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Peak Obedience
Submitted by Paul Rosenberg via FreeMansPerspective.com,
Warnings about Peak Oil have circulated widely in recent years, and if accurate, they are important. Peak oil, however, pales in comparison to something that’s happening right in front of us… and something that is a good deal more dangerous: Peak Obedience.
If that concept strikes you as odd, I can understand why: We’ve all been living inside of an obedience cult. (And I choose these words carefully.)
In our typical “scary cult” stories, we find people who have given up their own functions of choice and who then do crazy things because they are told to by some authority. While inside their cult, however, it all makes sense; it’s all self-reinforcing.
So, inside a cult of obedience, obedience would seem proper; it would seem righteous; and more than anything else, it would seem normal. And I think that very well describes the Western status quo.
Obedience, however, should not seem normal to us. Obedience holds our minds in a “child” state, and that is not fitting for any healthy person past their first few years of life. It also presupposes that the people we obey have complete and final knowledge; and in fact, they do not: politicians, central bankers, and the other lords of the age have been wrong – obviously and publicly wrong – over and over.
So, obedience is not a logical position to take. But we all know why we take it; and that reason is fear. The mass of humanity obeys because they are afraid to do otherwise. All the “philosophy of governance” explanations are merely attempts to distract us from the truth: people believe they’ll be hurt if they don’t obey.
We are taught not to think in such stark terms, of course. Those “philosophy of governance” explanations give us reasons to believe that obedience is the good and heroic thing to do. Still, we know the truth.
But that truth about fear, even though important, is not the point I’d like you to take away from this article. My primary point is this:
When we obey, we make ourselves less conscious; we make ourselves less alive.
Why Obedience Is Peaking
I covered this in far more depth in issue #40 of my subscription letter, but I would like to provide a brief explanation here.
Over the past two centuries, authority has benefitted from a perfect storm of influences. There was never such a time previously, and there probably will never be another. Briefly, here’s what happened:
Morality was broken
For better or worse, Western civilization had a consistent set of moral standards from about the 10th century through the 17th or 18th century. Then, through the 20th century, those standards were broken.
Note that I did not say morality was changed. The cultural morality of the West was not replaced, but broken. The West has endured a moral void ever since.
Previously, people routinely compared authority’s decrees to a separate standard (most often the Bible), to see if they held up. But with Western morals broken, authority was freed from restraint.
Economies of scale
Factories made it much cheaper to produce large numbers of goods than the old way, in individual workshops. Economists call this an economy of scale. Thus a cult of size began, making “obedience to the large” seem normal.
Fiat currency
Fiat currency has allowed governments to spend money without consequences. It allowed politicians to wage war and to provide free food, free education, and free medicine… all without overtly raising taxes. Fiat currency made it seem that politics was magical.
Mass conditioning
Built on the factory model, massive government institutions undertook the education of the populace. And more important than their overt curriculum (math, reading, etc.) was their invisible curriculum: obedience to authority. Here, to illustrate, is a quote from the esteemed Bertrand Russell, who is himself quoting Johann Gottlieb Fichte, the founding father of public schooling:
Education should aim at destroying free will so that after pupils are thus schooled they will be incapable throughout the rest of their lives of thinking or acting otherwise than as their school masters would have wished.
Mass media
Mass media turbocharged authority and obedience in the 20th century. It was authority’s dream technology.
All of these things, and others, created an unnatural peak for authority. But now, this perfect storm is receding.
Peak Obedience Is Brittle
Through the 20th century, the people of the West built up a very high compliance inertia. They complied with the demands of authority and taught their children to do the same, until it became automatic. People obeyed simply because they had obeyed in the past.
Authority quickly became addicted to this situation, basing their plans on receiving every benefit of the doubt.
Automatic obedience, however, is a brittle thing. Economies of scale are failing, the money cartel has been exposed, government schools have lost respect, mass media is fading away, and the game continues because the populace is distracted and afraid. And that will not last forever.
The ‘walls’ of reflexive compliance are growing thinner. Any serious break may ruin the structure.
And Then?
It has long been understood that complex systems breed more complexity, and eventually break themselves. As central authorities try to solve each problem they face, they inevitably create others. Eventually the system becomes so complex, and its costs so much, that new challenges cannot be solved. Then the system and its authority fail, as they did recently in the Soviet Union.
