DEMOCRACY, POLITY, INQUIRY-BASED FREE SPEECH & SPIRITUALITY
DEMOCRACY, POLITY, INQUIRY-BASED FREE SPEECH & SPIRITUALITY
Democracy, the Creator, and Freedom Have All Been Demonized
DEMOCRACY, POLITY AND INQUIRY-BASED EDUCATION, FREE SPEECH & SPIRITUALITY
These days we have grown to live in such a multi polar society we have largely lost sight of why we might want to have a society at all.
For many - faced with the sheer barbarity which we have now achieved in our supposedly highly advanced modern civilizations - escaping civilization has become their goal - and failing this - wiping out their perceived enemies.
Maybe a few thousand beautiful acres of gorgeous ranch land high in the Rockies will fix the problem?
Who needs the sheer prosaic ugliness - or the aggravation of living an average life in some broken down city or some Stepford husbands and wives subdivision?
But the problem is we are highly social human beings - trapped now within the societies we have fashioned together.
Not that there is anything wrong with the desire for that ranch or the space and peaceful life it might offer - but not only is it out of reach for most of us - but that ranch itself doesn’t exist outside of a society or outside of the organic wholeness of Gaia.
Even free of a high density teeming enclave of humans the ranch is not as isolated as it seems and is tied into all sorts of teeming ecosystems - human and otherwise.
Whether we like it or not - accept it or not - we are not separated - and cannot truly live apart from all the rest.
We might choose to live in a more sane way - a more meaningful way - and as more independent individuals - perhaps in more isolated circumstances in the wilderness - but we remain part of the whole in which we were created.
We are conceived and born into a family and a community - and the quality of that family and community determines to a large extent the person we might become.
And the myth of the isolated hero - isolated and “free” in the wilderness - free of the constraints and hassles of civilization - is a myth.
For as proven in many a Hollywood movie or a romantic drama or novel the haughty, effete blustery - usually male - domineering and violent and angry hero is just another myth which proves the point that we are not alone but members of a society.
The necessity of this lone gunfighter - or knight in shining armor - myth is fueled by the same ugly society which fuels the myth that a woman can become a lone cowgirl or feminist heroine - cutting all ties with men and with society.
These are harmful myths - myths which instead of motivating us to become better as individuals - better equipped to live well on this earth and to get what we need - lead us to become awful individuals who become selfish, egotistical, angry and unsatisfied.
There is a poem which begins to get at this in a deeper - more holistic sense - and that is “The Answer”.
Then what is the answer?- Not to be deluded by dreams.
To know that great civilizations have broken down into violence,
and their tyrants come, many times before.
When open violence appears, to avoid it with honor or choose
the least ugly faction; these evils are essential.
To keep one's own integrity, be merciful and uncorrupted
and not wish for evil; and not be duped
By dreams of universal justice or happiness. These dreams will
not be fulfilled.
To know this, and know that however ugly the parts appear
the whole remains beautiful. A severed hand
Is an ugly thing and man dissevered from the earth and stars
and his history... for contemplation or in fact...
Often appears atrociously ugly. Integrity is wholeness,
the greatest beauty is
Organic wholeness, the wholeness of life and things, the divine beauty
of the universe. Love that, not man
Apart from that, or else you will share man's pitiful confusions,
or drown in despair when his days darken.
The Answer, Robinson Jeffers
Art like this - which points toward or reveals the inevitable truth - is that we cannot ultimately escape the true circumstances into which we are conceived and born.
As Jeffers makes clear we have been duped by our civilizations and violent leaders to buy their “dreams of universal justice or happiness”.
And yet these snake oil salesmen make the same grandiose claims generation after generation - and lead us down the same garden path repeatedly as the well laid path to our own destruction.
The problem is that we live in a society which is so distorted, so ugly, and now so demonic that all we wish to do - is escape .
Needless to say this results in a society of outlaws and homicidal maniacs who live to destroy all the other homicidal maniacs who they deem are at fault.
This is the situation we find ourselves in currently and the most worrisome attitude I encounter as a writer is this attitude that everyone else is at fault - everyone but ourselves.
It is not that as a society we have not managed to produce some truly monstrous humans who would have to be successfully brought under control to even begin to posit a just society.
