Another way to frame this question, which may shed some additional light, is to also ask if we are "Heartless or Stupid." Do we as American citizens lack the heart, the commitment, the vision and the will to shape the laws of an immigration system that holds to the taught strictures of legal certainties in the face of the necessitative flexibility of adapting to a changing economic landscape? Do we simply throw our collective hands in the air and plead the bliss of our ignorance as the only possible solution to a complex system of changes that must be made in order to maintain the survival of our aggregate society?
Even the shortsighted among us can observe that we live in a world of vast economic and social complexity. As anecdotal evidence mounts, stories are literally littering our media channels regarding the direct and real impact of illegal immigrant laborers upon the wage rates in what used to be well paying job sectors. This problem is even larger than simply wages however, as the demand for laborers in some sectors, such as migrant agricultural work, can easily outstrip the economic feasibility of paying any laborers other than unskilled immigrants. Do we simply lack the tenacity to tackle the hydra that our legal system has evolved into, have we no heart for this fight?
Or, are we so stupid as to be blind to the obvious benefit that an increased influx of highly tenacious, innovative, cunning, adaptable, intelligent, enterprising, and entrepreneurial individuals may represent to the economy of this country? America, a country founded upon the concept of freedom of trade, the craft of creativity, the idealism of the idea itself. Have we become so blindly ignorant and stagnantly set in our ways that we assume we know all possible dimensions of economic success and enterprise? Do we presume that we alone, as natural born United States Citizens, are endowed by the creator as the sole proprietors and stewards of knowledge in the art of artistry, the craft of creativity, the demands of the 'deal'?
We do, most certainly, not hold sovereignty or patriarchal right over these characteristics. In fact, as Americans, and indeed now as Human Beings, Homo Sapiens Sapiens, citizens of Earth, and (possibly most importantly) as stewards of Gaia, we should recognize that no single individual holds the keys to all of the locks on human capability. This is a responsibility in which we all share our own unique part. None of us can solve these problems individually, but we can all of us solve them by each carrying our load in trade of that which we know how to do well. So long as we realize that we are not at all Heartless, we are not in the least way Stupid, contrastingly we then become wise beyond our individual experience, mighty in spite of, and quite possibly because of, our frailties.
The freedom to prosper and express our ideas is one of the greatest gifts of human capacity. It is an unstoppable tide, and irresistible force, and it is innate. We can count on this very natural and evolutionary energy source just as we can count upon the gravity of our home-world, as we can count upon the winds caused by her coriolis spin. It is the most natural energy source of any that we humans can tap. Not a "Green" energy, but a pink, violet, orange, red, brown, white, yellow, and black energy. We might even call it a form of rainbow power. So, friendly (at lest I hope by this point) reader, I put the question to you. If there exists this massive store of energy within human capability, why, in the name of everything that we hold sacred and dear, are we attempting to tap it with a base, mundane, scarcity mentality parlour trick like damming it up, and constricting its flow?
At this point of unprecedented historic requirement for adaptability, innovation, evolution, and plain ol' common sense would we not be better served to open the gates and get some energy into motion? Of course it is going to be difficult. Nothing worthwhile has ever been accomplished easily. Yes, it is going to require work of all of us. Some of that work will be in cleaning up the messes of criminality and base human usury that accompany population increase and natural social balancing. There are many who will preach and proselytize that their academic understanding or (possibly worse) their theological insight grants them a link to the divine truth of the folly of our ignorance. Human history does not have an equal for the changes we face, and the decisions which we, as global citizens, are now equally empowered and required to make.
I, for one, believe that we can make the right choices. I believe that you can see through to the truth of your own circumstances, speak your truth, make the right decisions, and take the right actions. I believe these truths, and there is nothing that anyone can do to stop me. I humbly submit to you, dear reader, that this is a very good and important mythology for us all to hold as sacred truth.
Be Well, Do Well, Know Truth
Cameron Owen Johnson
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