Reply #21: Yes, but what if their problem is that they're unconscious?

[Gregorian]

I'm beginning to think that even the worst of them actually don't really know what they're doing. Now that isn't always the case. And I can hear arguments coming from all directions. And rightly so. But just what is unconsciousness? I believe this is very important for us to see. It requires a broad perspective. A very open mind.

But just what if? Ask yourself. Do you want to solve the problem, or get even. Look at what throwing people in jail has done to decrease violence and drug use. None. As a silly example, just how many people have been saved by those stupid, noisy backup horns? None. What we need to teach is consciousness.

Now I'm not saying these people aren't evil, sick, greedy, violent, and every other thing in the book. I'm saying that it's our job to get under it and find a way to wake them the hell up. And that goes for most of us, too. This goes way beyond politics.

What I believe we have is a bunch of people operating out of dogmas. Out of methods. Out of calculation. They actually believe they're doing something good. Of course they don't. But they have duped themselves. If only that maybe the Iraq war was a means by which Bush's buddies could make BIG money. That was their goal. They did just what they set out to do. Had they been conscious, had they known just what they did, they'd be in a living hell right now. These so-called beautiful minds are just that. They never allow themselves to see the suffering they've created. They are uncconscious.


You can't punish someone into consciousness. Just like you cannot bomb the world into peace.

I don't konw what we do. But I do know that we have to start with the correct concept. Who are we dealing with? What is wrong with them? Hell, I say throw these idiots in jail. But for the sake of our future, we have to begin waking people up to reality. Because reality is liberal.