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In an overpopulation, our mind protects itself from overexposure by gradually shutting off its social-emotional sensory systems. – The result = HomoSociopathis

Some thousand years ago, during the transition from a hunter-gatherer culture to an agricultural society, our human mind made an evolutionary leap.

We became hunters for opportunities and gatherers of knowledge.

But, at some point during this process, when inexperienced thinkers were distracted or overwhelmed by a flood of new information & ideas, (-doesn’t this sound familiar) some strange new thoughts entered their minds. These new ideas sneaked-in thru the backdoor of sub-consciousness, but were not properly checked by our consciousness, and ‘undigested’ by our sapience, (-Latin for wisdom). Such ‘undigested’ experiences can cause severe mental reflux or constipation, and when unrealistic & hypothetical theories establish themselves in a young and ‘fertile’ mind, the consequences can be devastating and extremely long-lasting. Certain combinations & circumstances can trigger cancerous growth & destruction, causing extreme imbalances & disharmonies in the organism, affecting our entire psychosomatic system. Since ideas & beliefs are powerful manipulators of the mind, and can ‘move mountains’ if necessary, they also affect & transform our entire social behaviour and change our social-emotional- intelligence.

 

Now, these 140 million-year-old natural instincts got compromised, numbed & de-sensitized.

– We evolved, or better mutated, into something else.

Here we have to understand that Inspirations come with a whole entourage of thoughts & ideas, and, like the air we breathe, are always interconnected with a larger organism of concepts & theories,                                         – the Whole.

The intellectual & technological ability to design & construct our own ‘New World’ around some geometric shapes and a hierarchy of numbers, sparked the idea of human world domination.

 

 

 

Since it is the nature of all consciousness to distinguish & separate, our Misconception of Reality is seeded in the dismissal of inconspicuous thinking and the devaluation of intangible things. Our life, the psyche, was more & more reduced to a collection of physical experiences.

Spirits became Ghosts & Demons, Conspirations turned into a Thread for the Establishment, and Dreams & Visions just dwelled in the Darkness of Night.

With the personification of Deities, we began to transform our natural Spirituality into some more pragmatic concepts of Religion, promising a return to the ‘lost paradise’, – we just had abandoned; and the reunification with this One Creator, – we just had created.

This combination of arbitrary concepts & theories became the breeding ground of some very strange & irrational belief systems. Despite the obvious shortfalls, these beliefs began to overgrow all our natural instincts, and finally outgrew this special common sense & wisdom we had developed over the previous millennia. Our lives were now in the hands of ‘The Almighty’ and, of course, his representatives. Fundamental questions were cut short by the reminder that “God is working in mysterious ways”, or the inquirer simply got ‘burned at the stake’. Together with the ideas & concepts of distinction & differentiation came new methods of selection & separation. We began to scale & measure the world by new standards & values; We reduced life to a time-frame, and restricted living by a set of rules & regulations which did not leave much room & freedom for an individual choice.

The variables of nature did not fit our idea of discipline & order anymore, they became the synonym for Chaos & Anarchy. Savages, wilderness & weeds, together with sickness & diseases became the enemy of ‘modern civilization’, they had to be eliminated or eradicated, evoking an even deeper fear of decay & death. Nomadic people and wild animals became intruders & trespasses, they had to be restrained or pacified by force.

Transition & transformation, anything on-the-move or changing-things-around was perceived as a threat to the soundness of our structures and the order & stability of the system. In a polarized worldview all the Natural Dynamic became ‘Evil’, and we, the ‘Good’ people, had to declare a total & endless war against this enemy. Monotony was perceived as Harmony, a solid structure was seen as Stability and Sustainability became the synonym for constant growth.

Dropping the motion out of Emotion was taking the mental plasticity & flexibility out of intelligence.

Homo Sapiens was now mentally handicapped !

After the Earth was conquered, time & space partitioned & divided, the new parameters & standards became a mental fixation & obsession of human civilization. The ‘rules of engagement’ were now ‘set in stone’, solutions were ‘frozen stiff’ and we became unable to ‘go with the flow’of ever-changing life !

