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Society

Whilst I fully appreciate the many beautiful people within our societies it saddens me to see that as an entity, civilisation has been utilised as a tool of control and subjugation. It has been harnessed as a machine that mows across the world and uses our fellow man as the fuel in the engine of our own demise. Indigenous communities evicted from their lands, forests cut down, rivers poisoned and entire communities relegated to a life of servitude. Removing the last free men from the earth in order that we forget what it ever meant to be free. https://media.giphy.com/media/3o7TKpe3yf9nCnmD0A/giphy.gif Within the waxing and waning of the ages, ever greater power and wealth has been manipulated into ever less hands. Those with darkness in their hearts and the lust for power in their veins have always sought dominion over man and the riches of the world. Equally those with freedom in their hearts have sought to emancipate themselves from the shackles that have been placed upon them. Today these two opposing forces appear to be rising in a race to the finish line, a race where the stakes have seldom been higher. https://media.giphy.com/media/26BRAgG6hFYr50tO0/giphy.gif

Borrowed Time

Whilst people baulk at the idea of a shadowy elite attempting to take over the world, a cursory glance at the rise and fall of civilisation will reveal this to be a historical constant. Alas, a society that’s built for the few to control the many is built upon crumbling foundations of inequality. The truth is that in a world of division equality is the path to unity and unity is the greatest threat to the architects of divide and conquer. ![Big brother6.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmTUb2vErxqy7X3GPoUphE4Yz4ebcaZ8zQ2B3AP5qc1Cmt/Big%20brother6.jpg) We have given blood, sweat and tears to build a civilisation that used it's people to mask an intent of power and control. As the veil begins to lift, the eye has come full circle and now has us all in it’s sight. I wonder when people will see it? When they will see that one day they too are destined to become a stranger in the land of their fathers. Our transient wealth and happiness was simply a means to an ends, the bait we naively took. We took it for granted that in a world of plenty; starvation, brutality and war were facts of life. But my friends none of this is a fact of life, it is a gross perversion of the very concept of normality. A perversion we have been manipulated to blindly accept, but to see the world with open eyes is to never close them again. ![Art30.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmdSyYZcBTuefH4nakyrJsgkEfjwvFHAWcg4ams77NDQB8/Art30.jpg)[Source](https://s14-eu5.startpage.com/cgi-bin/serveimage?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2Fp0MW9_JJY6M%2Fmaxresdefault.jpg&sp=4880e713400a2e0b73d85bf63c7a94c1)

Power To The People

We have been born into a system of infinite growth on a finite planet. An age where the banal and the vapid seek to occupy our every waking thought. An age where people have been taught to placate themselves with gadgets and to buy happiness without ever giving them time to ponder the void they’re subconsciously attempting to fill. Signed onto a system that systematically rapes the world for the benefit of the few and then attaches the guilt of it’s destruction onto the many. Teaching us we’re weak, insignificant and a cancer upon the planet. The truth is, away from the machinations of government and within a free society I believe we would have already solved many of the problems that face us. The U.S patent office alone has over 5,000 private inventions that are held under secrecy orders. Equally we also have mega-corporations with entire departments dedicated to buying up patents that may impede their business practices. It certainly makes you wonder where we would be and indeed what we could achieve if we weren’t being strangled by an ever increasing noose of red tape and regulation. You see I whilst have no problem with progress and I relish a civilisation that works towards the betterment of mankind, I also understand that our current societal structure is impeding our growth as a species. ![art27.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmWPHhMcXhFTEHHWaJ1Uvub6eg6pdBS2U9zw7VuyztA8p5/art27.jpg)[Source](https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiPiPOio5LaAhXGesAKHcuWCvcQjRx6BAgAEAU&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pinterest.co.uk%2Fbianconoemi%2Fchamanismo-1%2F&psig=AOvVaw2mjm2sMSmoT7SMAEzYlFxo&ust=1522438288334278) It is not us that are a cancer upon this world but those that leading us all into a blind alley. In attaching the guilt of their greed onto the collective they teach us to hate ourselves for hatred is their fuel. Hate breeds hate and every unjust anger and cruelty is an outward expression of an often subconscious inner self loathing, for without hatred how could we ever allow this to happen? How could we allow children to be killed in senseless wars? How could one half of the world be talking about flying to mars whilst a mother cradles her starving child as they die in her arms? Even though the majority of us are unaware of it, we each pay the price for every murder, brutality and abuse. You see this isn’t just about control it’s also about imbalance for a world out of balance unbalances and weakens the psyche of humanity. ![Art21.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmQDrZu8YchaRUaz3NZsimML4NjvGSVTL3SUbJxadAZY9i/Art21.jpg)[Source](https://s14-eu5.startpage.com/cgi-bin/serveimage?url=http%3A%2F%2Fgardenandgun.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2017%2F12%2FAnderson_Walter_Horn_Island_1960-1100x428.jpg&sp=edff1e6d5931ccc8eae8a4a9cd290a05)

