The Anatomy of Corruption

Perhaps the greatest crime done by human thought is the separation of meaning from individuals, and the application of virtue to culture. Though it is hard to blame the intellectuals for misleading us because nearly all of us have committed the same crime. We have all given our loyalty to the culture, but as children did we really have a choice? Any resistance to our parents who were already corrupted by culture was nothing sort of futile. We were forced to let the culture corrupt us, and so very few of us ever break free again... So few of us find that inner child within us that was confident and free!

It is out of this emptiness that culture and collectivism grows. We hate ourselves so we fear standing alone. We become parasites just looking to suck the smallest amount of life out of the person next us. For this is what culture is: a leech fest. Co-dependence and broken minds never daring to step out side of the self proclaimed boundaries of the group.

Here, in the hatred of self is the worship of the collective born.

Culture offers us a false sense of purpose and belonging in exchange for unquestioning loyalty. Any hope of filling this emptiness dies when we are willing to settle for religion and nonsense. Because our loyalty to the group means we must give up our loyalty to truth! But we substitute belonging for truth (for more on this subject read my blog Truth vs. Belonging).

The individual is destroyed.

Once a loyalty to truth is minimal (existence would be impossible if there was not any respect for truth) the exploitation of man is optimal. And this is where we find the unholy marriage of culture, and "authority".

In the same way the individual gives his loyalty to culture, culture give its loyalty to authority. However the reasons for the submission are different. The culture offers belonging, "authority" offers "protection" and "needs" in exchange for loyalty. The illusion of authority is now born.

The monster has just grown teeth.

Now we are faced with war, the police state, exploited fear, and genocide. All which are ridiculous if human beings would simply see other human beings as individuals rather then cultures, countries and religions.

I have said it before and I say it again.

No Gods.

No Governments.

No Cultures.

Only individuals. Only loyalties to truth! Those things are only products of the emptiness within us. A fear of standing alone.

We are owned by nothing! Truth is our only master, and we must come to terms with it which is only possible when we let these empty things go. It is our relationship with truth that sets us free, not religions, not governments, not cultures.