But as I have pointed out previously the above sentence might be abstracted to define our situation as civilized beings for many thousands of years of our history.
And many people are living under the erroneous notion that this means it is us as these creator created human creatures that are the problem - the essential problem.
This is not to sidestep our role as humans in having created this mess - we have managed to to this - and in spades - but stick with the fundamental argument for the sake of this essay.
If my argument falls apart then so be it - but I cannot complete the essay without having faith in the fundamental logic on which it ultimately depends.
EITHER OUR CREATOR IS AT FAULT - OR WE AS HUMANS HAVE ERRED
If we as human beings are the essential problem then we must truly blame the creator whom we believe created us - be it through a random process of evolution in a random universe - or as a teleological process overseen by that creator we call God.
Either way - if we as humans are the essential problem then not only is there no answer whatsoever - but whomever or whatever we hold responsible for creating us is in vast and nearly incomprehensible error.
So we find ourselves at this juncture having to question everything and to come to terms with the recognition that one or more of the following several alternatives is true
Are we flawed - but redeemable beings -capable of logic and reason and love and compassion and civil polity - currently mired in the results of our own mistakes?
Are we as human beings the demon seed of some incomprehensibly evil creator who created humans as some ultimate cosmic joke?
Are we as humans created by a compassionate creator who gave us free will within the bounds of the physical and spiritual limitations of the universe a creator who expects us be intelligent enough to figure this all out?
It will choose the first and third of these instances but I am not a bliss ninny enough to fail to see that our society has chosen for the second instance at this point.
I see the dilemma in which we - as the created entities - are obsessed with our failings and limitations and seek to escape from these at all costs.
I see this in the mad dash toward the creation of machine learning. -
I see this in our rush to the development of our techno biological and robotic selves.
I see this in our faith - not in our creator - but in ourselves as the creators of beings which will finally be perfect in our estimation - machine perfect.
We will have become perfect, robotic machines - a paradise where machines which echo back to us - as Hal 9000 intones:
“I’m sorry Dave - I’m afraid I can’t do that”.
But all this leads back to is the mythological trap of the lone gunman or the impervious all powerful feminist - to a zero sum game where no one wins and where everyone loses.
I believe we are at an impasse where for the first time we are capable of seeing that the creator was not in error.
Of comprehending that whether we are the result of a non teleological process of evolution or created magically by a creator - that either one is in fact powerful magic we will never totally comprehend.
Understood to be these created entities - and that as these individuals with these unalienable rights conferred by a creator - that we have been given free will.
Given free will within the art of the possible - within the bounds of physicality, spirituality and logic and reason - possible to become sane beings in a sane and logical and rational and beautifully crafted universe.
I see clearly that we are the ones we have been waiting for.
See that we are being given a unique opportunity to see where we have erred - and to seek to change ourselves in order to become the sane and compassionate and logical individuals capable of building a sane and compassionate and logical and beautiful society.
NECESSITY IS THE MOTHER OF INVENTION
There will be a path forward to accomplishing this.
Through a process of engaging in an inquiry-based polity and life long pursuit of mutual education where asking the right questions and where sorting out and understanding what works and what doesn’t becomes our individual and our collective goal.
Because in the end it is our achievement of a sane society into which we are conceived and born which determines happiness or lack of it, which determines our ability to engage in free will and which identifies and sets limits on those who would selfishly take advantage of and destroy these unalienable rights conferred by a creator.
There will be much resistance to this by those who would seek to take immediate advantage of such a situation - and who would see themselves as the all powerful determiner of our fates - and who will continue to see that it is the creator who is in error and - by extension - that we - as the created mistakes of this creator - are irredeemable and incapable of self determination.
You will see proof of this everywhere as those who have been so damaged by the demonic nature of our societies respond with anger, frustration and hostility to such an idea.
I see proof of this everywhere as I write about the alternatives and as I see clearly that we are indeed the ones we have been waiting for.
We are surrounded by these angry and hostile souls - believing we must fall once again to fighting a war to end all wars - that someone or something else is responsible and must be killed.
But in any spiritual context - of any trustworthy tradition - this is the demon speaking - be it Satan or the Devil or Witches or Warlocks - it is the doom scrolling and black pilled energy which defeats us before we begin.
