No "society" wants you to become wise? No "society" wants people to be free?
Greg Krasovsky
July 29, 2023
Who wants knowledgeable, educated, enlightened, wise and independent
- citizens
- voters
- tax payers
- consumers?
How about
- soldiers
- state security & foreign intelligence personnel
- diplomats
- law enforcement personnel
- prosecutors
- judges
- prison guards, probation & parole officers?
Certainly not "The Man" / "The Establishment" -- i.e. those who own & control "The System" (Big Business & Government)
Why?
Because people like that (wise & in the know)
- are hard to exploit, manipulate, fool, brainwash (through private & public media) and control.
- could get some ideas about
-- true democracy,
-- true freedom of speech & a free press
-- true government for the people & by the people
-- true nature of evil*
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* Evil is when you do something that brings you pleasure and/or benefit ("power," material gain, financial, political, legal etc.) despite the fact (while disregarding) that your actions cause another living being(s) pain, suffering, loss (material, legal, spiritual), injury and even death.
Evil is pure egoism.
Examples:
1. A Rapist rapes because it brings him pleasure while disregarding the fact that his act causes the victim pain and suffering and loss of freedom.
2. A Robber or a thief robs & steals because it brings him material benefit 9and sometimes pleasure & sense of power) while disregarding the fact that his act causes the victim(s) pain and suffering and loss of freedom.
3. A corrupt businessman or a group of wealthy businessmen (e.g. billionaires) -- hereinafter "Wealthy Controllers" -- who "legally" buy, control or illegally bribe / corrupt
- political parties,
- politicians,
- elected & appointed government officials, and/or
- senior civil servants
- law enforcement,
- prosecutors,
- judges
- intelligence personnel
- diplomats
- other key personnel in all three branches of government (executive, legislative and judicial)
- journalists, managers and stakeholders of media companies
-- news media
-- social media
-- entertainment media (TV, Movies, Radio, Music, Theater, etc.)
in order to
- have the government give them preferential treatment
-- government contracts,
-- government subsidies,
-- government protection & promotion in foreign markets,
-- favorable laws & regulations,
- prevent government regulators, law enforcement and prosecutors from investigating such arrangements (conspiracies?)
-- turning a blind eye on wrongdoing (civil or criminal)
-- giving them only a slap on the wrist when caught
- keep the public unaware or misinformed of the arrangement through
-- favorable media coverage,
-- media misinformation, fake news and etc.
-- media censorship,
while disregarding the fact that their arrangement causes
1. losses to tax payers through
- higher taxes: someone has to pay for all that
-- government debt,
-- government programs,
-- tax breaks & government subsidies
that favor the Wealthy Controllers.
- less or lower quality government services: more spent on programs that favor the Wealthy controllers = less money left in the government budget for other programs.
- potential forced sale of government assets to fund budget deficits or repay government debt.
2. takes away from voters true value of their votes
- the ability to elect officials
-- based on unbiased (objective), and comprehensive independent media coverage of the candidate
-- who will be accountable to and will serve for the benefit of their voters (the electorate), nit their Wealthy Controllers.
3. deprives citizens of true control over their government and democracy
- when political parties, politicians, government branches & agencies and government officials act in the best interest of their Wealthy Controllers and NOT the ordinary people, the citizens who elected them.
4. deprives citizens of having a free press and freedom of speech (from media censorship)
- when Wealthy Controllers manipulate the media resources that they own / control to steer media content & coverage in order to protect & promote the Controllers' interests (financial, legal, political, etc.)
