Destructivism
The Path to Self-Destruction
Published Articles 2008-2010
Some sort of thinking process in action,
without trying to be too alarmist,
what is this existence all about?
Roland Michel Tremblay
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Summary
Used to
be ashamed of existence, of these words thrown out here and there for anyone to
read, and wondered for a while if it was necessary, essential, worth anything.
Of course, it depends on what one writes about, and how much suffering and
understanding have been added to the matter. There are blogs out there, novels,
entertainment, and perhaps philosophy, what deals with the existence, the
universe, the primary questions for which there will never be any answer. This
is how philosophy can be recognised, if there is no answer to the question.
This is what is being discussed here.
I hope
you understand that this book has no answer to offer, but might just help you
identify the real questions one needs to ask. Be wary of any ready made answers
you might get to these essential questions in life, wherever or from whoever these
answers might come from. I believe that in the end only you, on a personal
level, can answer for yourself any of the questions posed in this book.
If you
were to write a similar book one day, trying to answer what this life is all
about, I’m sure you would come up with totally different answers. I feel there
might not be any ready made answers in this world for the main questions the
human race might wish to ask. And yet, I feel it important to ask those
questions and try to figure out the answers. I did it for myself here, you
might want to consider doing it for yourself as well. It could help us all in
the end.
Before I start, I need to remind myself about this most
fundamental question: what I write here, what it is that I feel about these
different topics, is it just what I think in the here and now, and tomorrow I
could write something else? I cannot deny that if I were to live another 50
years, and decide to rewrite that same book with the same subtitles, I would
definitely write a totally different book, just like it would have been if I
had written it when I was 18.
This book
is not intended to be philosophical in the first place, and I am not writing it
so it will get published and get some recognition. It is purely a need for me
to write it, the need to ask myself these questions and see if, for myself, I
can reach some sort of answers which will help my existential crisis. I could
be writing commercial stuff instead, but I cannot help it, I needed to write Destructivism.
Also, I
want this book to be accessible, understandable, not boring and sending
everyone to sleep by talking and talking about one specific subject for over
100 pages, after having read all the other authors and regurgitating here all
that they have said, and then adding my little bit to it.
I wish
now I had not read about determinism. I had something to say about it
before-hand, now, I’ll be lucky if any inspiration comes to me. And what I will
be writing now might no longer be my own ideas, no longer be simple or to the
point, it needs to take everything else into consideration. Spontaneity is
good, a thinking process in action, no more than a few pages on any subject
without any long term research, or else, I might just waste 25 years writing a
book I can write in a month.
And I am
not certain if after a long research and 25 years, this book would be any
better. It could be worse, because then I would be unreachable and you would
need a degree in philosophy to understand me. As soon as I would start to
mention the Compatibilists and the Libertarians in the context of Determinism,
that would be it, you would be lost. I would need to write another book on top
of my book just to explain all those concepts to you and what everyone else
said on the topic. And now you know why it would take me 25 years and why
philosophy bores you to death.
I hope
you will enjoy this light philosophy, enough to get you thinking about some
important questions that philosophy through the ages has been debating.
Fortunately for you, I ignored the whole branch about logic and the veracity of
arguments. Unfortunately for me, I will be such an easy target to anyone who
will try to find some holes in my arguments, that perhaps I should keep this
book to myself.
You will
find many contradictions in this book, and I believe it is all right. Because
human beings are full of contradictions, it is in our nature. Someone who never
contradicts himself is a liar and most probably adjusted his ideas and truths
to fit the whole of his logic, when in fact his logic might have been flawed
from the start. So sometimes I will believe in God, and some other times, I
will act like if I never met the guy, that in fact, I don’t believe he even
existed. I met Santa Claus though, many times, and I believe in Santa Claus.
The whole first part of this book (Politics) has been
published as articles on many progressive websites. At the time we were
fighting to get George W. Bush out of the picture. I may eventually edit this
book so it is more general, less related to actual events. They were mostly
published on five websites: OpEdNews, Atlantic Free Press, The People’s Voice,
Dandelion Salad and Scoop. The most complete and comprehensive list of my
published articles taken out of this book can be found here:
http://www.opednews.com/author/author16270.html
I
understand I am quite cynical and pessimistic, well, lucky you if your life is
like a gentle opened flower, mine is not.
Destructivism
The Path to Self-Destruction
Humankind’s future: social and political Utopia or Idiocracy?
By some coincidence in the last three days I read Men Like
Gods of H. G. Wells and watch the films Idiocracy, City of
Should we be planning colonies and ship them into space or
below ground, like, right now? Is it because we feel the end of humanity is fast
becoming, that we are far reaching the end of all our broken institutions, that
suddenly the topic of our future, or lack of it, is so pro-eminently featured
even in children’s films? The topic is not new, H. G. Wells’ discourse in Men
Like Gods is so up to date with what is happening today, even though it was
written in 1923, that one must believe nothing has changed socially and politically
for the last 100 years.
We don’t trust the government, any reasonable mind does not
trust organised religion, we feel betrayed in a world where no one is working
towards a better humanity for everyone, where most likely huge corporations
including financial institutions control everything, without a thought for
anyone’s wellbeing.
We have to admit that our morals and ethics’ record on this
planet has already passed the custody threshold many times over, this record shows
no sign of getting better. So much for H. G. Wells’ Utopia, we will need
another 3000 years to change our ways of thinking and our ways of going about
things socially and politically. After a few revolutions, civil wars and world
wars, no doubt.
In the film Idiocracy, based on the idea that the strongest
in nature will always be in power and go on to procreate over the more
intelligent ones or nerds, we end up with a future where civilization has
forgotten everything, a dumb down humanity. We still have technology and what
remains from the past, but no one can fix it. So planes crash all the time on
the streets whilst no one cares, watching TV instead on their Toilet-La-Z-Boys.
The richest company is one selling weird fizzy energy drinks
and they are mostly in charge of dictating our lifestyle and the government, to
the point were they killed every plant in the world, watering them with this
toxic drink. The American President is a Black Rock Star who has no clue what
to do to save this world, but knows how to entertain the nation, in a world
craving reality TV, fights and destruction. In some ways we might already be
living in that kind of future, to a lesser degree perhaps.
In WALL-E it is even better. We have already self-destruct,
humanity is all dead except this trash robot called WALL-E who still cleans our
mess, what remains of humanity. They were clever enough to send a spaceship
into space with a colony of people who would be coming back once the world war
was over. However that war was a mass extinction event (what can you expect in
the nuclear age) and they were told never to come back. And so they remained
travelling in the universe for 700 years, until such time that one plant is
found on Earth and a probe goes back to the ship to let them know it’s time to
come back to Earth. So they end up coming back and presumably build a better
world.
It is nevertheless a very bleak future. Not only the human
race self-annihilated, but on top of it the future of humanity on that ship are
all obese people who can’t even walk, laying on their anti-gravity bed-chairs,
plugged into the Internet or television permanently, to the extent that they
barely notice the world around them, all that publicity choking their little
spaceship. Once again the famous drink is on the menu, as it is their sole food.
The City of
In these three films there are still a government, a strong
hierarchy, authority and law enforcement officers, whether they are humans or
machines. The films are about a vision or version of our future, just before or
right after humanity self-destruct.
In a way it is about corruption, isolation, individualism,
living within our own bubble universe, festering in entertainment whilst the
technology and robots replaced the slaves and the servants, whilst all around
us we cannot see that everything is decaying and that our lifestyle has already
destroyed the planet. We don’t even need another world war at this point,
global warming will finish us off fairly soon. We can no longer reverse it, our
days on Earth are numbered. With any luck I might witness the end of humanity
within my lifetime.
