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I have been here making images turn out nothing like they started. It's a good meditation. Oddly, I can't do it while listening to a lecture or interview. It blanks out my ears. For that I like to play computer mahjongg solitaire. I set the clicking tiles sounds low and play game after game after game to keep from being distracted, to concentrate. The image stuff is more absorbing. Way.
So I've been contemplating that irritating thing about sheeple again, the outrage of the psychopaths treating them like livestock, and the outrage of the people asking for it. It's like the perspective problem. One must jump out of these frames to look at the whole thing.
I just don't think humans can do without leadership... not at this stage in our d/evolution, anyway. This is bothering the snot out of me. I know that we did not have this problem at one point in our history, but I also know that thousands of years ago the masters were almost what you'd call obsessed with the project of stamping it in our minds that leaders had to be the very incarnations of advanced probity or life would be total hell. Ahem. They were right.
They also called this world "Endurance".
The indians of North America, who might have been stranded Atlanteans instead of the vaunted adventurous Asians, were remnant of a fully egalitarian civilization, whatever our origin. I suck as an historian, but I've done enough of it to be able to state this much without qualification. So, for sure, it hasn't always been this bullshit problem with the masses never realizing themselves, staying incapable of real autonomy, of real creativity, of real life.
Someone Machiavellian made up the lethal meme about absolute power, and it has succeeded beyond, I'm sure, its originator's wildest dreams. It may be the single thing that sent humanity down these dark millennia of enslavement. It might be the fastest route to making me irate. Just pipe up with some shit about absolute power, and bam! nines is reaching with hands and feet for her machete.
I have some, unfashionable, reverence for China. It isn't just that my very favorite Zen masters were all Chinese. It's also that they have had such a long and awesome history. They have had bodhisattva leadership and some real fuckers. Mox nix. The people will band together to accomplish unimaginable feats, unspeakably amazing things. They decide China is going to modernize, and bip bam, whole cities with populations larger than that of the United States spring up out of wilderness. They built the wall. What about the army of clay soldiers? The vermin bird species they extinctified in one day.... Stadiums full of people taking English lessons.
It doesn't matter whether the leader who causes these things to be undertaken is a psychopath or a bodhisattva, the people, like a tsunami make it so. The big problem with humans being so utterly reliant on leadership is that you get this world. This one that's missing a sphinx, and numberless marbles.
You get psychopaths who simply kill any prospective bodhisattva leaders. You get a planet-killing subspecies in charge of everything, and a few billion head of more cattle than the market can bear.
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