Authority adn Responsibility

As I was older, as a teenager, I remember my grandmother sometimes saying, Actually, not until college, that I had no respect for authority. That aws interesting considering my grandfather was a police office ran a higher one at that. It was offensive to hear, as she obviously said it with that purpose, but I didn´t know what was going on then. I never knew that not having a real father figure, -my parents had divorced and he had moved to another state,- but rather a distant one ( i.e,. a grandfather) affected me so much. It  is why I was unable to feel a direct sense of authority and thus my supposed ¨disrespect¨ for authority.

The more fascinating question is, once one understands this, is how does the person without an authority figure feel? How important , how huge is authority in one´s life? And the question can be equally interesting for an individual as well as for a member of society. In fact, the type of authority one has, is the type of society one has. Monarchy, democracy etc. So authority is pretty much that which shapes and sets the tone or the parameters for exchange between individuals, and power issues.And each emmerb has to be clear abotuthe connetion to this authority. Is it direct? Is it indirect? How much interaction is there? How mcuh say does each individual memeber of society have in establishing eh senes of authority?

Living in Mexico during these times, all one can think about is the importance of a sense of authority. You really don´t know where to go, or what to think, without it. At times in Mexico,one feels that peopel run aroudn with out a clear senes of authority. Who will puncihs them onthis? Who will reward them onthat? As in the US, at first , this seemed more clera. yet , as time went on, I realized tha tdeep inthe fabric of society in Mexico, there is a nautrla senes of authorty that comes frm humantiy. I returned ot the belief then, that if poeel can order themselves daily iwthout this Big Briothe tha tthe US has, then they must have oseminternalt,trnasendent, calssic i sppuose senes fo authority. is that a conenciton to a cRetor? is that ther is siome inherent right sto alhumannbebgns? What ar ehtese? the oens i have felt here,m iwtut hte enforcementnecesarioilyof hte rule of las, butinteh dialylives of poeepl,is socvereignty. I fhte ris any valud of authroity thatis fel tinmexico, it si indivudla sovernegty.
 In the midst of all this chaos, for it truly is, I thank God I have been contemplating these issues for some years now. I moved here since 2006 and due to that I believe The core issues of how Mexico was formed as a country and as a part of this continent  (i.e interaction with neighboring nations as we all grew into who we are now. which is still and always will be transformative.) Cleraly, fraternity has been able to develop with other coutnrie sof America not baesdon language, but baed on coomon core vlaues. And basically the sensof authority. It i obvious tha tCanda and hte US espeically inteh five eysee, have never comeptlety become indepent form England, andthus Euroep, thus transforming th eworld lansdcape. Our mcuh greater disconenecitn however,has allowed us to devleop a super rich infracutlure, whiel th eUS has ha dot forego it, thus the fmaous syaig the US hsnoculture. WE obviously do in latinamerinca countires. The price has beehigh. WE hve had ot be under the surveilance of the US, part of the Anglso Saxon eetablcihement.

However , more than the US in fact in stark contrast , Mexico and almost all countries labeled ¨latin¨ have actually somethign muhc more releveatn, in common...native!! Not latin- forget latin- latin is also in the English language. What truly differentiates all countries on this continent is the being native to America.

So the themes of authority comes into play.Who gav eheed to what authority? The answer to that quetsion will help reorganize the Aemricna continet into rleevant circles, or regions. However, the real effect we are llookiing for is to develop andoverall regionalism, in the globe. Thsiithe real movement of the globalization era. Look atheEuropean Union. Look at ASEAN. Look athe Arba League. WE need a cohesive theme to presnet oureslvs in a nbigger, mor e sophistcated, geographic manne rot the world. The US for the pat cenrutires has tried to garner all thelielight of ¨america´. However. that phase is over. It is now time to prsetn the much greter goegraphic relity of AEmrica in order to truly imposeour relaity, thenatv rleity , ont he surface ofthe world. To put our mark on the face ofhte world. it is nonly naturla. Unless, yu still suscrib to five hundred yeraold racism of beign agisnthe nativ american.
 Well, let´s take a quick glance back to hwo thigns were durign the OConquest as it si acalle din Mexico andthe colonization as it si acalle dinthe US. hmmm, well ther ewas a lot fo fighting between the natives adnthe europenas. who was the authority then?

