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What is Intelligence? 76
But even if all we dare do is whisper the truth, as long as we all keep
whispering, eventually the whisper will turn into a roar and then the
Walls of Jericho or wherever else will come tumbling down, and “set the
people free.”
We all want to be free to think, and speak and in so far as is fair to our
neighbours, to act and express ourselves and our feelings of love as freely
as we can.
But in this society few of us can get that freedom, so we escape into
abstraction.
Most of us live in some level of fantasy, whether in books, movies or
whatever, or if we are more intellectual we write books or research theses
and try and prove to ourselves and others what clever chaps or chappesses
we are, and get a position in society of which we can be proud.
We are then a success. And then we ask proudly to anyone else we may
meet, whilst our degree certificates, caps and gowns hang on the wall:
who are you?
So we settle for pride, vanity, a nice flat and car and the ability to look
down on others who didn’t get our degrees, and we feel superior.
When we feel a bit of guilt or anxiety about what our lives really mean, or
why our relationships never seem to be working out quite as planned, we
reach for a bottle, a drug, or a new lover.
The media society doesn’t talk about all this, because they are mostly all
playing the same game. Anybody who starts speaking like this, i.e. the
truth – they shout down, they refuse to publish the books of.
And so not just one little human being, but all we little human beings –
because we all are little in the grander scheme of things, the Universe,
from the king, pope, emperor and prime minister and billionaire
downwards – we stay locked in a prison of fear, vanity, ignorance and
silence.
The media feeds us endless dumbed-down sensational pop music and TV
and movie fantasies, which thrill and excite us and keep our minds off the
bigger questions, for example, about how we got into this state of fear,
suppression of our true selves and slavery in the first place.