The Experiment of Representative Democracy Has Failed…What’s Next?
VN Alexander
Elected representatives everywhere are compromised, bought or bribed—because we invested those representatives with the power that criminal organizations want. Predictably, a technocratic cartel is now locking itself into the place of government.
Abandon the belief that only power in the wrong hands is bad. No benevolent dictator was ever going to save us.
Recently, while watching the documentary The Agenda: Their Vision – Your Future by Oracle Films, I noted the narrator bemoans the fact that a technocratic elite are now controlling society, replacing elected representatives. That kind of thinking is what got us into this mess. Representatives should never have been trusted with all that power.
The framers of the US Constitution did not envision representatives having the power to manipulate the economy, culture, and education. I suppose they expected citizens to be more directly responsible for themselves and their neighbors. Little by little, citizens have been begged authoritarians to take control.
Please fix this social problem. Please promote this kind of culture. Please support this industry. Please pay for science that can be patented. Please make this illegal for our own good. Please make everybody buy that for their own good.
Now government is the one-stop shop for everything humanity needs. All the other venues have been boarded up. We are being ushered into a digital ID prison—for our entertainment and convenience. All of our data, as well as that of our representatives, has been collected together: health, taxes, purchases, banking transactions, court records, genetics, biometrics, travel, browsing history, online comments, text messages, email, and even things we’ve said out loud around our smartphones.
PaIantir has all us thought criminals on a list. During the Covid psyop, it was PaIantir that handled the logistics of instituting medical martial law. With the “modernization” of government information technologies, they are going to be handling all the logistics. We’re about to live the sequel of Debbie Lerhman’s The Deep State Goes Viral.
Palantir, the all-seeing eye from The Lord of the Rings
Meanwhile, every day we hear more about lawlessness within our governments: controlled or stolen elections, illegal acts of war, violations of civil liberties, and outright mass murder. The message is: “You are powerless. You are useless.”
In recent days, they’ve ceased pretending that they intend to rule by any other means but by military technofascism.
Remember Deborah Birx, everybody’s beautifully silk-scarfed Auntie Deb who stood beside Fauci and told us to submit to a lockdown for “two weeks to flatten the curve”? She’s a former Army Colonel and she has now taken a seat on the board of PaIantir. Big Tech has always been connected with the military; the third-party contractor cover story was just there to get around the constitutional protections of civil liberties.
As the Grayzone reports, four Tech Bros, from OpenAI, Palantir, and Meta have joined the military as Lieutenant Colonels, by-passing the usual procedures for attaining such rank.
Colonel Birx
The Overton window may have slammed shut by the time I post this. Full scale censorship, economic control, and robo-cop policing are poised to begin. PaIantir founders, Peter ThieI and AIex Karp have not been shy about expressing their contempt for humanity.
This is some cartoon-level villainy. We are meant to be aghast. Shock and awe is debilitating. This is statecraft as stagecraft. Who’s behind the scenes? The ones with the money printing presses as always, obviously.
Oops. AI is Terrible at Making Crucial Predictions
Palantir’s recent track record for predicting the outcomes of highly complex situations is not so good.
Apparently, PaIantir has been partnered with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) since 2015 and it was PaIantir that made the assessment (overriding Director Gabbard’s intelligence), determining that lran was nuclear weapon capable and lsraeI should attack, killing the nuclear treaty negotiations that were ongoing.
Ah, but lsraeI’s defense capabilities were greatly over-estimated. And the appetite of the lranian people for regime change was misjudged. If PaIantir is responsible for that fiasco in lran and lsraeI, the value of their fortune telling should be called into question. But we’re going forward anyway with the Big Beautiful Bill, which will shove a lot of Stablecoin (the new dollar) their way.
On June 30, 2025, The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) published a notice stating that the Department of Defense would stop providing scientists with satellite weather data effective immediately. The reason given, as reported by NPR, was “cybersecurity concerns” and the need to meet new “information technology modernization requirements.” Is this because PaIantir is being given exclusive access to all government data? Is the US government really stupidly concentrating all information and all decision-making into one privately-owned prediction machine?
A ThieI-linked company called Rainmaker had seeded clouds thirty-six hours before the massive flood in Texas. (Flash floods in valleys occur about a day after rain saturates the higher hilly country.) Rainmaker’s contract is with NOAA. Did Rainmaker have access to PaIantir’s AI to make decisions about where and how much to seed? Weather, as a complex non-linear system, is notoriously unpredictable.
Could it be that AI is not very good at predicting outcomes for complex situations? I’ve been saying so in every substack essay for years now. AI can never predict the outcomes of complex systems due to their inherent tendencies either toward self-organization or deterministic chaos.
However, in all likelihood the goal of AI.GOV is not to make good predictions at all, but to cause chaos. If that’s the plan, then they might be surprised to discover that we won’t lock ourselves down and obey orders this time. We might respond with plans of our own to build a new humanistic order out of their chaos.
What Do We Do Now?
I invite readers to fill the comments section with your alternative plans. Make them radical.
A lot of my friends and colleagues are starting to realize that we’ve been wasting our time focusing on what this or that Reality TV actor did this week. It’s all a distraction from what we really need to be doing: making plans, imagining a better future. We can’t reform a system that is completely captured by rogue forces. We will waste our time starting a new party, rehabilitating government agencies, electing better representatives.
Reform isn’t going to happen. No Covid reckoning will be forthcoming from the perpetrators.
We were told that an AI surveillance company like PaIantir could solve “waste, fraud, and abuse” by eliminating “information silos” and feeding all data into a new Magic Eight Ball. But the problems that Elon Musk’s DOGE uncovered are problems that have been created by the mistakes of previous Congresses that have taken us further and further away from the US Federal Government’s original duties.
For instance, there wouldn’t be waste, fraud, or abuse at the IRS without the the Sixteenth Amendment to the Constitution. The income tax requires that all citizens open their private financial records to the government. Every citizen is potentially vulnerable to corrupt administrations that seek to punish people for their political views or activism.
Government has gone from supplying court houses for jury trials, building roads and delivering mail, to trying to micromanage the economy, culture, and society. A government is not suited to those additional roles because the main tool of government is the threat of brute force.
Yes, culture and research are extremely important to society. That’s why you don’t ask the government to help. I have been the recipient of some very generous Federal and State grants. But I believe that support for culture, research and welfare needs to come from universities and (non-government funded) charities, supported by individuals. It is not appropriate for a government to forcibly take money from people to support cultural and social programs they do not want. This gives way too much corruptible power to the government and distorts the kinds of programs that get support. In general, we are not better off culturally or scientifically or socially with the support we’ve been getting from government.
Let’s stop wasting time on politicians and spend our time building the independent institutions we need.
There are three branches of society: government, private industry, and non-profits. They play different roles and they all need to be separate. A government should not collect taxes to pay private industry or NGOs.
I think a government should mostly be a buildings and grounds department, erecting infrastructure: transportation and communication lines, ports, roads, bridges and train tracks, court buildings, public theaters, school buildings, community centers, and hospitals; all funded with Greenbacks (End the Fed). Citizens could pay moderate fees to use the infrastructure and, through local boards and cooperatives, hire the management to run them.
