Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ Power is the ability to control what happens. The more control you have, the more powerful you are. That's why power is like crack for the ego. Egos are all about control; obtaining safety and security so as to ensure the survival and success of one particular human organism. The impulse to exert control over our surroundings is why our recently-evolved brains
Caitlin, one of your best. Until I read it, I thought what was driving all the propaganda about China and Russia was the need to justify constantly increasing military spending. Now I see it's far deeper emotionally for these imperialists.
There's really nothing to add to your observations today, Caitlin, except a wish for a wider audience.
Driving around yesterday seeing all these flags at half mast was depressing as hell. If I murdered someone I could expect to be sent to prison, but if I could up that number to a million, I'd look forward to a similar sendoff. Our national anthem is in desperate need of a laugh track.
It might be benficial to ponder why the Greeks of old created these gods in the first place, or why people continue to worship their gods today? People have a deep-seated need to answer to authority, as the Milgram experiment so aptly demonstrated. The oligarchs pulling the strings are well aware of this, knowing that thanks to evolutionary hardwiring, their job is already halfway done. So pick a team, get in line, and start yelling.
The marginalizations, media smears, police bullets, and phoney prison lockups are enough to handle the deviant questioners among us. At least for now.
''The drivers of empire can inflict famines upon entire populations by imposing starvation sanctions upon them using their control over international financial systems. They can rain down fire upon any disobedient population using the most powerful military force ever assembled.''
It's quite reminiscent of a Zeusian god. As the world is deemed ''overpopulated,'' threatening the oligarchy's rule since it creates an impulse for change, new discoveries and scientific breakthroughs, so the Zeusians see the necessity of wiping the earth of what they deem ''too many humans.'' Today this takes the form of a Malthusian outlook. Everything in the universe is supposedly governed by entropy, and the universe is essentially just treated as one giant empty box whose energy is wearing down, lurching towards heat death.
It's a totally oligarchical way of viewing the universe, but today it's considered science among the scientific priesthood. All this despite the abounding evidence that the universe is in fact creative, changing, and developing. Of course, from an oligarchical standpoint such a view can never be allowed to become popular, given its implications for how society might behave differently.
Of course, the Western empire is now crumbling, largely thanks to the Malthusian policies and financial behemoths it has created. The whole Trans-Atlantic financial system is essentially now a collection of zombie banks who are only managing to lurch a few more steps forward thanks to the Fed's endless repo-loans and other bailout mechanisms.
This is why they’re desperate to impose fascism here and divide the world with these new no go zones and mandates, in my opinion. These attempts should not be seen as signs of strength, but weakness and vulnerability. I think people are starting to catch on.
Very telling is the recent unveiling of China's new hyper-sonic missile technology. The media reports that the US military and others said they’re surprised that China developed these weapons, but they shouldn’t be. Both Russia and China have leapfrogged. Meanwhile NATO and the US have been stuck just building old fashion ABMs and military bases everywhere, and deploying ships thinking they can maintain a nuclear first strike capability.
It’s all blown up in their face.
All this basically means the oligarchy has been strategically routed by these other nations who despite their differences or problems, will not allow themselves to be enslaved by the ''new world order,'' or whatever one wishes to call it.
These changes should be welcomed, and seen as a sign that we too may still be able to cast off the chains and cut this oligarchical cancer from the earth. It's either that, or we go down with it.
I tried to understand the workings of power from a classical music point of view: I wanted a democratic orchestra. In a conventional orchestra the chain of command is a vector from the composer to the conductor to the ensemble. Trying to distribute the role of the composer to everybody, I found that my small baroque ensemble was unwilling to be creative. Improvisation scared them. The conductor however, was willing to improvise, using the minimal notation I had composed. As a composer, I tried to exert as little power as possible. The improvising conductor did very well, inventing gestures to raise and lower pitches, and even establishing polyrhythms by dividing the ensemble into groups. The music was structured and sounded a bit like Bach. However, as soon as something unpredictable happened, the group stopped playing.
