This is a tour-de-force of an essay. Having grown up in the 'New Age' era, dipped into Eastern religions and esoterica (I actually have a book entitled 'No Boundaries'), this account resonates deeply with me and has brought to the surface all those puzzling contradictions I had in my head about such things as 'freedom', 'heritage', 'religion' and 'politics'. It explains an awful lot. Thanks!
It does explain a lot. Within the various institutions there is a political, social and spiritual undercurrent whereas the institutions will specifically focus on destroying the family unit by any deception permissible within their fictional world. What better place to cloak personal bias/prejudices/partiality's then to get the plenipotentiary power of government (local, county,state,federal) all evincing to the same design of slavery and oppression than to use "the law" as their battering ram against those who have the tribal instincts that are natural to the biological family? Where bureaucrats within the schools, CPS and Sheriff's can sexually assault children with their own lewd behaviors and be immunized from any prosecutions of those same behaviors. The courts becoming accessories after the fact that they know that months of coercive detentions is torture for the innocent who have no interest in their particular culture.
My family was violently extirpated from the face of the earth because they and their friends needed the money. Margaret Anna Alice was correct in her assertions that "Mistakes were not made". Willful and malicious persecutions/prosecutions against poor white family's is only a sport to state sponsored terrorist posing as "Public Servants".
The book, Confessions of an Economic Hitman, by John Perkins, describes how the US sends its corporate agents to third-world countries to ostensibly develop their infrastructure, but in reality making them an offer they can't refuse. Big US corporations benefit from these big projects but in the process the country and its people are heavily indebted and its resources mercilessly exploited. This is Capitalism with a capital C. Perhaps it means economic freedom and big returns on investment for American investors, but the other side of the coin is not so good for the people being 'developed'. And this is just the impact in the 3rd World.
One of the key phrases in the essay above, relevant to developed countries, is:
"To organise an entire society around the fiction that these are products [people, labour, land, money] to be bought and sold is to subordinate human existence to the logic of the market."
We in the West are being sold a false neuro-linguistically distorted version of the word 'freedom' by liberal 'democracies' and the transnational corporate deep state, while at the same time we are being remorselessly tracked, taxed, tokenized, digitised and numbered.
What you say is obvious to any thinking person. But how this website can use this to disparage the Perennial Philosophy, a concept so full of faith, hope, and love is bewildering to me.
C'mon, your sneering dismissal of so many good things is way over the top. What are you telling us to put in the place of everything you dismiss? Or did the cave men do a better job?
Well Richard, since you asked, the point was not to put anything ‘in place’ of the newly created ‘good stuff’.
To my mind, the point is more about how the ‘good stuff’ was commodified then sold back to humanity as ‘good stuff’ but only available and legit through a universalising lens.
Personal example: I’ve been a ‘practising’ Tibetan Buddhist for 25 years. The teaching and practices for developing deep compassion and love are paired with meditation and referred to as ‘the 2 wings of the bird’. In other words, both are needed to cultivate the ‘good stuff’.
The commodification of the Buddha’s teachings took out anything uncomfortable to the enculturated western mind, by leaving out the nuance, subtlety, loving surrender and mystery.
What’s now promoted as ‘learning to meditate or mindfulness’ is dry and can entrench even deeper habitual patterns of survival and isolation, not providing the original ‘good stuff’ available before the evisceration the teachings.
I appreciate that we must not reject each and every sprout of love and ‘good stuff’ on the grounds of some purity test, but the danger is that in time, we won’t be able to distinguish or remember the infinite richness and majesty of our human lives.
This is a tour-de-force of an essay. Having grown up in the 'New Age' era, dipped into Eastern religions and esoterica (I actually have a book entitled 'No Boundaries'), this account resonates deeply with me and has brought to the surface all those puzzling contradictions I had in my head about such things as 'freedom', 'heritage', 'religion' and 'politics'. It explains an awful lot. Thanks!
It does explain a lot. Within the various institutions there is a political, social and spiritual undercurrent whereas the institutions will specifically focus on destroying the family unit by any deception permissible within their fictional world. What better place to cloak personal bias/prejudices/partiality's then to get the plenipotentiary power of government (local, county,state,federal) all evincing to the same design of slavery and oppression than to use "the law" as their battering ram against those who have the tribal instincts that are natural to the biological family? Where bureaucrats within the schools, CPS and Sheriff's can sexually assault children with their own lewd behaviors and be immunized from any prosecutions of those same behaviors. The courts becoming accessories after the fact that they know that months of coercive detentions is torture for the innocent who have no interest in their particular culture.
My family was violently extirpated from the face of the earth because they and their friends needed the money. Margaret Anna Alice was correct in her assertions that "Mistakes were not made". Willful and malicious persecutions/prosecutions against poor white family's is only a sport to state sponsored terrorist posing as "Public Servants".
Amen!
Ditto !
Right-o. Down with freedom, heritage, religion, and politics! Give us good 'ol communist revolution.
That is exactly not what I meant.
The book, Confessions of an Economic Hitman, by John Perkins, describes how the US sends its corporate agents to third-world countries to ostensibly develop their infrastructure, but in reality making them an offer they can't refuse. Big US corporations benefit from these big projects but in the process the country and its people are heavily indebted and its resources mercilessly exploited. This is Capitalism with a capital C. Perhaps it means economic freedom and big returns on investment for American investors, but the other side of the coin is not so good for the people being 'developed'. And this is just the impact in the 3rd World.
One of the key phrases in the essay above, relevant to developed countries, is:
"To organise an entire society around the fiction that these are products [people, labour, land, money] to be bought and sold is to subordinate human existence to the logic of the market."
We in the West are being sold a false neuro-linguistically distorted version of the word 'freedom' by liberal 'democracies' and the transnational corporate deep state, while at the same time we are being remorselessly tracked, taxed, tokenized, digitised and numbered.
Even the commies didn't have it that bad.
What you say is obvious to any thinking person. But how this website can use this to disparage the Perennial Philosophy, a concept so full of faith, hope, and love is bewildering to me.
This is brilliant!!! 🙌
Thank you Toby!
Excellent and well argued presentation. Thank you.
Blessings and appreciation from Sydney Australia.
Excellent work, thank you.
Excellent work, thank you.
C'mon, your sneering dismissal of so many good things is way over the top. What are you telling us to put in the place of everything you dismiss? Or did the cave men do a better job?
Well Richard, since you asked, the point was not to put anything ‘in place’ of the newly created ‘good stuff’.
To my mind, the point is more about how the ‘good stuff’ was commodified then sold back to humanity as ‘good stuff’ but only available and legit through a universalising lens.
Personal example: I’ve been a ‘practising’ Tibetan Buddhist for 25 years. The teaching and practices for developing deep compassion and love are paired with meditation and referred to as ‘the 2 wings of the bird’. In other words, both are needed to cultivate the ‘good stuff’.
The commodification of the Buddha’s teachings took out anything uncomfortable to the enculturated western mind, by leaving out the nuance, subtlety, loving surrender and mystery.
What’s now promoted as ‘learning to meditate or mindfulness’ is dry and can entrench even deeper habitual patterns of survival and isolation, not providing the original ‘good stuff’ available before the evisceration the teachings.
I appreciate that we must not reject each and every sprout of love and ‘good stuff’ on the grounds of some purity test, but the danger is that in time, we won’t be able to distinguish or remember the infinite richness and majesty of our human lives.
Peace, brother.
Thanks. No worries here.