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In the End, ‘They’ Will Win

By Rick Ackerman Posted on March 23, 2011, 12:01 am EDT Last Updated March 23, 2011, 2:22 am EDT

[With debt spinning wildly out of control and the States threatening to revolt against the tyranny of Washington, we asked some frequent contributors to the Rick’s Picks forum how they thought the nation would look five years from now.  In the essay below, Wayne Razzi, aka “Red Will,” predicts that “They” will win – as They always do. However,  before any clear winners can emerge, the nation will feel the ravages of the catastrophic debt deflation that “we” have long predicted. RA]

I’m always both happy and humbled whenever Rick extends an offer to me to contribute an essay to Rick’s Picks, given the respect that I have for him and many of his forum’s contributors.  On this go ’round I have to state that I remain humbled but I can’t honestly claim to feel happy at the moment!  Here’s the reason:  Rick asked that I peer deeply into my own crystal ball, which is actually more of a considerably beclouded marble, to attempt to foretell what the world might look like economically in five years.  I take solace only in the fact that he didn’t ask for stock market predictions!

Attempting to compress so many thoughts, countless trends, variables and unforeseen elements into a succinct forecast is extremely challenging. I turned to my markets and business partner of many years, an exceedingly bright fellow, and solicited his opinions.  A rarity then occurred in that he and I came to distinctly different conclusions.  His side will reveal itself once you’ve read through my thoughts on things that follows but I did find it interesting that he’s in the very same camp as our esteemed Mr. Ackerman.  My conclusion is that he and Rick are envisioning what should happen due to something akin to cognitive dissonance, which I use with the most polite of intentions.  To be clear, I agree with their arguments wholeheartedly.  It’s hard not to, as the facts are overwhelming.

String Physics Model

However, he and Rick, from what I can surmise from reading and listening to them, still seem to be operating within the confines of the physics of classical economics.  There’s a simple yet elegant beauty associated with this school of thought but I must confess that I’ve been forced to adopt the more trendy new millennium variety: String Physics of Economics.  In this “limitless” quantum view all things are possible which is another way of saying that my partner and Rick are essentially “right” but my bet is that “They” will make them appear to be wrong.  My discussions and subsequent pondering took quite a while but I believe that I may have finally latched onto the simple truths with which to approach this exercise.  Please bear with me as I opt for several visual aids in place of numerous written facts, many of which are well- known to readers at Rick’s.

There are many ways to evaluate and frame “things” but choose from the following three or, something similar, as these are what things reduce to in my opinion, and as they’re really all related:

1.         Reality vs. Illusion

2.         Right vs. Wrong

3.         Good vs. Evil

Pictures are worth many, many words without a doubt so I found myself searching for an appropriate graphic to serve in place of pages of words to adequately describe the current situation and to avoid the laundry list of systemic and structural problems that most us are at least somewhat familiar.  I chose this:

I ask for reader participation in requesting that you attire Wiley with a straight jacket and then place an enormous inverted pyramid (preferably with an eye drawn into it), point on head, of crushing debt to the image and with that we’ll be just about there.  Now, as you’ve undoubtedly already deduced, this is my summation with respect to our current realities should they ever be seen by a mass audience.

The counter to this is the illusion. I found something that I believe is nearly perfect and it is also something that I recently referenced in comments in Rick’s forum – “No hay banda”:

These are images from “Club Silencio”, a fictitious theater club depicted in Lynch’s sublime Mulholland Drive.  I’ll only add one line of dialogue as I encourage you to watch this scene on YouTube), or better yet watch or re-watch the film as its message(s) is/are immensely powerful:  “… it’s all an illusion, listen!”  The impact from watching this scene is profound because we see and feel how difficult it is to disbelieve an illusion even though we’ve been forewarned that “…It’s all an illusion…”  Ironically, many of us (myself included) do not want to believe in the “reality” that they’ve created for us to consume despite their actions and promises that they will indeed go on creating it.

Grand Illusions

So how in Hades does “Club Silencio” relate to our present predicament?  The truth is that I did not need to present these images as representations of the illusions because nearly all else that is presented to us to see is the derivative of an illusion.  These grand illusions are the products of the past 3 to 20 to 98 to 150 years and beyond.  Focusing on the most recent three years will reveal that it’s taken unfathomable amounts of hyper-manipulation and hyper-fingineering, tons of “hopium” and massive, coordinated propaganda campaigns to raise the “USSAtania” from the depths to just near the surface.  Yet this is the point at which the heavy irony intrudes.  The realists, the “goods” in our picture show, are the ones that cherish the “right” and as such are charged with cheering for this massive prison barge to sink once again to the depths to have any real hope of rising again.  At this point I need to “cut to the chase” to honor Rick’s request to not have to spend days editing my material!

My spirit senses that we’re finally approaching the reveal, the awakening, and that reality and good will win out which means the next five years will be extremely tumultuous because a massive round debt deflation is so incredibly overdue.  Eventually this will prove to be a good thing but it won’t seem like it for a good long while. My heart wants to believe what my spirit desires but it has learned to know better courtesy of my mind.

‘They’ Always Have…

What’s left of my mind says that “They” will win.  They always have.  They’ve consolidated more power than ever before and if there was ever a time for them to have been swept aside it was the past three years and yet they’ve flourished.  If they get away with this latest round, as they have every round before, it will be more of the same.  Fake economic improvement, centrally planned stock markets, the mass marketing of the “success stories” from the few outliers, and increasing dominion over our lives.  The songs remain the same.

Finally, the “gun to my head” prognostication in an attempt to directly answer Rick’s request:  “They Win.”

Yes, I realize that this flies in the face of realities of the economic, financial, fiscal and the physics kind but I never would have thought that the aggregated and increasingly absurd charades would have been able to have the run they’ve had for half as long as they’ve had it.  Why have I come to this conclusion?  The reasons are many but I’ll try to cite just a few of the most important ones because I’m about to blow out my word count!

1.         More of the same.  Same as it ever was.  When in doubt, bet status quo.  This is a bet that the trend will continue not end.

2.         The unquenched desire of the public for more pain avoidance and the conditioned desire to be willingly deceived to feed that desire.

3.         It’s their world, we’re just slaving in it and God knows that they’ll throw everything at it before they throw in the towel.  After all, there are centuries of family honor at stake.

4.         They control the information flow and through the black magic of their central banks, their corporations and their media, they control this “correctional” for-profit institution.

5.         They’re organized and effective and we’re disoriented and all else that flows from disorientation…

6.         It would take something that would be unprecedented in human history to “win”:  En masse we’d suddenly see reality for what it really is and work together in a coordinated fashion to put an end to the coordinated malevolence that’s better known as the central banking systems, federal governments, international corporations and mass media.  In short, we’d need to defeat the Empire and they’re not the ones drawing plays in the dirt.

7.         Most importantly, they make the rules, they unmake the rules, they suspend the rules, they ignore the rules, they break the rules, they create new rules and so on.

In the spirit of “going with my gut”, I offer, quite regrettably, my true feelings and thus my forecast:  It’s their mobius strip and we’re just crawling on it.  We can’t make sense out of it because it is designed for us to experience cognitive dissonance when trying to do so.  Expect more of the same.

