on the myth of “declining government honesty”

• This is a brief exchange in regard to this recent blog: https://jrfibonacci.wordpress.com/2014/08/19/the-myth-of-declining-government-honesty/

  

  

  Daniel Fritschler Isn’t this [the reality of a long history of deception by governments] almost common sense anymore?

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  J R Fibonacci Hunn Not for those who are still operating from the interpretive models programmed in public schools.

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  Daniel Fritschler So they can’t see how other government’s operate and how even the history books speak of dishonesty and corruption when it comes to the American government. Maybe they do see it but are just afraid to acknowledge it…blind because of fear and not naivety? Maybe?

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  Daniel Fritschler I think in today’s day and age of technology either you have to be avoiding the truth of how systems or societies work or you are just cowered in a corner because of fear. Perhaps the third group just isn’t intelligent enough to put the puzzle together and view the big picture but I would bet most are.

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  Daniel Fritschler I mean you can’t tell me people conform because of their peers or pressure from others after high school(or just an imaginary or perceived threat) but they can operate from the real threat or the fear of knowing what the government is capable of. So the fear shifts from other people as in friends, acquaintances and/or family to an actual threat or the corruption of the imperialistic empire.

  
  

  

“The greatest taboo” (lyrics)

The greatest taboo

 

 

Day 124/365- JUMP! (Photo credit: thekellyscope)

 

I’ve been a liar

 

scared of the truth

 

trying to hide

 

myself from you

 

 

 

I’ve been so scared

 

so terrified

 

that you could find out

 

what I hid inside

 

 

 

I’ve played the fool 

 

followed some rules

 

jumped through hoops in school

 

fit in to be cool

 

(among the rebels)

 

 

 

I learned some lies

 

people paid to hear

 

I learned some truths

 

people hated in fear

 

 

 

I learned some secrets

 

that everyone sees

 

but no one admits

 

at least not to me

 

 

 

I shouldn’t be

 

what I am 

 

or that’s the myth

 

I’ve been pretending

 

to believe

 

 

 

 

 

I am so sorry

 

my guilt was all fake

 

my only regret is…

 

apologizing for my rage

 

 

but now it’s okay

 

that I’ve been so mad

 

I’m even grateful

 

that I was so sad

 

 

that courage is shameful

 

on this island of fools

 

to feel scared, yet be bold

 

is the greatest taboo

 

 

I’ve been so shy

 

I’ve been so quiet

 

I’ve been in hiding

 

to stay alive

 

 

but it’s time

 

to be brave

 

once again

 

 

I shouldn’t have

 

done what I did

 

or that’s the myth

 

I’ve been pretending

 

to believe

 

 

God the Father 16 (Photo credit: Waiting For The Word)

 

 

God please forgive us

 

for being ashamed

 

of our past

 

 

 

God please forgive us

 

for being less brave

 

than we can

 

 

 

God please forgive us

 

for being afraid

 

 

 

God please forgive us

 

for being afraid

 

of fear

 

 

god (Photo credit: the|G|™)

 

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music video: “rules written in the water”

rules written in the water

Illustration from a collection of myths. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The devil said

I’ve got to earn my way in to heaven

to make up for my past-

so,

I need someone to love right now

and they should love me back

or else I’ll be stuck down here in hell 

(God knows I don’t want that)

so if I seem stressed or if I seem harsh

just know that I’ve got good reasons

now you better love me good

and you better love me right

and you better love me how I need 

or I will blame you 

for all my shame

and punish you for my frightened greed

 

If only the devil knew

that she was a holy fool

that all of her words were myths

that all of her myths were rules written in the water

Then the devil said

I’ve got to find every best solution

to any problem in the world

now I know who to blame

and I know who to praise

and I know who to ridicule

so you better agree

and you better help me

and you better pledge your share

cause I’m taking names

and I’m threatening rage

to prove that my plan is the answer to your prayers

 

If only the devil knew

that she was a holy fool

that all of her words were myths

that all of her myths were rules written in the water

and that’s why the devil is afraid of the storm

Then the devil said

I’ve got to earn my way in to heaven

Faith, Believes and Myths (Photo credit: ~FreeBirD®~)

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The propaganda myth of equality

Just as an infant has less power than mom does, and just as mom may have less power/influence than grandpa, wolves are able to kill and eat sheep. So what?

