Anticipations of the arrival of the human-condition-ameliorated new world

As mentioned, humanity has long held a hope and vision of the arrival of a liberated, upset-free, integrated, peaceful world. While the Page 75 of
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(Note that much more is said about the extreme delusion and danger of pseudo-idealism in chapters 8:15-8:16 of my 2016 book FREEDOM: The End Of The Human Condition which is freely available at <www.humancondition.com/freedom>. Also my 2021 book Death by Dogma provides a powerful exposé of the pseudo-idealistic, left-wing culture and it’s freely available at <www.humancondition.com/death-by-dogma>. Also see Freedom Essays 14, 34, 35 & 36 which are freely available at <www.humancondition.com/freedom-essays>.)

While pseudo-idealistic movements have adopted the following expressions of awareness of the possibility of a peaceful, corruption-free world, and by so doing have tarnished and discredited them, we are now able to see that these expressions were actually remarkably accurate intuitive anticipations of the arrival of a human-condition-ameliorated world.

A quote has already been included from the 1966 song Break on Through, written and sung by Jim Morrison of The Doors rock band, however having explained the problem of the human condition, all of the lyrics of this song can now be clearly appreciated: ‘You know day destroys night [truth destroys the denial or lies] / Night divides [us from] the day / Tried to run / Tried to hide [tried to live in the cave state of denial, but ultimately humanity had to] / [chorus repeated] Break on through to the other side [free ourselves from the bondage of the human condition] / We chased our pleasures here / Dug our treasures there [tried to find satisfaction through materialism] / But can you still recall / The time we cried / [chorus repeated] Break on through to the other side / Yeah! / C’mon, yeah / Everybody loves my baby / She get high / I found an island in your arms / Country in your eyes / Arms that chain us / Eyes that lie [as is explained in the essay in this book, Bringing Peace To The War Between The Sexes, women’s neotenous image of innocence has inspired men to dream of a pure, human-condition-free world but the truth is women are necessarily as psychologically corrupted as men, and thus women’s inspiration of ‘heaven’, of a human-condition-free, idyllic world, has only been an illusion and thus transitory] / [chorus repeated] Break on through to the other side / Oh, yeah! / Made the scene / Week to week / Page 76 of
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Three other prophetic composers created songs that contain the exact same sentiments as Break on Through.

Firstly, Mark Seymour, of the Australian rock band Hunters and Collectors, composed a prophetic anthem with his 1993 song Holy Grail: ‘Woke up this morning from the strangest dream / I was in the biggest army the world had ever seen / We were marching as one on the road to the Holy Grail // Started out seeking fortune and glory [tried to find satisfaction through materialism] / It’s a short song but it’s a hell of a story / When you spend your lifetime trying to get your hands / on the Holy Grail [the ‘Holy Grail’ of the human journey was to find understanding of the human condition] // Well have you heard about the Great Crusade? / We ran into millions but nobody got paid [once the fire of condemnation blocking the exit from the cave of denial is doused—as it now has been—humans will finally be free to selflessly take liberating understanding to all humans] / Yeah we razed four corners of the globe for the Holy Grail // All the locals scattered, they were hiding in the snow [those still living in the old cave prison of denial were taken aback by the enthusiasm of those who were liberated] / We were so far from home, so how were we to know / There’d be nothing left to plunder [humans’ greedy, selfish efforts to try and satisfy their insecurity through materialism had almost destroyed the Earth] / When we stumbled on the Holy Grail? // We were so full of beans but we were dying like flies [humans were pretending to be happy but in truth they were all but dead with alienation] / And those big black birds, they were circling in the sky / And you know what they say, yeah nobody deserves to die // Oh but I’ve been searching for an easy way / To escape the cold light of day [I have tried to live in the cave state of denial] / I’ve been high and I’ve been low [I have oscillated from being able to block out my reality enough to feel some relief, to being unable to block it out] / But I’ve got nowhere else to go [trying to live through denial had run its course] / There’s nowhere else to go! // I followed orders [I have tried to live through deferment to laws, rules and faith], God knows where I’ve been / but I woke up alone, all my wounds were clean [with understanding of the human condition found, humans’ debilitating sense of guilt, with all its resulting physical sickness, is removed] / I’m still here, I’m still a fool for the Holy Grail / I’m a fool for the Holy Page 77 of
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Secondly, the 1987 song of rock band U2, I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For, lyrics by vocalist Bono: ‘I have climbed the highest mountain / I have run through the fields / Only to be with you / I have run, I have crawled / I have scaled these city walls / Only to be with you [I have tried to live off the inspiration of women] / But I still haven’t found what I’m looking for [but I still haven’t found any real satisfaction] / I have kissed honey lips / Felt the healing in her fingertips / It burned like fire / This burning desire [lived off the inspiration of women] / I have spoke with the tongue of angels / I have held the hand of a devil / It was warm in the night / I was cold as a stone [I have delved into mysticism and indulged superstitions but they ultimately left me as destitute as ever] / But I still haven’t found what I’m looking for / I believe in the kingdom come / Then all the colours will bleed into one / Well, yes, I’m still running [I still believe in a time when humans will be free of the alienating state of the human condition and will live as one] / You broke the bonds and you / Loosed the chains / Carried the cross / And all my shame / You know I believe it [I have lived through faith in Christ, but ultimately we still had to find understanding of ourselves] / But I still haven’t found what I’m looking for.’

Thirdly, John Lennon’s 1971 song Imagine, a song that surveys report is regarded by many as the best ever written: ‘Imagine there’s no heaven / It’s easy if you try / No hell below us / Above us only sky [imagine the end of the duality of good and evil, the reconciliation and amelioration of the human condition] / Imagine all the people / Living for today / Imagine there’s no countries / It isn’t hard to do / Nothing to kill or die for / And no religion too [imagine the world free of the human-condition-produced insecurities that necessitated either religious faith and obedience or the egocentric compensations of power, fame, fortune and glory] / Imagine all the people / Living life in peace / Imagine no possessions / I wonder if you can / No need for greed or hunger / A brotherhood of man / Imagine all the people / Sharing all the world / You may say I’m a dreamer / But I’m not the only one / I hope some day you’ll join us / And the world will be as one [imagine a world free of the human condition and all the resulting alienation].’

Regarding the ultimate futility of the escapist, materialistic existence referred to in the songs above, another major survey released at the end of the 20th century voted the 1965 Rolling Stones song (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction the most popular song of the 20th century. Page 78 of
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I might mention that people have said ‘why do you refer to songs, poetry, comic strips, cartoons, euphemisms, mythology, and the like; shouldn’t you be drawing on academic studies to support your arguments?’ My answer is that I have drawn on science, and in fact have been totally dependent on it to assemble the biological explanation of the human condition. However, when it comes to needing denial-free, truthful description of our world and what is really happening in it I take it where I find it, and that has been in various forms of expression and creativity where the truth has emerged through cracks in the heavy concrete slab of denial that has been laid over it. In a carpark flowers only grow around the edges and in the odd crack in the paving.