Why & how we will remember them.
ANZAC DAY | 25th April, 2019. Remembrance.
Before I get started on who we should remember and why, I'd like to point out useful links to jump straight to the core content which should invoke inspiration to become empathetic.
MOVIE - WATCH
"THEY SHALL NOT GROW OLD" | Movie by Peter Jackson. Click Here.
AUDIO - LISTEN & DOWNLOAD
"ANZAC TRIBUTE" | Official RSA 2007 Remembrance by Glyn MacLean. Click Here.
(Please feel free to download, share and use Anzac Tribute, however you please.)
My Challenge to LinkedIn.
I am putting a challenge to LinkedIn, for you to join me in remembering the contribution that we can each make to uphold democracy and human rights, to stand up for our common future.
Walk in their shoes.
Watching Peter Jackson's poignant documentary about the ANZACS will be a significant short cut to the kind of thinking that 'we the people', need to be taking into our deliberations about how we manage present and future conflicts.
Why watch?
What is so riveting about this documentary, is that the soundtrack is entirely voiced by the people, the soldiers on the front lines. There is not a word of opinion. Just the voices of those who stepped into and experienced the futility of war.
These voices begin optimistic, fighting for what they perceived to be a horrific enemy and for nationalism. Turning up on the front lines, only to suddenly realise their enemies are men and women just like them. Men and women who didn't want to fight. Men and women who were essentially good, who wanted to return home to their families.
It will astonish you how friendly they all became. As both sides realized the pointlessness of that war.
Remembering to feel.
Who we should remember, and why.
There are many people in our contemporary times who have come to the position quite rightfully, of no longer wanting to pay homage to, or seek to glorify war.
If this is you, I commend you on your decision.
When all is said and done, we each know that resorting to killing each other is the lowest of human behaviors. Thou shalt not kill. Yet at various times throughout history. genuine evil has risen. The common people paid a price to face up to that evil.
What and who is evil?
What you will discover in the documentary THEY SHALL NOT GROW OLD by Peter Jackson, is that evil is almost always never the common people. We are presented to each other as enemies, then when we meet each other, we find we have very much in common. Raising our families, living, laughing and loving.
Someone has to instruct us, showing our fellow human beings appearing as an enemy, seeking to be in conflict with each other.
As you will experience through the sublime and implicit voices of the soldiers in the Peter Jackson film, evil may yet become recognized as the neglectfully displaced emotional mismanagement of childish leaders, using the common man for caustic whims.
We are not remembering the glory of war. We are remembering the bravery of the men and women who stood up for humanity.
I am going to reiterate this point.
As you watch this documentary, you are going to be listening only to THE VOICES OF THE SOLDIERS. You will be learning what they learned, about the futility and purposelessness of our wars.
Why ANZAC DAY is more relevant today.
We focus on war, just for a day, to remind ourselves about how we must come to peace. That we must each learn how to avoid such conflicts. Ironic then, that we each achieves this avoidance, by paying close attention to learning how to do the opposite of war. through the voices that participated in war. My hat off to the genius of Sir Peter Jackson for his idea.
On Anzac Day, we come together with an expression of expansive, neighbourly love.
This Anzac Day, 25 April, 2019, all sides of the historical conflicts will come together in peaceful remembrance. Reminding ourselves that we must never again allow such an indignity to befall the common people, as occurs during war.
Angry Old Men.
Recognizing how we can achieve peace is all the more important today.
We won't achieve peace through corruption.
Democracy Downgraded?
USA has been downgraded and is now recognized by the Democracy Index as a FLAWED DEMOCRACY. (Click Here)
A war on information?
The incumbent billionaire US president, has just watched many of his helpers receive jail time. People like Paul Manafort, indicted for very real crimes.
Active Measures Documentary
Anyone who has studied Paul Manafort or watched the recent succession of documentaries on corruption in USA, will recognise an information war is going on. (Click Here)
Should we trust leaders to go to war?
It is critically important that we quickly come to a unified understanding. Our good men and women put their lives on the line, through explicitly trusting the advice of their leaders.
Can we really trust our leaders when it comes to declarations of war and conflict?
The findings on trust.
Politifact is a winner of the esteemed Pulitzer Prize for Journalism.
Result for US President Donald Trump?
NB: Some minor level of data in stats inconclusive.
Donald Trump is 29% SOMEWHAT TRUE.
- 4% True + 11% Mostly True + 14% Half True
Donald Trump is 71% MOSTLY FALSE
- 21% Mostly False + 34% False + 15% Pants on Fire
Click Here to see the results for yourself.
Who decides when we go to war?
That power is in the hand of private contractor organisations to the US Government, who have been proven by US legal system to be clearly manipulating the US Government (and the people) to sell more equipment for war.
War is profitable.
What about NZ and AU sovereignty?
Recently the GCSB (NZ Secret Service) started taking a public lead in guiding NZ international, and domestic relations. Some important questions are starting to emerge for Australia and New Zealand business owners who want to make trade, not war.
- Since when did GCSB get a license to govern New Zealand?
- Who gave the GCSB the mandate to interfere with how private citizens do business with legitimate companies in a functional democracy?
- And who gets to decide which business is legitimate and which is not?
- By what practical measure?
Make Trade, Not War.
I live breathe, eat and sleep implementing the technology that builds a digital bridge to value between cultures. What I'm seeing, is exactly what soldiers saw on the front lines. People from all cultures just want to get on MAKING TRADE, NOT WAR. No one is out to get anyone. People just want to prosper from their ideas and get on well together.
Religious War
Due to all the recent conflicts inciting religious war, it has never been more important to go back to the lessons that previous wars can teach us. For the record, I follow Jesus teachings. Some of my business partners are Muslim. We love each other like brothers. I'm friends with Buddhists and followers of Krishna and other religions. I'm of the view that any form of empathetic instruction is good for developing our shared humanity.
So where's the conflict?
As we dig deeper, we discover that a very small minority of mentally ill or criminal extremists have been funded by those who profit from conflict. Most intelligent people can see this. Yet it is easy to become prejudiced against a group of people, solely due to the behavior of a few.
White, Male, Christian terrorists?
Read this academic article (Click Here) by the two professors from the University of Dayton, USA. It shocked me to learn that the vast majority of terrorist activities in the USA has been conducted by White, Christian men.
Bit of an eye opener, isn't it.
Remember how good people were mislead and duped by leaders to go to war.
Experiencing the emotional lessons shared by these men, is important for our families, assisting us to come to a full appreciation as to how we need to evolve our behavior.
There is bloodshed in this film. Atrocities. We should discipline ourselves to see them, for they will cause us to reject war altogether. If we can not stomach the horrific consequence of war, then we should not vote for the people who bring us to war.
Life-Lessons, from death.
We must remember them, because they paid with their lives, for lessons that we must carry forward into our peaceful life.
Without these lessons, we will most assuredly, fall back into a routine of going to war for the petulance of childish conflict.
We must also replace the leaders, whose petulant nature, could cause our children to be drawn into a similar conflict. We must never allow that petulance to happen again. By never again allowing immoral people into authority.
start right here.
ANZAC DAY. 25th April
WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.
GjM