Lifestyle
and Ageing
Age
and History
Stay young, stay healthy, but how old can people really get?
People
who are born healthy can grow very old and still remain in good health. Most of
them will, however, die long before their potential Biological Old Age is
reached.
Why ?
Perhaps the past can help to explain this, let's take a look into some aspects
of our history and then you can make up your own mind!
One of
the oldest books we can use is the Bible. If you look at The Old Testament ,
you will find that Adam and his six children lived for more than nine hundred
years.
Methuselah
is documented as a nine hundred ninety-six year old while
Lamech
was seven hundred seventy-seven years old and his first son reached the age of
one hundred and seventy eight years old. Noah lived for over nine hundred
years, he was for six hundred years old living on the Ark. Moses died at
the age of one hundred and twenty years.
Most
scientists dispute these claims and one of them, C. Edward Burtis however, had
to admit after a life long study that the age mentioned for Moses was correct.
These great ages were partly made possible
because of their life style and a special diet, which to be enforced
rigidly.
The
Sumerians, living in the same area, are another society who left us with a lot
of records, this time in the form of baked clay documents. They recorded most
of the Reign of the different Kings in the area and when we look at a selection
of them we find:
Dynasty Name No. of
Kings Reign Average Rule
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First Kisj 23 24510 years 1065 years
Second Kisj 8
3195 years 399 years
Third Kisj 1 100 years 100 years
Fourth Kisj 7 97 years 14 years *
First Uruk 12 2310 years 192 years
Second Uruk 3 480 years 160 years
* The rule by kings stops at this point and power is transferred to the
temple of Eanna at Uruk where the son of the high priest ruled for 324 years.
The old people (ancient) explained
the decrease of the life span in the
following terms:
The
spiritual and mental world is not subject to Time and can therefore exist
indefinitely-forever. The more cynical ones of the old ones (ancients)
associated Time with what they would
call Corruption and Destruction!
Expansion of consciousness and
awareness could reduce the effects of time in the material world and expand the
maximum lifespan, a process we call Transcendation. Materialism reduces the
lifespan.
The
existence of material is limited. Time
factor.
When you
look at the stars you can see what is happening. New worlds are born every day
while other die out. Our Earth and our Sun have only a limited period of
existence!
There is
no universal law which will survive Time. The scientists are searching in the
wrong direction. But even if you look at the material world, the value of there
discoveries seems to be limited. For
every problem they solve they create two or three new ones. Nor can they be
trusted. When some scientist did warn
about the health risk of smoking they where severely attacked by the cigarette
producing companies. The companies came with there own reports draw-up by other
scientist to dispute these claims. Keeping the fire going for dozen’s of years.
Finally they had to submit that it could be dangerous. But in general many
companies and even de State do not hesitate to abuse science to promote there
cause. Some scientists have no problem with this. Getting themselves involved
as long as the money is all right.
To
establish the value of their axiom’s you only have to look at the past and
compare with the present. Their claims then made and now. Most claims do not
last for more than 50 years.
This is
one of the reasons why Buddha called the material world an illusion. Despite
its powerful manifestation, its glamour and glitter it is all in vain. But
there is another reason; the material world is empty, has no inside, it cannot
make one single soul really happy!
Life-extension and caloric
restrictions.
To these
ancient people not only the choice and preparation of food was important but
also the rejuvenation of the body, which was achieved by food restriction. This
was later incorporated by all major religions as fasting.
This form
of caloric restriction, combined with meditation, would have the same effect as
caloric restriction.
The main
beneficial aspect of this system was that the period of caloric restriction was
limited to a maximum of six weeks a year instead of being permanent. During
this period people were asked to reflect on their way of life, their behavior
towards others, and to meditate and pray. At the end of the fasting period
there would be a big celebration with the sharing of food and goods with
friends and de poor.
Artificial
Rejuvenation
There is
a big difference between fasting and the artificial rejuvenation of the body.
