Unleashing The Individual Human Potential of The American Individual

 Unleash your individual human potential. 

The words are inspiring; the idea is primal; the state of being is affirming, ancient and a proclamation of our natural, individual rights to life and liberty. Establishing a trajectory, understanding the importance of a foundation, and balancing the dailyness of our life from that standpoint, requires attributes unseen with the eye, and wholly in the realm of heart and mind: grit, endurance, gentleness of heart, fierceness of mind, temperance & responsibility in our decisions, and the creation and reaping of joy and peace, that our life energy be at the ready,— to unleash our individual human potential.

In the United States of America, we are a nation of nations, one people of many brought together as a national community upheld with our agreement of a promissory note: our Declaration of Independence. In our acceptance of its written and intended promise we enjoy the blessing of civility, and in our ignorance, indifference, and tarnishing of it, the unity of our agreements that can bless us to be a safe and happy people; a national community, is withered to foment factions that bring division.

So it is that we must care to strengthen the awareness of that national document; we are created equal, with the right to life and liberty, that we be a safe and happy people, with the unalienable right to alter or abolish government that does not respect these solemn foundational natural laws of humanity. There is no other way to find agreement as a people of diverse religions, ethnicities, skin colors, and walks of life, but to return to our first agreement, that promissory note of 1776.

From where do we create the time to unleash our human potential if  our education fails to fashion us with the skills and know-how to be financially self-reliant? American schools should be duty-bound to  weld the original understanding of the words of our Declaration of Independence and our Constitution together with the spirit of intention of our founding fathers in creating a national community founded on a respect for individual human rights, and also sharpen the ability to be community-minded renaissance professionals who are dynamic, individual engines of their own economy.  An American school that does not do so hinders the life of the national community, and does not do the work that ought to be done for the individual student’s complete growth, empowerment and development as an advocating citizen who cares about others, and is able to join the local and national conversation as a financially-resilient American.

The benefit of shaping such a people, breaks forth a new economy in the midst of the economic cycle that has beset the American people in the 20th and first quarter of the 21st century, one of placing an expectancy of resolution on the Federal Reserve, a non-governmental cabal of private bank chiefs who both, leverage the access to money at their disposal, and signal ‘Wall Street’ as to how to create short-term trajectory monetary paths  of 3-10 years that prioritize the banking industry and the sustaining of the current economic ideology paradigm of an ‘internationalist’ agenda that likes to control the flow and valuation of money. The Federal Reserve has a political ideology that caters to an internationalist, centralized control and distribution of currency, that will ultimately seek to digitize it, in order to increase its geo-economic leverage over the economic independence of the individual financial liberty of the American individual.

The problem with that is that they are not part of approaching the best solutions on how to increase the financial strength of the American individual. They are not selfless, altruists who place the shared ideas of our Declaration of Independence first; that a national community of individuals with their families become economically resilient and dynamic creators of their own economy, but are altogether, continuing the same monetary formula that has shaped the American economic experience for the 20th and 21st century: we move from fiscal recession to fiscal recession with the occasional fiscal depression in an endless downward cycle. But that cycle does have a goal, and it will be onto the further strengthening of the Federal Reserve as a non-governing financial intuition with internationalist ideology, seeking to control the leveraging, flow, valuation of money.

How about we try something different? How about an economic reality wherein the individual American becomes a financially, resilient powerhouse? Let’s compliment the spirit of individual liberty that is found in the shared ideas of our Declaration of Independence. The educational curriculum that has to be be part of the American grade school instruction is community entrepreneurship; a vehicle for the passions, interests, and skills of individuals who should be ‘renaissance professionals:’ a people who are experts in a variety of different interests and skills. In welding the shaping of the 21st century American individual renaissance professional with a solemn respect of understanding and duty to defend the ideas and spirit of union found in the Declaration of Independence will care about others, will be financially resilient, and a compliment to the health and well-being of their community, and our nation.

The Federal Reserve, nor the changing personnel of our federal government have brought prolonged financial prosperity that has catapulted the economic reality of Americans in a foundational sense that has established any true economic paradigm of lasting prosperity. No, we have had the economy cycles of recession and fiscal depression, instead of the strengthening of the American individual to be these dynamic creators. The priority of increasing economic resiliency must always place the American family  and individual foremost as the initial source of economy, after all, it is small business that is the backbone of the American economy. 

Abraham Lincoln was not an ‘Elon Musk’ billionaire, and that is not the goal that is described here. He was most definitely, a renaissance man who kept himself moving, learning, and an integral individual in the life of the local and national community. Before arriving upon the American presidency, Lincoln was a farmer, a builder of structures, could lay train rail, endured in the open air as he transported farm animals down the
Mississippi River as a flat boat captain, was a store owner, managed a post office, was a soldier, became a lawyer, was a state legislator, and worked alongside John Quincy Adams as a Congressman  in the U.S. House of Representatives. Being a learned man at that point, Abraham Lincoln faced off against the governmental spokesman for the slavery industry, Stephen Douglas, as a public speaker who was setting the record straight on the idea of preserving the national union while also bringing forth the greatest defense of the ideas and value of our Declaration of Independence. Then he became President and was the Commander-In-Chief of the nation, directly orchestrating military strategy in the Civil War to keep the country together, and end the economic institution of human slavery, that it be that the promissory note of 1776 reign supreme; we are all created equal, with the right to life and liberty, that we may be safe and happy, with the guarantee and responsibility to alter or abolish government that is not in alignment with these founding ideas.

If we are bought to read the written works of the true, selfless champions of liberty, we will not find old and antiquated individuals, but dynamic individual who were completely modern and compassionate. They understood they could unleash their human potential to care about others and therein find the necessary passion to continue to move, learn, and be the best they could be. To do so, our hearts and minds have to be in the right place, and we must not look or wait for occasion to critique one another on account of our skin color, our ethnicity, religion, or walk of life, for to do so would go against the foundation of what America is about, as written and intended in our Declaration of Independence.

George Washington, Head Quarters, Newburgh, June 8, 1783

Circular to State Governments

“There are four things, which I humbly conceive, or essential to the well-being, I may even venture to say, to the existence of the United States as an independent power:

1st. An indissoluble union of the states under one federal head.

2dly. Sacred regard to public justice.

3dly. The adoption of a proper peace establishment, and

4thly. The prevalence of the pacific and friendly disposition, among the people of the United States, which will induce them to forget their local prejudices and policies, to make those mutual concessions which are requisite to the general prosperity, and in some instances, to sacrifice their individual advantages to the interest of the community. 

These are the pillars on which the glorious fabric of our independency and national character must be supported; liberty is the basis, and whoever would dare to sap the foundation, or overturn the structure, under whatever specious pretexts he may attempt it, will merit the bitterest execration, and the severest punishment which can be inflicted by his injured country.”

The American citizen as a renaissance professional is a critical thinker; we analyze, observe, critique, and put forth solutions. We are prone to selflessness, and are dynamic in our thinking. We have a solemn respect for the Declaration of Independence because we recognize that it is the only national agreement that creates the conditions for such a diverse people to be safe and happy: an agreement that we can be safe, prosperous and happy if we agree that we are all created equal, with the natural right to individual life and liberty. 

Let us go forth to bring our American schools to instruct in no new doctrine of social division, but to return unto the shared ideas that established the foundation of our national community. It is time to enjoy the blessings of peace and prosperity that belong to the American people. The reality of individual liberty has to bring with it individual financial prosperity. It can be ours if we smartly defend what should be defended, and call forth upon American schools to educate in such a dynamic style of individual empowerment.