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On The Unquestioning Allegiance To The System
Submitted by Simon Black of Sovereign Man blog,
It’s one of the hardest habits to break.
We begin pledging our allegiance to the state before we even know what that means. We learn to sing bombastic, patriotic songs of praise at an age when we don’t understand the vocabulary of the lyrics.
And after years of repetition and social reinforcement, the idealistic devotion to country becomes profoundly ingrained in our personalities.
It’s a lifelong indoctrination underpinned by a deep instinct to belong to something greater than ourselves.
Human beings are not meant to exist in isolation. We strive for inclusion and acceptance of our peers. And the forming of social groups, whether families, tribes, dynasties, and kingdoms is as old as human civilization itself.
Over the centuries, though, the social constructs have changed dramatically. It used to be closely knit, smaller groups with shared values and dedication to the other members. Now our loyalty is manipulated towards a political union… and the government which represents it.
In other words, we’re inculcated to have an unquestioning allegiance to the system.
The combination is so powerful that even in the face of overwhelming evidence, the sentiment is difficult to shake.
It’s clear now that the system has turned on the very people who invest their faith and confidence in it.
We can see the obvious effects of decades of morbidly destructive policy.
We can see how the way of life we grew up with has become a distant memory, replaced by a cheap masquerade.
We can see the debt, the money printing, the police state, the utter collapse of justice and rule of law… and the shiny facade of mindless entertainment and wanton consumerism as an attempt to cover it all up.
And yet… it’s still so hard to turn one’s back. Deep within ourselves there’s still a quiet voice that says “This can be fixed. It’s going to get better.”
This is the voice of hope. And despite all the rational arguments which point to a very conspicuous trend, this voice is very difficult to silence.
Hope, along with loyalty, is one of the most admirable traits of humanity. And it’s certainly honorable to want to rebuild what has been lost. But please consider these few points:
1) The trend is clear. And in the West, it’s negative. We routinely discuss in this column that history has an almost unblemished track record of once-great nations and empires collapsing into tyranny as their economic fundamentals deteriorate.
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The West has long passed the historical point of no return where degenerate governments have to borrow more money simply to pay interest on the money they’ve already borrowed.
If the trend holds, history shows that we can expect capital controls, banking controls, direct wealth confiscation, oppressive taxes, military conflict, rising crime rates, social unrest, etc.
None of these is a particularly rosy outcome.
2) With this in mind, our first loyalty is not to a government or political union... but to our families. And when the trend is this clear, we have a responsibility to take measured, rational steps to safeguard our families’ futures.
3) The desire to help rebuild is admirable. But what use can anyone really be if capital controls, debt default, bank runs, pension seizure, or currency crisis have vanquished one’s life savings? A sick doctor is no use to anyone.
4) One of the best ways to increase your immunity to this trend is through internationalization – the idea of carefully diversifying your life across multiple countries so that no single government has total control over you.
As you likely know from reading this column, or if you’ve seen the videos from our Offshore Tactics Workshop back in April, it’s entirely possible these days to bank in one place, invest in another, structure your business in another, hold your gold in another, own real estate in another, have citizenship in another, etc.
These are important steps to take. Each ensures that, no matter which direction your government goes, your livelihood will be safe... and you’ll be in a much better position to make a difference should you choose to do so.
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This is why we are doomed. Nobody is going to wake up from anything. The democracy mob rule will take over and the productive are finished. http://tinyurl.com/n8hmfya
Hope is the 8th of the Deadly Sins... simply had not been "released" from Pandora's Box. Or so the tale tells....
Oddly enough, he didn't include England, Sweden, Holland, or Germany.
A trend is not destiny, and the sun also rises.
You lived in ignorance, now it is time for reality.
Even today after Martin Luther's printing presses, French revolutions, Romanov executions, democracy in Britain, capitalism in US....
Catholic church still selling hope from the Vatican, French are selling luxury goods, Russians have become billionares, Royal family still unproductive in UK, and America bailing out companies of friends and family of the powerful.
Humans have natural desire to be led. Thus, power structures will never go away and there will be those who will abuse power just or not.
I see America potentially being 3 - 5 countries,a at some point in the future (vague statement, I know). But the decentralization would help, and having the choice between living in the Independent State of Texas or The United Cities of the Eastern Seaboard would be good for people.
Kinda like what has happened in Yugoslavia, or the former Soviet Union.
If its an improvement, and it means the people are no longer ruled by sociopaths, then surely it would have to be considered a success (as opposed to treason, or failure of the state, etc)
And you got to love that Simon is a mo-mo trader: "all the rational arguments... point to a very conspicuous trend"
If you see a trend God forbid you believe the trend will change!
