In the movie The Matrix, humans are imprisoned in a virtual world by a powerful artificial intelligence system in a dystopian future. What they take to be reality is actually a computer program that has been jacked into their brains to keep them in a comatose state. They live their whole lives in that virtual simulation, without any way of knowing that what they appear to be experiencing with their senses is actually made of AI-generated code.
Life in our current society is very much the same. The difference is that instead of AI, it’s psychopathic oligarchs who are keeping us asleep in the Matrix. And instead of code, it’s narrative.
Society is made of narrative like the Matrix is made of code. Identity, language, etiquette, social roles, opinions, ideology, religion, ethnicity, philosophy, agendas, rules, laws, money, economics, jobs, hierarchies, politics, government, they’re all purely mental constructs which exist nowhere outside of the mental noises in our heads. If I asked you to point to your knee you could do so instantly and wordlessly, but if I asked you to point to the economy, for example, the closest you could come is using a bunch of linguistic symbols to point to a group of concepts. To show me the economy, you’d have to tell me a story.
Anyone who has ever experienced a moment of mental stillness knows that without the chatter, none of those things are part of your actual present experience. There is no identity, language, etiquette, social roles, opinions, ideology, religion, ethnicity, philosophy, agendas, rules, laws, money, economics, jobs, hierarchies, politics or government in your experience without the mental chatter about those things. There’s not even a “you” anywhere to be found, because it turns out that that’s made of narrative, too.
Without mental narrative, nothing is experienced but sensory impressions appearing to a subject with no clear shape or boundaries. The visual and auditory fields, the sensation of air going in and out of the respiratory system, the feeling of the feet on the ground or the bum in the chair. That’s it. That’s more or less the totality of life minus narrative.
When you add in the mental chatter, however, none of those things tend to occupy a significant amount of interest or attention. Appearances in the visual and auditory field are suddenly divided up and labeled with language, with attention to them determined by whichever threatens or satisfies the various agendas, fears and desires of the conceptual identity construct known as “you”. You can go days, weeks, months or years without really noticing the feeling of your respiratory system or your feet on the ground as your interest and attention gets sucked up into a relationship with society that exists solely as narrative.
“Am I good enough? Am I doing the right thing? Oh man, I hope what I’m trying to do works out. I need to make sure I get all my projects done. If I do that one thing first it might save me some time in the long run. Oh there’s Ashley, I hate that bitch. God I’m so fat and ugly. If I can just get the things that I want and accomplish my important goals I’ll feel okay. Taxes are due soon. What’s on TV? Oh it’s that idiot. How the hell did he get elected anyway? Everyone who made that happen is a Nazi. God I can’t wait for the weekend. I hope everything goes as planned between now and then.”
On and on and on and on. Almost all of our mental energy goes into those mental narratives. They dominate our lives. And, for that reason, people who are able to control those narratives are able to control us.
And they do.
Most people try to exert some degree of control over those around them. They try to influence how those in their family, social and employment circles think of them by behaving and speaking in a certain way. Family members will spend their lives telling other family members over and over again that they’re not as smart/talented/good as they think they are to keep them from becoming too successful and moving away. Romantic partners will be persuaded that they can never leave because no one else will ever love them. To varying degrees, they manipulate the narratives of individuals.
Then there are the people who’ve figured out that they can actually take their ability to influence the way people think about themselves and their world and turn it into personal profit. Cult leaders convince followers to turn over their entire lives in service to them. Advertisers convince consumers that they have a problem or deficiency that can only be solved with This Exciting New Product™. Ambitious rat race participants learn how to climb the corporate ladder by winning favor with the right people and inflicting small acts of sabotage against their competing peers. Ambitious journalists learn that they advance much further in their careers by advancing narratives that favor the establishment on which the plutocrats who own the big media companies have built their kingdoms. They manipulate the narratives of groups.
