The Battle for our Minds – Part 1
Posted on June 1, 2008
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It’s been building up over a lot of years now, but things in the world really aren’t going too well. I wrote a series of articles at the end of last year called 2007 Symbolism, I mentioned that 2008 would be the year to shock the world population into a vivid awareness of the worlds current state. And that seems to be exactly what has happened; many people are now open to discussions of corrupt governments, food shortages, and financial collapse. I have been talking about this since around 2002, many others have been talking about it for much longer than that. But the Signs have been all around us, just as there are still many indications of what the next 5 or 6 years will bring.
Figuring the future is a fickle thing, and I never claim to be able to make ‘psychic’ predictions, but like many other people I can make intuitive ones. That said, I never settle on a single vision of what the future will bring – the future is mailable with infinite possibilities, and I try to be as open to as many as possible. Fixing our view on an expected future is a sure way to bring it about, after all it is easy to have tunnel-vision and simply keep walking in a straight line.
So what will the next few years bring? What we are going to see are varying degrees of a big maybe…
Economy
The economy is still knackered, and despite a number of short-term recoveries – it is undoubtedly heading towards a lot of difficulty. There are some suggestions now that the Federal Reserve has almost exhausted its supply of assets. How much longer can large banks and organisations continue to be bailed out of trouble?
The cost of insuring against default on the bonds of Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch and other big banks and brokerages has surged over the last two weeks, threatening to reach the stress levels seen before the Bear Stearns debacle. Spreads on inter-bank Libor and Euribor rates in Europe are back near record levels.
Anyone with just a small ability of foresight can quite easily tell that it is not a case of if the economy will collapse, but when and how far it will fall. A few years ago, whenever a conversation came up about the economy or housing markets, I would mention that even though it appeared the economy was strong, a financial crash was coming. Most people didn’t believe it, some still don’t.
It’s not hard to foresee these things, it doesn’t require any skill or special ability. All it needs is a degree of self-awareness (so that you avoid the pitfalls of self-denial many are trapped in), and to be open to intuition in addition to reason (as opposed to blind reason on its own).
My feeling is that, yes – the economy will collapse. It will be a chain reaction, a domino effect that will spread right across the world pulling down each economic area one after the other. Naturally, this will hit the housing markets – there will be a ton of housing repossessions, and buying a house will be out of the reach of people. The cost of renting may drastically increase. But that depends how it hits the landlords, many of them will also be losing their houses. I wouldn’t be surprised to see the government capping how much a landlord can charge for rent on a given property.
Jobs will become scarce as one company after another folds, in the worst case scenarios there will be very little money available in the form of welfare. I can see a time where people are given food vouchers.
Depending on how far things go – currency will lose its value. Though the way I see it, there are enough institutions out there that will benefit from keeping a pseudo economy going. Maybe the US Dollar will become the Amero, and with out doubt the UK will replace the pound with the Euro.
Like I said, I set nothing in stone with all this. That said, my feelings tell me it will be a depression similar to the 1920’s rather than a recession like the 80’s.
Fuel
This seems to be on everyone’s mind. Travelling 50 miles to London and back by van can now cost or more £30, it is seriously effecting traders and couriers. Prices in the UK are around $8.60 per US Gallon of gas, personally I reckon it will be around $12 – $14 per US gallon by the end of the year.
Home fuel is also a massive problem, far larger than we are being told:
Environment Minister Hilary Benn again rebuffed calls this week for WW2-style energy rationing to return to the UK. He was responding to a Select Committee report urging ministers to issue 45 million Britons with an energy trading “credit card” – a mammoth techno-bureaucratic exercise costing several billions of pounds a year to operate.
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So what are the MPs proposing?
The ration, or “personal carbon allowance” or PCA, is a measure of an individual’s energy usage, either at home or traveling. Such usage is capped, and “further emissions rights will simply not be available,” the Committee says. You may choose between a holiday, and turning on the heating. Points win prizes, however, and frugal individuals would be rewarded financially from the creation of an internal market.
I don’t see things, going this far – simply due to the cost of operating such a system. Remember such money won’t be about. But I do suspect that eventually we will be rationed fuel in some form, for example the powergrid to certain areas being turned off for so many hours per day / night.