“the 8th of the Deadly Sins..”.
WTF Knucks.. I’m having a hard time with the first seven and now I have another one to contend with??
Crap…. . hope.. despair.. ??? Now I am bummed.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SevenDeadlySins
Oh, wait.. maybe " hope for change for despair" works..
I feel better already.
"Humans have natural desire to be led. Thus, power structures will never go away and there will be those who will abuse power just or not."
Speak for yourself, buddy boy; humans are TRAINED to expect exterior leadership because their internal abilities to actualize leadership are REPRESSED. Sociopaths are the one class of mutation in the human genome that DESIRES to lead others; until that aristocracy of idiocy is bred out of the human condition or utterly exterminated like the useless parasites that they are, we will be stuck with the state and all of its atrocities...
Get this .. moar intelligent life forms, totally helpless (munchies) from birth need longer time to be trained to deal with life stuff.. That is why people tend to yield to authority
If they get led down the wrong track.. bad things happen
http://www.facinghistory.org/sites/facinghistory.org/files/images/Decision-Making_Injustice_Lesson_12.pdf
Government is a kleptoparasite.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleptoparasitism
Kleptoparasitism or cleptoparasitism (literally, parasitism by theft) is a form of feeding in which one animal takes prey or other food from another that has caught, collected, or otherwise prepared the food, including stored food (as in the case of cuckoo bees, which lay their eggs on the pollen masses made by other bees). The term is also used to describe the stealing of nest material or other inanimate objects from one animal by another.
The kleptoparasite gains either by obtaining prey or other objects that it could not obtain itself, or by saving the time and effort required to obtain it. However, the kleptoparasite may run the risk of injury from the victim if the latter is able to defend its property.
@ A.Magnus i think he meant to say ' humans have a natural desire to be (b)led '.
humans are TRAINED to expect exterior leadership because their internal abilities to actualize leadership are REPRESSED
great comment, agreed completely. the neucleus of the cell is NOT the "brain" as is taught in HS biology, it's the GONADS. the "brain" actually can be defined as the communication between all the internal cell elements. (or so says Bruce Lipton)
Sociopaths are the one class of mutation in the human genome that DESIRES to lead others
MLK made a great speech on this topic: The Drum Major Instinct. well worth listening to, whether you care for his politics or not.
George Carlin - Fuck Hope:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCIVHpHGZVM
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/edward-snowden-reportedly-showed-hong-1732...
Snowden reportedly showed HK newspaper documents revealing US hacking attacks on China.
The fun has just begun.
That the US is hacking China would be a surprise to whom?
We are the Global Center For Hypocrisy, Lies and Spin.
Fuck, I mean every election how many lies are we told, and when powers change from R to D, or back to R from D....they both do the same shit they ere pointing fingers at when the others were holding majority.
And the band plays on.
US hacking China.......
Chinese H1B workers contracted to work for DOD to hack China on made-in-china computers.
While chinese elites being hacked on sending their own children to be brainwashed in American univerisities and buying US property to retire.
When you hack into chinese military computers all you will find is copies of American aerospace technology secrets which US already retired.
What a world we live in.
The older you get, the more you laugh at life because it is a one hell of a joke!
Not a joke to me.
The mass of humanity is seriously stupid.
That story will damage the image Americans have of him.
Why? For pointing out that the alpha-criminal complains about lesser criminals doing what it has been doing all along.
If only we could find the correct great leaders to save us, and put down the swine.
All is lost!
Gnash, gnash.
This can not be fixed, unless a World War was to break out.
Right. Back down to the foundation.
“This can be fixed. It’s going to get better.” This is the voice of hope."
Hope and Change, mutherfuckers.
While we hope for Hope & Change, we prep. Guns, ammo, silver, gold, fiats in the safe, veggies in the garden, etc....
...oh, and some new solar panels coming soon to give a bit of light if, or when, the grid is taken down by hackers.
Hope & spare change, brutha
I never understood the bit about "the republic of Richard Stands."
seems that it simply meant for rich it stands
...with liberty taking a fall
Makes sense to me. Clears up 50 years of confusion. Thx.
When I was in kindergarten I asked my dad: what's a "ferwitchit."
If he was a great dad, he gave you the 10 minute history of the ferwitchit movement in colonial America.
It's like a henway.
What's a henway?
:)
pods
:) About 3 or 4 pounds.
