This displacement and subterfuge that I mention happens very gradually in such small increments that like the frog slowly succumbs to boiling water, we do not realize what we have done to ourselves—we do not realize that we put our trust in that which and those who have only self interest and little real rigorous science or compassionate humanity to support their presumptions of philanthropy.
This is why like some of us I find myself at odds with the status quo, in opposition to those who chose not to question authority—whether to protect their employment or because it would shatter too much of ones hard sought level of leisure, calm, pleasure or cost them possessions, or simply because of a dependence upon a given trust or belief system. Such systems sadly cannot be relinquished without great trauma or force. Persuasion that is has long since lost its window of opportunity for an easy reconnect; for an immediate and personal detachment awaits like a crevice, a gaping, maddening emptiness of no-return. It is the most extreme of cognitive dissonances that looms before us all.
"How could we all have been so wrong", we ask ourselves? Sadly, this is where the greatest choice of all either separates or binds us forever. We demand of each other to "choose a side." "You're either with us or against us." We're "us and them", reliable or fake, uplifted or downtrodden, wolves or sheep, hawks or doves, heroes or scapegoats, blessed with praise or cursed with schadenfreude. "Where do you stand?" "Explain yourself!" "You worry us with your thinking. There is a code for that in the DSM5, you know?" "Perhaps you have a mental disorder."
In countries like China or Russia, yes, even contemporary Russia, they incarcerate you for challenging the state's "way of thinking" or religious beliefs. What a sad condition we are in, we who would be kings, not peasants.... when all we have to do is look down for our answer.
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