When it
became clear that the maximum lifespan was decreasing rapidly, people and their
rulers started to look for other ways to extend life.
As far as
we know, the Sumerian kings went to the temple and had to undergo a severe
regime of food restriction with no solid foods, only lots of special vegetable
juices. To help the king get through this difficult period they used special
sedatives, resting him on a bench in
the form of an cross in a quiet room without light. The food restriction would
last until most organs were reduced or nearly gone. The liver for example was
reduced to approximately 10 % of its normal size. The process was so severe
that halfway during his treatment all parasites, such as worms, would leave his body, like rats do,
before a ship goes down. Needless to say that such a procedure is not without
risks and takes a lot of knowledge!
For this
reason only, royalty and high priest would be treated in this way.
Fasting,
and a simple way of living, were the guidelines for the common people and they
too could greatly benefit from it.
Every
important religion incorporated these guidelines for the benefit of their
followers.
In modern
times there is a big difference. People now are stimulated to consume, consume,
and consume... the more the better! At least that is what the big corporations
and some governments are trying to get us to believe.
Health.
The state
of our health is not dependent on food alone. Many people now believe that the
true causes of many diseases and premature death are created by:
. Poor /faulty nutrition
. Pollution
. Stress
. Addiction
. Lack of exercise
When we
do go back to the people of ancient times their priority list has some
similarities but also significant differences:
. Proper and balanced food
. Proper internal communication
. Regular fasting
Patience
It
stresses the importance of mental and spiritual development, of personal
development and growth. The aim is to be at peace with yourself. They would say
that a healthy mind could cure a sick body. The mind was regarded as being just
as important as the physical body. For that reason you should not overstress
the body, rush around or do too many things at the same time. It is right to
say "no" if necessary and very important to take proper rests.
They had
no place for what we so proudly call the 24-hour economy, no overwhelming
demands for immediacy. Stress and pollution were lacking because they were
non-existent. Life was in harmony with nature. Nature the provider and man the
collector or harvester.
Prevention not healing
Food as Medicine
Good
nutrition help you to stay healthy and can even cure you from certain ailments.
Hippocrates,
who is called the “Father of Medicine”, is often quoted for his well-known
statement:
“Let thy food be thy medicine and thy medicine
be thy food”.
The
people of ancient times did know more about it then we do now and used their
knowledge wisely!
Health is
simple ! You give the body what it really needs and it will be healthy or, if
necessary, it will even heal itself.
This
process is called Orthomolecular Nutrition and its importance can be seen from
the fact that Linus Pauling was twice awarded a Nobel Prize for studies in this
field.
However,
to be effective this process can only operate when food is of natural origin
and not contaminated by weed killers, insecticide hormones, preservatives or
GMO modifications.
Each
culture has its own thought about disease, and perception of healing.
The
Chinese medicine is probably the oldest surviving system of healing we do know
today. At the basis are the believes that there are interrelating energy fields
within your body that can or need to be adjusted at some time. They assign
great importance to herbs, diets and acupuncture with different exercises like
tai chi.
Other
non-Western healers will try to strengthen the immune system. Look for disharmony. Harmony among people and
between people. Others will indicate illness as a warning, a signal. That you
are doing something wrong! You must stop and change. That can be more than just
a behavior, but also a thought or a feeling. The healer will try to assist you in your
search for answers, to find out what is the cause, so it can it be change or
corrected. Healing is almost wholly in the hands of the sick person.
These healers although they have different names in different cultures
have something in common. ‘ The believe that healing is an intrinsic capacity
of human beings’.
In the
West we believe that illness is the result of an assault, an attack from
outside the body, usually by micro-organisms. That the assisting in healing
must be done by a expert, a well paid professional. No layman should come near
a patient. That all other forms are quackery and are not to be tolerated; they
must be rooted out, destroyed. Both doctors and many patients believe that
healing normally will be the result of the use of drugs. Stimulating the body
responses to the illness had a low priority. This arrogant insistence on
knowing what is best, has eradicated most of the ancient knowledge and wisdom
in the West. The discovery of bacteria and antibiotic medicine like penicillin
lead them to believe that they eventually would be able to cure most of the
common diseases and illness. They would turn the world into a better place.
