OBSCURE REALITY: Living With Open Eyes
An article by Jeffrey P. Ranck
“When I was a child, I spake as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see through a glass darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.”
-- 1 Corinthians 13:11-12 [KJV]
In today's western societies (particularly in American society) we all too often think like children; in that, we either believe what we are told, do what we are coaxed to do, or we allow ourselves to be blindly conditioned by common perceptions. Such a sorry state of existence is not only grossly destructive towards the future and goals of society as a whole, but it also allows us all to become as lambs led to the slaughter. In a world where social ideologies like “survival of the fittest”, “every man for himself”, and “look out for number one” are practiced and propagated in mass there can be no room for such a fickle indoctrination and comprehension of reality.
I am not merely speaking of belief in the “tooth-fairy” or that babies are delivered by storks, but also of the blind and absurd rationale that so tightly grips our societies with our docile compliance and acceptance of the facts and decisions thrust upon us by the elite and authoritative members of society. This enigma of modern social thinking is so encompassing that I would be hard pressed to believe any large number of educators have actually thoroughly researched the very things they teach our children! It is as if no one believes that their teacher, professor, or favorite author could have a deliberate agenda within their curriculum. Is not the fact that heated arguments and debates take place within the social circles of the elite proof enough that there are indeed factual disagreements about the very evidence and decisions we accept? Do not our own agendas shine forth in all we do?
It is truly mind boggling to me that despite the fact we know we reside in a world where “survival of the fittest” is the ruling ideology, we find it pressing to believe that the most educated and powerful among us might pollute the decisions or facts that they present to us. That is to say, we are placing our lives, our liberty, and our future into the hands of those who receive a great deal of money for governing and indoctrinating us without questioning their curriculum or motivation. If this fact is not the very definition of insanity I don't know what is!
Instead of taking the time out of our busy lives to research the facts of our instilled reality we tend to reason such questioning can be left to those who have an investigative nature, such as journalists and scientists. After all, we have been conditioned with the belief that there is a basic decency in humanity from which all corruption is exposed; this despite the large salaries paid to media icons and enterprises, as well as the mass social ideology of Darwinian thought. Once again we find ourselves submitting our lives to the whims of the economical aristocracy due to the false belief that the “most fit” care for the remainder of the herd.
Consider for once the fact that the most wealthy among us own or support our politicians, educational institutions, media corporations, publishing companies, scientific institutes, government committees, medical establishments, and even the food and water we consume. Are you truly gullible enough to believe that “if” the personal agendas (driven by Darwinian ideology) of these individuals were surreptitiously and indistinctly mandated upon their employees such agendas would not be disseminated upon you without question? What would happen to you if you refused to do what your supervisor asked you, and how easy is it to find work after being terminated for insubordination? After all, if you have no proof of wrong-doing other than one individual's agenda what evidence do you truly hold? Furthermore, as an employee of a company wouldn't it be conducive of your own survival to support its policies despite your personal opinions on how those policies affect the regular public when no evidence of direct damage to the public exists?
How can it be that we find our fragile lives so meaningless that we place them into the hands of a few wealthy individuals? Why do we not research and question the vast majority of our indoctrination by looking for alternative sources of information to compare to even the most simple of contrary facts we have been presented with? Where is there any ounce of sanity in the contradictory social belief in both “survival of the fittest” and “basic decency”? It is beyond me how anyone can contend they have any sort of reason about them without taking these questions seriously; it is our life after all.
We allow our academic scholars, journalists, politicians, medical professionals, and skeptics to dictate our decisions based upon their own logic without questioning even what the personal beliefs and agendas of such people are, yet we know full well every individual acts and lives according to their personal agenda. It is completely insane that we find ourselves incapable of questioning these things when our own lives and agendas are on the line! Furthermore, if we do bother to investigate these first parties we almost always certainly fail to investigate the second party; that is, the source of their information. Why do we believe we are the only ones who accept what the professionals say without question? Weren't the very professionals we adore once accepting of another "professional" just as we acknowledge ourselves to be?
It is time our societies wake-up and realize the importance of questioning authority in every realm and field at all times, for without doing so we endanger our own lives. Every individual must not laugh and smirk at those who question even the most simple of facts, but should praise such people for having the intellectual capacity to question those facts! We must cease refusal to investigate alternative theories and questions that we are certain would affect our lives, if they were found to be true, merely because the intellectuals and skeptics debunk them, or because outlandish and false presumptions have been applied to the underlying evidence. Each small truth in even the most outrageous proclamation should be considered, for there may very well be a fact that those with power have hidden from our common perception. If we do not begin to do these things we only doom ourselves to certain destruction, harm, and slavery, for the prevailing social ideology in which we live is known to be proclaimed as the “survival of the fittest”...
-- Jeffrey P. Ranck, EPS
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Quotes To Contemplate:
"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." -- Arthur Schopenhauer
"A 'fact' merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease." -- Bliss Carman
"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws." -- Plato
"The greatest evil is not done in those sordid dens of evil that Dickens loved to paint... but it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried and minuted) in clear, carpeted, warmed, well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices." -- C.S. Lewis
"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity." -- Albert Einstein
"It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself." -- Thomas Jefferson
"People always think something's all true." -- J.D. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye
"The important thing is not to stop questioning." -- Albert Einstein
"Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them." -- David Reisman
"The power to question is the basis of all human progress." -- Indra Ghandi
"I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way." -- Franklin P. Adams
"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." -- John Quincy Adams
"Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians." -- Claire Hutchet Bishop
"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." -- Louis Dembitz Brandeis
"There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies against despots – suspicion." -- Demosthenes
"It has been discovered that the best way to ensure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery." -- Benjamin Disraeli
"The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes." -- Benjamin Disraeli
"An agreement was reached; the policy of the papers was bought, to be paid for by the month; an editor was furnished for each paper to properly supervise and edit information regarding the questions of preparedness, militarism, financial policies, and other things of national and international nature considered vital to the interests of the purchasers." -- U.S. Congressman Oscar Callaway, 1917
"The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of bosses and employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy." -- Woodrow Wilson
"If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it." -- Woodrow Wilson
"The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes." -- Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter, 1952
"Much of what passes for quality on British television is no more than a reflection of the narrow elite which controls it and has always thought that its tastes were synonymous with equality." -- Rupert Murdoch
"This is the issue of this election: Whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American Revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves." -- Ronald Reagan
