Did we create Obama?

Something to consider is that we, as somatic beings, create our world. As humans, we have become masters of our surroundings. Unlike other species that conform and adapt to the world around them, we are in an active role of changing our surroundings. This is why we have such developed brains and such an amazing ability to sense, interpret and invent.
It's this selfpropelling force that has led us to the election of Barack Obama. I've been reading an interesting book lately called "Art and Physics: Parallel Visions in Space, Time & Light" by Leonard Shlain. This book takes a look at the ways in which innovations in art often predate innovations in science. The author does the challenging work of finding these developments so I won't attempt to do it here, but what he proposes is that there are steps involved in the unveiling of reality and the forward drive of truth. He describes art as the first attempt to understand a new idea, a thought of what could be. Science then follows with statistical 'evidence' and theory to explain and support these new phenomenom. An innovation is achieved and slowly that innovation is taken up by society at large as a new truth. In the way you get a paradigm shift, and in this way what we know to be true shifts and evolves. The world is no longer flat and Americans can never again say that we're not ready for a Black president.

What started as an idea for equality, turned into a possibility of change with a candidate who seemed commited, and ended with a new American reality. And as Obama seems to point out himself, this is not his victory, it is our victory, an achievement of millions of individuals deciding together on our future. I'm not trying to get too political, but I think it is important to understand this as an achievement of consciousness and a sign of growth in our society. This growth did not happen in the election booth but has slowly been happening for decades and is the logical progression of somatic evolution. We are different people now and our President elect is the proof.