This is not even being alarmist, this is being realistic.
Now you understand my despair, I cannot lose myself in frivolities, like this TV
series called Life After People, whilst some people are working so hard to
destroy the planet at any cost, through doing nothing ecologically and promoting
exploitation and wars. There must be a limit to their greed for wealth and
power, a limit prompting us to stop them somehow.
In Men Like Gods of H. G. Wells, a book that inspired Brave
New World of Aldous Huxley, Mr. Barnstaple is a political writer from the left
who passes virtually just where I live in real life, Hounslow, continuing
towards
They find themselves in a world where there is no more
government, no police force or prisons, but is still some sort of New World
Order, where they decided to eliminate most of the population as to make this
world sustainable. There are now about 200 million inhabitants on Earth and
there are no more social classes or big cities. It does not take long for the
Secretary of State for War, the Conservative Leader and the Priest, to plan a
take over of Utopia to recreate the hell we’re living in right now.
These utopians are from a parallel universe similar to ours
but they are 3000 years more advanced in the future, living in a perfect
socialist world governed by everyone and no one in particular. Where there is
no more money, you take what you need and there are plenty of resources to go
around in such a loving and peaceful world of equal human beings. They walk naked,
there is no more marriage, they sleep with whoever they want in total freedom.
No jealousy, no pettiness, no competition. The scientific world does not work
against each other for profit or recognition, they work together humbly and
reach results much faster than we could ever hope to.
H. G. Wells seems to hope that perhaps in time we will
reach that kind of balance in the world. Not before a world government takes
hold of the world, and some Big Brother State gets to know everything about
everyone, in a world where at least we could trust the government, or after larger
revolutions, a world where no one ever lies. And you remain, at the end of this
novel, wondering if this could ever come true, if somehow this utopian world
could ever exist without actually rapidly becoming our new nightmare.
So what is our future? A Utopia or an Idiocracy? I don’t
mean the future we all wish for, but the one we can realistically expect if we
continue on the same trends we follow today. We are still very warlike, going
to war without much provocation, still stealing natural resources of others. We
are still about taking advantage of human beings, exploitation, using them for
our own personal benefit, and it even applies to us being the servants of the
richer people of this world.
A Nuclear Third World War is inevitable at this time, quite
soon we could predict, quite rightly. And if somehow humanity ever shows
suddenly a strong desire to see real change happen, to liberate itself from the
ones who still have a strong hold on them, in a world where we all know there’s
never been a real democracy to speak of, we may consider a massive civil war or
revolution is on the way at some point in the future. Maybe after such nightmarish
events we will be in a position to recreate a better world, if there is anyone
left to recreate such a world.
H. G. Wells is quite clear that no sudden change ever
worked in the past history of those utopians. Instead he believes that it is
only through small changes, hard working authors and thinkers like his Mr.
Barnstaple, people going ahead to help humanity on their own without waiting
for a government who is not willing… only then in time the world changes into
this socialist utopia, or at the very least something better for humankind than
what we are witnessing today and have been for many centuries. Should we not
have finished with all these struggles by now? Is there really any kind of
evolution in this world? We’re all so tired, don’t we deserve peace and
happiness?
So let’s work in the details, let’s identify everything
that does not work or work well, anything that does not profit everyone instead
of the few, and see how we can change the world slowly in time to benefit
humanity as a whole. If we do not, in parallel of those who are in power, build
our own institutions for humankind, we will never even get a glimpse of what
this world could truly be like, living in harmony, peace and happiness.
Oh, I had enough of Idiocracies, I really need an instant
Utopia. I practically live in Slough, an armpit of a place, it is where they filmed
The Office, our miserable existence that caught
Creating The Global Nonprofit Corporation, The Ultimate
Cooperative
At the end of my last article about the future of humankind
as either being a Utopia or an Idiocracy, I stated that if we do not in parallel
of those who are in power build our own institutions for humankind, we will
never even get a glimpse of what this world could truly be like. It got me
thinking about creating a Global Nonprofit Corporation, the Ultimate Cooperative.
First of all the idea in not new: there are many
cooperatives of all sorts in this world, with many hard thinkers who
established it all in the first place. It is a wonder they never proliferated
as one would think they should have. I invite you to follow this link on
Wikipedia and from there follow the many links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative
The idea to create such a cooperative is also not new. When
I was 4 years old I remember asking my parents how the corner shop and the pre-kindergarten
establishment they sent me to could actually survive, as it never seemed to me,
even at that age, that they could make enough money to pay their bills (unless
they were selling drugs on the side). I was not even 7 years old when I first
thought of creating a global nonprofit corporation acting in just about every
domain of society. At 10 I had it already all planned out in my mind.
At the time I fancied myself as quite the entrepreneur. I
told my mother many times that I would be a billionaire before I reached 30.
And I would have, if somehow along the way I had not become a poet, to the great
dismay of my parents. The very definition of a poet is that they die in utter
poverty. I’ve moved on since then, don’t worry: I barely wasted 20 years of my
life in the process. Nothing to worry about, since it all led me to tell you
all this now. I never forgot my initial purpose in this life.
It taught me something – that money is less important than
happiness – freedom, freedom of thought, this feeling of being part of something
larger than oneself. Oh dear, I was no longer a poet then, I had become an
idealist, a utopian lost in his dreams of changing the world. It could be
worse, I could have become an anarchist, but I always remained quite realistic,
still to this day.
My childhood dream was quite simple, and even then, without
knowing much about the great world of corporations, the capitalist system, the
law in such regards to cooperatives, and so on, I had one single idea that I
think today is still perfect, in such thinking that only a child incapable of
complicating everything, until you no longer have a cooperative, could think.
I was going to buy as cheaply as I could and sell without
profit, except to provide for my own survival, that was all. My God, if this
could be done on a massive scale nationally and internationally, I could truly make
a difference in this world!
No one would ever be starving again – all within the
capitalist system I grown into. I had no need to rethink the whole political
and economical spectrum, I only needed to act within those systems. I did not
see a problem, there was no need to change the world in the process (what did I
know anyway of anything at that time). The idea is still very sound.
We’ve got to be realistic. Capitalism is here to stay. We
just bailed out all major financial institutions at great cost – trillions – so
they could go on forever. We had our chance right there to change everything
overnight, but now it is gone. We will live in our economic system for many
decades to come. And so it is with our normal capitalist corporations: they are
here to remain, forever.
Nothing will change for quite a while at least, perhaps
never. And I don’t think we the people have it in us to change very much, never
mind any revolution or civil war that might happen at some point in the future.
I know now we are not ready for that, and it’s okay, no need to worry. We can
change the world anyway, no matter what is going on in this world. Isn’t that
reassuring? I thought so. So just listen to this:
In order to create our own institutions for humankind, to
help us all, it has got to be built from within that capitalist system in which
everything evolves. There is no point having the mentality of a socialist or
even a libertarian socialist (often called anarchism), when everything and
everyone else around you obey the laws of capitalism. It is obviously either
doomed to failure or it remains a very isolated case of a cooperative that can
only benefit a few over the many.
Now, this is quite important. I have just read that page on
Wikipedia about cooperatives, and other pages linked to it, and I can see why
it has never worked and always remained (when it was successful) quite an
isolated phenomenon. Even banks that started as cooperative decades ago have
all become today capitalist financial institutions like any other. That tells
you all, doesn’t it?
