Essay for
Sept 2003

The Globalization Wheel

Globalization appears beneficial to those who are in control and directing how the various aspects of that megalith operate. The controllers form the hub of the globalization wheel that contains many spokes going out in all directions to encompass the totality. The globalization hub is the controlling center of the wheel, binding the totality as the rim, by the spokes of commerce and industry. The wheel binds one to the other.

The view of the wheel from its controlling central hub is entirely different from the view from the rim. The hub of the wheel is well greased, keeping it friction free, giving it the freedom to turn upon the core of its own constructs. The totality, as the rim of the wheel, is the receiving end that is ground down, simply by the wheels turning. Those in the rim and closest to the spokes, have a better survival rate than those on the edge of the rim. Those on the edge of the rim are constantly crushed and decimated by the wheel's natural functioning.

Globalization is control. Once control is attained it becomes a trying, if not near impossible, task to wrestle control away from those forming the hub of the wheel. Those on the rim remain on the rim, slowly being ground down. But the rim is important to the hub or there would be no wheel, and no necessity for a hub. The controlling hub protects the wheel with a ring of iron that is replaced when it wears down from use. The iron rim is the new, better and best of anything beyond survival necessities, within trade and commerce, supported by advertising to create desire, encouraging the wheel to turn. The turning of the wheel eventually creates the need for a new steel rim, as the original has been ground down to nothing, and the process repeats.

Advertising creates the need for an endless supply of new, better and best; and brand names enhance that need. The wheel turns, the hub is well greased and the iron rim protecting the wheel is constantly replaced. And so it goes. Those that have will have more, and those that have not, want what those that have, have. The wheel is now in constant motion: a self-sustaining motion perpetuated by all the elements of the wheel. Removal of any one of the components will destroy the wheel, as it will crumble through lack of support. If the hub is not well greased, it will cease to function. If the spokes disintegrate the wheel will collapse. If the rim wears away the wheel destructs. It is the protective iron rim that safeguards the entire wheel from ultimate destruction. The iron rim is the Achilles heel of the self-perpetuating motion of the wheel, as it is the iron rim that constantly requires replacing to maintain the motion of the wheel.

Those wishing to destroy the wheel attack the hub, but the hub is well protected and insulated by the spokes and rim that hold the wheel together. Try as they may, they will never destroy the hub by attacking it. The attackers rarely attack the spokes, as there are many of them, and each spoke on its own deceptively appears unconnected to the hub. Even if the attackers where successful, there are many other spokes holding the wheel together. If one were destroyed another would soon replace it. The rim and the iron that protects the rim are rarely, if ever, attacked but that is the hubs greatest weakness. Out of the two, it is the iron protecting the rim that constantly requires renewing. Destroying the iron ultimately destroys the rim; and the hub will eventually crumble, as there is nothing to maintain it. Those that attack the hub are directing their energies at the wrong place, as the hub is too well protected. For those attackers to win, it is the iron rim protecting the entire wheel that requires removing. The hub of the wheel will then naturally collapse, as its protection has been removed. Nothing requires to attacked — simply stop replacing the iron rim.

When the hub is gone, the wheel is gone, then what? Survival is still paramount, and smaller wheels will appear to take the place of the big one. The process is well on the way to once again create the big one. Ultimately, civilization will be back where it was before the collapse of the wheel: once again trapping the totality in a controlling globalized world.

The wheel is not the problem it is a symptom, as the wheel will always reappear in new disguises. This is where it becomes interesting and very personal. It is easier to look outside oneself, and attack the symptom, than to look within to discover the cause. The cause is within both that attacker and defender alike, allowing the symptom to grow stronger by both action and inaction. Like a chameleon changing colors the symptom constantly renews itself, deflecting any attempt to discover its cause.

The globalization wheel will never stop turning. If perchance it is destroyed, it will only reemerge in a new disguise. Attacking it will never destroy the wheel, but it can be shattered by not allowing the iron rim to be constantly replaced. The globalization wheel will then self-destruct. Only that method of destruction will create a new form for the wheel. The spokes of industry and commerce now have the opportunity to rise in a new form. These wheels are soft and flexible that neither crush nor destroy anything as they turn: they are self-repairing. The hub is self-lubricating, and there is no need to be greased by profit endlessly for more of the same. The self-lubricating hub is created by the flexibility within the marketplace of profit for sake of humanity. Profit for the sake of more profit destroys. Profit for the sake of humanity saves. Each represent a choice.

To suggest choosing the rim wisely may appear obvious, but the choice is pre-make by what each individual will access as a reference for their existence. It is within individual referencing where the arrow that can penetrate the Achilles heel of the iron rim — protecting the hub of the globalization wheel — is discovered. Absolutely everything within an individual and civilization arises from referencing. If you reference a construct or belief, there will always be a construct or belief in opposition. And the hub of the wheel will stay well greased, no matter which construct or belief has temporary dominance. This is the fuel for the reappearing, controlling materialistically driven globalization plague, which you can neither hide from nor destroy.

You need destroy nothing to destroy that which destroys. You merely have to alter your reference from constructs and beliefs to your own consciousness construction, and trust it. Everything else will take care of itself, but possibly not in your lifetime. But the seeds are sown and others that follow will nurture them into existence, which is trusting your own trust, and that is faith. A fraction of a millimeter beyond that pure and simple faith is what initiates destruction in the guise of building.

Referencing your consciousness construction neither destroys nor builds: it illuminates. The illumination creates clarity of vision, and that is the arrow in the Achilles heel of materialistically directed globalization of profit for the sake of more profit. The hunt for illumination begins with a choice to discover the arrow within that destroys without destroying. That is a choice you make or do not make, there is no in-between.

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