We have been provided with with a particular way of thinking, a particular way of thinking which doesn’t exist to benefit us but the abstract game that is being played. Everything is for the sake of the game – we are existing solely for the sake of ‘benefiting the game’, and the game itself isn’t real. It’s just a pretence that everyone has agree to take seriously (even if they don’t know that they have done). We act as if the game is real not because we want to but because things are set up that way, because that’s the way it works – our allegiance to the game is the result of consensus thinking and peer pressure, in other words. We are obliged to give our allegiance to the game because everyone says it’s ‘for our benefit’ and when the consensus tells us that something is true then it doesn’t do to start publicly questioning it…

This is a very straightforward point to understand – it’s the game that matters, not us. The game – which as we have said is ‘unreal’ or ‘invented’ – is elevated over what actually ‘is’ (which is the only way a game can work). This isn’t made explicit, of course – the ‘game’ is that it is usthat matter, the game is that everything exists to serve us, the game is that the system is there to help and empower us. That is the game that we’re playing, we’re inverting the truth whilst playing the game that the truth hasn’t been inverted. Or as we could also say the game is that thereis no game. The game – which we are all playing without knowing it – is that this is how things are all by themselves, without our input.

The point of the game – the point of games in general – is to present us with an oversimplified surrogate version or description of ‘what it’s all about’ so that we can go ahead and ‘get on with life’ without ever having to wonder what it’s all about. If we had to do this then we’d have to assume a responsibility that we really don’t want to assume, which is the responsibility to think for ourselves. Games do away with the need to ‘work out what’s going on’ – instead, we are told what is going on so everything is done on trust. Putting this in straightforward and succinct terms – when we get distracted by the ‘oversimplified reality surrogate’ (and therefore absorbed into it) then we lose all connection with what our true situation is. We lose touch with how things are outside of the contrived two-dimensional drama that is ‘the game’.

By forgetting about our true situation in this way we solve a problem that we couldn’t otherwise have resolved and this apparent solution brings us pleasure, brings us gratification, brings us wonderful intoxicating euphoria. We love solutions, we’re all about them, but the thing about this ‘love of solutions’ of ours is that – when it comes down to it – there aren’t any solutions’, only postponements. We’re postponing the moment when we have to see that there aren’t any solution to our situation, we’re postponing the moment when we have to ‘wake up out of the dream’. The so-called ‘solutions’ that have us hypnotized exist only in our fantasies, only in our fevered imaginations. It’s all bias-confirmation, it’s all wish-fulfilment.

Forgetting all about ‘the Original’ and becoming wholly absorbed in the oversimplified copy brings about euphoria, therefore. It brings about the state that Daisaku Ikeda calls rapture. Or – as we could also say – forgetting who we really are brings pleasure, just as drinking, or taking heroin (or any other euphoriant drug) does. We talk about ‘responsibility’ a lot in everyday life – we generally use the term to guilt-trip people into being what society wants them to be, into doing what society wants them to do, so that they feel bad about themselves if they fall below the required standard of duty. This isn’t responsibility, though – it’s the exact opposite of it because we’re handing over all our autonomy’ (all of our freedom) to some kind of soulless external mechanism (which is all the surrogate world is) which is going to trap us in a world made of lies. This is an old story, of course!

The true meaning of the word ‘responsibility’ is autonomy – what else could it be? Our responsibility – if we may continue to use what has become an unpleasantly contaminated word – is to not accept the version of reality that someone else (some external agency) has presented us with. It means not accepting what comes from the outside as ‘something that we can trust’. The way the system uses the word is to get us to believe that ‘finding out and sharing information about the hoax which is being perpetrated against us’ is irresponsible (in its terms) and therefore deserving of extreme punitive measures (traitors and whistle-blowers always have to be punished, as we know), whilst promoting and perpetuating the hoax perpetuate is seen by all as ‘doing the right thing’, as ‘behaving well and responsibly’, etc. Only we don’t say it like this of course, we say that the hoax is what’s real and that any awareness (or any talk) of our situation as being fake or contrived is sedition. We’ve twisted the truth, in other words.

If we can’t understand this basic point (if we don’t want to understand it, which is what it comes down to) then we will never understand anything. Everything we think we understand will then be an inversion of the truth, not the truth itself, and what this shows us is that the socially conditioned state of being is a state in which we are being exploited, and state in which we are roundly (or systematically) abused. How could we argue that we aren’t being abused or exploited when we’re being lied to every step of the way, when the meaning of life itself has been systematically misrepresented to us? We might think that the answer to the pressure we’re under is to adapt ourselves to the requirements of the system but in doing this we lose every last bit of integrity, every last bit of ‘who we actually are’.

Everything we believe in and put our trust in is an inversion of the truth – our entire way of thinking is an inversion of the truth! The world we create with our thinking as an inversion of the truth. This might sound like a somewhat recklessly nihilistic thing to say, but what we’re looking at here is actually a perfectly straightforward ‘technical description’ of how the rational mind works – the RM works by inverting the truth, it has no other mechanism (or principle) by which itcan work. All we need to do in order to understand this point is to think in terms of information – in the crossover realm between physics and metaphysics ‘truth’ – we might say – equals information and information equals truth. If there’s no information (i.e., nothing new) in itthen there’s no truth in it either.

When we filter the raw data of our lives through the apparatus of the conceptual mind all we get (all we necessarily get) is ‘information that matches mental categories’ – it’s only when the incoming data matches our categories that it gets to be ‘real’ for us, after all. The categories (or the evaluative criteria that tell us whether a datum belongs in a particular category or not) are the ‘filter’ – they filter out everything that doesn’t agree with thought’s categories and that’s why we can talk in terms of twisting (or inverting) the truth. This is precisely what’s happening – no more, no less.

Information is only information if it isn’t an echo of something else, if it isn’t a copy of something else. If there is precedence for an event taking place then the event isn’t an event – we’re talking about something that has already happened, in this case. It’s not new information but old, and old information isn’t information. It’s merely ‘double reporting’. If something comes at us from an unsuspected angle so that we didn’t expect it, didn’t see it coming, etc. so that this ‘something’ has nothing to do with our established way of seeing things (which is generic, which is based on rules) then this is information. This sort of thing is however precisely what is being screened against. We’re not seeing anything unexpected when we use the rational mind, quite the reverse is the case – everything we see is expected. We’re actually not capable of ‘seeing the unexpected’ – we live in a domain that is precisely equal to the assumptions that have been made and we just so long as we continue to operate in Rational Mode we’re never going to leave it. We’re seeing our ‘own way of looking’ reflected back at us and so of course nothing that happens within the terms of this feedback loop is information. The one thing we know about this for sure therefore is that whatever we might find in ‘the Perpetually-Recycling Feedback Loop of Thought’ it’s not going to be information, it’s not going to be reality, it’s not going to be ‘the truth’…








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