On 'chain of command' societies

While this post is replying to a post from 2024, I think it worth putting here, anyway. It isn't called 'chain of command' society for nothing... Where most people do not have permission to think, or question. Where most have been psychologically genocided early on (as kids, notably). Where we all are programmed to Blindly Trust the Status Quo so that the elites running the "break and circuses" don't need to worry about us rising up against all of their trespassings. Where Big Pharma took up where religion faltered, and has now been able to keep so many more Distracted with their own experiences of the side-effects of such neuroleptics. But don't take my word for it, educate yourself from the perspective of an outsider: (...) "People Do Not Enjoy Their Lives" by a West Papuan tribesman. "In fact, not many people enjoy their lives, and this annoys me very much because I expected them to enjoy their lives. "In the West it seems people suffer more psychologically than physically. In West Papua, many trees are being cut down, many minerals are being exploited, much oil is being taken away, many people are being killed. These are all physical damages. Thus, the sufferings on this earth are balanced; physical sufferings in West Papua and emotional and psychological suffering in the modern community. According to Buddhism, this balance is natural and acceptable, it is called the “Karma Rule”. "At the same time, it is amazing to realise that psychologically people in my culture are healthier than here in the West. I was amazed to learn about diseases like depression. I was amazed to see that so many are depressed. Perhaps that is one of the reasons why people do not greet each other on the roads or trains and buses. Maybe that is why three people that I greeted responded rudely or not at all. "Some people in the UK believe that they do enjoy their lives, as we do in West Papua, but I cannot see this with my ‘primitive’ eyes. The first reason is because they are all slaves of time. Secondly, because they are slaves of money. Third, they are not on their own as individuals, but they are all well controlled and well manipulated by the state. As a result, I have seen people who told me like this, “We need police very much, we need CCTV cameras everywhere, we need security personnel in buses and trains so that we feel secure”. Actually they become more insecure by this stuff. "Let us read and compare the following stories: Mr. A is a British, and Mr. K. is a Lani. Both of them are answering one question: “Can you tell me your daily activities, please?” Both of them are married, with two children. They are young, aged 25." (...) "Alien values are implanted into the lives of the people, precisely through the children; alien, not merely in the sense of foreign or exotic, but alien to humanity: a commerciogenic identity is formed. At first it was partly resisted, but with time, it became more and more acceptable, until it has now become a major determinant on the lives of the young, displacing all earlier forms of acculturation, other ways of answering need, other ways of being in the world. This process of forgetting, beyond recall, but perhaps not quite beyond reclamation, is a form of colonialism far more effective than that which held so much of the world in thrall in an earlier empire." ----Jeremy Seabrook in 'The Metamorphoses of Colonialsm' (https site) The rest of this long but excelling critique of Western Colonizers [@nonymouse] [Guardster] [Proxify] [Anonimisierungsdienst]