Massachusetts

The politics of Ego, appealing to the common sense of selfishness, will win, as often or not, over the more subtle politics of Meditation, as meditation doesn't have a quick answer, a quick "drill, baby drill," or an "I know Russia." So we become wedded to the vagaries of whatever selfish wants are leading at the moment. It doesn't seem like a great way to conduct affairs. Spoken of plainly or not, this is always the basic battle running through history, as when slave holding states wanted the territories to have the right to chose slavery or not, where meditative Lincoln the Republican stood for Union and the Constitution. One hopes that it doesn't take such a terrible battle of wills for the deeper broader wisdom of meditation to emerge as the choice, and rather that it would be a peaceful, if not pleasant, triumph. From personal relationships on up to decisions of state, the ego's claims, loud as they may be, are ultimately chimera.