A strategy of colonialism and capitalism is to eliminate the “commons” and thus force the humans into the money system. Started in the UK with the “enclosure” movement. Ireland was an early example of English colonialism. That is also how capitalism seeks to rob the indigenous people of their relative self sufficiency and make them money slaves.
Native lands and African bodies constitute the building blocks of US hegemony by providing the muscle and resources.
Chattel slavery in the US was replaced by wage slavery.
An awareness of the reality and suppression of “free energy” contrasted with the way we now live dependent on fossil fuel slaves and the accompanying wreckage of the planet is surreal. I can imagine how it is for those such as yourself who have experienced its suppression first hand.
To your "surreal" observation, yes it is, and I have encountered many people who cannot handle the contrast of what is versus what can be. They fly off in all sorts of crazy directions, attack me, and even end up in mental institutions. I always stress that people need to have both feet firmly on the ground to handle this material, and developing a comprehensive perspective helps with that.
Thanks. Big discussion. One thing that my studies made clear was whether we call what we see capitalism, imperialism, slavery versus "captive" wage-earners, they are all just variations of the scarcity game, and the only real difference over the human journey was that rising energy consumption, in positive feedback loops with increasingly sophisticated tools and increasing individual and collective intelligence, made societies more humane. We can go all the way back to the bonobo example.
Residents of today's industrial societies can barely imagine what life was like before we had energy-driven machines. It was nasty, brutish, and short. Infanticide was standard human practice that only ended with industrialization. If the parents did not kill their infants (more often girls) before the rise of civilization (maybe a quarter of all children), they died of infectious diseases when civilization began. Only half of all children lived to adulthood, going back to gorillas. Try to imagine being a mother in that world - we really can't. Westerners can get a glimpse by visiting agrarian nations today, but only a glimpse. I have heard that it takes a while to get over the shock. It took me about a month to get over the shock of working in Skid Row LA every day (and my drinking problems began about then :) ), so the process was likely similar, and people just adjusted to the hideous conditions to get through the day, just as a visitor. Walking past a dead body on the way to lunch one day kind of epitomized my days in Skid Row (and we did not even talk about it, but just walked around the body - at least I did not have to step over it). That that is somebody's daily life is hard to imagine, even while witnessing it (at least in daylight hours). And again, that was only a glimpse of how it was before industrialization.
As surreal as the contrasts between the Fifth Epoch and today's world are, it used to be far worse in many ways. Call me an optimist. :)
During Europe's Little Ice Age, few cities, if any, saw a generation that was free of famine, epidemics, or wars. When I began to understand those horrific conditions, I began to understand better why mass-murdering thieves were presented to me as heroes, saints, and fathers of my great nation. Virtually all societies did that. There were some brief-lived exceptions in the human journey before industrialization, such as the matrilocal societies of the Eastern Woodlands, and the English immediately understood their virtues, which was why so many English invaders ran off and went native.
Not to wax too Marxian, but there were unique conditions that led to the rise of capitalism, which was another elite game of inequality. It is a religion in the USA, and it will not go quietly. That the "left" is oblivious to the medical racket that exists is kind of amazing. The left used to understand it better, with its capitalist critiques, and I don't exactly how it went wrong, but it is likely related to scientism, as another false idol was worshipped. The rackets have good indoctrination and conditioning systems, and they all interlock at the top.
Bring free-energy to humanity, and it ends the world as we know it in short order, including all of today's political-economic constructs, including all political ideologies, capitalism, nations, even cities as we know them will end. No "ism" will survive into the Fifth Epoch, as they are all rooted in scarcity. The alternative is likely a short sled ride to oblivion. The global elite understand this, but the crazier among them think that they can keep their game intact without making Earth uninhabitable (or they can live in underground and off-world survival enclaves if their gamble does not work out). The saner among them (called White Hats and other names) realize that that is one hell of a gamble, to play megalomaniacal power games with humanity and Earth like that, and especially when heaven on Earth is a likely outcome if those technologies came forward to public awareness and use.
