Who's the best person that you know? What does it mean to be good?
Being
‘good’ is relative, and I will prove it in the next sentence. The question is:
Good for what?
Yes, it’s
relative. If you were Adolf Hitler, you would need plenty of people who were
good at obeying orders without question. The army needs soldiers who are good
at the same thing. Nevertheless, if you were a person who were good at caring
for people, you would not be good at being a soldier. So, with that principle
settled, I want to arrive at the next question.
If most
people you would meet in the street are good citizens, meaning people who obey
the law, and who do not cause conflict and problems to others, how good is that
for society?
People
often talk about change, but things don’t change. Ask twenty people if they
think the world would be a better place in twenty years. The consistent answer
I get is that people believe that things will get worse – more pollution, more
wars, more poverty.
What are
the ‘good’ people doing about these? What have they been doing about global
warming for the last twenty years? If global warming has been killing more
people than all the wars combined – what are the good people of the world doing
about that?
That’s another common perception. But how authentic is that? Do you really think there’s someone out there who doesn’t care about themselves? And how much can you really care about anyone if you can’t even care about yourself. You are another person in this world, just like any other person. There’s no logical reason why another person’s needs should be more important than your own.
Sometimes
people care a lot about an ideal, and that you should put the ideal before
yourself and even other’s needs. If you believe in this, you are just about good
to be recruited for Adolf Hitler’s society. World leaders and cult leaders have
been using people like you over and over again. Leaders have been replacing one
ideal with another to their own ends for centuries. This is very easy too, especially
since many people see protecting the
status quo as being good. Keeping things the way it is, not rocking the
boat – that is what a good person would do, right?
Some people
can’t understand how Hitler dragged the whole Germany into the
2nd
world war. Some even think that there was something wrong with the German
people. But psychological research have proven over and over again that people in
general don’t question authority. Most people can be pushed very far into doing
unreasonable things against others simply because a person in a uniform told
them to do so. It felt right.
Why?
“Because
someone in a white coat told me so”
In the end,
history repeats itself. The Iraq war is a fine example of just that. Who paid
for that war? Who funded it? The American Public did.
People can comply
with very ridiculous things – people who are otherwise intelligent.
Did you see
the movie ‘Compliance’?
Maybe you
don’t want to be a good person. Maybe you want to be BAD!
You are a
rebel. Now, no one can control you, right?
Wrong.
Pop culture
is a great tool modern leaders and corporations use to control us – believe
it or not. It’s ironic, because the basis of pop culture is, ‘Do what you want!’ – And people love this. It’s cool!
“I am my own person. I won’t let anyone tell me
what to do!”
Then,
corporations and governments come along, and through the media tell people what
they want them to believe ‘cool’ is.
How does
this work? Well, it’s simple:
- Proclaim a belief over and over again (brainwashing)
- Make people think It’s their own
“You are
cool, if you consume our product”
“…being cool means I am my own person, and no-body
tells me what I should do”
And the vicious
circle continues…
Six media
giants control more than 90% of what you listen to on radio and TV - GE, NEWS
CORP, DISNEY, VIACOM, TIME WARNER and CBS. Only a handful of artists like
Miley Sirus, Rihanna, Drake and their like are rotated over and over again,
proclaiming the message of Cool.
