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When the mask falls
When the mask falls, reality grins at us. When the mask falls, all inhibitions fall away. When man drops her mask, we expose ourselves; the animal in us is then revealed. The mask protects us from everyday reality. The mask allows us to survive in a masked world[i].
Hidden behind the mask are worlds that could never, ever have been unmasked. A mask is sometimes a remedy, to be able to hide behind it as a human being. Every day of our lives as human beings we apply the mask. As security or as safety.
The tipping point in this civilization is the moment we have dropped our masks. Then there is no turning back. Once we have shown our true face of power and its abuse. Then we are amazed and shocked. Then we look at it with a look of denial. We can no longer stop the abuse of power, for its abuse goes on unrestrained until the end.
The humanity in us is then no longer resistant to the outbreak of wild aggression and manipulation. No longer resistant to the incitement of hatred with its accompanying lies and distortion of history. Our urges have then become indomitable.
We are in all sorts of virtual bubbles from which, as if in hypnosis, we cannot break free.
Countries and continents are collapsing because of the lack of vision and well-thought-out decision-making protocol. We keep talking lest we have to make…
