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The External Authority Scam I'm sure you know what a "scam" is - an arrangement, set-up or organisation of some sort, the purpose of which is to defraud you of your property. The essence of a "good" scam is that it not only succeeds in getting you to part with your goods - but does so on the basis of exploiting your weakness (whether it be gullibility, greed, guilt, or whatever), while, on the surface appearing to be legitimate and inspiring CONfidence. A scam, therefore, is also a "con". The most common form of scam involves parting you from your cash. However, there is a much more heinous application of the scam mode of operation - which is designed to part you from your very life and soul. Like any good con/scam, it uses a legitimate looking "front", talks a language that is familiar, and plays on your inbuilt weaknesses. The "external authority" scam is built on a foundation which is unassailable - that of the relationship between parent and child. All through the process of your growing up - you are in a relationship which can be described as subordinate. Basically, you do what your parents say - or else. It cannot be any other way - at least, not while you are a child - for your parents' responsibility is to ensure your proper education and safe upbringing. As a child, you grow up in a world of "superiors" - those who have the right to tell you what to do. Of course, this doesn't mean that parents are always right, and often are not, but never-the-less, this is the actual situation between parent and child. Children rebel of course - and parents, and later schools, and society at large, do their best to enforce compliance. So, we all grow up having been indoctrinated into the role of a subordinate - and at some point during our maturation, we become more independent-minded (usually during teenage), where we begin to test the limits of our parents' authority. Then, at an arbitrarily declared age, we are legally deemed to be an "adult" - and can now go our own way, without asking our parents' permission. Would that this transition was the end of being under the thumb of others - but unfortunately, it's only the beginning. As a child, you are subject to the external authority of your parents. "External" because authority over your own life is vested in your parents - outside of your own control. But, as an adult, you find you've traded one form of external authority for another. You are now controlled by different entities. In essence, these new authority figures can be reduced to just two types - the king and the priest. The king represents political authority - the ability to force you to do things against your will - with the threat of immediate punishment (or death) if you don't comply. The priest represents moral authority - the ability to tell you "how" to live, what to believe - with the threat of everlasting punishment AFTER death if you don't comply. (Sure, "modern" religion is a bit soft on eternal punishment, but it's still at the core of what the priestly class is about.) The king represents force, and the priest represents faith. Throughout history, the king and the priest have worked very closely with each other - with the priest having the upper hand. Why? Because even the king needed the blessing of the priest to legitimise his kingship - his right to RULE over others. In our modern era both the "king" and "priest" have morphed into different types of entities - but still possessing the essential reigns of control. The "king" is more than likely the President, or the Prime Minister - as the embodiment of what we call democratic government (rule of the masses). While the "priest" is more likely to be the underlying unifying philosophy of current society - i.e. collectivism. This can take an overt religious form, or simply be the accepted societal morality, as supported by various intellectuals. Either way, between them, they assume to take unto themselves all authority over your life. You don't think so? Well trying claiming sovereignty (authority) over your own life - and see what a brouhaha it causes. Want to smoke marijuana? The list could go on and on. Now, the most troubling thing about this external authority scam, is that it retains its power precisely because people believe in it! Yes, we've been so conditioned - by our parents, our schools, our society and our religions - to accept this situation as legitimate, that our acquiescence has become the key to the whole fraudulent set-up. Like in Orwell's "1984" - where Winston Smith asserts that if there is ANY hope, it resides with the "proles" - the whole fabric of external authority could be overturned tomorrow - IF everyone simply stopped obeying orders. That's the real power people have - to simply say "no". Trouble is - most people don't even know they are "proles". And what makes this situation even more absurd is that those who accept external authority as naturally as the air they breathe - also financially support those who lord it over them. In essence, allowing others to assume control over your life, means you believe they have the right to do so. Now, while that may have been a legitimate conclusion while you were a child - it is certainly not a valid proposition now that you are supposedly an adult. The whole premise of allowing others to tell you what to do, resides in the implied understanding that such external authorities are SUPERIOR to you - are ADULTS, while you are still a child. You are saying THEY know better. The solution is to grow up - assume full adulthood, and tell the self-appointed external authorities to take a hike. By accepting a child/adult relationship - when you are in fact an adult - means you have been scammed for sure. You have been scammed out of your birthright - freedom: the right to be an autonomous, self-directed sovereign individual. Sure, this scam also plays to people's weakness - in that many people simply don't want to be adults, don't want to be responsible for their own lives - and are actually quite happy being proles. Doesn't mean we ALL have to be though. The scam ends the moment you no longer believe in it - and when you are ready to take full responsibility for your own life. The moment you rise up and declare yourself to be your own king, your own president - and even your own god - you are on the path to true freedom - and you'll never think, or act, the same again. Seize the day! David MacGregor | ||||
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