Western Discrimination Will Destroy the World Pt. II
The spread of Western values will be the end of life as we know it.
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In today’s Western society based on Western “logic” aka dualistic thinking, many people are desperate to define themselves. They are desperate to attach their identity and sense of self to something outside them, whether it be a religion, sport, TV show, school, or job.
The desperation for definition is something I don’t think is completely natural to humans. I think society has perverted the idea of individual self-worth such that people cannot have confidence in who they are. Therefore they must imprison themselves within the limits inherent in their definition of oneself.
The false self-confidence begat from attaching oneself to a societal institution or creation leads to a diminished sense of self, which is by nature unbounded and unlimited and therefore, transcends the temporary concepts found within modern society. But we see society as all-encompassing, the very thing we must conform to. We mistakenly believe society to be the provider of all answers in regard to our individual lives.
Most people define themselves through outside validation. The first thing people want to know is what school you went to, what job you have, etc. This way they can judge you and begin to create a narrative about who you are based on “what” you are. A judgment based on their limited perception is typically shaped by society’s ideas of what makes a person “worthy” of respect.
No, we don’t automatically show our fellow humans respect. Even though we are both part of a collective existence where god knows how many things had to synchronize for us to be alive together in the same time and space. Instead, we imprison people in a box of our own judgment, based on society’s misshapen ideals.
Some people would say evil ideals, ideals inherently dehumanizing and dismissive of the unique nature of the individual lives that make up the collective and therefore are a part of each of us. We’ve run from compassion and empathy for our fellow human beings, such that we must ask for society’s permission to show love to one another. They must agree with our religion, agree with our ideas of race, and must share a definition I deem worthy and can understand.
As if we lowly humans have the god-like ability to determine the worth of another human being. We are creatures laid low by the disrespectful nature of Western thought. The eagerness and need to separate, then determine what’s worthy or not, based on our limited perspectives and definitions.
How far we have strayed from the essence of spirituality, which is contentment. Contentment is born from the acceptance of that which we cannot control. Contentment is born from our best efforts to choose actions beneficial for ourselves and others, with who we are inextricably linked by the all-encompassing hands of fate.
I don’t want to be defined, I want to be truly free. Unattached to earthly ideals and fake idols of worthiness. Idols are based on dogma, unoriginality, and the worship of money. These falsehoods influence the lost masses, who are desperate to have something/someone to believe in. They use these ideas to define themselves, which makes them ripe for the manipulation of unscrupulous actors.
True leaders empower people to lead themselves. A true leader gives the information and knowledge that leads to his people believing in themselves, believing in their ability to make their own way in life. An ancient quote reads, “Do not confuse the finger for the moon.” Do not follow someone blindly to run from the responsibility of choice. Choosing how you want to act and following through as best you can, is the ultimate freedom.
A true leader is a guide, someone who holds your hand while you take the baby steps towards self-discovery. They encourage you to follow through, believing in your ability to succeed before you do. They know this success is up to you, is already within you, and is waiting to be unlocked by you. A true leader walks alongside you, never placing themselves above or in front of you. They are someone who is humbled so by the awesomeness of existence, that they do not judge their people for being lost, they simply accept it and encourage you to work hard so you can find your way.
These definitions people imprison themselves with are byproducts of the hierarchical methods of thinking implied by western “logic”, aka dualistic/capitalistic thinking. Society requires means of comparison.
Societal conditioning has us measuring ourselves against people whose journeys are beyond the scope of our comprehension. Western society needs people to traffic in these arbitrary comparisons in order for there to be a winner and a loser. This serves as a reinforcement of dualistic thinking that causes an individual to determine their self-worth based on how able they were to conform to societal measures of success.
If a high school dropout sees themselves as just as worthy as a college graduate, society has a problem because you will demand a level of respect that their system tries to deny you. Education systems, religious systems, economic systems, all systems under the overall system of capitalism, are inherently rigged for the continual success of the already successful. They work against the upward mobility of those who have traditionally struggled. Treating that high school dropout with the same respect as that college graduate would undermine Western society and cause it to collapse.
That’s why it's great news for the Western establishment that the traditionally struggling conform to this societal definition of worth. The proletariat blames themselves and their perceived lack of ability for the unsatisfactory definitions of themselves society has thrust upon them.
True freedom starts in the mind, and when people are eager to define themselves by society’s false idols, they imprison themselves in their minds first. This makes society’s job even easier, because individuals quick to imprison themselves and others based on society’s dualistic model of supposed “logic”, will find ways to avoid compassion for themselves and the others they are constantly judging. The general population will therefore not use their most powerful resource of numbers to collaborate and dismantle the oppressive systems they exist under. Capitalism hoards wealth at the top, while the people who create the profits that make hoarding possible, suffer for it.
When the foundation of your society is division and “success” is increasing said division as much as possible, the only endpoint available is collapse. To build a strong foundation, you need things to be solid.
Solids are made from molecules tightly packed together. Their collective strength solidifies and multiplies, and that foundation becomes strong enough to build on. The foundation of a strong society is based on the togetherness of its individual people. When the dualistic thinking of Western logic is employed and your foundation, your people, become separated through so many different racial, sexual, and economic lines, you are contributing to the break up of your foundation.
This can only result in collapse, as opposing forces rip society apart at its seams. People are so eager to separate from each other based on the divisions and definitions from which they receive their very sense of identity.
The natural endpoint of western thought is collapse. Its dualistic thinking separates parts from the whole and forgets the parts were ever part of the whole at all. Western thought is simply based on the idea of destruction masquerading as innovation. The “innovation” of creating a race, creating class, and creating categories for separation was a misguided attempt at understanding the human condition, but you cannot understand the parts if you ignore how they fit into the whole.
In the misguided effort to make sense of a universe meant to be accepted, we have become the authors of our own destruction. In an effort to show how different we are, how unique we are, we have cut into and dismantled the human race such that our desire to win has trumped our collective desire to live.