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Planetary 'Management' Through Addiction Based Dynamics
with extracts from the Paradigm Conspiracy
Process Addictions, 'the ones society applauds': addiction to working,
winning, high-stress, fast-track jobs, perfectionism, relationships, making
money, spending and debting, gaining power, getting fame or notoriety,
living out family dramas, or-brace yourself-shopping. Sex can be another
process addiction, but it's not one society looks kindly on, however much
advertising promotes insatiable and manipulative sex as the solution to
life's challenges. Gambling is another old addiction, coming back now with a
vengeance with all the state lotteries, especially among young people.
Even the most lauded activities-religion, science, academic inquiry, and
government service-may take on classic addictive patterns. Religion turns
into obsession. Science turns into dogma, as if collecting enough facts will
make up for a narrow worldview. Academic inquiry becomes an in-your-head
addiction-quibbling esoterica with rabid acrimony, fiddling while Rome
burns. As for government service, it's power addiction from the bureaucrats
who throw around their paper-pushing weight to the big-timers who become
brokers for corporate conglomerates.
Process addictions are every bit as deadly, because they underlie substance
addictions-as well as just about every social and global ill we've got.
They're the invisible killers, the ones we don't suspect, but the ones that
made millionaire Ivan Boesky raid savings and loans to become a billionaire,
leaving in his wake thousands who saw their life-savings disappear. As
Boesky was later to admit, "It's a sickness I have in the face of which I am
helpless." Nor was Boesky alone in his sickness. Since the '80s, we've
witnessed an army of greed-addicted corporate raiders, who made the jobs and
pension funds of millions vanish overnight.
Process addictions aren't limited to movers and shakers, though. Ordinary
folks following the right diet and taking the right exercise are dropping
dead at age thirty-five from workaholism, relationship addiction, anxiety,
and stress. If all these substance and process addictions don't afflict us,
they nonetheless affect us. While addictions to drugs, food, alcohol, sex,
or work hit us one by one, addictions to money, control, divisiveness,
status, and official-think oppress us together. We can't have power-addicts
running the world and not experience the consequences. Even when we try to
claim it's business or government as usual, we find ourselves suffering from
global plagues made invisible by their familiarity.
But a familiar plague is no less deadly. As Anne Wilson Schaef points out, a
deadly virus is a deadly virus, even if the entire population has it.
Alcoholics Anonymous holds that addiction is a "progressive, fatal disease."
Schaef believes-and we agree-that this is true, no matter what form the
addiction takes. Our lungs may give out from tar and nicotine, or our hearts
may give out from stress. We may die from the greed that destroys the
environment or from a nuclear chain reaction set off by a someone's power
play. Addiction-substance or process, acted out privately or on the world
stage-is a fatal illness that we ignore at our peril. Not that this is news.
We can't read the papers or watch TV without wondering: What on earth is
going on? We have the knowledge and technology. We have the resources, human
and natural. We even have the desire. Why can't our social, economic, and
environmental problems be solved? Why do we live from crisis to crisis?
Addict-making systems. Neither substance nor process addictions are limited
to one race, sex, economic class, region, or occupation. Rich and poor,
conservative and liberal, male and female, Hispanic, European, African,
Asian, and Native Americans share the same disease.
When something so deadly cuts across society, we have to look at what we
share: our social systems. In her 1987 ground-breaking book, When Society
Becomes an Addict, Schaef suggests family dynamics, school rules, workplace
policies and practices, corporate hierarchies, government workings, media
messages, as well as cultural and religious belief-structures all operate in
ways that set us up to behave addictively. In fact, society itself, Schaef
writes, "is an addictive system."
That's a strong statement, yet the more we understand addiction, the more it
seems like an understatement. Award-winning teacher John Taylor Gatto, for
instance, pulls no punches about the messages schools send through their
structure: "I began to realize that the bells and the confinement, the crazy
sequences, the age-segregation, the lack of privacy, the constant
surveillance, and all the rest of the national curriculum of schooling were
designed exactly as if someone had set out to prevent children from learning
how to think and act, to coax them into addiction and dependent behavior."
