Regarding Againstness

“The time has come to break out of past patterns. Attempts to maintain social and ecological stability through old approaches to development and environmental protection will increase instability.  Security must be sought through change.  This Commission has noted a number of actions that must be taken to reduce risks to survival and to put future development on paths that are sustainable.  Yet we are aware that such a reorientation on a continuing basis is simply beyond the reach of present decision-making structures and institutional arrangements, both national and international.”1
—World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED)
This conclusion from the WCED’s 1987 report to the U.N. warned the General Assembly that there were many imbalances that needed to be corrected to have a sustainable future, indeed, “to keep options open for future generations.”  In response to the Commission’s sobering report, the 1989 U.N.’s General Assembly mandated the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio do Janeiro, which brought together the world’s leaders for the week-long U.N. Conference on Environment and Development.  But, despite the dire warnings that we have only a limited time to make sweeping changes on how we go about life on the planet, what changed after that conference?  Other than the creation of a good book, AGENDA 21, not much happened.
It’s kind of puzzling that, later in its report, the WCED called upon the government leaders for a solution, since they had already concluded that political solutions would not work, that national and international decision-making structures were incapable of making the necessary changes to secure our future.  The intrinsic problem with government in the everyone-for-themselves system is that the whole system revolves around partisanism and againstness.   The truth is that there are just too many fractional interests involved for existing governments to have much effectiveness.
I think that those of us who would like to transform the planet would agree that we need a new paradigm.  But, with the challenges facing our planet, especially the environmental imbalances, we no longer have the luxury of acting out of againstness towards the government and towards the money/power brokers.  Also, with the Systems Theory telling us that all things are interconnected, we cannot really change what must be changed by simply rallying against one or a couple of issues.
There are so many challenges and problems the planet faces that we would use up all our time and energy being against this or that, and still the planet will have moved a little closer to ecological disaster.  Do I support what those crusaders, who go against the status quo by seeking to expose the harm being done to our planet, are doing?  Yes, I do, because they are getting some truth out there.  Do I want to get involved with my time and energy?  No, because againstness will not produce the new paradigm that is needed, and our form of government will never operate on the level of the Highest Good For All Life.
The new paradigm can only be created by a group of people who absolutely hold the consciousness of the Highest Good For All and have the vision to bring that into manifestation.  People need to see that there is another way, that we don’t have to continue doing the separation that has bred this everyone-for-themselves approach that has been in place unquestioned for thousands of years.  People need to see a Community of people who adopt a way of living together and relating together in Community on the principle of the Highest Good.  When people see the quality of life and the ecological balance that is possible, they will also want to learn the consciousness and the form it takes to do that, and this is what will ultimately transform the planet.   And the transformation of the planet will happen more quickly because we will not be using up our life-force in againstness.  We need to act out of acceptance, loving, and forgiveness.  Againstness will only breed more againstness.  Let’s just stop playing that game—especially since there is a far better option.