inquiry

The Party Line

So often, society’s ‘party line’ is completely backward, isn’t it? And we kinda know it.

We sense the Orwellian quality of, let’s say, our food system. Or our money system. Or our military-industrial-complex-mess-of-a-system. Here’s a few examples of recent party lines we’ve lived by, vs the realities we’ve later discovered (buried under the advertising for the party line).

Party line: GMOs are good; we can feed more people.

Truth: GMOs (& the pesticides used with them) increase soil toxicity and depletion, yielding less food & much more disease.

Party Line (a silly personal one here): Acne is caused by too much oil on the skin, so we should dry the skin out.

Knowledge of Good and Evil

Excerpt:

I am stupidly confident that the biblical story of our fall from grace/heaven being 'knowledge of good and evil' is literally true---that the story is an actual description of the creation of human suffering. And I think tossing out concepts of good & evil, right & wrong, good & bad is an actual path to salvation/peace/heaven. I know, major hubris. Probably a terrible idea---but here goes.