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Let's do this!

I will start by gut punching you, by telling you that you are not who you really are. You are who the socialisation-industrial complex caused and intended you to be.

The socialisation-industrial complex is:

sometimes well-meaning, deceptive, uninformed, ill-informed, and misinformed parents, family, relatives, friends, community, school, church, workplace, peers, social class, government, authorities, organizations, businesses, education, religion, popular culture, social and cultural norms on (gender + race + nationality + language + sexuality), politics, economics; financial, medical, legal, and penal systems; ethnic groups, mass media, and social media that heavily influenced and shaped your current thoughts, feelings, beliefs, values, and emotions.

Most of your, and humanity's, thoughts, feelings, beliefs, values, and emotions were heavily influenced and shaped by the socialisation-industrial complex while you were very young. Because of your young age you accepted them, as did your ancestors, and made them your own without any thought as to whether they would work for you, were true for you, good for you, or aligned with who you were.

You built your life on these heavily influenced and shaped thoughts, feelings, beliefs, values, and emotions; as you read this post you and many others are currently living lives that are based on them, for better or for worse. My bet is for worse given the messy and precarious state of humanity.

" You have been programmed

from your childhood with absolute

lies, but they have been repeated

so often that you have forgotten

they are lies."

~ Osho

The socialisation-industrial complex beautifully created and conditioned you to accept and to do what you were told without much challenge, resistance, or free and critical thought and analysis from you; therefore, for the most part: you follow the crowd (facebook, tik tok, Instagram, snapchat etc.), live in fear, feel worthless and powerless because you have very little money, no elite status, and you're not a celebrity or influencer; you're afraid to take risk because you're intellectually derelict and lazy, you lack curiosity bandwidth, you know what to think, not how to think and therefore, will vote against your own interest; advertisers tell you what products you need which you eagerly buy, without much hesitation, even though you don't need and can't afford them; you worship at the altar of jingoism and proud ignorance; although your job is dignity crushing and soul sucking you will not quit because you are convinced you can't survive without that particular shitty job, driven by apathy and nihilism you characterize and accept, the existence of global greed, poverty, entropy, and war as "that's just the way it is", you're a zombie of nugatory habit, you don't know what you want you just want what the Kardashians have, while in a undead state you struggle unsuccessfully to keep up with them; you're suspicious and jealous of those who seem not to be influenced by the socialization-industrial complex the way most of the living dead are; you have a child despite you're not a child person because pop culture and social norms told you to have one, you're a broken and jejune professional consumer of the latest and greatest gadgets, you wallow in victimhood; your self-worth is tethered to your education, college, profession, business, job, job title, paycheck, bank account, stock portfolio, house, car, pet, clothes, who you know, vacations, neighborhood, school your children go to; you wait for other people and the media to give you your opinion, you're a religious charlatan, effete, or zealot who is repugnantly judgmental, and fatuous; you're easily manipulated and inveigled and don't even know it, among other things.

Governments, authorities, businesses, organizations, institutions, and their systems and structures work best for the few powerful overlords when the global citizen is exploited, hoodwinked, and hegemonized by the socialisation-industrial complex; therefore, as a result and by design, the global citizen lacks the ingenuity, pertinacity, intrepidness, and the free and critical thought and analysis necessary to challenge the global power structure in any consequential or evolved fashion.

how do I (be.) who I really am?

RESOLUTION: be. - paradigm

You can be who you really are, by being, expressing, and experiencing who you are in thoughts, words, actions, circumstances, and situations; this is known at modernité lab + Modernité Global as the be. - paradigm.

To be who you really are, is not life as a human doing but life as a soul having a temporary human being experience, with love not fear, while rocking to the magnificent beat of your unique soul.

The five phases below will explain how to be who you really are.

Note: here's where we lose most of humanity because phases one through five require smart not hard work, hard work is for farm animals; and the socialisation-industrial complex has been so effective that most global citizens are not aware that they are not who they really are, and therefore have no interest, will, or the energy to be anything other than who the socialisation-industrial complex caused them to be.

phase one

You acknowledge what the socialisation-industrial complex caused you to be: by examining your heavily influenced and shaped thoughts, feelings, beliefs, values, and emotions and where you got them, when you're faced with a particular circumstance or situation.