Sooner or later, this is going to happen here. (If that seems impossible to you, please reflect on the current state of the mighty Roman Empire.) But again, that’s not my primary point. Obedience matters to you right now: today and every other day.
Obedience turns the best parts of you off. It degrades and kills your creativity; it undercuts your effectiveness and especially your sense of satisfaction.
Don’t sign away your life, no matter how many others do. Live consciously.
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Don't be afraid of your free doom, remember, it's free.
We now consecrate the bond of obedience.
Assume the position.
Thank you, sir. May I have another?
Thank you, sir. May I have another?
Thank you, sir. May I have another?
Is Paul Rosenberg going to be flying anytime soon? Let me check my computer.
Oh, looks like I have to make a call to the Des Moines checkpoint.
Face eat carpet. Peak nothing. Rosenberg a real fershtinker.
The populace is distracted & afraid. However, they're also apathetic & ignorant of the following:
The Bankruptcy of The United States
United States Congressional Record, March 17, 1993 Vol. 33, page H-1303
Speaker-Rep. James Traficant, Jr. (Ohio) addressing the House:
"Mr. Speaker, we are here now in chapter 11.. Members of Congress are official trustees presiding over the greatest reorganization of any Bankrupt entity in world history, the U.S. Government. We are setting forth hopefully, a blueprint for our future. There are some who say it is a coroner’s report that will lead to our demise.
It is an established fact that the United States Federal Government has been dissolved by the Emergency Banking Act, March 9, 1933, 48 Stat. 1, Public Law 89-719; declared by President Roosevelt, being bankrupt and insolvent. H.J.R. 192, 73rd Congress m session June 5, 1933 - Joint Resolution To Suspend The Gold Standard and Abrogate The Gold Clause dissolved the Sovereign Authority of the United States and the official capacities of all United States Governmental Offices, Officers, and Departments and is further evidence that the United States Federal Government exists today in name only.
The receivers of the United States Bankruptcy are the International Bankers, via the United Nations, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. All United States Offices, Officials, and Departments are now operating within a de facto status in name only under Emergency War Powers. With the Constitutional Republican form of Government now dissolved, the receivers of the Bankruptcy have adopted a new form of government for the United States. This new form of government is known as a Democracy, being an established Socialist/Communist order under a new governor for America. This act was instituted and established by transferring and/or placing the Office of the Secretary of Treasury to that of the Governor of the International Monetary Fund. Public Law 94-564, page 8, Section H.R. 13955 reads in part: "The U.S. Secretary of Treasury receives no compensation for representing the United States?’
Gold and silver were such a powerful money during the founding of the united states of America, that the founding fathers declared that only gold or silver coins can be "money" in America. Since gold and silver coinage were heavy and inconvenient for a lot of transactions, they were stored in banks and a claim check was issued as a money substitute. People traded their coupons as money, or "currency." Currency is not money, but a money substitute. Redeemable currency must promise to pay a dollar equivalent in gold or silver money. Federal Reserve Notes (FRNs) make no such promises, and are not "money." A Federal Reserve Note is a debt obligation of the federal United States government, not "money?’ The federal United States government and the U.S. Congress were not and have never been authorized by the Constitution for the united states of America to issue currency of any kind, but only lawful money, -gold and silver coin.
It is essential that we comprehend the distinction between real money and paper money substitute. One cannot get rich by accumulating money substitutes, one can only get deeper into debt. We the People no longer have any "money." Most Americans have not been paid any "money" for a very long time, perhaps not in their entire life. Now do you comprehend why you feel broke? Now, do you understand why you are "bankrupt," along with the rest of the country?
Federal Reserve Notes (FRNs) are unsigned checks written on a closed account. FRNs are an inflatable paper system designed to create debt through inflation (devaluation of currency). when ever there is an increase of the supply of a money substitute in the economy without a corresponding increase in the gold and silver backing, inflation occurs.
Inflation is an invisible form of taxation that irresponsible governments inflict on their citizens. The Federal Reserve Bank who controls the supply and movement of FRNs has everybody fooled. They have access to an unlimited supply of FRNs, paying only for the printing costs of what they need. FRNs are nothing more than promissory notes for U.S. Treasury securities (T-Bills) - a promise to pay the debt to the Federal Reserve Bank.
