The gift of George W. Bush and the potential of the new world?

So it’s done. George W. Bush is gone and Barack Obama is the man of the moment. He and his family are already being mythologised as the world craves a new saviour.

With all the vitriol about Bush I found myself feeling (along with what feels like the whole world) much relieved in watching his departure after Obama’s inauguration…and, attempting to view the whole process with evolutionary eyes, I can’t help feeling that without Bush and his agenda there would be no Obama. George W’s legacy may be that he operated from a world view that is no longer (if it ever was) relevant to the shared planet we call home. His decisions though have inadvertently released boundless energy for change (I’m sure it wasn’t his conscious intention!). In pursuing his agenda of domination in the name of freedom, believing God and might were on his side, he created consequences that increased rather than decreased human suffering (wars, economic meltdown, denial of climate change and so on…). I believe history will say that Bush’s greatest achievement was to create a climate in which Obama could rise. The pain and suffering of so many along with our instant access to what’s happening in the moment due to the wonders of technology have been the accelerators for a quantum shift in thinking all over the planet.

If everything was rolling along well for the US when election time came in 2008, do you think the Senator from Illinois, with his youth and inexperience (let alone racial mix) would ever have had a chance against the Clinton machine? As it was, the people had to choose between the McCain/Palin fear based rhetoric or take the risk of going for hope. Obama’s timing was impeccable and his communication skills struck chords around his own country and the world. Many see his whole life story being divinely orchestrated so as to bring him to being ‘the man of the moment’ living in the White House. He is a man with very different views, values and beliefs than his predecessor and large numbers of people feel those values ‘fit’ with the momentum gathering all over the world. He feels like ‘a man of our times’ who actually has the power now to make fundamental changes to the way the US operates, to have a different sort of influence.

So before you write off George W. Bush completely, consider sending him a blessing, (this is not to excuse any of his choices) for paving the way for the people of the United States to choose a new style of leadership that embodies a very different consciousness that what came before it. Without George W. Bush, would American’s have heard Obama’s voice and elected him President? We will never know what might have been but I wonder….is this is a classic example of crisis driving human evolution?

And that’s it, from my view,
My very best to yours,
Amanda xx