Right now in prisons, millions of able-bodied men recline in bunk beds or do piece work for pennies for private corporations. Instead, prisoners could be expected to serve the poor of their own communities, growing healthy food for them and building them safe, durable, and modest but pretty houses. This will give convicts a sense of purpose and it will help end the conditions that led to crimes in the first place. When they are released back into the public, they will know how to grow their own food and build/improve their own houses.
We are not powerless. We are not useless.
In the comments, let me know what kind of radically new world you want to build.
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P.S. Because politics are so depressing, I’ve lately turned my attention back to writing and promoting my novels. Please take some time to listen to me go on about Naked Singularity on Instagram. There is a new audiobook version out.
In the story, a man who is dying from throat cancer asks his daughter to euthanize him and she doesn’t want to do it. This brings up questions about the nature of freewill and the question of who gets to decide when. The plot twists when a male night nurse enters the scene and seeks to take advantage of the desperate daughter.
Instead of paying taxes so that I have more government grants to apply for, you could get one of my books.
VN Alexander PhD is a philosopher of science and novelist, who has just completed a new satirical novel, C0VlD-1984, The Musical. You can read and follow her SubStack here.
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Every form of government is doomed to fail. For humans are flawed creatures, every system will corrupt and collapse, just to be replaced by another system that will see the same fate. The larger the state, the worse.
Chose your poison.
Not anarchy can work… on the contrary, it is the most volatile and short-lived of all norms of social order even in its ideal form. It is the forms of government that concentrate the power the most that last the longest and are the most stable. But we all know the horrors that comes with.
What I have proposed for years is not a magical new form of government, but to make city-states and small countries ‘great again’.
It is in city-states that the vast majority of human progress has been birthed, and in small scale, almost every form of government can work. It is thus a problem of scale. Humans do not do well at scale; our psyche is primed for smaller communities. The larger, the more corrupt, the more tyrannical, the more aggressive towards others.
With city-states and small states being the norm, every state and city can try whatever government system they chose. Move to a state that you like and has the ruling system that suits you. Wars and injustice will never end, but at least you will have options.
a quick search reveals that the author of this piece is a Fulbright Scholar who received a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation. just saying
Take over our local governments and make them stand up for us.
I think it will be a while before the culture is ready for such dramatic action. But a man can dream.
As Jung says ‘change starts with the individual’ and I would add ACTION. As an 80 year-old, I am nearing my sell by date, however, I can still speak up, trying to draw people’s attention to questionable narratives (mostly falling on deaf ears!) and I can practice non-compliance, for instance, the C diktats are an easy example – no mask wearing, no “cocooning”, no vaccine passport… eventhough it was a pain in the butt being daily stopped/insulted.
The System is broken and beyond repair. Many years of voting choosing the lesser of two evils has landed us in our present awfulness… “Choosing “the lesser of two evils” is therefore an act of radical evil hiding behind the mask of civic duty”. (Edward Curtin)
I am now an anarchist in the sense that I am against IMPOSED order and I adhere to natural law.
Plato’s idea of City States might be an option… whatever the solution it must be decentralized, rooted in morality and ethics.
Dear VN Alexander: This essay of yours is terrific, absolutely wonderful, but the last line of your essay– “Instead of paying taxes so that I have more government grants to apply for, you could get one of my books”– these are the words of a guilt-giving predator. We either pay the government and that money goes to you OR we pay you directly.
“I invite readers to fill the comments section with your alternative plans. Make them radical.”
Oh….radical, that means starting from the roots…a whole book is needed for that purpose. I don’t have one yet, but I’ll try my best. I must go around for a while but will end at the roots.
Ones I had discussion with psychologist about various psychotherapies. He said the biggest obstacle to therapy success is that people are very willing to change many things, but very very seldomly willing to change fundamental things.
Why? Because our natural inclination is to spend the least amount of energy and time on whatever we are engaged in. Thinking is expensive in many ways, deep thinking even more so. Also, fundamental things are often a matter of person’s worldview, more about later.
https://www.zerohedge.com/ai/why-ais-siren-song-so-hard-resist
Probably there are not many things I agree with quasi-philosopher J. Peterson, here is one I wholeheartedly agree: “Man is a beast of burden”. If you want to be a real human, you won’t choose the easiest path. Civilizations haven’t been built going the easy way, people in general were forced to go the harder way.
Another interesting article:
https://www.zerohedge.com/ai/artificial-intelligence-breeds-mindless-inhumanity
Author poses a question:
“Why waste your time learning, studying, or internalizing information when you can just look it up on demand?”
Many will see the question as reasonable. At the same time majority of them would agree that critical thinking is of utmost importance. However, critical thinking without huge amounts of applicable internalized information is impossible.
The article ends with:
“Is there a way out of this morass? Perhaps the only one that the ancients discovered back when information, understanding, and morality all retained immense value: faith in a higher power. Because the path we’ve set on our own is heading into some very dark places.”
So, tradition. Certainly we can learn something from it. Well, I have a question:
If tradition were so good, how comes that we ended up in a dire situation of today? The only answer is: something is missing in tradition.
Going the way of tradition would be the easy path and not taking into account circumstances have changed thoroughly.
Also, constitutionalists, a form of traditionalists: when you will realize that the scribblings you have put so much faith in aren’t worth the paper they are written on.
VN Alexander: “Who’s behind the scenes? The ones with the money printing presses as always, obviously.”
If you want to be radical you would ask: What are the ideas in play?
CJ Hopkins might say GloboCap, globalized capitalism. Marx said capitalism will end with monopoly capitalism and that is exactly what we are witnessing today, very few people own the majority of existing stuff, holy shit, future stuff too. Forbes list and similar are utter bullshit. We don’t know who is the richest. Existing laws and judicial system guarding holy private property and holy privacy will always work for the rich, but won’t protect you.
Still, this is not the roots (radical).
A good question, profane and profound, at this point is:
“Why a dog lick his balls?”
Because he can, he is able to do it.
Since you stayed with me for so long you will allow me the final and necessary digression.
Imagine you are at the dinner with very religious people. And you come out: “There is no God!”.
Beside social suicide there is no way to convince them you are right. They have faith in God. This is part of their worldview.
Even a debate on this topic is meaningless, there are no sound philosophical arguments for existence of God nor for non-existence. It is a matter of faith. Atheists have a faith that there is no God.
When people say “that’s how things are” they might be uneducated or intellectually lazy, but might also be about their worldview. If it is about the latter the discussion is futile, people rarely change their worldview and even when they do, they do it silently.
Let me go further with my “futile” radical attempt.
A dog, capitalism, worldview…
Capitalism can lick his balls because of the existence of the notion of private property. There is no such a notion outside human society, therefore we can say it is a social construct.
Don’t be afraid, I’m not professing “stealing” your collection of stuff. Your collection of stuff, my collection, is not a problem at all. I would say this is a personal property, it is good, it extends our freedom to a reasonable degree.
