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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The true face of UN's "Peace" corpse - hypocrisy and cynicism. And all global organizations alike. It is all for profit. At any cost, human suffering that is. There is no humanity where six and seven digits are involved. This is another truth in a world of lies. We live in a primitive world, only the blind do not see that. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The film is based on real events. With a happy ending (for corporations involved in the business of war)</div><br />
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Capitalism is a financial system that is meant to be an opposite to Socialism, or more like the other way around. Now, it is indeed a bit confusing to say so, since the former is a financial theory, whereas the latter is a political system. Of course, in practice, these two are completely entangled and they can't really exist independently from one another. The financial and the political systems in general, that is. </div>
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Socialism is thought to have its roots in the 19th Century and the socio-political theories of the German philosopher <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Marx">Karl Marx</a>. Actually, Marx's philosophy is established as Marxism and is also recognized to be a foundation to Communism. Ever since the Bolshevik revolution and especially the Cold War, Communism is regarded as a totalitarian evil and the very word of it brings about feelings of resentment. </div>
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History is a complex topic and certainly not a straighforward one, not to mention that it is shrouded in a lot of myst and propaganda, also historic events too often are distorted through the subjective interpretations of the different view points. So, when one reads history, he or she should always keep in mind that this is the subjective interpretation of a source and that there are other layers and viewpoints to it as well. </div>
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Karl Marx and his close like-minded friend Friedrich Engels aspired to a better world, where class-based society with its inequalities would become a thing of the past. They also revolted against the exploitation of the working class by the capitalists and saw religion and religious authorities as equally abusive towards the ignorant believers, in large parts because religion had a long tradition of supporing class-based societies and protecting the "divine rights" of kings and emperors. Their communist philosophy envisioned a society where there will be freedom and equality, higher consciousness, responsibility and solidarity among people. In some part, their philosophy is quite sound, in theory. In practice, however, things turned out to be very different. Just as any other beautiful theory regarding economic and political workings of a society. </div>
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In practice, what the Bolsheviks and subsequently the USSR created was a totalitarian rule, which they all labeled as "communism" and also "socialism". I don't quite agree with the interchangeability of these two terms, because of their etymology. Communism comes from community, to commune. This term expresses the core concept of a classless society that Marxism envisioned. While Socialism roots itself from Society, social, with an "ism" attached, meaning "power to the people", as opposed to "power to the kings and rulers". From here on things get complicated and volumous.</div>
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On the one hand, humanity simply isn't advanced enough so that we may completely eradicate feudal elements, as in ruling class over a majority of people mass. Such a social form isn't impossible, but it involves a society consisted of individuals of a wholly different level of intellect, culture, behavior and so on. Such a society cannot be created with a social mass of ignorant, selfish, narrow-mined, basic, low cultured and so on and so on "average" people, even less so average peasants (as with the case of the Bolshevik revolution). On the other hand, having the above prerequisite in mind, the Bolshevik's and subsequently all communists never intended to create any such "utopian" society, they simply used people's ignorance, naivete and the "spirit of the era", which was buzzing with worker's being fed up with the old capitalist-feudal order. They exploited the masses to overthrow the monarchy and set up a new monarchy of their own. As George Orwell's satire "Animal Farm" eloquently portrays. Watch an <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AD0j48yIl4">animated adaptation</a> of his book here. </div>
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Since the striking contrast between what "Communism" was thought to be like and what it was became obvious, the whole philosophy was condemned as no good. When in reality, there was Leninism, Stalinism and Totalitarianism. What I see as more disturbing is that the term "Socialism", as well as its root Social, went along in the category of highly undesirable things to have. And many people today perceive the term Socialism as somehow related to Dictatorship. A perception readily exploited by other forms of government today, who, more or less, are back to feudal-capitalism-like forms of social order. </div>
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In conclusion, communism turned barbaric and totalitarian because The Human Element bares these qualities and infuses them in everything the human element gets involved with, thus distorting beautiful theories into ugly practices. Just like the so called "Democracy" and, of course, "Capitalism" in all of their various forms. </div>
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Modern capitalism, promotes private ownership, ideally with no government ownership at all, encourages deregulated trade and production (free market) and is generally against social policies of any kind, like benefits, free (or cheap) health care, pension funds and so on. Democracy is some highly unclear term, that incorporates in itself various "schools of thought", economic and political practices. The average person thinks that Democracy means the right to vote, which is a highly simplistic and ignorant perception, not to mention naïve. </div>
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Democracy indeed is based on people's right to choose their government, from the choices they are given, of course. Democracy also means that the government or ruling party must take into account the opinion of the majority of people in the form of referendums and local ballots on different issues, laws and decisions to be made. And, the most important and central element in true Democracy is a predominant Middle Class of educated people who have reasonable income and actively participate with reason, knowledge and sense in those referendums and public debates. <br />
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If we look around the "advanced" modern societies it would be difficult to say if the Democratic model is truly the prevailent one. Yes, people have equal rights today, but these rights can be infringed quite often, with or without people's consent. Propaganda and projection of false perceptions are still widely in use by any government today, as well as social engineering and manufacturing consent. Which are political instruments attributed to dictatorships and totalitarian forms of rule, not democracies. In theory, of course. There are barely any referendums on important legislations, laws and decisions that the so called "Democratic" governments make. And, finally, the all-important-middle class is slowly disappearing. </div>
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So, in practice, it doesn't really seem like there is true Democracy anywhere. There is capitalism, that promotes a social structure based on a small percentage of super rich and a large portion of poor, a social structure, quite similar to the way feudal societies were. Maybe with the subtle difference that today the peasants are allowed to take bank loans and have the illusion of wealth, for a while. There is still a lot of exploitation in the working place, propaganda and wide-spread ignorance, which is encouraged by the popular culture, because dumb people are simply easier to manipulate. </div>
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In the last century, financial crises are the norm, today, the theory, even describes them as "economic cycles", a natural thing, you see. Just as there is life and death in the Universe. And just as natural as it was for communism to turn into a totalitarianism. In case the reader is missing the point, the natural element is the human element. </div>
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Financial recessions are created by speculation on the stock exchange and the bank credits. By means of CDSs, Derivatives and other financial instruments in use. In other words, financial recessions are created by human greed, selfishness and irrational desire for more money, much, much more than one can ever spend. But there is more to it all. Central Banks had positioned themselves, well, as central in the economy of all "advanced", and not so advanced societies. Nearly every country today has a privately owned central bank. Central banks issue the printing of money, bank notes, and also regulate economic cycles by manipulating interest rates, currency rates and the quantity of money there are in a given economy. </div>
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For instance, when there is inflation (that is too much money units are in use in the economy, so that the worth of the individual note goes down, which in turn raises prices and lowers profits for big corporations) the central banks responds by increasing interest rates. Which supposedly would make people spend less, presuming that they will buy on credit. Or, after a financial recession, the central banks lower interest rates, to lure people into purchasing more (they call it "stimulating the economy"), presuming that the people are stupid enough not to suspect that the low interest rates will not stay low forever. Another "economic stimulus" that the almighty and all-knowing Central Banks utilize is Quantative Easing, that is they print a bunch of cash, usually in the billions, and inject it into the economy, so that it may help ease the tight economic situation. </div>
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Here comes a funny thing. There is this "economic phenomenon" called Stagflation. (stagnation + inflation). That is, prices rise a.k.a there is inflation and in the same time there is high unemployment, which presumably means that people aren't spending so much so to create inflation. Wow, what could be causing this *phenomenon* ? Could it be that the central bank is pumping empty cash (not covered by any real value, like commodity, resource, gold, silver, human lives) into the economy, thus diluting the money mass and consequently lowering the value of the individual bank note unit.. ? So that, when the value of a bank note unit goes down, prices go up in order to make up for the lost value. </div>
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By the way, the central banks are tricky institutions and they can manipulate the currency values as well. So another phenomenon occurs this way – a national currency that has a higher value than it actually should have. Or a lower one in that matter, depending on the goal of this strategy. So that is how the Federal Reserve, for instance, pumps 600 billion dollars (as in QE) into the dollar notes mass and yet the rate of the US dollar currency had steadily risen in the past few months. Isn't this magic! It is amazing how irrational modern economy can be. Just as the human element behind it. </div>
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Watch this highly provocative short documentary. The title is</div>
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So, here is the basic scheme of the Debt-based Economy. </div>
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The Federal Reserve, which is a private bank, lends to the US government whatever sum of money (with interest) they need for their political deeds, campaigns, propaganda, ads and so on, government expenditures. The FED calls this "Bond Buying", another deceptive term. If it isn't a deception to say that you are buying something that doesn't exist (yet) with empty papers (printed by the Fractional Reserve System scheme). By now, it is highly doubtful what really is the fraction of this reserve at all – is it 1:9, is 1:90, is it 1:900…?! The most outrageous thing of it all is that if I decide to print some money for myself, the Central Bank will condemn this criminal act as "Counterfeiting". Shocking. </div>
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Anyway. In return to the Central Bank's Bond-Buying, the Government signs a contract to repay the loan ( because practically the central bank loans money to the Gvrnmnt ) in time. The way governments repay these loans are, basically, by taxing the populace. The more the government loans money form its central bank, the more it increases the various taxes that the population is obliged to pay. Crazy, isn't it? Very much. And you thought that all these money from taxes went for the collective benefit of building infrastructure, social benefits and so on. Not quite. </div>
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"Isn't it bewildering how many people just live through their lives, completely oblivious? Worrying about their trivial troubles of love, salary, relationship issues and gossip from around the entertainment industry." (comment in youtube)</div>
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I think we should majorly rethink our knowledge of history. Which makes me think again on just how much propaganda and crap is studied in schools and universities. All those young and pumped up with eagerness individuals coming out with their degrees, thinking they understand it all. When they have been simply manipulated, programmed even, to seamlessly pour into the predetermined channels of the social and economic systems. When we need change, change of paradigms. New ways of thinking and new ways of doing. We need revolution, mostly in our minds. People with revolutionary thinking, not social units content with their degrees and knowledge who will continue the old ways over and over again. We need to question the paradigms and make it a cultural norm. Only then true cultural progress and advancement will be achieved. </div>
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A true Age of Reason, of harmony, responsibility and collective prosperity in knowledge, science, medicine.. without wars and primitive retardedness. Higher education as common as primary education is today in the world. Higher awareness and deeper consciousness, wisdom and understanding a common acheivement. And no, the world will not end when everything is prosperous and people are advancing intellectually at an increasing pace, we will merely step into an entirely new era of our evolution, that we can't even imagine today. </div>
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How long will all this insanity continue in this world, over and over again? How long will people remain stupified, ignorant, narrow minded, short sighted, unaware, blinded and so basic ? What debt? </div>
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Since all these money are fictional, then we have a fictional debt to return and we may as well not return it at all! FED what? IMF what? World Bank what?! What are these institutions without people's consent? <b>Nothing</b>. </div>
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Two useful links for US citizens:</div>
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"A revolution is easy to start... just pull your money out of the banks, walk away from your debts, buy silver and gold, stop shopping at corporations... buy local. They are dependent on our consent." (comment in youtube)</div>
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Financial centralization is bad for this world, as well as meta governments. There is still too much primitive motivation in humans for such institutions to be healthy for social prosperity. </div>
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We need a sustainable and stable economy, reusable energy and a politically participatory society with war out of the scene. Oh, and a stable population, very important as well. No outrageous population booms, conscious reproduction, well guided with responsibility towards life and nature. Is it impossible?! Will humanity ever brake the chain of primitivity and truly move forward!? Do we need so much money in order for civilization to prosper? Are old dogmas and paradigms disrupting our cultural advancement? How long will humanity exist? Is the Universe infinite? Where is the quantum boundary between your mind and reality itself?! Is there telepathy?! Does anything exist at all?? What is your mind made of? No, really, what is it made of, beyond the atomic? Huh, what? Quarks?! </div>
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Think outside the box. Open your eyes. <b>(R)EVOLUTION</b></div>
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<a href="http://old.disinfo.com/archive/pages/article/id1562/pg1/">There is no haram, everything is halal</a>. Discipline precedes freedom. Darkness precedes the light. Death precedes life. Ignorance precedes knowledge. Forget everything you know and learn it a new.<br />
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Alexander the Great didn't spend much time in thinking sophisticated ways of solving the Gordian Knot. He just drew his sword and slashed it. I don't know what that means.</div>
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I also recommend that you watch these documentaries, related to the topics discussed above:<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">History is an entangled topic. It also is a multi-layered one. Historic events may seem linear with clear cause-and-effect chains at first glance, but beneath there are other layers that shape and influence them.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">For one reason or another, canonic history, that is taught in schools and universities is presented in a very one-sided, shallow way, that is incomplete on the least and plain deceiving on the most. Unfortunately, it is history that has been used as one of the major instruments of propaganda and manipulation, by distorting and editing it, so that it suits the ideology and views of governments and regimes.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">American history books have been revised more than a dozen times in the last century. And our history, for the Bulgarian people, is a subject of debates, controversies and much uncertanties, as it has also been distorted by manipulative regimes in the past for centuries in a row. History in the span of centuries and millenias back could be a tricky subject to stitch and unearth, for obvious reasons. However, the extent of distortion of the very recent history just shocks the observer.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">I am rendered speachless and stunt at the depths of propaganda and manipulation that is infused in our knowledge of events that have occurred just in the last half a century. Every official version is a load of manipulation, everyone is hypocrite, cynicism is the norm and all complex variations of human behavior stemming from the basic instincts are cultural standards even for the most "advanced".</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">It is a pitty that the present is never able to see itself as incomplete and backwards from the viewpoint of the future. So that is why "advanced societies" throughout history have always thought that they were at the top of cultural perfection and people continue to think like this today.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">I want to share a video and the book, that it is based on. The book is titled <b>The Shock Doctrine</b> by <b>Naomi Klein</b>. Here is the <a href="http://www.naomiklein.org/shock-doctrine">official website</a>. It explores the barbarism, cynicism and primitive ways of imposing change to societies.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Change that does not benefit "ordinary" people, but corporations. Change, that presents itself as advanced and freedom-bringing, but in reality, it has a degrading effect and reverts societies back into feudal-like models of highly uneaqually distributed super-rich and super-poor. These are the effects of deregulated capitalism. It is barbaric simply because humans are too primitive still and are unable to regulate themselves rationally. That is why a deregulated "free" market of pure capitalism is a highly unhealthy model that has a highly erosive effect on its host society. As we can very well see this in practice all over the world.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The more I live, the more I realize that this world is guided not only by primitivity, but unbelievable doses of irrationality. Not to mention that the very definition of "sanity" gets more and more doubtful all in regards to the extent of irrationality that world leaders implement in their actions. And actions driven purely out of selfishness are also irrational, because you cannot be selfish in a system that is interdependent and where if one element is unstable, all other elements will suffer from it. And so on. It is a crazy world. Not just playfully crazy, but seriously insane. It can be seriously argued against the current standards of "sanity", as well as the current standard approaches in "curing" "sanity" divergences. It is all business. RX generation, manipulated, abused and stupified. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">I highly recommend watching the documentary and the book must be at least twice as good, in terms of an "eye opener" for all those other hidden layers behind the official façade of history. The very recent history. The history of Capitalism and in parts experimental psychology. In this line of thought, as complimentary for yet more layers and perspectives, I recommend watching</div><br />
<ul><li><a href="http://www.moviesfoundonline.com/century_of_the_self.php">The Century of the Self (2002)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.moviesfoundonline.com/power_of_nightmares.php">The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear (2004)</a></li>
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<ul></ul><div style="text-align: justify;">Here are two previous articles in this blog, with more videos provoking thought and convention, conventional propaganda that is. Do browse through the "Recent Posts" section on the right side bar for more.</div><br />
<ul><li><a href="http://mindvolution.blogspot.com/2010/11/freedom-or-delusion-feudal-elements-in.html">Freedom or Delusion? The Feudal Elements in Modern Capitalism</a></li>
<li><a href="http://mindvolution.blogspot.com/2010/10/invisible-enslavement-of-debt-economics.html">The Invisible Enslavement Of Debt Economics..</a></li>
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<ul></ul>And here is <b>the Shock Doctrine</b> documentary:<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">So, am I the only one who holds the opinion that all these economists, experimental psychologists and dictatorship-training agencies should be declared psychopatic, inhumane and be held accountable for crimes against humanity?<br />
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There is Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy. Those three are all beautiful in theory and highly distorted in practice. It seems that neither alone is the best, maybe the best version would be a syncretic one between them all. A Social Democracy with rationally balanced state regulation and free market policy. Rationality and other higher cultural values are missing from the picture so far. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">In this barbaric world of freaks and sub-human creatures, filled with lies and hypocricy. Nothing is true, everything is permitted. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Observe. Think. Make your conclusions. Wake up.<br />
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People are beginning to wake up, finally, and to demand their voice be heard and taken into account by governments. No dictatorship lasts, nor any regime that infringes and supresses human freedom of will. Nothing lasts in that matter, even the Universe will not last for ever. But that isn't something that should concern us in any way for no living human will witness it anyway. We live today, here, in these exciting times of cultural uprising and social revolutions. Though, these events aren't really more exciting than any other similar events back throughout history. Actually, history has always been exciting, full of buzz and developments. In the past couple of thousand of years at least. It is funny too that people have been feeling like they live at the end of days for at least the last one thousand years. If they keep thinking this way, some generation eventually will hit the jackpot, finding themselves living in the last days, not any time soon in my reckoning. Though I may be wrong, the apocalypse may be tomorrow – sell!! But seriously, as serious as one can be in this ridiculous world, put mildly. </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Things have been pretty exciting in the last century, in the last couple of centuries even, even in the last.. yeah, right. As I said, history has been pretty exciting. And continues to be so! How exciting. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Even Arabs are beginning to see that they are being manipulated into mindless obedience by their leaders who say "Allah Akbar" and this line is enough for the crowds to adore them. Well, not anymore. People now want freedom, whatever the definition of this, at large. This most recent wave of social revolts began at an unlikely place really, Tunisia, wow. And interesting. I do hope Egyptian people will be able to bring pharaoh Mubarak down. Bulgaria is with you people of Egypt! They say the whole city of Cairo is blocked with widespread protests and the atmosphere is really tense and full of sense of a revolution.<br />