Free from illness and disease.
During
that time of optimism they seized the
initiative and got a law prohibiting all other forms of healing.( Quackery)
Many of
the bacteria, viruses and micro-organism are still here. Resistant to many of
the modern medicines. Now they have to fight a lifelong battle against these
adjusting and changing micro-organism. The believe that they could eradicate
many of the existing disease proved wrong too. Not only that ,but several new
bacteria, viruses and diseases developed since.
Why
Food?
Food
provides us with the energy we need to be able to move, collect and digest more
food; to communicate, work, think, to maintain and regulating our body
temperature and so on. Most of this energy becomes available during the
breakdown of cells containing sugar , fat, or alcohol that have primarily a Caloric
function. During fasting this type of nutrient are limited but not the other
vital nutrients like proteins and minerals, vitamins etc.
The
cells, which make up our body, do not live long. Our body has to replace them
at least once within every seven years, depending on their type or the
function they perform. Our body seems to stay the same, nor do we feel
different, yet this replacement process
goes on every day!
Proper
digestion must prepare these cells for integration into the existing body
structure. This is a complex and
difficult process. You need proteins from healthy cells that are biologically
active, as well as other building blocks, such as bio-minerals and vitamins
in sufficient amounts. Fresh and uncooked vegetables contain lots of suitable
cells which can provide those building blocks.
Only
vegetable juices were used during the artificial rejuvenation process we
described earlier.
In
cooking your food, most of the cells get damaged. Even if you eat enough, there
might be a shortage of suitable cells. The same happens to food stored cold.
The process of decay will be slowed but not stopped.
If there
is a shortage of suitable cells or insufficient quality due to damage, poisons,
genetic manipulations these building blocs will become part of your body and
will lead to what is called the degradation of your body… aging!
The Circle of life.
Everything
nature produces can be broken down by small microorganisms to a size were it
can be re-used again, the so-called cycle of life and dead. A closed
ecosystem. Nothing is wasted and every
thing will be re-used again. For that reason the old Celtic people placed a
circle around the center of the crosses on their graves.
In our
haste to create a world entirely based on the artificial-that means man-made
things, we have thrown away much that is part of our heritage. Only the
memories of a kinder, gentler world are left now.
When you
walk home, go into the park, visit the beach, do diving, you will see litter
everywhere, yet what you see is only a small part of the total amount of waste
surrounding you. Most of the chemicals and other substances cannot be seen. The
bottom of most rivers is now so badly contaminated with poisons, like heavy
metals, that the soil has to be decontaminated before some other use can be
found for it.
The lifecycle of man-made products differs from natural products. It lifetime cycle is normally much longer and that is why it is left behind in our environment.
Sometimes
you can smell such pollution, or it will cause a reaction such as burning skin
or irritation of the lungs for example. Because the litter is man- made, nature
is not capable to handle it properly. Eventually it will disappear, but only
after a very long time.
Food too
can be contaminated with different man-made substances such as weed killers,
hormones, insecticides and preservatives or GM manipulated.
During
the replacement of your body cells these contaminants can get incorporated in
your body because cell replacement is a continuing process-within every seven
years all of your body’s cells will be replaced.
The newly
formed contaminated body cells within your body will behave differently and
have a different life-cycle. Your body becomes a kind of ‘”waste dump”. Despite
all the progress made at medical level, the numbers of people becoming sick or
suffering from allergies like asthma,
etc are on the increase.
The
amount of money and people needed to keep the healthcare system functioning
will keep increasing too..
You may
get sick and eventually die, not because of some genetic defect, but because of
the environment you live in and the food you eat. The price you have to pay for
living is called “a man-created
environment or city”.
To make
things even worse the body, in trying to cope with this mess, starts to change
the genetic code needed to guide these processes. There is a chance that your
children might inherit these changed codes from you.
