The All Seeing Eye

Meanings and what not.

https://blog.kareldonk.com/the-all-seeing-eye-a-symbol-of-consciousness/Suppose we had the above situation, where a person ends up with bad programming (the red blocks) in their subconscious mind. How easy, do you think, would it be for them to get rid of those bad blocks of knowledge? If they just throw out those blocks, the whole structure caves in — i.e. their whole worldview that is built on the knowledge contained in those blocks caves in. The only option they have — assuming they actually have the courage to even start such a risky undertaking — is to dig a small tunnel from the side to reach the bad blocks, and slowly start to get the bad material out while simultaneously replacing it with new material. You can imagine that this is a process that can take a lot of time depending on the amount of bad knowledge that needs to get replaced. If it’s bad knowledge that was programmed into their minds during very early childhood, deprogramming their minds from it can be a monumental undertaking (comparable to replacing the foundation underneath a skyscraper). This is why Frederick Douglass said that “it is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.” Unfortunately, most people today still choose to simply close their minds to alternative knowledge, so that they don’t have to deal with such a difficult process of first deprogramming, and then reprogramming their minds.

But what if we were taught from very early childhood to think independently, critically and analytically and to scrutinize and question everything? And what if we were taught to never rely too much on a piece of knowledge, and instead could very easily let go of it once new and better knowledge becomes available? Such a situation would be similar to the illustration below, where the blocks of knowledge are held together by a steel frame, like a kind of permanent scaffolding.

In such a situation, the bad blocks of knowledge could be thrown out almost instantly, while the steel frame keeps the rest of the structure in place. The ease at which this can happen is going to depend on the situation, but it’s a much better solution compared to not having the steel frame. And the steel frame represents the ability to partition our lives and our consciousness with a high degree of independence and fault-tolerance, which allows us to be very critical and continuously analyze and reevaluate what we think we know about life in general. And when we detect bad knowledge in that situation, we’ll be able to act a lot faster to replace it in order to prevent further issues.

Alvin Toffler said that “the illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn.”