Well, this is where I want to start – creating a nonprofit
financial institution that truly is nonprofit, and will remain so forever. And
from there, finance all sorts of cooperatives that will keep in mind, if not
follow, some sort of established charter about what we the people truly need.
This global nonprofit company needs to start with the
basics. Banking, then construction, then real estate, then supermarkets selling
groceries and clothes and anything we all need on a daily basis, and also
manufacturing. All nonprofit, on a major scale, an international, a global
nonprofit corporation.
You see, I am not that bothered with these profits going to
the employees or consumers or partners/members to the enterprise. I am only
worried about one thing, that we provide for everything anyone might ever need,
without any kind of profit whatsoever. So no one should by right own the
corporation. The global company should just ensure it provides all the services
and products at a minimum of profit.
Any profit, and yes there will be some profit, will go to
create the next big venture in the global nonprofit corporation. But at the end
of the day, if you were to produce and sell something at a fraction of profit
of any other competitor, any such venture will be highly profitable. So I’m not
worried, every one of the ventures of the global nonprofit corporation cannot
fail, but will be sustainable.
I am no longer talking about a cooperative I’m afraid, and
that is good believe me. Governments decided to regularise cooperatives, and
quite strongly I might add. So the idea of calling this international
corporation “The Cooperative” is gone. Anyway, none of its members or consumers
or employees would benefit directly from it, it would all work under the
capitalist system, like a real corporation, without wishing to make a profit.
Paid employees and employment creation for sure, but
profiting from such a cooperative? No one will except the people – all of us in
society. The need of the many over the need of the few. But I am not against
helping any cooperative of any form to be created, and to financing them.
But I am talking about a global nonprofit organisation,
dealing in every domain of society, and that cannot but benefit all. Ensuring
not only the lowest price for houses, cars, clothing and food, but also providing
the quality we have been used to.
Retailers at the moment take 40% profit, on top of the 20%
of the distributor, and perhaps on top of the 20% of the manufacturer. Then
there are taxes the government takes at every transaction. You understand the
need to create such a corporation that will deliver from manufacturing, to
distributing, to retailing, without trying to make a profit, perhaps even
somehow evading government taxes in the process as a nonprofit organisation, a
charity of some sort – why not?
Maybe I am just a dreamer. Perhaps I have not thought about
all this more than I did when I was just a kid, but it seemed so simple to me
when I was 10 years old, and perhaps it is that simple after all. All I need is
the backup of billionaires truly willing to help the world; I am thinking about
Warren Buffet and Bill Gates. And perhaps there are other billionaires or
multimillionaires out there who feel they want to help the world, and go on to
help create such a huge “nonprofit corporation” that could eventually grow to
help billions in the world. And if we were to start with retail, I suppose not that
much money would be required.
Cooperatives are not illegal, even when it comes to
banking. But they all went haywire in time and never seemed to bring lower
prices and helping communities as they should have. I am even surprised such
cooperatives have not multiplied in time, why is it that we barely can see
them, or take advantage of their low price services and products? Why are they
no different from any other capitalist corporation out there?
Well, we just have not yet created the right global nonprofit
corporation, that is all, and that is what I am proposing. Encouraging along
the way, and financing, any other smaller organisation willing to espouse the same
principles of nonprofit organisation, and helping the community at large.
And now there is one more thing I must stress. I am not
talking about anarchism or socialism here, for I propose a pure capitalist
corporation that is simply not intending to make a profit, just to sustain
itself and help itself develop to all domains of society.
It is true that none of the employees or members will profit
more whilst the corporation is becoming more successful, as it cannot fail to
be successful, eliminating all the competition around. But I will not be
willing to recreate the nightmare of the actual corporate structure. I dare
say, who cares if you can buy a house, a car, a boat, food and clothes cheaper,
if in the end it does not make you happier? We all need to be happy at work. No
need for a utopia to be created for this to happen, it only depends on us all.
The whole usual corporate structure and hierarchy in such
an organisation I am planning needs to go. Whilst the structure will be well
defined, salaries paid, and a minimum of profit going to help create more of
the same worldwide, it remains that there is still room to rethink the
corporate hierarchy and management, to a more democratic process of all the
employees together, without any kind of identified supremacy.
Let’s face it, if this extraordinary massive scale project
is to create millions of jobs and help the economy, I want every single
employee to take part in all the decisions and be as happy as can be. This is not
exploitation I am proposing. It is a massive undertaking to bring happiness,
joy and a worthy standard of living to everyone on this planet. A lot of
thinking and planning will be required before this starts, I can tell you.
Okay! I am willing to start to plan this project, which is
not a utopia, so we can help as many people as we can. Perfect timing, we’re in
a recession. Please contact me with your ideas. And if you have money and you
are willing to jump start such a nonprofit corporation, please contact me.
I think we could do good in this world, we could achieve
something that should have been done a long time ago, something that is allowed
under our actual laws, that could truly become the only competition anyone ever
feared in such a capitalist system.
We cannot change our economic system, we cannot change our
capitalist market, we cannot even change our government and its ways of
thinking and going about everything. But in parallel to it all we can plan the
best ever cooperative or nonprofit corporation the world ever saw.
Please feel free to create such smaller organisations with
the same spirit as expressed here, for we’re in desperate need of new ways of
going about things in this world. And if somehow we could make it global, to
help us all, what a dream come true that would be. That would be something
worth living for, worth working towards.
I have pledged that I would change this world somehow. I
seek a donation. Don’t worry, I am not seeking a donation from you. I am
seeking one worthy donation from one multimillionaire. From there, the
nonprofit corporation will take over. New banking, manufacturing, constructing,
distributing, retailing, without any profit. All employees deciding the fate of
their organisation, without suffering too much the corporate hierarchy or
management. Better remain good and hard working, or else others will get you
out.
But I’m only thinking about our happiness, to get
everything we need without having all those third parties making a fortune on
our back, not even the government through taxes at every level. If somehow all
could come to you without someone making a profit at every turn, we might be
able to afford living, we might afford to survive, to be happy, to change this
world without having to change it, by changing this world from within. All by
building our own humanitarian institutions in parallel of everything else that
might exist in this world.
My God, I am idealistic, am I? And yet, I feel, I just
feel, it is within our reach. It can be done. We can make it happen! I don’t
intend to change anything within this world, I only intend to use all that already
exists, all that we can use, in order to build exactly what we always needed,
and I find that nothing is stopping us but our ability to organise. It can be
done on a small scale or a massive scale. Let’s get to work! Now, isn’t that
revolutionary?
If we have to work on an imperfect government structure, and
can only change a few things here and there, here are at least a few solutions.
I have observed politics in three countries in my short
life, United Canada,
I say “his”, because it is less often a woman who would act
so blindly against everyone else’s will. For that alone, I am willing to only
vote for women in the future, but I have met many power hungry women in
position of authority within my lifetime, and so, we can never be sure or safe.
It is really a question of transparency about who we do elect to power. Who are
they truly deep down, do we even get to really know, considering all the lies
we are being fed all the time?
I have never read Karl Marx or anything about communism or
socialism, for some reason when they came to my universities to recruit new
fresh minds, I never got on the boat. After my observations, I took several
courses in the philosophy of politics in University, and I guess I must have
read then about socialism, somehow it didn’t stick, I can’t remember anything
about it. I remember The Social Contract
of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Hobbes and Locke and most especially The Prince of Machiavelli. Now that this
is out of the way, that you know that I am no expert on the topic, like neither
anyone in politics if I may add, let’s see what I think of it.
