Dear Caitlin, I've been reading you along this whole year and actually some time before. Thank you so much for bringing these precious pieces of your clear vision and hope. You have no idea what a relief it has been to actually read someone who hasn't given into being brainwashed and hasn't lost her/his humanity, compassion and simple notion of reality. Wonderful job given the circumstances. And one more separate, particular thank you for not being russo-/homo-/what-will-you -phobic and being able to talk about realities without blaming human beings based on their condition/nationality/anything. I hope that the grim probabilities so far described shall end up having been nothing more than just that and that the restraint by all sides (at least, out of a simple self-preservation instinct) shall prevail. Because otherwise it would be just fucking unthinkable. Still, I can't miss the oportunity to thank you from the my heart and let you know that you're doing a Great Job and that you're being read by rather unexpected persons from rather unexpected places. A great hug and peace be with you and your loved ones!
My experience is that when you have spent a lifetime exploring people, places and consciousness you have unusual experiences, synchronicities and growth. Mystics in all times probably could relate. There is more to this life than ...
Here is a story to demonstrate...
I had ridden the train in the cheap seats for five days from Toronto to Vancouver. Arriving early in the morning with another full day of buses and ferries on a tight schedule to get to my Workaway site I set off around 6 am walking rapidly to rendezvous with my first bus.
Suddenly a large raven flew right above my head and lightly scraped my scalp. I woke from my stupor just as a man was walking towards me (there were not many people about so early). I thought to ask him directions and discovered I was going in the wrong direction...
We are as a race almost defined by our imagination, so it is very appropriate to imagine a possible future of survivors, and why they survived: Yes, future generations, you are here only because you figured it out: you solved the paradox and we never did, that having power over people does not make you powerful, but weak, that loading yourself down with possessions does not add to your value, or substitute for love, but destroys your ability to love what is truly lovable. We were eventually calcified by it all in a concrete cocoon of bad ideas, values and principles from which we could not extricate ourselves, because we had lost the ability to feel or imagine anything, even the threat of certain torturous death.
We allowed the panderers of war, obscene wealth and false glory to enslave us, and half mesmerized, failed to stop them, ignoring the truly glorious gift of life we were freely given, and the means to sustain it for a very long time. Ingratitude and blind hubris destroyed us. You will not make the same mistake.
We have been repeating the same mistakes for millenia, its only the arrogance of the modern world that suggests this time its different. We have known about and suffered under the evils you name yet none have actually overcome them. I think this is because choosing hierarchy, following a mad leader, over-consuming are instinctual not intellectual.
I like your comment but not sure I agree with the instinctual v. Intellectual part and some do overcome. I guess the part I agree with is the arrogance of the modern world and even that has perhaps always been true. Okay, so we have been repeating many of the same mistakes. There is a human nature and wonderfully, it includes curiosity, imagination, creativity, a desire to connect and often to improve, and best of all, to hope.
Future generations, if there are future generations, 'will be impressed by' the herculean effort we poured into keeping enlightenment from crashing in. However……
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Stirling University in England just dropped the author Jane Austin (of all people) from an extremely worthy studying subject in order to “decolonize the curriculum.”
For those oldies, those few who remember the 10 May 1933, we saw German students burn upwards of 25,000 volumes of "un-German" books in the square at the State Opera, Berlin, thereby presaging an era of uncompromising state censorship. In many other university towns, nationalist students marched in torch lit parades against the "un-German" spirit.
Central to Enlightenment thought were the use and celebration of reason, the power by which humans understand the universe and improve their own condition. The goals of rational humanity were considered to be knowledge, freedom, and happiness.
In Australia, could we now fear for the writings of Henry Lawson…the USA perhaps losing access to Mark Twain because they and authors like Jane Austin are part of a plan to “decolonise”.
It. is happening now in a British university.
Future generations, if you are reading this, don’t let that happen.
I love Jane Austen. She wrote insightfully about her society (though omitting the darkest sides) and human relationships and was ahead of her time. She thought that similarity of character and values were crucial to the romantic relationship.
This is exactly the impressionistic petite-bourgeois goop that shines no light on anything nor makes any serious move to change things. All the catalogue of horrors listed herein spring from the socio-economic-production system we live under ... capitalism ... and the class whose interests it serves. Most, if not all those crimes listed herein are committed by the wealth-amassed and production-controlling class that rules us. Only serious change can come when workers (not posturring, self-righeous and "aren't we oh so angry" petite-bourgeois twitterers and substackers) become conscious of their enormous power and are led by a Marxist/Leninist vanguard workers' party. Only until the bourgeoisie is dispossessed of it's control of production which they use solely for profit, not the needs of those who create those profits, is any permanent, real change possible. There is a very serious class war being waged ... now almost entirely one-sidedly .... and the sooner workers figure that out the better. Caitlin, your use of "we" in your litany of blame is very dangerous ... it's just what our rulers like to see ... deflection from them onto some amorphous "we".
Caitlin needs no defence, but it's obvious she understands very well that elites have taken over by stealth, and using very trick in the book. They have since the end of WWII or 1970 at least, systematically banded together unofficially and officially in elite circles like Binderbergers and elite think tanks that have managed to equate in the public mind democratic socialism with autocratic and oligarchic government, and at the same time decimated workers unions and rights. Neoliberalism and globalism have changed the economic system to the point the GDP of every a country has nothing to do with living standards, but is now an index only of elite money on paper, or more aptly, Ethernet. They own the press and we are inundated with lies at every turn and every subject. The solution, democratic socialism, is obvious to the ethical and informed, but that doesn't make it easy to implement.
