In this essay, I’m not advocating any particular way of being, because freedom of thought, speech and action, are the path to experience and knowledge, which ultimately culminate in a closer relationship with the creator. Having said this, I do believe that a particularly fearful personality, would also find it harder to be joyful, than someone who is not so inclined. And amongst our list of things to be fearful about, our own demise most certainly would be at the top of that list.
Now, just as we are drawn toward our greatest source of joy, so to are we repelled by our greatest source of fear. Therefore, as a tool of manipulation, fear holds the greatest potential for moving people in a specific direction.
This is true, not because fear is more powerful than joy or love, that is far from the truth. It’s true, because fear is so prevalent in the minds of the world's populace, and therefore, a very easy, common, and powerful tool, anyone can use to impose the will of one individual, or group, upon another.
And so, each of us at one time or another, have made it easy, by our close relationship with fear, to allow those who would manipulate us, to do so. If your saying “well that may be the case for irrational fears, but what about justifiable fears, surely you can’t mean those?"
Our response to that would be, that on the surface, that statement sounds logically correct, and of course has some merit. However, once you enter the arena of justifiable fears, the question becomes, who’s doing the justifying, and what if any, are the parameters, upon which that justification is arrived at, and how do your parameters, compare to those of other people?
It can be said, that when it comes to justification, people find every reason under the sun, to justify any action. Isn’t that the way the world has become the way it is today? And so we come to the place where we say, any fear is justifiable to the person who is in fear, which makes for a pretty broad, and inexhaustible range of fears, held within the minds of the world's people.
The point of all this is, that once you can recognize how prevalent, and powerful a role, fear is playing, day-to-day, in the lives of people, you can then look at how it is being used to manipulate you.
There is an old saying that says, “divide and conquer," and that is what is being played out in the world, by those who do not have your highest good in mind. All you have to do is look at the way the world has been fractured into countries, race, religions, political ideologies, and you can see the divide, and conquer theme, in full swing.
Now of course most of this, was born out of a state of early and limited mental development on the part of humanity, however, the fact that it has continued for as long as it has, and has become a source of our greatest discontent, is due strictly to those forces, who early on in man’s history, rose to power through fear, and who continued to use that very same technique because of it’s effectiveness.
The technique is simple, it moves to “divide” everything, then classify that which it has divided, as being “different," then equates that which is different, as being a “threat”, and finally moves to “eradicate” all things which are perceived to be a threat.
What this all accomplishes, is that it keeps the world's people separated into small, manageable groups, that are easier to control and manipulate, in every manner possible.
The biggest threat to the powers who are manipulating us, would be if humanity were to wake up and realize their common origin, and unified themselves into one cohesive unit of power and peace. The world as it exists today, would be over, and those in power know it, and are doing everything possible to prevent that.
And so by our fears, do we supply the means, and the tools, to those who would use those same tools against us, under the guise of national defence, or ethnic cleansing, or religious supremacy.
On that day when we tire of handing someone a stick, and inviting them to beat us with it, maybe we will develop some backbone!
Until then,...try to have a nice day.
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