tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6060716623445041790.post3877868347047320765..comments2023-09-29T08:05:21.018-07:00Comments on The HandShake Times: The PresentQuezlalcotlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01476578182091749856noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6060716623445041790.post-11563607077808978762009-08-04T09:55:15.301-07:002009-08-04T09:55:15.301-07:001.Derrick Jensen, Endgame: The Problem of Civiliza...1.Derrick Jensen, Endgame: The Problem of Civilization, vol. 1. Seven Stories Press: 2003.<br />2.Ellen Hodgson Brown, Web of Debt. Third Millennium Press: 2007: Page 2<br />3.Marshall Gavin Andrew, Origins of the American Empire: Revolution, World Wars and World Order, 28 July 2009 <br />Available at: http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=14552<br />4.Jim Marrs. The Rise of the Fourth Reich. Harper Collins: 2007<br />5.Joint Vision 2020, U.S. Department of Defense.<br />6.Government Executive Magazine: <br />Available at: http://www.govexec.com/features/1205-01/1205-01s5.htm<br /><br />7.Yurchak, Alexei, Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More. Princeton University Press : 2006<br />8.Mexico’s president given George Orwell’s 1984 by the Queen. The telegraph, 30 March 2009.<br /><br />Available at: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/5077917/Mexicos-president-given-George-Orwells-1984-by-the-Queen.html<br /><br />*a term oft used by independent financial analyst Max Keiser, host for the show On the Edge, on Press TV, and available at this website www.maxkeiser.com, and refers to the decay of culture under modern copyright law.Enviot Von Beardiohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00770477795630013606noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6060716623445041790.post-36309724723889351882009-08-04T09:54:34.964-07:002009-08-04T09:54:34.964-07:00The past, the present and the future continually l...The past, the present and the future continually liberate a fuzzy markov process, a mathematical model for the evolution of a memoryless system. The catch? That this memoryless system indeed has engineers: CEO’s, managers, politicians and associates who have set as their agenda the abuse of a system already in their favor. This memoryless system is given memory by human ideas. Each of us can intimately get to know Aristotle, for example, by reading his works and familiarizing ourselves with his ideas. In large part, we understand him because we exist in the same state of civilization as he once did. <br />The digital nature of ideas—expressly, their being available to cloning, sharing and reconfiguring—exemplifies cognitive entanglement. According to quantum entanglement, objects are linked together in such a way, that no one object can be wholly described without full mention of its counterparts—even when spatial separation is factored in. The non-local connection of consciousness, and its subsidiary of ideas, implies that, while we are all unique individuals, we would never be ourselves were it not for our forbearers and each contemporary sentient creature with whom we came into contact. Just as Aristotle and Democrates affected thousands of years of history, we too—especially in the age of the internet, whereby the collective network takes precedent over the lineament of esoteric corporate cabals—have the opportunity to directly affect the future. By amassing knowledge not only do we compromise the further “lobotomization”* of culture by intellectual property laws, but we also help prove to our descendents what their ancestors did to them, so they can help make us go away. <br /><br />Our collective problems, even though it may seem so in the immediate, do not stem directly from the detritic nation-states, mankind, etc., but, more accurately, civilization; more specifically, the empire’s need to extract from the other and, ultimately, itself. The crafting of the political, legal and psychological realms by elites is a practice dating back thousands of years, enabling the upper echelons to steal and undervalue the labor of many. But, although the atavistic institutions by which they obtain the power to do so—stooped in a violent motion of explainable coincidences as they are—lead us in vain, they have no inherent power outside of their having had a beginning. They do, nevertheless, contextualize a conspiracy of one: those on the breadline, the demonic, the uberclass and the castaways, the miserable and the shunned, the brainwashed and the paralyzed, the conquered and the objectified and those who know there is a better way.<br /><br />There will be a better way.Enviot Von Beardiohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00770477795630013606noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6060716623445041790.post-39636452078870567432009-08-04T09:53:37.196-07:002009-08-04T09:53:37.196-07:00Similar is happening now, with the help of decentr...Similar is happening now, with the help of decentralized dissemination of news and information, at the global level. As the pace towards an Orwellian social order quickens, the frequency with which individuals ask themselves pertinent questions as to what sort of world they would like to help build also quickens. Crises precipitate change. Despite the dominant cultures continued nosedive into imprudence—the current social climate, after all, has drifted into a realm where news stories about the Queen of