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Zero Hedge: What Should We Do?
Zero Hedge has the smartest readers of just about any site in the world ...
Most of us know that just about every government in the world is thoroughly corrupt, and that all of the economic indicators are wholly manipulated ...
And that the big insiders skew the playing field through high frequency trading, quote stuffing, insider dealing, central bank shenaningans, etc. ad nauseum ...
Most of us are just trying to protect our assets and our families ...
And we know that the big reset is coming, because the Matrix can only suppress reality for so long ...
So what's this about?
All of us together are smarter than any one of us individually. (I learn as much from reading your comments as I do from my own research and writing).
Here's the question: How do we build a sane, free world out of the ashes of the fallen system?
It's easy to point out the problems. But I want to hear from wiser souls as to SOLUTIONS.
How do we build local NETWORKS of mature, freedom-loving individuals so we can hit the ground running? After all, we can all go into our own caves to weather out the storm. But - at some point - we have to rebuild community and civilization.
Empires have collapsed one after another for thousands of years ... and then the people have seemingly started over at zero.
How do we build networks of trust, strenth and prosperity to weather the hurricane of change?
I'm not even pretending to have all of the answers. I'm just humbly trying to start the conversation ...
What do you think?
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Forget it. Our elites have made sure that when the meek finally inherit the earth it won't be worth inheriting. Even great men like Putin have only managed to slow the catastrophe down.
Our best case scenario is that our masters develop robots able to do anything we can and better equipped to conquer the galaxy, and only too happy to dispatch their human predecessors with industrial efficiency. More likely the bad guys will finally turn their nuclear arsenals on us rather than yield any real power---less a Samson Option than a Jonestown Option. When they die, so will we.
Short term? Take care of yourself and your loved ones.
Long term? Pray none of them live to see the final outcome.
@niall of the ni... kinda have to agree with you in that it really is everyman for himself; which is not what a decent society needs; but thats what its getting... we cant change that.. so we just have to roll with it...
Short the humans. We have been on humans on long for too long. Not much of a fan of being the ugly side of that as it is likely, but Agenda 21 does solve world's problems for quite a few centuries. At the least for time being revert to natiaonal states so that we can learn the limits of our resources. Organize economics with energy at the base (energy standard) as we are all energy running through stardust. Every organisam needs energy to survive and expand (food). As civilizations we need even more energy to grow. If we look at the civilization we have to understand that we are nothing more than a colony of single mind (cell) organisam. All our inputs and output can be determined by energy inputs, items can be determined in energy inputs. The honest money. The reason gold was honest money for so long is that it's relative price followed the energy price of extracting it. The reason why petrodolar is such a strong mechanism is that you can reprice the price of energy giving the $ so much of power as a pricing mechanism. And than tax wealth at relative standard deviation and redistribute it to all people. This is the only mechanism that actually allows that everyone lives well of their current work, instead of overaccumulation of future consumption which causes drops in demand.
Why don't you kill yourself? Be the first to be 'shorted.' We will sing your praises, no, really.
a) There need to be "enough" survivors that get through the mayham more or less intact. A nuclear WW3 would mean the end of modern civilization for a VERY LONG time (likely eternity)
b) Let us hope that during the mayham important existing infrastructures remain more or less intact.
c) The crux if a) and b) play more or less out. Build a more or less self-sustainable economy, that is free (not the cronyism and CB centrally planned rigged system currently in place). The human population itself is an ecological bubble that cannot be sustained at current (still rising) levels for extended periods of time. We are all living in an annomaly at many different levels. The core will likely be the remonetization of PMs in some form. Sustainable energy supplies is likely also going to be a big one. Likely the future will also be a more local and much de-globalized one. Drinking whine from Oz. in Canada and eating South African apples in Europe is utter ecological waste (BS).
Just a few quick thoughts.
@CHX a massive population cull so to speak... awful I know.. but nature does have a record in this area.,,
will it ever come to that??? personally i dont think so; i think the future depicted in "idiocracy" is odds on... at least for the next 100 years
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perhaps the whole thing is metaphysical and the world is or is going to be whatever your subconscious mind makes it. Perhaps we dont exist but are just a figment of your imagination and it is your mind that is generating the replies on this post.. perhaps you dont exist and it is my mind creating this whole theatre!!!
its some mind fuck however..... Im just going to sit back and enjoy the ride
oh and buy physical gold!!!!
