“Our language relationships and ideas carry vast stores of invisible baggage from their crude origins in cultures of domination and slavery. These factors can be used to manipulate entire populations into helpless, fearful and ignorant compliance with ‘social conventions’ that are abject violations of our intelligence and humanity.

One example is the idea that each person ‘by themselves’ ‘is responsible for their own well-being’. As if persons, like fingers amputated from the hand they belong to, or attached to 12 artificial hands that conflict with their nature and sense of being, were ‘responsible’ for the results. In the standing absence of anything slightly resembling intelligent society or culture, and in the presence of thousands of competing, predatory, dominating fictions, ‘the individual’ is deprived of nearly all of what would endow them with the power to ‘be responsible’ for their own well-being, or anything at all.

The origins and potentials of our human lives depend fundamentally on the nature of the cultures and relationships we are able to establish and sustain. Where these are forgeries, commercial replacements, and predatory manipulation systems, our capacity inhabit or understand our humanity is viciously minimized. It should be obvious that individuals emerge as expressions of their cultural environment, real and potential relations, and its actual rather than advertised virtues or violations. For this reason, we must hold the standing anti-culture responsible for nearly all of what is generally placed as a burden upon the individual.

As there are few or none we may subscribe to, a sense of justice demands that we recognize that we are all responsible together to invent, embody and develop intelligent relational and ecological societies. Only within such societies would it become marginally reasonable to indict individuals for their real or apparent misrelation.

It should be obvious that when we are all burdened with thousands of conflicting and generally fictional roles and responsibilities, and at the same time deprived of all experience or membership in intelligent relations and roles, the fact that some manage to survive these processes in some way does not implicate those who do not as having failed.

With a tiny portion of the attention, concern and expense that we as nations presently expend in prosecution, profiling and psychological ‘diagnosis’ we could begin the process of inventing intelligent human cultures and relationships, roles, communities and societies. Without such a culture we cannot become human, for our kind of animal, it should be obvious, is necessarily communal — we cannot be ‘our kind of animal’ in deadly cultures that counterfeit and oppress our natures, virtues and potentials.”

— an intelligence agent