Our Highest Duties and Skills

Artists usually see further, and you may have noticed a recurring element in what they see: the common denominator of the possible futures they envision is, they are dystopian. Dystopia is defined as the opposite of utopia: whereas utopia is a dream – the ultimate positive state of things –, dystopia is a nightmare – the ultimate negative state of things –. Ever wonder why? Sensing something’s wrong is commonplace; sensing that what’s wrong is a gap, that something quite basic is missing, is less obvious. Artists sense that something lacks which can make or break us all.

It has been said that, of all our duties and skills, differentiating and detecting the social and the antisocial personalities, and holding the social safe from undue restrain while restraining the antisocial from suppressing, ranks the highest since failing that civilisation won't be here any more to support anything at all. The dystopian future envisioned by predictive artists, and our fast heading for just that, are the hard evidence. This then is our basic make or break point, and our ensuing first duty as individuals is paying the price of freedom and being constantly alert about just that, and being constantly willing to fight back and eradicate it. If the potential trouble source is the key factor in conveying suppression, then part of this basic point and duty is paying the price of freedom about that too, and being constantly alert about anyone, and ourselves in the first place, becoming or being a potential trouble source, of whatever “winning”, “losing” or any other kind, and being constantly willing to fight back, pull that individual out of that condition and eradicate it.

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I previously touched upon how fundamental it is to be cause instead of effect in order to make things go right instead of astray, and upon how responsibilty is instrumental to this; an example comes in handy now to highlight how unnoticed, insidious, basic and widespread the infiltration of suppressives can be and thus easily succeed in inadvertently turning us into potential trouble sources. Today's trendy mantra is, Man is an animal among animals, and Man's main ability is that to adjust to his environment – good dog, sit!
Observe it more closely: Man has advanced and has conquered his environment much more than animals did. And animals’ main ability is that to adjust to their environment. Did Man progress by adjusting himself to the environment? Not at all. Man did not develop a fur; Man developed the ability to control fire. It has been said that the main ability of Man is that to adjust the environment to himself. Not that to settle for the reverse. The more animals adjust to the environment, the more they are effect; the more Man adjusts the environment to himself, the more he is cause. And the difference of progress of Man and animals in history is proof that the more one is cause the more one moves forward. On this basis, even without bringing up the negligible side effect that if Man is a soulless animal his suppression becomes less intolerable, you can understand the intentions behind such trendy mantra and the scope and depth of its consequences.

In summary, we have three key advances here:
1: tracing the root cause to the common denominator of the suppressive, the potential trouble source and their relationship;
2: realising the seriousness and the order of magnitude of the fallout of that root cause;
3: realising that successfully handling that root cause, or lacking to do it, is the make−break point of all human existences, civilisations, endeavours, and anything, and thus ranks FIRST among ALL human knowledge and duties.

To feel tangibly why these three key advances are vital, I wish you’d look around in search of actual examples of their absence: people suffering from the consequences of suppressives and potential trouble sources that, being unaware of these key points, blame and thus harm an endless stream of wrong, innocent targets, thus acting as potential trouble sources themselves and creating further consequences they suffer from, while the real suppressives and key potential trouble sources always slip away undetected from under every wrong target, switching from the used up Trojan horse to the next Trojan horse they’ll exploit to keep on poisoning people’s existence and lead it to one disaster after the other.

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Until we eradicate suppression and being a potential trouble source, let no one delude himself, not even the worse of us. In the presence of them none will be spared, not even their most trusted accomplices. The why is soon said; one only needs to review their basic motive: any other human being is an enemy to be suppressed at all costs. I described this in the cover: not only they created the pyramid, but they’re also altering its profile, thinning it more and more, pushing anyone down, deeper and deeper, and finally out from the bottom. For a suppressive, an accomplice is just a tool to eliminate others; once the others have been eliminated, it’ll be his turn.
And speaking of how in the presence of suppression and potential trouble sources nothing and nobody is safe, an example: the perversion of information and communication technology is what is making it possible for them to alter the profile of the pyramid, moving higher and higher any discretionary power, so that the responsibility – and the freedom – to evaluate and decide is taken away from more people at a given level to concentrate it in less people at an upper level, and so on ad infinitum. The vilest such case are banks: with remarkable dark humour, they proceed to concentrate discretion towards the top and to push people towards the bottom pretending they were enterprises like any other, forced to to so by the “climate” they themselves create, to the service of their instigators.

The reason why I previously mentioned classic cars when I discussed the reasons why you personally have a stake in all this has not much to do with personal taste, but rather – and definitely – much to do with our highest duties and skills.
In the presence of unresolved suppression and potential trouble sources the world goes downhill: today is worse than yesterday, and tomorrow will be worse than today. Therefore, in a potential trouble source world, a taste for the timeless, for the essential, and for the self-determination contained in things like classic cars is not a mere odd whim; quite to the contrary, it is a conscious, determined and precise slap in the face: to suppressives, to potential trouble sources, to all the trivia, smoke and mirrors, dead-end surrogates, homogenisation to passiveness, red-herring mazes, frog boilers, hamster wheels, assorted quicksands, and to the degradation of foundations in the first place. So whenever you see one, whether it’s a classic Aston, Jaguar, Ford, Ferrari, Alfa, Fiat, or better still a Reliant Robin much more so than a Bugatty Royale, you are looking at a point of our deepest honour, a gauntlet throwh at suppressives, and a wake−up call for the potential trouble sources.

It’s not the eternal struggle between policemen and thieves; it’'s the age−long struggle between the suppressives and the ethical, the condition of potential trouble source and the potential trouble sources are the battlefield, and dawn of its end will be the acknowledgement that this is our highest ranking knowledge, skill and duty, and our ensuing safeguard and use of it.