CHAPTER 6
From our modern scientific knowledge of human consciousness, we all know how every person’s consciousness is wired for association-building to optimize survival potentials. From early childhood, rather even before birth when a child is in the womb itself, the child begins to form associations with everything in the ambient milieus. That is why even before birth, a child can recognize his or her mother’s voice and other sounds, which are part of the ambient milieus. This association building, as we talked about earlier, is the primary ‘learning’ mechanism of a child, which forms the basis of his or her subconscious mind.
This innate and entrenched mechanism of association building of human mind is common with most higher organisms. This mechanism is however a trouble-tool for humanity as association-building creates different ‘Identities’ for different people. For example, a child born in a traditional Christian family would naturally associate with religious beliefs, rituals, ways and thoughts. The information of his or her immediate family milieus shall grow when he or she moves with his family to other milieus where similar or synchronous Christian perceptional identities shall be exposed to him or her. As a child is innately designed to build association with everything existing in his or her ambient milieus, all these shall create an automatic identity of ‘Christian System’ in him or her. This itself is an ‘Identity’, which we can say he or she ‘inherited’. This identity shall form the subconscious mind domain of this child when he or she grows up to become an adult. He or she may later ‘unlearn’ this ‘identity’ but it shall remain his personal choice, depending upon how he or she evolves to be exposed to the universal need of compassionate acceptance towards all ‘identities’.
So, what we are trying to arrive at is this Reality that different men and women automatically and innately grow up as an ‘identity’ or set of ‘identities’. This happens because of the different tangible and intangible elements in external milieus, which a child is exposed to in his or her journey from childhood to adulthood. The external milieus may constitute of both tangible and intangible elements. However, we all know that the most dominant element of culture in the external is essentially geographical and climatic in nature. The Earth we live in is big and diverse, with different and extreme geographical and climatic zones. The cultures broadly reflect the thoughts, behaviors and action, which the geography and climatic elements necessitated. As geography and climate are the most powerful tangible elements, presenting the most impacting ‘Causality’ for human consciousness, different cultures emerged in different physical zones but they are essentially the shades of the singular Causality. However, average person is always affected by cultural ‘Identities’ and seldom thinks of the singular elementality of cosmic construct as the unifying force.
Moreover, every child is born with different ‘Internal’ milieus as well. We know from our knowledge of science that there are broadly eight brain types and therefore 16 different mental attitudinal people in this world. So, we know that overall, there are seven shades or memes of Consciousnesses in this human world, depending upon the type of brain a child is born with and shades of external milieus it grows into. This construct of Causality affecting human consciousness and engendering different ‘Identities’ must be accepted and even celebrated by humanity but tragically, the identities have become the single largest source of most conflicts and chaos in human world.
We need to understand that it is only natural, innate, intrinsic and instinctively true that different shades of Consciousnesses among men and women shall evolve with different ‘identities’. This is the way Reality expresses itself in cosmos. Therefore, we all need to celebrate and respect all different identities and also keep rooted to the idea that despite differences, the ‘Causality’ of all identities is singular. We may look different with our identities and external appearances but all 7.5 billion humans are expressions of singular Reality. As we have discussed earlier in our detailed talk about Reality always being ‘contextual’ and ‘relativistic’, there shall always be different ‘identities’, which shall keep human population in competitiveness, conflicts and hypocritical stupidities. That is why the singular human enterprise in 21st century is to accept this ‘Identity-Reality’, be compassionate about differences, which these identities create and keep evolving towards a singular ‘Universal Identity’ of Compassionate Higher Consciousness.
Why we are talking about ‘Identity’ issue and the differences these competing and conflicting identities create is to decipher how ingeniously and dexterously the state, governments and especially politics steps in into this innate fallibility and culpability of humanity to create a situation of indispensability for themselves, even while there is no role for them. It is not that politics is the lone and sole agency of this hypocritical stupidity. The religion, spiritualism, economics and even psychology are equal partners in the ‘crime’. The politics is however the parent-apparent of all of them as it aligns all other accomplices to this malicious craftsmanship of creating ‘mandate’ of ‘legitimacy’ for their roles. And, what is this role?
