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9 Of The Biggest Myths People Believe About 'The System'
Submitted by Simon Black via Sovereign Man blog,
Years ago, an elderly, frail Japanese martial arts master once boasted a 200-0 record against his opponents.
He claimed to have a unique power that allowed him to inflict serious injury on people without actually laying a finger on them.
Was it Chi? Magic? None of the above. It was a total scam. But that didn’t matter.
You see, the legend of the master’s powers turned out to be far more powerful than reality.
His core following of students believed in the master so much that they would fling themselves across the dojo whenever he raised his pinky finger.
And anyone who saw the display would become transfixed by the perception of the mater’s extraordinary abilities. It was an incredible case of mass delusion.
Everyone believed it, including the master himself. He was so confident in his skills that he put up a $5,000 challenge that he could beat any fighter in the world.
A mixed martial arts champion accepted the wager, and the result wasn’t pretty.
As you can see in the video, the master is quickly knocked to the ground with a broken nose and a pool of blood. Observers scramble to find a doctor to come to his aid.
You can almost hear the sound of reality quickly taking hold from the gasps of his students. No one could bring themselves to believe that the master had been so quickly beaten.
To an outsider, it seems so obvious that this guy is a phony (just watch the video). But mass delusion is an incredibly powerful force.
We see the same effects in the West today—mass delusions everywhere.
People seem to believe their governments are almighty beings capable of performing magic—water into wine, debt into wealth.
Here are some of the biggest myths we see in the system today:
1. The dollar will continue to be the dominant currency.
This is a total farce. Grumblings grow louder around the world to establish a new non-dollar financial system, and China has taken the lead to make this a reality.
2. The US is still the dominant military power in the world.
If you measure by the quality of trained personnel, this is true. But what good is all of that military power if you can’t afford to do anything with it?
3. The police exist to protect the people.
Wrong again. With so much civil asset forfeiture taking place at the point of a gun (federally funded assault rifles), it’s clear they’re far more concerned about protecting those that maintain the status quo than protecting you.
4. Elections make a difference
Completely false. Most Western governments borrow money to pay interest on the money they’ve already borrowed.
In the US, they spend so much on mandatory entitlements and interest they could eliminate almost the entire government and still not run a balanced budget.
At that level of desperation, it matters not who’s in power.
5. Your bank is safe
Your bank might HAVE a safe. But if you look at objective data, many banks in the West have incredibly thin levels of capital and liquidity—the exact opposite of what a safe bank is supposed to have.
Oh yeah, they’re backed by poorly capitalized deposit insurance funds, which are guaranteed by insolvent governments.
And bear in mind that even if your bank is reasonably capitalized, you are still guaranteed to lose money on a tax adjusted, inflation adjusted basis if you you’re holding your savings there.
6. You have to go to college in order to get ahead
Quite the opposite—going to college in many cases can get you behind; just ask any 36-year old still paying down that $100,000 student loan debt.
The world is a big place full of opportunity. Skills and experience matter more than pieces of paper.
Here’s a better option, especially for young people: head overseas, and become an apprentice to a successful, knowledgeable individual that you respect.
Any young person who thinks that going to college is a good idea should just ask any of their unemployed friends saddled with $100,000 of debt if it was worth it.
7. I saw it on TV so it must be true.
Ufff. The mainstream media exist to paint a distorted version of reality so that people are kept placated, docile and largely clueless about what really goes on in the world.
8. Debt doesn’t matter because we owe it to ourselves
Whoever first said this must have a lot of whips and chains in his closet because he seems to enjoy pain.
If we owe the debt to ‘ourselves,’ that means that we will need to default on ourselves.
This means no more Social Security, Medicare, etc. It means causing the US Federal Reserve to become insolvent and spark a currency crisis. It means causing the collapse of every bank in the country.
Sure, no biggie.
9. The United States is the Land of the Free
Draconian surveillance efforts on its citizens. Punitive taxes, fines and regulation. Rising police state. Telling people what they can or can’t put in their bodies, how to grow their food, who to adore, who to hate. Preventing them to collect their own rainwater and live off the grid.
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I don't care, at this point lets default and see what happens, just for the fun of it.
1) Im not a bank so I wont collapse
2)Im not on social security, so I have nothing to lose there
3)I wont collect social security because the system will fall apart way before then anyway! so nothing to lose there
4)I don't like this currency anyway, its time for a different one.
