Don’t Shit in Your Own Nest

Whenever life begins to smile at me with its full radiance, I receive a quick reminder not to get too excited — things are still far from how they should be. Even a simple letter can reveal how loyalty is expected to flow one way only: I’m asked to pay unquestioningly, to prove my reliability even when the system itself fails to act with integrity.

When loyalty becomes a shield for corruption, the nest begins to rot from within. Yet nature shows a different intelligence: the mother bird who quietly removes waste from her nest, preserving life’s coherence. This article explores how truth, responsibility, and the unified field of consciousness cleanse the social and economic systems we have allowed to become parasitic — and how they can evolve toward symbiosis.

When the system soils its own roots

Last night I noticed that a debt collection agency had sent a payment reminder to my OmaPosti digital mailbox for an unpaid invoice. The letter didn’t specify which invoice it referred to, and I had never received the original bill. It mentioned that the client was the City of Helsinki, and the invoice was apparently a dental bill I had been expecting for some time.

But I certainly wasn’t expecting a bill from a collection agency, nor that the total had been padded with late fees and “notification charges.” It’s possible the city did send me a bill, but it got lost on the way. One wonders why the invoice wasn’t sent to OmaPosti or some other digital service in the first place — the same place where I found the collection agency’s reminder, now fortified with extra fees. (This doesn’t mean I recommend paying bills through OmaPosti. I once paid an invoice directly there, the money was withdrawn from my account, but the original issuer never received the payment.)

Old pattern: parasitic economy and the avoidance of responsibility

This extremely frustrating “glitch in the matrix” reminds me of an incident twenty years ago, when I received an unjustified invoice from a company I had never ordered anything from. I was abroad when the bill arrived and only saw it six months later upon returning home. By then it had gone to collections, and I had received a stack of collection notices. On top of that, I had a credit default entry, which placed me on the commercial registry’s blacklist.

Since I had never ordered anything, the original issuer had no order confirmation to justify their invoice. They voided it, but no one seemed to have the authority to void the collection agency’s unjustified fees, let alone remove my name from the blacklist. The collection agency simply stated that they had no obligation to verify the legality of their actions — meaning they didn’t need to wait for the issuer to present proof of an actual order.

The Federation of Finnish Enterprises, whose task is to ensure a healthy operating environment for entrepreneurs, felt like a mafia organization demanding protection money (membership fees) in exchange for the privilege of conducting business in peace. Creating a healthy environment is not an impossible task when there is genuine goodwill.

The Mask of the Innocent Eyewitness

These are not trivial everyday inconveniences, because the same patterns of thinking prevail at every level of society. Once I bought a branded product from an online auction, and I knew the original sizing well. When the item arrived, it didn’t fit at all — it didn’t match the brand’s sizing in any way. When I cancelled the purchase and explained the core issue, the seller gave me negative feedback, strengthened by his own interpretation that showed he hadn’t understood anything: he was selling pirate products while implying they were original brand.

The auction platform operators were likely fully aware of the scheme, since there wasn’t even an option to report the dishonest practice. After all, one must provide the offspring with opportunities to earn money.

This is how ordinary people retreat into the role of innocent bystanders, taking no responsibility for the consequences of their actions. When they make the recipient of their services feel more like prey, there is nothing innocent about it. The extreme example is a murderer who has pretended to be an innocent witness and “visionary” for decades, acting solely to mislead investigators so that his own guilt would not be revealed.

The illusion of individual freedom

Our so‑called democracy emphasizes individual freedom, but individual freedom only exists within a community governed by common sense. The clearest example is what we eat. Our freedom is limited to choosing the least bad option among bad ones. One can only guess how many illnesses and allergies are caused by artificial fertilizers and the additives pumped into our food by the food industry. Yet doctors often speak as if the problem lies in the food itself.

Years ago I watched reality shows where people weighing over 300 kilos struggled with weight loss. Often they underwent gastric bypass surgery, after which they were simply expected to eat less. For many this worked, when they were mentally committed to reaching normal weight. For others the results were nonexistent, and after the initial enthusiasm the show began to feel like an uncomfortable guilt session.

To me it was obvious that under normal circumstances no one can eat themselves to death — which was the immediate threat for these 300‑kilo individuals. Their problem was that they mostly ate ultra‑processed food designed to create addiction. I have personal experience of this: when I got a capsule coffee machine, I began mixing vanilla ice cream into my coffee.

Last spring this habit had become almost compulsive, and when ice cream consumption reached four liters a month, I thought it would be cheaper to make ice cream at home. And so we did. After a week or two of homemade ice cream, my addiction disappeared. The ice cream tasted just as good, but without the compulsive need to “reward” myself.

A similar disappearance of cravings happened after my cancer surgery in 2020. Before the surgery I always wanted cookies with my coffee. It felt strange, because I normally didn’t have such cravings. After the surgery I didn’t even look toward the cookie shelves. I assumed this was because the craving had originally come from the cancer cells’ need for carbohydrates and sugar.

The misuse of loyalty

Our freedom at the individual level only manifests in relation to the community we live in. Often people who emphasize their individuality and the freedom of their reference group demand secrecy from their inner circle, friends, and group members — invoking loyalty when their corrupt practices and crimes are at risk of being exposed. They think that truth‑tellers who reveal harmful practices and crimes within their circle are “shitting in their own nest.”

The metabolism of truth

But we must recognize that the only thing deserving our loyalty is truth — truth that considers the whole and expresses common sense. People who operate under corrupt practices, hiding their crimes, have themselves “soiled their nest,” because ultimately it is simply the obstruction of the community’s metabolism — the free circulation of energy. To reveal the truth, the intellectual unified field operates just as precisely as when it exposes a murderer who has played the innocent witness for decades through DNA evidence.

Parasitic Structures and the Possibility of Symbiosis

Corrupt human practices are usually parasitic systems that do not consider individual freedom at all. And when societal systems are not designed from the perspective of freedom, they become shackles. I am not saying parasitic actors or systems are unnatural. In nature they are visible to all, and they usually have a purpose. But for fruitful cooperation they are problematic, because our goal is to increase mutual freedom and share abundance so that we can rejoice in each other’s presence.

Toward Intuitive Design

In this respect parasitic structures only require a shift in perspective. We must examine things so that different actors form symbioses (not cartels), always considering the whole. In the following articles we will explore what intuitive design looks like from the perspective of symbiosis.