20 Questions- Quareness Series 211th "Lecture".
Does our economic and political system monetise industries of death and addiction, making support for them a virtue and criticism a vice?
Does our "liberal democratic" globalist consumer model profit enormously through the use of interest and "leveraging" the resulting debts into further gains?
Are "regime change wars" related to control of the world's money and have such resulted in an enormous expansion of the profitable industry of human trafficking (now aka mass migration)?
Is fascination with new machines and techniques of destruction serving to obscure the degrading horror of their impact when everything comes to be seen as "new and improved" as meanwhile things are getting worse?
Are the marketed behaviours, lifestyles, consumer patterns, medicine, etc. mainly breeding dependence and selling sickness as health?
Is everything retail therapy when the consumer globalist system makes more money keeping us mentally and physically ill?
Is the basic unit of society now becoming an atomised individual with no real moral framework...
an out-patient requiring a lifetime of pharmaceutical and psychological treatments for insoluble grievance?
Is this "liberal emancipation" framework providing (through policy, purchasing power and the empowerment of desire) a promise of freedom from the self and its constraints...which is impossible?
Are we looking at an attempted complete exit from consensus reality underpinned by a system of mass media seeking to convince us to view the evidence of our own eyes with suspicion?
Is mass scale society in itself commodifying more and more aspects of human life (e.g. offering suicide as a lifestyle choice or even a responsible civic duty, changing genders, etc.) when its technological innovations are reducing our humanity to a consumer experience?
Are the limitations and paradoxes of such a "one size fits all" system exposing a sort of blankness inside with the denial of difference removing any reference to reality in reasoning?
Are there not differences between men and women, between peoples and nations?
Does ignoring the basic reality of difference not inevitably sow confusion and conflict?
Isn't noticing difference the basis of discernment, the foundation of rational judgment and the very core of our reality?
Doesn't every utopian system try to replace what's there with what the system says ought to be there...a fact-value gap?
Isn't the mutual willing acceptance and recognition of difference the basis of peace and understanding and attempting to erase this by diktat a recipe for endless strife?
Isn't who we are really a matter of personal responsibility rather than a question for outside agencies?
Are we fostering a general culture of little resulting consequence where legal punishment is increasingly reserved not for criminals, but for critics of the system?
Are we looking at a system here which is itself fundamentally criminal in telling us that black is white, right is wrong, truth is treason and opposition to genocide is a form of hate?
Could it be that this system is neither truly liberal nor democratic...just mis-sold to us in fine words to facilitate foul deeds?
Sean.
Dean of Quareness.
September, 2024.