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Imagine All the People: Food, Freedom and What It Means to Be Human

Colin Todhunter

Photo by Árpád Czapp on Unsplash

Fifty-four years ago, John Lennon asked us to imagine a world with no borders. But he did not foresee a world where the only thing left to colonise would be our own humanity.

Today, the ‘dream’ has become a civilisation crisis, a cage of standardisation, designed to strip us of our culture and our biological autonomy (the corporate and geopolitical forces behind this are set out in Corporate Power, Imperial Capitalism and the Struggle for Food Sovereignty).

Most critiques of the global agrifood system, even those that describe themselves as radical, remain confined within the system’s own language. They argue over efficiency versus sustainability and yields versus biodiversity.

These debates often assume that the underlying framework of industrial development is given and that the task is to optimise outcomes within it.

But what if you refuse this paradigm? What if you expose what is usually kept beyond the bounds of policy debate? What if you argue that the crisis of food and agriculture is not primarily technical, environmental or economic but strikes at the heart of what it means to be human?

And what if we ask: what kind of humans are prevailing societal structures producing?

Food systems are not neutral mechanisms for delivering calories. Industrial, corporate-controlled food systems cultivate compliant consumers trained to accept abundance and convenience without knowledge or responsibility.

They produce farmers locked into cycles of debt, dependency and technological obedience, compelled to follow protocols designed elsewhere and measured by metrics they did not choose.

Even resistance is repackaged as ethical consumption, some barcode-scanning app that tells you how ‘healthy’ a product is or niche markets that leave the underlying logic intact.

Modern agrifood systems exemplify a world governed by Max Weber’s notion of instrumental reason. Decisions appear inevitable, justified by science, markets or returns on investment logic. This ‘iron cage’ is internalised and normalised and results in the type of food we eat daily.

But if Weber described the structural walls of this cage, it was Fyodor Dostoevsky who foresaw the psychological toll of living within it. Dostoevsky wrote of the ‘Crystal Palace’—a future of total rationalisation where every human need is calculated and every risk managed. He warned that in such a world, where life is reduced to a mathematical table of efficiency, the individual would eventually rebel. They would do so to assert independence and prove they are still human and not just data points in a master plan.

This is one reason why farmers reject corporate seeds, communities defend land and local foodways and movements insist on food sovereignty. Rather than clinging to the past or acting irrationally, they are asserting freedom and agency in a world that increasingly denies their legitimacy.

The likes of the Gates Foundation and the agrifood conglomerates have spoken of a one-world agriculture; here, a handful of transnational corporations and technocratic institutions will centralise control over seeds, inputs, markets and knowledge. This model prioritises uniformity and profit and imposes a monocultural logic worldwide: a move towards total control of nature and human labour under a global industrial paradigm.

Alongside this, we also see a trend towards the one-world human, a push to standardise humanity itself in terms of culture, tastes, habits, conformity and compliance. In other words, shaping humans to fit the needs of globalised systems.

But it goes much further than this. The tech giants (who are also heavily invested in the food system) have a vision of humans ‘enhanced’ or ‘optimised’ by biotechnology, AI or genetic manipulation. This too is designed to produce controllable and ‘efficient’ beings. It mirrors Weber’s rationalisation but applied to biology and cognition: humans become instruments that strip them of their capacity to act freely.

This is a civilisation crisis as cultures surrender their relationship to land, food and community to systems of control. In this light, food sovereignty is more than a political demand: it is a defence of human freedom. It is about the right to connection and choice.

We face a crisis that no amount of technology can remedy. It is not a question of better metrics or smarter technologies.

The answer lies in a recovery of imagination. This involves the capacity to envision forms of life that dominant power structures declare impossible. This is the ‘art of the impossible’. And, as discussed in the recent open-access book The Agrarian Imagination: Development and the Art of the Impossible, it is not some utopian fantasy.

Everyone eats, and therefore everyone participates in the order that food systems impose. To question food is to question how we relate to each other and to the land. It also involves how we relate to ourselves.

Do we want to increasingly live within a system imposed from above? Given the choice, most of us would say no. It comes down to whether people have the capacity or even the will in an age of state-corporate propaganda and censorship to recognise the world for the power play it is. Do they want to reclaim the freedom to imagine and enact different ways of being human?

