The freedom of thought is the most fundamental of human liberties.
It is likewise the root of all innovation, which means that it is at
the root of all that exists in the world, and without it people
would still live in caves and hitting each other with stones.
To those who would attack people's freedom of thought, we say, We've
had enough. We are throwing off your yoke of oppression.
An action that is uninformed is an action for whose results one
cannot be responsible, as it leads to all kinds of unanticipated
consequences. Knowledge is a prerequisite for responsibility, and
freedom of thought and of exploration is a prerequisite for
knowledge that is not contextually determined. To those who use the
concept of responsibility to attack experience and exploration and
freedom of thought that is a prerequisite for knowledge that is a
prerequisite for responsibility, we say, we've had enough. We are
throwing off your yoke of oppression.
It is meaningless to demand of people to take responsibility for
their lives when they have no meaningful choice over what life to
have. And finding out what life to have can be only result of
profound exploration, including leaving behind the familiar. People
rarely know what they want until they have found it or until it
finds them, and to trap people into lives that are uninformed under
the pretext of responsibility is to deny knowledge and meaningful
choice that are prerequisite for responsibility as well as
responsibility over one's life. To the entrappers and life-stealers
of the world, we say, we've had enough. We are throwing off your
yoke of oppression.
An action can have natural consequences, as integrative function of
its inherent character and the world in which it exists. It can also
have artificial consequences, designed deliberately by people in
service of one or another agenda. The mindset conditioned through
cultivation of false artificial consequences is disconnected from
life and creates a false understanding of the world. The people,
driven by this false understanding, create societies that are
reifications of this false understanding. Driven by this false
undrestanding, they commit hideous errors of judgment pertaining the
world and act in a manner destructive to the world as well as to
people within it. Driven by false understanding, the people create
societies that not only are fallacy-driven but, depending upon
unconditional embrace of the fallacy for their claims of validity
and righteousness and realism and ethics, cannot allow for insight
that would lead to understanding of true character of the world
to exist. They seek to stomp out such insight wherever it may
appear. What should be encouraged, appreciated and given a way to
expression instead becomes criminalized and pathologized, in order
that it not be threat to the false artificial worldview and the
false artificial world created in service thereof. All that has way
to the truth is assaulted. To the big-lie societies driven by false
reinforcement and implementation of psycholinguistic lies in service
thereto, we say, we have had enough. We are throwing off your yoke
of oppression.
>From every situation it is possible to learn the right lesson, a
wrong lesson, or no lessons at all. It is better to learn no lesson
than to learn a wrong one. The "lessons" forced down people's
throats through manipulation of social climate to make it reflect
one or another interest or ideology are false and do not reflect the
true character of the world. To the manipulators of social climate,
we say, we have had enough. We are throwing off your yoke of
oppression.
The universe is not made of brick, and neither is the human mind.
The materialist fundamentalist mindset creates a more profound
oppression than one caused by Islam, Con****ianism, Hinduism or
Christianity. All thoughts and feelings are controlled and driven
into representation of a worldview that claims rationality or
intelligence for itself while being bigoted, dogmatic, prosecutorial
and intolerant. Lacking the concept of soul or forgiveness or
deliberate choice or even individuality that its theory of evolution
necessitates as the mechanism by which life has come from bacteria
to humanity, the materialist fundamentalist creates a
totalitarianism of the mind, which leads to totalitarianism of
conduct. By its own mechanisms - the mechanisms that see universe as
being made of brick and cannot allow for anything more intricate or
more profound than a brick - this mindset seeks to entrap what it
can and destroy what it cannot. To the materialist fundamentalists,
we way, we've had enough. We are throwing off your yoke of
oppression.
Throughout human history there have been thousands of normative
systems and thousand of cultural commonsenses, most of them mutually
exclusive of one another. Even if one of those norms or commonsenses
is true, it means that all others are false, and that throughout
human history most people were wrong, insane and abnormal. To the
pushers of context totalitarianism masquerading as norms, sanity or
commonsense, we say, we've had enough. We are throwing off your yoke
of oppression.
