Regarding the attractors placed within this world, America obviously has a prominent place, but let’s analyse the obvious elements first.
The American dream is that you can go there and “succeed”, you can “make it”, and it’s usually defined as “you can become rich and famous”, which means you can distinguish yourself from the grey irrelevant masses of bland unimportant lookalikes. There is a specific astral beacon associated with this promise of success, the beacon that points to the vaguely defined finish line of success, making you feel it’s all going to be worth it, in the end. There’s also a feeling that America is special, it’s where the meaning of life is, it’s where you want to be if you want to be a part of great things that await mankind in the future. This is what I mean by the term “attractor”, and it’s obviously created by associating some pretty powerful source of spiritual energy with physical entities, the way one would put a tasty worm on a hook to deceive the fish.
Let’s first analyse the promise of the American dream. First of all, it’s obvious that we’re going to deal with lots of survivorship bias here, because I’ve seen stories by the Croatian immigrants into the USA, who suffered terribly working on building the railroads sometime in the 19th century, and regretted the moment when they had the idea of going to America to find a better life, because what they got was hell, filled with incredibly hard work, suffering and eventually death. If you look only at those who actually did become rich and famous, and those do exist, you will get a skewed perspective, the way you would get a skewed perspective of the Russia’s post-Soviet 1990s if you only interview the oligarchs. It is a fact, however, that the post-WW2 America did in fact have a period of widespread wealth, and a very rich middle class, which was definitely not the case before, when you had widespread misery and very few extremely wealthy oligarchs, or “captains of industry” as they used to call them.
So, let’s ignore the pre-WW2 times and focus on the golden era of the American dream, when an ordinary person pumping gas could earn several times more money than the European engineers and other elites; life was easy and good in America even for the wide masses, but let’s see what “success” meant. Usually, it’s a house in the suburbs, with a pool, several nice cars, one for each family member, a promise of a wealthy retirement that included carefree travelling on a cruise ship somewhere abroad, you had a nice family and could send your kids to college.
Let’s now see what this material paradise actually means, spiritually. It means that the siren call of the attractor remains elusive, and you never actually have a feeling of “arriving” at the goal; every material thing you purchase comes with an initial “rush” of satisfaction and fulfilment, but it’s very quickly normalised, and so you try to acquire the next thing, trying to check every single item on the list – got a good job, check, got a house, check, got married, check, had children, check, got all the nice appliances for the house, check, got a nice car, check, got a nice car for the wife, check, got all the newest gadgets and status symbols to impress the neighbours and coworkers, check, got the kids to Harvard, check, got a million dollars in the bank, check. At some point, you can decide that you’re fine, and you don’t mind that everybody else around you is the same kind of fine, which means you’re not particularly distinguished in any way, but at least you’re not distinguished in a negative way, so that’s great, or you can get depressed because you invested all that energy and made so many sacrifices and compromises, and the best you can say is that you have a nice, ordinary middle-class life. At worst, you get divorced because you found out that your wife was cheating on you with a pool cleaner while you were busy working for all those material things; she got half of everything, and you are now in a hotel somewhere, thinking about putting a hole through your head. The emotional result is between mild satisfaction at best, and bitter depression at worst, and when you poll the wealthiest, most successful and famous people in America, they seem to be the worst mess of them all – divorced multiple times, undergone all kinds of plastic surgery, addicted to drugs and alcohol, with scandals, depression, suicide and depravity. You obviously don’t have people who are completely blissed-out because they attained the goal the spiritual attractor promised them, that feeling of euphoric bliss and greatness that was promised. There’s just work, sacrifice, spiritual compromises that have to be made along the way if you want to succeed, pieces of your soul that have to be sold or denied, cocks to be sucked and arses to be licked on your way up the ladder, and whisky you have to drink to try to forget and wash out the aftertaste of cock and arse. Then you bling yourself out with expensive trinkets and put on a fake smile entering that cocktail party, pretending you’re happy without a single worry in the world, because you’re living the dream, making a short pause every now and then to snort some cocaine.
Analysis from a spiritual point of view shows that all those people keep investing spiritual energy into the system, trading it for material things, and are on a perpetually energy-deficitary downward path, where they end up completely depleted, but surrounded with lots of meaningless things, having traded the things that actually matter, such as their spiritual energy, dignity and integrity, the things that actually bring fulfilment and joy, for things that promise a lot but actually don’t mean anything. The American dream, in essence, states that physical things will bring you happiness, and this is initially convincing to people who are poor and thus believe that poverty is the cause of all their problems, but the truth is, wealth will only solve the problems that can be solved with money. If your problems are caused by the lack of food, medical care, housing or transportation, then wealth will easily cure those. However, if you actually miss God and that feeling of blissful fulfilment and joy of expanded consciousness that you had in heaven, before, but you don’t know what it is, and the attractors placed by Satan can convince you to seek them as mirages in this spiritual desert of a world, you will keep losing yourself until there’s nothing left.
That thing Jordan Peterson said, that I mentioned in the previous article, is very relevant here – namely, that there’s only so much joy one can experience in human existence, so there’s not much you can add even with infinite wealth and success. There is, however, a terrible and deep pool of suffering and misery of human existence, and if you can keep that away, that’s basically 99% of total possible success you can actually have here. Everything beyond that is trinkets and bullshit – you wear a Rolex instead of a Seiko, big deal. Nobody cares, or can tell anyway. It’s the same with cars; you can get a better car up to a point, but after that it’s exponentially more money for chasing mirages. This means that the promise of the American dream is not all false; there’s some truth in it. Physical wealth can indeed improve things for you if you’re poor, because poverty can cause all kinds of terrible things to intersect your existence. However, you exhaust the pool of possible improvements very quickly, and you exhaust the pool of really significant improvements even more quickly. Basically, it’s like hunger – it’s a real issue if you have nothing to eat, but once you eat something there’s only so much you can do about it. Once you had enough to eat, eating more will actually make you feel worse, and that’s the first lie of the American dream – that having more will always make you feel better. It won’t. In fact, once you managed to leave the pool of abject misery, trying to have more and better things will actually cause you to neglect the most important things – God, your soul, your mate and children, your friends, and so on. If trying to be more successful and famous causes you to make compromises that will break you, this means accepting real harm and real injury in the place that actually matters, in exchange for mirages and nonsense. This is a bad trade by all measures.