Leaver

Hello forum! This is my first post here. Hope there will be more to come.

I read Ishmael about 10 years ago and it had a deep impact on my thinking. One of the many struggles for me has been to try to get a handle on the actual worldview that Quinn is talking about in Ishmael. One struggle has been that he has chosen to call it "mother culture" and that kinda deflected a bit from my thinking that this is all a one single culture. But Im considering the possibility that the civilization is not a one single culture, but two or three cultures that are in a headlock with eachother. The main stream of its intellectual foundation comes from the Abrahamic religion that has branched out from Judaism to incorporate and subvert the "heathen" cultures through Christianity and Islam.

The destiny of all these three religions is to have a one world government. Christianity wants a one world government under Jesus son of Jehova, Islam wants a one world government under al'Mahid wich is the Muslim name for the Messiah and the Jews want a one world government under their messiah.

So the argument that is passed around between these three religions is about who is that future one world dictator and who is gonna be his high priests? The Christians, the Jews or the Muslims?

I dont think neither the Christians nor the Muslims understand what this means and what it would imply. For the Jews it has been their mission for a long time. Judaism was formed around the concept of a messiah in the Babylonian era. A future king that would come to save the jews and establish world peace. The Muslims disagree and think that they are the chosen people, and the Christians think that the Jews are the synagoge of satan and that the Christians are the chosen people.

What a mess this is... but there is a logical explanation for all of it.

A fundamental aspect of civilization is that people living in it are prisoners. But what are people prisoners of? Its true they are imprisoned by the mythology of civilization, and its also true that they are imprisoned by the systems that are built on this mythology. So what are these systems that imprison people and force them to play along wether they like it or not? Im gonna get into some nitty gritty stuff here so please bear with me.

The control systems of civilization are the "institutions". The legal institutions, the financial institutions, the religious institutions, the job institutions and the military institutions.

The financial and legal institutions regulate the job and military institutions and the religious institution is what forms the philosophical backbone for them. The amazing feat of religion is that it has managed to brainwash every population into becoming militant about all these institutions and defending them to the death and thereby also defending their own imprisonment - but unwittingly so, as brainwashed serfs.

Let me give a few examples. The ideology of communism was said by some to help people who were at the bottom of society. The problem according to communism was that society had "classes" that oppressed the underdog. And so the "solution" of communism was to give the workers a right to the means of production.

But if we look at this a little closer, in what way would a serf become more free by having a right to the means of production? If we would compare it with the slaves/workers of egypt who built the pyramids. What difference would it be to drag stones up the pyramid knowing that someone else had the right to the means of making the stones, or knowing that you had the legal right to the means to make them? Youre still doing the same job.

The same kind of paradox happends in the ideology of liberalism. According to liberalism people must constantly defend their liberaty and freedom from oppression and the means to liberate people is through law. But what is freedom? What decides what freedom is and what it isnt? The law. Nothing else can say what freedom is because law is what restricts and punishes on the one hand and allows and sets free on the other hand. So when the liberals are talking about how the law sets them free, ofcource it does! But only if you follow it! If you dont follow it then youre put into prison. In other words, people who live under the law are always under someone elses administrative power and MUST obey that power. Anyone who MUST obey someone else IS a slave.

The trick is to make people defend something that is actually putting them into imprisonment and slavery.

Let me take another example. In the Bible we read that Adam and Eve became condemned to die when they got the knowledge of good and evil. What is that knowledge? Lets put it this way? What kind of knowledge decides what is good and what is evil? The answer is the Law. The law says who are good and who are evil. Christianity is based on the idea that the law is a curse. Everyone who is under the law is accursed. Therefore Jesus willingly died on the cross to pay for the curse and through believing that Jesus will be the future world dictator and Jewish messiah, people will be freed from that curse.

But even if Jesus died to save us from the law, the Christian culture does not seem to exactly avoid the court systems. In fact it defends the custom of law with tooth and nail. According to Christendom, people who do wrong must be punished, period! So far from liberating humanity from the curse of the law, Christianity has instead brough the custom of law and the legal tradition to all corners of the world. So how do Christianity achieve this paradox? Because Christianity says that this world is Satans domain and the liberation will come after you die. But while we are here in this world we must fight the evil powers of Satan.

The trickery continues with Islam. A religion that is supposed to be about peace. The religion may be peaceful but the adherents are in no way peaceful. They are warriors and soldiers of Allah.

The trickery that someone, be it mother culture or someone else, is playing on peoples minds is that it turns everybody into defending their own state of slavehood to the system and administration who controls those systems.

The financial system with money wich was long thought to be a tool for freedom and progress has instead turned into a debt slavery to the owners of debt. The religious system wich was thought to be a liberation from the curse of sin has instead insisted upon sin and made every independant human impulse into an act of rebellion. The job institution wich is supposed to bring progress to society is slowly turning into a mandatory place where you must go to get those "tickets to the club" (money). If you dont go to the working place you become a social outcast and you can only continue to be allowed to exist at all thanks to the social institution that exists to give the members of civilization a sense of generosity.

There is a rule about all games that the house always wins. There are no exceptions to that rule because they house sets the rules. Once you participate in a game, then you will have to be prepared to lose. Only players can lose, the house never loses because the house is not playing the game, it is only setting the stage for the game to take place.

And if we look at the civilization, what better metaphore for its institutions could there be but that its made up of a bunch of games? The game is like a religion for people. Sports and athlete metaphores abound in all professions, inculding the school. The professional game of getting a career and getting ahead and advancing. The schooling game of being dutiful and study hard so that you can earn your degree so you can get into the next game of the professional world. The game of law where you have to obey the contract or being a civilian and if you break that contract you have two more chances before youre out for good, out of the game and into the game of the prisonhouse where you have to play another game of being a convict. The house always wins. Leaving the civilization is therefore not so much about what we do for a living, but about avoiding and leaving the game houses. Because we dont need them just to make a living. We have just had the "luck" of having been born into one of these games and are compelled from all sides to participate. But as the saying goes, what comes around goes around, if you play the game you have to be prepared to lose, but the house wont, the house always wins.

What all game houses do is that they convince people that they can win and live a life of luxury. Some, very few, do win and many of those who win spend their winning buying things from the same house that told them they could win. They can live in comfort for a while in the game house, but once they have spent their earnings they are back into the game again. For the house to make any earnings of its own, wich it does in plenty, is to keep all the players busy and under pressure. If you dont win you have no chance to make it in the house because it is carefully guarded. If you cheat and try to get something without following the rules youre punished and put into another form of debt. While playing the game people are demanded to act "perfect" in that they have to be professional about what they do, we call that professionalism to be "civil" or "civilized".