And then, there are the oligarchs. The master manipulators. These corporate kings of the modern world have learned the secret that every ruler since the dawn of civilization has known: whoever controls the narratives that are believed by a society is the controller of that society. Identity, language, etiquette, social roles, opinions, ideology, religion, ethnicity, philosophy, agendas, rules, laws, money, economics, jobs, hierarchies, politics, government: all mental constructs which only influence society to the extent that they are believed and subscribed to by a significant majority of the collective. If you have influence over the things that people believe about those mental constructs, you have influence over society. You rule it. The oligarchs manipulate the narratives of entire societies.
This is why there have been book burnings, heretic burnings, and executions for mocking the emperor throughout history: ideas which differ from the dominant narratives about what power is, how money works, who should be in charge and so on are threatening to a ruler’s power in the exact same way that an assassin’s dagger is. At any time, in any kingdom, the people could have decided to take the crown off of their king’s head and place it upon the head of any common beggar and treat him as the new king. And, in every meaningful way, he would be the new king. The only thing preventing this from happening was dominant narratives subscribed to by the society at the time about Divine Right, fealty, loyalty, noble blood and so on. The only thing keeping the crown on a king’s head was narrative.
The exact same thing remains true today; the only thing that has changed is the narratives the public subscribe to. Because of what they are taught in school and what the talking heads on their screens tell them about their nation and their government, most people believe that they live in a relatively free democracy where accountable, temporary power is placed in the hands of a select few based on a voting process informed by the unregulated debate of information and ideas. Completely separate from the government, they believe, is an economy whose behavior is determined by the supply and demand of consumers. In reality, economics, commerce and government are fully controlled by an elite class of plutocrats, who also happen to own the media corporations which broadcast the information about the world onto people’s screens.
Control the narratives of economics and commerce, and you control economics and commerce. Control the narratives about politics and government, and you control politics and government. This control is used by the controllers to funnel power to the oligarchs, in this way effectively turning society into one giant energy farm for the elite class.
But it is possible to wake up from that narrative Matrix.
It isn’t easy, and it doesn’t happen overnight. It takes work. Inner work. And humility. Nobody likes acknowledging that they’ve been fooled, and the depth and extent to which we’ve all been fooled is so deeply pervasive it can be tempting to decide that the work is complete far before one is actually free. Mainstream American liberals think they’re clear-eyed because they can see the propaganda strings being pulled by Fox and Donald Trump, and mainstream American conservatives think they’re clear-eyed because they can see the propaganda strings being pulled by MSNBC and the Democrats, but the propaganda strings on both trace back to the same puppet master. And seeing that is just the beginning.
But, through sincere, humble research and introspection, it is possible to break free of the Matrix and see the full extent to which you and everyone you know has been imprisoned by ideas which have been programmed into social consciousness by the powerful. Not just in our adult lives, but ever since our parents began teaching us how to speak, think and relate to the world. Not just in the modern world, but as far back as history stretches when the power-serving belief systems of societal structure and religion were promoted by kings and queens of old. All of society, and all of ourselves, and indeed all of the thoughts in our heads, have been shaped by those in power to their benefit. This is the reality that we were born into, and our entire personality structure has been filtered through and shaped by it.
For this reason, escaping from the power-serving propaganda Matrix necessarily means becoming a new creature altogether. The ideas, mental habits and ways of relating to the world which were formed in the Matrix are only useful for moving around inside of it. In order to relate to life outside of the power-promulgated narratives which comprise the very fabric of society, you’ve got to create a whole new operating system for yourself in order to move through life independently of the old programming designed to keep you asleep and controlled.
So it’s hard work. You’ll make a lot of mistakes along the way, just like an infant slowly learning to walk. But, eventually, you get clear of the programming.
And then you’re ready to fight.
Because at some point in this process, you necessarily come up against a deep, howling rage. Rage at the oligarchic manipulators of your species, yes, but also rage against manipulation in all its forms. Rage against everyone who has ever tried to manipulate your narrative, to make you believe things about yourself or make other people believe things about you. Rage against anyone who manipulates anyone else to any extent. When your eyes are clear manipulation stands out like a black fly on a white sheet of paper, and your entire system has nothing to offer it but revulsion and rejection.
