cruelty: power from the grave

One of the things happening in this experience we call the state of being "online", besides a fantastic increase in time wasted wading through simulacra in order to get to where your true intentions reside, is a broadening of illumination. It is what might happen if you found yourself in a snowstorm in the forest, lost, verging on giving up and pondering your next move, each move having used precious energy, your reserves are running low and there isn't much time now, it must be the right move or salvation, if it still exists at all, could vanish if your next move is another futile decent into the very real possibility of hypothermia. You can see a light filtering between the branches and investigate. And then, right on time, there is Arthur Silber, meaningfully connecting, talking about the exact thing I spoke to you about last year in the post Deja Vu. Suddenly, it comes together and there is no "lost" anymore, its what you perceived and yet, so large and ungainly we fail to grasp its significance until we catch ourselves repeating patterns again, the same story written by new authors referencing even more authors and it keeps growing until it is undeniably - a sad truth.

"If you are watching others, as we cannot help but do, you are amazed how much punishment they can take and remarkably, the suicide rate is relatively low for these ongoing horrors. Of course, suicide takes many forms, the most common aside from actually jumping off a tall building is substance abuse in which every act and breath is slow death. Another and likely even more common is the fallback into your pattern suicide. This is where one reverts to autopilot behavior learned from childhood success with the method, the one where you infinitely repeat your scenes, good and bad, in different geographies, employments or social situations meaning they are always disguised from the performers as if something new was taking place requiring a brand new solution every time. This is especially common to repeat victims in domestic violence and repeat offenders of crimes, they fail to note the overall picture of their life is unchanging due to a change of costume and the variance in script."

On the Mainstreet level we are talking about why it is that horrible crimes are committed in our name every hour of every day and do nothing to end it. The excuse used to be you didn't really know enough to voice a serious opinion. Later, as you began to recognize the inconsistencies and facts went a lot deeper than you'd imagined, you couldn't see an opening where you might contribute to make a difference, as if you found yourself staring at a monumental glass bubble, with no entry, everyone can see inside and everyone inside can see out, but the two never meet.

Horrific decisions are made inside the bubble affecting millions worldwide, but you can only look on, mostly dumbfounded as to how such a thing is taking place. Every now and then it looks as if its going to burst, but it remains and - its growing exactly as the oil slick is spreading through the Gulf into the bayous and inlets and mangroves and the multitude of wildlife reserves (reservations). Just as Charles said in The Art of Survival: Taoism and the Warring States, the point of which is to know your enemy if you intend to be the victor, we must know ourselves if we plan on surviving in spite of the bubble's ruthless appetite for destruction. We are not here to gawk incredulously at the bubble, nor are we here only to be subjected to relentless, indefatigable cruelty.

We have seen the bubble and it is us. It is not literally me or literally you, maybe, it is OF us, IN us, who can deny we assisted in its creation? We have gone along with it, complied with it, argued for our candidates and freely offer up alms. What most of us have not done, in spite of the daily monstrosities, is recognized exactly what part of us makes up the bubble and what to do about it, if anything.

The belief it is going to crash is not valid since on the very day the bubble claims to be in recovery be it slack show trials or lack of finale in war and conflict or partners in crime or innocents made foolish by a spreading of the global debt or incongruous solutions that only worsen the condition, that IS what the bubble becomes as a self-propelling shape-shifter. You have already seen those inside create their own reality at the drop of a press release, which affect us regardless, and never well. Until we dig to the root, we will remain stuck, staring, questioning without knowing, confused and jerked around as we are ostracized and cruelly humiliated by anyone who pleases, anyone oblivious to what is happening here.

We can end it whenever we want. All we must do us recognize the cruelty stops with ourselves. How it inserted itself into the human character is not as important as possessing the awareness to allow it to extinguish itself through your own power by opting out of the cycle. In the learning process, you'll figure out how it happened anyway. WE are where change takes place by walking away, boycotting, refusing to participate, living above the noise, the threats and punishments. Everyone must come to this conclusion by themselves. It you hold serious convictions, allow nothing and no one to dissuade them. Every step back depletes your power until you are again at the mercy of cruelty and hatred.

How we began doesn't have to be how we end this particular trip. Everything we've learned in our relatively recent learning leap turns out to be false, thus false is where we began, at birth, and literally at the birth of domination supported in full by cruelty costumed as the greater good, costumed as political correctness, faking altruism.

Its more than possible the first cruelty was an early reaction to cruelty from outside predation thousands of years ago during colonization. As an interbred population grew in number, cruelty successfully served a multitude of objectives from self-survival to enforcement of obedience under cruel rulers to creating examples of those who refused to accept cruelty's ambient violence. Behind it all is nothing more than the demand one submit and surrender. What are we doing in Afghanistan and Iraq, Iran and Pakistan, Haiti, Somalia, what did we do during Katrina? Why is torture condoned and what is it that sets off the actual perpetrators extending the rack? The list of crimes encompasses the entire planet and still it grows. We are doing two things, stealing resources and replacing objectors to the thefts with starry-eyed and weakened submissives who will supposedly duplicate western behaviors, amplifying the prevalence of cruelty. What goes on in relationships riddled with domestic violence? Demand under pressure to transform the human region into that of complete surrender and submission is what goes on. It only works as long as the pressure is present, i.e.; it does not work, and it is never sustainable. In the long term, cruelty is a complete failure. It is a truth that domestic violence almost always results in death - as in war, as at home. It is all one longstanding, learned pattern. Mainstreet is your household hallway.

It is my firm understanding we have life in order to move higher into the realm of total awareness as we pass though Earth's portal. If we don't get it on the first try, we die to live again and very often recycle many times following each journey until we achieve true awareness which is not death at all. Along the way, suffering - and understanding why we suffer - is key.

I don't fault, fault being merely acknowledgement of cause, the common man for being intractable, determined to avoid awareness of himself and what he does at any cost, I fault him for failing to recognize his own learned patterns of abuse and cruelty as personal survival mechanisms, keeps everyone else tethered to an imaginary premise having no foundation with which to advance into the higher realm.

How good can the so dearly desired "good life" be if all around everyone and everything else is suffering, collapsing, depleting, extincting, going without, robbed of respect and dignity chiefly because of the requirements necessary to preserve the "good life"? The cruel and clueless will never invite the pain of the truth.

Although I recognized the expanse of patterns of cruelty and submission on my own long ago, my sincere thanks and gratitude go to Visible for his honesty and ever fearless voice and Arthur Silber for his Apocalyptic insights, each of whom confirm these truths I bring to your attention with their healing, heartfelt and inspiring works. If you are not already reading their blogs, I suggest you start anywhere and then ... take a look at what kind of world we are living in.

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