Our correspondence with nature was reduced to just a collection of physical experiences.

 

The new perception of life had turned into a great deception !

There was just One definition of reality, One linear way of thinking, and One final truth, all belonging to just One Creator.

Pursuing just this One ‘good’ thing in life, all the ‘believers’ started to rush for this One side, people were screaming “Chaos” & “Anarchy” and panic broke out… – Now the ‘boat’ was completely out-of-balance, it leaned to this One side, and was taking on water.

The ‘believers‘ in the system got very upset & frustrated about their situation, and as people started to drown, fear began to rise and fights broke out,  – about every little thing. Most people were just hoping for their ‘great chance’ or the intervention by some great leader, someone very powerful.

 

The new concept of proprietorship had corrupted our emotion of Belonging into a longing for more, bigger & better.

 

The claim of ‘this is mine’ and ‘ you shall not’  had

crippled our empathy into just Envy & Jealousy (Exodus 20:4-5) and, as it is with all things in this perception,

 

 

 

– with good we created evil,with prohibition we created crime…

Jealousy is a ‘green-eyed monster,’ as Shakespeare calls it in ‘Othello’, and it comes with a whole entourage of other ‘emotions’ like selfishness, suspicion & distrust, and like envy, it implies resentment or hostility toward other people possessing or enjoying some more advantages. Jealousy & envy are possessive, demanding & overbearing, and cause repulsion. They stifle freedom & individuality, they degrade & demean, they breed tension & discord among people, and they destroy friendships, families, tribes & nations.

 

It just took a few generations to transform the environmental & social behaviour of a once social being into a mentally deranged and completely asocial species.

Cultivating fields, creating gardens, and breeding animals & plants required a whole new set of skills; irrigation systems, new settlements & machinery had to be designed & built. And, as ‘it takes a village to raise a child’, so it took a collective effort to separate a garden from the wilderness, to breed a more productive type of grain or raise a tamer kind of kettle.

 

The new worldview had not just changed our relationship with ‘mother’ nature, but also our entire ‘social fabric’. The more egalitarian principles of the earlier days disappeared quickly and were replaced by new social stratifications.

 

 

With the corruption of our Social-Emotional-Intelligence we had deprived ourselves of our natural ‘guidance system’, our inner ‘Compass’; – our personal wisdom had to make room for the heteronomous law & order of the new system in power. Of course, this new order was further restricted by linguistic terms, and found absolute manifestation in a handful of laws ‘written in stone’.

Since the idea of a hierarchic world-order was based on the structural soundness of a pyramid, the same ‘rock solid’ principles were applied to all other aspects of life.

The world was divided into levels & ranks, tightly connected by a chain of commands; from the ‘Precious One’ on top, down to the hungry masses on the bottom. All of creation was divided into higher & lower life-forms: – a simple weed ranked lower than an apple tree, and an old donkey was less worthy than a well-trained house-slave.

Since this hierarchic evaluation process included properties & divine entitlements, the whole population was divided into Have and Have-Nots.

All this shows us the depth & complexity of this mental disease, and how deeply it has influenced our social- & environmental behaviour.

Since Hierarchy inherits competition, and the natural & organic evaluation processes were overwritten by some highly judgmental concepts of proprietorship & entitlement, we ended up becoming something very different to a ‘social being’. A new form of ‘competition’ was introduced, and the egalitarian distribution of ‘common ground’ was replaced by a hierarchic division of properties. The great disappropriation had begun

With this new belief system of ‘divine privileges’ firmly in place, we began to create new ‘social-economic’ concepts with consecrated governments leading & dictating the way. Monarchies & Dynasties rang-in the age of warlords, with Despotism & Feudalism, building territorial & commercial empires by pillaging & plundering the land and their fellow man.

The ‘Dark Ages‘ were finally replaced by the ‘Golden Age‘ of the Renaissance. With more science & ‘education’ came the great Reformation, and new ideas of humanism & social equality spread quickly via the newly invented print media.

