It really is a struggle between light and darkness, in a sense. A struggle between those who want to make things visible, conscious and clear against those who want to keep things secret, unconscious and distorted. Dysfunction can't survive if all its mechanisms are clearly seen.
Those who want truth and health want things transparent, honest, and awake. Those who want untruth and dysfunction want government secrecy, propaganda distortion, and a deeply unconscious public. The latter are the ones in power right now. The former are trying to oust them.
Every positive change in human behavior, whether individual or collective, has always been preceded by an increase in awareness, by becoming aware of something that was previously hidden. Those who want positive change want to increase awareness. Those who don't want it all dark.
But of course it's not as clear-cut as good guys vs bad guys, us vs them. Within even the best among us there are parts which want to keep some things endarkened, and within even the worst of us there are parts which yearn for truth. So really it's an impersonal, universal fight.
No matter how conscious you are, coming all the way out of hiding is still a lifelong journey. You'll still find parts of yourself that have been hiding from the light of consciousness you never would have guessed were there many years down the road. We're all waking up together.
Our collective awakening will look like that too. Things are going to keep becoming more and more visible, and just like individual awakening it will be awkward as fuck sometimes. And just when we think we're done, whole new levels of previously endarkened substance will emerge.
But the basic trajectory, whether individually or collectively, is the same: things becoming more and more visible, with a corresponding increase in harmony. The secrecy of the powerful giving way to transparency, distortions giving way to clarity, lies giving way to truth.
How are we still being deceived? How are we still deceiving ourselves? It's the same question whose resolution happens in the same movement. It's just that one is directed outward and the other inward. They're both equally important for for our collective movement into the light.
Dysfunction and clear seeing cannot coexist, collectively or individually. If dysfunction is occurring, it's because something remains unseen. Our purpose here is to try and see it all; to let the human adventure behold itself from all different angles.

And move toward harmony.

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