In When Money is the Drug, counselor and writer Donna Boundy sketches a
similarly addict-making picture for corporations. The level of
thinking-distortion that takes over people in these systems is astonishing.
Higher Self: The Big Threat to the Game
Now come the threads: to be controlled, we have to be unplugged from
competing sources of control. The major threat to external control is our
internal guidance system-our Higher Self
This whole-connected core is the source of our talents and the wellspring of
creativity. It's also what gives us the conviction that our lives have
meaning. When we live from our our Higher Self , we feel alive and vital,
and we take seriously the idea that we're here for a purpose.
Our Higher Self is our best friend and most trusted guide. But to the
control paradigm, they're the enemy-what has to be removed in order for
external control to work. Only when we're sufficiently disconnected from our
inner compass will we follow outer demands.
"Get rid of the troublemakers." For fear of chaos, social systems adopt the
control paradigm and run with it. Through all sorts of institutionalized
policies, we get the message that we're unacceptable as we are, but that if
we surrender ourselves to the social system (the family, school, business,
profession, or religion), we'll become acceptable. Our souls are sloppy and
unmanageable troublemakers; they clog the system's efficient workings, and
we're better off without them.
This isn't 'reality' talking; it's a paradigm-an old one. Maybe sometime in
the dim, dark recesses of human evolution a control-based paradigm may have
served the species-we're skeptical about that-but it's not serving us now.
The more power-over systems zap our inner lives, the less social order we
have. It's a paradigm in crisis, and it's creating neither personal nor
global health.
Two paradigm conspiracies. As long as the paradigm remains invisible, we're
stuck. The prevailing model stymies change. Every time we try to move in a
new direction, the old paradigm kicks in and intimidates us into doing the
same old, soul-diminishing stuff.
That's the first paradigm conspiracy, the one that blocks our best efforts
to confront crises and change.
But one paradigm conspiracy deserves another-the leap into
"extraordinary-science." True, paradigm shifts are full of uncertainties,
trials and errors, hiccups and false starts, not to mention soul-searching
forays into the unknown. We never know if we've come up with the "right"
paradigm-or even if there is such a thing. In extraordinary science, we let
everything go into flux. Yet nothing conspires to change our world so
completely as doing precisely that.
The most conspiratorial part of a paradigm shift is that it lies within the
power of each of us to do it. Paradigms aren't Godzilla monsters; they're
ideas. Their power comes from our shared commitment to them. The minute one
person starts to explore alternative models, the paradigm no longer holds
the same power.
As Marilyn Ferguson explained in The Aquarian Conspiracy, the word
'conspiracy' comes from 'conspirare,' which means 'to breathe together.' A
new cultural paradigm begins with each person stepping out of the old and
daring to breathe something new. The "movers and shakers" are powerless to
prevent a paradigm shift, once we together breathe a paradigm-revolution
into being.
Walking the Truth vs. Sleepwalking
We are not walking the full truth of who we are because we're
"sleepwalking", unconscious of our immense abilities. Instead, we've come to
believe that those abilities don't exist for us. Even people educated at the
best schools in this system experience education as indoctrination. The
advantage for power-over institutions is obvious. People no longer indulge
in big-picture thought. Control paradigm systems want the human brain to be
an obedient machine, not a mind.
The Control Paradigm Posing as a "Philosophy"
The dumbing down - becoming less than who we are - brings us face to face
with one of the control paradigm's most powerful devices for achieving
control. The control paradigm presents itself as a "philosophy", as if it's
innocently telling us what's what. It even insists that its mechanistic,
materialistic, control-measured picture of reality depicts the "real world"
and tells us how to be practical in the world of facts and things, dogs
eating dogs and sharks eating whatever. The more our reality can be reduced
to objects, this "philosophy" tells us, and the less we trouble ourselves
with ideas, values and other intangibles, the more we understand the
"realities" of the control universe.