It’s a lost cause. Having stated that: Count me in.  Deo Vindice!

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  • andequip March 26, 2011, 5:54 pm

    One parting thought, for clarification. The “system” in place, put forth by the “powers that be”, “Illuminati”, et al, are performing a pre-destined purpose.

    They are pressuring the world and humanity, with the devices we have discussed here, in great detail. In fact, we are being subjected to things which would enslave us and has caused great pain, destruction and hopelessness, for many.

    But, these forces, when viewed as an earthly “lesson”, provide the pressure necessary to transform our being. Much the same way that a lowly lump of coal, when exposed to great suppression, compression and pressure, transforms into a glimmering, glistening jewel (diamond).

    So, we shall too be transformed.

    Be fearless, caring and peaceful.

  • andequip March 25, 2011, 1:28 am

    Thank you for the commentary, Red Will!

    I disagree, though. You are assuming that “they” are the “winners” and we are “losers”, so I wanted to examine that thought a bit more.

    The expectation of “them winning” is making the assumption that “we lose” because we can’t attain the same level of success. But, I say that you should not WANT to win, if it is correlated with “evil”, “wrong” or “illusion”. It is there, in that thought, where you should realize…..you and I and everyone who wants, can live life and face this world, head on, as a winner.

    We control our destiny. In a reality that is your world, (you know, your day-to-day existence) what are you missing out on, or “losing” to? Not much, I say! You can caress and care for your loved ones. You can make a home and fill it with family, friends and laughter. Eat, sleep, recreate, all without the participation of the “winners”. Life is good because we work for and nuture our lives, to be such.

    The actions and “sins” of the “winners” are not placing them above us, but well below. I assume that in their case, it is a hollow existance.

    When each of us stops living, what will you be able to take with you? Trite? Maybe.

    What secrets, or lies will you be able to formulate, hide or dessiminate, in the afterlife? None.

    We we all put on this earth for one reason, to love and care for one another. It is a personal choice. Do it, or don’t. Noone cares, but it will REALLY matter, at a later time and place.

    This planet is a testing ground for humanity. Put here to try our souls and test our mettle. It is upon these decisions we make, when faced with the trials of this life, that determine if we are “winners” or “losers”.

    Be fearless and live! God loaths a coward. Do not let anything or anyone cause you to lose your faith in doing what is right. Do not empower your enemy, by trying to “win” at their games.

    Play the game your way. Is is the “right” way? You know. Nobody needs to tell you about your life.

    At any rate, you probably won’t get to read this, as I am like reply #75. If you do, thanks again, for the thought provoking commentary.

    • F. Beard March 25, 2011, 2:07 am

      I read and I agree.

      But it is a mistake to believe we cannot win in the less lofty sense too. True, we cannot achieve vast ill-gotten wealth for ourselves but we can “win” by helping to destroy and replace the current corrupt money system which after all is a flimsy, unstable structure “conceived in inequity and born in sin” to quote Josiah Stamp.

    • redwilldanaher March 25, 2011, 4:39 am

      andequip, thanks for your considerate response. You make some great points but you are “preaching to the choir” as they say friend, which means, that I failed as the writer of the essay. The “they win” conclusion/forecast had to do with the maintenance of the “magic spells” that maintain the facade and obscure reality. I should have made that point more clearly. It’s not about the money and power for you and I, fallingman et al., but rather about operating in reality on what can only be described as a utopian playing field. It will never happen on this rock until something from beyond this rock intercedes. I try to stop talking or writing when I believe I should. This is one of those moments:

      “It profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world but for Wales”
      — Thomas More

  • Mercurious March 24, 2011, 7:22 am

    Simply put, I believe the one word that is the touchstone for upcoming paradigm shift is “decentralization.” In every sphere where we have to discern a direction–markets, political will, social organization–decentralization and a strong centripetal bias is what I will bet on. In events we see today, analysts and investors are missing the fundamental issue, IMHO. The Fukushima disaster, for example, is not a problem of nuclear production gone awry, therefore requiring us to switch investments to a friendlier power source.

    The problem is that nuclear generation is an astronomically capital-intensive form of energy production, hence we have to rely on a few highly efficient centers to generate it…making an entire country hostage to crippling cutbacks should one or more plants go down. Switching to LNG will be a brilliant solution until the day one of the near-shore mega facilities lights up…then we’ll be back to how to keep things going for huge swaths of the country until we can regain production.

    Fraud in banking and lending is not the problem; we’ve had fraud since memory doth not serve. The problem is the centralization of money creation, the vertical integration of those deciding fiscal and monetary policy with those who profit from it. De-centralize and the problem becomes manageable on a much more human scale.

    In every instance from pharmaceutical production to how we wage war, the danger lies in how concentrated those endeavors have evolved. Just as a monoculture crop is wiped out while a diverse mix is more self-sustaining, it is the undiluted concentration of effort in a division of labor chain reaction that is stressing the limits of our ability to come back.

    I think the wisdom, and necessity, of making decentralization an integral part of social planning, hence investment decision making, will either become apparent so that we choose change, or it will be forced on us by necessity. Either way, I do not worry about the NWO, the overwhelming of the individual or the crushing of local economies at the hands of a few gigantic players.

    The game is already in motion; you will see a devolution starting in artificial entities that have enshrined centralization like the European Union. After that, a breakdown of federated unions like the USA will begin. Industries that allow buyers to provide secure and individually held assets that help to blunt the threat of us falling off the end of the technological branch en mass will be the winners.

    Bet on decentralization; invest for the breakdown of large entities. Plan on how to best manage change that will reward those mentally and materially prepared to bring it all closer to home.

    • fallingman March 25, 2011, 12:48 am

      You always provide insightful comments MC.

      I do worry about the New World Order, the “overwhelming,” and the “crushing”…and I’ll just have to hope you’re right. Devolution does seem to be the natural course of things that have gotten too damn big, too damn complex, and too damn removed from their source.

      I guess the question is this. Is there some sort of “natural” force, for lack of a better word, that will provide a push in this direction without folks like us having to do much to make it happen (because “we” seem to feel pretty fatalistic right about now)…or can “they” hold back the tide and continue to concentrate their power?

      I hope it’s the former. I fear it’s the latter.

      But you’re a lot smarter than I am, and, if you believe that decentralization is coming and that the combine is not all that powerful, it makes me feel better.

      On the nuclear front, I find the pint-sized Hyperion reactors very intriguing for just the reasons you mention…and more.

