UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RESPONSIBILITY
A draft presented in the UN Department of Public Information for consideration and possible promotion
PREAMBLE
Whereas recognition of the dignity inherent in all members of the human community, in addition to their equal and inalienable rights being the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world, should also include recognition of citizen responsibility for other people;
Whereas irresponsibility of many people including politicians, military and industry managers has led to the new reality of XX-XXI centuries, the threat of an all-civilization collapse, as a result of which the human race may cease to exist;
Whereas in the globalizing world the interdependence of people has grown, and irresponsibility of some turns into lawlessness or limitation of rights of many others;
Whereas acts of irresponsibility on any level are in disparity with the wish of overwhelming majority of people, who intend to live in more orderly and more predictable countries;
Whereas creation of the world, where people have freedom of speech and opinion and are free of fear and want, proclaimed in Universal Declaration of Human Rights as the lofty intention of people, will come closer to its fruition if responsibilities of each human will grow to include responsibilities at levels higher than just family, job, or contractual obligations;
Whereas in the society where socially responsible persons prevail, it is impossible for state power to degrade into a dictatorship, and people do not have to resort to insurrection as their last chance against tyranny and oppression;
Whereas friendly relations between nations at interpersonal and inter-state levels are becoming a natural norm of relations, in which neglecting one’s duties and obligations is a very rare exception;
Whereas in any community where sense of responsibility is expression of human dignity and good, the observance of human rights develops into a habit and opens wider horizons for social self-realization of a person;
Whereas peoples of the United Nations have to see in this Document their faith in fundamental human principles, in the dignity and worth of the socially responsible human persons being able to provide better standards of life for all;
Whereas the United Nations has sufficient authority in the world to achieve success in the promotion of universal respect for observance of human responsibilities and duties;
Whereas Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by heads of state 60 years ago has shown the importance of a similar Charter as the common human document for all the world, for better life of people;
Whereas the state level of responsibility being recommended by Member States as a governing principle in the world, will be an essential factor for development of friendly relations between nations;
Whereas both disregard and contempt for human rights resulting in barbaric acts which insult the consciousness of Humankind, in any degree is explained by that people-to-people responsibilities have not been an issue of world’s concern, have not been laid forth in an international document of Universal Declaration rank and have not entered social consciousness;
Whereas comprehension of comprehensive character of responsibility at all levels is of huge importance for the fortunes of the world,
Now, therefore THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY proclaims THIS UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RESPONSIBILITY as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations, to the end that every individual and every organ of society, keeping this Declaration constantly in mind, will strive by teaching and education to promote respect for and observance of human responsibilities and duties and by progressive measures, national and international, to secure their universal and effective recognition and observance.
Article 1.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights claimed “Everyone has the right to life” as one of the main rights. For the first time in human history, all of Humankind may be deprived of this right. That is why human behaviour should be determined by such a factor as responsibility of worldwide scale or “planetary responsibility.”
Article 2.
1. The idea of planetary responsibility, correlating with the rights and usual responsibilities and duties, must spread among people not only because it is a necessary condition to minimize and overcome numerous threats which have hung over Humankind, but also because it has the potential to unite and appease Humankind.
2. A human individual realizing his planetary responsibility, correlating himself/herself with the fortunes of the world, grows up as a person, moves into new spaces of thought, acquires better psychological stability.
Article 3.
1. Everyone has responsibilities and duties to the society. In a society of socially responsible persons, human rights are observed and a person is best equipped for personal self-realization.
2. Everyone has the right to select and take on himself/herself that kind/level of responsibility/duty which is acceptable for him/her, measuring against his abilities and aptitudes, to better correspond to it, not to have the reputation of an irresponsible person.
Article 4.
1. One’s responsibility to people should not permit him/her to hold whoever in slavery; slavery and slave trade should be prohibited in all their forms as being in contradiction both with human rights, on the one hand, and human responsibility, on the other hand.
2. One’s responsibility to people should prevent him/her from torturing or other cruel, inhuman treatment or punishment as degrading human dignity, including the dignity of those who perform such acts.
Article 5.
State and municipal organs recognizing the right of everyone to be an entity before the law, should recognize as well the right of everyone to bring action against those organs’ officials who have acted irresponsibly.
Article 6.
Judicial organs pleading a cause have a special responsibility to do all possible in the framework of the law to provide equal rights for those who appear before the court: to judge them without any discrimination, to give equal protection of the law. No one in order of prosecution may be subject to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile.
Article 7.
The family as the natural and fundamental unit of society should accept domestic responsibility as factor of its stability and hopefulness. One may expect from officials, not burdened with domestic problems to be more responsible in their public service.
Article 8.
1. The right to freedom of peaceful assembly and associations should be augmented by responsibility of those in charge of them.
2. High responsibility should be characteristic of those politicians who seek leadership or are already vested in with power.
Article 9.
Pedagogues of all levels, from kindergarten to high school, giving knowledge in subjects to their kids, pupils and students and inculcating in them ability to think, should not forget their responsibility to bring up socially responsible persons, those who are about to enter adult life.
Article 10.
Responsibility of planetary scale applies in the first place to those who have levers of influence on many people’s lives:
1. State leaders, politicians, public figures, military:
Planetary responsibility rules out laying and pursuing of selfish and nationalistic goals and tasks, especially those which allow military methods of their accomplishment; national goals, tasks and actions should be correlated with common human interests and civilization security.
2. Intellectuals, analysts, methodologists and other brainworking people:
Having realized their responsibility to both the people living and of next generations they work for the creation of Strategy of secure sustainable development in harmonious symbiosis with Nature as a common, the most significance their affair, at that as the matter being urgent. For that they will be made overcome their disconnection (explained by mainly individual character of creative work), elaborate effective regalements of problem-resolving, partake in new educational strategy’s elaboration having the goal to teach creative activity in different areas as a standard of the life.
3. Educational sphere’s workers:
Their responsibility is especially hard executed as they are needed to give their kids, pupils and students in any sense more than they have themselves. Having used achievements of sciences on the human and having understood why the human mentality doesn’t cope with global problems, they will have to elaborate the 3rd Millennium level methodology and techniques of teaching, being adequate to challenges of the civilization and opening prospective of humankind’s progressive development.
4. Ecologists, biologists, workers of material production sphere:
Human striving people for better life, i.e., in particular, for higher level of the consumption, is in conflict with possibilities of Nature to assimilate and re-make waste. Ecological imperative stays the task to organize all-planetary ecological monitoring and Strategy of Co-Evolution of Humankind and Nature, proved and correlated after the situation. The Strategy, being elaborated for production workers and ecological inspectorate up concrete requests of the ecological imperative, would outline their spheres of responsibility.
5. Belletrists and artistic actors:
In worried conditions when the question hangs over «to be or not to be», thoughtless and completely entertaining fiction and art, especially if there are finding a place for aesthetics of ugly and vulgar, are perceived as a kind of irresponsibility of creators, producers and investors. Adequate and proved value-containing orientation of creative people, taking into account their planetary responsibility, may help him to create artistic works being able to influence beneficially on moral climate of the society.
6. Those who are working with information and its technical providing:
Problems of common human scale need adequate information servicing, with scientific and technical conveying. Such problems is, for example, how to organize all-wide forum «To Happy Life on the Earth», or a forum-resource to proceed express-referendums on common human problems, in separated time, in all the countries of the world.
Workers of media and advertising as having the most massive influence on the society should to elaborate for them the sense of responsibility for clearness of inter-human space, what is direct to do with moral climate of the society.
The Draft of Declaration proposed by
Dr. Uladzimir Tratsiakou
(Republic of Belarus),
Representative by DPI/UN,
International Scientific Public Union ”IAIT”
Monday, December 08, 2008
Thursday, December 04, 2008
Education is a Human Right. Let's do it!
There are (at least) three sources for most people's worldviews in the world.
One is what is absorbed from parents and others as small children, which forms the basic personality and opinions of people on the deepest unconscious levels of the mind.
Another is education, which is controlled by a subculture I call 'academia' which has it's own agenda and control algorithms which limit the mind of the individual who has spent massive amounts of time in that subculture. But this is not necessarily the strongest force holding humanity in mental thrall.
Lastly, there is what I call, 'common knowledge'. Common knowledge is the bulk of the data which most people run their minds with, and when it changes, everything changes. It evolves human society regardless of both the unconscious childhood absorption of bad data and the academic subculture. It is absorbed by people on another level, and changes people's viewpoints profoundly. While the GIGO (garbage in/garbage out)of common knowledge allows much of the worse behavior in our world, it evolves as enough people change or absorb better data into the 'common knowledge', and it's little brother, which we call 'fads', causes change in mass numbers of people very quickly indeed although such changes don't last long. All 'isms' seek to change 'common knowledge', all capitalists try to get their products into 'common knowledge', and politicians seek to manipulate 'common knowledge' through propaganda and campaign ads.
When something is promoted that would benefit all the people, all the masses, it becomes unstoppable when it becomes common knowledge, and over time, it will be implemented. It is the way that people sidestep the manipulations of politicians, capitalists, religious fanatics, etc, and bring something new and better into our cultures.
When I got this email from a long time friend of mine, an active promoter of human rights and freedoms, I decided to promote it. There may be a sliver of time here where such efforts can bare fruit, if only to get the idea into the 'common knowledge'.
I am forwarding this request to all the groups I am a member of. I
think this approach is reasonable at this time. Thomas is an old time
(30 year) friend of mine and a promoter of human freedom.
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Hey,
I wanted to see if I could get your quick help. I'm not sure if you've
heard, but there's a movement of citizens inspired by the presidential
campaign who are now submitting ideas for how they think the Obama
Administration should change America. It's called "Ideas for Change in
America."
I've submitted an idea and wanted to see if you could quickly vote for
it. The title is: Education- A Human Right. You can read and vote for
the idea by clicking on the following link:
http://www.change. org/ideas/ view/education- _a_human_ right
The top 10 ideas are going to be presented to the Obama Administration
on Inauguration Day and will be supported by a national lobbying
campaign run by Change.org, MySpace, and more than a dozen leading
nonprofits after the Inauguration. So each idea has a real chance at
becoming policy.
Thanks for the support,
Thomas
One is what is absorbed from parents and others as small children, which forms the basic personality and opinions of people on the deepest unconscious levels of the mind.
