A large part of who we are as an ego-personality-identity self-construct, is socially engineered through our environment. Conformity to the standardized norms of acceptability imbues a certain pattern of thought and behavior. Our conditioning into a certain pattern and way of living produces a level of consciousness.
With society and the world lacking self-knowledge and greater understanding of various important truths that establish the quality and condition of our lives, we are in a lower level of consciousness which limits the potential higher, truer and realer self we can be.
We are docile to authority and the gargantuan system we are immersed within. We look at the short-term gains we have in our individual lives, and don't look at the long-term consequences for ourselves and everyone else. The authoritarian system continues to grow and cannibalize the world by our own actions to let it be so. Instead of learning, we remain content and happy in our ignorance, apathy, cowardice and fear of truth that holds the potential to catalyze us towards change.
The reality we have created, and the immorality and evil that we and others create, needs to be faced. In order to face ourselves in the mirror honestly, and to then realize our part in creating the world before us, we need to develop true care. We must care for truth and morality in order to further care about the actions and behaviors we engage in to create the world we have. We need to care to learn by caring for truth, and this will enable us to care for truth over falsity, right over wrong, good over evil, and reality over unreality.
Until we deeply care for truth, we don't really care to have truth over falsity, to have right or wrong, to have good over evil, no matter what lip-service we tell ourselves to the contrary about how important truth is to us. If someone doesn't understand the supreme importance of truth in life, then they demonstrate that they don't really care for truth very much at all. This is what most people live like, pretending like they know and understand what is happening in reality and in themselves. Ignorance of self-knowledge and the hard truths in reality will not give us knowledge. We continue to ignore this valuable knowledge so that we can continue to live in our illusory bubbles of reality, content, comfortable and convenient in our particular geographical zone of living.
We become docile, complacent, and tacitly accept the condition around us as defaulting to "good" and "order". The way of life we lead and accept is part of our worldview and attached to our self-view and sense self, which leaves us all blinded from seeing things as they are. This applies to any culture or people on the planet. There is very little honest self-evaluation going on.
To break free from the illusion of the positivity mask and rosy-colored glasses that prevents us from seeing things accurately, chaos and the negative can shake us awake. Anger at something bad happening is a powerful catalyst for action. When we see evil, immorality and wrongdoings going on around us or in the world, we can harness the outrage and anger that we feel towards what is happening once we actually see it.
**Anger is required in the awakening process, at least at first. We need to connect and get in touch with our core conscience and morality to feel the evil in reality. Emotions to value the weight and importance of what is happening around us is required. We must feel the wrong deep down in the core of who we are. We must ignite the care, compassion, empathy, conscience and morality to recognize wrongs being done and stand for what is right. An awakening to the evil around us will ignite the fire to righteously do something about this evil being created.
Emotions motivate and drive us to do something. We need to face reality and get angry about the wrongs being perpetuated so that we are motivated to do something about it. A catalyst is required externally in order to catalyze and ignite ourselves internally so that we change to make things different. If there is no fire burning to drive action, then we are likely not motivated to do something about our current situation.
To be ignited within by our care for truth into learning more, we first need to receive some information through learning. Knowledge is required at any level in order to affect change.
A force is required to change an inert object, or an object already on a specific trajectory or velocity. To change the direction of our way of life, either individually or collectively as a people on this planet, the force of knowledge to empower us is required. Knowledge of what is true and what is false will empower us with the ability to change our direction in life.
Quality knowledge and truth is required to elevate the quality and condition of our lives by having us engage in more effective, optimal, correct right-action. Our care for truth and learning will enable us to gain knowledge that will empower and fuel us to actually do something about what is going on in our own lives and in the world.
If you're not angry at the horrors and evil when you first learn about them, something is wrong inside of you where your capacity to feel has been deadened because you have a deadened "heart"-center, care, compassion, conscience and morality. If you can't feel the evil and recognize it, then you're not going to care to do anything about it. Wrongs need to be felt. Wrongs are supposed to be felt by consciousness in order for us to do something about them and stop them. That's why we have emotions to motivate and drive us to do things. We have emotional salience, to value and apply an importance and weight to motivate our behavior in life.
Right now, most people don't know what is going on, and unfortunately they don't care. This is being ignorant and apathetic. Many people can be asked a question about what is going on in reality, and their mindset is "I don't know, and I don't care", which some people outright say.
Some people think they care, but they don't really care, not true care for truth and morality. People don't want the responsibility to care for truth and morality, and the learning that is involved in that deep care the core of our being. The responsibility to care for truth involves caring to do the work to change ourselves and help change others and the world. This is the "Great Work" that few engage in because of the responsibility, effort, time, energy, dedication, determination and persistence that is required.