  • david March 24, 2011, 3:34 am

    Very well thought-out, seemingly pessimistic but I think realistic assessment. Let me add my thoughts on why I think this is a realistic portrayal of the situation.
    What “they” have in their favor is basic human nature. We always want something for nothing, and we have an extremely difficult time doing the right thing. That’s what child training is all about–teaching the little ones who, left to their own devices, will almost always do the wrong thing, to do the right thing (for the most part), just in order that they might survive and live more or less peacefully with other human beings. That’s the way it always has been.
    Now add power to this equation. Power means that you can do more and more of what you want–that is, you can more and more conform to that little kid in you and his desires without regard to others around you. Lord Acton was right. Add a few billion other human beings, a few thousand years, shake well, and you have the sorry spectacle of human history. There have been some moments, like 1776, but they’ve been anomalous and brief. Like one commentator above said of our founding, “they tested the waters and found them too cold”–not in accordance with our basic nature, which wants to have its own way and live off the fruits of others’ labor.
    What is needed is a fundamental change in our basic nature. Now stick with me on this–this is exactly what the Christian gospel offers. The church is called the ek-klesia in Greek–the “called out” ones. Called out from what? Basically, this corrupt, rotten system which we’re all trying to reform, which will never be truly reformed, and which at bottom is the enemy of righteousness. The Bible calls it “the world”. We’re also said to be “new creatures” who don’t have to conform to our old nature exemplified by the two-year old kid–empowered by adult experience, treachery, malice, and deceitfulness. If anyone thinks I’m being too hard on humanity, frankly, I haven’t said the half of it. This nature is what the Bible calls “the flesh”. Then there’s the third of this trinity–called the devil. He is an entity more evil than anything I can describe. I’m not asking you to believe this, I’m just telling you what the Book has to say. It’s depressingly accurate, and backs up what RedWill has to say. It also says (if you’re interested) that we WON’T solve our problems, and that things will get worse and worse until Jesus comes to ring down the curtain on history and finally put things to rights. Fatalistic, eh? I guess we’ll just have to see how things work out, while not giving in to evil just because we know the end of the story. But the key is this: Nations and societies won’t be permanently reformed. This only can happen on an individual basis. And the decision is ours, each one of us. Thanks for the hearing.

    • redwilldanaher March 24, 2011, 4:03 am

      David, thanks for the kind comments and for making your own which are full of wisdom IMO. Until very recently I still clung to the wishful belief that 1776 was something “different” but I’ve now come to an even more depressing view on that. As you say, we must only do our best as that’s all we can really do.

  • mikeck March 24, 2011, 3:25 am

    @ F Beard.,

    Without government control or oversight, almost anything has a chance of working better than our current system. However, naked short selling of shares is out of control…it rips off the companies and therefore all shareholders. I do not expect or want government to solve the problem, i.e. what we need are some shareholder vigilantes. That lacking, the worker is but a slave working for ever devaluing shares.

    • F. Beard March 24, 2011, 5:00 am

      However, naked short selling of shares is out of control… mikeck

      Naked short selling is another form of counterfeiting but I haven’t given a lot of thought to how a free market would prevent it. Ruthless liquidation for non-delivery is part of it, I am sure.

  • F. Beard March 24, 2011, 1:29 am

    but without cheating anyone…what planet are you living on? mikeck

    Earth, an obviously fallen planet.

    1) Common stock as money requires no borrowing or lending. Assets and labor would simply be bought with new stock issue. Thus no PMs, usury, or fractional reserves are required. This is a huge benefit since PMs, usury (see Deuteronomy 23:19-20) and fractional reserves are all problematic.
    2) All price inflation is born by the owners of the corporation since every receiver of the new common stock money is by definition a part owner of the corporation. This is an important moral consideration.
    3) Without fractional reserves or even lending, then deflation is not a serious threat.
    4) Since all money holders are part owners of the corporation then they could vote on how much new money is issued and for what purposes. Thus price inflation is under the control of only those affected by it.
    5) The assets of a corporation are typically performing assets though PMs could easily be accommodated too.
    6) Common stock as money shares wealth at the same times as it consolidates it for purposes of economies of scale. Labor problems should be non-existent since the workers would be paid in common stock and thus be part owners. The number of those with a stake in capitalism would increase. The need and desire for socialism should decrease.

    Now I admit, results would vary from corporation to corporation but at least in principle common stock money is 100% ethical.

    OTOH, fractional reserve lending in a government enforced monopoly money supply is fundamentally dishonest. There are no ethical FR banks.

  • Steve March 24, 2011, 1:24 am

    The answer is so easy. Why is the choice so hard Red Will?

    You are absolutely right – just say no.

  • F. Beard March 23, 2011, 11:54 pm

    If “they” will win, it is only because no one has invented a better money system than fractional reserve lending. FRL is absolutely brilliant! The money is backed by performing assets not silly PMs or government fiat which are just sources of liquidity.

    However, there is another form of money that is also backed by performing assets, common stock. Moreover, unlike FRL, which in an economy with a government enforced money supply is THEFT, common stock as money is 100% completely ethical.

    So, with common stock money we have the brilliance of asset backed money but without cheating anyone!

    • mikeck March 24, 2011, 1:09 am

      F Beard wrote: “So, with common stock money we have the brilliance of asset backed money but without cheating anyone!” May I agree and at the same time disagree? Asset backed is pushing it, but I will give you that, but without cheating anyone…what planet are you living on?

      Mike
      “The Gold Standard appears virtuous until you understand Freegold. Fiat currency appears evil until you understand Freegold.” Blondie in a comment on FOFOA’s blog on March 12, 2011

  • ebear March 23, 2011, 11:33 pm

    It’s all an illusion, until somebody loses an eye!

    ebear

  • nnmppir March 23, 2011, 11:25 pm

    Dear friend: You are right and wrong at the same time.
    I am a latin america old man, and my english is not so good, but i loved your comments. God is the master of time, men are slaves of it. Things are going to happen acording to God’s plans. We will have in time a New World Order with just one dictator who will rule against our will. The big brother. The US is not mentioned in the Bible. There must be a very good reason for that. The decline of the american empire is coming. The decline of the world economy is iminent. I fill sorry for the young people that will have to go through it. Please read the Bible prophecies. We are living the last days. That’s for shure
    May our Lord have mercy of our beloved and families.

  • Jim N March 23, 2011, 10:30 pm

    Thanks Red for a great essay. I tend to think in broader strokes and as i was reading this, it confirmed to me my own thinking that “Things will not not change”.

    I want them to change. But i believe i have been been fighting the wrong battle. There will always be wars. “They” are selling the ammo. And the cruise missles. For me it is very perplexing to see no massive protests of what has been happening. No 60’s protests. Can you imagine the protests if Nixon started and carried on 3 wars.

    I tried to be a republican. Even tried to help Ron Paul. Even though he is a big shot in congress now, i rarely here anything of substance from him.

    The boyz in DC just play games. Even now they pat themselves on the back on how they are reducing a deficit. It is, at max, only 4% of the deficit they are reducing. No one is even acknowleging the fact that the other 1.5 Trillion deficit is even there, or what plan there is to reduce it. No one.

    Putting my cards on the table here at RP, i need to say i am tired of fighting this. I now see, as i said earlier i have been fighting the wrong battles. Kinda like picking a top and shorting the equities market, and getting killed 10 times in a row.

    I think some of us got depressed reading this essay, but much of it is something we all knew in the back of our head but won’t honestly acknowledge. Personally, i chosen not to be discouraged. The analogy i would use here is end of the “War Games ” movie, when the computer takes over, looking for scenarios where the world doesn’t blow up. Looking for a way to win. In the end….it declares…” The only way to win is to NOT PLAY THE GAME”. So……for one i am no longer playing THEIR game.