Examination example:

When you have a problem (circumstance or situation) what are your heavily influenced and shaped thoughts, feelings, beliefs, values, and emotions and where did you get them (social class + education + religion)?

When you make a significant purchase (circumstance or situation) what are your heavily influenced and shaped thoughts, feelings, beliefs, values, and emotions and where did you get them (media + Uncle Joe + financial advisor)?

When you make a career decision (circumstance or situation) what are your heavily influenced and shaped thoughts, feelings, beliefs, values, and emotions and where did you get them (friends + economics + workplace)?

For example, when you're faced with a problem most of your heavily influenced and shaped thoughts, feelings, beliefs, values, and emotions are of worry.

You learned through observation, as a child, that your mother (where you got your heavily influenced and shaped thoughts, feelings, beliefs, values, and emotions) was a worrier. When your mother had a problem (circumstance or situation) she displayed a great deal of anxiety (emotion) and dwelled (thoughts) and talked about the problem incessantly. She gave more energy to worrying (emotion) than she did to finding a solution and believed (belief) that worrying somehow had the power to cause the problem to work out okay. She took pride (value) in being a worrier because her mother or father before her were probably also worriers.

Through observation you also adopted your mother's way of solving problems and thereby became a worrier.

You did this because you were young and immature, without any free and critical thought and analysis on the benefit or detriment that your mother's way of addressing problems would have on the way you live your life.

Proceeding with our example, if the heavily influenced and shaped thoughts, feelings, beliefs, values, and emotions you adopted heavily influence the way you, now as an adult, address your problems then what the socialisation-industrial complex has caused you to be is probably worry; therefore, worry probably also permeates most areas of your life (work, finances, relationships, future, etc.).

You may have been many different things, at any given time, during your life depending on the particular circumstance or situation you were faced with. However, the most dominate and consistent thing that you have been is typically what the socialisation-industrial complex caused you to be.

Now, to soulfully and sincerely do this examination it is best that you "take a knee" (quiet your mind by shrinking your thoughts and slowing them to a crawl). Some people do this through meditation, yoga, jogging, or by taking

a walk in a green space or along a body of water.

There’s no right or wrong way to “take a knee.” There’s no time frame. It does not matter how you do it or how long it takes. Do what works for you. Go with the rhythm of your soul.

When your mind is quiet to your satisfaction, go through the examination laid out above. Let this happen organically; it will ensure that you will land in an honest authentic place. It will be helpful to write down your answers.

Understand, you may be very happy with what the socialisation-industrial complex has caused you to be, it may work for you. Therefore, you may have no desire to be anything other than who you are. If this is the case, don't read any further. This post is not for you.

Go and make the best of the time you have left. We wish you well!

However, if you are not cool with who the socialisation-industrial complex has caused you to be nevertheless, embrace it and accept that this is who you were caused to be, to do so will make it easier in phase two to acknowledge who you really are.

phase two

" Once upon a time when

I was younger, ignorant,

and fearful others decided

who I am; now with my youth, ignorance,

and fear lost to maturity,

wisdom, and love,

I’ll decide that for myself."

~ evolved citizen

You acknowledge who you really are by examining the following:

your thoughts, feelings, beliefs, values, and emotions that are contrary to the heavily influenced and shaped thoughts, feelings, beliefs, values, and emotions you developed from the socialisation-industrial complex.

your dominate soul essence (giver, joy, peace, cheerful etc.) that you've had most of your life that has been with you in both bright and dark times.

Too soulfully do this examination, as with the examination to " acknowledge what the socialisation-industrial complex caused you to be", again it is best that you "take a knee".

Hint: you, humanity, and all of creation are here as the result of a creative act that caused everything to come into existence; much like a painter who commits the creative act of painting to bring a painting into existence.

A painting is the creation of the painter; therefore, the painting is an aspect (a particular part or feature of something - vocabulary.com) of the painter.

If a painter is fear when creating a painting, the painting will be an aspect of fear (hate, anger, anxiety, chaos etc.) or even fear itself.

