This
will be a response in the manner of a conversation with Winston Wu,
who wrote a provocative piece on the Bitter Realities blog, posted on October
7, 2011 · 8:17 am and entitled ECONOMIC SLAVERY. Mr. Wu's words
will appear in blue, mine will appear
inside square brackets [
].
This
world is in reality a global enslavement machine that programs people
to THINK that they are free in order for them to cope with their
servitude, and conditions people to WANT it as well. The truth is, we
are all slaves to the economic system and programmed with illusions
that help us bear our enslavement. [We agree with this
statement and consider this perception vital for consideration of the VEN alternative.]
The
system treats us as economic resources and defines us by our economic
functions (e.g. workers, tax payers, consumers, voters, etc.) rather
than as human or spiritual beings. In short, we are simply a
commodity to the system and groomed as such. And of course, we are
programmed to want to thrive as “economic resources”, not to
complain about it or be critical of it. No freethought, in other
words. You are supposed to “love the system”. [We want to
elaborate a little here. The word Soviet implies advisers,
management, those who are schooled to know better, who will manage to
rule the world and decide what is best for all based on their
“educated” or “scientific” perceptions. The “new Soviet
man” was and still is a slave, a willing dupe to be used as fodder
in endless wars, and pawns in other large scale social experiments,
while those who make money on it sit in their homes and palaces
living “the good life.” We also note that these “happy
workers” eventually show signs of the Stockholm syndrome where the
imprisoned love their captors.]
Freedom,
for the most part, is just a word, not an actual state of existence.
The reason people believe that they have freedom is simply because
their minds are programmed to think that they do. You see, your
slave-masters need you to be satisfied with your enslavement to keep
you controlled. In order to do that, they give you choices in
consumerism and in selecting your occupation. You are “free” to
choose your form of slavery and vote for your puppet dictators.
[Yes indeed, and it is getting worse all the time. What most people
do not know, because they have bought and accepted their education
without much critical thought, because the common view was in fact
imposed by “bait and jeer” tactics known by those who developed
“public relations.” Only those who have bothered to do their own
research have discovered that this goes back in some cases many
hundreds of years.]
Right
when you step into grade school, you lose all your freedoms as you
are totally controlled and given rules to abide by. You are taught to
regurgitate information and to be obedient, as you are honed and
groomed to become a slave in servitude to the system. You are told
it’s for your own good, and punished for disobedience. Public
school is where your conditioning to become a robot begins. This video [which I have seen and recommend] explains
how schools are nothing more than prisons designed to train and
condition slaves:
First,
you are programmed to WANT to become enslaved by being conditioned to
WANT a job / career, which is essentially giving over control of your
daily life to others. In doing so, you give up your freedom without
knowing it cause you are told that you are “free to work”, which
implies that it is YOU who wants it, not the system – a
psychological sleight of hand indeed. [Yes and they have a
name for it too. It is called projection; they project their views
upon you so that you think they're yours.] Furthermore,
you are convinced that “the purpose of your life is to work” and
that’s what you were born for, thus ingraining you with the “live
to work” mentality. You are also conditioned to feel empty and
incomplete without it. As a result, work becomes synonymous with
freedom to you. [When some suggest that
the purpose of education is to socialize the child this is precisely
what they mean, and to some extent we have all been subject to it and
accepted it uncritically.]
If
you think about it though, unless you are at the executive level,
most jobs are technically positions of slavery, because you are
giving over a large portion of your day in servitude to a corporate
body, organization or business that is structured in a hierarchical
fashion. Technically, that is slavery. There’s no way around it.
But of course, the system tries to convince you that it’s not by
getting you to think that YOU are the one that wants it. But even if
you don’t, you have to anyway cause you need the money to pay your
bills. Hence, whether you want it or not, the employment enslavement
is “forced” upon you by the system. [All that being so, we
want to point out that the basis of the present money system in debt
exacerbates all this. Were things turned upside down, were each
human being accorded the right to proclaim their own value by
exercising their right to create their own interest free money, we
would evolve a quite different system.]
