November 20, 2006
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Avoiding An Answer
We experience too much freedom in our lives. Our excessive freedom is seen in that we are not forced to make decisions about what this life is. Institutions of the world yell in our faces: we receive orders from school, orders from work, orders from government, but the demands of life are left unspoken; we must find what it is the world is not telling us. The standard authorities control our thoughts’ direction by setting before us the matters that are important to them: curriculum, assignments, and taxes. The satanic purpose of these institutions is to keep our attention long enough so that we do not become aware of the spiritual war being waged on earth. The institutions inherently have power over us: we are subjected to them from birth. Contrarily, practices that spur thought on life are not universally institutionalized: it may only happen by chance that we watch a person gruesomely die. As a radio the human brain is born with its thoughts tuned to the station of the small and frivolous. This world has an array of quite convenient hideouts from things that matter. Rest easy, souls of America, we are safe from the truth; I think we outran him.
Comments (5)
The irony is that sometimes, the ones that aren’t trying to lose truth are the ones for whom truth is too often illusive or evanescent.
Yeah, that was just a good excuse to use the word “evanescent” in a sentence.
i wrote a paper on this for american lit! i couldn’t agree more. i just thought you should know that your posts are so captivating. i can’t stop reading!
that’s why you have to read everything for the big picture-
for instance, what is the overall purpose of the gov’t? if you think about it, it seems so hard to define…
but it’s all written in the preamble to the constitution
Sadly, and in a good way, your words have rung the truth bell. Amen brotha!
I like the way that you describe the subtle infusion of mind-sleep from the institutions that run our societies. It is easy to see how democracy run by moguls like Murdoch can do the pursuit of truth no good. However, what makes the truth worth knowing? Knowing the truth about brain cancer would not make the suffering of it that much easier, would it? If the pursuit of happiness is a virtue, why would it be equated with the pursuit of the truth?
Sometimes the alleviation of pain through denial can make for a pleasant day.
Can’t these institutions just wield power because they have people who want to make a buck? Why must it be a diabolical scheme?