A breif post:
From Wikipedia:
A maverick is an unbranded range animal, especially a motherless calf;
John McCain is a maverick?
Sarah Palin is a maverick?
Range animal, maybe. But branded ones.
it can also mean a person who thinks independently; a lone dissenter; a non-conformist or rebel. The word first arose in mid-19th century America from Samuel Augustus Maverick, a Texas politician with a large ranch full of unbranded cattle.[1]
In my personal take on the meaning of maverick, however, it smacks to me distinctly of dualism. The apparent maverick (pretense) . There is a difference between rebelling inside the prison for better conditions, and inward revolution.
The East-meets-West phenomenon that began immediately after the U.S. dropped two Atomic Bombs, one on Hiroshima and the other on Nagasaki. This event affected Americans, and the enitre world, at an incredibly deep level. These feelings composted, eventually broiling to the surface somewhere around 1969, the summer of love, in an orgy of self expression.
The more insightful among us saw a positive new blend of the inward and the outward, the individual and the social self. This heralded the way of Integrity; of walking your talk. Bringing the inner revolution outward; actually manifesting one’s inner vision externally, to its fullest potential, however short-lived.
Inner revolution becomes external revolution though the vehicle of communication and participation.
We need authentic leaders who can understand how to inspire and unite people across their chaotic inconsistencies.
Politicians ought to be these leaders; instead, they’ve become panderers. In this capacity these people we call leaders have committed the cardinal atrocity: interfering with the full expression of human development. By being sellers of a vote, those with money get to battle it out for the opportunity to interfere, however they see fit, with the rights of children to freely evolve.
Evolution happens, anyway, as many have pointed out. And even in this system, someone like me can recognize the illusion of the flatland we are told is reality: the matrix. Life is ever so much more complex and filled with potential!
We should make education amazing. People should be given an engagin, immediate, and compelling education, totally for free, and they should be made to feel safe to be and express themselves inside of it, both at home, at school, and in life. It’s the ideal of Mr. Rogers, or Sesame Street, or Fraggle Rock. Children should be listened to, and respected, not inhibited and limited under the name of “protection.”
Watch for a future entry on my educational vision… Enough for this evening.