    I am now going to play my game. I am not trying to amass a fortune. I won’t buy anything that i don’t have the funds for. I will be able to sleep at night soundly. I will be able to secure, the best of my ability (based on the rules that i know of) , a place for my family (including all grandkids) to live and work.

    I will no longer try to prove that the BOYZ are wrong. That will happen in their own accord with timing that no one can predict.

    Need to go now, we are planting 50 new fruit trees.

    • redwilldanaher March 23, 2011, 10:38 pm

      “…Looking for a way to win. In the end….it declares…” The only way to win is to NOT PLAY THE GAME”. So……for one i am no longer playing THEIR game.” –

      Jim, I’ve cited that film and that quote here at Rick’s Picks in either a previous essay or within in the forum. That is the only solution IMO. I love hearing the fruit tree news. I wish I were planting 50 for my own family. Thanks Jim.

    • mikeck March 24, 2011, 12:59 am

      I used to support Ron Paul also…he refused to testify at the Liberty Dollar trial. Never, ever again will the gutless one get my support. Our solution will not come from the criminal government.

      Mike
      “If you’re waiting around for “government” to pass a “law” giving you permission to be free, then: a) you’ll be waiting a long time, and b) you’re not even free inside your own head yet. As long as you are begging any master to endorse your freedom, you will remain a slave.” Larken Rose

    • fallingman March 24, 2011, 5:51 pm

      I get the point, but I wouldn’t diss one of the very few people who’s doing something to promote the cause of liberty and protect what freedom we have left.

      And if you think Ron Paul is a bigshot in Congress, you’re deluded. He is as marginalized in that body as he has ever been. The party hacks were FORCED to give him the chairmanship of the monetary affairs subcommittee. Believe me, they tried not to. They don’t hate him personally, because he’s actually a very non-confrontational mild-mannered, and polite guy by personality. Maybe that’s what disappoints you. But they HATE what he represents politically. The influence he has comes from popular support, and it drives the fascist Republican establishment crazy.

      While I don’t hold out much hope for the Ron Paul revolution or any other political activity, I honor him and thank him for all he’s done and all he’s doing…and I support him in his efforts.

  • Jay March 23, 2011, 9:36 pm

    A truly thought provoking essay. Thank you “Red Will”.

  • T'inker March 23, 2011, 6:47 pm

    Puleeze!
    We are running Mobius stripped of mind and sense? Yah Yah, right. That is a choice, friend, a willed, even if semi-unconscious one, even if somewhat forced one. Did you or did you not pick up Their tools, devices, conveniences, products, and way of life? As I thought, you did. To be fair, we all did as infants since that was all that was offered. But infancy is long gone. Now we are adults, no? Now we have the capacity – to ask: is this internal combustion smog box piece of sh!t transportation device mine or Theirs? This agribiz steak and lettuce and tomato, cookie cutter house and culture and life. Yah yah, you and I do do this thing now, this Their-System which we embraced, go in, eyes open.
    Only one way out, friend, is my, your own way, way that is not Their Way. Old, Indian way – which we, in Their Name crushed out as savage heathenism, brought slavery to build us a feathered bed which now, oh dear, seems to have caught a spark. Get know-how to eat, to shelter, to do everything, ab initio – from Mother Earth’s Beauty. (How truly bizarre it is that in this age one is laughed at for such sentiment, but She will prevail, one or another way. The flea does not rule the dog). This is not the primitive way at all. Shills cry: “Luddite”. Suck eggs, mf, you suck at Their Tit, they have power to deny. The meek shall inherit nada, and deserve it too. Most of all you and me need to learn how to THINK. Properly, from the logical beginning, none of Their Seductive Dumb Whispers allowed in inter-ear space.
    The way of true independence, of living as a true self is the hardest of all. It can only, in proportion to its definitional accuracy be entirely independent of the Co-op of Theirs, of the Status Quo Thunking. We all co-operate in mass self-destruction. We ARE They. We comply, lazy and afraid, knowing that the alternative is going to be one big big sacrifice. Wake up.
    They depend on your IDEA that we are all a big family.
    Good luck, take care.

  • Other Paul March 23, 2011, 6:46 pm

    Wayne,

    Excellent writing and illustrations.

    I have no doubt that the “Powerz” are putting a portion of their net worth in precious metals. Even a small percentage will be more valuable that 99% of the rest of the population’s entire net worth. “They” are ready for an failures in the current system.

    Great reference to Club Silencio. Most people’s reaction to the knowledge, when it comes to them, that fiat is an illusion of wealth, will be a hope that the system doesn’t crash. When that hope is crushed, some who have any spare change will invest precious metals.

    Only when welfare/SS/extended unemployment checks bounce/stop will things get ugly in the US. Unfortunately, the number of recipients of those checks is a big number. In the meantime, people will cut back where they can and life will go on.

  • ricecake March 23, 2011, 6:13 pm

    What’s wealth? How much is it worthy?

    You can back your wealth by hard assets: like precious metals. Or Natural resources: energy, water, forest, lands etc etc ……..

    But there is the soft assets: BRAIN POWER of Man: Talent, Innovation, Invention, productivity, hard working organization ethics, personal will, and Politics power and so on.

    Is Steve Job an asset class by himself? Some had called him a visionary while others might called him an illusion.

    Bill Gate of the past? He too was once called an illusion or delusion.

    And thousands of brain power of the scientists and engineers and the imaginings of their brains? What were or are they? Illusions or Visions?

    The great designers architects in history?

    The great skilled or not so skilled courageous workers who built fascinating skyscrapers, bridges and road and high speed rails?

    Without the soft assets of Man to turn the hard assets into useful things, hard assets are just dirt and rocks. Such as the so call “Rare Earth Elements.”

    So, If Man Power can turn rocks into treasure, you can darn well believe that Man power can turn paper into wealth too.

    Imagine Steve Job couldn’t get any investment in Gold and Silver? Benbernankee said to him: “Steve, don’t you worry. I’ll print as much money as you need. When you succeeded, you pay me back principal plus interest.” ha ha ha…

    Wealth is created by Man therefore you must set fair rules on how to divid the wealth pie. The workers are definitely deserve to have bigger pieces of the pie because they work hard too.

    Do you really think Gold and Silver are the safest asset? Strong people can take it from you if you don’t know or can’t protect what you have.

    So wealth is absolutely created and backed by the people!

    Don’t ignore the people asset when making your decisions.

  • Agent P March 23, 2011, 5:42 pm

    All one need do is to pay attention to the level and the pace at which ‘They’ labor to confuse, restrict or outright eliminate the following Constitutionally protected rights, in order to gain perspective on the future:

    – Gun rights
    – Property rights
    – Speech/assembly rights

    Not necessarily in the above order, but pretty much.

    Defining ‘They’ in venues any larger than this, fairly well means touching the 3rd rail. In other words, you’re now in Brother Birch territory. Not that Brother Birch was wrong – far from it. But the tried and true method of marginalizing your enemy as a ‘kook’ for offering up alternative thoughts as to how things really operate, has worked like a charm for decades and judging by the results of the election cycles for the past 40 years, I would say that ‘They’ seem to have the aspect of human nature so necessary for their continuation, down to a hard science, no?

  • Sage March 23, 2011, 5:38 pm

    Awesome essay!!!! So sad but I agree is true.

