Bill Hicks Most Overlooked Statement: It’s All a Choice Between Fear And Love
Our collective choice determines our reality.
We, collectively, create our own reality.
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I don’t want you to just read that. I want you to think about it.
In America right now, we are buying and selling each other on the concept that we are consumers divided and subdivided into various categories based on our genetics, our tastes, and are ourselves a “product” of our environment.
The language of capitalism has sunken deep into the English language, deep into our interactions, and deep into our minds.
Our current state, the media sponsored and promoted semi-hysteria over the pandemic, a politically divided and increasingly isolated consumer base citizenry, as they define us and try to get us to define ourselves, is a matter of mass choice.
We can continue playing mass-media sponsored police-state political/corporate domination of the majority of our thoughts, our culture, and our time, the image we collectively create, or we could, if we chose to do so, go back to playing cowboys and Indians, or whatever reality tunnel we choose to adopt.
From the looks of things, we need to restore a sense of wonder in the world. We need to stop thinking about hot dogs so much and start looking up. I know there’s not much to see up there anymore since the city lights blotted out the sky, but if you can manage to get away from them, look up. See what our ancestors saw. It’s really quite amazing.
This is, in essence, the late great comedian Bill Hick’s most important overlooked statement. It’s all a matter of choice, it’s all a matter of perspective. We can choose to live in fear, austerity, neoliberalism, and corporate domination over our inalienable rights, or we can choose love.
It’s all a choice between fear and love.
We can choose to believe in the forces that want to tear us down and tear us apart, the forces that seek to divide and conquer us, or we can choose to believe in love. We can choose to believe in what brings us together, what unites us as distinct, diverse, and unique individual human beings, we can choose to trust instead of to fear. It’s all a matter of getting more people to choose one mindset over the other.
I’m not telling you to go out and get screwed over by every narcissistic thief out there, you can use your discernment and best judgement, but a world of love starts with trust and giving each other the benefit of the doubt.
The powers that be, being the way that they are, understand that, and of course, seek to strip that away from us. They need us mistrustful, divided, and fearful of each other to maintain their power over us and their place of superiority in the hierarchy they create. A creation that benefits them that the rest of us have to suffer through.
The Bill Hicks quote I am referring to comes in the middle of his stand-up comedy sketch, “It’s just a ride.”
“We can change it any time we want. It’s only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings of money. Just a simple choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love instead see all of us as one.”
The 2-minute segment this quote comes from tells us exactly why the “end of time” as we know it, the end of the era of the American Empire, needs to be brought about. I’ll include a link to it at the end of this post.
I chose to focus on this specific quote in the middle of Bill’s speech because it points out how we take back our collective personal power that has been stolen from us.
We need to do the opposite of what they want us to do, the opposite of what they have hypnotically suggested we do.
No job, no savings, no money. Obliterate their reality. Turn off their televisions. Turn away from their barking orders. Dissolve their source of power, their money. You and I never really had any anyway. It was never ours and it was never going to be ours, not without their approval, and that only comes with our groveling. And, frankly, I’m sick of groveling for crumbs.
Take the locks off your doors. Everything you own way probably built by sweatshop laborers in southeast Asia anyway. It was also probably bought on credit. Karmically speaking, you are borrowing that plastic stereo from the Cambodian who put it together. Might as well face the music.
Besides, I’m sure he’d love to show you how to build your own.
If you’ve been paying attention, you know that capitalism has failed or is failing. The Powers that Be are re-demonizing socialism, afraid that we will be calling for socialism to replace capitalism. That’s their trick, you see?
Those in power are telling us their next favorite option if we reject the capitalism they are selling us. Downright insidious. Like most Americans, I don’t know what socialism is. I don’t like the idea that we are being told what “not” to do. Why does capitalism need replacing with anything? Why do we need an -ism? Let’s replace it with nothing.
Replace capitalism with nothing.
We are told that this ideal will never work because of those who would take advantage of such a system. We have people who take advantage of the system we have now and it doesn’t collapse. Oops. I mean, it hasn’t quite collapsed yet. In fact, my system is closer to a more true and natural organization of full actualized human beings instead of the lower-vibration negatively ionized fucktards we have now.
I would like to take this lull in the election cycle to point out that every 2 or 4 years depending on who you are, we fall for the pageantry of this current illusory failing and false paradigm. No Republican or Democrat is going to be America’s great and holy savior.
I’m afraid that movie and it’s happy ending have been denied to us this time around. The lesson it teaches us is BULLSHIT.
Americans have been digesting nothing but BULLSHIT for 50 years now. We desperately need a break.
Our media has become more like Pravda than Pravda.
It represents the American people about as much as the American government, i.e., not at all. Both our media and government have turned the corner from informing us as intelligent and rational people capable of making informed decisions into dictating to us what we are supposed to believe, without question. Even if that is the idea of deep division.
Soviets could see beyond Pravda when its system collapsed. Let’s hope that our American citizens are just as intelligent and capable and not as stupid as we are told we are by the assholes in our media.
Although if you are like me, and you are, the idea that too many people are stupid is a concept that gets reinforced daily. That’s an unfortunate side-effect of the mind-control inflicted on us by those neurolinguistically programming us, our media.
Traitors to the human race. They play with our amygdala oblongatas for their salaries. They might as well be Nazi death camp “doctors”. They are Neuro-linguistic murderers. They support their corporate masters suppressing information that could benefit all of mankind. That’s not journalism. That ‘s propaganda.
Our bodies, our holy temples, have been corrupted, overrun with sugar and pink slime. There is static on the harmonic vibration of our Chakras.
Our collective consciousness and well-being is being short-changed and undermined by sadistic lying control freaks who wish to deny us the fruits of our own knowledge.
We don’t need to tear down confederate statues. We can solve the unsolvable. We can unite where we are told we are irrevocably divided. We can plant marijuana seeds at the base of those statues. We can let those plants flower and grow. We can’t tear down years of history with a hammer. Let nature tell us when we have overcome racism when its flowers have grown over the last standing statue.
When I visited Budapest in 2003, I was shown a garden planted by the communists when they were in power.
It was filled with apple trees and benches. When it was opened, it was promised that the apples from the garden would be free forever, and the benches would be available for all to relax upon.
The idea was that all, no matter what, would always know that they would be fed.
They would also know that there would always be a place for them to relax, undisturbed. That is a completely foreign concept to America. A concept I am sure that we could resurrect. If we had more of that in our country, it would go a long way towards helping us to restore our ability to trust each other again.
One thing is for sure, we cannot let those who currently insist that they dictate what reality is to us continue to do so.
They have shown that they are willing to sell out humanity and cannot be trusted.
Those who challenge the status quo in any manner run the risk of alienation from the tribe. Anyone who feels that society should be more egalitarian, less superficial, more cerebral, or less patriarchal gets labeled a troublemaker. Just as anyone who raises their concerns over any work-related or community-related health issue like clean water to drink or clean air to breathe get labeled as complainers putting their livelihood and position in the social pecking order at risk.
We’ve backed ourselves into an impossible position. We must speak up to survive, but those who speak up are punished.
For the sake of the continuing existence of the human race, we must begin to stand up for what is right. We don’t have any more time.
