Occupy Yourself

Occupy Wall Street is pretty big in the news lately, although the protests sound like they are winding down.  I can't say I ever expected them to accomplish much by camping and playing drums but I do fully support the sentiment. 

We're at a point where we can't change government through voting, and we seem to be helpless slaves to our banking system and Wall Street.  I really wouldn't mind seeing some sort of revolution.  We really do need something to change.

But the bottom line is our government and our country is so corrupt that I don't think there is anything we can do on a large scale.  Government may be corrupt, but it can't be corrupt without a country of easily corruptible people.  The most glaring weakness of any democracy is that of it's own citizens. 

 I read this article about OWS recently and I fully agree with the author:  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dylan-ratigan/this-thanksgiving-occupy-_b_1110246.html

 If you want anything to change at all you have to change yourself.  That is all you can do.

 While considering the subject of revolution tonight I remembered that all throughout the gospels people wanted Christ to be a violent revolutionary, and one to overthrow his own corrupt government.  However Christ always refused.  Vast sweeping changes to corrupt systems  were not his thing.  He chose to change the world through self-sacrifice; by literally changing himself through the transformation of crucifixion; by forsaking his corrupt physical form and revealing his true spiritual form.

Widespread changes to broken systems was never a desire for Christ.  Why should we even entertain the thought of it now?  The world we live in is too far gone and too corrupt.

 Like Christ says: "Whoever has come to know the world has discovered a carcass, and whoever has discovered a carcass, of that person the world is not worthy."