Government is a fictional entity, currencies are fictional, titles are fictional, names are fictional, ownership is fictional, and yes you, or what you like to believe you are, is fictional. Your ego is a creation of your own mind, your identity is your brain attempting to consolidate everything you want to be into a cohesive self portrait while ignoring all the things you don’t like about your nature. We are vessels of lies and suppressions. It’s no wonder we create such a terrible fictional world and govern it with terrible fictional institutions.
Lets rid ourselves of the belief that government and political structures are a fact of life we must accept and conform to. Can we set our imaginations free from the presupposition of government's necessity? Let’s loose ourselves from the limits our history books and education have placed on what’s possible, and dare to create new fiction. Let’s breed new myths that twist open our minds and manifest new tools for viewing reality and ourselves. Let's integrate all the layers and dimensions of who we are, as individuals and as collective organisms, to move forward unencumbered by the shadows of our past fighting to be whole.
We need revolutionary creative ideas and brave souls to pioneer and trial these ideas more than ever. Let’s be done with the political theory and actionless debates. Let’s not waste anymore energy on the marches and protests which are admissions of powerlessness and pleads to a fictional government which we bring to life with our own consent. Anything is possible, nothing is taboo, we need living solutions and it’s time we stop limiting the fictions we share, believe, and manifest.
This song by the 1960s British folk singer, Donovan, was an inspiration for this post and pairs well with the content, consume at your own risk 🤟
If fiction is what we are, then fiction is what we will become. All you attempts and thoughts will be undone. It is in our nature to nurture these thoughts, for without them we are mere vessels unsought. So to claim an avoidance of self to create another fiction, is simply feeding the snake another mens to extinction.
But I do get where you are going with it.
Nature is real, body is real, we use fiction to give purpose, cause, and direction, to these two. Our ego is a caricature of ourselves. Society is a fictional construct that works and has power because we collectively believe it. We use myth and fiction to understand reality and build new tools to knowing ourselves.
Money is one of the greatest stories ever told because it is a story the everyone believes..
Indeed! Most things are just illusions and stories we tell ourselves are "true." Changing how things are start when we realize that we're just in a trance and have the power to create our own reality.
Governments are all smoke and mirrors. It is time that we take our freedoms back. It is time to create our own realities.
I totally agree - everything is fictional. Especially the governments :)). I’m about to go listen to your song :)). Peace!
We can become victims of our own creativity and beliefs, yet we need to have belief in something or we lose ourselves to depression or addiction.
I agree. And there are definitely things real and worthy to believe in. The earth and all of nature are real, how we experience it and the societal structures we build on top of it, is everything that’s fiction and fluid and can be changed by a simple reimagination of who and why we are.
Somehow that reminded me of the conclusion of a favorite song of mine:
Compromise, conformity, assimilation, submission, ignorance, hypocrisy, brutality, the elite. All of which are American dreams.
Very thoughtful ... and a bit scary, once you really let it sink, haha
Thank you for sharing such an interesting perspective :)
Yep! As I was reading this I thought about Zhuangzi: "Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly, dreaming I am a man.”