The Artist Against the System Down Through Time
by Jon Rappoport -- nomorefakenews.com
Whatever his medium, the artist stands outside the group and groupâs slogans.
If the group is living in Tuesday, he is living in Friday.
He sees invention everywhere, even in the faces that float by on the street. He sees their theatrical roles and the messages that are written on their lips before they speak.
He sees the preposterous crises that are concocted to lead to revelations that never come. Populations walk through one gate after another, deeper into an internal slavery that knows no limit.
The artist sees one genuine emotion after another parlayed into flashes of cheap sentiment.
In midst of all this, the artist doesnât surrender. Nor does he only observe. Nor does he only point out the lies.
He CREATES.
He always has.
The artist opposes the most popular trends of the moment.
The trend now, under various guises, is the Collective.
We need to realize that the Collective, no matter how it is defined or shaped or covertly hidden, is seeking to marginalize the person who imagines and creates new realities.
The artist is able to spot the Collective. He opposes it.
This opposition canât be settled and resolved with some absurd ârainbow philosophyâ that pretends to include everybody. It canât be dismissed or merged in a melting lump of happy-happy cosmic cheese.
Those pseudo-philosophers who speak about consciousness as if it were one all-embracing ocean, within which we are merely tiny and ineffectual drops of water, have already developed a convenient amnesia about the artist.
Down through time, in the face of every spiritual system devised by the priest-class, the artist has said no. Instead, he has built his own worlds. He has lived the life of imagination, immune to the latest and greatest âNew Age.â
He has asserted his power.
This is the natural mantle worn by the person who invents, imagines, improvises, creates: power.
Power that is apart from the group.
The artist not only sees, with great clarity, the mindless brain-dead gatherings of Collectives; he not only sees how they are built; he not only sees how they import âthe highest idealsâ to flesh out their slave-programs and objectives; he not only rejects all this; he creates something entirely different.
He invents worlds of his own. Many worlds.
The artist proliferates. He doesnât reduce.
The artist isnât looking for the âone thingâ that will unite us all under a banner of harmony. He knows all such harmonies wear out and are eventually co-opted to produce mass hypnosis.
The artist rebels. In rebelling, he reveals the uniqueness of the individual. He doesnât pay lip service to this uniqueness. He demonstrates it.
The artist destroys the Matrix, over and over.
Whether in art, science, philosophy, healing, or any other field of human endeavor, the person who lives by and through imagination creates new realities. As the artist, he challenges the status quo on every level.
This isnât a superficial undertaking. It isnât an attempt to âdo something pretty and nice.â It isnât part of âbeing a good citizen.â
The Collective is a fungus that seeks to swallow up people and nations. It enlists the highest-flying ideals as a cover. It sweeps away resistance with what seems like the most honorable of intentions.
Humanity on this planet has been undergoing a transformation into one ten-billion-member cult. You can find its leaders just by listening to their voices and their sentiments. They all come from the same manual.
This is really war by other means.
In the dying days of the engorged Roman Empire, which had squandered its capital through wars of conquest, it was decided that these other means were necessary. And so the Roman Church was invented. It would employ all the idealisms of past ages.
It would actually produce an unprecedented version of mind control as the weapon of conquest.
And today, we have âthe Global outlook.â This is the silky cover for drawing in populations to a perverse dream of unity for all.
âWe will harmonize the world.â
This is exactly the kind of program the artist has always rejected.
The artist says: there are are an infinity of worlds, and they can exist side by side; artists create them.
When that message is lost, we lose what we are and enter into amnesia.
ROBOT OR FREE?
There are some people who hear the word CREATE and wake up, as if a new flashing music has begun.
This lone word makes them see something majestic and untamed and astonishing.
They feel the sound of a Niagara approaching.
They suddenly know why they are alive.
The creative life is about diving in. Itâs about a kind of transformation that shreds programming and gets down to the energy of the Fire.
Most people donât want to travel to that grand arena because they have been trained like pets by some sector of this society to be good girls and boys.
The creative life isnât about little changes done in little penguin steps. Itâs about putting your arms and your mind around Deep, Big, and Wide Desire. Itâs about making that Desire come to life.
99% of the world has been trained like rats to adore systems. Give them a system and theyâre ready to cuddle up and take it all in. If they have questions, or if they want to argue, itâs about how to tweak the system to make it a little better. And with every move they make, they put another blanket over the Fire Within.
They sleepwalk through life and say yes to everything.
Maybe you once saw something truly free that didnât care about consequences, and it blew you into tomorrow and turned on your soulâs electricity for an hour.
Maybe youâre sick and tired of bowing and scraping before a pedestal of nonsense.
CREATE is a word that should be oceanic. It should shake and blow apart the pillars of the smug boredom of the soul.
CREATE is about what the individual does when he is on fire and doesnât care about concealing it. Itâs about what the individual invents when he has thrown off the false front that is slowly
strangling him.
CREATE is about the end of mindless postponement. Itâs about what happens when you burn up the pretty and petty little obsessions. Itâs about emerging from the empty suit and empty machine of
society that goes around and around and sucks away the vital bloodstream.
People want a certain level of defined comfort, and they want to BELONG TO SOMETHING.
âI want to belong. Itâs my reason for being. Itâs my hole card. Therefore, Iâll sit on my imagination, so it wonât take me out beyond this thing I want to attach myself to.â
The propaganda machines of society relentlessly turn out images and messages that ultimately say: YOU MUST BELONG TO THE GROUP.
Day after day after day, year after year, the media celebrate heroes. They inevitably interview these people to drag out of them the same old familiar stories. Have you EVER, even once, seen a hero who told an interviewer in no uncertain terms: âI got to where I am by denying the power of the group, by denying the propaganda that says we all have to BELONG.â
Have you ever heard that kind of uncompromising statement?
I didnât think so.
Why not?
Because itâs not part of the BELONGING PROGRAM, the program that society runs on to stay away from the transforming power of IMAGINATION.
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