Allan Fels, former chair of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), has compiled a report condemning the price gouging tactics of big business. Croaking his way through the report findings, Allan gave big business a serve, as he described corporate greed as “profit pushing” by companies with too much power. This attack on big business in the name of consumer advocacy is a broken record - over and over and over it plays, year in, year out. The outrage at unfair business practices, the subsequent report, the recommendations, the political promises, the inaction, the diversion, the memory-holing, the vanishing and then … a while later … the outrageous practices of big business and their corporate greed surfaces again to the inevitable denouncement by consumer groups. What we need to do is commission a report! - they cry. Get a reputable body like the ACCC to investigate and produce a list of recommendations to clean up the industry! - they say … just another day in Punxsutawney County.
A lot of the brainwashing is done by the language of one's tribe. In our case,
"I believe humanity's foray into fiction began with the breakdown of the bicameral mind, and the insertion of meaningless symbols in between the subject and the seer. In short, back when people used pictographic alphabets, we were limited to discussing things we could actually see in the real world. The invention of phonemic alphabets like this one, which are comprised not of representative pictures but of meaningless letters, provides the opportunity to invent an endless stream of non-sense, the greatest of these being spelled with just a single capital letter."
I quote nobody .... though i find a few life stories of others interesting. Good for adding to the experiences and thoughts that i have had . I left the box as early as "allowed" . Worked a few odd jobs. After 22 i never worked for anyone else. I never went to institutions of propaganda.
I think that a very small percentage of humans place their freedom above all else ( never total freedom of course, as the rulers have extremely sophisticated boundaries and check points ) .
Quality of life... over Standard of Living . I can say that i did pretty well navigating in and around the multitude of restraints ( outward and inward ) that weigh us down. It is indeed a way of living that can be lonely at times. Refusing to sign on the dotted line of conformity. To one ideology... or another.
I am the eclectic man ..... picking and choosing as i see fit . Still hanging in there 50 years later than when i first hit the road. No regrets.
Have you read the theories of Peter Turchin, on Complexity of Civilizations, and cycles? Same themes of Fourth Turnings etc. The historical difference is the complexity of the "Official Narrative" today is unprecedented, a negative onslaught on the psyche of every Consumer (of media>all humanity) 24/7. Seamlessly linking DoD operations to banking to socials to Nudging, Diverting and Shadow Banning to keep everyone in The Dream. Except that this ain't Dreamtime, it is The Nightmare.
[I have no mouth but I must scream. Harlan Ellison, Dangerous Visions].
A lot of the brainwashing is done by the language of one's tribe. In our case,
"I believe humanity's foray into fiction began with the breakdown of the bicameral mind, and the insertion of meaningless symbols in between the subject and the seer. In short, back when people used pictographic alphabets, we were limited to discussing things we could actually see in the real world. The invention of phonemic alphabets like this one, which are comprised not of representative pictures but of meaningless letters, provides the opportunity to invent an endless stream of non-sense, the greatest of these being spelled with just a single capital letter."
Alphabet vs the goddess lecture by Leonard Shlain
https://robc137.substack.com/p/alphabet-vs-the-goddess
Also look at the jagoffs running the propaganda... I think people are losing interest in bad bullshit
https://robc137.substack.com/p/looking-behind-the-curtain-of-oz
So good to know ... that there are others out there ... outliers, adventurers, 'individuals', yet such a paradox.
I quote nobody .... though i find a few life stories of others interesting. Good for adding to the experiences and thoughts that i have had . I left the box as early as "allowed" . Worked a few odd jobs. After 22 i never worked for anyone else. I never went to institutions of propaganda.
I think that a very small percentage of humans place their freedom above all else ( never total freedom of course, as the rulers have extremely sophisticated boundaries and check points ) .
Quality of life... over Standard of Living . I can say that i did pretty well navigating in and around the multitude of restraints ( outward and inward ) that weigh us down. It is indeed a way of living that can be lonely at times. Refusing to sign on the dotted line of conformity. To one ideology... or another.
I am the eclectic man ..... picking and choosing as i see fit . Still hanging in there 50 years later than when i first hit the road. No regrets.
"My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”
Have you read the theories of Peter Turchin, on Complexity of Civilizations, and cycles? Same themes of Fourth Turnings etc. The historical difference is the complexity of the "Official Narrative" today is unprecedented, a negative onslaught on the psyche of every Consumer (of media>all humanity) 24/7. Seamlessly linking DoD operations to banking to socials to Nudging, Diverting and Shadow Banning to keep everyone in The Dream. Except that this ain't Dreamtime, it is The Nightmare.
[I have no mouth but I must scream. Harlan Ellison, Dangerous Visions].