North Stoke Life

I found out today, that my name is in the Epstein Files. It's a joke of course which I sent around to friends. Thinking they would see the joke. Why is it funny? If you observe things that are happening,  right in front of your face, it's obvious that what happened on that island fades into insignificance when compared to the deeper corruption we're all 'involved in' on a daily basis. Do I really have to provide evidence about everyone's complicity? It's not that these files are being used to divert attention away from much bigger social problems. It's that they help every single one of us escape from our own complicity in the worlds problems. And this grotesque story about the people, all totted up, is far greater than that! We project our shadow onto wealth and power, to escape from our own contributions.  The ability to do this using free speech is the main reason we keep electing the same monstrous perverts into the highest seats of power...

Can land be stolen? Only in the eyes of the law. And the law is not inherently justice. It is just the law. In the final analysis, the law is Power masquerading as justice. Whichever is the most powerful authority in that time and place, is, the law. That is all. Morals and ethics might contribute but they're just nice-to-haves as the entirety of history testifies to very clearly. This becomes critically important to a civilisation once it has become secular, thinking it has risen above nature*. Once there's no longer a higher order of so called justice to moderate our obedience** in an unknown after life, how do you think things will play out for that civilisation? Something can only be stolen, if it was owned in the first place. Do we all agree? If not, we cannot proceed. For example, we're told that so called private property can be owned - the earnings of hard work or the capital savings in a business. But isn't this just a legal construct too and what does nature ...

How Does Authority Moderate a Great Masse of People Who Have Turned Away From God? Firstly, I am not religious, nor do I believe in God... whatever that is . This is not to be critical of the idea of God. I'm simply telling you my position on that visionary rumour . But a higher authority , even if an imaginary one, will moderate large groups of people into obedience as the best available alternative. That is, people are less likely to break the law and so on, if they believe a higher authority than the state is extant. I do not think this is a good or a bad thing. It is simply observed. So yes, I believe this is a terrible socially constructed mistake. I believe  God does not want our obedience - God wants our autonomy .  Annoyingly, this higher and possibly imaginary power we call God is still better than the next best alternative - the state which has adopted God's absolute and unconditional power, on the earth only. The trouble with the state is that people have never res...

This post is going to tell you about humanity in the middle of an extraordinary evolutionary transition.  And that this is the first evolution since humans started cultivating the fields systematically ten thousand years ago. *  And that not only do we see that slavery is wrong. We cannot see that once upon a time and for good reason it was seen as right. Curiously at the same time we cannot see that the time is ripe to adopt autonomy instead on a systemic basis - something is stopping us from getting rid of slavery. This last sentence is key - everyone knows slavery is wrong today. Nobody agrees that autonomy is right today. Can you see it?  We are stuck and I know why.  Because of this we feel like we're stuck in a time warp of modern day system wide slavery unable to see clearly enough to observe the potential for the first evolutionary step of man.  And project blame onto those who signal autonomy while praising highly those who signal obedience(slaves). W...

This post is going to show you how we cover up the shame and guilt of being obedient instruments of authority - effectively a self induced slavery which no one is proud of when it is finally confessed to. To cover up the inevitable shame and guilt of our self induced obedience slavery, all tribe members use a theatre of virtue to keep our slavery hidden.  This theatre comprises the following language and activities:  following the science using observed fact planet saving doing charity showing empathy paying our taxes following the law helping the poor and so on and so on These things are all on the face of it admirable virtues. But in the most important way to us as obedient players, they're really a masquerade we hide behind as surface protection from the guilt and shame of our wilful obedience to authority - the most pernicious form of slavery - slavery has always been self induced. A theatre of virtue.  Though this helps the slave in the short term, there is no escape...