When creative energy is harvested by systemic theft, and attention is harvested by a mass addiction to digital stimulation, truth is defined by authority instead of reason.
Attention itself, as the steering wheel of time, energy, yes, this begins to answer the kind of questions that start with "Why does it matter that ____..." All very important.
My challenge to you:
Can you dive even deeper?
Deeper??
If you find any answer, any hint of an answer, to the following question, please, immediately broadcast it on all channels.
How can we encourage profound curiosity in folks that see survival as staying supplied with beer and net flicks?
The problem, as I comprehend it so far, is about the self talk in our head and the echoing of that self talk we hear in our associates.
By some reckoning, there are 5 levels, low to high, of the culture of this self talk. Listen to how people talk about life, family, friends, and associated expectations.
Themes of self talk, low to high, might look like this:
1. Life sucks
2. My life sucks
3. I am great
4. We are great
5. Life is great
1 & 2 are about survival. Being feared can be seen as powerful at this level. Gang culture and prison culture live here.
I strongly feel that most people have spent substantial time stuck behind the boundary between 2 and 3, little self worth, they spend their days distracting themselves from how bad their life is, often ashamed.
The 3 crowd are the proud professionals, self absorbed and egotistical. High self esteem, low empathy.
4s are team players, members of a band, or extended family that have each other's back. 4s tend to celebrate being part of the group.
MLK was a 5, obviously, but it is important to understand that 5s are fluent in all five cultures.
"I have a dream" = level 3.
"...deeply rooted in the American dream" = level 4. "I've seen the promised land...I may not get there with you" = level 5 talk.
But also level 2, speaking of politicians' "lips dripping with the words of nullification."
Fortunately, 1s are rare, but so are 5s. It takes dedication to stay at 5. There is no upper limit, so the idea is to aim up.
Mark this is so insightful. That is the million dollar question. I will contemplate and pray over it. The 1 to 5 scale makes a lot of sense. In my own life, I'm realising the value of teamwork, friends, love and community. Perhaps this is a transition from 3 to 4, as I'm feeling the limitations of the lone wolf mindset. It's been life changing, letting people in, but I still feel the blockages of my outdated operating system. I feel that once I have taken the spec out of my own eye, I may have an answer for your profound challenge.
Yessiree Bob! as the old saying goes. I’m going to say something to you because I see your high level of ethics (and logical thinking) and maybe you will get the picture. Suppose everyone was a good student who could learn and apply what they study and not become disinterested or fall asleep at the wheel. With this skill their ability to read and analyze subjects would grow. Suppose they could find more joy in learning, such that they could learn any skill or ability they were interested in.
This is NOT a paid commercial announcement! I started this comment trying to talk about individual responsibility and it rolled into the topic of self-study. There is a connection between the two. The originator of a technology I am thinking about was L. Ron Hubbard. He had to teach people courses that required application of concepts. The study methods used by the students were inadequate and the students were having trouble learning and applying the concepts.
L. Ron Hubbard found that there are three barriers to study. If a person learns how to study and handle these three barriers he becomes a good student and can become his own teacher in any area he wants to.
You can get a glimpse of the technology by consulting two sources.
Let's get specific. The American system is something fading away, like the constitutional principles of our republic. It never was parasitic. Also, in terms of world history and geopolitics, it's relatively recent.
Deep state bad actor systems, powers behind the throne, are older than dirt. It's just that recently, globalist psychopathic types, a tiny group actually, have been taking advantage of psyop techniques and technologies applied to propaganda.
The rest of us humans, let's say the 99%, have access to the same cheap technology.
We need to roar more, with our new megaphones, and spread the red pill ideas far and wide, with loving kindness of course.
This is definitely a Brave New World. It's already been unrecognizable to me, for a long, long time. I've said it before and here it is again: We are living in a literal zombie apocalypse.
The why matters.
Lluvias,
Attention itself, as the steering wheel of time, energy, yes, this begins to answer the kind of questions that start with "Why does it matter that ____..." All very important.
