Karma

Let’s face it!
Decision making is a process steeped in ideology.

We see things through ideologically tinted glasses.
We use ideological shortcuts when evaluating situations.
And we do all this ‘under the radar’.

Most of us are not even aware of all this!
Most of us don’t know that our decision making is so heavily influenced by the cultural programming we have been subjected to during our entire life.
Most of us…

This being the explanation for what’s going on.
The rest, the savvy, use their knowledge on the matter to influence our thinking. Our decision making. To manipulate the masses!
Which manipulatory process is made easier by the fact that we’ve already been taught to ‘do our own research’. Basically, to adopt our own ideology.

‘Do your own research’, an ideology in its own right, is a double edged sword. A double-pointed dagger, to be more precise…
Very efficient when you know what you’re doing and almost sure to mislead an unsuspecting novice…

A professional decider knows to disregard their feelings when making a call.
Each of us is a professional decider when toiling our respective fields of expertise. This being the reason for which we’re good at what we’re doing… For which we feel good about ourselves.

For which we used to feel good about ourselves…

To cut a long story short, until not so long ago, we used to feel good.
Things seemed to be going into the right direction.
No longer.
Many of us, a majority according to what’s going on, are no longer satisfied. With “where the world is headed”.

I used ‘headed’ on purpose.
‘Heading’ would mean that the world is still searching its destination while ‘headed’ accurately describes the predominant feeling.
That ‘somebody’ leads us towards ‘disaster’. That ‘we’ are no longer in charge.

Hence the need to ‘do our own research’. To stop believing what ‘we are told’ and to demand ‘change’.
What ‘change’?!?
Anything but what we already have!

How wise is this?
How wise is for us to allow our dissatisfaction to take over?
How wise is for our handlers to drive us towards uncharted waters?

We’ll see… as the blind man said!