How do we get out of this mess?

George Monbiot: how do we get out of this mess?

How do we get out of this mess?
The short answer is ... by recognizing you are not IN it (as currently defined).
How did you get in to this mess? Did it just 'happen'? Was Humpty pushed or did he fall?
Or was Humpty the first falsely flagged attack?
All the king's motivations and all the king's mental ingenuity can never put Humpty together again. False unity turns to babel.
An honest recognition of how you/we come to accept such definitions and live them out opens the choice for their undoing or release to more truly aligned definitions. But actively defended narrative identity operates the denial of this desire.
You can only find and be found in willingness - and grow willingness by living it. It cannot become a set of rules or 'willingism'. It takes one to know one. That no less true for wilful blindness.
Until you break - or are released from - the spell - there is no way out but deeper in as a result of trying to overcome or escape (or repackage and outsource) the mess.

Narrative identity, narrative continuity, narrative control are all manipulative or i-magi-native investment of desire and intention.

The difference between being, existence or 'what Is', and our story, our reality model or our self-image in relation to meanings accepted and be-lived or acted from as true - is forgotten or overlooked in the active and reactive engagement in such a focus of energy and attention. Indeed the persistence within such a narrative identity generates an autonomous habit pattern of conditioned reaction that conform to the idea of a programmed and re-programmable robot or automaton.

The intent and a-tempt to manipulate 'robotic' people (corporate technocracy as masked tyranny) whether for 'conspirational' agenda or naivete of the useful idiot to the power-seeking opportunism of any power cartel - further develops the cultural definitional structure of accepted idea as the unfolding narrative of self-justifications and mutual reinforcements within Change - as perceived through the distortions and filters of various identities that can be seen as a fragmentation of negative entanglement as a direct result of manipulative and coercive assertions and impositions.

Beneath - or prior to this 'world' of embodied idea in self-definitions is the movement of being - as the ever shifting focus within being. 'Behold I make all things new' is a reference to being which is an 'always' or timeless quality recognizing Itself being.

The 'word' we give out is the measure of the result or meaning we receive. But an unconsciousness of our active habitual definitions operates an ever depleting reactive loss of (true) consciousness to conflicted mis-formulations of reality or misidentifictions - reacted to and thus experienced as real.

In the narrative reactive world we generally mask such unconsciousness under the presumption we are  'conscious' when we are only allowing into conscious awareness what we 'already know' or assign and accept 'real'.

All the attributes of 'higher mind' that confuses or loses itself within the reactive i-magination of physical experience - because it Matters That Much to us - are qualities of being - such as inspiration, joy, intuitive recognition, gratitude. These are the true Life that can and do find rich reflection in shared experience that has a quality of intimacy or true communioning communication, and relationship in shared purpose. But are so easily overlooked within the phishing trigger of an identity theft of perceived and believed conflict that reactively and 'autonomously' runs counter or destructive to wholeness and abundance so as to create an abundance of lack.

Re-visiting and re-visioning conflict is not possible while persisting in the urge to win it or evade it. But sooner or later each comes to an exhaustion of the willingness and capacity to accept and enact such futility or meaninglessness as it becomes apparent to the awareness released of engagement.

This sketch points to what a manipulative thing-king cannot conceive or share in. If you want to use your relationships to get from - then you can only meet the reflection of your own judgements as your world. Giving only as you would in truth receive is a call to truly notice who you are in the presence of - along with who they are presenting - along with your own reactive thoughts and impulses.

What others choose is their unfolding of life experience and if you would align in joy as yourself you must give as you would receive. But if you align in self-judgement - self-worthlessness - how can you not 'share' this - regardless how well you mask over it?

Insofar as we have set ourselves a curriculum, we shall take it as our reintegration or healing to being. But the way and the manner and the timing in which we do so has a freedom of willingness within it. The difference between the art of dance and an exercise performed is the creative relationship that is your unique way of moving with the times and the timing.

Terror and rage are very dense as a result of denial. Those who think to 'wield' this think it gives power. Nothing could be further from true being. I don't engage in the political excepting as a desire to embody or awaken to true choice in place of fear-framed thinking of narrative 'control'. Life is already alive and is not waiting our permission to speak so much as our true word through which to extend Meaningfully - regardless that the seeds fall on many types of soil. The sharing of love (being with what is real here) identifies us perfectly. The moment we seek to grasp or define - we become subscribed to the mind of artifice. Learning, not blame - as the setting of choices that grow new 'habits' as a true conscious appreciation - this day now and now.