Overall,
the system tries its best to make you a “happy slave” by
repackaging slavery as freedom. This is a form of spin illusion that
reverses the meaning of “slavery” and “freedom”. For example,
freedom in America means “the freedom to work and make money”
[neither of which anyone really has, particularly the choice of which
money to use] which in other words means “the
freedom to choose your form of enslavement”. And being free of this
enslavement is to be a “miserable unemployed person who is seeking
a job”, as defined by the system. This basically means that it is a
bad thing not be a slave. [Yes it is bad, unless you are one
of them as they are “special” people as George Orwell took pains
to tell us.]
It’s
a play on words that turns truth into its opposite. [Orwell
again] And it’s no different than preachers
telling Christians who have submitted to the fundamentalist laws of
the Bible that they have been “set free from sin”, or fascist
dictators telling their populace that they’ve been “set free from
chaos and disorder”, etc. So in this case, when you turn into a
corporate slave, you are “set free from unemployment”. [Clever
and yes indeed!]
Essentially,
the system’s false logic is that slavery = being “set free”
from freedom. This is nonsensical of course, but you aren’t meant
to see it the way it really is. Instead you are meant to see the
inverse of the way it really is. That’s the scam and brainwashing.
It’s a classic form of propaganda where you divert attention from
something by declaring it to be its opposite. And it has been used
time and time again throughout history in all areas of life where
mass control is needed. Thus it’s no wonder that Michael Ellner
stated:
“Just
look at us. Everything is backwards. Everything is upside down.
Doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy
knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the major media destroy
information, and religion destroys spirituality.”
[We
wanted more elaboration on this:
1. Doctors destroy health precisely because being a doctor is a monopoly and their “science” excludes all who cannot prove by their methods any modalities of treatment or cure. Yet their own rates of “successful cure” especially in the treatment of cancer, are notably poor.
2. Lawyers destroy justice when they attempt to compromise the truth or act in a manner against the inalienable rights of each individual human being. Judges in most cases are just as guilty. Their profession is also a monopoly.
3. Universities destroy knowledge, and reputedly from reliable sources, some have actually destroyed valuable evidence and ancient artifacts that were “archaeologically inconvenient” as well. Their own “peer review” system imposes a natural conformity that defies any proposition considered “out of the box.” The truth of the matter is that absolutely no science gets done without financial support of those interested in "agendas" and that's been the case for a very long time. Science so called has a “feet of clay”: it is limited precisely by what it studies and frequently by the paid efforts of agents with agendas to support. Until this monopoly is broken, we could not expect anything different.
4. A government, any government is a preposterous illusion; people who create a reason for their existence and live as parasites off the real wealth and labour of others. Anything a government does beyond a very local level is assumed to limit or destroy freedom.
5. Religion destroys spirituality. Controversial I'm sure, but even an atheist would see the illogical form of belief most people use to “suck up” to whatever or whomever they regard as divine; obviously nothing or no one that would ever suffer this fundamentally insincere “sucking up” would deserve the worship as divine.]
1. Doctors destroy health precisely because being a doctor is a monopoly and their “science” excludes all who cannot prove by their methods any modalities of treatment or cure. Yet their own rates of “successful cure” especially in the treatment of cancer, are notably poor.
2. Lawyers destroy justice when they attempt to compromise the truth or act in a manner against the inalienable rights of each individual human being. Judges in most cases are just as guilty. Their profession is also a monopoly.
3. Universities destroy knowledge, and reputedly from reliable sources, some have actually destroyed valuable evidence and ancient artifacts that were “archaeologically inconvenient” as well. Their own “peer review” system imposes a natural conformity that defies any proposition considered “out of the box.” The truth of the matter is that absolutely no science gets done without financial support of those interested in "agendas" and that's been the case for a very long time. Science so called has a “feet of clay”: it is limited precisely by what it studies and frequently by the paid efforts of agents with agendas to support. Until this monopoly is broken, we could not expect anything different.
4. A government, any government is a preposterous illusion; people who create a reason for their existence and live as parasites off the real wealth and labour of others. Anything a government does beyond a very local level is assumed to limit or destroy freedom.
