Life, Men, Women, Politics: The Projection Game

Man, is life ever ___________.

That's quite the complex (spectrum of possible) answer(s) to that question, isn't it?

That 'completed' sentence has surely been spoken billions of times by billions of different people, each time different.

Yet, there are also a majority of those times the blank filled in was not any particularly unique 'answer,' nor any concrete, objective truth - but rather, projections.

Whether a product of 'individual' emotions seeking linguistic form or thought-forms conditioned/programmed through collective fields in that quantum sea of 'infinite possibilities' existing as a vibrational spectrum to which the human mind can tune into and collapse its experience into 'particle form' of a single 'timeline,' there are surely a number of predictable "answers" many would tend to reach for... life is hard. Beautiful. Rough. A gift. Complex. Simple. Painful. An amazing journey. Etc, etc.

At some level, perhaps all those - or any other answers - are true, in different ways. Although, to collapse "the answer" into a single, oversimplified word or sentence tends to diminish the nuance of complexity - not only reducing the spectrum of potential viewpoints, but locking one into a biased experience denying the diversity of others that exist. Ultimately, one's answer to that question speaks volumes more about where that person is on their journey & level of consciousness than anything about life itself - whether it'd arrive as a product of their programming/conditioning or personal experience seeking to express itself... often through projection of limited, unprocessed emotion as universal truth in order to self-validate and avoid the responsibility of its transmutation and dealing with the cognitive dissonance of facing entirely other answers that are just as equally true at different vantage points.

Us humans are interesting creatures with the ways we create "truth" and "meaning."

Let's take another one...

"Men/women are __________."

Oh boy.

In my endless explorations of YouTube rabbit holes, I've encountered a few lately where these types of statements/declarations have surfaced; many intermingled with political flavorings into the mix of cultural ideologies informing 'answers' here more than any accurate nuanced representation of the truth of 8 billion different people on this planet. The internet may have surely accelerated the propagation of belief systems from which the 'answers' here are sourced, though even prior to it, men & women everywhere often theorized and generalized with one-size-fits-all statements about the other in their collective attempts to "understand" in the face of uncertainty arising from confronting the actual nuanced complexity of reality head-on. Humans all too frequently attempt to find some sense of stability & security in tribal belonging to one group or the other in the face of an often volatile & unpredictable inevitable tension/conflict of opposites threatening the mind & ego's desires for control - whether those tribes are dictated by physical location, religion, skin color, ideology, or gender.

And no doubt, the majority of answers - at least those which people tend to vocalize the loudest - tend to again, come not as declarations of objective truth, but overgeneralizations rooted in traumatic experience from which individuals have not healed & matured from - instead seeking solace in communion with others sharing cognitive biases where "problems" are projected onto the 'other.'

Whether it's leftist-leaning women influenced by feminist ideologies making generalizations of how men are oppressive, too this, not enough that, 'they all' xyz, etc, etc. - OR the growing number of 'right-leaning' men in "the red pill community" finding comraderie amongst others who've been traumatized through the ringer of modern dating & relationships, agreeing why women are _______, can & cannot ______, do & do not _______, etc, etc...

Some women encounter some men with which they have "bad" experiences. Some men have relationships with some women that don't end well. And next thing ya know, "all women/men are trash, entitled, narcissists, ________, etc." Many don't heal, don't take responsibility for their role in the dynamics, don't learn, and repeat the lessons -> yet more "evidence" to support the beliefs.

Now enter social media where everyone gets to performatively broadcast their woes to the world in echo-chambers of 'like-minded' people algorithmically architected to perpetuate an endless feed of belief-validating content to maximize engagement. The result: international digital tribes of men/women ritualistically shit-talking the other, reinforcing oversimplified, divisive belief systems, slanderously typecasting how an entire half-population of billions "are." Much of which comes delivered in clickbaity soundbyte rage-bait form, packaged to win the social media game as maximizing views, likes, comments and follows with its conformity to blueprints designed for quick-hit dopaminergic engagement (that comes at the cost of mature discernment & the capability for critical thinking).

It's pretty fucking wild. Both the end visible results of this dynamic unfolding and the hidden dynamics of conditioning/programming occuring at the levels of cultural influence / collective morphogenetic fields. How frequently individuals are not just having individual experiences, but playing out collective patterns. Often taking everything personally, while acting out many of the exact same archetypal dances.

