adamchalmers on Nostr: At the core of the system we have created is control. We created it over millennia to ...

At the core of the system we have created is control.

We created it over millennia to manage the impulsive behaviour that is innate in us.

To manage our wildness and our baser instincts.

In exchange we are safer than ever before and the price we pay is our aliveness.

Railing against the system of control from our place within it we say we want freedom will simultaneously exerting control over others in all areas of our life.

We love control because it gives us a sense of security, safety and power.

Those souls who relinquish all control of others are doomed to be controlled themselves and those who do not control even their own impulses soon face the collective judgment of society.

The toddler knows no self control yet simultaneously seeks to control others. Hence we exercise parental control in order to modify the wilful child’s behaviours to make them socially acceptable.

School is a control system, as is a job. Government is control but so is every business with employees.

Control runs our world.

To change the system requires the relinquishing of control. To do so safely we would have to give up the things that we so badly desire. Power, money and materialism. We would have to want different things.

To want different things is to live in a higher state of consciousness. It’s a change in the human condition, a radical shift in our psychology away from accumulation, extraction and control to connection, community, creation and surrender.

The change is mental, emotional and spiritual. The change begins within.