As with the creator of all, whatever you believe the creator to be, anything created by the creator is an aspect of the creator. If the creator is love, which it is, then anything that the creator creates is an aspect of love.

An example that the creator is love, is its loving act of creating a beyond beautiful planet, where, among many miracles, the dirty soil produces delicious food and nourishment for its habitancies, and the trees and oceans on this planet provide the gift of life sustaining oxygen.

Humans are a creation of the creator; therefore, humans are aspects of love (freedom, open, peace, joy, creativity, happiness, courage, gratitude, infinity etc.)

You are an aspect of love; it is who you were before the socialisation-industrial complex caused you to be something that you're not.

" Can you remember who

you were before the world

told you who you

should be? "

~ Charles Bukowski

Examination example:

Although you adopted your mother's worry disposition when you were young, notwithstanding, contrary to your mother's disposition, you had undisclosed thoughts, feelings, beliefs, values, and emotions of peace (your core essence which is an aspect of love) when problems arose both in bright and dark times; and now as an adult, although you're still a worrier, you still have this peace disposition. Thereby, it stands to reason that who you really are is probably peace (aspect of love).

During your examination, it will behoove you to write down your answers, especially those that spark critical thought, analysis, and contemplation, they will aid you in acknowledging who you really are (the aspect of love that you are).

If after examination, you aren't convinced that you were created from love and that you are an aspect of that love, I dare you to go to a hospital nursery and look at the babies.

However, if after further serious and protracted examination, you still aren't sure what aspect of love you are then choose an aspect of love that you would like to be and be that. It will immediately enhance your life.

Notwithstanding, we believe that you will eventually be able to acknowledge what aspect of love you are.

phase three

" be -- don't try to become."

~ Osho

It's not enough to know who you really are, now you must be who you are. be. who you are in thoughts, words, actions, circumstances, and situations.

If you acknowledged that the aspect of love that you are is peace then be peace in thoughts, words, actions, circumstances, and situations for the rest of your life. Period.

Thoughts of peace - upon waking in the morning and starting your day think thoughts of peace in the mist of this world's chaos (I will not hurry, I will be calm, silence grounds me, I will process all that comes my way no matter what it is, with a sense of serenity).

Words of peace - "I forgive you", "we are one"; give a greeting of peace when you meet someone, "peace to you," "As-Salaam-Alaikum," "paix à vous," "hé píng gěi nǐ," "pace a te," "dohiyi," "paz para ti," "aap ke liye shanti," "anata ni heiwa," and "frieden für sie."

Acts of peace - smile, meditate, sleep, choose employment only in peaceful environments, end toxic relationships, create a business that is peace-centric, let go of a protracted grudge, be the human space and refuge for follow beings, sit silently and hold someone's hand during their time of grief without expectation and making it about you.

Peace under all circumstances and situations - client or customer is being unpleasant, silently send them love and light before responding; a significant other has broken your relationship, ask serenity to wash over you before reacting; chaos irrupts during zoom meeting, respond with a harmonious gesture (" let's take a silent pause and just breathe ").

Because who you really are is peace, most of your thoughts, words, and acts of peace will become second nature as your socialisation-industrial complex inflicted wounds heal.

phase four

" The only authentic expression

is an act aligned with

who you are."

~ modernité lab

Now that you know who you are, you will want to express that to experience what it means to be who you are.

In keeping with our example above, you are peace; but it is not enough to simply know that you are peace you will want to experience what it means to be peace. In order to experience what it means to be peace you must express being peace through action. It is one thing to be peace and yet another thing to do something peaceful.

Therefore, someone who is peace will express themselves through action by doing something peaceful (smile, give peace greeting to others, teach yoga and meditation, compose peaceful music, provide serene space and refuge for follow beings, release someone). These are just a few ways to express being peace, among many others.

To experience an evolved level of being peace, when expressing yourself through a peaceful act, do the act without expectation of receiving anything in return. All you want is the sublime experience of what it means to be peace, nothing else is necessary.

