Any honesty that “rubs against the grain” and “tells too much truth” is brutal, any dishonesty that can be tolerated just “gets by.” With that intimate music I begin this article. The total honesty that brings about a true revolution is perceived as a threat to those who mistakenly invest in something that is established or “works”. Face it, it is human nature to want to be comfortable or in a comfort zone that is constantly working. With that being said, I bring up this fact of life: It’s that rare person who doesn’t want to be comfortable that makes things really grow, improve, and work better. It cannot happen otherwise in reality.
The fantasy is that establishments and authorities work for good and growth, right? That’s really the fantasy of all the “comfort zone realities” that work to keep things “the same” without growth.
I remember this episode of “Star Trek” called “The Apple” where the people of this planet kept feeding a creature/machine God called “Vaal” and had an eternal Eden like paradise as long as they obeyed the creature/machine without dissent or individual thought. Well, doesn’t that really show the ideal of all external authority? “We’ll let it be ‘good’ for you as long as you obey us without question. You won’t grow, but we’ll provide for you. End.”
In order to have a dynamic process of growth, the very concept of authority has to be replaced by full individual creative contribution and autonomy. I know, that’s some really brutal honesty and it’s necessary (sometimes desired) when things get too stagnant. Without growth, everything descends into genuine chaos that appears to be order on the surface. For example, take a good look at Nazi Germany: on the surface you’d see an order “brown-shirted soldier who walked like a goose,” but what simmered underneath was genuine chaos that had to lose from the top down. since Adolf Hitler, the dictator. Where there is inner conflict there is no victory, there is only loss, destruction and true chaos, whatever the appearance of order. In fact, genuine production looks like chaos because everyone is contributing creatively in harmony with the growth, and I mean everyone. Thinking about what I’m talking about, the closest thing to a dictator is each individual contributor acting creatively for the sake of total growth, not an irrationally selfish dictator acting out of fear of genuine growth, doing “whatever.” Indeed, all genuine chaos is a holocaust in that sense and all genuine order depends on individual creativity and rational action and contribution that contributes to a productive future of life, liberty and happiness without the filter of irrational needs to hold things and others. Now, that’s brutal honesty, take it or leave it.
