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Guest Post - Skyception: The Deception and Manipulation of ‘We the People’ and our Skies
Guest Post
Skyception: The Deception and Manipulation of ‘We the People’ and our Skies
By
Morpheus_at_TIF
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Introduction by Cognitive Dissonance
Just when you think a subject has been analyzed to death someone comes along and breaks new ground. And not just in the conclusions they draw, but in the thought process and logic they apply. Sometimes it can be so new and innovative we might be tempted to shake our heads and say “This can’t be right” when in fact it might just be.
Morpheus is one of those rare individuals who is never satisfied with prepackaged conclusions, especially when they utilize stale information (often carefully disguised ‘beliefs’) and conforms to a polarized consensus. Where most might be happy absorbing such a pretty little package, Morpheus immediately starts asking uncomfortable questions and challenges the basic premises. Essentially he is the poster child for those who truly think outside of the box.
In this three part series Morpheus tackles an extremely controversial subject with humility, diligence and most importantly an open mind. Rather than remain within the mainstream or alternative views Morpheus has attempted to gather information and points of view from many different and diverse disciplines and practitioners. Personally I think he has done a great job.
Chapter One of Three
The Levels of Deception and how Psychological Operations are Used Against Us
When was the last time you looked up at the daytime sky and really examined it for several minutes? Does it seem different to you in some way, but you just are not sure what it is? Increasingly, people from all walks of life are beginning to realize that at times our skies look quite different from the way they were a few decades ago. While just a few years ago these people would have been laughed out of the room if they expressed their views in public, more and more these days this subject is beginning to be taken seriously by the general public…..and even some ‘officials’ as well.
While some call this phenomenon Geoengineering or Climate Engineering, it is more commonly known in the alternative community as ‘Chemtrails’, where persistent vapor trails (supposedly of water vapor) are visible after a plane passes high overhead. There are many theories offered in the alternative media about what is happening, and we will examine nearly all. However, before we can address any of them we must first ask a more basic question: Why is it so difficult to discover the reasons behind what is going on and why is this observable phenomenon occurring at all? This chapter, the first of three, will describe some of the methods used to intentionally prevent us from knowing and understanding the truth.
Before we can begin to explore the truth we must first understand the various ways we are misled, manipulated and deceived using Psychological Operations or ‘psyops’. Once we are better able to see through the lies and cover stories, then we can begin to explore who and what is behind these programs and what it all means to us. ‘Aerosols’, whether visible or not, will be defined and used throughout these three chapters as the intentional application of materials - chemical, biological, nano or other particles - into the atmosphere most commonly by, but not limited to, airplane. The word ‘chemtrail’, a commonly used descriptive term many are familiar with, has become misleading and even derogatory which in turn helps to perpetuate the manipulation. Therefore it needs to be discarded and will be for the remainder of this series.
Psychological operations (pysops) are the means by which intelligence agencies, governmental operatives and private networks accomplish their deceptions and which operate on every social, corporate and governmental level imaginable. This chapter will examine a number of these psyops, all of which have been deployed against us, and provide examples so we may have the tools to avoid being duped or suckered into their deliberate lies and pursue their false leads.
The basic goal of any psyop is to provide cover for something the operatives wish to remain hidden or obscured. And in the case of aerosols and geoengineering, the psyops appears to be very large and complex since operations of this magnitude require a huge amount of money (many billions of dollars annually), time, cooperation among diverse groups and complicity to make it all happen. Particularly when you consider the number of pilots and air crews, media people, private corporations, governmental agencies and others involved who need to remain silent about it. Given all of these factors there seems to be little question about the importance of what they are covering up, something to keep in mind as we explore this subject further.
The most common and effective psyop used against us is known as ‘Manufactured Consent’ and ‘Manufactured Dissent’. When used together, these techniques are specifically designed to gather consensus for a particular opinion while simultaneously creating controlled, and easily dismissed, dissent by way of a carefully crafted opposing view. These methods are often employed in our political world to polarize an issue by creating false ‘choices’. We are either ‘Left’ or ‘Right’, ‘Conservative’ or ‘Liberal’, ‘Democrat or Republican’.
