Outrage, Jealousy and Ignorance - the state of the World

[Luke]

Occupy Wall Street isn't really about making things "better" for the average person. It's about channeling people's rage into a weapon to be turned against Wall Street to prosecute Wall Street tycoons in support of more government regulations.

-the Daily Bell - Adbusters's Left-Wing Agenda ? Exposed Again

We live in interesting times.

On the one hand, it seems "the general public" started to get that something is not kosher in the way the world work. Some even start to get that "life" as we know it, is just a narrow path for livestock, from grazeland to grey block of slaughterhouse.

Unfortunately, the reaction to that revelation is outrage: how slaughterhouse could be painted in such grey, emotionally depressing colours, and from non ecologically friendly materials.

Duh.

Well, it should be no surprise to any student of history. There are few "streaks" that go through whole length of this sequence, and human ignorance really stands out.

It makes sense. Incompetence is lowest common denominator .. and the "general public" being herd, need lowest common denominator to define themselves.

So here we are, fifth millennium of reign of human incompetent.

But, but, this is not it.. there are elite, there are psychos, they rule, not general public, we are oppressed, why you are so mean to us!

Sooo typical. Always someone else to blame - the tinier the minority the better.
Sure, there are those elite, and those with pathological streak, but there are few in-between. Whatever they have- they cannot take it by their own brute force. They need someone else to do their job, to serve their meal.
And that "who" is "general public" .. the clueless grey sea.

They key for few to get what they want from public, is to create illusion of "greater good": i.e that something can be forcefully taken from owner and distributed among public if labelled so.
In other words "Greater good" is codeword for "legalized theft", but without all the nasty emotional value of word "theft" attached. When one uses blackjack to stun another in dark alley and steal her purse- it is evil; but if the blackjack is collectively used, in broad daylight, to do the same, it is good.

Well, such is the creed of human incompetent.

The skilled tale-spinners that know that, can always steer mob towards some exploitable minority - merchants, Jews, Palestinians, "untermenshen", Catholic, Protestants, the part of 1% that do not own the country .. you name it. All you need to do is ponit to the division and to the fact that 99% is on your side. 99:1 are good odds for mob action.. you can kick and smash, and there is little chance to be kicked back ..... unless of course you mis-interpreted your number and the riot squad incoming do match you ..

But this will only be evident when push will come to shove, and gravity will kick-in. Before that there is "levitation phase" .. when tales are spun and consensus is made.

?We could have sabotaged [the revolution, but first] we had to establish what the Quakers call ?the spirit of the meeting? in the country, where everybody was thinking just one way. The Iranians were really like sheep, as they are now.?
Miles Copeland Jr., CIA in [1]

What we now seen in all so called "outraged" movements, worldwide, is precisely such "spirit", talked about by "Old Boy" above. It is not new - it was used before in countless revolutions, from English Civil war, through American one , French one, through centuries, to current patch of "springs". The mechanism is known, rehearsed, proven effective numerous times:

PROBLEM-REACTION-SOLUTION

Hegelian dialectic have enormous appeal to human mind - precisely because it is not sophisticated. It cannot work on people learned in ways of the world - but majority never is.

Majority just focuses on feeding, breeding and seeking pleasure, with special place reserved for "feeling superior" Any hegelian tale- spinner focus on those. Threat people with hunger (raising relative food prices), limit procreation (one child policy, any kind of population control), limit circusses (TV, media, alt media, rumor mills, all the freebies of "progressive country"), and they will be pissed. When you have pissed "Have-Not's", all you need is to point finger to some visible "have" .. and supply torches and pitchforks. Foolproof.

If the pointed "cause" have any connection to real cause of outrage is really meaningless. The thing needed is that there would be emotional association, not the logical one. Mobs do not do logic. They do emotions. And emotions are programmable.

And the most easily exploited emotion is equality/superiority duo.

See, when human is done with eating and f?cking, it looks around, and what he likes to see is people equal too him, or below. What he does not like to see, is somebody that was at one point equal to him - doing better. Nothing ruins day better than that. Frustration raises.

