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Nobody is in Control

Friday, March 5th, 2010

Last night, I happened to see a clip from the documentary Zeitgeist: Addendum.  This prompted me to go over to Youtube and check out the entire movie because it seemed to be very interesting.  It was mostly about our monetary system and how we used and still use exploitation of poorer countries to build our wealth while systematically destroying any wealth the poorer countries had in the first place.  It also talked about the Federal Reserve and how we can never pay back the debt owed to the Fed, because from the beginning the money was given to us at interest, so therefore we will always be in debt.  This debt makes us all slaves of the Federal Reserve and the corportocracy .  This got me to thinking that it is civilization that is in control and not any person or people.  We are victims of environment and are just adapting to what we were born into.

I encourage you to watch this film and get an idea of what they are talking about.  You’ll find out how the banks essentially create money out of thin air with loans, among other things.  What I got from this film was a distinct feeling that none of our leaders can save us unless they boldly go where no leader has successfully gone, in America at least, for the last century.  They need to fight the establishment.  Too bad this type of behavior usually gets them killed or labeled a terrorist.  It is just so hard to go against what is destroying us because there are so many powerful people who benefit from our current system that it would take a full-on revolution for anything at all to change, and it this would not cause changes sufficiently enough.  What we truly need is a true dismantling of civilization.  We need to get rid of hierarchies and corporations, whose only motive is to acquire power and make profits, ever-increasing their power to the point where now 1% of the population controls over 40% of the wealth.

Our over-competitive world based on a scarcity mindset is what propels all of this.  If there was an abundance, many of these behaviors would go away.  But there is scarcity manufactured into the framework of civilization, to keep everyone fighting for what is perceived as a small amount of goods, services, and everything else.  If we just shifted our thinking from a scarcity mindset to an abundance mindset, we would see events happen that we would have previously thought to be impossible.  It is a fundamental choice between fear and love, but when is the last time you heard that on the news?

We are conditioned from an early age that the world is a scary, dishonest place and we, through our own experiences and beliefs, perpetuate this value system.  We strive to get ahead in a world where getting ahead will only get us so far, seeing how we are kept in the dark on anything that truly matters in the world today.  For example, a couple of years ago, Bush signed the NAU agreement, which made Canada, the USA, and Mexico one entity.  You didn’t hear about this on the news because no media outlet even reported on it.  Why?  Because if they did, all these questions would come up.  Why didn’t he get approval from Congress?  Why didn’t they vote on this?  How the hell did he get away with doing such a terrible thing right in front of our eyes?

Because, essentially, power does what it wants and lets all of us deal with the consequences.  They take our freedoms away while expanding their power until they have all of it and we have none.  It is easier to squeeze tighter than it is to let go.  But this pathological need for power is heading towards doom, so are these people really in control?  I would argue that for now they are, but soon, very soon, they will have everything come crashing down on them and be forced to live as equals with the rest of us, the most terrifying thing ever for someone in power.

When this civilization crashes, either from its inherent insustainability or from simple revolution, those in power will lose their power over everyone and everything.  I hope that we build a society based on abundance once all of this happens.  A society where everyone is treated equally and we work cooperatively to solve the problems of the world.  We just need to dismantle this power structure, take down the Fed, and start anew with principles that will not be corrupted by any source.  But how do we do this?

We need to look at our roots before civilization corrupted us to fully get back what we used to have.  We need to drop the dogma that primitive people lived crappy lives and died young.  We need to actually look at non-civilized peoples from all times of history and create models based on the best attributes of each tribe or culture.  We need to respect the Earth and all of its creatures.  We need to abandon our fear of nature and all fears in general.  Fear accomplishes nothing, but fearlessness can overcome almost any obstacle.  Like I said above, the fundamental choice between fear and love will get us started to rebuilding  a natural life that will not only remove the shackles of corporate slavery, but will allow us to be what we are truly born as, truly and utterly free.

Then at that point, nobody will truly be in control.  And we can finally live our lives the way nature intended us to.

