sometimes less is more

Imagine losing everything.  Not just your car keys but your car, your home, your job, your phone, your wardrobe, your bank account, your ipod, and everything else that defines you as the person you believe you are.  Can you imagine experiencing total loss?

Most people on this planet don't have to imagine total loss.  Ownership of a few meager possessions has been the norm for the vast majority of humans, and the occasional loss of those possessions is an accepted part of their life cycle.  Gain a little, lose a little, life goes on just as it has for countless generations of humans.

Of course, you can't miss what you never had.  The more you possess, the more you stand to lose, and the more terrifying the concept of total loss can be.  Simply put, the things you own end up owning you.

If you want to control the masses, give them more to possess, make them believe they can't live without them, and take them away if they get out of line.  It's the carrot and stick on a larger scale.

This system of control has been around for a long time and it's so embedded in our collective conscientiousness that life without constant amusement is unthinkable.  Food, clothing and shelter have been effectively augmented with TV, ipods, cell phones, climate control, and rapid transportation as requirements of modern life that can be taken away by the very system you bought them from.

Our fear of losing our stuff is the primary reason we do what we do.  We work jobs we don't like and buy things we don't need to fill up our larger-than-we-need houses, that we'll never own, in a feeble attempt to convince ourselves that spending our hard earned paychecks on buying and protecting all this worthless crap is the true path to happiness.

As I said, the more you have, the more terrifying it is to lose it.  Now, who has more to lose than the top 2% who rely on this system for their own personal survival?  They invented this system so that you can spend your life working very hard to provide them with possessions like power, control, and world ownership.  They've been doing it for so long they can't imagine not having complete control over the whole planet and everything on it.  Wouldn't their loss be more profound to them than your car being repossessed or your home going into foreclosure?  You bet it is and it scares them shitless that people are finally waking up to what they've been up to all this time.  They're protecting their assets the only way they know how.  By tightening control, replacing leaders of foreign countries with their own puppets, the systematic destruction of healthy economies to secure natural resources, coercing governments to make and enforce ridicules rules that enrich a few and cause misery for the many, creating opposition and hatred between ethnic, cultural, religious, and social groups through mass media as a smokescreen to hide their true agenda, not to mention countless wars and millions of lives lost and ruined.   


Here's a thought... What goes around, comes around.  The laws of karma dictate that all debts are paid and all wrongs are righted and there's a heavy karmic debt that needs to be rectified before we advance as a species.

I don't know about you but that makes me feel pretty good.