The state of the world, and especially here at home, is inherently corrupt. Those in power strive for more power and power is allotted to said person or persons with the most money. This is an extremely oversimplified statement that needs to be explained word for word. Starting with the last, "money", and making our way towards "power". First, money is what fuels our god-like economy (just watch the news, the stock market is to be feared and worshipped). And the economy of the age is capitalism; the system in which all are free to do what they wish with what they have in their pockets. Turns out though, the average American has no control over his or her money anymore because of credit debt. They were slyly enticed into getting a credit card or taking out massive student loans because without credit these people would not be able to survive. Just think of how shitty life would be if you didn't have a car or a BA. I'm being sarcastic of course. But this is the mentality of the masses. They MUST own a car, and they MUST get a college education. It would be a pretty sweet world if everyone got a college education. I mean, the ideas and conversations floating around would be indescribably awesome. However, that is a tangential thought when we look at the state of the US right now. Americans have become so indebted that they have no means of achieving any kind of progression in their lives because they can't take the financial risk of say, hopping on a plane and relocating to New Zealand. They are STUCK in their jobs out of fear. Fear that more bills will come in the mail that they cannot afford to pay because the interest has shot up to 28%. Fear that at any moment they will lose their jobs. Fear that they might get sick or have an accident and will have to decide if its more affordable to lose one eye, even though the doctor could save both. Average American citizens are the modern-day fear-induced wage slaves. They have absolutely no control. But do they?
That brings me to the next part of the oversimplified aforementioned statement; person or persons with money. I only have to mention that those in power (that 1% of the world population, that is basically in control of EVERYTHING, new world order status) are the directors of the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and the Federal Reserve. This holy trinity of masked evil, or axis of evil (heh), basically runs our wage-slave world. And lets not forget the always elusive Bilderburger group. These groups of people are the wealthy masterminds of the day to day. They control what media we are exposed to, what kind of food we eat, the energy that we can use, etc. The money that they have accumulated over the past 30 or so years, since Regan era, has come from their wonderful adventures in destroying other countries to make it appear as if our country was booming economically. So, the US government, under orders from the deathstar holy trinity, raped and pillaged nations all across the globe to gain control of their resources (banana republics really got the short end of the stick, and that's why we have presidents like Hugo Chavez of Venezuela and other Latin American nations denouncing the US). Over these thirty years, the axis of evil accumulated a sick amount of wealth by way of their privately owned corporations setting up shop in foreign nations. These people sound pretty powerful. But it's really the silent American public that is making them powerful.
Americans need to stop putting up with this shit. I'm almost positive that this computer is going to be targeted because they are so many key words that go against the very world order that these crazies are trying to make happen. They want complete world domination. And they will achieve that if people don't wake up and protest this plutocratic society. We are no longer living under the umbrella of capitalism. We, the so called peasants, are living under the watchful of eye of big brother, the death star, the holy trinity, or whatever you want to call it. Unless we stop this madness, our world forever be in the hands of the wealthy lunatics. Money does not bring happiness. Thus, one could argue that these wealthy s.o.b's are the farthest from happiness. So what does that mean for us all? Those in power don't care about us because they are unhappy money gobbling drones. Additionally, the grand majority our elected officials are blinded to our needs because they cater only to the CEOs of blue chip companies, which are controlled by the deathstar.
So how do we bring them down? revolution.
and here's a fun movie to watch that delineates the major issues:
http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/
click on the zeitgeist:addendum link
You had me 100% right up until the implication
that being under "the umbrella of capitalism" is a better thing. Capitalism is
what brought us here. It is inherently disempowering, because the phenomenon of
technology and capital turns humans into machines, controls them, becomes their
god, replaces life with nonlife, and is thus autonomous in its own
momentum.
Also, you lost me with Zeitgeist. I've watched that movie -
actually had a bit of an obsession with it several years ago for a couple
months. It was a great eye-opener, a beginning - but that's all it is: a
beginning, to a path which leads one to question everything with great concern.
Even the movie itself, which is full of holes. So, I see it as an instrumental,
useful device whose purpose serves to open one's inquiry to the state of the
world and question fundamental assumptions. But it's by no means reference
material after such an enlightened post as yours, I think.
This inherently unsustainable death
project Leviathan we're enslaved to called "civilization", the all-encompassing pantheon of mass religion, the State, capital, technology, and science, has been
domesticating and controlling life, humans included, and wrecking our biosphere for the past
10,000 years.