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Ramgold. Sorry, this logic is indisputable:
"I think, therefore I am" - Descartes
"Therefore I am. I think?"
Moody Blues
For you I would recommend metaphysical gold.
How do you know it's physical?
@stiler ... touche ...
breathe deep
chop wood
No human government will ever be successful in the long run
Bring on Skynet.
How about a government of squirrels then? Is THAT the solution? Rule by rodents?
Be ready to Hunker-Down for at least 6 months. Band together in small groups and be prepared to assist each other on a moments notice. Be ready to defend your family and property and yes, you will have to kill people. If you can't do all these things then go directly to your nearest FEMA camp and be ready to die a slow death.
Consider setting up shop in a rural U.S. County where the Sheriff and Coroner are the highest elected officials. If you control those slots, you are the wedge. From there, a ZH community could expand into State government and possibly "own" the State - thinking thinly populated like Wyoming, Montana, Dakotas, Idaho, etc. From there, fight fire (govt.) with fire. I believe y'all are certainly capable even though there would no doubt be an entrenched old boys club. Sure they aren't that bright, right. It would be a classic non-violent battle of State's rights versus the Fed corp. In the meantime, DHS would armor us up and provide intel. Parasite the parasite. Brilliant!
Cheap unlimited power in a small form in one of the major answers. There are many models being worked on and hopefully one will be allowed to come forward. When people have cheap power they can desalinate, heat/cool, cook and all the other necessary tasks in life with little to no assistance from any central government. Thus, it takes very little money to maintain a self sufficient life. When government is least needed, people will thrive.
Technological developments such as the iPhone, and next up, the Internet of Things, and the Apps between the two, along with Amazon/Alibaba, etc., will change the definition of work and consumption faster than society can adapt. Brokers/Agents/Teachers/Lawyers/Doctors/Accountants or any other purveyors of special knowledge will also be effected. Another game changer will be a Google/Apple/Tesla/Samsung/Uber/Lyft fleet of driverless electric vehicles displacing private ownership of cars, delivery vehicles and public transportation, as well as energy storage, management and use. Millions of cameras in our pockets combined with Asange/Snowden/Zero Hedge types will ensure transparency in governments and corporations. ZIRP will force an equity model of investing for savers both in crowd sourced or institutional formats. Quantum communication will increase security of information transfer itself as well as dependence on satellites, increasingly from low earth orbits to medium earth orbits and eventually high earth orbits. 3D, and further, 4D printing will render manufacturing as we know it obsolete. Continuous exponential technological development is upon us. Our old models, theories and systems are as useful as Birinyi's ruler.
So, George, "What are we to do with the cultural lag of continuous exponential technological development?" is how I would frame your question. I do not know the answer.
Human nature remains more or less stable even with the advent of the printing press and modern transportation bringing us closer to the rest of the world. I assume this future of continuous exponential technological development will be similar. We are still social creatures and need to belong, have sex with our wives and play with our kids. Competition (read envy and passion) is still our major motivator.
It seems to me that envy and passion will counterbalance any moral hazard of somehow bringing QE to the people. Whether this QE to the people be in minimum guaranteed income, a one time capital grant, technological "sin" tax, social, educational, housing and health programs or some mix of these or other things the cultural lag must be addressed. Those with envy and passion will still be motivated to create and rise above their peers.
QE to infinity will suck the debt out of the private economy onto public balance sheets and rendered harmless. There would be no need for bond markets, simply print. Exchange rates between federal currency regimes would be the moderator of excess.
Bottom line: Ban interest on capital.
NICE TRY ZH!
Based on the first two pages of replies, i think we can extrapolate the problem: There is no single 'ANSWER', unless every person on the planet lived by the prescription "Do onto others as you would have them do onto you".
Obviously the original Constitution is not sufficient, since we had that and still we find ourselves in this mess...and the same goes fo any / all religions. People are fallible, power corrupts, and you can't legislate around that .
It is natural in the affairs of mankind that we will have leaders, and rules to follow. What is inescapable is that the people need an inviolate code of conduct with which to inspect leaders actions, and the rules we follow.
in my mind, here is the first: TREAT ALL LIVING THINGS WITH RESPECT.