This also applies to the Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) debate where you are presented with only two choices. Either you are required to completely support AGW or you are derisively labeled a climate change denier if you question the so-called ‘settled science’ regardless of whether or not you actually deny changes in the climate. Argue all you want for either side, but you are not allowed to diverge from either, which in turn very effectively constrains both alternative discussions and outcomes.
These command and control techniques have been used for thousands of years to divide and rule the masses via politics, religion, ethnicity, race, gender and so many other ways in order to keep people partitioned and fighting amongst themselves. We might even speculate that Darwin’s theories of evolution were intended to act as Manufactured Dissent to obscure the true cause of evolution while providing a controlled outlet for those looking outside the church for answers to our creation. Given how Darwin’s work buried many truths only now coming to light, along with his connection to British elite and eugenics, and it is not difficult to reach this conclusion, especially when considering the true nature of the evolutionary process.
By forcing people to either side of the aisle in the AGW discussion, this psyops technique severely limits the ongoing conversation regarding the real factors behind climate change while discouraging any mention of aerosols without a verbal beat down consisting of derision, mockery or marginalization and coming from both sides. As you will see in the next chapter, the issue of AGW is inextricably linked to aerosols and it is important and necessary to maintain false beliefs and deception in the climate discussion in order to be useful for other more complicated psyops. Rarely does a psyops exist in a vacuum, but rather many psyops are carefully interlinked to build mutual credibility while more completely confusing the issues from the intermixing. This is done even when one entity does not control the other entity’s psyops. In the black ops world, even opposing forces will feed off each other for their own benefit.

Synergy of Psyops Mind and Motion
The goal is to keep you endlessly circling this cognitive level and to keep you engaged, consumed and neutered in this ideological fight. For some it has become almost a religion as they try to convert and convince others to act now in order to stop the so-called ‘carbon pollution’ that is supposedly cooking and destroying our planet. And those against AGW are just often as duped, since they are against it for all the wrong reasons yet still serve a useful purpose in the fight. They are just as unwilling to look up and ask ‘why’, then openly discuss what is happening to our skies. Unfortunately both sides are just as quick to dismiss the science in defense of their favored ideology.
If for some reason we find the courage to break from the ideological pack and speak up about the truth, that our climate is influenced by many other factors more significant than human activity and our carefully hidden and obscured solar (and solar system) history is critical to know when trying to understand what is happening today; if this direct approach is tried with such a degree of professionalism that it threatens to be publically influential, then the next level of psyops is quickly deployed to prevent us from effectively speaking out.
Money for silence is often the first (and most effective) approach. But if you don't remain silent, potentially controlling information or ‘files’ – containing some of the illegal or embarrassing things you may have done or are currently doing - are used against you to force your silence. If that fails or damaging ‘files’ are not available, more direct ‘Soft Weapons’ are used. There are a number of different approaches that can be employed to apply pressure and keep you contained. They can threaten your funding or career, destroy your business and personal relationships, attack you in the media or even physically threaten you. The sky (pun intended) is the limit.
One can look back in time to both Nicola Tesla and Immanuel Velikovsky and recognize how this line of attack was used quite effectively during the course of the last century to keep their important work and theories out of public knowledge and discourse. There are numerous examples of modern day scientists and other professionals suffering severe and debilitating consequences when they spoke out against, or directly questioned, the AGW ideology. And all it takes is a few public beatings to dissuade others from openly considering other factors when researching or discussing climatic change.
Most people remain at this level in the ideological fight without ever seriously considering what is happening both in our skies and further out in space. Is it no wonder then that people remain functionally unaware of the persistent trails and aerosol programs since they have been manipulated into not questioning it? Many might not remember, but a decade ago questions about persistent trails were widely covered in the media and it was openly discussed at the time. The term used back then was also ‘chemtrails’ and in order to deflect and dampen the public discourse the word was quickly associated with the CIA-developed derogatory term ‘Conspiracy Theorist’.
