Thanks so much for sharing your "lived experience" (lol). I hope you move to New Hampshire, we can use more born shitlords like you.
"The cabal's job is to keep an eye on this fine balance between their levels of oppression and their victims' breaking point and at this stage it looks like they will be safe for a while."
This is true, but fortunately they suck at their jobs.
The Fed recently announced there will be no CBDC from them, so that's out.
If they do issue some sort of alternative, I expect it will be with some sort of guaranteed basic income, in which case using it to get things you need before it all goes tits up.
Get to know your local producers of everything, and see if they're open to parallel currencies, silver, BTC, nuts/bolts/screws/washers/ammo/whatever.
If you have to sell something and someone wants to pay in their CarbonFuckBux, charge them double, offer them the regular price in alternatives and barter.
This transition period won't last long, once we're through it the real fun starts.
We'll all have to decide if CarbonFuckBux offered are worth it with a high premium at the time of transaction (you might be able to do something useful with them, e.g. paying taxes). There's also going to be a lot of "over and under" transactions, e.g. price is 10k CarbonFuckBux and 10oz of silver, otherwise it's 25k CFB, etc., etc.
We already have better things for money, gold (easily determined to be genuine by comparing size/weight, tungsten is 5% off the density of gold), silver (you can flick and "ring" it), BTC (quick transactions via the lightning network), Monero, and barter (25 9mm for a dozen eggs sounds about right, currently).
All socialist experiments fail. Any political or cultural "ist" fails actually.
Those of us who have habituated to this western fascist business model/lifestyle won't like the coming changes, but I doubt the socialists will have a say in it.
On thinking about your comment the resources needed to prop up socialists regimes, or whatever, no longer exits. What comes next is: THE REVENGE OF THE PEASANTS.
Doesn't matter what you are terrified of (Hahaha!), shortages are driving the changes now occurring. All hierarchies collapse, this time it will be global in reach. Whether peasants revenge all the totalitarian rules and deaths they have suffered over the centuries, or not, is the right question.
The fact that the planet is flooded with clueless addicted people who rush through their lives does not alter the potential for a real reset back to the past. The elite and all those who depend on this fascist system will fail but there will be plenty of people who know how to take care of themselves going forward.
Doesn't matter what the people who don't know how to take care of themselves think.
Not driven by revolution at all, driven by the lack of resources that prop up the system (all that people now depend on for an easy lifestyle).
Oooh, looking forward to this. I’ve read the book ages ago and recently wanted to get a hard copy. None available in the UK but thankfully there is a German one.
That’s certainly part of the picture - so why are there so many young westerners pushing for socialism? This is why we need a complete analysis of theory and manifestation of the socialist phenomenon which we will work through. I’m sure not one of those young socialists in the democratic west want to experience yet another failed socialist experiment - their heads are filled with a fantasy utopian dream - we need to burst their bubble.
As my friend Julia explained to me, she and husband (both engineers) refused to discuss their experience with others, even their only child. The old saw 'little pitchers have big ears' was deeply engrained to the point of paranoia. Julia didn't discuss Russian life with her daughter (45 yo hollywood liberal) until the scamdemic hit. Julia was sure communist tanks would be rolling up her driveway and she broke down, spilling her guts.
I think offspring (both young and old), have been protected to the point of incapacity. I know I struggled with what to teach my own child about the world.
I get the inability to bring up trauma like this, but for the sake of generations to come the trauma needs to be expressed. Otherwise, like Julia's daughter, the next generation will believe the propaganda, the visions of utopia, and fall into the trap like so many before.
Interesting that Shavarevich is popping up in the alt media. The Occidental Observer just published a great article about Shavarevich's essay, "Russophobia."
That is interesting- I was introduced to him about a year ago, mentioned it to Harrison Koehli a number of months back, and now I am seeing more of him pop up - Good time for it!
But meanwhile the amoral (even nihilistic) adolescent TV created and driven anti-culture of competitive individualism, has via global capitalism inevitably, brought both humankind and the biosphere too to the point of meltdown.
