THROUGH THE NIGHT
Queens, 2011
Established orders and systems produce conditioned responses, which regard our governing system as the true guardians of freedom, while also pretending to be the one and only source of truth. The ruling order conceives and propagates the myths and illusions that maintain these responses. Their control of our perception is total and sacrosanct. All political modes of control and information both rely upon and revolve around faith in their credibility, and unquestioning acceptance of their unalienable right to assume professional responsibility for our actions and future. We are told that we are surrounded by those who would deny us freedom and destroy our order. We are encouraged and coerced into a paranoid fear of that which is different. Ever-increasing and unlimited power is offered as our only salvation from fear. Irrationally afraid of that false threat and desperate to be free, we relinquish all responsibility for our lives to those whose function is to maintain these illusions. We are insistently trained to accept their myths of fear and aggression. Subservience to their demand for increased power and survival has become the accepted model. We are perpetually conditioned, encouraged and blackmailed into self-restrictions and into narrower and narrower perceptions of reality. Our own importance, our own potential, our own experience is directed to the survival of their false truths. Trained to ignore the evidence of our senses and experiences and to feel guilt when we question their myths, we are left with no easy escape; the voluntary relinquishing of responsibility for our lives, actions and truths is the true source of our destruction. Freedom from this system of control based upon perpetual fear and misinformation is required for our own survival. The myths and systems that maintain these false realities must be removed.
Gregory Green
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