Where are the Peacemakers? Our Institutions are Designed for
War
By Ethan Indigo Smith
The Matrix of Four in Peace and War
11th March 2011, the day the world changed forever, the day
the nuclear era became cemented and the whole planet became scorched. This is
also the day that the proclaimed leader of the free world delayed announcing a
no-fly zone over Libya, essentially a martial act. The biggest disaster the
planet has ever known – one that promises national destruction of Japan and
pollution of the planet and everywhere – is war.
Where are the peacemakers? Where is the means to help Japan?
Or the intent? Our institutions are designed for war. And as enormous of a
problem nuclear experimentation is, the biggest problem is the problem inside
our heads! The problem that conjures nuclear experimentation and war to begin
with is our mind state, that we have for instance built up destructive
institutions of war, but not constructive institutions.
Many ideas correlate the Jungian concept of four modes of
thinking and being. For instance the first four characters of Genesis
allegorically represent the four cardinal velocities of thinking and being. It
describes man’s ignorant tendencies, hubristic nature, conniving attributes and
our ability to seek and distribute the truth. There are many other ways to look
at Genesis, like all stories, allegories, adages and metaphors, it is layered
and open for interpretation. The Garden of Eden and Genesis can represent both
the external Earth and the internal mind for instance. Refuting all the
institutional baggage religious institutions have bestowed on the allegory for
a moment, it is possible to see the Garden of Eden as internal and external
allegory reflective of thinking and being.
Adam and Eve- Adam
acts unquestioningly like an idiot, Eve acts on what she wants to believe like
a zealot, the Serpent acts to deceive like an elitist and God acts to share
information, like a patriot. Adam doesn’t question and believes what he is
told. Eve
believes what she wants. The Serpent lies. And God simply told them
don’t eat that fruit, perhaps akin to the warning of Pandora, a Pandora say
akin to the nuclear experiment.
People tend to act in one of these four mindsets as it
concerns the Pandora of nuclear experimentation. The same ignorance, hubris and
trickery are evident today. The fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and
Evil is the result of seizing power in a negative way, like the Pandora of
nuclear experimentation, ill results follow ill pursuits. The fruit of nuclear
experimentation is death and lessened life. It is hubristic, and the external
pursuits are based in the unconscious internally driven pursuit to take power.
Nuclear experimentation is a literal manifestation of Pandora’s Box and as
consequential as eating from the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and
Evil resulting in lessened life for all.
In the ancient metaphor of the Garden of Eden God is the
distinct fourth part. As the matrix of four goes there is often one more
distinct and developed part to the set. The following is what I call the
Metaphor of the State and just as the four first characters of the Bible in the
Garden of Eden can be used to understand ourselves and others the Metaphor of
the State can be used the same way.
Imagine there are four states with one distinct and more
developed part of the set. Each reflects the four states of war and peace in
individual consciousness and collectives of mass consciousness.
Imagine the four bordering states in a contentious region of
the world. One state is of peace, is constantly at peace and prepares for
peace. Another state is of war, is constantly at war and prepares for war.
Another state is at war, prepares for war and yet is ready for peace. And the last state is at peace, prepares for
peace and yet is ready for defense.
There are many ways the states may act and react, but the
warring state will eventually arrive at the border of the peaceful state. And
the peaceful state will likely concede. The warring state will arrive at the
border of the other nation of war and either they fight just enough to maintain
a status quo or they fight until one loses all, while the other loses a lot.
Now imagine the winning war state arriving at the border of the peaceful state
that is ready for self-defense. Potentially the war state will decide it is not
worth confrontation because of its strength or because of its accommodation.
Any number of questions and quantifications can be applied
utilizing these four states of the Garden of Eden and the Metaphor of the
State, both can be applied to real individuals and institutions to understand
the present and to make guesses as to the future. The fourth part of the set in
the metaphor of the state, the most distinct and significant, is the peaceful
state which promotes peace, but is ready for self-defense. One can imagine
being in one of these states, both internally and externally, and quickly
determine which is the more preferable mind state and nation state.
Mathematical and scientific absolutes can be used in
understanding societal complexity, things that might seem unrelated might be
neighboring extrapolations. A pinnacle universal absolute is that in balance is
polarity, like a table on four legs. Balance is not only sought by human
mentality, but is a primordial universal tendency exhibited in orbiting
spheres. Balance is exhibited in the macro and micro often through the matrix of
four.
There are four forms of lies for instance. The four forms of
lies are directly related to the four operations of arithmetic. Mathematical
approaches can assist in making sense of the unpredictable dynamic of state
interaction as well as making sense of and finding the truth. Institutions and
their representatives, state or otherwise, constantly lie. Outright conjuration
and total denial of fact are the obvious types. But the advanced lies are more
nuanced and subtle as opposed to outright addition and total subtraction of
information.
The first type of lie is addition of information. Sometimes
the addition of a small bit of information can change the story entirely. The
second type of lie is the subtraction of information. The removal of small key components can
result in entirely different meaning. The third type of lie is multiplication
of information. Exaggerations of situations connected with the story as well as
exaggerations of extraneous information are included in the presentation to
dilute it. The fourth type of lie is division of information. The facts are
interlaced with disconnects and the significance of information is separated.
The nuclear experimentation industry is founded on lies and always lies as a
matter of business strategy.
Understanding there are four types of lies perpetuated by
individuals and institutions alike leads to more stability in your truth. There
is less likelihood liars will succeed in lying to you or to others around you.
There are four types of lies, however only one truth. The point of
intersection, where nothing is added or subtracted, multiplied or divided, is
the truth we try to be in line with and as close to as possible. Understanding
what is being balanced leads one closer to that point of intersection, the
truth.
“Deception is a
state of mind and the mind of the state.” ~ James Jesus Angleton
The truth is that we live in a world of states that prepare
for war and are at war. We have built mechanisms that can destroy the planet on
purpose and accident, but our institutions are not designed to save the planet
and have to be morphed to help each other. The problem in our heads is we do
not design systems to help each other for peace, but to hinder each other in
war. There are a few things that all individuals can unite on, nuclear
experimentation and with it war, is one thing we can all stand together
against. We have to stand together to help Japan and the Japanese people and
ourselves. Where is the leader of the free world? Where are the institutions of
nuclear experimentation? The U.S.A. has done nothing. GE has done nothing. The
nuclear industry as a whole has done nothing, nothing but lie.
We allow war and lies, but do not know how to help each
other. We have to change our mind state.
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