not cause another person’s poverty. No one should act in a way that harms others, and no one should try to profit of that. The profiteers are as much in the wrong as those who wish to profit of the profiteers.

All people strive for a good life for themselves and for their families. Of necessity, this pursuit is greedy, but this kind of greed is not wrong, as long as it doesn’t destroy the land we all depend upon. Currently, the land we depend upon is in the process of being destroyed, same as the seas that have brought us life. Human greed is causing us to act in ways that are conflicting with our well-being, so we need to become less greedy.

The way out of our predicament is to treat all that lives and all that is as equal. It’s easy to do that, once you see that all that is comes from a Godhead that has an interest in us realising this. Then it’s easy to see that we live our lives in co-dependance with the other living beings, just as we need to seek harmony with the things we call inanimate but that in reality sustain life. When you keep that in mind, you change your daily surroundings and you change the world. You change the consciousness of a Godhead.

So, we’re often told it is childish to want to change society, or to resist progress. What this means is that we’re often told things that aren’t true. We need to act, and we need to achieve meaningful change in our own lives. If each of us achieves meaningful change in their own lifetime, then society will change too, and that is exactly what we need. Change is now.