Our Quest for Freedom: Explaining and Proposing
[This is from my new book Our Quest for Freedom and other essays]
Explaining
As well as describing to other people the horrific reality in which we find ourselves today, we also need to explain to them how it was that we got here.
It is astonishing how many simply imagine it has always been like this.
The system fosters historical ignorance and even a falsified history that depicts the encroachment of criminocratic domination as a positive phenomenon.
We are told that everything that has happened to us was somehow inevitable and right. 2024 could only ever have looked the way it is today and 2050 can only be the way the criminocrats tell us it is going to be.
Over the last decade, I have tried to shed some historical light on how we came to be where we are today, particularly in The Stifled Soul of Humankind (2014) and The Withway (2022).
The key, indisputable, fact is that humans were once free, in the way that all wild living creatures are free.
The condition into which we have sunk does not really show humankind as being the cream of creation or the peak of evolution.
Animals often eat each other, of course, and can take a primal pleasure out of killing for the sake of it. Let’s not romanticise them.
But have you ever seen a fat adult crow sitting on top of a tree, having his food brought up to him by a dozen other birds who seem to feel the need to obey his commands?
Have you ever seen a young deer frolick happily through the sunlit woods but then suddenly stop short, check the time on its digital antlers, and go trotting glumly back to a dark cave to spend the rest of the day tapping figures into a computer database?
Have you ever seen a fish in the water approached by burly fish bailiffs and told that if he doesn’t cough up the river-rent he will thrown up on to the bank to die?
Layers and layers of control have been built up over the years to crush the human spirit, layers which are not just physical, but psychological.
We find it quite normal that we are slaves, cut off from our natural and communal belonging and at the complete mercy of a gang of powerful criminals.
We regard it as quite acceptable that any signs of resistance to that state of affairs are quickly hammered into invisibility by the iron fist of illegitimate “authority”.
We consider it inevitable that future generations, our offspring, will continue to be herded and prodded and abused and milked and medicated and culled and consumed by those with all the power that money can buy and all the money that power can provide.
Proposing
Once we have explained to people that our freedom has been stolen from us, it seems logical enough to propose that we take it back!
But it only works in that order. You have to dig the foundations before you build the house.
When we have realised what kind of world we are living in, and heading further into, when we have remembered that notion of a different way of being and felt our yearning for it, when that has prompted us to expose the ill-doing of power and to share the history of how it came to dominate us, then – and only then – can we suggest that we do something about it.
Otherwise, what sense does any of it make? How can you ask someone to help make a better world if they have not understood what is wrong with the world in the first place and what factors were responsible for that?
Change for the sake of change is not good change. Change for the sake of change is often the kind of change favoured by the criminocrats themselves.
The tightening of their control is always a “reform” and they know no better way to grab more power than by means of a “revolution”.
Our quest for freedom does not start in mid-air, or in the pages of some dry book of theory masquerading as radical truth.
Our quest starts from our guts, from our souls, from our memories, from our brains, from our hearts.
What we propose is a return to freedom which is not a turning-back in time but a rediscovery of the way we are meant to be, the archetypal way of being.
We propose the pursuit of our yearning, a nostalgic search for a future we had and lost, a deep desire to live once more in line with everything we know to be right and true and natural and beautiful and just.
Our Quest for Freedom and other essays can be downloaded for free here or purchased here.
Beautifully and succinctly put. Absolutely true that people need to be reminded of the utterly unnatural state of their lives today. Simply living in our little half acre bit of nature here in La France profonde is a permanent and continuous liberty, such that being outside and expending effort is pure spiritual joy.
Education should be holistic... It's the alien psychological effect of the way the world is that causes such blindness, I think - because humans are such adaptable creatures, taking the path of least resistance means simply 'going along with it as best one can' - most people don't realise that's ultimately self-defeating, almost (spiritually) suicidal, in a way. I have also thought at times that this may well be the true long-term demonic objective of these monsters/criminocrats - to use this innate adaptability on a deeper epigenetic level, over several thousand years or more, to fundamentally and permanently alter the human brain's structure and functioning such that humans become monsters, because that is the 'most beneficial survival adaptation for living in a monstrous social environment' - similar to the kind of 'learned helplessness' as is intrinsic to stuff like Monarch programming, then taken on by those 'psychologists' responsible for 'enhanced interrogation techniques' (which didn't actually work, as it happens - the victims will do and say anything to make it stop, and being adults it's much harder for them to dissociate and go all MPD).
But certainly 'learned helplessness' is one of the centrally pervading strategies of the criminocracy, imho.
In which case 'freedom' - especially the simple experience of it out in the natural world - is a long way towards a cure. And while they are having their (let's call in mandatory, lol) little holiday in nature, we remind them that this is 'normal' for human beings. I'm all in favour of a more activity-based, partly Steiner-esque (with a load of Jung thrown in for very good measure) approach to education - children should not be shut up in classrooms, but outside, like human children used to be for hundreds of thousands of years.
I love that line in the beautiful 'Company of Wolves' - 'for she was just a girl, after all, who strayed from the path into the forest, and remembered what she'd found there'.
Everyone should be enabled to truly know this - personally and holistically...
Nicely stated.
Reminds me of something along this line....
They have eyes but they do not see.
They have ears but they do not hear.
They have a voice but they do not dare to speak out.
They have a brain but they don't know how to use it.