So you set to work. You set to work throwing all attempts to manipulate you as far away from yourself as possible, and expunging anyone from your life who refuses to stop trying to control your narrative. Advertising, mass media propaganda, establishment academia, everything gets purged from your life that wants to pull you back into the Matrix.
And they will try to pull you back in. Because our narratives are so interwoven and interdependent with everyone else’s, and so inseparable from our sense of ourselves, your rejection of the narrative Matrix will present as an existential threat to many of your friends and loved ones. You will see many people you used to trust, many of them very close to you, suddenly transform into a bunch of Agent Smiths right in front of your eyes, and they will shame you, guilt you, throw every manipulation tool they have at you to get you to plug the jack back into your brain. But because your eyes are clear, you’ll see it all. You won’t be fooled.
And then all you’ll want is to tear down the Matrix from its very foundations and plunge its controllers into irrelevance. You will set to work bringing down the propaganda prison that they have built up around your fellow humans in any way you can, bolt by bolt if you have to, because you know from your own experience that we are all capable of so much more than the puny gear-turning existence they’ve got everyone churning away at. You will despise the oligarchs for the obscene sacrilege that they have inflicted upon human majesty out of greed and insecurity, and you will make a mortal enemy of the entire machine that they have used to enslave our species.
And, because their entire kingdom is built upon maintaining the illusion of freedom and democracy, all they will have to fight back against you is narrative. They’ll try to shame you into silence by calling you a conspiracy theorist, they’ll have their media goons and manipulators launch smear campaigns against you, but because your eyes are clear, none of that will work. They’ve got one weapon, and it doesn’t work on you.
And you will set to work waking up humanity from the lie factory, using whatever skills you have, weakening trust in the mass media propaganda machine and opening eyes to new possibilities. And while doing so, you will naturally shine big and bright so the others can find you. And together, we’ll not only smash the narratives that imprison us like a human caterpillar swallowing the narrative bullshit and forcing it into the mouth of the next slave, but we’ll also create new narratives, better narratives, healthier narratives, for ourselves and for each other, about how the world is and what we want it to be.
Because here’s the thing: since it’s all narrative, anything is possible. Those who see this have the ability to plunge toward health and human thriving without any regard for the made-up reasons why such a thing is impossible, and plant seeds of light which sprout in unprecedented directions that never could have been predicted by someone plugged into to establishment how-it-is stories. Together, we can determine how society will be. We can re-write the rules. We are re-writing the rules. It’s begun already.
Out of the white noise of a failing propaganda machine, a new world is being born, one that respects the autonomy of the individual and their right to self-determination. One that respects our right to collaborate on large scales to create beautiful, healthy, helpful systems without the constant sabotage and disruption of a few power-hungry psychopaths who would rather rule than live. One that respects our right to channel human ingenuity into harmony and human thriving instead of warfare and greed. One that respects our right to take what we need, not just to survive but to thrive, and return it to the earth for renewal. One that respects the sovereign boundaries of not just ourselves and each other, but of the planet spaceship that we live in.
Unjack your cortex fully from the fear-soaked narratives of insanity, and let the true beauty of our real world flood your senses. Let the grief of what we have unknowingly done send you crashing to your knees in sorrow. And when you’re ready, stand up. We have much work to do.
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GetAVasectomyAndLetTheHumanRaceDie on Sun, 26th Aug 2018 9:51 am
One narrative that is pushed by world wide government and main street media is the economy is doing great and jobs creation are at theirs highest ever.
If everything is so rosy why do we have something like this
THE COLLAPSE OF NEW YORK CITY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UZyKRH5B_U
Money is a bullshit concept that the rich loves because you can manipulate money and the definition of money to benefit you.
