When Elon Musk brought his sink to the headquarters of Twitter “Let that sink in” did it occur to anyone that certain realities were about to encroach on its users too? Twitter is a democratic space. Elon Musk a strong advocate for free speech must have been slightly torn by the prospect of making people pay for the privilege.
This is not a Musk hit-piece, it is an appeal to his senses directly.
Here are 10 reasons why social media, led by Musk’s Twitter is heading in the wrong direction by charging people and dividing people with subscriptions:
1. It undermines public trust in social media platforms like Twitter by creating an appearance that verified status can be bought rather than earned through authenticity.
2. It creates an unfair advantage for those who can afford to pay for verification over those who cannot, which could exacerbate existing power imbalances and make it more difficult for marginalized voices to gain traction on the platform.
3. It sets a precedent wherein verified status becomes just another product that can be purchased instead of something that must be genuinely earned, further eroding trust in online identity systems.
4. Verifying a user without proper vetting process opens up opportunity for fraudulent accounts to masquerade as legitimate sources of news, opinion, and information, potentially spreading misinformation and disinformation.
5. Paying for verification incentivizes users to prioritize their own personal brand building efforts over meaningful contribution to conversations and communities, further amplifying narcissism and selfishness already present on social media.
6. The perception created by charging for verified status fosters cynicism toward business leaders who claim to act in the interest of broader society while simultaneously profiting from individuals’ desire to appear important within specific online circles.
7. Increasing the cost of maintaining a verified account on Twitter could discourage low-income users from continuing to participate on the site, reducing overall diversity of perspectives and experiences shared.
8. Charging money for verification reinforces the idea that online interactions should be commodified or monetized, perpetuating consumer culture values rather than encouraging community oriented attitudes.
9. Adopting this practice would further contribute to Silicon Valley executives making choices that benefit themselves financially but detract from wellbeing of wider society, exacerbating concerns around income inequality and corruption among tech elites.
10. Each monetized bit of information shared on Twitter is shaped by its commercial appeal, not a revelation of ones actual value to communities. This disenfranchises the authentic in human beings. It robs us of our actual worth by prioritizing the sensational, the shallow of meaning, the controversial; as we see with YouTube and all those videos with the manic overly expressive shock face desperately trying to net viewers, set by the loudest and fastest talkers.
This contributes to that firehose of madness that is taking over the internet.
A more general issue arises if corporations begin treating valuable features previously available to everyone equally under a “universal” approach. This paradigm shift away from inclusivity runs counterintuitive to ethically responsible design patterns advocated for by experts and echoes sentiments behind the “digital divide,” a term used to describe disparities that prevent some populations from benefitting from technology fully due to structural barriers.
Overall, implementing paid verification could have ripple effects across social media and broader society. By favoring wealth over merit, people might lose faith in the ability to earn legitimacy, trust, and reputation online, ultimately shifting norms towards commercialization and transactionalism at every turn, even beyond social media (e.g., in personal relationships).
People on low income and disability payments cannot afford it, and where they can they often use phone service carriers that are not recognized by Musk’s Twitter. The results of this serve factions driven by greed.
Protest and effective protest is unlikely. People who make money from this plan dominate the attention. People who can’t pay, or won’t because of the above reasons, will not get their voices heard on social media. Political representation of these people is further endangered. This is the future of digital democracy that we were warned about.
It is becoming a reality before our eyes.
Elon Musk plans a TruthGPT AI. It is probably about time we assess what this will mean, since – with truth comes the need for compassion. What we may discover about reality as well as social and political reality will require unconditional love, to forgive one another. Otherwise the truth will divide us further.
If we can’t all share our hearts and minds on social media equally, in truth and compassion (whilst being free of the woke police, as Musk desires) we risk everything about humans becoming monetized, including truth – and therein lays the rapid path to the abyss.
Super-powerful Weapons Require Super-fast Answers
Nick Pope is usually happy to sound off on his fears over the potential existence of aliens/UFOs despite the overwhelming footage and sightings of UFOs being non-violent in nature, and evidence for the ‘threat narrative’ is still scarce.
However, considering his warning from his Twitter account about a patent for some genuinely mind-boggling technology, we may all wish to take a second look.
If such technology has indeed fallen into the hands of people whose focus is war rather than the capacity to bring peace and equality to the world through free and clean energy, we are in serious trouble.
This so-called ‘UFO patent’ for a ‘time-space modification weapon’ can ‘make the Hydrogen bomb seem more like a firecracker and is more powerful than the sun. Such outlandish claims pose many questions; who is pursuing this, and why would they let any potential perceived adversaries know they have followed it? The usual logic is that military agencies want to throw the enemy off the actual truth.
