Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Everything is balloon animals.

So much confusion in the world today.  So much anger.  So much contention.  The how and the why are very complex.  Thousands, if not millions of variables all interacting together to produce the chaos you see in the world around us.  I am the type of person that looks around and thinks, "How did this all start?".  For in the answer to that question, lies the answer to our problems.  It may be an answer that is unpopular, but fact is fact whether we choose to accept it or not.

We look around the world and what do we see?  Presidents, countries, religions. corporations, schools, status, power, jobs (or lack thereof)...but how much of what we see is reality, and how much is a projection of our subconscious? "Whaaaaat?" you might say. But I ask for a good reason.  We know that everything that exists, does so at the subatomic level only.  Elementary particles make up the whole of the cosmos, and everything in it.  For the sake of understanding, we'll use atoms as our fundamental building block.  Most people know that everything is made of atoms.  What most do NOT realize, are the implications of such an astounding fact.

Most animals live a very basic life.  They search for food, they mate, they sleep.  Occasionally they frolic and play.  Humans seem to be the only animals that spend more time caught up in a deluded fantasy than on the basics on life.  I say a deluded fantasy, because that is what life has become for the majority of humans since we stopped gathering and started planting.  Agriculture led to more free time for the ruling class. The ruling class then began to go a little mad, with too much free time on their hands.  This madness led to all the cultural milieus we find ourselves in today.  After all, culture is nothing more than an accepted set of values and beliefs by a group of people.  This is usually started at the top of the authority ladder and works it's way down, spreading like a virus amongst the populace.  It builds upon itself, over and over, becoming ever more complex and convoluted.  Eventually, the people of earth were so busy trying to keep up with whatever culture they found themselves in, that actually LIVING was something they had no thought of, and wouldn't know how if they DID think of it.  This is the prison we find ourselves in today.  


Everything you see, almost, is balloon animals.  After all, balloon animals are all made of the same thing: balloons.  They are just inflated and twisted to resemble something from our mind.  Our mind recognizes the similarity, and thinks "Hey, that's a dog!" instead of thinking "Hey, that's a twisted and inflated piece of latex, which in itself is just millions of molecules arranged in a way that has latex like qualities, which in itself is really just atoms arranged in a way as to make the molecules that make up latex."  Whew, that's a mouthful!  Which is probably why we do not think in those terms.  But it is important that we remember the basic building blocks of reality.  For if we do not, we begin to think our balloon animals are real.  Concepts, like country, religion, employment, relationships, all these things are just role-playing games where we use the balloon animals as a reference and prop.  The madness of the ruling classes has spread to us all.  We have forgotten it's all just a game, and mistaken it for reality.  Like the philosopher who stated that civilization created a map so very like the real world, that we have overlaid that map upon reality and rest upon it as though it were real, as the true world rots beneath us, forgotten.  


So look around, and know that all is balloon animals.  You, your children, your boss, your job, your country, your religion.  It's all a fabrication, an image your mind makes out of the of the fantasy of concept and the subatomic particles that make up everything.  We are all legos, from the dying child in africa to the president of the united states.   All is equal, nothing is to be worried over, and anything is possible.  All is lego's, all is balloon animals.  Remember this, and your life will be much less stressful.  We are playing a game with these items, one that ends once you die.  Or do you just go to the next level?  Either way, try to remember it's all just a game. One you may not have asked to play.  So observe and question and make your own game if you have to.  But above all, remember that every human and animal and rock and tree and star and galaxy is all made of the same thing, therefore we are all one and any division you see is purely illusory.