Rewind a hundred years, and there were a whole lot more people being raised with arguably-steadier cultural values. The family unit was a foundation of stability. Men & women more clearly "understood their roles" and had honor & respect for each other's place. The protocols of dating & relationships were fairly straightforward. Things were generally simpler - even if not ideal according to our modern standards. Then... we somehow blew open the spectrum of possibilities so fucking wide and flooded the collective psychic space with so much noise & distortion, it's become nearly impossible to tune into & recognize clear signal anymore. Indoctrination into "post-modern" gender-based ideologies dropped a fucking nuke on the old foundations, and the internet especially gave way for the Promethean fire of rapid ideological propagation to burn down anything left standing...

In the place of Judeo-Christian value systems that took centuries to take root as a stable foundation guiding relationship dynamics, we got hookup culture. Lengthy courtships and development of deep, meaningful intimate connections, exchanged for dating protocols dictated by tech bros building apps to optimize addictiveness for the ends of maximizing profit; relationship prospecting reduced from solid in-person human connection to swiping through an online catalogue - a sour partnership, turned as easily replaceable as an appliance or piece of furniture. All while "gender theory" further infected mainstream culture to inform a generation of who they should & shouldn't be, who others are & aren't, what should & shouldn't be expected, how things should & shouldn't work - both subtly & powerfully influencing how men, women (and whatever the other trending 128 fictitious trending "genders") show up to this modern dating landscape with increasingly short attention spans and senses of entitlement to fantasy ideals sold to them via cult(ural) belief systems.

And when men inevitably fail to live up to the expectations shaped by these mutations of collective egregors insisting their role conform to the doctrine's rules (whether that of left-leaning "progressive" or right-leaning conservatism) - OR fall short of what women actually want as consequence of suppressing & watering down masculine essence for the sake of 'political correctness' in a society whose pop trending ideology has been villifying the masculine...?

When women fail to live up the actual wants & needs of men for a woman firmly grounded in her authentic feminine energy rather than politicized ideology - when cultural conditioning has simultaneously instilled & reinforced an attitude of "fuck men" and sense of deservingness to "standards" only achievable via total submission to distorted ideology...?

And when the outcome is not a deeper look at the systemic roots of the imbalances in all these dynamics, but rather thousands of social media soapboxes where men confidently declare 'women are ______' with seemingly logical reasoning while women vent 'how men are ______' with self-justified emotional intensity - both equally as bitter, resentful and convinced of their moral superiority & victimization as projecting their/collective generalizations onto the other...? The countless grown boys & girls airing grievances & complaints to the world of how "men are shit" and "women are [whatever the 'red-pill' consensus is] need look no further than in the mirror to find the source of their actual greatest problems.

Yet few are willing to look deep enough to actually see, acknowledge and take ownership for their energetic & attitudinal contributions to & propagation of the complex of distorted cultural influences that are just as equally problematic as their lack of self-responsibility and resulting projection.

The so-called "gender war" is nothing more than a socially reinforced hallucination of individuals agreeing to bypass their shadow work for the egoic payoff of cult validation. A fugazi driven by mutual condemnation of 'the other.' One enabling denial of reality and avoidance of one's deepest pains by buffering them with an oversimplified tribally approved narrative misattributing both their cause and cure to an external enemy.

Is anyone surprised neither men nor women have been satisfied, on the whole...? Or is the recipe for disaster becoming a bit more clear as articulated like this...?

Lastly - though we've grazed on it already - comes the granddaddy domain of our fill-in-the-blank game: politics.

"The left/ is _______. Liberals are _______."

"The right is _______. Conservatives are _______.

What a total mindfuck psyop soul-rape this one has been, omg. Need I even say more...? Lol.

Politics has perhaps always been divisive. (And as per the "poly-ticks -> lots of bloodsucking critters" etymology, one of the greatest ongoing sources of human suffering.) But has the insanity ever been amping up in recent years.

For me, and many others, it was the whole Charlie Kirk assasination that dropped the veil on how far gone things have gotten.

To observe thousands of people celebrate and mock the death of a man who stood for free speech and open, fair, respectful debate... we need not even go there, as so many already have. Many of whom took that as their cue to leave the left - clearly seeing the level of moral perversion, hypocrisy, and hate that has become increasingly characteristic of those indoctrinated into the modern extremes Liberal ideology.

What did it for me, however: receiving a video in my Instagram inbox of a so-called "truther" just as equally spewing toxic rhetoric about how 'all of the left is mentally ill. Being a liberal means you are a virus on this planet.'

No, no, no. I couldn't even watch beyond the first few seconds, repulsed at the lack of nuance & discernment at root of this opening declaration typecasting an entire half-population into a slanderous, derogatory generalization.

