Just
a thought for International Women’s Day, which started out in 1909 as a commemorative
event in honour of the preceding year’s female garment workers’ strike in New
York, promoted by the Socialist Party of America at that time. Only in 1975 did
the UN begin celebrating this day on March 8th.
Nowadays,
just about every day of the year is being classified as some kind of
celebration day, supposedly for heightened awareness. This is the
piecemeal approach to raising human consciousness. Are we really going to fix
anything by naming a day as something special, something to “think about”, something
to “talk about”?
On
the IS-AD blog, we’ve already stated that every day of the year is good for
celebrating Self-Awareness. Because this is the holistic approach to making a
better world. The more Awareness there is in the human mind-stuff, the better
the world will be, because that awareness can be directed towards anything at
all – women, men, pets, yoga, elimination of nuclear weapons, even happiness
(but you don’t have to wait till March 20th to celebrate the UN International Day of Happiness – you can start now and do it every day if you're not already happy!).
So,
happy International Women’s Day, but don’t be fooled by today’s pomp and circumstance…
Make sure the feminine is well protected tomorrow as well! And every day.
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