amnesia is the colonisation of consciousness

The lines of communication in our society are dying. We are not active agents pursuing our own dreams and goals, but have learnt over generations and generations to become passive receptacles of information sent to us through a medium over which we have no influence, which is subject to no democratic control and which is accountable to nothing and no one other than itself. The one tool we still have left to communicate with each other, we don’t know what to do with, so passive and weak are we becoming, so much have we internalised the fundamentalisms of the ideology which is colonising every part of our lives, every aspect of our identity. We have traded our own memories of our own lives and our common history for its moral absolutisms, for the artificially constructed memories upon which its credibility depends. In so doing, in trading our own authentic memories for the ideologically constructed memories of the dominant ideology of our society, we have begun to forget ourselves and who we are and in so doing allowed our sense of individuality to be subverted and colonised by the identity chosen for us by the high priests of the fundamentalism—the identity of the passive consumer, the identity of the obsequious, cringing serf. We have unlearned to think for ourselves and act as our own agents, and have learnt ontological helplessness and dependency on the fundamentalism. We have learnt to let it do our thinking for us, so degraded have we become. We have allowed this to happen, we have found the fundamentalism easy to swallow because it has shown us the easy road through life, the road free of personal and social responsibility and the road free of the ethical obligation as sentient beings capable of independent thought and feeling to resolve the tension between being and becoming on our own terms, to define who we are as individuals through the process of trial and error with all its attendant pain and suffering. In our desire to avoid having to admit mistakes to ourselves and each other we have built ourselves a prison in the shadow of an idol, but what we fail to see is that our attachment to the idol is degrading us more and more as time passes, and the longer we cling, and the more venal and corrupt we become, the more decadent we become, the less able we are to turn ourselves around, to check our decline and to pull ourselves out of the blind alleyway of evolution into which we have fallen. We become so blind as to not see the end approaching, the time when our decline becomes terminal and our investment (both literal and metaphorical) in the idol becomes so great that we are unable to admit any wrongdoing on our own part at all, and make our schizophrenic break with reality complete. At exactly the same moment as we become completely blind, we also become completely convinced of our own moral superiority. At the same moment we become incapable of functioning as ethical agents, we become convinced that we are the only thing standing between the world and Armageddon. At the same time as we lose touch with a sense of natural, spontaneous order, we inherit the narcissistic, paranoid and megalomanical delusion that we are the only thing standing between the world and total chaos. The closer we get to the penultimate experience of the decline of our civilisation, the tighter our grip on the idol becomes, and the less we tolerate dissent or criticism. The more we equate mere acknowledgement of elementary reality with a conspiracy to undermine and overthrow our way of life in the name of some demonised Other. As carnage, destruction and horror creeps ever closer to home, the more do we cling to that which is the source of all our problems, and thus do we ensure our fate. This is happening right now, all around us. Wake the fuck up. It’s not too late, but the lines of communication are dying, and the ones we have we’re forgetting how to use. We are forgetting ourselves. Amnesia is the colonisation of consciousness. Moral absolutism is the absolute negation of the infinite progress inherent to the idea of free will. We have the tools to free ourselves within our own minds. These ideas are the keys to unlock them. It’s not too late.