The most subversive thing you can do in any unenlightened society is to encourage people to think for themselves—to teach real courage and love. This is because the product of such encouragement would be difficult—if not impossible—to control. It is precisely the ubiquity of fear, laziness, avarice, and ignorance which allows a ruler-based society to exist at all. It is in the best interest of the rulers to keep the people ignorant, fearful, dependent, and fighting amongst themselves (all the while encouraging them to believe that they are not ignorant, unfree, or dependent—an important, and I think, generally unnoticed, ingredient to be considered in a system like this one). The most dangerous person to a ruler-based society is a person who is strong and courageous and thinks for him- or herself, for such a person cannot be controlled, unless by physical restraint, or violence.
Luckily for the rulers, most people are too lazy to think for themselves, too cowardly or arrogant to question the assumptions and illusions of their conditioned existences, too selfish and greedy to pose any real threat. The best way to control people is to let them control themselves by means of their own greed and ignorance. This is the brilliance of this system. People are conditioned to not really question authority, to not question the beliefs sacred to the system, to not really think for themselves, to think that strength is expressed in the control of others, to think that strength and adulthood is being a “strong,” separate ego.
These are very important things to understand when it comes to this society, and what’s actually wrong with it, for it is too easy to get lost in all of the stuff that’s good about it.
The point is very much like what I see in individuals, in the sense that people need to want to grow up in order to be able to. No one who wants to grow up (by means of awakening) can be held back from doing so. How much more fucking important (and threatening to the powers that be) could a truth-idea be than that? How much more subversive to the rulers of this society, to any ruler at all, could something be than this? This is the thing they don’t want us to know, what they don’t want us to put into practice.
Again, though, luckily for them, the people themselves police the system by means of their own active ignorance and craving—self-sustaining system. That is the brilliance of this system, and it’s something I really don’t think most people are aware of. It requires so much less energy to enforce than, say, militarily and so on, like in some other countries, for this enforces itself; the people enforce their own oppression by means of ignorance- and craving-based repression (“repression” because, in reality, they are doing it to themselves!).
By the way, it is ideas like this, it is these kinds of realizations, that I am being mindful of keeping to myself, for though I don’t really think that, as a non-public figure, I present a threat to the powers that be, these are the truths that would bring them down. The smart ones know it, at least on some level; those who are into political theory and into power over others. And the funny thing is that most citizens take the lies and half-truths they are given by the establishment and opine away about them and think that they are educated and informed, obviously oblivious to the fact that they are like dogs being thrown meaty bones to distract them from what’s really going on. I love hearing people pontificate about what “we’re” doing, or what Israel or Saddam is doing, and so on. That shit kills me. In fact, I still am working on not letting it bother me, because it can sometimes be frustrating when people are so ignorant about the reality of things, when they swallow, hook line and sinker, the shit that the corporate-government propaganda machine dangles down for them.
Again, the truth is out there, and it’s just amazing to me just how much people don’t want to know it, they don’t want to find it out, they don’t want to face reality. Why? Their ignorance and selfish desires.
Not everyone is a leader, to be sure. I am not talking about making everyone a leader, for to try to make someone into something they are not suited to be is missing the point. I am talking about encouraging people to do precisely what they all can do, and that is to think for themselves, to take responsibility for their actions and their lives, to outgrow needing to be controlled, by others or their own ego-selves—basically to be who they really are as opposed to just what they are.
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From my personal notes, 3/11/00