....there may be a few other, but not many. The higher the level of abstraction into basic principle, the more areas of life are covered....and people will easily keep those priciples in mind. IMHO
"Do unto others..." only works when the person is not psychopathic or suicidal.
Subscriber to Sharia Law are ya?
In addition to class inequality, billionaires running country, 1%, etc - Bernie Sanders voted against the Iraq war, is now probably the foremost Congressional critic of the Fed, voted against TARP, abhors NSA spying, is against the latest trade pact, does not back the EX/IM Bank, etc.
So:
#1 Elect Bernie Sanders
#2 Someone oughta come out and expose the obscene influence of the Jew relative to their population numbers.
- They control the financial system w/ three straight Fed chairmen and slime like Lloyd Blankfein infecting financial institutions all over the place.
- They exert undue to political influence over things such as the Iran Treaty Pact where 50+ Israel serving Congressmen just took a junket to Jerusalem to be told what to do and think.
- With the increasing minority population growth, the % of Jews is declining. This should, by its nature, result in a lessening of Jewish influence. But the opposite is happening. Why is this?
Instead of obsessing about political correctness and fear of accusations of bigotry, etc - Maybe it is time for a true and honest re-evaluation of the above. Because the world is being dominated by the financial industry and it most definitely is being run and overseen by the wrong people - members of a religious faith who also exert too much disproportionate influence over governence.
Yeah... that's what we need another communist in chief...
Who best to take this on but America's first Jewish President?!
True. But maybe a clear thinking, well spoken individual with (honest) positions might just be the best person to be president if this situation is ever to be evaluated and addressed with an open mind.
"Biden called Obama first "clean" African-American candidate ... African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy," Biden said."
We tried that. not a good working model.
Awareness is the key to everything.
The most important thing to realize is that because you are aware of the world around you, and you can choose how to react to it, that you are a co-creator of the world you are living in. Your life is absolutely not predetermined, everything you do affects the world around you, and you are the one that determines what you do. So, if you want to create a better world for yourselves and the ones around you, it is very important to know more about how and why things happen.
Start by simply accepting the fact that a lot of things you thought you knew are absolutely false, try to reevaluate everything, and build a new, more objective worldview, and start acting according to this new view.
Scrap judicial precedent by Supreme Court...stop enforcing mistakes from the past and intentional legislating from the bench.
Early barbaric colonial America would provide the new judge a bench covered with the skin of the last with a warning to follow the Constitution or else. S'pose you would be lucky to be mearly tarred, feathered and run out on a rail.
When will Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei get Nobel peace price?
1) Stop believing The Lie. No one is looking out for you or your best interests. You are a cash cow, nothing more.
2) Stop paying property tax. This is the most effective ballot you can cast.
3) Learn to provide yourself with as much sustenance and energy as possible. This system requires your dependancy.
It's all in the palm of our collective hand
I think books and skills. Knowing how to grow your own food, fix machinery, construct shelters and lots of books that talk about how to do it will be important. Greece has shown that humans can adapt quickly and well and I believe that in adversity a true communal spirit can emerge again. As long as there isnt outight chaos.
"Greece has shown that humans can adapt quickly and well"...
Is that the suicide rates that have gone thru the roof, the debt which is exponentially increasing, and the economic depression with unemployment rates at 30+ per cent?
Im talkling more broadly about how Greek ( and other )people and communities are dealing with the economic turmoil by developing/reverting to barter style approaches to conducting commerce. Pointing out that the Greeks have financial difficulties at least demonstrates youre awake I suppose. Id encourage you to try to read between the lines and beyond what seems to pass for your rudimentary comprehension of the bleeding obvious.
What am I doing about it?? I'm running for Member of Parliament in Canada. This fucking world ain't gonna change itself, is it?!
Do what you and your nazis always do blame Israel
Remember The Enlightenment. That came from hard times too. "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."
A crisis is an opportunity, born of the despair, when the old hubris no longer works. It's time to get real.
“What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty!”
