Humanity Is Learning That The Rules Are All Made Up And Can Be Re-Written At Any Time by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!
(2022-07-11 at 00:25:44 )

Humanity Is Learning That The Rules Are All Made Up And Can Be Re-Written At Any Time by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!

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The human species is at an adapt-or-perish juncture in its history on this planet; we will either drastically change the way we operate, or we will wipe ourselves out by nuclear war or environmental cataclysm.

Because we have been brought to this point by our unhealthy relationship with mental narrative, the adaptation we are being challenged to make would be a collective movement into a healthy relationship with mental narrative.

We are where we are at because powerful people have been able to manipulate us into believing mental stories about reality which are not based in fact.

History is one long unbroken tale of large groups of humans beings manipulated by much smaller groups of humans in ways which benefit the smaller groups, and that tale continues to this day.

Propaganda and other forms of narrative control are used to manufacture consent for status quo models of governance, economic and monetary systems, and foreign policy which benefit an elite few at the expense of the general population.

And what is interesting is that underneath all the babbling propaganda stories about what is happening in our world, humanity is indeed showing signs that we are collectively slipping out of our old relationship with mental narrative. It is happening in the usual sloppy, awkward, two-steps-forward-one-step-back shamble which has always marked all of human progress, but it is happening.

It is happening in the way people are moving away from religion as we collectively discover that those ancient narratives which so long transfixed our ancestors are not necessary or helpful for finding meaning, morality and fulfillment in our lives, and as we collectively notice that doctrines about eternal reward for obedience and eternal damnation for disobedience sound made-up.

It is happening with the rise of cryptocurrencies as people figure out that money is made up and we can change the rules whenever we want. Money is nothing more than an agreed-upon story that is only as true as we all continue to pretend it is, a collective narrative that we can collectively rewrite at any time.

It is happening as people figure out that a romantic relationship does not need to look the way they have looked throughout most of our recorded history; that it is only narrative which says one man and one woman must love and have sex with only each other throughout their lives, or even throughout their relationship. That those rules have only ever been made of empty narrative fluff and can be replaced with an entirely different set of guidelines.

It is happening as people figure out how much narrative overlays things like gender and sexuality, that there is nothing inscribed upon the fabric of reality which prescribes our longstanding models of men and women and what their roles are and how their sexualities should express.

Rearranging societal narratives that deeply entrenched in our culture is causing a lot of chaos and confusion, and the arguments it is bringing up are very upsetting for a lot of people, but it is gradually working itself out as people pick through the narratives and sort out fact from story.

Indeed each issue I am describing here has brought in its own set of quandaries, challenges, bad faith actors and abuses that had previously been avoided under the old models, but it is not like the old models have been free of those things either. And as we all discuss, argue, push and pull and muddle our way through these obstacles with each other, we are collectively sinking into the real important insight which underlies all those more superficial areas of contention: that our society is made of narrative, and we can change the rules whenever we want.

We are still in the early days of this growing insight, but if you look at the conceptual rigidity we had as a society even a few decades ago around our how-it-is stories and our how-it-ought-to-be stories, it is clear that there is a real unravelling happening. A relaxation in our collective certainty about how the various components of our civilization are meant to look.

This relaxation and unravelling is the first step in transforming into a healthy society. It is the first step in the adaptation we are going to have to collectively make to survive as a species.

But it can not stop at insights into the fluid nature of narratives around faith, money, gender and relationships. We are going to have to unlearn the how-it-is and how-it-ought-to-be narratives we have learned about everything over the course of our entire lives.

We are going to have to learn that we have been lied to since we were children about how the world works, how our government works, how our political and economic systems work.

We are going to have to learn that the very building blocks of our culture are mostly just made-up stories from people who want to control us and from long-dead people who wanted to control our ancestors.

We are going to have to learn that all the metrics by which we measure our personal success and failure and the frameworks we use to decide what our lives are about are fictions implanted in our minds by the powerful.

We are going to have to learn that even our most absolutely fundamental ideas about who and what we are have been built on faulty assumptions.

You can not rewrite a rule if you still believe it is written in stone.

You can not rewrite a story if you do not know that you are its author.

We can not rewrite the structure of human civilization if we have not yet learned that none of the old rules are real.

We can not collectively withdraw our consent for status quo systems until we collectively understand that our consent is actually required.

We can not bend the spoon until we realize that there is no spoon.

And we are collectively moving toward that realization.

We are learning as a collective and as individuals that we do not have to be what we have been told we are, that things do not have to be how we have been told they must be, that all the how-it-is narratives and how-it-should-be narratives we have been indoctrinated with are just fairy tales for adults made up by highly confused people whose only qualifications were that they got here before us.

So do not worry when you see the old rigid boundaries start to blur and wobble.

Do not panic when you see the old stories being met with incredulity. It might look awkward and sloppy right now, but that is just what it looks like when a thinking species begins moving into a conscious relationship with thought.

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