  • John March 23, 2011, 5:24 pm

    OMG ROGER

    what a bunch of drivel!

    Steve
    in your last reply to me you made sooo many assumptions and were way off the mark.

    Yes, many million(s) of slaves have happily given away what is by Right an inheritance, so that they may feel secure and in fear – hoping that “they” will take care of the emergency.

    What “. . .life meaningful. . .” John ? yes steve meaningful to them.
    What happiness ?/ yes steve happiness with their families or careers or charity time/money
    In a bottle ? bad assumption
    On drugs ? bad assumption/ if you think you’re doing fine you must be drunk or on drugs.
    Before the TV being numb-minded ?
    What did these Joe Sixpacs create that is lasting ?
    what has anyone created thats “lasting”? 100/200 years from now none of this will matter and will all be forgotten.

    What inheritance and beauty has been passed to future generations by these many ’secure’ persons ?
    just because YOU don’t see any value in things does NOT mean there is not any.
    One mans junk… and vice versa! right steve

    Happy, speak of the hunter who owns nothing and is not a debtor in possession. Is this what the generality splayed forth by John envisions ? see above: family, charity and let me add artistry.

    Or, does John speak of ‘happy’ ants running here and there taken care of by the Queen ? no steve, just people doing what they need to do. doesn’t matter wether there is a queen or not.

    The music man will be paid John / yes but he may be paid in something that he perceives as valuable and you don’t. or he might not be paid and life goes on. (somewhat twilight zonish I know).
    or some new gdp grower comes along and things change.
    ———————————-
    then above in one of your notes you extol the very same point I’ve been making for months.

    Here is what is important, and the Native Americans know:

    “Be warm.
    Be feed.
    Tell Stories.
    Go to bed with someone you trust to wake up with.

    Everything else is valueless.”
    thank you
    I’m glad to see you got it. I hope the rest of you do.
    go enjoy your lives.

    PS.The federal legislature and other branches have abused the Nash Theory to the point they have successfully denied “Payment of Debts” by not allowing a store, a bank, a transaction, in silver Specie Coin money. / YES and they will continue to do it for a long long time. not saying its right. its not.

    PS. for any of you that do NOT think the dollar is worth anything… PLEASE send them to ME. And I wont even charge you for taking them off your hands. ha ha ha
    —————————————————————-
    Red is right
    7. ” Most importantly, they make the rules, they unmake the rules, they suspend the rules, they ignore the rules, they break the rules, they create new rules and so on.

    In the spirit of “going with my gut”, I offer, quite regrettably, my true feelings and thus my forecast: It’s their mobius strip and we’re just crawling on it. We can’t make sense out of it because it is designed for us to experience cognitive dissonance when trying to do so. Expect more of the same.”

    like I’ve been saying all along

    PS. just a reminder for any of you that DO NOT want your dollars. send them to me. I’ll put them to good use I promise. I’ll take not getting them as a sign that you agree with me.

    • Steve March 23, 2011, 9:09 pm

      Great to see you engage in a conversation John.

      Truth has become a consensus of opinion in todays world. One sees no evil in taking evil in the form of fiat fraud that establishes prima facie evidence of slave status. Some like to be slaves, some don’t. The problem comes when the slaves want to force everyone else to be slaved.

      To credit Red with reality; the world of ‘us’ allows ‘them’ to do what they do because the masses never want to be responsible. (We, and;) ‘I’ run by presumption of what reality is. When we are judged by a Superior Law there is conclusive fact. When we are judged by the mind of man we wallow in presumptions, disagreement, assumptions of what the word ‘right and wrong’ mean by some consensus of opinion in the night, see; government today as mini-gods of illegitmate powers.

      What is wrong is when a discussion is ended with “give me your fraud, give me your crime, give me your. . . give ME”

      How about something like this John:

      I will give my honor, my knowledge, my sacred wealth, my silver Dollars, my life to see Good win over the Evil of selfishness and selfcentered ego. I will give to Freedom and to Right with all my might, and with all I know.

      To Red, the reason we are where we are is because the individual is only interested in the ‘get’, not the GIVE.

    • John March 23, 2011, 11:13 pm

      Steve
      So I take it your not sending me your dollars.
      therefore you agree with me.
      I’m not asking for anything of value ( according to you). no different from when the junk man comes around and picks up discarded things at the curb, right Steve?
      I have given and will continue do give those things you have mentioned. thats fine.
      But when my kid comes to me and says hey dad can I have money for an ice cream, I cannot tell her “honey see if the man will take my honor and my knowledge as payment”.
      or maybe he’ll take, in the words of Bill Murray in caddyshack ” gunga-lagunga….on your death bed you will receive total conscientiousness”
      do you think that will work? Steve

    • Steve March 24, 2011, 1:12 am

      Nice try. The argument/debate is a TAR BABY in which one asks the other to disprove something that does not exist. I guess I’m different than you. I hold silver specie Coin Dollars as legislatively defined. I make no voluntary “use” of federal reserve notes ever. I have made my claims in the district Court, and I have held my claims in the district Court in regard to compelled “use” of federal reserve notes. In like turn, why don’t you send me all of your Dollars and Eagles because it appears there is no value placed in living free and teaching what freedom and Liberty are to the next in line. A Slave does not own specie Money – ever. At times I am forced to use an entity, quite foreign to the contention that it is moral to make a use of fraud frn, in order to deal with criminality at the highest levels like presented in the above writing.

      This is still a Republic because I say it is a Republic even in the face of tyranny by mobocracy and persons who refuse to teach and honor the obligation in regard to Liberty. I take my Stand into the courts, yes ! I live my Stand – yes !

      John, you would need to bring superior force to make me voluntarily make a “use” of federal reserve notes. And, then what would you be John? Will you come to me, break down my door, force my Specie Dollars into my hand, and force me to exchange them for FRAUD in federal reserve notes at some coin shop? Or John, will you just teach the next jury pool to violate fair Weights and Measures for self serving mass greed by use of monetary fraud?

    • John March 24, 2011, 3:36 am

      Steve
      Lighten up Francis.
      As long as I can buy that ice cream for my little girl, I dont care how I pay for it.
      I think you are fibbin just a bit on the silver. If he wants silver I ll pay in silver. It doesn’t matter to me if he wants to be paid in plastic chips thats what I ll pay him with.
      No I will not be sending you my dollars because to me as well as most americans it still has value to get the things one needs. How do you get power to your computer out there in the forest? I thought the unibomber was in prison. Wait a minute…unless…

    • Steve March 24, 2011, 7:25 am

      John, name calling is what I expect in the end. Looking critically, it appears to me that you testify to not caring about Good v. Evil, Right v. Wrong, Moral v. Immoral. This is exactly the core of why Redwill is absolutely Right about “They” winning. The loose lips exercised by John are called libel, or is it Slander? Defaming in print is the prefect of liberalizm. John, it appears that inauthenticity, and disingenuineness is the way, and once again that is exactly why Redwill is sooooo Right about “Them” always winning. Thank you for proving absolutely how the corporate enfranchisees of mobocracy act.
      Some how the liberal thinks they are immune to Law and Order, the Peace and Dignity of Free States.

