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Posted by Andy Bauman on October 04, 19102 at 13:06:47:
In Reply to: The essence of today's problems of society posted by Tom Anderson on June 30, 19101 at 12:07:25:
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: 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.