If you want to know what to do, read Revelation in the Bible. There are a few symbols that you may not understand, but it will tell you exactly what will happen in the near future as the "global reset"/economic collapse draws nearer and more and more natural disasters happen. To understand exactly what will happen, you will also need to study all the secret society groups connected with the Freemasons, the Jesuits, etc, and what their goals and methods of obtaining said goals are. If you are part of the new generation that can't be bothered doing the research for yourself, here is a very simple overview of what will happen in the future:
Knowing what is going to happen to the earth, the options for your actions are:
Regardless of whether or not you prepare, the majority of us will die during this time of upheaval, whether by starvation, war, civil unrest, government kill squads, etc. God told us what would happen in the future so that we would be ready for it, and so that we would be ready to meet Him. The most important thing everyone here needs to ask is whether they want to be with Jesus when He reigns, or be thrown into the Lake of Fire for all eternity. Because the reason that this world is coming to its end is because of the tendency of humanity to want to do what they want instead of living the way that God wants us to, and having a relationship with Him. Every problem in society's root cause is sin. As long as the sin remains, there will never be a perfect world, no matter how much we try to make it one. Everyone will be selfish, rip others off, steal, rape, kill, lie, etc, and until that root cause is dealt with, there is no point in talking about how to "rebuild", because the foundation will be the same, and as a consequence so will the end result. Jesus is the only person who can deal with that root cause of sin. If you want to know how He dealt with it, visit www.needgod.com and go through the test.
For hundreds of years the weak minded have been taken in by the bible/religion and think themselves living in the "end time" and of course that they themselves are chosen. Its that little human need of wanting to feel special and needed and like your life has a purpose, well yours doesnt, unless, its just to annoy people who can think for themselves. The conditioned circularity of your thinking that you call "faith" is precisely the sheep like mentality that has allowed us to get here in the first place. Your do nothing but read revelations ( "you may not understand"- but you do presumably you effing moron) and jesus will sort it out is so mind numbingly repulsive that your presence in the human gene pool is an affront to all free thinking people. Even now you feel a satisfying ember of guilt over enjoying the punishment the lord has in store for me for calling one of his servants a pointless loon. Your smug smile of benevolent christian love will slowly slip from your lips as you ultimately realise that your repulsive ignorance has led you down a well trod road of hordes of similarly religious wasted human lives before you.
1) the benefits of seignorage/creation of new money, need to be equally distributed to all using the currency- not just the banks/fed. no defecit spending allowed for offensive wars
2) MIC defunded, funding diverted towards productive investments (infrastructure/education) and/or used to fuel tax cuts- ie growth and reinvestment returned to the people
3) government of executive priviledge and secrecy needs to replaced by new government of absolute and complete transparency
4) large centralized power structures need to be decentralized and power returned to local communities. local communities then need to work together across international borders to achieve as equal, humane and efficient markets as possible. for example, the lower and middle class of usa and china should work together to prevent deleterious effects of collusion between each groups respective elites such as deindustrialization of the usa, and the low ethical standards and environmental protections of the chinese labor market.
If you ask me it's too late. The gum chewing Murican public actually believes that a Southern Colonel with no military affiliation has returned from the dead to broast delicious chicken for them.
That's not a fair assessment we all know it's Val Kilmer who's gotten too fat for any other work...
"...a Southern Colonel with no military affiliation has returned from the dead to broast delicious chicken for them."
Fortunately, I have the antidote:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUw-EpBv__o
and if that doesn't work....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__QmUvZCNaI
Offer a reward.
Walk. Really, walk. Learn now how to walk 200 miles. Work up to 15 miles a day backpacking 30 lbs, for 2 weeks and you'll start to get a glimse of what The Road would be about in a safe way. Community is the only way out dude.
I'm nearer fifty than forty, and I am not going to make 200 miles at a crack.
And you left out singing Kumbayah while we go strolling merrily along.
You got the word right, fallen. It's been so since the beginning. Sanity isn't a possibility. Whatever you build will turn into dust, just like it did for your long forgotten ancestors. Order and Chaos, life and death, is the system, you ain't changing it, ever. Not so long as time and space exist to contain you.
Throw your TV out, turn of the puter, and try sitting under your own damn tree a while, never mind what the guy under the next tree is doing. That would drive the controlling powers absolutely nuts, they don't like being ignored, otherwise it wouldn't be a chronic shitshow.
There must be the reason Cato the Younger is still remembered: the one williing to open his guts with his own hands rather than to submit the Republican ideals to the whim of Cesar. The problem was/is that both his generation and ours have dismally few Catos.