5. Subjects citizens & military personnel to risk of injury and death
- When governments, acting in the interests of Wealthy Controllers, promote, organize, facilitate, manage or conduct in foreign countries through
-- interference in the foreign country's domestic politics and elections,
-- regime change operations,
-- civil unrest and civil wars,
-- ethnic, racial and/or religious conflicts, persecution and even cleansing,
-- material support to groups (opposition, pro-government, paramilitary) that engage in extremism or terrorism,
-- political and military conflicts with neighboring countries, involving
i. War crimes,
ii. Crimes against humanity,
-- Promotion of xenophobia, racism and religious persecution.
iii. Prohibited weapons of war, such as conventional weapons (like mines, cluster and incendiary munitions)
iv. Weapons of mass destruction (nuclear, chemical, biological and climate)
resulting in military conflicts in which U.S. citizens (civilian & military) can get injured, kidnapped or killed, not to mention the civilians of country(ies) in question, including vulnerable women, children and the elderly.
Now, if that's not evil, then I don't know what evil is.
And the first step in fighting such evil is exposing it to the people who are knowledgeable and wise enough to understand it -- so that they can make a stand against it before it's too late:
before it has done irreparable harm to America and has irreversibly morphed / corrupted a declared democracy into a corporate oligarchy or a corporate-controlled authoritarian / fascist state.
What do you think?
What are you willing to do about?
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Osho - No Society wants You to become Wise!
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No society wants people to be free.
Discourses
Excerpts
July 9, 2020
Osho states, “In fact, a wise man is afire, alive, aflame. He would like rather to die than to be enslaved.”
Osho discourse
No society wants you to become wise: it is against the investment of all societies.
If people are wise they cannot be exploited.
If they are intelligent they cannot be subjugated, they cannot be forced into a mechanical life, to live like robots.
They will assert themselves – they will assert their individuality.
They will have the fragrance of rebellion around them; they will want to live in freedom.
Freedom comes with wisdom, intrinsically. They are inseparable, and no society wants people to be free.
The communist society, the fascist society, the capitalist society, the Hindu, the Mohammedan, the Christian
– no society likes people to use their own intelligence because the moment they start using their intelligence they become dangerous -
dangerous to the establishment,
dangerous to the people who are in power,
dangerous to the “haves”;
dangerous to all kinds of oppression, exploitation, suppression;
dangerous to the churches,
dangerous to the states,
dangerous to the nations.
In fact, a wise man is afire, alive, aflame.
He would like rather to die than to be enslaved.
Death will not matter much to him, but he cannot sell his life to all kinds of stupidities, to all kinds of stupid people.
He cannot serve them. Hence, the societies down the ages have been supplying you with false knowing.
That’s the very function of your schools, colleges, universities.
They don’t serve you, remember, they serve the past, they serve the vested interests.
Of course, they go on puffing your ego up bigger and bigger, they go on giving you more and more degrees.
Your name becomes longer and longer, but only the name – you go on becoming shorter and shorter.
A point comes where there are only certificates and the man has disappeared.
First the man carries the certificates, then the certificates carry the man.
The man is long dead.
Osho, The Goose Is Out, Ch 6, Q 1 (excerpt)
https://www.oshonews.com/2020/07/09/no-society-wants-people-to-be-free/
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Osho: No Society Wants you to Become Wise
Posted by Enrique Raul Suarez
March 6, 2017 at 4:46
Source: Under the Blue Door
“No society wants you to become wise: it is against the investment of all societies.
If people are wise they cannot be exploited.
If they are intelligent they cannot be subjugated, they cannot be forced in a mechanical life, to live like robots.
They will assert their individuality.
They will have the fragrance of rebellion around them.
They will like to live in freedom.
Freedom comes with wisdom, intrinsically.
They are inseparable, and no society wants people to be free.
The communist society, the fascist society, the capitalist society, the Hindu, the Mohammedan, the Christian — no society
— would like people to use their own intelligence because the moment they start using their intelligence they become dangerous —
dangerous to the establishment,
dangerous to the people who are in power,
dangerous to the ‘haves’;
dangerous to all kinds of oppression, exploitation, suppression;
dangerous to the churches,
dangerous to the states,
dangerous to the nations.
In fact, a wise man is afire, alive, aflame.
But he cannot sell his life, he cannot serve them.
He would like rather to die than to be enslaved.”