But private property of Peter the Evil and of all the filthy rich is a problem. It extends their freedom to unreasonable degree, consequently taking away freedom of other people. Anybody’s freedom is limited by the freedom of other people, this is a fact.
Often there is an attempt to frame the problem with greed, to frame it in moral terms. Wrong, rich wouldn’t be rich if they wouldn’t know how to play the ball and they don’t have a choice not to play it. A malediction goes: let God gave you, then take away from you.
Next, look at Roman’s definition of private property that is still in force: property is the stuff one possesses and he can use or abuse as he wishes. There is no place for moralizing at all.
A good book to study private property, P.J.Proudhon: What is property?
Libertarians will surely find objections. I’ve read something from them, usually they are full of examples, illustrations, but mostly they are simplifying. They don’t recognize that private property isn’t a scalable concept.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalability
Small property and huge property have very different outcomes.
I have to address money printing problem. It’s a real problem, no doubt. It’s smaller than private property, because a lot of people are aware of it.
Private property, on the other hand, is so ingrained in people’s worldviews, people have so much faith in it, that merely questioning it could put heretics on stake (if they were still in use).
This is the biggest achievement of the “elites” in the aftermath of the fall of the iron curtain. Private property is a social construct, it ought to be debated.
NYC Police torched their own vehicle!
Jun 4, 2020
Raw footage by Lincoln Karim
The late great Murray Rothbard lays out the kind of truly moral society that I advocate in his book “For a New Liberty — The Libertarian Manifesto”.
Government is an oxymoron: An organization that steals our money and kills people to protect us from thieves and murderers.
??? “Government steals your money, and protect you from thieves and murderers by killing people“.
Ehhhh ok. So thats the way the whole thing is put together?
Whattabout hospitals, busses, railroads, Police, schools, universities, roads, doctors, nurses, sewage, garbage collection, water supply to your shower?
In case you hadn’t noticed all of the things above are becoming more expensive and/or lower quality and quantity.
The winding down and controlled demolition – at least in the developed world – of the services offered to the people, since the people themselves will no longer be needed in significant numbers.
hospitals, busses, railroads, Police, schools, universities, roads, doctors, nurses, sewage, garbage collection, water supply to your shower?
All of that we can do without ‘government’,
But very few people want that freedom. So you see, we willingly trade our freedom for convenience. Just sucks for the few among us who would rather live without government.
Doctors destroy health. They are all insane.
A protection racket.
Although with each passing year there is less genuine protection and more racket. The protection that there is consists of telling the serfs what is good for them when it is the diametric opposite.
Our core problem is biology. We are born in weakness and we die in weakness. And whatever wisdom we gain along the way goes with us to the grave. Governments are formed to alleviate this problem somewhat. And the description of how government officials actually work is still Romans 13. Government officials are accountable to God and God hears the prayers of the people who are faithful to His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. Invest your efforts into obtaining eternal life in Jesus Christ and gaining entrance into His Kingdom from Heaven. Everything outside of this is limited.
Rom 13:1-10 PEV
Now I will talk about the government bosses. Remember that God put them there and gave them their jobs as bosses, so you have to do what they say. They make laws for everybody, and they make sure we all follow those laws. 2 So if you don’t do the things that their law says, you’re going against the people that God put there. And he will get those bosses to punish you. 3 People that do whatever is right don’t have to worry about those bosses. But people that do things that are wrong will get frightened of them. So if you do things that are right, the bosses will say that you are good. 4 Those government bosses really work for God, and their job is to make things good for you. But if you do things that are wrong, look out, you can be frightened of them. They will get you and punish you. God gave them that job to punish everybody that does bad things, and he helps them do it. 5 So you have to do what they say, so that they don’t punish you. And you know that it is the right thing to do, so you will not feel bad about it. 6 You have to pay tax money to the government too, for the same reason. Those government bosses work for God, and they need that money to do their job. 7 So you have to give everybody whatever you owe to them. You have to pay taxes and pay the bills the government bosses send you. And you still have to respect those bosses. 8 If ever you borrow anything from anybody, you have to give it back, so that you don’t owe anything to anybody. But you always owe each other this one thing, you have to love each other. If you love other people, you keep God’s law. 9 God’s law says, “Love other people just as much as you love yourself.” You know there are lots of other laws too, like, “Don’t sleep with somebody that you are not married to, as if they are your wife or husband,” and, “Don’t murder anybody,” and, “Don’t steal anything,” and, “If something belongs to somebody else, don’t think about getting it for yourself.” But if you really love other people, you will not do any of those wrong things anyway. So that law that says to love people, it says what all the other laws say when you listen to them all together. 10 If you really love people, you will never do bad things to them, so you will be doing what God’s law says you have to do.
There is no solution at the group level. The way forward is on the individual level. We’re past the point of systems and control. It’s time for true sovereignty. And it’s up to each of us to CHOOSE it or not.
The failure of representative democracy lies in its centralization of power as control rather than service. To move forward, we must radically redefine power—not as domination, but as a responsibility to serve. This means building local, decentralized institutions run by communities themselves, funding public needs through transparent user-based models, and replacing coercive systems with networks of mutual aid and accountability. True power empowers others—it doesn’t rule them.
As long as you understand that if you have a ruler, you are not free. If you think of the countries and flags on the globe as permanent, you expect to be ruled, and cannot expect to be free.
The writer wants a free-for-all capitalism: no income tax, no welfare. A return to the robber-baron economy in which the rich get richer and the poor … well, who cares about them?
There’s only one point that I agree with. Karl Popper stated it many years ago: “The problem of politics is not, ‘who shall rule?’. It is, ‘how shall we control the rulers’.
At least the USA has a Constitution which limits what the politicians can do. It hasn’t been working very well lately, but it’s better than nothing.
Britain doesn’t even have that. The politicians can do whatever they want. They can “proscribe” you, define whatever you say or do as “terrorism”, then disappear you. And they’re doing just that.
I think it’s time we recognize that whoever we make our “rulers” are going to rule over us and are not going to look after our welfare. Free-for-all capitalism occurs when currency creation is in the hands of the banks.
“Popper worked as an office boy at the communist headquarters, whether or not he ever became a member of the Communist Party is unclear”.
Sheeple who cannot rule themselves and therefore badly badly need nannies and rulers, can and shall off course not control anybody nor anything.
This paradox problem is typical for Popper. He reject the Empirical proof and claim the circumstances has the right to the exact opposite.
“The brick fell upward when released” as an example of an imaginary observation that shows that Newton’s law of gravitation is falsifiable acc to Popper.
So according to Popper what is useful in building up our understanding of the world and civilisation (gravity), we can just change to get the opposite.
Excuse me but I smell clearly the Marxist coffee in these premises.
Nothing marxist, you just didn’t get Popper.
Here you have help:
Karl Popper – Science: Conjectures and Refutations – Sections I and IIyoutube.com/watch?v=bpWsV5eD8HU
The rich get richer utilizing the force of government to stifle their competitors and take the freedom of choice from their customers. That is not what the author is advocating.
