There is a storm brewing, and we haven't been in Kansas for as long as I can remember. Maybe this time when the dust settles Dorthy and Toto will finally be home because in the real world there are no magic shoes. In the real world the Tin Man, our government has not had a heart for a long time and still does not. The Cowardly Lion, the people, still need to find the courage to stand up for themselves.
However there is hope that finally the Scarecrow, our executive branch, has indeed finally found a brain after eight long years. Well at least we hope that it has found it's brain in Barrack Obama but for all we know he is just a puppet of the wicked witch of the west, otherwise known as our current system of total governmental corruption. For those of you still blinded by the witch's illusion now is the time to open your eyes. I love our country but the systems are corrupted just like a majority of the population by greed. The leaders of this country should have no goals or agendas other than those of the people. Becoming a leader of people means that you are the people and your actions should reflect what the people need. Leaders must become like fathers and be immune to corruption to protect his children.
Now I have referred to the people as both Dorthy and the Cowardly Lion and that is no mistake. I did such because the characteristics of both these characters are ones that we as a people share. In Dorthy I am referring to our need to go "home" or the need to return to better times. Times without war, poverty, disease, and the countless other problems that we face not only in America but in the world. In the Cowardly Lion I am referring to the fact that worldwide we as a people need to find courage that is needed for us to stand up for what is right. The courage we need to stand and fight for our beliefs. Governments worldwide only have as much power as the people allow them to have. This is a fact that I believe we have forgotten somewhere along the line. How, other then crawling, can we move into the future if we have forgotten how to stand?
Now there is much more that I would like to say to the world at large that I will at sometime undoubtedly do. However let me just say, because it furthers my point of global cooperation, that you are not better than me any more than I am better than you. Americans you are not better than any other country and other countries neither are you. If you think you are better than someone because of where they are born that kind of makes you a pompous ass, and in turn makes everyone who doesn't share that view "better" than you. So if you do have such beliefs get over it we are all the same, byproducts of external stimuli.
Continuing on with my Wizard of Oz theme, I have reached the most important figure. The Wizard and I know that in traditional interpretations the Wizard stands for the government. I haven't ever really been one for tradition so lets take another look because it is upon meeting the Wizard that Dorthy tells her devote followers that they have had what they are looking for all along. So let us see the wizard as a realization, a lesson if you will. Now this lesson sets Dorthy aside from what she was before. Similar to new "Kansas" this is a new Dorthy, a wiser one she has become a mentor or a "wizard" in her own way. The lesson she learned may have been the truth about the government. However it is equally important as those who interpret it, and it is that lesson that gives us the courage to stand. When we have the courage to stand we can stop out slow crawl into the future and we can run into a brighter world. When the time comes that we can run the child-proof barriers that once defined our existence will be less than speed bumps to us in our haste to expand our understanding and our knowledge in ways we cannot even imagine.
We need this "wizard" to show us how to get home. Except unlike Dorthy for us Kansas will never be the same. Yet I hope that in it's place we will find a paradise, a new world filled with the wonder we only experience as children. The possibilities of this "new Kansas" are endless, it could be far more beautiful amazing and glorious than we can even imagine. In this new world we may find ourselves awestruck that we had lived any other way. Who is the "wizard" you might ask, who is mentor who will tell us of our courage? It is you, and it is me, everyone of us has the ability to become one. All you have to do is learn to stand because when you start running you'll have the whole world on their feet.
