Tag: subconcious

The Power of an Idea…

Any dominating idea, plan or purpose held in the mind through repetition of thought and an emotional desire for its realisation is taken over by the subconscious mind and acted upon by natural and logical means available.

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Where are today’s Edison, Bell, Einstein, Tesla and all the rest of the inventors we had in the past few centuries? Where are today’s DA Vinci, Van Gogh, Michelangelo who had so much to offer this world?
We are still the same human race – evolution has not accelerated for us to consider ourselves any different from those great minds. Then why do we struggle with coming up with innovative ideas that push the minds of masses to contemplate, to think, to express through innovations and art that language alone cannot do.
Is it because now ideas are all incentivised and patented by multinational corporations, or more so made the average human believe that alone they are powerless and cannot run the marathon without their backing? Why? Because they have power? Something that reverts back to controlling us through fear?
Or is it the fact that through the constant bombardment of advertising, media, TV and technology – we have succeeded to clutter our brains to the extent that ideas do not flow to our brains like they used to. As the first paragraph states, ideas need to have persistence and determination behind them – by creating chaos internally, its just not possible for an individual person to think something through and to have belief in it.

Division of labour…

Pieter_bruegel_il_giovane,_estate_02Humans realised very early that in order for all of us to progress – we need to trade.

Traditional labour, as it has been for centuries, included just agriculture where it was one person who sows the seeds, waters them, watches them grow, and takes them out to the market to then sell – all sourced from the need to feed himself and his family.

In today’s world,  we have divisions of labour. We adapted this from bees and monkeys. Each individual has a set task to do and he is expected to learn on the job as he gains experience i.e. the learning curve.But just like terminal velocity, which is reached after maximum velocity is reached on free fall- it is inevitable that a stage comes when the individual cannot learn any more.

The advantage now is that you have maximised that one task so that a lot more can be produced and all understanding on the item can be reached. The disadvantage, on the other hand, is that the skill and dexterity of creativity is lost. The learning of the over all picture, the higher perspective, the aerial view has been taken away without that labourer’s awareness.

You then advertise those same manufactured items as necessities and use social media to keep them comparing each other – such a clever way to keep humans chained. And they think they are free in doing this.
When each individual goes deeper and deeper in his skill – you have in abundance to give to another and you believe what you are getting is of good value too.

The life of a labourer. Just look at a typical labourer in any industry in a developed world – how similar is their life today to how humans have existed for thousands of years? Lets take an example of a furry coat that he wears. The furry coat is the produce of the joint labour of a great multitude of workmen. The shepherd, the sorter of the wool, the carder, the dyer, the scribbler, the spinner, the weaver, etc must all join their skills and arts to complete this piece of cloth that keeps him warm. Even just the sourcing of the products for the dye has to come from different parts of the world. This is just the production, how many more people would be involved in the shipping of the product, or even just the sourcing of it for the dye has to come from different parts of the world. Further, the tools needed have their own detail.
So the modern man would not have been made without the help of so many. We are only talking about the man that is considered the simplest of all in today’s world – the labourer. Now imagine all the things we take fore granted on a daily basis. What is the history behind them? How trade affected us in ways we don’t even stop to ponder about.

Following the trends that exist today – to peek into the future,  whatever can be automatised requires less labour. Once the labour has perfected his division – all you need is a machine to replace that same activity. So then the question is, do we even need humans any more?

Unconcious creation of lies…

In our need to impress, in our need to be superior – All we are feeding each other are lies…

Literally, from what American government does with global bases in almost all countries, all the way to individuals with lies of our appearances on social media – we are constantly lying to each other.

Does all this have an impact on us subconsciously? Does it only affect the next generation or the whole process on evolution? What affect does all this have? A world created around lies – surely there is an end to it. There was a famous quote I read somewhere which said:

“God handed down the truth and the Devil said ‘let me organise it’… so we can say that the devil makes us make the wrong decisions but our decisions are based on what we have learnt from our upbringings and the environment, along with experiences and how equipped we are to deal with them at each stage of our individual lives.

A religious person (any religion) would have a diety or a God figure to have belief in. That those who have done wrong will be judged for their wrong doings. But what power does a Starbucks barista have who is at the bottom of the hierarchy to be aiding for the bombs in Palestine by serving each cup of coffee? But from her point of view – its all she can do. The system exploits in such a beautiful way that one can question if we are just a part of an experiment.

Or do we still believe that because the companies are listed on the stock exchange – and is regulated and audited and hence will have no corruption? In these companies, you only make it to the top if you have a price – and in todays world – everyone has a price.

This is not to say that everyone is corrupt – it just means what you have experienced to be where you are and how those experiences have changed how you perceive the moral world around you.

Is death only the beginning?

Death is inevitable.

Being afraid of death is something that affects all of us. It is a source of anxiety that reaches every aspect of our lives.

The way our society worships the youth and persistently avoids the elderly is where the problem lies, it shows the attitude we have towards death – YOLO – You only live once so do everything you can without thinking about the consequences? Is that what the youth believes today?

Our desperate need for distraction, along with the worshipping of celebrities and following. Judging the book by its covers – subconsciously we are all doing that.

What used to be called an ‘age of beautification’ which hits all of us at one time during our lifetime in the normal course of existence, does not have the same meaning now. This time is somewhere after the puberty and teenage years, as the individual looks into the mirror and sees the vessel that takes him through his/her travels through life. A few years of fixing your hair, make up addictions etc to have a presentable exterior(appearance) – teaches automatically after a few years, and it is more of a realisation – that ageing is an inevitable fact. Once realised, all of us humans take our own course to seek meaning. This is the time when finally we have realised that life is more than how we have grown up and thought it to be. At some point during our lives, we all face this glass shattering reality.

Through the glamour and careful understanding of human subconscious behaviour, large beauty corporations have promoted cosmetics and beauty treatments in our faces to an extent that we see, we buy, we run out and we repeat – Welcome to consumerism.

With the advancement of technology, will history look back at us as being the stupidest civilisation or the cleverest of them all? Are we really denying death? Is this what the religions warned us about? The fact that we will be so absorbed that we wont be able to see what is right in our faces?