In Mesoamerica, the ancient Inca allowed the tribes they conquered to keep their own beliefs provided they accepted the Inca social system and paid homage to the Inca and their gods. In exchange for compliance they received from the Inca the advantages of their advanced civilisation. In some instances this allowed conquest with minimal bloodshed. When shown the vast numbers of warriors they would face and offered assimilation rather than slaughter, some tribes simply surrendered without resistance.
As has been done in america throughout the modern age, with every trend or counterculture that posed any threat to the dominance of the capitalist aristocracy, the computer and the Internet have been commodified. Like the beatniks and the hippies, like jazz, big band and rock n' roll, like any movement or trend that suggested change, the virtual subculture of the Internet is being rendered impotent through commodification.
The potential threat will be assimilated, woven into the fabric of consumer delirium, and thereby rendered impotent. It will become just another can of beans on the shelf at Wal-Mart. Any scenario in which it might be used as a tool for the unification, advancement and welfare of humanity will exist only in the imagination of the hopelessly optimistic.
Like all things commercial, it ultimately serves only one purpose: to further empower and enrich those who own it. Much like the delusional democracy and freedom of speech in America, as long as an illusion of net neutrality, openness and freedom can be foisted upon the addled public, the Internet will continue to provide yet another means to distract, deceive, divide and exploit the masses. It is only a matter of when, not if, the net becomes as fair and balanced as Fox News, another branch of the ministry of propaganda, a tool used solely for the dual purposes of indoctrination and the generation of profit.
INDOCTRINATION & ADVERTISING, The two headed, mind-eating monster.
Long before the Internet became an indispensable part of our lives, way back in my junior high school years (I believe it's referred to as middle school these days) I began studying the modern process of indoctrination that has been used, with great success, by those who seek total dominion over Earth and all its resources.
I wondered about the real purpose of print advertising and radio ads. I sought the true reason for the pledge of allegiance and prayer before class every day. With the advent of television, I tried to understand the actual motive for the commercials, which have, insidiously, increased geometrically in quantity in a very few decades while their deceptive, mesmeric, mind-programming capabilities have grown almost overwhelmingly effective.
This indoctrination has spread like an audiovisual cancer through America and much of the ostensibly civilized world. The training begins at birth and has become all-pervasive throughout our lives, from cradle to grave. From print to radio to television, from kindergarten to grade-school to high school to college, in church at work and at play, everywhere we go, in nearly every waking moment, we are conditioned, manipulated and kept primed for exploitation. When our existence is no longer profitable, we become wards of a State that is being reconfigured to render it incapable of providing even the most meager security net for those that have been used up and cast aside by the profit machine.
This is not the society the founders had in mind when they risked all in their revolution. This is, in point of fact, much more like the very thing they fought to be free of.
You can put a cat in the oven. That doesn't make it a biscuit.
``We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common Defense, PROMOTE THE GENERAL WELFARE, AND SECURE THE BLESSINGS OF LIBERTY TO OURSELVES AND OUR POSTERITY, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.''
No matter how I twist or distort those words and concepts, I can make them fit neither the place nor time in which I find myself today.
Albert Einstein said of Mahatma Gandhi:
"I believe that Gandhi's views were the most enlightened of all the political men in our time. We should strive to do things in his spirit: not to use violence in fighting for our cause, but by non-participation in anything you believe is evil.” (emphasis added)
The literal ownership of every square inch of Earth and all its resources by a small cabal of pathologically demented individuals is the evil that now confronts us. Once that condition exists, and it isn't too far off, those whose private property Earth has become will be able to withhold, by main force, any of those resources and make them available only to those who can afford to buy them. Buy or Die.
Should we cross that Rubicon, it will be all but impossible to reverse our course and restore civil society even to this one nation let alone the world. We have come to that moment in human history where we must make a stand or accept the status of chattel in a totalitarian New World Order.
"The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries." -- David Rockefeller (founder of the Trilateral Commission), in an address to a meeting of The Trilateral Commission in June, 1991
"We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order." -- David Rockefeller
"The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth." -- H. L. Mencken
Denial is a dangerous state to live in.
Militarism, war and totalitarian supremacy dominate the dark, psychopathic spirit of our rulers. Mars is a prominent god in the capitalist pantheon where Mammon sits upon the highest throne. Death is a great source of profit to them. Nothing is to be gained by clinging to the delusion of a world in which, somehow, great leaders, with our best interests at heart, are bestowed upon us.
