WEBVTT 00:00.530 --> 00:13.150 Hei, gais! Welcome back to my channel, I'm Sarah Louise and today I wanted to make a video about politics, not as in politics but the actual word politics and being involved in politics. 00:13.610 --> 00:23.090 So, I've come across quite a lot of spiritual people that often think that they are beyond politics and above politics and they say, I don't get involved in that stuff, 00:24.210 --> 00:52.730 you know, I'm into oneness and excuse me, I'm just recovering from a cold and they say, I'm into oneness and you know, I don't get involved in that duality, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, but politics essentially is meaningless, it doesn't have all this meaning that people have prescribed, I think what people are really meaning is, I don't want to argue with people right, I don't want to get involved in these crazy arguments that are going on between the two, 00:52.730 --> 01:10.610 sides where they're just sort of like hammering it out and people are not really able to have good discussions on it and they just end up in a slanging match essentially, that is what now people have come to associate as politics, but in my opinion that's just put in a meaning onto politics 01:10.610 --> 01:22.450 and I think nearly everybody in the world, especially spiritual people, are actually interested in politics, they've just associated politics with arguing about two leaders. 01:23.050 --> 01:40.070 I actually just wanted to start this video with the definition of politics, which is the art or science of government and governing, especially the governing of a political entity such as a nation and the administration and control of its internal and external affairs. 01:40.070 --> 02:01.510 So a pretty loose definition, but that is the official definition of politics. How I see politics myself is deciding how you think the world would run most harmoniously and optimally. 02:04.510 --> 02:19.810 I personally see politics as coming up with systems as to how the world could run most harmoniously and I guess keep the most people on it happy-ish, no one's going to be 100% happy. 02:19.810 --> 02:32.250 I've also heard people that don't like politics say things like, oh I would just put loving policies in place and the thing is that you can put the most loving policy in place. 02:32.410 --> 02:39.150 If you were a leader, you could put something totally loving in place that in your opinion is loving and that is going to be really hateful to somebody else. 02:39.150 --> 02:48.830 If you say, for example, I want free meals for all children, someone's going to find that really hateful because they're going to say, well I don't have kids or I don't think they should be entitled to free meals. 02:49.490 --> 02:55.190 You can have an argument from everything and you'll find that somebody will think absolutely everything is unloving. 02:55.670 --> 02:59.170 So that one kind of immediately goes by the wayside. 02:59.810 --> 03:03.330 But what I find then is a lot of people then just don't want to engage in it at all. 03:03.750 --> 03:15.830 And the problem I personally see with this is that if what I kind of started to notice is that all the people with kind of moderate beliefs that sits somewhere between the two extremes just don't want to bother with politics. 03:16.270 --> 03:23.830 They think, well it's not really my bag, I've got the things that I want to be working on, maybe I'm too compassionate and empathetic to get involved. 03:23.830 --> 03:26.290 I don't really want to get involved in all the arguing. 03:27.170 --> 03:38.990 So those people just step out of the system and then what we're left with is these two really extreme polarities that are the only people with a real passionate interest really in politics. 03:39.250 --> 03:42.590 And everybody else has decided they don't want to get involved in that and they've kind of stepped out. 03:42.990 --> 03:50.090 But if those people actually stepped in they'd probably be the majority and they would probably be because when you stop and talk to most people on the street 03:50.650 --> 04:00.070 most people are kind of roughly common sense middle ground centrist and I think probably the world would be happier if it was ran by middle ground centrist. 04:00.370 --> 04:11.070 Now don't be wrong people would still be unhappy on both sides but they wouldn't be so unhappy they'd want to riot all the time because that kind of comes from having your needs so unmet 04:11.070 --> 04:18.510 and having such the opposite in play that you have to riot because you can't live like that. 04:18.510 --> 04:33.290 Whereas if you're right so just a little bit you know they're not quite what you'd want but they're not that far away then you tend to just accept it right, accept it that's good for the majority and you roll along with it. 04:34.450 --> 04:41.590 So I think a lot of this happens because we're just swinging all the time and then that's just no good for human growth is it if we're just swinging all the time. 04:41.590 --> 04:54.630 How are we ever going to progress as a society because in America every four years and here like roughly every five years well we've had the same people in power for a long time right but certainly in America they swing a lot 04:54.630 --> 05:06.050 and so every four years they're just basically dismantling everything they've just built over the last four years and then in the next four years they dismantle it again and it just sort of feels like nothing ever is really achieved. 05:06.770 --> 05:16.550 And I do think the reason that a lot of people don't get involved in politics is because they think about what politics means to them versus what politics actually means. 05:16.970 --> 05:29.070 In true layman's terms I see politics as four people wanting to build a house together right they want to build a structure and a system that would be good for everybody because everybody wants to live in a house. 05:29.070 --> 05:39.690 And the ways that they can go about this is they can argue about the foundation so they can all have a different opinion on where the house should be built and where the foundation should be started. 05:40.250 --> 05:49.650 Now if those arguments just start like get into a slanging match and everybody's calling everybody names and nobody listens to anybody then there's no house going to be built right. 05:50.190 --> 06:08.010 And if those four people just say well actually I don't want anything to do with politics I don't want to do anything to do with arguing I'm just going to step out and let people do what they want because you know I don't want to be involved in this then no house gets built right. 06:08.330 --> 06:18.690 However if those four people can come together and say well we all want different things here is there any way we can compromise and all be happy and they can find some way to do that then the house gets built right. 