Programmed and Molded to be Cogs in the Machine

in #philosophy6 years ago (edited)

To survive, we need to engage in economic survivability of some kind. Nothing is free or being spoon fed to us. We have to provide for ourselves or work together to survive. But does that mean we need to have coercive systems in place that force us to engage in economic exchanges? Can't we choose to be free from this, to live without this system, for example off the grid?

We are also prevented from being freer if we choose, as all land is owned and we must be indentured through coercive tax schemes that mean we can't live free off the land as any other animal in existence can. We must pay tribute to our masters and rulers, the "archons" (the opposite of an-archonic freedom in anarchy).

Shaped into a Specific Form (like a Golem)


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Our constructibility (our ability to construct, create, manifest and generate into reality) is directed towards the available market of employment to provide us with monetary compensation for work done. True, some people create new avenues and find investors or borrow money to make it happen. But, the system is still trying to extract something from them as well, like taxes. We have degrees of freedom, but not full freedom within moral law.

We could be putting our time, attention and energy into truly furthering humanity and our own lives, but we are being directed, or channeled as a current, into specific directed avenues (roads, paths) towards an end people do not see. We are conditioned through outcomes based education to go along certain predetermined pathways for what we do that further the social systemic model in place.

We are being fashioned, like the clay Golem, into a certain shape or form that the masters and rulers want us to become and reflect this shape and behavior onto what society is. We are made into their vision of the "New Man", less authentic, less aware, therefore more "unconscious" in living, like a robotic Golem living out their will as our own will. Most of us don't think anarchy-freedom is possible because we tacitly accept this programmed Golem-like shaping of our lives and consciousness, of our worldview and self-view.

The masters and rulers, through their manipulation, deception and mind control, have conditioned us into a certain mold, shape and form, to fit into and feed the systemic Golem of the current way of life. We are being constructed as individual Golems to reflect and continue to construct the larger general Golem of the system and establishment. We become cogs in the machine.

Controlled and Wasted Potential

Many jobs are useless and only provide a market for imbalanced reciprocal exchange of currency in order to allow for each person involved in an aspect of the system to continue to survive within the system. I say imbalanced, both because of wage disparity in the corporatocracy, and because of our conditioned valuation of goods and services, through advertising, that uses our attention to channel us into buying certain things. The value is largely based on beliefs which are put into our consciousness.

No one can own anything outside of the system. You might think this is false, but it isn't. Even if you're property isn't owned by the banks from your debt, if you don't pay various taxes your property will be taken from you. You never actually "own" anything in the system, it's only contingent upon your continued compliance with various extortion and coercion rackets.

No one can use land to live independently, because you have to "pay tribute" to the system for the "right" to use that land. Therefore, you can't grow your own food freely, you can't live in your own home freely, and you ultimately can't survive if you do not integrate into the system. Because then you won't have any money to pay for the things that are required to live as a serf, not truly owning anything for your survival.

No one can survive outside of the system because of the coercive requirement to continually pay for the "right" to own something. Everyone needs to be involved in obtaining money of some kind in order to pay the fees to live life. They harness our human potential as universal constructors and channel our energy into their pockets.


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The system does allow for a proxy of "freedom", the freedom of exploitation, plunder, production and consumption to perpetuate the system of control. Those who learn how to work the system and it's control, fulfill their desires, and get the control and comfort that this system of dependency provides. Feeding the golem of the system gets you on the top, above others, and more in "control" of the fulfillment of your wishes, wants and desires. It is very appealing for many degraded consciousnesses that get indoctrinated into perpetuating this system. They want to feed and defend the Golem of the system.

Universal Constructors Molded to Fill Any Position

We are universal constructors. Within the system, one constructor unit (one person) is capable of being placed into a particular position as a cog in the machine or hamster wheel of control and repetition. The units perform their duties to ensure the operation of the Golem system. The units become constructors of a particular type, but any of them is universally capable of filling a position as a cog in some area.

Humans are an effective work machines. We are universal constructors for the systemic way of life to perpetuate. We still have a good degree of freedom to change things, but this is part of what keeps up the illusion of real freedom. For example: if our condition was less optimal, and we had even more oppression like other people face and have faced in the past of humanity. Then we would more easily see the reality of control over our lives, compared to the less obvious current condition.

"The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free."
- Aldous Huxley

Influence, indoctrinate, engender and condition a degradation in people's ability to discern truth and reality, and in most cases what results is a willing slave, happy in their servitude, living an illusion, unable to see the true condition they are living in.

The schools are outcome-based "education" centers for us to fill in positions within the system. Most people find jobs and careers within the predetermined choices that are defined by the available market of employment. We put the chains on ourselves, all too willingly, by merging ourselves into dependency upon the system. Especially when we get school loans, house loans, or other loans that put us into debt.

