BELIEF & THE MATRIX (1)
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 take place collectively. The awakening, the liberation from the believing and beliefs, takes place individually. Alone you become awakened and free. You are alone in your awakening, but you are not alone in your aloneness.
BELIEF & THE MATRIX (2)
The century-long, systematic, and systemic collectivist, “liberal/progressive” (so-called) education in the West has created a massive Stockholm Syndrome amongst the victims of the indoctrinatory education programs.
Consequentially, not only have the “liberals/progressives” been the victims but they have also become the perpetrators of indoctrination and the propagandists of the collectivist “liberal/progressive” ideologies of their oppressor.
Late Cleve Backster, a good friend, great man, brilliant experimental scientist and the renowned creator of the Backster Method, the standard used for polygraph tests, was also a master hypnotist. He once told me that the higher the IQ of a person, the easier it is to hypnotize that person deeper. This explains in part why so many educated intelligent people are so deeply indoctrinated in irrational ideologies.
The superficial dichotomies such as the Republicans vs. the Democrats or the Conservative vs. the Liberal fail to capture the real dichotomy: Collectivism vs. Individualism, which today politically plays out as the (“New World Order”) Globalism vs. the (Individual National) Sovereignism. It is also the dichotomy of the Crowd Psychology vs. Individual Psychology.
At the heart of tyrannical collectivist ideologies—Marxism, communism, socialism, fascism, “liberalism”, or “progressivism”—there is self-hatred in various forms, expressions, and manifestations, such as envy, jealousy, guilt, shame, rage, inferiority/superiority complex, and so on. This deep self-hatred exists conterminous with the ‘victimhood consciousness’ and also the introjected identification with perceived victims and the projected hatred of perceived perpetrators.
The Matrix (of the movie “The Matrix”) is the world constructed within the language/symbol-mediated secondary reality through the secondary (illusory-delusory) cognition/cogitation/perception, that is ruled and run, with collectivist ideology and crowd psychology, by the “liberal” globalist elite who do not care about their herds (the peoples) but only exploit them to perpetuate their power and control. The Matrix is the collectivist nightmare herds in actuality wherein humanity subsists as herds.
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.
We can transcend the Matrix only individually as a free, sovereign individual because only the individual can think and imagine. Collectivism subverts this very ability which is the essence of human dignity. Real thinking starts with the assumption of the ignorance of authority. Therefore, we will trust the person who is seeking truth but doubt the person who (says) finds it.
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 real self-worth and has genuine self-respect, independent of other people’s opinions. We each needs to let go of the desire to be recognized or successful according to the Matrix value system. We each needs to have the courage, valor, and fortitude to be true to one’s own Self/self in the face of all the temptations as well as the oppositions.
This commitment to the creative, evolutionary movement of freedom toward trans-Matrical freedom and sovereignty involves keenly attending to our own cognitive dissonance. When we hear or read something that goes against our beliefs, we experience a cognitive dissonance. People (are conditioned to) reactively dismiss or deny the verity or validity of it to remain in their psychological comfort zone wherein they will continue to stay metaphysically asleep.
The cognitive freedom from all forms of beliefs and from the mentality or metaprogramming of believing starts with questioning everything, including our own beliefs. This is the primary function of philosophy as a discipline as well as 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 learn to make political science (and in fact all sciences) move towards a real science, when we can apply the scientific method in politics, when we can bring the scientific attitude to politics, and when we can make politics empirical rather than ideological, we will become far more efficient and effective in the management of political and societal affairs.