Another is education, which is controlled by a subculture I call 'academia' which has it's own agenda and control algorithms which limit the mind of the individual who has spent massive amounts of time in that subculture. But this is not necessarily the strongest force holding humanity in mental thrall.
Lastly, there is what I call, 'common knowledge'. Common knowledge is the bulk of the data which most people run their minds with, and when it changes, everything changes. It evolves human society regardless of both the unconscious childhood absorption of bad data and the academic subculture. It is absorbed by people on another level, and changes people's viewpoints profoundly. While the GIGO (garbage in/garbage out)of common knowledge allows much of the worse behavior in our world, it evolves as enough people change or absorb better data into the 'common knowledge', and it's little brother, which we call 'fads', causes change in mass numbers of people very quickly indeed although such changes don't last long. All 'isms' seek to change 'common knowledge', all capitalists try to get their products into 'common knowledge', and politicians seek to manipulate 'common knowledge' through propaganda and campaign ads.
When something is promoted that would benefit all the people, all the masses, it becomes unstoppable when it becomes common knowledge, and over time, it will be implemented. It is the way that people sidestep the manipulations of politicians, capitalists, religious fanatics, etc, and bring something new and better into our cultures.
When I got this email from a long time friend of mine, an active promoter of human rights and freedoms, I decided to promote it. There may be a sliver of time here where such efforts can bare fruit, if only to get the idea into the 'common knowledge'.
I am forwarding this request to all the groups I am a member of. I
think this approach is reasonable at this time. Thomas is an old time
(30 year) friend of mine and a promoter of human freedom.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Hey,
I wanted to see if I could get your quick help. I'm not sure if you've
heard, but there's a movement of citizens inspired by the presidential
campaign who are now submitting ideas for how they think the Obama
Administration should change America. It's called "Ideas for Change in
America."
I've submitted an idea and wanted to see if you could quickly vote for
it. The title is: Education- A Human Right. You can read and vote for
the idea by clicking on the following link:
http://www.change. org/ideas/ view/education- _a_human_ right
The top 10 ideas are going to be presented to the Obama Administration
on Inauguration Day and will be supported by a national lobbying
campaign run by Change.org, MySpace, and more than a dozen leading
nonprofits after the Inauguration. So each idea has a real chance at
becoming policy.
Thanks for the support,
Thomas
Tuesday, December 02, 2008
The Map is not the Terrain
Most of my blog entries come from conversations I am in where the message I write seems particularly clear to me. I don't usually post the other people's messages unless I have their agreement, although I sometimes paraphrase them to give the reader some idea what I am speaking in response to. This is a response to a discussion on 'Firstprinciplesgroup' on Yahoo.
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I agree somewhat, but the map is not the terrain. A belief, any
belief, is not the same as pure experience. Science finds that out
daily, and scientists, most of them, do go on experience first, maps
last.
If a map be vague enough, purely symbolic with many concepts which
relate to nothing experienced, and a person clings to the map's
'truth', then they stumble over and over again. If they cast away the
map and simply adapt to their experiences, they discover and can cope
with each new experience without limitations that exist only on their map.
Reality is so much more than any conceptual map can contain, having
one can be more of a handicap in survival than an asset.
In communicating with words, we pass maps, filled with symbols which
may or may not have the same meanings. If I say, "My toe hurts." then
the person I am speaking to must have had the experience of their toe
hurting to relate that statement to, or they cannot understand the
statement. They then try to fit other pains they have experienced to
that statement, gaining some meaning from it. But if they have no
toes, or have never had pain, they are as a birth blind person
listening to descriptions of color. All languages are conceptual, even
math, and only the experience from experiments can clean the GIGO
(garbage in/garbage out) out of math produced maps.
The greatest, ultimate, complete experience a human can have cannot be
described in words at all. This is the meaning of "Those who know
don't say, and those who say don't know." It can only be pointed at.
A conceptual map, a 'belief system', a communicated 'understanding'
cannot give actual knowledge of anything, because only experience can
give knowledge of Truth. At best, a conceptual map, a 'belief system',
or a communicated 'understanding' can only point to the experience, so
the person can know it exists, at least in the map of the speaker.
Concepts in their essence, can have no truth within them, and since
the imagination can produce vast cosmologies with concepts, anything
can come from maps made from concepts.
Fortunately, what people do is often totally different than the maps
they tell others they go by. What they do counts, what they believe is
almost irrelevant, having almost nothing to do with their actions.
All the conceptual creations, at best, are like having a map of one
square inch of New York City. The individual who has the map thinks
all of the city is just on that map, and even if that map is 100%
accurate, the city a foot away can be so different than the map, it
makes using the map purely futile, and even produce bad, even horrible
results.
The world is full of one inch conceptual maps, and the result is the
extrapolation of the greater world from those one inch maps, and great
harm comes from it. Religious and political fanatics run up against
terrain that does not fit their one inch map, and they seek to impose
their map upon everyone by violence and agony.
Yet, if none had a map, they would simply adapt to the next inch, and
the inch after that, based not on map making, but on experience.
Without a map, they could surf life and know the real thing.
The Universe is far more than we THINK it is. WE are far more than we
can THINK we are. But if we give up thinking, and simply perceive, be
aware, we can know Universe as it is.
And to show I have no problem with the love neighbor principle, etc,
this is what I have observed:
When we perceive reality cleanly, we find that our neighbor, all the
people on the planet, ARE OURSELVES. It's only when it comes from a
conceptual map which has only the meanings the tiny idiot translator
called the 'ego' uses that this becomes a matter of interpretation and
debate.
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I agree somewhat, but the map is not the terrain. A belief, any
belief, is not the same as pure experience. Science finds that out
daily, and scientists, most of them, do go on experience first, maps
last.
If a map be vague enough, purely symbolic with many concepts which
relate to nothing experienced, and a person clings to the map's
'truth', then they stumble over and over again. If they cast away the
map and simply adapt to their experiences, they discover and can cope
with each new experience without limitations that exist only on their map.
Reality is so much more than any conceptual map can contain, having
one can be more of a handicap in survival than an asset.
In communicating with words, we pass maps, filled with symbols which
may or may not have the same meanings. If I say, "My toe hurts." then
the person I am speaking to must have had the experience of their toe
hurting to relate that statement to, or they cannot understand the
statement. They then try to fit other pains they have experienced to
that statement, gaining some meaning from it. But if they have no
toes, or have never had pain, they are as a birth blind person
listening to descriptions of color. All languages are conceptual, even
math, and only the experience from experiments can clean the GIGO
(garbage in/garbage out) out of math produced maps.
The greatest, ultimate, complete experience a human can have cannot be
described in words at all. This is the meaning of "Those who know
don't say, and those who say don't know." It can only be pointed at.
A conceptual map, a 'belief system', a communicated 'understanding'
cannot give actual knowledge of anything, because only experience can
give knowledge of Truth. At best, a conceptual map, a 'belief system',
or a communicated 'understanding' can only point to the experience, so
the person can know it exists, at least in the map of the speaker.
Concepts in their essence, can have no truth within them, and since
the imagination can produce vast cosmologies with concepts, anything
can come from maps made from concepts.
Fortunately, what people do is often totally different than the maps
they tell others they go by. What they do counts, what they believe is
almost irrelevant, having almost nothing to do with their actions.
All the conceptual creations, at best, are like having a map of one
square inch of New York City. The individual who has the map thinks
all of the city is just on that map, and even if that map is 100%
accurate, the city a foot away can be so different than the map, it
makes using the map purely futile, and even produce bad, even horrible
results.
The world is full of one inch conceptual maps, and the result is the
extrapolation of the greater world from those one inch maps, and great
harm comes from it. Religious and political fanatics run up against
terrain that does not fit their one inch map, and they seek to impose
their map upon everyone by violence and agony.
Yet, if none had a map, they would simply adapt to the next inch, and
the inch after that, based not on map making, but on experience.
Without a map, they could surf life and know the real thing.
The Universe is far more than we THINK it is. WE are far more than we
can THINK we are. But if we give up thinking, and simply perceive, be
aware, we can know Universe as it is.
And to show I have no problem with the love neighbor principle, etc,
this is what I have observed:
When we perceive reality cleanly, we find that our neighbor, all the
people on the planet, ARE OURSELVES. It's only when it comes from a
conceptual map which has only the meanings the tiny idiot translator
called the 'ego' uses that this becomes a matter of interpretation and
debate.
Friday, November 28, 2008
Another response to the conversation about future human survival.
I think the social evolution of humanity is retarded, not because of inherent 'human nature', because human nature is every way people can be, but because we made a terrible mistake long ago, back at the beginning of the agricultural revolution. The society we live in which has those characteristics you describe came from the division of the world into 'hunter' tribes and 'agricultural' tribes, the hunter tribes following a social paradigm based upon 'winning and losing', male dominance, and 'ownership of nature'.
The agricultural tribes were based upon 'unity and cooperation', equality, and symbiosis with nature. The struggle for consciousness in the world is still pretty much defined by these social determinants, with the whole 'economics/military/nation-turfs' orientation on large scales and 'individuality/property/competition' on individual scales coming from the hunter tribe paradigm.
The agricultural paradigm fits nature more, and provides more real wealth in terms of basics of survival, while the hunter paradigm is mostly so ego diseased, it produces far more psychopaths and destroys nature. While the sane agricultural paradigm is making headway due to science discovering the harm the other paradigm causes, the hunter paradigm holds tight to the illogic of the military and economics, which remains in power worldwide, causing massive harm to the world and to humanity.
I'm not specifically talking about farming people or farming society in the here and now... because the overall social dynamic contains both paradigms, and both are active, with the female population tending to think in the agricultural paradigm and the men thinking in the hunter paradigm. Although science has shown overwhelmingly that the cooperation of species theory provides survival for most of the planet's lifeforms, the idea that competition of species is the evolutionary dynamic is still the dominant concept among most of the planet's population.
Also, the academic subculture is almost completely hunter paradigm dominated, although within academia itself, it is not the prevailing dynamic. The result is that what is taught in schools is institutionalized obedience to academia and the hunter paradigm. This is especially apparent in terms of school taught versions of the history and justification of 'economics' which still teaches that money came from the need for a common trade symbol system.