We are (collectively) both amusing and consuming ourselves to death - one of the meanings of the word consume is to destroy.
When the entire human world founds itself on the adolescent motive t aggrandize the separate (and always separative) ego-"I", then everyone is collectively working toward the destruction not only of human culture and mankind itself, but even of the Earth itself, the very vehicle that supports life.
Such an anti-culture of mere individuals does not need, and cannot even tolerate, a true culture - because a true culture must, necessarily, be characterized (in its best, and even general, demonstrations,and, certainly, in its aspirations) by mutual tolerance, cooperation, peace, and profundity of understanding and doings. Therefore, societies based on competitive individualism, gross self-fulfillment and/or superficial mindedness actually destroy culture (and all, until then, existing cultures, and cultural adaptations - which of course it has already done so with all-the-way-down-the-line potentially catastrophic consequences.
TV has created a human world which has become collectively insane, a collective lunatic asylum, a psychotic soap opera. That absurd soap opera actually controls the destiny and experience of the total world of human beings, a tower of Babel/babble - and that absurd soap opera is, in its root disposition, totally indifferent to the well-being of both human life and of the natural world altogether.
Both big business and big finance now control the entire world. Together they wield more power than any government, including the US.
Some references:
The Blue Commons Rescuing the Economy of the Sea by Guy Standing
Servants of the Damned Giant Law Firms and the Corruption of Justice by David Enrich
When Corporations Ruled the World by David Korten.
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man Perkins - there never was anything remotely like a "free" market
Thanks for sharing some of your experiences - so important to hear these stories - looking forward to more of your input as we go through this book!
Thanks so much for sharing your "lived experience" (lol). I hope you move to New Hampshire, we can use more born shitlords like you.
"The cabal's job is to keep an eye on this fine balance between their levels of oppression and their victims' breaking point and at this stage it looks like they will be safe for a while."
This is true, but fortunately they suck at their jobs.
This article does a good job explaining why they're going to try for a "carbon credit" based system https://bombthrower.com/hear-me-out-personal-carbon-allowances-as-sound-money/
The Fed recently announced there will be no CBDC from them, so that's out.
If they do issue some sort of alternative, I expect it will be with some sort of guaranteed basic income, in which case using it to get things you need before it all goes tits up.
Get to know your local producers of everything, and see if they're open to parallel currencies, silver, BTC, nuts/bolts/screws/washers/ammo/whatever.
If you have to sell something and someone wants to pay in their CarbonFuckBux, charge them double, offer them the regular price in alternatives and barter.
This transition period won't last long, once we're through it the real fun starts.
We'll all have to decide if CarbonFuckBux offered are worth it with a high premium at the time of transaction (you might be able to do something useful with them, e.g. paying taxes). There's also going to be a lot of "over and under" transactions, e.g. price is 10k CarbonFuckBux and 10oz of silver, otherwise it's 25k CFB, etc., etc.
We already have better things for money, gold (easily determined to be genuine by comparing size/weight, tungsten is 5% off the density of gold), silver (you can flick and "ring" it), BTC (quick transactions via the lightning network), Monero, and barter (25 9mm for a dozen eggs sounds about right, currently).
I love a good series.
Just for you my dear Mr Charrington. And more series coming soon! It will be a veritable series fest!
All socialist experiments fail. Any political or cultural "ist" fails actually.
Those of us who have habituated to this western fascist business model/lifestyle won't like the coming changes, but I doubt the socialists will have a say in it.
Plenty of people who would act on demand.
On thinking about your comment the resources needed to prop up socialists regimes, or whatever, no longer exits. What comes next is: THE REVENGE OF THE PEASANTS.
Doesn't matter what you are terrified of (Hahaha!), shortages are driving the changes now occurring. All hierarchies collapse, this time it will be global in reach. Whether peasants revenge all the totalitarian rules and deaths they have suffered over the centuries, or not, is the right question.
