as we have already spoken of conservatives and their commitment
to security and its fear based ism/ideologies………….
we have to understand what is the basis for their ownership of
their belief base system which can ignore even basic facts to
accommodate long held beliefs like god and they will not
adjust or change their beliefs regardless of any fact or knowledge
that may challenge those beliefs system…
and we have already encountered the reason for this…
their childhood indoctrinations that everyone receives but
conservatives cannot escape…
they will hold unto their childhood indoctrinations regardless of
whatever evidence or facts that come their way… they
will not evaluate or reevaluate their values… they will not
begin the process of know thyself and then overcoming
and then becoming who they are……. conservatives are stuck in
their childhood indoctrinations…
beliefs held long enough become articles of faith…
Once a long time ago, I was told or I simply “remembered”
that my mother grew up on a farm… it was not even a questioned
in my mind that my mother grew up on a farm…it was a
childhood indoctrination… one day, my wife asked my mother
where she grew up when she lived on a farm… my mother, say what?
I never grew up on a farm… My wife who only knew of this from me,
couldn’t believe it, an article of faith with me, my mom grew up on
a farm was wrong… I was wrong… It was unsettling that
an article of faith with me, the fact that my mom grew up on a farm
was completely and totally wrong…… I had to rethink because the evidence
was rather conclusive… my mom grew up in a city… It never even occurred
to me…I now have my facts… I no longer believe my mother grew up on the farm…
another childhood indoctrination down the tube… I must adapt to this
new information…another idea that I had held for years was this idea…
I played baseball, little league until I was 15… and the
was that my only thing I wanted to be growing up was a baseball player…
the other thing I wanted to be was President of the United States…
that was my childhood, either growing up to be a ball player or
president of the U.S… those were my only answers to what
I was going to be when I grew up…
and now many years later, I tell the story of how one day, same day,
I gave up baseball and threw my glove away and no longer wanted to
be president of the U.S. because I figured out that those two dreams
were my fathers dream, not mine…he wanted to be a ballplayer
and he was a frustrated politician… and so I, as my childhood indoctrination
was indoctrinated into either being a ball player or being president…
and the story is true, except for the little bit of fact that I made
those two realizations months if not years apart… it wasn’t the same day
that I gave up my two childhood dreams… but it makes a better story…
and so I kept to the story even though the reality was quite different…
BTW, I never recovered from losing those two dreams… I am still, after all these years,
trying to find out what I want to be when I grow up to be an adult…
so the stories are accurate to a point, but I changed it and as I believed
the story after so many years, it became an article of faith that I lost my
belief in being a ballplayer and being president the same day…
an article of faith… because the number of years that past, gave my
beliefs certainty, just as I believed my mom grew up on a farm…
It was an examination of my past that led me to an understanding of
what really happened in terms of my playing ball and being president
and of my mom giving rather irrefutable evidence that I was wrong,
that my belief that she grew up on a farm was wrong……
we are faced with these childhood contradictions all the time…
how do we resolve them? do we begin to reevaluate them or do
we hold to the childhood indoctrination regardless of the facts or
evidence presented……. do we act as conservatives do and stick
to the childhood indoctrinations regardless of the facts or evidence
or do we begin the process of knowing ourselves and then overcoming
and then becoming who we are……….it is a choice… freely made…
and given the forces that determine our lives, a freedom one should
act upon because what other freedoms do we have?
Kropotkin