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To get to the point where I am now it took few years of digging into information that wasn't exactly sorted by relevance and distance (closeness) to rationality. I talked earlier about importance of keeping our center inside, and not letting our attention be hijacked by one (or many) of mindtraps that are abundant in the world we live in - it is even more important to remember about that when one is exploring new lands. At some point I was navigating between various so called "conspiracy theories", Scylla of Pharma and Charybdis of Chemtrails and I wondered where exactly is the line between what is real and what is a little bit exaggerated. And then there was an enlightenment moment, when I decided that it is not what I am here for. That what I can do is to acknowledge existence of various theories, I can acknowledge that some of them (or even all of them) might be true (I'd prefer Santa Claus really existing over Flat Earth thing of course) but until I can do something about them, I'm going to...
It goes like this. It is obvious that modern world is build on money and control. It is clear that capitalism, socialism and communism do not care for/about individuals, and that crazy idea of personal freedom is frowned upon. It is obvious that governments and powers behind them are only interested in keeping and increasing their grip on the world. This is their nature. I don't necessarily believe in chemtrails or other theories, because I do not need them to explain the evil in the world. They, if they even exist, are only symptoms. And I don't care about symptoms much. Symptoms can be treated if needed, they should be recognized if they appear, but without removing root causes it does not matter how many symptoms we cure - there will be more, always more, until the hole through which they come is plugged.
I'm happy to leave it for whomever wants to pursue threads leading to discovery of hidden governments. I personally don't care much for who can be held more responsible - bankers, priests, politicians... They all are guilty, sure, and I'm not advocating leaving them be, but I am pointing out that concentrating on witchhunt means that again, our center is being hijacked. Witches are real in this case, but once again, engaging in chase takes two sides, the one being chased and the other one. At least the one being chased is too busy to plot evil plans... But then again, the important part is that there exist circumstances allowing evil to thrive. So it did. And there are two directions... say, the banks. People inside them who created 2008 crisis should be prosecuted. People who hide pathologies within churches should be burnt on stakes (wouldn't that be ironic). Politicians who start wars? That's crime against humanity and the punishment should be administered accordingly. But then again, the question is: what you are not doing while you are concentrating on conspiracies? Or rather, who benefits from you being busy elsewhere? The witch you find is not the witch you were looking for. And, as much as the guilty should be punished, it is the system that allowed for abuse to take place that should disappear. Top executives can be disciplined, but it is the current monetary system that allows wrongdoing to take place (if not actively encouragei it!). As long as it exists, top level executives will be queuing to the title of the wolf of wall street. Then, one more thing. Seeking the guilty can easily slip into revolution, and so far no revolution managed to free mankind. Eventually in some cases they caused some positive change, but rather as byproduct than by design. Bloodless revolutions are more effective and as much as I don't want to protect dictators and wrongdoers I also think it is much more important to fully understand conditions we're under so we can fix what is wrong with the world, instead of concentrating on finding who is responsible for the situation.
Which by the way is quite clear, isn't it.
Who is less important than what, what is less important than how, and why might be the most important question of all. Answer to "who" alone is unhelpful. Beheading one king will result in another king taking his place - this is how hierarchies work. If the systems allows for someone to be a king, if a role of king exists at all, it doesn't matter who the actor playing it is. The role needs to disappear, not person (or perhaps I should say "the role needs to disappear __first__"). If a role is present in the system, it will be filled by someone, sooner or later. Nature abhors a vacuum, so if there is a role in the play, actor will be provided. Only when the role disappears there can be peace. And at the end of the day a king is not some supernatural, special being. Once men thought that there exist anointed ones, that some chosen few have been marked as shepherds of humanity. Centuries later, we should know better. Someone who managed to hijack your center is a skilled trickster, but nothing more. It is enough to change your perspective, to lead your mind home back to yourself again, to reclaim your center. It's not going to remove external threats, but it helps to see world for what it is. If enough of us see that the king is naked, there will be no more king. No one to bow to anymore. And then we can look up at the stars.
And one more thing, last but not least, there seems to be plenty of directors orchestrating witchhunts. Look over there, chemtrails! And there, there, the horizon is flat, the earth is flat, we never landed on the moon, vaccines cause autism, there are no atom bombs and... for each eager truther there seems to be adjustable, logic-proof, free delivery, no questions asked and we're open 24/7 theory that would keep him busy for months. All that energy, essentially, misdirected. You see, there are certain facts (what a weird word these days) that are, well, facts - Federal Reserve for example. Fiat currency. Things we know are bad. Taxes, for gods sakes! And yet, instead of protesting against what we know is bad... What if, for a week, we could pretend that the shape of the earth does not matter and, instead, unite and try to fix just one small thing (taxes are small thing comparing to the flatness of the earth, no?) - and when that is fixed, I'll help you to make the earth round again (if that's what's needed there)?
