The Dangers
(continued from Disturbing Trends)
Attempts by intelligence agencies to install myths that support a future reigime paint by numbers a jigsaw of society that will continue to interact in non constructive paradigms of behaviour.
Nature is the way it is because of the massive shedding of exact colours, and the gradual development of boundaries between which we may exist one with another.
A recent meeting of a very large family brought home that even between blood relatives, divergence and difference are the most common and marked criteria. It is what we watch out for, are features of difference that help us remember. What makes Auntie Janie memorable is what aids her survival as a character in our consciousness. Is consciousness an object or just a more tangible way to say the will?
That we wake up when we are born into a life which ends when we die opens a facination for the "other" side. What it is like before we are born is something we tacitally agree with ourselves is out of reach, so, spiritually, we abandon ourselves when we believe that we somehow popped into existence when we were conceived, and will pop back out again when we die.
We are thus agents of the cause of the spirit. The fundamentals that cement into place and define our lives are the results of our deeds and actions.
We feed the queen of our brood for good reasons. We seek to better ourselves by increasing the opportunities available to our progeny, by constructing society that forwards the spirit of thinking, ahead of the urges of greed. These are religious morals and for us to choose them ahead of our lustful urges or hungers we have to surrender spirit from ourselves, or more susinctly, make a spritual investment.
When self-styled superstar billionaire "advisors to world leaders" speak of spiritual investment; they may be precisely after your money; but, in their language is loaded with stimulation to the "sprirted" nature within.
I found myself musing how so many people make romantic choices in their twenties which they no longer understand in their forties. We create myths to help form a simple thread of continuity. We tie ourselves to another person with a bunch of "understood" agreements.
As we are not the symbols by which others identify our selves, but inner spirits seeking to vent a valve that expresses our language, differences erupt between people. Blind acceptance or "love" is therefore not an intellectual choice, but an insight to the quality of the "spriit" of a person. Love based in biological dependency is shortlived, and intellectual love remains so long as you work on it.
But a spirited love is the love that we seek in one another. And when a leader achieves a spirited love by a people, as in the case of Gandhi or Mandela they become symbolic in their own right, commodified into language. Dissolving into the substrate of metaphor is perhaps the highest regard of fame. There are but a handful of Leonardo's in our history.
If we wish to place more ecstatic genius' into our future, as we should, we are bound by moral force to select myths that slowly introduce a "spirited humanity" to our actions and deeds, a "goodness" that spills outside of the very needs that exist to satisfy inherent needs, to breed and survive.
Economics is one such religion. Government is another structural faith that relies upon the belief of nearly the entire population. The deposing of Saddam changed the nature of the boundaries between legal entities. Through this breach, political force flows in a circulation that surges with "spirit". We have been prepared to react with tendency toward moral outrage at anything Saddam does, but with a resigned indifference to the actions of the "coalition".
We are told by "the networks" that we can not call this an "invasion", I did not hear a reason. American forces are not exactly responding to an invitation, so I feel it best to refer to it as an "invasion" even though I understand the US do not want to "own" Iraq.
It just makes good business sense to get rid of the one man that all the sanctions were being held against.
The finding of large cachets of WMD requires no supporting myth or verification due to our investment in "being right" in the war creates a high pressure deficit of "spirit". These are short term loans and require immediate relief. Thus we are too ready to accept that any find, no matter what it is, constitutes a WMD evidence.
It is part of our myth that Iraq has the weapons, and when they are "found" (or found) it will cause a relief to the "spirit". The proof is right there - our minds know that the proof is likely to be faked, if it is not really found, or if they want to keep its location secret, so the fiction we are fed is all we want, and then we don't want to discus it.
We become impicated in the crime, adherents to a faith of "spirit" that our minds know is a pretense, but that is not going to deter us from making choices, which, we may later on regret.
The best marriages are not born in heaven.