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Politics From An Evolutionary Perspective
Politics, as well as all emotions, stem from our monkey-brains. In the evolutionary timeline, there are certain points of time that mark a significant evolutionary leap, as it coincides with a widespread activation of a new circuit of consciousness. The second circuit of consciousness coincides with, in terms of the evolution of the species, primates. I call this the "monkey-brain." This circuit represents muscular-locomotive power, and with this development comes dominance and submission. In the human-species today, the remnants of our monkey-brain can be found perhaps most blatantly in politics. This is why politics has such emphasis on territorial and ideological dominance. This is where the appeal to patriotism comes from, as well as our never-ending wars, and our legislation of hive-morality, as in the case of, for instance, the drug-war. This same circuit is responsible for all emotions. This is why politicians constantly appeal to our emotions. In the evolutionary timeline, politicians are primitive-children, and they appeal to your childlike primitive ways of thinking. I say it's about time we grow up as a species, and stop letting primitive-children run our lives.
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In other words. People are better off left alone to their own devices and desires, with exceptions made when those desires intrude on other's ability to enjoy liberty.
We all have this circuit/brain within us, yes. The problem is that this primitive-establishment is stifling the next step of our evolution, which is currently taking place, but is being made difficult by the political establishments. This is the true reason for the war on drugs, with its emphasis on marijuana and psychedelics. This evolution was sparked off on a wide scale in the 60's, with the help of marijuana and psychedelics. The future evolution of humanity is INDIVIDUAL in nature, as opposed to all previous evolution which was dependent on the collective. Weed and psychedelics activate higher circuits of consciousness, that assist in this individual-consciousness evolution. The government saw first hand what happens when people use these drugs, and begin activating these circuits of consciousness: people stop caring about blindly listening to and following the society and the government. So they quickly started an all-out war against marijuana and psychedelics, with claims of moral reasoning, but this act in truth is an ALL OUT ATTACK ON OUR EVOLUTION, in order to maintain their own power
Of course, you have a perfect right to go out and buy transfats and use them in your daily diet.
And I do not favor anarchy. Somalia is anarchy. I favor a government of limited powers and predictable behaviors. Not Mussolini's "Everything within the state; nothing outside the state." Law and order, defense, and infrastructure should be the primary concerns.
This explains the matrixy interplanetary evolution Timothy Leary stuff on your other posts. Now I get it.
If one chooses to take drugs to AVOID apparent reality and claim drug induced higher evolutionary consciousness as a connection to ultimate reality it makes sense that they would accuse politicians of childishness - that is the frame of reference from which the epithet is cast.
This is really interesting! Thanks for illustrating delusion so succinctly! What a great teaching!
There is so much about Buddhism that is based on logic. The whole idea that Buddhist principles should be tested and then accepted.
But if we profess to be a follower of Buddha, we ought to take his teaching seriously. Often on this forum I see people debating over and over again some controversial aspect of Buddhism/religion (i.e., should you eat meat, what is karma, is there a God, is there rebirth/reincarnation). The discussions go on and on because the human conception of such topics is limited. But then, when it comes to a basic Buddhist teaching which is clear cut -- a basic Precept that says abstain from intoxicating drinks and drugs -- there are all sorts of excuses and justifications.
I've never seen a hungry ghost or a deva, or various realms of heavens and hells, but I have seen quite a few druggies who died before their time, made foolish life decisions, made decisions that ruined family relationships, etc.