Live the new world in the shell of the old

Society is the biggest system of all. Every system is built to avoid danger and risk, follow social norms, stick to authority, and frame everything as “safe”. It shuts down, cancels and punishes anything that feels uncomfortable, unclear, or doesn’t fit the mould.

That is how organisations and institutions operate - offering help, comfort, and solutions, while simultaneously shaping how people think, behave, and even feel about what’s possible. Managing minds so they stay in constant conformity—making sure everyone stays within the lines, thinks the “right” way, and doesn’t stray from the ''acceptable''.

sticking to authority, and making everyone feel "safe." Often, this means shut down anything that presents slightest risk to the prescribed way of thinking. Way of thinking...You are meant to think a certain way...actions will follow.

What starts as a tool to help people such as providing structure, safety, and order - ends up limiting, shaping and controlling how we think. It doesn’t just sound like a metaphor; it actually shapes how we think, feel, and what we come to consider as “normal.”

Everyone can see the system’s broken, but realizing exactly how it’s broken takes a lot of awareness. And that awareness is the first—and often the only—real form of resistance. Once you see how the game is being played, it’s a lot harder to keep playing along.

Here’s a tension you might recognize

Systems start as human friendly and life-friendly. Gradually over time, they end up locking in power, creating rules to control and forcing everyone to follow along - usually under the idea of progress and safety. Eventually, all systems become self serving, caring more about their own survival rather than the primary reason they were created for. And those inside it either get devoured by the machinery into total and blind compliance at the great cost of personal disempowerment and loss of soulful living, … and those who resist are pushed out, excluded, cancelled for not “fitting in.” Reward and punishment...

This is as true of governments, religions as it is of education, technology, even language itself.

Digital Systems

What’s especially interesting now is that systems, especially digital ones are becoming increasingly invisible.

You don’t have to obey anymore; you just have to opt in. You click “accept,” and the rest follows silently.

You’re guided instead of ordered. You feel free but move through invisible corridors. That’s the genius and the danger of modern control. A new kind of slavery, subordination, compliance...whatever you want to call it, is underway.

Human consciousness creates these systems, but then forgets that it made them. The map becomes the territory. The symbol becomes the reality, sometimes even more important. And that’s when the system takes over...we are here.

The biggest question today is - What does freedom look like when the walls are soft, and the prison is polite?

What does resistance look like when control wears a beautiful smile?

When something that was once born from a living impulse — a spark of truth, community, insight, liberation - evolves into a system, it starts to devour the very life it was meant to serve. It becomes its own logic, its own god, its own justification. That is where we find ourselves

Here’s the tragic pattern

When a living insight emerges - its true, wild, and alive. Maybe it’s spiritual (like a mystical experience), political (a fight for justice etc), or social (NHS). It’s raw, and real and rooted in living experience and pro-life energy.

People gather around build structure of teachings, rituals, rules and institutions to preserve, share and make it accessible and repeatable. Good intentions. all good so far

But, slowly, the structure replaces the source. People stop seeking the truth directly. They start anchoring to the structure...obeying the the rules, learn the slogans. learn the rule book...what was once alive and flowing is now dead and rigid...punishing those who feel alive. That is destiny of all organisations without exception - religions included.

Eventually, the system becomes self-protective, exclusive, and rigid and flakey. It attacks more fearing what it can’t control. It fears dissent. It treats novelty as heresy. The system is alive in the deadness. outliving the spark that birthed it. And at that point, it’s no longer a vessel for life, but a machine that feeds on life and everything beautiful in it- liberty, fun, love, freedom, soulfulness. .

And the people inside? They don’t even notice the shift. In their bubble, they think they’re serving life, truth, justice, God, freedom - when really, all they are doing is upholding the system that died a long time ago and is now anti-life.

This isn’t some distant history—it’s happening right now, everywhere

Religion: What started off as some mystical connection turns into dogma and quest for power-rigid and bereft of life, ugly and twisted.

Politics- Bold and brave ideals diminished into party lines and propaganda and compulsion to win next election.

Our Education squeezes curious and impressionable minds into a matchbox of passing tests, grades, competition, race, becoming better than others

Our health system? so advanced that there is hardly a healthy human left

Our Technology and innovation were meant to set us free turn into surveillance tracking every move we make. 

And the most dangerous part? These systems now know how to adapt, smile, and pretend to care. and people sleepwalk into a state of unconscious surrender..

The language of empathy, innovation, progress - while slowly and systematically strangling those very things underneath. Freedom of speech sacrificed to ''protect'' freedom of speech. ''Health and safety'' becomes a noose around the neck, political correctness to mask the fear of losing control.

It’s progressive. but it’s anti-life.

So the real question is

How do we stay with life outside the grip of systems? without becoming isolated, bitter, or nihilistic?

That’s the question, isn’t it?

Not just how to see the trap, but how to dodge and swerve  - to stay alive, aware, human, in a world that slowly primes you to become mere extensions of systems.

There’s no one path, but here are several intentional and awake ways to swerve

Stay in Direct Contact with Reality

To become utterly pro-life in a world driven by anti-life forces—embracing real vitality, authenticity, and connection over control and suppression.

Stay in direct contact with reality. Systems filter our experience and swerving means breaking that filter. Without filter of norms imposed on you. Break them every now and again.

