Instead
of worrying about what we cannot do, we should be developing the
skills for what we can do. Formal education is a game of learning
how to blend in to the social structure – you build the myth to the
depth of your playing field, then apply the rules of your trade to
perform the work in an acceptable manner. The other members of
society with your skills are competing against you for the same role,
so you must learn to accommodate both friends and foes alike.
That
our current education system has prepared us for unmitigated disaster
is a fact of life today. Look around and see who is actually working
in their specific field of training and you can see that the game
does not resolve from the sum of its parts. We function by the peter
principle – where people rise to the level of incompetence and have
no adjustment available to take a step back or to stop and smell the
roses.
The
rules themselves are a major part of the problem. The game of social
grace has a complete unwritten set of rules that make the interaction
'work' for all parties involved. This means a lot of condescending
down to lower levers of intelligence to see who can win the race to
be dumbed down. Just try to comprehend the soap operas on daytime
television and you will know what I mean. That we have been divided
into a group of dedicated workers and a group of useless feeders is a
nomenclature system that would raise objections, if people caught on.
As a worker with a saddle – the obligation for a wife and children
– most American males have time to blow off attention on one thing
– cars, sports, sex; anything to take the mind off the grind.
Our
society works like a meat grinder and we are the meat. You have to
keep up with the Jones's on the left and the Smith's on the right.
We have to manicure our lawns to look like every other lawn, paint
our house to blend in with the local color scheme and diligently
follow all the petty ante local regulations, which are supposedly
there for our own good. If you have a voice, there are only specific
channels to speak, and you wouldn't wish to offend anyone by talking
about politics or religion. There is always sports.
Some
people are entirely focused on the money aspect of life. To them,
everything is an exchange of value and they have to make something
more than they give up in every exchange. The banksters create this
money on demand with interest and we play this unnecessary game of
chasing dollars to the exclusion of all else. If you don't follow
this game full-heartedly, you get taken advantage of by people more
focused than you. The idea that banks charge cascading fees on
overdrawn accounts defeats anyone who has made a minor miscalculation
… and encourages those less fortunate to cheat on the game.
Fairness, after all, is in the eyes of the beholder and the system is
fair only to the extent that all people are treated with the least
common denominator.
Let's
pitch this system while we can. The extent of current practice is
that anything that has to travel a long distance has to pay the
freight. The additional costs of the middlemen – the people who
grease the pathway to get things from there to here – adds value to
the cost of the product. It is amazing that we can import foods off
season to satisfy our palates – I remember when growing up we only
had oranges and bananas in season. The world has changed and will
continue to change – it is the one thing we can always count on –
constant change.
How
do we make the change? In many different unique styles and flairs.
If you perceive something as unfair, raise you voice. The current
game of whack-a-mole is conditioned on the fear of getting slapped
down hard – the most vocal are the immediate victims, because they
call attention to the game and get whacked. Everyone else lives in
fear of a whacking, but the logistics are such that only a few whacks
are effective and when the game is called, the dive for cover begins.
The
problem really is an inappropriateness of scale. The idea that a
country of 300 million like minded people exist under the same rule
of law is incredible. Instead of local people having any form of
self-determination, the all-encompassing system tells us what we have
to do, en masse. The conditioning to blindly follow inane rules has
been forced upon us in the way we think – a 45 minute maximum
attention span and a need to repeat simple common liturgies. If you
can see the images of the big picture and get told that this applies
to the little picture, then you can become conditioned by the fear of
what may happen if you step out of line. When you see those who have
stepped out punished rather than rewarded, then you decide that
perhaps the rewards are the greater good.
One
of the worst events of recent history is the game of snitch. The
rewards for watching and turning in your neighbor have grown such
that the police state can be used to profit from personal vendetta.
The police are armed like an invasion force and our civil defense is
paraded off around the world – we have bases in over 100 countries.
The idea that a good offense is the best defense is uncannily wrong
– yet our local national guard is just as likely to serve in
Afghanistan as in Springfield. We watch as it crumbles, at a rate of
not fast enough.
I
attempt to view the world from a positive position, different from
the jargon of modern day thought. I write an essay most mornings,
looking to explain some facet of the world as it could be, rather
than complain about the way it is. Sometime I fail, hence this load
of pointing out the system failure in hope of instigating change, but
I realize that the change I wish to see begins with me. I have
watched the mirage of Ghandi – when he talked peace, he stood
behind his talk with action. Now – the only thing behind most of
the talk are the guns.
When
I look at the resource base, I can see that right now, the
distribution of resources is skewed in favor of those willing to
cheat at the game. The penalty for breaking the rules is less of a
percentage of the take as the game is played at a higher level. The
idea that a few elected people have say over what happens is an
illusion – we have no real choice in the Chinese menu style
political system of one from column demo and one from column repub.
It now appears as a choice between a conservative socialist and a
social conservative. The resources to make a run at the game are
beyond most persons, but not beyond all persons. That the real
owners of the system don't have to vote to buy their way through.
There
was a time when we had Lenny Bruce, or George Carlin or many other
people that made fun of the state. That they were serious about what
they said made their images fit; we laughed because the other
alternative was to cry. Today, what is meant to be funny is not
funny and the seriousness of the punishments – between the corrupt
IRS and the corrupt Homeland Security – is enough to force most
people to play within the rules. The status of each person is like a
permanent record that follows you everywhere – the eye in the sky
symbolizes the watcher state. It is too bad that they no longer
assign Kafka in schools.
All
said, though, this current system is over and done. Totally cooked.
The melt-down in progress is taking place because the emperor has no
clothes. The house of cards lacks a foundation and the corruption of
the monetary system is combustible – it will not take long before
the bank implosion, even if they seem too big too fail.
Today
is the day when the portal opens and the aliens meet the humans. In
reality, we all are aliens. Our human shells that contain us are a
home-built illusion on this particular scale. That we are all one
entity, the whole of Gaia, is a notion that does not play well based
on our current understanding. However, when we look at a hive of
bees or a school of fish, we have no problem seeing the pattern. The
changes are happening because the earth is shifting frequency – the
patterns displayed are filtered through our belief systems and so
change is feared rather than relished.
That
game ends when we support each other, to make do as best without the
rules and regulations of governments of men. All it takes is one
event to shatter the illusion – let's keep working to make that
event come before the metabolic patterns squeeze out too many life
forms from the current earthly sphere. We still need to have
something to bind us, but that choice can be made amongst the people
that we deal with, not several degrees of freedom away.
We
are each individual, a unique being formed by the nature of human
form and the nurture of our knowledge base. We place things into
forms that create patterns that we can grok – but we need to walk
the walk when we grok the talk. This can be difficult, but the
impending doom of collapse is the real illusion – we can pick up
the pieces and do better without the current order, via a strong
maelstrom of chaos that ushers in a better apparent order. The less
we take there form here, the better off we will be.
Namaste'
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