So isnpt trying to continue aan uathoruity tha tis white or Europans in fact a non acknowledgmeent ogf the native core values and sens of authority asnd right? isn´t tah twhy somany ofhtem rebel'

Can we really be the nation US pretnesd to be of all supporting of democracy when they are still doing the oppressive colonizer attitude here they were doing 500 years ago?I mean how many Usa ers , haha inhabiters of America hate Mexicans who ar ethe native peoepl of this land!!! It is crazy that things vn ajsut tryto keep ogin inthis direction, But the fact is, it has tio stop, and not becaus eof some moral thing I have going on , but rather because it just isn´t organic. Freedom must thrive and the biggest takers of freedom are the USA people because they believe there is only freedom in the world for their values and for their way of life. They hate any other way of life and attack it . They did that to the natives and they do that Iraquias and AFghans. The irony of hw they have fredom in their country for öthe rimmigrants¨is funny adnlaughable toanyione who has lived in a ocuntry such as Mexico wehre the racism fctor is so low in comparison the US. To trulymakeit int he US you do have to act white ,e vne if you ar ebalck. so wher is the freedom?Until they correc tht eopriginal premsie her ein America, they willnver ge tit, Until someone gives htem a godo spankign adn they figure otu that n when you move to another country you repsect tha naitv epeoepl, then they will correc ttheir attitude thoward th world. Tehy will value wha they were given bythe nativ sini America. They will value th space nd land. USAser aare soconsidered spoiled an some seem to almso ttake pride intheis characteisitc. It is a confusing point becasu ethey thignkthey have moeny , and tha tis why they ar epoiled. No spoiled means you ahveno class. YOu do´t knwo how to handle what has beeng iven so you take more and you don´t aprpeicate. That attitud eosis one hardly any other peoplE on the planet have. You can come to MexicO and a ten year old here will kNow the price of a liter of milk.

Sports

Athletes. yes some people get intimidated by hearing that but the reality is, athletes do what we do as babies. Try to functionalize their bodies. So , whatever other´s try to put on it, its the politics of it, or the strength of it (which as Nietzche describes, in Christian societies is looked down upon, one should meek). the fundamentals fo athelticism are natural and heatly and good. It is I repeat, what we do as babaies. WE push limits. WE ssek to put forht our little grain of imoritance , becasue it seems necesary to learn to walk, to et to talk. So striviing is not a bad thing. -it does not take away from otheres. That is when the concept of zero sum game comes into place.
What is zero sum game theory? The basis of it is how we perceive our universe. Or more specifically our natural world. Do we think things will get used up and so we have to hurry and get some? Soemhow we oftentimes conceive th tther is enough for all. So what is the difference between making sure we push the limit to acheive a certain physical abilty and functionality, in the world, and when is it greed?
Athletes are peopel whose premise is that they must focus in order to achieve a physical finish in the material world. Entreing into this zone, garnering the movement. Then bringing the movement into a reality taht menas something to other people. That is often elegant and magical. Combine that to mean that a point is a win. Then we can get into what winning means and what does it mean within a zero sum game framework and one that is not.....Everything is a game. It is how we perceive the boundaries of the game. is it a set? or a match? is it a tournament or one game? This comes into play in the real discussion of politics and human behavior.
Why is maing a poin timportnat? poiunts are like money, they really don´t mean anything except they mean eveyrhtig, htey mean you made it. With whatever you have within you. But that magic behind that, that is what we are as human beings. WE are always going for a win. Or maybe we are just playing recreationally. But we are ever present, ever measuring ourselves, according to a win. It´s something competitive and magical . an dit happens in nature.
And it has to do with Beauty.
EArnign your bread and butter is not enough inthti slife. It´s liek it seems like htat. It seems liek acording to the US and how it had promoted to the whole world its ability to ffed its peoepl, give jobs etc. we realize that there is soemthign lacking...beuty. Real lasting beuaty no t superifdcuial ephemerla one which isn´t actually such, it is ugliness.
Howver societies who for the sake of bauety and cultre don´t allwo for the openness necessary forll to feed htemselves for all to be educated, then that is wehre the concept of inverse beauty comes in.
This concept was taught by Christ. Make the ugly beautiful.
However we cannot End on that note. nature doesn´ty endont ha note,. it ends competigive, functinal adn beatuiful ( as in lasting). in fact, the nature of the Christian movement is to connect, to transition, to change. So in and of itself it si not amovemetn tha tEnds. It is aprallelmovement to movements tha tdo End, such as Judaic and Muslim revelations. Their basis in prophethood and God as separtae from man crete clera realtionships adn circles which allow for clear finishes. In Christianity, the vaguenss fothe concept of mand and God create confusion and thuis end on the famou note of irraionality . Thus, it si infintie and unable to finish. It is meant to inspire but not to settle. It is meant to push but not to finish. In Christianity, one is always waiting, waiting for a finish. Waiting for a return , for a judgement. Because humans cannot live as Christ said to only, without ever judigng and aways turning the other cheek. However, the lessons are very important .
So what is the necsarry lessons we must learn to create a society with these two qualities. We must identify the belief systems that created these soceities. We are doing that now as we speak as a humanity. Egypt is appraising its system and how it functions vis a vis the world. So is the US. MExico is constnatly udneroging this battle as it si a colony of Euroopands on new land called AEMricad htose peoepl freom America are trying to integrate quickly their beleif systems into the world order.
Nonetheles, the absolute imporsition onAmerica of European values is our of control. WE msut return to the point of interaction adn salvage some of hte native beleif systems. Why? Becasue ti s the right thing to do. Becasuethe arrognce with which teh Europeans came is no longer par tof the premise we ened to live wiht onthis continet or on any other. we have discussed European influence on India by seeignhow Ghandi spoke out agiasnt the British there, -we have seen how weoppose apartheid in AFirca . Andyet we have to still discuss the tnire American contintet.