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Religious leaders in the region were fast to declare that the social unrests were "islamic revolution", there is no islamic revolution there, but revolution of the people. The "Muslim brotherhood" has long lost its grounds with the average arab people and they are made famous mostly by "western" media who still rag about "Al qaida" that is most popular in the "western world" ..and this Mubarak has no self-respect to step down, seeing the dislike of all these people out on the streets. An utter display of a complete lack of dignity all for keeping his throne's sake. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">People in other dictatorship regimes have risen as well, like Syria and Algeirs. I wonder if people in Iran will be able to gather enough strength to rise once again against their oppressive regime. Well it is about time for people in North Africa and the Middle East to wake up. Now I understand the importance of coordination and communication – of course, how logical. That is why in the past there were no such flash revolutions and it was really hard to gather people into an uprising. And that is why, when the printing press was invented and the first pamphlets were used for spreading the idea of the revolution that took place in 1789. Communication is at the core. That is why totalitarian governments control information and utilize propaganda extensively, because if they allow information to flow free, they can't keep their control over people. Thus, any government that exerts control over the means of communication and information exchange are totalitarian and have dirty laundry, that they are afraid not to surface. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">There are also other, more subtle forms of dictatorship around the world, such are more or less all highly centralized governments, like USA, China and what the EU is turning into. I guess centralization of governance is not a good thing as it inevitably leads to some forms of totalitarianism, awaking human's most basic instincts – selfishness and domination, with all of their branches. May be the central model is good for some much more advanced society, culturally and intellectually. But not for humanity at this stage of our evolution. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">We live in exciting times today and order is shifting. Old orders are gowing down and new, hopefully better, ones are emerging. I do hope the same will happen with religious dogma soon, as well. As religion is another major impact factor for cultural retardedness, violence and segregation. I can only widly speculate what historical treasures are hidden in the Vatican archive, all of their dirty laundry with some precious manuscripts, along thousands and thousands of other interesting documents. This archive is like the Federal reserve's gold stash – closed to all public eyes until the last pope is dead and all old conventions are brought down. Such crazy facts would surface from this archive, that world history will be completely shaken. Unless the last pope burns himself with it, which I dread to even think about –all those precious archives. Yeah, now that will be the revolution – if people in the US gather in millions and demand that the Federal Reserve opens its gates to public audition and if other millions of millions people gather and demand that the Vatican opens its archives to the public! </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Hopefully that's the way all the local revolutions lead – to a global revolution that will mark an entirely new chapter in history and in humanity's cultural evolution. Evolution in the mind.<br />
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In the <a href="http://mindvolution.blogspot.com/2010/11/freedom-or-delusion-feudal-elements-in.html">previous episode</a>, the topic of the feudal elements in modern capitalism and the enslavement by central banks cartels was discussed, alongside other problematic areas like "Is liberty dead in USA?". Is it time to officially retire the Statue of Liberty? And replace it with a huge advertisement of, say, Bank of America or a big banner flashing "The IRS wants YOU".<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The most obvious difference between civilization today and civilization one thousand years ago is technology and mass production. There are certain other subtle differences among more advanced societies, like heightened sense of moral and ethics, better individual self-control, education at large, more rational understanding, respect for life and equal rights between men and women. However, it is not rare when such seemingly higher culture turns out to be only a public façade, with people behind it being as primitive as their predecessors a millennium ago. For instance, the cases with pedophile professors and politicians, people who should represent the highest of cultural and intellectual standards in society. Not to mention the still persisting differences in salaries for men and women in certain professions and positions. A pitiful situation indeed. As Carl Jung sadly remarks: </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">"<b>Even those who serve as teachers and leaders in modern societies are slaves to their unconscious drives and primitive motivators</b>" </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">That is, apart from cultural advancement, modern society lacks public recognition for the need of mental advancement and raising social standards in this respect, as well. However the pressing importance of this topic, among others, I'll turn attention to another serious issue in our global society that needs to be recognized sooner, nevertheless. It is the topic of the strange workings of debt-based economics and feudal ways of capitalism, their effects on society, the political deception and propaganda in these respects and the overall unsustainability of this model that will lead to very serious social unrests in the foreseeable future. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Capitalism is at the core of current economic systems around the world, more or less barbaric. The barbarism in capitalism is in the abusive ways corporations work, both towards the environment and workers, all to increase profits and decrease expenditures. The highly unjust distribution of money leads to social tension, all because human greed has no rational limitations. And what is this money? Means of exchange. What are those papers that we use to trade and exchange our labor for? Increasingly, just paper. Does the world need so many of them papers, in order to develop and prosper? I don't think so. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Paper money, once, had a value denominated in Gold or Silver hard matter. The more gold a country had, the more money it could produce. However, the Fractional Reserve system of central banks increasingly depletes paper money of any actual value, so that a paper note is worth just another paper note of the same denomination. Nothing really, that is. It is an extremely weird situation and the bee hive, of sort, of such empty papers is, you might have guessed it, United States of America. The last financial recession began from there and spread around the world. This is because central banks are interconnected, global trade and also because the US dollar has been enforced, or more like deceptively negotiated, to be a main reserve currency to many countries around the world. And also is one of the main reasons why the US dollar still is able to maintain a certain value. Considering the artificial ways of financial growth that the US Federal Reserve has been applying in the past 80 years and more. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Fractional Reserve Requirement in the past, has been guided by some rational regulations. For instance, you can issue 9 fictional dollars covered on 1 real one, that is covered on, say a gold coin. Today, regulations are increasingly being removed, declared as evil and enemies to pure capitalism.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">So, if we take this correlation and apply it to the US economy, one can say that the real productivity is 10% and the rest 90% are debt?! This means, that this debt can never be repaid and financial crises will only grow deeper and more severe. How can we have severe financial crisis based on virtual money?! What will happen if all those money are simply deleted, burned, destroyed away from circulation? ...</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">So, money turn out to be some kind of fictional value exchange notes. In the past, a paper bill represented the value, say in gold and silver, of a physical asset the paper holder had. But today, a bill virtually represents nothing. The wildest thing is that in the 16th Century, when the <a href="http://mindvolution.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2010-10-03T18%3A03%3A00-07%3A00&max-results=5#ixzz1AvdIItYD">Fractional Reserve system</a> began, and forward, European trade developed on virtually empty notes that had no real asset cover. And that development boomed and flourished. The inevitable conclusion here is that the world doesn't really need all those paper money in order to develop its markets and production. So weird, it is amazing. It is amazing how banks can give you "real" money that you can actually spend for whatever in exchange of some signed paper check, for instance. Such a twisted scheme. lol I have to say that banking is some kind of magic. Making money out of nothing. Brilliant. The dream of every alchemist from the past. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">US banking system and that of many other countries in the world turns out to be mostly Debt-based. Everybody owns money to someone else and that someone else owns money to yet someone else else and so on. The USA was indeed a land of freedom originally (if we don't take into account the genocide of the local population), however with the creation of the US Federal Reserve in 1913 this freedom began to loose its grounds. And why is the US Fed Res labeled as "Federal" anyway, when it is a private bank that lends money to the US government, rather than being owned by the US govrnmnt? </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">It's all a big show, a game of deceit and deception. It's pretty huge, pretty serious and really awesome to behold. How easy it is to manipulate large masses of otherwise normal, not mentally retarded, even intelligent individuals. And indeed this is the strangest thing. How and why people let themselves be manipulated?</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The financial crisis involving lots of people loosing their homes that took place in 2008 was well known and discussed by dissident economists way back in 1995. I recall in one particular documentary "The Money Masters" made in 1995 where some of the interviewees warn of this upcoming crisis in plain, direct speech. Of course, the common people never take interest in such boring documentaries and prefer to switch to American Idol or some idiotic reality show. So, it is their own ignorance that led them to loosing their homes, their bad. Continue to be sheep-minded, oh mighty common people, until you get ripped off completely, so that you may finally wake up from your intellectual slumber. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">If you ask an average American about the Federal Reserve, they will be quite unable to tell you anything about it. They think it is federal and that this federal bank actually helps American economy. And the main stream media assures that this perception is sustained in the way they serve news. For example, here is a recent news title "The Fed not backing down on bond buying" as if this is something very positive and even sacrificial that the FED does in order to help, you see. When in reality, this is just a financial scheme to ensure long-term profits, for the FED, and long-term financial burden for the average American. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Founding Fathers are rolling in their graves. It is not a lie to say that American people have given up their constitution and their Liberty with it. Most of them just don't realize it yet. This moment of realization will surely come though. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">There are so many controversies in the United States, so many secrets, cover ups and unanswered questions, I simply can't believe that American society is so tranquil, so tranquilized. They must be putting some sort of sedative in the water supply (or else, the average American person IQ really is around 80). And the US shouldn't name their political system "Democracy", it's something else, but not Democracy. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">This entire financial system is very wrong and unsustainable. It will turn into a black hole at some point, this is inevitable. And who's to blame?</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Ordinary, working-class people, in the end, are the ultimate victims of capitalism. They have been cleverly deceived into taking those sub-prime mortgages on the one hand, but on the other hand, all those people have fallen victims to their own ignorance. Their own financial ignorance and naivity. They didn't read the fine script and didn't really thought in perspective, like "How much will I have to pay when the initial low-rate period ends?" that has been confusingly specified somewhere in between that fine script. </div><div style="text-align: justify;">So, there are two sides in this problem - the big banker's deception and wall street risk-takers' greed and on the other side all those consumers' personal ignorance and lack of sober thought on just how much they can actually afford. Thus, everybody is guilty, everyone in their own way. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">In the end, capitalism may be a very positive idea on theory, but on practice, just as every other bright idea, is twisted by the primitive ways of the human element. It's human's, and in particular, men's irrationality in their instinctive drive to dominate, that destabilizes the whole system. <br />
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So, is the current version of Capitalism and Democracy the only possible frames for societies? There are actually some economists who think these two are in a way "the end of the line" as in the best possible solutions. Right, just the average human narrow-mindedness speaking, I'll say. Human is such a strange creature - a bag of hardwired instincts and yet a dynamic consciousness. Intelligent and yet dull, a shallow intelligence that is the current educational standard. And so on. <br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The old year rolled out into the past gracefully, leaving space for the new one. Human civilization, willingly or not, rolls forwards with time too. The past year was.. well, just another year filled with conflicts, turbulences, controversies, deals, ups and downs, resolutions, social, political and financial struggles, nothing of much significance really. For me it was a long year, as usual, a lot of things happened, a lot of knowledge, experience, wisdom and understanding gained, I grew up a little bit more. A new piece of dream was added to my list for the forseeable future - I want to climb Everest summit. A tough challenge for body and mind. Yeah, pretty cool. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">I was busy for the past month renovating my website, the one in my native language. It is almost done. My writing style evolved quite a lot and I think I'm ready now to complete my book and make it ready for the next phase - publishing. Though, I don't really have a well defined idea yet on just how am I going to do that. When the time comes the Universe will guide me, I'm sure. I'll keep my eyes open, not to miss any guiding signs, lol. This summer I'll be graduating my BA and think to enroll in a Masters course straight after. Psychology is a long-time interest of mine and decided to license it, I think this is a positive thing to do anyway. And then, we'll see. I'll conceive on the "then" in the meanwhile. Or it may conceive me. Life is a two-way relationship - you live it and it lives you. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Right. I was a fan of the Wikileaks cause, these information freedom rebellions and so on. But now, more provoking questions arise surrounding this whole randevou. Like, why did Assange let his personallity overshadow the cause? This is something one should never do, if the cause is what really matters and if it is not just another PR strategy. Makes you wonder, is it, afterall. And the media he "works" with is a strange pick too - the Guardian, New York times... the most mainstream, corporate-friendly media suddenly turning rebellion? Something is wrong with that picture definitely. And why, really, the cables are concerned with only some countries and others are not even mentioned.. Controversies, I'm not really sure what happened, was it a preplanned sensation in order to provide reason for enacting cyber security laws similar to iPatriotic act and so on? Maybe this Wikileaks scandal was another well conceived and smoothly executed "False Flag" operation of the US and allies, to legally increase their control of the internet, as in electronic fascism. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Could be anything. The truth is that masses are manipulated very easily, due to their ignorance, because it is easy to manipulate someone who lacks certain knowledge that you have. And for me, the truth is that I know very little, sometimes it feels like I know nothing really. Funny thing, when I knew less, though, I felt like I knew it all. LoL ":) </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Anyway, welcome to the new year, make yourselves at home. Here are few clips on financial conspiracies, speculations and dirty laundry, to cheer you up</div><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">Here is another interesting video on the secrecy in modern governments, espionage and stuff like that from the founder of the website that leaked documents around the web long before Wikileaks showed up and swept the media in a sensational rock star-style. Interestingly enough, what this person says about the outcomes from the "Wikileaks scandal" are very similar to what the author speculated a few clips and sentences above. Ahh, those conspiracy theories cooks, such chefs</div></div><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">And the website address: </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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In the wake of the Wikileaks revolution, many truths, alongside lies, surfaced to public attention. Finally, we, the people, have been given the chance to read some real news, the way news should be - straightforward, no political corectness, objective and naked. The naked truth may not be as pretty as a well dressed lie, but it is what humanity needs, if we are ever to completely divorce with Feudalism and all of its subsequent reformulations present in today's world. <br />
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The US diplomatic cables released by Wikileaks team are quite an interesting reading, on the least. There is something for everyone. Still, mainstream media is keeping its distance and refrains from speaking too much or too loud about what is being revealed. One may wonder (rapt in awe), how the media is able to create a sensation out of some small, banal news, and significantly underweight another, truly sensational news. Of course, this seemingly odd media behavior is nothing but an obvious evidence of just how manipulative, unobjective and corrupt mainstream news media is/are. Are they affraid of something? Or are they simply paid far too well to bother with truth? The answer, I presume, is a little bit of both, unevenly distributed among different media groups. Also it's worth noting that, since Assange's arrest, media attention was highly diverted from the leaked documents and concentrated on the allegations and rumours surrounding Julian Assange. Which is another sensational manipulation of mainstream media. <br />
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From the news channels I regularly watch - CNN, Euronews and BBC, BBC talks about different leaked documents and their contents the most. I understand that in the US, the general perception of Wikileaks is one of indifference (not surprising, the US public is passive on mostly everything of importance) and one of hostility. That is, the general US citizen has been, after all, convinced to believe that the revealing of the diplimatic cables is something of a treason that should be despised. Some even call the media coverage of Wikileaks as "unexplainable hype", whereas I don't really see any real hype, apart from Assange's arrest sensation. Of course, those who don't realize the importance of freedom of information (and speech) are unable to appreciate all that unfolded with Wikileaks. Those who "..falsely believe they are free" ..in the land of the blind. <br />
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Anyway, the worst part is, that when governments and corporations finally manage to offset and mute the Wikileaks revelations, the public will be fast to forget about it, aided, again, by mainstream media sources. Self-imposed ignorance and passive willingness to consent with propaganda is a great plague in the modern world and a great barrier for societies' cultural advancement. <br />
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Corporate abuse of nature and human labor is one feudal element at hand, central banks abuse of national and global economies, another. But there is one very serious trend lurking subtly beneath everything else that most successfully evades public attention and appreciation of its dangers. That is the relentless and perseverant military aggressiveness of the US government in its foreign policy and actions. People don't seem to make some very important connections and don't seem to appreciate the imminent danger that these pose, pushing the world towards a very high propability of a new world war. One that has the potential to destroy civilization as we know it so far. A third world war, the most devastating in a row. <br />
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The United States government has a history of adopting some very disturbing policies, ever since the beginning of the 20th Century. You may want to take a look at the videos in the previous posts in this blog for information on what those policies have been.<br />
As recent history shows, American society is dictated and ruled by a policy of fear-inducing propaganda to make them consent and give up their last remaining freedoms (since those freedoms began to slowly be taken away ever since the end of the first decade of the 20th Century), all in the name of their supposed safety. This policy creates an aura of an imminent threat that is every-lurking, targeting USA from everywhere, because this elusive enemy wants to take away the freedoms of Americans. Numerous lies and entire elaborate scenarios have been devised in the past decades, portraying sophisticated enemies, that simply were not there, in the no-quite-sane aspirations of US political and related circles.<br />
First, the main enemy was the USSR, then terrorism and Al Qaida. It is an interesting fact to know, that the name "Al Qaida" was devised by US secret agencies and was not a name that the islamic fundamentalist movement used themselves, that is, before they heard about it on the news. A small fact that speaks a lot. <br />
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Actually, the fundamentalist movement in question has its historical roots in the near past and is mainly involved in social devolutions (as opposed to evolution) in the middle east region, its name is "Muslim brotherhood" and is far from a highly organized, sophisticated terror network. Actually, this fundamentalist movement was never able to acheive serious influence over average citizens in Muslim countries and by today's date it is slowly disintegrating and fading from public interest. It is a fact, that on the recent election in Egypt (2010), the Muslim brotherhood was unable to secure even one seat in the parliament. <br />
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The biggest acheivement of the movement is the islamic revolution in Iran (1979), which is a significat, very unfortunate event on its own. However, their involvement in the entire plotting and execution of the 9/11 attacks is seriously doubtful. And the big question remains - exactly who were all the participating parties in the full planning and carrying out these attacks? <br />
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Also,</div><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li>Did US Officials have advance information about 9/11?</li>
</ul><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li>Did US Officials obstruct investigations prior to 9/11?</li>
</ul><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li>Did US Officials have reasons for allowing 9/11?</li>
</ul><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li>Did US Officials block captures and investigations after 9/11?</li>
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The answers should surface, sooner or later. <br />