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Humans: Pathology at its Best

Monday, March 1st, 2010

The human race as a collective is very sick. We are damaged goods, broken. In today’s civilization, it is impossible not to be broken because all we see around us is hordes of death, destruction, murder, robbery, genocide, disease, overpopulation, etc. Our culture has turned us into a bunch of living, walking, breathing zombies that care more about how they can get ahead than how we can all work together. It is a natural reaction to the kind of world we live in today. We feel that we always have to be better than other people because we will see more opportunities and have a better life. An endless path of progress until our ultimate demise. This type of thinking is flawed. It is exactly the type of thinking that brought us such great innovations such as the Holocaust and genocide of the Native Americans.

We are so far out of balance and our consciousness shows that.  We continue to destroy our natural habitat in favor of sterile monuments and monumental buildings that represent little more than corporate dominance.  We are slaves to this accident called civilization.  It may not be accurate to call it an accident, because we knew damn well what we were doing and what we are doing now.  The problem was that we became addicted to the power.  When we finally mastered agriculture and the domestication of animals, we became more numerous and were able to gobble up more land for our consumption.  And as this spiraled out of control, our numbers grew larger and larger and central authority was established because once we reach a large enough number of people, there has to be someone in charge, no matter who they are or what their motives are.

And so it goes.  We initially developed agriculture as a survival mechanism to help us through one of the ice ages or other trauma that happened some 30,000 years ago.  We had to adapt and because we had developed such large brains from either eating tons of meat or other factors, we were able to take control of our food supply, which seemed perfectly rational at the time.  It was either make some food or go extinct.  So it is our own superior intelligence and mental adaptability that will ultimately be our demise.  I don’t blame the early homo sapiens for doing what they thought was necessary because had I been in their shoes, I would have done the same thing.  I don’t think they ever thought what would become of our world thousands of years down the road.  They were just doing what they had to.

Let us not forget about the Industrial Revolution that created orders of magnitude more people than grain agriculture.  Let us not shy away from all our medical advances that allow many people to live that would have otherwise been selected out due to living a natural life.  We just keep extending our power beyond our empathy until it is too late.  Where is this civilization going anyway?  Do we really want a world with 15 billion people and over 1 billion Americans?  Is that what we want?  People living in pods designed by GE and eating Monsanto GMO crops?  Because that is the only way we are ever going to feed and house a population of over-consuming, overpopulated humans who just don’t know when to stop.

Thankfully, our civilization should crash well before that nightmarish scenario ever happens.  But people are working to make all our unsustainable technologies more sustainable, which is a nightmare if you ask me.  Do we really want a police state sustainable?  Or a one-world-government?  Do we really want 1984?  Is that what we are shooting for?  A high-tech security state where every move we make is documented and even our private thoughts are being read by government officials?  Because that is where we are headed if we keep up this civilization.  I just pray that we crash fast and hard in the next century and never recover to the point we are at now.

We can gobble up all the natural resources and all the land, but then what?  What is the means to this end?  When there is no more power to be taken, what will those in power do?  When humans have control over every living being, will we expand into the universe and start making all universal life our slaves?  Technophiles are the ones who dream this kind of stuff up.  And they are the ones who are making many of the decisions.  They say that there is always a solution to maintain the status quo and to keep moving in the same direction infinitely, but that is not the case.  It is only a matter of time before we run out of the very fuel that is powering us.  It took millions of years for all the fuel we are using to form.  And in a couple of centuries, we have depleted nearly all of it.  Does that seem very logical and rational to you?

So what are we supposed to do about all this?  I would argue there is nothing we can do on a small scale that would make any significant difference.  The only suggestion I have is to learn how to be self-sufficient and how to live without some of the manufactured necessities we now are blessed to have.  The electricity will come off.  The water will stop running.  There will be catastrophic crop failures.  It’s just a matter of when.  And it is a matter of knowing how to get by on much, much less than we have been.

And it is also shedding this notion that we are entitled to everything this Earth has to offer.  Not to mention taking what the Earth gives us and not forcefully creating our food and shelters in such a way that we destroy the majority of all other life around us.  It is getting rid of all these unnecessary laws and regulations that are just used to control us when what we truly are are wild animals.  And until we embrace our wildness and get back to nature, we will see how we used to live just by watching the animals and how they live.  We will regain more and more of our primal selves and start to realize that the way we live now is totally insane and the way every other creature on this planet lives makes perfect, logical sense

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Slow Food Movement

Thursday, February 25th, 2010

I was eating my breakfast today (a bowl of cereal) and it took me nearly an hour to finish it along with my 2 cups of coffee and it brought back memories of the Slow Food movement. What is the Slow Food movement? It is a way of eating based on the principle that the slower you eat, the more enjoyable your food will be and the less you will eat. The more your savor each and every bite, the more value you will get out of each bite and you will become full faster because it takes 15 minutes for the food, once eaten, to make you feel full.