Propaganda Strategy?
Some nations want the world to believe they have all sorts of exotic weapons technology and declare it publicly to make their adversaries feel like they have to share their own counter technology. They would also achieve this by allaying the fears of their country’s population that they are vulnerable to the opposing side.
This seems like an overshoot unless there is the suspicion that Russia or China do indeed poses such high-level UFO back-engineered weapons technology. Otherwise, letting the world know this sort of thing is in your weapons inventory may just fuel motivations to prepare to take countermeasures against it. Not a good way to signal your intentions and capabilities.
A New Level of Fear
After everything we feel we have been through lately, do we have more room for the fear narrative to be cranked up to a whole new level? Suppose we live in this fantasy narrative where spacetime modification weapons have been back-engineered from alien technology (either through cooperation or crashed vehicles). In that case, Nick Pope is correct. There is a near-infinite catalogue of examples provided by science fiction for us to fear the unpredictable outcomes. Still, the room for its abuse and misuse is simply an unfathomable, unknowable quantity.
This technology does not have to fall into the hands of world leaders with despotic ambitions to pose a danger. Any secret organization behind the scenes that keeps this sort of weaponry secret poses a potential threat to the entire planet. This is the reason why democracy exists. Without public oversight of such projects, how can there be oversight of the political persuasions and ambitions of those who have exclusive access to them?
This would be especially concerning when the technology is more powerful than all the world’s so-called conventional weapons combined. So, it begs the question, who is really in charge here? Why are they letting this go on? Is this project fear at its peak? Is this only the beginning of an entirely new reality where the ending is out of our hands? Or are we entering a period where we have to raise our collective consciousness to a completely new level if we want to survive and live in peace?
#alienthreatnarrative #fakealienthreat #NickPope #spacetime #spacetimemodificationweapon #disclosure #secretweapons #PeaceinSpace #democracy
Trump’s New ‘Yes-man’ is a Reckoning for the World
US Defence Secretary Mark Esper was fired today for, among other things, not agreeing to unleash active-service troops on protesters. Esper has warned us that the person who replaces him will be a Yes-man to Trump; meaning they will decide to unleash fully armed soldiers on civilians under certain circumstances.
Will such circumstances include those addressed in my last post, where Trump refused to step down in January 2021?
Would the Generals obey a direct command by someone who is no longer officially recognized as President (after 20th January 2021)?
If it were any other former President, this question would be easier to answer. Yet this is businessman, television personality turned (by his own admission) wannabe autocrat – Donald J Trump, and the emotions he has stirred will not be simmering down any time soon. In every quarter of domestic and international politics, this man has learned how to divide and conquer.
If there is a distinct strategy at play here again, it would be to divide and conquer the US military. This man does not care if he is the catalyst that implodes the US.
But why?
The sentiments of hate caused by polarizing beliefs have been sown for centuries everywhere. This is not exclusive to the USA. Yet this is America’s reckoning – since here is a man who knows how to exploit them to their ultimate end.
Will the people of the United States see his game for what it is and come together at the last minute? Or are we about to witness an unimaginable blood bath which will have equally unfathomable consequences everywhere – a reckoning for the world?
Alarm Bells: How the Election Result Could Ring in (un)Civil War.
At this historic moment, emotions vary between; joy/relief and sadness/rage and indifference.
By now, we are all too aware that the reasons for these emotions are tied to one’s own political allegiance. The feeling that arises from an objective observer – that of deep concern – is maybe less obvious to those caught up in the polarizing windstorm of party loyalty.
From his ‘War Room, ‘ military strategist Bannon called for the beheading of Dr. Fauci and the director of the FBI, Christopher Wray and the placing of their heads on posts outside the White House. These comments got him a thrown off Twitter and YouTube. Below is a case scenario which has been made more feasible since the public statements by Bannon, Trump’s ‘former’ trusted and influential advisor.
Trump Jnr also called for his father to go to ‘total war’ over the poll results, and the President’s tweet below, 2 hours ago, is striking the same non-conciliatory tone he has rung for the last 4 years. Despite the lack of current support from senior Republicans, Trump’s timeline is more raw and raging than ever.
Trump lights the flames of rage with constant all-caps tirades. This one is in response to what he sees as being cheated of a second term in office. The consequences of this are yet to be analyzed and understood:
Since many of Trump’s heavily armed followers use his tweets as their ‘only’ source of ‘news’, this is at the very least of genuine concern; at most it is terrifying.
Below is a breakdown of the worst-case-scenario-equation: ‘Irrational emotions + Trump + guns’ – which – we all hope level heads have a plan for solving:
– Trump refuses to leave the White House (he already stated his intention).
