I was watching the German detective series called Wallander last night and was struck by the description of the process of leaving the family out as he got deep into becoming a good policeman-detective that Wallander gives his daughter because what he was describing was exactly the same I observed in committing to the FOF Cult and what after leaving, led me to conclude that the need to belong to a community and develop in it is what every human being longs for consciously or unconsciously. I have not seen this stated so bluntly anywhere and I wonder if it’s because it is taken for granted or because there had never been such a strong failure in society to incorporate people into a community as there is today resulting precisely in the huge number of people looking for cults to fulfill that need.
I think need is closer than wish or up there in the level of wish that having a wife or husband stands. Of course these are not absolutes in the sense that people can survive without partner or community but the question is, is no family or community the ideal we are heading towards or the inevitable outcome that we’re doomed towards?
It is certainly not that what I consider ideal is the old system of authoritarian hierarchic communities in which there was no individual freedom but it is also not the inhuman individualism that we seem to be racing towards what I support.
The road towards becoming more human seems to be walked by the most horrific inhuman acts rather than a slow ascending towards an ideal. It’s as if we could not just put ourselves to the aim and slowly walk towards it, it’s more as if we were constantly moving a step away from the horrors and the mistakes and instead of seriously learning from other’s experiences, each nation had to commit the same horrific acts before it realizes that more humanism and democracy are the only possible answer to the absurdity of today’s reality.
I was also watching the BBC debate in the Intelligence Square about whether capitalism had failed in the Ukraine or not. What was beautiful to watch was people dialoguing about issues that matter. Someone suggested that the Swedish form of Capitalism would have been less harmful.
At the end of the debate the man sustaining that capitalism had failed, stated that as long as people don’t stand up for the truth in every level of society, for the truth, freedom and equality, no real change is possible. I’m paraphrasing. It was very good to watch that amount of clarity in what seemed a very public venue.
Something else that was quite amazing was that the program went all the way from Kiev to Medellín! Language makes a big difference and most people here can’t understand those programs but most of the other programs that are watched are managing to “unify” people, to “standardize” people. The tendency to copy other people’s acts is so powerful that more and more the people here behave like Americans or Europeans. It isn’t very positive. People here use to be kind and human and they are becoming efficiently professional but with little real human caring or kindness. The business mind-frame is permeating the whole of society like it has in America.
The impression I got in America was that people were kind as long as you didn’t need help! It’s a “professional” kindness that exerts itself only as long as there’s an interest in the interchange taking place. In Europe people are not kind even if there’s an economic interchange. Of course, they are all probably kind between each other but that impossibility to go beyond one’s own nationality to be able to be kind to no matter who is what is worth struggling for. There is no real kindness until there’s “objective” kindness, the rest is just programming… conditioning. The utilitarian mind-frame is appallingly negative particularly for those who practice it. The bottom-line I believe, is that it is a kind of impression that tends to fortify the instinctive center or as my horrible guru use to say, the king of clubs. Perhaps that is why he only managed to make a cult dedicated to feeding his own king of clubs. He was never able to free himself from his programming. But the FOF doesn’t matter now as much as people and I do believe that the concern in relation to society itself is worth exploring. It’s as if the whole of humanity had shifted from the divine to the abominable and were actually beginning to find itself back into the human before it can even consider the divine again while at the same time realizing that there’s nothing “just” human about the human.
Today I certainly have no interest in the “divine” if it’s not deeply rooted in the human but of course, there is nothing truly human that is not divine. Life itself is the culture I wish to develop in. It’s such an honor to have the opportunity to live. That which I use to take so for granted in my youth is now such a precious opportunity. To live, to work, to interact with other people through the enveloping forces that determine us and therefore our lives.
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