This whole stupidity of hypocrisy has been duly perfected as a widely popular and ‘acceptable’ political-social philosophy and it continues to hold ‘legitimacy’ even in 21st century – the age of scientific reason and objective logic. The primary stupidity of hypocrisy, which politics and economics created was consolidation of the most innate and entrenched hypocrisy of Nation-State and from this came the most abstracted and mythical idea and idealism of Nationalism. The first ‘identity’, which evolution created was the entrenched Reality of Geographical-Climatic Divide. Our Earth, where humans evolved and spread, has a long history of human settlement in amazingly diverse geographical-climatic conditions. A person living in -56 degree Celsius at North Pole glaciers and another living in 56 degree Celsius at Equatorial desserts are stupendous example of the brilliance of adaptation potential of humanity. However, this diversity innately created diversities of morphological, cultural, attitudinal, behavioral, sociological and psychological identities. It was only natural that human settlements on Earth evolved with this entrenched potential of competitiveness based on ‘Identity-Diversity’ and as early humans had a tough life to lead, it was only natural that competitiveness and conflicts for available resources and survival threats has an innate and ingrained element of ever-present violence.
These primary identities naturally branched off into many others and humanity kept adding conflicts and violence in personal as well as collective spaces. However, what every common man and woman must remember that in the long history of humanity, the average men and women, living in peace with whatever they had and wherever they were, never accepted and encouraged war and violence. It was always the polity and economy, and its handful of so-called ‘warriors’, who led, funded and designed wars. The culpability with common men and women however has always been that they mandated and legitimized; even adored and worshipped those warriors of polity and economy, who won the battles, even at the cost of millions of lives of ‘other’ humans.
Human history is a ghastly and deplorable document of human stupidities and hypocrisies, which killed millions in wars and wreaked calamitously brutal experiences on billions. Early humanity, that in the middle-ages and even dark ages, preceding the age of Renaissance and Liberalism in 15-16th century surely can be forgotten and forgiven for not understanding the Reality of Universe and Reality of Humanity but there can be little justification over what the rationalists and liberals did to humanity. Now in 21st century age of scientific and objective Reality and Reason, if humanity continues to live in dark ages Time and Knowledge, then it is nothing but dead admittance that we humans are the worst species in the history of cosmos. This dubious distinction seems real and true.
The political and economic stupidity-hypocrisy of Nation-State and Nationalism were created and installed in an era, when the intellectual classes had already begun to accept the primacy of individual and his/her position in all matters of societal affairs. Renaissance and liberalism accepted that affairs of humanity must be defined by secular, objective and scientific facts of life and living and not by faith and abstract mythical order. The intellectuals probably tried to install the supremacy of individual and scientific factuality in human management but they had to fail primarily because the then politics and economics did not find this idea and idealism suitable for their needs. They ensured that human societies remained divided, conflicted and violence-ridden on the basis of diverse ‘Identities’. It suited the personal ambitions and economic benefits of the handful of aristocratic elements and moneyed classes. It is manifest even to a blind, deaf and insane person that differences between people and identity-based human management suits none but polity and economy; especially those handful in leadership positions. Naturally, if average person expects the polity and economy to work for his or her welfare and wellness, then he or she is even worse than an insane person.
Almost entire 16th to early 20th century, humanity was divided, grouped and forced into wars and other atrocities to fulfill the ambitions of a handful of those in political spheres and economic domains, to profit, by leading the masses to ‘Identity-Based’ stupidities and hypocrisies. The politics and economics of the day managed to install the stupidly hypocritical idea and idealisms of nation-state and nationalism, stoking the entrenched yet dormant divides on the lines of ‘identities’. They even used ‘Imperialism’ as a tool of nationalism and wars for perpetual mandate and legitimacy of their primacy and utility in societies. History is neatly documented with detailed maneuverings of the political and economic classes of the time in raking up identity-crises to create such stupid idealisms like nationalism and imperialism.
It is now an established scientific fact that human consciousness is essentially very localized. If left alone and not conditioned otherwise, average men and women do not bother much about ‘Others’ beyond their own family and society. They get associated and linked only to a small collective of few hundred people. It has been well documented that humanity up to 14th century was like that, irrespective of whichever territory of the Earth they lived. They were happy being connected to and associated with local groups, their small kinship or tribe and some strong leader in their small group. They had little concern with kings, kingdoms and their ambitions. This changed as scrupulous political players of their time stirred up the ‘identity’ politics, firing up the hell of nationalistic identities and created a collective ambition of imperial enterprises to expand their national identities. They also erected the demon of wars with others so that population could be in perpetual threat and continue their mandate behind the political leadership. The economic classes, who sought profit out of this imperial ventures and nationalistic surge successfully aided and financed the politics. A small group of mercenary elements in society, good numbers of slaves and prisoners were roped in for this venture of profit. This all led to a prolonged phase in time where humanity was devastated by wars, conflicts and miseries because of the game-plan of politics and economics of their times. This culminated in two World Wars, which till date remain the darkest blot on the head of humanity.
