I want to share one of the basic premises of my world view. I would love to be more straightforward and call it "my knowledge", but we live in the world where everything requires solid proof because we are taught to rely only on rational explanations, technological advances, and science that has long become god-like to most.
So, here is one of the basic premises of my world view:
We are born into the world physically helpless, but our bodies carry on lots of recorded information from hundreds of previous generations (genetics). We are also born helpless in terms of thinking, understanding and controlling our emotions, making decisions, and being able to control and filter tons of information that is dumped on us from the outside. Despite that helplessness, from day one we come to this world with the most sophisticated Weapon in existence ever known - our Brain.
So, watch this, again...
1) We come to life with prerecorded genetic information that we cannot decipher, use, or control.
2) We are born with this huge human brain that already has all the abilities of a dangerous weapon. The weapon comes here "in the hands" of a little baby who cannot control or decide what kind of information it will be filled with, how it will use it, and how it will develop further.
You might think that I am talking about basic, obvious things which many of us have learned about at school. Things like "nature vs. nurture" and the importance of social surroundings and influences when it comes to the development of a new generation. Yes, that too, but I am talking about something much deeper, and I am having serious trouble now putting it into words.
Yes, we are born seemingly "new" in terms of our physical and mental abilities. But our weak bodies are already full of information, AND they start absorbing more and more of it (good, bad, useful, crappy - everything goes right in!) non-stop from day one... Not even after birth, but from day 1 in the mother's womb!
We are conceived by out parents, BUT NOT ONLY THEM (- insert scary music here). Have you seen the movie "Alien"? Ha! Of course I am not talking about those film monsters... but if I had to compare, what's going on in the Real world is no less sinister.
We all are children of the preexisting System, and not just offspring of the two humans whose sperm and egg happen to get together one day. That's because all of our parents are built by this System as well. It's in their bodies, their brain, their blood cells, and even in the emotions, thoughts, and feelings they were experiencing just before one of those little sperms made it to the ovary.
We are partially made by the System already even before we get here. And when we finally get here, most likely it happens inside the hospital where we are surrounded by computers, wires, and monitors, and hit by a heavy doze of whatever they put into our mother to make her contract or relieve the pain. And then, they take us out - hands in rubbery gloves. And then they wash us, and then they inject us with something that's supposed to keep us "safe" but carries a doze of foreign animal proteins, chemicals, and god knows what else. For all I know, there could be nano particles in there. And then they tell our mothers - "Let the baby lay in a separate cot away from you so you don't smash it in your sleep," and so we are separated from a person who we love and need the most... night after night after night.
Who could ask a 1 month old baby what it feels when it is left in a separate cot away from its mother's body? Oh, if those scientists could take their research so far as to detect the feelings of that baby, I AM SURE they would have nightmares every day for the rest of their lives.
And then... this crazy thing called "life" just keeps happening, and the little child - a product of the System with the help of which it was made and brought into the world - keeps being indoctrinated into a million agreements about the world where he or she has to become a Proper, Safe, and Fitting individual.
One of my world view premises is that there are many, many preexisting agreements about everything - from the way we perceive what a "tree" is to the way we sit at the table when we eat, to the reactions we exhibit when we are given a particular stimuli (like the famous Pavlov's dogs). We are made by the existing System/Matrix, born into it, raised by it, and indoctrinated into everything it holds REAL. No exceptions.
And even the so-called rebels and anarchists are a part of it. Liberals are a part of it, and, in fact, all existing systems of thought are a part of it. Just like ALL existing religions and spiritual teachings, all meditation practices, all philosophies, all political parties, all corporations, and all beliefs.
Even I AM TYPING THIS from inside this System and under its heavy influence, and due to certain practices I can physically feel it pressuring me when I try to do something that DOESN'T agree.