Wednesday, February 14, 2007

INTRODUCTION

Hello and welcome. This blog is written to help young people learn how to stay in control of their own lives and not allow anyone or anything else outside themselves to decide who and what they are, or what they like and don't like, what they should think or feel, or even what's right and wrong. All of those things are up to each individual to discover for themselves and no one has any "right" to push their own ideas on anyone else.

It defeats the purpose of even having a self if it is reduced to mere non-thinking obedience. Unless of course, it is done by choice. But who would choose to give up control of their mind to someone else? Your mind is who you are, it is all you've got and it is guaranteed that no one is better qualified to control your mind than you are.


While my aim is to educate and empower the younger folk, people of all ages will benefit too because what is here applies to everyone. It's about being human. Everyone needs to know that you are your own person and everything having to do with you is up to you. But you're never too old to stand up and say, "Thank you but no more. I'll take it from here".

By getting this information to young people, they will have the enormous benefit of not having to see decades of their lives stolen by hundreds of other people and institutions, by social pressures, peer pressures, even parental demands well after they grow up and leave home. It's terrible to wake up and realize that decades of your life were wasted by people who didn't care about you nearly as much as they cared about their own desires.

If your natural independence is reinforced early in life, you may well avoid being used and abused and pulled off the course of your own life. Nothing worse can be stolen than who you are, what you are, and what you're here to do with your life. But there is always someone who is trying to take all of those things from you, and they'll use every trick in the book to do it.

It's as simple as realizing those things are yours, not someone else's.

People who are never given that information often end up being manipulated into being and doing what someone else wants, and it always ends up hurting them. This is a hard lesson to learn. But if you start your life knowing that you're not obligated to anyone, then you'll be strong and the parasites of life will not be able to make an easy target of you. You'll be much more likely to live a satisfying, happy life when you understand from the get go, that you're the boss of you and no one else gets an opinion. (At least not one that counts). Then you can really appreciate the people you choose to let in to your life, instead of letting them ruin it whenever they like, again and again and again.

It's a fact that there will always be someone who wants to control our lives in some way or another and if we are thoroughly induced as children to accept that we have an obligation to comply, then we will probably comply for the rest of our lives. The only ones delighted by this are the ones who gain control over us.

Anyone who tells us they have the right to control us is lying. It's that simple.

Bet you never heard that before, and you never heard it on TV. No one ever will. It's precisely what they don't want people to know. They don't want anyone to think about it and realize it's true. Because every time someone does, they stand up and walk away and the controllers of our world lose a little more power. They hate that. Tough. It doesn't belong to them, it belongs to us, and each one of us is the rightful owner of the power over ourselves. Don't let anyone try to tell you that it's any different.

The pressure for society to conform has touched almost everyone. Conforming is choosing to be controlled. Since few people would ever want to consciously be controlled they must be sold to accept being controlled in a variety of ways that make it seem appealing. Those sales pitches and pressures come from every direction, and they never end.

If our parents are believers in conformity, they will raise us to be good little conformers too. They will tell us that obedience makes you a good person, and that questioning authority is not the right thing to do. They will say that questioning authority is rude or out of line, or even that it's evil. But it's interesting to note that they never say why. As children we don't have enough life experience to call them on statements like this or to ask them why they think it's better to let someone else tell you what to do than it is to think for yourself. Why bother having your own brain if you're never going to use it?

Few of us are able to resist the many pressures that teach us to conform, and even demand that we conform. As soon as we are out of diapers and talking, we are learning that we have to cooperate to get along. But as soon as we enter the system we are taught that we must conform and obey to get along. Public school is the first introduction to shutting up and sitting down and forgetting all about what you want to do. You are required from your first day of school to conform to the system, whatever it is, and realize you don't have a voice. You are trained to accept your status as a slave to authority over the course of 14 years of public school and when you graduate high school, you'll be a very well conditioned, obedient citizen who sees authority as your boss.

Without our own awareness, we are conditioned year after year by being forced into subordinate status every time we set foot out of our own homes. In school you are subordinate, and the teachers and principal are authority. You believe they must be respected and obeyed because they have all of the power and they treat you like a subordinate, and act like they have the right to control you. Almost everyone accepts this control as normal, natural, and even desirable. But is it?