Even today, when state, governments and politics seek to continue their mandate of legitimacy, the political circle, in collaboration with economic spheres, invoke nationalism sentiments, create and aggravate identity-conflicts and perpetuate violence culture in societies. The human nature remains essentially localized and as is the design of human consciousness, average men and women are innately attuned to live in peaceful and accommodative space within their localized milieus. If they are left in peace with their own instinctive nature, people usually do not take their differences and conflicts too far. It is established by the science of consciousness that average people have an innate tendency to hit back to normal life-living (allostatic balance), even when there is a divide and conflict (homeostatic imbalance). They also cannot see and live up big and abstract issues like nationalism, war hysteria or political agenda of far-fetched consequences. It is always the politics and economics that lead people to well-planned agenda.
In political science, there is a valid and well-established political process, which has the legitimacy of not only academics but in the very modern Constitution of all democratic states. This process is termed as ‘Political Socialization’ and ‘Political Recruitment’. It means, the political parties and politicians can very legitimately work on the basis of politicization of identities, which are instinctive in humans. They can and they very well, politicize ‘identities’ by standing them in competition and conflict with other ‘identities’ and then condition the consciousnesses of people with a particular identity to support their political party to come in power, so that their identities could not be in threat and disadvantage. So, essentially, they first invoke identities, back them, make them competitive and belligerent. This then creates a society where conflict and violence becomes order of the day. They create the divides – between identities and entrenched classes; like rich versus poor. They create crisis in society so that it becomes compassionless, emotionally charged, reactionary and a violent space, requiring intervention of ‘power and authority’. They then seek mandate and legitimacy to install themselves as exclusive owner of violence to suppress and control innocent people, whom they themselves make culpable at first place. All these are globally legal and constitutional and validated as political socialization and political recruitment. This happens to be a classic case of how jurisprudence happily weds the stupid-hypocritical philosophy of political profitability and happily dumps not only people but the Reality of humanity itself.
Like in the past, state, governments and politics simply has no business in human management of their life-living affairs. They have to create their utility and fruition in human affairs by first creating troubles and then install themselves as ‘solution-providers’ of the troubles. Since ages, the modus operandi of state and politics has remained the same. Contemporary states, governments and politics continue to stoke nationalism-fire and identity-divides. The form and structure of imperialism as a tool of nationalism has changed from open wars and colonialism to capital, goods and investment based imperialism. The national interest, national security and global trade are the tools of neo-colonialism.
There is a long and tainted history of state, governments and politics in being the number one enemy of common people and this has a reason; not ingrained in any philosophy or abstract mystical perception but the very science of Reality. They are at best a rather fringe and unimportant part of the holism of Human Reality, which has little need of these three unnatural structures of human life-living. Their very primacy in contemporary human world is the worst hypocrisy and stupidity of humanity. Their corrupted and hypocritical working mechanism is now an established fact of contemporary human world and yet, humanity has not yet secured their timely demise.
Look at how politics, states and governments have successfully created the monster of terrorism themselves. The state and politics were themselves the agency of terrorism and later they created mercenaries and installed them as terrorists. They attached a specific ‘identity’ to the terrorism, which suited them fine in their overall design to aggravate the identity-conflicts. Now, most states and political spheres use their media management reach and skill to install disproportionate fear and terror in the minds of average person and use the inflated fear as monster, against whom they rally around the masses for securing and prolonging their mandate for dwindling legitimacy. Global threat of terrorism is now an effective tool in the hands of state and politics to stoke the extinguishing fire of nationalism and identity-associations. We have already discussed as how very small threat terrorism is, when compared to so many big threats for humanity, where state, governments and politics could actually help people but have failed miserably.
Apart from terrorism, there is this incessant effort by state, governments and politics to play up the dormant but potential conflicts over different competing identities. Within countries, in neighborhood and even in far off regions, the state and politics intentionally create ‘enemies’ and ‘aggressors’ based on identities and the abstract idea of so-called National Interest. From threats of internal violence to actual wars and trade wars, every single tool of engagement of conflict are first created and then blown out of proportion by smart media-management to keep the people convinced that they are perpetually threatened and need the umbrella of protective politics and state power to remain free and well. The state and politics successfully engender the much required mandate for its legitimacy, which is impossible in peace time and normal life. The modus operandi is simple – politics first creates an enemy, unleash its terror in societies and then proclaims itself as the only savior of people from the scourge of the imminent terror. The fearful and perpetually insecure masses hurriedly extend ‘full’ mandate and legitimacy to politics on this proposed agenda. Once the mandate is acquired, the politics and governments kill some irrelevant people or probably those with the ‘inimical identities’ and attain warrior eulogy.