As I stated, it is a big subject. :) Only something like free energy can disrupt this trajectory, and in a good way. The other kinds of disruptions we probably don't want to live to see. :)
A strategy of colonialism and capitalism is to eliminate the “commons” and thus force the humans into the money system. Started in the UK with the “enclosure” movement. Ireland was an early example of English colonialism. That is also how capitalism seeks to rob the indigenous people of their relative self sufficiency and make them money slaves.
Native lands and African bodies constitute the building blocks of US hegemony by providing the muscle and resources.
Chattel slavery in the US was replaced by wage slavery.
An awareness of the reality and suppression of “free energy” contrasted with the way we now live dependent on fossil fuel slaves and the accompanying wreckage of the planet is surreal. I can imagine how it is for those such as yourself who have experienced its suppression first hand.
To your "surreal" observation, yes it is, and I have encountered many people who cannot handle the contrast of what is versus what can be. They fly off in all sorts of crazy directions, attack me, and even end up in mental institutions. I always stress that people need to have both feet firmly on the ground to handle this material, and developing a comprehensive perspective helps with that.
Thanks. Big discussion. One thing that my studies made clear was whether we call what we see capitalism, imperialism, slavery versus "captive" wage-earners, they are all just variations of the scarcity game, and the only real difference over the human journey was that rising energy consumption, in positive feedback loops with increasingly sophisticated tools and increasing individual and collective intelligence, made societies more humane. We can go all the way back to the bonobo example.
Residents of today's industrial societies can barely imagine what life was like before we had energy-driven machines. It was nasty, brutish, and short. Infanticide was standard human practice that only ended with industrialization. If the parents did not kill their infants (more often girls) before the rise of civilization (maybe a quarter of all children), they died of infectious diseases when civilization began. Only half of all children lived to adulthood, going back to gorillas. Try to imagine being a mother in that world - we really can't. Westerners can get a glimpse by visiting agrarian nations today, but only a glimpse. I have heard that it takes a while to get over the shock. It took me about a month to get over the shock of working in Skid Row LA every day (and my drinking problems began about then :) ), so the process was likely similar, and people just adjusted to the hideous conditions to get through the day, just as a visitor. Walking past a dead body on the way to lunch one day kind of epitomized my days in Skid Row (and we did not even talk about it, but just walked around the body - at least I did not have to step over it). That that is somebody's daily life is hard to imagine, even while witnessing it (at least in daylight hours). And again, that was only a glimpse of how it was before industrialization.
As surreal as the contrasts between the Fifth Epoch and today's world are, it used to be far worse in many ways. Call me an optimist. :)
During Europe's Little Ice Age, few cities, if any, saw a generation that was free of famine, epidemics, or wars. When I began to understand those horrific conditions, I began to understand better why mass-murdering thieves were presented to me as heroes, saints, and fathers of my great nation. Virtually all societies did that. There were some brief-lived exceptions in the human journey before industrialization, such as the matrilocal societies of the Eastern Woodlands, and the English immediately understood their virtues, which was why so many English invaders ran off and went native.
Not to wax too Marxian, but there were unique conditions that led to the rise of capitalism, which was another elite game of inequality. It is a religion in the USA, and it will not go quietly. That the "left" is oblivious to the medical racket that exists is kind of amazing. The left used to understand it better, with its capitalist critiques, and I don't exactly how it went wrong, but it is likely related to scientism, as another false idol was worshipped. The rackets have good indoctrination and conditioning systems, and they all interlock at the top.
Bring free-energy to humanity, and it ends the world as we know it in short order, including all of today's political-economic constructs, including all political ideologies, capitalism, nations, even cities as we know them will end. No "ism" will survive into the Fifth Epoch, as they are all rooted in scarcity. The alternative is likely a short sled ride to oblivion. The global elite understand this, but the crazier among them think that they can keep their game intact without making Earth uninhabitable (or they can live in underground and off-world survival enclaves if their gamble does not work out). The saner among them (called White Hats and other names) realize that that is one hell of a gamble, to play megalomaniacal power games with humanity and Earth like that, and especially when heaven on Earth is a likely outcome if those technologies came forward to public awareness and use.
As I stated, it is a big subject. :) Only something like free energy can disrupt this trajectory, and in a good way. The other kinds of disruptions we probably don't want to live to see. :)