You cannot do that with an energy base economy where Joule of energy are exchanged instead of money. Don’t expect the rich and powerfully to get on board with and energy base trade economy because they will lose all their power. Collapse, blood and murder is the only way to bring changes forward. This is why there so much blood through human history.
Davy on Sun, 26th Aug 2018 10:15 am
What level are we talking? What dimension is this existential analysis? How far into the ego? How liberated into nothingness that is a reality of our body/ego? People have immediate responsibilities to get up and take care of biologicals, take care of business activities, and address relationships then they go to bed. Let’s keep this complexity simple. You can complicate it from there but then you get further from the truth the further you complicate it. This author is eating his tail by being dramatic and wordy. The storyline based on the movie “matrix” is lame. The movie is lame. People who think about life in this way are caught in a web of their own constructions.
We are overly complex as a civilization. Our civilization is a matrix of sorts but it is also little more than geologic acquiescence. Nature is the real web and humans are a subset of the web of life that is a subset of the planetary system and so on. When our little bitty egos get involved that is when we make these imaginative stories. Our complexity that is manifested in our culture has matrix elements but they are small compared to other natural forces we ignore and take for granted until we are facing crisis from planetary events.
What we need to get out of is this matrix thinking in the first place. We need to get back to a real humanism that is new but based on aspects of old traditions. We closed the door to the old ways but we can still use those ways in a hybridization of the modern. Some of the old ways were the wisdom we once had to say no. We need that “no” power to deal with today’s overpowering forces of complexity. We need to know our limitations and be humbled by this. We are now at the point where we need to make difficult existential decisions both at the top and with the individual. These tough decisions somehow don’t fit into our current cultural narrative of affluence and comfort that can be bought. What is ahead is raw and will be painful. It will be the type of trials demanded of people who do great things. This will be expected of normal people and many will not make it.
Duncan Idaho on Sun, 26th Aug 2018 11:02 am
Escapist fantasies are not going to save you.
I know it is unsettling, but one ust face reality.
Duncan Idaho on Sun, 26th Aug 2018 11:02 am
Escapist fantasies are not going to save you.
I know it is unsettling, but one must face reality.
MASTERMIND on Sun, 26th Aug 2018 11:23 am
As M. King Hubbert (1956) shows, peak oil is about discovering less oil, and eventually producing less oil due to lack of discovery.
Oil discoveries in 2017 hit all-time low –Houston Chronicle
https://www.chron.com/business/energy/article/Oil-discoveries-in-2017-hit-all-time-low-12447212.php
IEA Chief warns of world oil shortages by 2020 as discoveries fall to record lows
https://www.wsj.com/articles/iea-says-global-oil-discoveries-at-record-low-in-2016-1493244000
Saudi Arabia’s Energy Minister Warns of World Oil Shortages Ahead
https://www.wsj.com/articles/saudi-minister-sees-end-of-oil-price-slump-1476870790
Saudi Aramco chief warns of looming oil shortage
https://www.ft.com/content/ed1e8102-212f-11e7-b7d3-163f5a7f229c
A Regional Oil Extraction and Consumption Model. (Dittmar 2017)
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1708.03150.pdf
HSBC Global Bank: 81% of world liquids production already in decline and world oil shortages ahead
https://www.scribd.com/document/367688629/HSBC-Peak-Oil-Report-2017
Projection of World Fossil Fuels by Country (Mohr, 2015)
https://www.scribd.com/document/375110317/Projection-of-World-Fossil-Fuels-by-Country-Mohr-2015
Australian Government (Leaked) Study: concludes world peak oil around 2020
https://web.archive.org/web/20170415190328/https://www.aspo-australia.org.au/References/Bruce/BITRE-Report-117-Oil_supply_trends-2009.pdf
German Military (leaked) Peak Oil study: oil is used in the production of 95% of all industrial goods, so a shortage of oil would collapse the world economy & world governments
http://www.energybulletin.net/sites/default/files/Peak%20Oil_Study%20EN.pdf
MASTERMIND on Sun, 26th Aug 2018 11:36 am
Stormy Daniels’ attorney,Avenatti: Hush Money Payments Make Trump’s Election ‘Illegitimate’
Cloggie on Sun, 26th Aug 2018 11:43 am
IEA and US Geological Survey: 4.5 trillion barrel of recoverable oil left, that would be 27 times the largest oil field in history, Ghawar
https://deepresource.wordpress.com/2018/08/19/the-sudden-death-of-peak-oil-4-5-trillion-barrels-of-oil-left/
Peak oil called off.
