Life as a Robot.

What is a robot. It is a machine that is programmed to produce specific responses to specific stimuli. Are we not the same? Each and every one of us are simply just responding to everything in the way we have chosen since early childhood to respond to everything. We evolve our responses but they are still robotic like in nature. Then something interesting happens. We no longer claim responsibility for our own responses. For instance, we say that someone made us angry. Logically nobody can make you angry, that is how you choose to respond to a situation that is presented to you. There are two Jews on the side of the road. Someone drives by and barks Nazi propaganda at the two of them. One gets offended and one laughs it off. Therefore the response of anger does not come directly from the driver of the car. So this gets interesting. We all have our own pre-programmed responses to certain situations that are robotic in nature and we, in turn, create an illusion around it to protect it. Where did this come from? Where does true freedom exist? Imagine if we responded to every situation as if we were looking at it from the mind of someone who had not run into the situation times before. Looked at everything from brand new eyes.

"Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave." - Gurdjieff

The way we connect as lovers is also robotic in nature. We assume that it is love that drives men and women together. I am here to state that it is not love, it is an overwhelming sense of loneliness that each of us feel. If we do not marry, you cannot deny that the majority of single people are very lonely. So in a sense, we do not have a choice.

Our elections are not a choice, our housing situation is never really a choice, our retirement is never really a choice. Society in general is just as robotic as we are! There are no choices!

So how do you overcome this individually? I am going to look into this and create a second post titled, Dismantling the Machine. More to come!