We live in the type of civilization where people neglect to consider what their being alive is all about. We do that largely because the prevailing purveyors and the promoters of capitalist doctrine have set about to systematically bamboozle us. We are being led to execute our lives primarily through operations where we focus on our success in acquiring financial capabilities to participate successfully in prevailing commerce. We have been led to hold the view that successful living is essentially all about securing enough money, so that we can purchase the wherewithal to make ourselves materially comfortable as we go about aiming to have “a rollicking good time”.

However, our remaining focused and alive, is a more serious management affair than what is involved in merely securing preferred levels of MATERIAL consumption.

For example, it is important that we do not take our being alive, as comprising a happenstance in which we are engaged. Instead, we need to remind ourselves that we are sentient beings. As such, we have been endowed with (or have been assigned) the responsibility to not overlook and to be also mindful of what is the context and substance into which we are fitting our lives.

Our ambient natural environment and also our civilization are also technically complex. However, currently, the capitalist civilization has been leading us to concentrate our efforts (and also our thoughts) on the production and on the marketing features, through which we support our material survival.

Yet, if we are to bring a high quality to our survival (a sentient entities), even though the promoters of the capitalist doctrine are aiming to socialize us to concentrate on financial achievement, we will need to give closer attention to some critical underlying features on which our sentience requires us to focus.

For example, we particularly need to REMIND ourselves that under the guidance of our sentience, we had previously (intuitively) rejected choosing voluntary suicide, as a survival option.

Arguably, too, our decision to accept the sentience-inspired choice of suicide-rejection must have been deliberate. Furthermore, we can reasonably conclude that we made the suicide-rejection choice, because we had (previously) informed ourselves that in the exercise of our freewill, we are aiming to secure accomplishments toward causing our continued survival to be meaningful.

However, the promoters of the capitalist doctrine are currently systematically about the business of distracting us from reminding ourselves about the achievement of meaningfulness in survival to which we had committed ourselves (under the stimulation of our sentience). This distraction of our focus is being done, by using programs of formal and informal education to corrupt and to confuse our understanding of what our freewill is all about.

The capture of governments and also of the critical institutions of our civilization, (such as the organized religions, the military, and the instruments of mass communications that make up formal and informal education), by these promoters of capitalist doctrine, has allowed them to set out to confuse us. Their aim is to divert us from seeing our living, as being an operation where we draw on our freewill endowment, with the intent to give a sentience-motivated quality context to our survival.

The promoters of the ideology of capitalist doctrine are also seeking to distract us by inducing us to focus on our market opportunities. They are aiming to have us overlook the fact that our endowment with human freewill principally bestows on us the freedom to structure and to guide the PERSONAL evolution of ourselves. We are instead being seduced into concentrating on seeing ourselves as having been facilitated (under capitalism), toward the freedom to choose the private purchases that we make (with funds that we have acquired). In that way these promoters of the capitalist doctrine, plan to confuse, to short-circuit, and to distract us, from our need to become aware of our reality and of how it works, (so that we can make existentially meaningful, our decision to remain alive).

Additionally, our systems of formal and informal education are also being used (by the promoters of the capitalist doctrine), to indoctrinate us into using a focus on the forthcoming net private financial equivalent value to us, to rank alternative outcomes from our efforts. They thereby intend to distract us from taking steps, to rank outcomes in terms of their potential impact on the quality of our human survival.

If we each want to secure a flow of the survival that comprises our lives, to be meaningful, we each therefore have some work to do. In particular, we will need to commit ourselves to rising above the (money-centred) focus on our existence, which is being directly and indirectly emphasized by the prevailing (capitalist-sponsored and government-legitimated) system of formal and informal education and socialization.

This prevailing system of education, aims to avoid pointing out and also cultivating the humanness bestowals and responsibilities that comprise our human heritage. For example, one can argue that the prevailing system of education and socialization deliberately neglects to emphasize our need, and our responsibility, to participate more extensively (and effectively) in empathy and in the mutuality behaviours, (between each other and also towards our natural environment).  However, executing these mutuality and empathy behaviours is required by our linkage to, and by our presence in the bio-electric ambience of our sentient existence.