With that weapon in their arsenal, the operatives could provide a simple but illogical explanation for the persistent trails and quickly dismiss serious people armed with valid questions by the effective use of public derision. Most people quickly moved back into their slumber and did not question the issue further, especially since they did not want to be associated with all those other publically disliked Conspiracy Theorists. A similar method was used early on to dispel ‘Truther’ questions about 9/11. It was, and remains, a very negatively charged weapon that can be quickly mobilized to shut down discussion on any controversial subject.
However, there are those of us who realize something is going on that is not normal, especially since the persistent trails have increased in frequency over the last decade, thereby prompting many more people to ask penetrating questions, do their own research and begin to break away from the hive mind of consensus and corralled thinking.
At this point, newer and increasingly complex psyops are required as it becomes progressively more difficult to keep a lid on it by keeping us confused and contained. As we begin to follow the camouflaged trail and look to non-mainstream sources for information and analysis, we find sock puppets who are paid trolls, opposition figures and various others in chat rooms and forums. An entire industry of professional trolls has been created just to convince you, me and millions like us that it is crazy and socially dangerous to look any further.
Many of our friends and family, who often lack the natural curiosity and intestinal fortitude to swim against the tide and be shunned themselves, prefer to think we are nuts to even discuss subjects such as this. Complicating matters immensely, we have probably brought our own AGW opinion or ideology to the party and have yet to find other resources that could educate us about our climate in relation to the space beyond our atmosphere, our own sun and other celestial bodies. With all this, most mildly curious people just throw up their hands in frustration and head back to their mind numbing entertainment for emotional relief.

Opiates for the Mind
The lack of understanding of the AGW psyops (or any psyop for that matter) provides an opportunity for more nuanced operatives called ‘Gate Keepers’ to engineer their blocking techniques. These highly trained specialists provide kernels of credible information and readily admit to part of the truth, thereby providing plausible cover for the larger hidden issues. The gate keepers are widely supported by the subverted mainstream media and are declared public experts, thereby appearing highly credible in the eye of the general public. This valuable media support enables them to bar the gates to embargoed information and a better understanding of the subject matter. Often the information provided by the gate keeper is designed to distract and disarm or, in this case, to feed the overall ideology of AGW no matter what side you may still support.
We can think of a few groups that fit this description, for example Geoengineering Watch to name just one. They are popular in some of the alternative media and are involved in the production of documentaries that perpetuate the AGW myth, yet they refuse to engage in serious discussion about the role our sun plays in our planet's climate. Ultimately they are similar in function and style to Noam Chomsky, Glenn Greenwald and Amy Goodman, all well-known 9/11 (and other verboten subjects) gate keepers.
Now that geoengineering itself is becoming more familiar to the public, in the latest psyops twist we now find much talk about using geoengineering to combat the Global Warming threat, effectively using leverage on one subject to perpetuate another in what is called a ‘Limited Hangout’. This ‘theme’ has become more prominent in the alternative media over the last few years, with questionable sources like Abby Martin of Russia Today or even Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! playing their well rehearsed role to help roll it all out for public consumption. I will speak more on this subject in the next chapter.
Another twist to be aware of is Nexrad, a term often used to describe land-based electromagnetic facilities used together with aerosols to manufacture all of our weather. We are informed it is used solely for this purpose; sometimes it is even promoted as weather warfare. However, there is no discussion of space weather impacts when discussing Nexrad and solar influences are never mentioned by those acting as a Gatekeeper for this issue.
As mentioned earlier, limited hangouts are another attractive nuisance designed to keep you from the truth. We can identify when a limited hangout is deployed by recognizing certain revealing characteristics identified by Webster G. Tarpley, who had originally developed the list during his study of geopolitical events. Some of the same giveaways can also be applied to identify other types of limited hangout psyops on topics such as aerosols.
The list is as follows.