Colin Todhunter specialises in food, agriculture and development and is a research associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization in Montreal. His open access books on the global food system can be accessed via Figshare (no sign in or sign up required).

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Eleanor
Eleanor
Dec 21, 2025 2:06 PM

The outstanding difference between humans and animals and plants is our power of reasoning; that is slowly being eroded by technology (deliberately, i would say), with AI being an important nail in our coffin… so where does that leave us?

Aloysius
Aloysius
Dec 19, 2025 9:34 PM

John was just mouthing standardized idealistic platitudes. Effective for a song: impossible when you get into the actual weeds.

I like how they play the song in church with the anti-religion stuff in it and all. It’s like heavy metal guys who think Spinal Tap is really cool.

Vagabard
Vagabard
Dec 19, 2025 9:38 PM
Reply to  Aloysius

Anything in the hymn “To God be the Glory” indicative of such themes?

George Mc
George Mc
Dec 20, 2025 1:32 PM
Reply to  Aloysius

I think the first time I ever heard “Imagine” was on “Stars on Sunday” – a religious request programme. Can’t recall the singer but it was a woman and this must have been sometime in the mid to late 70s.

Cured
Cured
Dec 19, 2025 6:08 PM

It’s not refusing the common needs. It’s who’s controlling it.

Heinz
Heinz
Dec 19, 2025 3:32 PM

Congratulations: Chile now fortunately has something that anti-German “Schland” has long since lost: a German president who is also anti-communist. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Schland

Even Chile has thus “overtaken Schland on the right,” while Schland continuing to hold up all global traffic as the absolute tail-ender in the far left lane with its rainbow-colored eco-scooter.

As expected, the anti-German lying press is in an uproar over such “terrible developments.” Chile has taken in 200,000 Negroes from Haiti in recent years, a disaster that must be remedied! 

Armando Romani
Armando Romani
Dec 19, 2025 5:46 PM
Reply to  Heinz

“Negroes?” Did you just emerge from time capsule that was buried in the 50’s?

Robbyjim
Robbyjim
Dec 20, 2025 9:30 AM
Reply to  Armando Romani

He’s merely revealing his true colours 😂

Tom
Tom
Dec 19, 2025 2:04 PM

Resenting women for their stupidity is like scolding monkeys for not being able to read and write. It’s a completely futile endeavor. As long as men don’t even consider [!] getting back behind the wheel themselves, women will continue to “purposefully” drive their cars into walls.

I experienced this firsthand a few days ago, so to speak. Although I had absolutely negative experiences with female dentists stored in my brain, I was nevertheless weak enough not to insist on replacing the female dentist assigned to me with a male dentist at a dental office.

And it came as it had to come: the “dental surgery” was an incompetent, sadistic ordeal of botched work that was almost unbearable and did more harm than good, both to body and soul. I felt helpless, vulnerable, and lost, as if I were on a torture chair.

It cannot be a coincidence that women have created practically no lasting technical or scientific inventions or achievements in human history, that there are no outstanding female artists or chefs, because they ruin the porridge, and their music is a cacophony of irrationalism.

Any man who seriously votes for a woman to hold political office (or a powerful position in a company) might as well flush himself down the toilet. That is precisely where we have ended up: in the cesspool of history.

Sam - Admin2
Admin
Sam - Admin2
Dec 19, 2025 7:43 PM
Reply to  Tom

Perhaps your comment sounds a bit resentful?

Johnny
Johnny
Dec 20, 2025 4:59 AM
Reply to  Tom

As a great teacher once said:

‘Men are 90% Love, and 10% something to do.
Women are 100% Love.’

We lost our way a long time ago.

George Mc
George Mc
Dec 21, 2025 8:00 AM
Reply to  Tom

I’ll pass your message on to Joni Mitchell. Amongst others.

Eleanor
Eleanor
Dec 21, 2025 1:58 PM
Reply to  Tom

Overall, your comment is highly disrespectful to your mother… women’s achievements in human history: when women’s ‘place was in the home’ their expertise in running an efficient homestead was phenomenal, for instance, financial astuteness (accountant), providing emotional support to both husband and children (psychologist), mending minor cuts and bruises (doctor), teacher to her children and, above all, the act of giving birth (no mean feat), including to yourself, Tom. In today’s world, eventhough wives and mothers are often in paid employment outside the home, they are still largely responsible for the smooth running of the household.