Much of the harm modern humans cause is done to non-humans, due especially to overconsumption enabled by technology, globalization, and centralization. Capitalism feeds that dynamic and voraciously feeds off it, but we have individual as well as collective roles and responsibilities in it.
I don’t share your fidelity to Marx’s prognostications, but I heartily endorse your focus on where change has to occur. Marx deconstructed capitalism so comprehensively that no writers have been able to improve upon it or challenge it...but I think capitalists have learned that the more workers have roots in this crooked system, the greater will be the resistance to casting it aside.
This is where liberals show themselves to be the biggest obstacles to systemic change. Conservatives are mostly immovable because most, if not all of them, are clear benefactors of the laissez faire social arrangement. Liberals introduce ideals into the mix, things like inclusiveness, worker dignity, anti-racism, and equal rights for all group members...and they believe that these ideals are consistent with a legal system derived from a constitution that only recognizes property as a criterium to uphold. So the Democrats give rhetorical emphasis to these very ideals, and the liberals hold out hope.
The truth, I think, lies in Marx’s foundational materialism. The liberals will resist systemic change as long as they have material security, and the ideals they claim to cherish will always be secondary to that fundamental need. For this reason, I think systemic change will not come from a change of hearts and minds, but from an economic cyclone that brings pain.
In addition, we’ve already seen how two socialist-communist experiments have turned out. No thanks.
NESARA - *caveat: only versions where the R is represented by “Reformation” are legit. There are diversions/misrepresentations of this legislation because the controllers have no intention of letting go of power and allowing the reforms. It sounds too good to be true, but unlike current systems it serves the people. So designed. Imagine that. <-<- Let’s!!!
Using Lenin and or Mao to pass judgement on post-revolutionary statehood is complicated by the structural deficiencies of those states, and the real hundreds of millions dollars spent to consolidate their failure. When the global bully can promise safe passage and a red carpet welcome for every professional who jumps ship, the ideals of the revolution are under constant siege. I think the Scandinavian Countries exemplify a clearer model of a state that wants relative freedoms, but insists on democratic processes. Capitalism is only pernicious because it is fetishized, and permitted to subsume national cultural values and codes of conduct. Both Russia and China are practicing market-centered business that is not trans nationalized and not a threat to change the national calculus. The ideology that promotes global capitalism is reactionary and not in the interest of any person who isn’t a billionaire or a multimillionaire.
Do Fosun Phamaceuticals’ new manufacturing facilities in Princeton and Worcester not qualify as transnational? Both owned by CCP.
Agree capitalism by design benefits one class at the expense of others.
There is consistency throughout recorded history about the effects of power on those in such positions. Generally it’s not flattering.
I’m going to sound crazy but here goes. In a nutshell, I think until our species grows spiritually, recognizing our true nature -part of and inseparable from a great whole that the mind cannot yet truly comprehend, but maybe we’ll inch toward it over the eons- and ego rides in a trailer, until that point of growth, exploitation of the many by the few to one degree or another (ego being central to power, the need/desire for power) will be the norm. The species needs to value more other innate parts of ourselves.
There’s a quote somewhat inaccurately attributed to Einstein; I saw a more accurate attribution/version but can’t recall it precisely (hope I’m not in trouble). The gist is, the intuitive mind is a sacred gift, the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.
When the mass consciousness of our species recognizes and honors our multidimensional nature (see that in our systems? Thought not.) the organization of our systems will not be exploitative. We have a ways to go.
In the meantime I don’t have the answer to what political-economic system is best with egos still running the mass consciousness. Each system, in practice, breeds or attracts power/the power hungry. Even the socialist-democratic like the Scandinavians’ you point to.
I’m from some other planet. Don’t fit in here. Want to live from a higher consciousness centered in the heart, not the head and ever-persistent ego that pervades intellect without heart influence.
I don’t know if I’d be welcome on the committee for the next iteration system. My perspective and constant reminders to rein in certain tendencies would probably frustrate more than be perceived as a contribution. Tiresome to the current mindset and level of spiritual growth.
How’s that for a Wednesday afternoon less than constructive tirade on a real world challenge?
Basement level respect for just about every high ranking bureaucrat/administration official in DC, but especially elected “representatives”. What a joke. Let’s not kid ourselves. Whoever paid to get them elected or pays for their fun ‘n games perks is who they’re beholden to. Period.
You can bang on about spiritual growth and prospects for a new and improved human being, but that sounds to me like the dilatoriness of conservatives who disingenuously claim to care about an issue, only to preserve the status quo.
We know that money is a toxin when applied to political or electoral processes. Where is it written that elections will be conducted via television, and the need to raise millions of dollars will be the fairest way to get the best representation? A simple fix that is not beyond the perspicacity of current human dolts: pass a law that requires licensed TV broadcasters to run no political advertising, and use the airwaves instead to promote discussion and comment by the actual voters. America has been conned into identity politics that views policy as boring minutiae that nobody cares about. If money is prevented from being the defining element in the electoral process, personalities automatically are less essential to voters than policies, and that would be a significant development that requires only a simple law.
Wrong type of system from the get-go? It’s a question. I don’t know!!
Agree on the duping of the common man where division is fomented at the expense of awareness on policy. Have you seen exposure of DoD as the contracting party re current public health -that should be in quotes- debacle? Yes, titling leans toward hyperbole but what else would you call it?
