How Our Own Individual Trauma Is Related To the Nation State
None Of Us Remains Free Of Being Traumatized By This
THE TRAUMATIC NATURE OF OUR MILITARY INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY
“Tyranny, like Hell, is not easily conquered.”1
As I begin this essay I am going to link it with the following video which just begins to indicate how much trouble we are in with the rise of digital technology to rule the world.
It is technical and I don’t expect that everyone will take the time to watch it all - just one more example of our traumatic culture.
Is use this to illustrate a point I began making in my recent essays on the CrowdStrike problem and will be releasing another essay later today exclusively on this issue.
For these purposes the reader might note that the CrowdStrike problem is not solved and indicates far greater and more systemic weaknesses in our civilizations.
All of us who have grown up amidst this Military-Industrial-Medical Empire of an armed camp we call a civilization are traumatized.
This is the first thing I tell my children and those who will listen to explain why we cannot logically think our way out of the mess we are in.
We can use a process of both logic and emotion - a path of feeling and healing to work our way out.
But to any rational observer it has simply become obvious that rationality has been transformed into insanity.
Because we are all trauma victims - affected more or less by this disease of modern civilization - by existential grief and emotional distress.
I simply have never met anyone who was not affected in this way.
There are no exceptions.
And I am going to demonstrate in this essay one of the ways of changing this.
But I will have to do it on my own own way - a way which may well not represent your way.
This is in no way intended as advice - advice I am singularly unqualified to give - it simply represents the way I have personally come to understand.
Although we can help each other - we must all do the work on our own.
It is a long journey and this is only the first of many steps.
Difficult path when we live in a society which depends on us not only believing a lie - but being willing to live a lie.
Extraordinary that we are so technologically dependent and yet blind to our own ignorance regarding it.
We were sold - as a world - every person, family, community and nation state - and literally every functioning business the hocus-pocus digital world of digital networking.
As if by magic we could link up to the network of the whole world - no more need for as many hard copies - we had the Cloud.
No more need to go to work a job - we could stay at home, live anywhere we pleased and be paid handsomely to work remotely.
It was rather like life became a kind of utopia - a kind of grownup Disneyland of magic - where in digital land everything formerly impossible became possible.
I remember how exciting it was back in the 1990’s to build a website from scratch - learning a whole new language to create it and through the magic of code seeing the site come alive on screen.
Now almost no one learns code to build a website from scratch - the superstructure code is already written and all we need to is customize the personal information to make a generic site our own.
But if we wish to build our own site we have many design software programs to make it relatively easy to do so.
information is stored in and retrieved from the cloud today - all the complex information on which we depend on to operate this now super complex system we rely on for our very survival - lives on the cloud.
What is this cloud which sounds so magical - as if puff the magic dragon came along and just helped us solve our storage issues?
The misnamed “cloud” is made up of electronic information - transformed into, and transmitted and stored as, code of zeros and ones - transferred via digital connections to the servers which compose farms of interconnected digital storage complexes.2
Information is the new oil or the new precious metal - and is so valuable it lives on well guarded server farm complexes.
In one suburban community we visit there is a walled server farm compound next to the hospital - the gates guarded by a fully armed security force.
The largest, most valuable, farm complexes are usually built away from populated centers - and are regarded by tech companies as their real estate holy grail.
They are all highly guarded and come across more as military installations.
These cloud services are heavily marketed to customers and serve as profit centers for businesses like Amazon Web Services (AWS). Footnote : https://www.cloudzero.com/blog/aws-data-center-locations/
And in case you ever wondered about the real layers of security required for these facilities - think military level - as in the guarding of maximum security prisons, military bases and government centers. 3
And if we take a look at data services from AWS we can see that the number of facilities flanking Washington D.C. far outrank the number in other locations. 4 5
This is not unique to AWS but is characteristic of all the major Military Industrial players in our technological empire.
All this is one of the few shortcuts available to remind us all that digital technology was developed by the military industrial complex and is in fact today a critical component of this complex worldwide.
OUR WISH IS TO ESCAPE THIS SITUATION BUT THE EARTH IS NOW RINGED IN BY THIS TECHNOLOGY
We - as these citizens of this place - now dominated by the worldwide civilizations we have built - have been trying to escape this fate by seeking to defeat tyranny by political, philosophical and religious means for millennia.
Most people are simply unaware that national states and their governments operate as corporations - hand in hand with all other major corporations.
This is as true historically as it is today and yet most Americans are blissfully unaware that America - despite those brief hopes it could be something different - was never anything other than a corporation.
Many people I descend from - original European colonists of the Americas - were card carrying members of the East India Company - a London corporation.
And these people were refugees of sorts from the European mess they had in fact created.
They did not leave their homes and families and make a dangerous voyage in a filthy leaking ship as a vacation adventure - and neither were their priorities “religious freedom”
Their priorities were driven by a multiplicity of factors - among them were:
Many were political enemies and faced certain death by remaining behind
Many were second sons and could not inherit land and property from their families
The European culture of these times was dominated by filthy cities awash with plague, by social dissolution and economic failure, and dominated by a militaristic and highly paranoid ruling class.
The continent of the times was rocked by medieval beliefs in such things as demons, witchcraft and the use of various creative forms of torture to save souls.
In other words the colonists left behind a broken world - a world I which there was no future for them.
They told themselves they came to America to find religious freedom for themselves and to “save” the wicked souls of the savage “Indians” but instead brought with them all of the same issues they had escaped.
These were not colonists planning to join with the native peoples to create a new world.
These were representatives of the king - of the corporate establishment - and they were not about to allow their new corporate base to be commandeered by a bunch of “Indians”.
In short the colonists did not escape themselves or their culture but simply transferred the whole mess to the Americas.