I know that the American political structure was inspired
by Charles de Montesquieu who lived in
From an early age I always thought politics didn’t work.
For some reason, even though the process looked entirely democratic, we always
ended up voting for parties instead of people, and hence, we always seemed to
elect the wrong people. It has been my observation that it is quite rare that
someone in power will actually do what people actually want. It always ends up
in disaster, and sometimes we even re-elect the same horrible people, and no
one can understand why.
I’m not going to talk here about pettiness, like should we
separate
I simply want to talk about politics at its most basic
function and structure, because this is what I feel does not work and
ultimately fails us all. This is what can give the power to anyone to suddenly
create a world war or destroy an entire economy for the wrong reasons.
When I was a teenager, I always thought that one day I
would write a book about the philosophy of politics, and my classes at
university re-enforced my need to do so. However, up until now I didn’t feel I
had all the answers yet, in fact, I’m not sure if I have any at all. It is
certainly not the easiest topic to address, especially when I feel that a
radical change in the structure itself is required. I have however come to a
few conclusions.
The idea of political parties needs to go. It is the most
outdated and impractical concept there ever was in politics. More so because in
this day and age, the line is so blurred between party lines, there is not much
difference if you vote for one or the other.
The only difference is a few main big ideas like being
against gays, against abortion, against women’s rights (should they remain at
home and have babies as their sole social role), should we give more money to
big corporations, should we give more money to the poor, and finally, the big
argument that cannot fail to win you an election: should we lower the taxes (as
if this was a question to ask anyone already paying 60% of their salary in
taxes of all sorts).
Now, these few main big ideas, which truly have nothing to
do with any political party, as for most of the time these will be completely
at the back of their mind and they will most probably do nothing or very little
about it, does not have to be the reasons why you vote for a political party.
These can be debated anyway by all the elected representatives. If you paid
more attention to the personal beliefs and ideas of your local representatives
instead of the political party you will vote for, you would know if the person
you’re about to elect will be a little tyrant and alienate you completely or
not.
That
little group of local politicians is really all you need to study in order to
vote, nothing else. By electing a political party, you most likely vote for the
representative of that party without knowing anything about who that person
truly is and what that person can truly do for you. Most of the time these
people are so powerless anyway, their elections are more like a formality for a
party to get into power, and then the Prime Minister and his Cabinet, or the
President and his few allies, take over the show.
So in
essence, you will be ruled by a very small group of people. And your local
representatives, you will know very little about, and they will be powerless
anyway, without a voice of any kind. You see the main problem which needs to be
addressed?
By
getting rid of political parties and coming back to basics, we will also
eliminate another growing concern in actual politics. Now parties are spending
so much money on their elections, it goes into the millions if not billions.
What does this tell you? That only rich candidates can now get into power.
Where do they get the money? This invites bribery, corruption, conflict of
interests, and now we’re destroying
No one
can now compete freely in the political arena. If I were to present myself
tomorrow as an independent, I will most certainly lose. If I were the
representative somehow of a political party, I could win, but all for the wrong
reasons.
And even
so, how would I go, myself, right now, to represent a political party in an
election? I have no clue. I would probably not be accepted, they wouldn’t want
me. They already have a clique of hungry and greedy little friends who have been
in politics since forever, who will most likely be their representatives in my
own county when they probably don’t even live in my county.
So first,
eliminate political parties. Second, eliminate the right to publicise in any
way thinkable political ideas and representatives. No one should ever be
allowed to accept money from anyone or any corporation for a political
campaign. No one should be able to win an election simply by injecting billions
into a PR and publicity machine. It is too unfair.
As soon
as you hear one guy on the radio or the TV talking about this or that, no
matter what he talks about, you are probably very likely going to vote for him,
because you will recognise his name on the election ballot, when the others
will seem not to even exist. What’s a name after all? I won’t even talk about
negative publicity in order to destroy one’s opponent, a common practice
nowadays, where a divorce in the life of your opponent, is all you need to win
an election.
So now
that we have eliminated the political parties which elect the wrong type of
people, and that we have finally eliminated the big brainwashing publicity
machine that will most assuredly influence everyone to vote for this or that,
all for the wrong reasons, whilst preventing anyone without the money to be
heard, and so speaking destroying democracy, what do we do?
Simple.
Who pays for the publicity campaign? The government, meaning, and we forget it
all the time, the people pay for it. A few pages about each candidate
distributed locally to everyone, so we can find out about these people we’re
about to elect outside of party lines, and hopefully with the thought that they
can think for themselves, that they can be heard and that they can make a
difference. An hour here and there on local TV and radio, for each of them, space
available in local newspapers, all paid by the people. Cheaply done, no more
millions and billions spent on politics and publicity machines. It must remain
at a local level, never national. As soon as a political election is national,
it defies democracy, it elects the wrong people.
So now
that the elections are over, and that people have won for the right reasons,
without being a drain on the economy, without bribes and corruption, who’s going
to be the leader? It has always been the leader of the political party who took
ultimate power, and the leader of the opposition being the leader of the second
most popular party. This needs new thinking.
Well, I
feel we need to work towards a more democratic process where no one is so
clearly an all powerful leader, capable to veto everything, or unilaterally
make decisions with huge impacts upon the country and the world. Either the
leaders are decided after the elections by the people you elected, or in
parallel you also vote for anyone who presented himself or herself specifically
as leader. The opposition should be everyone else in the assembly.
The idea
is that no one should win a seat in an election based on that one man or woman
alone who runs for President or Prime Minister, since all the representatives
should be independent. So no one will win for the wrong reasons, and no leader
will be capable of obliging half the government to vote on any new law or
policy. Following the party line will be something of the past.
In the
end, there should never be a strong leader in charge of any country or any
other government or council, or else, it eliminates the voice of everyone else,
and so, your voice. It cancels the idea of an election and of democracy. Only
after, should it be decided who is the leader, or independently from anyone
else. And that leadership should never be permanent for the whole mandate, it
should change every so often.
This
should not stop there. The ministers or whatever they are called in the
I suppose
I have not thought about all this as much as would be required, really. But
with my full time job I have no time to study politics and develop my own
philosophy of it. It will have to wait until I retire, assuming I won’t die
from cancer at an early age or die in the Third World War or a civil war.
However,
my little suggestions might just give us a better representation of what people
truly want. It will be more likely that the wrong people will not find
themselves in power that easily. It could get rid of corruption, bring back
democracy, and avoid costly elections. Overall, my few pages might just do the
trick. If that doesn’t work, we’ll have to re-assess the situation then. In the
meantime, it would certainly solve a few of the biggest problems I witnessed in
politics today.
Let’s
debate if we need political parties or not, and let’s find solutions, so we can
have a better democracy, or even, so we can have a real democracy.
It is strange that I wrote this whole book before addressing the one subject
people are most likely to accuse me of in time, the one of being an anarchist
talking about anarchy. It did not cross my mind to write about anarchy, because
I never thought I was an anarchist. I realise now that perhaps I am a bit of an
anarchist in the closet.
People have accused me of being an anarchist because of the
title of my website, The Marginal, which ultimately was just the title of a book by Antonin Artaud,
the celebrated French author who died in 1948. His book was about a Roman
Emperor originally from
Being an anarchist, in my case, is like being gay. You know
deep down at heart that you are, that there is nothing you can do against your
nature, and that if that nature gets to be known, you will be ostracised by
everyone else, rejected, ridiculed and you are going to suffer the rest of your
life.