By
divorcing ourselves from Nature we have also removed ourselves from a source of
wisdom that is a integrated part of Nature. A human future more in line with
all that What is. The wisdom and knowledge as result of living.
Nostradamus
the famous prophet, predicted a period in human existence were the health
system collapses and the people are left on the streets to die. Most experts
expect it to be somewhere in India or Africa. But it could also be in the West.
The way we manage to pollute our environment is shocking and on a scale never
seen before, and we continue to do it despite the fact that the signs of
disaster are already visible.
Big
Business.
One of
the reasons that man-made products are used so widely is because of the big
returns that can be gained from them.
The profit to be made on natural products is
limited because you cannot patent them or claim exclusivity. Furthermore, it is
difficult to control and to dominate the production which in turn limits your
potential profit.
Another
reason why many man-made products are cheap is because the by-product and waste
are discarded into the water or the air or buried on the land with little or no
cost. The manufactured product or substance get dumped too, often long before
it is at the end of its life cycle.
An other
misconception is that a lot of people think that our resources are the rewards
of, our efforts, our productivity. We owe our productivity on earth for the
greater part on the availability of
resources like oil. These resources are formed over millions of years in
the earth crush. We are no part of this
process. We are only the users. Burning the oil in quantities much larger than
the earth can ever produce will eventually lead too an upset of the ecosystem.(destruction.) We are squandering it,
this will effect our future in a negative way. We might not like it but we are
still part of that ecosystem. Earth resources should be used wisely, and we
should not use more than can be replaced.
Other
very important beneficiaries of this practice are governments through their
ability to control these processes and takes a substantial part out of it in
taxes. Their slogan would seem to be: "More, more, and more !'Or more
precisely, " Consume, consume and consume!
Patents.
In our
rush to create man-made products, we forgot to use the riches of the earth that
are freely available all around us.
If you
plant one maize corn in your garden and look after it a bit you may harvest 200
to 300 of them 3 months later. Simple.
Since
there is not enough money to be made by the big corporations out of this
natural process they will try to replace it with a so-called better one, or
better still a GMO version with a patent on it. Than they will try to live on
the royalties they can charge and using their developing dominance to exclude
other or similar products. One way to make sure that there is no real choice is
by controlling what is on offer at the markets.
Because the discussion of what is a healthy diet is difficult and
complex, most people are understandably confused. There is so much conflicting
advice that most people have given up on this subject. This leaves room for
manipulation and makes it easy to
mislead them.
However,
there is another, smaller group who do regard this issue as very important.
They want
all food properly labeled and the source of production traceable. Many of these
people also do not want to buy and consume GMO food. The industry knows this
but tries to circumvent it by introducing such products in a stealthy manner.
Despite the fortunes spend on promotion many people are still not convinced of
the merits of GMO food products and opposition continues to grow.
One
option for the food industry is to attempt to introduce such products without
informing the user and some companies have already done so. To do this successfully
companies need government backing and are succeeding. Because there are close
relationships between many governments and big businesses. It can be sickening
to see how governments, politicians, even presidents bend over backwards to
please big businesses.
Now let
me take you 2000 year back and visit Rome and the Roman Empire.
Rome was
known as the city of water. They used up to 1,000,000,000.- liter of water a
day. The water would reach the city through channels and pipelines. Transported
from the mountains to the city. There were no pumps, no electricity. By using
nature in a clever way they did succeed.
From what
we know now and it is well documented, an average laborer/builder had to work
36 hours a day/5 days a week in the summer and 26 hours a week in the winter.
Enough to live relatively comfortable. There was so much leisure time available
that the government organized lots of festivities to keep everyone busy, quite a job in these days. For the poor
there were free handouts of food and clothes. You could sleep wherever you
could find a sheltered place.
Food and Money.
There is
a connection between food and money as far as the Western world is concerned.
If you
ask your neighbors what he considers to be the most precious thing in his live
he probably will say his family and good health.