06:18.690 --> 06:26.310 And there's a fantastic house and then maybe they can move along and build a second house that fits somebody else's needs or you know you get the idea. 06:27.110 --> 06:36.330 And I think that politics isn't the problem politics isn't a problem at all and politics is far wider reaching than I think people think. 06:36.450 --> 06:41.110 People have just now decided that politics is arguing about whether you like Donald Trump or Biden. 06:41.110 --> 06:57.590 But in my opinion politics is everything it's everything it's wages work how many days a week you should work food like how many trees we should plan politics is really relevant for nearly all of us. 06:57.610 --> 07:06.090 There's very few of us that don't come along don't come head to head with something that's been decided by politics every day it's really important to all of us. 07:06.090 --> 07:11.170 And nearly everybody has an opinion on it because a lot of the spiritual people say I don't want to get involved in politics. 07:11.730 --> 07:18.310 Well they do actually have opinions on I would like more trees or I think people should meditate in schools that is all politics. 07:18.990 --> 07:34.010 Politics is just creating systems that work towards creating a world that you think is more idealistic and I'm pretty sure everybody has their own version of a world that they think is more idealistic or close to their version of idealistic. 07:34.890 --> 07:41.550 And the problem is that a lot of the people that are compassionate and empathic step away and don't get involved in politics. 07:42.090 --> 07:52.210 And then we're left with the people that really don't care about negative energy and arguing and stuff and those people rise to the top. 07:52.210 --> 08:16.190 And if more and more regular people actually thought well there's nothing actually inherently wrong with politics and if we as individual human beings learned to not be triggered by conversation and alternative opinions then we could actually all start to have more of an interest in politics and it wouldn't feel like some bad horrible thing that we had to get involved in. 08:16.190 --> 08:24.850 It's people that are the problem, it's not politics. There's nothing wrong with politics. I'm sure very high vibrational countries still have some form of structure to get things done. 08:25.290 --> 08:35.470 Without politics nothing really gets done because it creates a structure and it creates a system within the country and it can be a very very positive thing. 08:35.850 --> 08:43.530 It's only not positive if it's going in a direction that's used to control people or it's used for nefarious means. 08:43.530 --> 08:58.910 And I honestly think that the way people are incapable of having nuanced discussion over difficult topics is making everybody that actually could make a difference sit back and not want to get involved in politics 08:58.910 --> 09:07.190 and just leaving it to people that don't care about negative attention. In fact they're probably just dipped out while everyone else is arguing about it. 09:08.130 --> 09:18.870 So I just would like to change sort of politics and make it less of a scary nasty aggressive thing and just remind everybody it's just a word. 09:19.350 --> 09:29.690 It's just a word and it means something and it's useful to have in society when it runs well and maybe we could change our definition of politics. 09:29.690 --> 09:42.130 So we're interested in it in a different way and if we individually grow as human beings and allow ourselves to be able to have difficult discussions with our fellow neighbours 09:42.130 --> 09:49.430 and try and find some kind of compromise that maybe they're not 100% happy, maybe we're not 100% happy but everyone's happy enough 09:50.190 --> 09:57.470 then we could get somewhere right rather than just arguing back and forwards and then people being like I don't want to get involved in politics because it's just arguing. 09:57.470 --> 10:04.990 Well that doesn't have to be just arguing. Politics could be radical, it could be amazing, it can change the country for the better. 10:05.730 --> 10:10.430 It really is what you make it. I love the course of miracles. Politics is just a word, it is meaningless. 10:11.190 --> 10:16.450 The only reason you think you want to step out of it and not get involved in it is because of meaning that you've applied to politics 10:16.450 --> 10:19.870 or the meaning that you've taken from politics from watching other people in politics. 10:19.870 --> 10:32.850 I think politics is just a system that our world and country is ran on and why not be a part of that even if it's just discussions with your neighbours, your friends. 10:34.550 --> 10:44.030 People have just become, it's people that are the problem, it's people not being able to have any discussion over anything that they disagree with without getting triggered 10:44.830 --> 10:49.870 and actually by just saying I don't want to get involved in politics at all. I don't know if I really think that's helpful. 10:50.110 --> 10:54.670 I actually don't but that's just my opinion. Obviously I'm welcome to disagree with me. 10:55.270 --> 11:00.870 It's the same as in a relationship. You can't have a conscious relationship with someone and never talk about problems 11:01.310 --> 11:06.890 or talk about things that could be improved in that relationship. That's not the point of a conscious relationship. 11:06.890 --> 11:16.490 A conscious relationship is where everything is brought to the surface but both partners are capable of discussing with maturity and without being angry and triggered. 11:17.230 --> 11:22.270 And so you kind of go through the eye of the needle and you grow closer and closer together and you evolve together. 11:22.950 --> 11:30.390 And if you just say well I'm not going to bring anything up because my partner might react, you're kind of always living below the surface 11:30.390 --> 11:39.630 and in my opinion that's not the full expression of the relationship and I think being afraid to talk about politics 11:39.630 --> 11:46.650 or afraid to have an opinion on where you would like the world to go isn't the ultimate 11:46.650 --> 11:55.110 but it's to kind of go through that and be able to have conscious, calm discussions with your fellow earthlings about 11:55.110 --> 12:03.630 or countrylings about where you would like your country or your world to go. 12:05.090 --> 12:10.770 Until we can have those discussions then all the people that actually could make a difference are going to not want to get involved 12:12.210 --> 12:18.350 and I don't personally think that that is the ultimate place that we're supposed to go. 12:18.350 --> 12:26.290 So that's my belief is should we all shirk away from politics because it's become a little bit of a dirty word 12:26.290 --> 12:33.850 or should we try to remove the meaning from the word politics and see it more as an amazing thing 12:33.850 --> 12:42.390 and a way to set really fantastic structures for a better or improved or more aligned society. 12:43.070 --> 12:47.970 And I'm just going to throw that over to you or what do you think about that 12:47.970 --> 12:51.990 and let me know in the comments and bye for now.