Such programs of formal and informal education, that systematically emphasize tactics to foster private financial success, in contrast to fostering an emphasis on the human-centred linkages (that will enable us to promote and to secure meaningfulness to our continued survival), have become stark since late 1962.

Since that time, to portray what systems of education, as well as the natural environment should be delivering, our prevailing socialization and civilization has overwhelmingly set out to EMPHASIZE the financial performance indicators and priorities (on which the banks and corporations rely),.

Historically, for example, the state-mediated and sponsored crushing of the Berkley Free Speech Movement, (that had spread to other campuses including to Kent State University in Ohio) was a complement to the new overwhelming emphasis that educational institutions should foster the delivery of financial output. Indeed, the (brutal) crushing of the emphases of the free-speech movement on campuses, was the first society-wide indicator that fostering meaningfulness in human living, was NOT what the then U. S. government aimed to promote, in its domestic as well as its international affairs.

The catalyst to legitimating this new overwhelming focus of financial results, (rather than a focus on the meaningfulness in the opportunities for living, that becomes accessible to people), came out of the University of Chicago.

That acceptance and entrenchment of an emphasis on financial concentration worked, because, at the then height of the U. S -Russia cold war (when likely our atomic annihilation was a real prospect), these promoters of the capitalist doctrine at the University of Chicago were able to execute the coup de gras on Marxist-Leninist dogma, The Russians were being successful, domestically as well as internationally, in advancing the Marxist-Leninist ideological proposition, that in an industrialized society under capitalism, the bulk of humans comprised a (working) proletariat which the providers of financial capital were able to exploit (as an industrial reserve army).

In contra distinction to that background which the Marxist-Leninists emphasized, under the leadership of T.W. Schultz, (who received a Nobel Prize for his contribution) a different context was described. In this new context, humans were emphasized as acquiring formal and informal education, and also acquiring on-the-job experience, as essentially capital assets, which would then provide them with the capability to secure and to command higher earnings.

Formal and informal education and also on-the-job experience, therefore became construed as instruments of human capital formation. As a result, goodbye proletariat (and presumably, the economic legitimacy of Marxist-Leninist doctrine)

This new presentation growing out of the University of Chicago, had framed a new capitalist-centred focus on people. Humans were construed as being primarily complements to the generation of market profit. (Furthermore, that was exactly what the Marxist-Leninists had been saying, while using a different set of words to communicate about how “the pot was divided up”). Essentially, the new focus promoted the use of, and also the emphasis on systems of education and socialization, as instruments to execute the BUSINESS of conditioning humans TO LOOK UPON THEMSELVES as earnings-seeking IMPLEMENTS AND INSTRUMENTS (rather than as seekers after meaningfulness in their lives subsequent to their rejection of suicide).

The fact that humans are sentience-guided entities, who are also aiming to better understand their world, so that they can bring meaningfulness to their continued living, was neither countenanced nor accommodated. The significant output became the net financial-equivalent earnings that would be forthcoming to exposure to secondary and post secondary education, and to accompanying improvement in marketable skills (of the trainees).

The result has been that since that time, the prevailing programs of secondary and post secondary education became accommodated as effectively “factories” where the subsequent providers of employable skills, (as human capital) are “produced”.

These programs of education were therefore required (and were also legitimated) to accommodate and to treat students who are acquiring enhanced education, as being “outputs in process” (from a continuing production line), rather than as being heirs to the sovereign ownership of the society.

Programs of formal and informal education and socialization were therefore not encouraged to view the members of the society, as being essentially entities who were seeking to better understand their world and themselves in it. Instead, the members of the society were emphasized as seeking to make themselves into better commerce-supportive and commerce-servicing instruments. Therefore, they were to be appreciated as setting out to acquire information and skills from institutions of secondary and post secondary education, with the primary intent to be better able to acquire for themselves (and their families), enhancement of their private net financial gain, (from the selections of time and effort commitments into which they enter, or may be put).

