Regarding the attractors placed within this world, America obviously has a prominent place, but let\u2019s analyse the obvious elements first.<\/p>\n
The American dream is that you can go there and \u201csucceed\u201d, you can \u201cmake it\u201d, and it\u2019s usually defined as \u201cyou can become rich and famous\u201d, 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\u2019s all going to be worth it, in the end. There\u2019s also a feeling that America is special, it\u2019s where the meaning of life is, it\u2019s 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 \u201cattractor\u201d, and it\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s first analyse the promise of the American dream. First of all, it\u2019s obvious that we\u2019re going to deal with lots of survivorship bias here, because I\u2019ve seen stories by the Croatian immigrants into the USA, who suffered terribly working on building the railroads sometime in the 19th<\/sup> 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\u2019s 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 \u201ccaptains of industry\u201d as they used to call them.<\/p>\n So, let\u2019s 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\u2019s see what \u201csuccess\u201d meant. Usually, it\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n Let\u2019s 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 \u201carriving\u201d at the goal; every material thing you purchase comes with an initial \u201crush\u201d of satisfaction and fulfilment, but it\u2019s very quickly normalised, and so you try to acquire the next thing, trying to check every single item on the list \u2013 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\u2019re fine, and you don\u2019t mind that everybody else around you is the same kind of fine, which means you\u2019re not particularly distinguished in any way, but at least you\u2019re not distinguished in a negative way, so that\u2019s 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 \u2013 divorced multiple times, undergone all kinds of plastic surgery, addicted to drugs and alcohol, with scandals, depression, suicide and depravity. You obviously don\u2019t 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\u2019s 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\u2019re happy without a single worry in the world, because you\u2019re living the dream, making a short pause every now and then to snort some cocaine.<\/p>\n 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<\/i> bring fulfilment and joy, for things that promise a lot but actually don\u2019t 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\u2019t 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\u2019s nothing left.<\/p>\n That thing Jordan Peterson said, that I mentioned in the previous article, is very relevant here \u2013 namely, that there\u2019s only so much joy one can experience in human existence, so there\u2019s 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\u2019s basically 99% of total possible success you can actually have here. Everything beyond that is trinkets and bullshit \u2013 you wear a Rolex instead of a Seiko, big deal. Nobody cares, or can tell anyway. It\u2019s the same with cars; you can get a better car up to a point, but after that it\u2019s exponentially more money for chasing mirages. This means that the promise of the American dream is not all false; there\u2019s some truth in it. Physical wealth can indeed improve things for you if you\u2019re 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\u2019s like hunger \u2013 it\u2019s a real issue if you have nothing to eat, but once you eat something there\u2019s only so much you can do about it. Once you had enough to eat, eating more will actually make you feel worse, and that\u2019s the first lie of the American dream \u2013 that having more will always make you feel better. It won\u2019t. 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 \u2013 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Regarding the attractors placed within this world, America obviously has a prominent place, but let\u2019s analyse the obvious elements first. The American dream is that you can go there and \u201csucceed\u201d, you can \u201cmake it\u201d, and it\u2019s usually defined as … Continue reading