Ever since I’ve started working the night shift, I find I eat meals much slower than before, unless I’m very, very hungry.  I have found I eat much less and feel fuller after eating less.  Is this a good thing?  I suppose.  It is certainly a good thing for those who are overweight.  For myself, that is not the case.  If anything, I am nearing the precipice of becoming underweight.  But I am still in the normal range, which is higher than it ever was before when it comes to BMI.  Is 6′0″ and 170 lbs. truly underweight?  According to the BMI chart, I register around 22.5, which is actually in the middle range and towards the top of the middle range and yet I look thin as a rail, except in my stomach area, which isn’t completely flat, but is certainly getting there.  I probably have muscles in my legs that make myself weigh more because my legs are anything but thin, but they display hardly any fat.  My arms are extremely thin and have very little muscle mass, although I am not weak by any standards.

The Slow Food movement results in a reduction of calories consumed by the average person and will lead to weight loss and  a sense of better well-being taken the foods you are eating are beneficial to human health and not processed and denatured foods.  Your food is easier to digest the more you chew it, so it is much more beneficial when it comes to energy metabolism to chew thoroughly.  I remember an episode of the Simpsons where everyone finds out that Ned Flanders is 60 and looks so young and they ask what his secret is and he responds by saying “The 3 C’s.  Clean living, chewing thoroughly, and a daily dose of Vitamin Church.”  I whole-heartedly agree with the first two of his three statements.  And the third can simply apply to your spiritual beliefs, not simply Church.

I find you can learn a lot from researching Slow Food and at least giving it a shot.  Sure, there may be some unintended consequences, such as your hot food getting cold too fast, but you can always reheat your food (but not in a microwave).  You may be the last person at the table still eating your food, but you are also the person enjoying it the most and getting the most benefit out of it.  While everyone else is tired due to the extensive process of digestion, you will be halfway there before you even get up from the table.  Remember that digestion begins in the mouth.  And it is much easier to chew a little while longer than it is for your stomach to break down a large piece of steak for 4-6 hours.  And your jaw will get some much-needed exercise in the process.

The only real investment you might need to make if you adopt this lifestyle is a plate-warmer.  I’m sure they have them available somewhere.  It’s kind of like a mug warmer, but bigger.  That way, no matter how long it takes you to finish your meal, at least it will be hot.  Until next time, chew slowly and enjoy your food.  At least that way, you may not end up 100 lbs overweight.  It’s certainly healthier than gorging yourself until your stomach is about to burst.

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Laws Gone Wild

Friday, February 19th, 2010

I was doing some research on different laws after reading about government and corporate oppression and came to a stunning conclusion:  I have never participated in making a law.  Every law on the face of the Earth was created without my input or consent.  Whether or not I agree with the law doesn’t matter.  It simply exists because someone else thought it was a good idea.  But we have to follow all the laws or risk being thrown in jail.  But we didn’t have a say in creating these laws, so why should we be compelled to follow them?

There used to be laws saying a black person could not marry a white person.  This was in the last half-century.  Was the law just?  No way.  But did everyone still have to follow it?  You bet.  Martin Luther King said something like to resist and unjust law is doing your patriotic duty, but it comes at great cost.  MLK was thrown in jail many times for resisting the racist laws of his time.  It took a whole Civil Rights Movement just to get blacks and whites on equal terms with each other.  That is just one example of laws gone wild.

I believe we should take our own initiative when it comes to laws.  If we do not agree with a certain law, then we don’t follow it.  If a law is unjust, then following it is  only perpetuating the wrongfulness of the law.  We know the difference between right and wrong and there are hundreds, possibly thousands of laws that just don’t make sense or are there purposely to oppress those who are not rich, white, powerful, or straight.  People being thrown in jail for possessing the plant marijuana.  Two people unable to marry because they are of the same sex.  People sit in jail accused of a crime they didn’t commit because they cannot afford the bail.  Most times, they are forced to plead guilty to a lesser charge just to get out of jail.  People who are in possession of hard drugs are thrown in jail for years when in reality what they need is drug rehab.

