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It's naive to think we do it because of "social consequences" if we disobey. Certainly that is a factor, but probably 95% of the reason we keep abjectly kissing the feet of the Haves (aka, the elites, aka, The Beast) is because it never even seriously occurs to us that we can do otherwise.
And why not? You got it: social conditioning. We don't revolt and destroy the Beast to fundamentally equalize the wealth of what is after all the planet of ALL OF US, not so much because of economics, violence, or reprisals, but because we have been systematically brainwashed not to do this.
However, this needs clarification. It’s not so much that we have been conditioned to not destroy The Beast, but (and infinitely more importantly), we have been conditioned to not even THINK ABOUT doing this!
What proof? Easy. Ask yourself (and please be honest!) if you think there's ANY POSSIBILITY WHATSOEVER that we (i.e., 98% of the human race) can turn the Earth into something like the glorious Constitutional Republic envisioned by our genius forefathers.
Marx got lots of things wrong and the Russian Revolution almost immediately turned in to just a new (and even more horrible) form of totalitarianism, but his notion of "each according to his abilities and needs" was one of the most profound social utterances in human history.
OK, now let's get this straight. One or two percent of humanity has basically all the wealth and power and live like Greek Gods. Indeed, the Paris Hilton's and Rupert Murdoch's quite literally live like Kings and Queens; even though they take pains not to use such words. No, the Beast of religious fanatics, vampire elites, and fascist right rings much prefers the secrecy of a Heart of Darkness. Out of sight, out of mind -- something like that.
But please remember these maggots in The Beast are few in number, whereas all the rest of us (i.e., brainwashed human cattle) make up basically the entire human race.
So why do we allow this total insanity and infinite immorality to continue? Why don't we "stand up and be counted" and DESTROY THE BEAST. In spite of all their fire walls, fail safes, and semi control of the engines of power, it would actually be easy. We could do it in two or three weeks. We could literally change the Have and Have Not horror in two or three weeks. Hey, there's BILLIONS of us and probably only a few thousand Kings and Queens.
And yet, all we do is suck our thumbs and watch television. And oh yes, we play the political game, but the political game was invented by and for the elites. Look at Obama. Perhaps he has good intentions, but the jury is still out and probably the best we can hope for at the end of the next four years is a decorated cage.
However, more importantly, even if Obama tries his best, the changes will be superficial because the core dynamics of The Beast are utterly and forever beyond the reach of “politics”.
So, lots of conditionings: marriage, religion, and the eternal Have and Have Not horror. Which brings us back to why are we living like this? Why are we tails wagged by institutions?
Clearly, the answer is the straight jacket of social conditioning. We suck our thumbs, we don’t revolt, we beg for crumbs, because it NEVER seriously enters our minds that we can to otherwise.
Hence, the cusp. If our species doesn't start being self directed INDIVIDUALS, instead of programmed cattle (locked in marriages, religions, and abject submission to The Beast), our species is doomed.
The bad news is that such transcendental liberation must happen in the millions otherwise The Beast will continue to drive the human species to extinction.
The good news is that such liberation can (and must) happen one life form at a time.
And why is this good news? It's good news because from the point of view of each of us, such transcendence of conditioning (i.e., Liberation!) IS POSSIBLE. It's been happening for millennia and it is happening as we speak. The only problem is that it needs to be happening in the millions, not in the hundreds or thousands.