Now logically, one could expect that this should prompt the one below to double and triple productivity, cunning and mastery to match the top guy.. but this is not the case. See, our "normal" guy sees lots of his equals around, and one sore thumb. Meaning, the upstart need to be dealt with, cut down to a place he belongs - or better- crushed and fed to pigs.

The only way for a "normal" to accept" superior" is if that superior would either be one for whole life, or become one as a result of some extraordinary event or some "higher force" intervention. That's why King's Right was Divine.

Mechanism is quite simple really, it all stems from the fact that if one "get lucky", that is just that. Everybody can "get lucky". Everybody can win the lottery.

But if one is "elevated" as a result of hard tangible work - worse - work any "normal" could do if he wished to - that means pointing ones incompetence: I mean: how he dared.. it was right under my nose and I missed it, and he didn't.. he made me a fool! .. And so the guy that dared to be bright and productive, earned boatload of sworn enemies, ready to cut him down. This kind of state of mind is called "neophobia"

Again, this is quite visible in the "outraged" movement - so many "bright young" people, that spent tens of thousands of dollars pursuing studies, just to discover, that they have zero practical value .. there is no million/per year to be made from comparative studies of lesbian affairs in sub-saharan-tribes, but that jerk from mathematics is doing millions writing HFT algorithms for Wall Street .. how dare he! He is my equal FFS, why he is have and I have-not!

Multiply, rinse, repeat.

What legitimacy is there in pointing finger to Wall St. and to (0.0)1%, is not even mentioned. There is little said about casino nature of stock market, there is little said about the government-enabled fractional reserve, there is little said about the real big central banks-that provide all the free chips for casino and make game possible in first place (and all you need to do is move few blocks to "Liberty Place 33, NYC" to protest that, FFS), or to so-called lawmakers, that are busy writing and passing legislation that is tailored to needs ones paying (lobbying) for it (trip to D.C. needed for that) ... but those are things that seems to do not catch "popular attention".

The things that do catch attention is things like taxing the financial sector, and punitive taxation/confiscation of "fat cat's" wealth.. which means: retribution. When one screams "tax the rich" it really means "give ME piece of their pie".

The structural problems are not addressed - because the public needed to first understand what the system is like, in the first place. But it is too much work, too much logic, too much time, that need to be spent thinking. No, I am pissed off now, and I will not be happy till I see some public executions! I will not hear about some tekky stuff, those are for experts, I want to hear that we have right to smash those windows! Bring out the guillotine!!!

This is all so predictable and transparent, and yet so many fall for it.

Those protests can be quenched or can be allowed to grow. Since what we see certainly rhymes with situation before World War II, you can extrapolate when this is all going:
- the protests will be used as excuse to cartelization of industry. Unions will be all to happy to join that bandwagon.
- fixing prices will follow, preceeded by tight financial controls, and conficcation/outlawing of all alternative/uncontrollable payment methods, including cash
- industry will be geared to edict-based war economy
- war economy is only good with creating simple but resource and work-intensive products, like mass produced rifles , tanks, cars, ammo and the like; there could be churned out and left to rust for all it matters, but what it really means is that cost of warfare will go down (or rather- will be transferred to unsuspecting population).
- low cost of warfare will mean that there will be more cheap wars to put those cheap weapons to work (so , third world first)
- small wars will prompt countries to make more and more "safety treaties" .. and when they will be tripped, the more countries will enter warfare, till some big treaty will be tripped.. think NATO.
- when the dust will settle, and the ones that lost will be put to trial, the "national spirit" of victorious nations will be upped
- the war cartels will be privatized, and resources freed, leading to the "era of prosperity" .. that will last about 20 years ... and then the intristic systemic problems will rear their ugly head again leading to:

Another Outraged protest.

Again, this is pattern repeated time and time again, nationalistic wars or religious ones, does not matter.

People will never learn, because they have no need to. They need somebody that will tell them it is allright to be outraged, that and only that. And elites will gladly provide.

The real problem for me now is: how to develop personal space-travelling technology before nukes start flying .. cause with 7 billion idiots aboard, there is no way this ship will not sink.

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Yep. All over the world, we hear the same cry. "We need to unite......against somebody."

