Freedom from the Political Matrix

17-11-2020

“Question authority. No idea is true just because someone says so. Test ideas by the evidence gained from observation and experiment! If a favorite idea fails a well-designed test, it’s wrong!”—Richard Feynman

For a thinking person, any kind of involvement in politics is an unpleasant experience, because thinking is essentially a solitary individual activity, while politics is always a collective group activity. In politics, crowd psychology forcefully takes over individual psychology, collective unintelligence over individual intelligence, and collective unconsciousness over individual consciousness.

“The principal strength of socialism lies in the fact that it is championed by minds sufficiently ignorant of things as they are in reality to boldly venture to promise mankind happiness. The social illusion reigns to-day upon all the accumulated ruins of the past, and to that illusion belongs the future.The masses have never thirst after truth. They turn aside from evidence that is not to their liking or taste, preferring to deify fallacies, if fallacies seduce them. Whoever can supply them with illusion is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim.”—Gustave Le Bon, The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind (1895)

“The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country.”—Edward Bernays, Propaganda (1928)

Since these books were written, nothing has changed. We who are on the path of awakening have a challenge: that is, to individually resist the force of crowd psychology, collective unintelligence, and collective unconsciousness, and to think and act authentically on the basis of our individual intelligence and consciousness.

The century-long, systematic, systemic “liberal”, that is, collectivist, education has created a massive Stockholm Syndrome amongst the victims. As the result, the “liberals” have become not only the victims but also the perpetrators of the indoctrination program and promoters of the collectivist ideologies of the oppressor.

At the heart of tyrannical extremist collectivism—”liberalism”, “progressivism”, socialism, communism, fascism—there is self-hatred in various forms, expressions, and manifestations such as envy, jealousy, guilt, shame, rage, inferiority/superiority, and so on. This deep self-hatred inextricably coexists with the ‘victimhood consciousness’ and the introjected identification with the perceived victims and projected hatred toward the perceived perpetrators.

The Matrix (of the movie “The Matrix”) is a world in the language/symbol-mediated secondary reality with the secondary cognition/cogitation/perception that is ruled and run by the globalist collectivist elite who do not care about their herd but only use them to perpetuate their power and control. Even if you are consciously anti-Matrix, once you become recognized, famous, or successful in the Matrix world, the psycho-structural matrix of the Matrix will subconsciously capture you and hack you, and sooner or later you start serving the purpose of the elite of the Matrix.

We can transcend the world of the Matrix only individually as a sovereign individual. Collectivism subverts this very ability, which is the essence of human dignity.

We each needs to be authentically committed to self-honesty, self-integrity, self-responsibility, and ever-greater truth. We each needs to be free of victimhood consciousness. We each needs to know his/her self-worth and has real self-respect, independent of other people’s opinions. We each needs to let go of the temptation to be recognized or successful according to the Matrix’s hierarchical social value system. We each needs to have the courage, valor, and fortitude to be true to “thine own self”. 

This is a lot to ask of other people but not a lot to ask of yourself, if you are committed to be free.

One feature of the new trans-Matrix individual consciousness is its freedom from believing as such. There are countless many different belief systems existing in the world and yet the mechanism of believing is common to all.  On belief and believing I wrote the following:

All beliefs are pretense; they are pretense of knowledge where real original knowledge is absent. All beliefs are borrowed; they are borrowed from others belonging to the same community of believers who share the same belief.

All believers are collectives, not individuals; their self-identity is defined by the collective to which they belong, while their relative self-worth, their sense of pride and superiority, is determined by the socially agreed-upon esteem of the collective.

There are many different belief systems existing in the world; yet the mechanism of believing is common to all. Genes are replicated; while memes are recreated. This recreation of memes is what believing is. The mentality of believing is the mental metaprogramming wherein believing, memetic recreation, takes place as mental programming, mental conditioning.

The potential creativity of humanity is 99% entirely and exclusively used for memetic reaction. This is why there are only very few who are truly creative or imaginative. And only the individual, not the collective, can think, create, and imagine.

The mental metaprogramming and programming takes place collectively. The awakening, the liberation from the believing and beliefs, takes place individually. 

Alone you become awakened and free. You are alone, but you are never alone in your aloneness.

The Matrix is multi-layered. Even those who are cognizant and aware of the first layer, become easily captured by the second layer, a meta-layer. This is the reason that it takes a real intransigent lifetime commitment to and vigilance for liberating ourselves from this world of illusion-delusion-collusion.

One dimension of this commitment to the trans-Matrical movement of freedom toward freedom is to attend to our own cognitive dissonance. When we hear or read something that goes against our beliefs, we experience a cognitive dissonance. Most people reactively dismiss or deny the validity of it to stay in their mental comfort zone wherein they will remain metaphysically asleep.

The cognitive freedom from all forms of beliefs and from the mentality or the metaprogram of believing starts with questioning everything, including and especially our own beliefs, assumptions, and worldviews. This questioning is the primary function of philosophy as a discipline while it is the essential feature of the scientific attitude.

“Question authority. No idea is true just because someone says so. Test ideas by the evidence gained from observation and experiment! If a favorite idea fails a well-designed test, it’s wrong!”—Richard Feynman

When we can learn to make political science a more rational and evidence-based science, and when we can use the scientific method in politics more adeptly, and when we can bring the scientific attitude to politics in alignment to what works and what is true, we will become far more efficient and effective in the management of political and societal affairs.Only then, we will become able to create a trans-Matrix, extra-Matrix, and post-political society and civilization.