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Since the Muslim brotherhood movement is slowly loosing its grounds in the muslim world, the US government's Politics of Fear policy is loosing its enemy, without which it cannot survive. And sooner or later it will become clear that there is no serious terror threat coming from the Arab world. And that this threat, for the most part, was exaggerated and fueled by religious fundamentalists and conservative politicians on both sides a.k.a a tention artificially created and deliberately sustained, as an aura of fear and distrust in societies. The Neoconservatives in USA are the fundamentalists on their side, together with respective christian leaders and preachers. In the light of this brief overview, since the Al Qaida enemy is fading from the picture, measures are being taken to create a new enemy, actually, to revive an old one - Russia. <br />
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USA has an economy or rather a main industry in the US economy that thrives on war, that is the weaponry industry. The US is the biggest seller of weapons in the world, yet their cynicism goes so far as to always condemn other governments who also sell weapons here and there. In reality, the US condemns their competitors in the industry. It is a fact that US corporations sell weapons not only to their allies, but to their enemies as well. After all, everyone needs to be well armed in order to wage a good and profitable war. <br />
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The economic side of war is one thing at hand, another is how to win the consent of other nations and the support of the American public for all these wars. War is a highly profitable venture for Corporate America and its public justification is achieved by well conceived propaganda machine. Here is a video suggestion in regards to the war business:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
Title: <span class="title"><a href="http://www.moviesfoundonline.com/iraq_for_sale.php">Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers (2006)</a></span><br />
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Another one on the same topic:<br />
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<ul><li>Title: <a href="http://www.moviesfoundonline.com/daylight_robbery.php">Daylight Robbery (2008)</a> </li>
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And another, tackling the unpopular facts on terrorism and US policies of hypocrisy and blatant lies:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
<ul><li>Title: <a href="http://www.moviesfoundonline.com/breaking_the_silence.php">Breaking the Silence: Truth and Lies in the War on Terror (2003)</a></li>
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I also highly recommend watching the video in previous post here - <a href="http://mindvolution.blogspot.com/2010/11/rise-of-politics-of-fear-american.html">The Rise of the Politics of Fear. American Propaganda, Islamic Fundamentalism and the Historical Roots of Both.</a><br />
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So, winning public support for the military aspirations of Corporate America is done via plain, old propaganda. The US government and associated institutions have a history of exploiting people's patriotic emotions to shape people's mindsets and make them consent to wars and giving up their personal freedoms.<br />
I don't know how many years more have to pass in order for people to finally begin realizing all this and wake up for the reality and if they, especially, the US citizens are able to wake up at all, after decades of brainwashing, and being currently overwhelmed by trivial troubles like paying their bills, personal debts and informing themselves on the latest Hollywood gossips. <br />
I do understand that Americans sincerely wish to believe that their government is moral, just and works for the people. Self-delusion is not going to make it so, however.<br />
It may be harsh and morally discouraging to realize and acknowledge to yourself that things are not the way your (US) government portrays them to be, but this realization is of absolute necessity, if all this grand game of deception is to be exposed once and for all. Of course, it is not just the US government that plays this game, most of the governments in the world do. However, for instance here, in Europe, people are critical towards their governments and fight to protect their rights, while in the USA, the public is mostly silent and consent with everything. And most importantly, the most aggressive gamer is the USA. And this is nothing to be proud of. <br />
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"The new Pearl Harbor" that the US government needed so badly came in the face of the 9/11 attacks. So, convenient. Many things have drastically changed since then, mainly, the US military offensives gained momentum with the vigorous public support, the people deeply upset with 9/11 and pumped up with super-patriotism to a point of complete loss of rationale.<br />
This is, actually, called "Social engineering", an excellent one, I'll say. By the way, there was another time in history at another place, when the crowds were so intensely manipulated to consent to irrational governmental policies, that was Germany ruled by Hitler.<br />
German people, back then, were deprived of all their freedoms and had to support a barbaric dictatorship, while being brainwashed to praise it with ideology that told them that they had a unique role in this world, that they were free and bestest of all other nations.. and so on.<br />
Sounds familiar? <br />
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I thought that the United States' "social" system is Feudal Capitalism. I was wrong. It is Idiocracy - a pseudo-democracy ran by fanatics based on ideologic patriotism sold to crowds of idiots. No offense, just the unpopular truth.<br />
Americans woe to Communism, when their's even worse. And to point it out again, I'm not against American people, but the US government and their policies in place for decades in a row (almost a century even), without any difference who the president is. <br />
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But, all this is not my main point. Since the topic is so large, it's kind of hard to sqeeze it all in brief, while backing up the different points with retrospective information and some argumentation. <br />
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My main point is connecting the dots and following the path that current trends' unfolding seem to lead - a World War 3, that is. I sincerely hope I am completely wrong, but here is how things don't fit in. The visible part, which, I'm sure, is just the tip of the iceberg. <br />
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Since the United States' barbaric Policy of Fear, fueled by respective fanatical agencies, needs constant threats from outside in order to keep the US citizens in a grip of fear and thus in control, on the one hand, and to provide the US gvrnmnt with justification for military offensives on the other. And since the Muslim brotherhood movement is fading as such a threat, a threat that was largely exaggerated anyway. The US (political and corporate circles with inclination to psychopathy) are fixing their evil eye on Russia, again. Because they need an enemy in order to go on. <br />
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And the US is using another tool, apart from plain propaganda, at their disposal, in achieving to create this new enemy - NATO is that tool. NATO, a useless military organization in an age when diplomats are "building roads and bridges" with political correctness and a lot of hand shaking (for photography reasons mostly). NATO brings peace to turbulent regions across the globe, sometimes with subtle military presence (intimidation), other times with guns and bombs. Either way works fine and peace is ensured always, whether it be peace in fear or rest in peace (for those who don't comply with fear). It is a strange, strange world we live in, where people fight for peace.. literally. Trying to bring peace with the instruments of war. Well, that's just a plain primitive approach. <br />
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Primitive monkeys. Anyway. NATO, USA, World War 3. And the Eagle Guardian missile installations. Wikileaks documents. One such interesting to note is titled: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/us-embassy-cables-documents/244966">US plans to defend eastern Europe against Russia.</a><br />
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Wait, what?! Hello, the Cold War is over, retards. There is no real threat coming from Russia for Eastern Europe or for anyone else in that matter. Yeah, Russia has its disputes with Georgia and Chechnya, but those are fueled by both sides, a situation very similar to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Yeah, Poland has its bad memmories from the USSR, but they have a very bad memmory from the German Reichstag as well. It's just idiotic history ran by irrational, insane humans, men in particular. And most of all, it's history in the past. Russia is not secretly planning to converting into USSR again. This is nothing but another paranoid, schizophrenic vision of the US government. As they have a long history of such a behavior. <a href="http://www.moviesfoundonline.com/power_of_nightmares.php">Video here. </a><br />
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First off, there is NO threat coming from Russia for Eastern Europe. I live here. I see no tensions between Russia and East European countries. I see, however, growing tensions between Russia and USA over the (backed and insisted upon by the US) <b>Eagle Guardian</b> missile network, previously known as Space Shield or some similarly ridiculous designation. Now, second off, intially this massive missile installations plan was said to be a defense for Europe against missile attacks from Iran. That was the official version at least, before Wikileaks released these documents. While reading them and in the light of the historic behavior of the US, their strategies and policies, suddenly I realized something disturbing.<br />
This "contingency expantion plan" is a strategy. It is a military provocation. And most of all, it is a preparation for war. Against Russia. Those <b>missile installations are not for defense, they are a first-line of a future offense</b>. One that has already been planned.<br />
I'm not sure if anyone who may read this would realize the importance of this subject, its weight and public attention deficit.<br />
It's very simple: First, the US said they want to build those missile installations, so that they defend Europe against Iranian missile attacks. Right. The universal defenders to the rescue. But now it turns out that the US, privately, says that, shhht, the installations are for defense against Russia. Huh?! Since there is no real threat coming from Russia, then what is the real purpose of these military installations? Do you know that the US repeatedly provoked Japan into attacking Pearl Harbor, so that they could join in WW2 with official arguments? <br />
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<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/us-embassy-cables-documents/245631">The second documents reads: </a><br />
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"..This is the first step in a multi-stage process to develop a complete set of appropriate contingency plans for the full range of possible threats - both regional and functional - as soon as possible.". Full range of possible threats? Stunning. I would confidently replace "Functional" with "Fictional" and will fit in just right. <br />
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"The United States believes strongly that such planning should not be discussed publicly." Of course not, why should the public have any clue where they are headed to.<br />
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"The Alliance has many public diplomacy tools at its disposal. Contingency planning is not one of them. What we should do is explore other public steps for demonstrating the vitality of Article 5, such as exercises, defense investment, and partnerships." <br />
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Right. So, when asked, don't say that "..these missile installations are for defense against Russia." Bleep, incorrect. Instead be politically polite, so that not to undermine the military plans of us. "Umh, I meant, these installations are for exercises, just a pointless defense investment, and, of course, for partnerships (for creating world peace)". Followed by loud, joyful hand clapping right after mentioning "world peace". If only words manifested into realities, we would have created an utopia a thousand times already.<br />
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This is very serious. There is no real, justifiable reason for this massive military installation, taking place so secretly, that we really barely hear anything about it here. Not long ago, about half an year or so, Russia's president Medvedev said that if NATO and USA continue with the Eagle Guardian installations, Russia will have no choice but to strenghten its own weaponry arsenals. Because, it is clear to them to whom these missiles will be pointing. The installations are in progress, thus this entire plot is a purposeful provocation with a very sinister purpose and no diplomatic effort, or faking such efforts on the side of USA. When two big powers in the world, especially former "enemies", begin to arm over military provocations, things are going to no good.<br />
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The whole "World policeman" and "Unique role in the world" BS and interventionist policy of the US is getting really annoying. Not to mention the deranged propaganda. As if we still live in the 1st or 2nd Century, not 21st. I think the world is in deep trouble, not only in terms of fictional democracy and liberties et cetera information censorship, but we are headed to another major war, people. World War 3 may escalate so fast and so soon, that it could feel like "a thunder from clear skies". Of course, the skies are far from clear and even darker clouds are approaching from the horizons.<br />
So, with such grim future possibilities, the question is, is it avoidable? Is it preventable? Where are the minds of those politicans?! I mean, the other politicians, say in Europe, not the US politicians, who are mostly deranged as well as the policies they support. Why are people so irrational?! I can barely believe the world we live in. Insane. <br />
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Keep an eye on this issue and please, copy and distribute this article or parts of it all over the social media! There is no need for attribution, no need to link back to this blog whatsoever, just spread the word! <b>Create awareness</b> for this issue, <b>bring people's attention</b> to it. We don't need the Eagle Guardian shield, there is no threat, this missile "defense" is creating unneeded tension that can lead to war. <b>Wake up</b>! A WW3 must be prevented or else there will be misery and suffering for all. <br />
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We can prevent it, we the people from all over the world! Our weapon is free speech, our strenght is in numbers. Reason can prevail over insanity! The US is led by paranoid, scitzopheric policies that cannot be classified as rational nor sane, they see enemies everywhere and peace nowhere. <br />
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Title: <a href="http://www.moviesfoundonline.com/dealers_in_death.php">Dealers in Death (1935)</a><br />
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How long is this primitivity going to continue? 75 years after the above documentary was produced, the situation still the same. <br />
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It will continue to be the same so long as people consent with it and there are soldiers willing to fight for it. As if people in the "modern" civilization are not mature enough to settle their conflicts with reason and dialogue. It is not about that of course, it is about business in wars. There is no money in talking rationale. Duh. <br />
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Here are two more clips of interest, Michael Moore interview on Wikileaks and an exerpt of Ron Paul's speech in the US Senate (ah, ancient Rome, lol). And , yes, there is something very wrong with the whole 9/11 story too, something very wrong and contradictory.<br />
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<b>Let's change the world!! Let's change the future..</b><br />
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(R)evolution!<br />
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Here is another Wikileaks mirror site with the Collateral Murder video:<br />
<ul><li> <a href="http://www.collateralmurder.com/en/index.html">Collateral Murder</a></li>
</ul>Click on the Wikileaks sandclock logo for more mirror sites. <br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The United States want to dominate the world, old-fashion barbaric style. What astounds me most is how subtly they get away with their war crimes and convince their citizens and people around the world that the wars they wage are always out of a last-resource self-defense. When in reality, those wars have been preplanned long before. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">United States condemns terrorism, when their own actions can be defined as terrorist's. The US government and its agencies stimulate terrorism, they sponsor it, create it, supply it with weapons and insite it and they need it to use it as justification for their long list of military offensives preplanned decades ago, going further decades from now. The final goal of these wars is not bringing freedom nor democracy to other peoples, but on the one hand, gaining resources and new corporate grounds. And on the other, there seems to be a more long-term sinister aspiration that drives all these "small" steps. Someone may think that oil is the major reason for the US to wage wars in the Middle East. It is a reason, but may not be the main reason. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Why is USA waging wars constantly, from Vietnam to Iraq, what's with the primitivity? It's an industry, it's business and it is a strategy that will lead them to their ultimate goal - war with Russia a.k.a WW3. The US government applies a "Politics of Fear" policy, that needs a constant supply of enemies, in order to work. Apart from their weapons industry, that needs wars and conflicts in order to stay in business. Is it all for profit? Or is there another, more irrational motivation that works behind it all?</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">As ludicrous as it may sound, the US government, it seems, simply want to dominate the world, empire style. The agenda is gaining profit out of people's mysery and world domination. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">This behavior is not simply psychopatic, it is insane, these actions are extremely unfit for civilized humanity in the 21st Century. There is no true effort for peace, because there is more profit in war.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">If one comes to think about it, only USA and local partisan factions around the world, here and there, wage wars. United States of America is the only country in the world that wages wars with other countries, continuosly for over 50 years. Barbarians. Having brainwashed their population via propaganda and super-patriotism, they are getting ready for the next "small" step, another war, this time with Iran. Right on schedule. First it was Afghanistan, then Iraq, now it's Iran's turn in the middle. One has to be blind or mentally challenged in order not to see the pattern. And from there on, it's Russia, with the support of NATO and the Eagle Guardian. More on this in the next article. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">And ordinary people, the US masses in particular, believe it all and are ready to pack up and go fight and die for another lie. I truly wonder what excuse will the average American devise for her/himself this time. May be it will be something like "Oh, if we didn't attacked them, they would have attacked us with nuclear bombs!". Insane! </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">You are out of your minds US public. It is such a pity that we have to live in such a primitive world, where "advanced" nations dusguise their primitivity under fake cultural humanities, hypocritical high ideals and cynical democratic freedoms. It is all complete BS, dust in the eyes for the made-retarded crowds. The average (North) American doesn't realize that the actual aggressor are they and that there is no pursue of any high ideals in these wars, but only geo-political influence for profiteering purposes, namely Oil and pure imperialism. Now I understand the events that led to these historical developments. In 1953 USA and Brittain used their secret organizations to remove from power the democratically elected leader of Iran - a well educated lawyer - who wanted to nationalize the oil industry, which was held by the Brittish, and thus to improve the standard of life of Iranians and to boost the development of Iran. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">But these idealistic, socially-oriented visions of Dr. Mosaddeq conflicted with the selfish, self-righteous interests of Brittain and USA, thus they plotted to turn him down. And with the power of money so they did, replacing him with the Shah. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">A few months ago, I thought that US and Brittish secret agencies again had a role in the subsequent events that took place in Iran, but now I understand that they didn't. Namely, the islamic revolution in 1979. This was when the US and UK lost control over Iran and over Iran's oil fields. And ever since, they want to reclaim this oil back.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">And the stupified public will, again, be made to think that this war is for their protection, chanting patriotic slogans like "God bless our troops, risking their lives to defend us." God bless your stupidity. Ignorance is bliss. Right. Bliss, for those in power.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">And this whole lust for profits up until the very last drop of oil is the major barrier for the development of new, advanced and clean energy technologies. Because there aren't enough investments put into research, because the emergence of any such serious new technology must be delayed until the last oil well goes dry. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Don't ask about sense nor rationality, there are none such. It's all driven by the most primitive motivators that exist in human nature. The conservative political groups, corporations and central banks want to continue to inflate the US and world economy, to follow the ups and downs of the "natural" economic cycles, to wage wars and simply to prevent humanity's further cultural development as much as they possibly can. Why, there is no answer, I guess because it's just fun. Apart from irrationally profitable.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Just notice how they step up with media propaganda, ragging about the imminent threat of Iran and their aggressive nuclear program.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Today mainstream media almost don't mention Osama Bin Laden anymore, because his image served its purpose and is not needed by US propaganda anymore. Think. Wake up. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Steps to war</b>:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">1. Demonize the Enemy</div><div style="text-align: justify;">2. Exaggerate a Threat</div><div style="text-align: justify;">3. Fake a Diplomatic Effort</div><div style="text-align: justify;">4. Establish a Pretext</div><div style="text-align: justify;">5. Pretend at some point that a line has been crossed and attack</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Steps 1 through 4 involve huge amounts of propaganda, both national and international, in speeches, reports, via corporate media sources. Using the cultivated patriotic flare in USA citizens (that is easily turned into mindless zeal via strong, passionate propaganda) to win their support for a war. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Some wilfully ignorant, hopeless patriots would say "I don't care about all those war crimes, killings, monstrosities, we are the best and we will dominate this world". Yeah, you are the best, alright, only that your own government exploits its own citizens pretty good. After all, don't think that the average American profits anything from these wars, you only pay for them via your wide array of all kinds of increasing taxes, while the real profiteers are big corporations who don't give a damn about you average US citizens. It's time to wake up and actually become citizens, not just peasants. The dollar is on its way to become a worthless currency and USA will not succeed to dominate the world, rather their primitive aspirations will only lead to a Third World War that will obliterate half the world and will only bring misery and suffering, nothing more. It is possible that the idea for the Georgia Stones came from an annonymous prophet.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Yes, given the current development of events, the possibility of a WW3 in the near future is very high. And this is an uncomfortable thought, on the least. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">American population has the power to prevent this insanity, if they only could firmly stand against the military policy of their government. If the US public is able to wake up from their mental slumber and realize the illusion that has been put in front of their eyes. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Title: <b>Iran is not the problem (2008)</b><br />