I have often played in groups without a conductor, such as Scottish traditional groups. Here, the best musician usually takes the lead. Again, there was no room for a democratic musical discourse. I haven't tried free jazz yet, but I don't think that throwing traditional culture over board is the answer to establishing a conscious discourse. I think the role of conductor is essential.
Well, yes, but claiming that the Chinese government "cannot exert control over how those populations think and behave" is not true, so far as I can tell. The Chinese Communist Party tightly controls the internet and social media, the traditional media, all forms of political opposition and pretty much every part of their people's lives. It is far from a free society by any measure.
"The Chinese authorities have tightened their grip on news and information even more since the emergence of Covid-19. Seven journalists are still being held for their coverage of the pandemic. In 2021, China continues to be the world’s biggest jailer of press freedom defenders, with more than 115 currently detained, often in conditions that pose a threat to their lives. Kunchok Jinpa, a leading media source of information about Tibet, died in February 2021 as a result of mistreatment in prison, just as Liu Xiaobo, a Nobel peace laureate and winner of the RSF Press Freedom Prize, and Yang Tongyan, a dissident blogger, did in 2017.
By relying on the massive use of new technology, President Xi Jinping’s regime has imposed a social model based on control of news and information and online surveillance of its citizens. China’s state and privately-owned media are under the Communist Party’s ever-tighter control, while the administration creates more and more obstacles for foreign reporters."
If the claims made in the statement I quoted are untrue, I'd like to know. But it seems that the USA and UK treatment of Julian Assange, appallingly egregious as it is, pales almost into insignificance compared to the multiple ways the Chinese government abuses its own journalists.
The ego is trying to replicate what it infers from what consciousness subtly transmits through every form and experience; namely, that we are god itself as the One Life/ primordial Being.
The ego senses this truth and of course misinterprets it, believing it can replicate our god nature for itself and believing it can achieve freedom no matter the cost to everyone else.
It is not aware that it is the impediment to experiencing our transcendent free nature as the All.
It's almost like we need a whole new o/s. World 5.0. Download the book, no login or email required. The time is always Now. The answer is always Love. https://world5.org/book
Caitlin, one of your best. Until I read it, I thought what was driving all the propaganda about China and Russia was the need to justify constantly increasing military spending. Now I see it's far deeper emotionally for these imperialists.
There's really nothing to add to your observations today, Caitlin, except a wish for a wider audience.
Driving around yesterday seeing all these flags at half mast was depressing as hell. If I murdered someone I could expect to be sent to prison, but if I could up that number to a million, I'd look forward to a similar sendoff. Our national anthem is in desperate need of a laugh track.
It might be benficial to ponder why the Greeks of old created these gods in the first place, or why people continue to worship their gods today? People have a deep-seated need to answer to authority, as the Milgram experiment so aptly demonstrated. The oligarchs pulling the strings are well aware of this, knowing that thanks to evolutionary hardwiring, their job is already halfway done. So pick a team, get in line, and start yelling.
The marginalizations, media smears, police bullets, and phoney prison lockups are enough to handle the deviant questioners among us. At least for now.
''The drivers of empire can inflict famines upon entire populations by imposing starvation sanctions upon them using their control over international financial systems. They can rain down fire upon any disobedient population using the most powerful military force ever assembled.''
It's quite reminiscent of a Zeusian god. As the world is deemed ''overpopulated,'' threatening the oligarchy's rule since it creates an impulse for change, new discoveries and scientific breakthroughs, so the Zeusians see the necessity of wiping the earth of what they deem ''too many humans.'' Today this takes the form of a Malthusian outlook. Everything in the universe is supposedly governed by entropy, and the universe is essentially just treated as one giant empty box whose energy is wearing down, lurching towards heat death.
It's a totally oligarchical way of viewing the universe, but today it's considered science among the scientific priesthood. All this despite the abounding evidence that the universe is in fact creative, changing, and developing. Of course, from an oligarchical standpoint such a view can never be allowed to become popular, given its implications for how society might behave differently.