5. Religion destroys spirituality. Controversial I'm sure, but even an atheist would see the illogical form of belief most people use to “suck up” to whatever or whomever they regard as divine; obviously nothing or no one that would ever suffer this fundamentally insincere “sucking up” would deserve the worship as divine.]
Moreover,
the system uses a barrage of methods to keep us in an internal state
of fear and insecurity that causes us to crave structure and routine,
due to our psychological insecurities, which enslavement to the
system provides of course. Thus we are raised to want to be “tied
down” to something (e.g. a job, house, marriage, single geographic
location) on a long term basis. This is why most people do not seek
adventure, new experiences or true freedom of expression, and only a
minority do. [We would like to say that “adventure” is
constrained these days by many factors all of which involve money in
one way or another. A side note that very early on, some of us were
conditioned to consider “adventure” in places like Disney's
Adventureland; as a sort of separated precinct where only the daring,
bold or fearless went to do whatever they did, not the rest of us who
would just sojourn through this separated land. We are conditioned not to be too adventurous.]
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| I found this and it seems quite appropriate here. |
Another
major method the system uses is the other people around us, who are
trained to keep us in line and in a state of conformity. This is
effective because given a choice between the truth vs. conformity to
the group, most will choose the latter even if it means parroting a
lie they know to be untrue. And of course, our internal state of fear
and weakness make it much more likely that we will conform as well.
Thus, each of these controls are designed to reinforce each other.
{More people need to become aware of “bait and jeer” techniques.
The jeer must be identified as such and further disrespect of the
sincerity of a jeered point of view should then be met by more
personal and natural responses. If you want to wake up and wake
someone else up, you certainly do not continue allowing the dream to
continue uncontested.]
Conformity
is the fallacious belief that the views of the majority must always
be right and the minority or dissenters always wrong. [Yes,
and since we're all being driven over a cliff and most are going that
way, the few who see the danger will have a better chance of actual
survival. You can follow the crowd in its “political correctness”
to your death and the death of billions of human beings, but you will
still not be right.] Therefore, it assumes one
should adopt the beliefs of the majority in order to be “right”.
It is a mindless characteristic that most adopt and are conditioned
to live by. However, many of the greatest thinkers, writers and
intellectuals of the world have seen through the madness of such a
belief.
Additionally,
society is set up with all sorts of stress, anxiety and worry to keep
you in a constant state of “survival mode”, which reinforces your
fear state. And of course, money itself, which enslaves the world for
obvious reasons and is totally artificial, is the lifeblood of the
global enslavement system. There is no question that we are all
slaves to money. But as conspiracy lecturer Alex Collier asks in his
lectures, “Why do I have to ‘pay’ to be in a world I was born
into?” [Indeed! You should have the right to call into
existence the money you need to take care of your needs and that is
an INALIENABLE right that belongs to no one else, no government,
business or organization.]
David
Icke, a popular conspiracy researcher and author, came to the same
conclusion. In his book “Human Race Get Off Your Knees: The Lion
Sleeps No More” he writes “the truth – that the world is a
global enslavement machine and reality suppressor”. [Icke
is controversial and certainly not original, and I have not read his
book, but I'm pretty sure that once he were to find out about E. C. Riegel
and our VEN proposal in process here, that he would be in
substantial agreement.]
Though
there are variations, essentially most people only have two choices –
either become a robot… or a bum. Not very inspiring. To find
alternatives requires innovation and thinking outside the box, but
most cannot cause the system doesn’t teach you to think for
yourself. [Teaching people to think for themselves; we're
giving it another try.]
Most
people believe what they are told, and they are not told that the
world is an enslavement system. Instead they are told that they were
born to work, which is a virtue, and that if they study hard and work
hard, they will make a lot of money and have a good life. But in
reality, they end up slaving away their whole lives for money with
some “pie in the sky” dream in their heads with little or no time
to enjoy any “good life”. They never live fully or experience any
true freedom or discover themselves. Instead they live in fear, worry
and pressure their whole lives just to keep up an illusory facade
under the programming of the system. In the end, it falls flat and
they wonder what went wrong after they’ve lost most of their
precious life years serving the system. By the time they realize it,
it’s too late. Such is the sad scam the system puts on you.