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No, Iran is not the problem. United States is. Indeed, the US laments over Iran's potential nuclear weapons, while the US themselves are unwilling to disarm theirs. Also, why the US doesn't speak up against Pakistan's or India's nukes? Because they don't have oil, on the one hand.<br />
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United States has been involved in the past 50 years in State-sponsored international terrorism via CIA operations around the world and various False Flag operations. Why is the US public wilfully casting a blind eye to all this? What is wrong, are they afraid? Afraid of their own government? USA has a history of sponsoring both sides of fighting factions all over the world, all throughout the 20th Century and continue to do so. They create terrorist organizations, only to fight with them later. <br />
And that crazy notion "Axis of evil" that became so popular following 9/11 sounded really strange to me, coming from the mouth of a "western world" leader. But now, understanding more about the US political system and realizing that Bush is a Republican, the weird phrase came to place. So ridiculous. Axis of evil, lol. It is the subjective quality of the observer to put itself out of the observable. <br />
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Indeed. I mean, are there really republican senators and governors who don't "believe" in evolution? ..It's not a question of simply "believing", it's a question of rationale and facts. And another thing religious dogma does not tell you - have you thought on the connection between the synchronization between the main brain frequency state of human and the Shuman resonance and the relation of these to the "telepathy" effect?! Hm. Humanity will never reach this level of knowledge until we wage wars and behave like primitive monkeys.<br />
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Title: <b>New American Century (2006)</b><br />
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The main points in the New American Century Project agenda:<br />
<ul><li>we need to increase defense spending significantly if we are to carry out our global responsibilities today and modernize our armed forces for the future (..for the future wars??)</li>
</ul><ul><li>we need to strengthen our ties to democratic allies and to challenge regimes hostile to our interests and values (...such a self-centeredness)</li>
</ul><ul><li>we need to promote the cause of political and economic freedom abroad [and]</li>
</ul><ul><li>we need to accept responsibility for America's unique role in preserving and extending an international order friendly to our security, our prosperity, and our principles. (....pure propaganda)</li>
</ul>In other words, we need to dominate the world and impose our ways on others. And those "ways", economic and political, are far from healthy, sustainable nor socially-oriented, but impose them anyway.<br />
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Here is the same documentary on a somewhat better quality at <a href="http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=26614">Information Liberation</a><br />
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What you can do about it? You can talk about these issues, bring attention to them. You can make petitions, assemble to public protests and peaceful disobedience. You can gather and say NO to war, no to propaganda. Be active citizens, use your "We the people" power for once, after more than a century of consenting and being a good flock of consumers. <br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">"<b>Propaganda is to Democracy as Violence is to Dictatorship</b>"</div><div style="text-align: center;">Noam Chomsky<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Peculiar exerpts from <b>Wikileaks</b>:</div><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li>How the US picks up diplomatic representatives: </li>
</ul><div style="text-align: justify;">"The cables reveal Washington's opinion on Gordon Brown's potential successors. David Miliband was deemed "too brainy", Alan Johnson had a "lack of killer instinct" and Harriet Harman was a "policy lightweight but an adept interparty operator". <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/dec/02/gordon-brown-potential-successors-washington">Source</a>. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
So, the person aspiring for a career in politics must not be too smart and should not have too high moral to qualify for a good candidate. Right. That is, if you are too smart, you should become a scientist or something, not politician. And if your moral values are too high, you should become a monk or something, not get involved in the sinful fields of politics. <br />
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What, you thought that politicians are smart people? Well, history proves otherwise quite definitively. And morals.. let's not even mention this way-out-of-place concept that has no place in politics, again, obviously, both in retrospection and today.<br />
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Ahh, if all the scientists in the world were to become politicians, the world would be such a better place to live in. No more funding for wars, instead increased investment in science, medicine, education. Utopia. <br />
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Here is another truth: We live in a twisted world, upside down. No wonder throughout history the most wicked, the most insane, the most barbaric and idiotic persons have ruled nations. The real question here is, why the "masses" allow such persons to attain leadership positions? Ponder this for a while. <br />
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<ul><li>Saudi youth are throwing hell of a parties, deep underground, right after the evening prayer. <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/us-embassy-cables-documents/235420">Cable document here</a>. </li>
</ul>Now, I don't mean to reprimand the young people wanting to party, even in a rather primitive way with lots of alcohol, drugs and prostitutes.. but a society based on hypocrisy and backwards social structure, where women are considered a lesser class of humans than men and social life is reduced to going to the malls and praying in mosques.<br />
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The wrong world.. such a bad luck. In a billion of universes, this one. Bummer. LoL<br />
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<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/the-us-embassy-cables">Follow the unfolding of the US Diplomatic cables live</a><br />
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Here is a very interesting and insightful movie (animation) on Iranian society before and after 1979. As seen through the eyes of Marjane Satrapi, who was a kid during these times. Couldn't find it online, this is the trailer. I recommend watching the full movie, it will show you a society being a victim of religious fundamentalism, just as western societies have been and still do fall victims to political propaganda.<br />
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Title: <b>Persepolis (2007)</b><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Today the truth about the dominant policy of western and eastern, northern and southern governments alike became obvious. Societies are being manipulated, abused, deceived and ruled by dictatorship-oriented totalitarian governments, whether openly or disguised as democracies. The revealed diplomatic documents by Wikileaks were supposed to create outrage in leaders concerned and serve as an awakening slap in the face for all slumbering societies. Instead, the leaders are either silent or outraged in condemnation, not for the highly cynical US diplomacy and politics, but for the whistleblower themselves, who dared to expose the truth as it is. </span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US"> <span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">So, there it is. The truth about the lies finally surfaced definitively. And the reaction of US and world governments proved what their true policy is. It is a policy of manipulation and deception, not one of truth and freedom. There is no democracy in our world, there is capitalism, communism, dictatorship and various hideous political mixes of those three.</span></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"> <span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Today's politics is a dirty game of propaganda and wealth-accumulation that has nothing to do with creating a better world for the average person. Governments work for corporations and not for the people. The only democratic element that blinds people into thinking they have power to choose – voting – is another deception, because political campaigns are sponsored by corporations, not tax-payer money, as people may think. And the source of the biggest propaganda and political hypocrisy in the world, it seems, is USA. The censorship there turns out to be rivaling that of China and old totalitarian regimes, like the USSR. Yet, the American public is turning a blind eye to all this, still believing they live in a free country. A willful ignorance, silently supporting its own slavery. But, do they have a choice? What can be done? Can anything be done at this point? Can people reclaim their true freedom? Are people able to tell apart freedom from enslavement at all?</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"> <span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">"</span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">In a free society, we are supposed to know the truth. In a society where truth becomes treason, we are in big trouble</span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">" is a recent remark of Ron Paul regarding the unfolding events around the Wikileaks scandal. </span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Congressman Ron Paul who had no chance of reaching the final rounds of the last presidential elections in USA, don't wonder why. </span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"> <span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Governments and corporations take actions into closing down the whistleblower website. This act alone is quite evident as to the lack of true freedom in our modern "democratic" world. Some US politicians have even called for the assassination of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, because he is such a treat for freedom and justice. We are witnessing live a huge censorship on truth and liberty in front of our eyes. An act, that some people thought unthinkable in western democratic societies. </span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"> <span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">About the leaked documents: </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"> <span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">"The cables show the extent of US spying on its allies and the UN; turning a blind eye to corruption and human rights abuse in "client states"; backroom deals with supposedly neutral countries; lobbying for US corporations; and the measures US diplomats take to advance those who have access to them. This document release reveals the contradictions between the US’s public persona and what it says behind closed doors" </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><a href="http://213.251.145.96/cablegate.html">Find the documents here</a>, until this location lasts.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> The truth is, we live in a deeply messed up world today, very much resembling scenarios like the ones portrayed in literature like "1984" and "Brave New World". And it is up to people, at large, to wake up and change the course of history. Together, united by reason, honesty, moral, solidarity and humanism. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"> <span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Here are two interesting articles surrounding the Wikileaks scandal:</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<ul><li><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> <a href="http://www.regressiveantidote.net/Articles/What_WikiLeaks_Really_Reveals.html">What Wikileaks Really Reveals</a> by The Regressive Antidote</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> <a href="http://en.rsf.org/wikileaks-hounded-04-12-2010,38958.html">Wkileaks Hounded?</a> by Reporters Without Borders. For Press Freedom </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
</ul></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><u>Update</u>:<br />
<ul style="text-align: left;"><li><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/interactive/2010/nov/28/us-embassy-cables-wikileaks?intcmp=239">Interactive Map w/ released Wikileaks diplomatic cables</a> by Guardian.co.uk</li>
</ul>There is also a section in their website keeping track of the newest released documents <b><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/series/us-embassy-cables-the-documents">here</a></b>. <br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">"<b>During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act</b>" </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">George Orwell</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">"<b>None are more enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free</b>" </div><div style="text-align: center;">Goethe</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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"We live in a mentally challenged world" Oh, yeah, the blatantly obvious truth. One of the many. <br />
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In order to understand the present, one has to follow its roots down in the past. The present is a complete and utter mess. And the past is no different. History is an entangled thing, that is understood best when seen through all of its different angles. If we want to understand why things are the way they are today, we have to follow their development from the past. There are many truths, many levels of truths. But, probably, one of the highest truths is that things are not the way they seem to be. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
In a previous article I gave a link to a comprehensive documentary about the historic development of <a href="http://mindvolution.blogspot.com/2010/09/marketing-psychology-politics.html?utm_source=BP_recent">corporate propaganda</a>, marketing, shaping the consumer society in the US and manufacturing consent. <br />
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Here is another documentary that follows in retrospective the development of the modern political scene, the establisment of the political propaganda and the establishing of the ever-stalking, ever-imminent terror threat that keeps western societies in a grip of fear.<br />
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Title: <a href="http://www.moviesfoundonline.com/power_of_nightmares.php"><b>The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear</b> (2004)</a><br />
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".. Lies became reality .."<br />
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"This documentary offers a remarkable insight into the reality of our current fear induced climate. Adam Curtis chronicles the rise of neo-conservatism and the resulting change in the world's political agenda orchestrated by those who place their trust in the philosophical ideal of the necessity of evil to unite a country. The filmmaker manages to successfully pluck apart the myth of the reality of there being a logistically organized terror network, let alone one that is managing to orchestrate terror attacks from a cave in the remote mountains of Afghanistan. His arguments are backed up by some eye opening interviews with authorities on the field of Islamic fundamentalism, members of the US government and members of the US judicial system. These insights are parred with concrete, startling facts and the result is a program that manages to shake us awake making us aware of a far more realistic terror threat namely that of psychological warfare carried out by the powers that be, accompanied by a sensationalist media frenzy. I cannot recommend this program highly enough." -imdb.com <br />
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The movie is in three parts, about an hour each.<br />
I will not comment, because what history reveals just leaves you speachless.. standing rapt in awe. Or maybe with a sentence. All this is madness. Insanity. Primitivism, prevailing in all camps. <br />
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Watch it. Think. Rethink. And spread the world. I deeply believe it is time for people to wake up and stop being a flock of sheep. </div><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">"None are more enslaved than those, who falsely believe they are free" </div><div style="text-align: center;">Goethe</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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Shilled into Capitalistic ideology. We, modern people, tend to think that Feudalism is a thing of the past. That today in our advanced societies we enjoy freedoms and rights, not accessible to our unfortunate predecessors. Yes, today individuals in modern societies do enjoy new-found freedoms that were unthinkable before. Like gender equality, right to assembly and public protests, freedom to express your opinion, to trade and generally live your life the way you feel like living it. Of course, all those freedoms and rights do come with certain clauses and prepositions attached. The truth is, that all of the above are still emerging and although constitutionally accepted, those rights are not fully applied in practice. They are more or less fictional and formal, even though the average consumer may not see it this way. Perhaps, the biggest illusion in today’s world is that there is a Democracy. When in reality, there is Capitalism, which is the modern form of Feudalism. <br />
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History is a complex and entangled topic. But in history are the roots that laid today’s world. Due to a complexity of reasons, USA, with its economic ideology of Capitalistic prosperity and the American Dream, has placed itself as a world standard for social advancement, serving as an example for emerging economies. And despite all of its numerous flaws, a lot of governments do strive to follow in its footsteps, including ours, here in Bulgaria. Which I find a wrong thing to do. Indeed, whether due to a lack of alternatives or because of the short-sightedness of people in power, American Capitalism and US society had established as a world role model. But, hasn't this role model proved to be wrong?<br />
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In reality, USA was a land of prosperity and freedom, <a href="http://mindvolution.blogspot.com/2010/07/my-american-journey-summer-2010-travel.html">in the past</a>. Today, it has turned into a highly exploitative system that completely excludes the “social” element and a global military aggressor. United States sits on old glory, because today’s reality is much different than the image they still project onto the world. In fact, USA is the world leader in hypocrisy and cynicism. Reprimanding corrupt foreign governments, when the US government works for corporations, instead for the people. Speaking against terrorism and military aggression, when the US foreign policy is one of the most terror-oriented and aggressive in the world. Talking about Global Warming and environment preservation, when US corporations are some of the major pollutants and destroyers of environment both on US territory and abroad. <br />
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Abusing non-renewable resources, as if the end of the world is just around the corner. Producing enormous amounts of waste, both organic and synthetic, that spill into rivers, oceans and all nature. The entire concept of perpetually expanding economic growth is wrong and unsustainable. A virtual economic prosperity, that still remains unexposed, but will not remain like this forever. Why virtual? Because, it is debt-based. <br />
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It is a strange thing that USA imports much more, than they export. Yet, Americans can afford a rather higher standard of life on the average. This is a controversy. And this is where the American credit system comes in the scene. <br />
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The land of the debt, where the average citizen has 8 credit cards and about a thousand dollars of debt on each one of those plastics. Americans are spending beyond their means and this situation puts American economy ahead of its actual GDP, thus this higher standard of living is somewhat artificially created with a lot of blink. The average American has higher rate of spending, than making money. <br />
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There are much unhealthy elements in the way US society ended up being set. Not to mention high rates of obesity, probably highest in the world, and GMO food treated with highly toxic chemicals (produced by Monsanto, the same Monsanto who produced Agent Orange for the Vietnam war) with side effects yet to be established, such as endocrine disruptive ones, both for humans and animals alike. <br />
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It may seem a great thing to be American, but is this only the façade? Behind the glamour there are shady mechanisms at work. Liberty, it seems, has been lost somewhere on the way. <br />
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Americans, today, are enslaved by corporations and banks. Banks lure people in taking credits with overwhelming advertisements, great offers and discounts, counting on the average person’s ignorance. Terms and clauses are intentionally complicated and written so that contracts be as less clear to the consumer as possible. Government, on the other hand, makes sure it keeps propaganda up, motivating society to be good consumers. However, the average American doesn’t make enough money to be that good a consumer, that is why they need to spend on credit, in order to fulfill the consumer-quota required from them. Modern consumerism, on the whole, is based on deception and misleading. A legalized fraud. Unfortunately, this model propagates itself overseas as well. For instance, here in Bulgaria, six years ago there were no mortgage credits, there were no credit advertisements on TV and on street banners. And today, already there are lots and lots of people in debt, caught in the spider web of banks and debt economics. <br />
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Banks use various strategies to keep their customers well in debt. They gladly would refinance your mortgage, so that you may fail to pay it off this time. They would even reprimand you, if you pay off your credit too fast. They don’t like you when you pay on time, thus avoiding interest. Ideally, banks want you to make minimal monthly payments forever. And, don’t worry, you can always go bankrupt and balance out your credit bills. <br />
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While, I’m not sure if all that bank credit system is such a bad thing after all. Since, if there were no credits available to the average working individual, the whole consumer-based society wouldn’t be possible. Not at these rates at least. But, what about the social side-effects of this aggressive Capitalism? What about the continuing and growing trends of inhumane practices of corporations, like sweatshops and death salaries? And what about the complete lack of care about the environment? What about taking responsibility for future generations yet unborn? What legacy are “we” leaving to them? A shattered and poisoned world? Why sustainable economy and renewable production is kept only in theory? Why are corporations waiting for the last drop of oil to dry out, in order to really invest in those new technologies? Greed is a great barrier to social advancement. Among other primitive behavioral patterns of human beings. <br />
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What about the growing inequality between rich and poor? Is the middle class diminishing? Where will that lead? Isn’t it time to officially declare Capitalism a mistake and move forward? Or is it that people must change their mindset first, in order that we move forward. <br />
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The presumption of constantly expanding economy is just irrational, not to mention unsustainable, and it will inevitably turn into a black hole, crushing down under its own weight <br />
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In one speech of his, J.W.Bush says that “Americans enjoy economic independence” Wow, I was truly stunned by this outlandish conclusion, what’s more, the sitting crowds in front of him actually clapped their hands joyfully. Amazing. It is amazing how much appreciation empty words can bring about. Of course, manipulative governments all around the world knew that effect long ago Bush was even born.<br />
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Title: <b>Maxed Out</b></div><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">I do agree that people's own ignorance and lack of rational thought is the main reason to find themselves in such debt-overwhelmed situations. The banks having lied and deceived them into taking the bait is another element, but not really the main one. I mean, do live within your means people or at least close to it. Time to realize that the American Dream is not wealth that simply falls from the sky, it's about opportunities to earn. However, such opportunities are to be found all over the world today, so it's an old concept overall. And what about Liberty?</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">It is a strange thing that there are a lot of movies, articles and analyses over the past decades raising those issues and yet as if all of them are somehow kept on the background, shut and silenced with very little public attention drawn to them, like some kind of dissidents that are unfavorable to the ruling government, because, well, they are too objective and speak the truth. Preposterous. Here is another documentary related to Freedom and Liberty in USA that I recommend watching, some of the regulations that it criticizes are truly disturbing. Like the ban on growing vegetable in your back yard. I mean, this is a fundamental human right to grow food on Earth, banned. Crazy world. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><br />