There is a fundamental difference between "paying" and "discharging" a debt. To pay a debt, you must pay with value or substance (i.e. gold, silver, barter or a commodity). With FRNs, you can only discharge a debt. You cannot pay a debt with a debt currency system. You cannot service a debt with a currency that has no backing in value or substance. No contract in Common law is valid unless it involves an exchange of "good & valuable consideration." Unpayable debt transfers power and control to the sovereign power structure that has no interest in money, law, equity or justice because they have so much wealth already.
Their lust is for power and control. Since the inception of central banking, they have controlled the fates of nations.
The Federal Reserve System is based on the Canon law and the principles of sovereignty protected in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. In fact, the international bankers used a "Canon Law Trust" as their model, adding stock and naming it a "Joint Stock Trust." The U.S. Congress had passed a law making it illegal for any legal "person" to duplicate a "Joint Stock Trust" in 1873. The Federal Reserve Act was legislated post-facto (to 1870), although post-facto laws are strictly forbidden by the Constitution. [1:9:3]
The Federal Reserve System is a sovereign power structure separate and distinct from the federal United States government. The Federal Reserve is a maritime lender, and/or maritime insurance underwriter to the federal United States operating exclusively under Admiralty/Maritime law. The lender or underwriter bears the risks, and the Maritime law compelling specific performance in paying the interest, or premiums are the same.
Assets of the debtor can also be hypothecated (to pledge something as a security without taking possession of it.) as security by the lender or underwriter. The Federal Reserve Act stipulated that the interest on the debt was to be paid in gold. There was no stipulation in the Federal Reserve Act for ever paying the principle.
Prior to 1913, most Americans owned clear, allodial title to property, free and clear of any liens or mortgages until the Federal Reserve Act (1913)
"Hypothecated" all property within the federal United States to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, -in which the Trustees (stockholders) held legal title. The U.S. citizen (tenant, franchisee) was registered as a "beneficiary" of the trust via his/her birth certificate. In 1933, the federal United States hypothecated all of the present and future properties, assets and labor of their "subjects," the 14th Amendment U.S. citizen, to the Federal Reserve System.
In return, the Federal Reserve System agreed to extend the federal United States corporation all the credit "money substitute" it needed. Like any other debtor, the federal United States government had to assign collateral and security to their creditors as a condition of the loan. Since the federal United States didn’t have any assets, they assigned the private property of their "economic slaves", the U.S. citizens as collateral against the unpayable federal debt. They also pledged the unincorporated federal territories, national parks forests, birth certificates, and nonprofit organizations, as collateral against the federal debt. All has already been transferred as payment to the international bankers.
Unwittingly, America has returned to its pre-American Revolution, feudal roots whereby all land is held by a sovereign and the common people had no rights to hold allodial title to property. Once again, We the People are the tenants and sharecroppers renting our own property from a Sovereign in the guise of the Federal Reserve Bank. We the people have exchanged one master for another.
This has been going on for over eighty years without the "informed knowledge" of the American people, without a voice protesting loud enough. Now it’s easy to grasp why America is fundamentally bankrupt.
Why don’t more people own their properties outright?
Why are 90% of Americans mortgaged to the hilt and have little or no assets after all debts and liabilities have been paid? Why does it feel like you are working harder and harder and getting less and less?
We are reaping what has been sown, and the results of our harvest is a painful bankruptcy, and a foreclosure on American property, precious liberties, and a way of life. Few of our elected representatives in Washington, D.C. have dared to tell the truth. The federal United States is bankrupt. Our children will inherit this unpayable debt, and the tyranny to enforce paying it.
America has become completely bankrupt in world leadership, financial credit and its reputation for courage, vision and human rights. This is an undeclared economic war, bankruptcy, and economic slavery of the most corrupt order! Wake up America! Take back your Country."
http://www.afn.org/~govern/bankruptcy.html
I find it very hard to comprehend the statement "It is essential that we comprehend the distinction between real money and paper money substitute" when real money (PM) is priced in Fiat and bought and sold via Fiat.
As long as "real" money is priced in Fiat the Fiat price is the bencmark for its value in the market.