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The lack of care of engaging in this responsibility and the fear to own up to this level of responsibility, is why people actually fear truth and choose to ignore, deny, reject, deflect and dismiss the truth because it's not convenient or comfortable for them in their current conditioning into falsity.
They run from the truth as a coward because they don't care for truth to seek it. This results in being ineffective and unable to produce actual goodness because goodness is not understood and differentiated from evil and falsity, therefore that falsity and evil will perpetuate from this ignorance, apathy, cowardice and laziness to care for truth and learn more about ourselves and reality.
Many of us offer lip-service to truth and morality, pretending that we care for truth and morality. But how do our actions and behaviors match up to what is morally true as a way of living? Do we speak like we care for truth, and stand for and defend the truth in our lives?
Caring for truth is the fire that needs to be ignited within us all so that we can learn and educate ourselves out of the darkness of ignorance that we are in. To learn more about morality so that we can live by what is right good and true. This is a huge part of life most people ignore and only engage in an automatic non-reflective manner, not actively, reflectively and purposefully choosing to seek out, accept, embrace and embody truth and moral truth.
Care for truth, and go all the way in that drive and motivation for the rest of our lives. We need to have more service to truth, to stand for truth, and not compromise truth through our fear, ignorance, apathy, cowardice or laziness. This is a hard path to walk, certainly. We often stumble and don't always stand up 100% of the way because of how contrary and contradictory the truth is to the falsity others are attached to. This doesn't mean we have to stop learning and finding ways to take down the barriers of self-knowledge that we or others still have. We can keep developing our integrity and unity with truth to continue to evolve and better ourselves.
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2017-02-18, 10am
Another great post! I have recently commented on one of your other posts about emotional frequencies. One of the lessons learned was that Anger is the first emotion we encounter before taking real action. Here is a link to just one chart https://goo.gl/cLYOYS . ( i don't know how to post pics...) But there are other charts like this out there. Anger is a threshold on the way to positive action.
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Absolutely! Thanks for the great contribution to the topic!
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One of the things that Josef Goebbels understood was that whoever controls the flow of information, controls the culture. Nowadays you really have to dig deep to find the truth, through layer after layer of disinformation. It's hard work, another reason so many people choose ignorance- it's easier than doing the work only to discover some uncomfortable truths (especially about one's self). Good stuff, as always. Will be posting later about Tavistock Inst. and their attempts to "create truths" thus controlling the information flow!
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You are very eloquent with words. It is wonderful how you've explained something so true and of utmost importance without making it religious. I am reposting. Thank you very much for sharing light with us.
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You're welcome, glad to provide some valuable knowledge :) Thanks for the feedback and share :)
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I see conformity as kind of voluntary servitude and self-denial, that generate neurosis by the incapability to tolerate the ambiguity of your conscious choices and the behavior you accept by fear of Authority or retaliation.
The errors of choice in the past only make sense when the future unveil them.
Errors must be used as organized feedback like a self-regulating mechanism of our actions.
I'm going to transform a quote of my post today to explain this situation:
"The construction of ourselves is just a "sh't" pile of errors, that we had to recognize in every failed option we made in life."
Error open new options to make a better life and improve self-sovereignty. :)
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Indeed. Errors are not required. But when they present themselves they must be recognized as a catalyst to the required change. Thanks for the feedback.
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You've been saying all this for so long. We have to start caring about things, truth. Care about responsibility and morality. The things necessary to change won't change until we care enough to change it.
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Right on! :)
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That fire was ignited inside of me not long before discovering that I had been misinformed, or flat out lied to for the first 22 years of my life.
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I agree that fire is important, like as the fire in nature, it cleance to make place for new stronger species to come forth. I have recently learned though that you must control that fire and only allow it to do what is necessary and do not kindle it for too long as that also have devestating consequences.
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That out of control state is what I would call fanaticism, and I've watched it drive people to insanity. From my experience, that happens when people get cocky with the fire, and presume that having it makes them something more than human.
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(raises a symbolic flaming toast) To letting the fire char you then
because you cannot kill an idea, and you cannot burn what has already burned.
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This post is excellent. I am glad to know that you exist, and that you are so active here on steemit!
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Thank you, krnel.
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I whole-heartedly agree with you. However, I was wondering how you intend on caring for truth in the face of other people selling out truth for comfort?
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How does me caring for truth depend on others not caring?
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Oh, I'm sorry. I meant it was a good reaction to others not caring, but that the job was harder when others don't care. How are you seeking to handle that?
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Indeed it's hard. That's the realization it takes to persist despite the adversity in those who don't have the same care for truth, and choose to remain undriven by truth, not learning, not seeking to understand more. Either you persist or give up, and what would giving up do but let things be as they are and not change for the better? It's going to take a lot of people to care for truth if we want to actually get some real and lasting positive change.