– Protesters arrive. Some start a riot. (inevitable).
– Trump calls in the armed forces for ‘protection.’ (also inevitable).
– Trump still refuses to leave; other armed forces units are required to forcibly remove Trump. (highly probable).
– The armed forces tasked with defending Trump from protesters are unable to be kept apart from those tasked with removing him. (high possibility).
– Trump has armed guards who get into a gun battle with those trying to remove him. (If it gets as far as the last point, this is still a nightmare possibility).
– The first soldier gets hurt, ‘friendly fire’ incident occurs, or emotions are simply charged to the point that military factions with opposing views cannot contain the chaos. (as likely as the last point).
What makes such events so predictable (and hopefully preventable) is how near-identical scenarios have sparked civil wars around the world in the past.
We have to ask, what makes the United States an exception to such a disaster – now that it has reached boiling point? US citizens are armed with high-powered and rapid-fire rifles akin to military-issued firepower since it is written into the constitution that the people should not be less powerful than the government.
The world’s most enormous ego has the backing of humanity’s most unreasonable emotions, armed with some of the planet’s most potent guns – charging towards the most predictable disasters.
This situation is about to go ballistic. We need level heads to win the day for the rest of us. No one is unaffected by the world’s most powerful nation. If that nation destroys itself – we will feel the repercussions for generations.
Dr Garry Nolan hints at the 9 billion year old extraterrestrial origin of our DNA
The narration in this 1-minute clip says our DNA is “..not so human after all”. Yet this could also simply (or not so simply) mean that being human means more than we have so far imagined. Professor of Microbiology and Immunology at Stanford University, Dr. Garry Nolan, would no doubt agree; we literally require a wider, prismatic look upon our reality to be capable of perceiving the possibilities.
Our ancestral past location and present are combined to mean something we are now remembering; through science and exploration of (thus far) unexplained phenomena. This is also marked by a new openness by scientists to investigate the origin of consciousness and the cosmos.
Did Trump Hint UFOs are Secret US Military Technology?
The true nature of Unidentified Flying Objects is a topic held in a vice of hardened beliefs. The UFOology community is divided down lines of frenetic insistence. This is divided by but not exclusive to binary views. First is the belief that every sighting threatens human civilization and is evil in origin. Secondly, the insights of Dr. Greer / Cameron Grant – that aliens have peaceful intentions and exist somewhere between the material plane we occupy and the inter-dimensional origins of consciousness.
A Rational View?
The latter is based on the idea that any civilization that has lived long enough not to destroy itself has mastered peaceful coexistence with all other lifeforms.
Additionally, to master interstellar / inter-dimensional travel, they will have to understand physics akin to realizing the oneness principles of the cosmos; an advanced living comprehension of Cosmic Karma – what one does to others, one does to oneself. Harming us would be harming themselves.
What the Rest Think
The remainder of the public sit outside of this circle. They range from being pro-active balkers to mildly inquisitive fence-sitters. They also consist of those who claim that sightings by ‘trained military observers’ are explained by secret technology held by either the US and /or other major military powers of the world.
Others propose that smaller states could have invested strongly in secret military technology rather than in conventional weapons soon to be rendered obsolete by the speed at which the science, drone technology, AI.. are moving.
The Most Likely of Unlikelies?
There is another half-way-meets-all consideration. This viewpoint states that the relatively recent sightings and videos released by the Pentagon could be secret technology that has been back-engineered from crashed UFO/s at incidents such as Roswell in New Mexico, 1947.
This theory usually follows a line of reasoning that those responsible for researching such powerful technology will have learned the lessons of nuclear proliferation. i.e. that – at all costs – the all-powerful back-engineered alien technology cannot be allowed to fall into the hands of adversary nations.
Personal Insights
This author has communicated with people, including icons from across the UFO community, including:
– Nick Pope (Former British Ministry of Defence / touted in mainstream media as ‘The Real Life X-files Guy),
– Dr. Garry Nolan (Former member To The Stars Academy and Professor of Microbiology and Immunology at Stanford University & known for controversially debunking the genetic origins of the alien Atacama mummy),
– George Knapp (Once pioneering journalist asking all the right questions about the activities at Area 51),
– Jeremy Corbell (director of Hunt for the Skinwalker and Bob Lazar: Area 51 & Flying Saucers).
Although all of the above have either outwardly stated or implied their beliefs that the nature of the UFO phenomenon represents a potential threat, I am still nowhere near convinced. I have maintained an open mind; otherwise, my insights are meaningless.
