The State cannot create True Communities

Whenever a population has become irresponsible - meaning a population that thinks of freedom in terms of narcissistic immunity from self-restraints, self-discipline, self-education – then the state inevitably moves to create order by law, authority, fear and force. Whether it is an economic issue or a health priority, when a population has become more concerned about and habituated to individual self-indulgence, governance comes in the form of an authoritarian parental state. 

 In a society where the collective primary motives is not the Higher Acculturation of all through the Great Process of self-transcending Communion with the Laws of Nature, the people become full of self-righteous needs, fuelled by aggressively self-indulgent motives, which are often justified by some religious or secular ideology. In such a society, the populace tends to remain in a fearfully driven self-indulgent, defiant mob mentality, where freedom is associated with an adolescent brand of freedom, meaning someone should be able to do whatever she or he likes. And really, what does that come to in such a society? Well, most often, it comes out as freedom to be self-indulgent in the modern fiesta of our vulgar sub-human possibilities. 

This state of affairs should not be surprising; after all, what we call modern industrial society and good citizenship are founded on religious lies, political exploitation and manipulative propaganda. Increasingly, the cult of the media and every self-indulgent personal opinion is always senior and superior to any greater information directed to encouraging the population to engage in self-responsible enquiry and research. It should not surprise or shock us that, since all individuals tend to live on the basis of fear, those in governance tend to structure policy along lines that both accommodate and reinforce the demands of fear. 

Now more than ever before, especially in modern industrial societies, the state government is not a humanistic head but solely a governor of economics. The state has no interest whatsoever in the Higher Acculturation of humanity. That is not its mandate, nor is it remotely interested in such a task. However, it must also be pointed out that if a society is dominated by individuals who have not taken up functional self-responsibility for educating themselves relative to their own physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health, or their own everyday co-operative community politics, then the people have laid themselves open to be manipulated by those who crave power and control. 

Whenever and wherever a society has not grown beyond a populace made up of individuals, each demanding their own egoic desires be satisfied, the rule of power and control becomes the heavy hand of the state. So called leaders in such a political system are full of righteous ideals and needs but are otherwise possessed by concern for their own popularity and all manner of similar egoic, self-indulgent motives. 

This being so, a population driven by pursuit of individual materialism elects those who will hopefully satisfy their materialistic avarice. In which case our leaders are not interested, nor are they equipped to create a culture that has outgrown childish dependence and adolescent defiance. 
We no longer have Wise Elders at the helm, whose primary Role is to maintain the Higher Acculturation of all people into the Way of Life. 
In the absence of Higher Wisdom Education, societies become more and more governed by a materialistic and authoritarian state, whose politics are merely the politics of power and control. 

From this point of view - the ‘survival of the ego in a materialistic society’ point of view - we humans talk about Life as though everything is a rationally transactional affair. We tend to talk about ourselves as though we are merely an objective/subjective, commercially orientated, transactional affair. You are meant to fit in and conform yourself to the demand and urgency of transactional economic imperatives. 

Oh, yes. It’s called the economic health of the country - not of the people, the country. And this mindset is the one we use when talking about Spiritual Life. If you stand back a little from yourself, you will hear very clearly how we talk about Spiritual Life or Spiritual Practice, as though it were some kind of crude personal, transactional affair between us and some other, or a God, a leader, or Life – as something we are trying to negotiate without losing whatever we are holding on to. 

If we reduce Life, the Spiritual Real, to rational rules (that are mostly tailored to accommodate fear) we simply give ourselves the task of going rationally insane. Well, what have we become? On the one hand, we are confronted with a society shaped and constructed by our own species-centered strategies, while all the time existing only by the Grace of Spirit, that gives birth and change and endings quite unexpectedly. 

Our own rigid (unyielding to Life) political economic systems dominate how we think. The sordid taint of egoic/economic greed and its acquired mindset is everywhere evident, along with its attendant fear-release mechanisms of individual self-indulgence. This self-indulgence is destructive to both our own body and the planet, a perverse self-indulgence that is generally of more importance or a stronger motivation than the greater good of all. The body/mind of the human becomes conflicted. We want the Truth Condition, the Dharma, to accommodate our current strategically species-centered way of life. 

What forces have infiltrated our motives? Do we really bother to look? Are we really a populace dedicated to the collective wellbeing of our young human initiates? Are we really about elevating the best of each other or battering each other down? Do we really approach Spiritual Practice, the Practice of self-transcending Communion with the Life Principle, the Way of Nature, in the understanding that it actually involves the Transformation of the individual, not merely a new knowing or better self-indulgent feelings for the individual? Are we out for our own or are we Present for Life? 

The signs of our underlying motives are transmitted through our disposition and our language, no matter how much we try to hide them. Our language has become reduced to expressions such as ‘economic growth’, ‘moving forward,’ ‘transactional analysis’, ‘a higher standard of living’, ‘career success’, ‘competitive edge’, ‘you me and them’ and the like. These are phrases that dominate our conversations, our language and decisions - not a language inspired by the Spirit for the higher psychic/emotional growth of the people. Yes, of course, a language is lost when it is not spoken to be sure; however, a particular language can still be spoken, though its Real Power and Beauty and Grace may no longer be Alive in it. It is dead. 

When we lose Identity with our True Nature and only argue for our personal rights and opinions, our language (whatever the culture) becomes cheapened, impotent and vulgarized by our conforming it to our conditionally limited, rationalized, economic, business way of life. Before long it is difficult, if not impossible, to perceive the Power of Life in the language, because common use has raped it of its Mana, its Grace, its Power and Mystery. 

In our vulgar tongue, there are words and expressions of Beauty, Mystery and Profundity that have become reduced, tarnished and corrupted by our conforming the language to our modern contractual, materialistic and self-indulgent point of view. It is not about how to Live any more but rather, how to conquer conditions, how to win, how to beat the system. It is not about communicating the Living but exchanging the dead. 

Using language by conforming it to our egoic seeking way of life, we divest it of its Life, Beauty, Power, Wonder, Poetry and Grace - altogether its potential to Serve our Transformation from fear to Love. It is not so much that a language gets enriched by new words added but through more vigorous and varied applications of the Heart. The richness of language depends on the degree of richness of beauty in the language. Our communication dies when our language is not inflamed with the Will of Life.