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The KITs were certainly strange. Suddenly and after thirty years for most premies, we had to be taught like children how to speak about Knowledge and... was it Maharaji or Prem Rawat at the time? - what to say, what not to say and how to say it. At about the same time, everything became "regulated," i.e., nationally circulated (and rehearsed) MC scripts, checklists, guidelines, reports, statistics and so on. It was as if Prem was doing everything he could to get premies out of the way and mitigate the damage they were doing (which goes to the elevated status of the "in-the-know" types who were distributing everything).
Like yours, my sense is that local events in many communities slowed and eventually ended after the KITs, which contributed to the complete dissipation of many communities. I happened to live in a "hub" community with more resources. Consequently, those premies carried-on if for no reason other than they could and it made them feel good about themselves.
I can't emphasize enough the silent tension and disharmony between community premies and even between communities, at least where I lived, largely as a result of disparate social classes of premies. Yet another incongruent circumstance that premies had to choke down and suppress.
Another tipping point may have been the dawn of the major donor era that further separated premies into classes, as if it wasn't stratified enough already. Darshan and front row seats for the rich didn't sit well, but even that got rationalized.
I'm glad you and Mr. Darko were able to gather-up your brainz after that way too close for comfort lightning jolt!
Modified by lakeshore at Mon, Oct 30, 2023, 09:20:29
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