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Peter Theis offers us another version of “A Peaceful Solution” in his own unique style. He displays a strong commitment to the purpose of arriving at a peaceful resolution and participating in a peaceful revolution.
Part of this commitment shows in his willingness to work from a place that acknowledges the degree to which we have all been manipulated. Peter Theis invites us to discover this in our own exploration of education rather than just telling us how it is from an authoritarian viewpoint.
For many people, learning about how even our thinking has been controlled by those who would be our masters leads to an infuriated frustration erupting in violent retribution. Notice how such a rebellion produces conditions ripe for those who would be our masters to invoke the need for increased oppression.
If this becomes our only resort then we fall into the same patterns that produced our current disastrous situation. This indicates the need to look beyond the current social relations and power structures to apprehend the mindset that created the apparent inevitability of such conditions in the first place.
To take this exercise seriously is to discover that we ourselves often harbor exactly the mindset that produced our current snafu. It is only by discovering and resolving our personal destructive, hateful and violent mindsets that true peace will be allowed to grow.
Today We The People of the United States have worked ourselves into a state that even Orwell and Huxley did not envision. Routine analysis of personal body fluids are now commonly accepted privacy invasions unimagined by even the most grim of past futurists.
The totalitarian governments we were warned about in the past were pale and simple things compared to the complex interlocking controls now in place. And yet we still individually each retain the power to wake up and take control of our own lives.
We can choose peace.
By choosing peace in all things,, on all paths, in any event we disarm those who would control us. By arriving at this peaceful resolution we prepare ourselves to reject violent means regardless of how expedient they seem at the time. By joining the peaceful revolution we secure our future even as we witness the failure of the plans of those who choose conflict.
By choosing peace we can save America.
By saving America in this way we also save the world, we save every existing life form, and we save the environments that create positive conditions for our survival and growth.
Peter Theis offers some excellent advice and clues about where to look for answers. He provides this with no expectations and as freely as he shares his music. If you can honor this open effort to make a positive difference then you owe it to yourself to become as completely informed as possible.
And if you have the time, check out his band, Los Topes (Speed Bumps).
* * * * * Artist’s Statement * * * * *
What I feel we need to do in order to make our world a peaceful place to live is to FIRST, recognize we are all being manipulated and controlled; SECOND, inform ourselves and dialog with others; THIRD, organize toward making healthy positive actions that are focused on the SOURCES of the problems, not the symptoms.
If you doubt we are all being manipulated and controlled, or you just don’t know where to begin to inform yourself, or you are informed and want to learn more, I have some links I highly recommend looking into. First, if you have not read John Taylor Gatto’s book “The Underground History of American Education,” I highly recommend it. You can read it for free here:
http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/chapters/index.htm
That book shows how supremely wealthy and powerful people like the Rockefellers and Morgans and Rothschilds, etc, put more money into education than governments did! Why? So that they could program people to not think critically and to quickly respond to authority — sit fixed in your desk, don’t speak unless you raise your hand, listen to the teacher who, like a general speaking to his soldiers, tells you what and how to think and believe.
Then, when you get out in the work world, the same process is repeated, and when you come home after work, you’ve got the TV to continue the programming. Not to mention how the “web” of the internet is watching us all like Orwell’s “Big Brother.” So, if you haven’t read Orwell’s book “1984″ or Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World,” or you haven’t read them recently, read them again. And again.
Second, I would recommend looking at the information on these websites:
freedocumentaries.org
democracynow.org
infowars.org
zcommunications.org/zmag
Like Paulo Freire talked about in his book “Pedagogy Of The Oppressed,” perhaps the most effective way to generate peace in our world is through DIALOG. When we are watching TV our brains are at essentially the same wavelengths as when we are sleeping — we are in a subconscious state — and therefore, literally, we are being programmed.
Watch people who watch TV, they look hypnotized because they ARE hypnotized. This is not any kind of dialog at all, this is a monologue. So, in order for us to really see and understand what’s going on, we have to look each other in the eyes and talk about what really matters with open minds and hearts.
Turn off the TV and start talking with each other. And always listen, never assume, question everything, and look for the most healthy ways of being.
Once are well informed and begin to dialog, we can then act move beyond the divisions that are conquering us so that we can unite and activate our creative imaginations toward creating a peaceful world.
We have all we need to achieve these things and more.
Peace!
Peter Theis