(Response to comments on the page)


in reply to
https://discussion.theguardian.com/comment-permalink/104936014

Theory becomes a model becomes an identity becomes a corporate cartel monopoly or military industrial complex.

The theory or model for life always breaks a unity into parts that then seem to conflict if taken out of context.

Do you assign Ayn Rand a sort of negative worth-ship? Do any thinkers get interpreted in their own terms or within the frame of the purpose others see in them? Where do you assign responsibility - in your own choices or as a victim to Ayn Rand?

I suspect that for every fake collective identity comes the iconocalast who calls it out for what it -isn't and yet only selected forms of such a challenge become subverted to use as the new fake collective identity.

Truth is not a winning hand so much as the vigilance not to be seduced into false narrative reaction (IE in the terms that the deceiver sets).

Regardless of 'collective' reinforcement - each stands in the fruits of choices they have made - knowingly or unknowingly. The many live vicariously through others who they idolize or demonize according to what they choose to accept and reject - for their own reasons - that only look like a 'collective uniformity of agreement'.

If it goes without saying then it does not need saying. There are many who 'side' with one or other polarity as you define them. And many more who don't give a damn - but live vicariously through diversions of celebrities, computer games or socially captive networking.

All the personae in your cast have an inherent place -in you - representing the broken relations they are cast from.

I appreciate the drama of your colourful prose but if you tell everyone what to feel and how to think - will it do more than sing to the choir?

I'll go next to some quotes of Rand to see if I can recognize the demented and pernicious vortex of destruction. I always thought she had the common failing of taking a partial truth and making a foundation of it to rail against the evils of her day.

Is it possible to debate the core issues of freedom and responsibility without polarising into mutually reinforcing polarities? (hates).


in reply to
https://discussion.theguardian.com/comment-permalink/104935876

You choose a branch and ignore the trunk - other branches and roots.
The great temptation in fighting a wrong is the blindness of believing you are right. Such is the nature of an identity theft - that in current terms you could also call a 'virus' - although I hold to pleomorphic biology - in which the environment is the determiner of the forms and functions of various biota - and part of the human environment is our self-definition relative to any event or communication.
As I see it, false thinking generates outcomes that reinforce and develop false thinking and that this has been going on for more time than we can remember - and yet does not become true as a result of reinforcement but rather more deeply believed and used as foundations upon which to think some more.
You should be aware that mind-capture uses the good cop/bad cop ruse to run you while you believe you are making free choices.
Who frames narrative history, holds 'insider' advantage.
Are not all 'isms' programming tools?
Western Civilisation - Ghandi remarked - would be a very good idea.
Is it not a history of conquest, enslavement and plunder? Through which there are also alloyed all sorts of threads of a true humanity - despite or because of.
But the idea of a virus or trojan attack by guile is apt for our times because the manipulation of 'identity' is so pervasive - with brother set against brother along every kind of threatened identifiction.


