The
Insider
The
Insider is a hollywood-movie of the year
2000
about the battle of private people against the
drugs-maffia of nicotine. The end of the movie:
the battle was won with the help of integer
journalism that had to defeat its own lies and
material fears of interest. All this was about
the legal confirmation that nicotine is a drug.
To the court of justice it was formulated by the
expert insider witness of the tobacco-industry
as a chemical substance that passes through the
brain barrier by the bloodstream, definitely
affecting the consciousness or the workings of
the brain. It was confirmed as being addictive
and thus destructive and not permissible without
any legal control. This was the tenet of the
movie The Insider.
Seeing this
movie was a tiring experience. It was as if the
onlooker had to fight the battle himself.
Following the story one realized that the fight
had just begun, the truth had just been
(legally) uncovered: half the world smokes
cigarettes and one knows now for sure that these
people are simply drug addicts. We also realized
this before with alcohol. Alcohol is also a drug
that is now under legal restriction, against
which a battle has been fought in the
prohibition of the thirties . That battle was
lost; we had a world war and more madness to
fight than just alcohol. And this social
conflict about drugs, addiction and control
pertains to the whole spectrum of psychotropic
drugs: marhiuana, alcohol, nicotine, but also
caffeine, theïne (a likewise substance in
black tea) and even cocoa (all brown chocolate).
And these are just the soft-drugs. The battle
against hard drugs, especially heroine and
cocaine is already exhausting, if not
devastating the complete worldcommunity. In
America and the rest of the world millions of
people are incarcerated for drug offences. It is
a multi-billion business -interest of a
completely organized crime and anti-crime
opposition. We are talking about war. And the
situation doesn't get any better with the
present politics of legal control. Evidently it
is not the right concept of control: legally
boundaries are set and penalties determined, but
putting a fence around a problem doesn't solve
it .
The
problem of illusion.
The essential
problem we are dealing with concerning this
issue is that of truth. Truth is the word that
is used to contrast the equally elusive concept
of illusion. Truth scientifically means that one
sees the reality as it is. From the greek
philosopher to the present day theorist there is
agreement about this: illusion is to be fought
with truth and the truth is the reality
perceived as it is. It is a basic human value on
which the whole of human society and virtue is
founded. The act of escaping from the truth is
called escapism. Escapism is the willful
creation and maintenance of lies that is liable
to legal persecution. The tobacco-companies in
The Insider were caught in a full-blown lie
about the addictive qualities of nicotine and
thus were found guilty of creating illusion,
that is to say they were found guilty of fraud,
cheating and evil intent. Of course everything
was settled by economic penalties. One cannot
send people to prison who have been tolerated as
respected tax-payers and citizens, although they
are lying frauds demolishing the society with
their policies of deceit. Although they are
guilty of killing hundreds of thousands of
people giving them cancer and driving them into
despair, unemployment, divorce, madness and
suicide, they are tolerated and only penalized.
Not the producer of the soft-drug is factually
responsible, the user is. One glass of alcohol
e.g. is even considered healthy. One cup of
coffee or a coke is not really causing any
damage. A piece of chocolate is nothing but an
innocent pleasure of fine taste.
The legal
measures are not sufficient to attain to the
control wanted. Legal measures can be in the
service of the material interest of parties
involved. The security of the people is
heartened by penalizing driving a car under
influence or prohibiting the use of alcohol on
the the work-floor. In order to do our work we
have to see the reality as it is. That we agree
about. In private situations though, the legal
matter is finished. The legal settlement is
there as a civil public defense against the
human weakness of all kinds of drug-escapism for
the state of illusion. The legal system doesn't
really declare war in the sense of bombing the
enemy out of its strong-hold, which in this case
is the private freedom to 'enjoy' escapist
actions. No, in fact the legality is the
irrational defense for the security of the
private sphere which is the root of the problem.
Keeping the system as it is, the first
conclusion must be that from the legal politics
of governmental control the problem cannot be
solved. If we want to win this war, the private
sphere must be attacked, bombed and subdued. And
this is where all public, legal and political
discussion ends. All we are left with is a
private discussion about personal matters in the
confidential sphere. Only from a fundamental
change in this sphere we can expect a change in
the greater society which is simply a reflection
of all those private interests
together.
Confidential
knowledge
So what is
that horrible truth that we like to escape from?
