“Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past.”
– 1984, by George Orwell
Is knowledge power? Yes, in at least two ways:
- power to you: knowledge gained can empower you to understand something and act in accordance with that understanding
- power from you: knowledge restricted can disempower you by keeping you ignorant and limit your ability to act or respond
If someone can control the information you are getting -- or even feeding you titillating distractions to capture your attention (like various forms of entertainment) and distract you from important things -- then your ability to function in reality is being restricted by others.
There is a power differential created from hiding, occulting and encrypting knowledge, and also from making information undesirable by ridicule and mockery. Intelligentsia specialize in a plethora of psychological warfare (psywar) tactics. So too do various secret societies that have been around for who knows how long.
The foundation for everything is based on truth. The more truth we have in common, the stronger the bond we can form because it is based in reality, what ‘is’, and not on a semblance of reality based on ignoring or denying the truth we don’t want to face.
Think about someone lying to you, being dishonest, or betraying you. How important is that in your life? Truth is the foundation for everything. Truth is a synonym for reality or existence.
If truth didn’t matter, trust in others and loyalty towards others wouldn’t be broken by betrayal, dishonesty, lying, etc. We don’t even have to think about this process of consciousness for it to apply in our lives. The importance of truth is a subconscious, axiomatic, intuitive, non-reflective, understanding we operate by in life, but it can be consciously recognized and used to willfully motivate us and our direction in life.
Truth is the most important thing in all our lives, yet we persist in ignoring its supreme importance. We don’t seek out quality truths to learn more and improve the quality of our lives based in real foundational principles like morality. Many are just passively stumbling into quality truths (like moral truth) through life and not actively engaging in seeking out the truth on issues that matter. Political and other ego-personality-identity attachments keep us blinded to our personal lives or polarized to false dichotomies.
It’s important to get on the same page of understanding with others. Speaking truth and being recognized as someone who does speak truth, as someone who is honest, will invoke confidence in your character and in your word from others. This will create a reputation of an honest person, that you’re not a deceiver or liar.
This is important in life for our social and cooperative living together. If you lie to someone, they will recognize that you’re not representing reality honestly to them. This does not engender trust, faith, loyalty or belief in another person. If you were to keep lying to someone, they would likely stop interacting with you. That is, if they cared about reality more than their attachment to someone who repeatedly lies to them.
People don’t like being lied to. That simple reality/truth demonstrates the supreme importance of truth that most people don’t even consciously recognize with their awareness. We go through life in a subconscious recognition of stumbling around trying to find truth, but few actively care and seek out truth to a higher degree.
If people are lied to, they will go elsewhere to get away from the liar. At least, they should do that. But our belief in “authority” and “experts” keeps us going back for more punishment and deception.
Think of the mainstream media and how they are fooling people with low quality, unimportant or insignificant information. Many people want to know what is really happening, and they think the mainstream media will give them that information. Many know they are being kept from more important information, and some people know they are being fed falsehoods or outright lied to by the mainstream media. Yet, how many are going to find alternative sources of information than the mainstream media?
Not necessarily. There is a problem of prejudice. Many of them search for a confirmation to their (wrong) opinion, and are not interested in the truth. Clearly shown in an excellent movie “The Creepy Line” on the example of Google compression algorithm, and even better today, on the example of avid face mask wearers in this ‘pandemic’ hoax.
People are the creatures of habits. Conformists. They don’t like to go out of their prejudices. Search for the truth begins only after a big personal breakdown. I’ve just send this pic in the comment to @zyx066’s post:
It really fits better here. The greatest ’success’ of corporate media is creating a false World (Matrix, you can say) with a majority of conformists, using their prejudices. Speaking the movie language, Neo is an exception, Cypher is a rule. If you want to free them, you have to break the mold of the whole matrix of lies.
The percentage is getting bigger day by day.
Yes, unfortunately. I consider accepting bitcoin as a sign of awareness, @sanjeevm. And we still don’t have enough adopters…
Since many can't buy bitcoin, may be you should consider hive as well 😀
I see hive as a way to get a bitcoin, @sanjeevm. Don’t have money for mining machines, but have a little bit of creativity :)
True that 👍
ENGAGEtokens.Indeed they don't, but they should, as I wrote after that sentence. Cognitive dissonance is strong.
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I think, most if not all know this by heart but still people love fake praise. And as you said, they keep going back after all the fake things and pretend to be happy, so much that, we barely can differentiate if they are pretending or its a reality !!
Yup, choosing appearances over substance, falsity over truth. We live in a fake world.
With the first quote you mentioned, really motivated my soul this early morning because I found out that power is vice versa. Sometimes you may control the past and not the future and sometimes you may control your future but not the past. In this way it involves a technical reasoning as I was checking out the top trending page is this morning I saw yours and I was like it calls for greater attention. I always check out your Post and also your rebloged, they are always inspiring and calls for good reasoning. I learnt more on this particular post you made thanks for sharing. I followed you to see more post on my feeds @krnel,
ENGAGEtokens.Thanks, I'm so happy 🚆😀
The quote from 1984 is more about the powers that control what is written in the present control the past record, and when you control the past you control the direction of society. Read that book, it's great.
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Great post so far. And yeah, truth makes us feel CONFIDENT subconsciously.
Indeed it does. Truth is life-isnpiring.
Permission to plagiarize vast swathes of your post , sir ?
(ok, I'll give you credit.lol)
LOL, sounds good ;)
Nice Quote
I was wondering if you have an Twitter account ? Because we growing our Hive Network effects via Twitter
Thanks. I do, but I hardly if ever use it.
I want to share some quotes from your Hive Blog to bring Hive Awareness via Twitter.
Can you please share your Twitter Username if that’s okay with you?
The only key to understanding the present is to study the past. The processes that act in the present are the same ones that acted in the past (Harris's laws, Geology).
However, I would add that in my opinion there are no objective truths. As Einstein taught us: everything is relative.