My new facebook friend “R.L” recently posted the above image. You, dear reader, may know that the above image is similar to images posted a few years ago featuring President George W. Bush.

Here are my comments to R.L., plus part of his reply:

What do you think is meant by “frauds?” Does that mean that influencing public perception is important to institutions? Does that mean that propaganda is important to them? Yes, some people exert more political power (directing perception of the masses) than others. So what?

R.L: exactly as it says.… Yes propaganda keeps you in line………. Bread and circuses!

 

-my reply back to him:

 

R.L., propaganda keeps some in line and also incites some to rebel in certain specific ways, like the tea party started by the ultra-rich Koch brothers (or the occupy movement, which might as well have also been started by them). Further, tanks and tear gas and bullets and bombs and handcuffs and chains are used to keep some in line.

If you think that there should be no lines, so what? There are lines.

There is propaganda. There is organized coercion. “There should be no lines” is to me a clear statement of propaganda programming. I have said such things, but what if they are ridiculous, naive, arrogant, and delusional?

 

http://www.history.ucsb.edu/faculty/marcuse/classes/33d/projects/media/AnalogiesUSPresHitlerMegan.htm

 

 

http://www.sodahead.com/united-states/who-is-comparing-president-obama-to-adolf-hitler

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the golden myth

gold cast bar (Photo credit: hto2008)

English: Myth Logo (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Maybe you have heard about the “other” golden rule: “Those who have the gold makes the rules.” It’s a myth.

Those who have the military power make the rules. They dictate whether gold or salt or something else is the form of payment that they will accept when they invent tax liabilities to extort from a population.

Here’s another myth about gold: it’s a good investment, or at least decent. From 1933 to 1970, gold consistently lost purchasing power. From 1980 to now, gold has lost purchasing power. It of course is hypothetically possible that gold might soon make a new all-time high in purchasing power, passing the 1980 level, but some of that may depend on exactly how someone is measuring the value of gold.

That chart is from: http://seekingalpha.com/article/455831-some-good-and-not-so-good-reasons-to-buy-gold

Note that the above chart shows a 1980 peak price of about $600. That may be the high monthly average. The actual high was close to $800, so, again, be careful about how data is being presented. A more precise chart below shows how far gold is from the real peak in purchasing power of gold.

Now it is possible that those who have military power in some place in the world will declare that tax extortion payments there must be made in gold. It’s even possible that they will declare that payments to their tax extortion rackets of organized coercion (the monopolized violence of governments) must be made in salt or diamonds or casino tokens.

Anything is hypothetically possible. However, consider that all the hysteria about gold as the ultimate investment is… hysterical, like ridiculous, like hilarious. Let’s look at another chart:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here is another chart showing long-term gold prices (in US Dollars, after adjusting for inflation)

Many people also celebrate gold as an investment and then mention silver. Let’s look at silver as well for perspective:

Last 2 charts from: http://lewrockwell.com/rep3/inflation-adjusted-prices.html

I’m going to “boldly” conclude that both gold and silver have been “not great” as investments in the last 32 years. Gold clearly has done better than silver in the last 32 years, but far worse than most real estate investments and 90% worse than many stocks.

I do not know the details of the math behind this one, but it sure is visually remarkable:

 

 

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The myth of incurable illness

The myth of incurable illness:

a medical culture of worshiping demonic possession by hypochondria

We are talking about myths here, so let’s be clear about what is required in order to have a myth. For one thing, myths require words.

What else do myths require? We could say that myths also require someone to be there to believe in the words. That’s about it, though: myths require words plus someone believing in those words.

“But how can 1 inch be 24,000 inches!?!?! 1 inch is only 1 inch! This is preposterous!”

Superstitions are any sequence of words that are believed, especially without understanding. In other words, opinions are superstitions and so are beliefs. You will understand why in a moment.

First, what is one sign of a superstition? If people are afraid of sequences of words that differ from their own favorite sequences of words, then their favorite sequences of words may be superstitious idolatry (including opinions and beliefs). If someone worships a superstitious idolatry, they may be so afraid of alternate sequences of words that they defend their favorite sequences of words with antagonism and even rage.

“But how can one inch equal 50 miles?!?!? It’s just not possible! It’s an outrage! It’s insanity! It’s WRONG! It’s EVIL!”

Have you ever noticed someone anxiously defend a particular sequence of words with antagonism or rage? (maybe even you personally?) The anxiety of the rage is a type of fear. Whether defending beliefs with an anxious rage or opinions with a desperate rage or any other sequence of words with a paranoid rage, the anxiety of rage is always frightened.