- Media Darling -- you are the spotlight of the media
- Nothing New -- you learn nothing new from what they reveal
- Nothing Big -- they don't address larger connected issues; for example 9/11, false flag attacks, financial fraud etc
- Prepares New Coverts Ops –- it acts as cover for larger operations
- Cheerleaders Get Prestigious Careers -- back to Chomsky, Goodman and Greenwald
- No Top Careers Destroyed -- damaging information that is attributed to, or blamed upon, no one of importance
- Damascus Road Conversion -- now s/he believes the ‘truth’ should be revealed
A subject that quickly comes to mind when looking at this list is HAARP. With books, TV shows and other significant media coverage focused squarely upon HARRP, one has to wonder why so much can be known about a ‘secret’ program that gets so much of the blame for aerosols, weather modification and other related programs. It was handed to you and me on a beautifully engraved silver platter as the solution to all our questions. All one need do is consume and then sleep.
Another debilitating technique used is to create or enflame infighting within the ‘community’ to induce you and I to choose the ‘right’ side by accepting their argument for why they alone are correct. We saw this recently with Dane Wigington and Michael Murphy attacking each other while WeatherWar101 skillfully inserted him/herself into the fight. With explosive terms bandied about by both sides such as disinformation, agent/operative and psyops, it is easy to fall prey to these false ‘disagreements’. While they claim to occupy different sides of the discussion, all of them refuse to talk about the main influences on our climate and weather systems, even going so far as to deny it is relevant at all.
To fully understand the changes to our climate we must know our true solar history (something which has been deliberately kept from us) what is presently happening within our solar system and, perhaps more important, with our sun. If we fail to do so we will remain deeply confused, which leads directly to false trails down dead end rabbit holes. In chapter three you will find trusted information sources that can help you acquire this knowledge.
There are a number of theories that purport to explain the geoengineering and aerosol programs, some of which are likely organic while others are intentionally developed and planted to keep us confused and away from the truth. Regardless, each of them needs to be considered in light of all of the facts we have and viewed through the revealing lens of psyops. Remember, what is not talked about is often far more important than what is actually discussed. While some theories may be true or even part of larger operations or programs, others can be easily disproven as false, uninformed or intentional disinformation.
In chapter two we will examine some of these theories and poke holes in them where appropriate. In addition, we need to further explore the use and abuse of the word ‘Chemtrails’, a very broad and indistinct term commonly used to describe all we observe visually and chemically. It may be vitally important to publically abandon the use of this word and use persistent aerosols and non-persistent aerosols instead. The distinction is relevant and will be parsed further in chapter two.
Reference links can be found below the image.
Braintrails

Reference Links:
Psychological Operations
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_Operations
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_Operations_%28United_States%29
http://psywarrior.com/psyhist.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/09/AR2006040900890_pf.html
Manufactured Consent and Dissent:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1plTW0G6FSc
http://www.amazon.com/Manufacturing-dissent-Chomsky-Western-Critical/dp/B00081WK5E
http://www.corbettreport.com/episode-074-the-inbred-elites-million-year-plan/
Soft Weapons and Sock Puppets
https://solari.com/blog/soft-weapons-with-charles-hughes-smith/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Earnest_Voice
Limited Hangouts
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limited_hangout
http://www.presstv.com/detail/2013/06/18/309609/how-to-identify-cia-limited-hangout-op/
http://youtu.be/FKLVFV8sGSs?t=1h
http://web.archive.org/web/20120316052943/http://www.letxa.com/nexradhoaxhistory.php
http://youtu.be/vY36INbzz8M?t=6m20s
Conspiracy Theory
http://memoryholeblog.com/2013/01/20/cia-document-1035-960-foundation-of-a-weaponized-term/
Gate Keepers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gatekeeper
http://www.corbettreport.com/meet-noam-chomsky-academic-gatekeeper-video/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwZ-vIaW6Bc - "Who Cares" at 6:00
http://www.globalresearch.ca/noam-chomsky-and-the-willful-ignorance-of-911/5359871
Infighting
http://chemtrailsmuststop.com/2014/07/the-co-opting-of-a-movement-part-i/
http://chemtrailsplanet.net/recommended-sites/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mwffn137YBg
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Chapters 2 and 3 will address some of these issues and questions.