Our purported public health agencies are not running this show. No, I have not sought out the documents to examine for myself. Time is a major constraint. Yes, I am relying on the reporter’s read. Cui bono? She (reporter) has more to lose than gain. You’re hip to intimidation tactics by three letter agencies? Or Clintonization? There’s quite a body count there. Imo she’s putting her safety in danger by speaking out.
It’s ok if we disagree. -? The truth will come out eventually. I never believed for a minute a speeding bullet made a u-turn inside Kennedy’s head. They lie to us ALL the time. Have you read The Devil’s Chessboard? The Committee of 300?
I’m sorry you perceive my view to spiritual growth as being disingenuous. I maintain that until the species advances our spiritual growth we will keep repeating the same play over and over and over. War, domination, greed, all ego centric behavior. I don’t want this for the peoples of planet earth. I don’t think you do either. -? We’re not likely to solve big issues on a discussion thread. I appreciate your thoughts.
They started out as regular people like us and became corrupted which can happen to any of us. My hope is that if im ever in a similar position I would do better.....I pray sometimes that when they lay their head down at night that some "seed" might find its way in.
The fact of the matter is that all of creation IS going to end at some point in time and it might just be that the time is now. I certainly want no part of anything with the names Marx/Lenin attached to it. Everyone just needs to prepare to die; as stark as that sounds.
What would you have me understand about the universe; my assertion about what, specifically? I am concerned with what occurs to myself after this earthly life, as that will be far longer than any time I spend on this planet. Regards Lenin/Marx I am not on board with that evil.
Is your assertion "Everyone just needs to prepare to die" a threat, a prediction or something else?
If it's a threat (you can carry out), then I bow to your power but wonder why you spend it thus. If it's a threat you can't carry out, then why make it?
If it is a prediction, then it is extremely unlikely to be a correct prediction, because few people are prepared to die when it happens, and it seems to me even fewer feel the need to prepare for death, it comes regardless so what is the value of it?
If it's something else, then that could be, may be, a very interesting thing to read.
No threat. I mean from a spiritual perspective. Having sorrow for our sins and I say this, mind you, for Christians as I know there are either agnostic or atheist readers. As much as we in our frail human condition can do and leave the rest to the mercy of God. So to answer you question; that, in itself, is the value of preparation.
Would it not be better to do reparation for one's "sins" instead of feeling sorrow, which does no one any good, other than serving as a diversion from doing reparation? and why is this a preparation for death? Recognizing one has done wrong should be a preparation for life, a reaffirmation of one's fellowship with the universe and a drive to do better.
Agreed. Pardon me for not mentioning that as this is constantly a practice of mine but I must also have sorrow and contrition for my wrongs (as I am taught, here again not speaking for anyone else) For me it is a preparation for death so as to try and"tidy up my soul' if you will for eternity. I have even read a book on the subject Preparation for Death' Alphonsus De Liquori regarding the need to ever be aware of the certainty of death and the need to prepare oneself for the inevitable as one knows not the day of the hour in which the master will come, as it were. This life is fleeting and will be over in a short time. As Padre Pio once said to a woman who had just turned 60 years old who asked him to say something nice commemorating the occasion the saintly friars reply was, 'Death is near'.
Padre Pio once said to a woman who had just turned 60 years old who asked him to say something nice commemorating the occasion the saintly friars reply was, 'Death is near'.
Well, what an insult to the poor woman. It implies she has no knowledge of life.
Amen, Beother reparations are so exciting for us humans, we're not angels, and we now? So Creator made a clever way for us to feel regret for our mistaken choices and a built in urge to fix stuff. Why , we could go on forever making mistakes, making reparations, each time creator can sit back and say “It is Good!” And why shouldn’t we humans go on forever? Isn’t that what eternity all bout? So take it easy, Greasy, we gotta long way to slide. Do you imagine as we humans are expanding our noosphere exponentially we will ever overtake our expanding universe? Bee good, be happy and get to work teaching the golden rule🎉. It’s very important for all to watch and pray. Just by that we magnify Truth and Beaury of our universe‼️💖🙏🏽
There have been exceptional instances of people who have led unsavory lives, amended their ways and grown in grace and sanctity. Humans go on in eternity but obviously not in this life, as we know it.
We won't ever, obviously, reach perfection this life due to our fallen nature. It is not in how many times one falls but in how many times one picks oneself up with the grace of God and moved forward. There are exceptional instances of people who have led unsavory lives, amended their ways and grown in grace and sanctity.
Well, < all of creation > necessarily extends beyond our Milky Way galaxy to include the estimated 100-200 billion other galaxies and who knows if that estimate is even accurate. I mean, we’re only human. Living on a pretty small planet. That orbits one star in a galaxy of, again, hundreds of billions of other stars. None of which our technology has even brought us close to visiting (though a visit might preclude going to the actual star itself to avoid getting fried. Might just limit the visit to perusing a hypothetical solar system.).
So I might agree planet earth is currently in danger, but hardly all of creation. And maybe not the planet, just humans.
And I suspect as well the Creator will keep on creating. I suspect it’s happening at every moment, maybe just beyond our awareness, and in locations other than earth.
We *are* indeed all going to die someday. I’d prefer to live not controlled by some outside decision makers. Right now I’m controlled by the demands of money, to live on a planet where I was born. A planet that provides everything required to sustain life. A planet where self-appointed authorities/systems demand money even to live on a small spot of land (if one “owns” the spot of land) that the authority claimed for itself long ago. Divine right of kings, governments, men (overwhelmingly) with some outsized egos who insist on imposing their ideas on others. Our systems are truly f’d up, designed by the few for their benefit.