So, one sign of a superstition is that anxious rage. In other words, one sign of sin is that raging anxiety. Sin is a label for “a mistaken perspective,” as in “missing the mark” or a misunderstanding or misinterpretation.

If we were to use the label “sin” to refer to a set of several things, the first thing that we might emphasize as a sin is the possibility of misunderstanding the reality of the unity of existence. There is only one reality, which is continuous. There are not two isolated realities, such as the past and the future or heaven and hell. There is a continuity of time which can be divided with language in two segments like “the recent past” and “the distant past,” but those two linguistic categories are not isolated realities, but just distinct labels for a single continuous reality. There is also a continuity of experience which ranges from heaven to hell, but they are not literally places. The myths of heaven and hell as places are useful metaphors. However, even when we refer to two different places, such as Arizona and America, those two different places are not two independent realities. Those are two labels for the the only reality, which is a single, continuous reality.

English: Sunset in Superstitions, Arizona – http://www.RobertBody.com (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

So, the first thing that we might emphasize as a sin is the possibility of misunderstanding (or simply not recognizing) the reality of the unity of existence. Arizona is not a different reality from America. Arizona is within America, but so is Alaska. Even though Alaska is very different from Arizona, they are still two labels for different portions of the same continuous reality.

An example of Allāh written in simple Arabic calligraphy. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Reality is singular, but there are many labels for it, many words in it, many names of it. For instance, consider the words God, Allah, Yahweh, and Brahman. In different languages, different words may reference the same idea or linguistic distinction. Likewise, someone can write the word Allah in Arabic, in cursive, or bold, or in italics, in black ink or colored ink, and yet it is still the same word. Someone can pronounce the word with an accent or say it with a high pitch or a low, deep tone of voice.

English: The word Allah, in Arabic. alif hamzat waṣl (همزة وصل) lām lām shadda (شدة‎) alif khanjariyya (ألف خنجرية‎‎) hā (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

So, we might list 10 or 100 or 1000 ways to say or write the word Allah. In fact, every time the word is used, that is a new occasion of that word being used. However, it is still the same word, right?

Likewise, no matter how many words are used within reality, reality is still a singular, continuous unity. There are many labels for the singular, continuous unity of reality, which have been represented in different languages using different words, such as Allah, Brahman, Yahweh, and God.

Many people may misunderstand those words and just superstitiously worship the individual words in a particular language, such as a word in Hebrew or English or Arabic or Sanskrit. That is a completely understandable error- totally innocent. In fact, making that error may be practically essential in order to recognize the fact that it is an error to worship a particular word or sequence of words.

Arabic Ligature Allah (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

So, let’s move on to a few popular superstitions. First, there is the idea that the world is flat. As a sequence of words, that grammatical construction is quite valid. In fact, many parts of the earth are quite flat and, because of the limitations of human visual perception, it is quite natural to label the earth as flat. Standing on the surface of the earth at a height of six feet, human eyes and brains interpret the earth as flat.

However, from the top of a very high mountain, it is possible to directly see the curvature of the earth. High in an airplane, the curvature can be seen or even far away from the earth in a satellite in orbit around the earth.

Quite plainly, the earth is not actually flat. It just appears flat from a certain perspective. Labeling the earth flat is quite natural, though technically imprecise.

About the time of Buddha (6 centuries before the “common era” of Holy Roman Imperial Christianity), a fellow named Hecataeus published this flat map of “the known world” (as much of the world as he personally knew).

So, just because someone is using a conceptual model that is flat (a flat map as distinct from a spherical map of the globe), that does not prove that the planet is flat. Also, just because someone uses an Arabic or Sanskrit word for the singular, boundless, continuity of reality (Allah or Brahman), that does not mean that the only valid way to label reality is using that particular language.

Pronouncing a word in a recognizable way does not establish comprehension. I can properly spell and even recognizably pronounce the words calculus, Sanskrit, dimethyl triptophosphate, but that does not make me an expert in those subjects, does it?

Further, pronouncing the word Allah or Brahman or God does not prove comprehension of the ancient, primary meaning of those words. Even parrots can pronounce those words. Even three year-old in Sunday School can sing those words in pretty songs. Even ignorant, arrogant, anxious, raging preachers can pronounce those words, sometimes very loudly. That reminds me of trying to effectively communicate to a deaf person by shouting.

