(As I wrote this I thought of a fun idea, so even if you don't care to read all this, please at least jump to the end to see the ideas, and offer any input if possible)
Just had a few thoughts after reading this:
http://www.sott.net/articles/show/157028-Lizards-and-Vultures-and-Swine-Oh-my-
Specifically this bit:
http://www.sott.net/articles/show/152054-Our-Learned-Helplessness
And this feeling of helplessness is compounded by the fact that so many different people and groups have so many different opinions on why the world is so messed up and what needs to be done to fix it. And they are all screaming their version with such certainty that we get the impression that NOBODY knows the answer. It seems like a riddle wrapped in mystery, shrouded in an enigma. Some people think "Well maybe it's just a combination of all those things, and all those people shouting are partially right?". Other people think "Well, they're ALL wrong!" or "Probably one of those groups is right, but who can know which one?" and yet others just join in with one of the groups pretty much arbitrarily (like joining a religion or some environmentalist group or maybe an anti-religious group, whatever) and begin shouting along with them. And I'm not even talking about the "lost souls" who don't even see realize that there are any problems to begin with (do such people still exist in this day and age!?).
So the problem appears 2-fold. One, it's too mysterious and too complicated to understand. Two, even brilliant few who understand it don't have the power or resources (apparently the power and resources of entire nations are not enough) to do anything about it. Sure makes you feel helpless!
Let me make a brief list of things I've learned since joining SOTT regarding the above issues. It's partly for my own review since I've been in a mental hiatus for the past few months, but also, this might be useful to somebody who might be in a similar mental rut right now. And try not to laugh if some of these are "uh, duh?" points, it's just a review to get a clearer mental picture because I'm just so damn "out of it" right now it's not even funny.
1) All those governments/organizations/charities are NOT actually working to "improve the world" as they declare. In many cases they ARE the problem, and almost all other cases, they do very little to help others and mostly just get rich themselves. Some of them neither help anyone nor do they get rich, they exist for no other purpose than to distract and lead people truly looking for answers/solutions into the wrong direction (or they themselves have started out genuinely and have been derailed by COINTELPRO, but either way, they end up serving COINTELPRO).
2) Most of those people shouting their version of what's wrong with the world and what must be done to fix it are, as above, either COINTELPRO themselves or have been "derailed" by COINTELPRO into the wrong direction. Yes, there are like a billion different groups and different ideas/"solutions" - and that's intentional, not a case of rampant incompetence (ok maybe it is rampant incompetence, but it has been greatly "assisted"). It makes searching for the right group with the truth seem like a needle in a haystack affair, and that's the point.
3) Besides there being a billion different groups and ideas, these groups are at every "level" of understanding. Some are laughably stupid (which are very effective against laughably stupid people - KKK anyone?), others are pretty logical and plausible, and in many ways tell the truth but are still wrong at very imortant key points. Depending on how smart and developed you yourself are, as Laura said, there's a group out there catered just for you. We're talking from KKK to Christianity to the New Age movement to Bush to Atheism to Alex Jones to Scientology to the Council on Foreign Relations, etc. EVERYBODY is covered! Narcissists, psychopaths, and normal people of every level.
4) The world's problems are not nearly as complex as they are made to appear by all this mess. This illusion of "impossible complexity" is intentional so that it is too intimidating for most people to sit down and seriously and logically/critically think about it. And those who dare attempt this will find themselves stuck in the aforementioned haystack of nonsense. It's very hard to think logically and critically if ALL your ideas about the world's problems and their solusions have been provided to you by the media, by those various BS groups and agencies that spout lies and nonsense.
K and finally the solution to all the world's problems: (can I have the frequency envelope please)... Truth. Truth does both, reveals the true nature of our problem, and provides the solution. Without it we have neither. It's just that darn simple.
Although, it doesn't mean we must learn all the current systems as they are in meticulous detail in order to understand what to do about them. Cuz that really IS an impossible task. The banking system, for example, is so bloody complicated with all those concepts and dynamics and numbers that it really does take a veritable genius to truly understand how it all works, and somehow I doubt that there's a single person on this planet who can grok ALL of it in all its intricacies. And it's not just the banking system, it's governmental systems and other major systems and this crazy complexity is intentional. Cuz if nobody knows how this system works except the select few, then most people won't realize they're voluntarily complying with some very huge scams that do nothing but enslave them.
So to fix it, we don't need to all just spend years studying all the intricate details of all those systems to know what to change and where and how. We just need to understand some fundamentals, certain key concepts about how those systems work, so that we understand why and how they are used to enslave us. And then drop those systems entirely and start from scratch. Of course, we can't do that until we also understand psychopaths. But the same thing applies - we don't need to read volumes and volumes of psychology books to understand psychopaths and how they function and why they were able to trick ALL OF US and rule the world. I mean, the more we read the better obviously. But most people will not be able to dedicate years of intense study to these things. Plus, most sources that talk about the intricate details of those systems ARE part of the confusion/nonsense campaign, so they'll just fill our heads with more confusion/nonsense and get us away from the important and objective parts. As the C's say "textbooks are propaganda" so unless you're already very critical and careful of what you're reading, you'll just get pulled along with the garbage and useless nonsense. So how to get people into the right "mindset" to be able to "weed" and know what to look for and what to discard and how? That brings me to...