Things seem to be sliding toward direct action!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14915465/Small-boat-migrant-arrest-Essex-hotel-protests-schoolgirl.html
The American Declaration of Independence July 4, 1776:
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–
That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, —
That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government.
Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government.
The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States.
Score one for Democracy, eh, what!
https://x.com/visegrad24/status/1945787064491925683
Its to keep up with the wise guys on offg.
I like to imagine that when these tyrants dine out, their meals contain at least 25 additional fresh helpings of protein.
My Representative is selected by the UniParty
and they both decide what’s in my interests…
When i reached Voting Age They gave me a
handful of X’s, told me They were my input…
Democracy, Dont Knock It !!
There’s not alot mentioned about anarcho-syndicalism nowadays – certainly not since Chomsky went off his nut following 9/11 and Covid campaigns.
A popular reimagining, if not outright abolition, of governance needs to take place. Perhaps this might happen when the broad public wakes up to realize that government has become co-opted by organized crime – particularly in light of state-sponsored human-sacrifice, genocide and pedophilia projects.
That is indeed a strange light that has been shone on government.
Government is a criminal organization from the get-go by virtue of forcing people to pay for services they neither need nor want. No co-opting is necessary.
The New York Times has finally fessed up:
https://archive.is/2025.07.15-111709/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/opinion/israel-gaza-holocaust-genocide-palestinians.html
Unusual. Very unusual. Then there must be something in the smoke. NYT would never do that if 6 million were not gassed and gone for everybody to see.
Congratulation Israel, and you have no shame to pull Amalek out of your behind.
But I know you at least teach Jeremiah in your synagogues:
Jeremiah prophesied the siege of Jerusalem and Babylonian captivity as consequences for grave disobedience of God.
Jeremiah’s teachings encompassed lamentations, oracles, and symbolic acts, emphasising the urgency of repentance and the restoration of a covenant relationship with God.
Breaching the Commandment: Thou shall not kill! Sacrificing your children in worship of the Beast is very serious sin.
But you Israel never got wiser than you once were 6-700 BC did you?
Another step towards trans humanism or is it good old fashioned eugenics?:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn8179z199vo
“Babies made using three people’s DNA are born free of hereditary disease”
Note again the focus on eliminating disease.
And isn’t it a giveaway that they’re so concerned with improving the “quality of life” whilst in fact killing so many via “vaccines”?
Also note the weakening of he traditional family unit. And the creep towards a hive society.
Could be a ploy to avoid hereditary diseases among the inbred 1% George.
They say pulling spirituality out of people concentrating only on consuming is an improvement. You know Lucifer dont like God:
I refuse to read any bbc links for decades. I won’t be starting now.
Remember that they have resigned from killing randomly with the clot shot and are now just targeting old and medically complicated.
To save money. The West is bankrupt but refuse to admit it. So we have to start somewhere. There is no other way. Elderly homes and Children 2-6 years old.
Are you aware of how much these two sucker groups have been milking our community during the last many decades?
I thought genetic engineering on humans is banned.
serve the poor of their own communities, growing healthy food for them and building them safe, durable, and modest but pretty houses
No, that is against the religion of greed.
If we’re smart enough to land a man on the moon, we should be smart enough to design/create new governments and political systems.
Oh, wait.
Never mind.
We can take solace in the knowledge that it won’t be just ‘a man’ next time Al. It’ll be all 43 genders.
Following your own example of opening up discussion here, one radical proposal is a commonsense one, that we talk with one another, from dialogue to debate, and not online so much, but together face-to-face where we live our lives every day. In this case, getting to the roots of things, root meaning of ‘radical’, means regaining in everyday practice relations overrun by institutionalized, administered lives, undermining life at a human scale of community and participatory democracy where our own agency and autonomy are active and creative, directly connected to possibilities of affecting wordly conditions beyond us (including technopoly decentralized if not dismantled for popular sovereignty).
Maybe we might come by such practical means to another radical commonsense conclusion, that to live together optimally, or at all, means associations of direct self-governance politically, economically, culturally. Because we are social beings whose interdependency has been deformed by slavishly dependent relations of authority and obedience, freedom from being governed* is inseparable from cooperative relations, supplanting competitive and combative relations, basic divide-and-rule central to capitalist control of us as exploitable resources. Freedom to be co-creators of the society in which we live would mean some measure of egalitarian relations replacing the hierachies of fear and insecurity subordinating the many to the few.
“If there is a devil in history, it is the power principle.” (Bakunin) And like the devil, state powers rest their right to rule upon lies, no matter how nobly embellished. That’s because the state is the political front for both supporting and hiding the economic war waged by ruling classes robbing and killing their way to control the resources of life across the death march of civilization. That their demonic empires eventually fall under the weight of their own lies is no comfort or consolation to any of the many who have suffered their evils, especially when another (newer!, better!) thousand-year reign of the same replaces the old. Striking at the roots of this cycle of destruction means deconstructing the power principle, from the ground up becoming responsible for reconstructing common sense of inalienable human rights rooted in everyday practice of mutual respect and care.**
The U$ state was never intended as an experiment in representative democracy. Its Founding Fathers were self-serving patricians and plutocrats who wanted nothing more than a bourgeois revolution for the same old government of, by, and for the rich beyond its feudal forms. Consistent with early capitalist theorists like Locke and Smith, government was established to protect haves from have-nots, while democracy was mob rule, the tyranny of the majority treading upon their property rights to accumulate ever more private wealth from dispossession of the common wealth, from the get-go greedy for imperial conquest of the continent, which British empire had been restraining.
The initial independence of the former colonies under the Articles of Confederation was accordingly usurped by a constitutional coup for more centralized control of commerce, currency, and military monopolization of force. Prompted by recent uprising of the dispossessed like Shay’s Rebellion against debt bondage, the aim was to repress direct citizen responsibility in favor of framing consent or coercion to rule by the few as responsible citizenship, itself confined to white male property owners of lesser status whose self-interests would align with elites to the exclusion of propertyless commoners, slaves, and ‘savages’. Later added to the Constitution to rig ratification upon this identity politics, the Bill of Rights has been routinely trumped by private property. Leave your rights at the door of any workplace of the ‘free market’, compelled to sell yourself as a labor commodity and wage slave to owners. The business of government is business, because government is minimalist when it comes to common people’s survival and welfare, while business is all and over all, including government and the ‘rule of law’, as the tyranny of organized crime.
There is a clear line of logic from early stages of capital accumulation to sciences of social engineering that micromanage us today within machinery of production, profit, and power, bureaucracy of industrial capitalism now moving into technocratic totalitarianism whereby we merge with machines for automatic, algorithmic command. If anything, government will become limited to the administration of things, and people as things, as digital infrastructure (IOT/IOB) rules over all without process or pretense of political decision-making. Where for instance roads run and who they run over, inescapably political questions as the poor know so well, are now to be decided by algogracy.