I am nevertheless suffering anyway, from a lack of freedom,
a lack of control in the decisions being made that concern me directly, from
these hierarchies everywhere present to which I need to bow down to and be
submissive.
To the point that I feel I am nothing less than a slave,
going through this life making the minimum of decisions, and then will go on
without any kind of freedom or control, and do exactly what all sorts of
authorities will tell me to do, at every single minute of my existence.
Be it the authority of parents, loved ones, teachers,
managers and directors, spiritual leaders, social workers, judges, probation
officers, police, political leaders through a myriad of laws and regulations.
Add to it CCTVs and cameras everywhere, and constant probing and recording of
phone calls, emails and the websites we visit, to ensure that we no longer have
an impure thought that goes against their will. Anything can and will be used
against us at some point in time, while everything we do is being recorded, and
the time of reckoning seems to be getting closer every day.
At some point you do feel the need to explode and tell them
all to stop, that enough is enough! That we feel the need to re-assert
ourselves, to exist, to make a few decisions of our own, to do what we want to
do with this life and that a little breathing space would not go amiss in our
life. Do we even have the time to think anymore? Are we free collectively to
decide what we want to do, are we able to stop our leaders in their grand
scheme of conquering the planet at the expense of humankind, our very
existence? The obvious answer is no.
Anarchists seem to believe that we can have a real
democracy, that it seems that our actual government structures and corporate
structures are all against the very idea of democracy and giving the citizens
the chance to rule themselves and make their own decisions. If citizens truly
had the power to govern themselves, the world would be a different place today.
This is what anarchists are fighting for, whether they are
extremists or intellectuals who would never dream of picking up a cocktail
Molotov or even walk outside in any demonstration. And this is perhaps why I
never thought I was an anarchist, because neither of these definitions of
anarchy befitted me. I am not extremist, I am a pacifist. I am not an
intellectual who will go on to write clever articles about what this kind of
anarchist system might look like. I would first certainly give it another name,
because either way you take it, the word anarchist and anarchy are too heavy
for anyone in their right mind. For them it would mean chaos and the end of the
world as we know it, they would be afraid of the word itself, so I could never
really write an anarchist book. On the other hand, I cannot deny that at heart
I share many of their beliefs and, in my own way, I have been fighting for the
same beliefs and freedoms in all of my books.
The fact that you are witnessing your leaders suddenly
openly declaring a Third World War and lightning the seed of civil war as the
only mean to stop it, is very significant. It shows that with the actual
structure of our governments, these hierarchies, supposedly democratic, the
leaders are still capable of working towards their own interests, destroy an
economy and go on to achieve genocides.
The democracy we have right now does not work. A man is
still able to control the elections, make all the decisions, change all the
laws superseding even the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the Human
Rights Charter, make torture legal, ignoring the United Nations, and go on to
wreck havoc in the world and bring about a global war. So, everything has
failed once again, and I wonder if we are not ready for a more radical change
in our structures and the ways we govern and organise ourselves.
Where have we gone wrong? What else could we do to change
this? Do anarchists, the intellectual ones, have the answer? They have provided
many alternatives to the kinds of established government structures and even
commercial company structures we have, where there is no more obvious leader
anywhere capable of taking over the world and leash out his evil plan.
There could be groups or collectives being formed on a
short, medium or long term basis discussing democratically all the decisions to
be made, and collectively deciding on who will do what depending on the needs
and skills. And if there is to be a leader, it will be a natural one who can be
constantly questioned and replaced as soon as it seems that he or she is no
longer acting in the interests of the whole group or collective, as anyone else
and everyone else could take over just like that.
In an anarchist organisation, for example, there would not
be a board of directors or an executive board. No leader, just a bunch of
people on the same level voluntary meeting, discussing and making decisions as
a whole for the organisation or the collective. When someone would ask who’s in
charge, the answer would be everyone, free from any authority and coercive
social relations, no corporate structure with an elite at the top making all
the wrong decisions.
I do not intend here to tell you what anarchist ideas are
all about, I admit that I am quite ignorant of such things and I have read
little on the subject. I have read enough though to know that there are good
ideas in there, and that it answers a lot of why I have been living an
existential crisis from the day I was born. Under such a structure, I might
have been happier, I just don’t know.
I am not sure how realistically all of this could be
implemented in real life. There are many people incapable of functioning
without clear leadership telling them exactly what to do. They are quite happy
to go on living without ever making one decision. And this is fine, naturally,
even in some anarchist system or structure, they will be able to find that, if
necessary. There will still be natural temporary leaders.
But although it may seem unrealistic that such a structure
could become the norm, a lot of these elements could be incorporated in the
actual systems and structures in order to become smoother and more acceptable
to all, and certainly prevent other leaders from taking over the place and
serving their own interests above all the rest of us. Solutions will need to be
found one way or another, and at this point I am willing to look for
inspiration anywhere in order for us to gain more freedom and live happier
lives.
So I feel what anarchists are writing is certainly worth
reading, considering and seeing what could possibly be incorporated, in default
to be able to change the whole system overnight.
Until at least our leaders destroy it all and that, after
another bloody war and a civil war, we are left with everything else to
rebuilt, aware of the mistakes of the past structures and systems. All
anarchists would be dead by then, and probably once again, all free thinkers,
all outspoken people against the governments, all gay people and all
immigrants. There are five good reasons for me to be eradicated. I will not
survive, that is obvious, and to be honest, I don’t really care that much. So I
might as well not be afraid to speak my mind and be ready to suffer the
consequences.
It is likely that even under an anarchist structure or
system, wars, corruption, and less desirable features plaguing our governments
rights now, would happen no matter what, as it does not appear that any
government structure can prevent them. Which is why that no matter which
government structure we have, we need to provide for a lot of ways for a quick
change of leadership, and that as soon as there is a bit of smoke, it is the
time to act before it is too late.
One can only dream that one day we will live under a real
democracy, and that we will finally govern ourselves for real, and that no
dictator ever could take over the world so easily while we are all too busy to
pay attention until it is right there under our nose and that we are all
powerless to stop it.
Is pure capitalism a religion we have taken too far? Pure
capitalism and pure greed to the extreme is now our only religion.
I feel it is difficult to speak of capitalism as a whole,
without falling in numerous traps and being accused of not knowing what I am
talking about. So first thing I did was to go on Wikipedia, then I stopped
myself. Don’t get me wrong, I will read it and say what I think of it, but
first capitalism must be, before anything else, what the people inside really
feel it is. Not the perfect book definition that we all wish it to be, because
in practice we know capitalism has evolved into something else, that many
consider a real monster and threat to humanity.
This point becomes clearer when we read Karl Marx and his
ideas of a perfect socialism, which in real life has been the breeding ground
of corruption and governments’ hidden agendas, who drove us all to utter
failure. I read a bit of Karl Marx a long time ago, I like to say I didn’t, and
yes, I was charmed by it. In reality, what I have observed of what we have done
in his name, has alarmed me so much, the only solution I could see was to
discredit the man, because no one ever again should use Karl Marx as any kind
of authority to justify the worst atrocities and injustices this humanity has
seen. I may talk more about this one day, right now I wish to define my own definition
of capitalism.
What is capitalism in your own mind? What is it in my mind?
Well, it is our new religion, it is all that we believe in. We claim it is our
way to freedom, the liberation of the masses, our chance to succeed beyond
measure at becoming filthy rich and powerful, no matter our background, our
education, our social class. Capitalism can be reduced to the American Dream.
