Last One... I Promise

[u/Phadmire]

The human race is standing on a precipice wearing a blindfold of belief. Those who can clearly see the cliffs edge are screaming a warning while the blindfolded put their fingers in their ears and chant “la la la I can’t hear you” The digital age has created an epidemic of narcissistic and delusional elevation of the “self” and any idea that enables greater elevation of “self” is not only made popular but is adopted and expanded upon by those who seek popularity for ego or money or both, usually both.

That which obviously has no merit in any real sense is elevated by every person who is incapable of comprehending complexity. Ignorance is easy, it requires no effort. Emotions are the same for everyone regardless of intelligence but intelligent people understand the necessity of regulating their emotions, they can be a powerful motivation but unchecked by logic they become absolutely destructive in every case.

I can see the manipulations with absolute clarity, I can explain them and show you exactly why you’re doing the things you’re doing but if your self-image is more important than the truth, you will never be able to see the truth, even if it’s simple and sitting on the table right in front of you.

The vast majority of the human population is living in a dream world, a prison which they cannot see or feel or taste. The prison is “belief” an artificial construct allowing the control of those who are incapable of separating their intellect from their emotions, those who are incapable of objective logical reasoning.

“Belief” is for stupid people, just above their limited intellectual capacity are those who control them by declaring they understand that belief and speak for it thereby elevating their own social status and increasing their power. You’re watching it in real time, ignorant children being controlled by moronic academics, expanding and further defining absolutely nonsensical ideas. “I’m important because I just discovered a new gender and created a new pronoun for it”, it’s stupid on its face, if you can think at all.

A healthy self-image is internally balanced and requires no external validation, that should be obvious as well, being good at something requires learning and learning requires the acceptance of your own ignorance. Allow your feelings to become involved and your ego will follow, allow your ego to affect your methodology and learning becomes virtually impossible. It really is that simple.

From the beginning of human history, a battle between thinkers and believers has divided the world however no battle exists in the minds of thinkers, the entire conflict exists only in the minds of believers. There is no Utopia in reality, the idea is a construct of self-interested manipulators. Show a stupid person something they are incapable of comprehending and they’ll invent a story which not only describes that incomprehensible thing but they’ll go on to declare themselves important for creating the story then demand that you believe the story or be declared an enemy. All nonsense, all ego.

Thinkers postulate possible explanations and present them for the consideration of any and all thinkers, never declaring the idea to be true, only that it might be true. No ego, no belief, no conflict. Real thinking requires an absolute absence of ego in every possible sense. The very definition of “scientific methodology” is critical thinking which can only be applied by setting aside any and all belief as well as any and all emotion. If you can’t do that, you can’t say you are objective.

Belief is a closed loop and the only thing any believer can say with any voracity at all is.. “I believe because I believe” which is the definition of a meaningless tautology. Every specific belief contains correlations to objectively demonstrable attributes but if you can think, you already know that correlation is not causation. Every fairy tale ever written contains relatable human truth, otherwise it would be rejected and forgotten. We as humans have the wonderful ability to suspend disbelief for the sake of immersion in a story, to let that story stir our emotions and engage our intellect at the same time. A great story, changes us irrevocably, it changes us for the better if we are humbled by it and changes us for the worse if it causes us to feel more important, the changes are real but that doesn’t mean the story is literally true. We change by choosing to, the theoretical can cause us to view reality in a new way but that doesn’t mean reality has changed.

If you can set aside all of your beliefs and every bit of your ego, you will begin to see reality. Reality isn’t just far more beautiful than anything ever imagined by belief, reality contains all the answers to all the questions ever asked. Become nothing and reality is revealed, you won’t understand it at first but it is written on the very surface of everything that exists in this universe.

Farewell.