As long as appearances are held up, most people remain trapped in illusions, not looking deeper to the core substance of reality they live in.
We are focused on external appearances, "beauty", fashion, hairstyles, makeup, jewelry, shoes, clothing, cars, and other possessions to enhance our image, appearance and perception by others. That's individually by our own doing. Collectively in society, we have appearances and illusions of "good" and "order" that prevent us from seeing the condition of our reality as it is.
Chaos teaches. By facing the negative, the problem, we can deal with it. Ignoring issues or being blind to them doesn't empower us to act and progress forward.
Living in insulated bubbles of perception doesn't help. We don't see or feel the consequences to our actions as a society. It can take time. Chemical toxic poisoning, fraudulent wars, and more, doesn't necessarily have immediate consequences.
Gradualism and incrementalism of masking the true evil to keep people calm, and slowly progress towards "good" in exaggerated small prolonged steps, is counterproductive. Eventually the weight of the ignored and undealt with corruption will crash.
We need to see the corruption, the decay, to feel the evil in our lives, if we are to be motived into doing something about it. But as long as they can keep us living in superficiality, in appearances that mask the substance of reality we live in, then we won't be heading in any clear-headed direction.
Most people think things are “good” and getting “better”, because that is the appearance they see around them. The appearance of images they get invoked with through the tel-lie-vision news. The fable of government greater goodness. The society that projects this imagery and illusion. But most people do not look deeper down to the core substance to figure out what is really going on in our lives.
The appearance of a “win” and “victory”. The appearance of “order” and “progress” towards greater “good” in society.
The system must maintain appearances, by deceiving us into accepting its necessity and march to “progress” and “greatness” for humanity. Keep up appearances, keep people thinking things are getting fixed, progressively, gradually, incrementally.
If you let too many of the cracks show, then people become disillusioned in the system. Their foundation of reality, their system of life, shows weakness and disintegrity. They lost their solid integrated worldview. They lose faith. They lose trust. They lose hope. Even when things are bad, if you can keep up a mask of appearances and convince people to believe in it, to have faith, trust and hope, they will buy into it, allow it to continue and even fight to defend it's falsity.
At this point of where we are as a species, chaos without the insulation around it, is required for us to feel and perceive the crap we have created and continue to create. If we wait too long to feel what we are doing, it might be at a point where the popping bubble is too huge for many of us to survive it's explosive force.
The substance of our way of living is not being honestly looked at. The substance of reality needs to be grasped in order to get out of the illusion of blindly accepting, trusting, hoping and having faith that these illusory appearances are actually working for us. Knowledge is empowerment. We have to face the chaos and negative, and learn from our mistakes. Truth can hurt, it can burn, like an acid eating away at the falsity, or a fire burning away impurities.
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Date: 2016-10-07, 10am EST
