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Kathleen Devanney. A human.'s avatar

So fully agree on how we've been constantly herded to the notion that we need authorities, because humans left to their own devices are untrustworthy. Such a key piece of the control mechanism of our slave-system. If you agree to it - and that happens implicitly via being born into this world - you can easily miss the key piece to freeing oneself. Sovereignty of body and mind of course. Many do still look for cues on what they can say, and what they should do, as we know. But I agree with you, those who don't go along aren't 'special' and we're all joined. Humanity is joined and the sooner we see each other in that light as opposed to separating each other out into different camps, the quicker we'll heal. (I say this as someone who has done plenty of that.)

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Guy Duperreault's avatar

Hola, Tereza. Thank you for adding my research on the Lord of the Flies as one of the many grade school 'tools' (unconsciously used or not) that helped split us when young with the effect of making us more malleable and dependent on authorities to 'guide' us to the motherland, so to speak.

And a small synchronicity with my essay from Conspiracy Sarah:

"Lord of the Flies... Someone was just talking about this same thing on a podcast recently. The specific one is escaping me at the moment, but I chuckled as I read your essay. Because I can't believe that this has never occurred to me! As I read your words, my stomach had a flash of anxiety and a little snap of nausea."

I haven't finished working through your exploration here yet. Likely a more substantive comment later.

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