It is almost funny to see how humans did not change a bit within thousands of years of intellectual and social evolution. They are still ready to give all there rights and do anything dictated to them after they hear a specific password often enough. That password has always been and still is: “you will die”. After enough propaganda using that password the minds of the masses stop any process related to reasonable thinking and start to believe fanatically in the rules that are dictated to them by the initiators of that propaganda. These rules are mostly rules that reduce your freedom and the freedom of everybody around you and also reduce your potential and the potential of others. The believers become fanatic fighters that are dedicated to fight the most aggressive of fights to imply those rules to everybody around them, especially those who are questioning that propaganda. The aggressiveness of that fight against the non-believers usually correlates directly with the degree of there non-believing in that propaganda or the degree of the openness of expressing that non-belief. It is almost funny that we as humans started to think that we reached a phase in our social and intellectual evolution that can protect us from that and could allow us to explore our true potential as individuals or as a united human race without being restrained by each other.
It is sad that despite all our intellectual and social evolution we are still ready to give all the rights that our ancestors fought for after hearing that password “you will die” enough times. Despite all that evolution this password can still make us blind and fanatic. It is sad that despite all those dark eras in our history we can still calm our bad conscience, while we are supporting more power for the powerful. Despite all those dark eras we can still be manipulated to sacrifice for the “greater good”, without logically questioning the intentions behind that “good”. Despite all those dark eras we are still able to help the powerful dictating restriction into our lives and into the lives of our neighbors while feeling the suffering from those restriction. It is sad that we can still see a holiness in that suffering. It is sad that despite all those bad experiences in our human history we can still use actions that are normally seen as wrong or non-ethical to try to solve our problems.
It is sad that despite all THAT we are still able to get ourselves back to phase zero as if we never evolved or learned anything era after era, only because of that same password and that same feeling that comes when we hear that password often enough.
moibra 