OUR WORLD
it all, something is waiting for him. A part of himself
is waiting.
seen these things. You know a great deal. And you
are not coordinated with the new configuration.”
It is the part that can conceive of everything that
isn’t, that never was. It is the part that dreams beyond the ordinary facades of time and space. It is
the part that refuses to believe habit and repetition
and routine and systems are the core of life.
The new configuration, at a deep level, is not new
at all. It has existed since the dawn of history. It’s
the self-fulfilling prophecy that, except for a few
gifted ones, humans have no creative power, no
wide-ranging imagination. Thus, they must surrender to the “shape of things as they are.”
It is the part that knows something new and unprecedented and stunning can be invented at the
drop of a hat, and that this is the unlimited territory of the individual. It is the part off-handedly referred to as imagination, which over time has been
sold away into oblivion. But which never dies. This
is what is underneath the common duties and habits of daily humans as they circulate in their lives.
The elites who try to control and define the common space of humanity would like to render imagination to the junk heap of history, never to be recalled. They would like to do this by replacing the
individual with the group, which has no creative
impulse, but is merely, with few exceptions, the
lowest-common-denominator expression of any
idea.
In Huxley’s Brave New World (1932), the overarching government slogan was: “Every one belongs
to every one else.” One group, indivisible, with
non-liberty and injustice for all.
Huxley’s slogan is now also the number-one elite
propaganda message on Earth. It can be made to
mean almost anything that derides and minimizes
the individual and his repressed creative power.
In his 1954 short story, The Adjustment Team, Philip
K Dick approaches the transformation of the individual into the group as an instantaneous, blanketing, mass-programming operation. Salesman
Ed Fletcher, through an error, isn’t included in the
“great change.” Instead, he witnesses it. Therefore,
he is transported into the sky to meet the Old Man,
the Chief, for a judgment:
Ed: “I get the picture...I was supposed to be changed
like the others. But I guess something went wrong.”
Old Man: “Something went wrong. An error occurred. And now a serious problem exists. You have
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Here is a statement about reality-creation that is
crucial. ---Philip K Dick, his 1978 speech, How To
Build A Universe That Doesn’t Fall Apart Two Days
Later:
“...today we live in a society in which spurious
realities are manufactured by the media, by
governments, by big corporations, by religious
groups, political groups...So I ask, in my writing,
What is real? Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo-realities manufactured by
very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms...And it is an astonishing power: that of creating whole universes, universes of the mind. I ought to know. I do
the same thing.”
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