[Which might actually have been just fine except that the system as
presently conceived is flawed and will eventually have a great fall.
When it does, they assume they will be able to jump into control and
suppress the rest of us; the illusion of freedom will fall and real
slavery shall begin. They imagine that one or more kinds of guilt,
shame, getting us to accept the blame, etc. will be used against us
as well. Our response should be the same as to the “bait and jeer”
technique; we identify the source and seek natural and personal
responses appropriate to oppose the attempt to impose any false guilt
upon us.]
[To
understand what Fuller said here, it is necessary to determine for
oneself just how owning oneself and one's own money contributes to
individual freedom. We absolutely and categorically reject the
Malthusian-Darwinian-Marxist theory that ANY individual human needs
to justify his or her existence to anyone. This is a fundamental
rejection with all that it implies!]
Now
I am not trying to be negative here. The system is what it is. And no
amount of white washing or word plays will change the core nature of
it. [Agreed.]
Employment
in reality is a form of binding enslavement in which you give up
your life and freedom over to others. But you are made to WANT and
NEED it. You are made to WANT a job that ties you to one geographic
location and puts your schedule under control of a managerial entity,
[a Soviet] which no sane awakened person would
want. But you are programmed to define all that as “freedom”.
An
awakened person realizes the folly of all this, sees that what
everyone wants (like the will of a hive mind) makes no sense, and
realizes that all of this is the total antithesis of what it means to
be free. But an unawakened person believes the illusion and wants
what they are programmed to want. To them, if society says so and
everyone else is doing it, it must be good, normal and natural. Only
the awakened person realizes it’s all a con full of lies, mind
control, illusion, voluntary slavery and the giving up of one’s
life and freedom. [Yes.]
True
freedom means that you can do whatever you want (for the most part at
least) as long as you don’t harm others, without the control and
interference of others. But the commitment of employment and marriage
take that away. There is no doubt about that. But we are NOT
conditioned to want true freedom. Instead, we are conditioned to WANT
enslavement by giving up control of our life, time and daily schedule
to others. Yet we are TOLD that we have freedom, when in reality we
do NOT have true freedom. It’s a total lie that makes no sense and
contradicts reality. [It contradicts itself: freedom does not
exist except for certain “special” people who can decide to do
whatever fool thing they want including run and ruin the lives of
others (millions, billions) who have been lured into their nets,
chief among them being debt slavery, with fabulous promises that can
never be kept.]
Think
about it. Most people who are enslaved by employment and bound by
social control do NOT have true freedom because for the most part,
since they CANNOT do whatever they want everyday without control and
interference from others. In childhood, their life is controlled by
their school system in the day and their parents at night. Then in
adulthood, their work life is controlled by their bosses, managers
and HRM [Human resources, doesn't that sound exactly like they
are treating us as things?], while their social
life is controlled by popular culture, mass media, ideological
divisions, fear and anger, etc. Yet they BELIEVE that they have
freedom. Why? Because they are TOLD that they do! They are told that
since no one named Adolf Hitler runs their government, that they can
go to the voting booth, and that they have 20 flavors of bagels to
choose from, etc. that they have freedom, even though their lives are
controlled by others and they cannot do whatever they want everyday!
It’s an insane hypocrisy and bizarro world. Yet most don’t see it
cause the system programs their minds not to see it but to see the
opposite by redefining everything and turning people into “happy
slaves” who do not want true freedom.
Now
if you agree with all this and want to know what you can do about it,
my advice is this: Try to become self-employed [a Class A VEN
member by definition]. Or at least find ways to
cut your expenses so that you can work part-time and at least have
half the day to be truly free. [Reclaim your time and use it
for your own purposes.] This may sound hard,
but if you remember that “Where there’s a will, there’s a way”
you can find a way. Or you can join one of those self-sustaining
eco-villages around the world [the real ones will become foci
for an IE in a VEN], if you’re into that sort of
thing. If you can’t do any of these things, at least be employed in
something that you love, so that it does not feel like slavery.
