Anarchistbanjo's World

There is a great difference between those feelings and thoughts that arise in us naturally and spontaneously and those we are taught to feel and think. The feelings, thoughts, and emotions that arise spontaneously and naturally are organic and truly human in the deepest sense possible. Think of the feelings, thoughts and emotions expressed and experienced as a child, when you were a child. Which of them were natural and organic and which were taught? Shame and guilt are examples of things we were taught to feel and think about ourselves. Concepts such as God, immortality, freedom, humanity and justice are drilled into us from childhood and are not naturally aroused in an organic way, but taught to us as how we should think, feel and act! Take a few moments and really think about this. It’s hard to put into words exactly, but it’s very easy to recognize the thoughts, feelings and actions that have a natural organic source and those that we have been taught.

Often the things we have been taught affect us more profoundly and powerfully than those arising from natural organic sources. Why is that? Is that a good thing? Do we trust ourselves and our true natures or do we trust what we have been taught? There are no easy answers because only life experience can sort these things out for us.

Actually, we might even say that the more life experience we have, the more wisdom we have and the more we learn to trust our own process. As beginners we are more likely to trust the wisdom of our teachers and parents above our own limited life experience. But there exists a line, and when that line is crossed personal experience speaks for itself and no amount of external wisdom can disturb or destroy our hard-earned life lessons.

But that only happens as we gain life experience! Modern society is deliberately geared toward keeping us dependent upon external authorities in a way that severely limits our personal life experience. Have you ever noticed that our entire educational system is calculated to produce feelings of dependency upon us? Instead of teaching us to solve our own problems we are taught the proper authorities that we should go to.

Once we have been taught how to think, how to feel, and how to act we are considered adults with the expectation that we will think, feel and act in socially accepted ways, not spontaneous natural and organic ways! This is the meaning of education, that my mind or my soul resonates in harmony with others even if it doesn’t feel right to me personally. The things that we are taught are alien to us and not natural to us, therefore they are sacred. They are sacred because they are held beyond us, above us and require our submission and respect. They hold power and dominion over us! They prevent us from truly taking up our own power! It’s a very serious thing when we don’t take them seriously!

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People say that individualists think only of themselves and nothing could be further from the truth! This is one of the great lies directed against individualists and it deserves a little investigation and consideration. To think unselfishly in consideration of others, especially loved ones, is one of the most common things in life. We love to help others, to support others, to be friends to others. This is healthy and this is human!

But the individualist draws a line in the sand when he or she is told that they need to help others, to support others, and to befriend others! As long as we are doing the choosing we are in control and what we offer to others is truly unselfish and from the heart! As soon as it becomes an obligation or a moral duty, something that we should do it is no longer freely given and it is no longer an unselfish act.

I can’t help myself, that’s the way I am! That phrase doesn’t cut it anymore for the true individualist. Their thoughts, feelings, and actions are not ruled by obsession but by personal choice. To be obsessed by something is to allow it to become master of us and that takes away any free will or choice. It’s absolutely healthy to be enthused and excited about something, but not to the point that we become a slave to it.

If I had made a bucket list of the 20 most important things that I would like to do in life I’ve already done the top 18 and only have a couple at the bottom of the list left to do! Granted, none of the things that I did turned out the way I had expected them to, or even the way that I wanted them to! But I did them, and nobody can take that away from me. There are so many people that I see who don’t even try to reach for their dreams! They don’t believe in themselves enough to even give it a chance. That is because they lack self-esteem and have a poor sense of self. They don’t believe in themselves and they don’t believe in their own ability to do things! So they don’t even try and their life, their youth is wasted and their old age is spent in bitterness for what they could have done.

Make no mistake about this, the failure to act and believe in yourself is a habit that prevails within our modern society! We are bombarded daily with messages that we should not act on our own but call professionals in to do things for us. We are not encouraged to be self-reliant in any way at all! And that is a big problem!

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There is so much hypocrisy today that swings between the extremes of deceiving others and self-deception. Crippled by the curse of riding on the fence it wobbles between one extreme and the other not daring to fully commit. Take the example of free speech as a human right. People are willing to proclaim free speech as a human right, but not willing to allow others with differing opinions true freedom of speech. They give lip service to it without fully committing to it and without fully believing in it.

Basically, they would like to have freedom of speech and freedom of will without having the moral will to follow through! It remains a sacred idea without becoming physical reality. You will say that you believe in freedom of speech and so will your opponent. But you both walk away from each other thinking the same thing, that the other has something evil up their sleeve and is not to be trusted or believed no matter what they say.

Why not simply admit that each one of us is just looking out for our own interests? Is it necessary to call someone who thinks differently than we do our arch enemy and demonize everything they have to say? Is true freedom of speech that frightening? Can’t we even consider the possibility of a win-win situation?

We believe in the politically correct even when it goes against our own instincts, our own life circumstances and life experience until someone braver than us stands up against it and gives voice to our own secret thoughts, beliefs and life experience. Then we all jump up on the new bandwagon and there is a revolution!

But this revolution always begins as something that is immoral, against the law, against social morays and is not politically correct! But when the revolution succeeds it has become moral, the new law, the new social custom and is now politically correct! How does that happen? It happens when one person stands up against the mob and against what is considered politically correct! It happens when one person dares to tell the truth!

But this obsessive thought persists, that if enough people jump on the bandwagon that makes something right, makes it moral, makes it just, makes it law, and makes it good! They don’t realize or admit even to themselves that each individual determines what is right for them, moral for them, just for them, allowed by their own conscience and the right thing for them to do as an individual.

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So what’s the plan? We have seen how they are trying to do away with spirituality and replace it with morality. What’s that about? How will it work? Perhaps we can predict the outcome by recognizing the larger pattern.

Under the old spiritual model if we give in to our human passions and desires we are immoral. If we develop strength of will, resisting our human passions and desires, and instead follow the still small voice of our conscience that speaks within our hearts we are acting in a moral way. No wait! I have that wrong! If we follow the 10 Commandments or some other religious doctrine that tells us what is right and what is wrong, then we are acting in a moral way. So being moral means to follow the law, God’s law.

This is an important clue! Apparently immorality is about breaking the law, not about whether the law is just or unjust, God’s law or human law. If you break the law you are not moral! It’s all black and white, that simple! That means good is nothing other than legality and morality is nothing other than adherence to the law. And the person who carries the law most strongly within their heart is the one who is the most moral! So we have come to the point where we are supposed to ” live for the law”.

But what if you don’t like the new law? What if you feel it is wrong down deep in your heart? That doesn’t matter! The morality of the law is to be held intact regardless of your own feelings about it! But what if your own will is so strongly opposed to it that you need to resist? Oh, that’s easy! You can beg for mercy, or beg for forgiveness, or beg to be released. Good luck with that!

In a land of censorship like we are fast approaching, the person who evades censorship is acting immorally and the person who accepts censorship is acting morally. What about the person who sets up an underground press? You would have to call him or her immoral and imprudent as well, especially if they let themselves get caught!

Or perhaps you can do what I’m trying to do, using new words in new ways to share new thoughts!

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