The State vs. Abundance

I'm sure you're probably aware of the currently established recording and movie industries attempts to snuff out pirating. They've used every tactic from fear mongering to guilt trips to protect their profits, which is entierly within their rights under Federal Copyright Law. It's understandable, within a profit-based system, that if your average person can effortlessly duplicate a product that the producers of said product would want to thwart this behavior.

Why get the Federal Government involved at all?

Well, I am just thrilled that you thought to ask that! The Government has a vested interest in protecting the economy. As side effect of this, if infinite abundance of a product is capable of being produced there is no need to purchase it any longer and the economy suffers. While this all seems right and good on the surface the result is the holding back of technology. Did you know that the Recording Industry Association of America fought to make the cassettes-recorder illegal? They feared if the customer had the ability to record their own music that it would kill radio. In the same way when the VCR came along the Motion Picture Association of America fought it for fear that it would kill television, and the cinema. Both of these companies felt they had legitimate reasons to fight the technology because their business model was threatened by it. Today the internet is the new technology on the chopping block. The internet has amazing potential to create an abundance of information, entertainment, and education... and because of this there are several economic-entities that are trying to impose controls on it.

Abundance, efficency, and sustainability are the enemies of the economy.

Is there anyway to allow for abundance?

No, not within a social-economic system that is driven by money. Abundance is a great thing for people, but is a negative thing for profits - or "the economy." Imagine if we had the capacity to download and print objects. As the recording industry has so artfully put it "You wouldn't download a car would you?!" This seems like an unresolvable issue upon first glance, but I assure you it's not. In order to solve this problem we need to find the root cause of the problem. Which, if you haven't figured it out yet is money.

Within a monetary system scarcity is encouraged because it drives prices up. If abundance were to be achieved in anything (food, water, energy, anything!) the business or businesses that sold said things would collapse - and if abundance were achieved in everything the entire system of money would come crashing down to the ground.

The crossroads...

Humanity stands at a cross-roads at this time in history. One road is the continuation of the monetary-system and the allowing for the violent intervention of the state to protect the economy holding technological advances back - and thus maintain the artificial scarcity of goods and services. The other road is one that has never before been traveled in all of recorded history; that is to abolish the monetary-system allowing for technology to advance at an ever-increasing rate, permitting abundance in every aspect of our lives. If this path were to be pursued the violence of the state, and the scarcity it maintains would be obsolete. In this scenario, which seems too fantastic to be possible, everyone will have food, shelter, clean energy, transportation and the ability to realize their full potential.

Earlier I mentioned the theoretical capacity to download and print objects. I've also mentioned how scarcity within the money supply holds back technology. Brace yourself for this one: we can print objects. The video shared under this paragraph is but a tiny example of the capacity of our current technology. If money were obsoleted and no longer allowed to control our lives via artificial scarcity 3D printers could be an every-day reality. We could use this technology to produce an abundance of metal and plastic goods. Another thing, the objects that 3D printers create can be broken back down into powder-form and 100% recycled.

Our potential future...

The New World Order

The truth of the matter is that the fascist new world order is not nearly as complicated as the disinformation can lead one to believe. All of the disinformation is designed to keep people seperated. When in fact, the whole "conspiracy" is painfully simple, and has been in plain sight the whole time. The elite in reality do not care if a nation is Socialist, Communistic, or Capitalistic and they don't care if you vote Democrat or Republican. In every single scenario be it a Democratic Capitalist nation, or a Communistic Dictatorship the elitist win. How is it that a handful of people can maintain such an upper-hand? What is it that every single form of government has in common? Well, it can't be in the political policies either domestic or foreign as the elite have always maintained control before, during, and after every single revolution. How can this happen? I know I've asked several times, but I really want you to stop and think. Every single option we are given for society - they win. How? Do you really want the answer? You probably won't like it.

The means by which the elitist have maintained an upper-hand over the population is by the use of a single tool; that tool, is money. Every single option we have been given for government has built within it Monetary-ism, which acts as a hidden form of government. If you manage the currency you manage politics - from behind a curtain. That's it! The "complicated" Fascist New World Order "conspiracy" explained. Through the management of money the hidden hand of the elite dictate to us and our governments throughout our lives and throughout history. How though? Do you know what it is about Monetary-ism that leads every form of government in the direction of dictatorship? It's the fact that within the very idea of money is the profit motive. Why doesn't the homeless person have food? He can't afford it. Why don't farmers just give food away to feed the hungry? They can't afford it. Within a profit motive it makes more sense to just let the food rot and be thrown out than it does to give it to someone who is starving.

This creates another illusion: the illusion of scarcity. There is no scarcity! Scarcity is an outright bold-faced lie. There are more than enough resources on this planet to sustain us all. We could feed, clothe, educate, shelter, air condition, and provide transport to every single human being with no one left behind - for free. That is, without the profit motive. But who would make the stuff we enjoy so much if things were free?

Technology is far, far more advanced than most people realize. Human technicians can develop automated machines to do ninety percent of tasks performed by humans. From sweeping and mopping, to making clothes and seeding/tending to crops. The jobs that at present are not able to be done by machines are unnecessary in the first place. For example, we aren't going to have a machine releasing a hit new movie starring only machines any time soon. However, in a world without the profit motive activities such as singing, acting, and making other forms of art are not jobs that require compensation, but instead simply things people do because they're fun. This is achievable right now with the resources that already exist.

