The philosophy about how society should be and what is the idle way of living will always be a debatable topic and everyone will have their opinions on it. But as we move inside and ask ourselves, we might get some level of clarity of what kind of society we want to live in and what kind of generation we are creating.
As we divide the human mind into conscious, subconscious, and unconscious parts, we can divide society into different values of consciousness.
Here is my take on some values we are living on:
Values of Unconscious Society
- Achieve and Produce
- Glorify busyness, impress others, Career is self-worth
- Materialism: endless consumption, financial success over happiness, hoarding of resources, human beings are disposable
- Competition: isn’t room for everyone, tear down tactics, ‘Me’ comes first, domination
- Elitism: knowledge, access/availability to select few, ‘experts’ know all
- Focus on physical: obsession on body image, ageism, fear of growing old
- Homogenization: everything/everyone is uniform or the same,
- Intolerance, speaking for entire groups of people
Values of Conscious Society
- Create: make what you love and what moves you, contribute, follow your unique interests
- Self-Connection: validation comes from how you feel about yourself, not the external or societal expectations
- Collaboration: you winning means I can too uplift others, encourage others, create together, trust in your own process
- Access: knowledge, availability to All.
- Life experiences valued, resources shared
- Focus on the spiritual: aware of the innate interconnected nature of life
- Tolerance, Uniqueness: differences are celebrated, trust in others, loving awareness
These are some of the values our society shows and we are naturally in the middle of these; jumping around from conscious to unconscious. What matters more is that are we aware of where we are or do we know these values?
From the time we were a child, we were sent to school where we learned the following:
- We must compete against others
- Failure/mistakes are bad
- Our grades are linked to self-worth
- Information or access is only available if I achieve (college acceptance)
- Don’t question authority
- My true talents aren’t worth developing
- Play it safe (Always)
Now I think about it, I realized most of these things are still true when I am out of school and it is embedded inside my mind and; that’s what drives my unconscious state and leads to choices that create an unconscious society. I am unaware of many decisions which I make and sometimes regret those decisions later.
Every day we are evaluated by how we perform, in that process we learn to look to others to tell us our ranking, how we are perceived, what jobs or roles are worthy of going after. This is the foundation of unconscious society (people disconnected from their true selves).
Many of us are spending our adulthood chasing the perfect job, perfect house, perfect spouse, pleasing our parents, pleasing the neighbors, unaware that we have beliefs/drives that have been conditioned within us (that we did not consciously choose.)
This is the path to suffering, resentment, not feeling worthy, not because we weren’t worthy because we are sleepwalking through life: checking boxes, numbering out, practicing chronic escapism, feeling insecure throughout the process.
When people are insecure they do the following:
- Hoard resources
- Exclude others
- Cheat to get ahead (illusion)
- Feel threatened by uniqueness or differentness
- Make decisions based on what’s best for me rather what’s best for we
We do this until we are so miserable (suffer so deeply) that we wake up or become conscious. This is a warrior’s journey because becoming conscious means: facing your shame, learning to forgive yourself, witnessing your parents as human beings, having the humility to unlearn and relearn.
With every person who becomes conscious, we form a new world built on: collaboration, creativity, unity, acceptance, trust, curiosity, we remember who we actually are. We say goodbye to an unconscious society that subscribes to control, shaming, fear tactics, intolerance, division, ego-based behaviors.
And I am learning to be conscious and I hope it will be the path to cherish.
The world is preparing for a big change. Will you help? – The Mother