By contrast, many of the above claim to be unsure of the origins of UFOs yet have contradicted themselves by ceasing to ask the full range of questions available while calling them a threat. They have opted for something akin to: “I don’t know what they are, but they must be dangerous, that’s all I know, that – and – they go fast! Whew, do they go fast, and we should learn how to do that.’ (really).
Objectivity in Question
In 2017 / 18, I was more actively engaged within the community for research purposes. I was often put off by the outward aggressiveness displayed by supporters of the alien threat narrative. I was even turfed out of a social media group on the topic for expressing my open-mindedness regardless of how politely I communicated.
Thus questions surrounding their own ability to remain objective on the topic persisted for me. Are they too closely associated with those who want to defend the total secrecy of the actual origins of the technology until the last minute for the strategic benefit of those in (ultimate) power?
Set-Up for Fear
Since then, the list of those who have fallen in line with the fear agenda has expanded. Suppose you have been following the news since 2017 when the now-infamous Tic Tac footage taken from a US Navy jet of a UFO was released. In that case,, you will have noticed the increasingly serious position mainstream news readers are taking on the topic. This is despite many other videos being promised via the To The Stars Academy. Only two more have emerged since the (perhaps unexpected extent to which the) public was able to debunk the proposition that these crafts are with 100% certainty non-human in origin.
This was followed by two seasons of the TV show ‘Unidentified’ by the To The Stars Academy on the History Channel, which cleverly compounded the alien threat narrative by detailing a long list of military witnesses to similar events along the US coast and elsewhere, but primarily the US.
Confused Context: Mainstream Joins the Threat Narrative
When a reporter recently asked Trump about the recently announced a Depart of Defence UFO Task Force to investigate reports of UFOs, his answers provided the UFO community with yet more reasons to tighten the vice on previously held beliefs.
Leapfrogging Logic
Popular Mechanics (and other news media such as The Independent) ran with the idea that Trump just ‘threatened’ aliens. As a science news outlet, this is bizarre because it has completely neglected logic by leap-frogging the same discussions absent for the last 3 years and beyond.
There has been a distinct absence of attempts to ask common-sense questions if we are indeed heralding a new era of reality for humankind – where the confirmation of the existence of non-human intelligences was about to happen:
– What attempts at contact with these crafts have been made?
– What communications have been received back?
– If they have been determined a threat, why hasn’t this been discussed at the United Nations? etc.
Such an absence of common sense questions leads one to ask:
Suppose recent UFO sightings by the US military aren’t part of US weapons. Why has reference to the Advanced Aerospace Weapon Systems Applications Program (AAWSAP), which was tasked with investigating UFOs, been removed from the common online lexicon? (*At the time of writing, this was the case. A search for the term would lead to nothing but useless links with vague mention of it). The name AAWSAP seems to have been leaked and caused embarrassment for those pushing the threat narrative.
Engineering the Fake Alien Invasion
Additionally, such an interpretation of Trump’s recent words as a threat towards aliens is alarmist to those within the UFO community who have long been aware of the Last Card Warning to Dr. Carol Rosin via father of rocketry and NASA, Wernher Von Braun. Von Braun warned Carol that there was a planned fake alien invasion on the cards by those behind the scenes. He told her it would be an excuse to weaponize space, declare Marshal Law and take total control of the earth with new and secret technology.
Location is Everything
Thus statements by Trump (below) have reawakened suspicion over the origins purpose of these UFOs sightings since – if the so-called UFOs belonged to the US, it would explain why they have been filmed buzzing mostly US Navy pilots over the coast of the United States.
ie. If an accident were to occur, the priceless reverse-engineered technology would be recovered within US territory – thus not falling into the wrong hands.
Reading Between the Lines of Fear and Threat
Considering all of the above, along with the third-way proposition – that UFOs are mostly US hardware back-engineered from crashed UFOs, we get a different reading on Trump’s recent statements.
The Recent Statements:
I would like to invite you to think about the following logic:
First, consider Trump’s own response to being asked the following:
“Can you explain why the Department of Defence has set up a UFO task force? Are there UFOs?”
Trump: “I will tell you this: We have now created a military the likes of which we have never had before. In terms of equipment, the—the equipment we have, the weapons we have and hope to god we never have to use it. But have created a military the likes of which nobody has, nobody has ever had. Russia, China they’re all envious of what we had. All built in the USA. We’ve rebuilt it all—$2.5 trillion. As far as the other question, I’ll check on it; I heard about it two days ago, actually.”
The ‘other question‘ which he promises to check on is obviously in response to the setting up of a Department of Defence UFO task force since he also said in the same breath, “I heard about it two days ago,” ie. He hasn’t heard about UFOs until just two days ago.