Survival of the fittest has done an amazing job getting reality to the point where the emergence of a conscious species on our tiny little planet has taken place. That's the kicker though: we are conscious. We are the only species on our planet that takes more than it needs for survival and we do so with complete disregard to the environmental consequences. It is time we stop giving in to the reptilian hindbrain, the serpent of old, which says there isn't enough to go around, and instead turn our attention to listen to our mammalian instincts of compassion and love. Love, not fear or greed. Sharing instead of hoarding. Brotherhood, no longer divided. We can achieve this! The result would not be a utopia; as the only constant in the universe is change and the very idea of a Utopia implies finality. Therefore perfection within a societal structure does not exist. We can, however, make things a lot better than what they are now - for everyone.

I write this asking that you join me - us - as, we are many. There is a movement already that has the potential to lead us to this future where starvation, and homelessness are abolished. If we are to succeed though, we must reach as many people as possible. Once a critical mass is reached the action of walking away from the monetary system and reclaiming earth's resources for all of humanity will take place. We will care for crops, produce goods, and intelligently and sustainably manage the resources of the planet so that every living person has more than they need. We will do this as a people united, without government help or permission. The drive to better humanity will trump the profit motive. Technology will experience an apparent leap and the tedious jobs of every day life will be replaced by machines and no one will lose their livelihood - as money, the hidden government, the elite - will be a thing of the past. We the dreamers have slept long and hard and have dreamed up a wonderful future, but now the alarm clock is going off and it's time we wake up. The hour is upon us, it's time we create our dream. A new world order is coming, but it is we who get to decide if it is a fascist order, or a peaceful and prosperous order. I believe in peace, love, and unity above all else - what do you believe?

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Educate yourself. Educate others. Unite.


Let's choose love.

Letter sent from Chief Seattle to President Pierce in 1855

THE GREAT CHIEF in Washington sends word that he wishes to buy our land. The Great Chief also sends us words of friendship and good will. This is kind of him, since we know he has little need of our friendship in return. But we will consider your offer, for we know if we do not so the white man may come with guns and take our land. What Chief Seattle says you can count on as truly as our white brothers can count on the return of the seasons. My words are like the stars - they do not set.

How can you buy or sell the sky - the warmth of the land? The idea is strange to us. Yet we do not own the freshness of the air or the sparkle of the water. How can you buy them from us? We will decide in our time. Every part of this earth is sacred to my people. Every shining pine needle, every sandy shore, every mist in the dark woods, every clearing, and every humming insect is holy in the memory and experience of my people.

We know that the white man does not understand our ways. One portion of land is the same to him as the next, for he is a stranger who comes in the night and takes from the land whatever he needs. The earth is not his brother, but his enemy, and when he has conquered it, he moves on. He leaves his father's graves and his children's birthright is forgotten. The sight of your cities pains the eyes of the redman. But perhaps it is because the redman is a savage and does not understand.

There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to listen to the leaves of spring or the rustle of insect wings. But perhaps because I am a savage and do not understand - the clatter only seems to insult the ears. And what is there to life if a man cannot hear the lovely cry of the whippoorwill or the arguments of the frogs around a pond at night? The Indian prefers the soft sound of the wind itself cleansed by a mid-day rain, or scented by a pinõn pine: The air is precious to the redman. For all things share the same breath - the beasts, the trees, and the man. The white man does not seem to notice the air he breathes. Like a man dying for many days, he is numb to the stench.

If I decide to accept, I will make one condition. The white man must treat the beasts of this land as his brothers. I am a savage and I do not understand any other way. I have seen thousands of rotting buffaloes on the prairie left by the white man who shot them from a passing train. I am a savage and do not understand how the smoking iron horse can be more important than the buffalo that we kill only to stay alive. What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, men would die from great loneliness of spirit, for whatever happens to the beast also happens to the man.

All things are connected. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth.

Our children have seen their fathers humbled in defeat. Our warriors have felt shame. And after defeat they turn their days in idleness and contaminate their bodies with sweet food and strong drink. It matters little where we pass the rest of our days - they are not many. A few more hours, a few more winters, and none of the children of the great tribes that once lived on this earth, or that roamed in small bands in the woods will remain to mourn the graves of the people once as powerful and hopeful as yours.

One thing we know that the white man may one day discover. Our God is the same God. You may think that you own him as you wish to own our land, but you cannot. He is the Body of man, and his compassion is equal for the redman and the white. This earth is precious to him, and to harm the earth is to heap contempt on its Creator. The whites, too, shall pass - perhaps sooner than other tribes. Continue to contaminate your bed, and you will one night suffocate in your own waste. When the buffalo are all slaughtered, the wild horses all tamed, the secret corners of the forest heavy with the scent of many men, and the view of the ripe hills blotted by the talking wires, where is the thicket? Gone. Where is the eagle? Gone. And what is it to say goodbye to the swift and the hunt? The end of living and the beginning of survival.

We might understand if we knew what it was the white man dreams, what hopes he describes to his children on long winter nights, what visions he burns into their minds, so they will wish for tomorrow. But we are savages. The white man's dreams are hidden from us. And because they are hidden, we will go our own way. If we agree, it will be to secure your reservation you have promised.

There perhaps we may live out our brief days as we wish. When the last redman has vanished from the earth, and the memory is only the shadow of a cloud passing over the prairie, these shores and forests will still hold the spirits of my people, for they love this earth as the newborn loves its mother's heartbeat. If we sell you our land, love it as we have loved it. Care for it as we have cared for it. Hold in your memory the way the land is as you take it. And with all your strength, with all your might, and with all your heart - preserve it for your children, and love it as God loves us all. One thing we know - our God is the same. This earth is precious to him. Even the white man cannot escape the common destiny.

Shed Your Self-Importance

This understanding, when fully realized, has the potential to create unity. For, since we all share this Earth shouldn't we actually share this Earth?