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The Real Mis-fits Revealed

 

By Sunny Soleil

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Misfit is the label given by society to those humans who don’t match the criteria for ‘normal’ behavior, beliefs and desires.

Most so-called ‘normal’ people accept if they are to sport the ‘normal’ badge, they will be required to shape themselves into psychological, career and social boxes that we know deep down are not contoured to the freedom, spontaneity and genuine expression of the individual spirit.

The ‘normal’ illusion versus reality

In other words to become normal will most likely require us to deny or suppress our individual and unique human spirit. And because this denial and suppression is SO painful we are driven to opiate ourselves with TV and material goods to stop us becoming neurotic about not being real.

The powers that be know that. They maintain control by forcing us to slave at the altar of money whilst hypnotically drawing us to all manner of stuff designed specifically to dumb us down.

Imagine all life on earth as being an integral part of a huge multi-dimensional jigsaw puzzle. All members of the mineral, plant, animal and human kingdoms are given a specific, unique structure and ‘shape’ that is designed to fit into the puzzle and complete the big picture. The fit is dependent on the unique structure of each part of the system maintaining it’s shape system.

Fitting into THIS puzzle should be easy because our given role is to be who we truly are deep down beneath the programming and fully express our unique gifts, skills and talents.

However, the world hasn’t learned to work like that. We aren’t taught to explore and realize our true role.

Instead most of us are forced to squeeze ourselves into a distorted shape to fit the illusory big picture thus creating a global distortion. It’s a bit like the ‘ugly’ sister trying in vain to squeeze her foot into the shoe designed uniquely for Cinderella.

When we assume our proper, unique shape, and step into our own shoes, the entire world operates smoothly in harmonic orchestration, this is what we call REAL-FIT

How to tell if you’re a real-fit

If you’ve felt like a mis-fit for most of your life, or wondered why the world is so alien to your way of thinking and being; if you sense that society is unjustly organized; that people’s spirit is suppressed and that money as the primary goal has become a self-looping addiction, then you’re probably a REAL-FIT.

You’ve likely refused to squeeze yourself into a shape that you’ve known is NOT you and you’ve paid their price for being real.

Psychoanalyst and Social commentator, Dr Erich Fromm questioned the definition of normalcy in his paper ‘The Psychology of Normalcy’. He suggested that neurotic symptoms are not a ‘default’ on the part of the individual. Instead, they are a partial rejection of oppressive or alienating society.

So what the frack is considered normal in 21st century society?

As you read this list you will likely realize with gratitude just how abnormal [according to today’s standards] yet real [according to universal laws] you are.

And, you will be reminded once more of the degree of perverted thinking that is gripping the majority of people in our so-called ‘civilized’ society.

In ‘normal’ society all of these behaviors are going on all the time and until now have been commonly accepted as ‘how life is’.

The Real Mis-Fits

Below are some of the things that we have been taught are how life is. They are mostly considered ‘normal’ and acceptable to the majority of society despite the fact that they go against the laws of nature and true humanity. And most of you reading this, including the authors, will have bought into this normality in some way or another.