The ancient mistake that caused this insane social dynamic is the use of violence to enslave humanity in the name of psychopathic selfishness, which led to 'godkings' and the entrenchment of slave control systems like money, organized religion, politics, and the military.
It is important to realize that regardless of what people say or think, they basically follow the agricultural paradigm moment to moment in their daily lives, even while cooperating in the economic and military systems. If economics and the military were the acting paradigm in everyone's lives, we would have nothing but chaos, violence in the streets, torture, and bloodletting everywhere and Humanity would have died out long ago. But the fact is, most people are willingly peaceful, cooperative, and non-selfish most of the time, working together to create a better world for at least them and their families and often giving to larger scale efforts.
The hunter paradigm explains this cooperation of humanity in survival as a product of fear, known as 'the law', and backed by violence and torture. Actually, human survival comes from the cooperation of humanity as a natural response, not as something forced.
Peace and Good Health
Roan
The agricultural tribes were based upon 'unity and cooperation', equality, and symbiosis with nature. The struggle for consciousness in the world is still pretty much defined by these social determinants, with the whole 'economics/military/nation-turfs' orientation on large scales and 'individuality/property/competition' on individual scales coming from the hunter tribe paradigm.
The agricultural paradigm fits nature more, and provides more real wealth in terms of basics of survival, while the hunter paradigm is mostly so ego diseased, it produces far more psychopaths and destroys nature. While the sane agricultural paradigm is making headway due to science discovering the harm the other paradigm causes, the hunter paradigm holds tight to the illogic of the military and economics, which remains in power worldwide, causing massive harm to the world and to humanity.
I'm not specifically talking about farming people or farming society in the here and now... because the overall social dynamic contains both paradigms, and both are active, with the female population tending to think in the agricultural paradigm and the men thinking in the hunter paradigm. Although science has shown overwhelmingly that the cooperation of species theory provides survival for most of the planet's lifeforms, the idea that competition of species is the evolutionary dynamic is still the dominant concept among most of the planet's population.
Also, the academic subculture is almost completely hunter paradigm dominated, although within academia itself, it is not the prevailing dynamic. The result is that what is taught in schools is institutionalized obedience to academia and the hunter paradigm. This is especially apparent in terms of school taught versions of the history and justification of 'economics' which still teaches that money came from the need for a common trade symbol system.
The ancient mistake that caused this insane social dynamic is the use of violence to enslave humanity in the name of psychopathic selfishness, which led to 'godkings' and the entrenchment of slave control systems like money, organized religion, politics, and the military.
It is important to realize that regardless of what people say or think, they basically follow the agricultural paradigm moment to moment in their daily lives, even while cooperating in the economic and military systems. If economics and the military were the acting paradigm in everyone's lives, we would have nothing but chaos, violence in the streets, torture, and bloodletting everywhere and Humanity would have died out long ago. But the fact is, most people are willingly peaceful, cooperative, and non-selfish most of the time, working together to create a better world for at least them and their families and often giving to larger scale efforts.
The hunter paradigm explains this cooperation of humanity in survival as a product of fear, known as 'the law', and backed by violence and torture. Actually, human survival comes from the cooperation of humanity as a natural response, not as something forced.
Peace and Good Health
Roan
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Conversation about Human Survival
Ongoing conversation about Human Survival started by Stephen Hawkings at
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/humansurvival
My response to a posted message saying that Humanity was not going to survive even another one hundred years:
What does 'pure happenstance' mean? I don't believe in some all powerful invisible friend creator either, btw. I think it is the belief in a god that creates fear of death in people. Uncertainty also causes fear of death in people. I just don't think it's necessary to torture oneself with uncertainty or belief.
I don't fear death whatsoever. Why bother?
I see so many empty grunts being used in society for undefined concepts, like wild cards in every conversation, and apparently in people's minds. 'Infinite', 'emptiness', and even 'death' seem like just meaningless grunts to me. The fundamental foundations of communicated meaning seem fictional to me, creating meanings out of thin air... no, less than that... purely from imagination.
I see no reason why Humanity shouldn't survive until the Universe becomes cold and dark, or hot and heavy, or whatever happens.
Why? Because nobody can find any 'emptiness' in Universe. Nor can they define 'Infinite' beyond 'more than we can count', yet all the experiments and observations shows limits to everything. At the same time, physics has discovered that what we think is matter, is actually just cohesive energy, and it's everywhere, filling all of space. And so far, it cannot be created nor destroyed. E=MC^ does apparently describe Universe.
What does that mean for each of us? It means that intelligence and awareness are fundamental phenomena of Universe, even if it only occurred on this planet. -which is unlikely. It's probably everywhere it can exist, like fire or rain. It also means that we, as physical systems made up completely from the environment, are not as insular as we thought. We are in no way separate from Universe. We come from it and go to it. So much for 'death'.
Where does an ice cube go when it melts? Should the ice cube be afraid of melting?
Another basic characteristic of energy is that it is always changing. It never stays the same from instant to instant. Since change is therefore a basic of existence, should we be afraid of change?
In complex systems, like Humanity on Planet Earth, how things change is not particularly predictable. But there is more to it than the fragile view takes into account. The past Mass Extinction Events (MEE) were all caused by outside forces or internal planetary forces, not by the behavior of the life system itself. Each time this planetary lifeform was nearly wiped out by an MEE, the evolution of the remaining life went in the direction of more complex organisms.
After six known MEE in our planet's history, we resulted, and we are the most complex evolution so far. Nothing we do comes purely from our minds or are created by us. We discover in Nature a phenomena and exploit it for our own use. We call that 'technology', which is primarily different forms of leverage. The fact that all we do comes from Nature indicates to me that it is very likely our use of technology is part of why we evolved. We have no niche in Nature. I think we are between niches.
I think we evolved to save the planetary life from MEEs and transport the ecology to other star systems so no single MEE can destroy all life. I think we are the reproductive system of the planetary ecology.
Everything in Nature, every species, employs that strategy in it's attempt to survive. It's why species that become too specialized do not tend to survive major changes. Adaptive flexibility seems a requirement for survival.
Yet, we fill our conceptual/social minds with systems, purely in our behavior with each other, that tend to be rigid and specialized. The conflict between the need for flexibility and the rigid concepts/social dynamics is what is causing the harm to the planetary ecosystem. So to survive, we need to think differently.
Will we manage to change our minds and therefor our behavior en mass before accumulated error all catches up with us? That is yet to be seen. I personally think it will, because I think we are far more than what we think we are right now. We are ignorant even of ourselves, and having been a trained killer who is now a pacifist, I know individually we can change our minds quite fast, (if I can, anyone can) and if that is a common experience, that change of mind, we will adapt and survive.
If we give in to cynical thoughts and hold our vision of the world rigid, we will not.
Only time will tell.
(I think I will put this up on my blog. Sometimes the words just flow.)
Peace,
-Roan
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/humansurvival
My response to a posted message saying that Humanity was not going to survive even another one hundred years:
What does 'pure happenstance' mean? I don't believe in some all powerful invisible friend creator either, btw. I think it is the belief in a god that creates fear of death in people. Uncertainty also causes fear of death in people. I just don't think it's necessary to torture oneself with uncertainty or belief.
I don't fear death whatsoever. Why bother?
I see so many empty grunts being used in society for undefined concepts, like wild cards in every conversation, and apparently in people's minds. 'Infinite', 'emptiness', and even 'death' seem like just meaningless grunts to me. The fundamental foundations of communicated meaning seem fictional to me, creating meanings out of thin air... no, less than that... purely from imagination.
I see no reason why Humanity shouldn't survive until the Universe becomes cold and dark, or hot and heavy, or whatever happens.
Why? Because nobody can find any 'emptiness' in Universe. Nor can they define 'Infinite' beyond 'more than we can count', yet all the experiments and observations shows limits to everything. At the same time, physics has discovered that what we think is matter, is actually just cohesive energy, and it's everywhere, filling all of space. And so far, it cannot be created nor destroyed. E=MC^ does apparently describe Universe.
What does that mean for each of us? It means that intelligence and awareness are fundamental phenomena of Universe, even if it only occurred on this planet. -which is unlikely. It's probably everywhere it can exist, like fire or rain. It also means that we, as physical systems made up completely from the environment, are not as insular as we thought. We are in no way separate from Universe. We come from it and go to it. So much for 'death'.
Where does an ice cube go when it melts? Should the ice cube be afraid of melting?
Another basic characteristic of energy is that it is always changing. It never stays the same from instant to instant. Since change is therefore a basic of existence, should we be afraid of change?
In complex systems, like Humanity on Planet Earth, how things change is not particularly predictable. But there is more to it than the fragile view takes into account. The past Mass Extinction Events (MEE) were all caused by outside forces or internal planetary forces, not by the behavior of the life system itself. Each time this planetary lifeform was nearly wiped out by an MEE, the evolution of the remaining life went in the direction of more complex organisms.
After six known MEE in our planet's history, we resulted, and we are the most complex evolution so far. Nothing we do comes purely from our minds or are created by us. We discover in Nature a phenomena and exploit it for our own use. We call that 'technology', which is primarily different forms of leverage. The fact that all we do comes from Nature indicates to me that it is very likely our use of technology is part of why we evolved. We have no niche in Nature. I think we are between niches.
I think we evolved to save the planetary life from MEEs and transport the ecology to other star systems so no single MEE can destroy all life. I think we are the reproductive system of the planetary ecology.
Everything in Nature, every species, employs that strategy in it's attempt to survive. It's why species that become too specialized do not tend to survive major changes. Adaptive flexibility seems a requirement for survival.
Yet, we fill our conceptual/social minds with systems, purely in our behavior with each other, that tend to be rigid and specialized. The conflict between the need for flexibility and the rigid concepts/social dynamics is what is causing the harm to the planetary ecosystem. So to survive, we need to think differently.
Will we manage to change our minds and therefor our behavior en mass before accumulated error all catches up with us? That is yet to be seen. I personally think it will, because I think we are far more than what we think we are right now. We are ignorant even of ourselves, and having been a trained killer who is now a pacifist, I know individually we can change our minds quite fast, (if I can, anyone can) and if that is a common experience, that change of mind, we will adapt and survive.
If we give in to cynical thoughts and hold our vision of the world rigid, we will not.
Only time will tell.
(I think I will put this up on my blog. Sometimes the words just flow.)