The fuel issues present a number of possibilities, we will see a return to small vehicles and bicycles, plus the increased used of mass public transit. More people will take up working local jobs, and commuting will fall out of favour; a low paid job with no travel costs will be far more preferable to a high paid job with high travel costs. Though, there will of course be far less jobs at any rate.
Increased fuel costs have already led to price increases in just about all areas…
Food
There is a lot of blame being put around for this, with many people blaming the likes of China for the increasing price of food. Such finger pointing is very easy (and we are going to see the notion of ‘blame’ getting very, very bad). It’s pretty clear, with even a little thought that issues surrouding food are compounded by all the other problems in the world; fuel prices and economic issues being just some of them. Climate issues, and natural disasters have caused their fair share of trouble too.
In addition many areas that used to produce food crops, have now switched over to fields and fields of bio-fuel crops. This in itself has economically ruined some of the smaller third world villages. We have a way of forgetting certain facts, one of which is the bees dying off – no bees means reduced (and even no) crops.
People in general can be pushed a long way, they can be stretched thin financially, and stressed to breaking point with crazy work hours. The one thing that everyone will not accept though is the absence of food. I am fairly certain when I say that the western world isn’t too far away from seeing it’s first food riots in a very long time. That’s pretty grim, and I don’t like the idea of it – who does? But that doesn’t hide the facts. Now the question is, how bad will they be? My thoughts are that such food riots will be localised to large cities. But state-wide and country-wide ones aren’t impossible.
I recently read how most first world countries used to stockpile a certain amount of food. In the event of disaster or war, such food would then be rationed out. Now most countries work in a very different manner; food is delivered directly to the store selves. There are no stockpiles – what is present is either in transit or in the store. And a store can be emptied in a matter of hours, look how quick food disappears when there is severe weather…
Water is another issue with the term ‘Water Wars’ starting to be picked up, expect that term to become as prevalent as the term ‘terrorism’.
Further Issues
It seems that the world is reaching a boiling point with hundreds of different threats presenting themselves all at once. Conflict and constant wars are an obvious point, with the United States steam rolling its imperial banner right across the world.
Natural disasters are having the largest effect ever, with major earthquakes and hurricanes happening all over the place.
Draconian laws are being introduced at an unprecedented rate, enforcing ever tighter control measures – naturally citing any or all of the above as an excuse.
Blame
Just about everything is being blamed for the current situations, from China to immigration, from welfare states to corrupt governments, even the environment itself in the form of global warming. We all feel the growing crises, some people are even starting to feel boxed in. Even those who are in denial about the worlds state, seem to be aware of it on a sub-conscious level as they blame the popular targets for one reason or another.
Everything is being blamed but the true cause; the domination of the ego-culture. The entire ‘greed is good’ ethos, the notion that the individuals desires can justify their actions. The belief in profit and growth. All of which lead to subjugation in the belief in community, and partnership. Society now merely exists as a platform for profit and ego-domination.
Have a listen when people talk about society, more often than not they are describing something almost mechanical; a system. Such a view seems to have decoupled from society being about people and instead views them as a cog in the machine.
The Little Picture
Before much longer, former allies may well end up at war with each other. It will probably be a different sort of war, where the countries don’t actually attack each others territories, except in the form of small scale terrorist acts. Instead the middle-east will become an escalated conflict zone for a number of countries. Most people feel that China is soon to play a much larger part in the world, and I reckon Russia will be getting back in on the game.
As the world descends into seeming anarchy, the individual will be squeezed tighter and tighter. Food will be very expensive at best – at worst it will be very difficult to obtain. Economic troubles will cause companies to close, and jobs will be scarce with high competition rates for each position that becomes available. With less money to spend from the ‘consumer’ a number of other industries will go down – retail will be the first. When people can only afford the bare essentials – what happens with the luxuries? I imagine a lot of boarded up shops even in the richer towns.
Populations will be relegated by increasingly stringent rules and laws. ID cards will be essential, and I reckon we will even need permits to travel outside a certain distance from home. There will be a lot of civil unrest, bolstered by many of the above issues combined with increased ethnic and other social tensions.This will merely be a reflection of the global crises, As these problems spread right across the globe, tensions will rise – and countries will begin to raise their borders. Some countries in particular will become completely insular. I wouldn’t at all be surprised to see the US becoming a no-go zone. The UK may well follow suit.
