A next step

Conditioning acquired, elected, inflicted, accepted

Education, then, is the first agent of the concerted intervention of “society” so as to guide, acclimatize, habituate and mould the personality in the making. Other forms of conditioning will soon present themselves as well – often as the one viable alternative to an existence of uncertainty and vain questioning – to the individual in search of a way: the army, or some monastic order, or political enrolment or the service of some ideal but, more generally, the most favored option is that of founding a family and thus to help feed the common functioning of the human adventure, however mysterious or ordinary it may be.

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Nowadays, it is the cunning predators who appear to gain the most ground: capitalizing on perfected tools of observation, evaluation and programming, it becomes easier and easier for them to elaborate and put in place strategies of overseeing and influencing individual and collective behaviors. And whatever may be their goals, whatever may be the nature of their designs, their actual realization implies and invites such research and activity that may interest and enthuse numerous candidates to an attractive and alluring vision of the future - ignoring however, if not denying or negating the reality of consciousness.

Some of us dread the well-planned out forthcoming imposition and enforcement of an orchestrated campaign of vaccination, which would treat individual human bodies as guinea pigs; this is not an irrational fear as, in effect and actuality, for the past few decades, we have all been used as

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