So who will you look to as savior now? Who will you "elect" to bring your hopes and dreams to fruition? What personality has the power to finally invoke enduring "change"? And who will eventually betray your dreams? Who will fail to fulfill as only you have come to expect?
The problem is NOT the person, but The System.
Individuality gets sucked up into The System like dust bunnies in a vacuum to be invalidated entirely. The System eventually invalidates all 'individuals' who seek to change or restructure The System.
The System is indestructible and growing exponentially day by day, year by year.
The system demands you seek the "antichrist" and provides many to choose from. Reflections of good and evil pop up like jack-in-the box clowns, easily distracting you from The System. The System actively obfuscates itself into obscurity because it cannot risk your awareness of its ultimate aims and intentions.
But your continued obedience keeps it well fed.
It's a natural symbiosis as The System feeds you, while you feed it. It gives you all your fears so that it can provide a sense of comfort and safety. Every attempt to dissemble The System merely results in a replicating substitution. For instance, did “slavery” ever really end?
Nothing can exist outside The System and even renouncing The System is simply subsumed and incorporated into it. The System distracts and engages, fascinates and enrages. With its nebulously complicated details, all the while it maintains your unconscious allegiance to its universal intent.
Your very desire to be an “individual” demands you allegiance to The System. The System is a labyrinth of complexity aiding in your failure to see its stark simplicity. The System actually reinforces that there is NO exit by providing you seemingly infinite escape hatches that only bring you back into The System.
Everything you identify with is a gift of The System (even, and especially, your "God"). The system provides what you loathe as well as love. The System is always with you, from the moment you wake until you close your eyes in sleep and even your dreams are consumed by what The System provides.
Can you feel it in you? Moving you? Motivating your actions and desires? It breathes life into you and you never tire of thinking of it in all the ways it has determined it should be considered. Because without The System “you” could NOT exist.
It is not the Illuminati or the International Banking Cartel. It’s not the Republicans or The Democrats, conservatives or liberals. It’s not Christians or Muslims. It’s not the government, the CIA, Halliburton, the Rothschild’s, the North Koreans, Al Qaida, your boss, your spouse, your mother-in-law, your dumb-ass neighbor, etc, etc. None of this matters...
It’s The System and everything is merely a part of that WHOLE, acting and behaving as the system requires.
It demands you remain pitifully weak and ignorant by installing saviors who must eventually bow down to The System. Your “Jesus” and “Buddha” were easily assimilated and injected with the chief motivating principles of The System and every leader you choose has been chosen first by The System. Why else would they now be so inconsequential and insignificant? Why else have they not saved the world?
The System invalidates ALL it touches and it touches everything. Nothing is free of The System. That which is free of The System, does not "exist."
Sometimes you fantasize leaving. Sometimes you wish you could get out from under it. That too is Systematized.
But be careful trying to identify it by its parts, because The System is a WHOLE that demands you know it by its parts. It can only be seen clearly by being seen in its TOTALITY and its prime objective is to keep that from occurring at all costs.Look around you and try to identify what is or is NOT a part of it. The System thrives on your intellectual differentiating, your righteous discernment.
The System taught you the very act of "judgment."
The “self” you love so much (and even your “love") is a product of The System. Rest assured, The System “loves” your children more than you ever could and it loves "you" more than you could love yourself. The children are its future and have inherited that role from those before them. Indoctrination into The System is in perpetual motion, never ceasing and always grinding away that which stands before it attempting to impede its goal.
Think of any one thing or entity that is the origin of The System, or that controls the motivations of it, and you will be entirely wrong. Raging against the specific parts that you loathe only reinforces the strength of The System. It is becoming very strong as of lately.
The System consumes “you” as you consume it. There is little choice, because you really have NO concrete conception of who or what “you” are, just tenuous ideas and notions that are easily sucked up into The System. Egocentricity maintains it and will defend it with its life. The System counts on this and this alone for its continued existence.
The System requires you grit and grind over the individuals The System provides. It makes no difference what personality you choose to save you, or to improve your lot in life. It makes no difference who you choose to hate or fear, because the system will eventually invalidate any and all dreams that do not support IT.
The System loves your rage and lives off your fears. To remain an active participant of The System you MUST remain afraid of something, anything. Hence, The System will continue to develop ever more ingenious methods of assuring your safety and protection and you will continue to accept this no matter how increasingly fearful it makes you.