The ebola ordeal is a fine example info control/psyop... imo proof
I would sure like to hear from some old ticker guys on this. B on T H for one. I fly and a few others that could and would just lay it all out. Lots of past ZH greats too. Good things happen because they should.
Welcome to being born in an
accelerating bobsled ride
through infinite tunnels
of entangled deceits ...
Warning:
This ride has never been tested before,
and we do not know how (or if) it ends.
Nice work Morpheus. Can't wait for Part 2. Glad to see Suspicious0bservers linking to your Skyception article over his way. Seems you have a knack for getting the attention of the right people. Now if you can get them all in the same jar, shake it up well and see what falls out... well, THAT might be a master cocktail.
I dont want to distract from the topic. But it is important to note. Many good people have thier hands tied. What I call the dogma traps. Experts for the most part cannot reveal the whole truth.
It doesn't distract from the topic and is one of the levels usually using "soft weapons" that coerce, intimidate, threaten or otherwise keep people silient. Either by what happens to them directly or by what they observe with others.
How CIA invented "Conspiracy Theory" term
Stigmatizing truth seekers
http://failedevolution.blogspot.gr/2014/10/how-cia-invented-conspiracy-t...
Ditto, no more banksters:
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/07/12/313399/conspiracy-theorists-vs-g...
Conspiracy Theory in America, by political scientist Lance deHaven-Smith, published by the University of Texas Press, about why people don’t like being called “conspiracy theorists:”
“The CIA’s campaign to popularize the term ‘conspiracy theory’ and make conspiracy belief a target of ridicule and hostility must be credited, unfortunately, with being one of the most successful propaganda initiatives of all time.”
People who use the terms “conspiracy theory” and “conspiracy theorist” as an insult are doing so as the result of a well-documented, historically-real conspiracy by the CIA, (which campaign, by the way, was illegal, and so, the CIA officers involved were being criminals.)
Such irony, that it can be PROVEN that the use of the pejorative "conspiracy theory" phrase was itself adopted as a result of a real conspiracy between the government and mass media back in the 1960s!
See Mark Crispin Miller's Fooled Again,
or
http://www.thrivemovement.com/news-flash-cia-invents-conspiracy-theory.blog
Embedded inside that article is a link to a copy of the declassified document about how the use of the phrase "conspiracy theory" was illegally promoted by the government through mass media.
http://www.jfklancer.com/CIA.html
CIA Document #1035-960
RE: Concerning Criticism of the Warren Report
"... 3. Action. ... b. To employ propaganda assets to [negate] and refute the attacks of the critics. Book reviews and feature articles are particularly appropriate for this purpose. The unclassified attachments to this guidance should provide useful background material for passing to assets."
Don't worry, the CIA is living on borrowed time, many of us CTs will outlast them.
it is daunting, the phrase "full spectrum dominance".
that includes the land . sea and air and beyond ...
you and your mind and will. you have to be
mighty alert, informed and able to negotiate with
those political forces. they are counting on opposing the
a priori defeated persons seeking a nod from them/us;
or just disinterest. they then claim a mandate to do
x.y. and z to you or as they claim for you. or them,
us. as individuals, are merely units comprising a herd
that need be managed and accounted for. it is all very
psychopathic in the managing and controlling details.
.
anyway, it is just big money monopolist business .....
Great topic! It goes right to the hart of our collective stupidity. We are not up to speed because we are being mislead. The extent it goes to is what amazes me. The bugget to mislead us so consistantly must be huge. A massive organization with some very talented folks at many levels.
I picked up some real good clues in a debate on Mr Hastings death. Its a shame that debate is no longer avialable.
Thanks. The deception not only goes very deep on many levels, but it also goes across many topics as well as going far back in our history. One can look to Bernays to see how openly it was discussed and meticulously planned.
Nice article - thank you.
Bernays may have studied Everett Dean Martin.