What’s failing, or rather being dismantled, is the ruse of representative government as democracy.*** We’re in the endgame of class rule under the “masters (monsters) of mankind” (Smith), with their “vile maxim” of all for themselves and nothing for us. They are now ‘going direct’, to recall BlackRock’s Larry Fink, tearing away the trappings of values other than (their) money and reducing us to blockchains determining our ‘right’ or privilege to exist. If we fail to rise in revolution to refound human relations on freedom among equals, we face becoming nothing ourselves, of no worth whatsoever to power revealing its absolute pathology.
*To be GOVERNED is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, checked, estimated, valued, censured, commanded, by creatures who have neither the right nor the wisdom nor the virtue to do so. To be GOVERNED is to be at every operation, at every transaction noted, registered, counted, taxed, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed, authorized, admonished, prevented, forbidden, reformed, corrected, punished. It is, under pretext of public utility, and in the name of the general interest, to be placed under contribution, drilled, fleeced, exploited, monopolized, extorted from, squeezed, hoaxed, robbed; then, at the slightest resistance, the first word of complaint, to be repressed, fined, vilified, harassed, hunted down, abused, clubbed, disarmed, bound, choked, imprisoned, judged, condemned, shot, deported, sacrificed, sold, betrayed; and to crown all, mocked, ridiculed, derided, outraged, dishonored. That is government; that is its justice; that is its morality.” (Proudhon)
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“The State is a condition, a certain relationship between human beings, a mode of behaviour; we destroy it by contracting other relationships, by behaving differently toward one another… We are the State and we shall continue to be the State until we have created the institutions that form a real community.” (Landauer)
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“The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it’s profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.” (Zappa)
TL; DR
I couldn’t agree more. What do we do about this? I mean, skip how we go through the revolution/collapse sequence: once the dust has settled, what does the new founding document say?
Have the guts to tell the State to fk off, you will not comply with their taxes and legalese bullshit.
Good article. Brilliant in fact.
The law is the issue. The elite have manipulated the law through deception and fraud. The law is there to protect the criminal elite by use of legalese fraud. The fuckers have created dictionaries that use English phrases and words that mean something to us but the opposite to them. A person is a corporation, and we are all a securitised debt owed to the bankers.
Alexander Hamilton manipulated the law to ensure that the same corrupt forces controlled America as before the so-called War of Independence.
Everything is an illusion, and we won’t be free until the bankers are dealt with.
Representative democracy is a polite term for oligarchy. We should start by calling it what it is and stop kidding ourselves. In a just society whatever leadership is required would be unaffiliated and voluntary with a limited tenure.
Which leads us to the first thing needed in this world: consigning university system to history. Universities are nothing but ego stroking shams that produce nothing but blind puppets and paid for research.
After that, schools must go and all its disciplinary and grading nonsense that puts fear into children. Kids can learn to read, write, and add up in a playful setting. And once they can do these they can go and get a life.
Next, patents have to go. Nothing hinders human innovation and creativity as much as the patent protection racket. Obviously, legal protection won’t be needed anymore so the Temple BARS will be no more.
Any means of exchange system will, of course, be interest free, and based on production and not consumption.
With this stronger foundation religions and their militaries will just fade away.
Any wrong doers should not be imprisoned but sent to a remote island. Australia should do seeing it was built for purpose. What’s more, there is no better example, being a small setting, of the failure of all the above. Decent Australians won’t be concerned if they have to move out as they will be fed up to the back teeth with putting up with the armpit scratching buffoonery of their oligarchal selections.
And the rest will be dealt with as required.
Thanks for the specific suggestions. It’s similar to my list.
I don’t think patents hinder creativity so much — creative people just do what they do with or without money — but patents create negative incentives, for instance, to patent medicines that make people sick. Medical patents should go. But what about copyright for art?
Mark Twain argued for and won extended copyright laws for authors, so his family would get something from his labors. But, as Twain argued at the time, this only affects a very small percentage of authors, most of whom don’t sell many books at all, even under protection. I’ve thought a lot about how to improve the economic circumstances of creative people and I haven’t come up with a solution. The only thing that might improve life for artistic types is an economically healthy middle class with more leisure time to appreciate the arts.
How about instead of sending wrong-doers to an island, we make them grow food and build/repair housing for the poor (likely the communities from which they came)? The penal system would double as the welfare system.
I’m for the abolition of central/national government and for small regional governments whose sole responsibility would be to oversee the provision of infrastructure. I’m not clued in enough to be able to suggest how such a system would work though.
Also, I’d like to see a true “defence” force, ready and equipped only to protect the national borders of any given country, perhaps through the formation of an alliance of regional forces within the country in question. During non-conflict times, they should be employed to assist with local natural disaster relief, etc.
Truly representative government is an illusion at any rate, since political and BigBiz lobbyists have their own offices right inside our government buildings, and our politicians take their cues from them. We’ve been living in a fascist world for ever. Voting is merely their way of coercing our consent which, from what I’ve read, is the satanic way; they need our consent.
Sounds like a plan to me.
The problem we have is respecting scum like Peter Thiel. I have zero values in common with Thiel. I do not respect him having any rights to control the global economy. None whatsoever. He thinks the whole world is about money, nothing else. He has no family because he is homosexual. He could not possibly understand that the vast majority of humans see family as more valuable than money per se. But a mutant like him thinks that he should run vast swathes of planet earth.
What a bozo, eh?
He is probably a front man for financial forces.
I call them perverts. Same with this WEF professor darling of theirs.
One thing is their personal observation, but the real negative is their intention to impose their anomalies on all areas to the rest of humanity as if they were our saviours.
It cant possible be more weirdo.
Perhaps this is the way it has always been, since the ancient cults of majic, to religion to sciencism and all these inherent political chains, from the time before cities through the facsimiles of ancient Rome and into the present day…
It is all one and the same.
Perhaps this is simply the human condition, as we cross this material bridge of experiential wonder, before our eventual and certain shuffling off of this mortal coil.
Perhaps all one need be is true to whatever it is that fills you with joy, and know this is an experience of waves and particles expressing seeming dualities of simultaneous existence.
Perhaps here is no external saviour, perhaps there is no internal saviour.
Perhaps there is nothing to change because the change always changes itself.
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And to you lot who cannot live without your smartphone and your credit cards.
YOU are the problem.
I have heard that from commies since I could walk.
NO I am NOT going to give up my open sport car with stainless steel rim and white aniline leather and minibar and give it to the poor. Fk off.
Awww, you meanie. You are not going sell your convertible to give the proceeds to those who ‘only’ have their monthly welfare checks and EBT cards to live on? Then you could cruise around town on your open top pushbike instead.
You just don’t get it, do you? You should be working your ass off seven days a week and paying your taxes, so that others can rest their asses on the sofa.
That was precisely what I expected. 😉
Power in life can be extended or assigned to structure, authority and forces external to himself.
Surrogate power can be corrupted when it assumes itself indigenous.
The issue beneath the sins and evils of a fractured and fragmented mind – and world is of usurp or substitution – as in ‘fake solutions’ that mask, evade and repackage problems as compound debt-conflicts.
Few have eyes to see as they are invested in grievance for self vindication or vengeance – howsoever such is manifested via ‘proxies’ for underlying scripts.