All good that we have in the world comes from people doing things
their own way. It is the original in humanity that is at the root of
all that we have here. To the people who bludgeon others into doing
things according to one or another norm or tradition, which itself
is different from other traditions and normative systems, we say,
we've had enough. We are throwing off your yoke of oppression.
Nobody speaks for everyone, for reality, for sanity or for
commonsense. There are six billion people in the world who practice
different modes of thought, and for communities and societies to
claim to speak for such things is the height of collective
arrogance. To the people who claim people arrogant for thinking for
themselves while assuming the monumental arrogance of claiming to
speak for everyone, the bulk of which believe nothing similar to
themselves, we say, we've had enough. We are throwing off your yoke
of oppression.
Liberty does not mean controlling one's family with a gun. If the
official organs of power are held inherently evil, then unofficial
organs of power, lacking the checks and balances and principles that
apply to the official organs of power, will be more so. To the
communitarians, the survivalists and the uninformed libertarians who
seek to replace checked-and-balanced organs of power with
unofficial and uninformed tyranny of good-ole-boy networks, we say,
we've had enough. We are throwing off your yoke of oppression.
All power, official or unofficial, must be balanced and checked. The
power to control people's minds, feelings and personalities is the
greatest power possible and requires balances and checks on itself
and its totality. As democracy demands human rights and civil rights
to ensure that government acts in an ethical way, same moral
judgments must be applied on society as it attempts to impose its
own, contradictory all the time, mentality and set of ethics. Social
tyranny and context totalitarianism must be exposed and seen for
abuses of power when it leads to witch hunts, hysterias, thought
policing, psychological terror, destruction of minds and lives, and
persecution of freedom of thought and feeling. To the social
bludgeoners and normative bullies, we say, we've had enough. We are
throwing off your yoke of oppression.
Social interaction does not require thought-controlling social
totalitarianism any more than economy requires strangulating
bureaucracy. As people figure things out for themselves, they will
add to the knowledge, vibrancy and greatness of the civilization. In
allowing the freedom of thought, feeling, experience and exploration
and cultural choice in the same way as market allows the freedom of
property, is created greater and more informed thought that builds
on itself and adds to the world's wisdom. To those who believe that
the world needs similitude of thought and perception, we say, we've
had enough. We are throwing off your yoke of oppression.
It makes no sense to create governments designed to be free of
official tyranny in order that unofficial tyranny take its place,
masquerading as reality, or commonsense, or normality, or sanity, or
any other things that it is not. Democracy demands all forms of
authority to be balanced and checked and accountable to the public;
which means that it must be official. To the social totalitarianism
in all its aspects, we say, we've had enough. We are throwing off
your yoke of oppression.
Reality is the sun, the universe, all living things on planet earth,
and the potentials and the actions of those who exist on it. To
equate reality with a mindset and an adaptation, is to usurp reality
from the universe and appropriate it for that adaptation. Pursuant
this fallacy, it is to commit a hideous error of destruction of all
that is not part of this adaptation, for which it does not see a
purpose or which it does not comprehend. To the supposed realists of
the world, we say, we've had enough. We are throwing off your yoke
of oppression.
Sprirituality, empathy and goodness of mind and heart is not about
perpetuating bad scripts, hideous cultural patterns, or ill-fitting
adaptations, but about rising above them and benefitting humanity.
To use spiritual feelings or human values to perpetuate family-
transmitted or culturally-transmitted forms of wrong, is to usurp
the good in humanity and use it in service of one or another form of
wrong. To the pushers of omnipotent-family or omnipotent-community
structures, we say, we've had enough. We are throwing off your yoke
of oppression.
