I appreciate your post Petrus, and I can imagine the perspective that your post comes from,
Having said that, your post was all about 'I', 'I', 'I'...
Sure. From the perspective of a lot of people on this site, I'm probably exceptionally self-centered, these days. I acknowledge that quite openly, cheerfully, and freely. Two more uses of "I," there.
There are two important things that I've learned, recently.
a} The world does not particularly
want saving; and as a result, your attempts to do so will not be appreciated. You can circulate as much information about shape-shifting reptilians eating people or having sex with children as you like; and the rest of humanity are simply going to ignore it, and go on watching porn, Gangnam Style, and cat videos on YouTube.
The world is the way it is, because that is how the overwhelming majority
want it to be. They don't want to free themselves from redundant, pointless, self-defeating forms of employment. They don't want to be actively intelligent, or to have to do anything which remotely inconveniences them in any way. All they want is drama, status seeking, Facebook, Family Guy, sex and violence, and to be protected from the terrorists.
So no. At this point I have absolutely no interest in trying to save the world whatsoever, because the world has made it abundantly clear to me that it does not remotely
want to be saved, either by me or anyone else. While I
will try and benefit specific individuals, I never do so any more without at least implicit consent.
If mainstream society wants to render itself extinct, then as far as I'm concerned at this point, it can go right ahead. If it is true that the royal family are even 10% as monstrous as they are generally depicted on the Internet, then the very fact that they remain out of jail (let alone actually in power) should tell you something.
As another related example, locally the propaganda posters for the coming Anzac Day services next month are going up. April; not a coincidence, since that is Aries' month, which corresponds with war. I could point out to people that war commemoration is essentially a socially sanctioned, national or global expression of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. I could point out the fact that as far as actually
preventing war is concerned, commemoration is logically insane. Yet to do so, would probably only expose me to social ostracision at best, and physical violence at worst. The very fact that I have written this here will probably result in a reprimand from one of the veterans here, or maybe even the deletion of this post.
Why?
Because nobody wants to hear it. The veterans and current military
want the civilian population to view them as Gods, and governments
want pretext and justifications for ever-increasing totalitarianism and fascism, and perpetual, endless war. So it would be a complete waste of my time.
Let them have their eternal flames and their dawn vigils and their marches. Let them think that by doing so, they are somehow moving the world in any direction but towards an Orwellian hell. The way to get rid of war is to
stop focusing on war, not by being continually obsessed with it. No one, however, wants to know that.
I am learning to accept that which I can not change; because aside from anything else, trying to change the above, is trying to dictate
what other people want. I do not have the right to do that, aside from it being pointless for me to try.
b} Focusing on the things I do not want, is not the way to get the scenario that I
do want.
Recent example here; the free/open source UNIX operating systems are currently being destroyed. I've been upset about that; very upset. Yet every time I try and talk to anyone about it, all I receive is censure, mockery, and abuse. Like the war commemoration issue, nobody wants to hear it. Most people think the current order of things is just peachy, and that I should just shut up.
So I realised that the way around that, was to actively work on what I
do want. If I think that the current programming paradigm is degenerate, (which I do) then I need to start learning about FORTH and alternative solutions that do have a provably higher level of integrity, and then actively work towards implementing them.
Maybe no one will want said solutions, while I'm alive. Maybe I'll just end up burying my work in a time capsule for when the world
is ready for it. Either way, I can at least know that I've
offered a potential way out or form of improvement for someone who actually wants it; and at the end of the day, that is all I really
can do.
I expose it for the victims, which are growing daily.
We get people coming to the hostel on a near daily basis, who are often in terrible personal and psychological conditions. Homeless people, drug addicts, those who have been physically abused, you name it. The human wreckage that the urban death factories produce.
When they show up, we feed them. We give them marijuana, fruit and vegetable juice with other herbs, and counsel them. I know of at least two people living here right now with backgrounds in youth social work. The woman who runs the place recently bought me a change of clothes, and is in danger of compassion fatigue and burnout because she keeps giving people second chances, keeps giving people the benefit of the doubt when they screw up, and keeps giving people free food and free stuff on a continual basis.