Detachment

I have written about this aspect extensively and from multiple perspectives so I’m not going to dwell upon it too much; but alongside the aforementioned greed and lust for power, I also believe we are being deliberately and systematically removed from our connection to the earth. This process has been occurring for a very long time and as I wrote in a previous posts our current calendar and perception of time forms a key component within this removal. The first steps towards our disconnection was born out of manipulation and an ignorance regarding the very nature of time. Humanity has constructed a calendar whose very implementation was one of the first steps in our disconnection to natural law, this is sometimes referred to as the error in time. To keep balance with the natural order and cycle of life the calendar should be (roughly) divided into 13 months of 28 days (adding an extra day in the year), this is known as higher time. A higher time calendar would ensure a perfect balance between our body clock and the natural time cycle of the earth and the associated lunar cycles. It’s my belief that the modern calendar and concept of time has removed us from the interconnected bio-cycle of life. In doing so we have externalised the concept of time and enslaved ourselves to the clock. https://media.giphy.com/media/wU0H0701lqz6w/giphy.gif The concept of linear time is a relatively new thought process. I believe the very nature of reality, matter and life work within a series of interlocking cycles, indeed our very bodies are an embodiment of these universal laws. If the natural order of the earth indeed universe works within a cyclical construct, why should time be any different? ![art24.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmWDGCd55BGPpNHSYT7AZ4nzYcRWP42uhDv3YPg4F8EZer/art24.jpg)[Source](https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwigoabWn5LaAhWMesAKHet3BhoQjRx6BAgAEAU&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pinterest.com%2Fdcbryan012%2Fart-paintings%2F&psig=AOvVaw3nbXxhv6X211UFCVuyxBIo&ust=1522437432204806) It is my profound belief that our disconnection from the earth weakens us as a species. It impedes an evolution of spirit, consciousness, cognition and wisdom. I believe our intelligence and evolution has formed a symbiotic relationship with the earth’s heartbeat. As we grow as a species I believe this connection ignites a fire that burns within us all. A wisdom that can neither be taught nor adequately explained, for it comes from the knowing not the learning, the feeling and not the explanation. The hierarchical nature of society and religion are the barriers placed between the self and the knowing. Indeed in knowing thyself, there exists the possibility of knowing the majesty of the universe. But what is a voice without the ear to listen? Alas we appear to have grown deaf. ![art25.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmd9Rgu7GrUsj3gbTcmoberPX8TwQa5B6qW71B9ADjZiXm/art25.jpg)[Source](https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwi59KiLoZLaAhXLIMAKHYlRB64QjRx6BAgAEAU&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pinterest.com%2Fbayanbulagia%2Fpsychedelic%2F&psig=AOvVaw3nbXxhv6X211UFCVuyxBIo&ust=1522437432204806)