In my total ignorance of what exactly is capitalism, I have
to say, yes, capitalism is wonderful! I want that chance to freedom, I want to
become filthy rich and powerful, I want to do what I want to do in this life,
nothing else. At this point I realise that I need to dig further. What else do
we believe it is?
Well, it is a system, an economic system upon which our
existence, our corporations, our governments base everything they think and do.
What it seems to be about is capital, making money, as much as one can, to the
detrimental of just about everything else in life. If the one at the top
prospers, we all prosper. A rich company will create jobs and should in theory
pay its employees well. The private sector is where capitalism is applied,
though even government agencies think in capitalist terms, and if there is a
way to make a profit in anything, we should certainly go for it and make tons
of money that could be re-invested somewhere else.
When I was a child, my parents never had with me the big
talk about capitalism and what it meant. They never told me what was expected
of me in such a system. Haven’t they? They certainly pushed my sister and I to
the limits. We had to have a great education, we had to succeed at any cost and
attend the best universities, we had to become rich and have a great status in
this society, the best job one can hope for. Medical, law and engineering were
the only obvious choices available to us. However, in retrospect, they were
misguided. No one becomes rich being a doctor, a lawyer or an engineer. Poor
shadows of what capitalism truly means.
Capitalism means starting your own business and building it
until it becomes a huge corporation employing thousands of people worldwide in
some sort of wonderful perfect globalised world. Lawyers in
Perhaps capitalism should never have been applied in
certain areas of our society. There is no need to become extreme, like in the
United States, or we will eventually reach a point where everything will come
crumbling down to dust, as we are witnessing right now in the stock exchange
market and financial sector. Too much greed will be our downfall, just as it
has always been throughout the ages.
At its most basic definition, I think it is fair to say
that what comes to mind to anyone when we talk about capitalism, is this law of
the offer and the demand. Let’s forget here about advertising and marketing,
forcing us to wish for things we would never have thought we needed in the
first place. We live in a society of consumerism, highly materialistic in
nature, where your only goal in life is to acquire as many possessions and
assets as you can, as it is how you will be judged and respected in society.
How much wealth you have will define how great a man or a woman you truly are,
your worthiness to exist. This is what the meaning of life has been reduced to
under capitalism, a game of Monopoly, and I dare you to deny it. It is such a
shame, as I do love to play Monopoly on my Nintendo DS. I am a product of my
generation, well, almost.
It’s okay, I am still not criticising capitalism that badly,
who knows, maybe it is the way to go. After all, what other system has brought
us anything better? None. Might seem a bit superficial, plastic, meaningless,
and so on, and on, and on. If one wishes to be the devil’s advocate in this
case, my God, that one could go on forever about how misplaced this whole
philosophy of life can be, and how more important stuff are actually… well,
much more important. Like, I don’t know, emancipation, happiness, finding a
meaning to our existence and figuring what is this place, the universe we live
in. Finding some peace about who we are and what we are supposed to do here, if
anything.
Freedom and happiness are still key to everything, we
should never forget that. I believe they tried to convince us that it was
embedded in the whole capitalism system. You are free to become a civil servant
doing admin for the rest of your life, or create your own business and become
as rich as your imagination and cleverness or shrewdness will lead you to.
Then, I suppose, capitalism only becomes a real problem to
you if you are just a civil servant with no thirst to becoming rich and
controlling the planet. Otherwise, wow, what a great life you can have, a real
challenge that will answer all your prayers, assuming you have totally espoused
the capitalist way of thinking. You might find later on in life that this was
after all a bit meaningless, but who cares. Whilst you were in the thick of it,
it seemed right, it was fulfilling, it was exciting, you can be proud of
yourself and your achievements, you certainly cannot be faulted for it, you
will be envied.
In order to get a better idea about how great capitalism
is, we need to turn to our models and heroes of capitalism. I reckon, that
should be anyone who has made over a billion dollars and who took the time
later on in life to write his or her autobiography, or at least who has given
us enough to understand how they truly felt about it. Then, we also need to
assess if they have not simply continued to play the game and are not just
telling us how great and successful they have been. I mean, a real turn around
to assess exactly and honestly how they feel about it all.
I can think of two great examples, perhaps the greatest
ever, Bill Gates and Warren Buffet. It does not matter who they are and how
they made it. If you do not know who they are, forget it. All you need to know
is that they made billions of dollars and build up the most successful
corporations this world has ever seen. And later on in life, they both seemed
to have suffered from some sort of existential crisis, and realised that
perhaps life and our values were not all that they should have been.
So now they have decided to turn the table around and help
the world with their fortune, by squandering their money away to every loser on
the planet who has never heard of capitalism or cannot even dream to ever find
out. The people who most probably suffered greatly at the hand of capitalism,
since no system ever could sustain itself without exploitation of others and
some sort of slavery in the form of cheap labour. Capitalism is not the
exception here, I’m afraid.
So, what do we learn from Gates and Buffett? That
capitalism is great indeed, but that it is not all there should be, and it
should not become a religion. That a good balance about everything in life
might actually bring more freedom and happiness. Greed is eternal, as the
Ferengi Commerce Authority would say, but there comes a point when it simply
becomes meaningless and cannot serve to justify one’s entire existence or
course of action, and certainly should not be the main principle upon witch the
whole of humanity should be based. Greed is not eternal after all in the Divine
Treasury after death. We should welcome entering the Vault of Eternal
Destitution at any time, as a sign that we figured it all out, what life is actually
really about, which cannot be a Blessed Exchequer. At least, I refuse to
believe it.
There are other models that we need to study. The ones born
and brainwashed into the capitalist system, driven to madness with this desire
to succeed at any cost, and who simply cannot make it. Ruined existences, by an
impossible desire responsible for a large percentage of the depression and
suicides in our society. It is a fact that, though we have produced time and
time again generations of people driven to succeed in such a system, it is
clear that only a very small percentage can actually succeed.
Is the hope of succeeding and freeing oneself, enough to
sustain such a system? Or is it time to wonder if our values are completely
misplaced and that, how we define success and ourselves in society, has to
change? Excellent question, you can ponder over that one to your heart’s
content, especially if you are a failure and worth absolutely nothing, which
statistically speaking, I’m sure you are.
Capitalism is certainly better than the previous feudal
system. Ironically, we could say that capitalism was sort of invented and made
popular in
Capitalism has a better track record than socialism, and is
clearly the winner over any kind of form of communism we have observed in this
world. I am however Canadian, and
Some American States have become a bit more socialist in time.
In conclusion, I won’t read the entry of capitalism on
Wikipedia. I don’t feel the need to bore myself to death. I think I said all
that I felt the need to say on the topic. Capitalism and socialism are what we
think they are, what we make them to be. Yes, I am charmed by Karl Marx and his
ideal world. I am also charmed by capitalism. There are also many ideas coming
from the anarchist front which I believe are worth integrating as well. However,
history tells us that economic systems taken individually, do not work and lead
to abuse and unhappiness. Driving a system to any sort of extreme is our only
problem, as I believe we already have all the solutions on the table. Extremes
have always been our downfall. A perfect mix of capitalism, socialism and
anarchism is the answer, eliminating any kind of extreme in between. That might
bring the sort of freedom and happiness I’m sure we are all looking for, the
real meaning of this existence, no matter in which system we live in and the
religion we believe in. In people we trust, and nothing else.
I believe we are all aware now that George W. Bush is a
psychopath, with a personality disorder characterized by chronic immoral and
antisocial behavior. His mental health problem will be his only defense if the
War Crime Tribunals catch up with him one day.