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responsibilities related to the duty, not a right. If someone hesitated when I want to give greater responsibility to those lainp, perhaps because you have been less concerned about the obligations are your responsibility. Because basically If the responsibility is run with all your heart, it will generate a tremendous job. They just want to do new things as long as it is quite challenging and fun. After that, they will be discouraged because of lost interest.
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Instant gratification is all the world is about these days.
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Yes it is, infatuation with the pleasure trap.
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Thank you for sharing your thoughts on this extremely important topic. Indeed, many people live in a constant state of unaware reactiveness, seeking to numb their minds or at least pleasure themselves because to face the truth is too scary.
There is something missing in your message. I am rather sleepy, so I cannot put my finger on it - it is not a specific thing, I think, but something general. Perhaps it is the formatting or organization? I cannot say at this point. Sorry. :(
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Hehe, I don't know hat you're referring to, oh well. Thanks for the feedback ;)
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I'm reading through it again, now that I'm not sleepy, and so far these are my observations. I agree with most of what you wrote. Thank you very much for sharing your thoughts! You are on the right track, but there are aspects of your message that are problematic. I encourage you to learn about emotional self-mastery because it will greatly enhance your understanding and messages, with the consequence that your efforts to change the world will be more effective.
1... "**Anger is required in the awakening process, at least at first."
Yes, a catalyst is needed, but it does not need to be anger that shakes someone out of the apathy you describe. Other strong emotions can also do so, but it is always important to replace any destructive feelings with constructive action and cleanse our hearts, otherwise we will be pulled into the same primitivism and destruction that caught our attention in the first place. Look at the way much of the US public has been behaving since at least George Bush's reign of fear-mongering. Look at what the last election did - and is still doing - in great degree because of the machinations of the media moguls and their focus on negativity.
2... "If you're not angry at the horrors and evil when you first learn about them, something is wrong inside of you where your capacity to feel has been deadened because you have a deadened "heart"-center, care, compassion, conscience and morality."
No, this is simply not true. Different people, thanks to empathy and their life experiences, react differently to such things. Not everyone will get angry, nor is anger necessary. If you apply EQ in your life, sinking into anger is counter-productive. Anger reduces awareness and leads to reactionary behavior. Other emotions exist, such as indignation, horror, fear, sadness, etc. ONLY reacting with anger is an indication that there is something wrong inside of you, with your ability to feel, recognize and process emotions, to deal with situations in which you have little or no control, to cope with stress, etc. Being able to react to these things, with your emotions fully under your control, but not absent, is the mark of someone who is very mindful and a master of their emotions. Just because you, or I, reacts with anger doesn't mean it is the most appropriate reaction, nor the most useful. I should know - I have struggled with anger for most of my life and I recognize that many times it is NOT the appropriate response, even if I am not immediately able to stop it or redirect it into something constructive. Anger arises from the primitive brain, from a part of the emotional range that we feel we're not allowed to express - because of the very things you started your essay with.
3... "The lack of care of engaging in this responsibility and the fear to own up to this level of responsibility, is why people actually fear truth and choose to ignore, deny, reject, deflect and dismiss the truth because it's not convenient or comfortable for them in their current conditioning into falsity.
They run from the truth as a coward because they don't care for truth to seek it."
This is an over-simplification of the human condition. Yes, there are people who fit this description, but there are others who do. Many who try to face the monster you are railing against are so overwhelmed by the immensity of it, the seeming lack of solutions, that they are paralyzed by hopelessness, and pushed back by what seems a monumental and unsolvable problem that is threatening to tear the world apart at any moment. Some become so full of despair that they become depressed and sometimes kill themselves. Others have a mental breakdown and end up on the streets, unable to function in society anymore. Others have to turn their backs on it so they can continue to cope, but they wear blinders to try and ignore the truth that beat them to a pulp and, yet, that truth still exists inside them, grinding away at them like some inexorable glacier gliding into the ocean, causing a delayed emotional response. Still others struggle, they fall, they rise again, and keep on trying to figure things out, even if they can't, sometimes giving themselves health problems as a result of the strain of coping with something so massive but that they cannot figure out a solution to. I fall into that latter category, and it is oh-so-hard to balance on that wire.
And then there are the others. Those who know there is wrong in the world, and then are tricked by other people, who take advantage of that angst, manipulating those poor people by using their emotional responses and lack of mindfulness against them, playing on those emotions that have sparked their awareness, and conditioning them in such a way that they cannot be reasoned with through logic - it will not penetrate the emotions that are always triggered by that subject.
Use your empathy to understand those people who don't react the way you do. Write with full empathy and don't condemn those who seem different, or weak, or indifferent. Many people cannot see beyond their own perspective, see the big picture, the chess board we are on, or how destructive it is. Never forget this - your message will go much farther and "infect" more people.
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