I don't disagree with anything that you've written here - it's interesting to see someone begin to pull apart the psychology of the conspiracy denier, and for us to perhaps begin to recognise the part that this very large group play in maintaining an obviously compromised system.
One of the things that comes up for me is something that I notice in myself, and suspect is a barrier that turns many away from a genuine examination of the situation: what does one do with the dawning realisation that power and evil are combined and consolidated into every facet of world organisation?
I realise looking back that my parents were not ignorant of the truth, they were just unable to conceive of any way to change it. And so I grew up hearing phrases such as "Money makes the world go round", "Look after number one", "Shit happens", "Don't stick your neck out." They never explicitly stated it but the message was there: we know what's going on, but we can't figure out what to do about it.
I see this everywhere. It's not just that people don't see what's going on, its that the awareness doesn't offer them any advantage over the status quo as they see no way forward with it. And so it doesn't make sense to bring it out into the light and they avoid people and siutations which risk that irreversable awakening taking place.
Ironically, those who are most inclined to walk towards it are the progressives, but because, like many on all sides, they do so from a place of anger and resentment, they are easily controlled and manipulated so that they attack those who would be their allies.
One way that i see forward is for us to develop the ability to find agreement and common ground with those whose strategies we disagree with, but who are also trying to counter the evil they perceive. To develop structures, practices and groups that help nurture this skill and attitude. This tool - the ability to understand others and form a connection with them, to be hyper vigilant to the force that tries to divide with outrage, resentment, anger and fear and to neutralise it with humility and patience and kindness - is hard won, but not easily countered. It is precisely the power this holds to bind people together that explains why it is never taught or discussed in the MSM, or anywhere else - in itself a glaring ommission which tells us so clearly the true agenda of those in power.
And the other tool is prayer, and the teaching and humility and perserverence that comes through the practise of prayer, however one approaches it...
Some people are like you say, knowing but feeling helpless. But others are like some of my family members: they really don’t believe a conspiracy is possible. They believe that it would take the silence of too many people. But what they miss is that whistleblowers do exist, and they don’t believe them either. So they are proved partly right that complete silence is not always feasible, but when that silence is broken, they call the person crazy who breaks it!!!
I don't disagree with anything that you've written here - it's interesting to see someone begin to pull apart the psychology of the conspiracy denier, and for us to perhaps begin to recognise the part that this very large group play in maintaining an obviously compromised system.
One of the things that comes up for me is something that I notice in myself, and suspect is a barrier that turns many away from a genuine examination of the situation: what does one do with the dawning realisation that power and evil are combined and consolidated into every facet of world organisation?
I realise looking back that my parents were not ignorant of the truth, they were just unable to conceive of any way to change it. And so I grew up hearing phrases such as "Money makes the world go round", "Look after number one", "Shit happens", "Don't stick your neck out." They never explicitly stated it but the message was there: we know what's going on, but we can't figure out what to do about it.
I see this everywhere. It's not just that people don't see what's going on, its that the awareness doesn't offer them any advantage over the status quo as they see no way forward with it. And so it doesn't make sense to bring it out into the light and they avoid people and siutations which risk that irreversable awakening taking place.
Ironically, those who are most inclined to walk towards it are the progressives, but because, like many on all sides, they do so from a place of anger and resentment, they are easily controlled and manipulated so that they attack those who would be their allies.
One way that i see forward is for us to develop the ability to find agreement and common ground with those whose strategies we disagree with, but who are also trying to counter the evil they perceive. To develop structures, practices and groups that help nurture this skill and attitude. This tool - the ability to understand others and form a connection with them, to be hyper vigilant to the force that tries to divide with outrage, resentment, anger and fear and to neutralise it with humility and patience and kindness - is hard won, but not easily countered. It is precisely the power this holds to bind people together that explains why it is never taught or discussed in the MSM, or anywhere else - in itself a glaring ommission which tells us so clearly the true agenda of those in power.
And the other tool is prayer, and the teaching and humility and perserverence that comes through the practise of prayer, however one approaches it...
Some people are like you say, knowing but feeling helpless. But others are like some of my family members: they really don’t believe a conspiracy is possible. They believe that it would take the silence of too many people. But what they miss is that whistleblowers do exist, and they don’t believe them either. So they are proved partly right that complete silence is not always feasible, but when that silence is broken, they call the person crazy who breaks it!!!
It’s maddening.