tHE pREMISE

In logic,, you learn if A+B=C then, B-C=A. The point is that a premise does weird thigns. It dictates the following behavior. It is sort of like DNA or like a code. You must revise that premise if you wnat a different resutl. Oftenitmes peopel lose sight of what their original premise was- Sometiemes that is good , sometimes that is bad. Rememebring everything at all times is not always productive. Yet when things get out of contro, such as they are now in the world all over, it is imperative to review premises of each country.
So what are the premises necessary to analyze? Through recognition of various factors, such as greed, such as hypocrisy in foreign policies, or internal turmoil, we must ask, whatever it is we as humans are moving toward now, was it the same then? (When the premise was created) . For example, was it the same in the beginning days of the coloinal period in the US or the beginning days of the Conquest period in Mexico=== Were the mentalities of the governments aimed in order to have a globalized, getting along, co-existent world? Or was it about securing Things, getting things, advancing concepts, dominating in order to suceed? The practice of coexistence is a new one. We should admit that - To begin that is the most important thing. WE can no longer lie to ourselves , such as those in the US who wan to go back to a stage in history tha tnever existed or those in mexico who wan tot return to an era of peace th tnever existed. I say it isnot about going back,l Yes it is time to review! I agree whole-heartedly, b ut only to have the courage to move ahead then. Withthe ideas of the youth.
An excellent article on the premise of Europe in the World is well outlined in this article of arabnews.com titled, Europe threatening the world again. For this writer to make these analysis, he used history to undertand wht coould possibly happen now. Tha tis waht we all need tobe doing. And we need to shuffle up ourt history with the perspective foa few other societies. Particularly societeis that have been oppressed by Europeans. It is obvious tha tnow is the time to reveiw all thtat was oppresssed and let it flourish . That means some Euiropan values will have to be tamed. Teh greed, teh attitude that as long as you produce you can enslave peoepl, all those ideas tha go agianst the current trne dof liberty, the ablity to make onwp´s own, and equality.
Those ideas are better addressed, (yes! they are addressed) by oppressed cultures. They hAve had timE to reflect on the need for liberty in a way the oppressors, i.e. europeans have not. So we should listen to them at this time for solutions. Looking to Europe is ridiculous. It´s Stockholm syndormy and that is weird.
Just to think of how Latin America has gone through so many peridos od conscintization over liberty fromo colonization. This is somethign teh US has never gone through excpet a thebeginning inthe Independence stages. yet becasue of teh mixture fo indigenous and Europan in Latin America, teh libertyof the indigenous has been a fight all along. Teh US sort of cut titself off fromthsi process thinkign gettigin ahead woudl be easier this way. Yes, They did get ahewad easier wihtout the natives. however, today should´t the countires who didn´t kill off the natives and tried atleast abit to conserve their philosophies, sprotualites, adn mreo iomportnatly their lives, the lives thay had devleoped fro centuries prior to the arrival of Euirope to America? Should´t that battel speak for itlsef? And isn´t it itme now in this day of globalizatioin and wha tnot, adn searching formore world order, tha we integrate, FINAKKY, the poiint of view fo the American continet to the world theatre?
Believe me, after this we will not have the problem of the ugley american and we will not live anymroe wiht the fear of the US military constant intervention to the livelihhood of otheres. WE willlern to share resources, to give and take adn to not repress others becasue otheir color or their belifes. We msut ask oursleves why di we repress peoepl for their beliefs and why dop we accept ah tsystem inteh wordl today still? thsi si s addep and loaded question but it has to be put out there: BEcasue we live wiht hte hypocrisy of beign pro ethinic sutff, of visitng little ethnic touwns in mexico but do white peoepl reallyw ant to see cahnge of the overll system?
I think the youbg ones do. I htink it isnice to give and we woudl rather be on an equal leverl iwht other human beings than trying to dominate and take fvromthem and keep them in miserebale cicrumstnace sby being domnant.