Pondering The Complexity Of Greed
Here Is The Remedy… But First, It Won't Be Free Of Charge!
Usually, those who are willfully ignorant will try to shut you off by saying that “you always are trying to be right” or “ With you, I am always wrong anyway.”, They will not address the topic, let alone ask any questions.
Here is the remedy for greed. Are you ready?
The topic of greed is very complex because when we have to earn a living, we all look for what we perceive as good deals and want more for our pennies. Perception is because everybody is greedy in this pyramid of hyperconsumption. That is why monetarism cannot fix the problem of greed. However, if we look closer, we will see that it is a built-in defense mechanism of the system. Many will shake their heads, thinking that this evil must be attributed to human nature.
Fixing the problem of greed fixes all other world issues as soon as we begin to regard greed as a symptom. It is not a cause because crowds follow money like automatons, and this is what causes greed. Money has to exist for the phenomenon to happen. However, money is sold to us as a device to buy freedom while it has enslaved us for 5000 years.
Hopefully, when the 315 trillion global debt bubble pops, many will realize that we are living in a giant illusion and that materialism is baloney.
Everybody follows the money to survive. Billionaires, too, survive at their level. If more people could awaken, the top 0.1% would lose everything overnight. Another example is if you compete at work to keep your job, it is a form of greed. Greed comes in many flavors.
All attachment to materialism symbolizes greed.
The mentality is the same. For the very wealthy and powerful, saving money translates into millions or billions. The point here is that the monetary system induces this mentality. But all this is conditioning because you cannot take anything with you when your time is up.
It is why compulsive materialistic accumulation is baloney.
At the average crowd level, we are bombarded with commercials and incentives to spend. Most people don’t know that when they chase the so-called good deals, they often sponsor slave wages. We are merely describing the “making-VS-saving money mentality” behind the need for survival. They both come from the same drive. If we stop holding on, the 1% loses everything.
The remedy to greed is a very simple formula. We just need to brace ourselves to pay for it.
All this masquerade will stop the day we stop compulsively buying what they are selling. Landfills are full of “their” stuff.
If we want peace and harmony, we will first have to let go of it because the new paradigm does not consider materialism but genuine relationships between all humans. We’d lose everything in the sense that the meaning of human value would shift completely and become priceless. That would force us to come up with a different outlook on life in general. The change will be pretty destabilizing from the inside out. As our perceptions change entirely, what we’re taking for granted today will go down the drain.
Life is the painful process of learning to detach oneself from anything we hold dear when reversing back to our metaphysical state. The system never taught us respect for life but competing and trample others for the sake of success. That is why greed is pervasive.
Most people hold on to what they have at all costs. That is the trap of the system and why we cannot defeat it.
Let it go, and the greedy system will go.
Just think for a minute: from a slave wage’s perspective (which makes all the cheap goods that we consider “good deals”), we are greedy. The system is compartmentalized, and each compartment is greedy at a different level. However, within each compartment, people don’t look at themselves as greedy. Perceptions are easily manipulated, indeed. But the fact is that the day we say NO to buying anything made by slave wages, the system will collapse, and the corporations/millionaires/billionaires will as well.
That is the only way to address greed. It starts a home!
Institutionalized materialism is baloney. It is the invisible realm that commands the material world. Anything considered real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real. Being overly focused on possession is also insatiable, which is why we are destroying our habitat like no other species. Animals are in equilibrium with nature. We are disconnected from it big time.
The true nature of reality is continuous change. We are all born and die naked, and we do not take anything with us when we transition. The conflict with materialism is the major obstacle to inner change.
Individualism requires constant validation because it separates from the whole of society, hence fuels narcissism and sociopathy. Life is an unbeatable zero-sum game.
If we do not transform ourselves from within, greed and corruption will remain bedfellows ad vitam aeternam.
We at The Mind Awakened do not want to be well-adjusted in a dysfunctional society. How about you?
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I'm on a confused planet where I notice that heroic thinkers as Bertrand Russell and George Orwell lived before anyone knew of a Global Warming crisis or Asteroids apparently able to have been the dinosaur doom. I also notice these minds greater than mine, barely noticed the tendencies of group-dwelling animals such as humans, to often collude to make some of the group into victimized status -- as for example the moment in Orwell's "1984" where Winston, forced by the overall group into uncontrollable terror, cries out "Do it to Julia" -- as if consigning a victim to a forcible sacrifice to save the would-be survivor. I am also impressed that, in this past three-quarters of a century, vast new ways to rescue planet and general kindness now exist -- but the capacities go under-utilized. Example? -- medevac helicopters or anti-asteroid rocketry or "red telephones" between nuclear nation chiefs to prevent accidental H-bomb war. I wonder: is such panoply of rescue -- a cornucopia that could include air force sized aerial firefighting -- is rescue left undone because of fearing of hazards or subconscious malignant hoping that evils will strike someone else. Sadly, great wisdom from the past, doesn't much apply to a world where perhaps the over-arching question is whether modern planet crisis should be met by modern planet rescue or whether to tragically accept to do nothing and hope the onrush of disasters will hit Gaza and Haiti or Cuba or Sudan or Ukraine and so on, and hoping more mini-pandemics will stay confined to Africa, while leaving ourselves to sit around healthfully toying with ideas and words, which is all I'm personally doing at age 79, here. History sometimes shows people in their thirties and early forties, sometimes combining to change the world, sometimes in kinder directions. I wonder if there's any such "prime-of-life" people out there? -- or maybe it's here, on the Internet, while I'm too much into my elderly grouch mood to notice?
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Very interesting post. Bertrand Russell, though, is an early voice for the Great Reset--you will own nothing and be happy. While being wealthy himself, he thought other people should let go of their possessions. He also had views on eugenics:
"Russell supported certain aspects of eugenics and did not believe it should be overlooked. Russell feared that the quality of the human race would deteriorate, so he supported certain eugenic practices (Ironside, 2006). For example, he wrote that so-called ‘feebleminded’ individuals should be sexually sterilized because they “are apt to have enormous numbers of illegitimate children, all, as a rule, wholly useless to the community” (Russell, 1957, p.259). Additionally, Russell encouraged those with higher intelligence to have as many children as possible in order to curb race deterioration (Ironside, 2006)."
He was also a member of the Fabian Society. Matt Ehret writes, "The most prominent founding members were Sidney and Beatrice Webb and George Bernard Shaw. This group was soon joined by various influential aspiring priests of the British Empire, namely leading Theosophist Annie Besant, Huxley protégé H.G. Wells, Bertrand Russell, Arthur Balfour, and the founder of Geopolitics Halford Mackinder."
I wonder how much we are manipulated by guilt, to not feel we deserve any security, much less comfort. Anyway, I've just been thinking along these lines lately. Interesting and thought provoking read.