Is it that we are so tired of all the stress,
the competition, the materialism, the sex, the
failures of control, the disbelief, the
disrespect, the animal nature, the Big Lie?
Certainly going private doesn't end the
awareness and reality of these problems. Nor as
we stated does restricting the escapism to the
private sphere only constitute much of a
solution. And now we are only talking about the
escape in drugs; socially tolerated soft-drugs.
There is more escapism of the same kind in
violence against animals or others we like to
consider animalistic(ally) resulting in a
general lack of compassion, the escape in
acquiring possessions which make us possessive,
egoistic and soulless and the escape in sex to
get rid of all those nasty tensions raised by
the awareness of the problem.
The
maintenance of illusion by means of
drug-escapism is the first offense though. The
rest can be considered as side-effects: If you
think meat-eating is healthy, working for the
money is the prime objective and and having sex
is the same as being loyal, than certainly you
apply for a cigarette, a drink, a cup of coffee,
a coke, a piece of chocolate and some
recreational marijuana as a reward for
championing the grand illusion of the glory of
human weaknesses. This is how, what we consider
to be normal private people create and maintain
their state of illusion. And to the office of
the analyst, psychologist or whatever mental
health worker this is the confidential knowledge
that the government cannot decide or even may
know about. These are sins to the priests: thou
shall not kill, lie, cheat and steal. But we are
grand predators if we eat meat, steal oneother
the profit away, have sex without the blink of
an eye and have a good drink to celebrate all
this. This whole predator sporting is the
reality of illusion covering up the knowledge of
our weakness. Only by first of all acknowledging
this illusion one can see a reality where the
soft-drugs might no longer be needed or even be
experienced as disturbing the fine consciousness
of happiness we are after.
The
neurosis, the addiction.
There is no
escape from the addiction if one doesn't face
the truth that we as human beings in our
weaknesses foster a kind of
predator-neurosis with all kinds of
fears, compulsions and diseases. It is in
killing animals for food, wanting to steal
oneother the profit legally, and betraying
oneother and love in general in sexuality that
we deny that we are behaving like predators that
take alcohol to loosen up from the tension
experienced in the conflict with our primary
genetically programmed primate instinct (or
nicotine to narrow your brain about it). A
normal primate rarely kills out of hunger. Only
after a prolonged serious lack of basic
nutritious value the ape does kill, and not even
all of them do so (gorilla's e.g. are pure
vegetarians). Certainly we, who do have the full
wholesome nutritious value of dairy products,
don't have to kill any animal for the purpose of
rare vitamins or common protein.
We are no
normal primates, we human beings are predatory
primates, a special dangerous type that is
always in distress because of going against as
well the natural order as the genetically basic
primate program of instinct. Thus the foundation
of the general human weakness and its resulting
drive for escaping into addiction is uncovered.
There is no doubt about the weaknesses. We have
evolutionarily evolved in the fear for predators
copying their behavior and our moral systems are
solely directed for being aware of this.
Religion preached against it since the earliest
of civilization. All basic religious
disciplines, be it the sufi-muslim, the
hindu-yogi, the buddhist or the christian monks
- they all cherish vegetarianism as the basic
drive of their belief. There is no doubt about
the way we create and maintain the illusion of
the human goodness that is in fact a passion
about the ignorance of behaving like a predator.
There is only doubt about the way how to fight
this enemy, constantly lacking in all efforts to
be really of goodness, understanding, progress
and the
human values
of truth, loyalty, sharing and caring countering
the basic four weaknesses.
Must we
consult a psychologist to get out of this
neurosis of becoming the predator that we fear
in oneother since the earliest of our species?
Certainly that psychologist is part of the
neurosis. Certainly he can't help being caught
in the game of being a better profiteer than the
looser seeking Him. Certainly he will not come
to that conclusion but concentrate on fear
management, sexual problems and blocks in
general aspiration, which are all just symptoms
which being fought just lead to another version
of the same disease.
Against
Nature and our motive of control
One must
acknowledge that the basic disease of the
predator-neurosis consists of simply going
against our own nature and the natural order we
should be an integral harmonious part of in
general. Without this conclusion there will,
albeit we foster the honesty of the confidential
knowledge of our human weaknesses, never be any
realization of a concept of control that ends
the (hopefully only mental) disease and the
social disarray that is a result of that
illusion-covered weakness. Without the
preliminary analytic conclusion of this predator
neurosis we cannot get out of the eternal hell
of human fall-down ending in dictature and
senseless karmic warfare.
