Ahkenaten
18th March 2011, 21:18
Has anyone noticed how the current events lack congruity? The lack of alignment amongst so much of what is going on creates a perhaps unintended consequence - i.e. cognitive dissonance - that inadvertantly may contribute to people in general awakening to what is going on.
Examples:
1.) In the ENERGY arena, a critically important element of the CONTROL PARADIGM:
Gulf Oil Spill and mishandling of the disaster by all responsible/involved (governments and the petrochemical conglomerates)
Nuclear Plant Disaster in Japan and mishandling of all responsible/involved (governments and the petrochemical conglomerates)
POTENTIAL RESULT - DEMAND BY THE PUBLIC FOR ALTERNATIVE ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES THAT MINIMIZE HARM TO THE ENVIRONMENT AND HUMANS
One,unintended consequence of this dissonance is a threat to the existing control paradigm (dissonance being in this case the PERSISTENCE OF GOVERNMENTS AND THE PETROCHEMICAL CONGLOMERATES IN MAINTAINING THE CURRENT ENERGY PARADIGM REGARDLESS OF THE COSTS TO THE ENVIRONMENT OR THE HEALTH OF LIVING BEINGS INCLUDING HUMANS ON THE PLANET as opposed to increasing awareness of people that there MUST BE A BETTER WAY!!) Another unintended consequence that is percolating down into consciousness over the past 10 years is that governments will not protect the public nor can government be relied upon to provide coordinated help in a disaster, in fact the opposite is the case. And yet, regardless of events on the ground illustrating graphically what can go wrong with deep oil-drilling ops or nuclear power plants - governments, industry and the regulatory entities that are SUPPOSED to oversee them continue to push for expansion of the oil/coal/nuclear industry - ignoring public demand for alternative energy technologies!! Obama wants billions for the nuke industry and those plans have not been shelved!!
2.) In the financial/commerce/economic arena -
Government bail-out of financial and other institutions that mismanaged themselves and the rest of us into a financial disaster, the dimensions of which are as yet still unfolding WITH ABSOLUTELY NO TRANSPARENCY, NO REFORMS OF THE STRUCTURAL DEFICIENCIES THAT CAUSED THAT TO OCCUR, AND PERSISTENT AND CONTINUED EFFORTS TO BAIL OUT FAILED INSTITUTIONS - most recently proponents of nuclear power propose to provide "guaranteed loans" for building new nuke plants meaning that the public will pay for them AND also be expected to pay for any disasters that may occur.
In the face of unprecedented "socialistic" government bail-outs of private industry that in effect has transformed what formerly was called a "capitalistic system" into a full-blown socialist system by definition overnight, ON THE OTHER HAND when it comes to applying socialistic values and systems to the PUBLIC WHO ARE EXPECTED TO PAY THE BILL FOR PRIVATE BUSINESS' venality and poor judgment, so-called "conservatives" who extol the bail-outs rally against any attempts to help the all-suffering public to save their homes, to provide decent jobs, or to turn the economy around stating that this should be the role of "FREE MARKETS"!!! HUH!!
Unintended consequence number one is loss in faith in TPTB's ability to manage and control events on the ground EVEN INSOFAR as, apparently their own interests are concerned...............their greediness has canceled itself out, i.e. the negative results utterly neutralizing any possible positives even in terms of
profits to them or control because everything is unraveling and falling apart around them!! Unintended consequence number two - people are beginning to realize that they must take matters into their own hands and not blindly entrust their future to anonymous "leaders" or wise ones at the top!! Back to the basics, thriftiness instead of spend-thriftiness, return to the values of self-sufficiency instead of blind complacency, a waking awareness that human beings are not merely "consumers." (signs of this: massive reduction in 'consumer' spending, massive populist push-back on the mortgage/MERS front, push back on the efforts to eliminate union collective bargaining rights, massive increase in home-gardening and interest in improvement in food quality, massive interest in "alternative" medical approaches, all combining to removing money, public support and energy from the existing control paradigm.)
