"THE iLLUSiON OF SUPERiORiTY"
(I advice people to print this out if possible as it can take a few reads to fully comprehend)
Let’s get straight into it… most humans have been claiming superiority over each other and every thing on this planet for who knows exactly how long. Claiming to be the most intelligent creature on this planet, is simply a claim of Superiority. It’s like saying "We’re better than, We have something more than or We deserve to be on this planet more than". I don’t have to convince many of you that most humans have been claiming Superiority over each other over all documented history, obviously some more than others. What actually do humans mean by saying that they are more intelligent than anything else is? It seems to be because they can manipulate things to create other things (material things) that make their life easier, which got out of control with the industrial revolution. Now that’s funny, because I think that life might have been just a little easier back in the tribal days way way before this industrial revolution we had to have, so they thought/think.
But wait, not only were these humans claiming to be more intelligent than all the animals and all the plants and all the mountains n things on this planet, but there is many that claimed they are more intelligent than other humans. Could this be true???
Now I hardly went to school so I don’t know that much about history, but I think this big fad of being the most "intelligent Superior people" on this planet really took off way back in the conquering days. Wasn’t that! Their claim for taking over, "We’re better than you savages, look, we have guns that say so". Even if they weren’t saying it, they were certainly acting like they were Superior. "We are the new rulers of your land, so pack your spears and get out". If only my ancestors were that nice. But they weren’t, they killed as many people as they could and made slaves of the rest, so my step daddy used to tell me. Please note that I’m not trying to trash people here, I’m truly trying to show when it all got out of hand the last time, that continues to this day. Plus I’m a product of this conquering game myself. I’m ¾ Spanish mix and ¼ native South American Indian.
Anyway what do you think it was that made these people think they were Superior? I think it was the fact that they had invented and created guns. That’s the only reason they won these battles, that allowed them to secure to themselves this feeling they already had of Superiority. In my second book I give a more detailed account of how I believe it all started.
Conquerors maintained this though of Superiority, there is nothing that makes people feel more Superior, than killing n controlling other people and taking over their land.
And this is how the white man is Superior to natives, (or tribal people) started, that turned to be the claim that white man is superior to all others. Now the conquerors obviously also came with a much superior way for people to live. Which I believe is the "Hierarchy System" that has come to rule the world today. Everything in the "Modern World" was born out of the Hierarchy System and functions with the Hierarchy System as the main driver. It’s a system structured strictly to claim, promote and exercise Superiority. What people haven’t realised is that this Superiority people feel grows year after year, generation after generation, this belief gets bigger in individuals and in the amount of individuals as more and more people are fighting to be better that someone. This became not just white man over all others, but whites over their own fellow whites in their won city too, natives do this now too, constantly fighting with each other to be the Greatest. Everyone is doing it, and they do this by fighting and with money and material things. It’s not just the rich over the poor but the rich are constantly competing with each other to be the "Greatest" too. They say its "human nature". But I think they forgot that this system has been imposed, maintained and kept in play "Strictly by Force", which means it’s ‘Not’ natural. Next time you go out into the world, look carefully at how the whole world functions, everything people do is powered by the constant want to be the best, better than, Superior to. That’s how they sell everything in the marketing world, "The Best, The Greatest, The Latest" which is a phrase to say "better than… before". Schools are all about "competing to be the best". The economic system is all about who’s the best. How do you think cities worldwide came to be what they are now, "every generation or every 5-10 years someone wants to build a "Bigger n Better" building to outdo the last "Biggest n Bestest" building. We hear it described in that way on the international news every time one pops up. Most arguments people are having at this "very moment" in all parts the world, are either two people arguing over who’s better, who has the better knowledge or one person defending himself because someone has tried to claim superiority over him/her somehow. Even the same people who claim superiority "Absolute Hate" it when others try and claim to be superior over them. That also proves it’s not natural.
If you still think its human nature". Consider this… I’ve studied Buddhism and they consider that, to be "Humble" is the best way a person can be, which is the opposite of superior. So if not all people choose to entertain the thought of "We are Superior". Then it’s not human nature. It’s "those who feel Superior nature" or "Conqueror nature" or "Whoever wants to be King nature". That’s if we’re going to be accurate. You know what I mean, yeah.