MASTERMIND on Sun, 26th Aug 2018 11:55 am
Clogg
BS..That is Exxons and BP’s baseless claims..
IEA Chief warns of world oil shortages by 2020 as discoveries fall to record lows
https://www.wsj.com/articles/iea-says-global-oil-discoveries-at-record-low-in-2016-1493244000
IEA warns of oil ‘supply crunch’ by 2020 with no capex renaissance
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-oil-iea-forecast/iea-warns-of-oil-supply-crunch-by-2020-with-no-capex-renaissance-idUSKBN16D1X1
IEA Forecasts Oil Shortages and Sharp Price Rise by 2020 – Nasdaq https://www.nasdaq.com/article/iea-forecasts-oil-shortages-and-sharp-price-rise-by-2020-cm757712
International Energy Agency: Oil price spike coming in 2020
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2017/09/19/iea-oil-price-spike-coming-2020/679584001/
IEA: Warning: Oil supplies are running out fast
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/warning-oil-supplies-are-running-out-fast-1766585.html
IEA: Energy watchdog warns oil and electricity shortages could develop as investment falls
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/07/10/watchdog-warns-of-oil-and-electricity-shortages-as-investment-falls.html
MASTERMIND on Sun, 26th Aug 2018 11:58 am
Clogg
If there are 4.5 trillion barrels left..Then why has the price of oil more than tripled in the 21st century, compared to its 20th century price?
Reason: Scarcity caused by peak oil
Source: Reuters
https://imgur.com/a/K5XOgEs
Davy on Sun, 26th Aug 2018 12:06 pm
“Clogg BS..That is Exxons and BP’s baseless claims..”
come on mnm, you spammed those empty copy/paste peak oil links on the lynch feed. We don’t need your unimaginative link dumps. Do you have the ability to say something in your own words?
onlooker on Sun, 26th Aug 2018 12:09 pm
Yes, certain narratives are plainly false or intended to continue business as usual. Social roles is configured so that Men are above Women. Opinions are seen as worthy only within certain parameters. Ideology in the West scorns any Economic system that is not Capitalism. Religions are just tools to manipulate and control people. The Black Race is seen as inferior to other races according to the prevailing narrative. The agenda narrative is that we are progressing and building as time goes a better world especially via technology.The rules and laws allow and help the wealthy and powerful to remain so. And the dominant economic and political narrative in the West is that Democracy and Capitalism is working great for everybody. All those narratives are exaggerations or outright lies
RedPillPlease on Sun, 26th Aug 2018 12:17 pm
Cloggie: your deepreasource reference is comparing 1980s USGS numbers with current EIA numbers – apples and artichokes dude. The EIA has been shown over and over to be detached from reality. And I can assure you the USGS is still very concerned about peak oil, as should all of us.
Cloggie on Sun, 26th Aug 2018 12:42 pm
If there are 4.5 trillion barrels left..Then why has the price of oil more than tripled in the 21st century, compared to its 20th century price?
Reason: Scarcity caused by peak oil
Because this is “difficult oil”, in contrast to easy conventional oil, that indeed is “over the top” (peak conventional oil). Production cost for non-conventional fuel is higher.
You have to pay more, but the kWh’s with sufficient EROI are still there.