And by extension these same colonial corporate forces expanded their manipulation methodology to China and the Far East.
In China however they were amazed to discover an already bustling corporate administrative state which could not be dominated or easily managed by techniques used in the Americas.
Through a complicated blend of less than transparent trade practices - and the introduction of opium - it didn’t take long for the East India Company to fool and dominate the Far East.
All of these subjects deserve their own encyclopedic volumes - for the brevity I use by necessity here cannot do them justice.
I highly encourage readers to do their own deep dives into these subjects at a good library.
Getting back to the Americas here - well before the conquest of the Americas by the British and more northern nations from the late 15th century on - there were the Spanish.
It is no secret that the Catholic empire of Spain used religion as a tool of oppression in the Americas.
While today we think of these religions being dominated by Christ consciousness - in the early 15th century religions and cultures had become dominated by the Machiavellian philosophy of those who - like the Medici family - were more simply known as the Vatican Bankers.
This being the case we might expect that the church would have become an arm of the Machiavellian state - and we would be correct.
As today we rightfully see the brotherhood of banks and bankers as key players in the evolution of all political power - this was no less true in 15th century Spain.
From the late 15th century on - Spanish colonists had used their religion to rule over the “Indians” - using the rationalization that they must save their demonic souls using whatever means they could devise.
And what they devised was torture - varieties of torture so creative - they would make our modern military intelligence experts pale by comparison.
I again apologize for skimming over the vast history of the influence of the integrated entities of nation state corporate military industrial complexes across both time and space.
What I am reminding myself of - and all of us - is just another part of the vast misunderstanding of our own history and of how this misunderstanding leads us to make misunderstood assumptions about our society.
History is being made as I write this - and this history creates the future.
Real past history - and the lies we allow ourselves to tell to hide real history - comes to define ourselves and our country and entire world culture.
Just like what we have personally done in the past may come to haunt us - may even drive us crazy if we allow it to.
There is a whole industry of psychologists and psychiatrists to help us overcome both previous mistakes we have made and various traumas we have been victims of.
The techniques which are helpful - whether offered by mental health professionals and/or by spiritual teachers - are based on certain strategies held in common.
These techniques are based on facing what we have done and/or what others have done to us and in learning how to move on.
In order to move on from trauma we must face it head on and deal with our complex feelings and emotions - acknowledging our feelings and expressing them - as painful as they may be.
The next step is acceptance of this truth we are facing - that it is part of us - but does not define us.
We learn that who we really are is far stronger and based on something far more reliable than what has hurt us.
We come to see ourselves as the very human and fallible entities we are - guided by a greater and far wiser consciousness than the one we grow up believing in.
As long as we do not come to both see and break free of this negative and harmful consciousness we grow up believing in - we have no ability to become free of the traumatic nature of these beliefs.
Despite this deep dive into the various ways we have found ourselves in such enormous and overwhelming troubled circumstances I remain an apocaloptimist in that I understand we have been given these times for a reason - that they represent the darkness before the dawn - and that the healed and healing consciousness - what many might call Christ consciousness - is determining the course of events and is the real force and intelligence in control here.
As anyone can see by simply looking around the dark forces are well equipped and intent on death and destruction - they are causing and will continue to cause a great deal of pain and trauma.
But in the final analysis these dark forces have no agency - no real foothold in this world other than that we allow them to exist and thrive.
We cannot win this without changing our own consciousness - and because we can only do so much to change the consciousness of others - mainly by serving as stoic examples - we must seek out alliances with other stoics and those who stand strong.
Spiritual battles are long and difficult and won by those who are able to heal themselves from the trauma of life - overcome their own doubt and pain - and prevail - not despite the circumstances - but because of them.
After all what sort of story could Jesus have told without the traumatic force of the military industrial corporate entity of the Roman state?
We have a clear choice now and many of us have felt the tides turning in our favor.
Please let me know in the comments if you are one of those who feels this Great Turning Of the Tides.
The depths of the evil we now see in full has had many different forms throughout our history and since the history or our civilizations forms our psychological and spiritual makeup as surely as our personal history does - taking a really good look at how our history - both personally and culturally - are a vital aspect of our journey.
TAKE HEED STARSEEDS AND LIGHTBEARERS!
The tide is turning fast and there is blood in the waters as the human sharks go about throwing each other overboard.
Don’t take them too seriously they are just doing what pirates and human sharks have always done.
“Never Interfere With an Enemy While He’s in the Process of Destroying Himself.”
There are lots of people out there who will help us understand - I suggest we listen to them all.
What you get here is nothing but a Tennessee grandmother who has zero tolerance for tyranny.
We need enough of us to reach some sort of critical mass.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
American Declaration of Independence
Bless All the Peacemakers!
This is an excellent essay, KW.
Your insights and perception matches my own Spiritual Observations. When we become fully aware that what we are is beyond what can be "defined," our sense of Sovereignty becomes based on that Spiritual Perspective.
We can approach our interactions with a sense of what I call: "Equal Mindedness," come what may in the outer world; it matters not how the technical systems try to identify us, looking inward we know we are from pure awareness.
Our Individuated Sovereignty is made manifest in our actions, by seeing Oneness in Consciousness. This is at the heart of a healthy civilization based on Voluntary Cooperative behavior; as opposed to the Centralized Compulsory Collective the Parasites are trying to orchestrate.
Breaking free of the "Systems" gets a lot easier when you see yourself as a complete sovereign and not a citizen. No system is "above" the inner Self.
The Unabomber got it right his manifesto that said
technology is going to destroy this world. WWIII will include a space fight where DEW’s will start destroying satellites from China, Russia, and United States. Chaos will erupt on earth because nothing will move work or grow! Welcome to sci-fi replacing peace on earth!