The Emperor's New Clothes
Originally published Living Now Magazine, June 2004
WE ARE LIVING in a world where we seem to be living a global
rendition of The Emperor’s New Clothes. This story is about a town whose people
were all duped by rascal tailors just because they were afraid to look foolish,
when the truth was staring them in the face.
The people were told that only those who were wise and intelligent could
see the emperor’s fine new robes. The mischievous tailors had announced that
the clothes would remain invisible to the stupid and ignorant. Even the vain
Emperor himself was trapped in the illusion. He couldn’t see these clothes. In
truth they didn’t exist, but he kept quiet out of fear his people would realize
his obvious stupidity.
As he strolled through the town with not a thread of material covering his
naked body the people were all so afraid to admit they couldn’t see any
clothes, they knocked each other over, gushing with compliments about how
wonderful the emperor looked. As each person convinced the other that their
emperor was indeed beautifully adorned, each convinced themselves that they
must indeed be of low intelligence if they were the only ones who couldn’t see
the special clothes.
So, too, do we seem to have developed in society a pattern where those who see
and speak the truth are ridiculed and encouraged or forced to keep quiet. We
are taught that if you question the rules you will be outcast as a
troublemaker. We are living within dysfunctional systems that we have been told
to accept as normal.
We have a legal system that has little to do with justice, yet people are told
to accept it because it is the law. We have corporations, which are allowed to
manufacture toxic goods, dump toxic waste into our water and pollute our air,
yet people are told to accept this because it is good for national economic
growth.
We have a mainstream news media that has had little to do with informing us
with the truth. Instead we are fed a daily diet of fear, lies, propaganda and
negativity. A myth has spread that people don’t want to hear good news, people
don’t want to hear the truth, people don’t want to be inspired or empowered.
Apparently we like living like dumbed-down, scared, apathetic robots.
Toxic cancer ‘cures’ versus Nature’s safer remedies
We have a medical system that has placed profit-making for the
pharmaceutical companies above genuine healing. The drug manufacturers produce
poisons that they themselves would not take into their bodies.
Cancer alone has become a billion dollar business where chemotherapy, the
treatment most often recommended by doctors, originates from mustard gas listed
on Schedule One of the Chemical Weapons Convention. It is an invasive and toxic
poison, indiscriminate in its ability to kill both healthy and cancer cells.
In one Cancer Centre survey 73% of oncologists said that, out of the current
chemotherapy trials, all were unacceptable due to the “ineffectiveness of
chemotherapy and unacceptably high degree of toxicity”. 75% of those same
oncologists said that if they had cancer they would not participate in these
trials.
Dr Allen Levin in The Healing of Cancer writes “Most cancer patients in
this country (U.S) die of chemotherapy”. Walter Last, writing in The Ecologist,
reported “After analyzing cancer survival statistics for several decades, Dr
Hardin Jones, Professor at the University of California, concluded “...patients
are as well, or better off untreated.”
Many chemotherapy drugs are made up of carcinogenic materials that break down
patients’ immune system, and damage DNA. After several years most patients
develop a new cancer created by the treatment.
Meanwhile, effective natural therapies and potential cures for terminal
dis-eases are being repressed from wider public use and knowledge. The powerful
healing properties of natural medicine are shunned by the medical industry and
not recommended to people as health alternatives.
Yet over 100 pharmaceutical companies are funding projects studying the
indigenous plant knowledge used by local shamans, healers and medicine people
of the Amazon Rainforest. Why aren’t the results of this research being shared
with the public?
One reason appears to be that most natural medicine can’t be patented and thus
isn’t as financially viable when it comes to making a colossal profit. The only
way the pharmaceutical companies can profit is to make a synthetic replica,
something they haven’t, as yet, been able to do. Is this what they mean when
they say they haven’t found a cure for cancer? Or do they mean they haven’t
found a profitable cure?
Meanwhile, we are donating millions of dollars to help find cures for cancer,
while simultaneously allowing the logging of the Amazon and other rainforests,
which contain natural cures. Experts predict that, at the current rate of
destruction, we could become a planet without rainforests within 40 years with
only an estimated 10% remaining by 2016.
We have politicians and governments that have little to do with public interest
or community service, yet people are told to accept them because they are our
voted representatives.
Who has the most weapons?
When John Howard, Tony Blair and George Bush sent troops to Iraq, a
country that has been constantly bombed for the last decade, and is now being
torn apart in the hunt for weapons of mass destruction, by a country that,
ironically, has one of the biggest arsenals of weapons of mass destruction, who
exactly were they representing then?
This attempt to dupe the people has got to be one of the rascal tailors’
biggest projects yet. If our military presence in Iraq, supporting U.S
government- sanctioned terrorism on the Iraqi people, is truly part of a
campaign to protect us, then why didn’t we send troops to India, China, North
Korea or even the United States? All of these countries have weapons of mass
destruction.
According to U.S Defense Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, there is evidence of
terrorist cells in up to 60 countries around the world, including the United
States. If we are looking for terrorists why are we picking on Iraq? Is it
because we were told all the bad men live there?
Now that the biggest bad man, Saddam Hussein, has been caught, George
Bush is being hailed a hero. Yet the United States government and military are
arguably more of a threat to Iraq and the rest of the world than Saddam ever
was. They have been responsible for millions of Iraqi deaths with their
restrictive sanctions and constant bombing in that country over the past
thirteen years. It is estimated that eight million people around the globe have
been killed since the early 1950’s as a result of the United States’ ruthless
actions. Why aren’t we chasing the US military and government down?
Given these observations about our current society, the tailors who are behind
the whole emperor’s clothes scam are pretty smart guys. They have system after
system enmeshed in dysfunction and have us convinced that this is just how the
world is, we have to accept it. Or maybe they aren’t really that smart at all
and have depended on our collective fears to retain power over us. We have all
been too scared to admit to each other what we’re all thinking…that there’s
something really wrong with this picture.
If this were a reality TV show…
Imagine that beings on some far off planet are watching a daily reality
TV show featuring us and the events taking place on Planet Earth today. Our show
provides them with entertainment and amusement, it makes them laugh and cry,
and sometimes they hold their heads in disbelief at the state we have got
ourselves into. They are placing bets in bars all over the galaxy. Are we going
to realize that the Emperor has no clothes on? Or are we going to band together
and confront him about the truth, and bring down the rascal tailors? Are we
going to turn this train around just before we crash, or are we headed towards
complete self-destruction?
Whatever the outcome of this particular fairy tale-cum-planetary reality show
we are living, we are each responsible for the outcome. We can stay in denial
or we can all do something to help put our society back on track so that we can
redeem ourselves from this ridiculous state of affairs. It only takes one
person to say to the next, “Hey, that guy’s naked!”
It is time to say to the emperor and his corrupt crew of tailors, “The tribe
has spoken, it’s time to go.”
(c) Dana Mrkich 2004
Dana Mrkich is an Energy Intuitive, Author of A New Chapter, Creator of
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