Peace,
-Roan
Saturday, November 15, 2008
Raging Brains and Burning Hearts Newsletter
Subject: [Ragingbrains] Issue #4 Raging Brains and Burning
Hearts Newsletter
Date: 30 Dec 1999 20:07:23 -0000
From: "Roan Carratu"
The Raging Brains And Burning Hearts Newsletter
Copyright 1999, Roan Carratu
Vol One Issue Four
The topics of Raging Brains And Burning Hearts is world
transformation, futurist ideas, forerunner discussion,
alternative technology, intentional communities and
experiences within intentional communities, radical
scientific discoveries, and natural environmental events.
This newsletter may be copied and retransmitted by anyone
anywhere in any media as long as the content is not altered
in any way.
=========================================
Some of the Principles of Large Scale Social Slavery.
Partial List of Rules for keeping a population enslaved:
Prime Strategy: To Conquer, Divide, To Keep Conquered, Keep
Divided (Call it 'government', 'corporations', 'special
interests',
'religions', 'nations', 'ethnic groups', 'races',
'economics', and many more) If applied with enough
distracting interrelated synergistic control systems, the
enslaved population can be any size whatsoever. An
effective slave system will be taken for granted by the
slaves,
and their slavery not even noticed.
(Desired Result of Prime Strategy) To cause slaves to
conclude everything is unchangeable and anything they hear
is unbelievable...
Make slaves fear each other and fear cooperating in any way
outside the control systems... Make sure the slaves
intrinsically blame each
other cynically for everything that happens. (Call it 'human
nature' and make sure all believe it of others)
=========================================
The REAL Conspiracy!
There are so many conspiracy theories going around, both on
the 'Net and on every other media in existence. People have
been going so apeshit over conspiracy theories that others
who do not have the fear and passion in their hearts which
feeds the proliferating theories, all conspiracies are
declared bogus and ridiculous.
But of course, most skeptics are just living their lives,
their problems purely personal, the news a virtual
entertainment that is little different than the horror shows
and talk shows, (sometimes indistinguishable from each
other) which also come to our living rooms on TV.
What's real to them is their paycheck producing jobs, then
their families, then their social interaction groups, like
churches, clubs, and suchlike. Everything outside that seems
just another made for TV movie, and of no importance in
their lives.
But are there real conspiracies? Well, when a bunch of
people go behind locked doors and make decisions to
eliminate your job, that would technically be a conspiracy,
and if a military group somewhere made plans to destroy you
and your family, that would certainly be a conspiracy. But
not all conspiracies are to destroy or end something
personal to you... the REAL conspiracy goes back almost
10,000 years, to a deduced incident somewhere on the
Eurasian continent, (Europe, Asia, Middle East) where a
tribe which had settled down to the new technology of
farming was enslaved by a tribe which was still living in
the ancient hunter-gatherer lifestyle. This was the first
time humans enslaved other humans, pretty much domesticating
them using terror, that is, the Hunter-gatherer tribe used
their weapons of hunting to kill and terrorize the
agricultural tribe, who had developed farming tools in place
of hunting tools.
This Hunter-gather tribe gained far more than just the food
and real wealth produced by the agricultural tribe... they
gained a physical leverage which meant they did not have to
hunt anymore, had personal slaves for sex and sadism, had
control of skilled laborers, and all they had to do was
scare the slaves into submission each generation. They
simply invented and applied technologies of control over the
centuries, gathering more slaves all the time, embedding
into culture itself the control structures until they were
considered even by the slaves as necessary and required.
This is the source of our modern world. Social control
algorithms are so totally embedded in everyone's deepest
thoughts until they are not perceivable by the mind as
control algorithms. Look around. Humans need shelter,
food, water, knowledge, love, respect, and something
relevant to do... these exist abundantly in our culture.
But, look at the conceptual overlay of these requirements...
Money, political power (backed by military power),
superficial morality, papers like the 'constitution',
advertising technologies, uniforms, nations, corporations,
agencies, propaganda overload... all of these are control
algorithms, so embedded in our minds that we cannot conceive
of a society without them... the common question I hear when
speaking of these algorithms is 'What would you replace them
with?'... and I have to reply, 'nothing, for they are not
necessary.'
Humans naturally cooperate. We have survived from the very
beginning of our existence, from prehistoric human precursor
species, through cooperation with one another. To be alone
was to die in the wild. It took more than any individual to
survive in pretechnological ages. The cultural algorithms
are not a natural evolution of that cooperation... in fact,
they are threatening our survival more than anything else.
The military is the oldest of subcultures, that is, they
are, as a separate 'cultural system', the direct descendants
of that Hunter-gatherer tribe. In the past, just a few
centuries ago, the 'King' was the top general of the
military, and 'King' is a military title. The King owned
everything in the domain he took by force. The people, the
land, the technology, all the resources, all of it
'belonged' to Him. He was 'divinely' ordained, often called
'GodKing', and his job was to keep and expand that kingdom.
But behind each of these GodKing were those who manipulated
Him, through access to knowledge and resources the King knew
nothing about. Dividing the world up in 'turfs', each with a
petty 'King' in competition with all the other 'Kings', kept
all the centers of power under the control of the background
'Owners' of the planet. The Kings felt safe with this, for
they got to make the 'laws' for their kingdoms, yet they
were not subject to those laws. They were absolute powers in
their kingdoms, even if they suspected that others
manipulated them.
The algorithms over the centuries have become more and more
psychological and symbolic, and less and less violent and
imposed. This was because technology required huge numbers
of slaves to develop it and apply it. The people, families,
behind the figurehead leaders of the world need not use
direct force much anymore. Symbols, backed by psychological
cultural algorithms, have provided more and more wealth in
the terms they value the most... not in controlling every
aspect of people's lives, that gains them little and ups the
ante in the game, but in the production and increasing
access to communication, technology, and peace. War is as
much a threat to them as to
anyone else now, since castles and even underground cities
would not be defense from modern weaponry.
But the algorithms are themselves a huge danger to the
Owners. They are killing the planet's ecosystem, which is
the ultimate source of life itself. This threat is cutting
through the algorithms in millions of people, and causing a
great search for meaning and methods to reverse the
destruction. But other algorithms block those searches, and
lead most people up blind alleys. For the Owners, this puts
them in a terrible place, because if people start seeing
through the social algorithms, they will lose their power
base, but if they squash the social dynamic which is sensing
the algorithms, then those algorithms will likely continue
to destroy the planet...
It is a basic of the 'Owners' subculture that power over
lives is the ultimate wealth, although they have given up
that aspect of power increasingly, allowing the layers of
social control algorithms to maintain control without direct
interaction. They just reap the benefits, while perceiving
the destruction growing at the same time. If they kill off
most of humanity, they will likely lose their benefits as
Owners, but if they just sit back and reap those benefits,
they will likely lose their benefits eventually as the
planetary ecosystem dies. The only choice they have, really,
is to alter the control algorithms or let them go.
Another part of this equation is the realization that the
wealth of the planet, amplified by accelerating technology,
is enough to make every human being on the planet just as
wealthy, in real terms, as they are. The Owners have a
social dynamic that they are superior and deserve everything
they want, exclusively. This subcultural concept is part of
what is causing their indecision, for if everyone in the
world has what they have, they are no longer exclusively
'Owners'. But to survive, they have to give up that
exclusivity, and let humanity break loose from the
algorithms and become free individuals in cooperative
self-chosen efforts.
Humanity is far more than it conceives itself to be, both as
individuals and as a species. The planetary ecosystem is
also far more than humanity conceives it to be. The reality
that we evolved from what we are thinking of as almost inert
and dumb, is contradictory. Our concepts don't commonly see
the world and each other as interactive and unified in real
terms... we cling to seeing each other as non-interactive
and separate, divided by concepts and symbols, and thus we
miss what brings us wealth even as the underlying reality of
our interaction and unity produces it.
Thus, the question becomes: Do we understand that we are
sovereign individuals and not a whit separate, that we
survive together even if our conceptual divisions are
insane, that all our systems; money, politics, religion, all
the social algorithms are threatening to destroy us even as
we must pursue the underlying unity that exists to sustain
us better than anyone now even imagines?
The Universe is understood only through two separate but
associated conceptual systems at once, one starting from the
individual and perceiving through ever greater synergistic
levels of complexity... and the other from the largest
perspective possible, Universe as One, and working it's way
down through all the smaller synergistic systems of ever
increasing complexity.
Perception, without filtering conception, is a clean window.
We each must use it to survive, keeping in mind that there
is no individual survival without the survival of everyone
and our common ecological body, the planet Earth.
============================================
Some Other Thoughts:
============================================
Worth saying again: If anything can be believed in, why
believe in anything? Why hold on to conceptual fantasies
when we walk around in a world so wondrous and beautiful
that no amount of words, thoughts, or images can fully
describe even a tiny portion of it.
==================================================
To subscribe to this Newsletter email
worldmind@yahoo.com with Raging Brains in the subject line. I will add you to my group email list and you will get the next issue in your email. It's been a long time since I did an issue of RBBH, but I'm inspired to do another soon. Until then, please read my blogs;
Gaia's Superconscious
Relevant Patriotism
and Exquisite Synergy
The topics of Raging Brains And Burning Hearts is world transformation, futurist ideas, forerunner discussion, alternative technology, intentional communities and experiences within intentional communities, radical scientific discoveries, and natural environmental events.
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Hearts Newsletter
Date: 30 Dec 1999 20:07:23 -0000
From: "Roan Carratu"
The Raging Brains And Burning Hearts Newsletter
Copyright 1999, Roan Carratu
Vol One Issue Four
The topics of Raging Brains And Burning Hearts is world
transformation, futurist ideas, forerunner discussion,
alternative technology, intentional communities and
experiences within intentional communities, radical
scientific discoveries, and natural environmental events.
This newsletter may be copied and retransmitted by anyone
anywhere in any media as long as the content is not altered
in any way.
=========================================
Some of the Principles of Large Scale Social Slavery.
Partial List of Rules for keeping a population enslaved:
Prime Strategy: To Conquer, Divide, To Keep Conquered, Keep
Divided (Call it 'government', 'corporations', 'special
interests',
'religions', 'nations', 'ethnic groups', 'races',
'economics', and many more) If applied with enough
distracting interrelated synergistic control systems, the
enslaved population can be any size whatsoever. An
effective slave system will be taken for granted by the
slaves,
and their slavery not even noticed.
