The Cheapest, Most Efficient Prison of All....
Your Own Mind
By Anna von Reitz
From the cradle onward we are deliberately
taught to think in ways that profit our predators.
This is done by those who stand to profit from these
purposefully engendered failures of logic.
For example—remember yourself as a child playing with a set of colored blocks, marbles, or similar
objects. What were you taught to focus on?
You were taught to focus on and identify differences—- difference of color, size, shape, texture, material, transparency—any kind of difference at all was
important and emphasized and you were required
to recognize and note it. The sameness or similarity of things was used merely as a means to identify
differences. Why?
Why isn’t recognizing similarities inherently as
important as recognizing differences?
Without recognizing similarities first, we wouldn’t
be able to discern differences, but similarities are
downplayed because similarities provide the basis
for unity and peace and compassion.
Those who profit from keeping us divided and
endlessly at war don’t want us to think in terms of
similarities. If we did, we would see the way this
learned emphasis on differences allows us to be
manipulated and misled, how it teaches us to fear,
how it nurtures prejudice of all kinds, and how it
makes us susceptible pawns for war-mongers and
demagogues.
This early emphasis on perceiving differences also
leads us to think in terms of parts instead of wholes,
and in terms of “us” versus “them”.
This same learned perceptual prejudice results in
instinctively thinking in terms of “either/or” when
we would be better served by thinking in terms of
“and”.
We are taught to think in terms of endless duality: good versus bad, rich versus poor, right versus
wrong, black versus white, Democrat versus Republican, Baptist versus Catholic—-all because it is
easier to limit and control and manipulate us when
we think this way. The slave masters set up the two
goads and drive us endlessly between them, and
our patterned way of thinking prevents us from
breaking free. We become like “dumb, driven cattle” caught between the carrot and the stick, never
questioning who is manipulating us or for what
reasons.
In the same way we are taught to think in terms of
groups, not individuals. The value of “teamwork”
and “command structure” is drummed into us until
we feel useless and paralyzed as individuals. We
innocently accept such concepts as “collective guilt”
or “shared pain” or “group action”—–none of which
really exists.
The individual is the unit of human experience—
and is also the limit and expression of all human
experience. All the pain that can ever be felt is felt
only by individuals –one by one– and it is the same
with guilt, happiness, or any other emotion. All actions are taken by individuals—one by one. If you
stop and think beyond the outright false or halftruth assumptions you’ve been taught—“we” are
only sums of “I’s”.
The purposefully induced habit of thinking in
terms of groups instead of individuals makes us
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