People always act as if everyone who breaks the law should be thrown in jail, no matter how silly the law is.  But does jail or prison really help these minor offenders who simply had some drugs on them or were simply the wrong color and matched some general description?  Jail does not rehabilitate.  Minor offenders go into jail and come out worse criminals than they went in as.  All kinds of abuse take place in jail.  People are psychologically and physically scarred there.  It is not a place that facilitates growth and renewal towards a better future.  Look at how many people spend recurrent terms in jail/prison.  Is it really the best place to put most of these people?  Isn’t there a better way?

Now I’m not saying murderers and rapists don’t deserve to be put in jail.  I’m not saying con artists and thieves don’t belong in jail.  I’m just saying that this police state world has made everything imaginable a crime to create a prison population that is so overcrowded and full of minor offenders that it seems like a complete waste of resources.  There doesn’t have to be a war on drugs or a war on parking tickets.  We need to think awfully hard about the people we are sending away to the same place where murderers and rapists also inhabit.  Jail wouldn’t be so bad if it wasn’t for all the violence.  It’s just a place where they lump all the criminals into one big section and call it even.  Is it fair that a shoplifter has to share a cell with a serial killer?

What I’m getting at here is the justice system needs to be revamped.  We need to distinguish between real crimes and fabricated ones.  Let people live their lives, as long as they are not being violent.  The government should not be spying on everyone so closely.  You don’t see any other species in the world that have laws and prisons.  The only laws they have are the laws of nature.  They are born free and only have their freedom taken away if us humans get involved (such as factory farming and fir trapping).

We are born free and then most of our freedoms are taken away and every year we lose a little more.  We have lost 99% of our privacy.  We can’t just live anymore because we have to adhere to millions of laws and regulations that just constrict us more and more because the ruling class’s only method is to keep tightening their grip on the rest of the world.  It’s easier to squeeze tighter than it is to let go.  But who says they have the right to tell us how to live?  Who gave them that right?  Aren’t they the descendants of people who killed millions of Native Americans and stole all their land?  I guess there is no justice on stolen land after all.  Whoever has benefited from the mass extermination of the Native Americans should be put in prison for genocide.  But those kind of laws only apply to those who are not in the ruling class.

Dick Cheney can shoot his friend in the face while quail hunting and get away with it.  Imagine if a black kid did the same thing.  He’d be looking at 25 to life.  Not only are the laws silly, they are also unfair.  Those who have money can afford a better defense if they are accused.  They also can afford bail.  And you wonder why the poor make up a very large percentage of the prison population.  They weren’t born with a sliver enema up their ass that allows them to work the justice system to their advantage.  But so it goes.

I don’t know if there will ever be a time where all humans are seen as equals.  Sure, we’re not all equal, but under the law we certainly should be.  There should be no special treatment for those who can simply buy the verdict they want.  And certain ethnic groups should not be targeted in a discriminatory way just because statistics show that they are less likely to be able to afford a good defense attorney and end up having to spend time in jail.  Not only that, but the fact that even now there are laws specifically in place to oppress those who have nothing and to build up those that have everything.  It is a ridiculous paradigm, but will things ever change for the better?

It is up to us as a species to answer this question.

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The Human World is Going to Hell

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

The human world is going to hell and it is taking the rest of the natural world with it.  We’ve poisoned everything in sight for our own selfish “progress.”  We’ve even poisoned ourselves.  Try finding tap water without chlorine and fluoride in it.  Things seem to keep getting worse, too.  We are nearing the collapse of at least the USA, and possibly the global economy as we know it.  America will no doubt become a third world country.  This is, of course, due to our behavior as a species.  The United States makes up 5% of the population and uses over 25% of the world’s resources.  If that isn’t unsustainable, I don’t know what is.  Americans don’t even produce hardly anything anymore, yet another sign we are headed down the road of becoming the other, the nondominant nation.  And it is entirely our own faults.

When the settlers first arrived here in America, the landbase was pristine, a paradise.  Now it has become the United Malls of America.  We have destroyed this entire continent and called it progress.  We have drained the land of every natural resource we could think of and had a misguided assumption that they would last forever.  God forbid we would think ahead.  I have the most dreadful feeling that in the next 50 years, this whole planet will become nothing more than a stinking ball of garbage and radioactive materials.  And we’ll have 15 billion people if some plague or virus doesn’t wipe out half the population.  I already feel overcrowded with just almost 7 billion people on this little rock.  Imagine how fucked up this world will be if double the people live on it.

