Energy and the Oppression Therein

I do believe that we are standing in the dawn of great changes, though it is questionable as to how many of those great changes will actually be born of new governmental policies brought about by President Obama. I commend President Obama for his understanding that indeed we must act swiftly. I commend President Obama for his acknowledgement that we have a government in dire need of restructuring and/or restoration. President Obama indeed has his work cut out for him and just as our government didn’t go awry overnight, it will not be repaired overnight, though we haven’t the time for these changes to take years to materialize. I commend President Obama for his recognition that great strides must be taken to shift to cleaner energy for our environment, economy, and future, though I feel that the way he plans to approach this will be ineffective in liberating the people or insuring them a more secure future.

You see, we the people are still slaves and our enslavement, our oppression, has everything to do with our individual energy dependencies. Until President Obama addresses our energy crisis on this level, any and all new policies will only cause us to be paying for a cleaner energy and liberation will not be the experience of the individuals who played such a crucial role in President Obama’s being elected into office. Enslavement is no longer the carried plight of the African-American, it is the current plight of nearly every man, woman and child on this planet. Though it is most sacred to me to be feeling the liberation of the African-American with the election of President Obama, it is now more evident than ever that we are all still “equally” enslaved by our individual energy needs and provisions thereof. Though it is sacred to me to be feeling the resentments of the African-American melt away as President Obama took his oath of office, we can now be unified in the resentment of our personal energy dependencies and the oppression of having to pay an energy provider for that which we cannot survive without. It is my conviction that this is the standard MOST in need of change.

It is my personal belief and conviction that the only powers that would truly deem us all “equal” are the ones naturally occurring. We are only “equal” when standing in the sun, the wind, and the rain. These are the energies that are “equally” affecting us all. These are the only powers that have no regard of our creeds, our ages, our incomes, our residencies, or our personal histories. The wind stifles itself not for anyone, the sun light dims for no one, torrential rain cares not of one’s rank in society. So now I am caused to ask, why then do we not give proper recognition of this common fact? Why are we not recognizing these natural forces as the powers that cannot be denied us? Tell me who has the ability to alienate us from the sunshine, the wind, the rain, or any naturally occurring force, for that matter. Tell me who has the authority to denounce us the right to harvest and make use of any naturally occurring energy source. There is no one having such authority and yet we are still oppressed for having energy dependencies that are met by immoral providers. This fact, common to each of us, only bears the truth that each of us is indeed our own worst enemy. Each of us have been such good little cows in the herd of our nation, our homestead. We have gone precisely where we have been led. We have become the herd looking to be cared for by our cowboy called Mr. President. And now our cowboy, President Obama, has spoken to us of the crisis we have found ourselves in for the misguidance of cowboys before him. Indeed we are stirring for hearing such truth spoken but stirring is not nearly enough for our cowboy needs our help. In order to help we must recognize our hooves for the hands that they are and lend them to the activity of saving ourselves so that our cowboy can make the necessary repairs in the operations of our homestead.