Also must be
understood that this going against our own basic
primate genes has made a vicious circle with
going against the natural order in general. The
latter one does practice for digestive purposes.
We are stress-addicts in the first place. We
can't live without it (and therefore also not
abolish it politically) because the meat in our
intestines must be digested more rapidly than
the normal length of the primate vegetarian
tract allows. Otherwise we intoxicate ourselves
with the waste products of breaking down the
complex animal protein. Thus we need to jog like
idiots trough the park or beat oneother
senseless in a boxing match or wage serious wars
in soccer-support or football-matches, yell
oneother brainless in military training, and
watch creep shows of all kind daily on
television (truly happened or not). The culture
grows into a monstrosity of perversion: never is
there enough stress and perversion to get rid of
the predator shit sitting peacefully in
christian goodness denying the natural phases of
the moon to be a serious directive in our
lives.
No, for our
digestion we think nature is bad and cultural
fixations are good. We
abolished (in A.D 325 by Constantine still being
a pagan, just before the fall of Rome ) the
division of Calends, Ides and Nones from the
Julian reform
of our calendar - which made a nice clock-like
division of 48 'weeks' (considering a second
moon quarter Nones) in a solar year - for a
stiff cultural weekorder that does not pertain
to anything in nature (and
if it would align to nature in another solar
system, that would be a serious
disorientation).
We disregard the respect for the rising sun by
means of pragmatic time-zones much too gross to
keep the natural differentiation and alignment
of time and place falling down in endless
discussions of unity in diversity. We wage war
against Kosovo- and Tsjetsjenian Muslims not
understanding their moonrhythm-consciousness
which is about the only meaningful contribution
of Islam in response to Christianity. Just
because the moon-year is a cultural invention
one can never agree about, the whole
consciousness of the natural moon-rhythm was
abolished and declared primitive
calendering
throwing us in the dark of the middle ages and
keeping us there in the ignorant christian
materialism of modernity likewise. Because we
get bored stiff with the inductive false oneness
of timezones we further spiced our digestive
motive by the invention of summertime of which
one says that it saves energy but of which one
also knows that it creates more chaos and (for
the digestive tract desired) stress in the
society with people not knowing when to go to
bed at all anymore (would that save
money?).
Not further
discussing all the ecological ramifications of
our digestive hobbies and the total social
estrangement and chaos we are heading for, it
must be clear that in order to maintain a
logical mind and a directive of action, at least
in the confidential sphere of ones private
realizations one must try to cure from the
predator neurosis and restore ones harmonious
relation with the
cyclic concept of natural
time.
The escape into the soulless linear concept of
time that offers no memory of whatever and thus
constitutes no conscience either can never give
the practice and awareness of good habits that
must lead first individually and then
collectively out of the darkness of
(post-)modernity. With all our achievements of
technical control the equally almost total
absence of social (= supposed to be human)
selfcontrol must be reversed. At a distance over
the Internet we are safe to pay attention to
oneother and do not have to fear being plundered
for some profit (given a net-work cable
connection). From that control one may realize
by this article the purpose of regaining the
human control against the weaknesses and their
illusions of covering them up. Only then
concerning the matter of drugs, addiction and
control there can be a light be seen that could
guide humanity out of the 'luxury' of these
predator wanderings and diseases.
As
for
the questions of
politicians
about what to do from their capacity the answer
is quite easy: mind your own business!
Concerning drugs that means it is the business
of doctors - people who studied the chemical
properties of these compounds and their possible
use for medical purposes. In other words: let
the physician ultimately decide how much
alcohol, nicotine, coffee, chocolate and and
marijuana would be beneficial or dangerous or
how much opium-derivates would be necessary -
and let him take responsibility for the proper
guidance of users. He 's the official and legal
dealer and/or authority. And that must be
enough. How can a policeman ever judge what
quantity of drugs would be needed and how they
should be administered? He can only guard the
legal limits. As lays we can endlessly argue on
moral grounds what should or should not, but in
the end the call for authority is just the call
for an authority. And let that be someone who
really studied the subject.
R.M.