Actualise Your Wildest Dreams
THERE IS A MEANS OF CONTROL THAT MOST ARE OBLIVIOUS TO. DESPITE IT BEING THE BIGGEST KNOCK ON THE MASSES’ ABILITY TO ACT INDEPENDENTLY TO ACHIEVE OUR OWN GOALS AND DREAMS, IT HAS GONE UNNOTICED.
Sure, most critical thinkers notice that we are controlled financially, socially, and even physically, but those means of control shouldn’t stop our desire to achieve, to be great, to be who we want to be. What does? How are we all from different countries, with different cultures, kept from actualising our greatest desires and our wildest dreams? By the end of this essay, you will have the answer, and it will blow your mind.
I, MUCH LIKE MANY OTHERS, FEEL AS THOUGH WE HUMANS LIVE IN A CONTROLLED ENVIRONMENT, WHERE WE ARE NOT ABLE TO TRULY DO WHAT WE WANT. MANY OF US, AS CHILDREN, HAVE AN OPINION OF ADULTHOOD AND ADULT LIFE THAT WE SOON REALISE IS FALSE, ALL OUR DREAMS AND HOPES COME TUMBLING DOWN, WE BECOME REALISTIC.
Dreams are too chaotic for the ruling class, who above all else value stability and hate change. It is far better to keep us chasing their dreams, than us randomly coming up and executing our own. So, they create tools to keep us realistic and docile: the first being the financial system. The world’s financial system is a strong means of control due to its ability to keep us in the rat race. The rat race refers to humans’ self-defeating pursuit of a reward—most commonly money—only to be back at square one and in need of the reward yet again. This reward is self-defeating because so much is sacrificed: dreams, leisure and even love are sacrificed for the pursuit of income, meanwhile big corporations enjoy special tax treatment from their governments. Whilst the wealthy use appreciating assets to generate income, the middle-class and poor use their bodies. Robert Kiyosaki, in his book Rich Dad, Poor Dad, explains it better; ‘the poor and middle-class work for money, the rich make money work for them’. Central banks can create money out of thin air to loan it to others with no cost to them which not only makes them wealthy, but also leads to inflation, destroying the savings of civilians (the more money in circulation, the less valuable the money becomes). As I am currently in one of these inflationary spirals, as are undoubtedly millions of others, I know how hard it is to survive each month. This then leads to not taking the risks required to attain success, preferring to get a job they hate in order to put food on the table, pay bills, and drink the pain away on the weekends. Their money is used to buy stuff they don’t need; thus, they stay in their job as their income must match their ever-expanding expenses, eventually forgetting their childhood selves. Why do we think we need all the things that we do not? Because of advertising of course, because Kim Kardashian has that purse so your girlfriend needs it too, because Lionel Messi’s boots make him good, and if I buy them for myself, I will become the best football player at school! Oh, and all the wonderful restaurants, their food is just so much better than the food I cook at home. And so, we buy. And even when we save, inflation is never far behind, ready to devalue it all, reinforcing the idea that spending is necessary. So, to summarise, advertisements make us want things we don’t need, we give up on our dreams and give our blood, sweat and tears to make money only to spend it on these things. The average person, uneducated on the truths about money, thinks that this is fine. Ignorant of the true ways to acquire wealth, he/she accepts this way of life as they gradually let go of their childhood dreams, considering them to be nothing but fantasies. Of course, lack of knowledge is an essential ingredient to this form of control, because as Henry Ford once said, when the masses find out about the financial system, there will be a revolution the very next day. And this, the ruling class cannot have.
THE OTHER OBVIOUS MEANS OF CONTROL IS SOCIAL RIDICULE. SOCIETY HAS BEEN PERFECTLY CRAFTED, WITH ALL OF US BEING FED THE SAME PRECONCEIVED IDEAS WHICH WERE NEVER OUR OWN. WE’RE TOLD WE MUST GET A JOB, PARTY ON WEEKENDS, THEN FIND A HUSBAND OR WIFE, PAY TAXES, GET A FAMILY, RETIRE, GET A PENSION, AND THEN DIE.