In
practical terms this is not true. It is making money. He works to get it, even
thinks and worry at night about it. Not without reason. If God is love, than
love is money in our world. Without money you cannot survive. No food, no
drinks, no place to sleep, you get abused, threatened, arrested, jailed or
worse.
People do
not mind working because they want to make a contribution to the group, family
and society.
Now days
however most people spend their day working to the enrichment of other persons,
corporations and the State.
To keep
them working under these circumstances and so little benefits for themselves
you have to put pressure on them to keep going. Working under these
circumstances is no fun. Wearing and frustrating. You have to push them.
That is
done by making sure that they have to pay for everything they use and need with
money. To get money they have to work, but not only for themselves but others
as well.
Make sure
you do not pay too much because they might save and stop working. Get them into
debts. To motivate set examples, tell them about the people who manage to make
it. No need to work anymore. Tell them that everyone can do it. The only thing
you have to do is work a little harder. Tell them that they are far better of
living and working here than within other cultures/systems.
Second;
not only control and limit the amount of money they can possible earn, but
control there time. Make them live in time:
an agenda ,
schedules, make appointments , use targets, affect their bio-rhythm ,set
times to eat, time to rest, time to go to bed, time to get up. Stimulate them
to make all sort of plans, let them think about the future. Just keep them
busy, preferably running. Thinking, planning, deciding, choosing, analyzing. Do
not give them time to wonder, daydream,
too be free in the true sense.
To do so
effectively you have to create a structure that requires certain activities and
prohibits others. Carrot en stick approach. There are several ways in which you
can organize such a structure.
A perfect
structure for this purpose, and the one most used in the West, is what some call ‘an expert structure’.
.
Anyone
who does anything needs training, a license, a diploma, degree etc. The result
is that every-one is powerless, except for the narrow slice of the world that
he or she knows. Make certain that there is hardly anything they can do, or are
allowed to do for themselves. Make them believe that everything is so complex
and difficult to manage in this world that they require an expert to help. Experts for every possible aspect of
life. In most libraries you will find books written about statements made by
well qualified expert in the past and compared with what we know now. Most people
get a laughter out of it. Now it is easy to prove them wrong, but the fact is
that they presented themselves as important experts, made a lot of money but
had not a clue.
Anyway
within the expert system it is important to keep the people believe that they
must ask for expert advice for everything they do. Indoctrinate them. Under
these circumstances they are easy to manipulate and control. Ad the end they
might even thank you for it.
Of
course, now and then however some will look trough this facade. It is therefore
very important to tell them and keep telling them that this world is the only
true reality, that other people, other cultures are backward, underdeveloped,
and so on. By judging others as less you can create artificial barriers. Because the others are backward or
odd it does not make sense to try and learn from them. The oldest trick in the
world and highly effective.
When you
speak to most of the Americans nowadays
they give you an uneasy feeling.
You sense
little thinking but lots of emotions. Anger, resentment, aggression.
There
society is the best, the future. They are great, are doing well. Have god’s
blessing as ultimate proof.
The abuse
of God’s name in this respect is another age-old practice. God never
contradicts. In most cases to cover for intolerance and objection to other ways of organizing ,
other ways of being, being human. Unwilling to accept that others may value
different things. What is good for the USA is good for others. The USA life is
by far better than anything else.
The
superiority of the Western civilization and values. Not only intolerant,
arrogant but also stupid. During our history there have been many great
civilizations/powers. They are ruled by cycles just like anything else. The
come and go. One important lesson from the past is, that in many cases arrogance one of the reasons for their demise.
Climatic changes are another important one. No society is able to dominate the
world or area permanently. What goes up comes down and many people use the Gauss distribution for de predictions in
this respect. Establishing the timeline is the most difficult aspect op the
projection. The USA is now at its peak
as far as I can read it and will gradually loose momentum. Its vulnerability,
its economic. This terror thing a relative minor aspect of it.