(Desired Result of Prime Strategy) To cause slaves to
conclude everything is unchangeable and anything they hear
is unbelievable...
Make slaves fear each other and fear cooperating in any way
outside the control systems... Make sure the slaves
intrinsically blame each
other cynically for everything that happens. (Call it 'human
nature' and make sure all believe it of others)
=========================================
The REAL Conspiracy!
There are so many conspiracy theories going around, both on
the 'Net and on every other media in existence. People have
been going so apeshit over conspiracy theories that others
who do not have the fear and passion in their hearts which
feeds the proliferating theories, all conspiracies are
declared bogus and ridiculous.
But of course, most skeptics are just living their lives,
their problems purely personal, the news a virtual
entertainment that is little different than the horror shows
and talk shows, (sometimes indistinguishable from each
other) which also come to our living rooms on TV.
What's real to them is their paycheck producing jobs, then
their families, then their social interaction groups, like
churches, clubs, and suchlike. Everything outside that seems
just another made for TV movie, and of no importance in
their lives.
But are there real conspiracies? Well, when a bunch of
people go behind locked doors and make decisions to
eliminate your job, that would technically be a conspiracy,
and if a military group somewhere made plans to destroy you
and your family, that would certainly be a conspiracy. But
not all conspiracies are to destroy or end something
personal to you... the REAL conspiracy goes back almost
10,000 years, to a deduced incident somewhere on the
Eurasian continent, (Europe, Asia, Middle East) where a
tribe which had settled down to the new technology of
farming was enslaved by a tribe which was still living in
the ancient hunter-gatherer lifestyle. This was the first
time humans enslaved other humans, pretty much domesticating
them using terror, that is, the Hunter-gatherer tribe used
their weapons of hunting to kill and terrorize the
agricultural tribe, who had developed farming tools in place
of hunting tools.
This Hunter-gather tribe gained far more than just the food
and real wealth produced by the agricultural tribe... they
gained a physical leverage which meant they did not have to
hunt anymore, had personal slaves for sex and sadism, had
control of skilled laborers, and all they had to do was
scare the slaves into submission each generation. They
simply invented and applied technologies of control over the
centuries, gathering more slaves all the time, embedding
into culture itself the control structures until they were
considered even by the slaves as necessary and required.
This is the source of our modern world. Social control
algorithms are so totally embedded in everyone's deepest
thoughts until they are not perceivable by the mind as
control algorithms. Look around. Humans need shelter,
food, water, knowledge, love, respect, and something
relevant to do... these exist abundantly in our culture.
But, look at the conceptual overlay of these requirements...
Money, political power (backed by military power),
superficial morality, papers like the 'constitution',
advertising technologies, uniforms, nations, corporations,
agencies, propaganda overload... all of these are control
algorithms, so embedded in our minds that we cannot conceive
of a society without them... the common question I hear when
speaking of these algorithms is 'What would you replace them
with?'... and I have to reply, 'nothing, for they are not
necessary.'
Humans naturally cooperate. We have survived from the very
beginning of our existence, from prehistoric human precursor
species, through cooperation with one another. To be alone
was to die in the wild. It took more than any individual to
survive in pretechnological ages. The cultural algorithms
are not a natural evolution of that cooperation... in fact,
they are threatening our survival more than anything else.
The military is the oldest of subcultures, that is, they
are, as a separate 'cultural system', the direct descendants
of that Hunter-gatherer tribe. In the past, just a few
centuries ago, the 'King' was the top general of the
military, and 'King' is a military title. The King owned
everything in the domain he took by force. The people, the
land, the technology, all the resources, all of it
'belonged' to Him. He was 'divinely' ordained, often called
'GodKing', and his job was to keep and expand that kingdom.
But behind each of these GodKing were those who manipulated
Him, through access to knowledge and resources the King knew
nothing about. Dividing the world up in 'turfs', each with a
petty 'King' in competition with all the other 'Kings', kept
all the centers of power under the control of the background
'Owners' of the planet. The Kings felt safe with this, for
they got to make the 'laws' for their kingdoms, yet they
were not subject to those laws. They were absolute powers in
their kingdoms, even if they suspected that others
manipulated them.
The algorithms over the centuries have become more and more
psychological and symbolic, and less and less violent and
imposed. This was because technology required huge numbers
of slaves to develop it and apply it. The people, families,
behind the figurehead leaders of the world need not use
direct force much anymore. Symbols, backed by psychological
cultural algorithms, have provided more and more wealth in
the terms they value the most... not in controlling every
aspect of people's lives, that gains them little and ups the
ante in the game, but in the production and increasing
access to communication, technology, and peace. War is as
much a threat to them as to
anyone else now, since castles and even underground cities
would not be defense from modern weaponry.
But the algorithms are themselves a huge danger to the
Owners. They are killing the planet's ecosystem, which is
the ultimate source of life itself. This threat is cutting
through the algorithms in millions of people, and causing a
great search for meaning and methods to reverse the
destruction. But other algorithms block those searches, and
lead most people up blind alleys. For the Owners, this puts
them in a terrible place, because if people start seeing
through the social algorithms, they will lose their power
base, but if they squash the social dynamic which is sensing
the algorithms, then those algorithms will likely continue
to destroy the planet...
It is a basic of the 'Owners' subculture that power over
lives is the ultimate wealth, although they have given up
that aspect of power increasingly, allowing the layers of
social control algorithms to maintain control without direct
interaction. They just reap the benefits, while perceiving
the destruction growing at the same time. If they kill off
most of humanity, they will likely lose their benefits as
Owners, but if they just sit back and reap those benefits,
they will likely lose their benefits eventually as the
planetary ecosystem dies. The only choice they have, really,
is to alter the control algorithms or let them go.
Another part of this equation is the realization that the
wealth of the planet, amplified by accelerating technology,
is enough to make every human being on the planet just as
wealthy, in real terms, as they are. The Owners have a
social dynamic that they are superior and deserve everything
they want, exclusively. This subcultural concept is part of
what is causing their indecision, for if everyone in the
world has what they have, they are no longer exclusively
'Owners'. But to survive, they have to give up that
exclusivity, and let humanity break loose from the
algorithms and become free individuals in cooperative
self-chosen efforts.
Humanity is far more than it conceives itself to be, both as
individuals and as a species. The planetary ecosystem is
also far more than humanity conceives it to be. The reality
that we evolved from what we are thinking of as almost inert
and dumb, is contradictory. Our concepts don't commonly see
the world and each other as interactive and unified in real
terms... we cling to seeing each other as non-interactive
and separate, divided by concepts and symbols, and thus we
miss what brings us wealth even as the underlying reality of
our interaction and unity produces it.
Thus, the question becomes: Do we understand that we are
sovereign individuals and not a whit separate, that we
survive together even if our conceptual divisions are
insane, that all our systems; money, politics, religion, all
the social algorithms are threatening to destroy us even as
we must pursue the underlying unity that exists to sustain
us better than anyone now even imagines?
The Universe is understood only through two separate but
associated conceptual systems at once, one starting from the
individual and perceiving through ever greater synergistic
levels of complexity... and the other from the largest
perspective possible, Universe as One, and working it's way
down through all the smaller synergistic systems of ever
increasing complexity.
Perception, without filtering conception, is a clean window.
We each must use it to survive, keeping in mind that there
is no individual survival without the survival of everyone
and our common ecological body, the planet Earth.
============================================
Some Other Thoughts:
============================================
Worth saying again: If anything can be believed in, why
believe in anything? Why hold on to conceptual fantasies
when we walk around in a world so wondrous and beautiful
that no amount of words, thoughts, or images can fully
describe even a tiny portion of it.
==================================================
To subscribe to this Newsletter email
worldmind@yahoo.com with Raging Brains in the subject line. I will add you to my group email list and you will get the next issue in your email. It's been a long time since I did an issue of RBBH, but I'm inspired to do another soon. Until then, please read my blogs;
Gaia's Superconscious
Relevant Patriotism
and Exquisite Synergy
The topics of Raging Brains And Burning Hearts is world transformation, futurist ideas, forerunner discussion, alternative technology, intentional communities and experiences within intentional communities, radical scientific discoveries, and natural environmental events.
This newsletter may be copied and retransmitted by anyone anywhere in any media as long as the content is not altered in any way.
Saturday, May 17, 2008
My search for the Truth... (Re: Owners)
Read the message below this message before reading this message. grin. Both are emails to elists I decided I wanted on my blog.
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You cannot offend me, so no problem there. Grin. Thanks for posting your thoughts. We need to do more of that if we want the world to survive.
I don't have 'credentials' or anything but my own search for the Truth. I define Truth by what I have determined to have actually happened, not by other people's theories or opinions about the Truth. But even that goes on a scale with 'very probable' at the top and 'very unlikely' at the bottom. I trust only my own senses and my own talents as far as what happened, and that's while knowing that my brain filters my sensory input to some degree.
The story of the Owners did not come from idle speculation. When I was 10 years old, I realized the world could be sterilized by a thermonuclear war. That was obvious to everyone. From that point on, I refused to believe anything I was told, which made life in school pure hell. Being a military dependent, we moved a lot, almost every year, and in each place, the people had different ways of looking at things, assembling the data in their minds, and their opinions were incredibly different although in each place we lived, there was a 'common sense' which held certain basic beliefs and attitudes that marked that place and the way the people lived and talked and acted. This got me very curious about why these differences existed, common to each place we lived, and how were the differences alike in the wider function of thought.
When I graduated, I started a series of experiments to find out what was really going on. I became a Green Beret to study the subculture I was raised in, and after I dropped LSD, which showed me my own basic beliefs and attitudes, giving me a chance to expunge them or alter them or accept them based on experience, I became a real headache to the military and they were very glad to get rid of me. I did as I pleased yet they couldn't bust me, which really shook their tree. I've told the story of what happened during the Great March on Washington, the Moratorium, and how the 82nd Airborne Division refused to go to Washington and kill the protesters. That shook me up big time, since I had no inkling before that experience that there was something larger than purely individual humans and their actions.
After I got out, I traveled extensively and joined many groups to see how they thought. I hitchhiked across the country over and over again, just because when they pick up a hitchhiker who was interested and would listen, (who they would never probably see again,) complete strangers from all walks of life would tell their deepest secrets and attitudes and opinions and life experiences to the strange hippie sitting next to them in the darkness.