When the blind lead the blind, that is a lot like someone who does not comprehend the Sanskrit language trying to teach Sanskrit, then all the students complaining that Sanskrit is gibberish and very hard to learn. Someone who is not competent in the field of Sanskrit cannot help people to be competent. Similarly, someone who is not competent in the field of spirituality (which I consider to simply be the comprehensive study of language) cannot help people to be competent in spiritaulity.

Ptolemy challenged the conventions of the science of geography by publishing this alleged map of “the real world.”

So, quite simply, sin is mistaking imprecision for invalidity. It’s like if someone asks me my height, I might say “between five and six feet tall.” That is imprecise, but valid.

I could be more precise, right? I could give my height to the nearest foot or the nearest inch or the nearest millimeter. Those are just different degrees of precision. Any unit of measurement is valid, but each one is distinctly precise.

So, someone who understands the singular, continuous nature of reality is also clear about words and labels. While some may argue and rage over whether inches or millimeters are the most valid units of measurement, that may be recognized as a misunderstanding of the word “valid.” All units of measure are valid. Likewise, while some may argue and rage over  whether English or Hebrew or Arabic or Sanskrit is the most valid language, again that might be recognized as a misunderstanding of the word “valid.” Finally, while some may argue and rage over whether Allah or Brahman or God or Yahweh is the most valid label for the singular, continuity of reality, some might see such anxious arguing and desperate rage as based on an innocent misunderstanding, a reactive superstition, a verbal idolatry.

Reality is singular and continuous, all-present and all-mighty. There is no other reality but reality. Labeling reality in various languages does not alter the singularity of reality, just like measuring length or height in various units of measurement does not alter the length of something being measured.

Arabic language (Photo credit: United States Forces – Iraq (Inactive))

Now, we began with the topic of the myths and superstitions and sin and language, and now we turn to the more precise subject of the specific myth of incurable illness. Basically, when someone does not understand the science of biochemistry and physiology, they may label something as incurable because they personally do not know how to cure it.

This is like saying that a language is incomprehensible. To someone who is illiterate in Arabic, reading Arabic is impossible. All Arabic writing is illegible to someone who does not know how to read Arabic- even if they can speak it fluently.

Consider a three year-old who knows how to speak basic English quite well but cannot read a word of it. That child may label all written words “impossible to read” or even “illegible” (though most three year-olds have a limited vocabulary, right?).

So, when a person has a limited understanding or limited vocabulary, they may label some condition as incurable. That means that they personally do not claim to be able to cure it.

Is green the most valid color to write the word Allah in Arabic? (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Next, there is the issue of labeling things as “an illness” which may in fact be only “a diagnosis.” Consider that baldness is not a substance. It is just a label. When someone has no hair, they have skin but not any hair on it. That is not the presence of some substance called baldness. That is the presence of skin unaccompanied by hair.

When someone has a variety of vitamins but very little or no Vitamin C, that leads to certain physiological symptoms that can be labeled “scurvy.” The label scurvy is not the presence of a substance, but only the presence of a diagnostic label. The presence of life with little or no vitamin C can be labeled “scurvy.” That is entirely valid. That is perhaps somewhat imprecise. More precise would be to say “we measured for the presence of Vitamin C, and here is exactly what we found….” The measurements could be rather approximate or measured down to the precise number of molecules of Vitamin C in the body, which might be a bit ridiculous to actually count one by one, right?

http://www.ppnf.org

So, when someone is operating from a mild panic, a state of paranoid hysteria, we could call that hypochondria. They might label “baldness” as an incurable illness that they have, rather than recognizing baldness as a label in language for the presence of life unaccompanied by hair. they might label “scurvy” as an incurable illness that they have, rather than recognizing scurvy as a label in diagnostic language for the presence of life unaccompanied by certain levels of Vitamin C.

They might label “diabetes” as an incurable illness rather than a label for “sweet urine” or “sweet body fluids” or “sweet blood” or “high blood sugar” or “blood that has lots of glucose due to eating lots of carbohydrates.” There is no diabetes in their blood. There is blood and there is glucose in it from eating foods that contains lots of complex sugars that can be broken down in to glucose.

They might label “autism” as incurable, rather than recognize symptoms that correspond to the presence of various things in various amounts (unaccompanied by other particular things). Same for cancer, multiple sclerosis, alzhiemer’s, celiac disease, chronic fatigue syndrome, asthma, arthritis, allergies, cavities, and so on. Each of these labels refer to the presence of various things in various amounts, right?

