The totalitarian ideology of "this world" works by establishing a cycle of soft-sell assumptions, that are "confirmed" by the hard-sell propaganda of facts and theories, that provide evidence to "prove" the assumptions.
Assumptions and evidence support each other pre-emptively; in a confirmatory-cycle that encompasses all the "respectable" sources...
Including officialdom, education, science and arts, churches, mainstream mass media - enforced by bureaucratic regulations, law, and economic incentives (subsidies, bribes, fines, jobs etc).
The System is inescapable to one who stays within the cycle of confirmation; because any dissent is both irrational and arbitrary.
There is only one way out; which is go outside the cycle; which means outside this-world.
Which seems to imply: the only escape needs to be rooted in "my" direct personal experience of the divine.
A hard task in a country such as England, with its high population density, class system, heavy social mirroring validity system, utilitarian and economical focus and so on.
ReplyDelete@Karl - I think the task is possible and do-able everywhere; if it is seriously attempted.
ReplyDeleteAll who need it are innately equipped for it, by the developmental changes in human consciousness that make us (like it or not) more strongly self-aware, more aware of our freedom - hence our capacity to choose.