The time for the Third Secularism is here. First there was the separation of Church and State. This ended the powerful influence of the Church on governments and people at the end of the Middle Ages. We all know, of course that this struggle took centuries and by some measures is far from over. The Twentieth century brought the Second Secularism, the separation of Military and State, successful in many countries, though not in all. In the USA, the division of power prevents a military take over, – we hope! However, in many countries the military is still firmly in power. The ongoing struggle of the Twenty First century will become known as the Third Secularism, the separation of state and corporations. Today corporate influence on governments around the world is as powerful and controlling as the Church was by the end of the Middle Ages. The Third Secularism needs you! If we want true democracy, of the people and for the people, we must build a firewall between corporate money and elected representatives.
Important is who people vote for. Also important is for people to understand that voting and political involvement at the local level will eventually have more impact than voting and involvement in national affairs. The processes of national politics are much easily more compartmentalized and divided because, at the national level, the electoral body has a wide variety of interests. At the local level, the interests of the electoral body are more common and it more readily assumes a cohesive whole, able to maintain and communicate its viability with the other bodies. Perhaps the key element here is communication, which is easily fragmented on the larger scale, and more meaningful on the smaller scale. Once the smaller unit of cohesiveness is achieved, it can be communicated with other other smaller electoral populations and more easily adopted by them. The explication of its system is more apparent and resonant.
Up until now, we have been trying to work within an overly complicated, fragmented, and unwieldy system. The system needs to break down and be rebuilt through small, independent, grass-roots organization. Identification of the “successful” ones will lead to adoption and propagation in the larger system.
In reference to building a “firewall between corporate money and elected representatives,” I think it is remarkable that there is a greater gap between the modern population and corporate power than there ever was between the church and the people, or the military and the people. Understanding how to win this battle is analogous to understanding how to cure cancer.
At last some rationlatiy in our little debate.
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“Perhaps the key element” should begin a new paragraph.
There is also a mistake in the phrase, “Identification of the ‘successful’ ones,” where “ones” should refer to “organizations.”
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I agree that there needs to be a separation of church and corporation. Corporations have too much power in the government and what happens and this takes away from the say people have, the power of the people. The government started running more like a corporation itself and makes most of its decisions based on money and power instead of what would be best in the long run. Taking away power from corporations to influence the state would bring us back to a state of the people for the people.