I am sure some of you will say that this post is nothing but idealistic drivel, but it isn’t.
The reason we can’t change the world is because each member of a group believes themselves themselves to be powerless to change the world, and so they give up.
When circus elephants are very young, their legs are chained to a peg, and as a child they learn they cannot break free.
As an adult however their belief they cannot break free is the only thing that keeps them from breaking free, an adult elephant can easily pull out the peg from the ground. The only thing which holds the adult elephant back is it’s false beliefs.
In exactly the same manner, we are held back by false beliefs.
Let me ask you, what is a forest?
In reality there is no such thing as a forest, there are only a bunch of trees.
Let me ask you, what is a government?
In reality there is no such thing as a government, there are only a bunch of people.
If there were no humans on earth, would money have any value?, would borders exist?
All of these things are like a game of dungeons and dragons, a game of the imagination.
We work hard to keep the illusion up. We have institutions like banks which keep track of how many 1s and 0s you have in a database (a really large spreadsheet) . We have institutions like universities which hold your records and attest you attained a degree. Your local courthouse might house the deed to your home, or the DMV the title to your car.
You see all of that has no more reality to it than a character sheet in Dungeons and Dragons.
Money has value only because we collectively agree it does.
Our collective agreement is what makes all this real.
If tomorrow 100% of all humans on earth agreed the united states of america was now 50 separate countries, that is exactly how it would be.
For such a dramatic change to occur all that it would take would be for everyone to agree in unison, and in synchrony, that is how it was, and that is how it would be.
Remember all these beliefs we have like money has value, where borders are, etc, is all just a game we play where we collectively agree on things. In reality it is no more real than a game of dungeons of dragons is.
In our society we all roleplay, we play our part based on our beliefs.
Just like an elephant who was raised to believe it cannot pull up a peg from the ground, we believe we are powerless.
A government is just a group of people deciding things.
They decide things because we allow them to decide them for us.
If 100% of the citizen population says, we want someone else besides you to decide things for us, that is how it would be.
If 100% of the population says we want disclosure and we want it yesterday, that is how it would be.
The problem then is our false beliefs. We need a sober moment to look ourselves in the mirror and realize 1. all these things we’ve learned since childhood are false beliefs, and 2. we have always had all the power but only if we all collectively agree on something.
We need to work on changing the hearts and minds of the general public. The general public is the root, and we need to strike the root.
If the general public collectively cares about this issue, and demands change, change will happen.
We are taking the approach that we need to ask our government for change, that is false.
We don’t need to ask the government for anything, because there is no such thing as a government.
There is only the people, and when all the people agree on how something should be, via collectively agreement that is how it is.
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