There is a historical descent or drift to corruptions that favoured privately controlled manipulations or technologism, as the ‘gain of function’ derived from usurping insider leverage by usurping surrogate power. That it masks in progressive ideology is ‘how to boil a frog’ or normalise and incentivise sacrifice of life in pain of loss or living death.
However anyone may understand or articulate, the situation demands divesting self-illusion – not manipulating the minds of others.
The elected representatives are not only “compromised, bought and bribed”. The very structure of “fepresentative democracy” is ossifed, outdated and unwieldy…so much so that most of us welcome gridlock.
The US Congress has HUNDREDS of members, each of whom has exactly zero individual efficacy over national policy. By default, their Emperor President rules by decree. The UK parliament has over 600 members, almost all of whom have no voice either. The sytem was designed in at best the 18th century.
“Reforming” something that dysfunctional is meaningless. The only way to improve public safety, individual liberty and to keep government’s evil central agendas at bay is with SMALLER, WEAKER and POORER government.
…and the public had better start demanding that right away.
We have walked up and down in front of Pentagon’s Head Office for 50 years by now, demanding exactly these things.
“start demanding that right away…today“. So wtf are you talking about?.
The first and easiest action to take would be simply to stop voting for any of the existing parties and candidates who do not promise wholesale downsizing of government. But I’m not optimistic. Large sections of the public still consider government a force for their betterment and expect handouts and support from the state. People still “respect” government and look to “experts” to solve problems. There are too many on the gravy train, too many dependent on monthly checks and too many who are so afraid of “evil big corporations” that they will beg for more government as “protection”.from both the free market and from having to take personal responsibility for their own welfare.
I have not voted since year 2000. Not because I am against anything but because I try to live dependent only of our Father in Heaven and the 10 rules.
I just dont need the system but are open to cooperate for our civilisation and mutual benefit.
Is it verifiably true that clouds were seeded uphill in Texas the day before the floods? That’s actionable intelligence. Somebody find me the proof.
I’ve seen clouds warded off by planes pushing out silver dioxide if that helps. So if that converse is true then the opposite thesis is equally plausible.
I’m guessing if you do the warding off first then a crowding in will inevitably follow by the laws of nature (as a ball pushed uphill will inevitably roll down at some point later).
Hun?
Radical solutions? There is only the French revolution and the guillotine. Maybe a good clean up and out but we know the reptiles will be crawling back to the house again.
My recommendation is the small silent revolution. Make 10% saving of all your income, live meager, make barter, fresh air, be self survivor. Be the solution.
If you want communities go religious. Mormon, JW, Amish They are actually living a good healthy life outside politics but still too obedient in my view – (vaxxed.
You have to remember what you came here for – back to the house that love build!
https://yandex.ru/video/preview/1329966544542177073 .
Agreed. The guillotine head choppers were essentially flawed mercenaries. They took bribes for starters. A clean chop for those with cash; a half chop for those who couldn’t be bothered or didn’t have the means.Not real revolutionaries in any sense of the word.
Love is clearly the better route by far
Woodchippers. Feet first.
Didn’t think it was that bad a comment (no obvious keywords to speak of) but go directly to Pending. Do not pass Go. Do not collect £200…
Quick response. Kudos. Maybe someone does monitor this forum after all 🤔
I think there are alternatives ways of running a democracy to the world we live in but you have to be visionary in order even see (let alone implement) them. The reason’s obvious — the present system is based on convincing people “There Is No Alternative” so it spends a considerable amount of time, effort and money making sure that anything that promises to be a viable alternative is not.
The first step in getting out from under this is to recognize that propaganda permeates our entire being. Propaganda is not about slogans but rather a miasma that permeates every part of our life. The most obvious examples come from so called ‘style guides’ where journalists are required to use certain forms of words when talking about particular things. So, for example, the term ‘dictator’ is attached to ‘any foreign leader we don’t like’ regardless of whether they’re actually a dictator or not. The purpose is to create a visceral impression, an association in peoples’ minds. Another old example is after the Iron Curtain — the Berlin Wall etc. — came down people were surprised to discover that ‘over there’ was as vibrant and colorful as ‘over here’, different but still basically the same. The reason is that literally every picture that was published of ‘over there’ was chosen to reflect gloomy weather, to depict poor and run down things. Again, its not about accuracy, its about impressions. (We’re still at it which is why visitors to China find the country is completely different from the mental picture they had of it.)
Once you understand how propaganda works then you become free to think up alternatives. Here only local action is likely to bear fruit in the short term. Just turning your back on society might work on a very small scale — people have been trying to do this for years — but the government controls all aspects of life, including currency, communications, water, land — life itself, in fact — so you have to learn to thrive within its envelope. Just don’t cooperate with it — don’t join its army, don’t contribute any more to it than the absolute minimum needed to keep it off your back. Discourage people who want power — democracy works best at a local level but don’t allow it to become a power base, a springboard for ambition. The one thing that works in our favor is that the power that plagues us also needs us so enough of us refuse to play it withers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment .
If Democracy fails typically due to the general ignorance of the general populace or that of the bog-standard over-hyped social media commentator, then might not a benevolent dictator provide the ultimate solution?
Yes of course choosing the *right* benevolent dictator is always fraught with danger. Many pitfalls lie along the way with types such as Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini and their posthumous resurrectionists. Nevertheless… might such a persona still exist?.
The truly benevolent Dictator. Could already be in place, which those who are in need of the eternally malevolent power are ignorant of?…
Very interesting that AI.GOV is a redirect to the White House.
If Admin here doesn’t censor me, again, y’all can see a 48 point list of policies based upon my guess at what would be transition to a true direct democracy operated by the People. Admin claims that my continued discussion of direct democracy is mere self-serving propagandizing and I am on a “pending” list and many times seen my posts disappear. I’ve documented being censored. Since VN has requested ideas, I am understanding that I may post a link to MY OPINION of a process to grassroot implementation of policies which cut through the elite’s false binaries of choices. It took years for me to assemble this list and publish it. Not all of the ideas are perfect, far from it. But I believe there is much of value in this proposal that could be considered a basis for a new survivable future.
https://sandys.art/peoples_policy+budget_directives_ballot_2018.html
Cheers!
The simple, lawful solution would be to go to the bank and withdraw everything but a pound. Pay everything in cash and only buy what you need. Avoid using any business that refuses to accept cash. Place your order, then if they want a card, tell them to shove it up their arse. If everyone did that, their system would buckle.
Remember, the money in the bank is controlled by the bank. The money in your pocket is controlled by you.
Everybody needs an frequently income. Maybe the banks are criminals but they are not idiots.
The only places where you can live in an open cash system today is in a favela or off grid in the Scottish mountains or deep inside the jungle. Good luck
Might work in some limited sense but not particularly helpful for those who wish to cut down a Sycamore Gap tree for example in the middle of the night.
One might inadvertently give iphone, ANPR data to those who know something about mobile phone exif data or street cameras or about those who carried lighting systems across moors? Even though they’d bought the chainsaw with cash.