      Wayne – RIGHT ON, and thanks John for proving the point better than any words I could have written. They win through icecream. Liberals always revert to libel and slander, even if the liberal professes to being something else. I could take you to task – na – not worth it because John became a very useful teaching tool to show why Wayne is soooo correct in this thesis on “Them”.

      And, no one will ever make me voluntarily ‘use’ federal reserve notes.

      You can do it too John – Just Do It as Nike says.

    • John March 24, 2011, 5:10 pm

      Steve
      I’m far from a liberal.
      have no idea how you got there from what I wrote, other than to say “they’re coming to take me(you) away ha ha they coming to take me(you) away”
      thats fine steve don’t use dollars but for anyone else out there that has dollars and does not value them send them to me.
      (steve) “moe,larry the cheese! moe, larry the cheese”

      as a wiseman once told me when I was a naive young man “your right john (steeevee) the worlds wrong”
      I live in the real world and as of right now the real world(usa) uses dollars for food, (yes I have a garden as well) shelter, and clothing. when that changes I’ll change.
      put that in your juice box and suck it! you know how to suck steve don’t you? just put your lips together and…

    • John March 24, 2011, 5:12 pm

      In exchange for food ,shelter and clothing.
      I forgot who I was writing to for a second.

    • John March 24, 2011, 5:24 pm

      Here is another way to help you understand what everybody else does.
      I have a job and a business. my employer and my customers pay me in dollars. when they start paying me in something else I’ll start buying things in something else.

    • Steve March 24, 2011, 11:02 pm

      Change starts by being the first to do what is Right, not the last.

  • JimK March 23, 2011, 4:47 pm

    Benjamin’s comment that previous cartels have merely toppled to new cartels evokes for me two questions – firstly, was the American Revolution ‘for real’ in it’s codification via the Constitution and Bill of Rights? and secondly, was the Renaissance ‘for real’? Are these flowerings illusions? Are they moments of peace and freedom punctuating centuries of oppression? At the risk of being labelled a ‘this time it’s different’ denier, I contend that mass intercommunication via the digital revolution keeps the lights on in a way that makes it harder and harder for the rats to hide their lies – this is why there have been so many moves to control it or shut it down in the event of ‘national emergency’. The flip side of the digital revolution is that it makes possible the revision of history in a more efficient manner than burning down libraries like the old days. My feeling is that the best we can hope for is to do somewhat better than just keeping the flame alive in scattered devotions, as happened during the previous Dark Age.

    • Benjamin March 23, 2011, 6:22 pm

      “firstly, was the American Revolution ‘for real’ in it’s codification via the Constitution and Bill of Rights? ”

      All I can say is that Constitutional rule lasted for the blink of an eye. The waters were tested, found too cold, and so we retreated. To be expected, though, given it was a first attempt. And really, 235 years is not so long…

      I will never forget the first time I had lobster. Before I did though, I had _really_ wanted to try it for so many years, but found that I won’t ever forget that horrible taste. And would _hate it_ 200 years from now just as much as I did 10 years ago!

      It’s been over 1,000 years since a major regression, but only 200 since Liberty was given a shot. If we only needed to regress half as much, it’d only be another 215 years. Now…

      I see malinvestment by the mega-ton, rampant amounts of horrible and thoughtless ideas and ideologies, a still living over-reliance on the state for what amounts to the most basic decisions a human can and should make, as well as spending galore, few cuts, and many in the world just plain wanting out of the pit all this have put them in. It all has the feel of a house burning down, not being expanded and especially accomodating.

      So I would find a 215 collapse period more realistic a timeline than a 5 year miracle. But suppose Twitter does have an impact. How much of one? Well, an instant (say one second) would find itself in a 6 week period in the number of ~3.6 million times.

      Twitter’s been around for, what, 2 years? I’ll let someone else handle that math, as my calculator doesn’t seem to be up to the task! Anyway, if Twitter were so great, It would’ve happened a split second before the first tweet.

      As I said, the new era has only been born, or just conceived, even. It’s going to take time before Twitter tweets have something important and profound to say, in the daily moments of millions, let alone billions. Yes, we know things are corrupt, but how many can say why, exactly, and what an uncorrupt system is and why and how etc…?

      We need more than five years.

  • Richard March 23, 2011, 4:11 pm

    Laslo Biryni was on CNBC this moring talking about the S&P 500 being at 2000 in the coming years–he has been annoyingly bullish and right the past 20 yrs I’ve seen him…he spoke of newspaper headlines in 1982 worrying about the same things we do now–Barry Sternlicht was on–and was skeptical-mentioning how “different” it was today…but Laslo stuck to his scenario…I was bearish but long all thru the 1990s…but now have stopped fighting city hall…I go with rah-rah Amerika-upward and onward until proven differently…I missed the 2000 crash and went to t-notes in 2006-Sam Zell was trhe sell signal when he bailed in 2006–…became bullish in march 2009 but never got back heavily into stocks–getting too old…being long cash is fine with me…the only thing I bought was silver stocks in 2009

    • redwilldanaher March 23, 2011, 5:24 pm

      Richard, I’ve seen and worse “heard” Laslo over the same 20 year period and you are accurate in what you state. What annoys me is that he and the others won’t make the prediction and be honest about it. Just use a euphemism like “the players” and state something like: “We see the market heading much higher as stock prices continue to be catered to and manipulated in every way. They’ll become further and further detached from reality but it won’t matter because that’s what the players seem intent on doing.” Instead the promoters just act like we live in a real country with real markets and that everything is fine under the surface. That’s what so sickening about it for me.

  • Buster March 23, 2011, 2:58 pm

    Though it may feel like a curse now, it is in fact a great blessing to be able to look at our world state honestly and see it as it really is.
    I have to agree with Red on the futility of our present position. Optimists and pessimists would see things differently but I believe the true answers are always calling out to the honest observer.
    I’ve stated here before that nothing short of a superior military force can stop the powers that be from their plan. Anyone who thinks otherwise hasn’t taken enough into account.
    The only purpose I see for the moment is just for us all to become aware, and so I like the plan Oliver.

    • redwilldanaher March 23, 2011, 5:20 pm

      “I’ve stated here before that nothing short of a superior military force can stop the powers that be from their plan. Anyone who thinks otherwise hasn’t taken enough into account.” – That’s the problem for most people that even try to figure it out Buster. They don’t take enough into account IMO. They get bogged down in well-publicized distraction campaigns that are merely a propagandistic shell game. I am not sure about the superior military force but I do think Gandhi’s approach might be a good place to start.

    • mikeck March 23, 2011, 7:44 pm

      Red,

      Great post and great comments…thanks Rick. The Gandhi approach worked find for Liberty Dollar until it didn’t. They ignored us, they laughed at us, they fought us, then they won. That is not quit what he meant when he said, “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” Mahatma Gandhi

  • Jack C. March 23, 2011, 2:57 pm

    We should not be too critical about our enemies from third world countries.Maybe they are indirectly fighting for our freedom?They have not been exposed to our propaganda and credit system and massive debt and their minds have not been brainwashed.They see and live reality.It is not that our original system was bad it is the lack of monetary discipline and the morals of our leaders that have brought us to this state. “Angels with dirty faces would be a good characterization of our leaders”.Our enemies could be our salvation?