I’m ranting.
I’m hopeful humanity’s number is not up. It is incumbent upon us though to find the collective will to figure out how to prevent our demise. Check your ego at the door.
Is your rejection of all things associated with the names Marx/Lenin rooted in scholarship, first-hand experience, or perhaps cradle-to-grave, unrelenting propaganda? Or none of the above, maybe? I came from a religious family, and communism was condemned primarily for its doctrinaire atheism.
That’s a nice read, and I think it doesn’t contradict the policies of the communist state as established by the USSR. Lenin was accomplished as a thinker and as a writer, but putting his principles into practice in a divided, post-revolutionary society meant some ideas were scrapped and some were adapted to the social milieu.
The Russian Orthodox Church had more than a few pious members who preferred the Tsar to the President, so programmatically stifling counter-revolutionaries meant promoting atheism as the “preferred” creed or philosophy. I suppose it is a sad irony that Putin is much closer in his worldview to Biden than to Lenin. Communism is dead in Russia, but God lives! Putin is regularly seen attending church.
There seems to be this fantasy that humans learn from experiences in the past, not much of our history shows this is actually true. Why should we expect that future generations will be wiser than we are ? Where is the historical evidence to suggest that human consciousness is capable of overcoming our ingrained instincts ? We still have war, greed, sloth and more, yet we have known of these evils for millenia.
No other animals override their instincts by way of logic and intellect, why should we be any different?
Where is there evidence that we have overridden our instincts in the past or present ?
And growth of spirit, imo, is the only thing that will advance the species.
We are multidimensional beings. For example, thoughts are not contained inside the skull. The observer effect in physics, or the effects of quantum entanglement support the broadcast nature of thought. These phenomena violate laws of space-time, i.e., making us “more” than 3-/4-dimensional. I would humbly suggest that the stage of our science is yet primitive. Way, way more yet to discover.
And dreams. Are they strictly inside the skull? I can’t say, and our current level of science can’t prove it either way. I suggest we have to consider the possibility dreams are a state of consciousness that involve the Field, the cosmic soup that we also cannot yet measure.
My point: there is no historical evidence that the human species has overriden instinct.
But — recognizing as a species our multidimensional nature, something I hypothesize no other animal is capable of or will lag behind us *considerably* in such discovery, and coming into our own as multidimensional beings -a growth process- is possible, and a path to getting beyond the evils of war, greed, sloth and more.
Probable? Can’t say. But awareness, first, followed by pursuing a path that leads to discovery and growth becomes incumbent on each of us once one “agrees” on just the concept of possibilities.
I would suggest that the ruling class has suppressed for millennia knowledge of how to begin and pursue the journey. It sure wouldn’t benefit them for the masses to understand our true nature much less grow into full realization (impossible to conceive per limitations of solely the mind) of our multidimensionality.
No disrespect intended, but the Bible is an instruction manual. Not a step by step guide, rather a record of spiritual truths. They lie beneath the surface. Translations always compromise nuances; that would be the first problem. The editing out of teachings by the powers that be in earlier centuries is another. The most problematic is the training of those who would teach from the greatest bestseller (with good reason) of all time. I observe that most teachers/preachers/pastors/priests never get to the deepest truths. The Nazarene Jesus warned his inner circle not to cast their pearls before swine. The truths are there. An instruction manual. The gross masses have never been taught. Not ready perhaps? Certainly the ruling class has something to do with dumbing us down to keep us subservient. Is humanity ready to grow spiritually into our multidimensional nature?
It’s a question.
Imo, only when that happens will humans be able to override certain baser instincts and tendencies.
Comprehending and seeing truthfulness is a challenge given the noise; the gas-lighting, gatekeepers, narratives, algorithms, and deceptions from TPTB. My process is collecting and connecting "dots" where the "Master Dot (where all dots lead) is often "Cui Bono (who benefits?) If people want a just and moral society, they need to collect and connect "dots" that benefit a just and moral society. Not “dots” that benefit The War Machine, Big Finance, Big Govt, The CIA, MI-6, and the Davos Crowd. Thank you Caitlin for "dots" you provide without all the noise. But it is the responsibility of the individual to collect and connect their "dots." If they don't, someone else will connect their "dots" for them. Cui Bono? Great work - God bless.
Dear Caitlin, I've been reading you along this whole year and actually some time before. Thank you so much for bringing these precious pieces of your clear vision and hope. You have no idea what a relief it has been to actually read someone who hasn't given into being brainwashed and hasn't lost her/his humanity, compassion and simple notion of reality. Wonderful job given the circumstances. And one more separate, particular thank you for not being russo-/homo-/what-will-you -phobic and being able to talk about realities without blaming human beings based on their condition/nationality/anything. I hope that the grim probabilities so far described shall end up having been nothing more than just that and that the restraint by all sides (at least, out of a simple self-preservation instinct) shall prevail. Because otherwise it would be just fucking unthinkable. Still, I can't miss the oportunity to thank you from the my heart and let you know that you're doing a Great Job and that you're being read by rather unexpected persons from rather unexpected places. A great hug and peace be with you and your loved ones!
My experience is that when you have spent a lifetime exploring people, places and consciousness you have unusual experiences, synchronicities and growth. Mystics in all times probably could relate. There is more to this life than ...
Here is a story to demonstrate...
