Quote from: Xanth on September 07, 2012, 19:24:44
Things will change. Slowly.
Yeah you're right. Change is always constant, right?

Basically, I'm just making the point that all these institutions, such as corporations and governments, that conspire against society for their own benefit are only doing what we demand they do. Take Big Pharma for example. As long as the major pharmacutical companies continue making billions of dollars from consumers with cancer or other illnesses, they will of course do anything in their power to prevent anything from interfering with that by conditioning society into believing there is no cure through mass media, and that their chemically made medicines are the only thing that will subdue or relieve their illness. They of course heavily influence governments to pass laws against anyone or anything that gets in the way, which include natural cures. Does anyone actually think they want the sick to get well? They don't want us to die of course, well at least not all the time

So again, as long as the majority of mainstream society continues believing they must consume pharmacutical medicines to get "well" because their doctor told them so, and because all the commercials tell them so, and as long as they keep believing that naturally grown cures are nothing more than hippie crackpot snake oil because the movies and T.V. tell them so, then marijuana will continue to be illegal, and it will continue to be extremely challenging for others to get the real cure that actually works.
Like I've said before. There is absolutely nothing wrong with any of this. Everything is working exactly as it is intended. Everything that occurs is our choice. Otherwise it wouldn't occur of course.

Everytime protestors get out into the streets and protest against companies that perform unethically, the protestors are in a sense protesting against themselves because they are protesting against the very institutions that we ourselves created to suit our demands. Sure, the company in question will implement new policies within reason to satisfy the protestors, but the new policies DO NOT change the person. So what happens next? Everyone goes back home and continues doing the same thing they've always been doing: Serving the self, serving their ego, and more times than not, the new policies end up being worse than before while at the same time 10 other companies are cropping up that will behave unfavorably towards society in some form or another. It is impossible to change anything outside ourselves, so trying to change our institutions with protests or revolt will do nothing to change the system, because once again We as a collective are the System.
Just FYI, everytime we spend money at a grocery store, a department store, or practically any place of business that feeds our institutions throughout the globe, we cast our vote and give our support to the destruction of our ecology by supporting aggriculture, oil, hydrolic fracturing, chemical refineries, etc. We give our support to many many other conflicts accross the globe because we all live out of harmony with the planet, with nature, and with each other by obsessively satisfying the demads of our ego. To keep up with the increasing demands of society our institutions, which include our governments frequently have to go to extreme measures to keep up with those demands, such as wars, occupation, genocide etc.. So when someone talks about how terrible it is that our institutions prevent the use of substances that has the potential of saving lives, or how terrible this corporation is or that corporation is, or how stupid our laws are, etc., my question is always:
IS THIS A PROBLEM?
If it is, then what can we do to solve the problem?
Each and everyone one of us could easily grow our own hemp if we wanted to. We could grow absolutely anything we wanted that could improve our lives, and there's nothing our institutions or laws could do about it if we would all support each other. We could do absolutely ANYTHING we wanted and have a society never before experienced in the history of our planet if we all served one another instead of serving ourselves. Global Unifcation is THE solution. I'm not interested in how utopian that may sound to some. Again, that is just more conditioning by mainstream media. I understand that the majority of society is dominated by belief systems and of course the ego at the present moment. Overcoming them is of course part of our learning experience. However, global unification and world peace is not impossible. It is inevitable.
So again, our institutions are not the problem. There is no problem. At the end of the day we only have ourselves.