I know that at least a few people on this forum think that I am scum; partly because I've dared to be critical of American fascism and mindless worship of the military, and partly because I have written about completely, internally and externally shunning Islam, and about the fact that I genuinely do believe that that religion should not rightfully exist. Yet if you knew about what I spend most of my time offline doing, and the degree to which I am told that I am loved on a daily basis for doing it, your opinion of me might change a bit.
I swore seven years ago that if I got out of my then-current situation alive, I would devote myself to the
service of Kali Ma, and that is what I am doing. Anonymous can make as much heat and noise about "#opsafewinter," and whatever other "announcements," as they feel like; but we are actually fragging
doing it.As for me using the word "I" a lot; sometimes things like that happen when someone starts developing positive self-esteem, which I truthfully have been lately. Narcissists don't get the sort of results that I have been, recently; and I've spent time around enough narcissists to know.
I'd rather die trying to see these scum bags brought to justice than chasing any other self seving goal..
Angel: You're not gonna win.
Holland Manners: Well... no. Of course we aren't. We have no intention of doing anything so prosaic as "winning."
[laughs]
Angel: Then why?
Holland Manners: I'm sorry. Why what?
Angel: Why fight?
Holland Manners: That's really the question you should be asking yourself, isn't it? See, for us, there is no fight. Which is why winning doesn't enter into it. We go on, no matter what. Our firm has always been here on Earth... in one form or another. The Inquisition. The Khmer Rouge. We were there when the very first cave man clubbed his neighbor on the head with a rock for stealing his dinner. See, we're in the hearts and minds of every single living being. And that, friend, is what's making things so difficult for you. You see, the world doesn't work in spite of evil, Angel. It works with us. It works because of us.-- Reprise,
Angel: The SeriesWhile your determination is admirable, there is something I need to point out here, Sinny.
Psychopaths rule society for two reasons. One, because they themselves want to, and secondly because non-psychopaths have either been tricked into allowing them to do so, or because said non-psychopaths do not want to self-manage, because it can be terrifying and also involves a lot of work.
So you could throw the entire royal family into a cage for the rest of their lives if you wanted to; but given the way that the majority think, it would accomplish nothing. They would be replaced inside of three months.
The solution is to attack the disease itself, rather than the symptoms. If you lock up the snakes while most people still have the mentality that they still either want to be ruled by them, or they can't be bothered ruling themselves, then the snakes you've locked up will only get replaced with more. As long as the majority are willing to play the psychopaths' game, then the psychopaths themselves are always going to be here. Earth as it currently stands is a spectacular feeding ground for them; they aren't going to stop incarnating here while the public are willing to put up with them, no matter what you do. Ask Zorgon to tell you about the number of people who
want to subordinate themselves to him, during his SCA games. He has already talked about it at length.
We need to change the way the non-psychopathic majority think; and the only way that we can hope to do that, is by providing a positive, practical example. You can accuse me of being self-serving if you like, but the reason why I don't believe I am, is because I'm still helping people; I'm just not trying to help people who don't actually
want my help. The entire reason why I wasted nearly 40 years of my life with my parents, is because I refused to accept the fact that when I went somewhere better, they were not going to be coming with me; and the reason for that is simply because they did not
want to.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again - these people need hung, drawn, and quartered - GHCQ disclaimer, this stance is not illegal, our leaders are in a state of treason, a state which I am more than willing to attest to in a court of law.
I've spent time wallowing in the hatred of several politicians, Sinny; it never achieved anything positive. I know well what it is like to crave vengeance from the likes of Steven Harper; but it is genuinely pointless.
At this point, I don't want to see Harper or his ilk lynched. What I want is to see, is his constituents so consumed with the willingness to start directing their own lives, that Harper and his spiritual brethren could stand around all day screaming orders until they were hoarse, and it would avail them nothing. The people need to recognise that they don't
need the likes of Harper or David Cameron to direct them; and killing said politicians is not going to achieve that recognition. All it is going to do is reset the current pattern, and then it will eventually reach the same point again. We need to solve the problem once and for all.
We don't need more death or revenge, because the only thing that said death does is perpetuate itself. Killing bad politicians keeps the cycle going, because said bad politicians just get replaced.
Things are only going to meaningfully change, when instead of hanging the Fuhrer, the people no longer
want a Fuhrer to begin with.