The good news: there is enough fossil fuel left to build ourselves a nice and shiny renewable energy base. Additional good news: because of increase of oil prices, renewable energy all of a sudden becomes competitive.
https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/renewable-energy-eu-new-power-90-per-cent-capacity-wind-power-coal-fossil-fuels-climate-change-a7571026.html
rockman on Sun, 26th Aug 2018 1:56 pm
Davy – IMHO just one more article trying to give consumers a pass for DECISIONS they chose. Consumers who understand the consequences of those decisions or willfully ignore facts they could illicit themselves.
Not much different then the “excuses” offered at Nuremburg.
rockman on Sun, 26th Aug 2018 2:17 pm
MM – “If there are 4.5 trillion barrels left..Then why has the price of oil more than tripled in the 21st century…” Easy answer: the price of oil is not determined by the amount of remaining global oil reserves. Regardless of how large or small that volume might be.
Proof? From July 2014 to January 2016 oil prices fell from $90/bbl to $35/bbl. Obviously global oil reserves could not have changed appreciably in those 18 months.
MASTERMIND on Sun, 26th Aug 2018 4:58 pm
Rockman
The price of oil fell to 35 but it went right back up to 45 for the average of that year..And since 2000 oil has averaged over 75 dollars, more than 3 and half times its 20th century cost..
You dumb fucking old crank.
MASTERMIND on Sun, 26th Aug 2018 5:01 pm
Davy here we are again with your empty links..I think your fucking brain is empty you fucking pussy..
IEA Chief warns of world oil shortages by 2020 as discoveries fall to record lows
International Energy Agency says U.S. shale won’t fill the void which could lead to petroleum shortages
LONDON—Global oil discoveries fell to a record low in 2016, the International Energy Agency says, raising fresh concerns about the potential for a petroleum-supply shortage as soon as 2020.
Don’t expect output from U.S. shale producers to fill the void, the IEA said. American shale production is expected to grow by 2.3 million barrels a day or more over the next five years, but that isn’t enough to make up for declining output elsewhere.
The IEA also doesn’t expect global oil demand to stop growing any time soon, potentially turning the current glut of oil into a dearth.
The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries has also sounded the alarm over the potential for a looming supply gap in the long term. Saudi energy minister Khalid al-Falih told a London energy conference last year that “there will be a period of shortage of supply.”
Shale “is not enough by itself,” the IEA’s Mr. Birol said.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/iea-says-global-oil-discoveries-at-record-low-in-2016-1493244000
Reply
Davy why don you stick to pitching manure you piece of white trash..
lMFAO!
MASTERMIND on Sun, 26th Aug 2018 5:04 pm
Clogg
Renewable s produce electricity and oil is used for transportation…This is like the 10th fucking time I have had to explain this to you..
The easy oil is gone
Oil discoveries peaked in the 1960’s.
Every year since 1984 oil consumption has exceeded oil discovery.
In 2017 oil discoveries were about 7 billion barrels; consumption was about 35 billion barrels
Of the world’s 20 largest oil fields, 18 were discovered 1917-1968; 2 in the 1970’s; 0 since.
https://imgur.com/a/6dEDt
https://www.chron.com/business/energy/article/Oil-discoveries-in-2017-hit-all-time-low-12447212.php
Did I spell it out enough for you Davy the dumbshit hillbily?
LMFAO!
MASTERMIND on Sun, 26th Aug 2018 5:05 pm
As M. King Hubbert (1956) shows, peak oil is about discovering less oil, and eventually producing less oil due to lack of discovery.
