Conditioning the Masses for a Political Savior
Why Do We Wait for a Savior to Rescue Us?
No need to raise your voice, lift a finger, get out in the streets or even get off your fat ass. (MM-uumm)
And Why Not?
Because if Hollywood and television have taught us anything over the decades, it's that we'll be saved just in the nick of time, at the eleventh hour, by an individual with super human ability, strength, charisma and a nice jaw line.
It's the comfort of knowing that someday, perhaps one day soon, he/she will arrive to lead us to the promise land that we so desperately crave.
Run Come Save Me
We've been conditioned like Pavlovian dogs to wait for our messianic leader to emerge while we sit back and thank our lucky stars that this day has finally come.
Finally, we will have justice, we will have peace, we will have reason to celebrate and we will have overcome... watching from a safe and comfortable distance, of course.
We've become so accustomed to being voyeurs in our own lives, our communities and in the greater society that we've forgotten how to help ourselves.
Most of us prefer to watch events passively from the safety of our nested living rooms surrounded by our creature comforts, isolated, medicated and complacent.
Our mindless entertainment consists of rehashed, rebooted and recycled super heroes battling the greatest evils of our inevitable dystopic future.
How the world got this way is of little importance, what we must accept through endless repetition is that a horrifying dystopia is part of a logical progression.
Fear is relentlessly broadcast though every medium until we accept this as our destiny.
And according to the script we've been given, we must patiently await our fearless leader.
A hero will emerge.
A hero will come.
Alright, maybe not right this minute, but he's coming.
Hang on...
He's definitely coming, for sure.
Messianism is -
the belief and doctrine that is centered on the advent of the messiah, who acts as the chosen savior and leader of humanity by God.
Many of our superhero movies have messianic overtones.
There are literally thousands of superhero movies, television shows, and video games each with their spin-off merchandise with our favorite protagonist's carefully crafted image beamed deep into the recesses of our minds
The moral of the story is to wait and do nothing until the hero saves the day.
The Superhero Politician
This myth never seems to get old.
As the pendulum swings from Republican to Democrat and back to Republican we are constantly fed the notion that a charismatic leader will arrive to correct the wrongs of our political enemies.
That's right, a political outsider will bring hope to the discontent masses, to purge the system of corruption, to establish a new era of politics across the land, to clean up the cesspool known as Washington DC.
Just as the world economy was on the brink of collapse in 2008 and Americans had began to take to the streets and demand that their voices be heard, as anger that was boiling below the surface and threatened to spill over, the American people were introduced to their savior, Barrack Obama.
He was a political outsider, a young black Senator from Chicago, a gifted orator, a community organizer, he ran on Hope and Change and optimism, he played basketball, carried a smartphone, he promised that business as usual in Washington DC was about to be turned on its head and that it would be Main Street over Wall Street.
This newcomer could give America back it's dignity, it's belief in the American illusion.
The people could go home now. Go back to their creature comforts.
Back to their daily lives knowing that this fairy tale had a happy ending.
They could go back to sleep.
Unfortunately, Obama was just corporate America with a facelift.
The Obama campaign won Marketer of the Year in 2008, with Obama himself as the product being sold.
Hope and Change quickly evaporated and things pretty much continued along the path to dystopia.
Even before he took office, Obama's cabinet was chosen by Citi Bank.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/57710
And after leaving office, Obama has been rewarded handsomely for his service to his Wall Street masters for a pair of $400,000 speeches, thus far.
Trump - Fill the Swamp
America's New Top President is no different than Obama. He's the face of empire and the personification of the ruling class. Those who actually believe that Trump cares about the plight of the average American are sadly mistaken. Trump's entire life he has, stolen from, cheated, and abused his underclass workers while enjoying all the amenities of America's ruling class.
He too is presented as a political outsider, a self-made man, a symbol of success, wealth, indulgence and vanity. He plays his role of court Jester while the real power plays go on unseen in the background. Trump is a reality TV star, who's role is to 'entertain' America and keep them guessing from week-to-week not knowing what will happen next.
You need only look at Trump's administration to know definitively who is in charge - Goldman Sachs.
- Steven Mnuchin - Goldman Sachs
- Wilbur Ross - Goldman Sachs
- Gary Cohn - Goldman Sachs
- Rex Tillerson - Exxon Mobile
- Betsy DeVos - Philanthropist
The Trump administration is the richest administration in US history with an estimated worth of between $5-10 billion.
This is hardly a departure from Obama's pre-selected pro-Wall Street cabinet from 2008.
