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Article from Issue #4 (December 7, 2018)

Idiot Compassion - How we'll lose everything

by John Land

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I have a mouse. Actually two of them appeared one night from under the stove. I don’t know if they’re both still co-habitating or whether one passed away or what. So for now I’ll just call it my mouse in the singular. I just moved in to this home 6 months ago. You could say he was grandfathered in. The mouse over this period of time got bolder and bolder until he was seen darting across the living room floor while I was watching a movie. Little mouse turds showed up in the strangest places and he was getting into the pantry as well.

So I bought a trap.

Now I’m the kind of guy who rescues spiders from certain demise in my shower, transplanting them to safer quarters. So I bought a live trap. I had visions of releasing him to the wild. One evening I set up the trap with some cheese and to my amazement I was awakened in the middle of the night to a ruckus in the kitchen. The little thing was trying to escape of course. After a while I put him in a box. He tried to escape from that as well. So I put a rock on top and a few sprouts to seduce him into thinking all would be well. But he was still trying to get out. I went back to bed. Sometime later I realized that he no longer was making noise.

Next morning I opened the box up to find him huddled in a corner - the sprouts were untouched. I suddenly realized that I’d broken his spirit. I looked him in the eye and a wave of feeling came over me. Winter was coming on fast. I was busy in my life. I just didn’t know what to do with him. I fretted for a while. Eventually I relented to my feeling state, coaxed him out of his corner and let him go.

Back under the stove he went. Kind of tentatively actually - like it took him a bit to realize he was free. Back to his mouse life.

Me, I surrendered to his being here but it is conditional. However I telepathically served him notice that come spring, when I re-insulate the walls he’d have to go. He’ll have a better chance of surviving then - maybe I’ll build him a small half-way house. He doesn’t roam so freely anymore, and though I feel badly that maybe I traumatized him for life, maybe too he and I learned something.

Note to self: If you want to be a hard ass don’t look him in the eye.

I first learned of the term idiot compassion from my teacher some 30 years ago. There was a group of her students meeting at her home when a dog walked by. Now this was in the middle of the city - dogs just don’t walk around unattended. So we all rushed out to help the poor lost creature. Our teacher called us on it though. How do we know what the dog’s journey is? How do we know whether it’s home is just around the block. How do we know it’s destiny, or it’s joy in just being free to roam as dogs should. We knew none of that - just this thing that arose in our hearts coupled with the assumption that he was lost and needed to be rescued.

Years later I heard Adyashanti state that, as healers, don’t be so quick to rescue someone from their disease as it may be that very thing, that process of physical suffering, that takes them to god.

hmmmm - worth pondering for a while.

Fast forward to today and we can see many examples of idiot compassion at work. Indeed it is promoted as the new ideal. The media is awash in it from “refugees” to the environment and climate change. And as our societies are inexplicably steered to this new order we are being indoctrinated into a “Newspeak” that would make Orwell flinch.

Compassion is one of the four noble truths of Buddhism. It emerges from one’s own divine nature. Love, compassion, equanimity, joy. All arising spontaneously without cause - all aspects of the same source.

It is innate within us. It relates closely with empathy - the ability to feel another’s pain. Unfortunately, if not tempered by wisdom, it can be foolish at best or destructive at worst.

Idiot compassion when Institutionalized is mind control of the most perverse nature.

You know the saying, if someone is starving teach him to fish. That is wisdom. Idiot compassion is like - oh I feel for you, here is some fish. And you can keep giving him fish but the person never learns nor is he empowered. He becomes a dependent. And soon you are starving too because he has eaten all your fish.

Long ago people with a thirst for power found ways to manipulate populations. Today it is refined to a very high degree - behavioural sciences, neurological mapping, computer modelled and the lot. A lot of clever people have contributed to this “science”.

Note to self: a prayer: deliver me from clever people.

The Frankfurt School

The Frankfurt school arose from a loose collection of thinkers in the 20’s in Germany. Its basic tenets were to undermine the family as it was thought to be an authoritarian structure. In reaction to the dominant western world, all cultural and religious values were to be eviscerated. These intellectuals became embedded in universities throughout America and influenced a whole generation of teachers who went on to influence millions of students who influenced millions of cultural leaders, dead heads, drop-outs radicals etc. A culture of rebellion arose.

