There’s a graphic out that lists all the issues that “conspiracy theorists” have been proven right on and mainstream journalists have been proven wrong on. Where is it? There it is….
If we restrict our attention to any one issue, we can see a multitude of places where “we” were right and “they” were wrong. Most of our journalism these days is Trump – wrong; left – right or Democrats – wrong; Republicans – right. Substitute whatever other area of conflict you wish. The approach never varies.
And then collective lethargy or “forgetting” sets in. People will want to forgive and forget, to move on. Lethargy will blanket the subject and it will be erased from daily consciousness.
Except for historians, who will labor to make sense of what is being and has been actively covered up. Emails deleted. Servers smashed to pieces. Records destroyed. They will labor among the burn bags of history. They may as well be archaeologists.
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When the tables turn on the global elitists, all of us, I think, will be motivated to experience ourselves as right and someone else (anyone else) as wrong.
That’s the best it gets at the intellectual level of life. (Remember: Three levels: Intellectual, Experiential, and Realizational.)
Below this patterned behavior is a chronic lack of self-esteem and need for affirmation that so many people feel, all from the same cause – incomplete memories of childhood trauma. We jack ourselves up by being right.
Right/wrong is also our constant, tacitly-agreed-upon, ritualistic approach to conflict – to any disturbance in the force. Well, I’m right and you’re wrong. So there.
In my family, if I was wrong, I risked getting the back of my Dad’s hand. But if I was right, nothing happened to me. I got to be reeeeaaaaallll right over time. (I guess it’s no accident I ended up as a quasi-judge.) (1)
I think most of the planet either operates from right/wrong exclusively or else operates from there only when in the company of others (but still operates from there).
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We all have free choice. There’s no way I can stop someone from operating from there – nor would I want to.
I can only wean myself from it.
First, by understanding it.
I think one of the most common conditions in our society is a lack of self-esteem. When we’re right and another is wrong, that for us results in a boost in self-esteem. Back in the day, I used to call the lunchroom conversations these affirmation rituals were often embedded in “howdido” (that is, how did I do) conversations.
We seem to want to feel right and useful, if not in actual behavior at least in our self-serving story.
I watch and listen to myself tell and retell my story of an event until I have it just right. I emerge as the hero in my own write. I saved the day. My input was crucial. You know the drill.
Please do note that if I wasn’t doing something I’m judging to be out of alignment, I wouldn’t need a story. That includes grumpiness, anger, stress reactions, the whole nine yards.
I’m aiming for my life to be so in alignment that I won’t feel the need for a story, self-serving or otherwise. That’s what I’m intending – by the Law of Intention.
Footnotes
(1) Member, Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, deciding refugee claims.