A Culture Taught Into Us Gives Rise to the Violence and Genocide We See Happening Over and Over

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in the land of tragedy

a drama composed through

the mists of civilized time

an insidious sorrow

spirals

forced into us

taught into us

through the guise of authority

and civilized righteousness

we

are so conditioned

that we come to believe

in our separate parts

playing out our roles

as actors and actresses

forgetting

who we are

we play out

dramatized beliefs

playing out

a myriad of personalities

living in the game

of hide-and-seek

running from pain

fighting against fear

caught in the undertow

of ignorance

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enculturated thought

a fragmentation of living

dividing the world

into the domestication

of have and have not

this is the civilized way

a system implanted into our minds

a system that feeds on trauma

feeds on drama

feeds on oppression

and lies to us

tells us this is the only way

the best way

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and we need to always

grow

grow more food

grow the population

grow the economy

grow spiritually

grow and consume

consume other people

other cultures

consume the world

to survive

survive

survive

in their misguided evolutionary understanding

survive

fight and claw

not understanding

that Darwin grew up in this culture

that the observed is the observer

and so we rationalize

our actions

• that it is simply who we are

that there is no other way

but to compete and fight for our OWN self

our OWN family

our OWN Nation

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these beliefs and attachments

create the numbness and hate

that gives rise to the

oppressions, enslavement and genocides

throughout our culture’s history

and what gave rise to the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade

of trying to destroy indigenous cultures

both past and present on all continents

as we are witnessing now

to the Palestinian people

and our complicity in these

this is the illusionary drama

we are taught into

authority makes us as children formulate and buy into

with no choice

it teaches us that we are flawed

that we can do better

that there is a natural hierarchy

and that we need to compete to better ourselves

that we are isolated islands

in an unjust world

and we don’t have a choice in what we learn

that our wonder and curiosity

is pushed down and buried beneath

by the trauma of how we are EDUCATED

so the lie becomes our truth

as the traumas and conditionings of

our childhood

educated day in

day out

over and over again

through authority

through reward and punishment

through pushing down

our innate wonder, love, trust, and curiosity

that who we are

isn’t okay

and that we need to play out the roles

that is given to us

and so

we become stuck in Plato’s tomb

living lives in subtle despair

lurking underneath

a veneer of safety

in this civilized land of tragedy

some arise and speak out

say awaken

wake up

there is a different way

we don’t need to be at war

that all of us

no matter age, sex, color, size,

are all brothers and sisters

interconnected in

this beautiful ecological sphere of life

yet we look away

for we are afraid to let go

of our known

our perceived security

and so we use

words and devices

for escape

and beliefs

to numb ourselves from action

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and many times

our governments

kill the truth messengers

for fear of the truth

that will lead to the dissolution

of hierarchy

the drama

builds onward

as ignorance

becomes a furrow

that few rise against

the drama continues

as wars are continuously waged

hierarchy strengthened

competition reigns

and suffering is normalized

The system can’t nor cares

that

their ideal — growth

is, in actuality, a cancer

destroying the very fabric

of their ecological home

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without questioning

following the distractions

of work, entertainment, addiction

people follow the ignorance

in the business

of their conditioning

never stopping to see

that their “reality”

is nothing more than a dream

and society lies within themselves

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To wake up

one must stop and look within

and let go of all attachments

all beliefs

and see that rather than hierarchal

we are all in this Universe together

with nobody higher or lower

no animal (humans included) higher or lower

that we all share together in

an interdependent

interconnected

ecological Eden