Anonymous said...
My comment:
The ongoing "FOF discussion" is a nonsense discussion because there is NO sincere DISCUSSION!
Most of the participants are former teacher's pets (Bob's pets) and they are caressing each other and hunting and banning the truth.
ACTING is an ugly word for them because they swim in that intellectual/spiritual Burton inheritance and they are really not willing to leave it or to act against the crimes of the FOF.
Inventing every day feeble excuses for their famous FOF discussion to ruminate the relationship of dependence again and again!
Hi Anonymous,
I've worked on the idea of cults and society again because the ideas in the post yesterday seemed to touch on the issue but were too long and too many. I feel I'm finally being able to unite the two worlds outside and inside the cult and making some sense of the madness. It helps me personally a great deal. Thank you for stimulating me to work on it. I suppose being excluded from the fofblog for not submitting to the ideology that supports cults makes perfect sense!
...........
A freely chosen response from an individual's conscience implies a mature human being. THIS concept is not common in our societies today. What our societies acknowledge is that at 18, an individual is responsible for his actions but by the tremendous abuses of people way above that age, we can see that age is not a measure to maturity, conscience or consciousness. A child that screams when abused is much more conscious than a man that obeys when dominated by the hierarchic authoritarian institution that exploits him psychologically and economically. THAT DEFINES CULT behaviour: the willingness to submit to abuse. But that behavior is not ONLY common in cults: in cults it has been perfectly MASTERED but it is just as common in the average institution of both capitalism and communism based on economic or political power. POWER of some over others is the cause of the inhumanity. POWER: that abstract quality that conditions each and every one of our relationships: Economic, political, emotional, sexual, intellectual POWER over each other: "If you are not willing to submit we are not willing to allow you to participate at dinner in the home, at school in childhood and in a job in society. We exclude you" We have made "SUBMISSION" the condition for love and life. Sexual submission is what Robert wanted from the boys and the submission of each member's "being" what he wanted from the members. The economic structure submits people's work force in the industries but in doing so it rendered the human being equally submissive emotionally and intellectually to dictators and gurus. Unlike the king the dictator is not a symbol of integrity but the reality of social disintegration. A true democracy must bring the individual to hold the integrity that was symbolized by the king.
What is MASTERED in cults is the WILLINGNESS of the average human being today to submit to psychological and economical slavery so that he can participate in the community. It is the last option of a people who are looking for "meaning" in their lives. When "work" became "the job", human beings disconnected from meaning and community in the practice of their work. The work lost connection with culture and submitted to production. When making money replaces serving the community, the “meaning” of life is lost: the living dialogue between the individual and the community is stifled.
We are sick people: The "ideal" "professional" of today is a man without feelings. The T.V. hero is a man without family: a killer without emotions but so called ideals designed to defend the status quo. Cult members search in the cult for the community that society has failed to offer.
It's in society that religion, politics and economy have separated and severed the inner coherence of the individual as powerfully as the external incoherence. Man's economic life has disconnected from man's emotional and intellectual life just like art has disconnected from science, science from economy and economy from religion and politics, which have become subordinate to the power of the economically privileged. The governments have been corrupt manipulators of politics for the benefit of a few just like the guru is a manipulator of religion for his own inner circle. The conditioned structure, that is, the mental, emotional and instinctive conditioning is already in place long before people join the cult.
The external organisation of our societies has been sculpting the internal schizofrenia of its individuals. There is no inner coherence in our inner world because there is no external coherence in the outside world in which we grow up. It is not that a few are sick but that most are sick. “People” “other human beings” have become our enemies: “the idiots on my road”, the noisy neighbours, the undesirable tourists, vandals, hooligans, criminals. We live in fear of each other getting together in clubs, clans, cults, in which we reconstruct the incoherence that we "introverted" from society and perfect and recreate the systematic abuses in the microcosmic reality of the Cult.
To be able to heal from Cults we not only need to reconstruct our lives but the life of our societies.
No comments:
Post a Comment