Everyone of us travels though life on our own personal journey. Some of us do so mostly on autopilot. Others prefer to take the wheel and purposefully steer a course that suits their own personal fancy or tastes; occasionally to the point of boldly going where no man has gone before. Most of us chart our course using some mixture of the autopilot and self-direction.
Sadly, few of us ever realize just how much our course has been plotted by others unknown to us because either we don’t comprehend it, or we won’t expend the effort to learn the truth.
In my case, I’ve always suspected that something was noticeably limiting my ability to choose the course I thought was correct for me. For that reason I spent many years working to find a political cause of, and solution to this problem. Like many others, I thought that if we could only elect the right people to lead us then our lives would be much better. The naivety of that oxymoronic notion should be obvious. It certainly has become obvious to me. Better late than never, eh?
In any event, after more than a couple of decades of effort, I honestly believe that I have come to comprehend at least the broad outlines of the problem. It involves a labyrinthine combination of linguistic/legal subterfuge and social/educational programming; all reinforced by a constant barrage of mass media propaganda. How’s that for a high-sounding, formidable array of problems to overcome?
To be honest, I long ago recognized the latter two items above as rather obvious symptoms of my dilemma. (and dare I assume the dilemma of others like me) It has only been very recently that I’ve come to recognize the first item as the missing link to the external factors that I view as barriers to comprehend and overcome. The political sideshow now seems to have been nothing more than a theatrical diversion in that effort.
I’ve always believed that once you’ve correctly identified the nature and extent of a problem, you’re ninety percent of the way to solving it. So I feel I’m well on my way in regards to the aforementioned externalities. Here’s hoping that the internal barriers prove to be a not-too-messy, mop-up operation. But it must be said right here that such internal factors are as necessary to identify and overcome as the external ones. That is, how I perceive and react to external factors will affect my personal journey as surely as those factors themselves.
I apologize for speaking in a general, and admittedly obtuse fashion here, but it isn’t my intent to go into great detail at this point. Rather, I intend to provide more specifics in subsequent writings. For now, I’d like to make amends by providing links to an interesting hour-and-a-half documentary called Kymatica that covers some of the ground I’m referring to.
Do watch it, as I think you’ll find it an hour-and-a-half well spent. It’s divided into nine parts of approximately ten minutes each to make it convenient to watch in small chunks. At the very least, watch from about the 4:00 minute mark of part 3 through about 2:00 of part 4, as it gives a brief outline of the legal/linguistic subterfuge problem I’ve referred to above.
Kymatica
Part 3 – Legal portion begins at approx. 4:00
Part 4 - Legal portion continues through approx. 2:00
Part 5 - Part 6 - Part 7 - Part 8 - Part 9
