What is it about apocalyptic and revolutionary fantasies? The ideal to tear it all down because you think that you can do it better. The ideal that everyone will die and you will succeed. Ideals that are demonstrably false and yet they continue to live on. Shown by cognitive studies that humans are both overconfident in their skills as well as being unable to see the full story beyond what is in front of their eyes. This is what holds us back as a people. Instead of working to create the world peacefully, we only see that total destruction is the path to redemption. We know that the powerful are unwilling to give in easily, so the path to violence appears the fastest. We accept the world and say that it is how it has always been, unwilling to pierce the veil of the lie that our lives are based upon. For change is painful. It is slow and it is scary. To stay with the devil we know is yet another learned heuristic. A mere subtly of the way the mind acts and reacts to stimuli. An evolutionary quirk.
Glory is found in the simplistic view. An action that allows our minds to not challenge the beliefs that we hold dear. To reevaluate and change is to show weakness to those who accept no change.
The human mind is so weak and yet so intractable. To find a way to prime. To create mnemonic devices. In the field of view and yet not seen. Direct confrontation creates resistance. Slapping the water creates a solid. Move slow enough and the water is but a pressure to be maneuvered through. So what are the views that must be changed?
The world has always been this way.
We deserve nothing.
Others have worked and deserve what they have.
The money has always flowed from top to bottom.
The bottom does not create.
Money is the best motivator.
People feel a sense of entitlement.
And changed to what?
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