3.) The Utter Futility and Wastefulness of Continual War
On the one hand we are told that we must be "very afraid" of "terrorists" and yet the actions of the Israeli government against the Palestinian people is not defined as "terrorism." Nor were any of the actions of the repressive Arab regimes in the Middle East against their own people defined as "terrorism." On the one hand the US continually stated that its reasons for intervening in the Middle East and elsewhere (Iraq, Afghanistan, etc) was to protect the peoples of those countries (apparently by killing massive numbers of civilians) and promoting democracy - AND YET at the same time the US has been extremely reluctant to use the word "democracy" let alone support so-called "democratic" movements in the Middle East because in fact a number of repressive, distinctly non-democratic regimes in that part of the world are very close and traditional friends of the US!! How can the US have it both ways - promoting democracy and protecting the innocent (the preferred self-image of the US) while at the same time undermining democracy, failing to support democratic movements and supporting repressive and brutal regimes instead, and engaging in destructive wars that actually kill more civilians than their political and military leaders?? Now with the UN resolution supporting creating of a fly-over zone in Libya - the US and friends are once again trying to square the circle - maintain the appearance of promoting democracy and protecting the innocent victims of repressive dictators, while actually putting in motion the war machine that does more harm to civilians than anyone else........in other words, to protect you, we will kill you!!
Lest I state the obvious the wars are being fought primarily to maintain control over oil and other natural resources while at the same time maintaining artificial scarcity of the resources thereby driving up prices increasing profits to the usual suspects. Thus the war for profit piece is inextricably tangled up with the energy/economic aspects of the control paradigm, in fact it is the "enforcement" wing! If only people in the military and otherwise employed would wake up to the fact that they are lending their bodies/minds to the purposes and intentions of the less than 1% who do NOT wish them, or the rest of humanity well, - it is clear that THEY DO NOT LOVE US, in fact the opposite is true. Without an enforcement wing, the controllers cannot continue.
Unintended Consequence - people are waking up to the contradictions and becoming aware of the Orwellian misuse of language (war=peace, death=life, good=bad, etc. etc.). Mistrust of government has never been so high - opposition to wasteful and destructive war has never been so high. And people are very aware that even though these activities do not have the broad-based support of the people, they are continuing - as are the same old patterns under energy, and finance/economics.
I think people are coming to the conclusion that things just aren't working and may even be coming to some consensus on who is responsible for this, and exactly why (i.e. values, etc.) regardless of the relentless propaganda war waged against the American public who is paying for all this and who will ultimately be judged by the world and history for the actions of its government and leaders.
The energy system is also a control mechanism. This is why TPTB are loathe to break the "zero-point energy" technologies they have out of the box because they cannot make as much money off these technologies AND THE TECHNOLOGIES WILL FREE PEOPLE! The economic system is entertwined with the energy system and also is a control mechanism. Similarly, other economic models are not permitted to emerge because that would FREE PEOPLE, reducing power, profits and control to the very tiny less than 1% who rule the world. Lastly, it appears that the US empire is BROKE! The only profit-making scheme it has right now is making war, for profit!! That is a zero-sum game. And where would it lead if permitted to take itself to its logical conclusion? To the entire planet being reduced to a smoking ruin with the remaining few hiding under the ground or perhaps removed to another planet to repeat the same destructive cycle!!! Each of these three areas reflect the CONTROL PARADIGM. And one of the principle means of perpetuating all of this is the old divide and conquer tactic. If we all are so busy fighting with one another and demonizing one another over racial, religious, ideological and other differences - the hope is that we will not pause in our stupidity to look UP and see who and WHAT (if they are even human!) is responsible for this mess we have allowed ourselves to get into!!!
The question is - how bad does it have to get before people withdraw consent from the control paradigm? Can it get much worse????
Clearly there must be a better way. And clearly there has to be a better way if the human race is to survive, thrive and truly evolve.
