I
receive 200-500 e-mails per day. Needless to say I can't read
them all, never mind answer them all. But many of them are
like this one, and these I always try to answer these even
though I really don't have THE ANSWER when people ask me,
"What can I do to stop this madness?"
“Hello,
John. Thanks for the education. I am wondering, what is that
makes most people "uneducable?" Fear? Denial?
Upbringing?
"I have
a friend who had opened up a bit to the idea that 9/11 was
pure theatre, but now is sliding back to "I don't want to talk
about it ... after saying to me, 'What are you trying to prove
that the government is wrong? Why should people
care?'
"I
guess I must examine my own fears: the feeling I had when I
first started e-mailing people — after learning just enough on
9/11 to be convinced it was an inside job. Maybe it's just the
crowd mentality ....
"So I
am asking you, what do you think is the main reason why people
are uneducable?
"I'd
appreciate your opinion.
"Craig
R."
Craig,
I think there is one overriding reason that prevents people
from confronting the lies their government tells them, and
it's the hardest one to realize. And by your phrasing, I can
see you're already onto it.
Sure,
you can blame a lot of the American public's indifferent and
uninvolved behavior on a deliberately retarded school system
that prioritizes regimentation as far more important than
enlightenment, or our bozo media industry that reduces
everything to lowest common denominator pandering to our baser
instincts.
Or, you
can suspect the mentally debilitating effects of fluoride,
chemtrails, and food additives — not to mention the
omnipresent radioactivity increasing in our atmosphere by the
day, or the conscience-numbing aphasia of antidepressant drugs
— as possible reasons for this detached malaise that causes
many people to be completely disinterested in the vital
processes that control and diminish their own
lives.
But
really, you hit it on the head when you speculated that you
must examine your own fears.
I've
said this before, and I'll never stop saying
it.
The
real opportunity for growth and learning when studying the
events of 9/11 is this.
Once
you realize that 9/11 was an inside job, conceived and carried
out by members of the highest levels of the American
government, a window opens in your mind that reveals the
hypocritical and destructive nature of American behavior over
time, and you begin to see that all these heroicized wars that
have been conducted in the name of democracy and freedom were
really something quite different.
At this
point, it becomes a matter of do you have genuine integrity or
don't you? As we all know, the first requirement of true
integrity is admitting your own faults. I think there is no
question in anyone's mind at this moment that America has no
integrity (hell, you just need to look at the Indian treaties
to realize that). Certainly the mainstream American media has
absolutely no integrity, in that it's obvious to everyone the
real stories about the Iraq war, depleted uranium, public
corruption, fixed elections, and on and on ad infinitum are
never mentioned by the hateful robots you see reading the
"news" on TV).
But the
larger question is: Do WE have integrity? I'm talking about
you and me.
Are we
willing to look at the truth as we perceive it and try to
identify and admit our own complicity in all these atrocities,
as the American government runs around the world shooting
innocent women and children in the head over reasons we KNOW
are lies. I mean, we're supposed to be fighting terrorists,
right, but we KNOW these terrorists are not Muslim
malcontents, and that most likely they are
CIA/Mossad-contracted mercenaries assigned to kill Iraqi aid
workers, behead innocents and blow up churches and mosques in
order to inflame the situation to kindle support from the
braindead public, who then mindlessly cheer the genocidal
tactics of George W. Bush and pretend not to notice that not
only did America CREATE the terrorists and start the war with
phony evidence, we now continue the war as viciously as we
can, continually murdering innocents and turning our own
troops into raging psychopaths. Why? Increased profits for the
military contractors, of course, which means increased
under-the-table payments for our elected
officials.
In a
way, the easiest way to deal with that guilt is to pretend
it's not really happening, which is what most Americans are
doing right now.
But in
the conversation between you and me, Craig, we both know that
WE are partly responsible — not matter how small or unwilling
a part — for the American mass murder in Iraq, because we know
we are American citizens and as such have a responsibility for
controlling what our government does, at least if we are to
believe and endorse the fact that America is a participatory
democracy in which the people are ultimately responsible for
what their government does.
Of
course on another level, we have absolutely no control over
what our government does. The Congress and most elected
officials throughout America are bought off by the financial
powers-that-be, and they do what they want, ordinary people
like you and me be damned. But again, if we have integrity, we
can trace a small shard of responsibility back to ourselves,
to some small event in our histories in which we did not stand
for principle, but instead held back and let some innocuous
hypocrisy pass us by unchallenged with the rationalization
that "there's nothing we could have done about it" or "it
didn't affect me that much."
Although these events seemed unimportant at the time,
these small defeats, multiplied by the American population
total — some 300 million — have combined to produce the
situation we face today — an endless war aimed at stimulating
hatred and conflicts for the ubiquitous and ever-present
purpose of increasing profits for the goons who make and sell
the weapons.
Why
people try to hide in their own indifference is a very old
question. So is why they are uneducable.
But
beyond the political ramifications of this widespread
indifference are the spiritual dimensions, the conversations
each of us has with ourselves, either lying on a pillow in the
dark late at night or taking that first hard glance in the
mirror before shaving in the morning.
To a
degree, you are right about the crowd mentality. Everybody
wants to fit in. Our minds create and accept authority
figures, and we try to live our lives according to these
dictates we have accepted as legitimate to our own
self-worth.
But a
deeper reason exists with regard to what we choose to believe.
And let me preface this by admitting I’ve been saying this for
a long time, and haven’t found all that many who agree with my
opinion. But that doesn’t stop me from repeating
it.
I
believe that religions are ultimately debilitating to the
spirit, because they try to make us believe things that we
know are not true, and in accepting the tenets of any
religion, we leave ourselves open to a pattern of behavior
that accepts things on faith, without examining them
rationally. And this process habituates us to accepting lies
as truth, as long as they emanate from an authority figure we
have conditioned ourselves to respect.
Once
you are willing to accept something that deep in your psyche
you know goes against what you perceive to be rational truth —
e.g., Jesus died for our sins and rose again from the dead —
THEN YOU CAN BE MADE TO BELIEVE ANYTHING, whether it is true
or not, as long as it comes from an authority figure to whom
you have given credibility in your mind.
I
believe this is a central component in the phenomenon of a
majority of the American people believing the government’s
bogus story about 9/11, and in their willingness to accept the
psychotic carnage in Iraq as being somehow relevant to their
own well-being.
Thus,
according to the tenets of the psychological process known as
transference (in which we take the feelings of trust and
dependence that we feel as children toward our parents and
transfer them as adults to a relationship with an imaginary
sky god to maintain our inner feelings of security), we want
to accept what George W. Bush tells us because we have
embedded ourselves in American society, and our whole meaning
becomes challenged and distorted when we lose that focus by
realizing that probably everything that has come out of
Dubya’s mouth in his whole life has been a cynical and
sarcastic rich boy’s lie.
Therefore, challenging his public statements can be
disorienting to those who are not committed to their own
integrity or trapped in the psychological prison of a
fictitious belief system that can be proven false, should such
believers suddenly develop the courage to confront the lies
they are telling themselves.
In some
cases, confronting these lies can totally shatter a person’s
sense of self, which is why the majority choose not to do
that. Unfortunately, not confronting these lies is very likely
to shatter our world into little radioactive bits, a
profoundly ugly process we see happening — and accelerating —
as we speak.
Thanks
for writing, Craig.
John Kaminski is an Internet essayist whose writings
can been seen on hundreds of websites around the world. They
have been collected into two anthologies, the latest of which
is titled “The Perfect Enemy.” For information go to: http://www.johnkaminski.com/
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