[Northern Boy]

ah yes good post Luke Myself I am aware that in my present form space travel as we know it is not a probable out come as for the nukes if they go off so be it I`ll be the guy running outside to catch the full effects of the Blast so I will be done with having to put up with the society they have created for us. After having visited sites and seen some of the things this society has done for the betterment of mankind and the joys of what the wars they lo9ve to take part in oh to often . i have come to the realization I don`t want to be part of it in any shape or form i wish to be excluded an outcast i would prefer to be shunned like a leaper. Ever since i was a kid i have wanted to just go out on my own and to live alone in the middle of the bush free from contact with other humans . After having done this for roughly 6 years now its plainly evident why i had those feelings . Is our species even worth caring about At times i have come to the ever present answer NO

[Scott]

Bruce H. Lipton Ph.D. discusses the Global Occupy movement in relationship to Spontaneous Evolution.

Biological Imperative


Scott

[Luke]

For those interested: Followup from The Daily Bell, more on dangerous authoritarian angle
http://www.thedailybell.com/3259/VID...te-Law-Society

One of the most disturbing points about the current OWS movement is its focus on punishment. "Wall Street," an aggregate community, must be "punished" for aggregate sins.

There seems to be little examination of what these sins are, however. Wall Street, in its initial composition, was a transactional business, a middle man. Middle-man prejudice, in fact, is a well known phenomenon.

There are REASONS that Wall Street in its modern form is abusive. It mostly has to do with the mingling of public and private interests together ... mercantilism. Mercantilism in this modern era is driven by central banking and the unlimited funds it gives to a shadowy elite that hides behind "rule of (state) law."

We've also heard the argument that fraud causes financial bubbles. But financial bubbles are caused by monetary inflation, which is the result of central banking overprinting of money. Financial bubbles may in turn CAUSE fraud, but to focus on punishing the fraud without shutting down the mechanism (money printing) is to allow the cause to go unchecked while focusing on the symptoms.

Wall Street is so large and profitable these days because of regulation and central banking. Get rid of regulation and you'll have no more regulatory capture. Get rid of central banking and you'll starve modern Wall Street of its oxygen, what it needs to breathe. These are perfectly do-able procedures, but at this point we hardly see them being suggested.
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http://www.thedailybell.com/3261/VID...nch-Revolution

We are increasingly believers in "directed history" – history that's coordinated by a power elite intent on creating one-world government. We've written a good deal about the directed history we're seeing as regards Occupy Wall Street. We think that the movement has been set up to be divisive and ultimately to reinforce the power of the state. Out of chaos ... order.

That's probably the reason the movement has no agenda. The people at the top who are manipulating the movement know what they want to achieve and are doing so in order to trigger increased social discord. The ultimate aim, perhaps, is to enhance world government. We've explained the parallelism here: VIDEO: Parallels Between Early 20th Century and Present Are Scary.

But there are even more parallels. The Tea Party movement in America was organic to begin with. It was a bit like the American Revolution. But having observed the American Revolution, the power elite of the day (from what we can tell) fomented the French Revolution.

That's how long the modern conspiracy to set up world government has been going on, in our view – about 300 years, maybe since the founding of the Iluminati. The American Revolution, manipulated as it may have been, ultimately was in a sense anti-government and focused on individual freedom.

The French Revolution was set up deliberately to be "pro-government" – or pro-force at any rate. It was designed to defuse classical liberalism and freedom by proposing that government in the hands of an expert technocracy could "perfect" society and humankind.

Post revolution, between 1789 and September 1791, the French National Assembly reformed the ancien regime. They accomplished this with six basic statements, according to the website Modern European Intellectual History. Here are three of six. We've substituted the word "bankster" for "clergy" and "monarch" ...

