Myths and sacrifice

Whose myths will you believe? Yours or the world outside?

It’s easy to fall into the slipstream of mythologies and beliefs that aren’t your own. All systems have them. They need them. They give survival meaning, they enable coercion through persuasion rather than simply force. Mythologies enable the herding of people and things in directions they otherwise wouldn’t go in order to serve a great past.

The great past justifying the great future.

The great future justifying the sacrifice of your present.

Your present.

The crux here is that living in society, for society, totally, requires a sacrifice of some element of you. It has to. Because it isn’t just for you. The purpose is grander, architected from outside.

This isn’t some grand conspiracy, it’s how systems are constructed in order to survive. Right or wrong doesn’t come into it. But the question of survival does. Do you survive psychologically if the system has asked you to sacrifice your entire existence in its servitude?

Or do you modify your relationship with it? To live in harmony with any system as long as the sacrifice is not total. More than that, that the bargain struck is fair. And disposed of once it crosses a boundary. That the unquestioning position is that your own beliefs and values are not to be trammelled. That the system does not have primacy.

Without questioning the bargain in the first place. It’s your own myths that will be sacrificed.