If you do not live a life revolved around these things, then you are a weirdo, ostracised from society. This mediocre existence is in contrast with the way the youth live. Children seem to not care what others think, going about their life one second at a time being true to themselves. Living in obliviousness, experimenting on the world, having no care for what ought to be done. Of course, nobody sits us down as we go through puberty to tell us that we aren’t allowed to live a life of fun: it would be too obvious. Instead, they slowly weave these conceptions into our psyches through our eyes and ears. Through our parents, our teachers, our leaders, the artificially placed celebrities, and so on. This eventually leads to a deluded society but deluded in comfort as everyone around them believes the same thing. In comfort because we get to pretend like we are not an asteroid away from complete death. In comfort because we forget the people in power are completely psychopathic.
IN COMFORT BECAUSE WE FORGET THE SHORTNESS OF LIFE ITSELF, WASTING IT WORKING TIRELESSLY FOR THE WEALTHY TO THEN USE THE LITTLE MONEY MADE TO PAY FOR POISON. ALL THE WHILE LIFE IS SLIPPING BY, AND NOBODY REMEMBERS THEY ONCE HAD YOUTHFUL DREAMS TO ACCOMPLISH.
And how do they get us to stay living this nonsensical life? By ridicule. Those who have an innate feeling that there is something more to life than what we are let into, those who in any way shape of form are different from the masses, are made fun of. This might sound trivial, but we all know what it feels like to fear being the odd one out, the one with no friends, the one mocked. Plato spoke about this delusion, and the protection of it, in his Allegory of the Cave. To give a brief overview, there are dozens of people who were born in a cave, tied to it and facing the wall. These people had never seen what real objects and real people looked like, only the shadows of these objects and people on the wall. As this was all they had ever known, this was what they all collectively believed to be true. One person escapes, happy to be free, but as he comes to save his friends, they all ridicule him, thinking he has gone mad. Plato emphasises that to keep this illusion, people in the cave would even cause physical harm to those who told them their whole life had been a lie. So, people don’t try to enlighten the youth anymore, so they do not get poisoned like Socrates. An individual might claim that they do not care about being ostracised by society, or killed, but what about when society gets to their spouse and their family is taken away from them? I think most would care then. And that is their power. The power to keep everyone in a psychological cave so that even if one person escapes, it makes no difference. Even when, by some angelic miracle, people come out to speak on a global scale, billions of people have already been indoctrinated and then become the elites’ soldiers. Fighting a war against themselves, against their own freedoms and dreams.
Another one, which is so crucial, is the control of weapons. With the weapons in the hands of government’s it doesn’t even matter if everyone escapes the cave. The people could never rebel and could be coerced into doing whatever they were told. This is the final stage of complete physical control, one which the current powers don’t have, but that the past ones did. These three forms of control are powerful and are indeed enough to topple a lot of the population for a little while.
HOWEVER, THESE THREE FORMS OF CONTROL CAN’T DO ANYTHING WITHOUT THE FOURTH. BECAUSE OUR PHYSICAL STRENGTHS AND DESIRES ARE NOTHING COMPARED TO OUR EMOTIONAL AND SPIRITUAL ONES.
The greatest form of control, one which most people never saw coming: the control of emotions and primal desires. The control of the energy that makes us act in glorious ways. Is it too far-fetched to believe that leaders of societies aim, through entertainment, to control the deep-seated emotional desires of the people. Heartbroken girls watch romance, nerdy men spend all their days playing violent or athletic video games, lonely teenagers watch porn, billions of people watch, argue, and cry over sports they cannot play. But have you ever wondered why? Why is there Batman, Superman, Serena Williams? And why do we people love them so much, as if we’re taking the trophy home? Because we have in us the desire to achieve, in all sorts of different ways depending on the soul. Some of us have the desire to save, some to love, some to destroy, to laugh and make others laugh, to kill, to feed millions of starving children. Yet we live our entire lives without it.
THIS SUPPRESSION WOULD NOT BE POSSIBLE WITHOUT AN EXPLOSION, WHICH IS WHY OUR DESIRES HAVE BEEN ALLOWED TO RUN WILD IN CONTROLLED SETTINGS LIKE CINEMAS AND STADIUMS. FIRSTLY, HOW DO I KNOW THAT WE WANT IT? THAT’S A VALID QUESTION, BUT IT’S OBVIOUS WHEN IT’S DEEPLY CONSIDERED.