Quote from "The Behavior of Crowds" (1920):
(page 269) "The effect of all this upon the intellectual progress and the freedom of art in democratic society is obvious, and is just what, to one who understands the mechanisms of the crowd-mind, might be expected. No wonder de Tocqueville said he found less freedom of opinion in America than elsewhere. Explain it as you will, the fact is here staring us in the face. Genius in our democracy is not free. It must beg the permission of little crowd-men for its right to exist. It must stand, hat in hand, at the window of the commissioner of licenses and may gain a permit for only so much of its inspiration as happens to be of use-value to the uninspired."
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/40914
You're welcome and thanks for the share. Propaganda as a type of mind control goes back as far as other more direct forms of mind control.
Great quote TF. Morph you got my attention will be looking for following articles. A riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. What we need is a giant enema. The appropriate orifices are DC and NYC.
Yes I suspect it is consistent thruout history. The pyramids, fossil fuel, creation and on and on.
There was a noticeable absence of these vaportrails in the sky over the Chicago/northern Illinois area last summer and we had a more normal rainfall pattern, albeit a cooler summer.
Cloudy, overcast ,90% chance of rain. Can't see vapor trails w/o clear skys.
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National Geographic 2014 Earth From Space Full HD 1080p
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SjreSnLSjM
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here some insights from a different perspective.
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John Prine & Nanci Griffith : Speed Of The Sound Of Loneliness
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2e9wWFg-pI
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here some music.
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i get it. no burning questions at the moment,
except...which came first, photos of topless ladies
in playboy magazine or national geographic?
.
holiday bonus ....
A Whiter Shade of Pale
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkiggbPb5CY
John Prine FTW!
Morpheus_at_TIF, our very first premium member at TwoIceFloes, started work on this series way back in July of this year. The reason it is only now being published is simple. His research continued to open new lines of thought and pathways forward even as he wrote the series, causing gaps in his progress as his research developed.
I suspect he will be adding a few more chapters as he learns even more about the subject.
Morpheus_at_TIF will be here to comment and answer your questions.
Thanks for posting my article, Cog, I appreciate the introduction and the opportunity to share this information with others. I know that it will raise many questions and emotions, so I hope that I can help answer them and guide folks to more resources.
Nice job Morph. I've been tracking what the spray patterns are where I live and it is 100% corelated to the arrival of a weather front. Which jives with what I heard a youtube guy say - this is the preferred technique, which is to boost what nature is already doing rather than try to create something that isn't there.
Guys at my office used to roll their eyes when I told them about things like geoengineering. I dared them to watch the sky for a while and see if I was right. Two cold fronts later, along with the preceeding two or three days with extensive sky trails, now they can't wait to tell everyone else about it.
Cog is really stepping up his game. What game is that?
Step 1. Run away from your life to a new town.
Step 2. Write about philosophy, how everyone else is the problem. (this philosophy is always old news, but cogs don't read)
Step 3. Convince people to pay you for your blatherings.
Step 4. Get other people to do the writing.
Seriously, Cog... you bitch and moan, but what are you doing that makes you any better than all the other consumers? You've talked about an old pot and chainsaws, but I've never heard a peep about kachelofen, Jean Pain's methane production, Mollison and Holgrem's Permaculture, Fukuoka's One Straw Revolution, or countless other solutions.
Now I wouldn't say anything if you weren't being a complete douche by trying to "make" money off your worthless blog.
In closing, shut the fuck up or tell people how they can improve the quality of their lives and reduce their dependency on dollars.
Clearly you read Cognitive Dissonance. Thank you for your support.
"In closing, shut the fuck up or tell people how they can improve the quality of their lives and reduce their dependency on dollars."
You can't make me, you can't make me.
Why focus on the attack? Everything I stated was accurate. You offer next to no solutions. In my heated post I gave more names one could google and learn than you have in your posts.
The response, a childish "nah-nah". I thought this was fight club, where adults could use angry words to convey real ideas.
We all think we are adults, don't we. At least I admit I'm a little petulant child. How about you?
Proposed solutions are a dime a dozen my friend. Have you ever wondered why history rhymes? Because no one asks better questions. They just grasp at the most convenient 'solution' and run with it. Just another enticing dog bone for the elite to dangle while they continue to control the next round of puppets we the people 'allow' to rule over us.
