It’s such a great quote and a call to the people of Scotland to take responsibility for ourselves on the level of nation. For we are a great nation, as are all tribes and countries of the world. We have each our own identity borne from the earth, from our natural habitats and learned traditional ways of our ancestors.

But we’ve come to loose touch with these roots meandering into superficial modernism and fakery within ourselves. Our once earthly habitats have all but given way to factories, apartment blocks and tarmac covered lands. And our identities are gained from the things we possess rather than from what we are. TV sculpts our society now making drones of our nation and our leaders are forever engaged in warring political verbiage.

Yet with this going on… the earth, billions of years old, revolves silently around the sun in all its majesty and living greatness. Bearing host to it’s dysfunctional guests as we inflict ourselves against the planet draining it’s resources just to satiate our senses and maintain our modern comforts. So not only have we lost touch with our roots but we’re actually destroying them!

How then can any nation “rise up” in truth in these times? it’s impossible. For a house without good foundation will not stand very long. Hence our leadership is lost in it’s own fighting and confusion trying to adjust and manipulate situations to it’s own advantage, far removed from the needs of the people of whom they’re empowered to serve. To them it’s a numbers game of Pound signs and voting figures, power and control.

It’s not to say however that the Scottish collective doesn’t have it’s values, for it’s very evident that we do, we need only observe our sports and artworks to see the love, will and aliveness of the people. But we do not flourish in our values day by day, we do not live them. They lay buried without voice in the depths of our  hearts, repressed by our fears and insecurities as we suffer under the weight of an increasingly deranged society lead by a corrupt establishment.

The socioeconomic system won’t change to become of any true benefit for the people. It can’t, it’s broken. So the people remain repressed and discouraged by their leadership, blaming them and each other for their own circumstantial hardships.

Blame however is a sorry cycle of self hate because even the leaders themselves are repressed by their own personal fears and insecurities as well as from the obligations that they themselves have to serve. So its a conformity of unconsciousness that rules over Scotland and the countries of the world. Not one person is to blame, we all hold equal degree of responsibility within the influential spheres of our own life situation.

Blaming Governments and wanting other people to change is a cop-out when we ourselves are unable to fulfill our own personal responsibility towards our families, friends and workmates. For-instance, how many times do we knowingly avoid issue by not speaking truthfully or stepping up to do the things we know are right to do? How much do we subjugate the truth of ourselves just to keep our superiors and others happy so as to maintain an easy life? And how often do we turn a blind eye to things we know are causing harm?

You see? there is no difference between those in charge and those who aren’t, we’re all equally responsible for helping ourselves out of this mess. But we’ve become a lazy co-dependent nation who doesn’t know freedom. That’s lost it’s roots. Our spirits are crushed and our minds know only what we’ve learned from our equally repressed fellows and forefathers.

It takes bravery to change our individual ways within a society that frowns upon anyone living contrary to its norms, or of whom speaks out their feelings against the status quo. Truthfulness becomes taboo in a society that’s repressed. Sincerity is ridiculed, and individuality almost extinct. This within our family and social circles too. Because it’s all the same mind, no matter the people. Our own mind too because we’re the product of our people.

We’ve become disconnected from the voice within our hearts, our senses distracted by all the outward superficiality that we’ve come to accept as our lives. And even when we do give ourselves a break we carry our confusion and self indulgence to wherever else we go.

So a return to our roots is not so much about going somewhere else or regressing technologically to days gone past, it’s about the reclamation of our individuality and the unbinding of our hearts from fear. Setting free our inner spirit and learning to live again a virtuous life in harmony with nature, proud of our country and in love with our peoples.

Ronnie Whittaker

http://www.transformingscotland.com