It is here the role of Deep State comes into picture. The most forceful Deep State agency is state and government backed and financed political cadre of political parties. They have the mandate and legitimacy of their political bosses to unleash conflicts, violence and insecurity in the society, going all out to fire up identity conflicts. They are also the most effective agency of ‘Fake Information’ dissemination, where the pliable and soft media helps a great deal. The media itself becomes an agency of Deep State. Together they create such an unmanageable crisis, where their political bosses could easily purchase mandate for their legitimate right to lead the people. Fear, insecurity, distrust is the seed the Deep State successfully sows in the minds of people to reap a prosperous crop of violence-conflict in the society. This ensures mandate for legitimacy of a powerful and authoritative state, governments and politics. The Deep State agencies have the crucial task of ‘creating’ an Enemy and then, the politics and governments ‘kill’ the enemy to attain glory and charisma of warriors. It is simple but never ever manifest to people. How can it be? Even in 21st century, 97 percent of state and government actions are kept secret from the people and they do it legally and constitutionally under lawful pretext of ‘Official Secrecy’. Why secrecy? Oh! It is for national interest and national security! As if the real and true enemies of a country do not already know about everything. Well, enemies of state can know but the people of the state cannot! It is very hypocritically protected by jurisprudence…
There is a clear trend of all these in the 21st century itself. It has a trajectory, which everyone should be aware of. Much of the erstwhile flamboyance and sheen of the autocratic propensities of the 20th century state and governments had begun to fade as after the Second World War, the idealism of ‘Welfare State’ started to take deep roots in many functional democracies of the world. Liberalism and openness in state and governmental functionality in last few decades of dying 20th century emaciated the state and politics as growingly, people’s mandate became diverse and dissipated. Internationalism was taking shape as international trade and commerce as well as ‘soft-capital’ of skilled manpower migration began to rule national interest. Naturally, nationalism and restrictive identity-based politics got weakened. Globally, political parties felt this growing disinterest of surging middle-class in governmental bounties and political affiliations. Last decade of 20th century was probably the worst phase for state, governments and politics as they had lost much of the brute power and unrestricted authority over people and national priorities. It was the time for state and politics to either bounce back with vengeance to regain the fast losing ‘empire’ or face definite death.
The state and politics bounced back in the early days of beginning of the new millennium of 21st century. Globally, state and politics acquired the similar modus operandi of regaining the lost territory. Politics, state and governments ferociously poured oil in the extinguishing fire of ‘Identity-Conflicts’ and simultaneously embarked on the time-tested politics of fear and insecurity. The old and now sidelined philosophy of ‘Social Contract’ was re-flamed and put to optimum use. Terrorism as a card for definite success was already there but many states and political lords ‘recruited’ and ‘hired’ mercenaries, with specific insistence on having a tangible ‘identity’ attached with terrorism. The Deep State agencies were rediscovered, diversified, indoctrinated and emboldened. This surely served the dual purpose of creating a resurfacing of identity-based hate and conflict oriented ‘Reactionary Nationalism’ and on the other hand infused the much required inflated sense of fear and insecurity among common people. Global researches have already established this trend in people.
This was almost a global trend in the start of 21st century and it has paid huge dividends to state, governments and politics. Identity nationalism and terror perceptions were successfully pumped into mainstream and populist perceptions of average person globally and it not only restored the legitimacy for authoritative and strong state and governments but also extended the much needed boost to the global arms bazaar, which is lifeline of many rich countries. State and politics also successfully launched what we may call the ‘trade war politics’ to lend credence and support to a ‘nationalism’ agenda for masses. Aggressive international politics with vocalization of ‘Local Economic Interests’ as rallying point for international trade relationship very much suited politics and state as it made people rally around them. Mistrust, threatening posturing and inflated sense of national pride, et al were played dexterously by state and politics to strengthen mandate for legitimacy.
