As an example, I have mentioned the Hoffman Process I went through. That is not enough. What I think everyone needs to do, at a minimum, is go through an Adult Attachment Inventory, and perhaps a six month course of Kum Nye, Neurofeedback, and Pesso-Boyden Therapy.
Then it hit me: why not do that as a society? Why not have an emotional growth process for marriage? Why not do it at age 18, and do periodic ten year five week retreats? Why not demand of our political leaders that they submit themselves to an even higher standard of demonstrated emotional mastery?
When the world wants you to look to the left, it’s not bad policy to look to the right. The world is constantly playing magical tricks, and you have to not be fooled by the distractions. The world is people, and people lie. They don’t mean to lie. Quite often they don’t even know they are lying. Or if they know they are lying they rationalize it with a lie they don’t call a lie. It was just their fair share. What others don’t know won’t hurt them. They deserved it.
So the whole of our public landscape is infused with half truths, everywhere, and cannot be otherwise until people learn to listen deeply to their own hearts.
We have the technology to build a paradise, but our psyches are breaking down, we are becoming madmen and madwomen. Silicon Valley is a hotbed of out and out lunatics. China is run by amoral bastards. Have you seen this: http://www.visiontimes.com/2017/10/01/flight-mh370-disappeared-to-cover-up-organ-harvesting-crimes.html
Mao, whose picture is everywhere, including on the currency, starved to death 50 MILLION people. Why would such a government bat an eye at the murder, for political convenience, of a couple hundred? They wouldn’t. That story may or may not be true, but it does seem to clearly be true that the Falun Gong members have been having their organs ripped out for some time, and I suspect had their bodies sold for these gruesome “Bodies” exhibits.
None of this is necessary. All of this comes from severe developmental trauma. It comes from motherless worlds. The Party is a psychopath. It is a machine without a conscience, and animated solely by greed.
It is good to have utopian visions. This actually reminds me of the point I was starting to make before the soap box appeared magically under my feet. Socialism is a distraction. It is a psychologically rooted way of directing attention away from the personal psyche. If I spend all my time talking about US, I can avoid talking about ME.
Socialism is the exact opposite of the direction we would need to go to build an actual utopia. Rather than focus on social relations, class relations, and inequality, we need to focus on mother/child, and to a great but lesser extent father/child and extended family/child relationships. We need to develop security in the earliest infancy and childhood.
Happiness does not take much in the way of things. We could live in grass huts somewhere and be vastly happier than we are now, isolated as we are, and suffering from the love we did not get from a distracted, overworked, and stressed out mother.
Economic inequality is the preoccupation of fools.
And in point of fact if we look, say, at inner cities, the main reason that they are not thriving is that the mother/child relationship is consistently stressed. Girls get pregnant too early, with no good way of caring for the child financially, and without the emotional skills to parent well. The father is not there about 90% of the time, at least as a husband, and the overall environment is stressful because of the failures of the last generation, which breed crime, disorder, and anger.
Don’t look at the left hand, which promises a world where no one’s inner world matters that much, where all that matters are the physical circumstances of their birth. Look at the right hand, which asks you to remember who you are, and what really matters.