Of course, the Western empire is now crumbling, largely thanks to the Malthusian policies and financial behemoths it has created. The whole Trans-Atlantic financial system is essentially now a collection of zombie banks who are only managing to lurch a few more steps forward thanks to the Fed's endless repo-loans and other bailout mechanisms.
This is why they’re desperate to impose fascism here and divide the world with these new no go zones and mandates, in my opinion. These attempts should not be seen as signs of strength, but weakness and vulnerability. I think people are starting to catch on.
Very telling is the recent unveiling of China's new hyper-sonic missile technology. The media reports that the US military and others said they’re surprised that China developed these weapons, but they shouldn’t be. Both Russia and China have leapfrogged. Meanwhile NATO and the US have been stuck just building old fashion ABMs and military bases everywhere, and deploying ships thinking they can maintain a nuclear first strike capability.
It’s all blown up in their face.
All this basically means the oligarchy has been strategically routed by these other nations who despite their differences or problems, will not allow themselves to be enslaved by the ''new world order,'' or whatever one wishes to call it.
These changes should be welcomed, and seen as a sign that we too may still be able to cast off the chains and cut this oligarchical cancer from the earth. It's either that, or we go down with it.
Power is to sociopaths what catnip is to cats.
I tried to understand the workings of power from a classical music point of view: I wanted a democratic orchestra. In a conventional orchestra the chain of command is a vector from the composer to the conductor to the ensemble. Trying to distribute the role of the composer to everybody, I found that my small baroque ensemble was unwilling to be creative. Improvisation scared them. The conductor however, was willing to improvise, using the minimal notation I had composed. As a composer, I tried to exert as little power as possible. The improvising conductor did very well, inventing gestures to raise and lower pitches, and even establishing polyrhythms by dividing the ensemble into groups. The music was structured and sounded a bit like Bach. However, as soon as something unpredictable happened, the group stopped playing.
I have often played in groups without a conductor, such as Scottish traditional groups. Here, the best musician usually takes the lead. Again, there was no room for a democratic musical discourse. I haven't tried free jazz yet, but I don't think that throwing traditional culture over board is the answer to establishing a conscious discourse. I think the role of conductor is essential.
Well, yes, but claiming that the Chinese government "cannot exert control over how those populations think and behave" is not true, so far as I can tell. The Chinese Communist Party tightly controls the internet and social media, the traditional media, all forms of political opposition and pretty much every part of their people's lives. It is far from a free society by any measure.
"The Chinese authorities have tightened their grip on news and information even more since the emergence of Covid-19. Seven journalists are still being held for their coverage of the pandemic. In 2021, China continues to be the world’s biggest jailer of press freedom defenders, with more than 115 currently detained, often in conditions that pose a threat to their lives. Kunchok Jinpa, a leading media source of information about Tibet, died in February 2021 as a result of mistreatment in prison, just as Liu Xiaobo, a Nobel peace laureate and winner of the RSF Press Freedom Prize, and Yang Tongyan, a dissident blogger, did in 2017.
By relying on the massive use of new technology, President Xi Jinping’s regime has imposed a social model based on control of news and information and online surveillance of its citizens. China’s state and privately-owned media are under the Communist Party’s ever-tighter control, while the administration creates more and more obstacles for foreign reporters."
https://rsf.org/en/china
If the claims made in the statement I quoted are untrue, I'd like to know. But it seems that the USA and UK treatment of Julian Assange, appallingly egregious as it is, pales almost into insignificance compared to the multiple ways the Chinese government abuses its own journalists.
The ego is trying to replicate what it infers from what consciousness subtly transmits through every form and experience; namely, that we are god itself as the One Life/ primordial Being.
The ego senses this truth and of course misinterprets it, believing it can replicate our god nature for itself and believing it can achieve freedom no matter the cost to everyone else.
It is not aware that it is the impediment to experiencing our transcendent free nature as the All.
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It's almost like we need a whole new o/s. World 5.0. Download the book, no login or email required. The time is always Now. The answer is always Love. https://world5.org/book