Ba dum bump
Long ago, from a "Life in Hell"
http://imgur.com/ogFEKoC
Nicely stated, but never will be heard by the masses! The PTB have long ago, marginalized to the internet any voices of decent and reason, the dream is over, the revolution is lost, people get ready for what comes next!
200+ yrs,we didn't even make a fuckin dent compared to others.Sad sacks of shit we are.
It's the entire world, fool. There is no place to run that doesn't (or won't soon) share all these problems. It's a world empire. Those who promise safety by (charging you of course) diversifying to other countries etc are just as bad as the sell side idiots on blowhorn. It won't work, and if you can't hold it in your hand, or stand on it and defend it, it's not yours. Period.
"the crisis is behind us" - mario draghi a few weeks before he lowered interest rates again...
LOL they are a bunch of faggot liars who only care about their money and their high society lifestyle.
I'm afraid the "hope" was sold on the cheap to obama ...
Hope is not admirable, hope is what is left when everything else has been tried and failed.
Hope is the denial of reality.
Hope is the last feeling you have just before they shoot you in the head.
Hope is one of the few things they can't take away from you.
Actually, hope is the last thing that they want to take away from you... They know all too well that as long as people have hope, people will keep working their bones to death for them.
Great graphic, and unfortunately true.
OT: Don't look now but DJIA/SPX on their lows within ticks of breaking their 7 month uptrend from Nov '12: my screens point to a temporary Nikkei kamikaze bottom around 14400 DJIA and SPX 1440, down another 4%, but who nose?
Massive solar CME for a species reset.
That'll fix it.
That way things go, G/S will still find a way to make money on it.
Doesnt take a species reset, just a civilization reset. It's not like this is the FIRST time humans have ever developed a technological society.
Exactly, we keep doing this over, and over, and over.
There must be genetic defect.
Species reset.
I'm actually writing a work of fantasy/fiction that explores this exact topic. The base premise is that humans have established rich, pinnacle technologically advanced civilizations -- thirteen times already. And each time been beaten back to their respective "stone age" after losing control of said technology and creating -- wait for it -- ravaging uncontrolled armies of zombies!
Is that the funniest shit you ever heard? It's mostly a comedy. Except when everyone is being killed of course. Or being hunted as food by murderous feline monsters, or being burned alive by cute though deranged angels.
The zombie army thing is like a running gag.
Yeah, I'm kinda sorta twisted. My excuse is that just like rehypothecation I'm a product of the times.
Two reference authors for possible background material. Immanuel Velikovsky and Michael Cremo.
Also google "forbidden history" .... should help.
Cash settled futures , E xchange T raded F rauds ( oops funds ) , CDS' , supposed financial wizards who design and buy/sell instruments for which they don't want to take the heat , HFT - Lord , how in the world do the Amish survive ?
No disrespect intended to the author who is clearly a booster for offshoring, but building a financial matrix such as this is the easiest way to earn yourself a nice refreshing shot of polonium. And if they're threatened enough, they'll put the cancer in your balls so you bleed your cash out in a vain attempt to save your life.
Hope is not an actionable plan, as Mrs Reload is often reminded.
Seems an apt time to bring back the concept: Ideological State Aparatus
"...denote[s] institutions such as education, the churches, family, media, trade unions, and law, which were formally outside state control but which served to transmit the values of the state, to interpellate those individuals affected by them, and to maintain order in a society, above all to reproduce [crony] capitalist relations of production.
http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O88-ideologicalstateapparatus.html
It's not hard to do,
Imagine
You are on the MOON
Looking at Earth
Hope is the expectation of a condition over which one has no agency. It is not one of the most admirable traits of humans. It just is. In the end, reality is what we have to address.
Yep. Black nails it.
Pretty ironic that Russia offers asylum to Snowden.
Through obsession we have become what we formerly abhorred in our enemies.
He is right about the end of Empire. But that idea that one should just run away? If he advocated running away to avoid the worst, and then coming back, thats one thing. But he advocates just running, and if there is trouble in the new country you move to, run away from there. Oh, it has (or had?) justice, and rule of law, and a free market economy? Never mind, not worth fighting for, just keep running.
Simon Black is the Establishment telling you what they HOPE you will do.
Agree. Running away is the wrong choice. I will stand and fight.
He nails the analysis though.
Lewis: "Machines are gonna fail, then the sytems gonna fail, then survival. Who has the ability to survive. That's the game, survive."
Ed: "Well the system's done alright by me."
I think we are at our Deliverance moment. At the very least there seems to be a lot of squealing like a pig going on.
> Lewis: "Machines are gonna fail, then the sytems gonna fail, then survival. Who has the ability to survive. That's the game, survive."