in reply to
https://discussion.theguardian.com/comment-permalink/104935227

Individualism as an expression of an indivisibility of being has been usurped by egotism of imaged presentation and manipulation. The masking in the 'collectivism of the greater good' is indeed 'ruling out' sovereign will - such that a robotic technocracy of rules, targets and checkboxes 'naturally' finds upgrades or replacement with transhuman biotech and AI.
Narrative control is a form of tyranny - however enacted - free will is another term that has been reversed or inverted. You are free to accept and live from what you accept - but you are not free of the consequences of your choosing. If you observe directly - solidarity rises in individuals freely sharing purpose - who move or act as one - on purpose and by choice. But the usurping of such a movement as an identity set against others or threat - is not true solidarity - but a form of mind-capture. The socialism that the 'established power' intends to operate rules out true solidarity. That's the thing you have to sacrifice to 'win' or be allowed to play. Your love of humanity - embodied in any movement of solidarity - is THE Enemy to any system of control and yet must be kept alive amidst a falsely framed matrix of beliefs and identities so as to be fed upon. Those who 'live' but know not Life can only think in the terms of their captive state. Life is still their true Inheritance - but their minds rule out such recognition or acceptance as a result of a protection racket for self-specialness (at expense of other). In true solidarity we shine our joy in being and recognize uniqueness as the true individual signature of another. There are no words for what is not divided or conflicted but Jesus' restatement of the two Commandments has the vertical intimacy within Being and the horizontal synchronicity of its extension and reflection. These are not a 'to do' or a should do' but a statement of Fact that can be argued with only by dissociating from Being and withholding and withdrawing from your relations so as to GET your sense of validation in being 'right'.
David Bohm recognized that Science is not just the gathering of data but also the interpreted meaning of such data - and he say that fragmentation and incoherence  operates the breakdown or destruction of Meaning that cannot be 'put back together again' but must be lived or embodied as the willingness to embody Coherence of being and become an agent for change that occurs as a quantum shift to synchronicity of being from the morass of such entanglement of cause and effect in reversal and confusion as to be unable to approach with thought - without further entanglement of further confusion and misidentified reaction.
From the thinking of the world, a fresh start must be after the destruction of the old. But in truth you begin exactly where you are - as you are - and yet as the willingness for true being (under any or no name). And when you notice you have been 'asleep' in reactions of habit - begin exactly here.
The story of re-awakening Humanity is a transfer of ability from the story of conquest, enslavement and plunder. It does not have an 'enemy' to unify against so much as the challenge to stay awake and on purpose amidst such temptation.
But the story of awakening yields to the very thing it seeks - where the urge to 'lord it over' or get fantasy gratification upon others - is a tyrannous usurpation of the feeling knowing Will. (That then ascribes its intent to the Will and demonizes denies and feeds upon YOUR feeling knowing being - through which you truly live - but which 'this world' is blind, cruel and predatory towards.

in reply to
https://discussion.theguardian.com/comment-permalink/104935122

We haven't actually left yet. The Brexit issue has associated a nationalism of little substance and much complaint with those who do not choose a Corporately run EU - or Corporately run Globalism. I say Corporate when I could say Fascist - because the face or fronting of corporate cartel power is part of the theatre of the public narrative.
In terms of the intergenerational and transnational drive and commitment for global government, I hardly believe that the 'global agenda' have been 'caught out' or held in check by 'populism' - rather - they created it as the symbol of 'anti-globalism, and can and will likely associate it with negative and fearful outcomes so as to bring globalism as the saviour.
One doesn't have to control people - except in very key points where extra incentives operate the appropriate actions or neglect.
Global governance in honest and open support of the Living (Life on Earth) is a desirable function but the way of this is EVERYTHING - because the usurping or capture of the regulatory systems, and the selling out of people and environment to a 'profit' and plunder elitism that lays waste, in-debts and toxifies is NOT governance but tyranny and predation of a 'power class' upon a falsely represented population.
The issue I see is not EU or not EU but mind-capture. This can be pointed to in various ways - but the nature of a captive mind is to love and serve its captor. Steal a kingdom - they call you king - steal the mind and they can call anything whatever you set them up to call it. The nature of deceit is usurping the true.
I see that it is never too late to uncover and live from a true foundation instead of a masking mind to which the true must be sacrificed to survive. 'Too big to fail' means too entangled in the foundations to be allowed true exposure.
Such free awareness as remains is the opportunity to choose again. I may risk saying that the nature of your choice has consequence beyond your current mind-frame. The 'world' doesn't need 'saving' so much as the mind needs freeing.
Governance or arriving at outcomes that affect all involved, needs to be founded in communication - and communication is becoming captive to the dark arts that use the forms of communication and relationship to deceive.
So that's my call - be vigilant and discerning that the forms of things are not in fact phishing attacks by which to install a false identity and make 'politics' for its capture and use as a bot-net.



in reply to
https://discussion.theguardian.com/comment-permalink/104936027

Thats because you are trapped in market thinking. It doesn't occur to you that something can take because a) It isn't lies and b) it opens and aligns true joy in life.
Whenever any genuine movement arises, it becomes subverted or aborted by the marketising and weaponising of the dominant story - which is power struggle set upon an inheritance of fear and guilt conditionings that make no other story seem possible (real or practical). And so anyone living from a different foundation is perceived through the lens of invalidating judgements. However - you either live the life that is given you to live - or let the suggestions and ideas of others use you to support the life they want you to sacrifice or conform to.

Adam Curtis - the power of nightmares BBC - free online to watch - sketches a little of the breakdown of the self-inflating utopian story to the fear-driven scripts that shift 'enemies' and 'threats' but operate the same manipulative feed for the lost and fearful to suckle on.

