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What myths are worth trying?

Posted on by philipdodson

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The myths that the human race are controlled by can not be changed by you or I stopping believing in them. These myths live in a collective mind.

So one non-believer can not change the world. If I choose to no longer believe in money, or law, or all the other things that the human race has created to control the masses, well that will have no impact on the collective acceptance.

However, if you or I can inspire others to reject a particular myth, then you can gradually, or even rapidly, change the world.

Then the question is what myth will you create to replace the myth that we no longer collectively believe in? As without myths we can not collaborate in complex large societies and avoid complete free-for-all chaos.

I think the alternative myth that is based on values, based on an ‘open minded’ take on all humans being equal and based on sharing, love, empathy and compassion, surely has to be worth a try.

After all as humans we’ve never tried that one.

Can we trust the myth makers?

Posted on by philipdodson

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The more you challenge the status quo, the established voice, the system’s message, the more eventually you get to wonder what is actually true.

The fact is, there is very, very little in life, that we can say we know to be 100% correct or right.

Homo sapiens, which is what the 7 billion people on this planet are, became the dominant human species because of the cognitive revolution that occurred about 70,000 years ago only for sapiens. This is brilliantly covered in the book ‘Sapiens’ by Yuval Noah Harari.

This gave us, Sapiens, the ability to create things that were not physical things (trees, rivers, lions etc being physical things). We were able to create myths, and those myths gave the myth creators the ability to control others.

So a modern day example would be a company, it is not real thing, but it exists within another imagined thing, laws. Throughout the evolution of the current human race, we have been able to control large numbers of other humans by our imagined creations, such as religions and other non-physical things.

The formula of all of the myths are based on a terrible outcome being inflicted upon us for not obeying.

This is so true today, and the myths are now ever more manipulative, and have been ever better crafted, to ensure maximum compliance. The capitalist religion has created some of the most compelling and controlling myths in the history of humans, many of which are now becoming harder for many to follow and be compliant with.

What truths do you challenge? What myths do you allow to control you?

I am ever more challenging the myths and I am discovering more and more of them are not the ‘truths’ that the myth makers want us to believe.