Perhaps Trump misspoke and meant that he intended to Fill the Swamp with fresh piles of excrement.
Trump supporters still maintain that he's engaged in a 4-D chess game with the deep state. Yet, it seems as though creating headlines acting erratic maybe by design. The chaos that surrounds Trump with each new tweet and the amount of press he receives appears to be a reality TV show in itself.
The United States is military is engaged in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Yemen and stoking the flames with Iran yet all of this receives less and less attention as the media circus is hyper focused on the never ending Trump drama.
We Don't Need a Savior Figure, We Need to Save Ourselves
We don't need a political messiah.
We can see plain as day that the president is really a Vampire Squid named Goldman Sachs.
The president is simply a fallacy and a figurehead.
Conscious people who are awake will know that we do possess the power to change the course of history because there's power in numbers.
We can prevent the dystopia, but we first have to reject their story, their reality tv saviors, and their solutions while creating our own.
There just aren't that many billionaires in the world but there's billions of us.
So true buddy.
Once you know the truth about how our ridiculous system works it becomes comical to watch, well it would be if it wasn't so tragic.
The public have long ago given away their power to these 'false messiahs' to decide their fate.
Every 4-8 years a new one comes along promising hope & change, MAGA, whatever they know the sheeple want to hear and they believe all over again, it's sad to watch because the agenda never, ever changes.
Only we can make the change.
Great post V.
Resteemed.
Thanks my friend, with presidential campaigns beginning 2 years in advance it really is just a long drawn out political pageant show. It's a drama series in and of itself with cast members coming and going and the generated conflicts inserted here and there by the media as they create controversy. Literally billions of dollars are spent by each side in the contest so that we can believe in the illusion that we matter in this illusion of democracy once again.
Yes, it's a farce.
Just look at France now, they have an ex Rothschild Bankster with a mommy complex and no political experience running the country. Well I doubt he's running the country that would never be allowed and besides he's a moron.
Trudeau in Canada too. Talk about a haircut waiting for a brain! They just keep rolling out these pretty boys like they did with the Criminally insane Barack Obombya and the serial liar Tony Blair.
I'm fairly confident nothing has changed in the US with the election of Trump, it may well have come out of left field for the controllers as the majority had rejected the idea of Hitlary or another retarded Bush brother.
Yes he's an outspoken billionaire that appeared to upset the applecart but he's surrounded by the same neocon psychos that surrounded the last two puppets.
And now they're laying the groundwork for Oprah! Who is she going to run against?
Jerry Springer!?
Sighs
Round and round and round.............
I read Jerry Springer as Jerry Seinfield and a cold chill ran down my spine.
Hahaha, at least he's a comedian.
Better a comedian than the clowns they keep offering up for selection.
The false dichotomy of Left/Right, Liberal/Conservative, Dem/Rep, Blue/Red is killing this nation. So allow me to paraphrase Étienne de La Boétie :
“Resolve to vote no more and you are at once freed. I do not ask that you rebel against the State, but simply that you support it no longer; then you will behold it, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of its own weight and break in pieces.”
Voting validates a corrupt system of control. George Carlin said "If you vote, don't bitch" purposely turning that stupid phrase on its head.
Nice.
Today's man needs peace
And what will change unless those who voice here are willing to make that change?
It is very easy it seems on steemit other forums and outside the digital world to voice all these wrongs in society and the working of. Appearance is people just like to talk about what is wrong, and try find a way to profit from it. The agenda is keep it wrong so we can make others pay to keep fixing it.
The only way to take control over the things a minority should not have control over. is to become as strong a voice as those.
If you think there might be something in that,
https://steemit.com/crypto/@brayias/let-s-start-a-social-economics-foundation
upvote and begin a fund
I find it humorous how muscular and stoic Trump is made to look in that first rendering. LOL!! The guy eats McDonalds every day and gulps down Diet Cokes like there's no tomorrow.
Lol, yeah I think he should walk around in a muscle suit just for the effect it would have over people.
This posts resonates with me strongly, very strongly! There is no man on a white charger coming to save us, no superhero in green spandex .. who will save us? every person reading these words! The power lays within all of us, alas for the majority it lays dormant!! Too long have these messages been fed into our subconscious, too long have we been manipulated into giving away our birthright, our inherant power!