IDEA!!!!
Ok so I just got another idea. How about we write some basic 5th-grade level "guides for complete dummies" regarding these various subjects? A very condensed but simultaneously very revealing/informative booklets that go right to the heart of every issue and using simple to understand analogies and yes, PICTURES, explain these things? We'll one-up all those other dummy books - EVERYTHING will be totally backed up by data. I mean personally, nothing works as well as seeing a former American president talk about the secret cult that rules the world. It's easy for people to dismiss some random person saying it, not so easy when you hear a president or other "important people" say stuff like that. But also the booklets would need to be funny and interesting/fascinating to read. And of course include links/references to much more detailed books/information/sources/data.
Maybe not just booklets but VIDEOS that accompany them? Laura you guys are making this ouija board video, would you be able to make some more with other topics? I know there's podcasts but I think a lot more people may be interested if they actually saw you guys talking (and other visuals if that's possible, maybe similar to that money video here: _http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cy-fD78zyvI). Because of television we've become a very visual bunch of critters and we like to see stuff, stuff that we'd never listen to if it didn't have visual images accompanying it. I think the Pentagon Strike animation would not have been nearly as popular if it didn't have the brilliant images/animations with it. Also Youtube being like one of the top websites in the world is probably an indication that people like to see videos of stuff.
But I don't think the videos should be in the same format as the podcasts. I think it might be better if they are in a similar format to the short booklets - very short (people have very short attention spans nowadays) but cover a lot in very few words, go right to the heart of the matter, etc. They can still be funny and include spontaneous creativity etc, but still cover the vital material in a few minutes.
I know you said a lot of stuff is in the works, so I'm just throwing the above into the mix for consideration. :)
Just had a few thoughts after reading this:
http://www.sott.net/articles/show/157028-Lizards-and-Vultures-and-Swine-Oh-my-
Specifically this bit:
I remembered this article:Les Visible said:
http://www.sott.net/articles/show/152054-Our-Learned-Helplessness
In a flash of sudden realization (which instantly prompted me to write it down before it promptly turns into a flash of sudden forgetting, hence this post), upon reading Les's article, I realized that another reason we're so helpless is exactly because we assume that those in power do their best to make the world a better place, and since they keep failing we assume it's because it is just a ridiculously difficult if not impossible task, and the common mortal has no ability to comprehend the complexities and difficulty of this task. Not to mention the thousands of huge charities and other organizations that also seemingly try to improve the world and keep utterly failing. Clearly, (we assume to ourselves), it's so complicated and difficult even for those giant organizations full of ridiculously rich and (supposedly) brilliant people, that a little common "nobody" like myself certainly cannot do what all those giants haven't been able to do for so long!SOTT said:
And this feeling of helplessness is compounded by the fact that so many different people and groups have so many different opinions on why the world is so messed up and what needs to be done to fix it. And they are all screaming their version with such certainty that we get the impression that NOBODY knows the answer. It seems like a riddle wrapped in mystery, shrouded in an enigma. Some people think "Well maybe it's just a combination of all those things, and all those people shouting are partially right?". Other people think "Well, they're ALL wrong!" or "Probably one of those groups is right, but who can know which one?" and yet others just join in with one of the groups pretty much arbitrarily (like joining a religion or some environmentalist group or maybe an anti-religious group, whatever) and begin shouting along with them. And I'm not even talking about the "lost souls" who don't even see realize that there are any problems to begin with (do such people still exist in this day and age!?).
So the problem appears 2-fold. One, it's too mysterious and too complicated to understand. Two, even brilliant few who understand it don't have the power or resources (apparently the power and resources of entire nations are not enough) to do anything about it. Sure makes you feel helpless!
Let me make a brief list of things I've learned since joining SOTT regarding the above issues. It's partly for my own review since I've been in a mental hiatus for the past few months, but also, this might be useful to somebody who might be in a similar mental rut right now. And try not to laugh if some of these are "uh, duh?" points, it's just a review to get a clearer mental picture because I'm just so damn "out of it" right now it's not even funny.
1) All those governments/organizations/charities are NOT actually working to "improve the world" as they declare. In many cases they ARE the problem, and almost all other cases, they do very little to help others and mostly just get rich themselves. Some of them neither help anyone nor do they get rich, they exist for no other purpose than to distract and lead people truly looking for answers/solutions into the wrong direction (or they themselves have started out genuinely and have been derailed by COINTELPRO, but either way, they end up serving COINTELPRO).