I figured out that it was the pattern of beliefs and experiences which created their deepest world models, and then I set out to find out what changed their beliefs and the filtering of their experiences. That's when I realized that social subcultures were larger than any individual yet caused intense changes in each individual's way of looking at the world. So I started studying social subcultures. Remember, beyond my constant obsession with sex, I had a great motivator... I thought the world might well sterilize itself, and I didn't want that to happen. The Universe is too beautiful and intense to just blow away the sensory experience of a planet full of life.
I realized that the social subcultures had to start sometime, there had to be a first time, a first decision by a single person, to create the social subculture which had ballooned out into the world from that time on. SO I started studying pre-history and history, looking for that first time by the absence of it before that first time. Since almost everything I read was biased towards 'western civilization' and those sets of ideas and attitudes, I decided to go by evidence instead of theory, and form my own theories. I spent years studying in libraries and every source of info I could find, using the archaeological artifacts found to base my study on, since the theories and conclusions I found were so incredibly slanted.
Then I realized one day that I was slanting the evidence. I had studied hundreds of thousands of little bits of data, artifacts, locations, etc, but the pattern I was getting was still obviously slanted. (Take two window screens and put them together, one on top of the other, then look through them as you turn one of them. You see patterns, and only when the patterns line up can you see through the screens clearly. That is how I knew I was slanting my conclusions.)
So I decided I had to see the world the way our most ancient ancestors saw it.
I went to the high desert in California, in Owens Valley, and lived in a cave without any technology at all. The experience was profound. I cast out all my previous ideas and tried to live like the nomadic no-tech people we came from. I ate what I could find, bugs mostly, small lizards, mice, etc, without cooking any of it. I wore only a loincloth because if the local ranchers saw a long haired man running naked through the desert and the Alabama Hills, (the place in Owen's Valley I had my cave) they might well shoot me.
After nearly a year, as the winter came on, I left the cave and went down to San Diego. I had learned something very important. I knew I would not survive in the desert alone during a winter. Social cooperation is essential for humans to survive. More eyes for predators, more hands to find food to share, and more brains to figure out problems. Interdependence is a survival trait for us and all life on the planet. (And love is the strongest glue for Interdependence. Love is ubiquitous, although the word is not antiquate to describe the reality.)
I learned how the world looked to the most primitive of peoples. So after that, I started to reintegrate all the data my mind was carrying, and it all pretty much fell into place. It comes down to 'what had to be discovered before the next thing was discovered which led to the next piece of technology which caused what changes in the social structure and interaction in tribes'.
I do not claim that what I told about our origins and the Owners is completely factual. That is, that my exact order of what came first and what came from that is perfect. It is a theory, but not a myth. I cannot list the huge number of artifacts and discoveries about the past that I sifted through, nor quote sources and all that. My talent never worked that way.
I continued to study prehistory, history, and our own culture. I realized that there was a pattern through it all, globally, which was by far the strongest of patterns, which defined our existence in the Human Culture more than anything else but one thing... natural interdependence. Natural interdependence is what keeps us alive, and the other pattern, the pattern that points to 'Owners' is like a thin layer of rust on the surface of something truly beautiful.
When I realized that those with the most resources and control over populations did not just disappear when their civilizations 'ended', I looked for the causes of that ending and what those powerful people did when that civilization ended. They destroyed their environment or used up the resources and then moved. They took it with them. And it was obvious also that they had a technology of social control that was largely not known of by most people, even now. The Farm was part of that discovery process, much like living in the cave. But the Farm, regardless of it's faults, had the most beautiful expression of natural interdependence I could find in the world. I learned a lot from it.
While coping with my deteriorating health, trying to find an income by learning and using computers, begging for money to live on, and all that, I was still searching for what was in the gaps in the patterns. By the time of the Bush Coup, I was sure about the Owners and the way the world would be going... (I was right about Gore winning that election, btw. He did, but it was taken away form him. That was a piece of the pattern that showed me the division between the older and younger generations of Owners.)
It is not a conspiracy. It's older than any conspiracy. Conspiracies think a group of people are trying to take something away from us, our rights, or our wealth, or something... but this is much more than that. We never had anything in the first place. The illusion of rights, wealth, or something was, and is, very tight in people's minds, but it is not real. It's not a new conspiracy, it's business as usual.
I've said in many posts that the Owners have a Tiger By The Tail. Regardless of who they are, how organized they are, if they are organized, or any other factor... the people who make the decisions which define the decisions we have to make, have a tiger by the tail. Less than 1% of the world's people OWN 99+ percent of the world's stuff, land, etc. You can read that in almost any encyclopedia. Bucky Fuller's World Inventory of Resources found that decades ago, 'in the last millennium'... (I love saying that phrase) and it seems to be true.
We have one natural right that cannot be taken from us. It exists in the tightest prisons and in the most totalitarian countries... we can communicate. Humans communicate. It is part of our social instinct and cannot be denied, as the Quakers found out when they built prisons where the criminals were totally alone and unable to communicate. It was a true experiment, although they didn't know it at the time. The prisoners went insane, the ones who did not find some way to communicate.
And communication produces expansion of the mind. It also produces confusion, fusion, doubt, certainty, emotions, and for some, comprehension. It is a principle of science that an experiment is not done until the results are communicated. My life has been an experiment, and I'm communicating. Believe it or not. I don't care about that. I've been on the thin edge of death for too long to worry about other's opinions. I can only speak my own conclusions and fear no man. Do the research yourself if you need proof, for only that way can you actually understand what I wrote. YOU have a head start, simply because of the ideas I have communicated. You can look for affirmation or rejection of those ideas. I started out only with the fact that my elders (the grownups) were insane, all of them, and, BOY, I've been proven right about that! LOL!
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You cannot offend me, so no problem there. Grin. Thanks for posting your thoughts. We need to do more of that if we want the world to survive.
I don't have 'credentials' or anything but my own search for the Truth. I define Truth by what I have determined to have actually happened, not by other people's theories or opinions about the Truth. But even that goes on a scale with 'very probable' at the top and 'very unlikely' at the bottom. I trust only my own senses and my own talents as far as what happened, and that's while knowing that my brain filters my sensory input to some degree.
The story of the Owners did not come from idle speculation. When I was 10 years old, I realized the world could be sterilized by a thermonuclear war. That was obvious to everyone. From that point on, I refused to believe anything I was told, which made life in school pure hell. Being a military dependent, we moved a lot, almost every year, and in each place, the people had different ways of looking at things, assembling the data in their minds, and their opinions were incredibly different although in each place we lived, there was a 'common sense' which held certain basic beliefs and attitudes that marked that place and the way the people lived and talked and acted. This got me very curious about why these differences existed, common to each place we lived, and how were the differences alike in the wider function of thought.
When I graduated, I started a series of experiments to find out what was really going on. I became a Green Beret to study the subculture I was raised in, and after I dropped LSD, which showed me my own basic beliefs and attitudes, giving me a chance to expunge them or alter them or accept them based on experience, I became a real headache to the military and they were very glad to get rid of me. I did as I pleased yet they couldn't bust me, which really shook their tree. I've told the story of what happened during the Great March on Washington, the Moratorium, and how the 82nd Airborne Division refused to go to Washington and kill the protesters. That shook me up big time, since I had no inkling before that experience that there was something larger than purely individual humans and their actions.
After I got out, I traveled extensively and joined many groups to see how they thought. I hitchhiked across the country over and over again, just because when they pick up a hitchhiker who was interested and would listen, (who they would never probably see again,) complete strangers from all walks of life would tell their deepest secrets and attitudes and opinions and life experiences to the strange hippie sitting next to them in the darkness.
I figured out that it was the pattern of beliefs and experiences which created their deepest world models, and then I set out to find out what changed their beliefs and the filtering of their experiences. That's when I realized that social subcultures were larger than any individual yet caused intense changes in each individual's way of looking at the world. So I started studying social subcultures. Remember, beyond my constant obsession with sex, I had a great motivator... I thought the world might well sterilize itself, and I didn't want that to happen. The Universe is too beautiful and intense to just blow away the sensory experience of a planet full of life.
I realized that the social subcultures had to start sometime, there had to be a first time, a first decision by a single person, to create the social subculture which had ballooned out into the world from that time on. SO I started studying pre-history and history, looking for that first time by the absence of it before that first time. Since almost everything I read was biased towards 'western civilization' and those sets of ideas and attitudes, I decided to go by evidence instead of theory, and form my own theories. I spent years studying in libraries and every source of info I could find, using the archaeological artifacts found to base my study on, since the theories and conclusions I found were so incredibly slanted.
Then I realized one day that I was slanting the evidence. I had studied hundreds of thousands of little bits of data, artifacts, locations, etc, but the pattern I was getting was still obviously slanted. (Take two window screens and put them together, one on top of the other, then look through them as you turn one of them. You see patterns, and only when the patterns line up can you see through the screens clearly. That is how I knew I was slanting my conclusions.)
So I decided I had to see the world the way our most ancient ancestors saw it.
I went to the high desert in California, in Owens Valley, and lived in a cave without any technology at all. The experience was profound. I cast out all my previous ideas and tried to live like the nomadic no-tech people we came from. I ate what I could find, bugs mostly, small lizards, mice, etc, without cooking any of it. I wore only a loincloth because if the local ranchers saw a long haired man running naked through the desert and the Alabama Hills, (the place in Owen's Valley I had my cave) they might well shoot me.
After nearly a year, as the winter came on, I left the cave and went down to San Diego. I had learned something very important. I knew I would not survive in the desert alone during a winter. Social cooperation is essential for humans to survive. More eyes for predators, more hands to find food to share, and more brains to figure out problems. Interdependence is a survival trait for us and all life on the planet. (And love is the strongest glue for Interdependence. Love is ubiquitous, although the word is not antiquate to describe the reality.)
I learned how the world looked to the most primitive of peoples. So after that, I started to reintegrate all the data my mind was carrying, and it all pretty much fell into place. It comes down to 'what had to be discovered before the next thing was discovered which led to the next piece of technology which caused what changes in the social structure and interaction in tribes'.
I do not claim that what I told about our origins and the Owners is completely factual. That is, that my exact order of what came first and what came from that is perfect. It is a theory, but not a myth. I cannot list the huge number of artifacts and discoveries about the past that I sifted through, nor quote sources and all that. My talent never worked that way.
