The Principle of Absorption

One of the basic principles of this vile and despicable system concerning the dealing with “subversive” elements within the system is absorption. This concept of absorption refers to the strategical ability of making someone or something opposed to the system part of the system. Or in terms of the celluloid saga “The Matrix”, to be reinserted or plugged in again into The Matrix, making the person forget all the truth revealed to them or at least a vague memory in the back of his head. In the case of a concept, organization, institution or even somebody publicly opposed to it become part of the system and later merchandised and diverted from their original purpose. And with the word merchandise I mean goes beyond the economic forces of free market economy; its rather the reeducation the vast majority of oppressed creatures (that is humans of course) leading them to think that someone or something previously persecuted for its truth rendering abilities or destabilizing thrust as something totally different or neutralized from its original concept. For example the word revolution used to mean something far more than deposing a government, it was a deep change in society, in the way it thinks, in the ways it acts; now its just doing something different than the rest, a fashion trend maybe or doing something new to the eyes of the mainstream public but that has been developed for quite some time. There are many words that cease to express their original concept and now its only a shallow definition of what it really meant.

Lets take as an example the early church of what we all know now as the Christian Religion (even though the word Christian was an insult in roman times for the followers of Jesus). Jesus himself was tempted to become a ruler of the nations of the Earth or in other words, become part of the system from which he came to redeem humanity, considering that He referred to Himself as the path towards eternal life and freedom perpetual bondage with the truth, the very thing that this system vehemently shields from us.

Conspiracies to kill Him flourished until He was crucified but afterwards He defeated Death and returned gloriously to heaven, further establishing the Church of God with His disciples. Since these men carried the same message among their fellow men, they were relentlessly persecuted, their lives were really complicated; mostly in poverty and grief but still they managed to prevail. This situation is exactly the opposite of what we see today in all denominations, huge buildings rich in details, avatars of silver and gold, capital flow of millions and millions of dollars, land holdings, “spiritual” leaders with T.V, stations, fancy cars, mansion or big houses and so on and so forth. If analyzed and studied carefully, though they claim infinite blessing this wouldn’t had happened if this institutions were not part of the system, such institutions that we see now are closely related to the governments. Even the Scripture has been subtlety changed through times in every new translation bringing forth the appearances of dogmas and traditions that if were to be analyzed carefully they don’t even mentioned in the Scripture or are contradictions of what it is said in this book. This situation leads to religious people who loose focus of the real message and taking words out of contest tailoring it to their convenience (e.g. the crusades, conquest of the American continent, etc.), or making people sick and opposed to religion (agnosticism, atheism). All of these are effects totally opposite to what we read in the Scripture, even though the Messiah Himself criticized the religious establishment in the form of the Pharisees and other groups of that time who focused more on dogmatic traditions that in the spiritual status of the people, were more interested in their own personal glory than the glory of the God they were supposed to serve unconditionally.

Now in a lower scale we can turn to more recent case of individuals who opposed the system in the 20th century like Che Guevara and Bob Marley. We’ll focus first in the Argentinean idealist and revolutionary leader Ernesto Guevara de la Cerna also known as Che Guevara who fought against inequality in mankind. His political ideology and can be debated extensively, moreover, it was clear that his true intentions were the emancipation from the heavy yoke set upon him, which from his point of view was very clear in the case of the poor and indigenous people of Latin America who have been plundered during many centuries by the greed of the colonial powers that came stomping over them uninterested of the human beings and land they exploited. Unfortunately, he was only able to perceive this oppression in the economic, political, social and religious aspects when actually goes far more beyond that. Nevertheless, he fought against the oppressive system, his convictions were such that he would die for them, he even went to the extent of criticizing the U.S.S.R in its imperialist double standard though he was a communist. He managed to do what most can’t do, to take a bullet and all the strife that his fight brought with thus making human icon of revolution and emancipation.

Nowadays his story is nothing more than t-shirts and movie blocKbusters. That icon of revolution now is the banner of football fans that don’t want The police to bother them while drinking beer and watching a game. A banner for unions asking for a salary raise despite communism is against those institutions. People wear t-shirts with his motto “Until Victory ... Always”, but hey are not fighting no one, they comfortably living in the system that very guy they have on them fought, they only wear cause it looks cool, just another fashion trend, when in the 1970’s and 1980’s being seen around with such a shirt in the Western Hemisphere could had meant certain torture and death. Now this great man is just a fashion trend nothing less, nothing more.

In the case of Bob Marley is somewhat similar, he was a prolific musician from a poverty-stricken third world island country, who since his youth was filled with the angst of oppression, an oppression he felt was political, economical, and spiritual. An oppression, like Che Guevera, he fought and denounced vehemently until he went to his grave. His goal was to defeat the oppressive that enslaves us since times beyond memory or record. Many of his recordings were about this topic indeed, and this is also reflected in the solo careers of other previous mebers of The WaIlers, Bunny Wailer and Peter Tosh, but definitely the one who draw most of the attention was Bob Marley, who in turn was persecuted and harassed constantly by the CIA and the Jamaican government. Even his cancer can be a topic of debate considering the recent death by radioactive poisoning of the former Russian spy Alexander Litvidenko. In this system voices that publicly denounce and fight against it are mercilessly persecuted until shut down, you can ask the editor of From the Wilderness Publications Mike Ruppert if you want. Later on the remanants of what he or she said are absorbed so we cant understand what exactly they were talking about and perceive it with another meaning far from its original purpose.
Nowadays Bob Marley is only associated with smoking weed, getting high, and mellow happy music with a little political agenda but not to be taken seriously because it comes from a junkie. Cotemporary reggae is nothing compared to 1970’s reggae, the voice of the oppressed and the forgotten. As Che Guevara’s image, now Mr. Marley is a fashion trend to be merchandised among the youths of today, hence the concept of absorption once again popping up.

As we can see there are many example of absorption everywhere around us. What we are taught as the truth ain’t exactly what it actually is. Like I’ve said previously, what we learn as the truth as taught to us by exactly the same ones who oppress, deceive, and ultimately manipulate us to their will.

Now the most terrible and subtle form of absorption is the individual level, where even our thoughts in those rare moments of clarity are disposed. This is what George Orwell called in his book 1984 the “Thought Police”. In next weeks post I will give more emphasis in this subject. Please remember> THE TRUTH IS FREEDOM