The Fearful Paranoid

Posted on June 25, 2007
Filed Under Journal, Society |

Our culture has a distinct problem with facing itself; it doesn’t particularly like mirrors. So what it doesn’t like tends to get hidden or buried. What works on a personal level, also works on a cultural level. There is a trend that has been growing for a few decades now. Rather than facing personal issues, people take medication - the next natural step of this is for society to sentence criminals to “voluntary” medication.

“Plans to offer more drug treatments to child sex offenders to try to stop them committing further crimes have been announced by the Home Office.

The treatment involving libido-reducing drugs or anti-depressants would be taken on a voluntary basis.”

http://news.bbc.co.uk/

Is this what happens when the jails are full? Or perhaps it is a case that the morality of this is far more ethical. When you run out of physical closets, simply create metaphysical ones. Although that isn’t the only way to deal with these things. You can of course attempt to pre-empt any crime and catch the criminals before they commit the crime.

“Council staff, charity workers and doctors could be required by law to tip off police about anyone they believe could commit a violent crime.

The Home Office proposals, leaked to the Times newspaper, insist public bodies have “valuable information” that could identify potential offenders.

Possible warning signs could include heavy drinking, mental health problems or a violent family background.”

http://news.bbc.co.uk

Paranoia feeds fear, which allows for the fact that a person can be a criminal through personality temperament. From what I gather - it is the only way to be sure of catching these people. On a personal level it is quite common to have resistance and fear to people that are “not quite like us”. At some point when people are bound together by a strong enough cause - those personal traits become cultural traits.

In a culture that strives continuously for complexity there can be only one result - we are witnessing the beginnings of that playing out.

“A new network of 69 offices to be used to interview first-time passport applicants has been unveiled.

Ministers said in December 2004 that all adult first-time applications would require an interview from late 2006.

The decision will affect those who never have held a UK passport including those whose names were on their parents’ travel documents.

It is estimated 609,000 people will be affected in the first year. The system will mean people making new applications will be invited to call the Identity and Passport Service (IPS) 24-hour advice line to make an interview appointment at their chosen new office.

The 10-20 minute sessions are to be conducted in a “friendly and non-threatening manner” and will mainly consist of asking applicants to confirm facts about themselves.”

http://news.bbc.co.uk/

Step by step - it is an incremental process, one which takes on its own momentum. An invisible beast unleashed among a culture - once the leash is taken away it rages onward encouraging fear and paranoia. Eventually the culture takes on the aspects of that beast…and turns inwards upon itself, or finds some form of external enemy - real or imagined.

It is the ultimate form of conformity - those that do not follow the path set out by society stand out. They can immediately be dealt with, ostracized or made to conform. Eventually one is required to prove that they conform, either through passive social trends or official interview. It’s a funny game.

Paranoid. The paranoid culture of modern times.

When all else fails - then it becomes a given that in order to enforce conformity (order) there needs to be watchers. That is the nature of order, it increasingly perceives any slight deviation as a potential threat, and believes that such a threat eventually turns order into chaos.

Recently I got into a conversation on the subject of CCTV with a girl in her early twenties. She was actually very enthusiastic about an idea she had - placing cameras in her workplace offices…so that the “good parts” could be edited into a show like Big Brother. Social engineering is a wonderfully clever thing, give people ideas and let them think they are their own.

The path our society is taking, is increasingly an external path. One that constantly distracts from what is going on inside of us. And when that inner voice gets too loud it is to be drowned out with drugs, or forced to conform by passive-aggressive threats. That path leads down a very dark road, but the good news is that we don’t have to follow that path.

Permission revoked. Citizen control.

Inwardly we can walk in a different direction to society - we don’t have to buy into what is being pervaded among us. We can listen to our inner Self - and work with our Self rather than against it. Developing ourselves - on our Spiritual path, we can learn far more than any of the distractions will ever teach us. This is perhaps one of the most important and vital lessons we can learn. Listen what the inner reality - and pay heed to what the manufactured cultural reality would have us believe.

It is one of the keys to opening up our awareness.