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Self-Expression & Oppression
I wrote in my notebook last night:
Belief in oppression is an abdication of personal responsibility.
Then I found this just now which builds on that theme:
“We should always try to have a reality-tunnel this week, bigger, funnier, and more hopeful than we had last week, and we should aim even higher next week. Besides, paranoia is a Loser script; it defines somebody else as being in charge around here except me. I prefer to define myself and my friends as the architects of the future. If David Rockefeller has the same idea about himself and his friends, well, the future itself will decide which coalition was really on the Evolutionary Wave: the Money people or the Idea people” - Robert Anton Wilson
- Ties into my piece on conspiracy addiction as well: If you are not fully self-expressed, you tend to be fearful of people who are, or else inspired by them on some weird level: if only to be more of yourself unequivocally, thereby giving up many useless conflicts in your life.
- If you believe someone else is oppressing you (which they may be) it creates the choice for you: (1) continuing being oppressed, (2) remove yourself from the situation, (3) rise up, or the fourth way: (4) master yourself so that no one else ever can or needs to.
WILLIAM BLAKE: ‘I must create my own system or be enslaved by another man’s.
September 18th, 2007 at 10:52 pm
The thing about paranoia is that its feed by synchronicities. One thing I’ve found to help me with it is to just convert it to pronoia. (thinking everybody is out to help me, not out to get me) This way, I don’t need to explain the incredible “coincidences”, I just organize them in a different narrative. This works even when people really are out to get you.
September 19th, 2007 at 12:11 am
Right, what people don’t realize about synchronicities is that all they are is the mind noticing itself through the lens of the world. It begins to recognize its ability to filter perceptions based on objects of focus and resultant patterns.
There doesn’t really need to be anything magical about it whatsoever. Deciding that it is bad or good - at a certain point - becomes unnecessary as well, when you begin dropping value judgements altogether. You have the choice, as you said, of weaving it into a new narrative, or dropping narratives altogether and accepting life as it is: poetic moments which can be as beautiful as you’re willing to let them be.
September 19th, 2007 at 4:26 am
http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2...5-reasons-to-be-a-jack-of-all-trades/
September 19th, 2007 at 8:21 pm
“Depressed people see the world as unfriendly and threatening, which keeps them depressed. ”
http://changingminds.org/explanations/theories/mood_judgment.htm
September 24th, 2007 at 7:43 pm
[…] To people who have not yet mastered the secret esoteric art of “doing things on purpose”, everything does indeed seem to be a conspiracy - a conspiracy of other people with secret aims and hidden ways to accomplish them. As paranoid as this world view can get, it is also fairly understandable. When you’re unable to appropriately express your goals into reality, you tend to fear and envy those who have that ability. The “Powers That Be” are simply those people who have taken the steps to secure and exercise personal power. Obviously, there’s a difference between “doing things on purpose,” and “exercising personal power” from like… actual crimes and UFO’s and stuff. But I should hope that difference would not distract us from our current purpose: pulling the curtain back on the elusive world of conspiracy theory. […]
October 5th, 2007 at 12:35 pm
[…] …But only because we let them. […]