With each successive stage of “control” and suppression that we grow to need, there is growing resistance to it and thus the need for even more controls. The problem is that most of us hate the truth!

More and more clearly we see our dependence on “mad scientists,” hired to exaggerate our sense of importance and invent new ways to help us stagger a few more steps along the road to egocentric oblivion.

Our needs finance research into new ways to control our minds and bodies. We are paying madmen to dig up knowledge of the mind that should never exist, and that knowledge will one day be used against us by those who want power. 

Man’s nature is enslaved to the dictates of outer controls, or it is mentally, emotionally and physically in revolt against such—”services.” What a dilemma. We can’t live with or without them! Except we find the true way to live. 

We have all labored to be free from the inhibitions of Conscience. In so doing, we have rationalized a selfish existence and licensed other people to pamper and support selfishness.

Thus we all need external restraints, pacifiers, stimulants and remedies in an attempt to restore a sense of order and balance to our minds and bodies. 

"We have all labored to be free from the inhibitions of Conscience. In so doing, we have rationalized a selfish existence"

But all is not made well. The people of the earth remain seething, boiling volcanoes ready to erupt. The same state of dependency exists on the outside as it should naturally on the inside. But outward dependency leaves us without the fringe benefits of health, happiness and real life.

We require those who pander to us to provide us with our ego-soothing pacifiers, these opiates furnishing us with a facade of piety and “rightness,” along with a sense of being alive and “healthy.” In every society, such arrangements are defended under the banner of “patriotism.”

Yes, people literally fight and die for the institutions that corrupt them. From the day we are born we are corrupted by society, but society doesn’t have to worry about being found out or accused of this terrible crime since it rests secure in the knowledge that our corrupted egos will defend that fault.

The ego cannot admit its wrongs. It will not face its faults and weaknesses. An ego likes to believe that whatever shape it finds itself in must be the right one. We embrace the institutions and customs that formed us. 

People prefer not to destroy traditional support since they require the comfort it provides. However, there comes a time when the people finally start to suspect the treachery of their “friends-in-need” and their leaders.

Then it’s time to start a war, where we can all hate wrong collectively and feel right about it (and thereby not have to face the wrong of tradition). During the time of such a war, the champions of tradition, fearful of their own lives, will encourage us to battle for our “rights” as though the enemy were without and not within.