Compliance of the Compulsive Consumer and the Rectification
of the Corpse Economy
The Hindbrain commodified culture maintains its power abuses
through ignorance and denial in the same way a drug addict is stuck in an
uncontrollable repetitive habitual loop. Addiction thrives in an environment of
reckless ignorance, indifference and denial, which masks unconscious shame and
guilt. We seek stimulus for the dopamine high — regardless of how. Whether you
are a Gambler, Alcoholic, Sex Addict, Shopaholic, or Workaholic — its all the
same buzz. The dopamine addiction of power abuse and the craving to win also
runs in cycles of accumulating triggers, which build the hunger (need, desire),
instigating the crisis (the hit of power abuse), enjoying the high, coming down
and feeling remorse, then shame and blame, and finally depression which sets
the stage for the next cycle. The denial of addiction is an extreme form of
normal repression that goes hand in hand with the defense mechanism of
emotional repression that is held in place through addiction. Thus we repress
the fact that we are repressing ourselves. Hence nescience becomes the
"norm."
Emotional responses are largely generated unconsciously.
Even when the amygdala (attraction vs. aversion) is activated by the cortical
sensory systems, the processing occurs unconsciously. So if we are using our
addictions to self-medicate our emotions and the processing of emotions largely
occurs unconsciously, then both emotional self-knowledge and control over our
addiction is inaccessible to conscious volition. Addiction
is characterized by compulsive or uncontrollable drug craving, risk seeking,
and abuse that persists even in the face of extremely
negative consequences.
In the development of the sense-of-self the feedback
mechanism that permits conscious awareness of emotional processes is accessed
at the level of sovereignty…ie: individuation and spirituality. Whereas the
Hivemind (the Borg) is basically the institutionalization of emotional
repression for the short-term gain of maintaining the status quo of material
resources and power. Thus values, norms, ideals and feelings substantialize or
legitimize the particular framing of our social order and social control around
addictive consumption practices. The fact that our addiction to the culture of
self-repression functions at an unconscious level prevents the spiritual
(prefrontal lobe) growth that would overcome the disenfranchisement. Hence
nescience is an inverse self-fulfilling destiny of self-negation. That is we do not know what we do
not know.
Embedded in a culture of self-repression, we fail to become
privy to the activity occurring in unconscious processing systems, thus we have
little awareness of our fallen condition and nor do we have access to the
higher executive and spiritual capacities of the full HUman by which we could
avoid the negative
consequences of our collective unconsciousness and broken social
systems. To be assimilated within the Hivemind of a broken human culture we
have to suppress both our subconscious and superconscious minds, setting the
little % of our conscious mind adrift in a turbulent sea of bad choices, with
no rudder or sails. While we continue to self medicate with the stimulants,
painkillers, distractions, biocides, dead foods, and toxic relationships that
numb the trifling % of our conscious mind we have left, we submit to death by
slow spiritual poison from the snake bite of a dying culture. The West
certainly needs help individuating, but Eastern and Third World countries need
even more help in transcending the brain-retarding cage of the Hivemind so the
that full, whole or sovereign HUman can emerge without untold and endless
suffering.
The sovereign individual must therefore come to “Know
Thyself” and how the animal body is designed for the subterranean processing of
unconscious emotional and visceral responses and behaviors. In particular the
sovereign must Grok that addictions are unconsciously derived and that
conscious control or willful choice has little utility in prevention or
treatment. In order to unplug from the pathological grid of the death culture
we must undertake a systematic reconstruction of the whole HUman from the soil
up and resurrect the axis mundi to unite heaven and earth. If we fail in our
task at redeeming the human species we will revert ever more to a society of
hungry ghosts, who through pervasive trauma and neglect spread an epidemic of
dopamine deficiency, deprivation and addiction down through countless eons of
generations to come.
Hungry Ghosts have large, empty bellies and small mouths and
can never get enough so they are always hungry and empty, always seeking
satisfaction on the outside. Thus by defaulting on our HUmanness we breed a
population of involuntary victims to the pushers of drugs, chemicals,
cosmetics, brands, gadgets and all manner of idle consumerism. All because we reneged
on compassionate care and refused to grow up and take responsibility for the
precious gift of our own existence and the continuum of life. Compassion for
ourselves supports our compassion for others. As we open to the truth within,
we hold a safe place of healing for others.
If humanity dropped into the sleep of nescience many
millennia ago then to awaken from the nightmare we must heal the self/world
schism through increased sentience, expression, development and actualization.
Liberation from the unconscious consumer culture requires self-actualization
and spiritual maturation. Sovereign evolution demands that our focus has to
shift from healing to wholing...from nurturing wounds, to supporting growth and
development. Otherwise the epiphytic limbic brain fails to mature and gets
caught up in a narcissistic vortex of self-absorbed scab picking. This
paralyzing preoccupation is a type of existential post-traumatic stress
disorder in which the greatest aspiration is to be an adult infant and to be
"looked after" by the big daddy in the sky, by the state or some
other parental figure.
Through what little volition we have left, and by our each
of our life-positive actions, we are creating the transformational prism for
the HUman of the future. We have no choice BUT to grow up…and in the end, that
is our greatest pleasure. In truth, we have skills, gifts and divine capacity
way beyond our wildest imaginations. We need to reboot the Matrix and
reframe the human.
The awakening sovereign develops honesty around the deficent
self and so develops “objective distance” from compulsively pursuing behaviors that
have a negative impact on themselves or others. Spiritual awakening is no more
and no less than a human being claiming his or her own full humanity.
“Withdraw allegiance from the old categories of the Negative
(law, limit, castration, lack, lacuna), which the Western thought has so long
held sacred as a form of power and an access to reality. Prefer what is
positive and multiple, difference over uniformity, flows over unities, mobile
arrangements over systems. Believe that what is productive is not sedentary but
nomadic.” – Michel Foucault
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