There probably was another dimension to this 21st century resurgence of emaciating state and politics. Liberalism and open trade had a hugely positive impact on national manufacturing as well as commerce. Last decades of 20th century saw a sharp rise in living standards and comfort levels of average person as technology, global finance and cheap international labor created not only cheap and affordable goods and services to common people but also created purchasing powers as economy moved up. This cyclic chain of consumption-manufacturing-purchasing power brought about a definitive, assertive and pampered class of ‘consumer’. This consumerism, which became a power to be reckoned with as 21st century dawned, economy and commerce acquired a hugely powerful role in ‘mandate’ of ‘legitimacy’ with people. This sure was at the cost of already emaciating state and politics. The pampered consumer naturally was all hate and dislike for governments and politics as they were being pampered, respected and genuinely serviced well by economy and commerce. The state, governments and politics had almost lost it and was surely relegating to futility.
The state, government and politics had to bounce back for their very survival and had to tame the newly emerging ‘Legitimate Authoritative Lords’ in the domain of economy and commerce. The 21st century ‘Neo-Nationalism’, which the state, government and politics re-shaped also ensured to install a sense of suspicion against economy, commerce and trade. Politics in third decade of 21st century has successfully installed a populist perception against economy and commerce. Politics has successfully installed distrust among people against moneyed and business class. Politics has first created a populist perception that corruption, wrong practices and unjust behavior in industry, trade and commerce are ‘weakening nation’ and therefore need strong, authoritative and punishable state and government attitude. This surely adds strength to legitimacy of state, governments and politics. More enemies for people means; more legitimacy and mandate for ‘authoritative’ state, governments and politics!
It is here that we need to unravel the nature and scope of the old idea of Deep State, which has now been broadened and redesigned by contemporary politics. This Deep State has also undergone a good deal of transformation like Terrorism. This Deep State is the Frankenstein, which has spread its tentacles to every element of human life-living – be it society, culture, religion, economy, family or state-governmental-political agencies. This has to be understood in details. Why? Because, this is the deadliest part of contemporary state and politics, which is at the root of not only national troubles but also international peace and order!
Modern day world is probably the most enlightened one in the long history of humanity. People in general are more knowledgeable about themselves as well as the external milieus. The technology has landed them in information obesity but this at least makes them aware about the diversity, which humanity professes. Moreover, science is beginning to shape the consciousness of growing number of people and every new generation of men and women have better clarity of the need to lead their lives on the basis of practical realism of body and mind rather than abstract and mythical faith-based system. Also, good life-living and personal security, which economy has growingly begun to service, has made average person become more in control of his or her life, not being dependent on ‘Welfare State’ dole outs, which landed them in the fold of politics.
Apart from this emerging reality of average human lives, there is another crucial factor, which has big impact on the lives of people. Globally, humanity has now settled with certain broad and general rule of life-living. Democracy, rights of people, transparency, accountability, privacy, freedom of choices, etc are now taken for granted as state and governments have growingly become subservient to Constitutional safeguards. Also, national interest, government principles, economic agenda, etc are now well settled for any country and governments and politics cannot be any different. This altogether leaves little maneuvering space for any political party or political government to claim that it can do something others cannot as everything is now settled. All roles are defined and all participants in nation’s march ahead are equally important.
In simple terms, modern day life-living and human affairs management are essentially moving towards a self-regulated system, based on well-settled laws and rules of interaction. As democracies, bureaucracy and economic activities have evolved and matured, there is little role of governments and politics in the overall mechanism and process. The post World War era of humanity has every governmental and political values and norms well benchmarked for every country. People have easy access to all information about everything happening in other parts of the world and therefore, it is an auto-process that humanity is itself gradually moving towards a set of settled benchmarks in personal life-living and collective living. This leaves nothing exclusive and authoritatively powerful in the hands of governments and politics. This surely is not an ideal situation for politicians and political governments. It had already started impacting politics and governments as in most developed and developing countries, mandates were getting fractured, coalition politics and governments had become a rule and no single political party was emerging as strong enough to form a government on its own. This somehow ensured that governments were not autocratic and people had better lives. But it was worse time for politics and governments, who thrive on unbridled authority.
Powerful, authoritative and oligarchic politics and governments thrive when people have ‘unsettled’ lives and fear, conflicts and violence rule society and cultures. Politics and governments have a weak and indecisive mandate for legitimacy when people begin to become self-regulated and lead a settled life. Politics and governments therefore never allow this to happen. As we discussed above, the state, government and politics cannot go beyond Constitution and internationally accepted and settled benchmarks of political and administrative processes. Naturally, they needed a ‘Friend’ who carried the clandestine, unconstitutional and unprincipled