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Posted by Tom Anderson on June 30, 19101 at 12:07:25:
http://secretcodes.org/problem.html
Irrationality and dishonesty as the source of problems of today's society
Looking at today's society, it may seem very complex, consisting
of all kinds of influences, traditions and beliefs. Seeing our
civilization from an objective viewpoint, however, reveals
problems exist in every aspect of our civilization. By applying
objectivity and scientific knowledge, one can understand the
cause of this state of being.
To understand our current civilization, it is crucial to
understand how it originally started. Obviously, man is a result
of the biological evolution process. Prehistorical humans existed
for more than ten thousand years as extremely intelligent
animals. Because of their complex brain structure, they could
develop languages for detailed information exchange, and
coordination of their efforts. Therefore, they were able to form
great prehistorical civilizations such as ancient egypt or the
sumerian empire. However, there was a fundamental difference in
their way of thinking to that of the modern man. They functioned
automatical, reacting to the environment they perceived, without
an own sense of future or introspection - without what we call
self-determining, free-will consciousness. Their brain functioned
in a mode that perceived sensual input automatically in one half
of the brain, and ped this information on to the other half,
where reactions were determined based on previous perceptual
experience and the biological needs of the organism, whose
primary objective is survival. Man perceived those reactions as
hallucinated voices, and followed these commands, perceived as
"spoken", as ultimate authority and guidance system. The
civilizations that were constructed by prehistorical men
continued to advance and grow more and more complex.
Additionally, problems such as overpopulation and peoples
travelling because of survival needs were imminent. Around 1000
B.C., prehistorical civilizations were in a crisis because of
their growth that they barely could handle. Also, more peoples
mixed, as well as their traditions and survival methods, and the
guidance systems eventually became too complex and
self-contradictory as survival pressures tended to increase. In
this environment, people individually began to invent a new form
of thinking process - consciousness. Consciousness is an
organization of thinking that allows introspection, planning,
abstraction and conceptualization. While still perceiving
surroundings automatically, with this high-level kind of
thinking, the commanding part of the brain is able to form
ociations of logically and symbolically related experiences
and understand knowledge by integrating it in a wider scope. This
process enabled man to make own decisions, based on acting upon
selective knowledge and experiences, which can ultimately form
ones individual judgments and principles for acting in any given
situation.
Only with consciousness it is that human beings could survive for
long in a constantly changing, complex civilization. Only with
consciousness, men's actions can be physically unpredictable
unlike any other natural and biological phenomenon. The
conscious, self-judging, self-deciding mind is yet the only known
force in existence that can exert volitional control over
existence, and override the defaults of naturally occurring
physiological / biological phenomenons in existence.
However, the other side of consciousness is that it enables the
individual to do anything possible that it can conceive and that
lies within the universal laws of physics. Therefore, only the
conscious individual can chose to act good or bad, and be
responsible for its actions. Now for the actual question about
the source of problems in our society: consciousness means not to
have the ability not to chose. Once an individual develops the
conscious mind, its actions will always be based on the choices
it makes - implicitly or explicitly. Unlike the unconscious man,
and the animal, which reacts automatically according to their
biological needs and survival pressures, conscious man must chose
to exert the effort to satisfy his needs, solve his problems, and
act according to his conscious nature. Not to chose becomes a
deception that actually is the decision to default to the most
easy choice in the short-term, which can be escape of
responsibility and "escape" from reality through dishonest
self-deception and irrationality (mysticism). Not explicitly
chosing to make the efforts required for a satisfying life can
leave the conscious individual with chosing laziness,
manipulation of others and destruction.
Most of the problems in our civilization - as well as the state
of todays civilization itself - are a result of conscious human
beings limited by their own irrational and dishonest minds
resulting from a society that forcibly drags each and everyone
into their destructive state of being, steadily trying to evade
reality and self-responsibility. The main reason that all
conscious people default to this kind of life is that opinions
and majorities in civilization are controlled by a few
high-ranked manipulators, who have learned that the mind is
susceptible to authority and propagate themselves as authorities
- in subtle and indirect ways - that replace the real authority
of every humans own consciousness and self-judgment. These
manipulators have existed since Plato (who suggested that there
was no objective reality independent from what anyone thinks or
feels - and who suggested that men are evil by nature and
therefore need to be controlled by the state - and therefore lay
the foundation for justifications and rationalizations used by
manipulating elites throughout history).
These background manipulators form a social structure of people
ruling directly or indirectly over others by force or fraudulent
deceptions, based on rationalization that they are doing
something good and necessary by exerting their control - based on
feeding them a distorted picture of reality and supporting
already existing irrational views that help their goals. They
come in form of politicians, bureaucrats working in institutions
that regulate and suppress whole societies, traditionalists
supporting destructive old "moral values", most of the mainstream
media, religious leaders that promote the belief in irrational
God-authorities, government "entrepreneurs", many judges and
lawyers, many university professors, and political lobbyists, to
name a few. Anything that supports general irrational beliefs and
present repressive systems and is ideally ociated with the
state is ideal for manipulating the mes. And if one identifies
some of those manipulators and rejects them - they are still
surrounded by a society that is constantly fed with
irrationality, and creates itself problems with relationships,
esoteric beliefs, unhealthiness through drugs and addictive-like,
unhealthy food, scepticism, disinformation, etc. Not necessarily
everyone practicing dishonesty and irrationality manipulates
others. There are mystics, which due to constant exposure to
irrationality and mysticism will try to evade reality - they are
products, victims perhaps, of aggressive ongoing manipulation
that drains their self-control and effective understanding of
reality. For the gain of a minority of smart people who learned
to live by draining and utilizing others, everyone in our
civilization is being aggressively manipulated - to be
conformant to a virtual "majority", and to perceive and act after
belief systems that are subconsciously perceived as
unquestionable "authority" - resulting in an un-natural state of
being in which the individual sucbs to neurosis, destructive
habits and laziness, because of not being able to see the "big
picture" - reality in its full context.