-Caveat Lector- Admirably put, to illuminate the sheer absurdity of the con-game known as "banking." "Banking" charges are on a par with "taxes," exacted from us by "government" largely to pay the salaries of the tax collectors, collectively the "government." Somehow, after these salaries (and fringe benefits) are deducted from our tax dollars, there's just never enough left over to pay for those "services" taxes are ALLEGEDLY being collected for. Lest we see through the con and object to being subjected to EXTORTION by members of a small Mafia-like "secret society" masquerading officiously as "public servants," they've had to put the fear of God in us with their "enforcers," the IRS, to define anyone who refuses to be a VICTIM of criminal extortion as, ironically, the "CRIMINAL" here -- and thus the purpose of "Law" itself is perverted, making it a means of preserving and institutionalizing INjustice instead of protecting the just from predation by criminals. Such "Catch-22" double-binds (mindfucks) are SO fundamental to "civilization," SO ancient (beginning with Sumer), that few of us ever dare QUESTION the incongruity of their "purpose" with their results, asking ourselves: "What's wrong with this picture?" The greatest mindfuck of all is what hypnotizes human beings into believing in every ideal and hypothetical ("as if") abstraction as somehow "ultimately" MORE real, more trustworthy, than what's obvious to their physical senses, sans "pretty lies" or alibis. Let me give you a gross and absurdly simple example: One day you stumble upon a man angrily and with all his strength stomping a puppy dog to death. Your senses instantly inform you of what is actually happening here, in the REAL world, and your immediate reaction is visceral and emotional -- you are horrified and outraged, and if you have any "heart," your first impulse is to try and STOP this villain from injuring and killing a small defenseless animal. BUT the man realizes that his actions are being witnessed by another person --it's now become a PUBLIC act, not a private one-- who is judging him harshly and may intervene to prevent this act or even punish him for it, so he turns to you and ... "EXPLAINS." His WORDS put into your MIND the picture of some "reason" --an IMAGINARY picture, involving some other "reality" (time, place, events) which YOU have NOT perceived with YOUR senses-- that shoves aside the evidence of your physical senses, taking up the space which PERCEPTION had occupied until then, becoming a SUBSTITUTE for it. You become UNconscious of the reality before your very eyes while giving full attention to a DIFFERENT, UNEXPERIENCED "picture" presented to your IMAGINATION, looking inward at a "simulated reality" in your own head instead of outward at the REAL world. The man who's stomping a puppy to death PERSUADES you that it's "justiifed" by blah-blah-blah (e.g., the pup has rabies but it hasn't manifested yet, so he's "really" protecting others IN THE FUTURE) -- or the act witnessed is unfortunate but "forgivable" because blah-blah-blah (e.g., the puppy has killed someone dear to him IN THE PAST [insert pathetic verbal pictures evocative of GREATER sympathy] and he's simply "lost control," blindly avenging himself) -- or, one way or another, it's "really" for everyone's good, if "seen" in another context that you haven't SENSORILY perceived, and can't. So, the VERBAL ABSTRACT-SYMBOLIC PERSUASIVE SKILLS of the man stomping the puppy dog achieve their end --or if you're naive and gullible enough to surrender your own judgment uncritically to anyone who invokes the right concepts (buzz-words, for instance "responsibility" or "principle" or other presumed values "higher" than LIFE)-- then you tell yourself, with a sigh of relief, that the brute isn't "REALLY" murdering an innocent, defenseless animal, he's doing SOMETHING ELSE --the same physical act reinterpreted abstract-symbolically, never mind what it "appears" to be to your senses-- and you no longer respond emotionally with horror and outrage but with ACCEPTANCE. Hence the man killing the puppy, in your trancelike state, is NOT "killing" the "puppy." Could there be anything more like "hypnosis" than such a complete denial of what is physically real, and to be judged accordinglly, in favor of some HALLUCINATORY image created by WORDS ALONE, with no perceptible substance in present time & space? Think about that, and repeat the above example, substituting OTHER HUMAN BEINGS --even YOURSELF, in some cases-- for the "puppy" who is being brutalized by what is undoubtedly a savage, but a MODERN savage clever in rhetorical skills who can offer you all the "reasons" in the world for such behavior, so many "explanations" to justify sacrificing the intrinsic value of human life to some purely verbal-symbolic CONCEPT "BEYOND" it -- and thanks to your deficiency in CONSCIOUSNESS, all with YOUR consent, and worse yet (in its effect on others!), your COMPLICITY in HIS savagery ... DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance—not soapboxing! 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