I will go through his "psychopath's checklist"
later. Keep in mind that his full political agenda has not yet been entirely
played out, and before it is over, George W. Bush will certainly present a
perfect case of a full-fledged dictator. We still have the time to stop him,
but we won't for much longer. So let's explore what is really happening.
The following George W. Bush and Dick Cheney
"Dictators' Checklist" was gleaned from many websites, but is not
exhaustive, and goes something like this:
1) A leader who holds and/or abuses an extraordinary amount
of personal power,
2) The power to make laws without effective restraint by a
legislative assembly or a Constitution,
3) Cult of personality/megalomania (like when someone
states that God has spoken to him and told him to go to war, or when a leader
portrays himself as the symbol of patriotism),
4) Head of the military, association with the military and
wearing a military uniform (which Bush did),
5) Repression of political opponents and others without
abiding by rule of law procedures or moral and ethical code (threatening and
succeeding in shutting up one's opponents, Bush has been highly successful at
this),
6) Rule by decree (losing the elections and yet proclaiming
oneself the ruler),
7) Proclamation of a state of emergency to further one's
agenda (9/11),
8) Suspension of civil liberties and spying on its own
citizens (several terrorist acts, being able to imprison and convict people
without due process, use of torture),
9) Control of mass media (Fox Network at the very least,
and probably most of the mass media since they are all so quiet about all
this),
10) Suspension of elections following a large scale false
flag/government sponsored terrorist event and declaration of martial law.
As you can see, everything has already been accomplished
except for the last item: suspension of elections through a state of emergency
and declaration of martial law. Wikipedia states that modern dictators have
usually come to power in times of emergency, and so we can certainly expect
that someone as desperate as George W. Bush must be planning another state of
emergency to fully establish his dictatorship. Bush's emergency is entirely
predictable and likely; it is just a question of time, months at most, probably
weeks.
One could even argue that elections have already been
suspended for two elections, through cheating in
However, the worst is still to come, because it is the
final act before absolute dictatorship, and, it is the only way George W. Bush
and his partners in crime will be able to remain in power past November, '08.
Hence, we already have a dictatorship, albeit not an absolute one, and it is
time to impeach the dictator and his associates before the war agenda against
us is complete.
I don't pretend to know all about psychopathic behaviors
and dictators, and perhaps it is a good thing, because as a layperson, I speak
about it in terms that can reach the collective consciousness. These topics are
highly important right now; unfortunately, the experts are only able to write
about it in terms that limit their discourse to other experts. So they speak
together in that language no one can understand, and ultimately they forget to
raise the alarm when a textbook case of a psychopathic dictatorship shows up in
the world and is about to enslave us all. Let's raise the alarm for them.
George W. Bush psychopath's checklist is borrowed from Dr.
Robert D. Hare's Psychopathy Checklist. Of course, no psychopath is going to
exhibit all of those symptoms; however, the more symptoms you exhibit, the more
psychopath you are. It is important to understand that most psychopaths are
pathological liars and are quite capable of presenting a convincing mask of
sanity (the title of a book by Hervey Cleckley, M.D.). In the cases of George
W. Bush and Dick Cheney, the masks have fallen and there is enough data to
prove that most of these factors apply to their psychopathology:
Factor 1: Aggressive narcissism: 1) Glibness / superficial
charm, 2) Grandiose sense of self-worth, 3) Pathological lying, 4) Cunning /
manipulative, 5) Lack of remorse or guilt, 6) Shallow. 7) Callous / lack of
empathy, 8) Failure to accept responsibility for own actions, 9) Promiscuous
sexual behavior.
Factor 2: Socially deviant lifestyle: 1) Need for stimulation
/ proneness to boredom, 2) Parasitic lifestyle, 3) Poor behavioral control, 4)
Lack of realistic, long-term goals, 5) Impulsiveness, 6) Irresponsibility, 7)
Juvenile delinquency, 8) Early behavior problems, 9) Many short-term marital
relationships, 10) Revocation of conditional release.
I will not develop every single point of these checklists;
this is only meant to be an overall idea to give us some hints about who we are
dealing with. I am certain you are already aware of most events and how they apply
to each item of the checklists. In their case, it is clear, it all leads to
psychopathy and dictatorship.
What needs to be assessed is how such psychopathic minds as
George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, succeeded first in gaining power, second in
achieving so much destruction without being stopped by anyone, and third, why
it is so difficult to get rid of them now that we are all aware of where the
events are leading us.
Where their policies and decisions are leading us can be
resumed to: suspension of most freedoms and liberties including the freedom of
speech and privacy, the abandonment of the democracy and of the Constitution,
the destruction of the environment and of the economy worldwide, famines, the
construction of over 800 concentration camps that we know of in America, a
dictatorship, genocides, a world war, and so on. All of these are in an
advanced stage or have already been accomplished. There is no doubt now of
where Bush and Cheney are leading us.
How indeed were they able to achieve such a feat on the
land of the free, being able not only to shut the media down, but also the
scientists and even their political opposition. Is it a reign of fear, of
terror, or are they all collaborators of the tyrants? Excellent question.
So much has been said about how Hitler was able to get into
power and achieve his dictatorship, whilst the Germans were simply sitting back
and letting it all happen. Were they all guilty, you have asked? More so about
the French, and how cowardly they were according to so many Americans, because
corruption was running high at the top, and everything happened in the shadows
and so quickly. Before you knew it, it had already happened. Well, now you
understand. It is very much happening again, and we do not seem to be any more
capable in preventing any of it from happening than the Germans and the French
were. No, it can never be that easy to prevent such events. If it were, such
things would never happen in the first place, and unfortunately they do all the
time in the world.
Oh yes, the difference today is that we have the Internet,
and alternative media are still reachable using search engines (but not for
long I suspect). And if you are reading this, I'm sure you have read a lot more
already, and are fully aware of what I am talking about here.
I did a test at work recently. I asked my colleagues if
they knew that there was a big famine worldwide at the moment and that millions
were dying of hunger. I won't go into the reasons here, I'm sure you know all
the corruption and market manipulations that went on to create that state of
affair, including the World Bank Group's policies and the production of
Ethanol.
The amazing fact was that, most of my colleagues, had not
even heard of this global famine, and this is news that made the headlines on
the most important newspapers and television networks in the country. So how
would the main population know all about the intricacies of Bush's regime, I
wonder, with such a PR and propaganda machine running 24 hours a day on most media
worldwide?
So their plan for a dictatorship could easily still work.
They assume we are dumb and ignorant, and unfortunately I think they may assume
correctly. There comes a point though, and I believe that we have reached that
point, where we can no longer afford to be oblivious.
Such psychopathic minds don't know when to stop and they
always go too far, once they believe that they are untouchable. They may feel
that way, because legally no one can now stop them without a civil war, and
they know that much more awareness and organization would be required before
that happens.
In this case, without the torture gulags of
However, Bush and Cheney don’t seem to mind that the
general population is now aware of their crimes against humanity, it has not
changed their plans. They have not apologized or even tried to pretend that
they had no idea, they have not closed down these camps. It seems that there is
no point in hiding anything anymore, because we are rapidly reaching the full
disclosure of their dictatorship. It will probably take the form of a false
flag nuclear or biological attack on American soil blamed on
What can one do? Well, I thought there was no need to write
such articles as this one, since so many others are better informed than I, and
they express themselves in better ways. I believe now that if many more were to
write articles like this, and setup their own website, no matter how ignorant
they are, it could make a difference and help build awareness, being perhaps
the beginning of some sort of resistance which eventually could gain momentum.