Paul Watson
Paul Watson
Dec 19, 2025 7:16 AM

UK government (WEF puppets and traitors) imposing inheritance tax on farmland will be the end of farming.
The land will be bought up by the usual suspects…
All about control amd agenda 2030

shakty
shakty
Dec 18, 2025 9:00 PM

There we were thinking RFK jr would make us healthy…

undergroundpoet
undergroundpoet
Dec 19, 2025 12:07 AM
Reply to  shakty

Its generational and you might have already run of time to achieve that.

Johnny
Johnny
Dec 18, 2025 9:01 AM

MINUS 3 = OCD.

les online
les online
Dec 18, 2025 7:01 AM

The other largely overlooked event at Bondi Beach on the weekend.

https://michaelwest.com.au/white-supremacists-with-australian-flags-what-really-went-down-at-bondi/

les online
les online
Dec 18, 2025 7:04 AM
Reply to  les online

Actually, not the weekend, but in September…

Erik Nielsen.
Erik Nielsen.
Dec 18, 2025 12:37 PM
Reply to  les online

Actually, not the month, but on the year 2025…

Big Al
Big Al
Dec 18, 2025 8:23 PM
Reply to  les online

There’s a number of zio psychos (hasbara?) running around here giving thumbs down to anything against Israel or Trump, their self proclaimed best friend. Fuck them. Enough of this shit.

brian of nazareth
brian of nazareth
Dec 18, 2025 6:34 AM

Thanks,Colin, for another excellent piece. After 20 years work in UK organic/BD agriculture I can confirm that the dead hand of the techno-scientific dystopia is gripping tighter. Each new freakish animal disease scare leads to greater intervention by the state and less freedom for farmers. These changes become permanent. Nutritional content of food is falling and health problems are rising. Rudolf Steiner saw this coming and created a farming method that recognizes the spiritual foundation of life..not an easy path to follow in these times.

Johnny
Johnny
Dec 18, 2025 7:45 AM

Rudolf Steiner.
He’s up there with the greatest teachers in history.

Without spirit we are only humans.
Not human BEINGS.

antonym
antonym
Dec 19, 2025 5:29 AM
Reply to  Johnny

I used to believe that too. Steiner had some occult knowledge, but little spiritual compass. Have you even seen his racial continents geography?

Johnny
Johnny
Dec 19, 2025 11:39 AM
Reply to  antonym

No, but I’ll check it out.

Johnny
Johnny
Dec 19, 2025 11:50 AM
Reply to  antonym

Every single one of us is of the Earth, and sustained by the Earth, physically and emotionally. So why not a spiritual connection.
It makes perfect sense.

The feeling of awe when we witness something beautiful in nature is a common human experience.

Vagabard
Vagabard
Dec 19, 2025 1:48 PM
Reply to  Johnny

True – the Earth is our ‘mother’ in some sense.

But such a human experience also raises the question of where that ‘Earth’ to which we all are universally tied actually came from. Or has it always been?

Were we just conveniently positioned at the perfectly optimal distance from the Sun, with universal physical constants perfectly optimal in terms of human survival (unlike those attempted inferior multiverse renditions of the same perfect Space)?

Or might there be there have been other forces always at work

Johnny
Johnny
Dec 20, 2025 4:54 AM
Reply to  Vagabard

That’s the big one.
I reckon we under-stand it when we’re dead.

les online
les online
Dec 18, 2025 6:15 AM

Nearly every Sunday arvio since 7 0ctober 2023 a peaceful rally-march
protesting the Gaza genocide has been held in Sydney Australia.
Participation has been steadily growing, and the state government has
been eagerly seeking an excuse to ban future marches…
“Globalize The Intifada” is one of the marcher’s chants. Recently there’s
been an orchestrated attempt to claim the chant is a code for “Kill the Jews”…
And the Australian PM says he will ‘target “hate speech” in sweeping legal
changes after the Bondi Beach massacre’…
Given the imputed meaning being given to the chant it’s most likely police
will be instructed to arrest anyone chanting the slogan at future marches
and charge them with “hate speech”. Should the march participants resist the
provocations the state government will seize on the ‘riot’ as it’s desperate
excuse to ban further marches against the genocide…
Another victory for Mossad*…