The fact that the planet is flooded with clueless addicted people who rush through their lives does not alter the potential for a real reset back to the past. The elite and all those who depend on this fascist system will fail but there will be plenty of people who know how to take care of themselves going forward.
Doesn't matter what the people who don't know how to take care of themselves think.
Not driven by revolution at all, driven by the lack of resources that prop up the system (all that people now depend on for an easy lifestyle).
Oooh, looking forward to this. I’ve read the book ages ago and recently wanted to get a hard copy. None available in the UK but thankfully there is a German one.
My Russian friend, 83, who emigrated from the Mother Land succinctly explained socialism to me, an American.
If you own a house, the govt can forcefully move a family into it, a shared space,
first one family, then two, three, each living in one bedroom and sharing the communal spaces,
and so on until you are moved out of "your" home into a flat,
first with one other family, then two --
well, you get the picture,
no?
That’s certainly part of the picture - so why are there so many young westerners pushing for socialism? This is why we need a complete analysis of theory and manifestation of the socialist phenomenon which we will work through. I’m sure not one of those young socialists in the democratic west want to experience yet another failed socialist experiment - their heads are filled with a fantasy utopian dream - we need to burst their bubble.
Winston,
As my friend Julia explained to me, she and husband (both engineers) refused to discuss their experience with others, even their only child. The old saw 'little pitchers have big ears' was deeply engrained to the point of paranoia. Julia didn't discuss Russian life with her daughter (45 yo hollywood liberal) until the scamdemic hit. Julia was sure communist tanks would be rolling up her driveway and she broke down, spilling her guts.
I think offspring (both young and old), have been protected to the point of incapacity. I know I struggled with what to teach my own child about the world.
I get the inability to bring up trauma like this, but for the sake of generations to come the trauma needs to be expressed. Otherwise, like Julia's daughter, the next generation will believe the propaganda, the visions of utopia, and fall into the trap like so many before.
Thanks so much for sharing - so important!
Interesting that Shavarevich is popping up in the alt media. The Occidental Observer just published a great article about Shavarevich's essay, "Russophobia."
https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2022/09/30/igor-shafarevich-and-the-jews/
That is interesting- I was introduced to him about a year ago, mentioned it to Harrison Koehli a number of months back, and now I am seeing more of him pop up - Good time for it!
Thanks for the link - will have a read.
Looking forward to this have just ordered the book to follow along.
Socialism is definitely not the answer.
But meanwhile the amoral (even nihilistic) adolescent TV created and driven anti-culture of competitive individualism, has via global capitalism inevitably, brought both humankind and the biosphere too to the point of meltdown.
We are (collectively) both amusing and consuming ourselves to death - one of the meanings of the word consume is to destroy.
When the entire human world founds itself on the adolescent motive t aggrandize the separate (and always separative) ego-"I", then everyone is collectively working toward the destruction not only of human culture and mankind itself, but even of the Earth itself, the very vehicle that supports life.
Such an anti-culture of mere individuals does not need, and cannot even tolerate, a true culture - because a true culture must, necessarily, be characterized (in its best, and even general, demonstrations,and, certainly, in its aspirations) by mutual tolerance, cooperation, peace, and profundity of understanding and doings. Therefore, societies based on competitive individualism, gross self-fulfillment and/or superficial mindedness actually destroy culture (and all, until then, existing cultures, and cultural adaptations - which of course it has already done so with all-the-way-down-the-line potentially catastrophic consequences.
TV has created a human world which has become collectively insane, a collective lunatic asylum, a psychotic soap opera. That absurd soap opera actually controls the destiny and experience of the total world of human beings, a tower of Babel/babble - and that absurd soap opera is, in its root disposition, totally indifferent to the well-being of both human life and of the natural world altogether.
Both big business and big finance now control the entire world. Together they wield more power than any government, including the US.
Some references:
The Blue Commons Rescuing the Economy of the Sea by Guy Standing
Servants of the Damned Giant Law Firms and the Corruption of Justice by David Enrich
When Corporations Ruled the World by David Korten.
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man Perkins - there never was anything remotely like a "free" market