The Tactic Hasn’t Aged

Most humans don’t know what they are.

Humans operate on default behavioural patterns – autopilot – created by their environment; this is a subconscious imprinting rather than a conscious choice, because we don’t know that we know. 

Our minds hallucinate reality, building clever illusions within the limits of our wiring rather than experiencing objective truth. Our sense of what we are is a construction shaped by outside forces. People live with a version of themselves built for survival or to meet the expectations of others, rather than one built on true self-understanding. We mistake our labels for our actual identity, focusing on the what instead of the why.

Historically, institutions have used fear of the unknown
to maintain power.
This is a tactic that hasn’t aged. 

By convincing people that they are flawed or incomplete and lack a sense of direction allows those in power to ensure a cycle of dependency. The self-help industry operates on this same ancient logic, convincing us that we are fundamentally broken so that we’ll continue to buy the cure. 

Being aware that we are pure conscious knowingness
also hasn’t aged.
🙂