The Current System is Designed to Terminate the Freethinking

Some days, when I find myself wandering to deep into the all of what is, I become stagnant with disbelief. When asked to go play, the only response I can utter is, “I can’t go play today, I’m watching the finale season of the United States.”

As I am one that cannot fit in, I am also one that never has. Because of this, I’m labeled broken and in need of repair. I don’t believe that there is anything wrong with not fitting into what is deemed the norm. It’s just difficult to exist within this system that has been created for gain, a system that was not designed to serve as a foundation for the spirit of freedom.

With the ways we have been influenced to produce, effects on our behavior and opinions. We are producing effects that are senseless. We are constantly being filled with rage and demonstrate anger over the most trivial of things. On the matters of importance that can truly affect one's life, we take no notice. We have been conditioned to pretend what is happening is not really happening.

This current system, which is designed to manipulate, is disconnecting everyone from freethinking while terminating all intuition. The reason behind all of this disengagement is because disconnected people are easy to skillfully influence, manage and control.

There is no need to find comfort by attaching labels. Labels are attachments to something to designate manufacture and ownership, a short description indicating category or classification. The moment you believe that a label is true, you have placed limits on the limitless. You have confined and restricted the all into the thought and directions that you are being guided towards.

In a society of people programmed from birth to follow-the-leader, it is inevitable that some will fall into the clutches of mad leaders. That is but one of the many consequences of the loss of self-reliance and of independent judgment in American citizens.

Before joining in an emotional “cult,” perhaps it would be best to understand that a cult is but a system of ritual. It is a system of belief gone pathological to indoctrinate the loss of independence.

Individuals are motivated to join cults because it will provide them with a social group to belong to and give them a set of beliefs that helps in defining themselves. Cults also use this need for belonging to their advantage in the way most cults are internally structured.

This is how I view politics; a political cult is a cult with a primary interest in political action and ideology. These groups of political cults are mostly advocating far-left or far-right agendas. Cult-like politicians and their supporters hold deep promises to ideological positions. These commitments however, tend to reflect the personal whims of the leaders. Once the manipulator's supporters have reached that conclusion, it is not difficult for the leader to manipulate the masses.

In these situations, power in the political movement stems not from a set of ideas or shared interests, but from the personality and will of one individual. Even the most overzealous party follower will ultimately abandon a leader when that individual betrays their core principles.

This is why a politician with opinionated appeal, but no strong cult of personality, can be weakened by their own side if they excessively abuse their power. When a leader has a cult of personality, however, their supporters will never abandon them no matter their transgression.

When looking at the signs of a cult, it is easy to see the coalition in politics. The leader is always right. Criticism of the leader or questioning the leader is considered tyranny. Anything the leader does is justified, no matter how harmful it may be. The leader is the only source of the truth while everybody else is lying. Followers must be blindly devoted to the leader and never question them. The members won’t recognize that they belong to a cult.

Your mentality is your reality. This is what Immanuel Kant, a German philosopher, quantified. His most famous work, The Critique of Pure Reason, published in 1781, integrated that all experiences, including colors, sensations and objects, are just representations in your mind. Reality is only based on individual perception.

In September 1796, worn out by burdens of the presidency and attacks of political foes, George Washington announced his decision not to seek a third term. As Washington prepared to leave the presidency, assisted by Alexander Hamilton and James Madison, Washington composed his famous Farewell Address. This was his political testament to the nation, as he warned Americans about the dangers of partisanship.

Washington, who refused to join a political party during his two terms, insisted that if Americans cared more about whether their party wins than maintaining democratic structure, an enterprising minority of the community could manipulate the masses. Through a manipulative leader, the power of the people will lose their reins of the government.

He urged Americans to lower sectional jealousies to a common national interest. Writing at a time before political parties had become accepted, Washington feared that they carried the seeds of the nation’s destruction. He also advised against the establishment of permanent alliances with other countries. These connections, he warned, would inevitably be destabilizing for America’s national interest.

We hear about billion dollar deals daily. We hear about the millions people are making and spending. For the people that are down on this day-to-day lower level, living from paycheck-to-paycheck, this is all just background noise. When the entirety of your earnings is exhausted on food and shelter, when your labors are no longer viewed as an opportunity for economic advancement, but rather as an act for self-preservation in this reality of now, it is not called a cult. This is called slavery to the system.

I have stated many times that I am a freethinker. I am not a liberal, or a conservative as I refuse to be labeled with such blasphemy. I do, however; have to admire the words of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35^th President of the United States.

“If by a Liberal they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reaction, someone who cares about the welfare of the people - their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights and their civil liberties – someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by Liberal, then I am proud to say I’m a liberal.”

You must have confidence with your own thoughts of what you are thinking. Never allow yourself to stumble into group thinking. Avoid all labels that are used to place you into a category where you will be boxed in. This is the biggest impact and altering influence you can make on the world. - dbA

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