“Every society tries to regulate the human mind, which means nothing more than hypnosis: the forced imposition of authority, laws, traditions, religion, scripture, priests, the church’s truths into the innermost subconscious of a child, so that from then on, they can be controlled.”
— Osho
We have entered a new era of modern-day practical magic. A new religion demands unwavering faith that by performing publicly approved actions—actions whose effectiveness we might doubt even ourselves—we are protected from our fear of death. This belief system has now become a state-supported religion.
The sacraments of this new faith are distributed with state backing and administered by a singularly righteous and infallible clergy to those willing to sacrifice, on command, their land, their neighbor’s home, and, if needed, even their neighbor’s life—if the latter refuses to think “correctly like everyone else.”
We now have a generation reaching retirement age that grew up immersed in a consumer culture promising the possibility of eternal youth. Just apply cream that removes wrinkles from your face, inject your rear to make it rounder, lift your chest to make it perky, and at 50, you can appear 25—still safely distanced from death.
And now it turns out that death cannot be creamed away, nor can it be injected out of existence with silicone or other substances.
What is happening in our world today has become possible precisely because society has long cultivated the legitimacy of infantilism, where people no longer believe they need to grow up and take responsibility for their own lives.
Since death has been declared the ultimate end of life, and in a materialistic world nothing can exist or happen beyond it, life must be stretched out as long as possible, regardless of its quality. Preferably from the nursery to the nursing home, in a safely padded space where someone promises you a comfortable, responsibility-free life if you remain “normatively correct.”
The goal is to instill a fear of life (not to be confused with a healthy, natural will to live found in nature) and to turn self-aware individuals into an easily controlled and sheared flock.
Happy “Lamb Day” (a day named after Saint Αἰκατερίνα, which was later adapted into Kadripäev). On this day, ancestors’ spirits were once welcomed into homes. But wait—what kind of spirits could come home if death is simply the ultimate decay of the flesh?
P.S. A person always has the choice to increase their participation in their own life.
/Inga Raitar, Facebook/
