THE PUPPET GOVERNMENT
 
 

There is an unseen puppet government 
under whose influence, to an imposing extent, 
man unwittingly lives.
Like any political puppet force
this one serves under the command of another 
more dominant force, and acts solely for its benefit,
and as in palpable versions, the puppet government IS titularly the true representative of the local populace.
 
 

A preeminent force establishes a puppet government 
to make its rule less dependent on physical coercion,
and this is most efficiently achieved by allowing the 
puppet regime to present the public illusion of it being 
the actual authority in charge, 
and since this is a complete deception 
from conception to conclusion, 
the puppet administration, in pursuing this goal,
en passant creates around the people
a world of total illusion; 
in practical matter of fact, 
it spreads about the land, a new sense of reality,
through contrived rituals and public ceremonies; 
by imposed hero worship of some local figurehead, 
and via relentless propaganda which subliminally serves the interest of the real authority behind the puppet one,
ultimately resulting in a:
"state established;  state sanctioned reality."
     
     (Just out of curiosity: what specifically is your state?
       and what exactly, 
      the nature of its officially accepted reality?)
 
 
 
 

All of the above is common, and recognized in the 
political history of man,
but what is not recognized is a similar 
ongoing situation in man himself
with the puppet regime, titularly in charge,
engaging in the very same maneuvers supra noted.
 
 

In the inner land of each man, 
the prevailing force puts in place, a figurehead  -- 
an illusionary leader  --  a ruler in name only  -- 
a prince-with-no-power  --   a lackey.
And as with any clever puppeteer
the agency actually behind the actions
lets the puppet do all the talking.
This is a critical pillar in the support of the illusion that
the shadow government has actual authority:
it makes the pronouncements of policy to the people,
yet it simply says whatever it is directed to say 
by the real power behind the public facade.
 
 

Every man has a nominal leader who appears to make decisions; to plan & proclaim policy, 
and direct the overall affairs of state,
but this figure is a figure HEAD;
he does none of the above, save the proclaiming,
but via this activity alone, 
are most of the people deceived, and the illusion of the puppet government’s puissance sustained.
 
 

Most men accept the situation;
it is the one in which they were born and matured;
it is the only one they have ever known.
A few people however  --  “suspect something” --
even without specific knowledge of what is going on,
they have never felt that things are as they appear,
as regards the political/cultural/social-reality that 
makes up so much of man’s life, 
and which those about him accept without question.
Such people wonder if humanity is not being incessantly bombarded with propaganda in service to
some unseen sovereignty, and one which has set up a puppet government within man so that he is the source of his own voice-of-quisling.
 

        
          The puppet’s mouth is made to deny 
          its own puppetry:
          this is the exercise of puppet governing 
          in its highest form;
          not a bit of excess energy expended in the effort,
          and the governed being deceived by 
          the sound of their own voice.
 
 
 

Those who do not realize they live in such conditions
of course, have no pertinent complaints,
while those full of suspicions, have many,
but if they do not proceed past the stage of 
merely being agitated-by, and dissatisfied-with
the non-physical, social-reality in which their everyday
lives are submerged --  they gain nothing --
                    --  they learn nothing.
 
 
 

Even if a puppet is forever a puppet,
one who recognizes his condition has an understanding of things totally beyond the grasp of one who does not. 
Without an objective awareness of the prevailing circumstances a man does not even have the possibility of undertaking any clandestine efforts
to extricate himself at all from the illusionary reality
created by the puppet regime in soulless control of 
his perfunctory life.
 
 

Here, above all other settings is where comes alive the reality behind the words: “Knowledge is power,”
for ‘tis in this context that knowledge of the situation
is the only  --  the ONLY thing that can set you free
from a lifetime of imaginary captivity
that is perceived by the mind as, “freedom” --
the freedom extant under a puppet government.
 
 
 

Even while all may live under unseen, inescapable 
foreign control
those aware of the situation can then easily
keep themselves out of useless conflict therewith, 
and can privately pursue certain strictly 
“individual interests”
about which the prevailing authority never need know.
 
 
 
 

   Take with your memory this final note:
   the only voices men normally hear 
   are those of a puppet government --
   making announcements in service to the 
   commanding authority, 
   though disguised as for the benefit of the subjugated.
 
 
 
 

A fish with the understanding
may still in water be,
but he does not metaphorically & mentally drown himself by a meaningless struggle with H2O.
 
 

Nothing more need a would-be-free citizen to know
to get directly to work 
to achieve his goal; as much internal breathing room,
and personal space as the universe allows.

                     J
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Anyone who says that they are responsible for the thoughts that appear in their consciousness
is a fool;
anyone who says that they are not responsible for the
thoughts that appear in their consciousness
is an idiot.
 
 
 

One man who would never say whether he considered himself Awake or not 
was finally asked by a would-be mouse-trap: 
“So then, what is the basis for all of your many comments about what an Awake man would, 
or would not do?” --  “Guessing,” he replied.
 
 

Upon hearing this, 
a sarcastic bystander said to the man: 
“I have noticed that you can get yourself out of the tightest seeming mental situations -- 
even those of your own making. 
That is  --  REALLY SOME ACCOMPLISHMENT!
You spend your whole life involved in that 
silly-putty activity of yours,
and what do you have to show for it?! – Hah! --
the ability to seemingly always  come out on top,
verbally-speaking!
Hah!” he dismissively concluded,
and the man responded:
”You are correct  --  it is shameful;
the talent you perceive
that I achieved 
only through great struggle, 
you exercise effortlessly.

And thus again, 
(from a privately amusing perspective):
those-who-know have cause to envy, 
those-who-don’t.”
 
 

Those who do not understand that the world unique to man
is one of nothing but guessing,
have not a clue as to what is really going on.

   
    All descriptions of a gingerbread reality are perforce --
                                  gingerbreadian.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

       There was once a universe whose name was: The Joke's On You,"
             and a few of the people who lived there,  (just for fun),
                                            turned the joke around.