WATCH: How to Leave the Cage – #SolutionsWatch
Joining James Corbett for this episode is returning guest Etienne de la Boetie2. In a follow up to How to Present Info for Visual Learners, this time we discuss his new book, To See The Cage is to Leave It and the 25 techniques of control that it elucidates and demystifies.
They talk about how visually interesting information is a more effective tool for unlocking minds, how people can see through the techniques of indoctrination that the oligarchs use to get us to worship the state, and what a world free from the cult of statism would really look like.
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So this guy is using the same techniques the bad guys use to ENCAGE people in order to enlighten the caged as to the existence of the cage — and the existence of the bad guys who made the cage. YUK. I suppose this is good, in the sense that the encaged do need to see the cage. But why does it make me want to vomit?
What a hardcore american presentation, tough nut for me (european), on top that I have some serious objections to voluntaryism.
I agree, state must be abolished.
What will be after?
Etienne claims that real freedom will bring harmonious society. With a bit of exaggeration, milk&honey, too.
He should have explained how real freedom on its own could achieve this, instead of proclaiming it as a slogan. Two really free individuals will during an interaction sooner or later end up in a dispute. Most are resolved in some way, what about the harder ones. Some guiding principles are needed for resolution, but voluntaryists are not interested about this topics. They should be, they would like to have harmonious society.
Their usual response is something on the line that they don’t want to give prescriptions, circumstances will be very different in stateless society so it’s hard to impossible to have solutions at hand now. And people will find solutions, they always do.
I concur, this are hard topics, but it is necessary to tackle them, to have at least solutions that might be just provisional, because statists won’t buy cat in the bag, last but not least they are rational beings. Some work on this field has already been done by Proudhon and Kropotkin for example…interesting you won’t hear about them from voluntaryists.
More to the point, Etienne said people have evolutionary wired trait to congregate around leaders. Does he think the trait will miraculously disappear when stars&stripes will be replaced by big beautiful yellow-black V?? I don’t think so, hence you need at least some answers, because by proposing new ways you put yourself in kind of leader position.
I, as an anarchist, would rather live in a fucking state, than in a badly conceived voluntaryist society turning into Hobbesian hellscape. Don’t tell me this is entirely impossible.
Voluntaryism puts way to much emphasis on human economic activities, like life is only about producing, trading and consuming (and not to get robbed by the state). Look which thinkers have appeared in the podcast (41:00): Rothbard and Bastiat. They are foremost economists and Proudhon rightfully said to Bastiat: “You are without philosophy”.
Bastiat’s wikipedia page has been sanitized and you won’t find the following quote anymore:
“We cannot doubt that self-interest is the mainspring of human nature. It must be clearly understood that this word is used here to designate a universal, incontestable fact, resulting from the nature of man, and not an adverse judgment, as would be the word selfishness.”
So, self-interest explains human beings almost in totality…how patently wrong. I would say self-evidently, still we live in an era where hyper-individualism reigns, therefore many would expect some arguments for my claim. Just for starter, the only thing we can say at first glance about human nature to be an “incontestable fact”: it’s very pliable. My claim is based on history and is an example of a sound argument based on history, unlike, for example, socialism doesn’t work: USSR (I don’t endorse socialism).
More about self-interest, selfishness, to hopefully understand how wrong Bastiat, so much praised by voluntaryists, was:
Etienne and James like their info-graphics presenting relations among different -isms. Where is anarchism? Nowhere?
Info-graphics are ok for pamphlet, for that use precision isn’t imperative. I don’t get how liberal can be less for freedom than conservative. Oh, yeah, Americans, uf puf, man…. I have counter example: abortion. What… that is a non-issue, or will be in free society? I don’t think so and by the way, I would love to know what voluntaryists think about abortion.
Future free society dweller will surely look at info-graphics with WTF in his eyes. Actually, they are meaningless, it is about paradigm change.
Lets go from philosophizing to concrete, healthcare.
Socialism is connected to universal healthcare in the pamphlet. I don’t really get it, but yeah, cultural differences I guess.
Being healthy is universally considered to be good, being sick is bad. No one knows will he become ill, will he have an accident and get injured, nor he knows how bad the situation will be, how complicated and expensive will be to get him back. No one wants either of the enumerated to happen to him, we prefer to be healthy. Unfortunately shit happens.
When someone is sick or injured he would like to get the best care, get back from bad state asap. I think what I said until now is a universal truth.
A proposition for healthcare in free society:
Everybody are in unpredictable risk all the time, therefore the most reasonable and wise is to hedge against the risk and act in Solidarity.