I feel that the breakdown of the story (mind) or narrative identity is the perfect soil in which the thirst for truth awakens - at least in those who love life more than they hate humiliation and defeat.

Is the 'control' of the narrative and its associated 'deep state' or 'shadow government' not in direct relation to the rising chaos? They are one and the same thing. Each begets and supports the other. Might there be another way of looking at this? Yes.
Might there be a process over time of willingness to release coercive control to a genuine communication and relationship? And might those unwilling to 'lose' control - that the darkness of non transparency and non accountability supported - bring every kind of trick or treat to derail any such process.
The Second Coming is not Jesus coming back but a Like Spirit rising to the Call, The Call is not in a set of idealistic beliefs but from the part of yourself you locked in your brother and sought to deny. The denied have no voice but your recognition of yourself in them - which then returns you to a state of genuine communication - within being - that manifests in ways we do not currently have a model to understand - or at least - not one that would be seen as real, practical (weaponisable or marketisable).

Flagged narrative coercion

In response to
Naive empiricism, terrorism & Ebola

I wrote:

“No one understood better than Stalin that the true object of propaganda (directed risk assessment) is neither to convince nor even to persuade, but to produce a uniform pattern of public utterance in which the first trace of unorthodox thought immediately reveals itself as a jarring dissonance.”
~ Alan Bullock, in Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives

Whether or not the narrative is true or not as presented is secondary to the establishing of 'accepted public discourse'. The risk of penalty as a result of questioning the ebola or terrorist narrative is such that very few do - with the explanation that a consensus reality operates the unquestionable 'truth'.
But no matter how many accept a fallacy and act as if it is true by investing and adapting within its social identity - it necessarily conflicts with true - and will demand sacrifice of true to maintain 'continuity' against risk of exposure as false.

Society is being organised around and predicated upon fear and guilt. Perhaps this is nothing new - but the technologism that brings globalisation is the amplification and extension of such identity construct.
Truly fulfilling being is not a strategic risk assessment - but an optimum fulfilment recognition.
I would say that the former can serve within the latter - such that when engaging in an act or a relationship - we release presumptions of 'knowing' to take a fresh perspective - as an open awareness that is also accessing past learning but not running blindly in its conditioned response.
Because the latter is so pervasive and systematic to human-doings the human being remains as a potential context for experience while 'thinking' operates the fleshing out or modelling of its experience as 'world'. (talks to itself).
The fear agenda operates destructively under the illusion of a fixed and controlling identity - which deals with the living in terms of a fragmentation or incoherence (chaos) upon which all the king's horses and all the king's men (power struggle) attempt to put Humpty together again (futility). However - if that is the accepted and believed reality - then working to reintroduce sanity into such a thought system will work with the current beliefs to enable them to be revised in the light of an expanding and integrative wholeness of being.
However (by whatever means) Humpty became broken is an association signifying brokenness that then takes (is given) meaning over lost connection, communication and  wholeness of being. Innocence lost becomes the basis of sacrifice of (and to) an asserted and applied guilt.
Drone assassinations kill many who are put on a list for suspected or anticipated threats or who happen to have their old phone - or be in the vicinity or attend first response for the second hit. Perhaps it doesn't matter who gets killed as long as the precedent is set loud and clear that anyone can be 'taken out' remotely - regardless of where on Earth - for being perceived as a threat to the US of E. Acts of terror and impending terror 'plagues' operate on many levels to disempower by all and any means - such that the 'protection' racket can find (hack) access and acceptance.
Is our skin in the game the fear of pain and loss - or is it an investment in a true appreciation? Is the outsourcery of pain and loss to 'OTHERS' a basis for a true profit?
Or is divide and rule the illusion of control that rules out any perspective of a true Sanity?



#2 - In reply:

Your argument holds if the attribution of agency is flagged to true cause. However, if false-flagged terror initiates 'eye for an eye' it 'succeeds' as an emotionally backed justifiction for (escalation or further) acts of war.
Also, a widespread media focus upon 'pre-set' narrative outcomes fuels or empowers the uptake or induction of its 'meme' - which may encourage 'copy cat recruitment' from some who are already set in 'eye for an eye' desire for vengeance/justice - but lacked encouragement, or 'the courage of their commitment' - and so modelling 'jihadis' as boogeyman to some operates the reverse conditioning to others.
The fact that full and open investigations and questioning debate is not encouraged or allowed indicates the 'emotional blackmail' of a subtler 'terrorism' that the overt actions operate as the adjuvant or shock by which to associate a directed or preset 'antibody' response.
The evil is a result not only of confusion believed - but of confusion sown with intent to deceive. The ability to use the mind to deceive is a two edged weapon. The probability of abiding in self-honesty amidst the sowing of deceit is  - I suggest - zero. However truth is not contingent on narrative identity - but awareness of and alignment in true rests on an 'openness' or embracing of all that is present so as to accept the relational wholeness of a true appreciation within being.
The nature of which embodies true witness for what you consciously and currently accept as truly meaningful or desirable in the situation at hand - rather than drawing false witness to support an identity set against the feared or hated outcome of a negative self appreciation.
What is attracted to acceptance in minding is not random. The focus of attention is intention - whether consciously accepted or gaining acceptance by unconscious emotionally conditioned reaction.




#3 In reply

Do events 'gain' media attention? Or are they given it? How and why are the questions that come to mind. How to gain and manipulate or direct media becomes how to set and maintain narrative control - that frames interpretation and reaction - ie: programs thinking.
Belief (reaction as if true) and investment (skin in the game) in any set of ideas operates a sense of 'self-protection' to the 'reality assertion - regarded as a self-evident experience. Probable outcomes or future events are results of current readings - and if our reading of the current is distorted by filters and blocks of accepted or invested belief - then the nature of such belief sets the nature of the outcome. Fear is a self-fulfilling prophecy when accepted as the basis from which to think and act - but fears consciously owned and brought to curiosity allow a change in the 'template' of such beliefs - hence releasing us from otherwise predictable negative outcomes.
There is considerable expertise applied to the arts of manipulating the 'mind' as mind-control or mind-capture. Perhaps even using a noun for mind is already such a 'mind-trap' - for minding is a verb and in any current moment - what is accorded investment or released is a choice with consequence that can be seen as a process of unfolding meaning amidst (infinite) probabilities that the limiting 'mind' of a linear narrative identity is not equipped to assess or reliably makes 'sense' of - but operates out of learned responses and past conditioning so as to recreate the past in the future as the idea of continuity of asserted and invested meanings rather than a free association within the unfolding meaning of present - or indeed Presence appreciation.



#4 Reply:

But the risks arising from narrative capture as a result of deceit is incalculable. Any threat to our ability to discern and evaluate our true relationship with ourself, each other and our world is that of a captured and manipulated 'reality' subjection. Iatrogenic 'disease' (sic) is one of the major ascribed causes of death and illuminates the nature of a captive revenue stream.
The nature of the sickness of deceit is hidden by the defences of the deceived against exposure - because there is a believed pay-off of carrot or mitigated stick - for the deceit to appear 'attractive' and make truth seem ugly by association with fear.
'Steal a kingdom and they call you king' has another level: 'steal the mind and they think your thoughts and enact your agenda. This was famously depicted by the story of the Emperor who had no clothes - and in alignment with the symbol I bring in fig-leaf thinking. The 'deceiver' is the risk of losing appreciation of Everything for promise of a special 'something' - that invokes a sense of chaos or adversity, enmity and attack to the a tempt to conform reality to the imaged forms (and concepts) of self. It is backwards.
Once a defence is established - chaos, adversity, enmity and attack are needed to justify and maintain it. This is markedly illuminated by the cartel of military industrial complex - no less than the trillion dollar pharm for the sick.
Fear chemistry - the sympathetic nervous response - pushes all else to the background to give focus to the 'threat'. Persistent or chronic fear distorts, diminishes and destroys the consciousness and functionality of the living organism under the illusion of 'control', as a continuity over 'chaos'.
Our language (currency) is debased. The subversion of language to form of 'control' makes communication easily lost to confusion.
The parasitic thinking within what you call 'western' culture is globalist or perhaps 'transhumanist' in intent and effect. It defines us without (rules out) freedom of choice or indeed sovereign will - as robotic systems to exploit or use by its priesthood of 'definers' or programmers - who 'freed' from moral illusions operate unchecked gratification upon the use and abuse of others seen as sub-human or of no inherent worth - perhaps because under some diversion, they are willing to accept their subjection as a saviour from a worse fate.
They are called the 'dark' arts because they can only operate in a condition of lack of transparency and accountability under ruse or activation of justified defence. Fear of the dark is both hiding in and masking from. Unconscious fear is no less active in determining outcomes for being 'shadow power' operating under cloak of plausible deniability. Fear works contagion - unless brought to light.