Success is about meeting one's goals, and not goals that someone has
for oneself. Winning is about doing one's own will, and not about
playing one or another social game relating to which the people have
been defined as winners and losers. To those who subvert the concept
of success or the concept of winning and losing for purpose of
controlling people into perpetuation of one or another game, we say,
we've had enough. We are throwing off your yoke of oppression.
The concept of adequacy does not apply to humankind. No human being
is a match for a tiger; he uses better technology to outsmart him,
and in the process to benefit fellow man. To the monkey-brain
dogmatists, we say, we've had enough. We are throwing off your yoke
of oppression.
There are men who think women are evil or exist to serve man, and
women who think men are pigs and must be castrated. To believe such
a thing is to assay the original in terms of one or another
misconceived usurpatory interest or fallacious system of thought and
judgment, and to commit the monumental hubris of judging half of the
world's population according to an ideology or an interest - while
according to that interest or ideology assigning to them an inferior
role. To Augustine, Luther, Dworkin, Mohammed and similar
scoundrels, we say, we've had enough. We are throwing off your yoke
of oppression.
There are people who see art and beauty and creative intelligence as
useless or friviolous. The world does not exist for the sake of one
or another form of utility, and neither do genius and passion. Some
things are good in and of themselves, and for this deserve love,
respect and protection. To the art-haters and creativity-haters and
beauty-haters, we say, we've had enough. We are throwing off your
yoke of oppression.
Beauty, intelligence, skill and inner development are all forms of
excellence. To claim to value the last two without valuing the
first two, is hypocrisy and falsehood. To the haters of beauty, we
say, we've had enough. We are throwing off your yoke of oppression.
Each human mind is different, and contains in it an inherent potency
and methodology. To rightly develop a mind, is to help it to
make the most of the mechanisms that are in it encoded and guide
them into mature unfoldment. To the pushers of thought similitude in
education, we say, we've had enough. We are throwing off your yoke
of oppression.
The relativist and postmodernist is of the belief that there are no
absolutes. Thus the absolutes of passion, beauty, genius,
originality, excellence and goodwill are seen as a threat and
attacked in order that they not be refutation to this worldview by
counterexample. To the relativists and postmodernists, we say, we've
had enough. We are throwing off your yoke of oppression.
The original mind or a passionate soul, when placed in a context of
mental oppression, will develop problems of one or another kind.
This may lead many to believe that such things are wrong, when any
true examination of inherent dynamics lead one to dig deeper and see
the true causes. As the original mind or the passionate soul is
assayed in reference to a dogmative function that fails to value
such things, it will be confounded and find it difficult to have
self-esteem or self-confidence. And yet it is the original minds
that have the most to offer the humankind, and it is the passionate
souls that have the most to offer in relation****ps. To the pushers
of dogma that see self-esteem or personality psychology as a measure
of all things without seeing the natural causes underlying these
things, we say, we've had enough. We are throwing off your yoke of
oppression.
If human desire nature is held to be evil, then so must be the human
desire for control over anyone else. To use religion for purpose of
control over one's family, one's community or one's civilization, is
to use and abuse the religion in service of a purpose that the
religious ideology itself condemns. To the religious fundamentalists
of the world, we say, we've had enough. We are throwing off your
yoke of oppression.
It is the purpose of mind to make the best of all possible worlds.
It is to integrate the good that exists in the world and also to
create its own. Integrating valuable things from other cultures does
not make one a poser or a traitor, but rather someone who enriches
one's civilization with wisdom from other worlds in areas where they
are an improvement upon the ways of one's civilization. To those
who would attack people who have appreciation for ways other than
those of the hometown, and seek to integrate them in their
existence, we say, we've had enough. We are throwing off your yoke
of oppression.
Pluralism means bringing the wisdom of different worlds together and
using it
to correct the errors in all the cultures and build likewise upon
their strength. And taking the best of competing ideologies and
putting them together, instead of blindly mouthing an ideological
line, is making the most wise and most complete of the thought
present in civilization. To the cultural purists and party-line
ideologues all over the world, we say, we've had enough. We are
throwing off your yoke of oppression.
