An artful description of Humanity's plight — from Caitlin Johnstone

© 2021 Peter Free

 

12 March 2021

 

 

What is true — is often so simple that it eludes detection

 

Properly crafted metaphors can veil-bust us into a State of Awareness.

 

For example, Australian Caitlin Johnstone recently wrote that:

 

 

We could be collaborating with each other and with our ecosystem to create a beautiful, awesome, healthy world.

 

Instead[,] we’re all competing with each other working meaningless jobs creating pieces of landfill which serve no purpose besides turning millionaires into billionaires.

 

We do have the ability to take all that lost energy and re-route it toward collaborating with each other toward health and thriving.

 

There are no hard obstacles preventing us from moving away from our failed competition-based model to a collaboration-based model.

 

All that’s stopping us is plutocratic propaganda and our collective belief in it.

 

© 2021 Caitlin Johnstone, Mainstream Journalism Doesn’t Exist: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix, caitlinjohnstone.com (12 March 2021)

 

 

Notice Johnstone's landfill-billionaire connection

 

We ordinary folk, and the planet, exist only to serve the needs of the Fat Cat Class.

 

The moral and intellectual ridiculousness of Disposability Culture is everywhere evident.

 

 

In any 'theology' of rationally defensible merit . . .

 

. . . this use-toss-and-fight mentality would be a sin against God and Universe.

 

Ergo, Johnstone's "landfill" reference.

 

 

Are you sometimes appalled by . . .

 

. . . the number of Forever Items that make it into American dumps — as a matter of design and short-sighted economic utility?

 

 

Why, for illustrative instance, is it legal to fill the Pacific Ocean with species-choking plastics of unrecyclable compositions and complexly variable shapes?

 

 

That question, alone, leads to millions of others. Those inquiries are implicitly raised, every time some object passes through our hands on its way into trash.

 

Perhaps the only folk who actually 'get it' are the Poverty Kids — who sort through the tossed stuff, looking for treasures to repurpose or sell.

 

 

This 'Save the Billionaires' capitalistic paradigm — kills life and spirit

 

The only thing that keeps its foolishness afloat is the combination of propaganda and Greed. Avarice, another deadly sin.

 

Who knew?

 

 

The moral? — The most difficult human achievement is waking up

 

Which may be why so few of Humanity's spiritual traditions emphasize it.

 

I am not optimistic. Blindness seems to be engrained in us. It is easier to go with the flow, even when the torrent is obviously aimed down the Cosmic Toilet's effluent.

 

Evaluate Johnstone's metaphor again:

 

 

We’re all competing with each other working meaningless jobs creating pieces of landfill which serve no purpose besides turning millionaires into billionaires.

 

 

Where is the alleged nobility of soul in this form of enslavement?

 

Anyone?

 

Properly used, metaphor serves as mind's lightning flash.

 

Is metaphor (thus) God's symbolically alerting Hand?

 

You tell me.

 

Even atheists perceive the importance of deciding this question.

 

We Buddhist types return to our cushions to sit.

 

Wake.