Background of the Reflection
Krow was reflecting on a possible meaning of "human life" stripped of cultures and civilizations - including society, politics, and economics in their broadest sense. Without these, life would lack narrative meaning and the weight of the experience humans have endured for over two thousand years: the sagas of emperors, kings, tyrants, autocrats, terrorists, criminals and significant religious figures. It would be devoid of tribalism, racism, fascism, Nazism and nationalism, along with the resulting conflict, war, murder, extermination, and every possible atrocity against humanity and nature.
On the other hand, perhaps a virtuous person would tell stories of heaven and hell, built upon the concepts of emperor God ruler and good and evil. These stories would emphasize the importance of fixed and approved good deeds and discourage the interpreted path of evil. Thus, ideals of behaviour, relationships, and communication might emerge that aimed to prevent conflict and war. Consequently, a new class of human behavioural models would emerge for future generations. Consequently, each individual becomes a bearer, guardian, and promoter of the preservation and continuation of systems. They must also live and work for the good of the systems' protagonists and protectors.
However, these tales of good and evil would eventually change people's mindsets, transforming them into something almost peculiar and alien (free slaves). Individuals would find themselves struggling with the newly placed dualistic nature: a natural self-pitted against an artificial, interpreted self. Therefore, these stories told by "good" people would trigger a new, radical conflict - first within the minds of individuals, before escalating into collective wars fought in the name of good and evil.
Any SPEC System - Domesticates Fear and Freedom
In such a manipulated, controlled, and strategically maintained situation, why, the crow wonders, did the SPEC systems misinterpret the natural fear? With frightening seriousness, looking into the distance, the crow exclaims, "Perhaps they wanted to establish a new one that hinders humans, rather than becoming a guide like that innate, natural fear?"
So, the krow asked again the question himself: why is fear negatively interpreted? Because it is the foe of the SPEC system’s strategic education, formation, and “breeding” of relative ideologies. In its natural state, fear is the ultimate security device. It provides a person with alarming and forewarning systems, allowing them to find immediate solutions to life-threatening problems. However, this becomes a clear obstacle for SPEC systems. They attempt to condition people by erasing the natural semper vigilantes (always vigilant) instinct that protects an individual from danger.
A SPEC system requires individuals who are willing to risk their lives for the system-imposed ideals. Strategically and rhetorically, every SPEC system defines this type of “breeding” to ensure procreation, manual labour, and the acquisition of "voting power." The democratic system is thus a strategic trap for the common people - at least, so questioned the crow. While theories and definitions position the common man as the central power and decision-maker, in reality, the system itself remains the center; it is governed by its officials and the elected elite, who exclude the “power giver.” Indeed, as in other absolutist, ideological, racist, and extremist political systems, even in a democratic system, every single voter is considered a potential suspect and a danger to the elite and the system. Therefore, voters are free individuals only in theory; in practice, they all risk imprisonment or death (as is happening these days -2026- in the United States of America) at any time for the sake of democracy, a measure intended to prevent them from attacking the elite and the system.
SPEC systems reengineers fear and freedom
Krow observes that when a natural person once disciplined by culture, becomes vulnerable and utterly lost within the SPEC system itself. Thus, he essentially setting up a "State of Nature" vs. "State of Culture" dichotomy where the very tools used for survival (fear) and existence (freedom) undergo a complete functional inversion. In the hands of the Natural Man, fear and freedom are survival mechanisms; in the hands of the SPEC – natural man is systematically manipulated, domesticated, specialised and socialised, and culture and civilization become psychological and biological cages or instruments of control.
This is a sharp critique of how civilization-what krow call the SPEC system -reengineers the human psyche and body. His argument that natural fear is a "security device" is psychologically and biologically sound; by pathologizing fear, so, by any SPEC system essentially "disarms" the individual's natural defence mechanisms to make them more pliable (rhetorically enchanted and systematically domesticated).
Fear: The Survival Compass vs. The Invisible Leash
For the Natural Man, fear is an honest, biological and psychological response to immediate physical threats (predators, starvation, storms, floods, fire and lightning and thundering). It is a guiding line because it keeps him alive; it is fleeting and situational.
For the SPEC Man, fear is abstracted. It isn't about the wolf at the door, but about: Social Ostracism: The fear of not belonging. Economic Ruin: The fear of losing status or "the narrative." Existential Anxiety: A constant, low-grade hum that makes him a foe to himself, as it leads to compliance and the sacrifice of his true nature for perceived safety.
Freedom: The Presence of Action vs. The Burden of Choice
For the Natural Man, freedom is total. It is the unmediated ability to move, hunt, cultivate, dance and exist without permission. Death requires no justification or scapegoat. It's simply a natural fact that happens. Freedom is a guiding line because natural man’s life is a direct result of his own agency.
For the SPEC Man, freedom often becomes an artificial construct or a "foe". The SPEC man is offered a "freedom of choice" between thousands of pre-approved options (models, brands, careers, political parties), which isn't natural freedom but a regulated simulation. Responsibility vs. Liberty: In civilization, freedom is often traded for security. The SPEC man fears natural freedom because it requires a level of self-reliance he has been trained to forget.
How does a human being stay "natural" in a world designed to corrupt them?
The Socio-Politic-Economic-Cultural-Civil (SPEC) sophistication
Krow observes “civilized” society as a collection of absurd masks and role-playing systems that distance humans from their congenital, naturally structured selves. The life process necessarily becomes a theatre of role-playing, an arena of gaming – the individual human being then necessarily becomes either a winner or a loser, enduring all possible fear and great pain.
In such a situation, the krow observes, the role-playing (gaming), whether one wins or loses, never ends. It is not a game or a drama that ends once and for all. On the contrary, the individual - already transformed into a horse dragging the armour of the SPEC system and tied to a carrot of success - continues to run for the carrot he will never be able to reach.
The krow realizes that for the SPEC system, fear is the enemy of efficiency. In the hands of the Natural Man, fear is a compass. In the hands of the SPEC, fear is a leash. By pathologizing this natural alarm, the system ensures that the common man never notices the walls of the cage until they are too narrow to turn around in. The "State of Culture" is not an evolution (for an imagined good); it is a psychological and biological disarmament (leading him astray). The SPEC system does not want humans who are "always vigilant" (semper vigilantes) for their own sake; it wants humans who are only vigilant for the system’s survival.
Further, the krow observes that the SPEC system’s weapon of choice is strategically forced optimism. By feeding the natural man a steady diet of "all is for the best," the system effectively mutes his semper vigilantes (his natural congenital-structural defence and relation). If everything is systematically and strategically predestined to be good, then natural fear becomes irrational. A natural human becomes a walking casualty, stripped of his defensive and relational instincts, wandering through war, conflict, and catastrophe because his internal alarm system has been overridden by a specialized rhetoric. He is "re-naturalized" only when he is systematically forced to abandon the grand theory for the dirt of his own natural garden.
(Due to the length of the reflection, it is divided into two parts.) BE CONTINUED TO - Krow’s Vision 03.1