Some people believe PMs have an "intrinsic" value, if such people are true to this belief then they would not trade Fiat for PMs.
Tell that to PM owners In Venezuela.
The EVIL Zionists are losing because they worship the devil. They are deranged in their quest for money. When you have a billion dollars, what can you spend it on? Buy Mars? Pigs beyond compare
You are clouded by your hate. A common affliction around here.
Dear Paul Rosenstein. I don't think you have ever met me. I enjoy being underestimated. Laid my cell phone # and 1K the other night on a very dangerous bet and no calls. That is what I thought. Your point is well taken here.
If things didn't collapse the most of you would be speaking Mandarin after Gengis Khan kicked the shit out of every one from China to France to Egypt. The fact is things fall apart eventually, leaders step down, die or are violently overthrown. It's just the way things operate. Collapse and failure is the status quo on the top end of things usually because of the demented need to move mountains and make history at the expense of everyone else. When it gets carried away by the same people trying to maintain the illusion of the status quo...they usually lose their heads to the gallows right after the price of bread goes up.
It's a slow grind and in very absolute sense, nothing ever changes.
Recall Jews were once slaves.
Recall Africans were once slaves.
Not one fuck is given by either group when it comes to the suicide nets surrounding the Chinese ‘labor’ buildings where I-Products are built. Why aren’t the workers allowed to commit suicide? Technically, slaves aren’t allowed out of the camp.
for better or worse: we have moral relativism
and: might is right is returning
Indeed, and this necessarily *must* be the outcome when we have relativism. Back in the 90s I remember the phrase "What's true for you is not true for me," but what if I decide that "what's true for me" is that I have a right to say things all the time that offend others, but no one has the right to offend me?
Obviously it's not possible for everyone to think that at the same time, and have it be so. Ultimately someone will have to accept that they get offended some of the time, and only a few can really be in the "I can do what I want and you can't stop me!" Who gets that role? The one that can force people to accept it, one way or the other.
Americans are nowhere near peak obedience. As long as The Troops or The Police tell 99% of Americans what to do, they will comply happily. Look at the hate on ZH for Black Lives Matter - the cop fellation means even supposed indepedent thinkers can't wait to get on their knees before authority.
Once people are wearing Trump's brown shirts, and the Second Mexican War is on, and the concentration camps are filling, and the bodies start coming back home, we'll reach peak obedience. But there is a lot of sheep left even in people who denigrate others as "sheeple."
I agree.
Judaism states the X-ians must face the guillotine. That’ll be a group effort.
"the cop fellation means even supposed indepedent thinkers can't wait to get on their knees before authority".
No genius.
It doesn't mean that.
What you label "hate" on ZH...IS independent thinking.
You seem to struggle with accurately identifying 'independent thinking'?
I'll give you a clue....It doesn't always agree with YOU.
K?
Yeah, you got me. People who uncritically accept everything that the police do to people, defend them at every turn, and make an excuse for every unjustified shooting of a black man are fully indepedent thinkers who will maybe someday possibly disobey a cop. They would never simply obey uncritically.
Disobey every day.
Question Authority. Preferably to its face in public, but if you can't get away with that, under your breath.
Wear brightly striped socks underneath your dowdy, officially-prescribed business suit. Put an impudent remark in Latin on the otherwise-perfectly-tasteful silver bracelet you wear every day. Use these signs to remember -- your conformity is a costume. It's a mask demanded by your rulers. It is not YOU, and YOU don't have to believe a word of it.
Make up a naughty song, and hum the tune when you can't say the words. Or you can just hum "Alice's Restaurant". Nobody remembers it anymore. And anybody who does, will doubt that you have any idea what you're singing.
And turn off the bleeding TV. That stuff is INTENDED to rot your brain. If you don't even know what you're "supposed" to believe as instructed by the Great Tube, you really will be free to think for yourself.
sounds to me like waht I have been saying all along to you monkeys who support a presidentail candidate....Trump is meeting with the canadain presidential whatever, cant even remomber his name, to support israel and defy Iran, just like all the others...And deport illegal aliens? And you fell for that?...and wall street? wall street is already on its way out....trump is a rothchild zionist, banker supporter just like all the rest....but most of you are such sheeple, you cant even see it when it slaps you in the face...he tells you what you want to hear, just as obama did, because they both have the same handlers...