Really from my standpoint, It can only get better for the future of the country if we default.
Just so that we are all clear, -for better or for worse, - on what point #8 means for US citizens and the world.
Breakdown of society in the US. Every individual, family for themselves.
Complete destabilization of peace, commerce, immigration/invasions and financial collapse.
who knows, maybe it will fix everything, people are resourceful when its not illegal to be resourceful.
If your retirement plan doesn't include a scenario where there is no retirement income from your plan, you haven't thought it through and planned enough.
10. The government is here to help you.
Re Mad Max-your comment is ignorant to the extreme:
Bunch of whiners...
And this author of this so called article is a typical US hater because we won't fold to his progressive utopian dream...
Get this: Try leaving this country and see what it's like in the rest of the world...
After the first few times of having to go outside into a outhouse to take a piss/shit, or having to take a shower with no hot water... you will be crying to come back home...
You might check out who Simon Black is=ex military intelligence who decided not only war was a racket (as General Smedley Butler famously said) but the whole thing he was fighting for in the USA was one big racket and evil in its methods. Progressive is not the word for him. As far as the rest of the world, you might try getting a passport and trying it sometime--not at all as you describe in many places. The point Simon makes is that the best place to live the former American Dream of freedom and the ability to make yourself into anything if you work hard--is no longer in America. But it's found in many other countries on a wide scale.
Signed,
Actual American Expat
Wait... so you mean they even offshored the American Dream?
For Fucks Sake... I give up.
People seem to believe their governments are almighty beings capable of performing magic—water into wine, debt into wealth.
Glad the Q99X2 are not included in your statement.
The heavily armed 3 percent harbor far fewer illusions about this crap than the 97 percent.
Problem with the leaders in the US is that they think they are the master in the video and no one can beat them. They need a good bitch slapping. Of course then they will just turn their shithead efforts inward.
All fair comment.
One missed point - the USD is a military backed currency and if push comes to shove, a military can gather as much gold as it wants.
If there is a next "war" it will be done with drones, not soldiers. This makes a "next war" very unlikely.
Most people have been lulled into complacency by the extraordinary actions taken by central banks and governments over the last six years. Have these actions really worked or merely masked over major flaws and problems? I contend that by not demanding the right kind of growth and by throwing money at problems we have only delayed and added to festering issues that face us in the future. The bottom-line is things have not gotten better but are getting worse.
Modern Monetary Theory often referred to as MMT by its many believers is to remove much of the risk ahead and guarantee that we will always be able to muddle forward. This is a economic theory that turns to newly acquired tools like derivatives and currency swaps that are suppose to allow us to print and manipulate away problems. This has created an "almost surreal" feeling of indifference towards reality. More on why debt does matter and the system is about to fail in the article below.
http://brucewilds.blogspot.com/2014/01/have-we-been-lulled-into-complacency.html
MMT is hogwash. In the real world, it has at least one MASSIVE hole. (Already addressed elsewhere.) Even one of the founders of it has apparently abandoned it.
First rule fight club.
The films show molten steel (not aluminum) pouring out of the WTC towers; the steel in them was not merely "deformed." Some of it melted from very high heat that could result only from thermite.
"Many witnesses, including rescue personnel and firefighters working on the piles, described the phenomenon of “molten steel.” Terms used in witness statements are, for example, “molten steel,” beams “dripping from molten steel,” “molten steel … like you’re in a foundry. Like lava, from a volcano.” A photograph taken on September 27 by a Ground Zero worker shows an excavating machine lifting debris from the WTC wreckage dripping yellow/orange molten metal.
WTC clean-up workers and 9/11 artifacts architect Bart Voorsanger, in the PBS video “Relics from the Rubble,” described what must have been several tons of “fused element[s] of steel ... molten steel and concrete and all of these things …all fused by the heat,” weighing several tons each. These foreign objects came to be known as “meteorites.” "
http://home.comcast.net/~skydrifter/wtc.htm
Sell Simon, sell!
Here's the biggest myth of all: People actually believe they have 'dollars' in their deposit accounts.
The truth is, the richest amongst us have exactly the same amount of 'dollars' in their deposit accounts as the poorest amongst us have in theirs, $0.00. They are all 'Credited Accounts' populated with Bank Debt, a 'promise to pay' that the banks cannot keep.