“While independent thinkers and journalists continually blow holes in the official versions of reality, the illusion of truth is so very powerful that it takes a serious personal upheaval to shun the cognitive dissonance needed to function in a society that openly chases false realities.” – S Fraud
“In prison, illusions can offer comfort.” – Nelson Mandela
For a magician to fool his audience his deceit must go unseen, and to this end he crafts an illusion to avert attention from reality. While the audience is entranced, the deceptive act is committed, and for the fool, reality then becomes inexplicably built upon on a lie. That is, until the fool wakes up and recognizes the truth in the fact that he has been duped.
Maintaining the suspension of disbelief in the illusion, however, is often more comforting than acknowledging the magician’s secrets.
We live in a world of illusion. So many of the concerns that occupy the mind and the tasks that fill the calendar arise from planted impulses to become someone or something that we are not. This is no accident. As we are indoctrinated into this authoritarian-corporate-consumer culture that now dominates the human race, we are trained that certain aspects of our society are untouchable truths, and that particular ways of being and behaving are preferred.
Psychopaths disempower people in this way. They blind us with never ceasing barrages of suggestions and absolutes that are aimed at shattering self-confidence and confidence in the future.
Bansky, the revered and elusive revolutionary street artist, once commented:
“People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you’re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you.” – Banksy
Advertising is just the tip of the iceberg. When we look further we see that the overall organization of life is centered around the pursuit of illusions and automatic obedience to institutions and ideas which are not at all what they seem. We are in a very real sense enslaved. Many call this somewhat intangible feeling of oppression ‘the matrix,’ a system of total control that invades the mind, programming individuals to pattern themselves in accordance with a mainstream conformist version of reality, no matter how wicked it gets.
The grandest of the illusions which keep us enslaved to the matrix, the ones that have so many of us still entranced, are outlined below for your consideration.
1. The Illusion of Law, Order and Authority
For so many of us, following the law is considered a moral obligation, and many of us gladly do so even though corruption, scandal, and wickedness repeatedly demonstrate that the law is plenty flexible for those who have the muscle to bend it. Police brutality and police criminality is rampant in the US, the courts favor the wealthy, and we can longer even lead our lives privately thanks to the intrusion of state surveillance. And all the while the illegal and immoral Orwellian permanent war rages on in the background of life, murdering and destroying whole nations and cultures.
The social order is not what it seems, for it is entirely predicated on conformity, obedience and acquiescence which are enforced by fear of violence. History teaches us again and again that the law is just as often as not used as an instrument of oppression, social control and plunder, and any so-called authority in this regard is false, hypocritical, and unjust.
When the law itself does not follow the law, there is no law, there is no order, and there is no justice. The pomp and trappings of authority are merely a concealment of the truth that the current world order is predicated on control, not consent.
2. The Illusion of Prosperity and Happiness
Adorning oneself in expensive clothes and trinkets, and amassing collections of material possessions that would be the envy of any 19th century monarch has become a substitute for genuine prosperity. Maintaining the illusion of prosperity, though, is critical to our economy as it is, because its foundation is built on consumption, fraud, credit and debt. The banking system itself has been engineered from the top down to create unlimited wealth for some while taxing the eternity out of the rest of us.
True prosperity is a vibrant environment and an abundance of health, happiness, love, and relationships. As more people come to perceive material goods as the form of self-identification in this culture, we slip farther and farther away from the experience of true prosperity.
3. The Illusion of Choice and Freedom
Read between the lines and look at the fine print, we are not free, not by any intelligent standard. Freedom is about having choice, yet in today’s world, choice has come to mean a selection between available options, always from within the confines of a corrupt legal and taxation system and within the boundaries of culturally accepted and enforced norms.
Just look no further than the phony institution of modern democracy to find a shining example of false choices appearing real. Two entrenched, corrupt, archaic political parties are paraded as the pride and hope of the nation, yet third party and independent voices are intentionally blocked, ridiculed and plowed under.
The illusion of choice and freedom is a powerful oppressor because it fools us into accepting chains and short leashes as though they were the hallmarks of liberty.
Multiple choice is different than freedom, it is easy servitude.
4. The Illusion of Truth
Truth has become a touchy subject in our culture, and we’ve been programmed to believe that ‘the‘ truth comes from the demigods of media, celebrity, and government. If the TV declares something to be true, then we are heretics to believe otherwise.
In order to maintain order, the powers that be depend our acquiescence to their version of the truth. While independent thinkers and journalists continually blow holes in the official versions of reality, the illusion of truth is so very powerful that it takes a serious personal upheaval to shun the cognitive dissonance needed to function in a society that openly chases false realities.
5. The Illusion of Time
They say that time is money, but this is a lie. Time is your life. Your life is an ever-evolving manifestation of the now. Looking beyond the five sense world, where we have been trained to move in accordance with the clock and the calendar, we find that the spirit is eternal, and that the each individual soul is part of this eternity.
The big deception here is the reinforcement of the idea that the present moment is of little to no value, that the past is something we cannot undo or ever forget, and that the future is intrinsically more important than both the past and the present. This carries our attention away from what it actually happening right now and directs it toward the future. Once completely focused on what is to come rather than what is, we are easy prey to advertisers and fear-pimps who muddy our vision of the future with every possible worry and concern imaginable.