It's a slight of hand an illusion, they can't take said power and so we must be manipulated into giving it away. They can take nothing if we give nothing. The true stength of this world lays with the people, I just hope I live long enough to see my brothers and sisters awaken to this fact. Awaken to the knowledge that the world is what we make and that each of us holds the future that we want in the palm of our hands!! Great work as always @v4vapid
Damn, you're such an eloquent writer! I should have asked you to write this
I totally agree that we needlessly give our power away through manipulation, indoctrination and deception.
We give up our privacy, our personal data, our consent in exchange for convenience and 'free' products that are little more than alluring surveillance gadgets.
I also hope that a awakening will come soon, unfortunately knowing human nature it may take an earth shattering event for this occur.
The concept of political emancipation is somewhat "utopian" in reality. We cannot give out what we would have use to change the world to those who we think are of higher species, Superhereos and even with extra capacity by nature than us in general.....and still expect a positive and more convincing results. We surrender our rights, hope, trust, capacity and even trust to further strengthen the strong who eventually abuse them to our own detriment. we are our worst nightmare.
Hey my friend, sorry I missed this amongst all the messages I was receiving. When I read this post I was genuinely thinking how eloquent your writing was so I will take that as a big compliment. In other words thank you! :) Yes it's going to be a bumpy ride but as I've said (and will continue to say) "it's always darkest before dawn". Thanks again @v4vapid
Amazing article, @v4vapid. People need to realize that they are the "messiah," and that no one is coming to save them. We gotta be the savior in our own lives, and help those around us as much as possible to wake up to this strength as well.
Cheers man, thanks for stopping by and I think we need to absolutely look around and realize that we have more power than we know. Haha, we are the 'messiah' but I probably won't actually go around and ask people to call me 'messiah' ;)
Lol. Maybe a good idea.
My friend, I've thought on this a million times, thanks for articulating it. So many are waiting...waiting...and it would be oh so easy if someone would come fix this mess we have all contributed to making...c'mon man Jesus....aliens...anyone...come save us.
This made me LOL:
Thank you @lyndsaybowes, the conversation with you and @perceptualflaws certainly helped in the creation of this post and your input and opinions are greatly appreciated.
Lol, yeah are we waiting for an alien species to come save us from the global oligarchies now?
There's a different hero coming to "save us" for every different ideology. Yeah I was suckered in before in life...and let down so horribly that the only action left was to do whatever I could to try and change things in my own little corner of the world.
If there is a God or Higher Power, it's definitely wondering why we're not trying to fix this shit.
Amen
Well @v4vapid Being student of SOCIAL SCIENCES i do believe change in a society comes up with two approaches
1-Micro Approach
2-Macro Approach
Micro Approach:
Man to Man interaction and matter of life between them
Macro Approach:
Govt. and the governors make policy for the Nation and change will occure.
Both the approaches are good in their respective place but more deep and effective one is MICRO LEVEL APPROACH
In Holy Book QURAN Allah Says;
Being passive nothing brings ... nor in life nor in society there is need to be an Assertive in a very Balanced way.
You always come up with some deep message and thoughts for which i am Really thankful to you @v4vapid
Keep motivating, your previous thoughts actually changed my way of thinking yes i am talking about the Passive, Assertive and Aggressive upon which you wrote in detail.
My Support and Best Wishes are always with you
Stay Blessed, Steem On!
I’ve been de-programming myself for about 10 years... many years of bullshit programming consciously and mostly subconsciously, it’s going to be a lifetime journey to erase all that... at least I’m aware of it.
In other words, wake the hell up people, yes I took the red pill 😉
Well said. A least the left has Oprah to save them now.
Stalin used to dress in white and everybody else would be dressed in brown ... Suggesting that somebody is Jesus is a long, famous tradition. Unfortunately, it also works... Oprah dressed in white, the other candidate dressed in white, sitting in couches on stage, the audience dressed in brown, gaping, clapping, the debate, and you have the vision of the future ...
Great article. Waiting for a leader is literally behavior we inherited from our common ancestor with primates. Rhesus monkeys and chimps have a strict dominance hierarchy and each waits for a leader. An inheritance that is not serving our species well.
Great point about Stalin, and yes this is nothing new as communities no doubt looked to the Strong Man to lead them for survival purposes. This tendency could very well be inherited from our primate ancestors, as it makes sense that the most dominant ones would rise to the top.
When it comes to voting I understand that most people vote based on emotion and not on qualifications at all. I think this relates to the dominant primate notion as well.
My objections to Oprah are the same as (some of) my objections to Trump... and the same people that derided Trump for being a billionaire TV star with no political experience will likely ignore the same flaws in Oprah. That said, MSNBC has been somewhat skeptical of the idea to say the least.