The Way Out

"The ultimate tyranny in a society is not control by martial law. It is control by the psychological manipulation of consciousness, through which reality is defined so that those who exist within it do not even realize that they are in prison. They do not even realize that there is something outside of where they exist."
- Bringers of the Dawn

Is this just a natural development and way of life we have made for ourselves? Or was there a conspiracy at some point in the past to create this way of life for everyone, who were pressured to conform to it, were molded into it, and now we are where we are because we just kept doing it without seeing what was being done?

There is still hope: to recognize our potential to see reality for what it is, and work to improve it. We have a high degree of freedom, but we are being limited in our potential by the limitation in our vision to see reality correctly. If we want to change something, we first have to see and recognize it for what it is.

We can imagine a positive better way to live, a new way to exist, that differs from what we are conditioned to currently accept are the limits of our potential. We have a lot of potential. The powers that be can still be overturned by us creating new models to live by. The more people that live and lead a new way, the more the old way fades in influence, power and control over other people.


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There's a couple of key ideas presented in this incredibly important article that I'd like to expand upon:

"We could be putting our time, attention and energy into truly furthering humanity and our own lives, but we are being directed... into specific directed avenues..."

The role of attention is core to humanity and cannot be overstated. It's where our free will resides - we choose where to place our attention, and energy flows where attention goes.

This is the whole game. It's why there's billboards on the highway and neon signs on store fronts. It's why the news is constantly reporting on the comings, goings and doings of politicians. It's why there so much focus on generating the fear required to justify institutionalized authoritarianism. It's all a magic act, in every sense of the word - the David Copperfield slight-of-hand variety, and in some cases, ritualistic appeals to subtle powers.

"The system does allow for a proxy of "freedom"..."

In addition to the methodologies listed, we can add the political process itself. The illusion of choice between left and right gives the people a way to "overthrow" a rancid administration and claim a victory for the people. It focuses attention on changing laws and changing parties to solve problems, which vents revolutionary fervor. It allows each party to push their agenda further, faster, because that escape valve acts as a safety net to prevent them from going past a point of no return. This is immensely important to maintain the power structure.

The promise of change resides in the alternate party, who has definitively different platforms, and the two appear to be opposing each other. In reality, each simply focuses on different areas of the same agenda, creating a left/right march toward the desired destination.

Well said. We're being deceived like magicians trick us, and we keep wanting more. False dichotomies are set up and manipulate us into preselected pathways for how our existence operates. We are stuck in boxes, be played, while thinking we're free, and this prveents us from actualizing greater potentials for ourselves and others together.

I don't even know if we can ever fully comprehend the depth of our programming. Folks like those in the "truth and freedom" movement have come a long way, and we may also add some of those focused on spiritual enlightenment, but the software is installed so early, getting it all out seems a dubious prospect.

And on some level, this is appropriate - conditioning is inherent to human experience, even if only by the natural environment - but we must be vigilant; particularly while immersed in this artificial construct called culture.

I wish I could upvote this more than once.

"We could be putting our time, attention and energy into truly furthering humanity and our own lives, but we are being directed, or channeled as a current, into specific directed avenues [...]." I have consistently argued (and you touch on this too) that this is the primary function of the education system. It doesn't better prepare students for life or teach critical thinking. Mostly, the message that they impart is one of submission to authority and conformity to the official narrative. They want to create ravenous consumers and obedient workers to serve the system. When I was a kid, few things would get us in as much trouble as expressing an opposing opinion and I am certain the same is true today.

You may not particularly agree with me on this but this issue is one of the reasons why I strongly support psychedelics. Whether one agrees with the idea of positive drug use or not, the ability of some of these substances to deprogram people by opening them to new modes of thinking is hard to ignore. There are other ways to break free from the imposed mindset of the system but each has its own strengths and weaknesses too.

Yup dumbing us down to outcome based education. Some teachers don't like being challenged on their dogma indeed ;)

Substances can be used to deprogram parts of our conditioning. But I prefer the self-willed conscious route ;) That's the true path. Substances aren't you doing it yourself, but a reliance on something else. Some people may need that to get the started though... The power to awaken and think more, is within.

I didn’t finish the article yet, but I stopped to submit an idea for your review, which you may deem worthy of immediate attention...

Freedom does not have degrees; only slavery does.

I would never impose myself if I didn’t think this to be an immensely important distinction. Just as there are not degrees of anarchy, there are not degrees of freedom, as the words are synonymous in this context. It’s not a spectrum. If you have 1% slavery, you do not have freedom. Slavery has a spectrum, though, as we well know.

It behooves us to use the word freedom strictly, so as to combat the fallacious and destructive deception of this being a “free country” despite the people being subject to external authority.

Ok, back to the article...

I get what you're saying. But I was saying it in terms of freedom on one side, and slavery on the others. There is no absolute freedom to do whatever you want. You don't have the freedom to fly, turn into a cat, etc. You don't have the moral freedom to murder. There are limits to freedom, and degrees of use between absolute freedom and absolute slavery as ideas.

The term "freedom" implies those natural limitations as part of its definition. "Absolute freedom" is a wholly different concept, namely omnipotence. There are degrees of use regarding slavery, but freedom is either ON or OFF with no gradation in-between. If you are free, no other will is unnaturally imposing a limitation upon the exercise of your own (within the inherent natural/moral limitations, of course).

