Sunday, June 10, 2012

The Time Spent in a Kafka-esque Life


Or: My Time working for the US Government:

It was OK working for the CDC/US Government until the moment that I, and the other people at our campus, were moved forcibly to the Call Center. The Facha had taken over and moved people around at will. It was not, and never would be about, better customer service. It was all about control and power. It was not about what we did, our skill sets, or our abilities. It was all about power and control. I, and others, merely got in the way.

What do the Facha, or Boshi,  (L or R) know or care about the market place. They will appear to be behind the philosophy of the day. They will say the right things and wrap themselves in the garb of the winners. The only hidden agenda is that of the need and drive to control all. Not just actions but thoughts. Oddly enough the people go along with it all. This leads me to wonder if Eric Fromm was right:  Do we need to escape our freedom to be happy? 

I do not believe in rhetorical questions. One night, while on a ship way out at sea when I was in the Navy, I realized the hidden reality of the Rhetorical. The Hidden Reality is very simple and very cruel. We create the rhetorical question, the question that we think is unanswerable, because we fear the real answer.  People have a need and a responsibility to actually drop into their subconscious and search all the many masks and levels to find the answers to the Rhetorical Question. I say answers because one question can create 5, 10, 50 answers that conflict yet be 100% true about who a person really is.

Self-Awareness can be the beginning of a long trek into the dark aspects of our soul. 

On the other hand on our journey into the Rhetorical, if our positive side is also explored, we can see the wonder and beauty of the person we yearn to be and already are.

Once upon a time in TV Land on a show called, "South Park", and on this show is a character called. Cartman. Cartman has no inclination towards self-reflection. Yet, once he did go into his inner thoughts. Cartman did this to write a play. He closed his eyes and saw Nazis, dead bodies, explosions, burning rats, and utter destruction. When asked what he saw, Cartman said that it was just, "The usual stuff". 

Since people in our modern world do not "close our eyes and view our inner thoughts", AKA discover the inner rhetorical, people appear to have left the soul searching to others. We have avoided who we really are inside and thus seek to "Escape From Freedom" of breaking down the barriers inside of us that keep us from being who we really want to be.
What I see, and you may not agree with, is that the freedom of acceptance of yourself is not the freedom of today. The trend seems to be toward letting others tell us who we are. We are as free as the powerful and the gatekeepers let us be. How is this done? It is very simple:

1.   Here are the Rules – as written and as they recorded
2.   Here are the Rules -  as a powerful person or gatekeeper wants it to be.

The People or groups who want to control the world have no identity. They will come and steal your identity and tell you that if you follow them that you will be powerful.  It is like the Dark Side without the bad makeup.

Learn to accept the person under the mask. That person is your Limbic Brain. This is the person, the masks under many levels of masks, who has kept you alive and functional. Learn from the Limbic and all of the parts under your masks. That is who you really are.

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