2) Most of those people shouting their version of what's wrong with the world and what must be done to fix it are, as above, either COINTELPRO themselves or have been "derailed" by COINTELPRO into the wrong direction. Yes, there are like a billion different groups and different ideas/"solutions" - and that's intentional, not a case of rampant incompetence (ok maybe it is rampant incompetence, but it has been greatly "assisted"). It makes searching for the right group with the truth seem like a needle in a haystack affair, and that's the point.
3) Besides there being a billion different groups and ideas, these groups are at every "level" of understanding. Some are laughably stupid (which are very effective against laughably stupid people - KKK anyone?), others are pretty logical and plausible, and in many ways tell the truth but are still wrong at very imortant key points. Depending on how smart and developed you yourself are, as Laura said, there's a group out there catered just for you. We're talking from KKK to Christianity to the New Age movement to Bush to Atheism to Alex Jones to Scientology to the Council on Foreign Relations, etc. EVERYBODY is covered! Narcissists, psychopaths, and normal people of every level.
4) The world's problems are not nearly as complex as they are made to appear by all this mess. This illusion of "impossible complexity" is intentional so that it is too intimidating for most people to sit down and seriously and logically/critically think about it. And those who dare attempt this will find themselves stuck in the aforementioned haystack of nonsense. It's very hard to think logically and critically if ALL your ideas about the world's problems and their solusions have been provided to you by the media, by those various BS groups and agencies that spout lies and nonsense.
K and finally the solution to all the world's problems: (can I have the frequency envelope please)... Truth. Truth does both, reveals the true nature of our problem, and provides the solution. Without it we have neither. It's just that darn simple.
Although, it doesn't mean we must learn all the current systems as they are in meticulous detail in order to understand what to do about them. Cuz that really IS an impossible task. The banking system, for example, is so bloody complicated with all those concepts and dynamics and numbers that it really does take a veritable genius to truly understand how it all works, and somehow I doubt that there's a single person on this planet who can grok ALL of it in all its intricacies. And it's not just the banking system, it's governmental systems and other major systems and this crazy complexity is intentional. Cuz if nobody knows how this system works except the select few, then most people won't realize they're voluntarily complying with some very huge scams that do nothing but enslave them.
So to fix it, we don't need to all just spend years studying all the intricate details of all those systems to know what to change and where and how. We just need to understand some fundamentals, certain key concepts about how those systems work, so that we understand why and how they are used to enslave us. And then drop those systems entirely and start from scratch. Of course, we can't do that until we also understand psychopaths. But the same thing applies - we don't need to read volumes and volumes of psychology books to understand psychopaths and how they function and why they were able to trick ALL OF US and rule the world. I mean, the more we read the better obviously. But most people will not be able to dedicate years of intense study to these things. Plus, most sources that talk about the intricate details of those systems ARE part of the confusion/nonsense campaign, so they'll just fill our heads with more confusion/nonsense and get us away from the important and objective parts. As the C's say "textbooks are propaganda" so unless you're already very critical and careful of what you're reading, you'll just get pulled along with the garbage and useless nonsense. So how to get people into the right "mindset" to be able to "weed" and know what to look for and what to discard and how? That brings me to...
IDEA!!!!
Ok so I just got another idea. How about we write some basic 5th-grade level "guides for complete dummies" regarding these various subjects? A very condensed but simultaneously very revealing/informative booklets that go right to the heart of every issue and using simple to understand analogies and yes, PICTURES, explain these things? We'll one-up all those other dummy books - EVERYTHING will be totally backed up by data. I mean personally, nothing works as well as seeing a former American president talk about the secret cult that rules the world. It's easy for people to dismiss some random person saying it, not so easy when you hear a president or other "important people" say stuff like that. But also the booklets would need to be funny and interesting/fascinating to read. And of course include links/references to much more detailed books/information/sources/data.
Maybe not just booklets but VIDEOS that accompany them? Laura you guys are making this ouija board video, would you be able to make some more with other topics? I know there's podcasts but I think a lot more people may be interested if they actually saw you guys talking (and other visuals if that's possible, maybe similar to that money video here: _http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cy-fD78zyvI). Because of television we've become a very visual bunch of critters and we like to see stuff, stuff that we'd never listen to if it didn't have visual images accompanying it. I think the Pentagon Strike animation would not have been nearly as popular if it didn't have the brilliant images/animations with it. Also Youtube being like one of the top websites in the world is probably an indication that people like to see videos of stuff.
But I don't think the videos should be in the same format as the podcasts. I think it might be better if they are in a similar format to the short booklets - very short (people have very short attention spans nowadays) but cover a lot in very few words, go right to the heart of the matter, etc. They can still be funny and include spontaneous creativity etc, but still cover the vital material in a few minutes.
I know you said a lot of stuff is in the works, so I'm just throwing the above into the mix for consideration. :)
