North Stoke Life

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...

Signalling obedience is how modern people tell other members of our preferred social group that: "I am an obedient instrument of my tribes authority, above all else" Put in collective terms:  signalling tells the tribe that we're willing slaves to its authority .  I signal my obedience because it works. I know that the better I can signal my obedience, the more likely I am to climb socially and economically in the tribe. This is the golden rule of obedience. There are no exceptions to obedience within a society *. All members of a tribe do it because it works. Just because you are super wealthy or powerful does not exempt you. You only got there because you have managed to signal obedience better than all the rest. And your tribe conferred that wealth and power onto you because of it. Only ignorant fools complain about wealth and power through jealousy. For all of us are hard at it too.  To cover up the inevitable shame and guilt of one's self induced obedience sl...

Linking to Mr. Henry Law's excellent YouTube channel with a first class piece on cause and effect of location value and the consequences at a micro scale which are identical at the macro scale.