Domesticated Apes or Trained Schooling Fish?
Why can’t everyone be just like you?
Few can exist in the hive-like cities
of today’s domesticated primates without extensive training in the
ways of the local tribe. The protective colouration of conformity is
usually highly prized in the exclusive us-and-them existence of the
primate pack, and those who don’t fit into the standard pattern of the
herd mentality experience disapproval, approbation, exclusion, exile or
execution.
It
has ever been thus in unenlightened societies – but in the
‘post-modern’ world of the early new millennium, children are inexorably
locked into anywhere between twelve and twenty years of training to
fit into the needs, desires and ways of the tribe of their birth. It’s
just as well that lifespans are extending in most developed nations;
the average university student has expended a fifth of their lives by
the time they’re ready to enter the real world - the most vital and
often the most creative years of their lives.
Now that education has come to be seen as a business - and not a natural right equally available to all - the expensive business
of education has an invested interest in keeping people inside its
convoluted alimentary canal for as long as possible. Overstressed,
under-funded institutions offer study courses and facilities that narrow
in diversity and scope to keep the diploma mills churning and turning
over, and insecure school-bound people are entrained to believe they
need a little more training before they can succeed in the big wide
world.
What
is schooling for? Is it for education and edification, or is it simply
vocational training? Can it be both? Schooling begins as a bargain
between each bright-eyed new child and the society that holds the keys
to the cultural womb into which they’re born. Individuals are nurtured
and supported by their elders and fellow beings and are trained to find a
place that suits the needs of the tribe. But the beliefs of all tribes
are rooted in the ancient soil of ignorant superstitions and they
tenaciously adhere to the indigestible rocks of cruel and barbaric
traditions.
Even
today’s democracies are designed to control their minorities by the
will of the majority – often a ‘majority’ of fifty-one percent or less.
The tyranny of the majority is still just a form of ‘might makes
right’, and the majority is certainly not always right – particularly
when it’s spoon-fed lies and ill-equipped to discern the truth.
Almost
all religions are based on misshapen ideas of paranoid extremists and
are utterly opposed to democratic ideals. Religions commonly subsume
individual rights, visions, hopes and dreams and often consume those who
differ from their flock in ‘purifying’ flames or ‘unconsecrated’
earth. Religion is nothing more than a region with a lie in it, and
truth is a prerequisite for learning. Religious education is even more
stultifying than its industrial offspring and together these systems
blind each generation that steps into the shadowy interiors of their
constipated institutions.
Fitting
new members of the human family into the patterns of the tribe or
nation is normal, even natural – but in today’s world people aren’t
helped to find their place in the community through education; schooling
is controlled and directed by the invested interests of business and
industry. Feeding young minds with knowledge that nurtures their growth
is disdained in favour of temporary and illusory economic advantage.
The natural proclivities and potentials of the individual are sheared
off, so that they can be straightjacketed into a narrow life-path of
competitive jobseeking, economy-driving house-hunting and stressed,
distressed families. There’s little time or thought for thought.
Freedom
is only available to fortunate members of wealthy and cunning
dynasties - or to those who learn how to pull and play the strings of
the disharmonious systems which these potentates still dominate. The
leaders tell their children they’re born to rule the mob below and the
self-fulfilling prophecy continues, confirming the status quo by a
process of intergenerational hypnosis – another form of mind-controlling
miseducation.
It
behooves those at the summit of the economic pyramid to dumb down
society so that there’s little competition to worry about and no
effective objection or opposition to their self-serving plans. When
cultures are controlled by and for industries and run as businesses,
Humanity degrades itself toward the lowest common cog and the rulers are
dumbed down through a lack of winnowing competition or cogent
criticism. There’s little incentive or time for people to examine and
improve their own nature, to frolic and explore through the vast realms
of cultural heritage available to us all, to study, think and create,
or even to simply meditate. In the industrialised feudal kingdom of the
blind the one-eyed control freak is king and every talented teacher
becomes just another brick in the wall.
People
are hoodwinked into working harder and longer, convinced by their
masters that it’s a good idea to put their children in ‘childcare’ or
schools, depriving them of their natural right to learn from their
parents - and cutting the time-impoverished parents off from the wonder
of their own children’s fresh minds.
Early schooling is the method
these blindly burrowing visionless materialistic societies train their
cogs. People wake up suddenly before they want to; we learn to suddenly
snap our natural links to the greater inner world of our collective
superconscious. The day customarily begins with a blaring sound and a
sudden rush of activity, with no time to integrate the gifts of the
inner life inter the hollow outer shell of the suit, coveralls or
uniform. The route to uniformity becomes mind-numbingly routine and
each new unique child loses all sense of expectancy, immanence and
adventure as they’re adulterated into adulthood.
Most
people leave school without even knowing what’s inside their own skin,
without any idea of how to diagnose or heal themselves. They aren’t
even taught what’s in their breakfast cereal or their pie. They have no
idea how to fuel themselves with healthy food and are taught to
consume poisonous chemical-industrial ‘food products’ from infancy.
Today’s cogs are grown with built-in obsolescence in mind and aren’t
even self-maintaining; people who aren’t very healthy may be less
efficient, but they’re more obedient, well entrained to be too insecure
to step far from an inept doctor or deathtrap hospital - and their
infirmities generate a hell of a lot of economic activity.
A
school of fish finds safety in numbers and conformity. The individual
fish trades unique traits for statistical safety, yet these odds only
really help the school to survive, not any single fish. Every fish
eventually succumbs to entropy or the appetites of predators or
parasites. The school’s numbers need constant replenishment and a
single-minded unified will to thrive, as does any hive – yet individual
humans are capable of far more than any fish or ant. We require far
more than work, food, sleep and a screen to have a fulfilling life,
however long it may last or comfortably cocooned it may be. We have no
idea of our real potential. Instead of discovering who we really
are, we usually succumb to the same old paradigm, however it’s dressed
up or painted; the hive-structured society’s eternal injunction to
‘work, consume, reproduce, die’.
A
free life’s far more than this dreary lie. There are much better ways
to live, and to interact as grown-ups and children, lovers and
families, friends and equals worthy of equal respect. All hierarchies
are antithetical to this idea; how can people be equal in a
quasi-military regime, where button-pushers, manual workers, academics
and creators are still separated by crass class distinctions? The time
has come to utterly transform or discard these outmoded societies based
around the idea of an infallible monarch representing an equally
remote an obtuse omnipotent god. That worldview is primitive
kindergarten stuff; a revolution in thought that exposes us and our
children to real education - that expands our minds rather than
narrows them - can completely transform hidebound human cultures and
change the world for the better in a single generation, or two at the
most.
Enjoy your children and your parents. Life was meant to be easy.
Turn
on. Tune in. Opt OUT. You’re more than the sum of your experiences,
and destined for more than you can presently imagine. Let the Old Order
wither on the vine – don’t pick its poisonous fruits. Leave them to
fertilise the parched soil and work on something fresh and new. Together
we can create a much better Millennium, if we follow our dreams and
invest our time in better things than making money.
- by R. Ayana
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