#5 Reply:

its an opinion - whatever that is worth to your evaluation and acceptance or disregard. What is it with drawing opinions? Is it part of checking to see if someone passed an acceptance test? Obama the human being, Obama the politician, Obama the acquired and trained asset, Obama the perceived phenomenon?
What could an opinion of another offer but the refinement of your own? (As a fixed position of judgement upon). But is opinion 'about' (anyone or anything) the same as a quality of accepted relationship 'with'? (Which is the capacity to grow or expand).
Do we truly stand upon opinions - can they actually be made stable? Do we trade them for ever shifting outcomes?
I obviously noticed in your question - a variety of statements or assumptions that of course I find in myself or I couldn't illuminate such a response. What you find may be determined by how willing you are to release opinions in order to relate better (more clearly) to whatever is resonant and relevant to the themes and explorations you are the living of.

Associating with natural health

A few comments into recent items on http://anhinternational.org


#1 (Prostate documentary)

You have to work within your current belief system – for better or for worse. This is not to say that ‘belief’ can be turned on and used to ‘cure’. But that the nature of belief in sickness and in this case, cancer, is in many respects a kind of nocebo or fear-fulfilling prophecy.. Also your investment in surgery, followed by radiation and hormone therapy is YOUR desire to be free of this disease and I wholly support your desire but do not necessarily share the same choices or indeed the same basis of information from which such choices are made.
BUT your choice may be entirely the best choice you could have made in the circumstance and yet the perspectives that frame choices ARE the circumstance – so expanding perspectives is not necessarily undermining the only ‘choice’ that seems required or available to the un-questioned perspective. Also – it is not only an either/OR – because much of the information regarding diet, and lifestyle choices can compliment, support or mitigate the toxic and potentially cancer “spreading” effects of surgery and radiation.

If you were made aware of ‘micro-cancers’ coming and going as a matter of course in many areas of the body – would you still accord the same desperate measures to intervention?
Very many die from the treatments to disease that would not normally kill them. Iatrogenic sickness and death is one of the top causes of both. Informed choice is not a prescription.
May your life be richly fulfilling – whatever paths it takes as a result of choices you make and ideas you accept and believe by acting from them as true for you.



#2 (Diet pills)

Those who seek 'magic' answer evade their Good by aligning in their own self-deceit. The collective deceit operates through the structures that embody and articulate or exemplify its precepts.
Live your choice and through that - witness to those who know not what they do - that there IS real choice - in which the 'mind' of a false framing is recognized and released.

The desire to live the 'ego's (sic) freedom' is that of personal gratification without consequence - or the delaying of consequence as long as possible - then bringing in death itself as escape of reward from inevitable defeat that such framed and managed existence guarantees.



#3 UK healthy eating (disinfo) guidelines

What if 'failure' is by design - where the negative result operates the vector for ongoing 'power' of a corporate control wedded to a consensual abnegation of awakened responsibility?
The appeal to reason assumes we live in the same moral universe - but in the emerging system moral choice has no basis for existence.
Coercion and manipulation through the usurpation of moral sense is the carrot and stick of a determinism that technocrats and lawmakers impose as a means to escape a true account - and thus deny a true choosing.

Skin in the game

RonPaulLibertyReport - Black Swans And Interventionistas...With Special Guest Nassim Nicholas Taleb


Comments into the page above:

#1

Is it that such 'mistake makers' (in terms of our value system) effectively have so much skin in the game that they own the game. IE "if you don't bail us out, protect us etc" the GAME will end (system will collapse). And so breakdown, destruction, sickness and failure are the economic and political means for consolidation of wealth and power - wedded to such influence (broad spectrum dominance) that they believe their position unassailable because it operates such a pervasive deceit. (Mind-capture). In a sense you cant beat them - but only join them (by aligning in the terms of power struggle).

Another position for the human death wish is that bringing Life on Earth to death is victory - not a mistake. We assume others see the world and goals as we do - but many do not.
So the seeming 'costs' of sickness or war are profits seen from another position - or the degradation of rivals by third party that sets rivals into conflict among themselves or with others.

The assumption that answers are being sought,  problems are being resolved and progress being made is all failing to take account for the desire to keep the problem, and protect it against solution - while seeming to pursue The Answer. Hows so? Declare 'War on whatever you intend to keep" - generate huge budgets or charitable trusts and keep the war going indefinitely.