We are happiest when life doesn’t box us in, when spontaneity and randomness gives us the chance to find out more about ourselves. Forfeiting the present moment in order to fantasize about the future is a trap. The immense, timeless moments of spiritual joy that are found in quiet meditation are proof that time is a construct of the mind of humankind, and not necessarily mandatory for the human experience.
If time is money, then life can be measured in dollars. When dollars are worth less, so is life. This is total deception, because life is, in truth, absolutely priceless.
6. The Illusion of Separateness
On a strategic level, the tactic of divide and conquer is standard operating procedure for authoritarians and invading armies, but the illusion of separateness runs even deeper than this.
We are programmed to believe that as individuals we are in competition with everyone and everything around us, including our neighbors and even mother nature. Us vs. them to the extreme. This flatly denies the truth that life on this planet is infinitely inter-connected. Without clean air, clean water, healthy soil, and a vibrant global sense of community we cannot survive here.
While the illusion of separateness comforts us by gratifying the ego and and offering a sense of control, in reality it only serves to enslave and isolate us.
Conclusion
The grand illusions mentioned here have been staged before us as a campaign to encourage blind acquiescence to the machinations of the matrix. In an attempt to dis-empower us, they demand our conformity and obedience, but we must not forget that all of this is merely an elaborate sales pitch. They can’t sell what we don’t care to buy.
About the Author:Sigmund Fraud is a survivor of modern psychiatry and a dedicated mental activist. He is a staff writer for WakingTimes.com where he indulges in the possibility of a massive shift towards a more psychologically aware future for mankind.
the illusion of “money”
The problem with “legal” tender fiat (Fiat=by authoritative order or official decree) currency is that it isn’t a promise to pay anything to anyone, it is a debt instrument owed by one to another ie; by the Govt.Inc to the privately owned reserve bank at interest, and in commerce a debt cannot settle a debt, the only thing you have more of when you stack reserve notes is more debt.
When one Pur-Chases (to pursue and chase but never attain) anything with them all one has done is discharge the price off something from one side of a ledger to the other side of a ledger (Pretium succedit in locum rei, The price stands in the place of the thing sold)-Maxim of law, and the price demanded is usually fiat legal tender currency, once paid it sits on the other side of the ledger until another product replaces the one just purchased, then the price migrates back over again to replace the one just paid.
The thing purchased doesn’t belong to whom so ever purchased it because the instrument they used to discharge the “price” didn’t belong to them, even when they have submitted their sweat equity for them (wages), it belongs to whom ever created and owns the instrument, and it says right there on the note who it belongs to, and these are floated to the public, through Govt.Inc and then demanded back in tax obligations, fines, court costs, fees, levy’s, tariffs,…etc making citizen tax obligations the collateral on the loans, to pay the debt owed to the reserve, which is why property can be seized and sold by banks.
They completely control the manufacture, issuance, and supply of fiat currency in society and demand their own product back as payment on their product, the only value it has is a perceived one, it is nothing more than a piece of paper, but people “believe” that it is worth the amount written on it, otherwise known as “Market Value”, if only more people would see that the emperor is wearing no clothes and that pretty painted pieces of paper are not money.
the real Genius of the scam “lies” in its simplicity where peoples ego’s prevent them from asking the most simplest of questions for fear of looking stupid, questions such as “What is Money”? or “What is Law”? or “What is Religion”?…etc, but unfortunately for the powers that should be the light of wisdom and intelligence has fallen upon their schemes.
awesome to see more and more people starting to wake themselves up and in doing so are waking others up from this 2 dimensional fictional nightmare.
Non temere credere, est nervus sapientae. Not to believe rashly is the nerve of wisdom.-Maxim of Law.
Most people living in a geo-political society are “bound” by statutory “rules” written (1. Author) by the legislature (legislative branch of government) and sealed (writ, “writy” = (n) The number of arguments that a function can take) by the judiciary (judicial branch of government), creating “Authority” perceived by most to mean the power or right to give orders, and make decisions that people bind themselves to by their own consent @4:32 by accepting to be governed by the rules government create, (Non in legendo sed in intelligendo leges consistunt. The laws consist not in being read, but in being understood) by accepting the benefits, services and +”privileges” offered by the state, that come with duties (an obligation owed by one to another) and responsibilities, to pay taxes, be drafted for military service, jury duty and to governed by legislative rules.
Privilegium est quasi privata lex. A privilege is, as it were, a private law-Maxim of Law, +privy (“privi”) =private, secret, hidden, and is a noun used to describe an outside toilet, and “Leges” is plural for the Latin “lex” meaning laws, privileges=private laws of which there are tens of thousands known as legislative “acts” (Scribere est agere. To write is to act.-Maxim of Law) of a corporate (executive branch) government that people have been coerced, intimidated and manipulated from childhood into “believing” are the only law(s) that can apply to them thus developing a normalcy bias of what they believe is “law”, and healthy dose of cognitive dissonance to defend their perceptions, when in actuality this is only one type of contract law, of which there are many.
The *alienijuris “citizen” has relinquished their un-a-“lien”-able (unalienable) rights to be exercised on their behalf by another (the state) upon registering to vote, applying to pay taxes, applying for a drivers license (asking permission to do that which is not forbidden by law), in exchange for the benefits, services and privileges offered by the state.
Just my thoughts.
Great video.
SPES EST VIGILANTIS SOMNIUM, DUM SPIRO SPERO.
Peace.