MAKE LOVE 😘 NOT WAR
The old narrative is breaking down. We are told that our identity is a number (SSN), our security is a conditional benefit, and our participation is mandatory in a system of “broken capitalism” that thrives on scarcity and competition. This is the architecture of control, and its walls are cracking. The “government shutdown” is not just a political event; it is a symbol of this wider collapse—a revealing glimpse behind the curtain, showing that the emperor has no clothes.
But in this moment of dissolution, a profound opportunity emerges. As the illusion of control weakens, we are invited to let go. Let go of the anxiety, the dependency, and the belief that this system is the only reality. This is not a call to chaos, but to clarity. As you said, “when you let it go, you’ll be surprised how easy things fall into place.”
What do they fall into? They fall into the pattern of the real community trust. This is not a hoax or a vague idea. It is the ancient, divinely-wired blueprint for how we are meant to live together. It is the practical outworking of the economy of grace described in Isaiah 55:1-2:
“Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you who have no money, come, buy and eat!”
This is the ultimate subversion of the broken system. It is an economy not of transaction, but of gift. Not of scarcity, but of sufficiency. Not of isolation, but of communion. The community trust is where we pool our resources, share our skills, and feed each other, not because a form requires it, but because our shared humanity demands it. It is the soil where the seeds of a new world can sprout from the compost of the old.
This is where the journey culminates. The shift from a war-based consciousness to a love-based consciousness.
The old system—with its enforced identities, its conditional sustenance, and its perpetual conflicts—is a system of war. It is a war against our natural state, a war against community, and a war against the spirit.
The new community—the sacred trust founded on mutual aid and grace—is a system of love. It is love made practical. Love is sharing bread without a barcode. Love is knowing your neighbor’s name instead of their number. Love is building a table where everyone has a seat, not because they earned it, but because they exist.
The Unifying Final Answer
Therefore, the path forward is not to fight the old system on its own terms, pouring our energy into a war of opposition. The path is to build the new with the bricks of the old, to embody the alternative so fully that the old system simply becomes irrelevant.
We are called to consciously, deliberately, and joyfully Make Love, Not War.
· Make Love by planting a community garden.
· Make Love by sharing what you have without expectation.
· Make Love by refusing to see anyone as a competitor and instead seeing them as a sibling in the great human family.
· Not War by withdrawing our consent from the narratives of scarcity and fear.
· Not War by ceasing to fight for a bigger piece of the pie and starting to build a bigger, different pie for all.
The final shutdown is the shutdown of the war inside our own hearts. When that happens, the external structures of control lose their power over us. We become free to finally build the world we were always meant to inhabit: a world not of commodity benefits, but of sacred communion. A world not of control, but of trust. A world not of war, but of love.
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