Before we criticize others for their fear-filled greed, just think of how we all (including New-age enlightened folks!) react to the news of imminent industrial strike action by the bakers, or by the drivers of motor-fuel-delivery tankers. Suddenly the veneer of civilization falls apart as its individual members scrabble to strip the supermarket shelves of every trace of bread, flour, and yeast. Every service station is sucked dry as individuals impatiently queue to fill to the brim, fuel tanks, five-gallon jerry-cans and anything else that would hold some more motor fuel.
The first in the queues think, "Too bad about the rest, I've got a family to feed and support and a job to travel to." Only those who arrive too late think, "How selfish people are to hoard." But we all take it in turn to hoard or to complain because we were too late and must go without. From a child's first infant-school sports-day race he or she is taught to compete. This is the day when every child learns that no one is really interested in the many gallant losers, because it is the winner who receives the praise. More to the point, it is only the winner who receives the prize. This sets the pattern that will mould the child's determined usefulness to a long-established inhuman system. We describe it as inhuman because it is as if we all are compelled to exist and try to be, humans that care, whilst also we all try to fit inside a huge, intricate, mindless machine.
The machine is man-made, and has many parts that blindly and continuously move in every direction. If our ancestors were strong and fortunate they found and then received for self and their fortunate heirs, great benefits from the machine. But also they took and kept most of the spaces into which the machine parts never move. Any benefits and spaces that were left became the sought-after prizes in a ruthless competition to ride successfully on the parts that do move. If you are strong you will have a successful but hectic ride, until your strength wanes. Then the machine will cast you away because the machine didn't even realize or care that you were there.
Why has a system been allowed to become blind and inhuman that was originally designed to benefit every human weak or strong? At least, for our benefit is what our leaders have always implied to us. The system has become blind and inhuman because we allow it to function without our human guidance. When we say "We" we mean everyone without exception.
In these latter years we all have read "New-Age' books that reveal the manipulative selfishness of the hidden and powerful few who manipulate and tightly circumscribe the powers of national leaders. Sadly no one seems to publish books about the billions of power-filled people that say nothing and allow the few to get away with it. Public opinion is a very powerful tool. It is a tool that up to now mostly is only used, or rather abused, by the system's professional manipulators. These cleverly manipulate the flocks of sheep-like minds that easily feel fear or comfort but seldom feel it is their own role to clearly think beyond their own personal and immediate needs.
As a result the media ensures that any protest group will be made to appear silly and odd until the growth of power of the group can no longer be ignored. Only then does it become fashionable and sound business policy to loudly give lip-service support to the protest group. Of whom does the original protest group consist? Mainly it consists of a few courageous individuals that refused to be led by their own early conditioning of fear-based selfishness that without exception we all receive. Instead these few used clear thought to empower themselves despite their personal fears and worries. This is no different to the hidden few, who use clear thought to manipulate the minds of others. The only differences are the motives behind the manipulations.
Again and again 'New-Age' thought urges us all individually to empower self, to place a far higher value on our thoughts, ideas, and opinions, regardless of the judgments of others. Individually each of us is a potential future God in our own right. So let's all start right here and now to act as if we believe that this is a fact. Let each of us put this belief into real-life practice.
Public opinion is a vast irresistible tool that is used to guide the direction of the machine that is the system. Public opinion based in manipulated fear is a tool used to benefit the few. Public opinion firmly based in the clear thought of each individual that makes up that public will first and foremost benefit that public. Only then will we see the leaders of civilizations begin to genuinely work for the benefit of the planet and for everyone, not just to work for the strong. The international few have never felt the personal need keep to national boundaries, but cleverly they taught us all to feel this need. As a result of our fears we all dearly paid, and paid, and paid, for world wars, that culminated in the use of nuclear weapons. This continued in a deliberately divided world until an elder statesman warned us of the endless planetary nuclear winter that would follow massive use of these vile weapons. Then we all paid again to have the bombs dismantled.
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