What we have been witnessing is therefore THE STRATEGY OF PLOTTING AND AIMING TO DESTROY OUR HUMAN AWARENESS. Furthermore the research reports of John Lamb Lash (2006); Not in His Image: Gnostic Vision, Sacred Ecology, and the Future of Belief; (White River Junction, Vermont, Chelsea Green Publishing Company), informs us that the ancient Gnostic scholars and initiates, had warned us about a predatory invading alien consciousness (which is masquerading among us in human form), and that is committed to executing such a destruction operation on us.

Within this human capital emphasis (which the promoters of capitalist doctrine have been using), the human members of the society are being manipulated to neglect to see themselves as being conscious seekers after a meaningful existence.

Substantively, we are being seduced out of acknowledging that within the bio-electric union (which encompasses the living in which we share), we have a sentience-guided awareness. Furthermore, it is that sentience- guided awareness which allows us to extend ourselves (and our consciousness) beyond the instrument focus on ourselves into which the promoters of the capitalist doctrine are using the human capital context, to limit our human awareness.

In recent history, by means of this intellectual subterfuge (of the human capital propaganda coup, these promoters of the capitalist doctrine had hit an ideological and humanity-destroying “home run”. Every member of the populace with a non-impaired brain, was therefore immediately framed as being a “capitalist”, who invests in education, and in knowledge and in skills acquisition, with the intent to be a better “capitalist” earner from their operations at running their lives.

Essentially, by means of his capitalist intellectual coup, the society was implicitly being INSTRUCTED to say goodbye to fostering the living-centred considerations (about promoting meaningfulness to our lives under the impetus of our sentience).

After the human capital intellectual coup, overnight, personnel departments in corporations became labelled as human capital offices. The providers of on-the-job labour were no longer to be seen as entities with rights (as owners of the society and as the sources of political legitimacy). Instead they were to be tolerated as human capital, (which happens to be merely implements having only the economic rights of being accessible, for corporations to use or to discard at their sole discretion).

Matters regarding the training and the preparation of humans to understand and to fit themselves into their world, (and their lives), therefore became passé (and were essentially to be seen as superfluous waste of scarce financial resources). The prevailing capitalist-conditioned systems of governance was prepared to facilitate the operations of institutions of secondary and post secondary education, to the extent that they contribute to the delivery of technically creative skills and to technical-support in behalf of employment opportunities that lead to enhanced GDP. Therefore, since then, the system of mass communications has been primed to overwhelm us with “reports on business”, rather than reports about how the quality-of-living of people is being affected.

The specific aim of the promoters of the capitalist doctrine has been to execute a humanity-destroying strategy. Their tactic is to distract us from seeing ourselves as being entities who are aiming to better place ourselves in our reality, (by means of understanding-guided operations, that allow us to give meaningfulness to our decisions to remain alive).

By conditioning us to look primarily on the financial results from how we allocate our time and efforts, the promoters behind the capitalist doctrine also have another system-wide objective. They aim to lead us to see the rest of our human associates as well as our natural environment, as being exploitable resources, toward our private financial achievement.

We are being conditioned out of being aware of the bio-electric union with the remainder of our environment in which we share, and which also comprises the roots of our sentience. Accordingly, we are also being conditioned out of recognizing the critical role that the practice of mutuality, and also that the expression of empathy with our human and also our environmental roots, play in causing our forthcoming existence to be meaningful.

Breaking out of the Trap

To bring the aim to achieve Human Development into our continuing living, and thereby enhance the prospect of personal meaningfulness in our lives, (that had primed us to reject suicide), there is some “heads up” that we each need to do. However, to embark on that route, we also need to make ourselves aware of some warnings about the presence among us of a predatory invading alien consciousness which is aiming to destroy our humanity, and which the ancient Gnostic scholars and initiates had warned us about. These warnings are documented in the research reports of John Lamb Lash (2006); Not in His Image: Gnostic Vision, Sacred Ecology, and the Future of Belief; (White River Junction, Vermont, Chelsea Green Publishing Company).

The Gnostic scholars had described this invading predatory consciousness as being devoid of empathy; and as being capable of masquerading in human form. It is thereby able to capture and to place its agents in leadership functions, in the dominant institutions in our civilization, (that would normally operate to assist our progress toward achieving Human Development). These institutions include governments, organized religions, the military and the industrial complex, and the system of mass communications.

