06-13-2017, 01:15 PM
I think you ask some good questions. Though I don't think there is any way to know—the subject is too complex.
A lot of people are saying that humanity is waking up. I will likely be pounced on for saying this, but I just don't see it. I feel most of humanity is more asleep and disconnected than ever on a real level (at least in the US), while paradoxically being more "informed" and connected than ever via the Internet and mass media. It could be that the STS powers of control are ramped up in reaction to the levels of awareness emerging in our world, but the result is still an anesthetized populace.
I look at certain markers, such as the proliferation of religion in the US, for example. There are more Christians than ever. Many, many young people, who normally rebel against their parents and their parents' generation as a natural part of separation from control and becoming an individual (and being a component of human evolution and change), are simply following their parents' dogmas. I barely know a young person who is not at least nominally Christian. When I was young (teen; early twenties), almost all of my peers were striking out on their own, forging their own ways of life. I feel the systems of control in this world are becoming more and more effective because of our digital existence. It can be misleading, because there is so much information available the illusion of intelligence and awareness is skewed. And the educational system has trained people NOT to think. There is less fluid intelligence and more obedience. What I hear all the time is that kids must have a bachelor's degree in this world to get anywhere, while they learn very little in university and come out with enormous debt—and so people feel trapped into conforming to the corrupt system.
There is currently a lack of a lateral thinking. As far as I can tell, and of course my sampling of humanity is very small and limited, the control on this planet has been effectively keeping the masses "in the box." Think of how effective it is to say conspiracy theorists are kooks, thereby dismissing any real investigative journalism. There is so much cognitive dissonance and disconnect between related matters it's no wonder conspiracy theory is alive and well. It seems almost a foregone conclusion that humanitys' brains have been messed with.
Does this mean people are victims? Where there is choice, I think the answer must be no. However, the playing field is more difficult because of technology. And so we come to other possible civilizations that may have been at this very point, such as the mythical Atlantis.
A lot of people are saying that humanity is waking up. I will likely be pounced on for saying this, but I just don't see it. I feel most of humanity is more asleep and disconnected than ever on a real level (at least in the US), while paradoxically being more "informed" and connected than ever via the Internet and mass media. It could be that the STS powers of control are ramped up in reaction to the levels of awareness emerging in our world, but the result is still an anesthetized populace.
I look at certain markers, such as the proliferation of religion in the US, for example. There are more Christians than ever. Many, many young people, who normally rebel against their parents and their parents' generation as a natural part of separation from control and becoming an individual (and being a component of human evolution and change), are simply following their parents' dogmas. I barely know a young person who is not at least nominally Christian. When I was young (teen; early twenties), almost all of my peers were striking out on their own, forging their own ways of life. I feel the systems of control in this world are becoming more and more effective because of our digital existence. It can be misleading, because there is so much information available the illusion of intelligence and awareness is skewed. And the educational system has trained people NOT to think. There is less fluid intelligence and more obedience. What I hear all the time is that kids must have a bachelor's degree in this world to get anywhere, while they learn very little in university and come out with enormous debt—and so people feel trapped into conforming to the corrupt system.
There is currently a lack of a lateral thinking. As far as I can tell, and of course my sampling of humanity is very small and limited, the control on this planet has been effectively keeping the masses "in the box." Think of how effective it is to say conspiracy theorists are kooks, thereby dismissing any real investigative journalism. There is so much cognitive dissonance and disconnect between related matters it's no wonder conspiracy theory is alive and well. It seems almost a foregone conclusion that humanitys' brains have been messed with.
Does this mean people are victims? Where there is choice, I think the answer must be no. However, the playing field is more difficult because of technology. And so we come to other possible civilizations that may have been at this very point, such as the mythical Atlantis.
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