2. How can the public be inoculated against propaganda and pro-torture political media and marketing?
Elena: What is beautiful about understanding the issues you are raising is that we can tap more deeply on actual human needs and structures. Propaganda and pro-torture political media and marketing is the intellectual discourse of a system and realizing that every single human being is functioning psychologically justified by the reasoning it is convinced of, is a very great achievement in terms of understanding social behavior. It confronts the individual with the fact that individuals function “en masse” until they are mature enough to rise above mass behavior and choose their own actions. Human behavior is no different to animal behavior as long as it is conditioned by the clan mentality. The difference arises when a human being stands above his own conditionings and begins to act in accordance to his or her own “human” consciousness and not the one that he’s been submitted to. Every human being has the birthright to be a human being and not act like an animal in a clan but very few throughout history have acted their possibilities out. Those few have carried whole generations across the human bridge. The process of “individuation” is a lonely process in which individuals confront themselves with their conditionings and allow the human within to flourish above them. That would be one aspect of understanding the true function of religion. They are then mature enough to play a more conscious role in society not simply repeating the established mechanisms but procuring new forms of interaction.
The “public” cannot be inoculated against propaganda and pro-torture political media while religion is used to keep it submitted to the status quo with a divine and authoritarian figure above ruling its destiny or centralized forms of government that have taken all their social functions away at the service of a few agendas.
What we are coming to understand is that what conditions individuals to certain behaviors is the way the “life” giving “attributes” of “life” itself are distributed. Physical exploitation is not nearly as harmful as the lack of freedoms that empower communities. The individual’s “self” is not as “shunned” by physical exploitation as badly as by the conditioning of participation in the overall life of society. The lack of an environment for self expression is a great deal more harmful than having to work more hours. As capitalism matures in the best of its expressions, it has a demolishing effect on the social cohesion and civil rights and everyone is run into an individualism without humanism. Families exist without the children or the old people playing a significant role in the production process and their status as human beings is much neglected while adults have to carry the load of support in a race for production that is, in the long run, equally inhuman. One of the effects of that neglect is what we are seeing in random killers in schools, restaurants and institutions. Schools and universities are as “impersonal” as corporations and the military. “People” are supposed to “function” no matter how inhuman the environment is. The ideal hero of film and television does not “feel”, has no family and kills as coldly as the bad guys supposedly protecting human ideals that he never actually plays out. That numbness towards other human beings and life itself is what is understood as the ideal “professional” worker capable of discarding no matter who as long as the interests of the “company” are carried out.
Psychological torture is our everyday life so how could the “public” be innoculated from physical torture carried out by the richest governments of the world? Every nation or group justifies the torture done against those who do not belong to it or act against it. To not justify torture we would need to raise our consciousness to a human consciousness beyond our personal, family, social or national interests and SHARE our Earth like human beings.
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