Like I said in the previous unit, your real rulers only want you to make things from the earth's resources as cheaply as possible and sell them back to you for as much profit as they can. They use addiction to make it impossible to escape this socioeconomic inequality.
To do this, the wealthy and their gophers use and worsen our insecurities, pain, and loneliness and get us to spend money to ease our pain. Thanks to poor parenting, some religions, and some poor educational practices, we are programmed to feel unlovable (unworthy), inadequate, or unsafe at a very early age. It is natural to want to avoid or numb these uncomfortable feelings. The easiest way to avoid them is to distract ourselves by focusing on future unrealized things outside our bodies where we will not feel or focus on our uncomfortable present feelings.
Here's how we do it. We focus on future goals to prove that we can be useful and deserving. We focus on becoming perfect to be accepted by others. We worry or daydream about the future instead of doing something about it. We post on social media hoping to wake up to a heart or thumbs up the next morning. When you watch someone throw a ball at a hoop in a basketball game, you don’t feel a thi-i-i-i-i-ng until the ball goes in or bounces off the hoop. Your feelings are suspended. Likewise, we focus on unfinished stories just to put ourselves into a no-feeling “limbo” until we get to the end.
There are many kinds of distractions, but they all have one thing in common, they help us avoid the
present by keeping us reaching for a possibly better future—a resolution, goal, or fix, the next vacation, the next promotion, the next high, or anything in the next 10 minutes, month, or year. For the superstitious, it’s in the afterlife. These little fixes are dangled in front of us to get us to jump out of our feelings, forget our burdens, and go where they want us to go. What do we do? We stay suspended until we find out whether we won the lottery or not. We are compulsively chasing these fixes all day long and have little time for real solutions. Therefore, human rights activists need to become very familiar with this in order to help themselves and others act in ways that support their struggle for economic and social equality. Human rights movements fail to take this into consideration. This led to the failure of the hippy movement in the sixties and seventies.
They keep your mind off your burdens and focused on the carrot.
Keeping you on the shit end of the economic disparity stick.