As a result of the penetrations by this predatory invading consciousness, we each are now being steered into executing a civilization (like our prevailing capitalist one), where we use the net financial achievements from our choices of effort and time commitments to guide how we live our lives.

However, this writer had earlier indicated that governments (which have not been totally captured by the financially-centred promoters of capitalist doctrine), have the option to use. They are invited to guide their economic development programming in terms of impact on quality-of-living and also on the opportunities of the members of the society to achieve Human Development, See, therefore, Horace Carby-Samuels (2007); Quality-of-Living and Human Development as the Outcome from Economic Progress; (Ottawa, Canada, Agora Cosmopolitan Publishing; ISBN 189 703 6353)

To Preserve our Humanness

The capitalist-controlled system of education has conditioned us into a general lack of awareness about our human inheritance. However, it is time that we take stock as to what we are about. For example, we need to come to understand and also to remind ourselves, that substantively, our humanness is a bio-electric ambience that accompanies our sentience. That generates in us a mandate to share a sense of empathy and of mutuality with each other, and also with our natural environment. It also happens that this bio-electric ambience in which we share, also beckons our further personal human evolution; (and that is the outcome which the invading predatory alien consciousness is aiming to prevent).

When each of us comes to recognize that the bio-electric basis of this sentience ambience also makes us a human fraternity, we will then also intuitively come to recognize our prevailing linkages to each other; as well as to our natural environment and to the cosmos.. (This is a feature that I have elaborated elsewhere in detail). Furthermore, if we are prepared to bring the principles of mutuality and of empathy to bear on the time and effort commitments that we make, the defeat of the invading alien consciousness and the evolution of our humanity is a road of existence that is on offer to us.
 

This means that, (notwithstanding the concentration on financially-centred outcomes (that the promoters of the capitalist doctrine would have us pursue), we need to fight back. We have the responsibility to avoid allowing ourselves to be SEDUCED into primarily using expected net financial gains to guide our selections as to how and where we will commit our time and our efforts. This means that, we need to take steps to prevent ourselves from being distracted from our initial living-centred intuitive aim, to achieve meaningfulness in our living and to achieve Human Development, as our path of survival.

What we need to bear in mind is that, our sense of humanness (which accompanies the ambience of the bio-electric union that is our human sentience), has on offer to us, the possibilities for us to execute a natural path-of-living. Furthermore, we will achieve that path of living as we develop an information-guided potential to bond more extensively with each other, and also with the remainder of our natural environment.

However, we will achieve that natural path of living (as Human Development), only to the extent that we are also willing to practice a co-operative symbiosis with our environment.  Merely executing dominance centred profitable resource extraction, is not the route to achieving Human Development. Rather, we will also need to practice mutuality as well as empathy toward each other.

Yet, these outcomes can be achieved only if we also wrestle our educational system away from servicing the objective of capitalist doctrine, which aims to condition us into the cultivation of greed, that leads to exploitation-centred dominance of each other and of the natural environment. Instead, the educational system must be primed to begin to emphasize our humanness, and how it leads us to seek out information which allows to bond with our environment and each other in the process of securing enhanced meaningfulness in our remaining alive.

It is not sufficient to measure achievement (from aggregate time, resource, and effort commitment), primarily in terms of how much the initiatives in government policy and programs, have been able to foster increases in the level of gross (commercially equivalent) domestic product (GDP).

Finally, when we make our private choices (about how and where we will commit our time and our efforts), each of us will need to select between the following two questions, (and then resolve the answer TO OURSELVES),

Mindful that our sentience represents a bio-electric ambience which calls us to pursue an existence which is centred on mutuality and empathy: Are we treating our being alive, an OPPORTUNITY that we have, to execute the knowledge-guided operations, out of which our achievement of Human Development will arise?

OR

In recognition that the freewill to sculpture and to execute our personal evolution is a human privilege; whereas, having the freedom to make purchases, is a commercial arrangement: Are we personally content to portray our being alive, as merely sets of earning arrangements into which we have been SEDUCED, by the illusion of freedom that the capitalist doctrine promotes?