Oil discoveries in 2017 hit all-time low –Houston Chronicle
https://www.chron.com/business/energy/article/Oil-discoveries-in-2017-hit-all-time-low-12447212.php
IEA Chief warns of world oil shortages by 2020 as discoveries fall to record lows
https://www.wsj.com/articles/iea-says-global-oil-discoveries-at-record-low-in-2016-1493244000
Saudi Arabia’s Energy Minister Warns of World Oil Shortages Ahead
https://www.wsj.com/articles/saudi-minister-sees-end-of-oil-price-slump-1476870790
Saudi Aramco chief warns of looming oil shortage
https://www.ft.com/content/ed1e8102-212f-11e7-b7d3-163f5a7f229c
A Regional Oil Extraction and Consumption Model. (Dittmar 2017)
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1708.03150.pdf
HSBC Global Bank: 81% of world liquids production already in decline and world oil shortages ahead
https://www.scribd.com/document/367688629/HSBC-Peak-Oil-Report-2017
Projection of World Fossil Fuels by Country (Mohr, 2015)
https://www.scribd.com/document/375110317/Projection-of-World-Fossil-Fuels-by-Country-Mohr-2015
USA DOE Study: Peaking of World Oil Production (Hirsch, 2005)
https://www.netl.doe.gov/publications/others/pdf/Oil_Peaking_NETL.pdf
Australian Government (Leaked) Study: concludes world peak oil around 2020
https://web.archive.org/web/20170415190328/https://www.aspo-australia.org.au/References/Bruce/BITRE-Report-117-Oil_supply_trends-2009.pdf
German Military (leaked) Peak Oil study: oil is used in the production of 95% of all industrial goods, so a shortage of oil would collapse the world economy & world governments
http://www.energybulletin.net/sites/default/files/Peak%20Oil_Study%20EN.pdf
Time makes more converts than reason..
-Thomas Paine
makati1 on Sun, 26th Aug 2018 6:31 pm
onlooker, again you beat me to the punch. You outlined today’s situation in the Us perfectly.
“Life in our current society is very much the same. The difference is that instead of AI, it’s psychopathic oligarchs who are keeping us asleep in the Matrix. And instead of code, it’s narrative.”
Most Americans have no idea of the real world even in their own country, and, certainly not in the rest of the world. Delusion and insanity is rampant in the Us. It is obvious from the headlines, stats, and trends.
If you have lived as long as I have, the contrast with the past is dramatic. The “indispensable/exceptional” country is collapsing faster and faster every day. I only hope it happens before they start a nuclear war.
Cloggie on Sun, 26th Aug 2018 6:43 pm
“Renewable s produce electricity and oil is used for transportation…This is like the 10th fucking time I have had to explain this to you..”
Try to explain in your own words what you see here, you sad and lonely old f*ck, on the verge of suicide, who nobody loves and is over his ears in debt:
https://youtu.be/t8kZ7XX0-ms
makati1 on Sun, 26th Aug 2018 7:44 pm
“Blind acceptance of exceptionalism is, in itself, a dangerous disease….People around the world are convinced that the United States is a nation run by criminal psychopaths and morons….
Truth is, the average American has an IQ of around 96. It used to be 100, the number established as a “mean.” About 40% of Americans run between 60 and 85, enough to function at basic levels but with intelligence low enough to impair higher functions such as judgment and critical reasoning….
To an extent, it is demonstrable that the Nazi reign of terror was financed and engineered by America’s elites, the Bush, Harriman, Rockefeller, Farish and Walker families partnered with Hitler and IG Farben. Auschwitz was one of their efforts and what began as eugenics became mass murder under Hitler only to reappear as “Google” and “Facebook” decades later. In between, foundations rewrote history, recreated a “dumbed down” education system and society….
The result has been 50 years of declining wages, lowered life expectancy despite scientific advances, a society at war with itself, radicalized, superstitious and easily controlled….