Open Eyes

The skill comes in not only noticing the effects of our problems but equally focusing upon the cause. A cause that seeks to scapegoat society for the ills they have visited upon humanity. Whilst I’m fully aware that some people will not understand the point I’m making here, please know that whether white or black, religious or atheist, rich or poor we are all prisoners of a system that demands subservience and increasing control over every facet of our lives. We are all victims of the great game of divide and conquer, it’s just that (as countries) we have been handed different roles. We are pieces on a chessboard, some of us are pawns, some are knights whilst others live like kings; but outside of a human life it’s all transient. https://media.giphy.com/media/B6vdvXzPjJYqs/giphy.gif The destruction of indigenous communities and the colonisation of the world is a relatively modern occurrence and it remains fresh within our collective memories. These memories are manipulated in order to obtain an attachment of guilt, but we were all indigenous once. The tribes of Europe were also removed from their lands and their way of life scattered to the four winds, the only difference is that it occurred so long ago that we have forgotten what was stolen, forgotten what it means to be truly free. To understand the game of the manipulator you have to understand that they play the long game, a game that defies the passing of time and the lives of those that roll the dice at that moment in time. ![Art22.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmWtEsXnP9zi3wUn9SGHx8BQwJ7JjBGEpU849dsfCTZTeF/Art22.jpg)[Source](https://s14-eu5.startpage.com/cgi-bin/serveimage?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmusingbymoonlight.files.wordpress.com%2F2018%2F03%2Fshaman-moon-1000-3-2017_20170323_0001.jpg%3Fw%3D788&sp=c9667ed99803239ce17fd1bfd129d25e)

Conclusion

I’ve seen writers draw a comparison between the march of civilisation and the spread of a disease; whilst I don’t agree that our society is a virus I do believe that it is the vessel that carries it. Indeed, if society is the vessel then our insidious and vacuous mainstream culture is the needle that injects the virus into our minds, for it is a mind virus. It’s a virus that’s spread to the point it’s becoming a pandemic, a pandemic that destroys self worth, feeds upon insecurity and rewards the worst virtues of man. The paradox is that although society may carry the virus it also carries the cure and it’s a cure that resides within each one of us. It resides within our every action and decision and it resides within intuition and higher states of learning. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7asiMuwt_d4 In reality, freedom or enslavement comes down to a simple choice and it’s a choice we all make on a daily basis. We make these choices with the brands we support, the food we feed our families, the news we consume and the blind eyes with which we view injustice. Civilisation has taught us that by externalising our problems our institutions are able to provide all the answers, this is a lie and it is a lie that has led to the breakdown of our communities. Now more than ever we need to take responsibility for ourselves and those around us, the way a cohesive community used to operate. Instead of wasting our energy knocking each other down, now is the time to lift one another up. In lifting each other up we allow ourselves to rise higher than the false limits that have been placed upon us. The pillars of the old system are crumbling around us and the veneer of control is fading. One day a wave of change will sweep aside the last vestiges of the old world, but stand firm my friends for freedom favours the bold. I’m currently away and uploading this post from an internet cafe, I will answer all comments upon my return and until then I would like to say thank you for reading. https://media.giphy.com/media/K0YMQdN1LxpW8/giphy.gif ![Minnow5.gif](https://steemitimages.com/DQmQbGqMqhL71K8VuYEX6Yfd6CfEAek2GS2NUkV4zUyBy1j/Minnow5.gif) Written by perceptualflaws Gifs from giphy.com Banner gifs courtesy of @justcallmemyth I'm proud to be both a member and supporter of the Minnow Support Project - brought to you by the hard work of: @aggroed, @teamsteem, @canadian-coconut and @ausbitbank, discord channel: https://discord.gg/HYj4yvw ![Minnow3.gif](https://steemitimages.com/DQmUg4FYAeFzhNuU22gmq1MFRvpkwCFDoLJrWuZy7DH9Z17/Minnow3.gif)