This clarifies that it is in answer to the second part of the question, “Are there UFOs,” that he appears to brag about US military power. But why? While many interpreted this as meaning Don’t worry – I know about the aliens, and we can beat them, I instead took this to mean that recent reports, videos and sightings of UFOs are, in fact, hidden US military technology.
We should pause to consider the implications of this, as this opens up a whole culture of investigation in the UFO/UAP topic if this was his meaning.
Here’s why I think this has merit:
1) Trump’s own words:
Trump says:
– “A military the likes of which we have never had before.”
It can’t be conventional weapons he is talking about for it to be different from before.
– “We’ve rebuilt it all.“
Rebuilt it all – speaks for itself. This sounds like a complete renewal of hardware, not simple maintenance or up-grade of conventional weapons.
– “Rebuilt it all” … “In terms of the equipment.”
We really couldn’t get more specific than if he came out and said, ‘we replaced the equipment with back-engineered UFOs technology.’ This is pinpointing the hardware directly.
– “A military the likes of which nobody has ever had.”
A military the likes of which nobody has ever had would likely entail technology that no one has ever seen before, especially given the previous statement on equipment.
Also, we can’t forget that Trump has frequently and publicly bragged about his own preference for surprise attacks; military tactics are summed up by ‘Don’t tell them what you’ve got and don’t tell them you are coming!’
2) Possible Hint within the Article:
The article also hints at this by stating, ‘the president has spent approximately $2.5 trillion on defence, though there’s been no real increase in America’s overall military strength and number of weapons.’
There has been no actual increase in overall military strength. So where has the $2.5 trillion gone if not to projects behind the scenes?
Again, to refer to Trump’s own words in this context:
“We’ve built it all – $2.5 trillion.”
Built all what (?) with 2.5 trillion dollars if there is ‘no increase in overall military strength’ as far as the public can see?
So, once more, my key question is: by Trump answering with the above when asked, “Are there UFOs” – was he indicating that UFOs are, for the most part, in fact, US military technology?
Of course, this does not discount the possibility of these being back-engineered UFOs, meaning UFO fans could still get their disclosure this way. ie. When the new tech is unveiled, the source will be revealed.
The Remaining – Critical Questions
– How far will any President be persuaded to go along with the UFO threat narrative and use the technology to enforce agendas beyond the ability of both the public and Congress to fully assess the facts?
Think about this. What we cannot assess independently is not verifiable via democratic means.
– How quickly would any President be persuaded to unleash such firepower before we have had the chance to communicate with said intelligences?
If the situation is dictated by technology beyond our imagination and developed beyond democratic oversight, literally anything can happen.
– What would our use of technology that can travel far beyond orbit mean for our immediate diplomatic relations with any non-human intelligences?
How would we know whether non-human intelligences will take full exception to us going into orbit with such weapons with the determination that they are a threat? We are relative newcomers to the broader cosmic stage. We aren’t even sure if our own solar system is inhabited by an unseen intelligence. How would we know if we are breaking interspecies etiquette?
What does it mean for the destiny of human consciousness itself if UFOs are indeed explainable by Dr. Greer’s understanding of them being highly advanced peaceful entities, and we instead place a target on them? If they are entities who have an invitation for us to our broader cosmic reality, would this door be closed forever if we were to only label them a threat? Would this not trap us on earth with those whose only agenda is to subjugate the human population under one military power?
This is a critical topic for the destiny of our species, regardless of any previously held beliefs you may or may not care to share at this time. None of us can ignore the consequences for much longer. This is a story in full motion at this time. Can we complete it with a willful and peaceful intent?
Can we bring those intent on division and dominance towards universal dialogue and understanding? Can we bring for ourselves a lasting universal peace?
Real Freedom is Freedom From the Illusion of Division
The general consensus is that our political system is corrupt and dysfunctional. So what keeps it going? As the below link implies – the largest form of ‘election interference’ comes from our emotional state. Our current system ensures we are more preoccupied with our defence of (political) ‘group’ than actual results which are directly beneficial to the issues.
Information overload means that our brains use shortcuts in understanding. The regions of the brain which generate these shortcuts are closely tied to the parts that deal with fear and our dependence on social group; reward and threat, friend or foe.
This means there is a simplistic reduction of life’s actual problems into an ‘us vs them’ mentality. Acting and thinking as part of a group alters our priorities and motives, often away from the most beneficial outcome for all.
Reducing the sense of threat (as this short clip suggests) when discussing how human affairs should be run, would be easier if we didn’t feel forced to align with a political group, ie. if a political group did not exist. Then we could simply call our way of dealing with things compassion.
#compassion #politics #psychology #election2020 #election
If We Don’t Know Love – We Know Nothing
As we get older, most of us think we have a pretty decent grasp of at least the basics of survival in the current era. However, yesterday I was reminded of what my grandfather once said in the wisdom of his 80’s – that you ‘never‘ stop learning.
