Long post. Do not look for typos. Do not look for wording, do not over-interpret, see the post in the spirit it is meant.

Imagine you are a boss of a small village.

For the sake of the argument and for reasons of simplification just imagine this village without anything surrounding it.

Imagine you care for the people living there and you care for the village itself.

Imagine you want the village and everybody living in it to prosper and to have a good life.

Imagine you set up rules for living together that enable and ensure that everybody is treating each other well.

Imagine how great such a village can be and, over time, what great achivements and knowledge it can develop.

Imagine how easy life would become and - according to Maslow - once certain needs are taken care of how happy and fulfilled life can be.

(Just one example for "do not over-interpret": Of course there are prople who do not follow Maslow´s hierarchy of needs, e.g. monks, just to name one group.)

Now imagine this village and imagine you are a boss that does not care about the village and the people living in it but cares for himself only.

Obviously you would not say so, but would claim to care for everybody anyway.

You would set up rules that would look like they were made to help the village and its people, but you would make sure those rules would help yourself and the things you want.

You would want to profit from every business and every labor in this village and get a share of everything.

But because you would not want to store tons of grain you get from the farmers or 100 loafs of bread from the baker or herd 100 cows, pigs, sheep and chicken and by that actually do work yourself, you come up with the idea of currency. (Again: Do not overinterpret! Just read and think about it!)

You would collect taxes for the "great luck" of being able to live and work in this village, the village you consider your village.

Of course you would not say that it´s your goal to profit from others and you would claim that everything you get from others is needed to keep the village running.

You would give back a certain amount to the village and e.g. develop the infrastructure.

You would make your "job" (profiting of others) look hard and you would carefully try to spread the story that nobody else could do such an amazing job.

You would try to make your self look like a saint, maybe with the help of the local doctor or the local scientist or other people that you consider trusted by others in the village.

You would put pressure on the ones who still doubt you and just won´t understand how good and great you are.

You would come up with the idea to teach new born members of the village how great you are and how helpful your rules are and that without you or your rules the village life would not be nearly as good as it is.

Maybe you would first do that on Sunday campfire evenings when storys are told. Later you would come up with an institution that ensures people are being formed the way you want them to be formed.

You would want there to be a sherrif and a judge to make sure your rules are being followed.

Of course you would make sure that there is certain flexibility in applying those rules, making sure they are acting just in the way you want them to act.

Imagine such a village.

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>>14322219

Imagine that all the people in this village, even though they are suffering because of your rules, do not see themselves suffering and are acting kind and nice to each other.

The people just want to make a good living for themselves and their families and they want to see the people around them have a good life.

Imagine you are afraid that, even though your rules seem to work and you profit from everything being done in the village you consider your very own village, you are afraid that the people would, at one point, start to realize that your rules are in fact not that great.

Imagine you are afraid of the people just turning against your rules and against yourself.

Maybe you come up the with idea of creating problems, so everybody would see you solve those problems and consider you a great boss.

Maybe you even see this as another opportunity to make some money by crimes commited.

Imagine you talk to some people but quickly realize that those people just see no reason at all to do something bad to others.

Imagine the sheriff rejects commiting a crime himself by locking up someone innocent and cannot be baited by the "success" of locking up someone - someone that he knows is innocent.

Imagine you realize that, on a long term, the village would just run itself and nobody would feel the need for you as a boss or for your rules.

Imagine you are afraid of loosing power and wealth.

Imagine you come up with the idea, or (to make this sound more realistic - but as I said, do not over-interpret) you give this idea to your children who will become the next boss of the village, to make it look like crime and acting against your own rules and acting against the obvious interest of the village would not only be ok but be needed.

Imagine you achive to convince some people that there are "good people" and "bad people" in this village and that both of them are needed for the whole village to work.

Imagine the "good people" do their work, care for their families and try to have a good life - while you are profiting of them.

Imagine the "bad people" are breaking your rules (by following what you sell as super secret rules) and commit crime - while you are profiting.

Imagine the sheriff and the judge only claim to work against crime but in fact do not act against crime, because they are being told that it´s not only ok but needed for the whole village to work.

Imagine even some of the "good people" as the victims of crimes are ok with that and are being talked into being happy victims, because they are being told that crime and "bad people" are ok and needed for the greater good.

Imagine you have this village controlled in such a way that everyone is acting in their role while publicly saying otherwise. Imagine those people not only accept it as "the way it is" but even think this is the right and needed way.

Sounds ridiculous?

Or sounds familiar?

Divide and conquer.

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Mistakes can be made.

It´s time to correct them.

I am here to do that and I am with you!

I have come as Light into the world, so that everyone who believes in Me will not remain in darkness.

>>14322249

>Imagine you started with utopia, and along came human nature.

Human nature is not the problem. The problem is the system itself. And you know what system I am talking about. But I don´t feel the need to make it rain right now.

And since you mention utopia, let me pick up on that.

Apple/snake = trying to know everything while not trusting and not being strong enough in faith.

Realizing that the system is broken and not just requires faith.

A lot of times things can be seen from two sides. Choosing the good/bright side requires faith.

>But in reality there is endless pie, if we just expand our horizons.

True that.