Whether people are primarily driven by impulses to secure their own satisfaction or by a sense of duty, they seek moments of heightened life experience, what is called "happiness":
The happiness of eating a buffet or the happiness of having done a good job is the same feeling. For sadists, happiness is tormenting others. For pedants, order is happiness. But for most, happiness is delightful things, like making a baby laugh. The shared happiness within the family is the strongest source of mental strength.
What determines whether the feeling is steady and lasting is what "the voice within us" says about it. There is a constant narrative within us, fueled by culture's division of the ugly and the beautiful, the good and the bad, the pure and the impure, etc.
Traumas also affect the voice. Our caregivers' criticism colors it and weaves together with the trauma's effects into a hysterical scream of dissatisfaction when we are close to succeeding at something. There is a risk that "Fear of Opportunities" becomes a bass note in our lives, a voice saying we are safer if we don't try.
Stories also motivate us to go to work in the morning, visit family dinners, paint a picture, cook a new dish, travel to Italy, take a dance course, and sing in a choir. The story gives us a place, a position, and direction from which we interpret the meaning—or meaninglessness—of our lives.
For millennia, the wealthiest families have exploited our need for stories and our strong belief in stories to make us co-creators of their material abundance. It is through stories of God, the nation, money, and being "a good person" that they have been able to subdue us.
What drives someone to save money in a bank? The same thing that drives someone to rob a bank: a consensus about the value of money. What makes a person restrain their fist in the face of harsh words? A consensus about honesty. For those who cannot control themselves, a consensus about law and order allows the monopoly of violence to step in.
That is not to say that everything we can think of with the guidance of these concepts is evil and bad for us. Plato would have said that the concepts, as well as the phenomena in the world generated by the concepts, reflect a more real, metaphysical reality, with archetypes for how we ideally should live together.
I am convinced of the existence of interdimensional beings, most clearly noticeable in how our inner voices sound. Some only want to subdue and exploit us, by making us submissive to central powers and sadists. Others support us in the goal of realizing something beautiful, good, and true.
There is no capital, no mass media, no military power or other technology, and no board or government that can prevent a story from taking over the minds of billions of people. If this were not the case, why do you think global corporations spend so much money on advertising, PR, and "social responsibility"?
The story of Nicholas is true. It is about a tender and just boy who wanted to do right and dreamed of a good life. He loved his family and we loved him. And we, the parents were so grateful that the healthcare system had saved his life several times, that we could be deceived into letting him be killed in an experimental drug trial—without informed consent.
It is a story of the ultimate betrayal by the authorities we try to be "good citizens" under. It is a story that makes us want to rise against them and replace them. To build new communities within the society, based on Nicholas's essence.
At this very moment, the story of Nicholas collides with a thousand other stories within you, trying to assert themselves: Maybe they tell you how to you use Nicholas in a ”slightly better” story? Maybe they tell you that the story of Nicholas is not completely true?
They can try…
The story of Nicholas is his gift to us. And it is one of the most powerful stories in world history. I believe it will change the World.
If I'm right, I'm right. Then there is nothing that can stop the story. The genie is out of the bottle.
Beautiful piece. Thank you .
30 odd years ago it was Serge who spurred me on, then came Ryan, and then Carolina, and then Noe,
spanning several countries as in : The Caribbean, The Netherlands, U.S.A. Florida, Germany, why on earth were so many like them less able to maneuvre around in the world and why would nature put more beings on earth which would need care long after the parents would have moved on? It did not make sense at all, the best salespeoples for Big Harm are teachers, yes, yes, we all have to because...health you see, the white coat drug dealers told them so you see, to protect the fearful teachers you see, to keep our health because without The Cult of the Medics (a movie) humans would not stand a chance. However humans had made it this far without them before, natural birthing at home, caring for the sick and elderly if need be, setting a broken bone at home if need be making makeshift crutches if need be, tending to wounds and stitching them up if need be. Ah yes, those ancestors, ah yes they tell us they were living in the dark ages, clueless of how to take care of themselves, that's why we are here.......................................but The Dumbing Down of America (a movie) has gone global and now children cannot tie shoelaces anymore, it is modernity they say we can make it easy and give you velcro, you can velcro your life together, no real creativity needed, go figure...
Yes I'll add Nicholas to that list, the other ones I know personally and I am truly fed up with the little self appointed gods acting like nincumpoops, little twats, getting their salary off of the misery of others under the guise of: we are here to help. The dumbing down has worked to a T.
To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good... Ideology - that is what gives devildoing its long-sought justification and gives the evildoer the necessary steadfastness and determination. That is the social theory which helps to make his acts seem good instead of bad in his own and others' eyes, so that he won't hear reproaches and curses but will receive praise and honors.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I wish you a lovely day, kind regards.