When there are not many minerals in the diet, then there will not be many minerals in the teeth, right? The teeth will get softer and then may cave in. That is called having cavities. However, the word “cavity” is derived from the word cave. It is empty. There is nothing in a cavity. There is nothing in baldness.

If someone wants to “cure cavities,” they would need to strengthen their teeth by providing the relevant minerals. When there are enough minerals for the body to build and maintain strong teeth, there is no caving in to label as “having a cavity.” When the body needs minerals so desperately that it takes them out of the teeth so as to maintain the more essential functions of various organs, then that produces a decline in the mineral concentrations in the teeth, resulting in softening and caving in.

 

So, where do we get the linguistic model of “having an incurable illness?” It is from a superstitious, religious model of demonic possession. It is a variety of forms of hypochondria (imaginary issues or deluded perceptions, believing that diagnostic labels are substances rather than just labels).

“I have incurable cavitosis.” No, there is just the presence of various minerals in various amounts. “I am possessed by incurable diabeticisis.” No, there is just the presence of various amounts of sugar in the blood, perhaps related to diet. “I am possessed by incurable obesitosis.” No, again there is just the presence of various substances, perhaps related from diet. “I am possessed by the demon of incurable baldness.” No, that is the presence of skin and the absence of any healthy, productive hair follicles. Get implants (or a wig).

No one has ever been possessed by a demon of an incurable disease. No one has ever been possessed by tooth decay or by a contagious cavity taking over their teeth or by an emptiness in their stomach. Tooth decay is not the presence of something, but the diagnostic label for the absence of a diet rich in minerals and the symptoms or natural consequences of such a diet. The model of demonic possession by incurable diagnostic labels is a totally superstitious idolatrous language, innocently practiced by many mainstream believers of the religion of modern medical science.

http://www.curetoothdecay.com/Tooth_Decay/tooth_decay_national_health.htm

I didn;t watch this yet, but it looks related:

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song video: “a sinner’s prayer”

The Tax Collector (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

 

I sang a song to the God of words                         saying “please give me all that I ask for
a brand new life with only what I like                 missing all the things that shouldn’t be in mine.”

There must be some kind of mistake here, right?
I mean, whose life is this supposed to be anyway?
Who you are trying to fool with all these messy details?
God, you really should be ashamed of yourself- I really don’t know what the hell you were thinking….

I said my prayers asking forgiveness                of whatever I did to deserve all this
I apologize for all of my crimes                         Now, if I just plead guilty, won’t you let me go free?

I sang a song to the magic God                       saying “grant me more wishes, Santa Claus”
The genie said, “Look, that’s just a myth          a fairy tale that we tell to kids.”

 

Lord, I just thank you that I am not like those other people
arrogant, aloof, foolish and evil
I pay my taxes on time and I eat kosher
plus I report all of my bribery to the local warlord of the lobbyist club

Then Jesus said, “Now that is what I call a punk.
He may be sincere, as in ignorantly innocent,
but sincerity is not accuracy or potency.
He may repeat the words of faith like an infant babbling or a parrot
but speaking some words is distinct from direct comprehension
like just saying the word carrot is distinct from eating a carrot

Luke 18:9-14

9And he told this parable against those men who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and they held contempt for everyone: 10“Two men went up to The Temple to pray: one a Pharisee and the other a Tax Collector.” 11The Pharisee was standing alone by himself and he was praying these things: “God, I thank you that I am not like other men: extortioners, oppressors, adulterers, and not like this Tax Collector.” 12“But I fast twice in a week and I tithe everything that I possess.” 13“But that Tax Collector was standing from a distance and he would not even lift his eyes up to Heaven, but he was smiting on his chest and he said, ‘God, have pity on me, a sinner.’ “ 14“I say to you that this one went down to his house justified rather than that Pharisee, for every man who exalts himself shall be humbled, and everyone who humbles himself shall be exalted.”

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audio & lyrics: A real fantasy (“I’m Justified!”)

A real fantasy

Can a story be the real me? Can the real me be a story?

There can be stories about me. I can tell some of those stories.

But which one is the real me? Which one is just a story?

Is there a myth that I worship? That’s the story of the real me!

Is there a story that I worship? That’s the myth of the real me!