After the
war when gold was replaced by dollars the economic upturn or hegemony was
established. The USA benefited greatly from it. Now the trust in the dollar is
waning. To much politics and to little of banking. There are simple to many
dollars around. Here to the market law will prevail.
Friends of us were visiting Bali.
There were not too many tourists due to the then recent bomb blasts. When they
went sightseeing the hotel would allocate a car with driver. One of the
questions they would asked the driver his your profession? Most of them proved
to be students .Next question, what kind of study and what would you like to do
with your life. Despite different kind of courses they all would like to become
manager at a big company. Motivation, lots of easy money and privileges and no
real work.
Another
aspect many people are unaware of is that, money is addictive just like coke, heroin, or crack and some people will
never get enough of it. Because it is so addictive a lot of people are prepared
to cheat, lie, manipulate, betray, and some of them are even prepared to kill
for it.
In
general, money affects the relations between people in a very negative way
because it builds on exploitation
instead of respect and love. It hardens society, increases aggression and leads
to violence. The first thing Christ did when he entered the synagogue was
kicking out the traders/businesses. In these days maximal wage differences
should not exceed that of a trades man by more than a factor four. Now up to
several thousands is not uncommon. Christ stated that the change for
these people to reach heaven was smaller than the recovery from a needle out of
a hay stack.
People
are not born to be exploited, but to learn, have fun, make meaningful
contributions to other people's lives, to explore, and develop themselves.
Development into becoming better persons. You can not, nor should you try to
abuse these fundamental rights, as fellow humans for your own purposes, to let
them do your work for example.
And
nobody, absolutely nobody has the right to poison air, water, land or the sea
for profits. These things are our heritage and they belong to us all.
The
State as artificial life form.
There
have been a lot of discussions about artificial intelligence of
machines/computers. What many people do not realize is that they have created
an artificial life form already.
The modern State.
Most
people agree with a definition of life as being a structure with the ability to
stay stabile by adding and rejecting parts of itself and replacing them by
similar parts out of its environment. Like any other creature, man, animal or
plant its first priority is to stay alive. Stability is another. That is
exactly what a modern State is doing.
Taking
care of itself as first priority. Using different means like legislation,
police and army, civil servants , licensing activities or prohibiting others,
extensive penal systems, tax systems. The control of essential necessities like food and water. Spying ,
registration and documenting every aspect of human life, the right to kill humans, start wars, and
inflict punishment. Its structure is in
many ways similar as that of man. Like other would milk a goat.
People/humans
can project feelings and emotions outwards, and by combining these with
ambition developed the State.(Exteriosation) Because the State started as a
projection of human thought and aspiration it works similar as our body.
Transport (blood), factories (liver), waste disposal (kidney), State (Brains)
Police (wit blood cells) etc, etc. We
are told that the State is for the benefit of the people. The modern State is
not. Because of the needed stability they have to take into account their
building blocs, humans. It is however impossible in practical terms to topple a
modern State from inside.
If you
look at the State as a living entity it is much easier to understand the
behavior. The behavior has nothing to do with logic, nor human rights,
democracy or the rule of law.
It is a
myth. A mix-up, it limits real freedom and increases choosing.
Increasing material possessions (goods) and degrading
of spiritual values. Because I have a choice as far as clothing is concerned does not prove that I am free
in other more fundamental aspects.
Take the
USA for example:
In the
hospitals doctors spend endless resources to extend the lifespan of and
individual for a day, a week, a year. At the military factory, endless
resources are used to build and send
killing machines to targets mostly located in the low tech world. To kill
people or groups of people who are considered to be an enemy of the State. No
body really knows if this assumption is right and most of the real victims are
only common people, families.
If you
ask the USA military how many civilians
they did kill in Iraq, no answer or, we do not count civilians.
In the
underground in New York a mother of two children, a parent alone is returning home. She is very tired. She
has two jobs to have enough money to raise her two daughters. Despite her two
jobs and long working days she is unable to make ends meet.
