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Great post Ms Tessa. What made me aware of one of my favorite subjects (the illusion of choice) may surprise some people. It was at the grocery store! I realized one day while reading labels on products that almost every mass produced item was made using the exact same lousy (and sometimes almost poisonous) ingredients (with a few minor differences for "taste") by just a handful of giant corporations, a light bulb came on for me. Since that day I've applied that same realization to politics, policies, public health etc. Once a person realizes this illusion, truly sees it and understands it, almost everything going on in society becomes clear. Now I go out of my way to *truly* choose whenever possible, looking for that "diamond in the rough" amongst the clutter. And often finding it.

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Yes, you're right. An over-abundance of choice is as bad as little choice, since what's to differentiate, what is of importance? Jordan Peterson has made this point many times.

Still, there's something more here, and I can't make sense of it or articulate it correctly. Tessa's original question; "whether it’s typical for leaders to care about (A) the citizens’ well-being and, (B) the citizens’ free will," remains unanswered.

My experience is that in group settings, whether it's a small team or a large brigade/division the leaders assume, often correctly, that the stated goals of the collective ARE the goals of the individual. As such, it's not a question of free will, it becomes a question of compliance, of coherence.

The individual's well being is inextricably linked to the success of the collective and the individual's free will is immaterial if it is not directly supportive of the collective.

We may be asking too much of our leaders, who assume we're all on the same page of either "progress" (as they define it) or "conservation" (as they define it.) Neither really reflect the needs or desires of the mass of individuals, at this point, yet they group us into large collectives, label us, assume the goals, and march on.

I don't know how to break that mold.

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I'm witnessing how this whole past week,, currently in North Carolina at a school named ALC Mosaic, Agile Learning Centers and they're all over the world. Here children are truly free to choose what they do all day, everyday. My heart is soaring from spending time here. Adults are facilitators and make offerings which children can join or not. If you have a skill, passion, knowledge you'd like to share with upcoming generations its a great place to do that. Playing is learning is the philosophy. Being able to choose anything makes the choices to take an offering a real true choice. This is the future, every child deserves this.

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"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience." - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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I love that quote. On a humorous note, I came up with the term "dogness" to describe the amazing spirit of my lovable dog, trying to express itself through the inherited form of a canine organism. He revels in his wacky (but ingenious) form but is also trapped in it at the same time. Thus the necessity for autopoiesis via evolution and the yearning for creativity and change. This is universal in my opinion.

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I love the look on my face after reading your words.

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Tessa. remember from your first MLGA video in 2020 when you said, "Villains exist to keep us awake?" I see this as a time of unprecedented opportunity (Lew Rockwell did a very good piece on that theme last year but I can't find the link - if I can track it down I'll pass it along). Look at America's Frontline Doctors for example. In 2019, would any of us have imagined that they could have existed at all, let alone been such a success story on every possible level, material and spiritual? If they went public, all the investment banks would be bidding like crazy for the IPO. Likewise, who would have thought that Del Bigtree with his little youtube channel that on a good day would 250 hits would become 3X as popular as the nightly news or the NY Times - and he doesn't even have recipes or or weather or a sports section. I think this is where we found new universities - or start bands.

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So well done Tessa. I refer to religions and ideologies as "social organizing belief systems." They are essentially, operating systems that enable, for better or worse, the organization of societies. Without them organizing complex societies would be like herding cats or spiders or both. They are an essential part of human evolution and they do change slowly, or sometimes in crisis mode--which we about to experience.

I am a huge skeptic of the Great Reset ideology/religion because, I believe, it is based fundamentally on a radicalization of the pathological beliefs that already plague us--reductionistic materialism (and scientism), commodity culture (idol worship) and then transhumanism--the fusion of those two preceding into quasi-deities. The beauty of everything that surrounds us in nature it suddenly gone. We can't see it.

There is no way the long term outcome of this idée fixe will be good for mankind, or the world, because there is no wisdom in it. Once that operating system is fully up-loaded, we are doomed to profound suffering, to the extent we can still suffer. It is pure narcissism, not real love. Can humanity reboot after this apocalypse? We shall see. Let it be so.

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Thank you, and you said it beautifully!!

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It I s not inevitable, I prefer the bliss of the mist beautiful narrative as I can choose what to believe.

We are an opening species, homo luminescence is being born. Zach Bush and Charles Eisenstein just talked about how we are in the birth canal, and will soon be deliriously blissed out after we come out into the new world. Its happening on a collective level, the corny kindness campaigns, the spiritual entrepreneurs, the healers, artists storytellers, MUSICIANS, all the growing edge of us. Check out ALCMOSIAC.ORG

Its how we create the new earth, freedom is essential

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Beautiful...deep...on target...thank you

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Thank you Michael!! xo

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The good cannot seize power, nor retain it; to do this men must love power. And love of power is inconsistent with goodness; but quite consistent with the very opposite qualities -- pride, cunning, cruelty. -- Leo Tolstoy

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I think This Is propaganda to encourage us to play small. Now is the time to claim our power in the name of love and light

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Robots cannot seize power, for they only know how to follow.

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Robots which have subhuman intelligence or equal to human intelligence and which are tightly controlled (perhaps being engineered in conformity to the Three Laws of Robotics) cannot seize power. But how about a super-AI, with an IQ, say, of 20 million? What will it do? We don't know. It could be that it will on its own initiative take the First Law seriously and administer everything in a way it deems to be for our own good. For that of course it would need to seize power. Like Hal in 2001; whatever he said exactly -- This mission is too important to be entrusted to human agency. That's apart from the all too likely scenario that the super-AI will be invested by an evil spirit.

