Win the Game by not Playing

Some animals engage in play. In many species, play is a feature of youth. The young participate in mock fights, hide and seek, racing and other sports. For many animals, the game eventually stops, and is eclipsed by the daily routine of life's basics. For almost all human beings the game never stops. For people in the west, life's defined by money and career and pursuit of arbitrary goals on a field defined by arbitrary rules. Most people are trained, from the very beginning of their education, to accept the rules without question. Around mid-life, when the first stink of mortality starts to set in, the arbitrary, and therefor pointless nature of the game starts to become more obvious.

The only real way to not play the game is to make conscious choices, which is easier said than done. Conscious choice implies full knowledge, and seeing beyond prepackaged alternatives.

Unfortunately, this quest for knowledge can also lead people into various traps. The most glaring example is offered by religious cults, or esoteric systems that are designed as a scam, or a scheme.

Permaculture and Money

In the United States (really in the world) there is one money the Federal Reserve $. That money sets almost every priority, and sets the price of most things in various markets--from the local farmers market up through financial markets in NYC.

The FR$ keeps everyone jogging on a treadmill and forces "cost" out of all production and all systems. "Cost" is any share of production that isn't returned to banks, shareholders, or executives. "Cost" is presented as if it's a concept that's a totally objective concept, rather than close to totally arbitrary, that is, an expression of a political arrangement.

This system is heinously flawed. It debases everything, and has converted the United States from a wealthy creditor to a broke debtor. The economic systems that support life in the US are precariously fragile and will fail catastrophically fairly soon.

A system based on permaculture, and local autarky would be much more resilient in every meaning of the word. It would also obviate the debt money system and reduce the importance of centralized trade hubs and mega cities.

Permaculture is identical to "sustainability". The very core of the idea is that the gardener, or farmer, is investing in their land's health and improving its productive capacity rather than strip mining it. The rate of growth of productivity of soils, then, would set the rate of "growth" of the economy (and populations). There really isn't borrowing from the future, which is an illusion that's made possible by cheap, abundant energy sources that were cached on the Earth in the ancient past. (petroleum) We'll find out the hard way--so tend your garden.

An Unimaginable Scenario

The 2016 Presidential Election has helped expose a vast cultural rift in American society. It's a rift that's been present in the country since the very beginning.

America is a nation of people that left the old world for a new one. They made a break with their past, and a break with the ancien regime way of doing things: i.e. psychopathic violence and skullduggery. Unfortunately, the ancien regime eventually infected the United States with its shit ways, toward the end of the 19th Century, and finally, and completely after WW2. (Maybe Dwight Eisenhower's farewell address was a warning about this.)

"America" still exists, but it's not in the institutions that dominate DC and NYC. It's a fading memory, that quite unexpectedly has been rekindled by Donald Trump's campaign which has exposed an actual political schism between the people and the infection.

A divide and conquer scenario is playing out that I never would have imagined when I was a kid growing up in the 70s, riding around on my american made Schwinn or reading comic books bought from the main street pharmacy.

The World War One propaganda trope of the "Hun" has been reapplied to the millions of american men and women of all walks of life, skin tones, and religious creeds who happen to support Trump. The variation on the theme, this time, is they're all "racists and bigots" or xenophobes or whatever label, and are secretly in league with Vladmir Putin.

Imagine the cretins in DC are insane enough to kick off a war with Russia over Syria, then the meme of the Hillary Clinton campaign that the Wikileaks release of Podesta's emails, DNCleak and other material exposing the crimes of her family are a Russian plot suddenly makes her political opponents into traitors.

It seems insane and unlikely to work, but I won't be shocked if they try it.

Prophets of the Western World

Abraham Zacuto

The modern world's a corporatocracy. In the western world corporations, are involved in almost every aspect of a person's life from birth, through their education, and of course, finally when they end up in a job, unless they are lucky enough to be self employed, or work for a small business. Even in the latter case, many small businesses are constructed to be a wanna-be version of big business, and are forced to plug into the same bureaucratic systems of taxation and regulation anyway.

It seems like this manner of social organization has its roots in the British Colonial system, which was one of the original corporatocracies. (see British East India Company) The origin of the joint stock companies was as a joint venture between european monarchies/aristocrat class and merchants, many of whom were jewish people, and it was based on systems and corporate organization, and also technology and science that jewish people either invented or retained from earlier times. [See Abraham Zacuto]

However, it seems the dominant set of "religious" ideas of this thing were Hermetic, and not Jewish at all. As described in earlier posts, it seems Hermeticism came into the Western world via the collapse of Constantinople via Greek Scholars and Italy. Hermeticism became modern science via people like John Dee and Francis Bacon, the literary circle who formed the zygote of the British Empire.