I continued to study prehistory, history, and our own culture. I realized that there was a pattern through it all, globally, which was by far the strongest of patterns, which defined our existence in the Human Culture more than anything else but one thing... natural interdependence. Natural interdependence is what keeps us alive, and the other pattern, the pattern that points to 'Owners' is like a thin layer of rust on the surface of something truly beautiful.
When I realized that those with the most resources and control over populations did not just disappear when their civilizations 'ended', I looked for the causes of that ending and what those powerful people did when that civilization ended. They destroyed their environment or used up the resources and then moved. They took it with them. And it was obvious also that they had a technology of social control that was largely not known of by most people, even now. The Farm was part of that discovery process, much like living in the cave. But the Farm, regardless of it's faults, had the most beautiful expression of natural interdependence I could find in the world. I learned a lot from it.
While coping with my deteriorating health, trying to find an income by learning and using computers, begging for money to live on, and all that, I was still searching for what was in the gaps in the patterns. By the time of the Bush Coup, I was sure about the Owners and the way the world would be going... (I was right about Gore winning that election, btw. He did, but it was taken away form him. That was a piece of the pattern that showed me the division between the older and younger generations of Owners.)
It is not a conspiracy. It's older than any conspiracy. Conspiracies think a group of people are trying to take something away from us, our rights, or our wealth, or something... but this is much more than that. We never had anything in the first place. The illusion of rights, wealth, or something was, and is, very tight in people's minds, but it is not real. It's not a new conspiracy, it's business as usual.
I've said in many posts that the Owners have a Tiger By The Tail. Regardless of who they are, how organized they are, if they are organized, or any other factor... the people who make the decisions which define the decisions we have to make, have a tiger by the tail. Less than 1% of the world's people OWN 99+ percent of the world's stuff, land, etc. You can read that in almost any encyclopedia. Bucky Fuller's World Inventory of Resources found that decades ago, 'in the last millennium'... (I love saying that phrase) and it seems to be true.
We have one natural right that cannot be taken from us. It exists in the tightest prisons and in the most totalitarian countries... we can communicate. Humans communicate. It is part of our social instinct and cannot be denied, as the Quakers found out when they built prisons where the criminals were totally alone and unable to communicate. It was a true experiment, although they didn't know it at the time. The prisoners went insane, the ones who did not find some way to communicate.
And communication produces expansion of the mind. It also produces confusion, fusion, doubt, certainty, emotions, and for some, comprehension. It is a principle of science that an experiment is not done until the results are communicated. My life has been an experiment, and I'm communicating. Believe it or not. I don't care about that. I've been on the thin edge of death for too long to worry about other's opinions. I can only speak my own conclusions and fear no man. Do the research yourself if you need proof, for only that way can you actually understand what I wrote. YOU have a head start, simply because of the ideas I have communicated. You can look for affirmation or rejection of those ideas. I started out only with the fact that my elders (the grownups) were insane, all of them, and, BOY, I've been proven right about that! LOL!
Friday, May 16, 2008
Where did the Owners come from?
There is a tiny number of people who essentially own everything on the planet.
They own the holding companies who own the banks who own the mortgages who own almost all the property everywhere. Far less than 1% of the world's people owns 99.9% of the world's resources. They run the money game, the political game, the military game, the infrastructure, the manufacturing, and the government, and even instigate control systems, social algorithms, so subtle and silly, you practice them every year, like Christmas, thinking they are merely social celebrations.
Once, they were very hands-on, directly controlling everyone's lives, back when there was only a million or so people on the planet. Now they do it indirectly, making the decisions and having others carry them out. Remember, there was a first time, a first decision, a first action for everything that Humanity has done and is doing. An individual was faced with a crises and the future proceeded from his or her decision as to how to handle that crises. Also, they are not rich. They are beyond rich. They can have anything they want, including life and death, just by asking. They have others, underlings, who handle the money for them when its necessary to use it.
You have never seen nor met one, because their survival is based upon never having their names mentioned, never having a photo shown, never having a newspaper article written about them... They are beyond all our media, and thus we do not know they exist.
They are no group you have ever heard of, none of the groups so often talked about, like the Trilateral Commission, or the Bilginburgers, (sic?)or any of the conspiracy theory targets. But they set those groups up as straw men, to take the karma of the Owner's decisions. And through their employees, they hire our Presidents, run our election shows, and even control much of what you see on TV. They do it through proxy, through hirelings, through those who want to be in the public eye and who will stay bought.
As I said, you don't know them, but they are the people who decide what options you will get to choose from. The rats don't design and build the maze, and they think they have a choice of where to run, but we all know their choices are made by the researcher who did design and build the maze.
This is how I think they came into being, millennia ago. I wrote this for an elist of close friends, but I think it should be considered by everyone. After all, it's our world, regardless of their manipulations.
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I want to say a little about the Owners. (a little? ROFL!) I suggest that those who don't want to read something complicated and which you might consider speculation or seemingly irrelevant skip this message. I have to start at the beginning, so it willlll be long winded.
There are two 'philosophies' battling it out in the world now, and which have battled it out for many, many millennia, from a time long before the Agricultural Revolution. The two views are 'Mother' (female) and 'God' (male). I'm not saying that men have one philosophy and women another, but that back in the beginning, the people saw the world as feminine, (where we get the 'Mother Earth' label.) That view was from the fact that Humans didn't survive because of their own efforts... they could easily tell that the environment was the source of their survival and good times and bad came from environmental factors. Since the process of birth and death was the source of their survival, they saw nature as female.
When we evolved, women were the most important gender in the tribe, for the tribe's survival. They were highly valued because you could lose most of the men to predators and the tribe would continue, but if you lost most of the women, the tribe would die out. This factor had evolved Humanity with males having massive upper body strength and women having massive lower body strength. Upper body strength because men would stay and try to bluff predators as the women ran away, escaped, with the children. Losing a male was not considered tribe threatening, although grieved, of course. Losing a woman was a terrible blow to the tribe's survival. Enough were lost through childbirth alone to make surviving women extremely important to tribal (and therefore family) survival. At that time, the females chose the males to lead the tribe, not like a boss, but like a guide, like in Ape tribes. If the women didn't like what the lead male wanted to do, they simply paid attention to another male and that male became the leader. Call it 'instinctive voting' since it wasn't conceptualized. The tribe was always centered around the females.
Later, Hunting technology was discovered. It was primarily a male job, because of that male upper body strength allowed the use of clubs and spears to kill big animals. So the males hunted and the females and children gathered. (Not that the roles were so tightly divided in most tribes, but the distinction was there in every tribe I studied.) The result, socially over eons, was the Hunting Lodge, where the males would plan their hunts. This is the first indication of actual hierarchy. The oldest male, even if he was not currently able to hunt, was valued because he knew the strategies of the hunt better than anyone else. He was the Hunter Lodge Leader, and he carried a lot of social position. The oldest Hunters kept trophies to show his skills to those who came after, to the young brash new hunters who wondered why anyone listened to the old guy. (He killed THAT! OMG!)The expertise of the Hunter Leader meant success or not, and from this came coordination of a group for a specific purpose.
For a long time, supplanting the female leadership, the Hunter Lodge called much of the shots. As time went on, it used intimidation to take over the control of the tribe, making women into 'trophies', which is the basis of all economics and concepts of possession. Nature became the trophy of the Hunter Lodge Leader, because he controlled the hunt, and the hunters devalued the women's perspective and decided that there must be someone 'out there', a male, who looked after the Hunters and the Tribe. This was the basis of the male God figure.
Later, the women, in their gathering of tiny seeds, needed a way to carry them. So they invented baskets. When they put the seeds in, they would leak, and the next time the Tribe came through that area, they found the same plants growing closer to camp, along the trails they had made the year before. Then they started 'giving back' some of the seeds to Mother, finding that when they did, the food grew even closer than before. The soil around long time migration camps was particularly fertile, of course. They were 'manured' by the people who camped there. This process of learning about seeds and such went on for a great many generations.
Eventually, the problem with losing seeds through the baskets was solved by layering the inside with mud. When it dried, it made it leak proof, at least for tiny seeds and berrys, and at some time, a basket caught fire and created the first ceramics. Ceramics was arguably the most important technological discovery in human history, because it allowed farming. By making a pot, covering the top with leather, and burying it, the Tribe could store seed for the winter. This meant more children would survive the lean winter times in areas where going south was not possible. (mountain ranges, deserts, oceans, big rivers, etc) Some of the seed would rot, using up the available oxygen, and the bugs would die.
(It is likely that Leonardo Da Vinci types, on the edge of the Human bell curve of attributes, existed in almost all generations. So the discovery and use of technology probably was not a slow steady thing but a case of sudden discovery and applications by single individuals with new methods and technologies adopted because they were obviously more productive.)
The advantage of agriculture was obvious, and when people started planting seed in the Spring, and getting large crops of food which they could store, the Agricultural Revolution was underway.
Agriculture spread amazingly fast around the world. Tribes gave up hunting as the most important food source, and the Hunter Lodges had to accept the fact that growing food was better than hunting it. Their children were the best evidence they had to that amazing technology. So, in some tribes, the Hunter Lodge settled down. (The Hopi Tribe's Hunter Lodge, for instance, settled down and built Kivas, which no women could enter, but the females own the land and everything else. In the bottom of the Kiva was a ceramic jar with the seed corn for next year's crops.)
Tribes which accepted this huge change in philosophy tend to be peaceful, and not male dominated. Why? Because agriculture is very female based. The seed is pushed into the womb of the Earth, a plant is born, and gives itself up passively to become the people when eaten. The philosophy of the ancient female worldview was essentially proven even to the males.
But somewhere, dunno where, a Hunter Lodge Tribe had enough food and good environmental factors to remain Hunters. They did not accept the Agricultural Female worldview, and with so many tribes now stationary in rich growing lands, their response was to strengthen their Hunter Lodge philosophy and look down on the agricultural tribes as essentially 'prey'. Then, when the climage changed and the winters grew much worse, the Hunter Lodge was faced with major starvation. So their Leader declared that agricultural people were fair game... literally, fair game. Animals that ate grain like the game hunted by the tribes Hunter Lodge. (There has to be a first time for everything, and a single individual who made a decision.) So first they raided the Agro Tribes, then enslaved them. They were Hunters, and remained Hunters, if only in philosophy and definitions. They set up the first two tiered system, Hunters who no longer had to hunt on the top, and Agricultural people on the bottom, supplying them with whatever they wanted.
