How Humans Become Programmed To Fail

If a man visits a movie theater,

And all of the movies are trash,

He has two choices:

Watch trash.

Or stop visiting movie theaters.

 

If a man finds himself

On a deserted island,

And the only food is insects

And plants . . .

 

Whether he likes insects

Or plants

Is irrelevant.

 

If he wishes to survive,

He has two choices.

Eat insects and/or plants.

Or stop eating altogether.

 

The only difference

Between the extremes and the wildness

Of a deserted island

And society,

Is that society

Is not deserted.

 

A man does not like

Or dislike.

 

He learns to like

And dislike

Based upon the availability

In his ecosystem.

 

Ask a man

If he likes

A golden-colored cherry-like fruit

That has a taste of pomegranate

And honey.

 

He can only attempt to imagine it.

He cannot say if he likes it

Or dislikes it.

Because he has never seen it,

Heard of it,

Or tasted it.

 

And the only reason

He can even attempt to imagine it,

Is because he HAS heard of cherries,

Pomegranate, and honey.

 

Man has only the Potential

To be Free.

 

But he is in every possible sense

Imprisoned.

 

Living in society,

It matters not the culture or the locale,

He must choose

Based upon what the society has made available.

 

He must arrange his life around

What the society has made available.

 

Society

Is his king

And lord.

 

Man does not like

Or dislike.

He is Taught

To like

And dislike.

 

The Teaching

Is done

By way of what is made available to him.

 

This

Is Programming.

 

For his entire life,

He will choose

Among what is made available.

 

And he will settle into

His choices.

And call them

“His own.”

 

Why do humans

Seek cosmetic

And ineffectual practices?

 

Why do they seek out

Meditation instructors

And mindfulness experts?

 

Why do corporations

Hire motivational speakers

And wellness counselors?

 

Why do athletes

Hire sports psychologists

And coaches?

 

Has seeing meditation instructors

And mindfulness experts

Created Realized beings?

 

Of course, not.

 

Do corporations who hire motivational speakers

End up with “motivated” employees?

 

Of course, not.

 

Do sports psychologists

Create champions,

Or even significantly contribute

To their creation?

 

If they did,

Then at least a significant percentage

Would have multiple championships.

 

Is this the case?

Of course, not.

 

The story of societal humans,

Across all domains,

Is a story of Failure.

 

And it has a built-in programming clause

For this as well:

Celebrate failure!

 

Therefore,

If the results

That are obvious and plain

For all to see,

Then why do humans do such things?

 

Because this is all

That society offers.

 

Either take it

Or do nothing.

 

A human will not do nothing.

Why is this so?

 

Because society,

The world,

And its minions . . .

Have taken care of this also.

 

They have beaten it into the human brain

Since birth

That one must:

Do, and do, and do!

Take action!

Get off your rear end!

Be a doer, not a thinker!

 

Cleverly,

There has been a programming

To Do.

 

And since a man

Is programmed to do,

He has no choice

But to choose

From the options society has made available.

 

One may ask a man,

Why does he do all of these

Useless and ineffectual practices,

Which by his own open admission

Have not yielded him the results

He has read about in books.

 

An honest reply would be:

What else is there to do?

What other option do I have,

Sit on the sofa

And do nothing?

 

One may ask a man

Why he continues to hire coaches

And instructors

And motivationalists,

When this has not created

The results he seeks.

 

An honest reply would be:

This is all that is available!

 

The world

Is a closed

And fenced-off

Institution.

 

It is closed

To Reality.

 

It is fenced-off

From Effective options.

 

Society,

The world,

Its coaches,

Pundits,

Politicians,

And minions . . .

Are like a financial institution

Whose investment offerings

Contain only its own funds.

 

Truth

Is not one of the options.

 

Thus,

Effectiveness

And lasting value

And transformation

Are not either.

 

This

Is the programming

That the humans of the world

Have never come to realize.

 

This

Is the unseen enemy

That has, and forever will,

Deny a human

His Freedom.

And the attainment

Of his human Potential.

 

Namaste.