Indeed, the "woke mind virus" is no joke. And yes, the ideological virus has thrived in the host of Liberalism.

But every single person who "is a Liberal" does NOT represent the extremes of those infected with the virus.

To assert they do is just as fucking delusional & condescendingly self-righteous as the hypocritical behavior of those who preach "inclusion" while demonizing "the right" as though extremist Neo-Nazis are an accurate representation of every Conservative/Republican.

What the fuck happened to common sense... on BOTH sides of the political spectrum...?

Or is it the divisive act of separation into emotionally-charged polarities itself that disables access...?

The left brain's rational thought capable of crafting seemingly just explanations for anything - entrapping itself in logical loops without balance of the the right's 'intuition' and expanded capacity for wholistic perceptibility.

The right brain's depth of insight into "spiritual" territory outside the realm of formal language & conventional science, equally a curse as much as gift without the left's structure to discern boundaries preventing drift too far into its own different forms of entrapments in the depth.

The political divide, mirroring the brains' - and each side with its own fractal polarity:

The logical left, "progressive." (Increasingly, to a degree where actual logic is left behind, having been manipulated & distorted so far out of integrity).

The right, "conservative." Partly serving a counterbalance to the extremes of left as defendants of time-tested order & structure - in spite of the 'spiritual' and 'creative' leanings, with which there are equal tendencies for deviance into distortion & irrationality.

The further one leans into either the left or right - whether we're talking about political ideologies & identifications or brains - the more rare grounded common sense becomes... until a threshold is crossed where there's none left at all. Access denied.

As much as these psychological dynamics have been part of the human experience going way back, their amplification has no doubt been a product of the technological echo-chambers social media has siphoned us into. Wherein the worst of humanity is broadcast globally as 'example' of what 'the other' is; emotionally-charged narratives cranked up to 11 on the loudspeaker. Wherein content can be so convincingly crafted to hit all the right psychological triggers to maximize engagement; venting about life's woes, heartbreaks and enemies no longer done in front of campfires to confidantes, but as compelling theatrical productions to millions worldwide. Wherein discernment of nuance has become increasingly rare.

Wherein we consistently fall hook-line-and-sinker for dopaminergic opinions, slogans and buzzwords (temporarily) satisfying our reptilian brains' instinctual craving for tribal belonging and narratives providing enemies to project our inner conflicts onto - as though identifying the single threat to survival in/as 'other' and marshalling all the tribe's resources into their elimination would guarantee the world becomes a safe, happy place for the rest of eternity.

Wherein the Neptunian allure of media and Jupiterian expansion of myth collide to provide means for these ancient archetypal dramas of righteousness wars newer, louder, faster, shinier forms for their memetic propagation through culture.

Wherein the Uranian tech grants unfathomable acceleration of mutative eccentricities. Saturnian structures evolving too slowly in comparison to provide appropriate scaffolding for the change to be managed sustainably - without which, Mercurial logic goes unchecked & unbalanced, and the Plutonic depths of echo chambers serve as substrate & stage for some of our darkest shadows to fester & play out through immature Martian misdirection.

On one hand, these may be initiatory rites into hyper-accelerated shadow work for those mature enough to take on the responsibility of contributing to alchemizing the field's distortions. On the other: a royal clusterfuck of nuclear toxicity parading as though the lovechildren of Aquarian & Scorpionic extremes represent the pinnacle of evolution.

And as the increased siloing of sub-cultures segment us further from a full spectrum of perspectives, more & more people have been driven into mental illness as it becomes increasingly challenging to manage the cognitive dissonance between their cultural doctrines, inaccurate representations of reality formulated through distorted narratives & fuelled with short-form content highlighting extremes validating extreme confirmation bias, and the far greater nuanced complexity, depth & breadth of reality.

"We can see the collective shadow in our present time through intensified political tribalism, cancel culture, and the culture wars, with the polarization becoming increasingly insane."

"Each side identifies with one pole of the moral duality, so to speak, good versus evil, right versus wrong, while projecting their shadow onto the other. The result is psychological splitting on a mass scale."

"This means that oversimplified black and white ideas of good and bad are projected externally on somebody else, the boogeyman, or on another group, whoever, both left and right and in between."

"People lose the capacity for nuance, empathy, and dialogue, and become mouthpieces of collective attitudes. When people have not confronted their personal shadow, they become unconscious vessels for the collective shadow working through them."
~Bernhard Guenther
~ Cosmic Matrix Podcast

Wrapping up...