Feel, don’t just run heady narratives. Don't just label, engage with people, events, things. Let life’s rawness in. all its beauty, sorrow, confusion—without rushing to name it or explain it.

Moving from stories and narratives in your head into the living cells of your body—actually feeling life and emotions directly.

Meditation, time in nature, making art, truly being present with others, laughing, dancing, cooking and eating together, these are all ways to cut through the abstraction.

When you’re in your head, you’re in the system.

Rejection of Institutionalised Truth

Institutions offer second hand certainty. Swerving means reclaiming your own, first-hand knowing.

Don’t outsource your values, your sense of meaning, or your morality to anyone else. Question every "truth" that comes wrapped in authority. Ask yourself: Do I know this in my bones, or was I just told to believe it?

A deep rejection of socially accepted "truths" sparks an inner revolution—a wave of truth that has little to do with what you've been taught, and everything to do with what you must unlearn in order to become fully human.

This rejection is the first step to being grounded in your own felt reality, rather than blindly accepting what you’re told to believe. Then, felt reality takes centre stage, replacing blind belief with direct and lived experience.

It's about waking up to the crudeness of the system, the world, and its deep disconnect from the true essence of being human—what it really means to be alive, in all its rawness and depth.

Being curious about your own depth and value and dispensing energy in that direction rather than throwing it randomly in all directions. Be pointed, focused, yet loose and natural.

Honour the Wild, the Irrational, the Useless, the illogical

Systems are all about efficiency, use, purpose. Swerving means valuing what can’t be used. Make things that don’t scale. Spend time that isn’t “efficient.”

Let yourself be lazy, allow room for inefficiency, failure, boredom, even if it feels pointless.

Value the mystery, the intuition, the humour, and the chaos...the illogical, the fool, the imperfection...Let you enjoy yourself just as you are, exactly as you are.

Make time and space for real life to happen. be offline, stay unreachable every now and again. Drop the FOMO and develop fear of info overload. Less is more.

Invest in finding your own true value that stays inherent and intact, instead of seeking it on social media.

honour and respect yourself enough to enjoy your company every now and again

Nurture the parts of you that don’t “fit” they’re often the most alive.

The system is scared of what it can’t predict or monetize.

Build Micro-Worlds, Not Movements

Big movements eventually turn into new systems. Turn to the small and staying human.

Instead of trying to change the whole world, focus on changing the moment. Engage with yourself, your family, have family time, meal time, stay away from screen and look into each other's minds and hearts. These are the real things that bring big shifts, personally and globally.

As a response to everyone trying hard to make it big out there...start relishing the little, tiny, the seemingly insignificant. Create little circles of reality—conversations, friendships, spaces that actually breathe.

Everyone is shouting from rooftops on social media...the world is quietly deteriorating...because

Culture shifts when people start living differently, not when they shout louder.

Live the new world in the shell of the old.

Drop the Need to Be Right, Good, or Safe

Systems controls you by offering rewards for compliance: approval, status, security.

Reward and punishment is the constant theme.

Swerving means becoming unbuyable. Are you still you when no one’s watching? Can you disappoint the system and still survive? Can you be more true to yourself, than you are to the world/system?

Could you acknowledge your deep seated desire to be sovereign and enjoy your life?

Are you ready to have am honest and deep relationship with you?

When you stop performing for it, it loses power over you.

You’re Not Crazy, its your instinct

Most people feel the tension, but they work really hard to suppress it. When they don’t, they feel like the odd man out. That is a horrible feeling. and That’s part of the cost.

Stay connected to others who see through the game. Don’t con yourself or others into believing everything is “normal.”

Stay honest to the feeling it inspires in you. Feel feelings in the living cells of your body. That makes life way easier than processing it all in your head.

Remember, You’re not broken; you’re just intact in a broken environment.

In fact you are the vital part that can heal the whole

Optional but Vital: Create

Creation is the ultimate swerve.

Writing, building, dancing, designing, singing, sketching, knitting - whatever calls you, that’s your line of flight. That’s your line of flight—the path where you slip out of the story and drop into raw, living experience. It’s the thing that lets you break free from the system.

Systems consume; they drain and control your value.

Creation, generates value beyond money and validation. It brings something new into the world, something that isn’t bound by the rules of the system. At its core, creation pro-life and anti-system.

I say its even better create without asking for permission, without an audience, and without goal. Utter playfulness for no purpose at all! validation and success can be forgotten about! That’s when you’re truly free. That's when you touch the timeless in you..

Be a wild rose- blossoming in all its glory, scattering its perfume even when there is no one to admire its beauty and smell its scent...It’s the act of being fully your that matters, not the recognition that comes with it. Purposelessly you...

Final Note

You don’t have to “escape the system” entirely — that’s another trap.

The real art is to move through it like a ghost, unhooked, awake, with your human core intact.

Mind is filter through which each one of us engages with life. When that filter is pro-life, open, and expansive, life starts to unfold in more beautiful ways. It’s a kind of self-mastery—where we don’t just react to life, but we direct our energy in ways that align with life, joy, peace and abundance. Life is an inside job.

I hope and pray that enough of us are willing and sincere enough to engage with the inner work of living a beautiful life that naturally leaves a beautiful world for future generations.