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<span lang="EN-US">Title: <b>The End of Liberty (2010)</b></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US"><b><a href="http://www.blogger.com/%20http://www.moviesfoundonline.com/end_of_liberty.php">You can watch it here</a></b>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">And another one, examining this transition in a historical restrospection and embarking on quite a provoking trip in search of answers from some of the most notorious US institutions. Nearly a century later.. US society still walks oblivious to all this. Watch the following documentary, it is highly recommended and spread the word. Stand up and fight, for your freedom, for your rights!</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><b><a href="http://www.moviesfoundonline.com/america_freedom_to_fascism.php">Title</a></b>: <b>America: From Freedom to Fascism (2006) </b> </span></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US">What we see in the above documentary is just gruesome. It is shocking and deeply, deeply disturbing. So ridiculous when people say that "USA is the freest country." Umh, think again. This sounds like the "Americans enjoy economic independence" line of Bush's. Utter and complete hot air words with absolutely no resonance in reality. Yeah, the truth is that Liberty in United States died at the beginning of the 20<sup>th</sup> Century and it is up to people now to resurrect it back. Say no to self-imposed ignorance! Informed and intelligent is cool. Dumbness is dull (not to mention highly manipulative). Wake up people.</span><br />
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<ul><li><a href="http://www.the7thfire.com/Politics%20and%20History/IRSisFraud.htm">A Personal Revelation on the IRS from Sherry Peel Jackson</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.tax-honesty.org/">Wake Up</a>. It's time for the FED to go, USA and the world will gradually settle to be a much better place after those highly exploitative institutions are abolished from society </li>
<li>Here's what happened with the abovementioned <a href="http://www.taxhelpattorney.com/videos/tax-protestor-sherry-jackson.html">whistleblower</a>, because she was not backed by society! US Society = the flock of IRS and the FED.</li>
<li>Abolish the Federal Reserve Act of 1913. <a href="http://www.petitiononline.com/fedres/petition.html">Sign the Petition</a></li>
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Human psychology is one of the most baffling, perplexing, amazing and least explored, even less understood realm of the whole of Creation. It is the source of all art, mystery, myth, symbolism, ritual and everything divine. Indeed, human psyche gave rise to such profound mysteries that have proven to be utterly and completely incomprehensible to this other level of human mind - the more approachable and transparent – intellect or rationale. Human beings today, generally, divide themselves in believers and non-believers. The believers hold dear the archaic dogmas of the past and zealously believe, while the non-believers disregard all the religious non-sense and refuse to believe any more. All of them, believers and non-believers alike, collectively don’t understand, nor do they realize. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">They don’t understand, because they look at it from the wrong perspective, which, of course, provides no meaningful view. Leaving believers aside, since they don’t even try to understand, the non-believers, likewise, simply disregard, without really trying to understand either. And to understand, one has to look at religion, myth and symbolism through the aspects of human psychology. To enliven oneself in the minds of those ancient humans and see the way they saw the world, the way they came to interpret it, the way psychology works in all the various manifestation of its intrinsic mechanisms, many of which stem from our instincts, embedded in our behavioral, as well as perceptional frames. Also, there are the practical, social layers of religion that were intentionally built-in, through history, so to provide a moral frame for society, as well as a structural one. If one learns to think in this way and analyzes religion in these respects, gradually, revelation enlightens one’s mind and leaves them in awe in front of the simplicity of the profound. The topic is quite voluminous and quite intriguing too, I am discussing a good deal of it in my book, for me some of these conclusions are truly staggering for a first-time realization, considering that so millions and billions of people don’t really realize it in this way, believers or atheists alike. Later the stunned-effect settles down and ferments into wisdom. Pieces of realization that build up and expand the horizons of awareness and consciousness, as much as burdened with “new age” blink those terms may be, I am using them for what they actually designate. The title of this post says a lot, but there is even more behind it. You see, it is not a matter of whether “God exists or does not exist”, it is a matter of, I’m not really sure how to express it, a matter of psychological adultness, because a great deal of the core motifs of major religions is the Parent element, and not only in religions alive today, but also in those that were forgotten. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">On the most superficial level, religion is a form of government that, as all primitive forms of governments, puts “ordinary” people in the position of obedience (thus exploitation) without the right to question or disprove and with no option not to follow, otherwise will be outcast from society. In the past, religion served well as a social glue, since people were quite ignorant and uneducated anyway. Today, it mostly serves as a social segregator and a justification for hatred and discrimination. My God is not your God, your God is not My god, The gods are not your God and my God is your god, but not the God of your Dog. And so on outrageous arguments going on and on, forever. Until, people finally begin to realize. This may never happen, it may happen after thousands of years more, it may happen in a few centuries or in a few decades. Who knows what the unfolded, inexistent future holds in its state of infinite quantum potential. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Anyway, another year, another row of profitable religious celebrations filling the medium with much exaggeration and collective emotion. Now is Hajj time. Muslims from all over the world gear up for this year’s great Mecca stampede, to see the Space Rock, round it a few times in a cleansing ritual of purification from all the sins that have accumulated during the year, throw some earthly stone matter at a Devil’s dummy and ride a new, state of the art and technology Mecca train. Ah, it is the most mysterious thing when religion and technology join hands in unison. Such an awe. Stumbled upon a news article about it earlier today and was very amused by the colorful comments different readers had left below it. About the Hajj and the Mecca train. One reader says: </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">“Interesting that the train for religious pilgrims was made in an officially atheistic country!!” </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Indeed, considering that women may have worked on it too, it is a great sin for hard-liner Muslim men to touch a non-family woman, you know, even indirectly, especially during the Hajj. Allah will condemn them to burn in hell, those disgusting and perverse women touchers. Another reader comments: </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">“No, Saudi have no army, they pay US to fight their war, and you will to keep oil following, but why not just raise oil prices ans stick it to the American people, George W. Bush in his book the Decision.” </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">I’m not sure to which comment this not quite coherent reply responds to, but it seemed interesting. Now I saw that there are some collapsed comments, you have to press the little plus sign to see them. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">“Let them permit non-Muslims into Mecca and Medina. Let Saudi Arabia permit building of churches and other religion based prayer places just as we permit theirs! One way street is not acceptable for long!” </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">“What's the over/under on how soon some Muslim militant will blow up this train? I'd say one week.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">“No, it will be a Christian militant. They are real dangerous and just as plentiful as the Muslim variety. Haven't you heard?”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">“And in the US, depression medication advertisements on the rise, in a recession many feel hopeless in finding a job and drug companies want to profit on that. They want a train, they get it. Here’s always a fist fight between the Rep and Democrats, tell he frustrated nation, I know better, but they are all for their self interest and those who paid for their campain” </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">This one is more like a monologue complaint out of desperation, completely out of topic and out of corporate news channels and popular talk shows as well. We feel sincere solidarity with you, frustrated nation! We all are. Everything is wrong in this world, everywhere. We are in the wrong world, I tell you! Lol, back to the comments. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">“Only the men get to ride inside.. the women are strapped to the top like luggage.. so as not to offend the morality police....” </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Another reader replies to the above comment: </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">“Wow, Ignorence is a disease with an optional cure. You need to get cured my dear.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">And a reply to the reply from yet another reader follows: </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">“Sweeping the realities and problems under stinking carpets are another kind of disease requiring treatment!!” </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The debate continues on furiously: </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">“Just because there are so many Muslims in the world means that there are a lot more ignorant people in the world!!!!”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">“That is true for all religions !”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">“only stupid people believe in any thing as stupid as religion.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">What did I told ya. They’re all stupid. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">“You people do know that all there doing is Worshiping a Asteroid.right?” </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">“With all of them facing each other's butts, they could be worshipping a hemorrhoid!” </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">“How is this any more strange than Christians making pilgrimages to various churches built to house the preserved remains of body parts of long dead saints?” </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">“Another instance of China beating the U.S. in competition for relatively new technology.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">“Yeah, all the U.S. can do is give them the most technologically advanced weaponry on the planet. We suck.” </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">“Non-Muslims are not permitted even in roads leave alone to the "holy" place!” </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Aah, now isn’t this such a dreadful discrimination. Non-muslims must ride on camels through the desert, if they don’t have an off-road vehicle. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">“Why don't they just take a flying carpet ?”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Now that’s the solution! </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">“R.B. continue with that belief at the risk of your enternal soul. There is only one was to true salvation and eternal life; Maximus speaks the truth. Just curious. what is your "religion" anyway?” </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Yeah, the usual question does the job in friend-making and foe-telling. <a href="http://world-news.newsvine.com/_news/2010/11/14/5464632-mecca-metro-muslims-take-new-train-to-hajj-sites#comments">Here is the link to the article with all the comments</a>. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Questionnaire: </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Basic questions. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>What is your race</b>: Homo Sapiens</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Where are you from</b>: Earth</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>What is your religion</b>: God doesn’t have religious preferences, don’t be ridiculous, only humans do! <a href="http://mindvolution.blogspot.com/2010/09/unnecessary-theology-or-is-religion.html?utm_source=BP_recent">LoL</a> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">P.S. It is interesting to note, in regard to the alleged healing properties of religious artifacts, usually bodily remains of death saints or icons, that the "miracle" effect does occur. However, it is not the bones themselves that create it, but the channeled collective believe that boosts and amplifies the individual self-suggestion. This is the same as the Placebo effect. The mind-power of the believer heals the body through the power of suggestion. It is quite an interesting effect, very little explored and acknowledged by contemporary science. Probably because pharmaceutical industries doesn't want people to heal themselves, 'cause they'll be out of business.<br />
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These potentials of the mind are very real, as well as telepathy-related and similar shrouded in mystery abilities of the mind. It is just that the way these things work and occur is different than what the movie and entertainment industry had come to present them as. For instance, when you experience "telepathy" you don't actuallty read a mind like a text book, but rather you tune into certain intuitivie suggestions pointing to certain aspects, mindsets, tendencies related to a certain person, usually a person that you know. Something related to frequencies again, that we don't really understand yet. <br />
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Finally, back to speaking of poorly understood religion and religious fanaticism, here is an interesting video to see:<br />
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<b>Title</b>: Jesus Camp (2006)<br />
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Uhum, religion can be quite a disturbing ideology. Just as any rationality-deprived ideology. This is another problem in our postmodern world that needs to be properly addressed and resolved in the future. Yeah, let's just fix it then. Look who's talking of fasting (clip above).<br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: 100%;">A few days ago, the German chancellor</span></span><span style="font-size: 100%;"> <span lang="EN-US">Angela Merkel finally gathered courage to state that “The multicultural model has utterly failed” (She looked very anxious on different social occasions on TV, there was this concert for an official event, a week or so ago, and she was sitting there uncomfortably on her chair with the audience, her body language conveying inner unsettlement). </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">I’ve been thinking on the cultural integration issue in Europe since some time now and I was honestly perplexed as to why it was not addressed rationally, but only defended by privately-funded lobbyist organizations, who only defended their payrolls and address the unintegrated minorities’ issue with poor and one-sided arguments. I guess politicians were too busy to argue with those lobbyists, many of which come directly from the European Council, arrogantly flashing sanctions threats. </span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">So, let’s begin our rational interpretation of the Social Integration concept by drafting a definition of it. To integrate in a society means to adopt the host societies’ laws, conducts, learn the official language, become a part of the work force, pay your bills and taxes. To integrate into a society basically means to adopt its culture, apart from becoming a part of its social system (leisuring around on undeserved social benefits doesn’t count). </span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">Now, let’s tackle those elusive principles of Democracy concerning human rights and freedoms. Europe, these days, considers itself a world leader in Democratic human rights and tolerance. You could come in any EU country and settle in, find a job, raise a family. So long as people are respecting each other and everyone adheres to the given social standards in education and culture, all is basically good. You have the freedom to practice your religion and your cultural traditions alongside, as long as those traditions, in particular, does not seriously collide with the higher human rights principles in place at the culture you wish to integrate in. For instance, it is quite conceivable that if you live in any European country and practice traditional under-age or forceful marriages, you will be opposed by the society, which holds the values of Democratic human rights and freedoms. </span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: 100%;">Thus, we come to a controversy. On the one hand, the Democratic principles hold that people have the rights to practice their alien traditions and religious beliefs and on the other hand, at some point those same Democratic principles of higher understanding for the individual’s rights and freedom are demanded to be waived, because they clash with the traditions and religious beliefs of immigrants. </span></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: 100%;">I have long realized that other cultures, in particular Muslim ones, blatantly exploit western societies’ Democratic tolerance values and are consistently trying to establish a sort of sub-societies that refuse to follow western values, laws and conducts, demanding that they live by their own laws, customs and paradigms. Alright then, considering that this trend of sub-societies based on religious views is highly unhealthy for the harmony of the entire social unit that is being defragmented in this way, I wonder then why are those people living in western societies at all? If they want to live by their own laws and traditions, refusing to integrate, then why don’t they just go back to their home countries and live there in peace the way they want? So here is the cynicism. They want the social well being and convenience of western societies, that is why they persistently stay. They want to live in western societies, but in the same time don't want to fit into its cultural standards. This creates a controversy and social strain. </span></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: 100%;">I like semithic people, their emotionality and exotic culture, but I don’t like the cynicism in Islam and its orthodox dogma that makes people retarded. And indeed, if western societies continue to lower their social standards and humanity values in order to suit the demands of less culturally advanced social groups, then our societies are at a real risk of downgrading in a cultural sense. </span></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: 100%;">You cannot call a society that treats women with lesser rights then men “advanced”. <br/>Muslim women claim they veil themselves by their own choice, but this is of course a lie out of no choice. They simply cannot express any other opinion than this, otherwise they will suffer consequences in their sub-societies, sometimes even very serious ones. </span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: 100%;">Yes, there are the Indian women, dressing traditionally as well, one might argue. The problem is that Indians are not aggressive, as opposed to Muslims. And yes, I do realize that one is ethnic designation and the other religious, I do make a point with this too. It is way too long to discuss it here, but Islam hasn’t been always like this, in terms of its aggressiveness, but in recent history it had became like this, as a sort of collective psychological defense-mechanism reaction. Things are complicated, as usual when human issues are involved. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">A Theory of Everything seems inapplicable to humans, unlike the Universe. When you think about the Universe, the more you contemplate it, the simpler it seems, while when contemplating on human society, the more you think about it all, the more complex and entangled it gets. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">Actually, all <a href="http://mindvolution.blogspot.com/2010/09/unnecessary-theology-or-is-religion.html">religious dogma</a> is retarding to modern culture. And not just Islam is cynical, Judaism too, Christianity and secular ideologies like politics as well. The real problem, in the bottom of it all, are people themselves and their narrow interpretation of it all, short-sightedness, ignorance and selfishness. People's cultural primitivity, in short. </span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: 100%;">Of course, there is a solution that can disentangle this </span></span><span style="font-size: 100%;">Gordian Knot</span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: 100%;">. And that is when all the different peoples finally agree that religious dogma is archaic and has served its time. When people agree on a new, more advanced and rational interpretation of the historic function of religion, the source of its symbolism and myth. When we all adopt a new, more advanced understanding of ourselves, of this Universe and this reality we all live in. </span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: 100%;">However, such a collective <a href="http://mindvolution.blogspot.com/2010/09/outer-journey-of-wandering-soul.html">realization</a> requires mental effort, a release from willful ignorance, certain levels of intelligence and knowledge too. And these qualities are not as wide spread, as profane religious zeal, so such a reconciliation seems all but improbable in the near future. It is alive and existing in potential today, but humanity is not ready for it yet. Which is very sad, because we just prolong this Idiocracy we all live in, to the collective suffering of us all. </span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: 100%;">People are idiots. Don’t want to offend anyone by saying that, I am an idiot too, so relax. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><br />
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<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" line-height: 115%;">This topic is far from encompassed, even in brief, as I said, it’s deep and complex. As a post scriptum, in regard to the part of the title in brackets – duh, as far as I am aware the concept of multiculturalism exists mostly in western societies. You can’t obtain a permission to build churches here and there in Muslim countries, you know. In fact, there aren’t really any well-being Christian sub-cultures in Muslim societies, for that matter. Don’t wonder why. Because they demand tolerance from us, but don’t return us the favor. This is just not right. Such a dupes.<br />
