This is a crisis of consciousness.
The most valuable resource on Earth is human consciousness. If I don’t take care of mine, someone will “care” for it for me. They do that by repeating lies over and over until they “become true”, at least in my mind. We are also inundated with some emotion…Oh the children!...and how can your consciousness then elbow the heart aside and go along with the lie?
Today we are subject to myriad lies, both in mainstream and alternative media. I don’t need to believe in a dark conspiracy to see how “progress” is knitting them together to transform the world: biometric technologies; 24/7 surveillance, monitoring, and its storage; digital and programmable money; social credit scores; and lots of physical and emotional traumas to overcome and heal. Meanwhile war grows ever more threatening; now that might truly be a dark conspiracy of the military-industrial-complex and big finance. The Internet, Bluetooth, and WiFi were developed as a result of military R&D, especially into electronic warfare. As with all tech, the advantages and convenience lure us in long before the devastating consequences are felt. But no tech is safe.
Hollywood’s remaking of hits from earlier generations, now with a “woke” bent, is a clear sign our descendants are being programmed to accept much of the same ideology that filled our own childhoods. Longevity is not the goal; hence the toxic chemical and electromagnetic soup that has been cooked up these last several decades is a perk, not a bug, of the new technology. The climate “scare” is an effective excuse to limit our consumption of resources, and sick care degrades our physical ability to resist being traumatized. A study was released this past week claiming pharmaceuticals are now the #1 cause of death in America, surpassing cancer and heart disease for the first time. Doubt you heard that. Media keeps us emotionally frozen in place, lacking any spiritual understanding that might lead us out of fear and into resistance.
U.S. debt is unsustainable. U.S. resource consumption and generation of pollution and trash: the same. Plastic pollution is as ubiquitous as the chemicals and EMFs; all three destroy ecosystems, but not in a heartbeat, rather over generations. Out of sight, out of mind. We react and seek safety when we see the lion in the grass approaching; as long as it remains out of sight, we will not flee. Despite all efforts over four decades to reduce CO2 in the atmosphere, we haven’t even made a difference in the trend line. Maybe that’s not the key component driving climate chaos; might it be a result of weather warfare instead? International monetary systems also need an overhaul; it used to be that periodically, a debt jubilee, caused by the death of one King and succession of a new one, would clear the slate and start a new currency for trade. Empire’s U.S dollar is faltering, in lockstep with the fading away of industrial and manufacturing capability domestically. Who could have foreseen that a shift away from making tangible goods for trade and instead relying on providing services and financial “products” and derivatives would vaporize a dollar’s value? Or that fractional reserve lending might create inflation, or that rehypothecation while claimed to be legal, is most definitely immoral? Or that sanctioning other countries and forbidding them to use USD in trade with us (and others) would destroy its value, and trust in Empire, on the global market?
This horizontal type of war, between elites embedded in their home nation, distracts most people from the vertical class war that has been waged since the dawn of agriculture. Today’s Empire is the most global ever; it hides the class war that we are both ignorant of and losing badly. Our slide into bankruptcy, both moral and financial, will be gradual until it’s not. President Kennedy foresaw a possibility of world peace; until he suddenly foresaw nothing. The perpetrators of that murder went free. In early 1995 Senator Biden introduced the Omnibus Counterterrorism Act; a few months later it passed in the immediate aftermath of the Oklahoma City “bombing”; the true perps went free once more. Funny how the Patriot Act was already written and ready when the tragedies of September 2001 occurred, making us all terrorists in the eyes of the law. Again the perps go free, hidden by the “official conspiracy theory” of 19 Arab hijackers with box cutters flying planes into buildings “which no one could have foreseen”. Using a long-known and recently resurgent H7N9 virus in the 2010’s, already global and ubiquitous in 2019, but concocting a story about a ‘novel’ SARS-CoV2 mutation as the grist for the latest psyop, the combat frontline in the global class war was advanced much deeper into our territory. Again, perps go free. Are you seeing a pattern here?
So this is the state of the world as we near the end of this Fourth Turning[1]…in the prosaic sense of reality. That means “lacking in creativity and Spirit”, by the way. I remember advice from when I was young: “Go home from the dance with the one that brought ya.” There will always be a new crisis, a sudden emergency, be it terror, financial, health, climate, or a profound lack of peace in our relationships; that justifies in the minds of some the ongoing fear(s) that can be exploited to dominate and exploit everyone not in on the deal. Following 2001, most were trained to attack the ‘deniers’, the heretics, the heathens and rogues. This has clearly been magnified during this latest Covid debacle, as new social media and Internet communication channels compete for attention in a post-news-anchor world. No doubt you are at least aware that President Eisenhower’s last speech in office pointed a finger at the budding M-I-C; it’s worth the time to read the entire speech. In it he also said:
“Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of the scientific-technological elite.” [emphasis added]
Likewise, doing my own research, questioning ‘authority’ as I should, I must also avoid becoming captive of media repetition of lies, claiming cover of authority, or simply ‘trust the Science™’.
Let’s consider this all in the light of Spirituality. Charismatic religious leaders (authorities) may or may not serve my spiritual development. That is important to know, as growth is the most critical and desired outcome of this one wild and loving human lifetime for me. But I must be responsible for myself and do that work; others can’t do it for me. With every word and act we create. It should be obvious that not doing the work myself, I will remain locked within the lies of others, incapable of dealing with reality in its true nature. It doesn’t have to be like that.
I break the curse of programming by focusing on real wealth. I know, I repeat this at the end of every essay. But healthy relationships, communities, and Nature are what got humans to this point in our development; it’s what we should go home with. At least until those types of wealth were transmuted into a Fool’s Gold of phantom wealth in recent generations, in the developed world at least. The big question now is, how do I (we) break the spell of our programming, based in fear and hate and rage, and bring back Love…Today? We Go Wild, friends. It starts now.
[1] The fourth cycle in American history…
Thank you for the post. It brought to mind a recent learning (we're all traumatized).
Giving ourselves time and space to contemplate is important. Each of us needs to walk the walk if we're to get anywhere.