At one point not long ago I started to think that maybe so many tribal people got beaten because they were "humble". Then I started to remember what I was taught and what I had read of the behaviour of tribal people when I was doing the only institutional study that I’ve done. Which is one unit of "Anthropology 101" at the University of Western Australia, which also lead me to watch all the docos on tribal people on the SBS, ABC channels here in Perth that I could. And I went "Yeah right", tribal people by large lived with Respect for the planet, which is the same as not considering themselves Superior to it. Which is the opposite of how conquerors lived or how we live now, thinking we rule the planet. Most tribal people didn’t consider themselves the kings of the planet. They walked this planet like they were guests here. I’m talking about before they had contact with conquerors.
I now know how all this works, a large part of it explained in my first book "THESE SIMPLE HUMANS". Basically it takes people who feel Superior to the planet to go around trampling all over it claiming to "Own the Lands" they conquer, taring them apart, doing as they want, moving things around, changing the planet around to the level they have done now. Take a look around, everything is All Over the place, it’s a mess. This means that, if there are certain people who "Don’t" walk the planet claiming Superiority, that this behaviour is definitely ‘Not’ human nature.
Back to the illusion of Superiority. When I was younger I did a lot of work in the building industry and I can forever remember many people claiming to be great at this trade or that trade, when I saw that they clearly weren’t. I always remember wondering how they couldn’t see they where way off the mark on their belief of their own abilities. Then as I was writing my first book it hit me like lightning, that while we have the ability to see reality we also have the opposite ability of being able to entertain fantasy. "Sh-t Yeah" Now if we combine fantasy with this belief of Superiority, we have a double Whammy! (The belief of Superiority must live in the fantasy world). Then I thought, "that’s it!" there are people out there living totally in the world of illusion. And this is a phenomenon that’s been worldwide forever. "People living in Fantasy Land thinking they’re Great"…
This is how people in critical situations like doctors, judges, police, army, and the many more make huge mistakes. They totally think they cannot be making mistakes. They don’t double check enough times or allow others to check, and because they claim to know what they are doing, everyone around them trusts them. And BAM! A critical mistake is made. Then these people who have this "Superiority belief" will do all they can to deny, cover and pass on the mistake as the cause being anything else but from them. And they’ll deny it forever sometimes. So these peoples Superiority is a "Complete illusion". The fact is that a person can not be better than another can if they can’t even recognise their own mistakes. Part of reaching higher levels of any task is to recognise the mistakes we’re making along the way, cause "we are mistake making machines". I have stood face to face with people who think they’re great at this or that. And I knew for a fact that they weren’t. I’ve seen the result of their skill and compared it to others who are better. This shows that this belief of their greatness lives "Only in their head", because it was definitely ‘Not’ in mine, ‘Nor’ was it in the mind of many other people who truly recognise their average level of talent.
It happened to me just the other day when I got this computer guy to come in to fix a virus in my computer, I made sure I asked him if he knew what he was doing, asked him many times that I wouldn’t loose any of my stuff. He said "I can save it all", when I got my computer back there was only half of my stuff in it, and he was asking for more money to find the rest, which he says is in here somewhere. I had whole different versions of my books and many other things in here. I know he’s full of shit. Then I took a necklace to get fixed to the jeweller I bought it from, when I got it back I noticed it was a little crooked but thought nothing of it, then it broke again. So I took it back and explained what the problem was and I could tell he wasn’t happy with me picking his faults, got it back, it broke again. Then went to another jeweller that I have known for ages, told him the story, he made a different mistake that cause it to break again in a week. Took it back, tried to explain the problem, he too wasn’t happy with me telling him he’s mistakes. I could tell he wasn’t even getting what I was saying, acting all ignorant to the mistake. We then agreed he would fix the crack but not the mistake (since he couldn’t see it). The necklace broke again. Now this is "Not’, bad luck", the world is absolutely full of people living in the illusion that they are much greater than they really are. "It’s like a plague out there I’m telling you". Modern man is full of illusionary self-greatness. I know for a fact that many of you reading this have had this experience with people claiming illusionary greatness. The funny thing is that these same illusionary people recognise this behaviour in others too, but ‘Not’ in themselves. And so great is their illusion that when I point it out to them showing them the facts, they shut up, but start to fume inside and never talk to me again. I know what’s going on in their heads though, they go "fu-k im if he’s not going to recognise my greatness", or "he’s way too negative". Yeah right I say, "your just a little too positive (delusional) on your behalf"… Hey, I used to be like this too, I sadly admit. I grew up in this world taught to behave like this; it was "All about the Greatness". Put it this way. Have you ever been wrong about something? Well before you recognised you where wrong, you actually thought you where right. That was an illusion.
