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steppin into that ol river again(current observations, re-articulations)

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starry-eyed pirate:
Last night while I was talkin on the phone I watched a miller maggot crawl over my head across the ceiling.  Submissive-Authoritarian slavery, behavior modification, so it is ... and why doesn't it stop ??  It is as Straight said.  We must do more than simply put a patch over the blood.  The core of the disease is deep, in the roots, in the soil and the water and the very air these days... There was a meaningful conversation here once, worth having, but it has devolved into a Submissive-Authoritarian dream on Facebook.  The internet divides us as it informs us and we trust each other and everything the less for it.  We live indirectly and love does not come through... like it should.  We are bein channelled into the illusions of freedom and responsibility, but we are more the slaves for it.  Don't be fooled by appearances and the seductions of social prestige ... We were in Straight.  We know the better for it. 

dragonfly:

starry-eyed pirate:
Ohhh brother !!  LOL, yes .... although, and perhaps I am overly romantic about these things, but I don't know if the program is as old as life itself, as you say.  I think it's as old as civilization, but there doesn't seem to be any defined line or boundary between and I can see how ritual has been used throughout human culture, even before the people became settled and learned to farm ... and the roots of human culture are deep in the animus, so yeah... but the centralized social power institutions have taken full advantage of the civilized lifestyle to usurp the old intentional consciousness of our oldest ancestors, who knew the value of transmitting consciousness through ritual. Modern centralized social institutions use program dynamics to emotionally and subconsciously manipulate the individual members of our society, very much the way the people who ran Straight, whoever that was, were able to manipulate everyone in group but a very few.  Love is the answer.  Stop buyin stuff !!!

starry-eyed pirate:
We might have to come to some definition for the term "program", because while you may be equating all institutionalized persuasion with the program, when I refer to the phrase, "the program" I am only referring to that ritual, or institutionalized persuasion, which indoctrinates and sustains the submissive-authoritarian consciousness.

starry-eyed pirate:
I think another consideration, worth investigating is the development of ego consciousness.  Julian Jaynes espouses the idea that the ego consciousness is a relatively recent development, which only manifested a few thousand years ago when people settled into farming communities and began to write and develop centralized social authorities.  Previous to that, Jaynes asserts that humans had a bicameral form of consciousness, without ego.  If that is the case, and he makes quite a remarkable argument for it in his book, The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, it makes it somewhat more challenging to relate to our oldest ancestors and their use of ritual.  The idea is that once people started to develop ego consciousness, centralized social authorities became necessary to compensate for the breakdown of the bicameral consciousness.  Trip on that for a while...

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