England gifting a copy of 1984 to President Felipe Calderon of Mexico receives little press [8]—an exponential enlightenment threshold has been discovered. Because of the internet, because of radio, because of all these technologies the commoners have, the rate at which individuals stumble onto enlightened paradigms increases. Hence, four hundred years of power consolidation by finance capital, usually by way of steady incrementalism, has been replaced by hastily wrought transformation, as demonstrated by the acceleration of nearly every program: gun confiscation, carbon tax, banking takeover, open borders, escalation of wars, escalation of the police military (of course, in a time when domestic police forces have come to resemble the military, as they do today, we are speaking of the military state), and so on. With such a maelstrom of regressive legislation—effectively yanking us back to pre-Magna Carta—I would argue that elites and policy makers appear weak, in a panic. <br /><br />There are, of course, many histories and nows, sordid tales of suffering juxtaposed with the most redeeming of success stories, and so therefore history and the present graph an ambipendent—relationship between pre-institutionalized mechanisms and sentient agents drifting between historically given parameters of change over time; culture drifts like kelp upon a holdfast, a prisoner of its own beginning. These preset mechanisms, worked in throughout the centuries like neurons conditioned to a well-known song, predispose the agents, who are ourselves, towards accumulation by dispossession (of others); in other words, conquest and larceny. An ambitendency—a tendency to contradictory behavior arising from conflicting impulses—still leads the majority of us, especially those outside the universes of war and austerity, to refrain from, and even despise, utter carnage. Unfortunately, we the sentient drown in an onslaught of psychological terror, false common sense, obsolete premises and of course the good, reliable information, collectively bringing it forward. Within this state it becomes easy to be determined by civilization and difficult to determine it.<br /><br />The past, the present and the future continually liberate a fuzzy markov process, a mathematical model for the evolution of a memoryless system. The catch? That this memoryless system indeed has engineers: CEO’s, managers, politicians and associates who have set as their agenda the abuse of a system already in their favor. This memoryless system is given memory by human ideas. Each of us can intimately get to know Aristotle, for example, by reading his works and familiarizing ourselves with his ideas. In large part, we understand him because we exist in the same state of civilization as he once did.Enviot Von Beardiohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00770477795630013606noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6060716623445041790.post-39729421499891114002009-08-04T09:52:05.403-07:002009-08-04T09:52:05.403-07:00Currently, the main impediment to dominance over t...Currently, the main impediment to dominance over the information realm is the internet. Senator Jay Rockefeller recently declared that we would all be better off had the internet never been invented. Of course, what he truly regrets is the waning dominance of corporate controlled media in the dissemination of information. The government and elite are sincerely concerned about the increasing numbers of people who receive their news from alternative media sources on the internet (see: the Cyber Security Act of 2009). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ct9xzXUQLuY<br /><br />Knowledge, from its origin in the ephemeral to its birth in action, magicks itself in many ways. Our traditional understanding of smart— the nerdy, academic type—worships a formula that has at its center data and information directing emotion (“I received a 91% on my math test, I feel somewhat satisfied). Another episteme demonstrated by the average person perceives by way of a formula that has at its center emotion, given meaning and direction by an interplay of data and information (I just try to keep it positive and play it cool, everything will work out, because it has in the past…for me at least). Some balance between the two ways of knowing is ideal. <br /><br />Unfortunately, most—but certainly not all—persons avoid paradigm shifts by freezing their opinions as tied to some lofty premises and assumptions. Still, a great number of individuals must harbor some valid views, as inspired by compassion and happiness. Compassion and happiness, as they are generally understood, convey a surprisingly vibrant and lucid collection of values. Compassion caters to humanity’s innate capacity for community, whilst happiness, as sprung straight from emotions, speaks for our inner essence or biology. <br /><br />A philosophy, many argue, is a way of knowing that is constantly in flux and open to revision, while a worldview is static and unchanging. A philosophizer understands that the process and understanding is a movement of fitting differently-similar and similarly-different experiences, whereas one who holds a worldview attempts to hem in their personality, ensuring it is not subject to revision by new experience. This limits considerable offshoots of cogitation by the information provided up to and within a certain time and place; let’s say in the circumstances of one’s adolescence. Each