War - including exploitation and subjugation of others - operates  from inducing and maintaining confusion, division and chaos - while presenting identity in subjugating or controlling confusion, division and chaos. The topside or surface presentation is of rationality as justification for oneself, one's group identity and allegiance and one's model or construct of the world. It may be a pack of lies - but justified as the evasion of a worse outcome - and so accepted or demanded as a necessary price, to escape or delay a greater evil for what by contrast is deemed a good.


#2

The footsoldiers and even the middle men may be operating under good intentions - unaware of being deceived and used. Good intentions are famously paving the road to hell - because those who try to be good or validate good by opposing perceived and believed evils - are to a significant degree part of masking those underlying evils - by providing a cover story or trojan guise through which they operate unnoticed.

I say the mistake is primarily a mistaken identification - from which all else automatically follows. The mind of deceit phishes for identity theft. Some forms of insanity are held natural and acceptable while others attract negative attention. Token evils or token morality operates specific roles for specific goals. While there are cartels of allegiance in power-grabbing - the issue  - I hold - is systemic and pervasive - and therefore an expressing of a faulty identity or consciousness - that seems unquestionable and unassailable from any perspective WITHIN its framing.
I appreciate anyone who identifies false framing - and therefore facilitates release of the false to a shift or expansion of perspective.
I hold that we are 'meant' to recognize insanity, locate its source and release our investment in its false framing definitions. Because we are inherently recognizers of joy as a wholeness of being - regardless the learned behaviours of self-doubt, self-deprivation and self-substitution with fake joy - such as taking joy in the subjugation or abuse of another for self-gratification or self-inflating aggrandizement.

#3

How about growing ONLY the culture you can and do align in true resonance with as a sense of extended self worth?
Be vigilant to the corruptions of language and definition that run accepted as a currency of belief.
The meanings you accept are those you teach and learn. False or conflicted 'meanings' operate a divisive and destructive agenda. Until we learn that, it is in our Face - but by assigning power to 'Them' we play victim.
I thought skin in the game is something to lose - an investment of self in the outcome. If your life is at stake - you are motivated to effect the outcome as survival or power and protection added to your investment of identity.

Presence is the quality of being in which communication and relationship naturally align. Division and conflict operate the conditions in which presence is lost for a presentation of a split sense of self seeking validation. Wholeness of being naturally extends a recognition in worth.

Because we Care

James Corbett on the innerverse

My comment into the theme:

The self-definition from which we act or indeed react, is an implicit 'father', cause or source from which all else then proceeds. So the core beliefs and definitions as to who I am/we are/life is/reality is are not philosophical or metaphysical constructs of a conscious acceptance or articulation but are articulating and determining the nature of the consciousness or reality experience running IN PLACE OF conscious acceptance.

Acceptance of true sourced cause or 'father' is alignment in unified or integrated wholeness - where the wish or a tempt to a PERSONAL 'creation' or meaning-agenda is inherently a conflicted usurpation in image and concept running as a matrix-mind-experience of subjectivity as if OVER life/reality and thus open to the experience of subjection under the 'blowback' or reaction to one's own coercive distortions.

Caring - can mean the extension and sharing in true worth - love's recognition (Self - or Love of God as one with love of another as oneself). Caring can also mean personal investment; 'skin in the game' where identification of power or subjection in the perception of others offers reinforcement value/validation for our own personality construct/assertion.

Psychopath seems to be gaining acceptance as legitimate and casual currency for 'Them' which relieves those who use it from opening or exploring the mind/definitions/beliefs or conditionings that are embodied in social engineering, mind-capture and the exchange of conscious acceptance of creation for an unconscious private gratification/hell. For self-inflation is the condition that sets up the 'Fall' - and the self that can be inflated is always imaged symbol and not the true of You - which remains available to your welcome and acceptance subject only to the release of giving priority to the false.

Maintaining a 'false' sense of self and world is the nature of an agreement to divide and rule out (exclude) love's awareness now - where love is undivided or indivisible being - and not the masking layer of manipulative disguise upon a focus within rejection and exclusion - a tempting to 'create' independently.

Navigating within Life as discernment is not fear-driven agenda but is willingness to put aside or pause of any such itch or reaction so as to actually receive connection/communication rather than presume to own or control communication from a false sense of associations accepted as if actual connection - because it ticks our boxes (reinforces ongoing and often unconscious identification).