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In the latest Spotlight titled "Epstein Disclosures and Governance Decay", Courtney is talking about a lot of important stuff, and I highly recommend listening to it. I will not quote and pick it apart like I normally do – instead, I want to focus on possible solutions, because that's where my mind is right now.
The main takeaway of the Spotlight is that human societal structure needs to transition into a new form, and I totally agree. One way of saying this would be: We need to change the operating system our societal institutions are running on. We need to get away from secrecy and repression. We need institutions that are capable of handling public demand on the basis of transparency.
But in order to get there, we must ask: Why is there secrecy in the first place? How did secrecy become institutional?
I came to an answer by looking at the purpose of institutions. What do we need them for?
Essentially, the purpose of institutions – any institution – is to help the individual to solve problems the individual can't solve alone. There are many institutions, because there are many problems.
The first institution in society is the parents, because the first individual that can't solve problems alone is the child. The parents are the root of government, because they are governing their children.
Here's the important question: When do parents, as an institution within the family, use secrecy in order to solve problems?
And this is where it gets dark, because I'm not talking about parents not telling their children that Santa is not real. I'm talking about families where the parents conspire against their own children. Why should they do that, you ask? To hide child abuse, of course.
Child abuse is the root of all secrecy in society.
Now, I want you to imagine that child abuse becomes transparent. Oh, you don't have to imagine that anymore? Because, Epstein, right? Do you now see the connection?
In the Spotlight, Courtney is talking about public demands. Now put 2 and 2 together by asking: Do abused children create a demand in society? What could they want?
Yes, it's disclosure. They want the abuse TO BE SEEN. And not only that: They want the abuse TO END.
So, societal institutions become "in charge" of solving the issue of child abuse, just like the parents are supposed to solve the issue when their own child is being abused. The problem: If the abuse is coming from the institutions themselves, you would be expecting the perpetrator to solve the issue, which is paradoxical.
Seems like society is in a quandary. This is why:
Parents hand over their responsibility to prevent child abuse to the government. It has become a public demand. But the government can't prevent it, because child abuse is happening on a personal level. The public – the parents – expect the institution of government to solve a problem that the parents themselves are supposed to solve.
So, healing all the institutions, beginning with the parents who are the root cause, means to change a foundational principle: How do we perceive property? What institution is "in charge" of solving what problem?
When it comes to child abuse, it's the parents who are in charge. This is where we need to start if we want to transform our societal institutions. We need to start at the bottom and build from there. So, what do we need to change?
The first change we need is how we think about property.
The majority of human parents believes that children are their property. This is the core issue. It's the belief that a child is different from an adult. It's not "finished" yet. It needs to be "molded" into something else. Like a thing.
What if this belief is wrong?
What if children are normal people?
Yes, they can't do what adults can do. But it's not a disablement in the medical sense. It's natural. They are ISBEs who lost memories, trapped inside bodies they don't understand and don't know how to use correctly. They are not wrong. They just don't remember.
So, let's change this: Children have the right of self-ownership, which means their body is their property.
Think about it. Do you see it? How we, deep down, all believe that this doesn't work? If the child is the legitimate owner if his or her body, how can we prevent harm? The child doesn't understand the concept of property, so how could it own itself?
This is where Courtney's words become very important: We need leadership in the form of stewardship. Parents are leaders of their children. They are role models. It's the parents who are in charge of teaching the child what it means to own yourself. The goal is a free person that is not owned by anybody.
Do you see why it's a bad idea to hand over this responsibility to the government? The government can't teach your child how to be free.
So, the transformation we need starts within the families. It starts with how we treat our children.
Remember: The purpose of institutions is to solve problems the individual can't solve alone. Child abuse is a problem the child can't solve alone. If the child asks for help, the parents are in charge. Where do the parents go when they can't solve the issue? And where does the child go when the parents are the perpetrators? Who's the next one in charge?
Yes, it's the neighbor.
This is where the "chain of responsibility" already breaks. Most neighbors don't help. They prefer to look the other way. Why? Because in our society, they are not supposed to interfere. It's the government who should interfere. But do children go to the police? Do parents go to the police? Do neighbors go to the police? Why not?
So, the change that would actually transform society is accepting that the parents are in charge, and if the parents can't solve the problem, the neighbors are in charge.
It's the principle of subsidiarity: If you can't solve a problem, the next bigger layer of society is in charge.
That's why I invented something that I call the "cooperative":
➡️ https://www.farsightprime.com/forums/general/77529-distributed-responsibility
It's essentially an assembly of people that can solve problems on the personal level. Because the government can't do that. Even the church can't do it. Why? Because these institutions are authoritarian hierarchies. They run on commands. This makes it easy for evil beings to get in charge, and this means that individuals won't get the help they need.
In short: The cooperative is where parents, children, and neighbors will find support for solving problems they can't solve alone. Not as a hierarchy, but as a cooperation of equals. If there are problems – like child abuse for instance – it will become transparent within the cooperative.
The next question is: Where does the cooperative go when they can't solve a problem? The police?
So, we need to talk about the role of the police next, and an institution that I call the "protective". It's a layer above the cooperative, but different from how the state handles it. This is already a long text, so let's talk about that later...
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