Always In Motion

MAP

Are there ways to work collectively, to come together as much bigger units to create change?

You do now.  You call them elections.

But that doesn’t seem to create much change, just more of the same.

Sticking power is what you want then.  That is a different matter. 

Okay then, how do we get our collective action to stick then?

By changing the way you think about change and the collective.

What do you mean?

You tend to think about change as an all or nothing proposition.  If it doesn’t appear to happen then it didn’t stick.

And so you give up until you try again.

Protests are a form of collective action and you don’t always get the results you want.

There would be no more protests if that happened [ie. get what you want].



Change can be gradual or fast – but change is always in motion.

There is never anything that isn’t changing.

Just because you can’t perceive change doesn’t mean it isn’t happening.

Do you think someone looking at the Grand Canyon 1000 years ago would recognize it today – or believe it could be the same place?



Look instead for what has changed and what is changing.

What you look for you will see.

Recognize nothing is the same so there must be something that has changed – what is it?

It may have gotten worse, but it also could have gotten better.

Did it happen the same way all over?

There may be pockets here and there that have changed the way you wish to see.

Focus on those.  See what worked.

How do you take it to a larger scale?

Discounting those successful parts only serves to extend what you see as wrong or backwards in directions.

Solutions for the problems you seek are out there.  They have happened already.

Your attention will get you more of the same – do you want to let that be the problem or resolution.

Change will happen either way.



As for the collective, return once again to your elections.

These are designed for people to come together only once in a while.  Much goes on in between that needs your attention.

Your systems are designed to only bring you together for short periods of time to weaken your strength together.

They are designed to set you back into your old way of living.  The way before you came together.

There is nothing to support you to change.



Your protests act the same way but you have the opportunity to come together over and over in short times together.

But once you get the change or give up you go back once again to your own way of living, expecting others to carry out for you what you desire.

This is handing over power on a large scale – your power alone and your collectivenesss together.



No wonder you get frustrated with nothing happening.

You expect a few, even a one, to carry out what it took so many multiples of you to accomplish.

Don’t give up your collective power, nor as an individual.  You cannot hand over what you desire and walk away.

It is your responsibility to stay together, stay present and stay active in what you want to accomplish.

Change is a long term commitment  that you must partake in.

Change is not something you do one day and not the next.

The collective will support you and in doing so you support each other – in this way too you will grow.