…….
https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/israel-propagandists-are-uniformly spouting
the exact same line about the Bondi shooting

** ‘By Deception Thou Shalt Wage War.’

Johnny
Johnny
Dec 18, 2025 5:10 AM

X is playing noughts and crosses using Ai:

0, if they don’t like your question.
X, if they answer it at all.

https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/12/how-often-do-ais-lie-and-censor/

antonym
antonym
Dec 18, 2025 2:16 AM

Homo sapiens turned out to be a greedy species with a closed herd mind. Why should we the last phase? We have proven to be willing tools at the hands of destruction and Mayhem. Walden didn’t work in the 19th century and Findhorn today still doesn’t. Eco villages are not the answer to a this much bigger issue.

A jump in Evolution needed, going above hive mind. Divine Intuition requires dropping all old mental and vital memes and desires, our cup has to be emptied before we can receive unpolluted Knowledge by identity, instead of the studying of the outside of things. It is so Vast our porcelain cup might break, so careful, no to drugs.

This time Pralaya / Armageddon is not going to happen again. The present negative world chaos proves that something huge positive is approaching, but the ground has to be cleared for it.

jubal hershaw
jubal hershaw
Dec 18, 2025 3:04 AM
Reply to  antonym

A jump in Evolution needed – Transhumanism. Then we’ll be wired for Peace.

antonym
antonym
Dec 18, 2025 8:13 AM
Reply to  jubal hershaw

Exactly not; real rEvolutionary jumps go from inside out. Just like Adolf H’s. Ubermensch this Transhuman half robot starts from the outside and will thus fail.

jubal hershaw
jubal hershaw
Dec 17, 2025 10:11 PM

Are these teens reacting to being cut off social media ?
https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/vic/2025/12/18/melbourne-teenage-riot

Johnny
Johnny
Dec 18, 2025 3:33 AM
Reply to  jubal hershaw

Gotta be more to it than Fakebook deprivation.

Erik Nielsen.
Erik Nielsen.
Dec 18, 2025 12:38 PM
Reply to  jubal hershaw

So the teens did it? My……….best socks man.

KiwiJoker
KiwiJoker
Dec 17, 2025 8:43 PM

First step: Collect your own rain water, even if it is just in a bucket

Next step: Grow your own garden, even if it is just a few herbs in a pot

Paul Watson
Paul Watson
Dec 19, 2025 7:12 AM
Reply to  KiwiJoker

Next step starve to death

Big Al
Big Al
Dec 17, 2025 8:35 PM

Do we want to increasingly live within a system imposed from above? 

Ya, everybody says no, but very few really want to do anything about it. And very few will acknowledge/realize what it is we have to do. I’m convinced that if we do not take over our political systems from the rich (zionist and technocratic billionaires, etc.) and powerful (i.e., corporations, banks, etc.), then it will get increasingly worse. In the US, continuing to vote for the politicians selected by the private democratic and republican political parties, totally controlled by those mentioned above) simply keeps our enemies to freedom in power. If more people don’t wake up to that fact and start participating in boycotts and challenges to the political system, nothing changes except for the worse. For example, why didn’t the author say this? The same old questions but no solutions.

undergroundpoet
undergroundpoet
Dec 18, 2025 12:49 AM
Reply to  Big Al

The solution might be to tear it all down and rebuild it, be patient grasshopper, the future awaits.

les online
les online
Dec 17, 2025 8:07 PM

Some good news ? President Trump is gonna give millions to US
farmers to help them go regenerative.
But it will be ‘regenerative’ as the government defines it…
Same as it (re)defined ‘organic’ to please the corporate supermarkets,
and supports ‘sustainable’ only when it comes to the economy, but not
the environment…

Tamim
Tamim
Dec 17, 2025 7:47 PM

In other words, shaping humans to fit the needs of globalised systems.

Jesus.. That’s it. Our choices are to become aligned – tributaries, feeding the Imperial Core. Or…

Todhunter’s ending Qs are spot on. So I guess it’s our move next..

