The Rat Race

The biggest myth of the 20th century is that earning money will somehow save the individual from 'fate', allowing them to be the 'masters of their own destiny'. This is a carefully marketed idea that preys on our innate fear of inferiority. Anyone focused on the acquisition of capital as a goal in life is subject to this inferiority complex. It's the nature of entrenched hierarchy for the person with perceived power to dump on the person with less status. Thus capital becomes the means of wreaking status based revenge. Unfortunately submitting to the goal of acquiring capital is tantamount to accepting and proactively creating an inferiority complex for oneself. If you took a random low-income person and a random high-income person and tricked both into thinking they were almost out of money, can you guess who would have the stronger reaction? I'll give you a hint; it's the one whose identity is most tied to the amount of capital they own. In this manner the largest of wars may be perpetrated. By artificially creating a depression those invested in the rat race are collared by the inferiority complex they've struggled so hard to hide beneath the lucrative income. Once the fear becomes the emotive drive for decision making, rationality and logic are secondary to the commands of authority figures.

13 Principles of Spiritual Activism

1. Transformation of motivation from anger/fear/despair to compassion/love/purpose.

2. Non-attachment to outcome.

3. Integrity is your protection.

4. Integrity in means and ends.

5. Don't demonize your adversaries.

6. You are unique.

7. Love thy enemy.

8. Your work is for the world, not for you.

9. Selfless service is a myth.

10. Do not insulate yourself from the pain of the world.

11. What you attend to, you become.

12. Rely on faith, and let go of having to figure it all out.

13. Love creates the form.

from : http://www.satyana.org/principles.html

debt based ecology

As we traverse further down the road of humans applying our theoretical understanding of the world in order to shape and influence the world, we begin to live in an increasingly virtual world. The trouble with this virtual world is the structures mimic the consensus philosophies of our species. So while the natural world strives towards equilibrium, the virtual world is endlessly consuming. In the natural world animals organize in groups or communities. In the virtual world we organize around hierarchy and debt. The debt based ecology is such that in order to provide the bare necessities that are made available in the virtual world, one must willingly forfeit their time to the goals of reinforcing the hegemony of hierarchy and debt. This is an 'ideal' prison structure.