Greetings,

The whole agenda of so-called “western civilisation” & philosophy has been to promote the folly of separation of self from other – as you say, divide and conquer. Western (waste’rn) philosophers (whose role was consciously or unconsciously to put forward an agenda of European Supremacy), from Aristotle through to Descartes, created a concept of binary oppositions and separations that has shaped our use of language, instincts and the very way we (brought up in the Waste) perceive the word. The oppositions though also highlight how the male white supremacists have negotiated history, and hints how they will negotiate the future. The whole HIStory of waste’rn “civilisation” has been man’s attempt to conquer nature.

Upon man was placed more value than woman
Upon human (male agenda) was placed more value than nature (mother/female)
Upon civilisation (urban/industry/capitalism/progress) was placed more value than the “uncivilised” (savage/rural/primitive, even socialist/communist).

If you continue this model of elements on the left side of the binary opposition to have been placed more value than those on the right, it shows how calculated the male white supremacists have been, and also how us who find ourselves on the “wrong” side of the opposition (black people/women, etc) have been at various times dismissed as uneducated, insane, too emotional, or whatever. It explains why consciously or subconsciously we value the things we do, and how things on the left side have been tainted in the public imagination in the West. Western governments, churches, schools and philosophers have all pulled these strings to undermine others in pursuit of their own agenda. I’m sure you will recognise many of these struggles, from the past and also today.

MORE VALUE / LESSER VALUE

Culture (man) / Nature (god)
Subject (individualism) / Object (others, community)
Rational (reasonable) / Emotional (Irrational, unreasonable)
First, New, Young, Winner (first world) / Last, Old, Loser (third world)
Logic, Reason / Myth, superstition, faith, religion (Illogical)
White / Black
Masculine / Feminine
Moral / Immoral
Good / Bad (this is why Hip Hop turned bad to mean good!)
Superior / Inferior
Fast / Slow
Intellect / Imagination
Organised / Unorganised
Sanity / Insanity
Educated, literate / Uneducated, illiterate
Able / Disabled
Good / Evil

And the list could go on an on and on.

This has been the project of the west to control the world. The challenge though is that even though we might sight their agenda, we in the west have also been brain washed to this agenda so it is difficult to break out of the mind state of our day to day existence and perception.

As discipleofthenile neatly concluded:

“Once we overstand the connection between Self-Nature-Jah-Truth, we won’t need Babylon faith peddlers [philosophers] no more and will KNOW (or better yet, RE-MEMBER) that WE ARE THAT ARE!!!”

For these few words I give thanks.

Ras Shawn Naphtali