Heinz
Heinz
Dec 17, 2025 6:47 PM

https://occidentaldissent.com/2025/12/16/nietzsche-and-rome/comment-page-1/#comment-3728994

“If you’re not Roman Catholic, you’re not Christian.”

Lol. To claim the exact opposite is an
equally (of course “Protestant”) lie.
https://archive.is/qJ958

AI responds to lies like this:

Core Definition of Christianity

Christianity centers on faith in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, not membership in any specific denomination. The term “Christian” first appears in Acts 11:26 for followers of Jesus in Antioch, long before the Roman Catholic Church formalized as a distinct entity around the 4th-11th centuries with events like the Edict of Milan (313 AD) and East-West Schism (1054 AD).

Historical Diversity

Early Christianity included diverse groups like Eastern Orthodox (split in 1054), Oriental Orthodox, and later Protestants (16th century Reformation), all tracing roots to the apostles and accepting core creeds like Nicene (325 AD). Roman Catholicism became the largest branch but never the sole one; for example, the Church of the East and others existed independently.

– Scriptural basis: Salvation comes through faith in Christ (John 3:16, Ephesians 2:8-9), not institutional affiliation—echoed across denominations.
– Denominational breadth: Over 2 billion Christians worldwide span Catholics (50%), Protestants (37%), Orthodox (12%), and others, per global estimates.
– No monopoly: The Bible warns against adding requirements to faith (Galatians 1:8); claiming exclusivity mirrors historical errors like Arianism, condemned at Nicaea.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPZ5kgzv6Dg

“Roman but Not Catholic” by Kenneth J. Collins and Jerry L. Walls argues that Roman Catholicism, while sharing core Christian beliefs, has added distinct Roman elements that prevent it from embodying true catholicity (universality).

Main Conclusions

The authors conclude that Protestant traditions better preserve the universal “catholic” faith of the early church, as Roman claims like papal supremacy and certain sacramental developments represent later innovations rather than apostolic essentials. They affirm unity on Trinitarian and Christological doctrines but highlight irreconcilable differences in authority (Scripture over tradition), ecclesiology (no exclusive Roman church), and soteriology (justification by faith alone).

Key Critiques

– Papacy and church structure: Rome’s exclusive ecclesial claims lack historical or biblical warrant, evolving from political influences rather than divine institution.
– Tradition and Mary: Extra-biblical traditions elevate Mary and sacraments in ways that divide rather than unite Christians.
– Path forward: Despite disagreements, Protestants and Catholics can collaborate ecumenically on shared gospel witness without compromising convictions.

https://pdfhost.io/v/Khq9ZBDZp9_Roman_but_Not_Catholic

Nietzsche’s theory of a “Christian slave morality” cannot be completely dismissed, however. At least, that is the argument put forward by those who distinguish between the European culture of guilt and the East Asian culture of shame.

It has been discovered that Japanese people, for example, deal with the consequences of World War II in a completely unbiased manner, rather than internalizing them morally, and this is attributed to the Christian implementation of the concept of an alleged “original sin” through the Bible.

This Canadian living in China, who often minimizes, conceals, or ignores the contribution of Germany to the development of Western civilization, claims that the Vatican is based on pagan culture. It is clear that Christianity made a large-scale attempt to eradicate all traces of paganism in Europe wherever it could. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rGf0dCRRNk

This was not so easy to implement, so these old traditions were adapted or incorporated in a subtle way. Christmas and Easter are therefore not purely Christian holidays, and the Christmas tree and Easter egg are pagan symbols. Many churches were literally built on pagan places of worship such as hills.

Gutenberg’s printing press became widespread through the production of Luther’s translation of the Bible. The foundation of Western culture. Btw., 45 % of Americans are Protestant, only 22 % are Catholic (and they are mainly from Latin America). The Anglican Church is ultimately a variation of the Lutheran version.

Modern high-performance capitalism is a Protestant invention, not a Catholic one. One could say that East Asians have become economic Protestants without even knowing it.

Incidentally, it is interesting to note that “Maiorianus” is a German YouTuber. I asked AI: “Can the classic claim that the Germanic tribes were “barbarians” be upheld from a historical perspective?”

AI replies:

No, the classic claim that Germanic tribes were “barbarians” cannot be upheld from a purely historical perspective, as the term was largely a Roman rhetorical device rather than an objective descriptor.