I hear: so now a whole lot of money will be spent on that bump, while I (affluent) am paying a lot and barely get anything. Answer: would you like to change your health for his, I mean, right now? You are lucky, be happy.
Universal healthcare is offered, who joins pays all the time and gets what and when he needs. It’s not mandatory. Children are covered if parents participate.
The one who doesn’t pay can get needed services, lets say twice (limited definitely). When he uses his free rides it is over, he can die in front of the hospital.
I’ve been called nazi for this idea. However, at least I have a proposition that can be discussed, improved, dismissed, voluntaryists have nothing.
The Night Rangers give their advise. “Come on little sister break out, let it out”: https://youtu.be/Szs1Yi6gKb8 .
The whole world is going in the same direction. Not how, but where? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHkfERD0ukY .
You guys wont do it without a little rock-n-roll: I told you so! https://youtu.be/W-gngBsA_DI .
Seeing the cage is part of the issue, but I think they’re well beyond that with the impending “Great Taking”, which I’ve come to believe is THE mechanism to introduce CBDC (or the US version stable coin) digital gulag.
If you’re not aware of the “Great Taking” you can read or download the book for free here
Or watch the “Great Taking” Documentry here
From feedback I’ve recieved recomending the book and documentry, it seems a lot of people think there’s too much financial jargon confusing the message, and it’s too long, it gets turned off half way through, or the book gets abandoned before the real message is taken onboard. So I looked for a shorter version, that links in the planned CBDC to it, providing a clearer, shorter message that anyone could understand.
This is the best I’ve found so far (14 mins) if anyone has another example please post it.
The Great Taking: How Your Assets Will Be Seized Without You Knowing
Even if you’re aware of the message in “The Great Taking” I think it’s worth watching, he lays out a fictional scenareo based on the back office laws and legislation outlined in the “Great Taking” book, where the global financial crisis event is triggered and the solution is CBDC/stablelcoin, at which point the cage door swings shut on us all, globally.
All the laws and regulations are in place globally, CBDC/stablecoin is already being used by central banks to test the systems, in over 100 countries, the last piece of the puzzle, that they absolutely must have in place first is Digital ID, theire digital gulag cannot opperate without it, CBDC cannot be implimented without Digital ID.
And the latest news on that front in the UK popped up today:
Keir Starmer is ‘seriously considering’ introducing digital ID system as a way to tackle immigration and bring public services back into shape
It’s obviously a propaganda balloon, they’re testing to see if their narrative will work, this is the fight, this is the only hill to die on. If they pull Digital ID off, the cage door slams shut.
Unreported by UK media (not saying it’s necessarily real but that doesn’t usually stop them):
https://www.agcnews.eu/ukrainerussiawar-british-men-arrested-by-russians-accused-of-participating-in-military-operations-against-russia/
One can leave The Cage with or without Internet. Ancient Seers did it before us by improving their consciousness and thus opening their third eye, experiencing what the first and second physical eyes can’t see in front of their noses. It views in 360 degrees at once and sees the forces playing with mankind in a parallel dimension. Great discernment is need there because these vital forces can take any shape, usually one you are familiar with from your culture. They like to fool you, like prankers. Using drugs to enter it is sure failure way.
Internet can speed the consciousness evolving process up, but also slow it down, depending on the independence of the user. Faith in a benevolent omnipotent Divine is essential, but fallen angels exist and now function as push factors. Everything has a function. Go for own experience over hearsay. Look what people do, not what they say.
There’s no breaking out of the cage without breaking it. We have to dismantle the machinery of our oppression and the systems of power in which we’re already integrated as infrastructure on the way to building our own permanent prison. There’s no good reason, for instance, for free people to be hooking themselves up to 5/6G military tech or entrusting governance to AI or continuing to use cellular communications for voluntary surveillance, as if any of this technology is neutral and independent of the fascist corporate state that has created and controls it. The pathology of power pushes for fuller spectrum dominance from space, where no one on the planet isn’t under Big Brother’s watchful eye. We better start monkey-wrenching the plans and building the mass movements to strike the system.
Each year Sydney holds a number of Funruns, and Marathons through its
streets… There are scenes of tens of thousands pouring across the Sydney
Harbour Bright… Everyone is excited… Media coverage usually focusses
on the drop-outs, but mostly on ‘the injured’ – but there are never any calls,
especially by The Police, for such events to be limited for ‘safety’ reasons…
Yesterday, Sunday 3 July’ police estimated “90,000” joined the Walk across
The Harbour Bridge to protest against Israel’s destruction of Gaza…
The national tv broadcaster’s evening news devoted most of its coverage
not to the walk but to claims by the police that the numerous participants
made the event unsafe for the walking participants, insisting that future
permissions for protest events involving walking across The Bridge should
be refused on Safety grounds…
‘Safety !’ is invoked to justify every restriction by the State…
Every government on Earth is conned, corrupted, persuaded or threatened by lobbyists, corporate and political. Australia is no exception.