No expectation for something in return for a peaceful act, separates you as an evolved being having a temporary human being experience from those who conduct themselves, as intended by the socialisation-industrial complex, as human doings who expect and in some cases demand something in return for doing something for someone else.

phase five

" be. + express x ∞ = experience x ∞ = soul satisfaction x ∞ in perpetuity."

~ modernité lab

Experiencing who you are is the feeling you get from doing an act to express who you are; in other words, what you feel is the experience.

In keeping with our example above, again, you are peace; you express peace by doing an act so that you can experience (feel) what it means to be peace.

You express peace by doing an act of peace like teaching yoga, leaving toxic employment, or letting go of a protracted grudge. The experience (feeling) is serenity in the case of teaching yoga, bliss in the case of leaving toxic employment, and relief and freedom in the case of letting go of a protracted grudge.

In accordance with the particular acts described above peace means serenity, bliss, relief, and freedom; therefore, it follows that because you are peace, what it means to be you is serenity, bliss, relief, and freedom.

What it means to be peace, and therefore, what it means to be you will change depending on the experience derived from how you express who you are.

For example, if your act of peace is a beautiful smile for someone the experience (feeling) you get from that will probably be happiness. In this situation happiness is what it means to be peace, and therefore, what it means to be you.

In essence, what it means to be who you are, or any other aspect of love, can mean different wonderful things based on the array of different ways you express and experience who you are at any given time.

The more diverse the acts you do to express who you are the more diverse ways you'll experience what it means to be who you are.

Each time you experience what it means to be who you are you'll have the highest soul satisfaction (deep fulfillment).

fear

Because you have been conditioned by the socialisation-industrial complex to live by fear in fear, the thought of living a be. - paradigm life probably scares the hell and shit out of you; to the contrary, we hope it scares the hellish and shitty influence of the socialisation-industrial complex out of you.

Danger is real, fear is not; fear is a delusional construct (an idea or an imaginary situation - Cambridge dictionary) promulgated to, hegemonize, control, and to gain and maintain power.

Fear along with its diabolical manifestations has proven to be the most destructive delusional construct ever devised; it is directly responsible for all the atrocities and ills that have plagued and is plaguing humanity, nature, and the planet.

Here at m o d e r n i t é l a b + M o d e r n i t é G l o b a l we renounce the very existence of fear; it is a product of the human's imagination derived from, self-created, fictional, immature, and undead, thoughts of the past; doubt plagued, analytically paralyzed, and intellectually decrepit, thoughts of the present; and premature, debilitating, and worrisome thoughts of the future.

We also protest in opposition to the socialisation-industrial complex's use of the fear construct as a psychological weapon to hegemonize, control, and to gain and maintain power.

“There is no illusion greater

than fear."

~ Lao Tzu

That said, nevertheless you will be heavily influenced by fear derived from the socialisation-industrial complex: to denounce as farcical and fictional the notion that who you are is what the socialisation-industrial complex caused you to be; to be concerned about what others may think of you giving up your living dead life to live life differently; to reject the outré, outlier, and avant-garde notion that who you really are is an aspect of love; and too repudiate the be.- paradigm as ridiculous.

To this we say, bye Felicia.

No, what we say is, don't let the fear delusion ROB YOU, OF YOU!

Our mission here at  m o d e r n i t é l a b  +  M o d e r n i t é G l o b a l  is to provide what we believe are soul satisfying (deeply fulfilling) modern, holistic, disruptive, preventive, evolved, harmonious, and fresh resolutions for artists + creatives + athletes to help them meet unparalleled career, business, money, and law global challenges and opportunities.

Because of the sublime power of art, creativity, and athletic fortitude we provide these resolutions to create and inspire auspicious global innovative change through art, creativity, and athletic fortitude that will cause a paradigm shift revolution that we hope will foster evolution, oneness, and harmony among humanity, nature, and the planet.

We are not delusional or so naïve as to think that our call to live a be. - paradigm life would be embraced and celebrated, especially considering the very primitive, fearful, and cynical global environment that we find ourselves in.

That said, we are undeterred in our mission; we do this work not because we have to, not because we want to, but because we must!

" we don't fight the fights we can win;

we fight the fights that need fighting."

~ anonymous

Thanks so much for reading!

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