Term’s Origin

“Barbarian” derives from the Greek “barbaros,” mimicking the unintelligible speech of non-Greeks, and Romans applied it to Germanic peoples beyond their borders, like those east of the Rhine. Tacitus’s *Germania* portrayed them with mixed traits—praising virtues like chastity and bravery while decrying “wildness”—to critique Roman decadence more than to assess accurately. This label ignored evidence of Germanic sophistication, such as ironworking, trade networks, and runic writing from the Jastorf culture onward.

Cultural Achievements

Germanic tribes built complex societies with tribal assemblies, advanced metallurgy, and seafaring skills, evident in artifacts from Denmark and northern Germany dating to 500 BCE. They weren’t primitive; archaeology shows permeable borders, constant migrations, and cultural exchanges with Celts and Romans, challenging stereotypes of uniform savagery. Practices like possible human sacrifice were exaggerated or paralleled Roman brutality, such as gladiatorial games and slavery.

Roman Bias Exposed

Romans failed to conquer Germania fully after the Teutoburg Forest defeat in 9 CE, fueling propaganda that depicted tribes as fierce but uncivilized to justify borders. Later, during the Migration Period (375–568 CE), groups like Franks and Goths formed “barbarian kingdoms” within Roman territory, adopting laws, Christianity, and administration—proving adaptability over barbarism. Modern scholarship rejects the term’s validity, viewing it as ethnocentric rather than factual.

Here you need to activate the AI-
generated audio track of the video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rStkTdpRHWc

NNR-Nick, most likely due to my anti-Nazi criticism that I sent him, created a stream in which he justifies the brutality of the Nazi regime towards its critics as legitimate. There can be no talk of Christianity in such “thinking”; I would even argue that there is just as little talk of racial brotherhood.

https://rumble.com/v7348c6-nightnation.live-the-anti-hitler-resistence.html

https://de.zxc.wiki/wiki/Liste_von_im_Deutschen_Reich_hingerichteten_Personen

Although the Spanish do not consider themselves descendants of Germanic tribes, they are demanding the return of the Visigothic artifacts that Franco voluntarily handed over to Himmler. Of course, the submissive anti-Germans in the puppet-government, who are left-wing progressive globalists, will uncritically comply with this request.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3770767/Madrid-seeks-return-Visigoth-artefacts-handed-Heinrich-Himmler-1940-prove-Spain-s-Aryan-heritage-Nazis.html

sandy
sandy
Dec 17, 2025 6:34 PM

Yes! Withdrawing authority-to-decide the framework and details of “civilization” from the 1% and redistributing that authority to the collective of humanity, to decide, is a beginning pathway to becoming human again. The enticing power of wielding virtuality as a substitute for reality has consumed the elite into believing they do anything they want. What they seem to want is a personal economic and social Utopia for their class, sans us useless eater serfs. They think they can just cloister us away in an electronic cage and let their AI overlord do all the work while they enjoy themselves.

We can stop this by not consenting, not participating and actively resisting every new trap they set out to trick us. The spiritual aspect of being human that Todhunter calls forward is the saving passion we all need to cultivate and rekindle. It is the power that will energize our reemergence into reality, from this artificial submissiveness. Imho.

Johnny
Johnny
Dec 17, 2025 10:29 PM
Reply to  sandy

Well said Sandy.

Big Al
Big Al
Dec 18, 2025 12:03 AM
Reply to  sandy

I think we have to be more specific than that and focus on the political system. That’s what it’s all about. We don’t have a say in anything now other than who the two (and I keep emphasizing this) PRIVATE political parties (talking the states) roll out for us to vote for. The whole right/left, liberal/conservative thing tied to the democratic/republican parties is completely out of hand and totally obscures reality. Just resisting this and that as they come up is one thing and it really doesn’t get us anywhere. We need a coordinated effort to completely change the political system so it is not controlled by the rich and powerful. That would probably mean a new Constitution.

Johnny
Johnny
Dec 18, 2025 1:48 AM
Reply to  Big Al

We need some kind of social meltdown or economic cataclysm for that to happen.
Whichever it is, a lot of innocent Folks are gonna get hurt.