Martin: "I think I'll have another drink!"
Hey Simon, I've got news about trends for you, you stupid twat...
The trend is toward Global Fucking Clampdown, you dick.
THERE IS NOWHERE TO HIDE YOU SILLY FUCKER!
You just won't accept that until you read it scratched into the tree in front of you, as you lay bleeding and hacked to pieces on some rotten South American jungle floor.
You better STAND and FIGHT where you are or bend over and pull up your cute little skirt for the man. That's the only choice you have.
Goddamn it Tyler, please cut it out with this trash.
You have to realize that some day, you will die.
Until you know that, you are useless.
I know this because Tyler knows this.
And Simon Fucking Black is useless.
Simon Black is spreading defeatism. "If you can't beat em, join em."
He admits to being a former spook. Now take away the former part.
As the cool kids used to say....
Word
I question the passion I have for the good 'ole USA recently. After learning inconvenient truths about exactly who we are as a Nation, deluded citizenry and what we as a whole represent on a global stage.
We have been tricked, lied to and decieved our whole lives.
Top 5 list of institutional deceit.
1) Were a Sovereign Republic.
Secret Treaty of Verona aka Monroe doctrine proves otherwise.
2) The Constitution as we have been taught in school and in the American lexicon of inalienable rights doesn't exsist.
Our bankruptcy agreement of 1871 shelved it which lead to the greatest deception of all. America entering a Corporation registered in Delaware located in The District of Columbia.
3) Congress and Senate Represent the will of the people.
They are employees of THE CORPORATE STATES of AMERICA and are not beholden to uphold the Constitution, organic or Corporatised versions.
4) Voting is enforcing the collective will of We the People.
Presidents are selected, not elected. Appointed CEO's if you will. Bloodlines related to the 13 families or ancient Egypt.
5) We are entitled to life liberty and the persuit of Happiness by birthright, privileges endowed by our creator based on God's law, not the rule of man.
Rule of man invented religions for social conformity, guidlines to stave off perpetual anarchy based on devine rules (commandments) to foster social structure of control.
Sadley.. TPTB live in reality, we exist in their conspiracy of formed perceptions that surround us daily.
"It was all a dream"
"All for the greater good"
-Barack H. Obama.
Now look up his / their definition of "greater good". Passports or Preparedness are the 2 options left. Reality is comming home to roost.
Well, that's the spirit. Lift that skirt high for the tyrant to see. It's your choice to make. I hear some folks like it.
Junk me all you want, chicken littles. You're junking what you hate to face.
I just spelled it out for you.
Brave Sir Simon ran away.
Bravely ran away, away.
When danger rears it's ugly head
He bravely turned his tail and fled.
Yes Brave Sir Simon turned about
He gallantly chickened out.
Bravely taking to his feet
He beat a very brave retreat.
Oh bravest of the brave, Sir Simon
A DUCK!
NSA records show that people that use such tactics should be the first to be prosecuted.
real hope is synonomous with blood - nothin'less.
Hope was included in Pandora's box because it is one of the evils. The fact that it masquerades as a good is what makes it so harmful.
Hope is what keeps a gambler throwing away his life and running up debts, the hope of a big win being just around the corner that will make it all better.
Hope is what keeps a trader holding on to a losing position, the hope that the market will turn and erase the loss.
Hope is what keeps a woman in an abusive relationship, the hope that her man really does love her and will eventually stop beating her.
Hope is what keeps sheeple passive when being oppressed by a minority, the hope that tomorrow the oppression will stop, that liberators will arrive, or that they'll be fine if they just keep their heads down.
All hope does is paralyse people in bad situations and prevent them from taking the action necessary to solve their problem. It is therefore a great enabler of harm by allowing it to continue. Hope is for cowards, the lazy, the stupid or the weak.
Choosing to abandon hope and instead act is the only course to achieve change and it requires balls.
Mr Tyler? I want to play a mind game of reality.
So let us play the game and it goes a bit like this and about the truth of it and we are all playing.
Let us start with a million bucks a nominal value and we both have 500K each sound fair?
Right oh ... now being a generous kind of fellow I am going to hand you 400K.
Wow, bet you feel good, all that lovely money or bits of paper you have in your hand.
Being as I am the money printer ... CTRL-P 19 million bucks to me.
That is the game and the game was hidden pre 2008 in bank leverage etc. since then in your face.
THAT IS WHY I HAVE NO WISH TO PLAY THE RIGGED GAME ANYMORE IT IS POINTLESS.
This method was chosen over any other because it perpetuates for all eternity the ruling class while the rest become expendable slaves.