The message the system keeps on giving us is not simply that it's ‘OK for us to spend all our time fully engaged in utterly trivial pursuits’ (which is to say, to say, meaningless pursuits) but that it is ‘right’...
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Being ‘addicted to thought’ means being ‘addicted to control’ and being addicted to control means that we’re forever going to be going around in circles. Thought can never depart from the basic assumptions that it is founded upon, control can...
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We all get drawn into the Grey World, one way or another. We can't help it - there is a current that inexorably pulls us in, in such a way that we don't ever notice. We're caught in this massive,...
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When we are ‘orientated towards a centre’ then we are blind to the world that really is all around us (which is the world that doesn't have a centre, the world that doesn't have any rules) and – instead –...
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Society is a ‘crazy-making’ machine. A set of values are solemnly held up as being true when they absolutely aren't. If we dare to say anything however then this is immediately bounced back on us (so as to say, ‘this...
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The general way of things is that ‘the collective’ (or ‘the group’) decides ‘what is what’ and then enforces this decision on everyone else whether they like it or not. In a very superficial way therefore, this might be said...
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Just as ‘all art aspires to the condition of muzak’ (as Alvin Toffler says), so too can we say that all logic-based therapy – which is just about the only therapy we ever come across in the world of modern...
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We all have this sure and certain idea regarding ‘who we are’, and ‘what life is all about’, and this notion that we have - no matter how ridiculously unsupported it might be - is so sure and certain that...
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Our loyalty – on the whole - is not to the truth (which is of course what we would all like to believe) but to maintaining the false narrative that we - as a collective, as a group - have...
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Under its glossy camouflage, society is a big, ugly machine. It's ugly because it has nothing to do with our well-being or happiness, despite all its claims to the contrary. The point of the social system is not to increase...
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The ‘agreed-upon reality’ which we all inhabit is of course a prison, just as Michel Foucault says. We have no freedom not to inhabit it, in other words; we never had the freedom not to inhabit it, in other words....
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Everyone's always in such a hurry to create the Nullity. ‘Quick, quick, quick’, we say, ‘there's no time to lose - we have to create the Nullity!’ This is the message society is constantly giving it us - we hear...
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Life isn't what we take it to be (or what we might be told it is) - life is a trap. This tends to come across as a rather nihilistic thing to say; the general view is that we ought...
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The Designed World is a set of possibilities that have been arbitrarily abstracted from the Undesigned World, and which – crucially – do not contain any reference to the fact that there is such a thing as ‘the Undesigned’ (or...
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The world that is made up of our literal descriptions is a null world. To have literal descriptions might seem useful to us, convenient for us, but there's absolutely nothing useful or helpful about the Nullity! The Nullity is bad...
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To submit to the Machine is to submit to a living death. The Machine has no depth (or no nuance) to it – it’s all just ‘action for the sake of action’, ‘control for the sake of control’, ‘making rules...
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There are two ways of living life, the linear way and the nonlinear. The first way seems real to us, but it isn't, whilst the second simply doesn't make any sense at all (and is contrary to everything we believe...
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The Literal World is the informationally impoverished world which we get trapped in and then rattle around pointlessly in ever after. The Literal World is the Collapsed World - it's a world that has had all the juice squeezed out...
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