But, as the conquest & colonization of the planet continued to increase, the extermination & exploitation of people became more sophisticated & systematic.

 

 

Economic thinking continued to move further away from the natural dynamic of reality. Man lost sight of the ecologic fundamentals in life and became increasingly obsessed with the ideas & theories of his Linear Paradigm. Since the whole globe was divided & distributed amongst the sickest & ruthless creatures of our species, the rivalry & competition among them became more relentless & violent. -The madness became more obvious !  A new kind of ‘economy’ emerged, something very disconnected from co-creational origins. This new school of thinking was very adamant about the unrestrained and most ‘economic’ extraction of life & energy from this planet. With the last shimmer of social intelligence quickly disappearing in the fog of mental delusions, this new ‘economy’ became the playground & marketplace for the psychopathic leadership of society. Of course, this ‘market’ was not concerned about equality & fairness at all, just a place where the most insane could ‘freely’ compete & fight to take the ‘biggest piece of the pie’, to grab the best & finest piece of pillage & plunder…                                                                                  

– A new kind of ‘warship’ had begun ! 

 

However the new economic imbalances this created caused great discomfort amongst an increasing population and prompted new ideas of reform and social re-engineering.                      – Abolition of Slavery, Emancipation of Serfs & Jewish, Women’s Rights.

 

Of course, when the ‘freed’ slaves & serfs transformed into farm-labourers & factory-workers, the situation did not get better at all. People had just become a tradeable & disposable commodity in a ‘free’  Market Economy, fighting & competing with, for & against each other!

 

 

With the growing industrialization, and the management of agricultural resources becoming less important, ‘modern’ economics was all about the management of old entitlements & possessions including the newly created Labor-Force or Working Class. – And the land barons, factory owners & commodity traders were laughing all their way to the bank.

For centuries Banks had been responsible for the management of capital & trade. Since they were in charge of the monetary & financial system, they became now the most important institution, to manage & control the commodity of labor. -The Banking System guaranteed the enslavement of the people.

Despite the great technological advancements, the socio-economic problems of modern civilization got out of control, and the constantly growing population became desperate for solutions. We entered the 19th century with revolutionary ideas. By revisiting the old concept of the Roman Republic, and reusing their ancient democratic ideas, people developed their ‘new’, social-democratic theories of socialism & communism. A new kind of war was added to the list of ‘natural disasters’, and a series of great revolutions shook up modern civilization.

Still, far removed from the original wisdom of social-emotional-intelligence, modern man was unable to manage his social-economic issues;

– the psychosomatic dysfunctions were not addressed and the fundamental problems remained unsolved ! All the fighting for freedom & equality had just obvious & ‘tangible’ things in mind, – demanding free access to the natural resources of this planet, and a fairer distribution of common wealth among an ever-growing population.    

Psychology vs Mentology

The great ‘social movements’ of the new political ideologies & doctrines had joined the senseless antagonism of the ‘demented’ ones. As the quantity of people was either a liability or an asset in this dispute, the control of the masses became the key issue in the struggle for power & control. – The newly rediscovered science of Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud was this key to our minds; – it opened the backdoor to our sub-consciousness and created the perfect ‘mechanism’ to recondition the behaviour of the people, or to control “the bewildered Herd !“, as Walter Lippman called it.

Freud’s nephew, Edward Bernays, became the pioneer of the ‘Engineered Consent‘, or the ‘guidance from above’, controlling the irrational thoughts and unconscious feelings of the masses.

Throughout the 20th century Mass Psychology was extensively used by all kinds of political & commercial propaganda or Public Relations, as they called it; from the demented mind of Bernays to the sick ‘genius’ of Joseph Goebbels, they mobilized the crowds, masses of individuals to sacrifice their body & soul, for various causes & reasons, with consume & terror. Freud’s theory of ‘irrational, animalic forces in human nature’ driving us into chaos & destruction, was the ultimate confirmation & affirmation of our collective paranoia ! Based on the linear paradigm and the assumption that we have to fight, or at least control these Evil forces in our unconscious minds, a systematic brainwash transformed generations of people into complete maniacs.