Using cash might seem the solution to all data trails when often it isn’t. My two cents anyhow
And why do you need a (SMART) phone?
Cash worked for thousands of years, but maybe you have forgotten that.
Fiat? No.
Horses worked for thousands of years, also. But we don’t use them for transportation anymore.
I use cash. So far I have not had a problem doing so. I use the card for online purchases which are few.
I held out as long as I could before getting a mobile phone – and that was only because they removed the last payphone in existence in my area.
I held out as long as possible with a little tracphone until it became so obsolete I could not purchase minutes anymore.
I have a very old model iphone purchased used. And I’m glad I have it.
Do I abhor that society is now chained to their palms? Absolutely. I am astounded and astonished every single day – at the gym, the pool, restaurants, social gatherings, et al, at the level of zombie-ism with these things.
They are intrusive as hell and have contributed to a total lack of privacy, boundaries and common civility.
But until such time as the phone booth reappears, I will, however begrudgingly, hang on to my mobile phone.
Agree. I am also taking it the pragmatic way as we have to survive too. The most important is to be aware what it is = shit, and take it from there.
When you put money into your bank account, ownership of that money is transferred
to the bank is not just merely controlled by the bank. And for instance if your employer pays you by transfering your salary say from his bank account to your bank account, ownership of that money is transfered between the two banks.
That’s why your bank balance sits in a credit column. We are an unsecured creditors of the bank. We are the last cab of the rank when a bank defaults except for a limited government garantee, e.g. our tax money, in the case of a banking crises.
This has been the case since the middle of the 17th century via British banking laws!
So the other solution would be that this fraudulent system woud be corrected by changing the law that so that your bank balance sits in the debit column.
Bank of England -The Devil in disguise. Tango! https://vkvideo.ru/video-28063494_163110503
The motto is, ‘Don’t have any money in the banking system that you’re not prepared to lose.
“But I believe that support for culture, research and welfare needs to come from universities and (non-government funded) charities, supported by individuals. It is not appropriate for a government to forcibly take money from people to support cultural and social programs they do not want. This gives way too much corruptible power to the government and distorts the kinds of programs that get support. In general, we are not better off culturally or scientifically or socially with the support we’ve been getting from government.”
If our governments were not fully corrupted by the power of private money, would we have the problems with governance we have today? The problem with conflating actual functioning governance with the fully corrupted structures we live under today willfully ignores just how badly governments have become the tools, or playthings, of massive amounts of private money. By basically advocating for a fully privately managed governance, it seems to me you’re saying let’s just scrap any semblance of “democracy” and go to a fully autocratic model, ruled by benevolent leadership of course, as well as the people paying for “only the things they want.” Pie in the sky utopia that will NOT happen until the corrupting influence of private funding and the inherent corruption of “governance” under that is addressed. That isn’t going to happen under a model that reveres private funding supported by individuals, whose motives are questionable at best. Our owners want us to believe that this is what will save us, and if we can’t see the fallacy of that by now then it is no wonder at all why “democracy” is failing.
Without government support, classical music is permanently disappeared..
Depending on the timeline of when “classical” music began (In 1879 the composer Charles Kensington Salaman defined the following composers as classical: Bach, Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Weber, Spohr and Mendelssohn), do you believe that those composers and all involved in concerts for the public in those times received government financial support?
Huh?
What? You have to look up what classical music is? Just goes to prove my point. A little more germanely than I imagined.
Before you propose a “radical” new system you need to understand what system you are under and how it got that way. Whatever you might say about the Founding Fathers, positive or negative, they existed before the supremacy of monopoly capitalism (aka finance capitalism, imperialism). The first eugenics movement during the early 20th Century was funded and promoted by the Rockefellers (remember the Robber Barons of the late 19th Century?) These people, their heirs and other members of their small club have accumulated so much wealth that they can buy politicians, buy public policy, buy governments, buy wars and pay to indoctrinate, propagandize, social engineer, psychologically manipulate entire populations for over a 100 years now.
The problem is not democracy but rather the lack of it. What we have is the illusion of democracy. What we need to do – ultimately – is overthrow finance capitalism – by force. There is no other way.
However, being able to do that is a long ways off as most people still believe that we do live in some form of a democracy (we don’t and haven’t for a long time, if ever). What we should be doing now, is start on a mass education program or maybe we should call deprogramming plan.
It’s simple. Tom Larsen is not TOM LARSEN, he is not responsible for TOM LARSEN he is the representative of TOM LARSEN.
Now work it out.
And rickypop is not RICKYPOP…
Incidentally, what you are doing here is a form of the ad hominem argument.
Creating parallel organisations and systems are crucial, forget the trying to reform existing institutions and political organisations, that’s a total waste of time. Appeal to the young, they are at the brunt of it with no bright future at all. Society could be organised in a totally different way. Create many different utopian visions of how the world could work. Technology is not a bad thing when it is under real democratic control. Visions are important, we need to create many that will appeal to the young, the young need to be encouraged to create their own visions. Get out and market those visions. Amazon workers rebellion! Seize the means of production and distribution! Have production parties! The level of current technology is impressive, let’s use it for good! We can’t just think of going back to some feudalistic society where we are just growing our own food as an alternative, although I do think communities can be centred around food production, we need to also have the ability to produce all sorts of products.
I do feel that there will reach a point where people will just stop listening to all the propaganda, you can see that now, people are getting tired and will just switch off and down tools at some point.
No leaders, no masters! Everyone is a sovereign being and has the power within themselves in cooperation with others to create a better world but we do need a vision or many visions of what that world might look like and what ethics will be at the centre of it.
No more wars, no more hunger, everyone with a roof over their head and good food to eat and in loving cooperation!
I’m still optimistic that humans will find a way past this impasse we seem to be in.
Optimism is not enough.
Consider a local network where there is no hierarchy, no power structure, no commercial transactions, no barter or any direct agreement of exchange (no money changes hands), and supports the autonomy and sovereignty of each individual: http://solaris-ontario.org/
Yes, it would be nice.
Realistic – not so much.
I would have thought that local trade and barter would do a lot more than supporting the “autonomy and sovereignty” of individuals.
Perhaps it’s not what you are looking for, but don’t fault it for what it is not. It is really just a network of mutual aid and solidarity, not a replacement for the status quo.
But this will automatically arrive all by itself when the AI bs collapse and not function. People will begin to organise the barter society https://youtu.be/iCmdQiGrtIg .
This is precisely what WEF and Schwab promised us, a global internet of humans interconnected via only a simple smartphone, owning nothing……but happy.
Here is your new Leader – where everybody are equals.
You on your way to a new life and your new mobile community – where everybody are happy.
Back to Where we Started:
He looks like such a happy, smiley chappy. Was that photo taken before or after he was responsible for genociding 3 million people?
I think it was in the beginning of the dream. Everybody full of hope.
Goody words in all the reports and research from his university time.
What about ticks?
Aloysius. You are the aluna a professor dont want in the class room.
Always ruining the goody mode by stupid questions.