~Osho
https://globalriskcommunity.com/profiles/blogs/osho-no-society-wants-you-to-become-wise
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OSHO English Library
The Goose Is Out - by Osho
[Chapter] 6. I exalt the Ordinary
The first question:
"Osho, I have got all the degrees that a university can offer.
Why am I still ignorant?"
Knowledge has no capacity to dispel ignorance.
Knowledge is a false phenomenon; it is not wisdom at all, it is just the opposite of wisdom.
Knowledge is borrowed; wisdom is the flowering of your innermost being.
You can borrow a plastic flower, but if you want real roses then you will have to grow them in your innermost being.
No university can offer it, no scripture can offer it, no scholarship is capable of doing it.
They are all impotent efforts, but they have been deceiving millions of people for thousands of years.
Yes, they can make you knowledgeable.
To be knowledgeable is one thing, and to know is totally different.
A blind man can be knowledgeable about light, but he knows nothing of light; he has not experienced it.
He can collect all kinds of information about light, he can argue, philosophize, systematize;
he can write great treatises on light, but he has not tasted the joy of light – he has not seen even a single ray of light.
He has not seen the rainbow, the colors of the flowers, the wings of a butterfly.
He has not seen the green trees, he has not seen the stars, the sun, the moon. He has missed all that.
And what he has accumulated is simply rubbish.
It is better to be ignorant and have eyes than to be very knowledgeable about light and be blind.
The universities exist for that purpose specifically.
No society wants you to become wise – it is against the investment of all societies.
If people are wise they cannot be exploited. If they are intelligent they cannot be subjugated; they cannot be forced into a mechanical life, to live like a robot.
They will assert themselves – they will assert their individuality.
They will have the fragrance of rebellion around them; they would like to live in freedom.
Freedom comes with wisdom, intrinsically – they are inseparable – and no society wants people to be free.
The communist society, the fascist society, the capitalist society, the Hindu, the Mohammedan, the Christian
– no society would like people to use their own intelligence because the moment they start using their intelligence they become dangerous,
dangerous to the establishment,
dangerous to the people who are in power,
dangerous to the “haves,”
dangerous to all kinds of oppression, exploitation, suppression;
dangerous to the churches,
dangerous to the states,
dangerous to the nations.
In fact, a wise man is afire, alive, aflame. He would prefer to die than to be enslaved.
Death will not matter much, but he cannot sell his life to any kind of stupidity, to any kind of stupid people.
He cannot serve them. Hence, societies down the ages have been supplying you with false knowing.
That’s the very function of your schools, colleges, universities.
https://www.osho.com/osho-online-library/osho-talks/wisdom-innermost-inseparable-7dd37805-b4f?p=d49cb628babf03e33b6391a6ce77ed62
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Thoughts of Osho on Why no society wants you to become wise.
"No society likes people to use their own intelligence because the moment they start using their intelligence they become dangerous.
Freedom comes with wisdom, intrinsically.
They are inseparable, and no society wants people to be free.
And true intelligence arises from Wisdom.
"Wisdom and intelligence are against the investment of all societies" - Osho
Wisdom and intelligence are against the investment of all societies. If people are wise, they cannot be exploited.
If they are intelligent, they cannot be subjugated, they cannot be forced into a mechanical life, to live like robots.
They will assert themselves – they will assert their individuality.
They will have the fragrance of rebellion around them;
they will want to live in freedom."
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Osho (born Chandra Mohan Jain; 1931 –1990), also known as Acharya Rajneesh, was an Indian godman, mystic, and founder of the Rajneesh movement.
During his lifetime, he was viewed as a controversial new religious movement leader and a mystic guru.
He rejected institutional religions.
Rajneesh emphasized the importance of free thought, meditation, mindfulness, love, celebration, courage, creativity, and humor
— qualities that he viewed as being suppressed by adherence to static belief systems, religious dogmas, and societal traditions.
https://stevenmonahan.com/thoughts-of-osho-on-why-no-society-wants-you-to-become-wise/
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