mechanicalness unconscious - Training, occasionally, to withstand the stresses 
I remember one evening, a boy, attending an evening singing in the main square, lit for the occasion, let the group of my friends under the stage and walked around only at the top of the stairs of the church.
Those were the days of the patron and that evening, as usual he wanted, he performed a famous singer.
The huge square was filled up to capacity as thousands of men, donne, giovani e bambini si assiepavano stretti stretti formando un'unica grande massa umana.
Dal mio "strategico" punto di osservazione potevo estraniarmi (cosa che ero solito fare sin da bambino in tutte le situazioni "pubbliche" in cui mi trovavo) e in un'unico colpo d'occhio potevo osservare non solo il palco e il cantante, ma l'immensa folla sotto di me.
Vedevo così le varie dinamiche meccanico-reattive di massa che si ricreavano sempre uguali, anno dopo anno: bambini che facevano i capricci perché volevano la tal cosa, ragazzine che civettavano per attrarre l'attenzione dei loro coetanei, famigliole compunte intente più all'apparire che all'ascolto, dissolute group that created unrest, police in uniform, people of high social standing who had the best seats because they were "different", that the singer between songs and the other was a compliment to the crowd saying that this was the more warm and welcoming place of Italy, the crowd responded that "automatically" with a roar of approval ... buzzing shapely dancers who accompanied the singer ... and things like that.
Not to mention clothing: all the days of the patron had to show off new clothes (the few that could not be felt for the poor losers).
From the immense range of observations stage in which each play a part, each with its own costume, each with its own role, and ... all utter unconsciousness of who he was and what he was doing (as he had done the day before the procession behind).
from above And I "saw" anything ...
.. but I could not explain nor myself nor to others what it is then that hundreds of other occasions I had "seen" ...
... and shortly after he "saw" I went back to normal, and went to play my role among friends and family, "almost total ignorance.
I say "almost" because that "something" that I had seen since the earliest years of life did not allow me to immerse myself in the one hundred percent that I was called to act in various situations of life.
But at the same time I was neither fish nor fowl: not an actor I was unconscious, but even a person totally free and conscious.
Only after many years of this "labor", growing, living, reading ... trying, and practicing certain techniques for the "revival", I discovered something really amazing about myself and about being human General.
The first thing
"incredible (so incredible that if you tell someone that someone, in fact, do not you think) is that the human being" asleep, fast asleep, but what was really strange, he thinks he's cute .
Human beings think you're doing, you know, to choose ... in short, believed to be free and awake and confuses this "stay awake" for autonomy.
The reality, however, is that not only is cute, but not free and independent.
The human being is not free either to choose either to think independently: he is just an "aggregate" without rhyme or reason to actions, emotions and thoughts "reactive" and compulsive ... it is simply a "robot" programmed by the customs, traditions and customs of the place and time where he was born and raised.
Man is pulled by the nose by constraints of various kinds: species, race, homeland, family, education ... in good programmer is good practice to always respond similarly to sensory stimuli , emotional and psychological.
Of course there are differences from person to person, from breed to breed, but ... everyone has their own influences and pressures that cause him to react in a cliché that was pre-ordained by his "education."
Stimulus-response: this is human life at present (even when he thinks).
Natiralmente this "thing" is easier to see in others, especially when it comes to whole populations.
For example, the popular uprisings taking place in North Africa these days (not counting in this context, the covert operations that may be below) clearly show the reactive nature of the people-mechanics, as you know all politicians: "the people rebelled only when no more bread on the table."
Il popolo non si ribella se vede delle ingiustizie, se sente odore di marcio nel suo governo, no! Si ribella solo quando non può più mangiare: dagli da mangiare, "regole di educazione" e un po' di divertimento e hai il popolo nelle mani. Ben ammaestrato e addomesticato.
Ma non disperiamo, la cosa non è senza rimedio (individualmente parlando), si può divenire liberi e consapevoli anzi, è a quello che dobbiamo tendere con tutte le nostre forze, a patto che...la smettiamo (sempre individualmente) di credere che sono gli altri quelli che dormono: "No, io sono ben sveglio!"
Non mio caro, I'm sorry, you're asleep, and subject to the dynamics of stimulus-response.
not believe it?
To test to test, for example:
1) resist to a stimulus when it occurs (tip: do not watch a beautiful woman when you cross the street, stand to respond to someone who makes you angry ... everyone has their own favorite stimuli);
2) change some habits in your life (change type of breakfast, location to go to work, how to brush your teeth, eating habits, etc.);
3) for a period of time (which may be half an hour, an hour) to decide in advance of your actions or a certain path and not change it for anything in the world, resisting the pressures that would have you turn right or left;
4) sit still for a time, without make absolutely no movement, whatever the cost. COURSE MUST BE A considerable amount of time, say three quarters of an hour at least an hour. (This method is more effective than ever, not only to master the "reactive" but above all to become "aware." In fact, the aim is not free from the mechanical nature, but of the same from unconsciousness).
Our real enemy is ignorance (Or only a partial awareness), quell'inconsapevolezza that reminds us just to be awake and free, which makes us believe that we can not be "driven" by "higher powers" because we are awake (and in case we're thinking this thing while we are sitting at a table in McDonald's, drinking Coke, eating hamburgers, rubber and potato chips, plastic, or while we are parading as puppets in a peaceful demonstration or ecologist "planned and organized ad hoc to be someone who moves the pieces, for purposes we ignore it completely.
fight to become free and stay awake is neither against nor in favor of staying, it is not normal nor be different: difinite someone has a "Journey Cross."
"Cross" because it is not a priori exclude anything (not even a lunch at McDonald's), but wherever you are traveling by "careful observers, especially to themselves.
But when we fall into some "ideology", becoming part, we only add more dynamic-mechanical reactive to those that already exist in us (because we identify with the group in which we entered).
Ultimately it is impossible to rid the world until they have freed ourselves.
