Indoctrination - 2/28/2010
I know some of you probably thought I was done with this webpage, as my last update was fairly definitive...and brought a sense of closure to my life. Well guess what? My life goes on, and I have more to say....so why take down this site when it affords me the luxury of rambling nonsensically in a documented fashion?
And I apologize for not updating in two months, but my work life has been hectic and while that's no excuse, it's all I got. I spent last week in south Florida at corporate headquarters for training. Every assistant manager is forced to attend these week long excursions into the very heart of banality, and I was force-fed pearls of wisdom that any infant could recite verbatim.
It truly did feel like I was slipping into retardation, hearing business slogans and rhetoric espoused without even a hint of self-awareness. Did these people really believe this shit? Were they that deluded that the company's motto has become the very core of their own personal belief system? And if so, how did that happen? What did they acquiesce of their own SELF to allow this corporate mentality to become them? What did they compromise? What have they lost, and what, if anything...have they gained?
I was talking with my father about this, and our discussion became something quite interesting. I theorized that every corporation is fueled by something unseen, some FORCE. My father said it was the "bottom line" of that company, but I took the more philosophical/supernatural interpretation and claimed that maybe it was an entity, a "God" of the corporation. And every associate, every worker and manager of any business SERVES that God in some way.
So in a way the entire corporate structure, and hence western society writ large, is based on Paganism. We've abandoned the One True God and set up our various Idols which we honor and serve with a blatant disregard for our inherent blasphemy. We work daily to appease our Gods by slaving away, toiling untold hours in misery simply to make money and fuel our God's insatiable appetite for power. And as there are thousands of corporations all vying for more money and control, so too are these Gods fighting against one another for dominion over us all. The energy created by this struggle is perpetuated by the millions of peons who waste their lives in jobs they hate, working to meet a quota or raise the price of their company's stock, TO WHAT END? They are unwitting dupes of a relentless force hellbent on destroying their creative essence and making them subservient for the rest of their lives.
That's right, I'll go Michael Moore on everyone here for a second. Corporations are Evil. They are the tangible, concrete manifestation of the Demiurge and his Archons in our world. They are the presence that fosters greed, that fuels division, that instills fear and which keeps us enslaved. We are afraid of our lives without structure, without the corporate mentality of "working for a living". Of struggling to make ends meet. We assume that our daily grind is the only way to go about our lives, and thus we relinquish our God-given power.....power to create, to subsist off of the land, to work with one another in harmony instead of competition, to not just making a living, but make a life.
The Gods that are in control of this world have warped our perceptions; they've twisted and distorted our idea of our basic nature, and so we've forgotten both who we are and how to live. So I say let's embrace the message of Fight Club and Project Mayhem. Let's destroy our cherished institutions, our delicate infrastructure, and our tenuous sense of control....and start over. Let's acknowledge the truth of who we are and overthrow the Powers that Be, because if we don't do it soon....they'll erase the very notion that we're capable of defeating them! That we truly have the power to choose another way of life.<
And I apologize for not updating in two months, but my work life has been hectic and while that's no excuse, it's all I got. I spent last week in south Florida at corporate headquarters for training. Every assistant manager is forced to attend these week long excursions into the very heart of banality, and I was force-fed pearls of wisdom that any infant could recite verbatim.
It truly did feel like I was slipping into retardation, hearing business slogans and rhetoric espoused without even a hint of self-awareness. Did these people really believe this shit? Were they that deluded that the company's motto has become the very core of their own personal belief system? And if so, how did that happen? What did they acquiesce of their own SELF to allow this corporate mentality to become them? What did they compromise? What have they lost, and what, if anything...have they gained?
I was talking with my father about this, and our discussion became something quite interesting. I theorized that every corporation is fueled by something unseen, some FORCE. My father said it was the "bottom line" of that company, but I took the more philosophical/supernatural interpretation and claimed that maybe it was an entity, a "God" of the corporation. And every associate, every worker and manager of any business SERVES that God in some way.
So in a way the entire corporate structure, and hence western society writ large, is based on Paganism. We've abandoned the One True God and set up our various Idols which we honor and serve with a blatant disregard for our inherent blasphemy. We work daily to appease our Gods by slaving away, toiling untold hours in misery simply to make money and fuel our God's insatiable appetite for power. And as there are thousands of corporations all vying for more money and control, so too are these Gods fighting against one another for dominion over us all. The energy created by this struggle is perpetuated by the millions of peons who waste their lives in jobs they hate, working to meet a quota or raise the price of their company's stock, TO WHAT END? They are unwitting dupes of a relentless force hellbent on destroying their creative essence and making them subservient for the rest of their lives.
That's right, I'll go Michael Moore on everyone here for a second. Corporations are Evil. They are the tangible, concrete manifestation of the Demiurge and his Archons in our world. They are the presence that fosters greed, that fuels division, that instills fear and which keeps us enslaved. We are afraid of our lives without structure, without the corporate mentality of "working for a living". Of struggling to make ends meet. We assume that our daily grind is the only way to go about our lives, and thus we relinquish our God-given power.....power to create, to subsist off of the land, to work with one another in harmony instead of competition, to not just making a living, but make a life.
The Gods that are in control of this world have warped our perceptions; they've twisted and distorted our idea of our basic nature, and so we've forgotten both who we are and how to live. So I say let's embrace the message of Fight Club and Project Mayhem. Let's destroy our cherished institutions, our delicate infrastructure, and our tenuous sense of control....and start over. Let's acknowledge the truth of who we are and overthrow the Powers that Be, because if we don't do it soon....they'll erase the very notion that we're capable of defeating them! That we truly have the power to choose another way of life.<
