"[Ga] Freedom or Lack Thereof ... Wed, February 10, 2010 3:18:24 PM From: Javier A. Quiñones Ortiz
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It would appear that the more liberty we lose, the less people are able to imagine how liberty might work. It is a fascinating thing to behold. • People can no longer imagine a world in which we could be secure without massive invasions of our privacy at every step, and even being strip-searched before boarding air planes, even though private institutions manage much greater security without any invasions of human rights; • People can no longer remember how a true free market in medical care would work, even though all the problems of the current system were created by government interventions in the first place; • People imagine that we need 700 military bases around the world, and endless wars in the Middle East, for 'security,' though safe Switzerland doesn’t; • People think it is insane to think of life without central banks, even though they are modern inventions that have destroyed currency after currency; • Even meddlesome agencies like the Consumer Products Safety Commission or the Federal Trade Commission strike most people as absolutely essential, even though it is not they who catch the thieves and frauds, but private institutions; • The idea of privatizing roads or water supplies sounds outlandish, even though we have a long history of both; • People even wonder how anyone would be educated in the absence of public schools, as if markets themselves didn't create in America the world's most literate society in the 18th and 19th centuries. This list could go on and on. But the problem is that the capacity to imagine freedom – the very source of life for civilization and humanity itself – is being eroded in our society and culture. The less freedom we have, the less people are able to imagine what freedom feels like, and therefore the less they are willing to fight for its restoration. This has profoundly affected the political culture. We've lived through regime after regime, since at least the 1930s, in which the word freedom has been a rhetorical principle only, even as each new regime has taken away ever more freedom. _______________________________________________ Ga mailing list Ga@lists.ucla.edu http://lists.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ga"
To unfold the truth,about us and about the conflict, division and violence left in our wake, and to separate the wheat from the chaff, to reveal the conscious and unconscious origin of conflict, division and violence shared by all of us. To disprove the fallacy that truth has a trap door.
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The Stumbling Block
We hope to search for the truth about us humans, and hope to amass enough evidence to prove, that no amount of laws, transparency, disclosure and legislation is sufficient to alter our destructive and corrupted behavior except temporarily. Our love of polarity empowers our self image and activates our 400 million year old reptilian brain! Our reasoning part of the brain, which enabled us to advance and create this material paradise, is of little use in taming our conflict, division and violence.
Witness the death of the "Social Contract", between nations and even next door neighbors," you don't bother me and I won't bother you"!, just doesn't work for reasons we will search out.
The following should convince sceptics, that our overall intelligence, is losing the most important characteristic, that all life forms except man, posess.
Every living creature has a built in need to survive, no matter what the threat to it is, it will do everything in it's power to avoid it's demise. Bacteria will eventually overcome an anti-biotic that once killed it. All living creatures will adapt, change to the best of their abilities when their survival is threatened, even though their cognitive {reasoning}, abilities are meagre compared to mans.
Man with the most complicated and highest functioning cognitive process, seems unable in most cases to avoid putting himself un-necessarily in the line of fire.
All this is due to the control the negative aspects of his psychological self has on his behaviour, cognition, reasoning and actions.
Lets call the interference - the stumbling block - the negative aspects of the "software of the mind", those things that prevent him exercising intelligently and creatively his will to survive.
They include but are not limited to the following.
His desperate need for identity and belonging, which is a double edged sword, when what you identify with or belong to has a destructive or negative narrative...Our need to be right in our own eyes, see Proverbs 21: 2...When we identify with a certain belief (one leaf) and it becomes, for most, something we would defend no matter what the cost...our love of scapegoating others when they do something wrong, but when we do the same we rationalize it...our strongest natural characteristic is mimemis, {imitation} whithout which we couldn't have created culture or even learned language, but imitation is again a double edged sword, depending on who or what we imitate...the tendency for close friends to desire the same object {mimetic desire} and if it cannot be shared we often become rivals, unleashing negative envy, jealousy and often ending in conflict, division and violence, often turning good friends into bitter enemies...our increasingly selfish greed...extreme ambition and competition...those who become extremely narcissistic and egoistic.
Most of the negative aspects of the above lead to conflict, division and violence and are an impediment to survival, which I put under the umbrella of the satanic constellation and which Jesus called scandalon in the Bible.
So it seems our own negative side of human nature our neg. psychology is taking us down the river without a paddle...
This is the basic contradiction that is preventing mankind from doing the right thing, and living in the garden of eden, and experiencing an overall joyous life. It's also preventing us from solving or even dealing with the real problems facing us. It's obvious that society as whole is unadjusted or worst, and unless we realize that we've been wrong about a lot of things, chaos, like violence, can only escalate to extremes.
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