"Every mile you go in the wrong direction is really a two mile error. Unlearning is twice as hard as learning."
– Unknown
Correcting Mistakes
Understanding who we are, what we are doing here, and what is taking place within and around us is restricted by the barriers of failing to admit we are wrong. Letting go of attachment to illusions and falsity is the way to learn who we truly are and what is happening.
Eventually we need to admit and accept we are wrong about many things. This may require experiencing the negative consequences of our actions by reaping what we sowed through the rhythm of natural law cause and effect. Sometimes we need to suffer and fall into chaos, before we can honestly face the mirror of our actions and rise above them.
I can personally attest to the self-realization of how wrong I was, to how much we are currently being tricked, conned, deceived, manipulated, lied to, bamboozled, hoodwinked, screwed and fooled. Admitting we are wrong is the first necessary step in a journey to resolving the problems before us.
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"A man who has committed a mistake and doesn’t correct it, is committing another mistake."
– Confucius
We can then either choose to continue making the same mistakes and continue to be deceived through our ignorance, or we can recognize that we no longer want to be deceived, manipulated and lied to, and instead choose to reconstruct our erroneous perception of reality.
Admitting Wrong
Only through admitting we are wrong, when we are wrong, can we learn what is right, and stop making the same mistakes.
Once we can come to terms with accepting how wrong we are, we can choose a better way and path in life. This begins with choosing to care to seek the truth about reality, what 'is'.
We don't like to admit we are wrong because we mostly want to believe we are right. We are often not curious enough to doubt and question ourselves. Certainty needs to be verified with an accurate understanding of reality.
Tell me one person who wants to do the wrong thing? No one wants that truly. But how many people also want to seek out the truth, no matter what?
There is a problem here... of confusion, apathy, cowardice or fear of truth... We must face the horror, darkness, shadow, demon, falsity, wrong, immorality and evil within us that has us create falsity in the world. Life involves learning about ourselves and the programmed conditioned ways of falsity that we live by.
In general, we mostly all strive to do what is right, and we often fail. But we also don't want to admit that we missed something simple or obvious that led us to make an error. It's hard to accept we were fooled, tricked and bought into falsity. Our conditioned ways of thinking, our ego-defenses and cognitive biases prevent us from facing ourselves honestly.
Many people also think if something was true then more people would be talking about it, that they would already know, and therefore they can ignore new information and not inquire nor further investigate into how accurate it is or not.
Unlearning
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We are unaware of many things, but to admit this seems like an embarrassment for many. We prefer to have misplaced certainty in our own abilities and overestimate ourselves. This is related to what is called the Dunning-Kruger effect where some overestimate their skills and abilities, and others underestimate their skills and abilities. Those who don't know or understand something, think they do, and suffer from a form of illusory superiority. This can lead to rejection of new information that they think they already know or that they perceive is invalid.
It is important to want to know what is right from what is wrong, what is true from what is false, so that we can then express truth and what is right, as opposed to expressing what is false and wrong.
The environment we grow up in includes everything we see, hear, and experience from our own perception. If we are taught something is true when it is false, we will keep that false knowledge and hold onto it. Our constructed perception of reality is largely conditioned into us from our parents, mandatory "education", and the media, which indoctrinates us into a false perception of reality. We aren't curious enough, we don't doubt or question enough. What we do is largely based on the views and beliefs that are conditioned into us without us questioning them to determine their veracity and validity.
Being right is not about wanting to be "right" even when we are wrong. Being right is wanting to really know what is right, real and true, and letting go of falsity by admitting wrong. This often requires a course correction, to change the path and way of life we lead. We must not maintain an adherence and belief in falsity just because they are what we currently believe to be "true".
As Yoda says:
"You must unlearn what you have learned."
"A man must first of all understand certain things. He has thousands of false ideas and false conceptions, chiefly about himself, and he must get rid of some of them before beginning to acquire anything new. Otherwise the new will be built on a wrong foundation and the result will be worse than before. To speak the truth is the most difficult thing in the world; one must study a great deal and for a long time in order to speak the truth. The wish alone is not enough. To speak the truth one must know what the truth is and what a lie is, and first of all in oneself. And this nobody wants to know."
– G.I. Gurdjieff
I don’t want to live in my own make believe fantasy world. I want to live in the truth of what ‘is’ reality. Some people view "being right" as being arrogant or ego driven. As a result, they have an aversion to the philosophy of seeking out what is right and true. Philosophy is the love of wisdom, wisdom is right-action.
Since they don't value what is right, what is correct, what is accurate, what is true, then they don’t really have any issue with maintaining false ideologies and conceptions of being lied to, manipulated and deceived. If you don't care about the correctness, accuracy, rightness and truthfulness of the things that you currently accept to represent the reality you live in, then you are quite content to continue to believe the fantasy fairy-tale of deception and lies that keeps you enslaved and attached to falsity.
We have to want to become more correct, more accurate, more right, and more true. We are where we are collectively, as a society and as a species, because we choose to take the easy road of abdicating our personal responsibility to care for, seek and accept what is right, real and true.
Change is Possible
As each individual develops willpower and changes, the reality we co-create through our actions as we interact with the preexisting reality, is also changed. The whole is a reflection of the smaller units. We are all interconnect in the aggregate way of life that we all live by.
"What will bring peace is inward transformation, which will lead to outward action. Inward transformation is not isolation, is not withdrawal from outward action. On the contrary, there can be right action only when there is right thinking and there is no right thinking when there is no self-knowledge. Without knowing yourself, there is no peace. An Ideal is merely an escape, an avoidance of what is, a contradiction of what is. An ideal prevents direct action upon what is. To have peace, we will have to love, we will have to begin not to live an ideal life but to see things as they are and act upon them, transform them."
– Krishnamurti
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If we want to be truly free from ruler and masters who control our lives, we have to stop supporting that way of life. We can voluntarily organize and unite with people who walk the same path and create something new. The old way will crumble when enough people start living the new and better way. The greater freedom and greater responsibility of anarchy is possible, if we want it, but it will take work within ourselves to make it happen.
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