Sadly, not everyone can maintain that humble open-mindedness most effectively expressed by something referred to as the Socratic Paradox; Plato’s account of Socrates that: ‘the only thing I know is that I know nothing”.
A Child of 80?
To everyone’s misfortune, some people are still self-indulged enough to keep pushing others around with their egos by this age. Worse still, they can mistake their ego for an ‘absolute’ sense of maturity and wisdom. They believe themselves impervious to any instincts that call for a proper self-examination. They are so deeply entrenched in this way of thinking (if it can be called thinking without self-awareness) that they use it as a shield to deflect the truth contained within the whole picture.
In contrast to the ancient insights of Socrates – the absence of a humble open-mindedness is guaranteed. The only thing they know is that they (believe they) know everything, including how others should behave and even feel. In fact, they only know what an unquestioned voice seems to be telling them.
Know Thyself to Love Thyself.
Indeed, they don’t even recognize this voice as their own. They have closed the door to love is a sad reflection of how little they actually know themselves. Consequently, the opportunity to love themselves has never presented itself to them. It is impossible for them, even for one moment, to imagine that others can see right through this. That this anger, bitterness and judgment are a red flag, they can’t even see themselves flying. We must conclude from this that life is a moment-to-moment torment for them. With this in mind, it feels only fitting that we keep the door open for their personal awakening.
The Cause of All Anxiety
The cause of all anxiety is ‘want,’ including wanting others to be different. This blocks us from experiencing the joy of how we are different. It makes us incapable of extending the warmth we all seek to be expressed through acceptance. It also stifles others self-knowledge by disallowing them to fully come into their being.
Many people are stuck in the fruitless quest of pathological self-judgement for their life’s duration. Through impulses towards the monkey-see-monkey-do reflex, they too often believe that since they were judged by this standard of compassionless authoritarianism, so should you. This somehow makes their own suffering, and the sacrifices they have made for it feel more justified. Consequently, they miss out on seeing the full spectrum of colours that life actually is.
After Tens of Thousands of Years, is Humanity Really Still Stuck at this Point?
These little nuances in everyday communication have cascading and catastrophic effects, but how? It starts violently wanting others to share your opinion on things which shuts down communication. A non-starter, which it seems most people are guilty of in one shape or form. In a material world where the noise of the ego dominates, it blocks communication by turning our beliefs into objects – creating the illusion that our opinions are part of our physical selves.
This further renders people into unshift-able adrenalin junkies, angrily defending themselves from the words of others as though they have been physically assaulted.
What Hope is There of Change?
How lost we must be in our world of unconscious self-judgement, insecurity and inadequacies to carry on this way. Yet is it not a more conscious act of willfully forgetting the history of our own verbal abuse and neglect of others?
The lack of self-compassion is fed by the drive to deny everything about ourselves. This insistence upon our innocence makes us blind to the offence and abuse we might cause others today, including persistent self-abuse. Instead, we must be right at all costs, even at the expense of the relationships themselves.
It seems evident that some are more hooked on such unchallenged pathological patterns than others. These hidden contradictions are projected as blame – pointing the finger in each instance for how they feel about themselves. With every last fibre of their ego, they must avoid the journey of true self-knowledge beyond it.
Just a cursory look at these facts reveals that real immaturity is demonstrated by those who childishly refuse to extend the same level of compassion shown to them by others. It’s okay to read this, recognize yourself in it and feel embarrassed. That feeling has to be experienced; let the crack in the facade of the ego open. This is where the light comes in.
The Insistence of Ego
Most will keep blocking it until their last breath; it is more important for these people to protect their egos. More critical for them to feel as though they are ‘right.’
They are more likely to call others ‘angry’ if they expose any of this. Meanwhile, they sit on their throne of lies they have told themselves to feel superior. They banish all mirrors from their kingdom to ensure they never get a good look at themselves.
Whether someone is transfixed on their material success or suffering from a superiority complex that stems from a sense of greater intelligence, for too many, these things are often more important than love. Is there any hope for people who are blind to their own discompassionate authoritarianism? Would they recognize love if it were to hit them in the forehead?
If You Haven’t Learned How to Communicate Love, What Use is What You Have Learned?
There is intellectual intelligence, which is cold, scientific fact, and emotional intelligence, which is one way of describing a character trait that stems from the simple experience of love.
(Real) love does not judge. It does not point the finger, does not come from a place that wants to make others feel guilt, shame or worry. Real love carries with it authentic compassion. If you haven’t experienced this, you haven’t met yourself authentically. Genuine compassion moves naturally ‘with’ the awareness of how our own behaviour would make others feel.
