On 3/25/12 Rob Kall wrote an article titled "Smoke and mirrors, Sausage
Factory, Lesser Evils and YOU Making a Difference." Within this article he writes:
Things are getting uglier. I'm finally coming to
face the reality that voting only feeds into the illusion the system creates
that different candidates really make a difference. The truth is, voting for
the lesser of two evils only moves us towards the next election with two worse
evils.
Moving to the encouragement of action, Kall writes:
I don't have any concrete answers, except
that I'm certain that depending on election day to set things right is far from
enough. We must become activists, fighting for a just, fair future where human
rights are put before corporate rights.
We must work, as part of the activist
effort to awaken those who sleep comfortably within the illusion that they have
freedom, that they have rights.
Mr. Kall is right.
I would take his message further and entice the reader into deepening
her or his understanding of a problem that ultimately has 6,000 years or more
of conditioning behind it (see Daniel Quinn's Ishmael and / or Chellis Glendenning's My Name is Chellis and I'm in Recovery from Western Civilization). Due to this intense conditioning, we have to learn
to think outside the box and challenge the foundations of who we think we are
and what we think the world is. More importantly, we must challenge our current
divorce of the world as reflected in our destruction of the planet, continual
non-ending wars, and corporate top-down control of education, foods, land, etc.
We may be at or close to the tipping point where if we don't challenge ourselves
we will remain stuck in a nightmare of our own making entailing the threat of our
extinction alongside many other species.
Perhaps our destruction of the planet and turning
Her into a wasteland mirrors the wasteland of our mechanized and reductionistic
minds?
We, and the
politicians and corporations that we reflect, are holographic (the part mirrors
the whole) mindsets that have overtaken western society. This conditioning probably originated during the
days of pharaohs, the writing of the Old Testament, and Babylonian
society. Our conditioning defines how we
see the world. For example, we may say
we are atheist and argue we don't believe anything in the Bible and that the Christians, Jews and Muslims should be
eradicated " their religion, at least,
if not them personally. Just
like them, we are self-righteously assured that those "over there" are evil or
just plain ignorant about our scientific and rational way of understanding the
world. As such, they need to be
controlled or eradication by us, the "good guys," who know the Truth regarding
a rational world in which the only intelligence is that of the human being.
The arrogance of the scientific worldview is the
same arrogance inherent in psyches of many belonging to the cults of the
Judea-Muslim-Christian peoples. What
none of us are willing to do is questioning our self, i.e., our conditioning,
and how that conditioning mirrors "The Others" that we point the finger at. The danger in this "it's them" mentality is
that we run the risk, indeed we ensure, that we stay stuck in the same
patterns. It's time to expose the
patterns and move on. Nowhere is this
need better defined than in a book titled A
Language Older Than Words by Derrick Jensen.
If you are not one to question whether the fabric
of what you believe is truth, do not read this book. If you are able to question the conditioning
socio-pathology of the culture as operating in yourself and what you believe,
then, by all means, take this book on.
You will learn that the culture's socio-pathology has been instilled in
you since grade school and even since you emerged from your mother's womb. Pink Floyd realized this pattern in their
infamous "Another Brick in the Wall" when they sang "Hey teachers, leave us
kids alone"all in all you're just another brick in the wall."
Republican, democrat, big business, bankers,
psychologists, mental health workers, accountants are all the same. The key word in the Pink Floyd song is
"another." YOU'RE just another brick in a wall of
bricks. The psychosis is widespread in
our species. It is one psychosis
spanning continents, cultures and time.
And that psychosis is in you and me as well as the workplace, the
government, the schools, etc. To heal
the culture, we must first reach deeply into ourselves. The pattern is there and that's where change
begins. It's not easy. Real change demands that you question how you see Reality and flip it on its
ear. What you think is reality is not
reality. It is the result of a
conditioning that has you brainwashed into following the status quo, be you
liberal, conservative, republican or democrat.
A Language Older than
Words is
a long book. Yet, it is one that keeps
you reading. In its passionately written
flaring passages of anger, it holds you spellbound. When describing his own experiences of being
raped by his father in relationship to the rape of his Soul by the school
systems and the destruction of aboriginal peoples and the Earth's body, you
begin to see the patterns. Rape is not
generated only towards women. The rape
of women is a holographic manifestation of the rape of the Earth and the rape
of the human Soul".the inner world of all human beings. In Jensen's book, you see these patterns of
rape occurring in yourself, within the school systems, and the industries that
employ you for more hours and higher levels production while supporting you
with less money and benefits.
To heal we are going to need to take health care,
education, etc. into OUR hands and
get it out of the hands of corporations and government. Would you trust a sociopath such as the
infamous Godfathers of the Mafia world?
Are the sociopaths in government and corporate boardrooms any different? "Make my day" states a sociopathic Clint
Eastwood holding a large barreled gun as if it were a phallus. This is the mentality of the modern day.
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