84. The three people of power

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Power has always aimed to place obstacles between the One and Only and the man, most notably through worldviews, ideologies, religions on the societal level, and, on the individual level, through psychology, which fails to address the issues of conscience. Examples of worldviews include the twin ideologies of socialism and capitalism, which today manifest as their successor, globalism—an extension of the same system of lies and irrational actions. None of these ideologies promote true existence but instead proclaim the false. The defenders of these false worldviews include government policies, financial institutions, media as a strategic weapon, and the invisible manipulative hand. The lie is in the confusion of the role of life with the arrival of being. They forget that life serves to prepare us for being; therefore they turn the upside down and place materialism above the spirit. 

This is a false pseudo-existence, a corrupt consciousness that fails to provide authentic information about reality. The power apparatus has also created its own type of person: the unserious, the comedian, and the player. We usually make mistakes when we take the unserious person seriously. The unserious person isn’t one whom I disregard, but one who doesn’t take themselves seriously—who adapts to and serves corruption, or at least are friends with. Unseriousness isn’t an occasional behaviour; it becomes constant because it works. This unproven but confessable behaviour is known to the conscience. Occasional unseriousness might be forgiven, especially if it’s used to lighten life’s burdens. However, when unseriousness becomes permanent, it betrays life, deceiving both oneself and others. The unserious person doesn’t recognize the lie because, for them, it is normal and real. In communism, such examples were abundant. 

Our second person is the comedian, who lives in heightened lie, not to save the truth of life but to maintain the illusion that everything is fine. The comedian doesn’t falsify life itself like the unserious person, but builds a defensive system to justify the life of lies. If they gain access to a microphone or appear on TV, they can spread this defensive mechanism to the masses. The comedy is not funded on, that they lie to society or themselves rather they attributes a truth-like qualities to this lies. The lying occurs in the belief that the truths of life must be defended, yet it continually strengthens the machinery of manipulation. This is Pharisee behaviour when the manipulated life is show as real. 

Our third person is the most interesting. They are the players for whom the world, space, and time are a game, and within it, the sacred man. They are the child, the spiritual minor, who tantrums, screams, and destroy if the game (the sacredness of space, time, and humanity) is taken away from him. The player is corrupt and demanding. Their unseriousness extends to the point where they want to play with everything and everyone; for them, life is merely a game. The essence of the game is that life imposes no obligations, and it has no consequences. There is no order making, no participation in the circularity of love. Life must be enjoyed to it fullness without others participation and noticing that they are being exploited. For the player, life is not sacred. They are the conformist, the virtuous players, the light-headed, immoral who loves to dine alone at the white table. In reality, they are greedy; fooling themselves into thinking they have taste when they are merely selfish, hysterical, and vain. The true awareness, which is love, is missing from them. 

What they refuse to acknowledge and deliberately avoid are the things that hinder their enjoyment of life and the game. Life must be enjoyed—everything and everyone, because everything is for them. They are little dictator who fears and trembles, yet what they fear should be taken seriously. There is no conversation with them except about their latest or past experiences. They seek pleasure, not beauty, and falseness, not truth. They love the mirror, the reflection, where they can see themselves, provided they are served. They despise anything that could permanently alter the course of the game. The player’s worldview is a confused image, like a meaningless and shapeless creation. They don’t even realize they are not free, for they have locked themselves in their own cage, revolving around themselves and excluding others to be in the centre. For them, existence does not exist. They are the one who trivializes things, the unserious comedian who cannot be a father, grandfather, or husband. In their selfishness, they avoid life’s responsibilities, always choosing the easier path. They are the sleepwalkers, their life a pseudo-existence, a lie. 

All three—the unserious, the comedian, and the player—are characterized by a high individual self that prevents them from attending to their universal self, where they could live authentically and truthfully. They cannot be normal, life artists, or creators because they cannot see the true side of life. In our deviations, when we stray from the middle of the golden path, we are all a little unserious, comedians, and players, but each of us has the opportunity to return to order and reality by adhering to the proper measure and finding our freedom.