I had ridden the train in the cheap seats for five days from Toronto to Vancouver. Arriving early in the morning with another full day of buses and ferries on a tight schedule to get to my Workaway site I set off around 6 am walking rapidly to rendezvous with my first bus.
Suddenly a large raven flew right above my head and lightly scraped my scalp. I woke from my stupor just as a man was walking towards me (there were not many people about so early). I thought to ask him directions and discovered I was going in the wrong direction...
That's gorgeous.
The Lord works in mysterious ways. -- Or, if you prefer. -- The Universe always provides.
We are as a race almost defined by our imagination, so it is very appropriate to imagine a possible future of survivors, and why they survived: Yes, future generations, you are here only because you figured it out: you solved the paradox and we never did, that having power over people does not make you powerful, but weak, that loading yourself down with possessions does not add to your value, or substitute for love, but destroys your ability to love what is truly lovable. We were eventually calcified by it all in a concrete cocoon of bad ideas, values and principles from which we could not extricate ourselves, because we had lost the ability to feel or imagine anything, even the threat of certain torturous death.
We allowed the panderers of war, obscene wealth and false glory to enslave us, and half mesmerized, failed to stop them, ignoring the truly glorious gift of life we were freely given, and the means to sustain it for a very long time. Ingratitude and blind hubris destroyed us. You will not make the same mistake.
I agree with you, Doris. -Kathleen
We have been repeating the same mistakes for millenia, its only the arrogance of the modern world that suggests this time its different. We have known about and suffered under the evils you name yet none have actually overcome them. I think this is because choosing hierarchy, following a mad leader, over-consuming are instinctual not intellectual.
I like your comment but not sure I agree with the instinctual v. Intellectual part and some do overcome. I guess the part I agree with is the arrogance of the modern world and even that has perhaps always been true. Okay, so we have been repeating many of the same mistakes. There is a human nature and wonderfully, it includes curiosity, imagination, creativity, a desire to connect and often to improve, and best of all, to hope.
Very profound and so incisive as to this cock-eyed world in 2022.
You are my favorite writer right now, and it's not even close.
Thank you for all your amazing work CJ
Future generations, if there are future generations, 'will be impressed by' the herculean effort we poured into keeping enlightenment from crashing in. However……
.
Stirling University in England just dropped the author Jane Austin (of all people) from an extremely worthy studying subject in order to “decolonize the curriculum.”
For those oldies, those few who remember the 10 May 1933, we saw German students burn upwards of 25,000 volumes of "un-German" books in the square at the State Opera, Berlin, thereby presaging an era of uncompromising state censorship. In many other university towns, nationalist students marched in torch lit parades against the "un-German" spirit.
Central to Enlightenment thought were the use and celebration of reason, the power by which humans understand the universe and improve their own condition. The goals of rational humanity were considered to be knowledge, freedom, and happiness.
In Australia, could we now fear for the writings of Henry Lawson…the USA perhaps losing access to Mark Twain because they and authors like Jane Austin are part of a plan to “decolonise”.
It. is happening now in a British university.
Future generations, if you are reading this, don’t let that happen.
I love Jane Austen. She wrote insightfully about her society (though omitting the darkest sides) and human relationships and was ahead of her time. She thought that similarity of character and values were crucial to the romantic relationship.
Jane Austin dropped? Picking my jaw off the floor.
The corrupting of worlds is our heritage. Future generations will have fallen through to the next world and will tell stories of our folly.
This is exactly the impressionistic petite-bourgeois goop that shines no light on anything nor makes any serious move to change things. All the catalogue of horrors listed herein spring from the socio-economic-production system we live under ... capitalism ... and the class whose interests it serves. Most, if not all those crimes listed herein are committed by the wealth-amassed and production-controlling class that rules us. Only serious change can come when workers (not posturring, self-righeous and "aren't we oh so angry" petite-bourgeois twitterers and substackers) become conscious of their enormous power and are led by a Marxist/Leninist vanguard workers' party. Only until the bourgeoisie is dispossessed of it's control of production which they use solely for profit, not the needs of those who create those profits, is any permanent, real change possible. There is a very serious class war being waged ... now almost entirely one-sidedly .... and the sooner workers figure that out the better. Caitlin, your use of "we" in your litany of blame is very dangerous ... it's just what our rulers like to see ... deflection from them onto some amorphous "we".
Caitlin needs no defence, but it's obvious she understands very well that elites have taken over by stealth, and using very trick in the book. They have since the end of WWII or 1970 at least, systematically banded together unofficially and officially in elite circles like Binderbergers and elite think tanks that have managed to equate in the public mind democratic socialism with autocratic and oligarchic government, and at the same time decimated workers unions and rights. Neoliberalism and globalism have changed the economic system to the point the GDP of every a country has nothing to do with living standards, but is now an index only of elite money on paper, or more aptly, Ethernet. They own the press and we are inundated with lies at every turn and every subject. The solution, democratic socialism, is obvious to the ethical and informed, but that doesn't make it easy to implement.
Much of the harm modern humans cause is done to non-humans, due especially to overconsumption enabled by technology, globalization, and centralization. Capitalism feeds that dynamic and voraciously feeds off it, but we have individual as well as collective roles and responsibilities in it.
I don’t share your fidelity to Marx’s prognostications, but I heartily endorse your focus on where change has to occur. Marx deconstructed capitalism so comprehensively that no writers have been able to improve upon it or challenge it...but I think capitalists have learned that the more workers have roots in this crooked system, the greater will be the resistance to casting it aside.
