MORE ON SYSTEMS

Systems are by and large dumb and dishonest. This is another way to recognize that you are involved in a system. Here are a few examples. Chris Columbus was sailing West to get to the East, he thought. He named the residents he found when he struck what is now called America Indians because he thought he was in India. Later, when it was determined Columbus was greatly in error about his whereabouts, did the system he worked for correct the error? No. Until this day the aboriginal peoples in America are called Indians. Had they been called Americans, oh boy, it would have been far more difficult to justify completely displacing them. Correct? But since they are Indians, well, Hell, they are in the wrong place. Then, when black slavery was abolished it was thought, “Hell, send them back to Africa!” They too are in the wrong place. "This land is our land!" cried the immigrant. And it has long been taught that white children are superior to black children because they make much better grades on average in school. Schools they build! Duh? All traditions assembled under any system are contradictory and confusing, and especially so for children who are not yet dumbed down. They are taught to sit in an assigned seat for up to an hour at a time without talking to a neighbor or getting up and moving about. And they are taught to be friendly and to get plenty of exercise. And to stand up for their right to be free. They are taught not to ask a neighbor child for help on a test and taught it is divine to be helpful. They are taught sex is bad and that it is the most fun there ever was. They teach children to restrain and to assert. Teach them to dress alike and to be themselves and not to be vain. Children are trained to refrain from judgement and to judge everybody. Violence is condemned except for obligations to kill when it is required. One should respect and honor all people and yet despise your rivals in every contest and think and behave as if your school is better than their school, your country is better than theirs and your family is better. You are taught to love your parents even when you do not. And on and on and on. I even once read a sign nailed to the door of a church widely attended in Austin Texas that stated If you are hungry and in need of food or you need shelter please contact the appropriate governmental authorities as we do not provide such help. It is beginning to become  commonly recognized that to be free requires one to be free from conflicting ideals. When it is widely understood there will be no one to serve in a system of any kind. Systems will be obsolete and only free humans will there be. You may think this to be impossible. It will happen when enough take the trouble to find out for themselves a way far superior to any manmade system that works for everybody because it was set by the force that made the Universe and just as possible as life on Earth itself.