Trust One Another

Today, I went to the bank to take some money out of my account and send it to my son.

I cut a bank check, but he still won’t be able to cash it at his bank, because he can’t cover the amount with his own funds. He has to deposit the check and withdraw it another day. He needs two forms of picture ID. The corporations don’t trust you and me. They can’t be cheated of their money, although they cheat us of ours.

I sent it overnight express, spent quite a bit of money for postage, but he has to be there to sign for it, and if he’s not, he has to go to the post office the next day to claim it. The government doesn’t trust us and says we shouldn’t trust our neighbors.

I came home and opened my bag from the clothing store. As usual, I went to snap the tag off, but this tag was made of stronger stuff than ever before. The plastic tore up my hand and made it bleed. I had to search for a sissors sharp enough to cut off the tag. The coporations don’t want us to steal from them, although they feel perfectly justified in stealing from us.

“No trust, no trust!” shouts the news programs and the drama TV shows and the magazines and newspapers and movies. Don’t trust one another, they admonish us. We’ll be cheated, robbed, and lied to. Violence will be done to us by our fellow puny humans. “Watch out!” they tell us. “Beware of one another! Carry a gun. It’s your right to defend yourselves.”

But who is cheating, stealing and lying to us? Who is causing the violence? Who manufactures and distributes the guns? Who makes us suspicious of one another, and sets us one kind against another, and isolates us from each other?

The Dominators and their Corporate lackeys, that’s who.

Trust is a revolutionary act.

TRUST ONE ANOTHER!
Love,
Lilly

The Bonobo Manifesto

We, the kind and loving human children of planet earth, do hereby declare our existence, our value, and our difference from the Dominators and their followers.

We no longer believe the Dominator lies.

We will no longer live Dominator-determined lives.

We renounce cruelty and greed and we do not accept any justification for cruelty and greed on the part of our leaders, our churches, our nations, or our neighbors. We renounce the gods who encourage cruelty and greed or who act as ultimate justifiers for human violence.

We, the Bonobo children of earth, do hereby declare that the future belongs to the loving and the kind and no longer to bullies and criminals. We declare the right of our children’s children to survive and inherit a habitable earth. We believe it is possible for humanity to thrive on this planet for a many more thousands of years, and so we will resist apocalypse and seek a world of peace and abundance.

This is what we believe, know, value, and practice. This is who we are. Long live the Bonobo People! Love will prevail!