This is where liberals show themselves to be the biggest obstacles to systemic change. Conservatives are mostly immovable because most, if not all of them, are clear benefactors of the laissez faire social arrangement. Liberals introduce ideals into the mix, things like inclusiveness, worker dignity, anti-racism, and equal rights for all group members...and they believe that these ideals are consistent with a legal system derived from a constitution that only recognizes property as a criterium to uphold. So the Democrats give rhetorical emphasis to these very ideals, and the liberals hold out hope.
The truth, I think, lies in Marx’s foundational materialism. The liberals will resist systemic change as long as they have material security, and the ideals they claim to cherish will always be secondary to that fundamental need. For this reason, I think systemic change will not come from a change of hearts and minds, but from an economic cyclone that brings pain.
And that < economic cyclone that brings pain > is looming on the horizon.
That said, the banksters’ very close to ready-and-waiting solution, CBDCs, is no solution.
https://twitter.com/sovmichael/status/1569264243299549184
“...absolute
control.”
Because they
“have the technology”
His words, not mine.
A tyrants wet dream.
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In addition, we’ve already seen how two socialist-communist experiments have turned out. No thanks.
NESARA - *caveat: only versions where the R is represented by “Reformation” are legit. There are diversions/misrepresentations of this legislation because the controllers have no intention of letting go of power and allowing the reforms. It sounds too good to be true, but unlike current systems it serves the people. So designed. Imagine that. <-<- Let’s!!!
Using Lenin and or Mao to pass judgement on post-revolutionary statehood is complicated by the structural deficiencies of those states, and the real hundreds of millions dollars spent to consolidate their failure. When the global bully can promise safe passage and a red carpet welcome for every professional who jumps ship, the ideals of the revolution are under constant siege. I think the Scandinavian Countries exemplify a clearer model of a state that wants relative freedoms, but insists on democratic processes. Capitalism is only pernicious because it is fetishized, and permitted to subsume national cultural values and codes of conduct. Both Russia and China are practicing market-centered business that is not trans nationalized and not a threat to change the national calculus. The ideology that promotes global capitalism is reactionary and not in the interest of any person who isn’t a billionaire or a multimillionaire.
Do Fosun Phamaceuticals’ new manufacturing facilities in Princeton and Worcester not qualify as transnational? Both owned by CCP.
Agree capitalism by design benefits one class at the expense of others.
There is consistency throughout recorded history about the effects of power on those in such positions. Generally it’s not flattering.
I’m going to sound crazy but here goes. In a nutshell, I think until our species grows spiritually, recognizing our true nature -part of and inseparable from a great whole that the mind cannot yet truly comprehend, but maybe we’ll inch toward it over the eons- and ego rides in a trailer, until that point of growth, exploitation of the many by the few to one degree or another (ego being central to power, the need/desire for power) will be the norm. The species needs to value more other innate parts of ourselves.
There’s a quote somewhat inaccurately attributed to Einstein; I saw a more accurate attribution/version but can’t recall it precisely (hope I’m not in trouble). The gist is, the intuitive mind is a sacred gift, the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.
When the mass consciousness of our species recognizes and honors our multidimensional nature (see that in our systems? Thought not.) the organization of our systems will not be exploitative. We have a ways to go.
In the meantime I don’t have the answer to what political-economic system is best with egos still running the mass consciousness. Each system, in practice, breeds or attracts power/the power hungry. Even the socialist-democratic like the Scandinavians’ you point to.
I’m from some other planet. Don’t fit in here. Want to live from a higher consciousness centered in the heart, not the head and ever-persistent ego that pervades intellect without heart influence.
I don’t know if I’d be welcome on the committee for the next iteration system. My perspective and constant reminders to rein in certain tendencies would probably frustrate more than be perceived as a contribution. Tiresome to the current mindset and level of spiritual growth.
How’s that for a Wednesday afternoon less than constructive tirade on a real world challenge?
Basement level respect for just about every high ranking bureaucrat/administration official in DC, but especially elected “representatives”. What a joke. Let’s not kid ourselves. Whoever paid to get them elected or pays for their fun ‘n games perks is who they’re beholden to. Period.
I’ll terminate rant now. Not to resume. 😬
You can bang on about spiritual growth and prospects for a new and improved human being, but that sounds to me like the dilatoriness of conservatives who disingenuously claim to care about an issue, only to preserve the status quo.
We know that money is a toxin when applied to political or electoral processes. Where is it written that elections will be conducted via television, and the need to raise millions of dollars will be the fairest way to get the best representation? A simple fix that is not beyond the perspicacity of current human dolts: pass a law that requires licensed TV broadcasters to run no political advertising, and use the airwaves instead to promote discussion and comment by the actual voters. America has been conned into identity politics that views policy as boring minutiae that nobody cares about. If money is prevented from being the defining element in the electoral process, personalities automatically are less essential to voters than policies, and that would be a significant development that requires only a simple law.
100% on money involvement.
I’ll repeat, I don’t have an answer, heck, any answers.
I found this thought proviking:
https://thecirculationofelites.substack.com/p/why-the-circulation-of-elites
Wrong type of system from the get-go? It’s a question. I don’t know!!
