Deconstructing World Power Schemes - How Embracing Biomechanical Death Frees Us From Tyranny

If there's one thing we can count on to make us all equal, it's death. 

We're all going to die. 

In fact, we're all dying right now, even as I write this. 

No matter how much money you have, no matter what color you are, or where you live, this is happening to you. That evens the playing field, doesn't it? 

Now that we know we're all equal, we can look at the power structures of our world and see them for what they really are:  fabricated illusions that are built predominantly on one key element.  Fear. 

Across the globe, we see outbreaks of villainous plagues like war, famine, sickness, etc.  And scattered throughout these are racism, political marginalization, etc.    Mix all that in the bowl together and we've got a very volatile, not very palatable recipe, don't we?  So my question is this: why on earth do we eat this food we make for ourselves, knowing that it tastes so bitter?

Simply, it's fear. When we have fear, we will do anything to feel safe again. And this includes welcoming the false promises of political leaders who cannot even hope to fulfill everything they promote when they are attempting to gain election.  It includes othering - marginalizing certain people and/or groups when we feel social or financial pressure to do so.      It includes scapegoating - blaming people or groups of people for the ills we face in our societies, because it can't be us, can it?   No, it must be them. This - all of it - is rooted in the power that is held over us by the fear of death.    Tyranny, after all, is only the cruel and arbitrary use of power or control. And if the fear of death doesn't control us, then I don't know what does. 

The pandemic reaffirmed our fears around death and dying; in ways we never imagined. 

Our world governments rely heavily on this fear to propagate their programs and agendas.  PLEASE NOTE: I am not a conspiracy theorist, and I don't believe there is a devil around every corner.  I do believe there are devils around some corners, though. And  I believe that instead our systems (and these include government systems) are built with the inherent and nearly invisible element of fear - and most especially, the fear of death. We saw this in the policies of global governments during the pandemic. We see this in the policies of governments during wartime.   We see it in economic policies.    The fear of death and dying permeates everything we undertake, and it is imbedded unconsciously into every system and infrastructure in which we live and work.  And fear leads to ultimate collapse and failure of both government and economic systems, even though fear is the bedrock upon which they are built in the first place!

But it is invisible to us.  We do not know when we are blaming our neighbors for our COVID infection that we are engaging in behavior that is dictated by this fear. We are merely reacting.  We are not aware that when we marginalize groups because of their skin color or sexual preference that we are governed by this fear, we are generally doing so because we want to feel accepted in the majority, and so we engage in behavior that will provide us with that outcome.  And we do so unconsciously.   It is generally outside the circle of our immediate awareness, because it has for so long permeated the fabric of our culture that it has become an deeply wired habit from which we don't even know we need rescuing. 

Biomechanical death, however, is inevitable.  Even though there are modern movements to eradicate it (I've written about this before, too), for now it remains on the horizon, a certainty we must all face.   No matter how much we fear it, how much money we throw at it, or how much we try to deny or avoid it by not talking about it, it still sits there, waiting for us.  Does ignoring it really do us much good?   We've seen the tyranny that its fear has imbedded into our world - we see the regimes that use this fear for their empowerment, whether intentionally or not.   If we want to make real, lasting change, we need to first do this one basic thing:

We must learn to embrace biomechanical death, and understand what living really is.   By accepting and embracing the inevitable change in our consciousness, we can begin to truly understand the nature of  our equality as human beings, and maybe then we will be at the beginning of truly building a world where these maladies don't plague us nearly as much. 

By embracing death and dying - and demystifying it - we can alleviate the fear that surrounds it. And if there is no fear of death, then we will no longer continue to marginalize and malign other things we don't understand.