Two of the most influential lobby groups are the multi national corporations (especially the MIC) and the Chosen People lobby.
Strings are pulled. Piss weak puppets dance.
Johnny is just trying to be polite.
If we should say it in sacred facts, the truth is that Australia’s ancient for-fathers were hard core criminals expelled from England’s prisons. Therefore security has a special meaning for the Police in these areas.
I’m sure some were murderers. However, how much do you really know about the first prisoner settlers of Australia? How about women who sold their bodies in order to feed themselves or their children; men and boys who stole some bread for the same reason, etc. Take a look back through the history books as to how the majority lives in England at the time.
The biggest scam in history…
Limit history, then, to what can be ‘believed’ by family records, limit for commoners ca. 1800
(nothing written can be ‘believed’ before that)
The biggest scam in history is the Globe lie.
Perpetuated here.
Not sure about ‘biggest’. It’s all a scam, globe, religion, medicine (except for emergency care), the money system, the legal system and history per se.
Presumably those of 1800 also had a version of history and believed in ancestors of some sort. Or did history start with them
The biggest scam in history?
That’s obvious.
Time was invented by humans.
The past and future do not exist, except in our deluded minds
Now IS eternity.
Life IS Now.
See it. Feel it. Live it.
“Seems that eternity is truth, time illusory.
Or, to be less formatory, eternity is more real than time, it precedes it in the ray of creation.
When we move toward truth, we move toward eternity, and vice versa. The truth is eternal. Eternity is the truth. Time passes. Be here now.” (Author unknown).
‘Be here now’?
Ramana Maharshi.
Maybe, but there are many others. https://ps1611.org/2017/09/eternity-more-real-than-time/
“It is not that time is not real. It is that time is so incredibly small, and so incredibly weak in comparison to the framework in which this strand has been hung.
Time itself is nothing but a mere thread in the tapestry of forever.
If we are willing, we already know that it is true. Time is so limiting.
Time brings up stress within our fleshly frames.
We stress about a tiny little fraction of forever, called our past.
We worry about where the thread is going, and miss the Truth that if we fall of the thread (or leave it intentionally) we actually step into a much more stable place.” 😀.
What difference is there between two men in a prison when one of the is a convict and the other a visitor!
A man comes to visit his friend, and it seems that both are in prison, but there is a great difference between them.
One of theme is held there by time because of guilt, while the other has come from eternity out of love for mankind.
Thus it is with our mortality: guilt holds us here, but Christ had come out of mercy. He came freely into bondage, and not as a convict.
~St. Augustine of Hippo, AD350
Not bad of a guy who lived 1700 years ago.
EXECUTIVE, n. An officer of the Government, whose duty it is to enforce the wishes of the legislative power until such time as the judicial department shall be pleased to pronounce them invalid and of no effect. Following is an extract from an old book entitled, The Lunarian Astonished—Pfeiffer & Co., Boston, 1803:
LUNARIAN: Then when your Congress has passed a law it goes
directly to the Supreme Court in order that it may at once be
known whether it is constitutional?
TERRESTRIAN: O no; it does not require the approval of the
Supreme Court until having perhaps been enforced for many
years somebody objects to its operation against himself—I
mean his client. The President, if he approves it, begins to
execute it at once.
LUNARIAN: Ah, the executive power is a part of the legislative.
Do your policemen also have to approve the local ordinances
that they enforce?
TERRESTRIAN: Not yet—at least not in their character of
constables. Generally speaking, though, all laws require the
approval of those whom they are intended to restrain.
LUNARIAN: I see. The death warrant is not valid until signed by
the murderer.
TERRESTRIAN: My friend, you put it too strongly; we are not so
consistent.
LUNARIAN: But this system of maintaining an expensive judicial
machinery to pass upon the validity of laws only after they
have long been executed, and then only when brought before the
court by some private person—does it not cause great
confusion?
TERRESTRIAN: It does.
LUNARIAN: Why then should not your laws, previously to being
executed, be validated, not by the signature of your
President, but by that of the Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court?
TERRESTRIAN: There is no precedent for any such course.
LUNARIAN: Precedent. What is that?
TERRESTRIAN: It has been defined by five hundred lawyers in three
volumes each. So how can any one know?