What I am describing is pretty grim, but is it that far fetched? Yet even all that is only the surface layer…
The Big Picture: The Battle for our Minds
Whilst with complete justification, we begin to occupy ourselves with concerns of the future – and – in the event of the above scenario an increasing worry about survival, another war is being fought. One which is far more subtle; a silent war for our minds. The individual concerned primarily with survival, puts aside thoughts of freedom – but not only that, such is the state of mind of the traumatised person that they are wide open for a form of belief induction. Take 9/11 as an example, regardless of how and why it happened – the undisputed fact remains that it changed many peoples perception of reality. The event itself triggered a traumatic response, into which was then introduced a never ending barrage of suggestions and threats regarding terrorism. This is a powerful form of programming (whether it was deliberate or otherwise), so powerful in fact that many people talk about the ‘terrorist threat’ in an automatic response. That is how deeply lodged the idea has become.
Right now, at this moment in time – western civilisation is going through an extended trauma, one threat after another is being dangled over our heads. Some are real, many are not. The truth is that a person only needs to be bitten by a dog once, in order to believe that all dogs are a threat.
The governments, media and corporations have taught us to fear their barks…and they are without doubt the undisputed masters of our societies.
Blame is an important factor in solidifying a people against a common enemy. The great things about enemies is that they cause people to come together. Even better is the enemy which displays a clear and present danger – under such threat, it is very easy to be manipulated into new ideologies – all in the belief of the greater good of society (the social machine, as opposed to the social group).
What this represents is a paradigm shift, the old systems of power are metamorphing into some new and perhaps bolder. The world stage is changing, and this means the power systems need to adapt or fall. Yet it seems they are choosing a third option; they have been presented with a fantastic opportunity for complete control.
Yet the deal goes both ways; more people than ever are questioning the nature of society, and some are going even further and being prompted to question the nature of reality itself. You can bet that this side of the deal is well understood – and many attempts will be made to drive out all alternative views on life and reality. But such things cannot be held down forever…
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Its definately a set of potential probabilitys for the future and I think its fair to say you have expressed the negative potential which is the likely outcome if we maintain what we are currently doing.
Food and Oil prices are directly linked with the printing of money by nation banks, you say they have assets? what assests? they hold some gold but essentialy they have no assests they cant bail out anyone in reality because they dont print real value they print valueless debt. When they print they dilute whats already in circualtion meaning the person on $1-2 a day for their labor can no long purchase food because that 1 dollar’s value has been debased and hence a riot. in the UK it simply means we get less food/oil for a money = labor but that is also not sustainable because the only direction is that peoples labor becomes worth less and less untill a critical point is reached where basics can no longer be purchased for our labor because essentialy its been stolen by the gangbanksters.
If currency actually fails with a total collapse then that will mean catasrophic disaster in a country like the UK as far as I can tell. No one will work because there will be no money to work for production will stop and its estimated that within a week people will steal and within 2 weeks they will kill for food and water within 2 months 90% of the population will be dead.
[ Quote ]It really is a crazy world. Yet part of me finds it incredibly hard to believe that the world would completely break-down under such economic catastrophe.
On some level food production would need to continue. People may not work for money (because there wouldn’t be any), but they certainly would work for food. Maybe in the absence of money, a new form of trading would emerge. Surely it would have to?
Your right, much of this post did focus on the negative aspects of these things – part 2 will be much more positive. I believe that all these changes will lead to a dramatic shift in how humans deal with each other.
Decentralization, and a return to community based living are just two of the most obvious outcomes.
[ Quote ]Speaking of the positives then when I look at the state people are in at the moment that being most people are spiritually, morally dead.
This could be an oppotunity to shake people awake so they start to realise they cannot hand over their decision making abilitys to an elite few and have to being to take responsiblity for themselves. It terms of money well the price of living has exceeded the price of peoples labor as we have allowed so much to be stolen from us and so hopefully the collapse will not work in the favour of the gangbanksters but will favour the people instead.
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