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>> (not just weird circumstantial shit)
>Welcome to class.
>There are no coincidences. Everything is a result of machinations of will. Once you realize the purpose of the fabricated reality you are observing, then you understand the lessons imposed by the strongest of will in an effort to impart a greater understanding on all of humanity. Cliff notes? The good guys are in control.
The above was in answer to my question asking what evidence (not just weird circumstantial shit) there is to suggest that "the good guys are in control".
First, if you really want to help somebody see things from your point of view, you can skip the condescending intro. I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed, but I'm not dumb either, nor am I new to any of this.
Second, you did not point to any evidence; you just made some assertions that, again, I am to believe without evidence or proof. Fair enough. Paring aside vague language ("the purpose of", "the lessons imposed by", "a greater understanding"), here is the takeaway:
There are no coincidences because everything I see in the world is an expression of will. Those with the greatest will want to teach me something, and they are the good guys, and they are in control.
While I can appreciate your most basic premise of anthropophenomenology as analysis of expressions of will (all appearances in the human realms are to be taken as expressions of the will of the most powerfully willful humans), I do not believe that even the most powerfully willful humans, whether they be "good guys" or "bad guys", are omniscient or omnipotent. (I don't even believe in "good guys", for that matter. This might be a movie, but it's not an old b/w Western written for 6-year-olds, is it?)
Here, I'll posit a counterclaim, and I'll draw it from an ancient wisdom text from the Axial Age:
Those who wish to take the world and control it
I see that they cannot succeed
The world is a sacred instrument
One cannot control it
The one who controls it will fail
The one who grasps it will lose
โTao Te Ching, Ch. 29
From that same text, if there really are "good guys" who are figuratively "in control", and there really is "The Plan", then I would assume the planners are familiar with, and working from, the following:
The highest rulers, people do not know they have them
The next level, people love them and praise them
The next level, people fear them
The next level, people despise them
If the rulers' trust is insufficient
Have no trust in them
Proceeding calmly, valuing their words
Task accomplished, matter settled
The people all say, "We did it naturally"
โTao Te Ching, Ch. 17
At age 50, I am looking at all of this unfold with one eyeball always trained on the horrors of the previous century. I don't easily allow myself to believe that this shakes out well for us just because I want it to, or because some heroic narrative soothes my bad feels. Thanks for your answer, though.