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By the way, social integration has nothing to do with racism and skin color. It is about culture and values. Just to make this one clear.</span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" line-height: 115%;">In conclusion, the lack of social integration of minorities in a larger social group inevitably leads to social defragmentation, tension and general degradation of the collective well-being. It is interesting to note, that in the US we observe just the same trend. The lack of proper cultural integration of all immigrant groups leads to social problems and social degradation, which, if left unaddressed, will only get worse. Despite their very well conceived artificial culture in the face of American Patriotism, that has been designed exactly for reasons of providing a cultural glue for social integration of all the different peoples. They should have devised a new, American Religion as well, this would have ensured a complete social integrity. lol</span><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Life. Life is such an awe. There is no word that can comprehend it on her own. Life can be described in a thousand ways, with a million words or with complete silence rapt in awe. Contemplating its multilayered, multidimensional misteries is such a bliss for the mind on its own. Marvelling at its brilliance. Looking with astonishment at the most simple things that with the most subtle variations create the most diverse outcomes in forms, qualities, properties, levels. Levels of energy, it is all fundamentally one cosmic symphony of vibration, indeed. So unbelievable, so strange. The same energy in different levels. Frequencies.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">That's all there is. We are made of it. Even more, we are it. Entangled with it for eternity, whether we appreciate it or not. It doesn't matter anyway. Or, does it? Does one's awareness matter? If you realize, does this new state of your mind affects your frequencies? And if so, what is the subsequent effect of all other frequencies in relation to you?</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">They should get affected as well and ultimately, one's personal realization may propagate, as a frequency effect, this energy change reflecting in the whole Universe. Maybe, a part of this symohony gets attuned with my frequency or maybe we affect each other? We may cancel one another or amplify our intensity? A matter of tuning? Am I attuned with myself? Attuned with the frequencies around me? What is Inspiration? What is the frequency of inspiration? Does it affect other frequencies around me? When I get inspired, when my spirit and mind are uplifted high with the flow of thought and emotion. Inspiration is an emotion, but it also addresses thoughts.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">It is a mindset, a state of mind that can be amplified with corresponding thoughts or canceled with thoughts out of tune. Interesting, isn't it? Your mindset creates emotions. It is always like that. Heck, this is even the placebo effect. The mind controls the body and its biochemistry. Thus, if one attains control over his or her mind, they attain control over their moods, emotions, balance. </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Today I got hit by doors, walls and hard edges that got me really pissed off, not to mention this red bump on my forehead. At the end, just as I was getting angrier, I paused and stepped out of me. "Must be having a wrong mindset, in the negative scale" I thought "If reality is beating me up like this all around". It is a fact of life, and frequency, that when you're out of tune with yourself, everything else starts to reflect this. That is why positive mindset is important. Very important even. As being in harmony with yourself is.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">In today's popular commercial science world, mainstream culture is not used to critical thinking, especially one that is directed towards one self, for personality integration purposes. Who cares about the unexplored potentials of the mind, when its commercial uses are highly doubtful and require much effort to reach. Mental passivity is a bliss for today's increasingly neurotic modern human, just like the hipnotizing blink of commercials. </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">It is a fact that the emotional state is a reflection of the mental state and in turn, the physical overall wellbeing is a reflection of your emotional state. The question is, which comes first - your mental state or your emotions? Which creates which? Is it the chicken that lays the egg or is it the egg that hatches the chicken?!</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Back to seriousness, it is an interconnected relation, if one element is disturbed, all get disturbed over the chain. If you weild the root, you attain management over all its branches. Since, the structure of a human being is centralized, in the brain that is. Of course, there are many organs that function independently, for the brain's convenience, but I've heard of people who in the course of many years of learning in self-mastery have attained ability to control even the function of those organs. Like, controlling your heart beat, even stopping it by will. Someone, some while ago told me about a man who was able to erect his penis and ejaculate without touching it at all.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Sure, it's the power of visualization, this happens in sleep too, lol, though in sleep boys most likely touch their penises, by a reflex.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Anyway, if inspiration can be called in, then the mind, as in psyche, has the power to induce hormonal secretion in the CNS, which means that all mood-disorder related mental conditions ultimately are aroused from unconscious issues that build up outside the conscious expanses of one's everyday thoughts and create psychological pressure. Unconsious pressure that leads to an out-of-tune state, a disbalance that manifests itself physiologically. I'm sure this is in the core of all neurous brake-downs, neuroses, depressions and all psychological conditions alike, experienced by otherwise healthy individuals with normally developed encephalouses. </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Depression is classified and treated as a "mental disorder" requiring pharmaceutical intervention, because it is, most simply put, a marketing strategy for pharmaceutical developers.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">As grotesque and disturbing as it may seem, it is a fact. A fact, that is strongly denied by all the psychiatrist lobbyists working in favor of the pharmaceutical companies. Psychiatry is an archaic branch of psychology from the days of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Later completely adopted by the pharmaceutical industry to serve their marketing needs.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">The most disturbing part is, that people are truly got into believing they need the pills in order to feel better, because it is much easier this way anyway. It is much easier to drink a bunch of bliss-bringing pills instead of actually confronting yourself, working through your issues, observing yourself and bringing your personality to integrity via a conscious mental effort of realization. People are out of tune with themselves and psychiatry is deceptively giving them a helping hand.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Helping them to never achieve psychological integrity and any personal insight, that goes through suffering, but leads to liberation and renewal. Unlike the illusion of these that pills bring until the effect of the dose lasts. Such a pittiful state. You see, modern <i>psychiatry</i> addresses the root of those popular mental "disorders" in a very incorrect way. Worsening them or just dulling them at best.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">That is why education in untapped fields like self-management, integration of unconscious issues with conscious self via realization and reconsiliation and the like are so much lacking in mainstream society.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">It is just more profitable this way, even if retarding for the population. So sick. We will never make this next step this way, to reach the next level. </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Still, if frequencies do interfere with each other, then it is worth spreading some inspiration around the informational medium in this reality we are attuned with, for it just may come to inspire more minds on the way and then it is all worth it. Not that the sole bliss of inspiration is not worth it on its own, even without words, just in silence and awe. While this magic lasts. This magic of Life.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Here is a disturbing testimony from a psychiatry pharmaceuticals victim. He prolongs his speech a lot, repeating himself. Still, quite revealing. The dude was in his 20s and was turned into a zombie by his perscribed drugs. This is ridiculous. Those psychiatrists have no consiense, drugging kids and young people like that. Shocking. All psychiatrists care about is selling you the drug, nothing more, nothing less. By the way, while I was in NYC, I saw a lot of strange, somewhat spaced-out, somewhat removed individuals, they looked like drugged, I thought they were on some sort of medications, anti-depressants or whatever. My suspicions were correct. Duh, so obvious. This is just sick. </div><br />
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<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Well, not just religious dogma is archaic in our modern world, you know, there are too much archaic paradigms, some better, some worse, all bad. </div><br />
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I stumbled upon this documentary tonight and decided to take a look at it, the title seemed kind of curious. It discusses psychiatry, as scientific methodology of assessing and curing human mental deviations, behaviorism and exotic mathematical theories that examine and treat humans as sort of automated units, whose behavior can be calculated with such a precision, that you can rather have super computers for social counseling roles instead of psychologists. </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">The "Game Theory" mentioned in the title refers to a mathematical model of human behavior, a very bleak and grim one, born out of corresponding mind, that looks at humans as intrinsically selfish beings, whose sole motivation is always driven by self-interest and imminent desire to cheat and betray on others, always suspicious of others and untrusting. Sounds like a hard paranoia case to me.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Anywaway, so long as all this is true for human nature in general, the roots have to be searched in our hardwired instincts. After all, the most basic frame of human psychology is rooted in our instincts, isn't it? </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Selfishness, as a most common behavioral trait in humans, it is a derivative of our self-preservation instinct. Even though self-preservation is an absolute necessity in nature in order for life to survive, selfishness, on many occasions, is not necessary in the majority of social situations it is used in. However, in my opinion, it is not something that cannot be modified, just as about everything else in a personality.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">For instance, one kid adores chocolate so much, that it won't share it with another that also likes chocolate, but say, has no money to buy one. However, the first kid cannot overcome the strength of its chocolate indulgence and would rather eat it all up in front of the other kid's wide open eyes. Of course, the first kid may be told by her/his parents to share the chocolate, which he/she may reluctantly do and later on when the kid grows up this early-life education that it's a humane thing to share may become an integral part of the young adult's social values. Thus, selfishness, as intrinsic as it may seem to be, is, in the end, a matter of social education and values. </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">It's about how the young generation is educated, this is a conviction I strongly advocate. Since, the young of humans and other mammals alike, learn their social skills from their parents and acquire their social values from the predominant such in the society they live in.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Family and social environments are the major contributors to people's mindset, life views, character and so on.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">This is valid as long as the individual more or less goes with the flow without taking much mental effort to think on him/her self, that is. As important as early education is, it is another unpopular fact, that people can actually build themselves as personalities and as character, with the power of their conscious will, self-critisism and determination.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Of course, this ability of humans is much less popular than our qualities like selfishness, greed and so on, because it takes a human one step further in evolution. Having said that, if selfishness is an instrinsic, instinctive part of human behavior, then altruists can be refered to as a step above the majority of the population, since they have gone beyond their primal instinctivity. </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Right. What about greed? Greed is a derivative of selfishness, a rather active derivative, if we consider the act of selfishness as being passive. A more twisted procurtion of the self-preservation instinct, that in many cases goes well beyond any rational and meaningful alike. </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Actually, talking about instinctively-derived behavioral frames, if one observes the way people generally behave it becomes so obvious what a great part of everything people do, individually and collectively, is based on instinctive motivation, instinctively-derived psychological patterns and frames of perception and reaction.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Sometimes I think that, despite all the philosophy, all the heightened accomplishments of human spirit and mind, we are just sophisticated animals.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">It's also perplexing just how insulting labeling a human as "animal" can be perceived as. Well, yeah, it is not a lie, we are all mammals on the least. Not to mention our mindless, brutal, inhumane behavior with abundant examples throughout history. Still abundant in the modern world as well. I feel like putting "modern" in quotes or even brackets, can't even dare to think of replacing it with "advanced".</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">We think of our civilization as advanced, filled with war for profit, greed, exploitation, ignorance and religious fanatism. Hello, wrong categorization we have, very wrong criteria indeed. </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">As i have said before, the vision of Star Wars is not applicable to evolution. If advancement was to be judged only by technology and advanced weaponry, then evolution wouldn't have bothered burdening us with self-consciousness, consiense and other scarcely distributed virtues of humanity.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">We have observed that the process of evolution is an extremely pragmatic one, it doesn't produce things without amplication, especially persistently evolving ones, like human consciousness and all the staggering enlightment it can bring about in one's mind.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">This makes me think that this is the next level in the grand course of evolution and this level completely excludes the domination of instincts, in their primal and unconscious manifestation in behavior. Which in turn excludes war and aggression. </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Thus, in truly advanced, culturally and mentally, civilizations, war is a thing of their primitive past. </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">So, the real historic period we live in today is not, whatever we designate it as, post-industrial. But, merely the end of the Medieval, at best. So sad. Oh, well, imagine the suffering of those poor, enlightened souls before us. Shiverring.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Selfishness may not be necessary for modern humans' survival, but humor is absolutely essential, I have to say. Without it, we are lost. </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">In summary, the truly advanced mind goes beyond its instinctual frames. Everything else is nothing more than a smart animal. An intelligent biological calculation.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Sometimes this behavior kind of resembles that of viruses indeed. I also hold the opinion that humanity is overpopulated and that, to evolution's horror, as a rule the dumbest part of global population reproduces the most. I am far from fanatic racist of any sort and try to speak at my best, so that not to sound rude and politically uncorrect, but the bare truth sometimes is pretty tough and ugly too. Most of the times.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">However, it is hard to designate some of the very intelligent people in this world, like big gamers bankers and ruling elites, as culturally/mentally advanced, or even sane, either. So, it's a great controversy. The dumbset are not really meaningful, the intelligent not really sane.. tough situation. I say, just destroy them all! Give Evolution a second chance.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Humans at some point really do seem like biological machines, not much more than intelligent animals, so long as self-consciousness is inactive. Active consciousness goes beyond calculations and predictability. However, it's fundamentally wrong to treat people mathematically anyway, namely because we have self-cosciousness, it's wrong to try to narrow it down, when evolution made it as wide as the cosmos. We only retard our mental advancement - such a far away utopian dream on the collective scale. </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">lol. Oh, yes. Speaking of psychiatry as a scientific methodology that works in close partnership with pharmaceutical producers, I am not a fan of it either. I think psychiatry is a barbaric, medieval method of assessing human sanity by dubtful and highly ignorant criteria, whose main purpose is to drive people to drug stores in order to create armies of customers for the multibillion pharmaceutical industry. Suggestion is a powerful tool and this is how the majority of psychiatry customers get convinced they actually are sick, not fitting into the stereotype of normality. What about psychiatrists themselves, aren't they sick too? lol</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Psychiatry, is in essense, the marketing department of pharmaceutical industries.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">And Anti-depressants come really close to what Aldous Huxley envisioned as the "Soma" of the future world. There are all sorts of ridiculous diagnoses that psychiatry attributes to healthy people, who don't need chemistry, but guidance on how to self-regulate and manage themselves, emotionally and mentally. </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">This is where psychology and psychoanalisys and the new ways yet to come, come in. Unless, the goal is to create a world of mindless drones with happy emptiness behind their eyes. (lol)</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">The documentary explores the cold philosophy of cold war scientists, that simplified humans to calculations and argued that the fight for a greater good is always a pure hipocricy. So grim. This is true for a large part of politicians though, they mostly greed for profits and lust for power. True, true. Bad calculations those politicians.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Here are links to the documentary, in three episodes of about an hour each. It's interesting, has a good music background too, here and there. Worth taking the time. The quality is poor, if you can find it somewhere else. Episode 3 is on Youtube, couldn't find the previous two there, however. </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">"<b>A strange kind of freedom..</b>"</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Title: <b>The Trap</b> (released 2007)</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://freedocumentaries.org/teatro.php?filmID=152&lan=en&size=big">The Trap, Episode 1 'F**k You Buddy'</a></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://freedocumentaries.org/teatro.php?filmID=153&lan=en&size=big">The Trap, Episode 2, 'The Lonely Robot'</a></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">One group that behaves as per the mathematical model are economists and the other are psychopats, lol, this was funny. Right, well incorrect interpretation leads to incorrect knowledge, you know. </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://freedocumentaries.org/teatro.php?filmID=154&lan=en&size=big">The Trap, Episode 3, 'We Will Force You to Be Free'</a></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">By the way, they fail to note that the fall of the Shah in Iran in 1979 was sponsored by US organizations, just as US and Brittish services helped him to step in power a few decades earlier. I mean, do the producers of this documentary really believe that wars were led out of moral values, like spreading freedom in the world, instead of for big, huge profits of the industry and gaining resources? </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Nope, it's Perception Management, otherwise known as Propaganda, making people believe that things aren't the way they really are. War is Freedom. <br />
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On the whole, all documentaries seem to have a degree of subjectivity and one-sidedness of looking at events they speak of. The producers of this video talk in theory, but I notice how much this theory does not apply to what really happened in practice. In the part with the Russian economic developments after 1989, you can tell that the documentary producers have not witnessed these developments from within and thus their theoretical interpretation is not quite true really. Here, in Bulgaria, we went through the same. Almost all national assests were privatized and people were really left to starve. Strange interpretation of freedom, hm. </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">There is no true Democracy in the world today. Whatever that is. Nor there is true collective Freedom. Whatever that is. <br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Evil is Good</span></div><div style="text-align: center;">True is False<br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Propaganda is Truth</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Sadness is Depression</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">War is Patriotism</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Politically Correct is Sincere</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">SSRI is Cure</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Ignorance is Bliss</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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Economics is a strange school of thought, more abstract than philosophy, more elusive than religious esoterics. A religion on its own with established dogmas admired by its many followers, who zealously defend its paradigms. Economics has its ways shrouded in mystery, wielded by few.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">Economics is at the center of civilization and its prosperity, having its roots from the very beginning of trade. However, it has evolved greatly since the days of trade exchange, before paper money, banks and big corporations. The world must have been a bleak place without the generous services of banking institutions and social convenience of credit cards.</span><br />
<span lang="EN-US">In order to understand the present, one must understand the past that led to today. So, let us travel back in time and follow the events as they unfolded.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">After the enlightened era of the Roman Empire with its thriving culture, science and philosophy ended, Europe plunged into the Dark Ages, plagued by diseases, misery, suffering and ignorance. Electricity was yet to be invented far ahead in the future and ordinary people knew little to nothing for the big world outside their local regions. </span><br />
<span lang="EN-US">However, the Renaissance arose and once again lit up the candle in people’s minds. And in the birth place of tourism, a new conception was brewing. That is usury and Venice. It is debatable just how new the concept of lending for profit was, but in Venice this concept began to evolve in what was to become the modern concept of banks. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">Actually, the Templar knights were involved in usury and proto-banking services a few centuries earlier. If you wanted to travel, say on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, but you didn’t wanted to carry Gold coins in your pockets, because you may get robbed on the way, you went in the nearest Templar office and deposited, say, ten coins, in return you were provided with a paper receipt carrying Templars’ seal that stated the amount of Gold you have deposited. Then, when you reach your destination you went into a local Templar office there, showed the receipt and get nine of your coins back, with one Gold coin (or more) being held as tax for the service. Neat, so convenient. An early form of Traveler’s check. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">That is how the Templar knights, as an independent from the church organization, got so rich and the church, naturally, was growing envious. After all, the mighty Church was the only institution granted with Divine rights to have monopoly over land and riches, the Pope had access to more wealth than kings themselves. This was unacceptable and soon rumors of devils and evil spirits working with the Templar knights began to propagate through Europe, which ultimately paved the way for the Church to destroy the Templar order and to claim all of their riches, because the Vatican needed a new grand sealing decoration, you know. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">Propaganda is nothing new in this world and rulers have used it since thousands of years. The catholic Church made a good use of it as well. So good, in fact, that the average believer today still thinks that Templar knights were some sort of devil worshippers who made sex with witches and had goat children with five heads and ten eyes, lol. </span><br />
<span lang="EN-US">When the bare truth is that simply Church authorities envied the wealth of those knights and used their influence to blatantly rob them, torture them Inquisition-style and obliterate their order. Such were the highly humane, spiritually-advanced ways of religion. Not very different from what we still observe today in major religions all over the world. </span><br />