To feed in order to choke, or to serve and protect in order to
control, is to be running a racket and to be doing more harm than
good. While government, business and military are a necessity at
this time, they cannot be allowed to abuse their power and control
everyone's existence. Instead - drawing upon the concept of market
competition and the concept of checks-and-balances working
together - they must be made to compete in a fair sphere and through
competition and checks-and-balances and accountability be made to
become the best they can be, while being checked in their potential
for oppression and usurpation. To the feeding-rackets,
service-rackets and protection-rackets in all their forms, we say,
we've had enough. We are throwing off your yoke of oppression.
To assay the intrinsic in reference to the canonical, or to see the
world in reference to one's standpoint and cognitive methodology, is
to make a method for apprehending reality a reality, and its
incomplete judgments more potent in people's minds than reality. To
do this is to usurp formative power from the universe and to impart
it to one or another cognitive method. To those who would judge the
innate logic of things for difference from the logic by which they
are being dissected, or to attack them for being made of a
different logic without bothering to find out the logic by which
they intrinsically operate or claim them irrational when they
practice a more inclusive rationality and one that the observer
cannot comprehend, we say, we've had enough. We are throwing off
your yoke of oppression.
The *****c is blood of life, and the reason for all of life. Any
attempt to control or usurp or traumatize it is to do violence
against life as such. To the religious or ideological perversions
that criminalize the passionate and the *****c, we say, we've had
enough. We are throwing off your yoke of oppression.
To claim that a feeling is based in an earlier ego state, and
then to adjudicate it as infantile, is again to commit the error of
presenting the intrinsic in reference to the fallacious canonical
ideology, and then to make a still more grievous error of judging
it according to the false values contained in the culture. This is
neither scientific nor rational, nor is it ethically right. There
is potentiality in all ego states, and living fully is about giving
them all a way to complete fruition. To those who attack the
romantic passion according to Freudian or Adlerian or any other
degenerate models, we say, we've had enough. We are throwing off
your yoke of oppression.
Growth is not expungement of the inherent, but growing into its
mature embodiment. True growth is not about self-expungement, but
about complete unfolment of the innate potential. To those who want
people to "grow" out of warmth, passion, talent, inventiveness, joy,
beauty, creativity and originality, we say, we've had enough. We are
throwing off your yoke of oppression.
The artificial sets of consequence and reinforcement are far
removed from the natural ones and therefore do not reflect the
innate logic of things. Instead of seeing the actions for their true
character and true consequence, people see them for their assigned
false and artificial consequence. This leads people to learn false
lessons and to develop a skewed and fallacious worldview that is
not based on inherent reality of things, which in turn blinds them
to clarity and understanding. Ignorance builds on itself; so does
desensitization and cruelty; so does disconnection from life. Man
loses the wisdom of life and is not merely broken but through
this manipulation is led ot make wrong and ignorant choices and
perpetuates them onto the generations to come. To the formulators of
all artificial and self-perpetuating commonsenses, we say, we've had
enough. We are throwing off your yoke of oppression.
The human world consists of others and self, and benefitting the
human world consists of benefitting both self and others. To deny
people's self-interest as they define it themselves, or to keep
people from doing good for one's fellow human beings, is to do
violence against either side of the equation of doing good. To the
service-racket and to the anti-altruist racket, we say, we've had
enough. We are throwing off your yoke of oppression.
An injustice unredressed is an injustice systematized. The just-
world hypothesis that is required for mental comfort leads people
to justify whatever status quo may exist at the time, whatever the
actual mechanisms that brought it about. This means that the moral-
intellectual mind follows and perpetuates arrangements created by
any dynamics that may exist; which makes the entire order
unavoidably hypocritical. The people in tune with actual dynamics
cannot take seriously the supposed ethics stated by such societies;
they are then regarded immoral when they are the ones that in fact
possess the most keen sense of justice. To the moral bludgeoners in
service of societies created by cruelty and injustice, we say, we've
had enough. We are throwing off your yoke of oppression.