Big Al
Big Al
Dec 18, 2025 2:10 AM
Reply to  Johnny

Perhaps, but I’ve long felt that we have enough people to facilitate something that big, but we/they’re all fragmented, individual, and without a specific agenda. That was supposed to be the power of the internet applied to organizing political activism. It’s never happened other than small efforts that never take off. The closest was Occupy 2011, but the goals were never sufficient and it was seriously infiltrated and neutered.

And one thing about social meltdowns and economic cataclysms being the spur, I always think of North Korea and Argentina in the 90’s. It seems that no matter how bad it might get, the show still goes on for the rich and powerful. There has to be a system or systems in place that prevent that and the only way is thru a national Constitution and enforcement measures that are upheld that can prevent money and wealth, and their control of military/police power, from overruling the will of the people.

Johnny
Johnny
Dec 18, 2025 2:50 AM
Reply to  Big Al

I wonder: Was the Scamdemic a calculated response to the Occupy Movement?

We got stricter laws, increased surveillance, military intervention and fear fuelled compliance.

Big Al
Big Al
Dec 18, 2025 4:00 AM
Reply to  Johnny

Ah, you know what was about. Money. Greed. Pay the investors. As usual. Except in this case, the evil agenda of intentionally killing people, making them sick, reducing birthrates, digital medical IDs, fucking with DNA, shedding, etc., is possibly reason number one. Major corporations are well known to about anything to continue their gravy train.

Jerry Alatalo
Jerry Alatalo
Dec 17, 2025 1:26 PM

But it goes much further than this. The tech giants (who are also heavily invested in the food system) have a vision of humans ‘enhanced’ or ‘optimised’ by biotechnology, AI or genetic manipulation. This too is designed to produce controllable and ‘efficient’ beings. It mirrors Weber’s rationalisation but applied to biology and cognition: humans become instruments that strip them of their capacity to act freely.

*

Spread this warning message!

human
human
Dec 17, 2025 12:26 PM

Politicians impose genocide = mass murder of people for profit
People peacefully protest slaughter = proscription, arrest, imprisonment
Prisoners hunger strike protest = day 46 and close to death
His Majesty’s Prison, Lammy and Labour = the killers don’t care

https://www.thenational.scot/news/25704433.mp-joins-prison-protest-palestine-action-hunger-striker-may-die/

This is where British society is today…lovely christmassy feelings, season of goodwill.

A twenty year old woman (and many others) starving to death to oppose a mass slaughter of innocents, which continues.

Merry Xmas Everyone/s

Veri Tas
Veri Tas
Dec 17, 2025 8:49 PM
Reply to  human

Obviously, in prison people haven’t much power to declare their protest in effective ways. But to declare your opposition by weakening, starving and killing yourself defeats the purpose of protest. THEY don’t actually care, nothing changes.

We need to empower ourselves (outside of prisons), become stronger, united (and forget for a moment our differences) and evade THEIR systems, as much as possible, go our own way and build our own networks and communities. Buy from small, preferably organic retailers, farmers markets; seek out health care practitioners outside of the vaxx and petrochemical medicine sector; not join the ranks of standing armies and police; take our young children out of the school system and homeschool them; switch off the TV permanently, etc. Let The System collapse.

Vagabard
Vagabard
Dec 18, 2025 7:55 PM
Reply to  human

Yet another death for misinterpreting world events and taking social media propaganda as gospel. Aka dying for the proverbial ‘misguided cause’.

Not the first time in human history, nor likely the last.

Binra
Binra
Dec 17, 2025 12:09 PM

How not to see globalism being seeded in Lennon’s iconic secular hymn?

The use of music to install messaging and shape the mind, isn’t new, but technological reach under insider elitists control has made a prison planet.
Not so bad if you can get your meds! /sarc

Imagination is creative – but a fearful or lack-driven imagination runs miscreative.
The latter is what makes a prison of the body and world.
But first it makes a split mind from wishful thinking given power.
Willing is whole, but a split will cannot know wholeness and doesn’t make sense. But nonsense as struggle between reality and self-illusion, for which we then feel guilt and a need to mask, hide and divert or mitigate symptomatic conflict. to escape or overcome.

The use to which the mind is put is then acted out on bodies – as a weaponising of Communication.
Once you’re IN the ‘Ego OS’ of a masking identity struggle, Communication is lost or heavily distorted to the maintaining of a self in the world that it adapts by acquiring it.