It's pretty stunning to survey the scope of the changes this tiny group of people wrought on the world. They obliterated the medieval world and replaced it with modernity.

Corporatocracy

Harold Geneen:
CEO of ITT Corporation enabled
Chile CIA coup

The United States is a Colony of the Western Empire. The Western Empire is an invisible empire. It has no overt existence. There's no gaudy cosplay monarch like the British empire used to have. Instead, it permeates the day to day life of billions of people and is headquartered in boardrooms and executive offices around the world. The empire is visible at times, though, and the general pattern of it is corporatocracy.

One really good, recent example of corporatocracy in action was the overthrow of Salvador Allende and subsequent US government directed slaughter of thousands of his supporters in Chile, starting September 11, 1973. The ITT corporation helped facilitate the CIA operations in Chile to help install Augusto Pinochet. Another example is the coup in Indonesia in 1965 that led to genocidal massacres. In the latter case, Barrack Obama's mother and father seem to have been involved in some capacity as agents of "the Empire".

Those operations follow a fairly typical pattern described in detail by John "Economic Hitman" Perkins, and continue a pattern that was established in the dawning of the colonial era, where joint stock companies like The Dutch East India Company were hybrid private merchant/government organizations. In fact, the "economic hitman", financial domination model just replaced the old colonial model after World War 2 and actually imported it back to the United States and Europe so now Americans and Europeans are subject to the same type of exploitation that used to be applied only to "foreigners".

Oddly enough, this history seems to explain why there is a disproportionate number of Jewish people in prominent positions in this iteration of Empire. The joint stock companies were pioneered by Jewish merchants along trade routes known to Jewish people before European monarchies got so heavily involved. Abraham Zacuto, for example helped furnish 15th century Portugal with celestial navigation know-how.

Snowden, Assange, Manning Psy-Op

The Internet and personal computers can enable average people to totally refashion the economy to their benefit. It's a huge threat to the status quo.

How do you conquer the Internet? With an elaborate theater production, apparently. Three "hero" figures have been created, all who ostensibly work in the public interest. Manning and Snowden seem to be scripted characters. They've got elaborate back stories and reflect two opposite archetypes. Assange is also a theatrical character.

Technically adept competitors of the US were certainly aware of the federal government's alphabet soup agency snooping and hacking capabilities well before Snowden leaked any information. So who's the audience for "hero" Snowden's leaks?

You and me. Joe and Jane Sixpack. The message is "you better not use the Internet to organize because the gov't is spying on you ALL THE TIME."

Also creating hero/savior figures who are ostensibly fighters for the common good pacifies people. "Oh I don't need to do anything, because Assange has my back."

There's no NWO

If you spend some time reading medieval history--you don't even need to read much of it, or really stick to any particular event or era--you'll see contemporary events more clearly. One key takeaway is that modern governments with all their bureaucracy, regulations, countless employees, and endless meddling in daily affairs are camouflage around the ancient methods used to organize people.

Government isn't a thing it's people organized to do stuff. The people are actually organized from what I think of as "power centers". In the early middle ages, post-Rome, the power centers were basically just big farms. The power centers shift and morph all the time and what provides the juice and ability to motivate changes all the time, but the basic structure of the people doing the organizing seems pretty similar from era to era. It's something that's like a big family business or a mafia. 

In the alt-media, a common interpretation of events is that there's a single puppet master (or maybe a handful of people) who set the agenda and pull the strings according to some master plan. The conflict between the "United States" and Germany/the EU, though seems to indicate something else is going on.

The United States and Germany are periodically slapping punitive fines on the largest corporate entities associated with those countries. The USA, for example slapped multi-billion dollar fines on both VW and Deutsche Bank, and the EU slapped Apple with a large tax-evasion penalty, apparently in response. Similarly, Germany is basically under slow-motion invasion from the middle east, which seems to be financed and facilitated by George Soros linked groups, and also by Angela Merkel.

It really doesn't seem like there's a single power center. Rather there are several. They sometimes work together. They sometimes fight. The governments of particular countries sometimes align with their own national power centers. Sometimes they're at odds. It'd be a good project to try to map this stuff out.

You're a Captive!

In a previous post, I started to outline a history theory of "frozen tribal conflict". To sum up: our modern world is the result of centuries of inter-tribal warfare, long forgotten alliances, and long forgotten peace deals.

You might be a captive of systems and relationships that started centuries ago--maybe 1000 years or more. If you explore your roots--who you are and where you came from--and explore your dreams, and your real interests you might find a possibility for real concord. Real satisfaction with your life.

There are many people, many families opting out of the Empire's system. Their stories are all over. Blogs, youtube channels record people engaging in this process.