{"id":44946,"date":"2019-04-01T14:05:25","date_gmt":"2019-04-01T19:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=44946"},"modified":"2019-04-01T14:05:27","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T19:05:27","slug":"the-one-true-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=44946","title":{"rendered":"The One True Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The One True Thing<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Until you understand it, it will rule your life.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Until you see clearly how the rules of society work, you will be trapped within a system of control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What you mistake for reality is instead a fabricated simulation, designed to keep you trapped right where the system wants you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Your social conditioning, education, and family structures program you with a set of beliefs, values and norms — often unexamined — that “properly” align you in such a way that you focus your life and labor on keeping the existing social hierarchy in place and that you never deeply question this arrangement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put visually, your culture is in the shape of a pyramid. And what keeps you pinned to your particular layer is your belief system. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Every civilization has its own defining narratives that, while beautifully diverse, all generate exactly the same structure: a pyramid consisting of many more people at the bottom than at the top.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Every civilization throughout history had One True Thing<\/strong> that determined each person\u2019s position on that pyramid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In some past eras, it was royal bloodline. In ancient Egyptian culture, it stemmed from being a direct descendent of the Sun god Ra. And today, it\u2019s a function of how much money you have.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No matter the marker, the pecking order is held in place because everyone accepts the rules.  They’re fully understood by the citizenry, and are only rarely questioned (usually at great personal risk). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But even though accepted as \u201c100% true\u201d by the participants of one culture, social markers often don’t translate when applied to another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For instance, if you traveled back in time to the height of the Aztec empire with $1 billion in cash, your paper bills wouldn’t have any accepted value.  You’d probably have trouble acquiring even a single tortilla with them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Your modern currency just wouldn\u2019t be money to that ancient culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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