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TriTorch's avatar

I saw a revealing image recently. It was a father and daughter driving with the daughter in the passenger seat with one of those kid steering wheels that makes them think they are steering too. The caption was:

"Voting: giving grown adults the illusion of control."

Freecus's avatar

"What you do with that knowledge is up to you." Thanks once again for the research Esc.

One of the things I find the most challenging is finding the right moment and the words to communicate some of this knowledge to friends & local community.

A critical-mass is a much lower percentage of the population than many realize.

It has been paraphrased in a few different ways but..

There is nothing as powerful as an idea whose time has come.

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Thalia Martin's avatar

Thank you for suggesting things we can do

Rob Goldsack's avatar

Excellent summary, importantly including a what you can do. A key thing I would add to "what you can do" is to not fund them, using these three guides: buy products locally from small businesses (using cash as you suggest); stop eating matrix processed food; really examine which medicines do you good and which do you harm.

Matthew Ch4 vs1-11 describes the temptation of Christ. In the last two verses Jesus turns to Satan and says "Away from me, Satan!" Then the devil left him.

We need to say no to digital ID and all digital money.

Crixcyon's avatar

All for your own good, in the name of murder and depopulation of course...a desperate cause you are obliged and obligated to participate in for your own good, of course. You are the problem...thus, you become the solution. Like magic!

Clyde's avatar

"When you get down to it, there’s really just one question worth asking: who gave these institutions the authority to set the rules for the world?

When you look into it, the answer is that nobody did — they simply started doing it, and nobody stopped them. Now you know they exist."

The supplanting usurpation's evidenced cannot change past events from which there is no recovery. Some damage is so extreme that no amount of time can heal the deadly wounds inflicted by the venomous charlatans passing themselves off as "Public Servants".

hojo keceram's avatar

Lack of consequences for people who are not duly elected creates a major issue for society as a whole. We lose the sense of power we still think we have and we also can't even enjoy the moment of victory and the little rush we feel when our guy wins, even though that has become an illusion as well. Can someone, anyone tell me what is not fake, this control is starting to hit home and that is the only place I have left where I feel like a real boy.

Litoralis's avatar

Everything real still is. Sit still. Whatever remains was real all along.

Freedom Fox's avatar

All fine and good identifying this history to now. But I have strong disagreement about what to do about it now. Most of your suggestions amount to self-censorship, doing the work of silencing thought and fortifying the perception of compliance.

This course of action, while self-preservatory, actual reinforces and hardens the authority, power and control of the system.

If, in fact, all of our thoughts, ideas and beliefs are monitored by these systems they must take into account the pulse of the masses that is defiant, non-compliant, that rejects their authority. It becomes a self-congratulatory metric, "see, we have 98% approval and obedience" review of data that omits the voices that rejects them. The election results of dictators that declare 98% voted for the ruling party...of people who voted...with a knife at their throat.

Yes, we must reject digital currency, use cash as much as we can, build parallel systems of sustenance and exchange of services. Yet our voices of defiance must remain inside the system's view, data. While they still choose to veto our leadership choices, override our preferences they must still know they tread on dangerous thin ice.

Our voices of defiance and contempt for them, their authority acts as a check on them fully exercising their power, the power flex they wish to make and seize it all in one fell swoop. They see our numbers, it regulates them, gives them pause. To silence ourselves at this point is to surrender without so much as a bullet being fired. They will read the disappearance of voices that challenge them as victory, the remaining visible voices become a mop-up operation.

I reject that strategy. It is selfish and short-sighted. It is enough to be aware of their designs, to build parallel systems. But our voices must not be silenced by fear. We must exercise our freedom of speech in greater numbers, not fewer. Or lose it forever. And condemn ourselves to live in the shadows, nay, to survive in the shadows. For that simply won't be living.

esc's avatar

>Most of your suggestions amount to self-censorship, doing the work of silencing thought and fortifying the perception of compliance

that is flat-out wrong. i have never said that, and frankly question how you come to that conclusion.

please point to where i have called for you to self-censor.

Chris Coles FRSA's avatar

What I find most interesting is a systems specialist that has turned away from your core competency, to argue against it. That in fact you are describing how to live without such systems; that you are describing the creation of the exact opposite; a living freedom for the individual minds of humanity. Very thought provoking. In a sense, a planet wide lunar society, bringing outside thought into contact with the majority.

esc's avatar

I wouldn’t go that far. We’re not going to stop the march of systems. The last person to object ended up with a bullet in Dallas in 1963. What I vehemently oppose is the way it’s been carried out, and the way it indiscriminantly has transferred power to the few while the media has lied about it non stop.

Technology is meant to liberate but they’ve used it to enslave. The least they could do was allow a bloody discussion on the topic rather than just lie about it.

Freedom Fox's avatar

Reducing exposure, encryption, privacy as reaction to anticipatory exclusion from society is a self-censorship prescription. Say your thoughts loudly and proudly. Endeavor to get ON the naughty list. Demonstrate to others fearless unwoke, defiant speech, point the flag towards the enemies of free speech. Antagonistically. Show others bravery, not avoidance of hazard.

