Government by an elite core, in league with corporate interests and conservative religion is a definition of fascism. A premise and justification for fascism is that ordinary people are not fit to govern themselves.
Here’s a quote from G.I. Gurdjieff: (for lack of a better words, he could be called a mystic or highl…
Government by an elite core, in league with corporate interests and conservative religion is a definition of fascism. A premise and justification for fascism is that ordinary people are not fit to govern themselves.
Here’s a quote from G.I. Gurdjieff: (for lack of a better words, he could be called a mystic or highly conscious human being)
“A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.”
To which I’d add, as an edit, another of his: “That which does not consciously grow, degenerates”
Excellent deep-dive TC.
Government by an elite core, in league with corporate interests and conservative religion is a definition of fascism. A premise and justification for fascism is that ordinary people are not fit to govern themselves.
Here’s a quote from G.I. Gurdjieff: (for lack of a better words, he could be called a mystic or highly conscious human being)
“A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.”
To which I’d add, as an edit, another of his: “That which does not consciously grow, degenerates”
That's such an insightful quote. Chilling accurate, I'm afraid.
Sadly true, in my estimation. Zombie power
Those empty containers are where woke goes to die.
But what are we teaching our children? We have the wrong criteria for who a teacher, or a leader for that matter, should be.
I’m talking in the larger sense if you zoom way out. For now we are fortunate to have K. Harris.