[This
too is a fundamental of the VEN; understand the relationship and one
is already waking up.]
Always
remember, the quotes of the greatest thinkers, writers and
intellectuals of the world;
“The
individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed
by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes
frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of
owning yourself.” – Frederich Nietzsche
[Well Nietzsche too certainly had his problems and it's not clear to me that he was ever “free” of those he actually tried to ingratiate himself to; the power elite as he spoke to them. We maintain that we all own ourselves but have been literally sold from birth, against our will or knowledge which is fraud, to prop up the existing debt-money system. We reject the fundamental frauds and assert that each of us should locally and personally get to know and work with each other in a peer to peer manner around the world and where whatever “management” is required is generated and developed from among ourselves -bottom up, not imposed upon us from above by any supposed “betters.”]
[Well Nietzsche too certainly had his problems and it's not clear to me that he was ever “free” of those he actually tried to ingratiate himself to; the power elite as he spoke to them. We maintain that we all own ourselves but have been literally sold from birth, against our will or knowledge which is fraud, to prop up the existing debt-money system. We reject the fundamental frauds and assert that each of us should locally and personally get to know and work with each other in a peer to peer manner around the world and where whatever “management” is required is generated and developed from among ourselves -bottom up, not imposed upon us from above by any supposed “betters.”]
“It
takes far less effort to find and move to the society that has what
you want than it does to try to reconstruct an existing society to
match your standards.” – Harry Browne, (How I Found Freedom in
an Unfree World )
[People naturally want individual freedom and are attracted to it and are repelled by mass compulsion and flee from it, accept in cases like North Korea perhaps, where they are scared to death and delighted to serve simultaneously. We also note that this regime is supported by outside financing of some sort, as the country is not self sustaining.]
“Insanity
in individuals is something rare – but in groups, parties, nations
and epochs, it is the rule.” – Frederich Nietzsche [... a
remark concerning and applicable to any mass movement. What one
should be asking whenever they hear of a “tea party” or “occupy”
movement is to determine who or whom might be supporting it with
money.]
“During
times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary
act.” – George Orwell
“Ninety-nine
percent of the people in the world are fools, and the rest of us are
in great danger of contagion.” – Thornton Wilder
“Whenever
people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.” — Oscar
Wilde [I've not felt this in a long time, but my convictions
change with hard evidence, which must really be “harder” than
most people's, as to be obvious.]
“Men
have been taught that it is a virtue to agree with others. But the
creator is the man who disagrees. Men have been taught that it is a
virtue to swim with the current. But the creator is the man who goes
against the current. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to
stand together. But the creator is the man who stands alone.” –
Ayn Rand [We remind everyone here that a Rothschild paid her
to write Atlas Shrugged and that single work identifies her
with the internationalist / globalist elite who would like nothing
better than to “shrug” off the rest of us. She was a known
misanthrope. However that doesn't mean that her statement is
untrue.]
“Honesty
is such a lonely word. Everyone is so untrue…” – Billy Joel, in
his hit song “Honesty”
“The
sick individual finds himself at home with all other similarly sick
individuals. The whole culture is geared to this kind of pathology.
The result is that the average individual does not experience the
separateness and isolation the fully schizophrenic person feels. He
feels at ease among those who suffer from the same deformation; in
fact, it is the fully sane person who feels isolated in the insane
society — and he may suffer so much from the incapacity to
communicate that it is he who may become psychotic.” – Eric Fromm
(The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness) [Another book I haven't
read, but if the subject were merely the general alienation of the
individual human being, it starts early and can be attributed to many
things with obvious justification, chief among them being the denial
of basic human needs at an early age. The present society and
zeitgeist does not satisfy the vast majority of individual humans
though most are still convinced that it is “the best of all
possible worlds” and so never resist.]
Further
contributions to this discussion are encouraged, shall be weighed and
edited with regard to applicability to this subject.
David
Burton
FINIS
