Show #39: All and Everything, part 7

[Niall]

Sunday 27th October, 2013: All and Everything, part 7*

‘All and Everything’ returns this week as we discuss the attention a British celebrity has brought to the dire state of affairs for people and planet, the latest NSA Leaks, the narrowly-avoided U.S. dollar default and more!

Russell Brand on revolution: hero or villain? And what about Ed Snowden? Sincere people speaking truth to power, a case of the blind leading the blind, or is something else afoot?

NSA-gate continues courtesy of The Guardian, Glenn Greenwald and Le Monde, through which it emerged this week that Israeli signals intelligence, and not the NSA, was behind massive electronic spying on the French government and people.

America narrowly avoided a currency default, but in the meantime the rest of the world is preparing for life after the petro-dollar… what are you doing to prepare for global systemic collapse?

Meanwhile, Japan has been smacked by dozens of typhoons in quick succession, record early snowfalls have hit northern U.S. states, a(nother) record-breaking heatwave is frying everything in Australia, and fireballs continue raining down from space – NASA’s All-Sky Fireball Network captured 15 of them over the U.S. on October 16 alone…

[*Note that Daylight Savings Time ends in Europe one week ahead of the U.S., so the show time is from 3-5pm EST.]

 

[Jasmine]

It's going to be great! Thanks Kniall :)

 

[Beau]

Sounds like it will be very interesting!

 

[SeekinTruth]

Really looking forward to it!

 

[Keit]

Really looking forward to it!

Me too!

 

[paralleloscope]

Great show guys, thank you :)

 

[Voyageur]

Thanks folks - what you said at the end concerning objective reality and the high strangeness aspects is something, indeed, to keep in mind. Fantastic opportunity next week with Nora being featured.

Good night Sott Talk. :)

 

[dugdeep]

Another great show! Thank you!

I was really impressed by one thing that Jason mentioned, in particular. It was when he was talking about how the driver for evolution is stressors in the environment and that it's likely, therefore, that stressors of an emotional/intellectual level are what will drive evolution of the mind/spirit (I'm paraphrasing there. Apologies if I don't have that quite right). I think this is a really powerful idea - gives me a new perspective on the suffering on the planet ATM. It speaks to the need to see reality as objectively as one can and the importance of not turning away from the darkness. Seeing reality for what it is may just be what drives your personal evolution. I guess that's been said all along, but it's interesting to get this perspective on it.

I also think the discussion on the differentiation between mechanical suffering and intentional suffering ties in with this. It connects for me the idea that it is intentional suffering that drives the evolution of the human being, while mechanical suffering (which we love and are resistant to give up) keeps us in slavery.

There's more to this and I think I need to ponder it for awhile to get to its root. Thanks for providing a thread to follow :)

Also congrats on getting Nora Gedgaudas next week! I'm really excited about that one!

 

[Ennio]

This was a really engaging show, thank you for it. I especially appreciate all the different points of view brought up regarding Russell Brand and what he has been saying. It would be too easy (and probably incorrect) to decide that him or is message is wholly one thing or another - not without some real analysis anyway.

Glad to hear that you will be doing some future shows concerning things Highly Strange, paranormal, etc. I was wondering when you'd get into some of those areas!

And greatly looking forward to hearing you speak with Nora Gedgaudas next week. I have referred so many people to her youtube video, it will be nice to now have SOTT Talk Radio to point to for this.

 

[Redrock12]

Great show with a great topic guys.
Imo, most important part of discussion was stressing not to put Russell Brand on a pedestal because of what he said, but to pass on what he said.
In other words, it's the message, not the messenger.
For the messenger can be coopted, but the message, if it is truth, is universal and belongs to everyone.

 

[ashu]

Great show with a great topic guys.
Imo, most important part of discussion was stressing not to put Russell Brand on a pedestal because of what he said, but to pass on what he said.
In other words, it's the message, not the messenger.
For the messenger can be coopted, but the message, if it is truth, is universal and belongs to everyone.

Indeed another great show! Definitely the take away message on Russell Brand for me was not to focus on him but what he is saying.

I look forward to next weeks show with Nora Gedgaudas and also future shows looking at Highly Strange and paranormal subjects.

 

[Carl]

Some very cool-headed analysis of this whole Russel Brand thing which is just what we needed, good job guys.

I'm also really excited for Nora Gedgaudas next week, couldn't have hoped for a better guest :).

 

[Nienna]

Some very cool-headed analysis of this whole Russel Brand thing which is just what we needed, good job guys.

I'm also really excited for Nora Gedgaudas next week, couldn't have hoped for a better guest :).

I agree with both sentences. :) Another great show. Thank you to you all.

These radio shows are much needed and much appreciated. Please keep up the great work.

 

[Keit]

I think this is a really powerful idea - gives me a new perspective on the suffering on the planet ATM. It speaks to the need to see reality as objectively as one can and the importance of not turning away from the darkness. Seeing reality for what it is may just be what drives your personal evolution. I guess that's been said all along, but it's interesting to get this perspective on it.

Indeed! Also the following quote that was recently posted by Zadius Sky speaks about the importance of discernment and aligning oneself with what is real if one wants to have a different future, or any future at all.

We have an obligation to sift the wheat from the chaff, if only because our immortality is at stake. Immortality must be earned and we are inviting setbacks and confusion if we allow ourselves to be distracted from this task by psychism's world of glamour and illusion. It is easy, much too easy, to be seduced by hungry ghosts and fall into the snare of dependency, a snare that can prove deadly. As Carl Jung observed, we die to the extent that we fail to discriminate. Or, to quote Virgil: "We make our destinies by our choice of gods."

From: Joe Fisher's The Siren Call of Hungry Ghosts.

 

[SovereignDove]

Great show! :D

I am looking forward to next week's show with Nora Gedgaudas, and have been paging through Primal Body, Primal Mind to have it fresh in my mind when listening to the show.

The discussion about the beginning of the current financial system brought to mind a book, American Colossus, The Triumph of Capitalism 1865-1900 by H.W. Brands. It begins with describing how a few men started profiting from the Civil War, speculations in the stock market using confidential informants before the news they were speculating on was released. This time period was also when paper money began to be used instead of the specie currency. I did not read the entire book (I read about a third of the book), found it to be very dry, but it was informative on the history. I did searched the author's name and the title of the book but did not come across any threads that mentioned it.

This quote is from the book:

Wealth had always conferred power, but never had a class of Americans been so wealthy as the great capitalists of the late nineteenth century, and never had such a small class wielded such incommensurate power. By the century's end the imperatives of capitalism mattered more to the daily existence of most Americans than the principles of democracy.

IMO the book was describing a group of psychopaths (although the book does not use the word psychopath),and shows the actions and manipulations that got them into "power", making them wealthy by profiting from the war/misery/destruction of other people. This quote also reminded me of the process of ponerization mentioned in Political Ponerology.