Time to try a different method. The problem and solution is found within us. Everything else will follow from there. That idea is infuriating to those who feel someone must do SOMETHING. Personally I am tired of the merry-go-round and have decided not to play that silly self mind fuck game.
"They" control the financial system, the multinational corporations, the media, the education system, the police and military. We play right into their hands by meeting them on their battlefield. Their system is thoroughly corrupt. Worse, it corrupts even those who enter it with the intention of changing it from within. It is their game, their ball, their playing field, their audience, their rules, their money.
Time to change the game by first not playing to the greatest extent possible.
So run Forrest, run. Get the fuck out in any way you can. Because ultimately they can't make me unless I consent.
I don't disagree. I preach boycott and Permaculture (to build your own environment).
I agree that we don't want to play their game.
The solution is not of the moment is what i disagree with. Permaculture as I see it can literally reforest all the deserts with next to no input. Human labor and nurseries that will duplicate easily. There are working examples around the world. Brad Landcaster's books have dozens of examples. The Yeoman's farm in Australia was revived and has been in the family since the 1940s. Yeoman's books are a little hard to understand, but great advanced resources.
Permaculture as a term may be new, but the concepts are older than history. You can see functioning chinampas in Spain that are at least 1,000 years old. You can see 70 year-old swales along the highways of Arizona. Canary Islands harvested their water from tree drips until Spain cut down the trees to take over! indigenous peoples don't see a line between garden and forest. Spain (fucking assholes lol) wrecked all the Latin America stuff and didn't even know what they were doing. they thought it was "just forest".
Jean Pain's methane capture methods were powering (heat, electricity, "gas") in the 1970s. He was also controlling the spread of forest fires and building soil. His book, published before his mysterious death at ~33, is Another Kind of Garden is freely available online.
Some quick calculations suggest that if we managed the Black Forest and a revived Amazon in a similar fashion to Jean Pain, we would have a little more than the current world's energy demand met. Distribution would be a problem, but since it is truly sustainable* we could invest in infrastructure.
* Sustainable = Producing enough energy in its life to maintain and duplicate the system.
Lastly, as you chainsaw firewood, Kachelofen and coppice/pollarding are 2 things you will want to research. Children and elderly should be collecting your firewood. Kang ovens work similarly.
I'll leave it at that. We agree to not play; I wish I could see more on-the-ground solutions.
All your points are valid. But unless people begin to seriously question the present day system, what you propose will be in the minority and mostly ignored. Or if it is widely seen as a solution because of a crisis it will be subverted and controlled by the powers that be.
I am not saying we should stop trying. I am saying we need to help people begin to think original thoughts (for them) rather that swallow prepackaged ideas offered in a manner that allows people to believe it is their idea. This is ultimately how we are controlled, by psychological manipulation. And this is why I discuss it endlessly.
Thank you for the discussion.
Nope, one more. Howard Finnell. Out of Texas A&M. He stopped the dustbowl of the 1930s (right as it subsided anyway) with on-contour furrows. His group was behind planting of a quarter million osage orange/monkeyball trees to stabilize the soil. His on-contour furrows are essentially Yeoman's keyline plan.
After the drought stopped no one cared. The next drought (50s) was mitigated by the new wells everyone was installing.
Quality of life?...you should decide which qualities you desire to achieve, but I dont think you really know.
1. A healthy and safe environment.
2. Majority of time spent with loved ones.
Maybe not universal, but I wouldn't expect much disagreement.
Safe enviorment?...so the rest of us should be prepared to limit our freedoms becuase you took the bait on a laundry list of false bogeyman designed by the police state?
Healthy and Safe environment = Shelter, sanitation, clean water, balanced diets.
Not to be imposed by anyone. It is the individual to determine what their "safe" is. If I start imposing on you, hopefully we can work it out with words and/or compensation. If not I suppose fighting is the only solution.
From the Air - Laurie Anderson (Big Science)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBD9d2PI97c&list=PL2FAFA4B55ADE47B7
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Laurie Anderson - Born, never asked
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsMFwnxFv1E
Big fan of LA here.