Compassion is compassion. Compassion for oneself is one and the same as compassion for others. It is not selective. It is universal, without boundaries or judgement.
Before You Call Yourself (or Anyone Else) an Adult Again.
The greatest challenge, perhaps, is how those who lack this seemingly instinctive understanding of love have a perverted sense of righteousness about what it means to be an adult. They shun the word human and imbue the mythical status of adulthood in its place as if reaching their standard of detachment is where everyone should be. This compounds the evidence that the invented concept of being an adult has nothing to do with showing compassion towards people.
What do people think being an adult is exactly? Unhappily married with an unmanageable amount of children and an un-payable mortgage? Just vote in favour of the wars and the war on self-knowledge and self-love. Is that it? What is this adulthood without love? We see the result today.
Not So Intelligent After All?
‘Adults’ send their own children to wars and kill other human beings and children.
Adults obey the orders of compassionless authority figures; teachers, gurus, presidents, and bosses. Adults obey the unspoken order to go out to work and spend most of their lives away from their loved ones. The life mission? To fill their house with useless junk and their heads with junk ideologies that make them justify being apart from their families all day. They call this succeeding at adulthood. All at the expense of a dying planet.
Is the message of adulthood to breed, unconsciously, have 6 kids or more and show no love and expect nothing but respect in return? Conformity to ideas approaching the advanced stages of destroying our planet – our one and only home; as Carl Sagan said, we have a duty to co-operate well enough to keep alive.
Breaking Down Barriers
In the same way that Sagan said we have to see beyond fictional National boundaries to cooperate, we have to see beyond the ideologies and values these same Capitalist systems have instilled in people. To be a human is not dependent on our ability to coldly kill our relationships while simultaneously killing the earth. This is the opposite of what Sagan meant. We won’t fix anything at all without universal compassion.
Should we brand these unconscious generations with a FAIL at the new ‘school of conscious compassion? The world is dying from unconscious obedience to desperately outdated ideas of what it means to be an ‘adult.’ With the ominous spectre of increased resource wars, we instead need to focus on healing it by understanding what it means to be a human on a planet with finite resources.
Will the earth and our relationships with one another be healed by even more branding, blaming, and hating, which leads to more wars and destruction? The answer is obvious.
Self Knowledge = Earth Healing
It takes a moment of self-awareness to begin to identify ‘the self’ – and not to simply respect the differences in others but to love them. If we are to have our own differences loved too, we must see that what resides within us is worth loving. These are the same qualities that will heal our relationships, including the most important relationship. If we can’t love ourselves, we won’t be motivated to fix the planet that sustains us. Whether we realize it or not, a love for one another is synonymous with our passion for the earth.
We have to put an end to the obtuse and disfigured ideas of what relationships are; self-righteousness has to be replaced by self-compassion. Avoidance of self-knowledge at all costs means it is only upon our deathbeds that people grasp all of this and think: ‘Ah, I missed the point of life; the point was to love unconditionally….’
Will you wait until it is too late for your loved ones, whose souls are still crushed by the ideology of mindless consumption, before breaking free of this compulsive obedience to false doctrines of what it means to be an adult? From this, we can surely agree on one thing about maturity and responsibility; the greatest of so-called adults would surely wake up to this and become human once again.
It is the Most Adaptable to Change that ‘Survive’ – Not the Strongest nor Most Intelligent
Reality is in perpetual motion – whereas words, beliefs/culture, are static, and what is static will always conflict with that which is in motion.
Not My Narrative – Not My Circus (& Other Unconsciously Regurgitated Cliches)
A major contributing factor to civilizations that died out in the past was that when they were faced with dangers previous generations had never faced – they were unable to ‘see’ the change in any context. It didn’t match their preexisting narrative of purpose, nor what they understood about cause and effect in the natural world.
Being consumed with culture as they were – eg. belief their gods will save them etc.. they did little to nothing of any practical use to address nor adapt to the change.
A Culture of Self Entitled Ignorance
Adaptation by 100% of the world’s population really does seem impossible. When faced with sudden imminent danger on a collective – global scale, we depend on the entire world’s awareness and behaviour to shift with that change. It may feel easier at this stage to believe that this is somehow okay, that some will adapt and some won’t. Yet, if those unwilling to adapt selfishly hold to ignorant, static cultures and beliefs merely because they have unconsciously set their identity to such superficialities, then their behaviour impacts everyone else’s chances of survival plus the survival of life-kind itself.
