Setting Priorities

Closing Ceremony Bullshit from 2016 Rio Boondoggle

There are several motivators that are much stronger than mere money: religion, family, pride to name a few. If you're in the money selling business, all of those things are competition. You don't want people realizing, "hey, we can do this thing without money; all we need is a plan."

If you're in the money selling business, or in the government business you don't want people setting their own priorities, even on the little things in life, because that will make it harder, maybe impossible for you to set priorities.

The 2016 summer Olympics is maybe the ultimate example of the priorities of the invisible empire. Brazil spent a giant pile of money and resources on a big party for global high society people even as many of her citizens toil away in squalor.

If you live in the United States, you've been under low level attack from all directions for several decades, all so you can't set your own priorities, in your own life, for your family, or for your community. Your priorities compete with the mansions of bankers, DC apparatchiks, or their enablers in academia or the media.