Dispelling Wetiko by Levy Paul

Author:Levy, Paul [Levy, Paul]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Shamanism, Psychology, Self-help
ISBN: 9781583945667
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Published: 2013-01-15T06:00:00+00:00

Part Three

Meta-Dreaming

9

A Wetiko Cult(ure) of Madness

Our Culture’s Madness Is Shocking

People have to be cured of their spiritual sickness before they can build a just society. It is no great accomplishment to adapt to and be considered sane by an insane society. To become well adjusted in and to a wetiko-driven society is to become insane. The culture of wetiko promotes the systematic destruction of the human heart, which when fully internalized, alienates us from everything human in ourselves, save what reproduces the conditions of the system. Adopting the values of our oppressors, however, ensures the continuation of our own dehumanization. The system is set up to be a setup such that a person oppressed by the system of wetiko must adopt the values of wetikos if they want to rise in positions of power and rank. Big Wetikos learn to exploit every situation to their advantage and sacrifice in themselves everything that doesn’t advance this motive. To become a Big Wetiko requires a lot of back-stabbing, ass-kissing, drinking, scheming, strategizing, and maneuvering; it is an acquired taste. It requires the corruption of other young people who, in turn, will become new initiates co-dependently entangled with and hooked into the system. It is very easy to be seduced into becoming a wetiko in our society because of all of the perks and incentives, for people toting the wetiko party line tend to get promoted, get better salaries, and typically get testimonials and finally, the symbolic gold watch when they retire. Because of all of the benefits of the role, there is not merely a passive disinterest, but rather, an active resistance for wetikos to self-reflect upon the evils of the system they are participating in and being fed by, an unwillingness which continually supports the wetikoized system and nourishes the wetiko parasite within them and their society.

Built into the very fabric of the system of wetiko is a progressive disincentive for its members to realize the level of depravity into which they have fallen. What keeps us stuck in denial is an inner self-protective mechanism that shields us from the overwhelming awfulness of the shock that would necessarily ensue if we were to consciously experience and shake off the lies that we have been living, a disillusionment that would be too much for most people to bear. The major obstacle blocking us from seeing through our own self-deception is our unwillingness to consciously experience the pain, shame, guilt, mortification, and trauma of this realization. Part of this realization is dealing with the shock of realizing that we have given away our power to those in positions of power over us who have misused that power; it is quite a shock to realize that those who were supposed to be protecting us were the very ones from whom we most needed protection. These multilevels of realization literally shatter our self-image, our identity of who we think we are, as well as our sense of belonging to a collective, social fabric. It is

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