  • Land owned and fortressed by a few individuals rather than open and stewarded by all.
  • Selfish-concern – I’m all right Jack and frack you, even if you are dying
  • Walking past a homeless person, salving your conscience by giving them money yet secretly judging them for being lazy, good for nothings
  • Believing that the Earth is an endless resource designed primarily for human consumption
  • Signing petitions virtually to save dolphins or end landfills and thinking you’ve done enough
  • Buying food and other items in disposable containers yet not repurposing them
  • Burning second-hand tires that could be used to produce walls for Earthship houses
  • Goods deliberately designed to fail or become obsolete to further profit interests of the manufacturers
  • Eating factory farmed meat that is produced with disregard for animal life and poisons us with chemicals and hormones
  • Eating food that is full of MSG because it seems to taste nicer
  • Microwaving food for speed and ‘efficiency’ while totally destroying all the enzymes in that food
  • Kidding ourselves that all-natural means healthy when anything from uranium to deadly snake venom can be defined rightfully as ‘natural’.
  • Allowing the destruction of rainforests to grow soybean to feed cattle to satisfy our addiction for burgers and other cheap meat products
  • Big Corporates paying off law suits out of court with contingent ‘no publicity’ clauses so that they are still free to continue their ‘socially criminal’ activities.
  • Justifying pouring huge amounts of money into military activities in the name of securing resources
  • Being opiated by the media to the point of mental numbness.
  • One person driving a six-seat gas guzzling SUV.
  • Far greater percentage of corporate investment in new weapons technology versus sustainable energy facilities
  • Harnessing natural, sustainable energy in the name of ‘green’ yet selling it at great profit to individuals
  • People grubbing a living on $1 a day while others spend $$$$ to buy an additional home that they use no more than two or three weeks a year.
  • Gated communities to protect the resources of the have’s and have-more’s
  • Managed Healthcare that is more concerned with making a profit than making you well
  • Doctors recommending pharmaceuticals based on material incentive and rewards for them versus an untainted concern for what’s best for you.
  • Greed – more for me even if it means less for ‘them’.
  • Buying political influence for personal/corporate gain even at the expense of the greater good
  • The right-wing rich using illegal immigrants as virtual ‘slave’ labor whilst promoting tougher crackdowns on immigration.
  • Persuading third world countries with offers of loans they can’t afford to develop huge infrastructure projects, which must be contracted to friends of the administration and result in huge debts and political and military blackmail.
  • Money printed and sold to the government for profit by a private organization
  • Peddling drugs that don’t cure diseases but manage symptoms
  • Prisons that punish rather than reform
  • Using goods, gadgets and gaud to present a fake view of who you are to the rest of the world
  • Expensive insurance that offers sweeping promises of security crippled by small print limitations and company profit policy that dictates paying out as little as possible
  • Transference of blame by society to solely individual responsibility with a blind refusal to see our contribution to all of society’s ails.
  • Easy credit sold via ‘dreams can come true’ marketing with a disproportionate mention of the downside.
  • Protecting corporate profit by preventing generic manufacture of drugs to make them financially available to those in need
  • Buying designer and low cost clothes produced in inhumane sweatshops
  • Treating workers like slaves because there are 2,000 other hopeful desperates waiting to step into their shoes
  • Promoting of earthly resource pillaging such as coal mining in the name of ‘jobs for our people’
  • Peddling food that is engineered to taste ‘better’ and thus becoming addictive and poisoning our systems
  • Fear and mistrust of strangers - confinement of trust to small nuclear family rather than embracing wider community
  • Being able to win a law suit based on the default of having more money to throw at a lawyer regardless of whether the case is just or not.
  • Letting people die on the streets because there is an inadequate welfare or employment system
  • Media hypnosis that persuades you to buy things you don’t need but will dumb you down for a little while longer
  • Giving up civil liberties of freedom because we’ve been corralled into the fear pen
  • Believing the President of the US is the most powerful person in the world
  • Allowing Corporates to legally ‘purchase’ self interest through campaign contributions.
  • Your every online activity being open to monitoring by government agencies
  • Children stuck indoors for hours playing video games as opposed to running around in the fresh air
  • Creating compliance out of fear generated by managed hatred of a common enemy [Jews in Nazi Germany, Terrorists in the US]
  • Dumping litter in the national forest because you can’t afford garbage pick-up
  • No-Scavenging signs on local dumps preventing people from using discard to repurpose
  • Marketing that has you sign up for a ‘free trial’ in the hopes that you’ll forget to cancel
  • Snake-oil peddling of ‘get rich without lifting a finger’ schemes
  • Cash rich opportunists buying up foreclosed property in the hopes of turning a quick buck
  • Building codes that don’t take into account the sustainability and viability of naturally built shelter homes.
  • Preferring a manicured green bug-free lawn over a brown fertile food patch

And that’s just a few of the things that the majority of people in the Western world consider ‘normal’. What would you add to the list?

As George Bernard Shaw said the world was never changed by reasonable people because it takes an unreasonable person to go against the ‘norm’.

As more and more people wake up and begin to join together in movements that buck the system and the ‘norm’ we are on the dawn of a breakthrough. It is time for the mis-fits to rise up and say as Peter Finch said in the film ‘Network’ way back in ’76.

“I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it any more”

What can we do?

Each person has to choose their way or mixture of ways knowing truthfully that this is the best way for them to help turn the rest of the world in the right direction. Here are a few alternatives

We can insinuate our ideas into the society, working from within the system under the guise of normalcy, spreading subtle awareness and rallying others to a new way of thinking by making steady progressive changes in our own lives.

We can step out of society and reject the way it works whilst building a life and community that is more suited to what’s going on and a living example of how it can be.

We can take legal action, rebel, protest, object to, disobey the rules, get thrown in jail as ways to bring public attention to the cause.

We can play the system game to accumulate amounts of ‘money energy’ in order to plough it into changing the same system

Each person must choose the way that works for them.. and know that even if others’ methods aren’t right for us, they are our sisters and brothers in a vital time of human evolution and we must find a way to work together or we will fail. We are the vanguard. We are the pioneers. We are the guides.

To take this road requires great courage, and some of us may not survive long enough to see the results. The question we must ask ourselves of our every action is

Is this taking me closer to my intent and ultimately is it the right thing to do for the good of all life on earth, now and into the future?

 

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