OK, Coast, which candidate is independent and will go against the oligarchy?
you and me.
Daniel's 70 Weeks Prophecy and the Jesuit Lie of Futurism (Full)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwAhQ-xY-rA (1:53:18)
The gist...
Roman Catholicism = Antichrist
Then that antichrist has been around for 2000 years. Isn't it a thing that after the A.C. shows up that Jesus beams down from heaven like 7 years later? Looks to me like the timing is a little off there, chief.
What's this world comeing to. Obama's Yellen and shaken his Bernanke and even my Lloy Blankfein up and went obedence.
I think I will take this spread for MN to cover. I won on Wisconsin over Kentucky straight up last spring so it is no cash out of pocket.
http://www.oddsshark.com/ncaaf/tcu-minnesota-odds-september-3-2015
I am not the first, and I sure hope that I am not the last to realize this, but OBEDIENCE is mankind's biggest problem, not aggression.
If you obey tyranny, you serve as tyranny's slave master against yourself.
Boettie wrote of this fact in The Politics of Obedience: The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude, and more recently, Larken Rose wrote of it in The Most Dangerous Superstition.
Liberty can only be defended by demanding and asserting your Liberty, and tyranny is not aggression against you, but submission to aggression against you.
As for "demanding and asserting Liberty," this can be best visualized by thinking of the difference between concealed-carry and open-carry. Concealed-carry is the ability to demand to be left alone AFTER being aggressed against. Open-carry is an open demand to be left unmolested BEFORE any act of aggression against oneself.
Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission.
Zion is a scheme, not an ethnicity..
]“No need to question authority. Question obedience.”
Jim Klein
Funny thing is that the Zionists in Israel demand that the Arabs leave them alone. And they kill those that won't. Armed Israeli girls are really cute.
NSFW:
http://izismile.com/2013/06/04/israeli_defense_force_girls_gone_wild_72_...
It sure beats Arab women in sacks. And why are the Arab women in sacks? Because it has been decreeed that Arab men can't withstand the sight of too much female flesh and it is OK to rape women showing too much. And of couse non-Islamic women are beyond any protection. Covered or not.
i'm practicing my goose stepping...they might even conscript an old fart like me....still need to locate some of those cool black boots
Peak Obedience is receding because of the internet more than anything. Did you know that in 1880 the Jesuits were able to buy up publishers and squash
nearly 6000 books warning the world of the Jesuit Conspiracy representing Rome to take over governments.
In fact the pope was regarded as the anti-christ by protestant ministers. Up until the internet, truth could be easily defeated with secrecy, suppression and censorship.
I should add that the globalists, controlling America behind the scenes, turned off much of the public with their campaign to make trans-gender people normal.
This ill-conceived politically correct over-reach campaign caused many to re-examine and renounce their blind obedience to the establishment.
There’s still plenty of sheeple too scared to come out of their comatose state of fear. I believe this reluctance is caused by internal fear from a lifetime
of toxic injury caused by GMOs, vaccines and fluoridated water. The survivors, after this next
financial crisis, aren’t ever going to allow any government to poison their food, water, air and medicine.
This poisoning campaign has caused us to become captured through toxic injury and emotionally handicapped through fear, anxiety and depression.
Remember, healthy people have a natural defiance and even contempt for any coercive force over them. Americans have forgotten what it means to be naturally healthy, rebellious and defiant – not that they ever were.
The American lifestyle has no room for self-reliance. From publicly-funded education, to publicly-funded health care, to publicly-funded safety-nets, to publicly-funded retirement. The sheeple have no other choice, in their own minds, and they will seek none. Add to this, in the US, a worship of violence, of which the modern state is the superhero, and the adoration of "democracy", which is in this country merely the illusion of choice. America is a dying culture and nation because Americans are dead.
I have been hearing that for 55 years (since I was 15). And I'm sure it is a much older meme than that. I think Marcus Aurelius documented it.
It starts out "Kids these days...."
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GMOs have been in the US food supply in mass quantities for 20 years. How can you tell? Just look at the decline in life expectancies over that time. People are dropping like flies from this eperiment on the US population.