Can a myth be the real me? Can the real me be a story?

Is there a myth that I dismiss? As just a myth or a story?

If it’s not the one I worship, then it must be a heresy.

If it’s not the myth I worship, then it must be a blasphemy.

When I tell the story of the real me, you can be part of my story.

My story weaves you out of me. You’re just a role in my fantasy.

I’ll make you the arrogant skeptic, the infidel, the crazy.

A hero needs a villain, like the end needs a beginning

and a story needs a traitor, like a myth needs a creator

so I’ll tell you what to do next, then later call it sinning

(during your punishment)

I’m justified                     in my story

You’re sacrificed          for my glory

I’m justified                     by my history

my mythology               my real fantasy

You justify                       my reaction

I’m trapped by               your resentment

You limit me                   in my story

Your curiosity               could destroy me

I’m justified                     You’re sacrificed

I’m justified                      by your vanity

I’m justified                      I’m justified                   I’m justified                    in my tragedy

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Imagine a six year-old kid talking about Santa Claus, asking about some details that do not totally make sense to the child. An older sibling says, “do not ask mom anything about Santa. She would get angry and spank you. Just be quiet about Santa. If mom brings it up to you, just tell her what gifts you want and do not even mention the word Santa. I will tell you why later.”

What is the dynamic created by the older sibling? Mom is presented as a dangerous tyrannical authority and the sibling is the experienced ally with a crucial secret knowledge or insight about how to best deal with mom. Of course, higher up the social hierarchy is Santa, the distant, remote, mysterious benefactor.

In other terms, mom is the evil villain or devil and the sibling is the savior and protector while Santa is the God-like Power, like a superhero who can fly and has magic powers and is probably hundreds of years old. Except Santa is not just a cartoon like the comic book heroes. Santa is real. There is evidence. I opened the presents myself and the tag clearly said From Santa. Santa even knows my name!

Ron Paul at the 2007 National Right to Life Convention, held at Crown Center Hyatt Regency in Kansas City, MO; June 15, 2007, (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

So, fast forward a few decades. Ron Paul is talking about how the Federal Reserve is a Vatican conspiracy and all that we need to do for him to save us from them is to wait a few months and cast a vote. Plus, until then, he recommends that we invest everything in silver.

Ron says that the Federal Reserve is the great evil tyranny that has the power to inflate the currency, which according to  Ron, would be very bad. Why would that be so bad? Ron never actually mentions that. Apparently the idea is that the Fed should not have the power that Ron says they have, and therefore he must save us from the Fed doing the thing that they obviously should not do because they are inherently evil so we should just buy more silver because that is the patriotic and heroic thing to do, which Ron Paul has been consistently saying since 1980, which proves that we can trust his credibility and sincerity.

Alex Jones, who is also our heroic savior ally -which we know because he owns  silver – says that the distant remote superpower is the holy ink on the sacred document of the Articles of Confederation, which is the most powerful document in the world except for that one lottery ticket but that is anther story. Anyway, Alex says that Noam Chomsky agrees with Ron Paul that the real problem today is that The Fed says that the Articles of Confederation are actually not the authentic words of Santa and need to be retranslated by the Supreme Council of Justice, which wouldn’t be so bad except that Ron Paul is not a member of the Council and therefore the Council is evil. DarthVader says the Council is not evil, which further proves that DarthVader is either evil or naive or most likely both.

The Federal Reserve: The Biggest Scam In History (Photo credit: CityGypsy11)

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Who is going to protect those sounds? Who is going to threaten those sounds? Who is going to record them as an audio file to upload to youtube? Who is going to keep them sacred and give them proper respect?

We need a hero. We need a ssvior. Inflation would reduce the value of the massive national debt, which must be avoided at all costs. Therefore, you must obey your older sibling and never mention Santa to mom again.

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  Ron Paul’s Hope (Photo credit: Will Merydith)

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  A portrait of Noam Chomsky that I took in Vancouver Canada. Français : Noam Chomsky à Vancouver au Canada en 2004. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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the latest new evil: opportunity, crisis, reality, and myth

Young gang recruits sign the sign (Guatemala, 2005). (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

We Are Doomed: Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

STREET GANG MEMBERS – NARA – 552752 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

STREET GANG MEMBERS – NARA – 552753 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

William James was an earlier adherent to meliorism as a halfway between metaphysical optimism and pessimism. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

opportunity, crisis, reality, and myth

A chart demonstrating increases in the annual income of the top 1% of wealthy persons in the U.S. before economic crises. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Conflict and cooperation both exist, including when soldiers and militias and gang members cooperate with their colleagues in competition with their rivals. Crisis and opportunity both exist, too. When the tides recede and a tidal pool traps some fish, that is a crisis for the fish and an opportunity for some birds to easily consume the fish. It’s all relative.