Then the other thing I found with people who claim this Superiority, is that many people who might be good at one chosen profession go onto think they are experts at many other things that they know very little about. Which proves this Superiority is an illusion, which also spreads across and lifts all these people’s abilities to illusionary levels.
Then you have the people who "think" they’re great at everything they do when in reality they aren’t even half-good at anything. At this point some might think that I’m just putting these people down. But I’m not, because I don’t for one-minute think I’m better than they are. I don’t think I’m better than anyone else is. I understand clearly the exact level of intelligence I have on all the subjects I know and just because I have a high level of intelligence on A subject "does NOT make me better than any one". I’m constantly saying, "I know little about this subject, so my opinion doesn’t hold much value". I’m telling you that people make a lot less mistakes when they are clear and accurate on their knowledge levels. For example, when I do make a mistake I am quite aware of the cause and waste not time fixing it, and making sure it doesn’t happen again. While the "Superiority Kings" keep making the same mistakes over n over again n again and many new ones.
This can get very complex but I will try to explain it.
It works like this. Imagine a scale from Fantasy to Reality (or illusion to truth, same thing). We can attach this scale to every task done by an individual. A person can be at the fantasy side of the scale in view of their abilities, which means they’re greater than they really are as we have talked about. Or a person can be at the reality side, where they are totally accurate of their level of a particular skill. This scale works on each individual skill a person might have as well as over all.
This is where it can get complex. A person ca be totally accurate at describing their own level in one, two or however many skills and totally delusional in their view of one, two or however many other skills. And people can be at different levels of the scale with their ability of each individual task, and also at different levels in "their view" of their ability on each of these tasks. But mainly you will find that people that live closer to reality will be more Real across the board of their level of skill on each of the things they do. While people at the fantasy end of the scale will think they are way greater at all things they do. The other bit of valuable info on this is that the further someone goes towards the fantasy side, the further they get from reality, that’s why when approached with reality they don’t understand it, it’s way too far for them to see it. Another way of explaining this is that when people live too far into Fantasy Land they are Closed to Reality, Reality just does not get in, (all people who have ever fought for humanity or the planet have had this experience). You can put Reality right in front of the illusionist’s faces and they will not even recognise it. Plus they also claim that what "they" see is Reality. I’ll explain how all this works in further detail in the future, what I’m giving you here is an over view. We must look at this topic from many angles to get a more complete understanding, angles that are much deeper n way more complex…
Here, try these….
Another tricky thing is that this scale can be quite long, all the way from "Absolute Reality" to "Immense Fantasy" with what can seem to have infinite levels in between. The other thing is that (as we get deeper) the scale can seem to also go in a V shape. Being Reality goes to the bottom point of the V, you can only get accurate to a certain point of being "Absolutely accurate". While fantasy is at the top of the V with an endless vastness how delusional a person can get.
Now you’re really going to need your scuba gear…cause we going down deep...
The scale is infinite both ways. For example, I consider myself to live very close to "Absolute reality". I’m accurate in describing how much I know on every subject. Now knowing how much you know on a topic also comes with knowing how much you don’t know on it. Now I know that what I don’t know on all topics is far greater than what I do know. It is actually impossible to know exactly how much we don’t know. Because if we don’t know it, how can we measure it? And we need to know how much we don’t know, to compare it with how much we do know, to then have an accurate answer. Therefore we cannot be "Absolutely Accurate". The Search is endless…
Plus, when I compare the topics that I know about to all the topic we have available, there is more topics I know little if anything about than the topics I know about. Which help me to realise there is more I don’t know than what I do know.
The important thing is to keep evaluating the information you have on every topic, making sure you are updated with new information. By being open to any new information. Obviously that comes "from Reliable sources", and that’s ‘Not’ from people who claim Superiority in any way, shape or form. It’s from people who can give you a view from many different angles of a topic, including two opposite sides, from people who are continuously updating the information in their minds. Listen to those who truly have the interest of the "World at Large", and not those who have self-interest. These two are easy to separate; you can feel which one is which. For example: from people who have the Latest Wisdom like "Al Gore" and way Old Wisdom like that from "tribal elders". What I have is a combination of "New n Old", something like the "best of both worlds". "What if I get the wrong info", you say. The secret is to be continuously updating, which in it self will filter out whatever doesn’t work (wrong info). People who live with outdated information that doesn’t do what it’s claimed to do are "Living in illusion".
The answer to "Saving this Planet" lies strictly on our ability to come out of the "Superiority illusion" and help others do the same. I hate to say this but "We’re a critical time, if we don’t do something soon, it will be too late"…. The "Only" Question is…
Are You with me???…