Well just ask that question and see what happens. That should give you a clue. You'll see tempers flare, voices harden, and accusatory statements will be made that vilify you for even asking. It's no wonder that part of our conditioning is to never question authority. It helps them stay in control without all those pesky common sense questions constantly undermining the idea that they get to tell everyone else what to do. The conditioning goes even deeper by reinforcing the notion that they SHOULD have total control, and everyone SHOULD be subordinate to them and that it is WRONG to even think things could or should be any other way. This is how our minds are shaped when we are too little to see what's being done to us.

We also have the tendency to want to please, and we find out quickly that when we do what our parents tell us to do that we are rewarded, and when we don't we are punished. That behavior comes to school with us and makes it easier for them to get you to accept that they too have authority over your life, and that it's as natural as your parents authority over you. It isn't of course, there's nothing natural about it. But they'll never tell you that.

Some children are lucky enough to have parents that understand all the authority over your life belongs to them, and to no one else in the world. But many children have parents who grew up in the same system and accepted the idea that they should be subordinated by others. They teach us the same thing the system teaches us: that to obey and conform is good, and to disobey or refuse to conform is bad. Very bad. It is even punishable by law in many areas of life. It is worth thinking about and asking what is so terrible about people refusing to let others control them?

Again, it is only upsetting to those who want control over you and will lose it if they can't trick you into believing they have a right to have it. For those who are not tricked, they are often treated very badly, punished and berated. They are told they are bad and wrong and illegitimate, and that authority must be obeyed. It's a very deep and well laid plan to teach us as children that they are better than we are, that they may think and decide things and we may not. We learn that their opinions matter and ours don't. They may do as they please, and we may not.

When this demand for subordination comes at us day after day at school and every day at home, we are easily turned into obedient citizens who actually take pride in how obedient we are. They have us exactly where they want us from the very beginning of our lives. It takes an unusual person to not be pulled into the lie of control, and to not give in to the prevalent beliefs that this is all how things are supposed to be. The few among us who know otherwise sound crazy when we say so, because the conditioning runs incredibly deep. It runs so deep that it actually forms the basis of most people's self and everything after that rests on the notion of obedience to authority and not having equal power to the other equal humans around us who claim to have more entitlement than we do in so many ways. It's a quite a racket and it's worked well for them for centuries. They like it that way and they won't give it up.

Understand one thing, no one can fight this alone. It is impossible to fight an enormous system like this by yourself and get anything except in trouble. You are overpowered as an individual so don't get crazy and decide to take it on all alone. It's not about fighting back as much as it is about knowing the truth and being able to see what's going on. That is how you are able to not be taken in when everyone around you is, and it's how you'll be able to take the best possible steps in life, make smart decisions and have a good life.

Once you get it, share it. The more every single individual learns to see what's really going on, the more it can become a reality to change things. When a large percentage of young people are awake and aware of the game, the changes will come because no one will comply any more. Until then, realize you're in their world and they control it. You're stuck in it and you should follow the rules because the only other option is one that will hurt you and probably accomplish nothing. Choose your battles wisely, and save your energy for what matters most.

I want to teach you how to be able to do that. You need to be armed with knowledge and it takes some time and effort to expand your head past the provided ideas and onward to seeing ALL of the ideas that are possible. This time and effort is not the typical horrid kind, it's a whole new kind. It's a kind that gives you back what you put into it, and it does it right way and keeps doing it. Over time it builds and grows and so do you. This is how you discover your true self and become who you really are. This effort makes you strong and powerful and self assured, it gives you self respect and it puts in you in charge of you without apologies to anyone. That's the way it should be. Blind obedience will never bring you any of those things, but it will make those who control you stronger every day.

Next time we'll cover more ways that other people use to get into your head and over ride your real self - ways most of us never really catch onto. If we don't realize they're there we can't deflect their influence very well can we?

Feel free to email me anytime with any questions or comments and I will always respond with the time and respect you deserve.

A.


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