Submitted by Wonky Pundit on Mon, 12/27/2010 - 8:24pm
You’re probably not surprised to hear that you’ve been lied to all your life. But it’s hardly a Watergate-type lie. This lie is easily believable, and in fact believed by most of the masses. If I were to tell you right now what the lie is, you might well wonder why I think it’s a lie at all.
To understand the lie, along with its ramifications, first you have to understand power.
We all know from history that every civilization has had a small elite class that possessed most or all of the power, and a large mass of people with no significant power. We also know that there has always been a conflict between the elite’s goal to keep their power, and the goal of a minority group (often the middle class) to usurp this power. Early on, the elite realized that constant power struggles weren’t realistic, but that it was difficult to convince someone that (s)he didn’t want power. The elite had to come up with a way of manipulating the less powerful into doing something else. For centuries, most civilizations relied on an excellent tool for accomplishing this: religion.
In medieval Europe, for example, if you were a serf or a peasant, everyone believed that this was God’s will. It wouldn’t just have been rebellion for you to try to seize power from your feudal lord; it would have been an attack on God. Despite this idea, or maybe because of it, a good, hard-working person was still respected, even if they weren’t powerful. Of course, the influence of religion in the west began to weaken quite a bit over the centuries, first because the Industrial Revolution broke through some of the economic walls between the nobility and the commoners, and then because of the rapid pace of new scientific advances.
Bottom line: the elite had to come up with a new way to manipulate the masses. And of course they did. The lie of religion started to give way to a new and much simpler lie: that the pursuit of money leads to power. Modern people have been conditioned to think that if they have nothing, they are nothing.
(To be continued...)
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Re: The Big Lie of the Modern Age, part 1
Heres an interesting thought though it can be preceived as off topic. Is this wrong? is this even right? I've been thinking that when you go down to the roots of the words, they are just concepts, unnatural ideas that we as humans ourselves defined. Animals are more natural than we, and they(as far as we know or think) have no understanding of these so called "inherent values", anyways this also makes us look unnatural, and maybe the Aliens in the sky support that theory, I think all information is relative, and education is just brainwashing to lead to a certain spectrum of living life,,, i could be crazy tooo.
Re: The Big Lie of the Modern Age, part 1
That is not my belief but then again I am a religious person so I guess I don't fit the mold you describe.
Re: The Big Lie of the Modern Age, part 1
This series isn't primarily about religion anyway. Stay tuned.
Re: The Big Lie of the Modern Age, part 1
No I get that it's not primarily about religion but my religion teaches me that we have self worth merely because we are. Even as far as suggesting we cast away these worldly things, especially if they lead us to sin. And give of our treasure to less fortunate people.
Re: The Big Lie of the Modern Age, part 1
I believe it is about law, and how law was written and constructed to create utter confusion. And, ... that's outside of the fact that only the wealthy can afford the best lawyers. Law sets those who disagree along a long and lengthy tangent to the truth. Many wear out both financially and emotionally, before arriving at what should have been a foregone conclusion.
THEN, there's the lack of law, which government often utilizes as a "what should I have done" scenario.
They have done well.