The 18th century’s Liberté, égalité, fraternité is now passé.
Robotic equality doesn’t jive with freedom nor fraternity. Quality over quantity should be the 21st century’s motto. One wise voice is much better than 100,000 sheep bleats.
Technocracy is just a tool which can be used by a high IQ psychopath or a realized Soul.
The latter usually has little money, the former mostly billions.
Consensus never produced good science whatever the number of degree holders involved. Why would it be different for politics?
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An old yearning is resurfacing. I think of it as “the desire for an Arthur.” People seek an incorruptible king to lead them out of the darkness and rule with justice. But men of that caliber are uncommon, to say the least. For the present, Donald Trump is the best we can do.
Remember when the only options were fight or flight i.e. commit suicide or give up? This was based on a study of cats – and, as much as I love our feline friends, they aren’t human.
Now it appears there are more options:
https://www.vice.com/en/article/are-you-fawning-in-relationships/
Freeze and fawn have been added to the list. Anything so long as it starts with an ‘F’! They’re more interested in wordplay than considering serious strategies.
As for replacing representative democracy, offers of pseudo-direct democracy are very much on the agenda. There’s been a push for devices like citizens’ juries for several years now – from the same people who want to abolish juries for court cases. They clearly have no commitment to the jury principle, it’s pure opportunism.
Who controls the appointment procedure? Who controls what evidence they hear? Who controls what options they choose between? Who controls the education the members have had, the TV they’ve been watching for the last 20 years and the publications they’ve read?
Every one of these that’s been tried in recent years has ratified the opinion of the WEF-Bilderberg-TPTB… they wouldn’t exist if they didn’t. It’s a magic trick whereby a rubber stamp is turned into “the will of the people”.
Anything with the word ‘citizen’ in it needs to be treated with suspicion. Citizens assemblies being one case in point, which are used to steer public opinion to pre-planned outcomes using facilitators and change agents. These use the Rand Corporation’s Delphi Technique to control the outcomes and give the impression that the public made the choices themselves. It is how Agenda 2030 is being implemented at local level across the world with the help of these sham citizens assemblies.
I came across this video from over a decade ago showing the mechanics of one of these so-called public consultations on long term housing and transport in the SF Bay area. It clearly demonstrates it was simply a steering mechanism to get the public to agree to losing private transport in favour of public transport. The agenda is set and the public get to vote on pre-determined outcomes, either A or B of which both result in the desired change but there is never a vote for ‘none of the above’ or any additional choices.
Everybody knows that train is good for the poor innocent labour masses against the rich wealthy evil car empirialistic colonialistic capitalist swines.
The capitalists will try to manipulate and threaten the workers into accepting and voting polluting diesel limousines in for the rich and bicycles for the working masses and their kids.
Thats why the Delphi Technique was developed….in socialist self defense!
Sorry, but I wish to hell they would bring a train to where I live, like they used to have 60 years ago. My god would it make life easier.
Like in China? Clearly, you have something against capitalism.
Asshole.
Have you watched the SHORT video?
They couldn’te even be clear where the 200 million dollars over 25 years will come from to create the train network. Although toll prices on bridges and roads were raised, taxing motorists further.
You are not being offered the train AND the car, you are going to lose your right to choose private transport, unless you count you legs or a bicycle as private transport. Not that you’ll be going very far from home with those unless you are a Tour de France champion cyclist.
The point is that they don’t want you driving and they won’t be giving you much in the way of affordable public transport to replace it. So stay home like a good serf and watch Netflix and scribble on Faecesbook.
Oh, and if you are really good and your social credit score is top notch and you have grassed up enough family and friends for minor infringements you will earn the privilege of a train ride out of town once a year in January to a beach resort covered in ice and snow. Enjoy!
I with you here Al. A Train network is actually a good healthy community thing for everybody bringing the country together in a comfortable way.
https://sandys.art/peoples_policy+budget_directives_ballot_2018.html
We are not powerless or useless, but crucially we are divided – in the USA, and its not just the USA, a revolution needs to happen, its a simple as that mass mobilisation to remove those in Washington and the Whitehouse is the only real solution, it will be bloody and messy, but those that control the USA won’t stand down voluntarily.
But as I say we are at present divided.
The replacement/ dilution of populations has greatly exaggerated the divide.
Ireland is an interesting example and seems to be an experiment- if they can get away with it in fiercely patriotic Ireland, the rest of us are a pushover.
What’s actually happened is the sectarian divide has been ( temporarily ?) suspended in a united push against what they see as an uninvited invasion.
As the man said, may you live in interesting times………….
Been reading that Ireland (RoI) is now being flooded with Afghani’s and the locals are fuming about it – four days ago in the North, Northern Ireland on the 12th of July the usual huge bonfires were built and set alight and stuck to them were the faces of people the Northern Irish loyalists ( Brit lovers) wanted to see – we shall call it removed.
The (RoI) fought hard for its independence with much blood sweat and tears shed – lets see if the current crop of Irish in (RoI) – has what it takes to stop the politicians and the EU from alienating the locals.
Its not just military situations that creeping mission applies to.
What to do.
For starters read up on Permaculture, and get planting, in pots, community gardens and your backyard.
Spread scepticism, suspicion and distrust of the oligarchy and their government arse kissers.
Suiturds are a scourge on humanity.
Become an anti consumer.
Less is more.
Write letters and emails to local politicians voicing your concerns.
Attend protests when possible.
Let’s bring back the Occupy Movement. That seemed to shake em up.
Support alternative media.
Eat healthy food, cut back on booze and get regular exercise.
We are at war.
The voting record of your legislative rep. is important. Voting unrecorded, by “acclamation” or by show of hands is criminal.
^^This is more garden variety throw the baby out with the bathwater crap.
The American revolution was a worldwide phenomenon that was never finished. The U.S. Constitution must be revitalized.
Grand Juries should be the 4th branch of government.
The problem is this has been ongoing since WW11 and accelerated in the last 50 years.
The tendrils of the plan are so widespread and many are red herrings.
If you had a magic sword you could cut many heads off the hydra but not kill the beast.
Once you realise it IS one plan, played out on many fronts you can appreciate the enormity of the task.
The only comfort I can think of is that all empires fall eventually.
But it doesn’t happen overnight.
The Roman Empire took 1000 years to finally collapse after the fall of Rome.
It is interesting to understand why it eventually fell.
Internally, the main reasons were Economic pressures, Corruption, Decline of miltary, Political instablilities.
All of which we see today and whilst the big plan is going on in the background, the governments of the world are busy eating themselves and will eventually go the way of Rome.
In the meantime we have to resist every tiny step they take. The huge covid demos in Germany and Austria stopped mandatory vaxxing.
Recently in UK the government have U-turned on winter fuel payments and tax free savings limits thanks to huge public resistance. Small things maybe, but things that consume a lot of government resources.
They’re trying to get us to riot at the minute by saying that the “mistake” they made over the Afghan interpreters may make us riot !
No, That would be counter productive.
Let’s just keep snapping at their heels every day.
Resist at every turn.