<span lang="EN-US">There seems to be a strange part, deeply rooted in the average human psyche that needs to be duped, exploited and submitted to authority’s will, no matter how irrational and insane. History is littered with evidence pointing in this direction. There is something profoundly wrong with people. I wonder what that might be, having to do with ignorance, mental passivity and so on.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">Anyway. In the 14<sup>th</sup> Century, the Church was still reluctant to allow usury, for one reason or another, but human ingenuity found a way to go around this anathema. Since, Christians were strictly forbid to do banking, the Jews saw this niche as an opportunity to secure their living. They reckoned, that if the universal know-how of the Bible forbids lending for usury to your brother, they could lend to Christians, because they weren’t their brothers, thus it was all legal and scripture-compliant. And so the banking business officially began.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">At first, the money lenders on the streets of Venice were doing their business on benches along the city channels, and this gave the modern word for Bank, from Italian – Banco for bench. </span><br />
<span lang="EN-US">Not long after, the Church finally recognized the high profitability of banking and that it would be better instead of opposing it to join in and have a share. Thus, banking was officially de-sinned and now it was allowed under the supervision of religion, that also demanded a percentage of banking profits to be donated to Church authorities, as a sort of offering to clean their conscience in front of the Deity. This ritual is still kept today in chapels and churches alike, they even have these special sticks with a bucket at one end, so that to be able to reach believers reach-grasping-donation-cash easier. It is for people’s convenience, you know, not to make them stand up and walk accross the hall to the donation urn, so the donation urn will instead be taken to them, lol. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">So, banks established as a most peculiar phenomenon of human civilization, that gradually unleashed all the greed and lust for power that were stored in the deepest layers of human mind. However, at first all was good and for a while in the following centuries it was still good. Banks complaisantly kept in safe storage other people’s Gold in return to a modest service tax, while giving away loans to traders and people embarking on business ventures, so that European economy began to thrive and develop with a rapid pace. People were happy and bankers were also happy, everyone was happy. Until, bankers’ greed began to sprout out of control and the Fractional Reserve System was introduced. And then paper money as trading exchange standard. Then paper checks and credit cards, sub-sub-prime mortgages and complex mathematics, while the average believer’s ignorance remained more or less the same. </span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US">Money, in the meanwhile, increasingly turned into empty pieces of paper backed by little to nothing. </span><br />
<span lang="EN-US">The most brilliant part of it all is that most people don’t really realize this and somehow, local and world economy work with these virtual money. Which, rather baffling situation, only proves that civilization does not need all those money in order to develop, trade and advance. Since, a great volume of money today represent no real value, everything can function just as well, without this inflated paper bulk of bank notes. Lol. After all, "Money is what people agree on to use as money". </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;">An eye opener, isn’t it? It is time for the general population to open their eyes and begin to think and take active role as citizens in their countries. It is time for feudal ways to die off completely. It is time for a Second Renaissance and a true Age of Reason. But if this is to ever take place, at least the majority of average people must lift themselves, mentally, intellectually to higher levels, which means no more easy dumbness and thoughtful degradation in front of brainwashing TV shows. It means making mental effort, consciously, for purposes of self-education and self-informing. This is the only way for true change to take place. Everything else is pure BS and propaganda. Realization is the first step in this journey. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;">Self-education. This is the key. People should never stop learning, never, from cradle to grave. Question everything. Those who don't want you to know, want to control/exploit you (via your ignorance). Ponder this for a while</span><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">The following short documentary provokes some thoughts on the development of the western monetary system in the previous centuries and mainly through the 20th Century. Though, the way it portrays the reasons behind the 1929 Great Depression seem somewhat contradictory to its historic portrayal in Century of The Self documentary (find it below). Or maybe this aspect is another layer of those historical events, I'm not sure. I found this documentary insightful to watch, although again the video editing is rather sensational with those in-between-scenes animations, why they make it like that? Maybe it's a psychological method to keep the audience attention. Well, I care about the information, not the blink it is presented with, lol. </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Anyway, I decided to post it, because it does utilizes historical facts. Of course, let's not forget that history is highly susceptible to interpretation and the way this interpretation is presented can make historic events fit a lot of viewpoints, even contradictory ones, by the art of adaptation. It is true that history can be and on many occasions has been revised. </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">So, watch with criticism and analyze history from as much aspects and viewpoints as available. Yeah, that last word from the previous sentence has a great importance indeed, uncorrupted information is still available, not on mainstream media I guess. No wonder why.</div><br />
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<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">As fabulously empowering as incredible wealth may be, still, those people's ideals are so narrow, trapped in their own life time. Gaining and gaining out of a huge population mass' suffering. How can they truly enjoy their wealth in this way, seeing all the general misery of those billions of people? I am truly amazed at human nature, truly amazed. All the selfish-derived, most primitive, immoral, ruthless qualities are so abundant in this world in every layer of society. You know, Jung was so chillingly serious in his humorous remark that if someone presented to him a sane man, he would cure him. What a nut house. Ah, America, what a mess you are. What a mess this world is and what a mess is my country too. Horrible. </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">The term "Masters of the Universe" that the narrator uses by the end of the documentary made me raise my eye brows. I heard it in use addressing people in the banking business in another documentary as well. Interesting designation, so eccentric, very incorrect I have to say. Masters of nothing, transient wealth in a transient history. I am Master of the Universe and I think we'll blow up this ridiculous planet. Just joking, so rude. I dream of a better world....! And those documentaries just make me sick and deprived of any point of doing anything, apart from taking care of my own well-being, I guess. What a bleep. I'm joking again. Here is another video, since we are on a banking wave. A rather cheerful one and educational too. Enjoy. </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">P.S. Title is "When Markets Go Mad" and I didn't find it in Youtube, so to embed it here. Here is a link to another website where you can watch it, I saw it there.</div><br />
<a href="http://freedocumentaries.org/int.php?filmID=343">http://freedocumentaries.org/int.php?filmID=343</a><br />
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<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">And another one of these series: <a href="http://freedocumentaries.org/int.php?filmID=342">http://freedocumentaries.org/int.php?filmID=342</a></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Of course, the silly line "Looks like a market" at the beginning of the documentary just had to be said by a woman.</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><br /><br />
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Hm, strange title, so grammatically incoherent. Indeed, sometimes the unfolding of events in human history may seem just the same. Filled with controversy, misleading, propaganda, pure insanity, peculiarity and unfitting pieces in between. Makes you wonder, what is it all about.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The following documentary has a rather unprofessional presentation with a certain degree of "conspiracy thriller" crap in it. The voice of the narrator is overdone, along with the music background, aiming to induce a revolutionary truth revelation sensation in the observer. However, there are a few quite insightful interviews with serious professionals and academics, as well as a good amount of factual data, that really makes you think about it. A lot of provoking questions are raised, that have been purposefully underexposed by media for one reason or another. The common ignorance of mass people is sadly evident in the scenes too. Watch it with critical mindset and analyze with the tools of reason and intellect. Don't let the introduction and narrator's voice put you off, I recommend seeing the entire documentary. </div><br />
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Cui bono? And what for? Where is the sanity in all this? Not to mention moral, humanity and so on.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">I want to share with you another documentary, concerning corporate media and media monopoly in relation to this post's title, as an essential aspect of the entire topic/issue overall. It is in parts, so at the end of each you will have to select the next part to continue, like most of the full-length videos in Youtube.<br />
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Title:<b> Orwell Rolls in his Grave </b></div><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">And lastly, I stumbled upon this documentary series of a Dutch TV network that discuss the aggressive military policies of both USA and Israel, future military prospects and issues in this aspect. I must say I am far from an antisemitic mindset, on the contrary, I have always felt deeply sentimental about Semitic people, Jews and Arabs alike. However, sentiment and emotions are one thing at a hand, while rationality is another. And those two are not to be used together, when objective judgment is to be applied. In all, the increasing demoralization in the civilized world alarms me greatly, as well. The documentary is in parts, I embed the first part and the last part here, you will have to search for the other parts in Youtube yourself.</div><br />
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Here are two more resourceful links, one serious on the tough times independent media face in their desire to bring people raw, unsensored and unideologized news reports with a good archive of articles<br />
<ul><li><a href="http://newstandardnews.net/archive/">The New Standard</a></li>
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</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">Recently a lot is being discussed about the expulsion of Roma people from <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">France</st1:place></st1:country-region>. Lots of advocates for human rights are voicing aloud their disagreement with this disgraceful act of Sarkozy’s.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">I watched a few reports on Euronews and CNN and it became obvious to me that those reports are rather too subjective and do not cover the entirety of the issue with these so called Roma people. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">First of all, they have nothing to do with <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Rome</st1:place></st1:city>, to make this one clear. They came with the <st1:place w:st="on">Ottoman empire</st1:place> back a few centuries ago and stayed when the Ottoman armies retreated. That is why most of them are to be found in <st1:country-region w:st="on">Bulgaria</st1:country-region> and <st1:country-region w:st="on">Romania</st1:country-region>, the countries that are closest to <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Turkey</st1:place></st1:country-region> and were occupied by the Ottoman armies the longest. I must say that I feel shame, seeing those despicable nomadic people being portrayed as Bulgarians. They don't even identify themselves as Bulgarians, but as Roma whatevers. Here in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Bulgaria</st1:place></st1:country-region>, those Roma people are a great problem. Most of them refuse to work and refuse to send their children to school, because it is far more profitable for them to send their kids to beg on the streets. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">There have been plenty of attempts here to integrate them in our society, to give them jobs and free education for their children, but they simply refuse to integrate. They steal from their employers and do very poor job and in the end, naturally, get fired. Anyone who does that would get fired, right?! Most of the Roma people, or gypsies, are involved in criminal activities, selling drugs, robbing people, stealing electricity cables from the national grid to sell the copper inside. There have been attempts to roof them and entire small neighborhoods have been built and given to dozens of Roma families to live in, for free, and after a few months they completely wreck the houses, light fires inside, like savages. I mean, come on, those wretched human beings get to have houses for free, well, I want a free house too. Is this fair?! This system is just wrong, so upside down. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">Those reporters portraying the Roma as victims are so subjective and so poorly informed. Why don’t they take into account all of the above? And those advocates of human rights, why don’t they take into account that those Roma people abuse with their children, making them beg and steal? Isn’t that considered violation of the human rights of those children? Or may be it is not considered as such, because the violators are their own parents. They even mutilate their children in order to make them more *attractive* beggars.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">And that the Roma just reproduce mindlessly like animals all to produce armies of beggars and units to suck social benefits for from the unfortunate societies they have installed themselves in. Why are these small details not taken into account? Those people are a great trouble to societies they live in and everyone in <st1:place w:st="on">Europe</st1:place> knows that. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">Of course, there are those very few Roma people who are actually integrated, they have jobs, they have nice homes, their children go to school and even to university. They are normal people and no one minds them. I had two Roma classmates in high school, completely normal, well dressed boys, no one ever minded that they were Roma. But we do mind seeing all those pitiful Roma kids begging on the streets and women with drugged babies on their hands begging and Roma gangs stealing cables and creating trouble, we mind those people, yes, and I personally would love to see them go away somewhere else, far. You see, it is not about irrational ethnic discrimination, as those “advocates” try to present it, but about social trouble makers that are a burden for our societies. It is a fact that more than 80% of the Roma population are involved in the aforementioned activities. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">So, these human rights advocates are extremely subjective, not taking into account so many important aspects of those Roma people lifestyle. This way of presenting the situation is fundamentally flawed and shapes opinions in an incorrect manner. They must be making good money for this meaningless lobby overexposure of theirs, those “advocates”. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">And the EU, the European Union is one political bulk of thousands of clerks and office workers down the hierarchy that are completely needless. Sometimes I am truly amazed at the level of ignorance supposedly educated people may have. And yes, the title is highly politically incorrect, but that again, where is the border between politically correct speech and pure hypocrisy? After all, is saying things that are not correct politically correct? </span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">Quite an insightful documentary on how theory of psychoanalysis was adopted by corporations to create the modern consumer society. The shift from products that you need, to products that you simply desire. Creating the need for products, rather than responding to a need with a product. The workings of the unconsciousness brilliantly utilized in mass marketing. Group behavior, psychology of the crowd, social engineering and commercial manipulation. It's like McDonald's former "Super size", they observed that people felt guilty buying twice the same portion, but this guilt was bypassed if the portion was enlarged. Managing the irrational judgement of the masses and guiding it to consume.</span></span></span></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">Channeling and shaping people's opinion, views and even the way they think. The birth of PR and lobbyism in modern society. Wow, stunning. </span></span></span></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><br />
</span></span></span></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">Can the individual ever be truly free? It seems that true freedom is found only outside the crowd. </span></span></span></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">And what about Equality? Are individuals truly equal or is it just a democratic bullshit? To start with, individuals can have very different starts in life. Your parents may be rich and I may be born an orphant. But, what if two individuals have the same start in life? Say two persons from two average middle-class families. The one is keen to learn, goes in university and graduates, then works and begins to make good money. And the other is lazy, not interested in studying, but just trashes around and does nothing meaningful. Can these two individuals truly be thought of as equal? Well, no, they cannot be equal. People are not equal, because they have different levels of motivation. Thus, social equality is just as an empty concept as freedom of the masses is. </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">Life circumstances and family environment can make a great difference between individuals and the opportunities they may have in life, but in the end it is about motivation. About how far you want to go, in your life, in your character, in your knowledge. </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">However, still every individual has a right of dignity, of pursuing his or her ideals, freedom of speach and so on. And, of course, an individual can always consciously choose a lifestyle of seclusion and self-sufficiency like a hippie, not aspiring to career or making money or whatever, just enjoying the beauty of nature without bothering about nothing much and without complaining either.</span></span></span></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><br />
</span></span></span></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">However that, the biggest question of all is, can society function in any other way after all or is this the only way for things to be? (See documentaries below). Or may be the last question is born out of a lack of imagination?! Can human civilization follow any other path of development than the one it currently is on? Is there any other way and most importantly, even if there is, how can it be achieved? Is it possible? A world without military technology, without different Gods, without exploitation, a world of higher intelligence and clearer reason</span></span></span></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><br />
</span></span></span></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">Documentary title: <b>Century of the Self</b>.</span></span></span></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">(I cannot agree with the title though, by "Self" they mean "Ego-self").</span></span></span></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">The documentary follows and analyzes business, social and political developments in the 20th Century and the intimate entanglement of those three. </span></span></span></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><br />
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">YOU are part of "the masses", lol. Seriously. </span></span></span></span><br />
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<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">"<b>Understand, Neo, that most of these people are not ready to be unplugged, and many of them are so inert, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it</b>."</span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">Morpheus</span></span></span></span></span></i><br />
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</span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><b>Episode 2 - The Engineering of Consent 1 of 6 </b></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><br />
</span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">Although I do agree with the psychoanalytic notion that you can change people (to the better) by expanding their understanding. However, something went very wrong down the line with this enlightened ideal. And that was its use for social engineering and consumerism. Psychoanalysis should be practiced the Jungian way and exclude psychiatry from its methods. I think the methodology is wrong, very. But hey, how do you establish the right way to do it without going through the wrong ones first?! Lol. </span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">First it was "Repress the primal emotions", then it was "Free the primal emotions", now it is Be freely repressed or repressedly free or something in between with or without emotions, aah, forget it, just go to a pharmacy near you and by yourself a pack of Prozac - it's good for you and it's good for the business, thus everyone is happy and feeling good.</span></span></span></span></span></div><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><br />
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">Now I finally understand why Freud gained more popularity than Jung, when the ideas of the latter were far more profound and potentially life-altering on the self-realization level. Because Freud's ideas were commercially applicable for manipulation of the masses, while Jung's were meant to truly bring deeper understanding and psychological clarity to the individual. And if I create a, say, popular entertainment blog, it will have far more hits than this one.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">Oh well, people just don't like to think, left aside they are being taught not to. Lol. Everything in this world is about making money and nothing more, nothing less. Making money at any cost</span></span></span></span></span></div><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><br />
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<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><b>Episode 3 - There is a Policeman Inside All Our Heads: He Must Be Destroyed</b></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><br />
</span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">Ah, experimental psychology. Experimenting with people and society. Now isn't that cool. </span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">- Hey, what's your job?</span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">- Oh, I'm a radical psychologist.</span></span></span></span></span></div><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><br />
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">Speaking of creating trends and commercial persuasion, do you remember this Purple initiative of Yahoo!, I'm not sure when it was, two ot three years ago, when they promoted on their website that that year was "Purple year" or something like this and that everyone should have something purple, whether your sweater, or dress, socks or bike or etc. Yeah. </span></span></span></span></span><br />
<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><br />
</span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">I just didn't understood why they encouraged people to express their ugliest emotions like aggression and hate? I mean, where is the liberation in this, without reaching to the source of these emotions, there is no realization, but only primal release of pressure?!</span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">I guess people were pondering their new-found freedoms of public expression of their true opinion and discontents. See, one of the many negative effects of the opression of the Church, it makes people pervert and totally lacking of self-control when confronted with freedom. </span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><br />
</span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">And I thought the methodology of the Freudians was wrong, lol, just see all those people packed in a room screaming and cursing like crazy, so brutal. By the way, these therapeutic methods weren't invented by those radical psychologists. For instance, Aleister Crowley is known to have practiced similar with his disciples. </span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><br />
</span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">Anyway, I thought that the hippie movement was a natural development of sub-culture societies in USA and, this documentary suggests that it was actually driven by psychological circles?! And I also thought that the hippie movement changed the conventions of fashion, and it turns out that they didn't, Marketing did! Ah, the ignorance. </span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><br />