Behind it all is the fake narrative, an endless droning of jingoism and phony patriotism, of exceptionalism and behind that is always fear….
https://journal-neo.org/2018/08/26/america-the-tyranny-of-the-stupid/
“The reality, a congress where an IQ of 70 is not unheard of, military academies where psychopathic behavior is promoted and those who exhibit the most deviant tendencies are “fast tracked” to command.” – Gordon Duff is a Marine combat veteran of the Vietnam War that has worked on veterans and POW issues for decades and consulted with governments challenged by security issues. He’s a senior editor and chairman of the board of Veterans Today, especially for the online magazine “New Eastern Outlook.” Nuff said.
makati1 on Sun, 26th Aug 2018 8:44 pm
“…sometimes we have to look at the numbers and face some things that are pretty terrifying. The first reality check is that some research says that only 3 million Americans are preppers. That means that 315 million Americans are not preppers. Some experts predict that within 30 days of the power going out, 50% of Americans will be dead. Within a year, an astounding 90% of the population will be dead….
1. You die of thirst or waterborne illness.
2. You die from fantasy-world planning.
3. You freeze to death.
4. You starve to death.
5. You have an accident involving major trauma.
6. You get murdered when raiders or looters come to steal your stuff.
7. You get sick.
8. You get an infection.
9. You die because you are fat and/or out of shape.
10. You die when you daily medication runs out.
https://www.theorganicprepper.com/how-youll-die-shtf/
“Almost every cause of death mentioned here is entirely preventable.
What will save you when an epic disaster strikes is what you do now to prepare for it” I’m prepared, are YOU?
Anonymouse1 on Mon, 27th Aug 2018 2:44 am
Great opening line to that article mak.
:People around the world are convinced that the United States is a nation run by criminal psychopaths and morons.
RoLF, now why would anyone think that…..
And its not just their rulers. In amerika, it is trival to find and enlist those of low intelligence, limited means, and exceptional arrogance, to act as cheerleaders for their masters. Whether your a highly paid, bimbo journalist working for uS propaganda, networks or a just an ill-informed dimwit convinced he is some kind of latent genius, tasked with defending the uS’s garbage image for free on the interweb, ignorance is easily, amerikas#1 export.
After guns, of course.
Davy on Mon, 27th Aug 2018 5:57 am
“Trump’s China Hawks Prepare to Swoop as Trade Talks Go Nowhere”
https://tinyurl.com/yd8b8g3g
“We’re facing an escalating trade war over the next few months,” says David Dollar of the Brookings Institution, who served as the U.S. Treasury’s top man in China under the Obama administration.”
“When Mnuchin and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross led missions to Beijing earlier this year, one key priority was securing increased purchases of American soybeans, LNG and other commodities, to reduce a bilateral trade deficit that’s been a persistent obsession for Trump. A few months on, the administration’s goals are more maximal. It’s demanding the kind of long-term structural changes to Chinese policy — such as ending industrial subsidies and intellectual-property theft — that hawks including Robert Lighthizer, the U.S. trade representative, and White House trade adviser Peter Navarro have been pushing for. “A spectrum shift,” Kennedy calls it.”
“Disentangling Economies That doesn’t mean that internal trade battles at the White House are over. The hawks are eyeing an even more ambitious agenda, says Kennedy: A long-term disentanglement of the two economies, with the goal of bringing supply chains back from Asia to the U.S.”
Sissyfuss on Mon, 27th Aug 2018 11:30 am
Stopping the internal dialogue was a chief tenet of Castanedas training by his Yaqui sorcerer Juan Matus. Don Juan taught that Mans self-importance grew to the point that he disconnected himself from the power and mystery of the Universe and refocused his attention on his increasing mastery over the physical world that has lead us to our current predicament. We are taught from birth what reality is but from and to an anthropocentric perspective. As a fish is unaware he is immersed in life giving water, humanity is completely blind to the fact that our environment, our natural world which allows us our perceptions is being systematically destroyed by those so full of themselves they think they exist outside of it, along with the billions who buy into their narrative.
DerHundistLos on Mon, 27th Aug 2018 7:06 pm
“….. humanity is completely blind to the fact that our environment, our natural world which allows us our perceptions is being systematically destroyed by those so full of themselves they think they exist outside of it, along with the billions who buy into their narrative.”
This is the perfect definition of an inexcusably pathetic failed species.
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