/sarc
If GMOs are so dangerous where are the mass graves?
Obey, why? What god sanctifies their commands? What dogma empowers them. Who or what declared them our uebermenschen?
NO is the word of freedom, first expressed by two year olds. I rejected all my teachers, since the fourth grade. There may be an uebermensch, but it is not defined by our media or our educators' choices.
I am my master. I owe them nothing. Not my service, nor my obedience, nor the truth from my lips. Humanity is a jungle, where the clever survive. I live to be free, not to be controlled.
Amusingly, the newest attack on freedom is that it's childish; as you say, expressed by two year olds.
Please reflect on the difference between "cleverness" and "intelligence". Probably the most cogent difference could be explained by "time preference", making plans which are likely to succeed in shorter or longer periods of the future. Our culture is dying of cleverness. Once a person is mortified and stripped of morality, it hardly matters where you get your money as long as you get it, or who gives you a blowjob as long as you get a nut. C'est la vie.
The violent state will not go away quietly. We can expect increasing tryanny and authoritarianism, supported by the average American, who will be shaking in their boots. The same people who worship at the voting booth will be the first to don the black shirt or the black armband. Anything but the fear of having to be responsible for themselves.
No, it won't. Why do you think Uncle Sugar still has enough nukes to wipe out all life on earth several times over? The targets of those nukes aren't Russia or China (if they ever were). They're us. Any US state daring to secede from the Union now could be rendered unfit for human habitation for centuries to come in a matter of hours. Don't think for a minute President Hillary and her "daughter" Huma wouldn't H-bomb Little Rock just to teach working-class white American Christians some manners.
Russia managed to outlive the social engineering experiment of the western elites in which she was the guinea pig for seventy years. This time, when our masters go down, they've seen to it we'll go with them.
Any US state daring to secede from the Union now could be rendered unfit for human habitation for centuries to come in a matter of hours.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki say you are wrong about centuries. The likely time frame is a few weeks at points closest to the ground zeros.
Let us say, to give some idea of magnitudes, that Hiroshima took out 1 sq mile. How big does a bomb have to be to take out 10 sq.mi.? 1,000 times as much energy. No one goes in for those size nukes these days.
Fear will not keep the star systems in line. People will disperse as best as they can.
What propaganda this is.
There is nothing but propaganda. Yellow journalism is now just journalism. A dead child on a beach is a powerful motivator because it stirs up an emotional response. It cannot be viewed rationaly. There are those who care not for the child but use the image to further their agenda. You as a warrior must know this and who is responsible.
Miffed
Have you ever seen a dead body? That kid was alive. They are trying to provoke a new enemy: anybody smarter than a retard.
All ur base r belong 2 us.
Hey kids: learn how to forge steel from derelict 1st world junk.
Yes, I have seen many dead people in various states of trauma and drowning. This looks strange to me but I am not forensically trained. What is being done is chilling. This could lead to war.
I was guilty myself with the Saigon Execution. My mother, a journalist, told me I had fallen for propaganda. I was incredulous and stuck my ground. Now, I am ashamed.
http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2013/03/the-story-behind-the-man...
I will never be blindly lead down a path of another choosing.
Miffed
I would love to sit with you and discuss this, or walk my beach, together. I cast words well, but you don't know if you weren't there.
The foools must go their own way.
I am a a fool. And I make money. Happy fool. And single, because I hate litigation.
I mean it. If you want to come to my beach, bring Mr. Miffed Microbiologist, and everybody you know. I will bring my vets. The only surviving ones not in the VA are red cross. Oh well.
I would be more than honored to meet you and the other vets. They are my friends and I have walked with them and heard their stories for many years. Strangely, though not a vet myself, they find kinship with me. Perhaps I just listen well and consider without judgement. Perhaps it is my innocence and empathy. Perhaps it's my sad past hasn't fully tarnished my soul. I don't know.
I have walked days alone on the beach. It helped to heal me. I return often to remember and refresh.
Let me know.
Miffed
My story, their story is being rewritten by the liars, pimps and profiteers we defied.
Madams are the most disgusting rats.
You have to fight.
