There are things that people sorta remember from past lives, or ideas they hear that sound good, but these people do not hear / know / remember the entire structure.
Communism sounds good, in that everyone will get fed, and everyone will be housed. But, the bad part, the forgotten part is that you have to be basically a slave building houses and growing food. People get the food for free, so someone has to grow it for free.
Everything being peaceful and calm sounds good, until you realize that in such a state there is no growth. There is no room for change.
Making sure there is no war means every conflict has to be resolved peacefully and as early as possible. Many people "keep it inside". To keep the peace with the family/spouse, they bottle up their emotions. If we want to avoid war, this is no longer an acceptable practice. A war is built up from many resentments kept inside.
All of these good sounding platitudes come with a price that most are unwilling or unable to pay.
If only there was no money
What an interesting platitude.
But we must unwrap this, and understand it fully, else we cannot see the evil and self destruction hidden within.
If we have no money, we revert to barter, or we find something to act as money.
Stamps in prison, Big bottles of Tide in the ghettos…
So, we would just be trading one form of money for another.
And it doesn't make the people who insist "if only there was no money" happy.
So, what do these people really want? Usually one of two things:
- To have their needs met without having to earn money
- The root of all evil is the love of money.
No money, and both of these are solved! right? right?
Actually, it isn't the money's fault that these conditions exist. Taking the money away will not make these problems go away.
You could say that the "elite" do one thing with money, control others. Or, in another way, deny people access to land where they could grow their own food.
And the other part is that everyone needs to grow their own food OR trade their time doing something else, for someone else to grow their food.
It is not the money we should focus upon, it is the manufacturing/creating/growing where we must focus our problem solving. It is the idea of the earth being owned by the previous generation, and withheld from the new generation that is a huge problem.
People must have access to land where they can grow their food. (never denied, unless it is a death sentence)
This is in opposition to all of our laws, and our current money system.
This is what needs to be fixed. Money is just a tool.
Get Rid of Guns and No One Will Be Shot
This one is hard to argue with, because its adherents believe there can be "no guns".
You cannot argue with someone who wants to stay in fantasy-land.
Guns exist. This is a fact. The idea exists. Thus, a gun can/will always exist. There are people that can make them from nothing.
And if guns didn't exist, there was swords, pikes, bows, maces and many other weapons that are perfectly suitable for killing other beings.
If not those, then there are sticks and rocks.
We cannot get rid of guns.
So, let us look into what these proponents of magical thinking actually want.
They want people to never be hurt. Specifically, innocents to never be shot by bad guys.
Now, how can that be made into reality? Well, we need to eliminate the innocents, and the bad guys.
It is like Domestic Abuse. The poor, innocent wife who is beaten up by the brutish, bad boy, husband. What a story we tell, leaving out all the important stuff. Do we talk about the wife's nagging? (if women understood men they would NEVER nag) Do we talk about the wife's emotional abuse? No, we only talk about the man's blow up.
What has to happen? The husband and wife need to learn to communicate. (not go to couples therapy where two women berate the man)
Men do not communicate by nagging. Men cannot be communicated with by nagging. Thus, the woman needs to communicate in a more direct way, but she has been taught not to do that by all the media, and the reinforced female communication methods.
So, we need to break women from abusing men. (it is ingrained in our speech) And then, we can start to get to a place where men and women can communicate, AND THEN! we can start to work on providing each other's needs.
You see? The innocent are not that innocent, and the bad guy is usually the result of having no support.
Back to gun violence. Taking away everyone's guns, does not stop the violence. What stops that is resolving communication problems. And then getting people's NEEDS met. (not their wants, their needs, you know things needed to survive)
After these minimum things happen regularly, we can get to a much more peaceful society.
So, where in school did they teach us conflict resolution, negotiation, or even that it was okay to disagree with the teacher?
There are many other examples of platitudes that sound good, but are often rotten to the core. And our trained language usage doesn't allow us to see the rottenness.
"People not being shot with guns" sounds good, but did we stop and think about really evil men coming and slaughtering us, and not having guns to protect ourselves, and that leads to genocide? It has, almost every time through history. Stalin, Mao…
"Not having to pay for food" sounds good, but who will grow said food? If it is free, no one will. (well, those who enjoy growing, and have the real estate to grow, may. But currently there is not enough of them)
We must realize that the govern-cement cannot fix any of these problems.
The govern-cement's power comes from the end of a gun. So, if you want less gun violence, using the state's gun violence, is not going in the correct direction.
So much of what we want is denied us because of how we think about the problem. You cannot lift a board you are standing on.
It is not just a war between bad guys and good guys, the actual fight is between you and the chains you have willingly placed upon yourself. Do these chains serve you? Morals are good, in moderation. But it is our beliefs in things that aren't so that is our biggest barrier.
Most people believe in "science", but if you do, you will always think "free energy" is something that doesn't exist. And subsequently you will always think that you must pay for the energy you use. And then you will think that paying for electricity from a power company that is screwing you over, is a necessary.
We have to remove that chain from our mentality, but we must also avoid falling into magical thinking. The next step in power is continuous, green, energy sources. And they come with quite a price tag. But nothing like what we are paying now. They will not come out of some "black box" that is free for everyone.