Newmininalists are watching developments inside CHOP.
Many people around the world are keen to "get on the bus to CHOP"[see photo].
The new nation state of CHOP seems to have come from nowhere, right? But. Actually it is the 2020 result of a work-in-progress social change that has proceeded largely unchecked over the past 25 years. At present, the freedom bus has stopped to form a Ground Zero society, known as CHOP, inside a few downtown blocks of Seattle. This is an exciting time for those who have driven this culture change relentlessly through government, corporate, families, education, media, social networks, etc.
In June of 2020, the small nation of CHOP has established Ground Zero for those who seek to replace a civilisation that many believe has failed to bestow freedom on all. These folks seem to have discovered the truth about Western Civilisation as we have lived it over the past 50 years. That truth is the Elites who run Western Civilisation are incompetent, corrupt, cowards, bullies, empty souls, and unable to maintain even a semblance of civility. Western Civilisation began to crumble the moment that words became weapons of hate and fear rather than neutral instruments of civil conversation. Dystopian divisions have weakened the institutions of Western Civilisation. And this fact led the freedom bus to the streets of CHOP.
What will the freedom fighters who parked the bus, for the moment, in the streets of CHOP make of their opportunity to create a new civilisation and mode of civility. The model for leadership, economic sustainability, diversity, inclusion, and social contract is currently being worked out on the streets of CHOP. And as one might expect this is a very fluid process.
In my youth I recall being on "a freedom bus" that sought to deliver land rights to Australian Aborigines. The leaders of this movement set up an Aboriginal Embassy on lawn in front of Parliament House. There we sat around nightlong campfires, singing songs until we finally succumbed to sleep. The movement leaders used the parliamentary office of a friend as their communications hub. They held regular press conferences. They organised street marches. They negotiated with Australian Government officials. They spent every waking moment highlighting the plight for Aborigines in the northern reaches of the continent and the urgent need that land rights be ceded to them so they could retain their cultural heritage. Eventually. Some land rights provisions were granted to tribal entities in specific regions of Australia. And that saw this version of the freedom bus move on. Today a new version of that freedom bus continues to roll through Australia.
Perhaps CHOP is Ground Zero for all those who have ridden on their version of the freedom bus around the world. What will the leaders of CHOP deliver to the world? Can the freedom fighters in CHOP deliver a Boston Tea Party type revolution to America and then the world? I do not know because I am not on the CHOP bus: however, I do understand why these people are trying to reform a system that is currently ruled by Elites who are incompetent, corrupt, cowards, and self-centred.
I can not find it in my heart to cheer for CHOP [as I did for the Aboriginal Embassy] but equally I can not cheer for the Elites of Western Civilisation.
Richard.
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