Tag: Life

Understanding Perspectives: The different Layers of Truth

Do you know how the world works?

Do you know why you are here?

Do you have any idea what you need to achieve and how and what you need to do to achieve it?

My guess is that if I were to ask that question to one hundred different people, almost all, if not entirely all of them, will give very different answers. Even though there will be recognisable similarities and perhaps even some common ground involved.

We only know and understand the world from the perspective of life that we have right now.

Perspective comes from experience and whilst any one of us could honestly say that our perspective is objective, our perspective, or rather our truth, is only objective in so far as the subjectivity of our own life experiences will allow.

In respect of our place and understanding of the world, We are the sum of our experiences.

It is easy for us to fall into the trap of assuming and therefore believing that everyone we meet and communicate with has exactly the same perspective and truth as our own.

Our truth is right or correct for us. Because our truth is what we know, accept and is an honest reflection of everything that we understand.

However, our truth is limited by the depth and scope of the experiences that we have had.

Whilst it would be easy to look at those we might assume to be less educated, younger (and therefore less experienced) or from a background or life path that suggests that they might not be as ‘enlightened’ as we may believe ourselves to be, the reality very few of us have faced up to, is that even those of us with the richest life experience are still restricted and only see the world in terms of the experiences that we have had.

Illustrating this reality in a way that everyone can appreciate is perhaps best achieved by looking at experience of any subject and the complexities that are almost certain to accompany any part of life as being like an onion.

Life and its subjects have many different layers and the depth of our own understanding is represented by the different layers that exist.

As we peel and remove each layer from the onion, we see and understand more of the structure of the onion. But we still have what could be many further layers of increased understanding to obtain, which will only be revealed at each step and as each of the layers is taken away.

In real life and away from the onion, the difference is that at each step or level of understanding, we often fail to realise that there are further layers of understanding that need to be revealed.

We can therefore be as easily fooled into believing that we know all that we need to know after 3 or 4 layers have been revealed, as we could before we have even taken the first step. As we will not have realised that there may be a different level of understanding between ourselves and other involved.

Equally, as we progress through the different layers of understanding, it is just as easy to take for granted that everyone else must surely have the same understanding as that which we now have.

Because when we know and understand something ourselves, it must surely be just as easy for everyone else to understand the same; right?

The parts and areas of all our lives and the life experiences of others that are overlooked and misunderstood by decision makers, because those with power and influence believe that they already understand all that needs to be known, are countless.

This multilayered ignorance exists amongst academia, politics, within the leadership of business and finance and amongst all those who should know better, because they have been entrusted with so much power over us all.

This is one of the key reasons that life for everyone is increasingly becoming so bad.

However, the greatest travesty of this habit of looking at the world outside of us that we have, is that we look at so much of what is wrong in the world and around us with a lens made from our own experiences.

Our subjective perspectives make us believe that we are being objective and therefore seeing the true nature of the situation for what it is. When the reality we face is that we are actually viewing the whole thing subjectively.

We may not even realise that we are disadvantaging not only ourselves but perhaps many others. Because we are closed down to obtaining the level of objectivity that anyone who can influence anything for the better in our lives and across the world, really ought to have.

Profit from the life of others has made life about profit and nothing more

The complexity of the way that the world and our lives work make it exceptionally difficult both to explain and to understand where the real causes of the problems that we are facing really lie.

To say that the way the world works is multilayered, and that points or degrees of separation exist in just about every direction that we look, would be a considerable understatement.

Just like reading a well written book that reveals something new to the reader each time that it is read, there is certainly a reality we must face that People will only understand anything when they are ready to do so.

However. Understanding this only goes so far.

The bigger picture is that many People could understand the bigger picture that is at work and that is harming many of them, IF they were actually open to the information that is available to them. And not focused upon many of the distractions that have been purposefully placed in their way.

When you understand how any of these ‘layers’ work, its very easy to fall into the trap of believing that what you now know is easy for anyone to understand. For no better reason than you already understand it yourself.

