Life is a series of lessons, based on the
conditioning received by those closest to us in our environment. Growing up we are not just influenced by our
parents and closest relatives. As children we are conditioned by our teachers,
our government, authority figures and any adult we find amusing really. We
learn from a very young age to absorb the environment around us because we are
constantly immersed in it and often not shown anything outside of this. If you
grow up in a strict conservative family of lawyers, politicians or doctors it
is probably expected you will also be one and adhere to your family values you
had been taught throughout childhood and never deviate. As humans we are creatures of habit. We do
what we are taught and return to what is comfortable. So, most people of
influence grow up with an idea of what they want to be, and this starts very
young. Born, bred and raised, encouraged
at every second and praised for every accomplishment they achieve. These people
are born to be leaders or taught they should be leaders, but are they all?
Really, they are following the “social norms,” doing as they are told and
following in footsteps of their parents or grandparents. What if this youth
were to deviate? Step outside the comfort zone of their family and do something
different. Say what is on their mind, not conform, be the rebel. Well then,
they are a societal outcast, a black sheep. Sometimes these people are
disowned, and their ideals shunned because they don’t jive with the “normal
views of every day citizens.” These are
the people that think outside of the box. They are not conventional thinkers,
they want to know more, they want to know why, they want to be shown or
experience it for themselves. Why chastise
someone for having a mind of their own? Why make youth feel wrong for having
opinions that are not the same as the people around them. Why teach children
outdated systems and knowledge because leaders don’t want to spend the money to
rewrite history.
So, we end up in a world with conformists,
non-conformists and people who really don’t have a clue because they have never
had any guidance, or proper knowledge of the Universe and feel completely lost
until something big wakes them up. There are children born into families that
feel alone and like they don’t belong because they have a bigger purpose. A lot
of time it takes great pain, grief, devastation and sorrow for this purpose to
come into play because these youths were not granted the affluence of good
parenting or a higher education.
Broken homes, alcoholism, drug addiction,
abuse, denial and violence have become common place in a Society that seems to
be teetering on devolving. Discrediting people whose ideals we do not like has
been going on for centuries. Some great minds were actually murdered for
telling the truth, yet leaders who continually lied are honoured and relished
in history. Columbus is honoured and credited with discovering a Country and
things in it that was already inhabited. He is responsible for the deaths of
Indigenous populations in the America’s. He imported South African’s as slaves
for his own selfish purposes. The
conquistadors killed thousands in a quest for gold and it’s all celebrated.
Have we not learned from history that all
great civilizations eventually fall?
Rome was not built in a day, but it survives forever through the
writings of the people that were there and still honour it today and are interested
in the history of it. We have had so
many great empires and civilizations. The Aztecs, the Mayans, the Egyptians,
The Greeks, The Mongols, The Romans, The Celts, The Vikings. Where are all
these people now. Absorbed into blended
societies under the guise of different religions, ethnicities, but where is
their greatness now. They all fell. They
are obscure, yet we honour and worship their principles. The Haudenosaunee people also known as the
“Iroquois Confederacy” shared their knowledge with the fore founders of the
United States of America and some of their ideals are included in the
Declaration of Independence but what happened to them. Their ideas were taken, absorbed into the
knowledge of Freemasonry and twisted into a Christian ideal for the American
people so that they could live a free life.
So now we have Countries or great Nations rather that are multi-cultural
and very diverse with multitudes of religions and ethnicities living together
and are trying to conform them all to one ideal. One paradigm of thinking. The pen has remained mightier than the sword,
yet we continue to have war. We honour
history as if it is still happening and what we should be learning from it we
are just repeating. Ideas that the whole
world should be hearing are being supressed for fear of reprisals from outside
agencies. Money has become the central object in the Universe and the idea of
“how much can I get paid for this” has started to become the norm. The
government is supressing knowledge that could help heal us all since they would
not get anything from it. Drug companies
don’t want to cure you, because then how would they get paid. So Big Brother “the government” makes sure
that if something doesn’t fit with the societal norm it gets squashed. They also squash things that they don’t agree
with or do not want to be public knowledge.
The elected governments of the World like to keep their dirty little
secrets and dirty laundry hidden so that they still maintain a level of
Authority and Superiority for the general public.
In Canada, a perfect example would be the
removing and shaming of public figures from the past that were involved in the
beginning of the founding of this Country.
While I agree whole-heartedly that what happened to the Indigenous
people that lived here when people like Samuel De Champlain and General
Cornwallis arrived to colonize this Country I disagree with what is happening
today. Sir John A. MacDonald was the
first Prime Minister of this great Country we call Canada when it was formed as
a Dominion in 1867 (it did not officially become a Nation until 1982, but
really it is just an “Economy”). In Victoria recently one of his statues was
removed because of his part in the Residential School fiasco. While this was horrible and tragic and has
robbed a people of their Culture, he was being advised by others and was just
doing his best with the knowledge he had and how he had been conditioned. He grew up in a way that conditioned him
because of the “Bible” that these Indigenous people were Savages and they
needed to “kill the Indian in the Child” because that is what he was told and
taught. Had he had the knowledge we have
today of what would become of his decision, do you think he would have made the
same one? So, we dishonour him and erase him because he made a choice based on
the knowledge he had at the time. Cornwallis was the same. His statues removed and his great deeds now
trying to be erased because of a decision he made at the time. In depths studies show that there was a war
going on and there were various miscommunications from various sides that
resulted in some wrong decisions being made. But they were made. Let’s learn from these mistakes and get to
the bottom of things before we just erase people. I’m pretty sure they did that in ancient
Egypt, but we still know the people they tried to erase existed.
So, choices, good and bad, we all make
them. We suffer the consequences and
sometimes these consequences are not even known for years. Sometimes we are so blinded by conditioning
that someone needs to point out that we are making the same choices over and
over and we need to break free from the cycle we are in. If another person’s choices are creating bad
situations for you then you need to look at the choice you have yet again. Ultimately it is up to you. To seek the
information to make the choice. You can
learn to tolerate the choice or educate yourself and break free knowing that
everything that happens is a learning experience. We have learned from Sir John A. MacDonald.
What to do and what not to do. We have
learned from the Ancient peoples, yet we have forgotten their ways. We have become dependant on an outdated book
called the Bible which we choose to believe is the be all and end all all
things. I never comprehended how we
could go from having many Gods and Goddesses to just one. We have faith in what we cannot see or
believe a book that we have been told is true, but we will not believe the
person next to us that is telling us the truth because its just too far
fetched.
We have dismantled families by making
things so expensive that both parents (if a child is so lucky) need to work
(sometimes long hours) and electronic devices have become babysitters which
sometimes cannot be controlled. Television, video games, social media, radio,
podcasts, and the Internet are now conditioning our children. How can we
control all these things? On top of this
they are still banning books and saying things that were perfectly acceptable
for our generation are no longer appropriate for children today. We are medicating our gifted children because
they are different under the guise of ADD, ADHD, and autism, along with various
other “labels.” It’s entirely possible
that our systems just need to be rewritten because they are now outdated. We have created divisions in Society through
vulnerable sectors and marginalized people. We have women trying to get equal
rights still throughout the world when really, it’s more just equal recognition
they want. They are half the population
after all. We have people being denied
who they are because of who they love. They are having to speak up and demand
equal rights because they do not fit the “norm.” Indigenous studies taught me that They say everything is a choice. A choice we made, or a choice someone else made that affected us. Sometimes it feels like there wasn’t much choice in that situation, and sometimes something that feels like it was a bad choice at the time can actually turn into the best thing that ever happened to you.
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