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I was referring to human robots, the ones who prefer to go along to get along.

That being said, what is the state if AI ?

They can learn, and make decisions, but do they possess volition, agency, free will?

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People like us on the outside have no way of knowing what's going on in any important field, like AI. But we do know there is an arms race between China, Google, Russia, who knows who else, to be the first to develop the AI that will be able to improve itself better than its human engineers could ("the singularity). Whoever achieves that first wins; or they think they'll win. There's no telling what a super-AI will actually do, on its own initiative (if it has any). But again I'm wondering whether it will be invested by an evil spirit. Very likely it will be.

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Perhaps this is what all the soul stealing is about, aha!

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Great stuff! A lot of us are converging on similar ideas these ideas. I noticed that a lot of us able to see the big, spiritual picture are women.

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Thank you! And yes... orientation toward healing is definitely not limited to women but more women are talking about it it seems...

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How do you propose to heal without first REMOVING the contaminant?

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Another great article, thanks Tessa. Your comment in another article that Russians say the state can't take our love is very insightful.

Responding to Monica, I am very inspired by all the people, of all races, sexes, and cultures, who stand up against tyranny. Jung Chang wrote two long but excellent books: Mao: the untold story, and Wild Swans. She lived in China under Mao and said she put people in only two categories: those that would persecute other people for no reason, and those who refused to.

It was always my opinion, whether true or not, that women engaged in evil less than men. Perhaps that was because men were in more positions of power. I observe that the Left has created a whole army of a***holes, and it seems to affect both sexes equally.

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“…human beings are not designed to live in empires. We just don’t have the biological ability to relate to that many people!” Dunbar’s Number is 150!

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Villages where all needs are met locally. Fractals of microcosm, of biomes on a biome

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And this is why it keeps happening: the alphabet vs the goddess

Patrist vs matrist

https://youtu.be/2QQuD62RxrU

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So why am I left-handed?

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Because you are sinister ;)

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Some times I wonder... We --westerners-- have been building an Empire since the 16th century. Without any consideration for the people we were subduing. From the 18th century on, England and then Germany, America, Belgium, France to a lesser extent have turned against their own population with the 1rst Industrial Revolution. Eventually we started turning far eastern countries or central Africa into sweatshops or worse in the case of Congo (you know Cobalt and Coltan for our smartphones). But we turned a blind eye to this. Now the globocap elite has decided (in despair I guess) to turn against everyone in the G20 and beyond. I can't help to think that somehow this is karma. Somehow some kind of natural ending to all this. And its going to swallow us or most of us. Tomorrow I'll look at the snow and at the the trees and try to live the moment.

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Probably much earlier than that even!!!

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European countries weren't that much into building colonial empires before Spain and Portugal started the trend in the 16th century... Granted with a few exceptions, notably the Prussian dominion of the Teutonic Knights (ah Lake Peipus)! I think it has something to do with modernity and technoscience. There was a different mindset from the Renaissance on. Some people (the elite) started to cut themselves from nature...

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So…gonna let that FUN guilt complex, gifted to you by communism, destroy freedom for now and future people? If so, you aren’t any better than the Branch Covidians

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Can you please clarify your comment? Are you saying that I am promoting the fun guilt complex? You left a few fiery comments, and I am trying to understand where you are coming from so that I can respond properly.

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Human nature is equal to itself in space and in time. We're lucky if the best of human nature survives for a while in leaders and enables the best in people they lead instead of rule over. We suffer when the worst of human nature overtake leaders and it brings also the worst in the people they oppress. By trying to hold on to the best in each of us, maybe we can bring/keep the best of human nature in leaders. Easier said than done as we are easily lulled into complacency, enabling the worst to come back. We have to be responsible and always have to be vigilant inside our own heart and inside our society.

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This is exactly why playing small and not stepping into your power is the opposite of the solution. I recently recognized how deeply I connected power to evil, they are not the same thing, let's step into our power and shine more love and light in the world. I'm at this school right now where kids are completely free its an agile learning center ALC, MIND BLOWING https://www.alcmosaic.org

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Free will is a state of mind.

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I think it is an inalienable part of us. But the society based on domination does not like to accept the sanctity of free will because then if it admits that free will is sacred, then the social arrangement that defies it looks like a criminal. Of course, this is far more complex because people are also fully responsible for being their best selves, and things feed off each other, and so on. A fruitful topic for conversation for sure. :)

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Maybe this is why we should keep saying that we have free will as often as possible... keep it front and center.

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And create schools like this everywhere for every child --

Knowing oneself is the beginning and the end of education.

https://www.alcmosaic.org

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I ALWAYS find your articles engaging and enlightening. Thank you.

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Thank you!!!!!! xo

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religion and psychopaths have a lot to answer for

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I would say, institutional religions and ideologies. Human relationship with the mystery is perhaps the most important relationship we have, but when institutions try to define and control it, it becomes a thing of domination, and that creates hurt and confusion, and leads to bloodshed, and gives birth to many painful things!!

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I know way too many people are still stuck in the matrix, refusing to believe any of this is actually happening. Keep up the good work, Tessa! Your articles are great! I have gone through a similar process of rediscovering my Norse ancestral spiritual heritage (what little is left of it), which was erased by the Christian Empire, for the most part. IMHO, the worst thing they did was eliminate the rights, autonomy, respect, and status I would have enjoyed as an ancient Norse woman. It took the Christian Empire 500 years to destroy the rights of Norse women, and now, a thousand years later, this new version of Christian West Empire is coming for the rights of men, too. I wonder if men realize their assumed status and rights are being jerked away from them, too? That they'll be treated the same as women have been treated for the last few thousand years?

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Well said, Tessa!

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