I wish to hear truth but I don't know where to find it. It is hard to trust when one has been deceived before. Many who are still in hold back and won't say much. When I look in their eyes and ask questions they gaze elsewhere. This is their training. I know I am close. I'm afraid they will be killed before they can tell me. I am an ollas buried in the desert that never tastes water.
Zhmiffed at gmail dot com.
Miffed
brb
http://nationalheritagemuseum.typepad.com/library_and_archives/order_of_...
" it stirs up an emotional response"
That it does, yet in this case is the assumption of yellow journalism appropriate? Seen any Palestinian babies blown to smithereens & because those pics made it to the web, would that be yellow? All I saw was guts, missing parts and red.
Blood.
The condition of the body, as some here have argued, I'm assuming has everything to do with the length of time in the water. Who is to say when that child drowned? Other than the parent that was holding him if they are still alive.
I do not know for sure but if an image is used to manipulate than there are yellow underpinnings. I have made wrong decisions myself based on this so I am wary now.
I do not wish to seem insensitive to the fate of that young child. If he were mine I'd be beyond devastated. I could not think rationally. He was innocent and had to do what his parents commanded. Children, the elderly and animals always suffer the most when adults make poor choices. I hope I wouldn't have done what they did but in reality we are all armchair critics in this. I, myself, will never claim otherwise.
Miffed
There's no doubt we are all being manipulated. IMO there's an agenda with that pic. Multiculteralism, which is destroying that very thing. Secondary being division/diversion.
God forbid it happen to anyone, but when you've had that experience your perspective views every child lost at the hands of these monsters is yours. You feel it, in both your heart and the gut because you know the personal agony and what is happening is wrong. The luxury of insulated detachment cannot exist. We are all connected and it's very clear, at least here, that simple concept is lost on many.
Look no further than those here that blatently don't care and attack muzzies, jews, pick your flavor. That in itself is the greater agenda superceding the two above. Normalization of the perverse. Division. How can folks find abortion so repugnant & view a dead kid any differently due to the circumstances of their birth.
Here's another very good example from John B. Wells. After that photo ran, here's his take in a broadcast.
"Irresponsible parents.
Why are they having kids.
The majority name them Mohammed.
Potential Jihadi's.
Wait till the Mexicans catch on."
Anyone that finds that rational is as fucked up as the statements.
In the words of Madeline AllDIM...500K is worth it.
As long as it's not hers.
The morality has changed from time to time.
One only need look at Prohibition I. In effect from 1920 to 1933. Or Prohibition II from 1937 to present (on the way out thogh).
What was once moral (drinking alcohol) was made immoral by law, and then by law was mde moral again.
And you know what I like about America? People only pretend to obey. The rule is - don't get caught. And funny enough who are the most disobedient when it comes to these Prohibitions? The Left. Too funny.
"All the “philosophy of governance” explanations are merely attempts to distract us from the truth: people believe they’ll be hurt if they don’t obey."
No. While that's true in the cases of fascism or totalitarianism, it's not as far as the West is concerned. Here, people obey because it's comfortable, because it spares them having to think for themselves, because they don't know any better or because they are too ignorant to question so-called "experts".
"When we obey, we make ourselves less conscious; we make ourselves less alive."
No. Sweeping generalizations never work. Obeying is not always negative. Depends on who or what one is obeying.
"Obedience turns the best parts of you off. It degrades and kills your creativity; it undercuts your effectiveness and especially your sense of satisfaction."
Again, depends on what you're obeying. Just anyone tries to learn a musical instrument, drawing, a foreign language (or one's own), hunting techniques, repairing a car engine, driving or any craft at all without obeying any rules.
Total liberty and obeying only one's own instincts would rapidly turn anyone into a total ignoramus, a starving monkey and a danger to others, certainly nothing "creative".
Like I said, sweeping generalizations never work.
All in all, this piece is "philosophy" for sixth-graders.
The article's premise is false; auto-obedience is not a "brittle thing". Wishing it were, doesn't make it so. Throughout history, people (the 99%) have always followed the path of least resistance; it is called expedience. Obedience to the rule of law is the easiest way to go from point A to point B. That fact will not change.
"Economies of scale are failing"
FINALLY! Someone says/gets it!
FOR YEARS I've been warning about: "economies of scale in reverse."
Too bad that this point was embedded in such a highly questionable article that really didn't focus on this point...