Teachers : The Neo Creadds Are Born (Ch.14f)

Teachers

Ch.14f

     “There are the many intellectuals, leavening society with their wasted learning, unwanted now that they have passed out of the education system. Many of you are likely to come into this category. They find that the thoughts and ideas they were taught and encouraged to develop are unwanted in the real world, and so they are wasted on the barren desks and computer terminals, the restaurants and bars, and suchlike of the world, ruefully spending their remaining days in frenzied boredom and intellectual isolation, and in revolutionary, seething dissatisfaction, restrained from making any mark on the world at all, unless they give in to the monster of modern economics, the game of business, the dullness of the rat race.”

     “We have got to change the way we live if we want our people to be happy and fulfilled. It is a stupid system, which is not feeding us with what we need.”

     Janus and Jairis and other members of the movement went around the Martan Empire, lecturing on the subject of human progress, appearing on vidnet live channels wherever possible. Both were a bit like religious preachers, but very rational, very sensible. They spoke to people in an attractive way, because it was not the old fashioned platitudes or slavery to competitive economic goals, which had been heard or read, or educated into them since birth and for hundreds of years before. Their thoughts were very new and very present, making people see the world they lived in from different perspectives. Many people were turned off religion because it seemed full of untruths and sometimes tribal or anti democratic, anti modern life rules and ideals, restrictions which seemed unnecessary, and above all contained events and beliefs which were difficult for intelligent modern men and women to take seriously. Instead the modern people believed in supposedly rational economics and business. The Neo Creadds preached a new perspective again, and it took many people some time to see the sense of it.

    These ‘teachers’ did not pretend to have all the answers, and admitted to it, but they had a lot of ideas, and were not afraid to espouse them. They were not comedians. They found that when they said something perhaps political or socio economic in a comedy setting, it was not necessarily taken too seriously. People laughed at it and maybe absorbed some serious messages subliminally, but it translated more often into people desiring a freer life, liberation of time and social life, and managerial and political change, but without believing any of this could actually be changed. In the real world you cannot have all your desires, but you can laugh about them. Comedy they found could teach acceptance of the way things were. It enabled people to get on with their real lives, but gave them some kind of outlet. These teachers dealt with issues and politics in a serious way, so people would take their ideas seriously. But they did have a sense of humour and liked looking at issues from different tangents, so they appeared on live channel chat shows and even entertainment programmes whenever they were invited, and spread their wisdom and ideas.

     Jairis and Janus both joined debates on Vidnet, but also gave lectures and produced them for Vidnet menus. Jairis began to follow Janus in writing books or articles. Two major speakers for the new movement was better than having only one. They could speak to various audiences and appeal more widely. Janus was inspired to move from being a thinker and an organiser to being a kind of politician, preaching his own views, often sharing the stage with Jairis. Both of them had to be brave to state their own views on many matters which would have previously been criticised. There were backlashes against their suggestions. Other spokespeople joined them in their crusade and there were feelings that society was beginning to listen after centuries, or at least decades of darkness for the human soul.