    • redwilldanaher March 23, 2011, 5:17 pm

      Jack, I think you make a great point. I’ve thought the very same thing. So effective is the conditioning…

    • Robert March 23, 2011, 8:43 pm

      Jack-

      Fantastic point.

      The third world is the real world- the one where for every millionaire there are thousands of starving children. Yet, if you ask these people what they wish they had, they will only answer that they want fairness- they want a level playing field.

      The real world needs the help of the resourceful. It does not need the assistance of those willing to extend debt based servitude in the form of “loans”

  • mario cavolo March 23, 2011, 2:41 pm

    …a nice read Wayne!

    Cheers, Mario

  • jeff kahn March 23, 2011, 1:59 pm

    If the Bourbons could lose, and the Habsburgs could lose, so can the Goldman-Sachs.

    • redwilldanaher March 23, 2011, 2:32 pm

      Agreed Jeff, but in the next 5 years? I’d like to read a response from you with respect to what “they’ve” gotten away with, even if only over the past 3 years, vs. what position they really should be in after the heists they pulled. If things can be “normalized” this easily after what “went down” in 2007-2008, well… Worse yet, most folks are cheering for the “recovery efforts” to succeed so that things “get better”. OUR “Sam Adams” missed his cue 3 years ago and now its as if nothing ever happened.

    • Benjamin March 23, 2011, 2:49 pm

      jeff,

      I’m not at all familiar with the history of those names, but acquainted enough to know that nothing really ended with their declines/downfalls; power shifted into different hands, is all. Similarly, many corporations have died and/or have been swallowed up by others, but corporations remain.

      A new era will have to come to maturation in the next five years. I do not doubt that it has been born already, but it has to survive long enough and become grasped by a growing number of people before the showdown even begins. As it were, roughly 40-50% in this country alone are still asleep (if crankily stirring) in the matrix dream-machine.

    • jeff kahn March 23, 2011, 4:56 pm

      Hi Red,

      I agree, time frames can be very tricky. The Bourbons ruled France for 400 years. The Habsburgs ruled the Holy Roman Empire for 700 years. But now few even remember who they were. It could take 5 months before GS collapses. It could take 50 years. Goldman Sachs almost went down 2 years ago because of counterparty exposure. If it wasn’t for Bush handing the government over to Paulsen, it would have happened then. It didn’t. But we live in an era of accelerated and compressed time. In 1500 it could take a letter 6 weeks to travel across France. Now I can instantly converse with a facebook user in Yemen. It’s very hard to predict when. But if you know why, at least we can say that When is inevitable.

    • redwilldanaher March 23, 2011, 5:16 pm

      Ben, Jeff, thanks for the comments. You both make great points. Totally in agreement with time compression and “change the names” but the power structure remains in place.

  • Oliver March 23, 2011, 10:36 am

    Just as the Daily Bell keeps alluding to a “they”, I think it´s time for someone to make a list of who “they” are. Names, assets, place of dwelling.
    Such a list, continuously published on the internet, plus “their” actions continuously revealed on the internet, might maybe make a difference or be the beginning of making a difference.
    If there are a “they”, we need to know who “they” are and what they do and what they say. And I´m not talking about your congressman, I´m talking about those that shy the public like the devil the light.
    Otherwise “we” will never win.
    It seems there will be a demonstration in St. Moritz when Bilderberg meets next time, trying to show faces, trying to switch the spot-lights on.
    Otherwise this “they”-talk is just hopeless.

    • redwilldanaher March 23, 2011, 2:42 pm

      Oliver, people are trying and have been for decades but to no avail. I’ve referenced Paul Craig Roberts here at Rick’s half a dozen times. After decades of frustration he recently threw in the proverbial towel. He feels that his effort were completely ineffectual. I’ll ask you to contrast what should have happened post serial bubble 3/4 (commodities and housing) vs. what actually did. Think about what should have happened and what outrage existed and what actually has happened. I avoided all of my details in the essay and I’ll refrain from listing them momentarily to give others a chance to cover the same old ground. Here’ just a quick example. Think of all the lying lemmings, the endless parade of mindless perma-bull shills that appear wall to wall on bubblevision every day. They never issued a warning or voiced a concern and most in fact dismissed overblown worries with respect to mortgage backed assets. They’re all back as if it never happened and they see only blue skies on the horizon. The machinery healed itself and they’re back to business as usual, same as it ever was. Now, what should have happened?

    • Buster March 23, 2011, 3:16 pm

      Love is, amongst many other things, long suffering.
      Don’t let anyone give up in the task.
      It may seem futile but it’s a growing trend, this awakening. Be patient, pace yourself & be prepared for the long haul.
      We are in the ‘revelation’ and nothing can stop it.

    • fallingman March 23, 2011, 4:34 pm

      Yeah, good luck coming up with a list. As Griffin points out in Creature, there are likely concentric circles of influence with members of each circle believing THEY are the inner circle. The ones that are easy to ID, like the the operators at Morgan and the Goldman Sachs are not the real insiders. Nor are the Bushes, Clintons, or Obamas, although I suspect Dick ball and Cheney was closer than most. For all we know, even the Rockefellers and the Rothschilds may very well not be the real Powerz.

      My guess is that the true Powerz are rarely, if ever, seen. They have people to do their dirty work for them…or, in the case of Lloyd Blankfein…”god’s work.” The real insiders wish, above all else, to remain anonymous.

      Still, I’d love to see the heat put on David Rockefeller and the rest of the CFR, Trilateral types. We know they’re all implicated at some level.

      A friend of mine, who worked as a junior VP at the time with Chase, said Rockefeller won’t allow anyone he doesn’t really know to ride in an elevator with him. That should tell you something.

      My contention has long been that the aristocracy got the message when some of ’em got their heads cut off in France. Lay low. Give the populace the illusion of control and manipulate from behind the curtain. They have weathered the populist libertarian storm and have now rebuilt their influence.

      The approach is working beautifully, and will, as our friend, RedWill has avered, likely continue to work….that pesky internet freedom aside.

      People are so easily bamboozled and manipulated. Gin up a crisis. Raise a cry in your controlled media that something needs to be done, and then use the furor to put in place whatever new measures suit you. You say we need a central bank? No problem. We’ll call it the Federal Reserve to make it sound less European. Internal “papers?” No problem. We’ll call it REAL ID and pretend it’s to fight “terror.” An embeddable chip for all transactions and records storage? Sure, to fight money laundering, tax evasion, and and get rid of that annoying paper.

      The “people” will submit to any outrage as long as the Bud continues to flow and the big game isn’t interrupted.

    • redwilldanaher March 23, 2011, 5:12 pm

      “My contention has long been that the aristocracy got the message when some of ‘em got their heads cut off in France. Lay low. Give the populace the illusion of control and manipulate from behind the curtain. They have weathered the populist libertarian storm and have now rebuilt their influence.

      The approach is working beautifully, and will, as our friend, RedWill has avered, likely continue to work….that pesky internet freedom aside.” – Depressingly accurate summary IMO fallingman, thanks.

