Cold Shock and the Modality of Gradualism

by Julian Wash | Rattleberry Pie

Dear Humans,

Today I wish to return to your awareness an aspect of the Human condition that serves as a device for control.  It’s a system that operates silently in the background, carefully and methodically.  The intent seems clear.  It is to create the unclear.  It is to modify viewpoints, effect awareness and undermine the satisfaction one achieves when walking in the light of their own awareness.  It’s a system that exploits the Human inclination to trust and conform and to abandon what they know to be right.   It’s an intelligent, ubiquitous and clandestine form of attack that has reached a pinnacle of perfection in modern times.

Life is an experience that can be likened to a ship at sea.  The rudder steers through tides of consciousness on this personal journey of discovery.  But on this particular ship we’ve been handed a compass slightly out of caliber and a sextant a little out of plumb.  We are told they are in perfect order.  We have no reason to believe otherwise.  So we navigate using these tainted calibrations through the often murky and stormy oceans of life.   All the while there’s an invisible hand nudging the wheel every time we look away to measure our course.  It’s the secretive, malevolent, creepy little hand of an entity I call indoctrination.

Over time these slight variations on the compass dial become greatly magnified.  As years go by one may start to realize that somehow they’ve sailed way off course and no longer recognize that old captain looking back at them in the reflection off the water.  They may have always thought they knew exactly where they were headed -but one day the waves began to look different and the shoreline strangely foreign.  The enlightened mind may wake and realize that the devices they were handed were indeed maligned from the start- and now it’s too late to go back.  They’re lost.

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