EsoQuest said:
More directly, it is Pathocrats and psychopaths and their ways that cause most material and psychological anguish in this world. So understanding and dealing with them is probably the shortest and most effective path in helping anyone. And they know this, or they would not be so gung ho to attack anyone who tries to get at the heart of the issue.
Which actually reminds me of the war on terrorism. It seems the whole point is to go for "those responsible". Ok, but although the patsies are always directly responsible, they're practically never truly responsible - that's why they're the patsies! So while we hunt down the puppets, the puppet masters get new puppets. However, of course this is the only way this can be done, because we ARE (US government, Israel government, UK, etc) the puppet masters (not ultimately, but to some degree yes)! So of course investigating the issue and tracing the money and who's giving the orders to whom and why suddenly brings us back to our own doorstep, so this cannot be allowed. How to avoid it? Focus on the little guy, focus on boogie men like Bin Laden and declare that they are in "charge" - even if they TOO can easily be working for someone else. The point though isn't that they ARE working per se, it's that no one asks that question in the first place! Of course SOMETIMES there may be an independent group, but historically, most often there's a lot more involved, there's practically never an independent fringe group - there's almost always evidence that points to their involvement with other more shadowy guys. So the fact that no one in the political arena even proposes the possibility that Bin Laden and his terrorists could be receiving funding or training or orders from someone else, can only mean one of 2 things. Either our governments are criminally negligent and unable to use simple investigative logic that every investigator always considers for every case they have to solve, or they are the criminals which would also explain the silence.
Of course, even if Bush, Blair, and others are tossed out and the evidence is finally looked at that points to their involvement, although they are higher in the hierarchy than say Bin Laden or your average "Mr Plane Hijacker", they're patsies as well. So it seems the system of control works in such a way as to convince people that the lowest possible guy at the lowest end must be the end of the chain - he must be responsible and there IS no one above him. There is almost always evidence that there is, but it is ignored/covered up etc until some freak accident that it becomes public. If so, the next higher guy is allowed to be removed as the one *TRULY* responsible. If more evidence leaks, more guys can be removed in the same manner. But with each removal, the chances that evidence will get out again usually decrease for 2 reasons. One, the public itself is usually satisfied by then, because they are manipulated heavily into being satisfied and so they do not try to uncover further evidence for higher involvement. Second, because the system works double-time to eliminate/cover up/distort any and all remaining evidence. And as is always the case, if the population is not content with tossing out the fall guy at the bottom, the guy a few ranks up who was also involved almost certainly will satisfy us. This seems to be a psychological thing, due to programming/conditioning. The higher we go the scarier it is to go there too - before you know it you'll have to be tossing out practically EVERYONE involved in business or politics, and the higher you go, the more corruption. The whole system would have to be turned on its head and absolutely redone from scratch. No one dares go that far, that's "unthinkable"...
It's like a tree losing a relatively small branch - while all the other branches and the tree itself remain intact, and it grows that branch back anyway. Sacrifice something less important to preserve/protect/gain something more important. Same tactic of course was used on 911 - Sacrifice a few buildings, a few thousand people, a few companies to gain something much more important to the PTB. Same tactic as used by highschool bullies - hurt themselves and say "Jimmy did it!" and of course no one can fathom that the bully would just hurt himself in order to get Jimmy in trouble. Who would do that? It's unthinkable because the perspective is that the Bully values his own personal comfort more than getting Jimmy in trouble! But because it's hard to conceive that someone may want to hurt someone else so much that they can sacrifice a lot of other things just to get that satisfaction, most people dare not even consider this - it's... there's that word again, "unthinkable!"...
Ironically, on a smaller scale, almost everyone does something very similar to this psychopathic tactic on a daily basis. The infamous "pity me" routine where we try to get the sympathy of others for whatever reason we want - be it to get attention, their pity energy, help, "love", some money, whatever. This is nothing but a manipulation to control someone using their own pity/emotions. Often we're not satisfied with just what we "get" for our pitiful state, we often also create fall guys (actually we almost always do) - someone or something to blame for our misery. Whether it is our friend, our boss, our husband, our wife, our job, our kids, our neighbor, etc. Whoever or whatever we want - and then we get others "on our side" - not due to critical thinking or logic, but simply due to their pity of us. So the governments use that same very common social tactic to set us against whoever they want, the only thing different is that because they are the government and represent a nation, it then amounts to the only thing that reflects a conflict between nations - war or something close to it. In our own personal social dramas we wage war too, we just don't call it that. But it is still the same dynamic and uses the same lies and the same sorts of tactics, osit. And because it works so easily on many people in a micro-social scale, it works just as well on a macro-national level. As above so below.
Although sometimes our misery really can be attributed to a psychopath in our lives, but self-pity and complaining and getting pity-energy from others and setting them against the person is not going to make it go away, since the psychopath can play that game right back at ya, and he'll be better at it! In fact, he'll convince you that it is IS your own fault even if it's really not. So curiously, we blame others when it is our fault, and when it's not, we can end up blaming ourselves. So in a sad sort of irony, we end up being wrong almost all the time! And when we do happen to be right, we tend to be unable to deal with it because the steps we take to deal with it were ALSO pathocratically inspired and so are ineffective and escalate the problem while pretending to solve it. Sometimes it does mask it on the surface giving us the impression that we solved it, but it always comes back.
Like when our government blames the patsies for our national problems (like 911) we blame the innocent. Then our governments try to convince the 3rd world nations and everyone else that is poor in our nation as well, that it's their own fault, and many buy that one too. So again, we just end up blaming ourselves for what is NOT our fault, and blaming others for what is not their fault - and so we end up with a chaotic and confused world ruled by a few pathocrats who understand the nature of the game.
And again I agree EQ, best not to create templates and generalizations about what we would do, but judge each situation in its own context because the devil is in the details. Besides, almost anything we do while alive is concentrating on the physical at least in part! We eat, we go to work, we brush our teeth, we take showers, etc. So we could say "well we should stop doing all of this, it's concentrating on the physical" - but that would be pretty silly because we ARE physical (maybe not entirely, but our body is part of us for the time being so it's fair to say that we're physical at least in part), we're here now and we can't learn anything here unless we, at least to a reasonable extent, concentrate on the physical and take care of our body long enough to stick around and learn what we came here for. Paying attention to global events is also concentrating on the physical, etc. But they are crucial to our learning and development not just as physical beings, but as spiritual beings. As above so below.
So while I agree that "concentrating on the physical" or "worshipping physicality" is not helpful to moving on because by doing this you're making the choice to stick around - but taking care of our physical existance and being careful and avoid losing it is probably important since we need to stick around to learn what lessons may be here to learn. The difference is, for some people taking care of their physical existance IS the goal. For others, it is temporarily part of a process to a higher goal. And of course just to what degree we concentrate on the physical but still aim and work towards a higher goal is probably something that is impossible to generalize or put into a template of any sort, and must be creatively and consciously worked out by each one of us as we go along.
Anyways, just something to consider.
P.S. - although the pathocrats are responsible for global psychological and material misery, we're responsible for carrying it out for them. They're just manipulating us using our own ignorance and mechanicalness/wishful thinking etc. So maybe the way to "deal with them" is simply by dealing with ourselves and our perception - to gain knowledge and make it objective and stop allowing ourselves to be manipulated and fooled into hurting each other. When psychopaths can no longer manipulate others, their power is cut off at the source. We cannot engange in a direct confrontation with them as a way to fix the problem - the whole world will be against us, we will be branded as psychopaths ourselves, and we'll lose.
The only defense and weapon is knowledge, osit. And our ignorance is their only defense and weapon.