The World Can’t Adapt to Change Without You
Our belief that governments will adapt and save us or that our consumer culture simply offers relief from the pressure to face challenging facts debilitates us further to child-like denial. This is shoving everyone’s head more deeply and profoundly in the sand.
It is way past boring and ineffectual to hear the winging about why people don’t want to think we are to blame for a system we were born into (correct, yet what has that got to do with our awareness and behaviour need to change now?)
Questions such as ‘How can we be responsible for this?’ *violins*, sets in motion the predictable emotional response that always cascades towards the lazy anti-logic: ‘ it is easier to believe we aren’t responsible because then we don’t have to do anything to save ourselves, let alone others. It seems like too much work, and I am already busy and working hard’.
Whether we care to acknowledge it or not – urgent changes are upon us.
Likewise, adaptation is the key to our survival, whether we care to acknowledge it or not.
Some of us are ready to adapt and set down a new way. Stop focussing on blaming yourself and one another, and instead join together through a universal sense of compassion.
Our world is in our hands now. My world is in your hands; your world is in my hands.
The British Public Being Taken for Fools Over the No Deal Brexit Fiasco – Is There a Broader Plot?
Democracy is not guaranteed.
Today, a Scottish court concluded that the new Prime Minister of Britain, Boris Johnson, acted unlawfully when he suspended parliament for the next 5 weeks.
Since he had to inform the Queen of his reasons for the suspension in order to gain her approval some insist that he has also misled her.
Democracy Closed
The Queen was agreeable. Yet it seems to anyone, even those supporting Boris that the r, thate closed down parliament (and effectively democracy itself) was merelyto avtentially calamitous ‘No Deal’ exit from the European Union.
This documentary will have you questioning just how clued out the British royalty really are to events that impact the nation on such a critical level.
It exposes a genuine military coup that was plotted against a sitting Prime Minister, Harold Wilson (Labour), with the backing of former Conservative PM Edward Heath.. and notable (royal) others.
Elite First
In any case, between them – it would be no surprise if the elite of the UK again prioritizes the maintenance of their power/structures – way above and beyond the safety of the British public.
Even after bailing out the banks and imposing austerity measures on the public, many feel that the UK is overcrowded, overst, many feel on the verge of being at one another’s th,roats.
The feeling is that this has been fuelled by an immigration policy which has simply let too many people in than the country can sustain. As more greenbelts are built on, and the National Health Service buckles to its knees, violent crime is perpetually in the news; a palpable fear is fuelled daily by more than just anecdotes and the (fake) news.
No Lessons Learned From History. Why?
Is it really possible that we have not learned the lessons of history to this extent? People of various nationalities, ethnicities and cultures have been wedged toSocio-economic tensions which led to World War Two – have been studied under a microscope. gether; under harsh economic pressures and expected not to befall the same base retraction towards hate that Germany succumbed to during its economic punishment for World War One. Socio-economic tensions which led to World War Two – have been studied under us away (or towards) these sorts of circumstances. So, which way have they engineered all of this?
Was the current climate in the UK really so unpredictable when:
– Nothing was done towards increasing the chances of successful integration?
– Nothing was done to put a ‘sustainable cap’ on the numbers entering the UK?
And, nothing was done to alleviate the economic burden on those being paid a slave wage which has not risen to match the cost of living for decades.. leaving many to subsist on a perverse and demoralizing ‘lifestyle’ of working full-time to service un-payable debt?
Yellow Hammer
A series of calamitous events forecast in the government document (Yellow Hammer) forced to be released today – has to be taken seriously. This document warns of serious protests and counter-protests and ensuing riots.
If there was such a serious list of threats to national security as a consequence of a No Deal exit from the EU, why hasn’t there been an intervention? Why wasn’t there an intervention earlier? Just what have they been doing?
Is the alternative of stopping Brexit deemed an even worst-case scenario for British national security?
Or, is the intervention happening by ‘way’ of the foreseeable consequences of a No Deal? They want this to happen, profit from the mass overpopulation, and drawdown and entrench their more authoritarian positions when the predictable ensuing chaos happens?
Capitalizing On Chaos
Is this a win-win for the establishment, and the foreseeable unrest from either path is something they can capitalize on?
No matter which way you stand on Brexit the ensuing panic and disorder to come (which I have had it from people in author,ity is not an unfounded fear) will be setting the cat amonhe very skittish pigeons right now.
Unless we pul togesetead of aiming anger at one another, we will undoubtedly be the ones who suffer the most.
If People Don’t Work Together – With Compassion
When democracy is at stake, no matter which nation, we have no idea how deep that suffering can go until we get there. It is up to us to stop it from getting that far. Don’t let those who gain from chaos take away the power of our compassion and the power to work together.
Stay safe.
The Prismatic Journalist 