What is the role of independent thinking in life and politics?
Everything!
HOW WE GET INDOCTRINATED
Many of us are less than enthusiastic advocates of our educations.
Why less than enthusiastic?
Because we are socially and emotionally healthy enough as to regard our educations as indoctrination, as the manipulation of children by none-too-smart adults.
This educational philosophy is actually well described in the essay Viruses Of the Mind where Richard Dawkins describes how children are little empty headed vessels into which “intelligent” adults pour knowledge as if it were brain matter.
The Infected Mind
“I have already alluded to the programmed-in gullibility of a child, so useful for learning language and traditional wisdom, and so easily subverted by nuns, Moonies and their ilk. More generally, we all exchange information with one another. We don't exactly plug floppy disks into slots in one another's skulls, but we exchange sentences, both through our ears and through our eyes. We notice each other's styles of moving and dressing and are influenced. We take in advertising jingles, and are presumably persuaded by them, otherwise hard-headed businessmen would not spend so much money polluting their air with them.”
Richard Dawkins, Viruses Of The Mind, 1991
This is of course an inexcusably ignorant view of many things - child and human development and all of human evolutionary, philosophical, spiritual and cultural and political evolution.
It is however consistent with social engineering and the politics of totalitarianism.
Never make the mistake of understanding the lengths to which the civilizational overlords will go to to find ways of engineered the consent of we domesticated sheep.
In this instance I use some conservative political thinking to illustrate how far this has gone.
If you have been reading my work for long you know I am a fan of Real Politics - looking critically and with a highly suspicious mind into the real politics of our time.
Like many I have erred by being pulled into what certain political figures say - before I can see that they use their power and influence to - as they have throughout history - to follow the path of power to the taking of absolute power.
I am an advocate of the recognition that we as citizens - as those who may serve as the decision makers in a supposedly free and democratic society - to presume to vote - in elections which may not be free - in society which may not be free - to think about our politicians from the POV of Niccolò Machiavelli.
I will leave it up to the reader to investigate Machiavelli (1469-1527) - a 16th century Italian writer who also had political ambitions - and who brilliantly laid out the psychology of political power.
So we understand from the outset that politics is a down and dirty business - and one about which we each need to be an expert - as independent and as street wise as is possible.
From this POV it is important to understand that I am a critic of political parties - regarding them as social structures engineered to manufacture our discontent.
Generation after generation - enticing us to take a side - when in actuality both sides are supported by the civilizational overlords.
As a writer it is critically important to me that I maintain a neutral stance - on the side of we as people and never taking the side of a group who seeks political power - power which inevitably becomes absolute power.
As I know from my own past mistakes - it is far easier to be lulled into taking a side - and far easier to be ruled than to reject being ruled.
This is the lot which falls to independent thinkers - a difficult and twisted path towards reaching some sort of truth.
That my thinking sometimes appears to be conservative and sometimes liberal is to be expected.
That politics is a strange art - meaning that we find ourselves with “strange bedfellows” we could not have previously imagined is the case.
Because the truth always lies well outside politics but is used by politicians as part of their art of political voodoo.
Politicians use people like me and the kind of ideas we arrive at and illustrate - to help manufacture consent.
This is simply an occupational hazard - because in the Machiavellian world of politics and politicians - nothing is as it seems.
So from this POV it is as expected to observe that the ideas people like me have been advocating for decades - the understanding that we live now under tyranny and oppression of worldwide nature - is now echoed by mainstream politicians.
At one and the same time it is both great to see this trend and alarming to see the pendulum swing this far afield.
These new conservatives are not our parent’s conservatives but sound more like old fashioned liberals.
Take what they say with a grain of salt - watch what they do - and pay attention to who finances them.
This has been a slippery slope towards world domination and it may be a long long time in the hell of the electronic gulag before we manage to defeat the overlords - if ever.
Stay frosty Star seeds - think for yourselves - seek emotional, psychological and spiritual balance - and follow a path of feeling and logic.
I am not going to ever recommend political sides but will simply help illustrate the obvious.
Remember politicians use us to achieve their ends - always remain aware that this is true.
The following individuals share many of the ideas I have written about in this stack.
Does this make me their political advocate?
Hardly.
Stay tuned Star Seeds and Light Bearers - at this point just about everything is not only possible but probable.
As you know my observations are that we face an unparalleled crisis and that we are slipping imperceptibly into the narcosis of totalitarian rule.
As a mother, a grandmother and as a woman of the human species I will demand death over the loss of liberty.
Patrick Henry was an ancestor - very distant as a seventh great grand uncle - but nevertheless appreciated.
This is what our country was founded on - these unalienable rights - and I will support them to the bitter end.
BE NOT AFRAID
Follow the teachings and principles laid down long ago by the shamanic faith which understands how we defeat the International Deep State - in every decision we make in life take the difficult path of remaining free in our hearts and minds.
Way back in Rome earlier freedom fighters did what they had to do to defeat the International Deep State.
Unfortunately the world went on dazzled by the chaotic circus promoted by what we call civilization - a structured and highly organized society more akin to an insect colony than a human society - where experts presume to tell us what we think and feel - and which functions as a dominance hierarchy where the civilizational overlords rule.
May our creator - the originator of these unalienable rights celebrated in the American Declaration of Independence - protect and defend the Peacemakers.
It is not enough for them to tell us they are peacemakers they must demonstrate it in every decision they make.
QUESTION EVERYONE AND EVERYTHING
The eventual way in which we can accomplish that as a true civilized civilization is to become the change we wish to see in this world.
To embrace the questioning of everything to such an extent that we don’t embrace the chaos of warlike revolution but have the courage to participate in real free speech and real questioning and real polity.
A real civilization is civilized and can never be based on locked down mind control.
Once again what I set out to write when I began this essay well before dawn - instead wrote itself - with a decidedly independent agenda - which escaped any prejudice on my part.
Believe in miracles and set out to be a miracle worker.
Something is happening here and we don’t know what it is.
Amazing!
Dare to be amazing - the results won’t show up in our bank accounts - but will be paid in full immediately.
We are all star seeds - the minerals in our bodies literally forged in the interior of stars - our physical and mental processes the living vibrational processes of the universe.
All of us light bearers - the living embodiment of the universe beginning to comprehend itself.
Now we are in need of an actual civilization where this enlightenment - and not Machiavellian control and thuggery - is the goal of all of us.
We might complain and question - why us? - we are not equal to this task!
The answer to this is why not us and why not here and now?
Answering a question with yet more questions - absolutely - and the questions which follow are guaranteed to blow our minds.
A mind is a good thing to blow - it serves as an antidote to the lockdown thinking.
May our creator bless all the peacemakers - the Star Seeds and Light Bearers.
EXPECT MIRACLES!
And I am not saying that politicians could not also become independent thinkers - it is entirely possible - as there but for the grace of our creator - go we all.
WE REALLY, TRULY, ARE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER!
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Appreciate the restack.
I had an odd moment. I was called to watch the short video about Kamala’s speech. And I had to pause and think a bit:
God doesn’t exist in a strictly linear timeline. And many times people who were under the influence of the Holy Spirit were accused of being drunk.
Her words sound like she’s trying to describe a broken timeline but using words not meant to describe it as such. Because you can’t use language to describe a Mystery.
Food for thought. God works through all of us differently but gloriously.