philosophy (constantly in flux and open-minded) or worldview (unmoving and inert), depending on the perceiver, has elements of the other in itself. <br /><br />The latter is the more pervasive cognitive orientation found in a highly censored and monolithic culture. “It had never occurred to me that in the Soviet Union anything could ever change. Let alone that it could disappear. No one expected it. Neither children, nor adults. There was a complete impression that everything was forever,” Andrei Makarevich, the famous songwriter and music, said in a televised interview. [7] In his memoirs, Makarevich expressed that he felt as millions of Soviet citizens had: that they lived in an eternal state. Not until around 1986 and 1987, when reforms of perestroika (reconstruction) were already embarked upon, was it that the the socialist systems vulnerability to collapse even entered into the superego. Peculiar as it is, despite the unthinkability of such a fall before the mid 1980’s, much of the public found themselves prepared for it, unsurprised by it once it had come to pass. The quickening of the Soviet collapse—most likely accelerated by those programs meant to prevent it, such as perestroika and glasnost—did precipitate and usher in a cognitive reorientation of the Russian citizenry.Enviot Von Beardiohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00770477795630013606noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6060716623445041790.post-48584101013240201712009-08-04T09:50:59.877-07:002009-08-04T09:50:59.877-07:00John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil Empire held not...John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil Empire held not only a near monopoly over the United States by the 1870’s, but also over many foreign countries. The King of Holland, in 1890, agreed to the creation of an international oil company called Royal Dutch Oil Company, founded, for the most part, to refine and sell kerosene from the Dutch colony of Indonesia. In that same year, a British company, the Shell Transport and Trading Company, was founded and began shipping Royal Dutch oil from Sumatra to myriad destinations. The two companies, eventually, merged into Royal Dutch Shell. Thus was born a mammoth multi-national, still in existence. <br /><br />To deal with the Great Depression—created in part by an extended period of runaway speculation and Federal Reserve induced deflation—finance capital exerted its influence as a means of creating a world system of control in private hands, more powerful than any political system, and governed in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world. The Bank for International Settlements in Basle, Switzerland was to be at its center, free from traditional values and the legal system of any country. [3]<br /><br />German medical records captured during the war reveal that Hitler was on a steady diet of euphoria and depression due to large daily doses of amphetamines, and developed increasingly dementia. For that reason, the second most power man in the Reich, deputy to Hitler Martin Bormann, who was healthy and capable, held the reigns of the bulldozer Nazi state. After gaining control, in 1943, over both the Nazi Party and the German economy, Bormann ran an organization made rich by the loot of Europe. In 1944, with German defeat approaching on the horizon, Bormann called top German business leaders and Nazy Party officials for a meeting, which took place at the Hotel Maison Rouge in Strasbourg, in order to ensure that “the economy of the Third Reich was projected onto a postwar profit-seeking track,” a program called Aktion Adlerflug, or Operation Eagle Flight. This flight of money, gold, stocks, bonds, patents, copyrights, and even technical specialists from Germany, resulted in the creation of 750 foreign front corporations, at the behest the capital of “black-clad SS, the central Deutsche bank, the steel empire of Fritz Thysen, and the powerful I.G. Farben combine.” [4]<br /><br />The ontogenesis of a regimental global complex bent on hegemony of form in terms of the economic, political, social and monetary frameworks is indeed Pentagon public policy. Full spectrum dominance refers to a military concept working towards absolute control over all aspects of the battlespace by land, air, maritime and space assets. This includes the physical battlespace of air, surface and sub-surface as well as the electromagnetic spectrum and information space. Such control renders opposition thereagainst totally prevented. <br /><br />Professor Philip Taylor of the University of Leeds, an expert consultant to the US and UK governments on psychological operations, propaganda and diplomacy dismissed the doctrine in 2005: [5]<br /><br />"It's true, though rarely recognized in the control-freakery world of the military, that full spectrum dominance is impossible in the global information environment."<br /><br />In his 2005 Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Harold Pinter had this to say: [6]<br /><br />"I have said earlier that the United States is now totally frank about putting its cards on the table. That is the case. Its official declared policy is now defined as 'full spectrum dominance'. That is not my term, it is theirs. 'Full spectrum dominance' means control of land, sea, air and space and all attendant resources."Enviot Von Beardiohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00770477795630013606noreply@blogger.com