•the abolition of special privileges of BANKSTERS through the legalization of equality (August 4, 1789)

•they subordinated BANKSTERS to the State. In November 1789, the National Assembly confiscated all BANKSTER property. And in early 1790, they passed the civil constitution, which reduced the power of the BANKSTERS who were now selected and paid by the State

•in September 1791, the National Assembly drew up a constitution, something it had been trying to do since June 1789. The constitution of 1791 specified such liberal ideas as limited BANKSTERS and full equality before the law

"Populist" movements like the French Revolution rarely end well because they are expressions mostly of anger and envy. They are not rational. They eat their own. That's what happened then as the movement began with the idea of overthrowing the regime and ended up by trying to "perfect" society using the power of the state.
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http://www.thedailybell.com/3258/Joe...-and-Willpower

Joel Wade

"We're just showing the rich people that we can do what we want." – London rioter, in August

This quote, and the people who acted it out – and who are acting it out presently in the "occupy" demonstrations right now in the US – show what liberty disconnected from self-responsibility looks like.

If we want to promote and live in a free society, enough of us have to develop the skills of self-control, self-discipline and willpower to earn it.

Willpower is a term that used to be considered a mighty virtue. Among some of the colleagues that I have known in the world of psychotherapy (most of whom were liberal), willpower has been considered, to a large degree, as something of a mistake. This is, I believe, part of the fallacy of the left.

The idea was that if you had to use your willpower it was a sign that you were dealing with some unconscious forces, some psychological wounds, or some repressed emotional issues that the use of your willpower was just covering over. What was important and necessary, in their minds, was to get at the true source of those forces, wounds or issues, heal them, and then the willpower would not be necessary.

I have seen clients over the years who wanted to be in therapy to the point where any unhealthy impulses, thoughts or feelings were completely eliminated. This is a fantasy, of course. It is an ideal that does not actually exist in this world.

What we can do is choose what to do with such impulses, thoughts and feelings when they arise and use our willpower to move in the direction of our choice. Learning to deal with such things is part of our challenge as human beings. There is nothing broken here that needs to be fixed; it is a natural part of mastering ourselves so that we can function in the world as it is.

As has often been the case in theories of psychotherapy, there is some truth behind the ideal of alleviating troubling internal motivations, but then it gets expanded well beyond its bounds into a universal principle. Understanding what may be motivating some problematic behavior, thinking, or emotions may indeed help you to overcome some of what's troubling you.

For example, if you grew up in a violent home, you may have learned that violence is what regular life is about. Then you might find that as an adult you are continually surprised that you find people to get involved with who are also violent and who hurt you. Understanding your history to some degree and, more importantly, that you have maintained part of that history as a habit (which we all do to some extent), can help to weaken the pull – in this case the pull toward violent people.

But that is where some people stop in the process. And they may continue in psychotherapy for years and years without improving beyond that point; because what's missing is what you do with that understanding.

The next step is to use you conscious awareness, and direct your willpower to actively practice something different.

This is by definition not easy – using your will is work, takes energy, and goes against the flow of habits and feelings that you have developed. But without this step it is not likely that anything will really change.

The capacity to actively direct ourselves, to regulate ourselves, to control ourselves, is a virtue that has been eroded significantly over the past several decades. Not that there aren't plenty of people who still value it and practice it, but culturally it has been undermined in part by the ideal that I've outlined above and in part because of the near miraculous rise in prosperity over the past several decades.

Prosperity is fantastic but it brings with it certain problems as well. Among these problems is that we are buffered from some of the immediate cause and effect of our actions.

If you don't take good care of your car and you can easily afford to get it fixed when it breaks because of your neglect, then it's easier to neglect your car. If you don't take care of your family and you know that there are government agencies that will provide money and services to them if you don't, it can be easier for some people to neglect their family.

In my tool shed I have a large collection of old screws, washers, nuts, bolts and other little knick knacks that my dad collected over the years. He saved these because he didn't want to waste money driving to the hardware store every time he needed something. I have been more inclined to just drive to the hardware store than my dad was, and I keep that collection in part to remind myself to be more careful with money and in part because I use those items more than I would've thought.

There is a connection between the discipline of thrift and earned achievement that is vital to the creation of wealth and to overall success in life; but these are virtues that require acts of will.

The cultural disconnection between willpower and success has been a constant theme of the left. The very idea of "spreading the wealth around" denies any relation between wealth and human action. The ethical behaviors that lead to wealth should be applauded and emulated, but instead they are sidelined as insignificant background noise.
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