However, those who have not reached the layer of understanding that you have, may be as blind and indeed resistant to the existence of the next layer of understanding that you yourself have to open up and access. You could well believe that there is nothing more that you could possibly need to know.

The phrase ‘Hiding in Plain Sight’ may be one that it overused. But in the sense of the hidden truths that so many of us cannot see – for reasons that in many cases are actually outside of our conscious control – the truths that lie behind so many of the lies in the lives that we live, are there and right in front of us. Often repeatedly knocking on our front door.

Whilst there are many such ‘hidden truths’ that are contributing to the disaster that is unfolding around us, there is none that would be more beneficial for all of us to understand than the ‘Money Myth’.

Or rather the many myths that have been deliberately created around money and what our relationship with money and the power, influence, social standing and control that goes with it, actually mean, as they unravel and influence just about every part of our waking lives.

The easiest truth this post can explain, is that the role of money, how money works and how money and everything that goes with it is based on a lie, is a story that could take up hundreds if not thousands of pages in well-reasoned and fact-linking writing.

And it’s a story that would certainly lose most readers very quickly along the way.

The next truth revealed is that any story of that kind, whether academically written or filtered down into easy reading or even comic book form, would still lose many People.

Because the truth or truths that surround everything that is wrong with the way that the world works today and the building blocks that got us all here, are together a pathway to understanding that we all need to be able to reach conclusions upon, ourselves.

So, for now, let’s round off this post with two questions for the reader to consider.

The first question is ‘What are businesses, organisations, government and every activity and action that we do outside of our homes really for?’

The final, ‘What is more important and where does that mean our priorities should be?

When any or all of us can answer these questions honestly, openly and without hesitation given the role that we all play, we will have already taken the biggest step towards the much better future for Everyone that awaits.

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We will not embrace the change Our World needs until events make it impossible for us to do otherwise

The hardest part of addressing any kind of addiction is crossing the Rubicon to accepting that we are addicted.

And for as long as we have not accepted that our state of addiction exists, we continue blissfully unaware that everything that we once considered to be important has itself been usurped by the fake importance that has taken over our direction at the centre of our lives.

As a society and culture, we are addicted to a lifestyle that revolves around money, the accumulation of wealth, influence, power, advancement and self.

It’s all part of a worldwide malaise that would most accurately be named a Moneyocracy.

The value of money is the benchmark of our values system. It relates to everything in life.

Money and everything linked to it comes before everything important, including the consideration we have for other human beings.

The problem is, we don’t see it.

Or rather, we do see it. But for as long as even the smallest benefit that this bogus system provides us appears to outweigh the disadvantages, we are completely hooked into it and blind to the damage that it is doing to everyone; not least of all ourselves.

This malign and all-encompassing value system has taken over everything so comprehensively, that we cannot imagine a future without whatever benefit we each prize so highly being available to us each and every day. Even though it is the behaviour that exists in all our lives that has created and allowed the Top-Down Moneyocracy to exist, take over and progressively thrive.

We refuse to accept that there is a way of living our lives that can and will be better for us all in so many different ways. Because our addiction to this System tells us that there is nothing better than the hit that we get, in whatever way each of us may get it, and the wilful blindness that accompanies our addiction obscures the reality that each and every time we take it, in whatever way it may be, it is our own behaviour that is this cultural problem’s cause.

We cannot take any of the causes of the problems that we have today with us. Because we will otherwise not be moving forward or leaving everything that’s causing so much harm to everyone and the world we live in, behind.

However, what is regrettably clear, is that we will not relinquish our collective hold upon the Moneyocracy and the harm that it is doing us, until events force us to view the mechanics of our lives in a very different way.

Wars, financial system crashes, pandemics, shortages, civil unrest and many other unsavoury experiences that too many of us had until recently been happy to believe had long since been left behind, could all lead or contribute to the end of the Moneyocracy and a way of living that in the terms of all that we should be valuing, has already come at an incalculable cost to us all.

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