Lucky for us, the current way of life is unsustainable, so we probably will never see 15 billion people.  And if we do, it will be a tipping point that will lead to the complete destruction of civilization.  There will be some kind of crash this century and I would argue that we are already in it.  The economy is destroyed.  Most of our food supply is created in a lab.  People either have no job or a job that doesn’t allow them to cover their expenses.  There are millions of rivers of money going from the poor to the rich and the Federal Reserve has our country by the balls, quite literally.  The future looks bleak, and there is little we can do about it but pull up a chair to watch everything crash and burn.  I’m sure the television news will put on quite a show.  And we’ve all got a front-row seat.  Sure, it will be a biased report, but you can’t argue with the facts of what is going on.

People are suffering today worse than ever before due to our psychotic and domineering society and culture.  We are told there is only one way to live and we either live that way (the exact way that is getting us into so much trouble in the first place) or be phased out with violence or simple assimilation.  Just ask the Native Americans about how compassionate civilized humans are.  We are all victims of this culture.  We didn’t ask to be born into a world where 1% of the people control something like 50% of the wealth.  The game is rigged, the scales are tilted and we are all in the dark–intentionally.  Nobody at the top will tell you that you’re getting fucked and have been getting fucked since you started your first day of school.  We are only taught what we are meant to be taught to keep us docile, compliant, and subordinate.  We are taught to never question authority and to accept that rules are rules and laws are laws no matter how ridiculous some of them may be.

So here we have a population of people who are completely devoid of critical thinking.  Sure, there are some people who are resilient enough to break out of the propaganda, but for the most part people just take what they see and hear at face value and believe it, especially if it comes from a trusted media outlet.  The news is the main tool of propaganda, and this is exactly why there are 24-hour news channels.  The powers that be want us to be exposed to their manifestos at all hours of the day and night to keep us thinking the way they want us to think. Here’s a link to Bill Hicks’s JFK assassination joke that shows how the totalitarian media tells you what to think and distracts you with meaningless entertainment.  Even shows that are supposedly entertainment express these same views through the characters’ values and ways of life.  Their main messages are that buying things will make you happy, your government always knows what is best, and that we as a people are entitled to whatever we want, no matter the cost (financial or ecological).  We are told that to challenge authority is a big no-no and to think for yourself makes you a radical.  To propose ideas that are not widely accepted by the brainwashed masses and those who are doing the brainwashing is grounds to get you assassinated (at least some of the time).

It is a mad, mad world out there and a self-destructive one at that.  We are literally biting off the hand that feeds us and it is only going to end one way and at this point I do not believe there is any way to stop the crash.  We are already in it.  Things will get a lot worse before they get better and people will die.  When we run out of the fuel that sustains us, what will we have left to keep up this standard of living and to support this many people?  Hell, even our own crops are grown with fertilizer derived from oil.  Us humans may have been smart enough to control the world, but to do it in a way that will allow us to do it forever is beyond our reach.  We extend our power beyond our understanding and beyond our empathy to the point where we even hurt ourselves in the process.  Can we ever recover from this type of behavior?

I think time will tell whether or not we can overcome this pathological death cycle we are caught in right now.  Of course, after we have a major crash, there will be someone next in line to assume power and control, but only it will be much harder to control an entire population without all those natural resources.  I hope that one day we can start living from the land, not exploiting it, but I very much doubt I will see this in my lifetime because people are so resistant to change, especially one of this order of magnitude.  And if we do form a society without guns and exploitation, what is to stop another neighboring tribe from doing the opposite and overtaking us, much like every culture that exists today once did?  Perhaps the Earth is better off without humans altogether, but try pushing that idea on people.  Not going to happen.

I have faith that one day perhaps we will realize the folly of our ways and revert back to our hunter-gatherer real selves.  How we get there is unknown to me, but once we realize that it is more intelligent to live in balance as a whole species and retain that species consciousness without being seduced by fancy new tools that increase our power at a hidden cost, then it will be a possibility.  I’m just hoping that eventually we can live the way we are supposed to once again, the way nature intended.

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