by Jon Rappoport
May 3, 2019
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As a result of massive propaganda in ads, education, work-training, and other avenues of influence, people are pushed toward explaining their behavior according to certain acceptable clichés.
More and more people are explaining their values, goals, work, and relationships in the following terms:
“My parents were great teachers.” “My coach was like a second father.” “In school, I learned how to get along with others.” Etc., etc.
In general, people are explaining their actions in terms of their past history. “I do what I do now because of prior causes.”
This pattern may seem trivial, but it is profound in its effect. In a slippery fashion, responsibility is laid at the door of others. Not self. Rarely do you hear a person honestly say, I CREATE MY OWN FUTURE. Instead, as in soporific Academy Awards acceptance speeches, there is a long list of people to thank. All this is socialized behavior. Programmed. Taught.
It is a first cousin to: DON’T BE PROUD, BE HUMBLE.
Learned humility is socially approved of. In most cases, it isn’t real. It’s robotic. Most importantly, it is a barrier to realizing one’s own inventive power. It blots out that power and relegates it to a back bench.
DO YOU YOURSELF CREATE ANYTHING?
WELL, IN A CERTAIN SENSE I SUPPOSE I DO, BUT REALLY, IT ALL COMES FROM THE GREAT TEACHERS IN MY PAST. THAT’S WHERE I GREW. I WAS TAUGHT. IF IT WEREN’T FOR THOSE GREAT PEOPLE, I WOULDN’T BE HERE NOW. I’M NOT ACTUALLY CREATING ANYTHING, I’M RESPONDING TO PAST LESSONS.
Baloney. Thick slices of it. Every possible excuse to get out of admitting one’s own power is invoked.
Then we get something like this: THE UNIVERSE GIVES ME PERMISSION TO ACHIEVE WHAT I ACHIEVE. MY ACCOMPLISHMENTS WERE REALLY PROGRAMMED IN MY DNA, FROM THE BEGINNING. I HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH IT.
I’M AM PROUDLY HUMBLE.
Over time, socialized behavior makes a person passive. In the core of his consciousness, he falls asleep. He goes into a coma. He still walks and talks, but the dynamic quality is gone.
What does all this add up to? It adds up to Collectivism emblazoned in the sky, like a giant billboard:
The individual is not really an individual. He is a Group, composed of “all the people that made him what he is today.”
And that, my friends, is the myth, story, and legend of the 20th and 21st centuries.
Reject the story.
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Doesn’t it make you scratch your head when individual sports competitors like golfers always answer questions about their performance with ‘we’. ‘We were a little off our game’.
I wonder what would happen if I was arrested for a criminal act and told the judge ‘we were temporarily insane’. How does that sit with a system that is based on the assumption of freewill?
So much packed into this:
1. ”Reject the story” = I am more than willing.
2 .In general, people are explaining their actions in terms of their past history. “I do what I do now
because of prior causes.”
3. Google search: Dynamic quality. Dynamic quality cannot be defined. It can only be understood intellectually through the use of analogy. It can be described as the force of change in the universe; when an aspect of quality becomes habitual or customary, it becomes static. ”but the dynamic quality is gone.”
4. ”but the dynamic quality is gone.” – see number 3 above.
5. ” I’M NOT ACTUALLY CREATING ANYTHING, I’M RESPONDING TO PAST LESSONS.” – Wow well said.
Note: for me, this is about creating from the past/present/future files if you will. A bit of sorting out on the individual behalf
Note: ”I CREATE MY OWN FUTURE” – the best words and actions to live into.
“If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help,” he continued. “There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen. The Internet didn’t get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet.” BHO
Awesome offering..i am printing it and saving it.
So relevant for those of us who are told by psychologists that we are trapped forever in a prison of our dysfunctional or abusive upbringing.
Thank you.
Neil Diamond – I Am I Said (1988, with lyrics)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xf1S9U2ghrI
To quote Bruce Lee…
“A teacher is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to the truth that each student must find for himself.”
A real teacher never tells you how to think and act, nor does a real teacher rely on program or condition of mind and creativity.
Most teachers nowadays rely on propaganda and other matters considered acceptable as a social norm. And most students choosing not to create their own path to development, often walk on a path that was made specifically for them.
It’s like I told my friend…
I choose to create my own pathway or my own journey, and I shall walk on what I paved. I will not walk on a path that was pre-designed as if it was put there for a reason, nor will I let this universal collective “oneness” guide me. To let this universe guide me or to walk on an already made path means I’m not creating or choosing my own journey to spiritual development, this means I’m letting an external force dictate my life and my actions.
This is what I tell myself too, to never let any other force control me.
Jon
Excellent piece. My soon-to-be-released “A Crisis of Social Grooming – Fear and Manipulation at its Root” tackles the subject with very different eyes.
On a side note, the universe does script everything for existence, but the script is open and user friendly and that’s how it defies [the Pharisees].
Best
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