There's no doubt that less slavery is moving toward freedom, so I get that this is a technical objection more than a practical one. But I feel compelled to note the distinction because we're in a minefield of deception whereby people are desensitized to slavery and it behooves us to get all five alarms blaring at the slightest presence of it.

Let no one be led to believe that a claim to freedom can be made while the smallest shred of coercion is present. If a solitary cent in taxation is demanded, a single permit required, the slightest slap on the wrist imposed for a moral action - you are not free.

Not basically free, not pretty much free, not free at all. Because if the tiniest opening is left in that door, miscreants will wedge a tank through it, and in a generation or two we'll be right back where we started.

True. There is real, realistic freedom on one side. Flying isn't real freedom, only the idea of an absolute. And anything less is not real freedom. But just because we don't have real freedom all the way, doesn't mean there aren't thing we have freedom to do. We may not be totally free in the real ideal sense, but we have freedom of speech more so than a dictatorship where people are killed for speaking out on issues. That would mean there are degrees of applicable freedom, despite the ideal real freedom not being actualized.

We are also prevented from being freer if we choose, as all land is owned and we must be indentured through coercive tax schemes that mean we can't live free off the land as any other animal in existence can. We must pay tribute to our masters and rulers, the "archons" (the opposite of an-archonic freedom in anarchy).

This is the part that drives me to despair at times. Even if crypto moons and I suddenly find myself wealthy, the masters will be waiting to tell me how much they get and what I can do with the rest. Unlike the mountain men of the 1800's, there isn't really much of anywhere to go.

There really is no freedom, and based on how they have schooled thinking out of many of the younger cattle coupled with poison called food and emf bombardment etc, it appears to me they are ready to whittle down much of the herd as well.

Yeah, EMF is an under acknowledged health issue. We just started using it without proper evaluation, and even EPA documented levels of safety are being exceeded simply because we don't see immediate negative effects manifesting :/ They just raise the safety bar to give the illusion of safety.

I like the reference to the allegory of the cave by Plato. It’s quite fitting in our society; people are too scared to climb the ladder to get out of the oppression we are in.
Our poor children are taken beautiful, smart and optimistic then forced into the archaic education system and most come out spiritually broken, no longer as creative as when they were young and another cog in the wage slavery. Never mind poisoned by the chemicals that are forced into them as well.
Thankfully we can work to change this; there is much easier flow of information now so adults can break free and help the young ones break free and end the cycle eventually.
Creativity is the opposite of what the global cabal wants; creativity and optimism lead to new inventions, replacement of the norms and money structure that they profit from. We shall hopefully break this despite their hardest push back.

Yes, be creative and come up with new and better ways of living, not what they want ;) Just stay stuck in the massive systemic cyclical wheel of the system...

In my opinion this is an clear concept and that is, the Elites are the reason because it's an ancient conspiracy where with power they controlled our whole lands no matter which country then they created money, money is nothing for them because they can print how much they want, and money works like an tool which controls us, How Right?, after taking control on all lands the point of construction come into place and they inturn give job to us to work for them and slowly the corporates are born where we are wasting our time because we need that money which is just an tool to control us by Elite Powers.

Now, it comes to the teachings which is given to the children means, as per conspiracy we all are channelled with same thoughts means, like, from childhood only we are feeding children about the survival means, study otherwise you will fail in life, you will not get job, you will be homeless, you will not get married and literally speaking many people say few words to their parents at some stage of life as Why you both brought me in this life?, so we all are stuck in an matrix and to break out this matrix then firstly we have to change the vision towards life, otherwise life will show you reality but that will be late.

Thanks for sharing this post with us and wishing you an great day. Stay blessed. 🙂

Yup admit the wrong and imagine a better way ;) Break away from their control.

Absolutely true.

Comprehensive and deep. Your writings require special attention and mood. One of the things that you mentioned are rulers and the system. Personally I don't think that there is a rulers and a masterplan for the society that we live in. There is people higher on the lader who want to stay there and protect the system that allows them to get there, and people climbing. People have tendencie to think there is a ruler and masterplan becouse in a way this gives them security. Maybe at some level there are rulers and plans but not in a way that everbody imagens. The world is very haotic. On the other hand there is a SYSTEM for sure. And we can work to make it better. But no matter what the system is, we will still need public goods like roads, schools and education. We need to provide for this collectively.

People in an area can pay for it through contracts to get services, not coerced through taxation to find things they don't want or don't use.

very thought-provoking post @krnel and the system certainly needs to be overhauled starting with the oppressive property taxes whereby no one actually owns their home and the taxes keep going up no matter who is in office.
If property taxes could be drastically reduced then I might be able to have hope that the system could be changed instead of this form of slavery which we have now.
thank you sir!

Yeah... can't be free to live, always have to pay tribute to rulers...

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Yes we need to have the creative vision to see outside the box. Building a new model to replace the obsolete one is wise advice. Thanks @krnel

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