After the
War against drugs we got the War against terrorism, and the next one a War
against Humanity. None of them can be won. The use of the word War is not
correct. It is normally used for conflicts between States. This way it looks more important and impressive. The
symptoms can best be compared with the illness as we know as humans. Like a
heart disease or cancer. They are responses to abuse of power by unhealthy
organized State and State aggression .Reduction of human capability to resist
state incited force and violence. Like
in human life there are healthy ways of living and very unhealthy ones. If you
smoke for example the chance that you get long cancer increases. A Buddhist would
call it bad karma. Violence creates violence according to Christ. Others would
say; you get what you are asking for. The Bush administration did exploits
cleverly what did happen on the 11 September in New York. The numbers of
terrorists exploded after the invasion of Iraq and is spreading. Both help each
other and will need each other in the future. Nothing new here too.
Freedom.
The more
you read about stone-age people, like Bushmen, Eskimos or Aboriginals, you will
find that most Authors describe them as: peace loving, nonviolent, non
aggressive. Their lack of elaborated
hierarchies of power.
Surviving because they live in dense and
inexcusable jungle, arid deserts, artic region. Fiercely independent. The last
real free people on the earth. Free in the true sense. The last free Americans
were Indians. They are no more.
Aggression
and violence seems to be a by-product of civilization. Every rule ,every law
means restricting somebody somewhere.
We differ
with the free people of the world in perception of reality. We perceive reality
through many layers of learned concepts
. Our way to catch and understand the world. Training and learning are key
words. Repeating is a important part of learning.
Their is
an other way of learning, the natural on, the knowing from inside. To do that
you have to stop thinking, planning, deciding, analyzing. As result perception
of things changes.
These
people live within direct reality, the only way you can survive in this type of
environment. For us it is hard to think of a world where you do not need
anything, have plenty of time, food just to be found. Experiencing things
without the need to understand, to name or judge.
The main
difference between them and us the
experience of what is real.
Freedom and Choice.
It is
important to understand the difference between freedom and choice.
Choosing
has become a integral part of Western life.
We have
to make choices all the time. What will I wear, what will I eat.
A job, a
lawyer, a political party, counsel, housing etc. Choosing is often left to
experts and normally time proves them wrong. Politicians stumble backwards into
the future according to Mc Luhan. He studied relations between what he called
the medium and the message. Were the message becomes the medium.
Similar
is what we called exteriosation outward projection of human thought and feeling
and the inward projection called interiosiation.
Politician
are always on the lookout for ways to present themselves and using the media
for this respect. Even buying time (prime-time) Most of the money need they
will get from big businesses. To keep the story short they distinguish
themselves by a lot of noise, little substance (slogans), little of no value,
after they have made the promised changes you are worse off, and as far as the
future is concerned no vision. They live in the past.
Back to
Freedom.
Freedom
is much more than every days choosing.
The
choose you make regarding the color of your lipstick is nice but not
fundamental. Too many choices will distract you from the more important ones.
The choosing we do in the Western world is focused on what is the material- and
the artificial world.. Freedom however has to do with ability to live as a real
human even outside society and the spiritual part of humans is more important
then the material one. To be free of exploitation, or victim of greed, the acceptance of different ways of being and
different values. To develop, move around freely, real privacy etc.
It would
help if we would stop trying to prove/sell that Western civilization is the
pinnacle of human achievements.
The best
future. It is a lie. If you look back in history, no nation nor any group has
caused so much damage to the environment, to the earth, depleted more of the
natural recourses than ever ,terminated more plants and animals than as result
of systems introduces by Western civilization.
Nor has
their been a slaughter or bloodshed of humans on a scale as ever before.
The
introduction of non-combatants. Savage and brutal way of treating people.
Locking people in cages without any trial. Systematically degrading of humans,
blindfolding, chained, their privacy, shelter, expose them to other humans in a
humiliating way, interrogated (brainwashing), the use of dogs to scare them, the
use of drugs etc. Savage, brutal and degrading. No civil nation should behave
in such manner.
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