Adopting this philosophy as "the most practical way to maximize our personal
sphere of control", we don't notice that we're made controllable in the
process. To "buy into" the "philosophy" is to become controllable by its
"values" of external rewards and suggested into a view of ourselves that is
not true to our nature and potential as True Human Beings. But, the control
paradigm isn't philosophy. It doesn't encourage free thought or dialogue. It
doesn't develop our minds or souls. It doesn't invite inquiry into its core
assumptions, strategies, responses and goals. Instead, it functions as a
mind-control trance.
The control paradigm comes across as "the one way" to experience reality,
and it doesn't make room for alternative perspectives. To do so would go
against the control agenda. As a result, the control paradigm in truth has
little in common with philosophy and much in common with propaganda and mind
control methods - trance inducers, the kind Hitler was skilled at using.
Trance Guises
In order to work, mind control methods must be hidden or pass as something
seen as socially acceptable. The trick to a manipulative trance - as opposed
to a therapeutic one - is that it remains unnoticed. The trance-inducers
need a good guise. Conditioning and manipulation of others are always
weapons and instruments in the hands of those in power, even if these
weapons are disguised with the terms "education" and "therapeutic
treatment". The control paradigm uses all of the above, but ultimately
posing as a "philosophy" is its greatest cover. Posing as a "philosophy"
lends the control paradigm an "air of authority". If we recognized
mind-control methods, saw through their disguises, and named them as such,
they would lose their effectiveness.
Anatomy of a Trance
Selective focus that by-passes the critical faculty. A trance state is when
our minds voluntary choose to bypass their critical faculty and focus
selectively, with consciousness fixated and focused to a relatively narrow
frame of attention rather than being diffused over a broad area.
Suggestibility
Humans can be highly suggestible, which allows the by-passing of the
critical faculty. It is a matter of record how subtle cues and suggestions
can influence and even control people's minds and behavior. But "I'm not in
trance!" - Hypnosis is in fact not so much a "state" but a process of
selective focusing that we choose to engage in, since many of the
characteristics of the trance process apply to other processes of
consciousness as well. In fact, when people are in a trance "state", many
swear they're not. They have no sense of altered consciousness when
responding to suggestion and do not believe themselves to be in trance.
Trance as a Tool of Oppression - The Dark Side of Trance
The very power of the trance suggests its potential as a tool of oppression
- for making us less than who we are.
Although there are positive uses for hypnosis, negative trance conditioning
is very different. The mind-control uses of the trance process are thousands
of years old and permeate control-paradigm institutions. Let's take a look
how two master oppressors, Hitler and Eichmann, used the process in the
concentration camps:
Eliminating the critical faculty - Prisoners were taken from their homes,
deprived of all possessions, stripped naked, shaved head to toe, and mass
showered. They were treated as if they were sub-human. The impact of this
was that all the assumptions they had ever made no longer applied. Inmates
went into shock and their ability to think was shut down. The critical
faculty was gone.
Narrowed focus on survival - The brutality of camp life made prisoners think
only on the barest survival level. Every thought focused on how to stay
warm, get food and avoid the wrath of the guards. Thinking became highly
selective. No one could form any reliable strategies.
Normal emotions were removed and camp emotions implanted - Given the shock
of the experience, emotions shut down, including the emotions of disgust,
horror and pity. Apathy took over - the inability to care about anything.
The prisoners gave up their normal ways of responding. Instead, new
responses were implanted ("suggested") - the desire to save one's life, not
to antagonize the guards, to submerge into the crowd, even to do "favors"
for the guards in order to gain a "favored position". The responses that the
guards wanted from the prisoners were unquestioning obedience, abject
submission, and lack of personal will except for what the guards permitted.
Suggestions were also implanted to the effect that human beings had no
intrinsic worth, only extrinsic usefulness to authorities.
Aware of the trance or not? - Those who bought the trance didn't last long.
Those who allowed their inner hold on their moral and spiritual selves to
subside eventually fell victim to the camp's degenerating influences, and
their bodies soon followed suit. The trance of dehumanization overcame them
without their conscious awareness or resistance.
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