In recent years, I have grown skeptical both of the ultra-pessimism and ultra-optimism (as in “positive thinking” and “the secret” and “the law of attraction”). The ultra-pessimism or ultra-cynicism is evident in the doomsday cults of conspiracy theorists and patriotic reactionaries.

All of those groups metaphorically are putting their heads in the sand. One group basically says that putting one’s head in heaven or paradise is to see more clearly and not be troubled by earthly perceptions. Another group basically says that life on earth is unavoidably hell and so it is best to hide: to put one’s head in the sand and all the rest of the body, too.

They both are accurate to a limited extent. I think it is entirely practical to withdraw from anything too disturbing (to “think positive”) and also to be skeptical about the presumptions of mainstream cultures. However, putting one’s head in the sand may be a wonderful occasional spa treatment, but it is important to remove one’s head from the sand eventually as well.

Conspiracy Theory (film) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

My comment on conspiracy theories in general is that anyone who thinks that the attacks of September 11th, 2001 were not a conspiracy is an absolute idiot. Were the events of that morning all just a bunch of coincidences? If it was not a conspiracy, then what was it? A comedy routine?

If someone is interested in those events, and it is fine with me if someone is not, then the intelligent question would be what was the conspiracy, not whether there was one or not. Incidentally, I happen to think that the mainstream conspiracy theory presented by folks like George W. Bush and Colin Powell is a ridiculous myth, but I also respect the value and function of popular mythology, especially in politics.

Myths can be useful for directing public opinion to be receptive to things like expensive invasions and new radical draconian security schemes. Again, opportunity and crisis may be two labels that both fit the same situation. Creating myths and popularizing them through propaganda can create tremendous momentum in redistributing public wealth toward the most effective lobbying interests.

Further, myths about how lobbying interests are both evil and new can be indoctrinated on the masses so as to distract them from recognizing the origins of all court systems and all governing systems. Instead of competing or revolting, those masses will passionately but politely protest the latest “new evil” as directed by popular political mythologies. They will campaign for reform and promote a new political savior, repeating the theme of eternal “hope” common to all of populist, proletariat politics.

Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

So, how about the so-called housing crisis in the West? It is a myth. There is an abundance of available housing. That is not a crisis. That is a supply far in excess of demand. Prices will continue to decline, like in Japan for the last 23 years. So what?

Of course, lots of borrowers and realtors and construction workers are experiencing the decline in the housing boom/bubble as a financial crisis for them personally. So what?

Borrowers who gambled on $300,000 mortgage loans may lose their entire net worth to bankruptcy. What’s new?

One person’s foreclosure has never equated to a social crisis. However, a million foreclosures in a short period of time is a crisis for a court system unprepared to handle that volume, but it is also an opportunity for intelligent investors to multiply their wealth very quickly, similar to what Rothschild did toward the end of the Battle of Waterloo.

A protester outside AIG’s headquarters at the American International Buildling in New York City is interviewed by a news crew. Photographer’s blog post about this photo. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Have you heard on mainstream news that there is a financial crisis and that expensive redistributions must be performed by the government to save the people from the evil demon of falling prices and economic collapse? You may have heard the same theme in Japan or Europe or the US.

Perhaps it is purely a lobbyist myth. It justifies a huge redistribution of wealth from the middle class toward the elite lobbyists, “bailing out” the lobbying interests with TRILLIONS of dollars of wealth transfer.

However, there is simply no financial crisis for someone who has no mortgage, earns $50,000 a year in a steady job in a stable industry, and has $500,000 of cash saved up for retirement and legally sheltered through a simple and conventional method of asset protection. On the other hand, there is a financial crisis for people who “bought in” to the American Dream of flipping houses (and now are upside down by $100,000 or more), who do not have a stable income, and who have been pouring money in to annuities or mutual funds or pensions with no literacy in regard to the reality of risk in stock market prices. Their $500,000 stock market portfolio can quickly fall to $250,000 or even $50,000, just like their $500,000 real estate portfolio can quickly fall to $250,000 or $50,000 of value.