The earth is not as hard as it seems. There is fire under the earth,
air around it and water upon its surface. The second and third are
essential to life on earth; the first existed before the earth's
crust came about, and of which the earth's crust is only a
manifestation. To the people who only see value in earthy things,
we say, we've had enough. We are throwing off your yoke of
oppression.
The adaptation is only this - adaptation. It is an integrative
function of what is inside with social climate through which it
manifests. To see people for their personal adaptations, is to
commit the error of making the adaptation essential to perception
and jugments while ignoring both the inherent truth of the human
being and the truth of the world in which it exists. This leads to
failure to compute inner worth, and failure also to call society of
the time on the wrong in it. The result is failure to see either
side of the integrative function for what it is, and failure not
only to actualize inner worth but failure also to correct the wrong
in any given society. This leads to both waste of potential and
perpetuation of social abuses. To the personality psychologists who
fail to see either side of what makes personality, we say, we've
had enough. We are throwing off your yoke of oppression.
The world does not exist in reference to a method or a perceptual
mode. To define reality as what can be seen or verified or assayed,
is to make the self and the perceptual modes contained within it -
either inherent or socially transmitted or an integrative function
of both - primary to reality. It is to create a self-centered,
canon-centered, society-centered or dogma-centered worldview; worse,
it is to set as center of perception and judgment the mind formed
through manipulation of artificial consequences and to project upon
the universe the modes of cognition that are untrue to it. It is
to judge the universe according to its deviation from dogma created
in pursuit of this canon-centered, society-centered or dogma-
centered worldview, instead of assaying it and valuing it according
to its inherent character. To call such a thing logical, when it is
committing the fatal logical error of projecting upon something that
runs by one method what runs by another and judging it in reference
thereto, is to commit a fatal logical error according to one's own
claims of logicality. And to call such a thing reliously righteous,
when it is committing extreme hubris and immorality of judging the
created universe for difference from interests forming one's moral
worldview, is to betray any claims of righteousness contained in
one's own religion. To the people guilty of either such error, we
say, we've had enough. We are throwing off your yoke of oppression.
There are multiple ways by which the human being can apprehend the
unverse. An apple brought Newton to develop theory of gravity;
Einstein got his theory of relativity in a dream. Imagination and
inspiration are not only valid modes of perception, but ones to
which the world owes much of what it claims to be owed to logic. To
The methodology bigots who see no value in other forms of cognition,
we say, we've had enough. We are throwing off your yoke of
oppression.
The context attempts to engineer insight, passion and creativity out
of existence in order that it not be there to see the actual
character of the universe, and thus not be there to disrupt a
fallacious worldview shoved down people's throats and an artificial
big-lie of a world that is a result of social manipulation. The
friction between the insightful (that sees actions for natural
character) and the contextual (internalization of false worldview,
created through cultivation of artificial consequences, that is the
civilization at any given time) creates mental and interpersonal
friction, which is the reason that creativity frequently
correlates with mental or adaptational problems and is seen by many
as symptomatic. By traumatizing or usurping the structures through
which creativity or insight can manifest, grave damage is done. The
insight and creativity is maliciously attacked, and blamed for the
friction when the friction is a result of the clash between insight
into the universe-as-is and the contextual fallacy. The assault
persists until insight and creativity see the tools used to bludgeon
it our of existence and use it rightfully for its manifestation -
the genius, the true character of the universe, and the fire under
the earth. The rationalism of one or another kind will always be
followed by one or another form of romanticism, as a result of the
mechanisms that are contained therein. To the world's context-
shapers, we say, we've had enough. We are throwing off your yoke of
oppression.
Ilya Shambat
http://ibshambat.blogspot.com
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