The Hypocrisy of Popular Disgust
The Scientific Proof of the Existence of God Will Soon Be Announced by the White House!
Adi Da Samraj, 1980
Chapter 3
The Hypocrisy of Popular Disgust
The “News and Information” media of popular culture do not often invite the public to the exercise of discriminating intelligence. On the contrary, the popular media thrive on hype, propagandized states of emotion and mind, and nondiscriminating responses to every kind of advertised goods, persuasions, and results.
Until the media that inform the masses of humanity begin to invite the individual to exercise discriminating intelligence in all matters, and until human beings in general become founded in the higher Wisdom-Culture and the intimate politics of authentic human existence, there can be no true wondering about the madness we inherit in the daily News.
Indeed, the hypocritical media reaction of surprise (and sometimes disgust) in the face of all the kinds of fascinating and bizarre news in the world is even the product of a kind of competitive rivalry. The Cult of the News would be senior and superior to any phenomenon about which it reports. (From the popular point of view, the “Messiah,” or the “Messenger” is always senior to the Message.) Everyone in the world is in the cult game, including the media the themselves. Everyone wishes to be glamorous and right and the center of attention.
The News is one of the principal forms of modern popular entertainment. The messenger is glamorized by the superior entertainment value of every kind of message. Therefore, the News exploits the vulgarity of subhuman events and bastardizes the achievements of superior men and women. Then why should there be any wondering if immature people follow false cults, false leaders, false ideologies, and destructive causes? To be enthusiastic and also false is the hypocritical core of the “American Way.” Indeed, Western culture as a whole was founded on religious lies, political exploitation, and manipulative propaganda of every kind. And these means are yet to be overcome.
The popular media that “inform” and ultimately control the worlds populations are not simply “guardians of human rights and all the truth,” even though they may wish to be known as such. Rather, they are also propaganda instruments for the more or less “official” Cult of Everyman, or the Cult of Things As They Can Seem to Be. As nondiscriminating propaganda instruments, popular media are themselves among the primary instruments that actively work against the freedom of Man to transcend mob rule and to create an intimate culture in which the unofficial, evolutionary, and transcendental Wisdom that has yet found dominion only at the fringes of society is allowed to be the center of human existence and the dominant influence on human action.
We must all awaken from the sleep of Wisdom. We must be self-critical, and we must discriminate among all the superficial doctrines that surround us and that arise within us. We must see the childish tendency in “Everyman” to be Parented by dominant, powerful, and official influences. Likewise, we must understand the merely destructive adolescent reaction of despair and clinging to the hopefulness of less popular illusions that flatter the mind and give us reasons to avoid the call to compassion and love.
The mass of humanity is the child of the Parent-State and all of the fake mind of popular culture. We all lie in wait for “official” permission to believe and know and feel and act. We await the theatrical cues that govern universal responses. We seek permission to laugh, the authority to be happy, the right to Divinity and the Fullness of Life. Instead, we must hear the Truth and awaken to the timely demand of our Manhood.
The Scientific Proof of the Existence of God Will Soon Be Announced by the White House!
Adi Da Samraj, 1980