Thomas Paine was correct that tyranny is the ultimate enemy and as difficult to fight as hell itself.
“Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.”
― Thomas Paine, The American Crisis
Because tyranny - as hell - is precisely what we fight.
And as Solzhenitsyn once said - that which we call tyranny or totalitarianism or apartheid - cannot be defeated by killing each other or through inventing artificial or machine technology - but solely by healing that fracture line which runs through our own hearts and minds.
“If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
We are indeed the ones we have been waiting for and until we accept this - each one of us - and discover this deep abiding peacefulness which exists within us - peacefulness conferred by our creator - peacefulness we must feel and experience deeply in order to comprehend - we will remain condemned to be free and incapable of ever attaining it.
For as Albert Camus in the Myth of Sisyphus revealed - without that peacefulness and integrity - we are in perpetuity relegated to pushing that boulder uphill all day only to be chained to a rock all night with our liver being eaten by eagles.
And as Shakespeare’s Hamlet complained in from the depths of his abject doom scrolling and black pilled depression :
‘What a piece of worke is a man! How Noble in reason! How infinite in faculty! In forme and mouing
how expresse and admirable! In Action, how like an Angel in apprehension, how like a God!
The beauty of the world, the paragon of animals—and yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?
Man delights not me— nor woman neither, though by your smiling you seem to say so.’
Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 2, Scene 2
Without this peacefulness - and without recognizing that we are the ones we have been waiting for - we exist as those condemned to be free, condemned to see ourselves as a “quintessence of dust” - as the butt of some great cosmic joke - and like the ouroboros consuming it’s own tail - condemned to killing each other off until we all disappear.
Condemned to use X and FB and other demonic inventions of the demon seed and to create - out of our black pilled souls - those artificially intelligent machines which will in turn destroy us as the creator-hating demon seed which dared to create Frankenstein.
Get a grip - my friends - we are the ones we have been waiting for.
The creator did not make a mistake.
The creator patiently waited for us to discover just precisely what the creator - and we - have been awaiting.
Who will take away his license to kill?
We will.
For the species whose goal is to kill itself is fighting against all physical, spiritual and philosophical laws - and will either learn and have the courage to change - or suffer the inevitable consequences.
“I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that “
As we are surrounded with the fake news and fake spirituality which is observable everywhere.
For the fake misinformation of fake news - and the fake Roman spirituality of church and state - go hand in hand with the demonic we may also observe all around us.
The devil is nothing is not subtle - and lies like a mythical serpent of sorts - awaiting those who are weak of spirit and character.
We are the fulfillment of the prophecy which reminds us of the peace of the ages which rests in our souls and in our hearts and minds.
In order to have such peace - we must feel and manifest peace - and be willing to manifest this peacefulness in everything we think, say and do - in order to experience it.
Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”
“The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.
Our chance to redeem ourselves as these much wounded and much corrupted humans created by our creator involves much work.
It means not only discovering that peace - but willing and eager to become that peace as manifested in every decision we make and in every transaction in which we participate.
For as we have been taught - and as we have blithely ignored all these years as a society - having chosen the Roman state over the teachings of the man who lived among us and taught these things in defiance of the Roman state - the bill for our misleading - and incorrect theology and spirituality - has come due.
And the payment?
Requiring us to now comprehend the nature of the Christ consciousness - that which may be found through the many mansions of the Father’s house.
In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
No one religion - and certainly no set of teachings approved and supported by the nation states which rule over us as the modern manifestation of the Roman State - will represent the way and the light.
The real Christ consciousness - the way of the desert wanderer and the peaceful revolutionary mystic and shamanic healer will be what we must return to - shedding the snake skin of the Roman church and state - the religion of the demon seeds.
As the Zen Buddhist’s express it in Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind by by Shunryu Suzuki -
“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few.”
That little child who shall lead us - along with our beginner’s mind - is the child who resides in the uncorrupted innocent, loving and compassionate hearts of us all.
The path we seek is toward understanding the peace of the ages - to be found in our own hearts as we heal ourselves from within.
We are all children of the same creator:
All children of God.
We are the ones we have been awaiting.
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