If those in the UK, Germany, France, etc who saw people arrested and fined for "dangerous" and "offensive" chose to defy, en masse, greater numbers speaking dangerously and offensively authorities would've stopped, not enough jail cells and judges. But they complied, hid their true thoughts, now speak in closed circles, communities of like-minded. Isolated. Just. Like. Authorities. Want. It's self-censorship. Wrong approach. We stand up, don't get bullied. We stand with free speakers even if we don't agree with what they are saying. Because we must. Our voice being silenced is next. If we seek to avoid punishment, safety. Just a matter of time.

ironicskeptic's avatar

«"personnel is policy" and looks at the people in those institutions: they are all "affiliated" and "sponsored" people whose careers and rewards in practice utterly depend on their "patrons" and "sponsors".»

As an aside as a lot of people confuse three different levels:

Managerial class: people who implement policies decided by the governing class, that is people like von Der Leyen, Summers, Milley, CFOs, ... They are often consulted by the governing class, but do not decide the strategies. Their careers usually are "affiliated" with some members of the governing class.

Governing class: people who decide which policies to follow to realize the goals of the ruling class, that is people like Pelosi, Biden, Romney, Rumsfeld, Rubio, CEOs, ... They are as a rule consulted by the ruling class, and have somewhat wide decisional power, but only as to policies, not as to goals. Their power and roles are "sponsored" by the ruling class.

Ruling class: people who decide which goals should be reached and leave strategizing and implementing largely to the governing class and the managerial class, that is people like Wall Street magnates, Adelson, Musk, ...

Note: arguably there is further upper layer which is the "dynastic class" which is made of the older women ("matrons", grandmothers, empress-dowagers, ...) of the "ruling class" and controls the reproductive decisions of the ruling class.

An important question about someone in office or power or rulership is "what is their power base?": managerial class people do not have their own power base, governing class people may have a power base but usually it is relatively small and depends on the "sponsorship" of the ruling class, and ruling class people have their own independent power base (once upon a time mostly military force, then land wealth, then industrial might, then financial and tech power).

ironicskeptic's avatar

«What Makes This Different Traditional governance was about laws — things you couldn’t do, with punishment if you did them. The default was freedom. This system inverts that. The default is exclusion. You must be approved, verified, compliant before you can participate.»

That is not "different" from the past, what has really happened is quite different because many people are not aware of how things worked in the past:

* In the past most people lived in villages or small towns and never traveled more than a few dozen miles aware from their birthplace.

* A lot of villagers and townspeople would be informers for the lord of the manor and the priest/bishop and shops would report any usual purchases to them, especially of "dangerous" books.

* Small villages and town were utterly monitored and controlled by the "lord of the manor" and the local priest: in many cases you needed a "good character letter" from a priest to be hired for a job and a "travel permit" or "relocation permit" from the lord of the manor to travel to another town or to move to another village ruled by another lord of the manor, and a "publication permit" ("imprimatur") to publish anything or to make speeches or even to attend a school or a university.

* People who pissed off the lord of the manor or the priest/bishop had no options but to leave their village or town and become an "outlaw" living in the wilderness (in past forests and swamps were between every city), Robin Hood style. In the early USA you could "go west" into the frontier.

The expressions "you will never work again is this town" and "you cannot fight City Hall" exist for a reason.

What happened for a century or two is that progress in travel but not in communications and the discovery of the Americas and the creation of big cities enabled people to cheaply go so far away to another country or continent or a city so big that it could not be subject to total surveillance.

What happened after that is that communication and surveillance technology have caught up with travel technology and nowadays it is almost as easy for the "authorities" to monitor and control a continental-sized country like the USA or even inter-continental inter-country monitor and control across the USA empire.

«The people setting standards are a small group — maybe a few hundred — at institutions most people have never heard of. The Bank for International Settlements [...] major foundations like Rockefeller, Ford, Gates, and Open Society fund the research and advocacy that shapes what becomes accepted wisdom.»

These are not independent "managerial" powers they are in practice transmission belts for policies decided by the oligarchy of the core of the empire. This is pretty obvious if one remembers that "personnel is policy" and looks at the people in those institutions: they are all "affiliated" and "sponsored" people whose careers and rewards in practice utterly depend on their "patrons" and "sponsors".

Subo2's avatar

Same Tyranny, different years and magnitude, not much new under the Sun ... but they are gunning to go one step beyond ... time is cyclic ... this is currently Disneyland in comparison to life under King Henry VIII, in his 36 year reign he single-handedly reduced the population of England by 3%, the modern day equivalent of 20-25 hangings a week in your average 10 million person populated city, don't believe the Lethal injections are anywhere near that yet, thievery of 100usd (in present day PPP) carried the death sentence ... he was a real mean dude ... so Happy New Year! ... it may NEVER happen ...

Shelby's avatar

Is there really no single agenda guiding? Or is this the beast system of Revelation 13?

Howard Switzer's avatar

Wow, what great work ESC! It makes me feel stupid and smarter at the same time. I have been advocating for monetary reform to change the paradigm from greed to care, from debt money to asset money with these folks; greens.money - monetaryalliance.org - monetary.org ....all here in the US. It is a vast and powerful system as you so well describe. I think money is the 'leverage point', the point where a small change changes the entire system, that is currently being pushed in the wrong direction. Do you agree?

Geir Hasnes's avatar

Thanks for the summary. Important points.

Kaylene Emery's avatar

I’m wide awake now ….as are others.

Kaylene Emery's avatar

They only think , they know who we are . In my experience ….they can’t analyse their way into or out of a toilet. ( rest room for American).

What they want to do is to convince us - that they Know .😂