President Bush and Secretary of State Colin Powell hold a press conference about organization, America’s Promise, in the Rose Garden July 9, 2001. source (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

However, the mass media may “rescue” them from clarity and prudent adaption by presenting them with a scapegoat or demon to hate. Blame the evil political party. Blame the evil foreign nation. Blame the evil politician. Blame the evil central bank. Blame someone. Blame anyone. Just do not adapt. Just do not correlate one’s own chosen behavior with the actual results of the chosen behavior.

“Think positive. Elect a political savior. Do not EVER adjust your actual behavior. That is just a ridiculous conspiracy theory designed to suck you in to prudence and the prosperity that naturally results from prudence.”

Bank run during the Showa Financial Crisis 日本語: 昭和金融恐慌時の取り付け騒ぎ (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Now, with prudence in mind, I will address some economic issues. In 2004, I published an article called “the Real U.S. Deficit: OIL” in which I detailed the issue of rising fuels costs and the impact that rising fuel costs have on import-dependent economies like those of Japan, Europe, and the US. (See www.TheDominOILeffect.com )

It is certainly possible that fuel prices could drop. However, since 1999, global fuel prices on the whole have been rising, which is a reversal of trends going back over 100 years (when the inflation-adjusted prices of fuel were several times as high as they were by 1999). Consider that in 1880, the amount of fuel (power, energy) that now costs $10 might have taken the average person an entire day’s work to earn.

Modern civilization is still INCREDIBLY abundant relative to humans across the vast majority of history. There is a downside to the abundance though. We have been able to thrive despite rampant idiocy.

People trust uncritically in mass media outlets, government bureaucrats, and naive church leaders. Are the blind leading the blind?

Consider that mainstream medical scientists present a growing list of conditions that they deem incurable, which basically means that they make no claims to understand a physiological process well enough to reliably reverse or prevent it. When they say something is incurable, we think that is an expression of the reality of the condition, not an expression of the reality of the competence of person talking. They are naive idiots negligently using language and so are most of the rest of us.

How do people produce new results? New methods (at least new to the one exploring it).

But new is not always better. So, how do people produce the best results available? The best methods available.

Conspiracy Theory Overlap Diagram (Photo credit: Vince_Lamb)

Now, what is so radical about anything in this blog? I’m not sure there is anything especially radical here. Then again, maybe it is a bit radical to actually openly admit that most people seem to me to be reactive, terrified, hysterical zombies programmed by myths that benefit certain lobbying interests.

“The enemy does not want you to know that investing everything in silver even if it is 1980 will magically solve all of your problems and will magically ruin their evil empire.” That’s idiotic. However, it works to influence the behavior of herds of people.

Real estate always rises, too. Investing in silver always solves everything. Be a patriotic hero. Invest in silver mines, which is the only kind of real estate that always rises always always always.

Therefore, because ridiculous propaganda is so effective, I hereby warn you that your arch-enemy does not want you to adjust your behavior, by which I mean Osama Attila Hitler AKA Dr. Evil, Lex Luther, The Joker, The Riddler, Penguin, Satan, the Devil, the Bilderberger Blackwater Vatican Jesuit Zionist Poseidon. No, he (or she or they) hope that you will keep complaining and blaming and condemning and hating, which empowers them with your attention to their anti-propaganda reverse psychology.

At the UN, Colin Powell holds a model vial of anthrax, while arguing that Iraq is likely to possess WMDs. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Now, if someone consistently demonstrates intelligence and relevance far beyond the mainstream for 8 or 9 years, your arch-enemy does not want you to consult such an intelligent consultant (such as by posting a comment on this blog). Instead, your arch-enemy wants you to think positively about focusing on using the law of attraction to gently expose your arch-enemy by non-violently protesting against them publicly with heroic signs that say “Hey, you, scrawny frightened Holy Roman Inquisition thugs with combat helicopters and fatal chemical weapon mustard gas crowd-control grenades, we dare you to stand your ground as we slowly and arrogantly march over to your local army base or pentagon and climb the razor-edged barbed wire fences to occupy the pentagon military headquarters and federal correctional facilities and gas chambers.”

Also, your Arch Enemy is terrified that you might share or re-blog this post. That would be a horrible humiliation for them. Please be a good heroic saintly patriotic messiah impersonator by having mercy on them and only sharing it once or, at the absolute most, twice.

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