THE FATE OF THE UNIVERSE DEPENDS ENTIRELY ON HOW WE TREAT EACH OTHER
Devolution – A biological or cultural decline, the process of degeneration, decline, or "rolling backward" in complexity, effectiveness, or morality.
"How can they mean any harm when they know what's best?" This statement expresses a frustration with the blindness of institutional power. Institutions, convinced of their moral authority and societal importance, are insulated from accountability. Their authority persists even as their devolution accelerates; the undeniable failures fuel a more aggressive defense of their importance. A benevolent power laced with a greedy certainty offers guidance, tradition, order, and protection. The institutions relevance becomes a hollow myth we are forced to repeat, in systems we are forced to support with money by way of blood sweat and tears. Every one of us should feel this by now.
The institution stands tall in Holy rot.
Service becomes self preservation becomes doctrine becomes our cage. They sing hymns of virtue, they award and recognize genius, they write psalms of great accomplishment while the children are abused, neglected, indoctrinated and left to wander a landscape of systemic indifference. They plant a demon seed deep in the future soil. This evil slides down the walls of the vapid halls of institutions that forgot who they were built to protect.
Under this coveted holy rot of institutions children inherit the ghosts of sins they never chose. What they call progress is nothing but devolution, a hijacking of evolution. A slow decay disguised as wisdom. Accountability is an insult to these people. Scrutiny is rebellion. They punish the question because they fear the answer. We already have the answer. We have already asked and been answered. We have all seen the response. What we feel is the breath before the scream. The spark before the fire. The "no more" that finally changes things. No more can we afford to let our children bear the weight of a society's craven appetite for distraction from a reality no one wishes to truly face.
J. Krishnamurti tells us "It is no good measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society". There are only two things in our reality. Light, and the absence of light. That's it. This must be the unit of measure in determining the morality and value of things. Our behaviors, the behaviors of governments, institutions, and leaders.
Am I the light? Am I aware, honest, compassionate, creative, kind, or generous?
Or am I unconscious, selfish, harmful, distracted, deceptive, impatient, or violent?
These harms grow in the absence of light. It is our birthright to question, to examine, to evolve. It is our responsibility to illuminate. We must be the light.
The institution has consumed a centuries resource ahead of time. It is mentally foggy and sluggish. Bloated, clumsy and slow. Too big to fail, too inept to serve, like a cornered opossum too rabid or devolved to play dead. They are relics of a dark age that has to pass. The only fix is a fast. To need less of it. It is the only end-around for institutional tradition on the ropes.
Human beings can produce so much more than just profit. People don't need to be told what to do; they need to know what is possible. History shows us that to build what lasts requires a cooperation we have yet to realize. We wonder how people did inexplicable things in the past while we build weapons of war and let child abuse fester so as not to call into question a system that lost its' way long ago.
This is a profoundly sick society. The institutions have failed with an immeasurable cost to our future while we developed habits and nervous ticks that allow us to endure this truth.
This is why the fate of the universe depends entirely on how we treat each other.
Am I the light? Because this is dystopia.
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