It doesn’t matter whether these philosophies were workable, or practical in application, or confounded our innate ethical/moral nature.

The disconnect was so great - the child’s education was stripped from the parents, tribe, community and given to the state. If the state has control of the child’s education then it can program the belief system of that person for life.

Goverments are essentially public service corporations. What the tribe or village naturally provided for its members, governments stepped in to say, oh we can do that for you. When Hillary said “it takes a village to raise a child” she, in her double-speak way, was actually saying …. hand over your children - you can’t care for them - WE’LL do it for you.

When I was younger and struggling I longed for a more compassionate society. There was a whole generation of hippy culture. Love was in the air. Rebellion. In retrospect I can see that it was actively being promoted. However, there was so much conflict within ourselves. And as we were throwing out everything we hated about stuffy societal norms (the bathwater) we unwittingly threw out the baby too.

Now who would want to do such a thing? to actively promote something that was geared to tear down all societal structures, disrespect our elders and saying f- you to “the man”. Actively promote the drug culture, indolence and personal sloth rather than the traditional work ethic family values, and care for one another etc. What sane person would promote an agenda that cripples people and destroys the foundations of society - the agreements that make a workable community. But if you want to control a population you have to instill discord. Destroy the family, create dependence, promote violence and co-opt the weak to be willing participants in the enslavement.

Sounds a bit like the “cultural Revolution” in China doesn’t it. And we know how that turned out.

Thus we have the socialist agenda. Disempowering the individual, make him subject to the state. But you can profit if you’re willing to join with it. If you’re a bit bent. The damaged ones are the most manipulable. Just ask Bill Clinton.

The more damaged, traumatized, those who don’t know their true divine nature are most likely to be swept into this darkness. But it can go two ways here. Liberation or slavery.

Giving up our Power - willingly

You might guess by now that handing over all political power and national sovereignty to an elitist bunch of unelected and unaccountable bureaucrats in some unknown part of the earth is not what I would fantasize for the future of mankind. But the elitists and those who they command would disagree and they have dominance in the media. It’s called globalism. And they’re out of the closet. Remember “the Emperors New Clothes”?

Note to self: He who yells loudest must certainly be right……. Not.

My life is one of empowering people. Empowered people move and inspire others and their communities in an organic way. This attitude moves the nation forward as a conglomerate of communities. In other words bottom up. This is the tribal heritage that is hard-wired into our nature.

Sovereign empowered people. Just what the globalists don’t want.

But if you listen to what we’re being told by certain world “leaders” they would have us believe that giving up our sovereignty is exactly what we need to do. To whom we give this up to we’re not told but it is best for the planet…

It’s hierarchical and encourages dependence. Top down.

The new world order boys and girls (and I don’t say that lightly for most all are emotionally stunted) sure know how to push our buttons. But they have co-opted our innate compassion and empathy to bring about a new form of totalitarian thought control. Every minority and special interest group is suddenly catapulted to prominence. Victimhood is special now. We must not offend.

History Rewritten

In my home town (population 18,000) the local heritage museum had the church removed lest it offend some other religious sect. Duh, but the early settlers were Christian. That’s frowned on now, but we dare not offend the Muslims.

So in the waves of compassion whipped up by the media, through the tragedies of war and displacement we have relinquished our borders to the invasion of countless “refugees” whose biggest goal in life is to live on welfare in the western nations. I heard that of the migrant population that has invaded Europe only 5% actually work.

So how long will our stock of fish hold out?

A healthy person has strong boundaries. A healthy society also must have strong boundaries.

We’ve Been Had

It might be a shock to some that we have been socially engineered from childhood. When Rockefeller was looking at what to do with all the loot he had amassed from his Standard Oil monopoly he decided to fund a national education program. He apparently concluded that education in the classics, arts, philosophy, mathematics and sciences which was prevailing at the time in the independent schools throughout the land was a waste. He wanted workers, and set about through his foundations to dumb down the nations education system.

Fast forward to today when we’re encouraged through guilt and idiot compassion to give away everything, our culture, our shared values to this homogenous mishmash that only benefits the global elite and impoverishes the rest of us. The entrenched bureaucracies and institutions that shape our lives are a mere shadow of the truth. Giving us drugs that don’t heal, poisoning the soil, water and air.

Epilogue

I just discovered that my mouse has been eating one of my shirts. I’m building a wall.


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