DAVID & YVONNE BRITTAIN

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A growing sense of optimism and anticipation

Even as I write this article the awful, drawn out aftermath of a war of occupation is taking place in Iraq. Many thousands of the invading troops have been killed, or badly wounded, or sickened by the radiation of depleted uranium-coated bullets and shells, as have countless tens of thousands of civilians of the occupied country, including many women, children, and old folks. The strange thing is that I feel nothing except optimism and anticipation. At the height of the invasion normal programming was suspended. Instead our TV screens were continuously swamped by an endless recital of rehashed war news, and regurgitated archive footage accompanied by grindingly boring nit-picking analysis provided with obvious relish by retired political and military experts. The media was in fact using the war as cheap, time-filling hyped-up TV entertainment, and so okay put up with it or switch off the TV, that’s the choice, but the funny thing is that I don’t even feel indignant about it. How could I feel indignant when most of us since birth have passively accepted without protest every form of blatant hypocrisy, patent lie, and slanted, biased information, from the media in many of its forms, and also from our political leaders via an ever-compliant national media? This is dis-empowerment in action and we allow ourselves to be dis-empowered again and again and again, but for the sake of our home, Planet Earth and all life upon it, how much longer as intelligent individuals do we have the right to allow this to continue? Do bear in mind that to be fully empowered has no connection with the moral standards used by the fully empowered person.

The war, or more accurately, illegal pre-emptive invasion-of, was between two apparently fully empowered human beings, one in Iraq and the other in the USA. Everyone else involved in the war and its aftermath were and are incidental in that their feelings, fears, hopes, and opinions count for nothing. The reason for this is because they truly believe that they are fully dis-empowered as individuals, and they also believe that only amid a mass of like-minded voters do individual humans have any power over their leaders. Sadly, with electronic vote-rigging now elevated to an art form even this mythical belief has been rendered obsolete and without foundation.

Passively we have always accepted without thought or question, a meaningless form of Democracy that periodically requires all loyal citizens to soberly vote for politicians of this or that political party. The form is meaningless in that the majority of voters, struggling full-time to survive in a ‘jungle law’ producer/consumer society, have little or no idea, knowledge of, nor interest in, the political issues focused upon by the media, nor accurate and true knowledge of the personal histories of those to be voted for. Instead we are mind-conditioned to believe we may rely entirely upon the balancing effect of independent media that firmly have the interests of the public at heart. The media has always loudly boasted that its role is to keep us all accurately informed, and in fact to be the trusted impartial watchdogs on behalf of the public. The time for each individual to awaken arrives when it becomes obvious that our conditioned trust in the socially acceptable status quo has been, and is being blatantly abused. Today this abuse has no limits. It has a range that begins with the TV advertiser who deliberately displays on our TV screens young ladies with flawless complexions to advertise ‘anti-wrinkle cream for older women, or latest automobiles built for speeds far in excess of legal speed limits. At the other end of the range via our trusted media we are offered politicians who 'lie through their teeth' to gain public support for their often-dubious policies, policies that seldom benefit the people the politicians are supposed to represent.

For several decades, throughout the world, workers for the light of truth have tried to awaken awareness in an unaware public. By personal example and by careful use of words and phrases each in his or her own way have tried to help each unaware individual to re-assess, re-evaluate and upgrade his or her own worth, and to become curious about why he or she exists. One of the difficulties a worker for the light faces is to transform fixed stereotyped images that are in the minds of the unaware. These fixed images embedded during childhood may be of a vaguely spiritual nature, of a God or Father figure who watches over us, protects us, and also judges us. Equally the stereotyping may be focused upon some special political ism that excludes all forms of religion and spirituality, and instead focuses upon the good citizen bowing to the demands of the majority. In the latter example the judgmental role of a Creator figure is substituted with the judgmental role of the State, which in turn is supposed represent the will of the majority but seldom does. Always we passively accept that someone somewhere has the right to judge us. The result in both examples may well leave the individual to feel completely devalued, and always driven by the need to strive for the approval of others by conforming to the accepted status quo.

What method could a worker for the light use to bring awareness to unaware individuals? A helpful starting point is to remind unaware people that when they enter the world they don’t arrive clutching a book of rules, or a Bible, Koran, or any other holy book. In fact the rulebooks written by other people are foisted upon them after they have arrived. During their impressionable years of childhood they are then indoctrinated into believing that all good citizens, or followers of this or that belief system, obey the rules. During their youth these intelligent young people quickly realize that whilst the majority passively obey the rules many others good citizens in positions of power, religious or political, regard the rules merely as guidelines to be obeyed or not as and when expedient. The attitude “Don’t do as I do, do as I tell you” has created widespread confusion and disillusion in the minds of tomorrow’s adults, and so it is hardly surprising when tomorrow’s adults rebel against such hypocrisy. Earlier in this article I mentioned that regardless of the pain, grief, damage and loss suffered by invaders and invaded in Iraq I feel nothing but optimism and anticipation. This might sound callous until we place the current events of the world into the context of the greater picture. Regardless of the methods workers for the light could devise and use to bring awareness to unaware individuals dawning awareness is already happening. It has dawned upon more and more people that the supposed war against terrorists is really a war against the freedom of the individual.

Soon countless growing numbers of individuals will realize just how much personal freedom they have lost, all in the supposed cause of being protected from terrorism. Currently we hear the war drums of our leaders as they turn their sights towards their next chosen target, Iran. This time more and more awakened individuals will refuse to go along with their leader’s plans because these are also the days of revelation. More and more truth is coming to light. One after another each shabby secret machination sanctioned by our previous and current leaders is being revealed to the public gaze. Each revelation has an awakening effect upon each individual member of the public. Gradually it will dawn upon the trusting public that its trust has been betrayed, and that during the passing years the entire system of political leadership has turned sour, corrupt, and putrid. Then as public resistance to the system grows, the survival instinct of the media will force it to withdraw its ongoing support of this inhuman system of leadership, to in fact change sides. We will always need the talents, expertise, and skills supplied by our leaders, but future leaders will be required by an awakened, very aware public to genuinely regard as a privilege, not a right, his or her role as a leader. The watchdog role of an honest and courageous media will allow no one to forget what by our passive compliance and individual inaction we all allowed to happen in our names.

David Brittain 19-03-2006

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