My challenge to you:
Can you dive even deeper?
Deeper??
If you find any answer, any hint of an answer, to the following question, please, immediately broadcast it on all channels.
How can we encourage profound curiosity in folks that see survival as staying supplied with beer and net flicks?
The problem, as I comprehend it so far, is about the self talk in our head and the echoing of that self talk we hear in our associates.
By some reckoning, there are 5 levels, low to high, of the culture of this self talk. Listen to how people talk about life, family, friends, and associated expectations.
Themes of self talk, low to high, might look like this:
1. Life sucks
2. My life sucks
3. I am great
4. We are great
5. Life is great
1 & 2 are about survival. Being feared can be seen as powerful at this level. Gang culture and prison culture live here.
I strongly feel that most people have spent substantial time stuck behind the boundary between 2 and 3, little self worth, they spend their days distracting themselves from how bad their life is, often ashamed.
The 3 crowd are the proud professionals, self absorbed and egotistical. High self esteem, low empathy.
4s are team players, members of a band, or extended family that have each other's back. 4s tend to celebrate being part of the group.
MLK was a 5, obviously, but it is important to understand that 5s are fluent in all five cultures.
"I have a dream" = level 3.
"...deeply rooted in the American dream" = level 4. "I've seen the promised land...I may not get there with you" = level 5 talk.
But also level 2, speaking of politicians' "lips dripping with the words of nullification."
Fortunately, 1s are rare, but so are 5s. It takes dedication to stay at 5. There is no upper limit, so the idea is to aim up.
I hope this makes sense and I hope it's hekpful.
mark spark
.
Mark this is so insightful. That is the million dollar question. I will contemplate and pray over it. The 1 to 5 scale makes a lot of sense. In my own life, I'm realising the value of teamwork, friends, love and community. Perhaps this is a transition from 3 to 4, as I'm feeling the limitations of the lone wolf mindset. It's been life changing, letting people in, but I still feel the blockages of my outdated operating system. I feel that once I have taken the spec out of my own eye, I may have an answer for your profound challenge.
Godspeed, Sir.
Yessiree Bob! as the old saying goes. I’m going to say something to you because I see your high level of ethics (and logical thinking) and maybe you will get the picture. Suppose everyone was a good student who could learn and apply what they study and not become disinterested or fall asleep at the wheel. With this skill their ability to read and analyze subjects would grow. Suppose they could find more joy in learning, such that they could learn any skill or ability they were interested in.
This is NOT a paid commercial announcement! I started this comment trying to talk about individual responsibility and it rolled into the topic of self-study. There is a connection between the two. The originator of a technology I am thinking about was L. Ron Hubbard. He had to teach people courses that required application of concepts. The study methods used by the students were inadequate and the students were having trouble learning and applying the concepts.
L. Ron Hubbard found that there are three barriers to study. If a person learns how to study and handle these three barriers he becomes a good student and can become his own teacher in any area he wants to.
You can get a glimpse of the technology by consulting two sources.
#1. Seven minute video, and more if you scroll down: https://www.scientology.org/courses/study/overview.html
#2. Here's a 30 minute video on teaching students to recognize and handle the three barriers to study: https://www.scientology.tv/search/?query=Karin
Very sincerely.
System as parasitic?
Lluvias,
Let's get specific. The American system is something fading away, like the constitutional principles of our republic. It never was parasitic. Also, in terms of world history and geopolitics, it's relatively recent.
Deep state bad actor systems, powers behind the throne, are older than dirt. It's just that recently, globalist psychopathic types, a tiny group actually, have been taking advantage of psyop techniques and technologies applied to propaganda.
The rest of us humans, let's say the 99%, have access to the same cheap technology.
We need to roar more, with our new megaphones, and spread the red pill ideas far and wide, with loving kindness of course.
mark spark
.
This is definitely a Brave New World. It's already been unrecognizable to me, for a long, long time. I've said it before and here it is again: We are living in a literal zombie apocalypse.