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This post is spot on, too often people just assume we can do nothing to change the world, but we are the change. We've been giving away our power to politicians, we believe that they are in charge, powerful, and entrenched, and so they are.
There is great power in belief and thought, and the way we've been raised we assume our beliefs and thoughts to be true. We think they are our thoughts, but they've typically been planted there, just like we think a single figre may swoop in and save the day.
The way I like to look at super hero movies is that the hero is me, the hero is you, every one of us is the hero. We need to start believing that, we need to start believing we can make great change ourselves and come up with solutions to the world's problems.
Blockchain is a great step in that direction, it's enabling us to create change more than ever. People just need to realize it, then put the work in to be a part of it.
Nice article!
Also, from the book Ideal made Real:
"To resist evil is to increase the power of evil." "You give your energy to that which you resist."
Resisting something just keeps it around, we need to learn to remove our attention from these sources in order to remove their power, attention is everything, stop paying attention to things that you don't want in your life. Put your attention towards fixing the problem instead of why the problem is there in the first place. This is what is happening with blockchain, focus here and on other efforts to improve quality of life. My 2 cents.
Yes, in this sense we need to focus time, money and sustained energy into projects that have the most potential to allow people to prosper and strengthen communities.
I think you've identified one of the major obstacles that people have is that the corporatist state and media dictate what and how we should think about things.
The blockchain is a good example of this as we can build alternatives systems together but I also feel like this has to happen in physical communities at the same time. People need to find common ground and work towards the kind of world we'd like to live in.
The question is, what's that going to take? We need people to wake up and realize we are in it together, the only thing they can do is try to divide us.
To be completely honest, it's probably going to require things to get worse before they get better. It may be necessary for some sort of cataclysmic event to take place to shake people out of their complacency. I hope I'm wrong.
unfortunately, i more or less agree... i also came to that conclusion.. and even posted a fictional story about it.. im hoping change comes in a way that can crush the existing paradigm with minimal casualties.. there are options luckily, not that we get to choose them!
or do we!
One non-violent non cataclysmic option that came to me when i wrote that post was that IF Whistleblowing went Viral, that would totally crumble the whole perception of everything en-mass and would lead to an overnight revolution.
Imagine if one special hero from every strata of power, and every big company came out and told the truth or even a small percentage of the truth!! It would be a frenzy and i believe the start of great change! These things happen when the time is right, just as it is now with sexism and abuse.
@jakeybrown—I like your version better of what the superhero represents :), but I wholeheartedly agree with the premise of your post @v4vapid and both of your conclusions.
In a republic, where people are elected to do the will of the people so the people can go about their lives, the potential for said representatives to basically do their own will always exist. Moreso if we just let them.
Unfortunately, in a true democracy, where everyone has a say in everything, there's also the chance that a few will rise to the top and control everything.
So, either way we go, there's potential for tyranny and oppression—it's just a step or two longer to get there.
We the people need to remain vigilant, rise up when necessary, and keep any would be leader in check. The blame falls squarely upon us if we fail to act or we abdicate our natural rights and responsibilities.
Agreed, we need to stop blaming others
the illusion of choice, to me all politicians are frauds, the real power is the central banks, ending central banks and stock markets, and making trade truly free, and banks owned and run by the people for the people, may change something, but I just do not know any more, it seems war is more important than peace, shame really , as it could be oh so different, just my humble opinion of course, and a great read, thanks.
Abso-fucking-lutely!
The illusion of choice is something I meant to mention but I hope it come through implicitly.
Our candidates are nothing more than controlled products, but essentially the same.
You got it right that the economy is primary and this is the domain of the banks and financial institutions.
It still can be oh so different but power has been consolidated over the decades and the citizenry has been fractured and their own power diluted. We need to find ways to take it back.
Abso-fucking-lutely! I love that, stealing it :-) it did shine through the article, what amazes me the most is everyone turns into Mr Smith when you make any attempt to criticize government and their political party, the term Stockholm syndrome sums it up perfectly, love thy oppressor, worship thy taxer, bow down before the very people that have no respect for you, and hold you in the greatest level of contempt, the silent "majority" is the scourge of the planet, blindly led in to the next war whether it be a war on "drugs" or a war on "terror" the more they declare war on things the more of them turn up, go figure, politics is insanity and only the insane vote it would seem, when a turn out is below 50% of the population a new form of government should be put forward, one that includes everyone, not just the us and them , haves and have nots.
They used to have a none of the above option in the UK, that has gone now, I guess it was getting too popular.