Yes we are poisoning our own well.
But a deeper function of ‘sickness and guilt’ is as ‘proof’ against The Creative.
Imaginations of self-illusion sound ephemeral, but framed in fear and driven by guilt, they operate a mind to which God in All That Is — is rendered ephemeral.

NixonScraypes
NixonScraypes
Dec 17, 2025 4:44 PM
Reply to  Binra

Yes, globalism is seeded by Lennon’s maundering, vapid Imagine

les online
les online
Dec 17, 2025 8:16 PM
Reply to  NixonScraypes

And i thought he was indulging in wistful, maudlin longing !
I now wonder what he really meant by “Give Peace A Chance !”

Veri Tas
Veri Tas
Dec 17, 2025 8:59 PM
Reply to  NixonScraypes

But do we know whether that was his intent? Would we need countries if everyone agreed to live and let live?

Armando Romani
Armando Romani
Dec 17, 2025 5:13 PM
Reply to  Binra

No countries, no religion and no possessions certainly all sounds like goals of the globalist agenda; but to his credit, he does manage to sneak in a reference to peace. Sometimes you just can’t keep those drugged-out hippies in line. 🙂

Vagabard
Vagabard
Dec 18, 2025 9:12 PM
Reply to  Binra

You’ve highlighted one of the fundamental flaws in ACIM’s philosophy.

The psychological impossibility of truly believing the world is an illusion while still functioning within it

Kay
Kay
Dec 17, 2025 9:27 AM
Aloysius
Aloysius
Dec 17, 2025 11:26 PM
Reply to  Kay

Quite a commercial

Johnny
Johnny
Dec 18, 2025 3:02 AM
Reply to  Kay

They’re gonna need more than PR.
The Israeli hierarchy needs heart transplants.
Or maybe just some hearts.

Erik Nielsen.
Erik Nielsen.
Dec 18, 2025 12:45 PM
Reply to  Kay

What does she mean? WE hear about it 24/7/30/12. So now they want MORE publicity.

Johnny
Johnny
Dec 17, 2025 9:02 AM

The CORPARASITES insatiable lust for profits and never ending growth knows no bounds.

They want EVERTHING, and will stop at nothing to satiate their lust.

There are eight billion of us.
They will not succeed.

Their plots and plans will come unstuck, because the economics of avarice do not take chaos into account.

ariel
ariel
Dec 17, 2025 5:53 PM
Reply to  Johnny

No, they require adhering to, sticking with the plan. If you look back at the Rockefeller Foundation’s ‘Lockstep 2010’ and the succeeding events which have taken place subsequently you can see the updated version, the plandemic being a specific case in point, plus the NHS parody in the 2012 London Olympics A song and dance act.
What’s in a decade?
Well…….

Rolling Rock
Rolling Rock
Dec 17, 2025 7:26 PM
Reply to  Johnny

I used to share your optimism but the controllers have the chaos angle covered too. They’ll manufacture it and have a pre-determined solution to resolve it.

‘Ordo ab chao’ is the name of the game.

Perhaps, in the event of UNCONTROLLED chaos then they would not have a ready to go, off the shelf solution.

But how many people, including those reading this, are willing to throw the cards up in the air? Unfortunately, very few, since the resulting mess will not be pretty but perhaps the only way, barring some great awakening, which seems less likely each passing day.

Johnny
Johnny
Dec 17, 2025 10:42 PM
Reply to  Rolling Rock

Isn’t Life itself uncontrolled (and uncontrollable) chaos?
That, and the mystery of creativity, whatever that means.

Rules, regulations and laws are man made. Nature, including human nature, follows no blueprint.

As a severely disabled mate says:
“It is what it is”.

Freedom Girl
Freedom Girl
Dec 18, 2025 5:43 AM
Reply to  Johnny

As a severely disabled female, that is a great comment! Yup. Nature follows no blueprints. There is no roadmap for these journeys. We are all messy ecosystems within ecosystems, clusters and galaxies of matter.

Erik Nielsen.
Erik Nielsen.
Dec 18, 2025 7:09 PM
Reply to  Johnny

“I’ll take you to the candy shop”: https://youtu.be/3e1wXMKAZag