OUTSIDE
The world has long suffered from authority. As children we are taught to obey authority and that to do so is moral and good. Respect government and police they tell you but even a cursory glance at history will reveal the horrors of authority. Flip open any history book and tell me what do those who are doing the killing wear?
The uniform of authority.
The first act by any authoritarian government is to make legal the acts that enable them to dominate and kill the population. Any dissenters are labelled criminals so that their challenge to authority can be eliminated.
A person’s first duty is to the truth.
The issue is not that “evil” people believe in authority, the problem is that basically “good” people believe in authority. In outsourcing their decisions as to what is right and wrong, society hands over the reins to those that will exploit this control with merciless intent.
Most people find this hard to accept. Isn’t authority here to help us? Won’t society devolve into chaos if there is no such entity as government to moderate our transactions? To maintain law and order?
There are essentially two problems with this premise. Firstly, human beings do not require an overarching body to facilitate our function. We are quite capable of organising ourselves. We can work together for mutual benefit without the need to default to a dominant third party. Secondly, government rarely works in the interest of the people. It is clearly evident today that government is far more preoccupied with staying in power, making select people rich and doing the bidding of their corporate overlords.
Authority is not your friend and any overlap of interests between you and the state are mere coincidence.
Most of the world’s injustice and oppression is carried out in the name of authority, not in spite of it. We must get rid of this idea that authority needs to be obeyed and take back the power to decide what is right and wrong.
INSIDE
But the battle for authority not only lies without. Our inner authorities are just as destructive as any tyrannical regime, only more insidious. Those multitudes of little experiences and accumulated opinions, knowledge and ideals. The vast catalog of shoulds and should nots that we have collated in our lives, that we in turn weigh and judge.
To escape from this mental authority requires one not to simply move around the objects of control within the mind but to radically reassess the foundational beliefs upon which the mental presuppositions rest.
Freedom lies only in the destruction of the thought forms that have previously dominated our ideology. You cannot hope to appeal to your old impulses and motivations should you wish to free yourself of your inner authoritarian.
The mind will vehemently resist this type of interrogation and I would, at this point, recommend some kind of mental breakdown to speed the task along. Most people are not up to it as it is wholly disorienting. There are no certainties and all previous comfortable understandings must be destroyed and built anew.
Further adding to the terror is the lack of a map or guide. No one can help you through this process as each journey is as individual as each person. And the reward for taking on this journey is to never arrive - it is not a destination but a method that is forever fluid. There are no riches nor any guarantees of happiness. It is a never ending engagement with uncertainty that requires you to be in a constant state of learning and doubt. For the mind to remain free it cannot be caged by any ideology or comforted by any appeals to authority.
It isn’t any wonder that few break free of their inner programming but if you want to build a better world, then free we must each become.
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People don't want to acknowledge their decision to outsource their own decision making and thus become 'mindless' or effects and not causal. If they did they would have to face the silence within. I like what you have written here.
It's a mindset and I guess it is hard to change if you're programmed to obey. I've never felt that anyone has the right to tell me what to do. I will follow directives if they make sense to me and I can see there's an overall benefit. If I can't see any benefit, I'm not interested.
People need to wake up to the FACT that they have inalienable rights and you CHOOSE to give them away. In any case everything in the matrix is commerce / contracts. Everything they put out there is an offer and you must decline the offer or you are assumed to have given consent (tacit agreement/silence means consent).