Agree on the duping of the common man where division is fomented at the expense of awareness on policy. Have you seen exposure of DoD as the contracting party re current public health -that should be in quotes- debacle? Yes, titling leans toward hyperbole but what else would you call it?
https://www.redvoicemedia.com/video/2022/09/proof-dod-using-100s-of-pharma-to-scale-up-mass-genocide-against-americans/
Our purported public health agencies are not running this show. No, I have not sought out the documents to examine for myself. Time is a major constraint. Yes, I am relying on the reporter’s read. Cui bono? She (reporter) has more to lose than gain. You’re hip to intimidation tactics by three letter agencies? Or Clintonization? There’s quite a body count there. Imo she’s putting her safety in danger by speaking out.
It’s ok if we disagree. -? The truth will come out eventually. I never believed for a minute a speeding bullet made a u-turn inside Kennedy’s head. They lie to us ALL the time. Have you read The Devil’s Chessboard? The Committee of 300?
I’m sorry you perceive my view to spiritual growth as being disingenuous. I maintain that until the species advances our spiritual growth we will keep repeating the same play over and over and over. War, domination, greed, all ego centric behavior. I don’t want this for the peoples of planet earth. I don’t think you do either. -? We’re not likely to solve big issues on a discussion thread. I appreciate your thoughts.
agree with you - nicely put.
I appreciate that.
They started out as regular people like us and became corrupted which can happen to any of us. My hope is that if im ever in a similar position I would do better.....I pray sometimes that when they lay their head down at night that some "seed" might find its way in.
I was going to respond with Marx’s definition of religion, but it’s slightly off topic.
The fact of the matter is that all of creation IS going to end at some point in time and it might just be that the time is now. I certainly want no part of anything with the names Marx/Lenin attached to it. Everyone just needs to prepare to die; as stark as that sounds.
I'm not a fan of Marx or Lenin, but I profoundly I disagree with you.
You do not understand the universe.
On what do you base your assertion?
What would you have me understand about the universe; my assertion about what, specifically? I am concerned with what occurs to myself after this earthly life, as that will be far longer than any time I spend on this planet. Regards Lenin/Marx I am not on board with that evil.
(as I am taught, here again not speaking for anyone else) . Who taught you?
If you look closely, again, at my posts and some of the references I make to Pio and Liquori it will be apparent.
Is your assertion "Everyone just needs to prepare to die" a threat, a prediction or something else?
If it's a threat (you can carry out), then I bow to your power but wonder why you spend it thus. If it's a threat you can't carry out, then why make it?
If it is a prediction, then it is extremely unlikely to be a correct prediction, because few people are prepared to die when it happens, and it seems to me even fewer feel the need to prepare for death, it comes regardless so what is the value of it?
If it's something else, then that could be, may be, a very interesting thing to read.
No threat. I mean from a spiritual perspective. Having sorrow for our sins and I say this, mind you, for Christians as I know there are either agnostic or atheist readers. As much as we in our frail human condition can do and leave the rest to the mercy of God. So to answer you question; that, in itself, is the value of preparation.
Would it not be better to do reparation for one's "sins" instead of feeling sorrow, which does no one any good, other than serving as a diversion from doing reparation? and why is this a preparation for death? Recognizing one has done wrong should be a preparation for life, a reaffirmation of one's fellowship with the universe and a drive to do better.
Agreed. Pardon me for not mentioning that as this is constantly a practice of mine but I must also have sorrow and contrition for my wrongs (as I am taught, here again not speaking for anyone else) For me it is a preparation for death so as to try and"tidy up my soul' if you will for eternity. I have even read a book on the subject Preparation for Death' Alphonsus De Liquori regarding the need to ever be aware of the certainty of death and the need to prepare oneself for the inevitable as one knows not the day of the hour in which the master will come, as it were. This life is fleeting and will be over in a short time. As Padre Pio once said to a woman who had just turned 60 years old who asked him to say something nice commemorating the occasion the saintly friars reply was, 'Death is near'.
Padre Pio once said to a woman who had just turned 60 years old who asked him to say something nice commemorating the occasion the saintly friars reply was, 'Death is near'.
Well, what an insult to the poor woman. It implies she has no knowledge of life.
Amen, Beother reparations are so exciting for us humans, we're not angels, and we now? So Creator made a clever way for us to feel regret for our mistaken choices and a built in urge to fix stuff. Why , we could go on forever making mistakes, making reparations, each time creator can sit back and say “It is Good!” And why shouldn’t we humans go on forever? Isn’t that what eternity all bout? So take it easy, Greasy, we gotta long way to slide. Do you imagine as we humans are expanding our noosphere exponentially we will ever overtake our expanding universe? Bee good, be happy and get to work teaching the golden rule🎉. It’s very important for all to watch and pray. Just by that we magnify Truth and Beaury of our universe‼️💖🙏🏽
There have been exceptional instances of people who have led unsavory lives, amended their ways and grown in grace and sanctity. Humans go on in eternity but obviously not in this life, as we know it.
We won't ever, obviously, reach perfection this life due to our fallen nature. It is not in how many times one falls but in how many times one picks oneself up with the grace of God and moved forward. There are exceptional instances of people who have led unsavory lives, amended their ways and grown in grace and sanctity.
Well, < all of creation > necessarily extends beyond our Milky Way galaxy to include the estimated 100-200 billion other galaxies and who knows if that estimate is even accurate. I mean, we’re only human. Living on a pretty small planet. That orbits one star in a galaxy of, again, hundreds of billions of other stars. None of which our technology has even brought us close to visiting (though a visit might preclude going to the actual star itself to avoid getting fried. Might just limit the visit to perusing a hypothetical solar system.).
So I might agree planet earth is currently in danger, but hardly all of creation. And maybe not the planet, just humans.