We spend hours of our lives watching or imagining things that are not real, whilst ignoring the chaos in our present lives. We stay up despite our job to watch the new House of the Dragon episode, knowing that we must wake up early the next day. Because we are stupid? That’s what most would say, but it’s because we want to watch House of the Dragon more than we want to do our complete best at tomorrow’s task. Deep down in our subconscious, hence the addiction to all sorts of different emotional stimulants, we want to feel that feeling we cannot describe, the feeling when Batman takes down the evil villain, when our favourite team’s best player scores a goal… all the while being in years of debt. This proves our desire, not for the movies, the football game, but desire to feel those feelings which we get from it. Which cannot be explained but seems to only come about whilst watching the greatness of others, fictional or real, or when imagining yourself doing great acts.
As to how it is used against us, it’s in the name emotion. Energy in motion. In Mark Hanson’s best seller Everything is F*cked a Book About Hope, he talks about a millionaire patient who loses the part of his brain which receives emotions, and how this completely turned his life around. He lost his job, family, and the respect of all those in his community. Doctors could find nothing wrong with him, nothing intellectually, nothing mentally, he was the same man. After being spoken to by a certain doctor, and a few tests, it was confirmed that this man could not feel emotions. He himself admitted that going to check for socks at a store gave him as much joy as closing a deal or seeing his own children. This, along with many other tests, has gotten psychologists everywhere to change their conclusion on what causes people to make decisions. Clearly it was not mental. We all know this, when we think about it. We all know we shouldn’t eat late at night, or smoke, or have relations with that toxic boy or girl, but if we want to do it, we do it. And in the moment when we do it, even if we were just thinking not to, it is done without thought, without acknowledgement of all the logical reasons we gave ourselves for why such behaviour would be a bad decision. Is it becoming obvious? How they use entertainment to control us? The true reason why? It is not to keep us physically distracted, but to emotionally deplete the people. To give them enough of a high so that they do not storm castles, make money, rob a bank, tell the girl of their dreams they love them. At the same time, we are given just enough to come back for more. When the time comes, to act, to be batman, we freeze. Having given our attention and therefore energy away, we have not reserved enough of it to fight, when necessary. We watched spiderman save that girl about to be robbed, we felt proud, like it was us. We naively allowed our emotions to be wasted instead of stored as potential, and so when we see a woman being hassled, we look the other way. The boys with the least amount of freedom in boarding schools become chaotic at university, and the controlling parent or boyfriend eventually loses. What we crave, but have not been allowed to taste, we eventually will, and on that day, nobody can stop us. The leaders of society today have fooled us into thinking they are not controlling our emotions and desires, that they have given us, at the very least, this freedom. And with this tactic, they have kept all of society completely controlled. Primal desires must stem up, repressed anger will blow up, as will repressed honour, repressed heroic traits, repressed desire to love, repressed dreams.
BY GIVING US SMALL DOSES, THE ENTIRE POPULATION HAS BEEN VACCINATED AGAINST THEIR OWN POWER TO MAKE CHANGE THEMSELVES. THERE ARE NO BATMAN’S, NO MORE ADVENTURERS, OR KINGS WHO GO INTO BATTLE, NO ONE EXPLORING THE WORLD, NOBODY SAVING THOSE WHO NEED TO BE SAVED.
Instead, we watch this happen on tv, deluding our subconscious into believing we have done the task, therefore we never explode, never store enough potential energy to act. Truth is added to film, to shows, added in jokes, and in music. The delusion needs to appear authentic for the subconscious mind to take it for reality. Therefore, they show us what humans are capable of, a lot of the time basing things off historical figures known or unknown, risking their own privilege by continuing to blur the line between fiction and reality, and then we buy it. Emotion leads to action, and the more profound, strong, and deep-rooted the emotion is, the more likely one is to act towards their goals. Ironically all heroes in stories have this profound moment when they feel those primal desires of love, honour, pride: when they feel that they must act. When they can no longer work at the store, or do the boring desk job, when they finally must dare to be who they truly are. These emotions and desires are within us–if they weren’t we would not watch what we watch, with tears in our eyes, with our chest pounding in fear, happiness, or love. We must all put down our screens, our books, our fantasies. And wait, do nothing. Continue your boring job, terrible relationship, continue your meaningless existence but without the things we do to make up for it, without the substances we use to forget that we are betraying our childhood selves. We must obey Yahweh, the God of Israel’s commandments and ask him to improve our lives. Do this, and by nightfall you will be designing your cape, ready for war.
By TheNarrowPathBlog