UNITY!!! Ickes!!!
November 21, 2009
Someone I know sent me a link to this David Icke video the other day…
And it got me thinking…
Yeah… I like Icke. I like him a lot… He speaks sense. A lot of sense. However… I’m not really into his hardcore attack of the system. Reason being is that I’ve done over 10 years worth of psychological research and have found that over 65% of the world would prefer to be living in the Western dream i.e. the car, the wife, the children, the 3 houses (one at home and two abroad), the supermarket, with the money, the TVs (yes, people love that TV!!!), Sky sports, paying lower taxes, have a God, etc… rather than living off the land, tilling the soil, growing their own food, and giving at least 20% of their income to the poorer, under-developed, struggling countries of the world, forgetting about cosmetics (but that doesn’t include soap, alright!), giving up their car, taking a pay cut, cycling to work, etc…
In my opinion… It’s more a case of human nature. Yes… Our nature… That’s what Icke should be working to change. Because if you don’t know yourself, or even have even a vague understanding about how the universe around you works… Or how it came about… Then you’re simply a part of the problem. You’ve either got to want to know where you came from i.e. this star stuff called atoms, that was forged in the hearts of stars… And you’ve possibly got to be able to understand a bit about probability, as well as know something of the huge number of variables that have allowed us to become “Life on a Planet’s Surface,” to see that we have won! WON THE LOTTERY… Not any old lottery, where you win just stupid bit of paper called money… Cause that’s just plain boring and stupid… WE’VE WON THE FUCKING LOTTERY OF EXISTENCE! Because if you don’t see it… Or even want to see it… Then you really couldn’t care less. And it’s probably too mind boggling to even think about!
Just consider this… Out of all the suns in the universe… 80% of them burn for under 4-5 billion years… Bearing in mind life has taken over 4 billion year to emerge on Earth… We’re pretty fortunate to be here. Also… Bearing in mind that this hunk of a planetary rock that we call Earth was situated within the “sweet zone” orbiting around our long burning (10-14 billion year life expectancy) sun i.e. the zone that allows water to exist between freezing and boiling point… Thereby allowing it to “flow…” Something that gives Life the characteristic that we all take for granted. Then there’s fact that we have FOUR gas giants!!! Yeah… Not one, nor two, OR three… But four gas giants… Planets that are way bigger than our own, which have large gravitational fields that seem to swallow most of the debris left over from accretion… AND they didn’t swallow us up during accretion!!! AND there’s also the fact that there are just the right proportion of chemical elements on this hunk-of-a-rock planet, and the surrounding solar system, to allow life to even get its act together… All of which are built from intricate little particles that we call atoms, functioning much like little Lego bricks, with only certain possible arrangements from which to build shapes and patterns out of… That have their own unique physical and chemical properties that allow them to react in certain ways and not others… THEN… To consider that the Stromatolites even got as far as they did (Stromatolites were the first form of life to replicate very successfully and spread all over the planet i.e. they were the first forms of cyanobacteria that breathed CO2 and produced O2)… AND with one more of the millions more factors to be considered that gave Life favorable haven… That we are fortunate enough to have a magnetic field around the earth itself, to protect the thin 20 mile high atmosphere that we all take for granted daily…
It’s a fucking mountain of improbability that we’ve climbed to get here… It’s like winning the lottery of experience. And most of us don’t even glimpse at half of it… They’d rather let the government take the reigns and guide them… Keep them from thinking about the fact that this world is a small world, in an vast infinite inky black void of space and time… That is filled with asteroids between several hundred meters across to 20 miles in diameter… That might come crashing into the earth at any time. PRETTY SCARY EH??? You bet… And there’s death. What happens after we die? Who fucking cares… We’re here. So live in the now. That’s why most people just don’t want to think about it. The now, with all the TOTAL uncertainty is too much for them.
But saying that, they can handle little bits of uncertainty at a time… When I sometimes stand in the queue at my local Newsagent, I watch all these people who buy lottery tickets, scratch cards and other gambling stuff… I’ve been doing this for a while now, trying to understand why they do it. And I’ve noticed several interesting things… When they don’t win anything, they look rather glum. Some even look proper down-trodden. But yet next week, they do the same all over again… Buy another ticket, and look glum when they don’t win that either. Even when (and if) they do win, say a tenner off one of those scratch cards, their minds almost instantly go to the thought of what they’ll spend the money on i.e. “a cheap bottle of sherry,” one lady told me… Then when I pointed out to her that she could have easily bought a cheap bottle of sherry (about six quid) if she hadn’t of bought those ten scratch cards… And she scowled. Yet she, and many others, still come back week after week to buy another ticket, looking glum all over again if they don’t win… Waiting for the chance to change their lives with all that money can buy. Which isn’t a lot when you really think about it… I have mentioned to several of them, the ones that I have got to know quite well, that they’ve already won the ultimate lottery… That lottery of existence, which they bask (or paddle) in every day. And they laugh… Brushing it off as though they could never understand this huge truth of being… As though it possess too many questions, questions that should apparently have no certain answers… Questions that they feel might only show how bleak Life really is. And, in some ways, I can’t blame them.
65% of the world get REALLY FUCKING SCARED when they see experiments that show how easily we all can be manipulated psychologically… Most of us will know that science shows us facts… But it’s these fact… Facts that show us that consciousness is nothing more than chemicals flowing in a body, built from star dust, that life randomly formed on earth… It’s this lack of purpose that is the scary shit. They’d rather ignore that, than deal with what they are. Random! They’d rather have self importance than face the fact that if Earth blew up, the universe wouldn’t even notice.
Hell… Still freaks me out thinking about it all!!! We’d rather have a hard time living, not knowing the truth… Chasing our tails around and around with lottery tickets… Drowning the thought of being in a bottle of cheap sherry… We rather do all this… Then deal with REALITY in hard facts and be TRULY FREE!
Thus… While Icke is shouting and raving about “THEM” i.e. the corporations of the world controlling us… It’s a statistic that most of us would chose the “blue pill” and live in bliss and ignorance, than see “how deep the rabbit hole really goes.” No doubt, even some of us die hard nutters who have scoured the facts and figures, who have pushed themselves inside out to understand what we are, always trying to see past the self imposed delusion that we shroud ourselves in almost all the time… Even some of us, if we were give half the chance, would take that fat pay cheque and wrap ourselves up in consumerist cotton wool, and forget the quest for the “Holy Grail…” Just have look at the Milgram Experiment and Stanford Prison Experiment. We’re only human. It’s not an excuse… It’s an evolutionary condition.
So… I love you Icke. I hear, dude! You rock. But… I have to have compassion for the rest of us who have a hard time dealing with this reality blow. Because it’s a tough smack around the old mind-sets. And spewing one’s rage at the masses doesn’t break the psychological conditioning that has occurred over millions/billions of years of evolution. We all need to do the work for ourselves… And learn how fortunate we are… Just how easily we can be led (read Noam Chomsky’s “Media Control” for starters)… Once we have grasped these basic home truths, which apply to us all, the we can learn how to work with ourselves for positive effect, bring benefit into our lives and other peoples lives… Then we can meditate on all this and awaken ourselves into harmony, truth, love and compassion…
