New Age Monkeys

The path of perdition has always been paved with lip-service to an ideal
                                                                                                    Einstein

Since the contemporary paradigm is built on axioms that are considered to be self-evident truths, enforcing "Truth" has been deemed a necessity. Socio-religious axioms include designating the good and the evil, and the evil frequently includes those who don’t accept the truth forwarded by some preacher. Look around and see how many preachers claim they come to bring love, light, peace and joy and tolerance, but those who do not accept that assertion are the forces of darkness, and so must be rejected and even destroyed. The preacher may say that he won’t do the destroying — God will do the dirty job — but the "Axiom" stands. So love, light and tolerance are only given lip service rather than actually practiced.

These same preachers prophesy the coming of the New Age, wherein control and suppression will disappear and we will all be free, whatever that means. Control is seen then as the synonym of suppression. God will again do the dirty job and do in the suppressers. It never occurred to these preachers to observe reality; if they did, they would have noticed that God always sides with the winner, not with the victims.

Perhaps, instead of doing in the suppressers, correction should come by providing tools to victims to undo their victimhood, and then, suppression would become meaningless. One of these tools is to remember that the meaning is not “out there” in physical reality, but in our heads. We attribute meaning by ways of relating. We make the definitions that create.

To generalize control as something suppressive is ridiculous and reminds me of Rudyard Kipling’s The First Jungle Book, wherein he refers to the monkeys as “the people without a Law”:

“We are great. We are free. We are wonderful. We are the most wonderful people in all the jungle! We all say so, and so it must be true,” the monkeys say. They have no laws, so there is nothing to control them — they feel free. But they live in chaos according to the Jungle Book; they are cruel, stupid and boisterous and very similar in looks to the man-cub, Mowgli. Perhaps Kipling chose the monkeys to represent those people who seek freedom in a life devoid of control by laws, doing lip service to love and kindness. That kind of attitude is the direct and necessary outcome of the linear paradigm that presumes the existence of an axiomatic truth external to our perception, and a defined God external to existence. But perhaps, God does not know that truth consists of self-evident axioms. Perhaps, God is the act of Creation itself and cannot differentiate between good and evil.