I
decided to go into the belly of the beast recently and am watching the
3-part movie of Atlas Shrugged, closely based on the book. That is the
dominant, diseased, US ideology infecting all of us, and we need therapy to
get out of it. And we must also replace it with a new, healthy meme, the
collaborative commons. From this article:
"Many spiritual traditions, including Buddhism, Sufism (the mystical
branch of Islam), Taoism, Gnosticism, as well as many Indigenous
cultures, have long understood the mind-based nature of creation. These
worldviews have at their core a recognition of the power of
thought-forms to determine the course of physical events. Various First Nations traditions of North America have specific and
long established lore relating to cannibalism and a term for the
thought-form that causes it: wetiko. We believe understanding this offers a powerful way of understanding the deepest roots of our current global polycrisis. Wetiko is an Algonquin word for a cannibalistic spirit that is driven by greed, excess, and selfish consumption (in Ojibwa it is windigo, wintiko
in Powhatan). It deludes its host into believing that cannibalizing the
life-force of others (others in the broad sense, including animals and
other forms of Gaian life) is a logical and morally upright way to live."
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