The moment of truth is closing in on us. Are we up to the task before us, that is - addressing our deficiencies and coming together as ONE to make the changes required of us at this time?
Examples:
1.) In the ENERGY arena, a critically important element of the CONTROL PARADIGM:
Gulf Oil Spill and mishandling of the disaster by all responsible/involved (governments and the petrochemical conglomerates)
Nuclear Plant Disaster in Japan and mishandling of all responsible/involved (governments and the petrochemical conglomerates)
POTENTIAL RESULT - DEMAND BY THE PUBLIC FOR ALTERNATIVE ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES THAT MINIMIZE HARM TO THE ENVIRONMENT AND HUMANS
One,unintended consequence of this dissonance is a threat to the existing control paradigm (dissonance being in this case the PERSISTENCE OF GOVERNMENTS AND THE PETROCHEMICAL CONGLOMERATES IN MAINTAINING THE CURRENT ENERGY PARADIGM REGARDLESS OF THE COSTS TO THE ENVIRONMENT OR THE HEALTH OF LIVING BEINGS INCLUDING HUMANS ON THE PLANET as opposed to increasing awareness of people that there MUST BE A BETTER WAY!!) Another unintended consequence that is percolating down into consciousness over the past 10 years is that governments will not protect the public nor can government be relied upon to provide coordinated help in a disaster, in fact the opposite is the case. And yet, regardless of events on the ground illustrating graphically what can go wrong with deep oil-drilling ops or nuclear power plants - governments, industry and the regulatory entities that are SUPPOSED to oversee them continue to push for expansion of the oil/coal/nuclear industry - ignoring public demand for alternative energy technologies!! Obama wants billions for the nuke industry and those plans have not been shelved!!
2.) In the financial/commerce/economic arena -
Government bail-out of financial and other institutions that mismanaged themselves and the rest of us into a financial disaster, the dimensions of which are as yet still unfolding WITH ABSOLUTELY NO TRANSPARENCY, NO REFORMS OF THE STRUCTURAL DEFICIENCIES THAT CAUSED THAT TO OCCUR, AND PERSISTENT AND CONTINUED EFFORTS TO BAIL OUT FAILED INSTITUTIONS - most recently proponents of nuclear power propose to provide "guaranteed loans" for building new nuke plants meaning that the public will pay for them AND also be expected to pay for any disasters that may occur.
In the face of unprecedented "socialistic" government bail-outs of private industry that in effect has transformed what formerly was called a "capitalistic system" into a full-blown socialist system by definition overnight, ON THE OTHER HAND when it comes to applying socialistic values and systems to the PUBLIC WHO ARE EXPECTED TO PAY THE BILL FOR PRIVATE BUSINESS' venality and poor judgment, so-called "conservatives" who extol the bail-outs rally against any attempts to help the all-suffering public to save their homes, to provide decent jobs, or to turn the economy around stating that this should be the role of "FREE MARKETS"!!! HUH!!
Unintended consequence number one is loss in faith in TPTB's ability to manage and control events on the ground EVEN INSOFAR as, apparently their own interests are concerned...............their greediness has canceled itself out, i.e. the negative results utterly neutralizing any possible positives even in terms of
profits to them or control because everything is unraveling and falling apart around them!! Unintended consequence number two - people are beginning to realize that they must take matters into their own hands and not blindly entrust their future to anonymous "leaders" or wise ones at the top!! Back to the basics, thriftiness instead of spend-thriftiness, return to the values of self-sufficiency instead of blind complacency, a waking awareness that human beings are not merely "consumers." (signs of this: massive reduction in 'consumer' spending, massive populist push-back on the mortgage/MERS front, push back on the efforts to eliminate union collective bargaining rights, massive increase in home-gardening and interest in improvement in food quality, massive interest in "alternative" medical approaches, all combining to removing money, public support and energy from the existing control paradigm.)
