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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

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“The problem with fear-mongering people is that if they are not listened to, they will go out of their way to prove their point. They might start regimes, coups, riots, protests, or plot, fabricate, sabotage, tamper, peddle, lie, spread misinformation, kill, and destabilize. They would commit crimes, murder, treason, terrorism, and espionage to prove that if you had listened to them, what they did would not have happened. They will go to great lengths to try to turn their lies into the truth.”

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“I do not know if you read some time ago how one of the Marshals of the Russian army reporting to the Polit Bureau, said that in the army they were training soldiers under hypnosis —you know what that means? You are put under hypnosis and taught how to kill, how to obey completely, function with complete independence, but within a pattern, under the authority of a superior. Now culture and society are doing exactly the same thing to each one of us. Culture and society have hypnotized you. Do please listen to this very carefully, it is not only being done in the army in Russia, but it is being done all over the world. When you read the Gita endlessly, or the Koran, or repeat some mantram, some endlessly repeated words, you are doing exactly the same thing. When you say, “I am a Hindu”, “I am a Buddhist”, “I am a Muslim”, “I am a Catholic”, the same pattern is being repeated, you have been mesmerized, hypnotized; and technology is doing exactly the same thing. You can be a clever lawyer, a first-class engineer, or an artist, or a great scientist, but always within a fragment of the whole. I do not know if you see this, not because I describe it, but actually see what is taking place. The Communists are doing it, the Capitalists are doing it, everybody, parents, schools, education, they are all shaping the mind to function within a certain pattern, a certain fragment. And we are always concerned with bringing about a change within the pattern, within the fragment. Madras 3 January 1968”

The Awakening Of Intelligence
Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti
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