Watching The World ~ In Search Of The Hundredth Monkey

In John Pilger’s latest article, War On Democracy, you can read some unsavory US History. It’s not easy to shed our illusions. They are always a comfort to us. But the greater discomfort is in store for those who cannot, or will not, accept the facts.

No one wants to live in a world where monsters are real. No one wants to admit that those we’ve admired are in actuality monsters. If a soldier or an employee chooses to act out the brutal will of his superiors he is become the monster. There is no excuse or excusing.

Let’s shed all illusion and delusion and see what happens. Those of you hanging on – let go. All that you’ll really lose is fear.

What was done to Lisette’s paradise has an urgent and universal meaning, for it represents the violent, ruthless nature of a whole system behind its democratic façade, and the scale of our own indoctrination to its messianic assumptions, described by Harold Pinter as a “brilliant, even witty, highly successful act of hypnosis.” Longer and bloodier than any war since 1945, waged with demonic weapons and a gangsterism dressed as economic policy and sometimes known as globalisation, the war on democracy is unmentionable in western elite circles. As Pinter wrote, “it never happened even while it was happening”. Last July, American historian William Blum published his “updated summary of the record of US foreign policy”. Read all of The War On Democracy

Read, Learn, Decide, Act
In the end all we have is our choices – This is our Legacy – Not stuff – Choices
How you gonna act?

When people know they’re being watched, their behaviour changes – and interestingly, the populace begins to censor themselves. For fear of being caught, users avoid controversial websites, avoid speaking out or joining groups to exercise their democratic right (such as Occupy or Anonymous), and stay away from anonymity networks like the Tor Project.

Article can be found at – the importance of anonymity

It’s strange that the animal with the most advanced brain is so often the dumbest. Stupidity and violence follow him through history and continuous today. Maybe this is all due to ignorance – how ignorant are we?

The Grand Illusion: watch this video, bookmark it, share it – - – the world revealed – - – it’s likely the most important video on the internet today

The End Of The DC Dollar Games

The whole idea of borders and boundaries is fading into obscurity. As it does there are some things the people in the United States can do to regain a little sanity and security.

Each state could make their own money. You’ll need your own mint and it will need to be backed by something of actual value. It doesn’t matter what that something of real quantifying universal value is. A State might use grain, but you’d need to store grain equal to coined currency.

A few things would happen as a result of bringing minting currency to the State level. The money would leave Washington DC: There would be no federal lobbying to manipulate markets, currencies, loans or subsidies or special favors; DC would dry up. There is nothing for federal lawmakers to do when there is no money involved.

I’m sure you can think of a whole series of healthy events and effects that would naturally take place from the establishing of real currency for the States and by the States. Further more it’s already done. to some degree, and considering across the Republic.

One thing that cannot be done is using promissory notes. This does not work and was never designed to work. People in every social niche must learn to live within their means – aaahhhh really? Yep!

We all start somewhere as children and we go from there. At least as far as life on earth is concerned. Does our experience here start here? Probably not. What good does this type speculation do for us in the context of judging the world and it’s people? Good question, but I have to narrow the scope for this, hopefully short, essay.

Things here on earth usually have a source we can search out. This is good for the question of why are things the way they are as far as global societal systems. The what’s going on in the world and why questions can be tracked down and answered in this way. Is this the way people arrive at conclusions? From what I’ve observed so far I’d have to say yes, and no.

I guess I should narrow things down a bit more and focus on the United States for this post. Limiting my address to what’s going on in the United States and why. Now we can agree that people here in the United States have a wide ranging point of view on the question of societal systems so that suggests to me that we are reaching our conclusions in different ways.

Some conclusions are reached by personal experience in the physical world. My conclusions about 9/11 is based on my experience in the heavy construction field. I know what it takes to melt steel. So anyone who tells me different I can’t consider a viable source of information. Thousands of architects and engineers are in agreement with my conclusions on how the towers fell.

Finding out who else has reached similar conclusions is something I like to do. I like to know who else shares my views and find out something about them. I’m always prepared to be wrong about something. The sooner I find out if I’m wrong the better. I won’t have to be wrong – as long.

Here’s where I think I stated out a little different from the majority and why it’s led me to where I am. One of the traits, or tendencies, I had that was different from my brothers and sisters was in the area of conforming. Conforming to certain household rules didn’t sit well with me. Just my mom saying, “Stay dry …”, when I was going out to play sort of bugged me. My brother never thought twice about it. I know, I asked him.

From the start I had this niggling annoyance with people telling me what to do. Then I went to school. I guess this is where the shit began hitting the mental and emotional fan. Sit still, be quiet, do this … Not just for a day or two, but for 9 long months. And why? All we had was a big pencil and some paper. After a couple years of this I started to get fed up.

I hung in there and showed up because I didn’t like the disciplinary consequences. But I didn’t like it. When I questioned for a purpose I was given answers that instantly begged further explanation as to why. Why are we doing this? Why do we have to do this? Why do I have to do this? Then someone would sit me down and explain it as best they could. “You need to do this so later you can do this and then later”. My thought was – why would anyone want to do any of that stuff, now, later or ever? I asked, why is it necessary for people to do these things to survive?

The answer, of course, was, “That’s just the way it is”. To me it seemed a never ending cycle of the absurd. It went on, and I went on like this, seeking reason finding nothing, seeking escape finding none.

I came to the conclusion that, for me, the system we were all following did not lead to any satisfactory end. At least as far as I was concerned. The way I saw things was people spent their lives doing the same thing day in and day out – forever. I went to preschool lunch box in hand and my dad left the house the same way. So I was going to go to school, or something like it, forever. How is that a good system?

And where was the reward? Where was the pay off? We got to live. We get to live? If we follow along and grab our lunch and head off to follow instructions we get to eat and have kids and maybe a house and maybe some land and then we could send our kids to school and …

So I didn’t start looking around for answers because I felt my “Way of Life (system)” was being messed with. I started looking around trying to find out where such a shit system came from and who was responsible for it’s implementation and maintenance. So where did the system originate and who designed it and why? Wouldn’t it make sense to find out?

I’m not going to talk at depth about my conclusions I just wanted to make mention of the origins of my investigations. The point is if peoples views about the system are different, and they are, then the investigation, if any, will be different. Most of the fieriest activists and dissident forces at work today want their system back. They want their lives to return to what they were. They want the constitutional society they had.

I’d like that too. But I see it only as a better place to start. I don’t see it as a good system. It doesn’t lead to anything I want. What is built into to all modern systems without exception? Work hard, obey the rules and you might get some of this. Why would anybody want to work hard? Why would anyone want to – have to – work hard just to have children and see them fed and housed? Good system? Or not? And for whom?

I think we might all ask ourselves what we really want to do and see if their is a system that supports it. This doesn’t mean what we think we should do. Should do always comes out of someone else’s established system. Should do is a control mechanism. Think about what you really, truly, want? Is their a system in place for getting there?

What I conclude we have now is an elitist system. If you wanted above all else to separate yourself from the rest of mankind and in essence rule the world – then the system we have and have had is damn good. It requires everyone else to work hard so you can profit off them and stay above it all. That system is what most activists are trying to preserve. What they fail to realize is the system they want leads to the way things are. Make sense?

Here is an interesting and informative listen:  School Is A Religion: John Taylor Gatto