3.) The Utter Futility and Wastefulness of Continual War
On the one hand we are told that we must be "very afraid" of "terrorists" and yet the actions of the Israeli government against the Palestinian people is not defined as "terrorism." Nor were any of the actions of the repressive Arab regimes in the Middle East against their own people defined as "terrorism." On the one hand the US continually stated that its reasons for intervening in the Middle East and elsewhere (Iraq, Afghanistan, etc) was to protect the peoples of those countries (apparently by killing massive numbers of civilians) and promoting democracy - AND YET at the same time the US has been extremely reluctant to use the word "democracy" let alone support so-called "democratic" movements in the Middle East because in fact a number of repressive, distinctly non-democratic regimes in that part of the world are very close and traditional friends of the US!! How can the US have it both ways - promoting democracy and protecting the innocent (the preferred self-image of the US) while at the same time undermining democracy, failing to support democratic movements and supporting repressive and brutal regimes instead, and engaging in destructive wars that actually kill more civilians than their political and military leaders?? Now with the UN resolution supporting creating of a fly-over zone in Libya - the US and friends are once again trying to square the circle - maintain the appearance of promoting democracy and protecting the innocent victims of repressive dictators, while actually putting in motion the war machine that does more harm to civilians than anyone else........in other words, to protect you, we will kill you!!
Lest I state the obvious the wars are being fought primarily to maintain control over oil and other natural resources while at the same time maintaining artificial scarcity of the resources thereby driving up prices increasing profits to the usual suspects. Thus the war for profit piece is inextricably tangled up with the energy/economic aspects of the control paradigm, in fact it is the "enforcement" wing! If only people in the military and otherwise employed would wake up to the fact that they are lending their bodies/minds to the purposes and intentions of the less than 1% who do NOT wish them, or the rest of humanity well, - it is clear that THEY DO NOT LOVE US, in fact the opposite is true. Without an enforcement wing, the controllers cannot continue.
Unintended Consequence - people are waking up to the contradictions and becoming aware of the Orwellian misuse of language (war=peace, death=life, good=bad, etc. etc.). Mistrust of government has never been so high - opposition to wasteful and destructive war has never been so high. And people are very aware that even though these activities do not have the broad-based support of the people, they are continuing - as are the same old patterns under energy, and finance/economics.
I think people are coming to the conclusion that things just aren't working and may even be coming to some consensus on who is responsible for this, and exactly why (i.e. values, etc.) regardless of the relentless propaganda war waged against the American public who is paying for all this and who will ultimately be judged by the world and history for the actions of its government and leaders.
The energy system is also a control mechanism. This is why TPTB are loathe to break the "zero-point energy" technologies they have out of the box because they cannot make as much money off these technologies AND THE TECHNOLOGIES WILL FREE PEOPLE! The economic system is entertwined with the energy system and also is a control mechanism. Similarly, other economic models are not permitted to emerge because that would FREE PEOPLE, reducing power, profits and control to the very tiny less than 1% who rule the world. Lastly, it appears that the US empire is BROKE! The only profit-making scheme it has right now is making war, for profit!! That is a zero-sum game. And where would it lead if permitted to take itself to its logical conclusion? To the entire planet being reduced to a smoking ruin with the remaining few hiding under the ground or perhaps removed to another planet to repeat the same destructive cycle!!! Each of these three areas reflect the CONTROL PARADIGM. And one of the principle means of perpetuating all of this is the old divide and conquer tactic. If we all are so busy fighting with one another and demonizing one another over racial, religious, ideological and other differences - the hope is that we will not pause in our stupidity to look UP and see who and WHAT (if they are even human!) is responsible for this mess we have allowed ourselves to get into!!!
The question is - how bad does it have to get before people withdraw consent from the control paradigm? Can it get much worse????
Clearly there must be a better way. And clearly there has to be a better way if the human race is to survive, thrive and truly evolve.
The moment of truth is closing in on us. Are we up to the task before us, that is - addressing our deficiencies and coming together as ONE to make the changes required of us at this time?