And I suspect as well the Creator will keep on creating. I suspect it’s happening at every moment, maybe just beyond our awareness, and in locations other than earth.
We *are* indeed all going to die someday. I’d prefer to live not controlled by some outside decision makers. Right now I’m controlled by the demands of money, to live on a planet where I was born. A planet that provides everything required to sustain life. A planet where self-appointed authorities/systems demand money even to live on a small spot of land (if one “owns” the spot of land) that the authority claimed for itself long ago. Divine right of kings, governments, men (overwhelmingly) with some outsized egos who insist on imposing their ideas on others. Our systems are truly f’d up, designed by the few for their benefit.
I’m ranting.
I’m hopeful humanity’s number is not up. It is incumbent upon us though to find the collective will to figure out how to prevent our demise. Check your ego at the door.
Is your rejection of all things associated with the names Marx/Lenin rooted in scholarship, first-hand experience, or perhaps cradle-to-grave, unrelenting propaganda? Or none of the above, maybe? I came from a religious family, and communism was condemned primarily for its doctrinaire atheism.
doctrinaire?
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1905/dec/03.htm
I guess it is if one holds the same feelings to the (Edit: American Federal Constitution's) first amendment.
That’s a nice read, and I think it doesn’t contradict the policies of the communist state as established by the USSR. Lenin was accomplished as a thinker and as a writer, but putting his principles into practice in a divided, post-revolutionary society meant some ideas were scrapped and some were adapted to the social milieu.
The Russian Orthodox Church had more than a few pious members who preferred the Tsar to the President, so programmatically stifling counter-revolutionaries meant promoting atheism as the “preferred” creed or philosophy. I suppose it is a sad irony that Putin is much closer in his worldview to Biden than to Lenin. Communism is dead in Russia, but God lives! Putin is regularly seen attending church.
" communism was condemned primarily for its doctrinaire atheism."
Ditto.
Thank you again Caitlin
Beautiful. Gives hope there will be a world someday beyond this dumpster fire of greed and evil.
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ Thank you!
That says it all. Heartbreaking in it's truth and sadness. Brilliantly written.
I will keep my optimism and say there will be future generations. Thank you for sharing this insight.
It seems they are followers of a death cult. That's an explanation, but not an excuse.
There seems to be this fantasy that humans learn from experiences in the past, not much of our history shows this is actually true. Why should we expect that future generations will be wiser than we are ? Where is the historical evidence to suggest that human consciousness is capable of overcoming our ingrained instincts ? We still have war, greed, sloth and more, yet we have known of these evils for millenia.
No other animals override their instincts by way of logic and intellect, why should we be any different?
Where is there evidence that we have overridden our instincts in the past or present ?
Agree, not much evidence of growth.
And growth of spirit, imo, is the only thing that will advance the species.
We are multidimensional beings. For example, thoughts are not contained inside the skull. The observer effect in physics, or the effects of quantum entanglement support the broadcast nature of thought. These phenomena violate laws of space-time, i.e., making us “more” than 3-/4-dimensional. I would humbly suggest that the stage of our science is yet primitive. Way, way more yet to discover.
And dreams. Are they strictly inside the skull? I can’t say, and our current level of science can’t prove it either way. I suggest we have to consider the possibility dreams are a state of consciousness that involve the Field, the cosmic soup that we also cannot yet measure.
My point: there is no historical evidence that the human species has overriden instinct.
But — recognizing as a species our multidimensional nature, something I hypothesize no other animal is capable of or will lag behind us *considerably* in such discovery, and coming into our own as multidimensional beings -a growth process- is possible, and a path to getting beyond the evils of war, greed, sloth and more.
Probable? Can’t say. But awareness, first, followed by pursuing a path that leads to discovery and growth becomes incumbent on each of us once one “agrees” on just the concept of possibilities.
I would suggest that the ruling class has suppressed for millennia knowledge of how to begin and pursue the journey. It sure wouldn’t benefit them for the masses to understand our true nature much less grow into full realization (impossible to conceive per limitations of solely the mind) of our multidimensionality.
No disrespect intended, but the Bible is an instruction manual. Not a step by step guide, rather a record of spiritual truths. They lie beneath the surface. Translations always compromise nuances; that would be the first problem. The editing out of teachings by the powers that be in earlier centuries is another. The most problematic is the training of those who would teach from the greatest bestseller (with good reason) of all time. I observe that most teachers/preachers/pastors/priests never get to the deepest truths. The Nazarene Jesus warned his inner circle not to cast their pearls before swine. The truths are there. An instruction manual. The gross masses have never been taught. Not ready perhaps? Certainly the ruling class has something to do with dumbing us down to keep us subservient. Is humanity ready to grow spiritually into our multidimensional nature?
It’s a question.
Imo, only when that happens will humans be able to override certain baser instincts and tendencies.
For your consideration.
Comprehending and seeing truthfulness is a challenge given the noise; the gas-lighting, gatekeepers, narratives, algorithms, and deceptions from TPTB. My process is collecting and connecting "dots" where the "Master Dot (where all dots lead) is often "Cui Bono (who benefits?) If people want a just and moral society, they need to collect and connect "dots" that benefit a just and moral society. Not “dots” that benefit The War Machine, Big Finance, Big Govt, The CIA, MI-6, and the Davos Crowd. Thank you Caitlin for "dots" you provide without all the noise. But it is the responsibility of the individual to collect and connect their "dots." If they don't, someone else will connect their "dots" for them. Cui Bono? Great work - God bless.