  • Greg Mulcahy March 23, 2011, 9:39 am

    god that article depresses the cr.p outta me; mainly because it’s probably spot on. Time to get a new surfboard shaped, tend to the vege garden and turn off the ‘puter.

    have a better one

  • Rich March 23, 2011, 7:43 am

    “Readers at Rick’s” has a nice Casablanca ring to it.
    Meanwhile, Gold targeting $1710, Oil targeting $135, INDU targeting 10,900 and USD targeting 115 suggest the debt deflation scenario may have at least an even chance no matter what ‘They’ do…

  • mike March 23, 2011, 6:06 am

    Reality inverted is illusion
    Truth inverted is ignorance
    material appearances is Consciousness inverted

    “In Reality all assessments of reality as being objective are by their very nature subjective in origin. Our reality is thus inseparably united with and a function of consciousness” Wei Wu Wei

    The Bodhisattva laughed and said, “Wu-k’ung, the Bodhisattva and the monster–they all exist in a single thought, for originally they are nothing” The Journey to the West

    Intellectual Learning is concerned with dualistic thinking, knowing about things–that which is based upon an illusory division of the world into two separate components: the subject and the object.

    “Consciousness is a singular of which the plural is unknown. There is only one thing, and that which seems to be a plurality is merely a series of different aspects of this one thing, produced by a deception… as in a gallery of mirrors.” -Erwin Schrödinger

    Wholeness. Robert Lawlor explains it simply, “Phi, the Golden Proportion, is the unique division which fulfills this characteristic: 1/phi + 1/phi squ’d = 1 This completes the mathematical metaphor for the Trinity: ‘Three that are Two that are One’. It is the ultimate reduction of proportional thought to the causal singularity” from Robert Lawlor book “Sacred Geometry”

  • Benjamin March 23, 2011, 4:49 am

    Redwill,

    If things are going to be long-winded, they may as well make sense.

    I agree. And as I made mention of some time last week, it was the plagues that put Europe on the rotted and disintegrated ropes. No one had planned on the first bubonic plague, never saw it coming. Until that happened, the Roman empire was still very much alive in the eastern portion. In fact, there was a massive (and quite corrupt) campaign to reclaim the western half, and unite them back into the former glory of the whole. The plagues put an end to that ambitious goal. Things got darker and darker still.

    It took hundreds of years to emerge from it all, to the concepts and practices of the middle ages, to the renaissance, then the enlightment. If the so-called cellphone/twitter/myspace/whatever “revolution” is going to make things happen faster and better, then probably only by a matter of years to the century. Decades to the century, if humanity should be so lucky.

    I think that is why so many take every single unforunate incident and blow it up into a ready-made doomsday or impossible conspiracy. Just as one can buy various “instant survivalist” kits, we can also “buy” an instant doomsday, something that will bring us to our knees (at least a mile below sea level) at any moment. Please, God, PLEASE just let it end!

    The only thing is, neither God nor nature is under any obligation to obey mere requests. Things happen when they do. And since we humans on the whole have not yet figured out (unwilling and/or unable) how to just end the game (like in the movie ‘Wargames’) and be done with it… We await the Big One, with a mix of dread and largely unadmited glee.

    I’ve tried and tried and tried to defy this unanimity, but to no avail. But then…

    It just might be that God is doing this on purpose. No disasterous bailout this time around. We’ll all just have to learn to use the brain we’ve been gifted with. Or else continue to suffer our own created disaster. And if that be the case, then God is undeniably wise.

    • redwilldanaher March 23, 2011, 10:19 pm

      I did what I could to avoid being “long-winded”, hence the illustrations and photos, friend.

    • Benjamin March 24, 2011, 4:27 am

      You read me wrong, Red; compared to the previous Rick’s Picks article, this one was about as long, but at least made sense throughout 🙂

    • redwilldanaher March 24, 2011, 12:32 pm

      I see, sorry friend. The visuals became a big part of what I tried to do to avoid using literally thousands more words! I kinda thought it worked on some level!

  • Jason Scharp March 23, 2011, 2:28 am

    “Red Will”, that was a very strange and thought provoking essay. I think there is a lot of wisdom there but there are rules that even “they” cannot cheat, break or remake. History is evidence of that since there are many powerful USSAtanias at the bottom of the proverbial sea.

    I think you are right that the next five years will bring more of the same and at least in the foreseeable future “they” will appear to win. But in time, “they” too will face their mortality and financial physics will exert itself. Unlike with the Confederacy, Deo Vindice will be true.

    • Steve March 23, 2011, 2:48 am

      Deo Vindice in regard to the Confederacy is true when viewed in regard to the road of bondage required of the people. The game of Northern Rebellion via mobocracy has yet to play out to its end. Egypt and bondage did not pass in 2oo years, nor; has Roman influence yet passed as the people are judged today by Roman Civil Law (cite-Sandra Day O’Conner justice Supreme Court). You and you, you are in bondage. Maybe that truth is just too hard to swallow, see; Red’s assessments above. Vindication will come, but; there is not a living person on these federal states that deserves to pass over to a land of milk and honey, we all fall short of the value expected of Man.

    • Anonymous March 23, 2011, 5:31 pm

      ‘We all fall short’…
      Speak for yourself !

    • Steve March 23, 2011, 8:45 pm

      Surely, thou art the G-d of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and the Christ then.

    • redwilldanaher March 23, 2011, 10:17 pm

      Steve, re: mobocracy comments:

      “The principle that the majority have a right to rule the minority, practically resolves all government into a mere contest between two bodies of men, as to which of them shall be masters, and which of them slaves; a contest, that — however bloody — can, in the nature of things, never be finally closed, so long as man refuses to be a slave.” – Lysander Spooner

      “And the men who loan money to governments, so called, for the purpose of enabling the latter to rob, enslave, and murder their people, are among the greatest villains that the world has ever seen. And they as much deserve to be hunted and killed (if they cannot otherwise be got rid of) as any slave traders, robbers, or pirates that ever lived.” – Lysander Spooner

      “A man is none the less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years.” – Lysander Spooner

      “The ‘nations,’ as they are called, with whom our pretended ambassadors, secretaries, presidents, and senators profess to make treaties, are as much myths as our own. On general principles of law and reason, there are no such ‘nations.’ … Our pretended treaties, then, being made with no legitimate or bona fide nations, or representatives of nations, and being made, on our part, by persons who have no legitimate authority to act for us, have intrinsically no more validity than a pretended treaty made by the Man in the Moon with the king of the Pleiades.” – Lysander Spooner

      Although an abolitionist, Spooner lamented that the War of Northern Aggression created more slaves than were theoretically “emancipated”.

    • Steve March 24, 2011, 12:45 am

      Red, THANK you !

  • Steve March 23, 2011, 12:38 am

    Redwill, good! As a whole organism the world is going to bottom in 1000 year cycle depression, and we will all feel good because “They” say we feel good. My road trip to Montana Charlie Russell Art Show last week found 4.29 diesel and 1.78 Mountain Dew 12oz (used as a drug to keep awake while traveling, along with sunflower seeds). Auctions of deceased collecter’s collections sold 750 lots. Living artists – well not so good. I’m grateful for the opportunity to give to the oil company and the sugar speculator, and I Feel Good!


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