"Deception is a state of mind and the mind of the State" - James Jesus Angleton, Head of CIA Counter Intelligence 1954-1974
"....We were too uncivilized to give great importance to private property. We didn't know any kind of money and consequently, the value of a human being was not determined by his wealth. We had no written laws laid down, no lawyers, no politicians, therefore we were not able to cheat and swindle one another....." John (Fire) Lame Deer Sioux Lakota - 1903-1976
Now that the sky has fallen, people want to know how to solve the economic mess. But the economic problem is just a symptom of a much greater problem. Until we come to some understanding of the greater problem, then it will continue to be one mess after another leading the world into greater fascism.
First, we need to wrap our minds around the fact that governments lie all of the time. They not only lie, but they are engaged in actively deceiving and misinforming their people in the form of media, entertainment, education, organized religion, economics, official pronouncements, and in whatever ways they can. All governments do this and the more powerful governments are able to do it more successfully.
Once you realize that you can never really trust the information you are given because there's a good chance that it is a lie or some other form of disinformation, then that can shake you up a bit. The ground might appear as if it was moving or you may start to hyperventilate, but these reactions will pass. Yet that realization, that you have been played as a fool by the masters of deception, can lead you to tackle the basic problem we face.
The crashing of the economy points to the major problem. People have violated the basic laws of survival.
It is really that simple. People have confused their interests with the interests of the wealthy few that run the government and the economy. People have been so taken in by the official propaganda machine of our new world empire, that they began to think that what was good for the few billionaires was also in the people's interest.
But the elite never confuse their interests with those of the people. They realize that it is in their interest to gain greater power and wealth. The elites of every country and kingdom have known for centuries how to manipulate and control the masses for their benefit. Most of the time they were highly successful. Recently with the fall of that other empire (the Soviets), the rich realized the time was right to grow their wealth and power by taking more of it from the rest of the people. So over the last few decades in the United States and in Europe there has been the move toward privatization (corporate ownership and control over national wealth), a move toward deregulation (corporations plundering and pillaging freely), and a move toward outsourcing (moving the wealth away from the working and middle classes to the highest class). To top it all off, the super rich created more wars, to make fortunes off of armaments, overcharges, and the privatization of war services, and then told the American people that it was their duty to kill and die for "freedom" in far away lands. Oh, and it was the duty of all Americans to support that slaughter in the name of "liberation."
Americans, abandoning the basic principles of survival for themselves, their family, their friends, and neighbors, allowed a massive swindle. They thought by allowing the super rich to get even super richer they would somehow gain in the supposed "trickle down." Just recently, with the massive bailout of the elite banksters and fraudsters, we were able to see that popular mentality in action. Americans were angry, but in the end the people thought that if they just gave away the rest of their wealth then their interests would somehow be served.
Nonsense!
So now I offer the solution to our main problem. We need to uncivilize ourselves and utilize the basic instinct of survival. This will ultimately solve the financial problem, the war problem, the political problem, the education problem, and all of the other problems that arise when people don't look out for their own interests. Once the American people recognize that big pharma, big finance, big business, entertainment, politicians, and all of the other institutional mind benders are not there to serve their interests, then they can start looking out for themselves and their loved ones.
Get in the survival mode and ask yourself who is benefiting.
Once you start questioning the basic set up of the system, you will come to some conclusions. You will understand that unjust wars are, well, unjust. You will realize that all systems need some regulation and control and there is no magic in the market. The only magic is in the magical thinking that says regulating the rich is bad. You will realize that jobs outsourced to slave and child labor is not a benefit to you and not even a benefit to those who are exploited by it. You will also realize that if they have trillions for super rich and their wars, then they have the money for social security, medicare, and other social programs that benefit nearly all in some way. Finally, you will realize that our natural resources, infrastructure, and government services are a part of the nation's wealth and should not be owned and controlled by those that put profit over people and country.
Uncivilize yourself and free up your basic instincts for survival; then there will be no need to worry about nuclear nightmares and our present exploitative existence. Instead the world will become more humane and, not surprisingly, more free.
http://grantlawrence.blogspot.com/
I work as a school counselor and mental health counselor in Gallup New Mexico.
Finally an Article this old Indian likes. Perhaps those who appeared to be uncivilized were actually more civilized than those who thought they were civilized but weren't civil at all when it came to worldly power & wealth?
I never present things from a point that every person of Native heritage was perfect or could do no wrong but the Native tribes had about 5 percent of the problems for the 1000's & 1000's of years they lived upon the earth in those times. Out of that 5 percent of problems most were minor problems or disputes between people of a Tribe.
I was talking with an older black man one day. He was talking about the problems of this world. I said, if you had lived here when the land belonged to the Tribes think of how little bad news you would have ever heard in your lifetime.
He said, "I never thought of it that way."
But I do think of it that way so outside of having money for the cash registers I just block out civilization. I pledge alligence to the cash register & for all it stands.
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shadow dancer (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 73 comments)
on Sunday, October 12, 2008 at 10:23:58 AM
I work in Gallup New Mexico and am a school counselor in a middle school. Most of the students are Navajo so I am definitely familiar with the people and the culture. I was on the reservation for awhile as well.
The main problem is alcohol and drug abuse, which has arisen with "civilization" for them. There is a list of injustices that I could go into but they are not only coping but they are making progress in a modern world.
Thanks for your comments.
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Grant Lawrence (26 articles, 0 quicklinks, 6 diaries, 63 comments)
on Sunday, October 12, 2008 at 12:38:26 PM
Oh, I take it off most of the time... but here is what Hubbie and I have done in the past 3 years.
Filed bankruptcy (AHEAD OF THE DAMNABLE LEGISLATION) and got debt free
We paid cash for 2.5 acres in North Central Florida (3 growing seasons)
Traded in the Ford Explorer and Mercury Sable, for a 4cyl light truck and a Nissan Versa
I practiced growing food to eat, and improving our "homestead". Got better at it every year. Learned how to dehydrate just about anything.
In light of (not so recent) "news" we are adding a chicken coop, and plan for goats next year. We are researching a solar pump for our neighbor's well, and we'll share the expense.
There are other preparations to be made. Living in a hurricane state puts us a wee bit ahead of the curve.
STOCK UP, it wouldn't hurt if we're wrong. And hey, we own it at a much lower price than is on the shelf today.
Call me crazy, and I truly, sincerely hope we are wrong, wrong, wrong.
I'll laugh along with everyone who told me my Tin Foil Hat was tipping.
Faith Carr
BTW I wear my foil hat all the time now. Lined my wide brim garden hat with it. Might add some to the gloves too...
f.
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FAITHCARR (15 articles, 4 quicklinks, 6 diaries, 53 comments)
on Sunday, October 12, 2008 at 6:10:20 PM
Great piece and very timely. Modern government, especially since the industrial revolution, has merely existed as a conduit to funnel the wealth from labor and resources to a tiny number of rich and powerful families. In a democracy this can only be done by owning and controlling sources of information. The American electorate is probably one of the most ignorant of their own history of any that exists in the developed world.
My relatives were recruited to come here from Finland because companies needed workers to toil in the forests and Mines of Michigan and Minnesota. They represented "cruder" societies that were hard working, socialist and democratic in nature. They naturally became involved in fledgling labor movements and thousands became so disillusioned with the American economic system in the 1930's that they packed up and went back.
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Bryan Emmel (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 226 comments)
on Monday, October 13, 2008 at 12:48:25 AM
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