I will forgo the invention of money and all that. I'm writing a message, not a book. grin. Suffice it to say money came from military script, a way to control slaves.
I think the Owners are the ancient families that first started 'civilization' through enslaving the agricultural tribes, back after the Agricultural Revolution. I think when they destroyed the environment in one place, they moved on and started another civilization elsewhere. Since they had sex all over the place, I daresay most of us are related to them in the same way everyone is related to everyone else. But the identity of the Owners is along lineage, and there are likely far more of them than anyone imagines, although many of those people do not know it even as they reap the benefits of their family connections.
What they learned, back at the beginning when they were first trying to control the first slaves is a technology also, a technology called 'militaries', then 'politics', which included, once it was invented, 'economics'. The military is likely the closest thing to the primitive organization of the original Owners, and it remains the most powerful of all multi-generational subcultures. The technology of control of mass populations was well developed by the time of the Romans, but the fact that the Romans unwittingly poisoned their leadership showed that the brute force, hang a thousand people up on crosses in plain sight, kill every tenth man, etc, was not the best way to control the population. "To conquer, divide. To keep conquered, keep divided."
So many more ways of controlling people was invented and used, which leads to our present situation. We cannot survive the Owner's continuing control. But the only hope we have is to help them see why we cannot survive their Hunter philosophy. We must expand their minds.
They own the holding companies who own the banks who own the mortgages who own almost all the property everywhere. Far less than 1% of the world's people owns 99.9% of the world's resources. They run the money game, the political game, the military game, the infrastructure, the manufacturing, and the government, and even instigate control systems, social algorithms, so subtle and silly, you practice them every year, like Christmas, thinking they are merely social celebrations.
Once, they were very hands-on, directly controlling everyone's lives, back when there was only a million or so people on the planet. Now they do it indirectly, making the decisions and having others carry them out. Remember, there was a first time, a first decision, a first action for everything that Humanity has done and is doing. An individual was faced with a crises and the future proceeded from his or her decision as to how to handle that crises. Also, they are not rich. They are beyond rich. They can have anything they want, including life and death, just by asking. They have others, underlings, who handle the money for them when its necessary to use it.
You have never seen nor met one, because their survival is based upon never having their names mentioned, never having a photo shown, never having a newspaper article written about them... They are beyond all our media, and thus we do not know they exist.
They are no group you have ever heard of, none of the groups so often talked about, like the Trilateral Commission, or the Bilginburgers, (sic?)or any of the conspiracy theory targets. But they set those groups up as straw men, to take the karma of the Owner's decisions. And through their employees, they hire our Presidents, run our election shows, and even control much of what you see on TV. They do it through proxy, through hirelings, through those who want to be in the public eye and who will stay bought.
As I said, you don't know them, but they are the people who decide what options you will get to choose from. The rats don't design and build the maze, and they think they have a choice of where to run, but we all know their choices are made by the researcher who did design and build the maze.
This is how I think they came into being, millennia ago. I wrote this for an elist of close friends, but I think it should be considered by everyone. After all, it's our world, regardless of their manipulations.
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I want to say a little about the Owners. (a little? ROFL!) I suggest that those who don't want to read something complicated and which you might consider speculation or seemingly irrelevant skip this message. I have to start at the beginning, so it willlll be long winded.
There are two 'philosophies' battling it out in the world now, and which have battled it out for many, many millennia, from a time long before the Agricultural Revolution. The two views are 'Mother' (female) and 'God' (male). I'm not saying that men have one philosophy and women another, but that back in the beginning, the people saw the world as feminine, (where we get the 'Mother Earth' label.) That view was from the fact that Humans didn't survive because of their own efforts... they could easily tell that the environment was the source of their survival and good times and bad came from environmental factors. Since the process of birth and death was the source of their survival, they saw nature as female.
When we evolved, women were the most important gender in the tribe, for the tribe's survival. They were highly valued because you could lose most of the men to predators and the tribe would continue, but if you lost most of the women, the tribe would die out. This factor had evolved Humanity with males having massive upper body strength and women having massive lower body strength. Upper body strength because men would stay and try to bluff predators as the women ran away, escaped, with the children. Losing a male was not considered tribe threatening, although grieved, of course. Losing a woman was a terrible blow to the tribe's survival. Enough were lost through childbirth alone to make surviving women extremely important to tribal (and therefore family) survival. At that time, the females chose the males to lead the tribe, not like a boss, but like a guide, like in Ape tribes. If the women didn't like what the lead male wanted to do, they simply paid attention to another male and that male became the leader. Call it 'instinctive voting' since it wasn't conceptualized. The tribe was always centered around the females.
Later, Hunting technology was discovered. It was primarily a male job, because of that male upper body strength allowed the use of clubs and spears to kill big animals. So the males hunted and the females and children gathered. (Not that the roles were so tightly divided in most tribes, but the distinction was there in every tribe I studied.) The result, socially over eons, was the Hunting Lodge, where the males would plan their hunts. This is the first indication of actual hierarchy. The oldest male, even if he was not currently able to hunt, was valued because he knew the strategies of the hunt better than anyone else. He was the Hunter Lodge Leader, and he carried a lot of social position. The oldest Hunters kept trophies to show his skills to those who came after, to the young brash new hunters who wondered why anyone listened to the old guy. (He killed THAT! OMG!)The expertise of the Hunter Leader meant success or not, and from this came coordination of a group for a specific purpose.
For a long time, supplanting the female leadership, the Hunter Lodge called much of the shots. As time went on, it used intimidation to take over the control of the tribe, making women into 'trophies', which is the basis of all economics and concepts of possession. Nature became the trophy of the Hunter Lodge Leader, because he controlled the hunt, and the hunters devalued the women's perspective and decided that there must be someone 'out there', a male, who looked after the Hunters and the Tribe. This was the basis of the male God figure.
Later, the women, in their gathering of tiny seeds, needed a way to carry them. So they invented baskets. When they put the seeds in, they would leak, and the next time the Tribe came through that area, they found the same plants growing closer to camp, along the trails they had made the year before. Then they started 'giving back' some of the seeds to Mother, finding that when they did, the food grew even closer than before. The soil around long time migration camps was particularly fertile, of course. They were 'manured' by the people who camped there. This process of learning about seeds and such went on for a great many generations.
Eventually, the problem with losing seeds through the baskets was solved by layering the inside with mud. When it dried, it made it leak proof, at least for tiny seeds and berrys, and at some time, a basket caught fire and created the first ceramics. Ceramics was arguably the most important technological discovery in human history, because it allowed farming. By making a pot, covering the top with leather, and burying it, the Tribe could store seed for the winter. This meant more children would survive the lean winter times in areas where going south was not possible. (mountain ranges, deserts, oceans, big rivers, etc) Some of the seed would rot, using up the available oxygen, and the bugs would die.
(It is likely that Leonardo Da Vinci types, on the edge of the Human bell curve of attributes, existed in almost all generations. So the discovery and use of technology probably was not a slow steady thing but a case of sudden discovery and applications by single individuals with new methods and technologies adopted because they were obviously more productive.)
The advantage of agriculture was obvious, and when people started planting seed in the Spring, and getting large crops of food which they could store, the Agricultural Revolution was underway.
Agriculture spread amazingly fast around the world. Tribes gave up hunting as the most important food source, and the Hunter Lodges had to accept the fact that growing food was better than hunting it. Their children were the best evidence they had to that amazing technology. So, in some tribes, the Hunter Lodge settled down. (The Hopi Tribe's Hunter Lodge, for instance, settled down and built Kivas, which no women could enter, but the females own the land and everything else. In the bottom of the Kiva was a ceramic jar with the seed corn for next year's crops.)
Tribes which accepted this huge change in philosophy tend to be peaceful, and not male dominated. Why? Because agriculture is very female based. The seed is pushed into the womb of the Earth, a plant is born, and gives itself up passively to become the people when eaten. The philosophy of the ancient female worldview was essentially proven even to the males.
But somewhere, dunno where, a Hunter Lodge Tribe had enough food and good environmental factors to remain Hunters. They did not accept the Agricultural Female worldview, and with so many tribes now stationary in rich growing lands, their response was to strengthen their Hunter Lodge philosophy and look down on the agricultural tribes as essentially 'prey'. Then, when the climage changed and the winters grew much worse, the Hunter Lodge was faced with major starvation. So their Leader declared that agricultural people were fair game... literally, fair game. Animals that ate grain like the game hunted by the tribes Hunter Lodge. (There has to be a first time for everything, and a single individual who made a decision.) So first they raided the Agro Tribes, then enslaved them. They were Hunters, and remained Hunters, if only in philosophy and definitions. They set up the first two tiered system, Hunters who no longer had to hunt on the top, and Agricultural people on the bottom, supplying them with whatever they wanted.
I will forgo the invention of money and all that. I'm writing a message, not a book. grin. Suffice it to say money came from military script, a way to control slaves.
I think the Owners are the ancient families that first started 'civilization' through enslaving the agricultural tribes, back after the Agricultural Revolution. I think when they destroyed the environment in one place, they moved on and started another civilization elsewhere. Since they had sex all over the place, I daresay most of us are related to them in the same way everyone is related to everyone else. But the identity of the Owners is along lineage, and there are likely far more of them than anyone imagines, although many of those people do not know it even as they reap the benefits of their family connections.
What they learned, back at the beginning when they were first trying to control the first slaves is a technology also, a technology called 'militaries', then 'politics', which included, once it was invented, 'economics'. The military is likely the closest thing to the primitive organization of the original Owners, and it remains the most powerful of all multi-generational subcultures. The technology of control of mass populations was well developed by the time of the Romans, but the fact that the Romans unwittingly poisoned their leadership showed that the brute force, hang a thousand people up on crosses in plain sight, kill every tenth man, etc, was not the best way to control the population. "To conquer, divide. To keep conquered, keep divided."
So many more ways of controlling people was invented and used, which leads to our present situation. We cannot survive the Owner's continuing control. But the only hope we have is to help them see why we cannot survive their Hunter philosophy. We must expand their minds.
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