| The concept of mental multicamerality holds that individuals move within a many chambered consciousness, each with its own perspective which may contradict the others, canceling them all out, in an endless search for meaning which results in individual and social paralysis, an understandable defense mechanism to the frustration of being unable to locate ontological closure within such a vast landscape of thought. Within this world of multicamerality, subjective consciousness is being annihilated. The result is the breakdown of consciousness in the origin of the multicameral mind. Becoming progressively more imprisoned in our ability to language thought, we are hostages to our own lingual patterns.;The basic contexts of social control include the metaphors of science, technology, religion, philosophy, psychology, the media, and politics, all profoundly interactive with each other in an intricate grip of ideological coupling. However, the most socially crippling of these metaphors of control are inherent in the discourse of capitalist mispolitics which works to undermine the social relations by alienating people from each other through dissuading solidarity and the creation of a common social vision. Consequently, as individuals retreat into the myth of cultural solipsism, they continue to be exploited for their labor, both physical and intellectual, in the iteration of a linguistic scheme which is self-perpetuating because the mental wormholes for escape are so rare due to the relative ubiquity of these metaphors and our own progressively weakening linguistic immunity to them. Human compliance in financing our own oppression, while ironic, is relatively easy to understand given the powerful constraints that language is able to put on consciousness when infected with the metaphors of control. We offer our very selves as willing sacrifices to distract us from the emptiness of our illusionary personal realities, drained of the will to struggle in the mercantile interpretation of the meaning of existence.;The implications for education regarding these metaphorical controls are dark but not hopeless, given the propensity of humans to keep on cracking the cosmic egg. However, in the onslaught of capitalist tribalism with its accompanying dynamo of technological oppression, education has been officially reduced to providing, once again, fodder for imperialist greed. Now, whether the burgeoning austerity measures taken against students and workers will result in a backlash, a revolution in consciousness that frees humans from the cruelty imposed through the barbaric rhetoric of their misleaders, or turns us further into the animals the capitalist ruling class thinks we all are, depends upon our ability not only to deconstruct the language of imperialism, but to be able to propagate our discoveries. And this can only be accomplished by first transcending the metaphors of academia, which are solidly middle-class and serve that class's purposes. Radical Hope is a turning beyond the rut of false consciousness, not a step in its hierarchy. |
