The Present Crisis is Exceptional.
Throughout its history, humanity has been through various crises; the political, economical, social, and national crises. Crises come and go, every crisis has something to be learned from and every crisis is a sign that there’s something wrong in the ways we do things.
Today’s crisis is unlike the past ones. It’s the first of its kind; it’s not political, economical, social, or national.
It’s a crisis of ideation; a crisis of ideas.
How is this a crisis of ideas?
Before the modern history of the world, everything was presented as it actually was or everything was recognized as its true nature was; evil was called evil, destruction was called destruction, murder was called murder, etc. But something changed with the emergence of human psychology as a field of study.
We now had the scientific proof that the human mind can be deceived/fooled in any way given the manipulator is clever enough. Since then, the greedy and clever people have used this knowledge to propagandize the entire population efficiently.
What is the raw meaning of propaganda?
It’s a set of ideas that the population is made to believe through various means and the ideas are such that present themselves as the justification for evil. What has happened as a result of mass-scale propaganda? Evil is not evil, it’s a path toward righteousness; war is not war, it’s a path toward peace; destruction is not destruction, it’s a path toward stabilization. And it makes the present crisis even more dangerous.
Seeing a murder and recognizing it as such is far less pernicious than seeing a murder and recognizing it as something noble.
Man is no longer important, only the ideas and systems emerging from the propagandized minds are important, and when the ideas come from the mind that’s propagandized toward profit, possession, and consumption, the only result is large-scale suffering.
One more thing that indicates humanity’s current plight is the importance we have started giving to sensate values; to property, to organized religion, to nationality, to caste, but not to humanity itself. Two people are seen as either Christian or Communist, Muslim or Hindu, but both of them are NOT seen as humans. Property and nationality have become the cause of death for many.
Every action we take based on our false identities is inevitably going to lead to more destruction, more pain, more war, etc.
So, what’s the way out of our current state of chaos?
It’s certainly not another idea, another system, or another organization because we have tried all of that before and we’ve seen that nothing delivered what it promised; for if it had we would not be in the current abyss.
Our civilization is a civilization of propagandized minds, which means that no matter how “good” of an idea or way of organizing you come up with is going to have varying degrees of our past traumas mixed in it, and therefore, it would just give another shape to the current chaos. A new idea, a new system is a temporary and ego-satisfying solution to our current plight but that’s not what we need or should wish for.
What we need is a complete regeneration of an individual; we have to redefine what being human is; we have to go to the source of our ideas and completely transform the way we perceive and think. If the walls of bottle are poisoned, then even the filtered water is going to be poisonous inside it. If you want the water to stay clean, you have to clean the bottle first; if you want a clean society, it will not come through any system. It will come through a cleaned mind because society is a gross manifestation of our mind.
If you want to transform the outer world, started with the inner world; for that is the only permanent solution to our tendency toward calamity.
“Yesterday I was clever and tried to change the world. Today I am wise and try to change myself.” - RUMI.
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