"China has joined other countries in treating cases instead of trying to stamp out virus transmission by dropping or easing rules on testing, quarantines and movement as it tries to reverse an economic slump."
I always seem to be the last person to get such things but this clicked more meaningfully for me today.
Took us most of two years to figure out what we've known since the year of the Spanish Flu. Modern fixations towards "no, we must do it another, creative, new and better way" always reminds me of the billion dollar studies to tell us what our grandmas knew 100 years ago to get the green light that it's okay.
Why have we lost so much confidence in human perception? I see this in many areas of life and seems to be generally true in the industrial world. Could it be that since school we've been taught to get the right approved answer and no else otherwise you'll get yelled at and not be loved? That very effectively makes us square and afraid of your own inner gut. Doesn't that make us stupid, gullible and obedient with a visceral reaction rooted in childhood trauma? Gulp. It's the perfect manipulation of the vice of progress because it's abstract, subtle and yet overarching. The popular clothing brand "obey" comes to mind. There doesn't even seem to be a need to make it subliminal anymore, we are already living in the satire.
I've spent some while thinking about this today trying to find some "higher reason" and I couldn't find any but the fact that perhaps why concepts as the "seven deadly sins" are called the seven deadly sins, because they are, and it really does erode us individually and collectively in the core to the degree that when you are in it, you can't tell. This makes it much more powerful for me to want to distance myself further, because otherwise you get tricked by the group mind goggles that makes you think everything is alright... until it is not and can't figure out what went wrong. I now find that blindness more scary than having to face it and makes me want to get much closer to things that bring clarity and distance from group thinking, such as spirituality and occultism and congenial communities instead of constantly having to keep my guards up. As humans we have imperfect knowledge and can't help but be influenced by our surroundings. Obviously as a citizen of the industrial world, it must have many hooks in me that I am probably not seeing right now. These open posts really are a blessing for a time when craziness abounds and provide the necessary contrast to extract them from my mind.
Thanks JMG and everyone for it! It's great medicine, and of the kind that works.
So this is what not living under a rock feels like
I always seem to be the last person to get such things but this clicked more meaningfully for me today.
Took us most of two years to figure out what we've known since the year of the Spanish Flu. Modern fixations towards "no, we must do it another, creative, new and better way" always reminds me of the billion dollar studies to tell us what our grandmas knew 100 years ago to get the green light that it's okay.
Why have we lost so much confidence in human perception? I see this in many areas of life and seems to be generally true in the industrial world. Could it be that since school we've been taught to get the right approved answer and no else otherwise you'll get yelled at and not be loved? That very effectively makes us square and afraid of your own inner gut. Doesn't that make us stupid, gullible and obedient with a visceral reaction rooted in childhood trauma? Gulp. It's the perfect manipulation of the vice of progress because it's abstract, subtle and yet overarching. The popular clothing brand "obey" comes to mind. There doesn't even seem to be a need to make it subliminal anymore, we are already living in the satire.
I've spent some while thinking about this today trying to find some "higher reason" and I couldn't find any but the fact that perhaps why concepts as the "seven deadly sins" are called the seven deadly sins, because they are, and it really does erode us individually and collectively in the core to the degree that when you are in it, you can't tell. This makes it much more powerful for me to want to distance myself further, because otherwise you get tricked by the group mind goggles that makes you think everything is alright... until it is not and can't figure out what went wrong. I now find that blindness more scary than having to face it and makes me want to get much closer to things that bring clarity and distance from group thinking, such as spirituality and occultism and congenial communities instead of constantly having to keep my guards up. As humans we have imperfect knowledge and can't help but be influenced by our surroundings. Obviously as a citizen of the industrial world, it must have many hooks in me that I am probably not seeing right now. These open posts really are a blessing for a time when craziness abounds and provide the necessary contrast to extract them from my mind.
Thanks JMG and everyone for it! It's great medicine, and of the kind that works.