It seems to me that in society we must need a certain amount of paranoid thinking to be able to survive and exist as functional members of society. Many people I talk to seem to be overwhelmed with paranoia and this causes worry that effects their day to day life. I talk to these folks and realize that although I tend to think in similar ways, I pay these paranoid thoughts less mind and it helps me function as a more or less regular human. Should I worry more about the richest people trying to make me their slave and destroy my free will, or should I live within the system that we have built over the last 30 000 years and find peace in simple things? The latter will make me rest easier, but the former seems important and apparent if you look at it.
The society we have today is the created world of 30 000 years of humans saying that they know things that they generally have little ground to know about, and the demanding of the others to follow their direction. This is why it is an imperfect system, and a human construct.
Even today we have people who have never lived the lives of those which they are able to decide the fate of, or at least to be free enough to think that they are doing so… And these are symptoms creating a great dissent within the people on the street. The worry is that we cannot do anything of substance when we were raised to think that we could do anything. They have stopped us, by creating social networks. They are keeping tabs on us.
By allowing ourselves to use this system, we are made to fear the ultra-rich and this remains their source of power over us. Without the fear we hold, that manifests as the acceptance that they are able to decide our fate and devise plans for our domination, they could not hold power over us.
The first thing to do is to stop making ultra-rich people superheroes and to stop giving them superpowers in our paranoid thinking. We can do more with the systems we have, with the real things that they are doing. The stuff out in the open is heinous enough the create all the suffering we can take.
Money is an agreement that people make, and without this trust and agreement that the money holds value, it will not hold any value. This serves as a metaphor for the power that we give these feared unknown people we hold in the abstract. It also speaks to the value we hold for money as the be all and end all of life’s worth.
We are not to blame for thinking like this, we are conditioned from a young age and from many years of human existence to think that this is the way that life is.
We use the constructs we already have to explain what we are experiencing, but who is to say that we know anything for certain? What are the chances that the books that we have read are the ones that are true? Who is to say the culture that we are forced to exist within is the one that we should? All theories are just someone’s intricate opinion, argued because the author feels the world would be better with their mind’s idea in the public discourse.
We have a hard time realizing this because what we know is all that we know, so we can’t find other things to relate to reality. This is why we must always be broadening our horizons, learning new things and finding more opinions to find our own truth.
This is my paranoia…
Is there an absolute, real and objective truth anywhere in this world? If so, does anyone know it? The intellectuals of the past did their best to describe the world as we now know it but were driven by their own desires and experience so to come to conclusions based in their own form of reality.
We are now able to find information from all over the world, to amalgamate societies entire depth of knowledge by searching the internet, but are we any smarter for these gifts? In a general sense, it doesn’t need to resonate with you. I fear that we are too far gone to realize that in knowing something we are taking a leap of faith, in learning we must trust those who are teaching us and in being fearful of the powers that be, we are being fearful of the unknown.
This is all unknown territory, from the computer forwards. We have no common record of this happening before now. There is a strange feeling that this is not new, I must admit. We all wonder if the world has always been this way, and just faded with time. It is the truly holy admittance, never to wonder if they are lying to us… We are here to be paranoid so that we find stuff out.
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