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<span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">The business was thinking hard "How to appeal to this new breed of *individuals*, how to tap them in. Of course, this is it - offer them product variety!" Ingenious. A.k.a 1960s </span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">- Hey, you are so individualistic with this pink ipod of yours. </span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><br />
</span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">So, marketing is strongly connected with social research and statistics (Duh) exploring the different lifestyles of people and stereotypes that assemble in groups. "Yo, let's target that *group* with our new product line". </span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">I long suspected there is no true individualism, lol, it's because human psyche doesn't has infinite combinations, just like our DNA. It turns out that, the concept that "Everyone is a unique person" is again a marketing concept and is by no means true. Noone is unique, everyone falls into types, lifestyles and groups. What a bleep. </span></span></span></span></span></div><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><br />
<span style="font-size: 100%;"><b>Episode 4 - Eight People Sipping Wine in Kettering</b></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">So, is the business flexibly adapting to new trends in society or is it creating them? Remains unclear. It is both ways around, I guess. <br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> Ritual behavior is as old as human societies. It is intrinsic to the primal human psyche and served as a social basis of tribal communities. Early shamanism and tribal spirituality gradually evolved through the ages into religion, as every other generation expanded and built upon the spiritual beliefs of their ancestors. It is uncertain as to when religious influence was utilized as a tool for social control, but probably that has been done ever since shamanic times, since the shaman had a very special role in tribal societies and he or she was considered an important authority. And with authority comes influence and power. And with power too often comes abuse, especially later on and into the Medieval of Europe (and even more so today, though the sources are shifting from religious authorities to corporative and political, but that's another subject to discuss). </span></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Religion is quite a peculiar phenomenon of human mind and in particular of this domain of it, that we know as Psyche. Symbolism is one of the earliest representations of spiritual believes, along with rituals. For some unclear reasons as of yet, psychologically humans need ritualistic assertion and reconciliation of their whatever deeds. Evolution of symbolism and religious thought are vast topics, hard to cover in brief. Actually, in brief one can give only the conclusions. That is, religion in all of its forms, had, historically, a major role in social governance and pharaohs, emperors and kings alike were attributed divine rights given to them from the God entity itself, so that to ensure public acceptance and so on pragmatic reasons. On the other hand, religion has a very important psychological function in giving hope and meaning to those unfortunate masses that weren't born with kingship rights, because those downthrotten masses needed all the hope for justice they could get, even though illusionary, since priests and popes alike always have been on the side of the ruling parties with the function of public speakers to tame the peasant crowds. Leaving satire aside, religion and religious esoterism are very interesting to study all in respect to psychology and the workings of the unconsciousness. For the serious explorer a few major points are established and these are as follows: </span></span><br />
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</div><ul style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><li>If we consider the Universe as a representation of a God entity, then it would be inconsistent to ascribe particular religious preferences to it. That is, put archaically, <b>God does not have a religion</b>. </li>
<li><b>All the evil in this world comes from the irresponsible, selfish and primitive actions of humans</b>. Natural disasters, for instance, cannot be described as evil, because they are part of Earth's climatic and geologic life, thus they are as necessary as good weather. If humans ascribe their own evilness to outside forces, this is only their own inability to take responsibility and self-control, unless they have mental disabilities in the psychiatric sense. </li>
<li>There is no need for special places of worship in order to attain <b>personal insight</b> nor does continuous, entranced pray bring <b>deeper awareness</b>. These are achieved by <b>mental effort of thinking</b>, not by memorizing and repeating old verses. </li>
<li><b>Ignorance is not a bliss</b>, it is a concept for control over the masses still very much in use today. </li>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">In short, religion has served its role and can no longer positively serve as a unifying agent, but on the contrary, religion is a major segregator in our contemporary globalized society. And humanity better realize this sooner and take the next step in our mental advancement. So, yes, religion is obsolete and theology is a thing of our more primitive past and understanding. </span><br />
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Religion must be interpreted through the aspects of psychology. This is the only way to realize its meaning and understand its essense. Nevertheless the seriousness of this pressing topic, let's conclude this article with a sense of humor:<br />
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Science and the philosophies are so much simpler in this regard, so much purer and easier to comprehend than politics, for instance.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span></div><div style="font-family: verdana; text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=""> </span></span></p><div style="font-family: verdana; text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Never before have I paid attention to the so called conspiracy theories, nor economics, nor politics. Those things didn’t really interested me, I saw them as trivial, banal and so much lacking of inspiration. I was interested in science, philosophy, psychology, religion and the esoteric. I remember about ten years ago reading in a book on Kabbalah by Papius about a magic head, just head without a body, that was able to speak and that gave answers to any question that its owner asked. A talking head with infinite wisdom that held the answers to everything. Wow. I remember I was so impressed by this supposedly existent magical source of knowledge, that I dreamed of owning such a head, I thought I would do nothing else but ask it questions until there are no questions left without an answer. On another occasion later on, doing a sacred incantation guided by another book, The Keys of Solomon, I made a wish to an all powerful dark angel demanding that “I want to know everything. I want wisdom and knowledge of it all.” I was 17 or so, alone in my room, sitting in a circle of salt surrounded by hand-drawn magic squares and symbols in front of the mirror. I saw nothing in it but my own image that almost shapeshifted the longer I starred at it. No eternal wisdom struck me at that time and I finished the ritual rather disappointed. </span></p><div style="font-family: verdana; text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="font-family: verdana; text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Back then I still didn’t knew that knowledge and wisdom are the result of much effort and persistence in learning and that those weren’t something that just come out of nowhere as a divine revelation neither are something that necessarily come with age. One doesn’t necessarily get wiser the older one gets if one doesn’t puts conscious effort in thinking. Even learning alone is not enough, one has to think, to contemplate and comprehend, to analyze and synthesize. </span></p><div style="font-family: verdana; text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">I began reading a lot, books and in the almighty Internet, watching documentaries was also something I used to do a lot, I’ve had periods doing just that all days long. Yes, you can call me a retard in a way I guess. I mean, I was 17 when I just discovered the riches of learning. But it was rather a rediscovery. I’ve been an inquisitive child ever since I learned to speak and an excellent student up until the fifth grade. But then in my early teenagehood I fell under the influence of bad company in bad social times. Between the ages of about 10 and 16 I used to drink, a few beers were all that I needed and then later the bad company I hooked up with introduced me to hard drugs, so I got addicted. Crazy huh, all this at such a tender age. A child. I was escaping family turbulences and I guess I needed some sort of everyday meaning that the drugs just provided. Anyway, the dark ages of my youth were ended for good at the age of 16, when my father finally took some parental responsibilities, beat me up seriously and locked me up at home for over a month. That was his way of dealing with family issues. We changed neighborhoods too and this was the beginning of my personal Renaissance. He left us after a few years and this was the end of the beginning of my new life without oppression and domestic tension. </span></p><div style="font-family: verdana; text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="font-family: verdana; text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">And so my conscious quest for knowledge and wisdom began. I was mesmerized by the profound mysteries of the esoteric teachings and religions. Back on track in search of God after I got disillusioned about Her, never answering my prayers when I was 10 about peace and love between mother and father. By that time (after my dark ages) I already had come to the conclusion that there was something else guiding human behavior and relationships, so I got interested in psychology. I read two thick books of Pier Dako and a high school book on psychology before stumbling upon a book of Carl G. Jung’s. Not sure which of his works was the first I read, I think it was EON, in line with my esoteric interests as well. I also marveled at the amazingness of the Universe and began reading cosmology articles in astronomy websites. Then biology, the mysteries of life and evolution. Little by little, piece by piece the big picture of everything assembled in my mind. Sufi poetry filled my heart with bliss and inspiration. Zen sayings brought food for contemplation, though that was further later on. I read the entire bible and the quran too, along with some idiotic literature like the bible of the mormon. Lastly came quantum physics to the reaches of my horizons, connecting the big pieces with the little ones, the vastness within with the vastness without. Gradually I began realizing things, some of those were so profound to me that I was stunned for days. By then I realized another thing, that I didn’t needed a talking head, I had a head of my own and that no answers come to you until you are ready for them and also that wisdom takes time, apart from effort. </span></p><div style="font-family: verdana; text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="font-family: verdana; text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">The big picture assembled from the beginning to the end, from the composition of atoms to the fusion of galaxies, from carbon to single celled organisms and following the logical branching and workings of evolution up to Homo Sapiens. Everything was getting clearer and clearer the more I learned and the more I contemplated. The old wisdom was finding its peculiar correlations with modern scientific ideas and observations on the cosmos. Then one day I thought, that the nature of black holes or Singularity was closest to that supreme God entity that esoteric teachings envisioned. Then I noticed the patterns in evolution and that there was no beauty in nature, but only pragmatic behavior, every element in it had a purpose and was directly related to another element with which it interacts. Every single design detail has a purpose that is directly influenced by the environment to which the organism is adapted. The different levels of evolution, some are really fast paced and other take tens of hundreds of years. </span></p><div style="font-family: verdana; text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">One of the most altering realizations I’ve had was about religion and that it is a product of human mind and the collective need of social order. Religion is quite a complex phenomenon of human society indeed and it is composed of many different levels. The most superficial are those related to framing society in order to create social order, which was essential in the development of civilizations and the most profound levels spring deep from the hidden layers of the human psyche. Human psychology is a very intricate and complex mental structure too with its most basic frame rooted in our mammalian instincts. That is why the God figures throughout the Evolution of Religious Thought always bear strong parental qualities. I realized that the religious concept of God is a projected construct that served a major balancing role for the human psyche and that without it humans may have as well gone mad. Not that they are not behaving quite insanely with it, fighting and killing each other off because “Your god is not my god”. So ridiculous, if only people could realize it and go through this realization without going mad, since the psyche is such a fragile structure, so easily destabilized and illusions can prove so hard to let go of. There are so many humans in this world whose sole meaning in their lives are their religious beliefs. So sad, who knows how long this will go on. Of course, the lack of a religious God-figure in this Universe does not by any means make it a cold and pointless space. Not at all. There are levels of truth and levels of reality. The Universe, it seems, is an amazing quantum structure of energy that behaves as a system, an organism even that we are all part of. </span></p><div style="font-family: verdana; text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="font-family: verdana; text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">It was tough to realize that the grown ups aren’t really grown up in their minds. The realization that mostly just the bodies of people aged, but their minds remained on more or less basic levels of knowledge and understanding without ever going beyond the dogma and paradigm discouraged me greatly. Such a tough coming to awareness. The more I realized the more lonely I began to feel, seeing that this uncommon knowledge was not in the possession of many, none of my peers. I’ve always wanted to have a teacher, as described in the esoteric books, I never met one anyway. But then I realized that the Universe itself has become my teacher and this became my personal “religion” if you will. The Universe is always around and one is always in her embrace, like a womb that cares for you, even if at times somewhat indifferently. But that again, most of the times things do flow in ways that correlate, fit in my attitude, my mindset, my path, Synchronicity is something I experience a lot, not to mention the strange telepathic-providence instances that I’ve been through on many occasions that still remain rather inexplicable and beyond willful control. Though quantum physics does shed some light on these, still a lot to learn, a lot of expanses beyond the horizon to be revealed. Not long ago I understood what they meant by “Wisdom is a heavy burden”. It is. Though, I can bear it and much, way much more. </span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-size:100%;">So there, the short story of my life. Not as short as I intended it I must say. Blog posts are meant to be somewhat shorter, well, it is not Twitter either, lol. But just those words, they are like a river, pouring on and on and on into an ocean. At some point you find yourself completely surrounded by its waters, lost sight of the land. The land is here, though, very close, just beyond the next sentence. I think humanity is on the verge of something, a great potential that can bring something that has never been before.</span></span></span><br /></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:12pt;" ><br /></span></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><br /><br />
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I had a few amazing erotic fantasies with his image these days, such a powerful emotion, like virtual reality with full HD and feelings on. The alchemy of imagination and the CNS can be such an incredible journey into your senses. This love is so strange, I have felt it a few times before and things never work out for one reason or another whatever. Just the intense emotion that brings spiritual growth, a lot of daydreaming intoxicated with at times overpowering feelings flared up by vivid imagery.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="text-align: justify; font-family: verdana;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">This time truly an entire ocean and a continent separate us. I don’t feel so down though, as I have felt at previous times. Man, have I felt desperate with heartache in my more tender years, horrible periods. This time, I am way more balanced and experienced, even though being a fast-flared love from first sight, it is a mature love, yeah, that describes it. Not less intense, but just accepted with maturity, rather than fight the whole world just because i love-sick. So interesting, this is something new. I am experienced! Wow, lol.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify; font-family: verdana;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify; font-family: verdana;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify; font-family: verdana;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify; font-family: verdana;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify; font-family: verdana;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Anyway, <o:p></o:p>Samantha is doing good, she is not hiking the streets carrying a carton cup with Australian wine as much anymore, mainly because she can’t find a suitable partner for this. Oh well, we the walkers are a rare breed, not easy to find, Sam! She is working now, a day job and a weekends job as well, gaining some cash, which is not a bad idea. I am into some serious episodes sequence as well, the new season, lol, preparing for exams and starting off working again soon, while drafting on some ideas for the future in the meanwhile. <o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify; font-family: verdana;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify; font-family: verdana;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">I think it’s time to start drafting ideas for the more far away future, so that to have an idea what destination to steer myself to. I am not sure yet really. I mean, what the heck do I do in this life?! Something meaningful, something both interesting and challenging, a whole journey that will also be my day job. Hmm. It all sometimes seems so pointless, dull, ridiculous, all the phases and cycles, the paths people take, in life, in society, things everyone does, always renewing and repeating. And while all this is good, sometimes all the predetermination, predictability, repeatedness can seem so boring, so discouraging.. makes you wonder, what is the point? Apart from enjoying the beauty, growing with the sorrows and gaining wisdom on the way. Since everything follows its pattern anyway, as if there is no other way things can go, as if this is the only way to develop and whatever you do, as much as you may do for the better common good, in the end you still will fit in the pattern of human history, as a piece of it, however big or small. Everything is a pattern, patterns from the smallest to the largest and all the levels in between, patterns and cycles. <o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify; font-family: verdana;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify; font-family: verdana;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">Human history also follows a pattern consistent of cycles in its’ unfolding flow. A rather slow-moving pattern, considering the potentials of human mind. I think people today, especially the socially developed ones, should know and understand more from the nature of the cosmos, through evolution of life and to the depths of human psychology and layers of the mind. One can say that humanity is somewhat retarded. Which popular situation serves quite beneficially to all marketing and happily-thriving commerce. The biggest difference between societies today, the way they work in the interaction b/w individuals and between groups, and societies thousands of years back is that we have technology today and a lot of detailed knowledge. That’s all, the core is barely changed, trade, relations, mindsets, military conflicts, diplomacy, layers, the mainframe is more or less stagnant on a rather basic level. There is nothing really new, apart from the aforementioned. And even before technology people had pretty good knowledge as well and they always tend to dismiss it, destroy it and burn it and forget it, until after some good chunk of time philosophers come up again with it, as what happened with the knowledge from the classic world and its subsequent revival in the Renaissance. Books were burned again on several other occasions throughout History and even today there is still censorship of religious, political or other ideological sort in most parts of the world. <o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify; font-family: verdana;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify; font-family: verdana;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">The movements of social layers, of wealth, power, religions, all repeating in certain patterns, even though the patterns follow a spiral progression, always at a farther point in each repeating cycle, still remain more or less preserved for the past few thousand years. Empires grow and fade, influences shift, here, for instance, now a new economic power is emerging, <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">China</st1:place></st1:country-region> that is, social shifts are resettling, and it has always been like this, humanity, changing and morphing in a certain pattern constantly. And there is the funny thing, people from all previous ages and eras, always have thought that they are somewhat very advanced in all crafts, arts and understanding, cutting edge in cultural heights. So they were, I guess. Such a strange thing is the social evolution humanity follows, so controversial in itself, we advance and yet stagnate, holding tight to the past, trying to preserve it, refusing to let go of old traditions, affections, disputes, to grasp new knowledge, as if human psyche has a keep-yourself-retarded-as-much-as-possible mechanism at work. <o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify; font-family: verdana;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify; font-family: verdana;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;">There are historical sources that have preserved with the tools of written word a piece of observation about the general merchant in Sumer markets a couple of thousand years ago, that they “Always see to put less weight in a bag, than agreed with the price.” (I read that cited in an interesting book about the historical development of economic thought), of course, today we have regulations and consumer rights, lol, too much at times. And in this line of thought, again this need for imposing regulations emerges in order for people to guide their hardwired behavior, which is intrinsically selfish-driven and “evil”, as opposed to the century-old propaganda of the church. And yes, archaic religion, another primitive element in contemporary society, which only means that a few thousand years from now, hopefully, we in our age today will be seen as part of human’s developing stages. I believe it will be referred to as the end of the Middle ages, lol. May be even a Second Renaissance. <o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify; font-family: verdana;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;font-family:verdana;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify; font-family: verdana;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><span style=""><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">So, the first point is to enjoy and make the most out of your experience. Then think more, use your mind to learn and tackle everything actively as much as you can cultivate this mental state in yourself. Then think up of something meaningful to do, while on the journey to mental advancement and spiritual growth. Do, always do. Move and do. I tend to contemplate more than do, I admit. I know, but contemplating the profound is just soo, so tranquilizing, so mesmerizing, like daydreaming when in love. May be I was a Himalayan monk in my previous life. There is one most important thing I have to do now, and this is to complete my book, which i haven’t been doing for the past few months. Also, to graduate next summer and make more cash in between, lol. That’s it, it’s seriously time to get moving more consistently. Yeah. Right. Make my own way in this life, I dread conventionality and boring perspectives. Let the flare burn and inspiration fill the heart, the Universe guides me! 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