“You may be a construction worker working on a home,
“You may be living in a mansion or you might live in a dome,
“You might own guns and you might even own tanks,
“You might be somebody’s landlord, you might even own banks“But you’re gonna have to serve somebody, yes indeed
“You’re gonna have to serve somebody,
“Well, it may be the devil or it may be the Lord
“But you’re gonna have to serve somebody.”from Gotta Serve Somebody by Bob Dylan
The United States government spends 11% of the GDP (gross domestic product) beyond what they obtain through actual taxation by borrowing it and blowing it. If they stop that, the GDP instantly contracts by at least $1.5 trillion and all the economists scream
“DEPRESSION!”
While all across America people seem to embrace the ill conceived concept of
“I got mine, now screw you.”
People “got theirs” by ignoring the ugly truth that most of what The Federal Government does is unconstitutional.
The handouts and profitable insider contracts from the The Department of Education and the Department of Agriculture, Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security – all unconstitutional. The government’s policy of spending counterfeit money to buy off blocks of voters created an unsustainable system.
These corrupt United States government agents and their business partners in crime built this unsustainable system on undeliverable promises. The massive efforts to obscure reality while perpetuating the frauds inevitably led to the debasement of money, all money, on a global basis.
Debasement lowers the value of money, causing inflation.
The widespread unnecessary pain, suffering and death afflicted upon virtually all peoples caused by callous efforts attempting to satisfy insatiable greed betray a disturbing lack of morality. No one acquired the resources and knowledge required to pull off these multinational scams and remained ignorant of the catastrophic human cost.
These corrupt United States government agents, their constituents and their business partners in crime ritually observe, in fact if not in name, the worship of:
The Lord Of Battles
A god that demands horrific human and animal sacrifices. A god of war and gore, pure and simple, invoked as
- El-Shaddai of the Jews
- Ra-Hoor-Khu-It of the Egyptians
- Ares of the Greeks
- Mars of the Romans
- Wotan of the Teutons
- Him Who Is Not to be Named
Holy war and ritual bloodshed, the earliest and truest form of faith, religion and worship. This is the god promoted by all fundamental religious groups.
This god tells us humanity is trapped in a universe manipulated by anti-human forces.
We appear enslaved by a master who is our nightmare and herds us and butchers us like sheep. The great shepherd, the “keeper of the flock”, turns out to be a bloodthirsty demon.
Those who worship this god get government agents like this:
”If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic, and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”
Joseph Goebbels, Adolph Hitler’s Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda
The Hidden Variable
- Implicate Order for David Bohm
- Information for Jack Sarfatti
- Consciousness for Evan Harris Walker and Nick Herbert
- God of (Baruch) Spinoza for Albert Einstein
- Deus sive Natura for Baruch Spinoza
- The Odic or Odylic force, Od, Odyle, Önd, Odes or Odems, for Baron Karl Ludwig Freiherr von Reichenbach of the Vitalists
- Qi
- Orgone
- The Astral Plane
- and many others
If personified, this god encourages us to
- Be More Tolerant
- Love Each Other More
- Do Something Concrete and Practical About Suffering and Injustice
Which all seem well summed up by the Golden Rule.
Now, we have the Gulf Oil Disaster.
Now, we have Israel shooting up pacifists in International waters.
Now, I am through commenting on this type of thing and moving on to other things. The willingness of people to allow this all to pass indicates how small of a minority I belong to regarding my point of view.
From here on out, I will write about setting up business on the Internet. An understanding of raw material economics seems essential to orientating oneself in today’s financial environment.
Those who worship the Lord of Battles champion monopolies and relentlessly seek to take product from the producers. Making your product directly available to consumers seems both necessary and highly challenging.
The alternative is slavery in one form or another, slavery to those who worship the Lord of Battles. Ultimately, it is up to you whose altar your product graces.
Great article on the need to shift back to the real currency empowered by the Golden Rule. The only problem I see with basing ones income entirely on the web is there is no back-up in the event of a space junk collision. Best to grow some plants in the back yard too.
Jay Greathouse Reply:
June 2nd, 2010 at 1:40 pm
Excellent comment Nayer, very perceptive. I do see a need to balance an Internet business with participation in a local economy. The issue, it seems to me, pivots upon the availability of a relatively fragile technological infrastructure.
As long as the infrastructure functions, I believe greater opportunity exists on line. My personal questions involve how long the infrastructure can be maintained. I certainly wish to believe it will outlive me with for how much past my generation remaining a very open question.
We live in a time when catastrophic technological events have the power to destroy the lives and livelihood of millions. Witness the current events in the Gulf of Mexico BP disaster. The entire regional economy appears destroyed across the board. Fisheries, tourism and the oil industry all endangered.
IMHO, the plants in the back yard plants seem much more risky than an Internet business for the interim. Industrialized civilization, much less our current political situation, is truly unsustainable. Yet, it provides the power base for current the hegemony so continuity will be maintained at, literally, all costs until inevitable collapse.
As each individual becomes engulfed in the collapse they will come to rely solely upon local resources and markets. At that point, plants in the back yard would be a saving grace, as long as you were prepared to defend them, of course.
It is getting ugly.Drove by a BP station and every pump was full.
People just do not get it or at least very few.This is the new America
Corporate owned and payed for.Growing plants in your backyard will help
supporting local merchants and artists will help.But in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.Jay do not give up hope it is always darkest before the dawn.
Your intellect and voice is one of these lights.
The Haybilongs
Jay Greathouse Reply:
June 6th, 2010 at 7:01 pm
I agree glenn, it certainly seems very few get it. I just have to stop the rants, I get too worked up. Personally, I am convinced of the need to plan for mobility hence my insistence that everyone (who gets it) start an on line business. I will still present my point of view on current affairs and do my best to keep it relevant to small businesses on line.