"Most people prefer to believe their leaders are just and fair even in the face of evidence to the contrary, because most people don't want to admit they don't have the courage to do anything about it. Most propaganda is not designed to fool the critical thinker but only to give moral cowards an excuse not to think at all" -- Michael Rivero
Year after year, in meetings of the Bilderberg Group, the Trilateral Commission, at G8 and G20 Summits, behind closed doors at the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and The Bank for International Settlements, small groups of individuals, whose names are unknown to most of us, gather to determine our fate and that of the human race. Their decisions have nothing whatsoever to do with the general welfare of humanity, the preservation of our Life support system or securing the blessings of liberty to anyone other than themselves. The only agenda being pursued is that which will ensure their continued ascendency to a position of complete ownership and control of Earth, all its resources and total dominance of its entire population.
"Some 60 families—names like Rockefeller, Morgan, Dodge, Mellon, Pratt, Harkness, Whitney, Duke, Harriman, Carnegie, Vanderbilt, DuPont, Guggenheim, Astor, Lehman, Warburg, Taft, Huntington, Baruch and Rosenwald— formed a close network of plutocratic wealth that manipulated, bribed, and bullied its way to control the destiny of the United States.
They operated in absolute secrecy, lest the general public understand how the banks’ money manipulated political decisions behind the scenes, including decisions to go to war or to keep the peace." -- F. William Engdahl, Gods of Money
This process can be seen throughout history and we are watching now as it continues before our eyes every day. It is as plain and obvious as the rising and setting of the sun. Yet, year after year, despite the clear and undisputed documentation of these groups and their activities, the few who strive to bring this condition to light are scorned and branded as conspiracy nuts. Yet year after year, Life for most people deteriorates, becomes harder, less fulfilling, more stressful while the false wealth of money and the real wealth of Earth are continually redistributed upward and concentrated in ever fewer hands. In recent years this process has accelerated exponentially and, as we bicker amongst ourselves -- as we are trained to do -- the establishment of the first truly global plutocratic oligarchy nears completion.
"The de facto censorship which leaves so many Americans functionally illiterate about the history of U.S. foreign affairs may be all the more effective because it is not, so much official, heavy-handed or conspiratorial, as it is woven artlessly into the fabric of education and media. No conspiracy is needed. The editors of Reader's Digest and U.S. News and World Report do not need to meet covertly with the representative from NBC in an FBI safe-house to plan next month's stories and programs; for the simple truth is that these individuals would not have reached the positions they occupy if they themselves had not all been guided through the same tunnel of camouflaged history and emerged with the same selective memory and conventional wisdom." -- Killing Hope by William Blum
"We are grateful to the Washington Post, The New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost forty years... It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. " -- David Rockefeller (founder of the Trilateral Commission), in an address to a meeting of The Trilateral Commission, in June, 1991
Global totalitarianism is at hand and we will quarrel, argue and clash over fabricated wedge issues as it overtakes us. Unless we break the age-old stranglehold of the money masters now, once and for all, the consequences will be nothing less than apocalyptic.
It is only by the exercise of free will and the joining of the People in a common cause that hope for a free world and humanity may be restored.
When faced with a truth too horrific to accept, many will surrender all volition to some greater power,expecting to be saved by divine intervention. This is, in my opinion, the most total and unforgivable display of apathy possible. There is no god to save you from your own careless hand. Complacency and denial lead only to enslavement. Clinging to petty, superficial, fabricated differences enables the true enemy to easily divide and conquer. It is worse than useless to pretend that all will return to normal if only we will keep on with business as usual. "Normal" is the problem, not the solution. All the wrong that has been sown for centuries is now ripened and a harvest of death is at hand.
What's the point?
So, if things are so completely hopeless, why have I taken the time to put these words before your eyes?
Because I want you to prove me wrong. I want the People to take back their power and use it for the benefit of all humanity. I want us all to stop participating in our own destruction.
So now we must choose between Life or death, people or profit, darkness or light.
If we choose not to decide, the enemy has already chosen for us.
If we do not stand up now, I don't think we'll get another chance for a very long time, if ever.
"The man who would choose security over freedom deserves neither." --Thomas Jefferson
"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin
There is no way to Peace. Peace is the Way. -- Richard
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