THE PRICE of CIVILIZATION
There have been many prices to be paid for civilization as we know it. It ain’t worth any. But, you say, look around, all people have done it. Is it because the losses for organizing separate systems go so deep they cannot be measured?
Through the practice of measuring, (science, as we know it) each worker is filled with so much limited learning he cannot begin even to appreciate what he has done to the marvelous thing he (a human) once was. Folks have been brainwashed to act only on the basis of measuring and comparing so all that is good, being immeasurable, is readily abandoned. We have sold the precious for trinkets of amusement. We sail on a Titanic of our own making daily.
White men laughed at the Indians who sold Manhattan for beads but the Indians knew that nobody can own a piece of the mother earth. So, the way they see it they got a bunch of multi-colored beads by giving up nothing anybody should want in the first place. They got beads and the white man got the misery of living in a false, unequal hope. It is obvious that all earthlings, of every color, now are miserable. Miserable people want relief and behave like miserable people always do. Not simple enough to realize what they had and easily gave up for trinkets, they are easily hypnotized by every message that tells them somebody else is to blame for the fact they are miserable since what was promised them in churches and school rooms and in social media was happiness. These people believe themselves free if they can select which authority of humans will control and provide for them. Is that not crazy? It surely is not freedom.
Looking, one can see the greedy are very foolish. Whites can respond, “yeah, but look what we did to the Indians” just as if they are proud of it. Just as if they think they benefitted by it. If a man walks into a school or a church with a loaded automatic and shoots everybody in there does he gain? Looks like we are still at it all these years later. Names and religions and dialects change but it’s the same misery.
The key to understanding the fact of the situation today is that some expert measurer noticed that humans are beings who feel a desperate need for fulfillment and we express it in books, songs, and art as a giving of ourselves to something very great. We have experienced how good it feels when we experience freedom from selfish worries for even an hour or a day and wonder why not all the time? That yearning has been used to dominate the masses totally. It has only been necessary to convince us that an authority has constructed by using the latest measuring techniques the very best method possible for all people to give themselves over to an authority all can see is better than they are by its clothes, its land holdings, its harem of wives, its throne, its army, its flags, its theme songs, its history books, its organized religion and its ratings and all of us will be happily willing to serve. But the fact is all of it is superficial and reactionary so must invariably become a dull, boring, unfulfilled life for nearly all. It may sound hopeful at first to people desperate for a new life but it all was invented through human thinking and the drawing of conclusion after conclusion, piling them up until it can seem to be the best way to go: join this church. become a member of this political movement, qualify for this career path, marry this mate, sign a mortgage document for that home in that neighborhood, buy a new car often, take a vacation, join Facebook. Take a picture of that! Exercise. Diet. Meditate. Protest. All of it mere superficiality. All only reactionary to a deep dissatisfaction with life as we are living it.
Everywhere you turn now people are letting you know they do not fit here. Homelessness abounds! Drug use is way out there. Youth suicide is highest ever. Crime is getting worse and worse. When the law abiding are asked what to do they reply, “we oughtta try to rehire some of the cops we fired because they were fueling the problem they had been hired to control”. Meaning, let’s try again what never worked before.
Short answer is: humans were all born to be free. Nothing less can substitute and human life ought never be organized. What can be said in favor of a group of citizens of some organized part of humanity who actually elect to depend on a government and its currency and its illusory corporations and awesome weaponry to provide all their needs? Such people must believe they and their neighbors incapable of taking care of each other thinking that authority is stronger than love. Prefer it over love. See what is meant by brainwashing to the point we only value what we can measure? We build more prisons because it is easy to measure crime…but not at all easy to reduce it. Seek first love. Make it your priority. That is an absolute requirement for freedom. All else will be added to you. Seek first material wealth that can be measured and end up isolated, empty of heart, and lonely with the knowledge that nothing you did mattered. All of it for show.
What is found here in this discussion is not another plan to make a better government at all. That would really be insane. Rather than waste time and energy trying to fix a corrupt mental construct we have only to turn our total attention in the direction of love. All else will be added to us. Selfishness will disappear in the wind. Love and beauty, not products of thought and will, shall never let us down. Nature is not a product of thought. Thought as a master, being partial and limited, always produces disappointment and suffering. It never lets up on that. Destructiveness in all matters comes from a lack of love. It’s as simple as that.
Is scientific murder any less painful than that done from jealousy, envy or hate? Civilizations are banking on it being acceptable. Absolute insanity! Living by mind-fucks results in weapons of mass destruction, homelessness, disease, poverty, suicides, and a long, long list of other horrors. What is a mind-fuck? When a famous scientist studies enough to make from previous theories a new one that gives very impressive results, like gunpowder, for instance, the scientist will be praised for its positive effects but not held responsible for the negative ones, like deaths of many more people. Consider with me for a moment whether it could be shown that when the truth is the priority all else will be added and it will be good. Truth is, the Universe and all within it are truly one designed to naturally act together for the welfare of the whole organism. Truth is, the Earth is a gigantic electric generator that produces vastly more power than the total population will ever need. Have any idea how many wars would have been avoided altogether were there no discrepancies in the power available to all people living on Earth at the time?
That is but one of the many examples of what good is possible for us were we not entangled in separate systems competing for resources. A typical scientist, for example, is going to be found employed within a system subject to orders from authorities to keep his job and maintain a family and feel secure in hopes for future advancements in his career just as surely as does a poor man or woman who cleans sewers and floors and takes away garbage. A wise person would never even consider trading freedom for money, but few are wise now. Nearly everybody from the professional criminal to the high priest of a major religion to the President of the United States is constantly saying to himself, “I have to do it”. You know exactly what is being said. What a dismal outlook there is for such animals as we. So I ask, is it not at least worth some serious effort on your part to investigate while you can into the possibility of a world where all have truth, not concepts, as the priority all day everyday? You have to decide. I cannot do it for you.
