moving beyond the flaw in our species

Recently, Publius coined a phrase that has since echoed unconsciously in our minds, Collapse, one person at a time. It can seem like that, but it isn't that - exactly. There are too many people. Possibly thousands every day are collapsing together, unknown to each other, feeling as if they are all alone in the struggle, when they are not. Feeling as if you are all alone in the struggle is what makes it a struggle. When you can break away from your perception of your situation to rejoin socially, the struggle does not exist. This means when the struggle gets its grip again, you have ammo, an Rx in consciousness, making use of it is entirely under your control. As long as you don't use the tools at your disposal is as long as you will struggle. One of the things that is unpleasant about the common struggle is the way issues layer one upon another because in struggling, one is vulnerable. The slaves can tell us this. In fact, their method of perception change worked extremely well giving birth to the Blues. Without the Blues, who, where would we be now? Maybe listening to harpsichord in the Tudor's court until accused of rebellion, and then?

On another note, I'd like to draw your attention to Bitter Laugh, Chris Floyd's haunting new song, he has his excellent youtube vid up today on his site. If you lose the link, it lives in the right column on the blog list. And on yet even another interesting note, freeacre kindly sent me a DVD of Symbols of an Alien Sky. When you see it, study it, hear the liquid lute flavoring the images, it becomes impossible to deny the point this work makes. Personally, I want to know what happened that it became goofy to speak of colonization of the Earth? There was indeed a time it was the talk of the planet, shared symbols between earlier, unrelated cultures tell the story. We were indeed visited. We may be visited frequently. Why is this relegated to the domain of the schizophrenic? The proof is more than obvious and has been since our cave dwelling brethren illustrated this proof on every surface worldwide that could hold and protect the information throughout future millennium.

These elements, struggle, war and lies have in common (once again) The Flaw in the human species. I've been considering flaws in species for some time now having noticed that most of my beloved Guinea Pigs get into molar troubles around 3 or 4 years of age, for that species its usually always about their teeth. However, in the wild it is a different story since natural foods which their herbivore bodies are designed to masticate and digest keep these problems in check. It appears domestication of the Guinea Pig, no matter how thorough your animal husbandry practices, is the root of the problem. The flaw in the homo sapien is acceptance that some must struggle and some must dominate. To rephrase, some must be made to feel inferior as a result of another's desire for power over all. If those who are classified as inferior get the idea somewhere along the journey that the struggle is nonsense, the power will see to it they are eliminated from the species.

Publius also reminded me it was Pangolin who commented we have a western caste system, an observation with which I definitely agree. I doubt anyone of us missed Visible's 24.11.08 piece The Budget Economy and Deluxury Package Deals:

... it's like the marijuana versus alcohol situation. Alcohol is a serious poison that kills more people in one year than marijuana has since the dawn of time but alcohol fits with the package deals so much better than marijuana which has a tendency to make people question the very idea of package deals to begin with.

Because some sciences lack a complete material focus they are not legitimate. It’s like saying one should never rely on their intuition because reason is superior in every respect. But then you find that reason is a variable because it operates differently according to the package deals.

Are you confused yet? I am… sort of. I guess what I’m trying to understand is, what is someone like me supposed to do in a world full of cradle to the grave, running on rails package deals? Somehow I didn’t get a package deal unless that is also a package deal. There must be other people like me out there. What I hear is that people like me, or you, if you’re like me are supposed to run into some real opportunity around 2012 if we want to… if we don’t fall asleep or make some kind of arrangement with the people who don’t want that sort of thing, whatever it is, to happen to anyone.
The way I see it, there are a whole lot of package deals that are in a whole lot of trouble but the thing with the package deals is that part of the deal is to not tell you about it. There are a number of looming catastrophes that when factored in together have the making of a perfect storm. When you consider the Zio-con and Neo-con madmen who are working out the details to bomb Iran and when you consider that the repercussions from this are going to be much, much greater than Iraq and Afghanistan put together and you add this to the derivatives nightmare and then you throw in certain problems connected to food and fuel supplies and you multiply that by the collective ignorance of all the people living inside of package deals and then add in the resulting confusion well… you do the math. ...

Of course, you probably think you have outgrown your package deal which would be normal, no one wants to think its all preplanned obliterating the fantasy of free will. Okay, its time to stand way back and look at your package deal in comparison to that of your mother's or father's who were living out their own deals inherited from their own parents who were living out their inherited deals as well. They do not look alike on the surface because everything changes. The names and faces bear some similarity, but it is the action that counts. The saying "Do as I do, not as I say" applies. How you go about the business of arranging your life is how they arranged theirs. It may be genetic, but it is more likely in our childhoods that we adopt these patterns that follow us through life. I've written about this before. We cling to these patterns especially when everything else fails us. I don't think it matters who they came from as much as it matters we are aware of them and able to anticipate the actions we will take concerning any situation so that we may more authentically integrate the totality of that situation. Cycles can end with us if we decide to end them. You will lapse, but know it in advance, sidestep the urge to repeat the past and keep going forward every day.

Look for examples to inspire the effort. Baz, relocating trout and eel to deeper waters during New Zealand's drought, Ras turey, back to Nature at last with his spars to share, plant, heal and learn in his true homeland of Jamaica, Chris Floyd's music and poetry and author Charles Hugh Smith's five-star book Survival +: Structuring Prosperity for Yourself and the Nation while branching out as economic columnist. These feats do not resemble the deals they were given at birth, rather they have seen the future and made personal decisions empowering themselves by breaking out of the caste system and doing what our bodies and minds were meant to do ... which is to feel fulfillment in your purpose for being here. There are quite a few of us who are already there, some just don't realize it yet, but you will.