it would seem that in the last 70 or so years, the human race has become aware of a great deal of information about its mechanisms; general behaviours and how it must behave in different circumstances. this awareness is useless unless one learns to contemplate these rules calmly, dispassionately, disinterestedly, without emotional identification. if one does this, this awareness may innoculate against and free people from blind loyalties, unquestioning obedience to mindless slogans, rhetoric, leaders, mass emotions.
no governments will willingly let its people learn to free themselves from government and state rhetoric and (false)pressures. every state relies on passionate loyalty and subjection to group pressures. except perhaps america at its birth(ghettysburg address).
this seems to be the basic meme most governments thoroughly inform within the people.(if you identify with this the matrix has you , neo. "I am a citizen of a free society, and that means I am an individual, making individual choices. My mind is my own, my opinions are chosen by me, I am free to do as i will, and at the worst the pressures on me are economic, that is to say if I only had enough money I could do as I want."
if one finds themself examining themselves as not solitary but as a part of a group and one is learning to understand the social laws that govern groups, one is being more enlightened.
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