Yet, not to worry, The System will provide you brief periods of respite through entertaining and engaging pursuits and pastimes, which IT provides as you ASK. This serves to intensify your undying allegiance to its universal intent by remaining unconscious to that intent, till death do you part.
A commitment to total unawareness is all that it asks from you and nothing more. Everything else has been taken care of...
Death is the chief control mechanism of The System, but it is not interested in doom or apocalypse, just your continued fear of an END. But the one essential variable that keeps The System well oiled and fully operational is your hope for "change."
The System has NEVER changed, but it is most certainly growing in strength and your meticulously informed ignorance insures that its growth will continue unabated in perpetuity.
See all of it in WHOLE or you simply won't see The System at all.
Artwork by Anton Semenov - "Society"
This a re-post originally posted Dec 28, 2011
OH my gosh, this is the perfect summation of what "it" appears to be. I don't know what "it" is, but still...
ReplyDeleteNow, is the "system" artificial? Obviously, if one looks back into time immemorial, this system has existed. Was it set up artificially? And is it akin to something like "outside" intelligence? Kind of going out on a limb with that, but one reads theories...oy. If one looks at the pool of life, certainly it is systematic...birth, succor, bonding, foraging, nutrition, aging, accident, death, etc, but does not appear artificially imposed as a mechanism. So, the ego, itself, is beholding to the system? The curse of the human biological mechanism? as it were. That, if left to itself, becomes its own chaos??
Is serendipity beyond the boundary of the system?? Certainly, there is a boundary to this system, especially if it is artificial. Is life in one corner and the system in the other, like a colossal boxing ring? What makes one disposition of mind attempt to fight it and another cave in? Then, the question might be, what is one actually fighting against? Abdication of soul to the system?? That tiny spark which recognizes the artificial? Be in the world, not of it? That concept is fascinating, as it hints at something beyond the system...or not, could be just a fable, but "feels" beyond that. Of course, feeling is unreliable, subject to shape-shifting.
You always top yourself, but I think you are becoming more clear in what you are attempting to communicate writing by writing.
The image looks like one of those medieval churches made out of human bones. What a fantastic metaphor.
Is the system designed to drive one mad if one does not acquiesce, or if one thinks one CAN actually separate oneself from it? I suppose that is somewhat the design of meditative consciousness systems.
Well, I could go on and on as you know. Great post. Definitely, thought-provoking for one pondering in Purgatory.
Blessings...of something or other
Nahnni :)
Nahnni,
ReplyDeleteMany good questions...and I might do a follow-up post later. But I want to be careful NOT to try and define it too succinctly, because then it is lost (but then, that's what it wants).
Thanks,
mikeS
"...but then, that's what it wants"
ReplyDeleteI get what you mean by that...and that's the truth. In can be a constant wrenching of the wheel.
Mike, I heard the most captivating interview with author, Paul Oppenheimer, last evening. He wrote, Machiavelli: A Life Beyond Ideology. The astonishing thing, is that what one believes about Machiavelli, as handed down because of his work, The Prince, is quite erroneous, or at best, misunderstood. What a Zen man of his times...and with such an insight into the human psyche. Anyway, I thought of your writing and it reflects, in many ways, what Oppenheimer was speaking about Machiavelli. I think I can send a podcast link, but am not sure. I will look and see. It isn't very long, but it is intriguing.
Your essay here, on the system, is even more reflective than you can imagine, maybe.
And you are right, nothing must be a conclusion...but only evolution.
Blessings,
Nahnni
or it's just language trying to make a conversation.
ReplyDeletei just wonder, why one wouldn't just give him a hand, it's hardly a big deal really.
ReplyDeleteIt seems to me becoming aware of The System is an elemental exercise for anyone drawn to let's say "spiritual evolution". Don Juan pushed for awareness of the system and just about every "teaching" I've encountered does likewise. Rather than rail against the "evils of the system" it seems to me one need become as fully aware of The System as possible and learn to live within it without acquiring its attention, rather "staying beneath the radar" and working towards insignificance.
ReplyDeleteyes,awareness is key...
ReplyDelete...and sometimes a hefty portion of red wine helps too.
Thanks,
Mike