The Most Violent Of All Human Creations

The single most violent or dangerous concept created by humans is the reality that something or someone can be less valuable or less adequate than something else. I have come to a point in my perspective that I can see this concept playing itself out literally right in front of my eyes. The most important fact about what I call the “inadequacy mentality” is that it is not true and is, in fact, completely arbitrary. There is no inherent logic behind what it means fundamentally. If I could pin its purpose to anything, I would say that it was probably created and propagated by those who felt they needed to induce fear or control others. Inevitably, the continuous energy given to this belief over the countless millennia of man’s existence has only perpetuated it forward in the same direction. Although the belief itself may be arbitrary, man must ask whether it is taking us in the direction we seek. I know without a shred of doubt that this belief is the only thing that creates wars, genocide, social/class struggle, financial struggle, etc. In fact, struggle itself is caused by this belief. Man must ask itself whether it feels that the act of struggling is moving the species in the sought direction. Is the pain it provides desired or shunned?

Since I know that this is a very advanced belief for most of you reading this material and as this belief is so interwoven into the very fabric of our society, I will now break down this belief to you. It was, I admit, extremely difficult for me to break through the subconscious and subversive mentality that has constantly been stagnating my inner self since childhood. I will not say that this is a radical transformation, but once one becomes truly aware of the actuality of what is going on, one may consider it a radical breakthrough from the past mentality.

Let’s start with what occurs during our childhood. The very beginning of our inadequacies begin here. Whether we can remember or not, the normal child will receive the negative injunction (“No!” or “Don’t do that!”) about 50,000 times. Children are naturally curious; nature has embedded in them the with the urge to know what is. A child does not feel it needs to question its inner judgment, in fact, it learns to distrust it over time by external stimuli. Let’s examine the process of what occurs within a child further.

Let’s suppose a child wants to touch a burning stove. It does not have any information of what a burning stove feels like, so therefore, it thrusts its hands upon it and gets in return the subsequent information (“Painful” or “Scalding hot”, etc.). It will then, after intuitively knowing that this feeling is undesirable, remember this information when it begs the question to itself in the future.

Let’s run the same scenario with the admission of the parents’ stimuli. Remember the parents already feel inadequate and feel a need, albeit subconscious, to dominate or power over another to feel more adequate. The parent knowing this information of the hot-ness of the stove will force its information upon the child, oftentimes with sharp emotional emphasis that the child cannot mistake. The parent will hold out the arm of the child and tell it that it should not do that which is coming natural to them. As this occurs thousands of times, the child then learns, over time, that that which is coming natural to it should not be trusted. In fact, whenever a child follows that intuitive sense, the child notices that the parent makes itself feel inadequate (the parent “gets angry” or “makes a face” etc.). The child then grows up after it has learned to distrust its own judgment. In other words, other than a basic animal, the human is nothing at all. It has learned to distrust the greatest faculty of its species, the ability to critically think for itself and assess something objectively. Instead of developing its own definition of the information received from the environment, it adopts what most people around them think, no matter how absurd the beliefs may be, because they cannot assess its validities. The child grows up to be an inner carbon copy of its parents; the inadequacy mentality is deep rooted within itself and oftentimes stays there for the rest of one’s life as one cannot truly assess or think about it anymore. I am sure that many of you will feel offended by this, or even feel that I am a lunatic. Indeed, this is the very response that should come as a result of the inadequacies deep rooted within. This is the most atrocious act that man is committing to itself! One may be able to learn a skill (as may a doctor or accountant), but one cannot think critically or objectively assess. Once this belief takes root, wars cannot be thought about, neither genocides, or money and power. All this is part of a human condition: doing, without knowing why.

Now it is possible to rise above this inadequacy belief. My life is a testament to it. It is not easy, in fact, you will find that you will be constantly doubting yourself and there is much uncertainty in the journey that culminates in freeing oneself from the inadequacies within oneself. The only thing required is that one understand that there is truly nothing “right” or “wrong” about anything or anyone; these words are completely arbitrary and do not truly describe anything at all. This will free you from anything that can make you “less valuable” or “more valuable”. The only way to free oneself from this habit is to stop judging anything at all, in this context, I mean value judgments. For example, to be “rich” is “better” that to be “poor”; to be “beautiful” is “better” or “more valuable” than to be “ugly”. If you do not place value judgments upon these terms, then you cannot feel badly for being labeled one or the other. If you do not understand the previous statement and the purpose of the quotations, please read it until you do.

I am aware that most of you reading that statement will have much difficulty in comprehending the complete arbitrariness of these value judgments, however, if I may be so bold as to suggest something that has aided me. Be very still, and try to look at your thoughts, and I mean this literally. You must be able to see a thought and just ask yourself what is that. For example, you may think of spaghetti, and you ask yourself, ‘What is “spaghetti”?’. Or you may think of the colour red, and you ask yourself, ‘What is “red”?’ What is “good”? What is “money”? What is “god”? What is “me”? What is “you”? What am “I”? What is “this”? What is “that”? Constantly ask yourself what truly is. One may thereby come to the reality of what is actually going on. However, heed this warning! One cannot do this like a prayer; prayer is something done as a means to an end; if you do more of it, the more “God” will give you, etc. There is no end motive here, because you do not know what the end motive is. One must do this as if one were being blown about by the natural breeze. There is no interest in the “gain” received by it. In truth, there is no end motive because when one comes to realize the way things are in truth, one cannot actually comprehend a “motive”.