Any of us could spend all day analyzing "problems." It's easy to point out faults. But then comes the question: what are the solutions?

In these cases, we might just have yet another polarity in the answers to all the above question: they're perhaps both incredibly complex and simple - depending on the angle we're looking from.

In spite of all the distorted "manifest everything you want" rhetoric and solipsistic logic in some 'spiritual' circles that place us at the root of the whole universe, we may first need to accept that there are things within our control - and things which are not. Changing how other people think & behave to match our ideals of how the world 'should' be... most definitely not within our control.

The evolutionary forces of collective cultural tides & trends are certainly beyond the capacity of any one of us to hijack and redirect according to whatever belief systems we may subscribe to that attempts to dictate how all 8 billion humans on this planet 'ought to' be... and the idea that "if just enough of us see the light and coerce the others to conform" has plenty more evidence than necessary to be proven a failed strategy by now.

Which kinda leaves the less dramatic option: 'the inside job.'

Yep. The "shadow work." The hard looks in the mirror at how we've been showing up to meet life in spite of it and others not bending to meet our ideals. The honest self-assessment of how & where we've subscribed to collective belief systems and let their/our biases fill in the blanks of how life, men/women, the left/right, and 'others' are. The rawest, most objective appraisals possible of when & where our own frequency falls short of the highest standards of integrity and we've tended to slip into judgement & condemnation of what 'opposes' the identities we've become attached to rather than expanding our capacity for entertaining all perspectives on the full spectrum with curiosity to see when & where there value is and honor their places in the bigger picture.

Or basically, to stop being entitled assholes and grown children addicted to bitching, complaining, and making someone/something else the bad guy in the story.

To exercise our fucking capacity for discernment.

To exchange the quick gratification of soundbyte opinions reinforcing ego & confirmation bias for the more mature practice of attuning to nuance as engaging with the world.

To slow ourselves down in order to take in more of what exists outside the comfort zones of ideological doctrines and cult(ural)/tribal identities, and to grow our ability to sit in/with the tension of opposites without needing to choose sides.

To grow the fuck up and accept that of all the 4+ billion men/women in the world, nowhere near all of them fit the derogatory stereotypes propagated in tribalistic echo chambers filled with wounded boys & girls projecting hate onto the other rather than taking self-responsibility for their healing. To do that shadow work & healing ourselves.

To bring ourselves back from past those thresholds of too far left or right where common sense gets disabled, finding some balance in the middle ground where it becomes obvious that the clickbaity examples of extremist political left/right do not represent a majority - and that most people are actually decent human beings who at their core just want and could agree on alot of the same things, each with our own challenges as deconditioning/deprogramming from cultural influences frequently blinding us to such basics of human decency.

To ascend from our own personal hells - the walls of which have been constructed by falsehoods accepted as 'truths' - giving up the resistance/fight to what is and egoic desire to have the world conform to conditioned ideals, in exchange for presence. Even if not rising so far beyond the collective hate & anger characteristic of lower-density collective fields into that of a heaven, at the least deconstructing the shit-colored lenses so as to perceive more of the immense beauty in the world, in life, and in others - including those ideological extremism has had us fighting against.

It ain't all that complicated, really.

No, these inner changes won't automatically flip the world from crumbling dystopian nightmare to happily-ever-after flowery utopia for everyone on earth. But each soul here has their own journey... and opportunity to level up.

And just maybe, switching these frequency bands we're attuned to individually might have unforeseeable ripple effects and contribute to a bit more clarity in the collective fields from which others may entrain to as an embodied example of what signal exists amidst all the noise & distortion. No huge victory in the "fights against evil" of grandiose biblical wars as ego might like... but a slower, quieter, more subtle penetration of honor, integrity, respect, morality, and love into the energetic undercurrents of the collective consciousness - where it's needed most.

Or maybe not. What the fuck do i know.

Some might look at this whole lens as idealistic mumbo-jumbo and prefer to plug back into their tribal echo chambers, gooning on adrenalized dopamine fixes of divisive dogma, perpetuating wars on 'the other' to validate identities as victims of life and/or fighters for righteousness - in spite of it all being laughably hypocritical as looking at it all from the outside in. And that's where free will comes in.

To each their fucking own. Do whatever gets ya off, whether it reinforces your choice to be happy or right... even though "being right" often only exists subjectively within fantasy and may come at the cost of maturity & wisdom only available through the humility & willingness to be wrong.

Blah, blah, blah.

Peace out... 🙏