I was born in 1972. I would say I am now older, many people
around me still consider me quite young. Considering my knowledge of past
events, indeed I am young. It took me a long time to finally find out about
dictators and political psychopaths in the world. I never thought there was a
need to investigate. After all, we seemed to be living in some sort of golden
age.
For me, both World Wars, Hitler, Stalin and Mao Tse-tung
were way in the past, these events could never be repeated. Then I realized
that most of humanity is actually ruled by dictators and tyrants. That was
still acceptable to me, because what was important was that I was living in a
civilized country and that I was safe. The rest of the world eventually would
get out of their nightmare just like we did.
I even thought at some point that attacking
I had no idea that everything was cyclical and history was
just repeating itself over and over again. Learning a lesson, whether
individually or collectively, is perhaps the most difficult thing ever. It
seems that we are just too slow to learn from the past and to react whenever it
is about to happen again.
I am awake. I am now aware that once you have succeeded in
gaining a few more rights and liberties, you still need to continue the fight,
to ensure that you will keep those rights for at least another generation. I
understood early on that rights are never given for life, they are borrowed for
a limited time, and will be snatched away at the very first opportunity, under
the pretense of security, morality and ethics, religion, terrorism, war,
corporations, failing economy… take your pick, anything will do.
It is so hard to understand, because who benefits from the
fact that we do not have those rights anymore? What purpose does it really serve?
Why should any government or corporation work so hard at annihilating any kind
of rights and freedoms citizens are so justified to demand?
My incomprehension does not stop here. Ultimately, I
understand this is all a question of power and wealth, of control over everyone
in order to become filthy rich. However, what is the point of that? Why would
you want to control every single person on the planet and know exactly
everything everyone is doing and thinking at any given time? Why would you want
to add many more billions of dollars to your already made fortune?
This is when I came across the fact that some people are
psychopaths, they have this obsession of being in power and to be rich, to
control everything, whilst suffering from some sort of paranoia that they might
eventually lose it all. Nothing will stop them in their ascension to becoming
dictators.
This is hard to understand, because such people simply do
not think like the rest of us. They have different priorities, and have often
been described as people without a soul, or at the very least, people who lost
their soul as they started to climb a hierarchical ladder filled with other
born psychopaths. They enjoy the humiliation, the pain and the suffering they
inflict on others.
I never thought I would feel the need one day to attack in
many articles and books an American President and Vice President as I do now.
It was simply unthinkable, since North America has been built for that very
purpose, the emancipation of the colonies against such control from the Kings
and
The whole Constitution and the Bill of Rights have been
carefully written to protect the country against this form of abuse from the
government. They proved to be easily circumvented. They failed us even if the
ultimate plan of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney is somehow prevented, since we
have already lost those precious rights and protections which previously were
defining our nation and who we were.
All it took was one psychopath, surrounded by people just
like him, to overthrow everything so many generations have worked so hard to
protect. And now, nowhere else in the world is anyone safe. No more country is
a model for all the others. Corruption and greed are winning the political
game, and we are facing once again dark times.
I had such hopes for humanity, I now believe that humanity
will not survive much longer. I didn't think humanity would become extinct
within my lifetime; I can see now that it is a real possibility.
I can't comprehend why all of this is happening. I thought
there were so many agencies and other organizations fighting against just such
an eventuality. After 9/11 they all fell silent, and none of them seem to have
recovered their voice in the following years. There does not even seem to be
any kind of opposition to the government; the Democrats are all talking about
trivia, when there are critical issues at stake.
Everything falls on deaf ears. Even the media are silent;
they seem to show complicity. So much must have happened behind the scenes that
we are still unaware; I hope one day we will get the full picture for the
history books, so perhaps we will make this the very last time it will ever
happen.
The day that we re-establish the Constitution and the Bill
of Rights as they were before George W. Bush entered the scene, we will have to
attach to them the two checklists mentioned earlier, the psychopath's and the
dictator's checklists, and pay attention as soon as our leaders start to show
too many signs of either of these traits. We will then have to act much faster
than we are now, as soon as we see the first signs.
I understand why George W. Bush and Dick Cheney's plan
worked so well. We were not expecting it in
I realize now that we were deluded indeed, with so many
dictatorships everywhere else in the world, we should have been more informed.
How could we have believed that we were immune? It is unforgiveable, and there
will be such a high price to pay before this is over, I don't even want to
think about it.
I can already guess who will be blamed for letting it
happen, but the truth is, we are all to blame, because every single one of us
allowed it to happen, and we are continuing to do so right now.
I'm sorry, but there is no excuse this time. We already
know too much about what is happening; no one bothers to even hide their agenda
anymore; it is as clear as day. There should be an immediate outcry coming from
everyone everywhere in the country, and instantly everything should change,
everything should be stopped before it reaches critical stage.
There is still time, and it might yet be simple. Call for
the impeachment of our leaders, and give the War Crime Tribunals a call. Which
brings up the all important question: who, exactly, could make this happen?
Who has the power to start any kind of investigation
against George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and company? Why are they not acting? We
all know that there is enough evidence against them. Yes, I had a look at the
latest American Civil Liberties Union's report, they are slipping, they are
sleeping, it has gone largely ignored, no help there.
Those people, who could do something but do nothing, should
be our real target, those people should be shamelessly fired and replaced
quickly. If they cannot do their job, if their silence has been bought somehow,
if they are too afraid to speak up, we will have to do their job for them, and
we will. And then we might still save humanity.
It is what we do best, isn't it, saving the world? Well,
let's start by saving ourselves, and then the world might stand a chance. No
more psychopaths in power, no more dictators ever, anywhere in the world! This
has to be our new leitmotiv. "No more!" will also do.
So speak up and act while you still can! No one in the mass
media will, and their silence is truly deafening. It is all up to you now, only
small you... since everyone else has proven to be ineffective in doing anything
against the real axis of evil.
After proving that George W. Bush and Dick Cheney are
psychopaths and dictators, and successfully brought about a dictatorship over
North America minus the declaration of martial law, I wondered how the
Looking at the psychopath’s checklist, it is difficult to
conclude that Tony Blair and Gordon Brown suffer from psychopathy, like Bush
and Cheney, which makes it difficult to justify and explain why they are
following the same policies. The political system in
Whilst all ten points of the dictator’s checklist in the
Let’s review the ten points of the dictator’s checklist
that apply to the Blair/Brown’s regime:
1) A leader who holds and/or abuses an extraordinary amount
of personal power;
2) The power to make laws without effective restraint by a
legislative assembly or a Constitution;
4) Head of the military;
7) Proclamation of a state of emergency to further one's
agenda (9/11 and
8) Suspension of civil liberties and dramatically spying on
its own citizens.
You can see that it is already much less convincing than in
the
3) Cult of personality/megalomania;
5) Repression of political opponents and others without
abiding by rule of law procedures or moral and ethical code (in
6) Rule by decree (there was no need to cheat to remain in
power in light of the Conservatives unpopularity);
9) Control of mass media (they tried to control the BBC,
they failed);
10) Suspension of elections following a large scale false
flag/government sponsored terrorist event and declaration of martial law.
In conclusion, we cannot say that
We know Bush and Cheney are trying to remain in power to
establish a full dictatorship, Blair and Brown have settled for what they must
believe is more appropriate for England, remaining in power to establish a
military state, which will basically fulfil the same role as a dictatorship. In
the end, it will be the same.
There are now so many policemen and policewomen in this
country, there might be no need for the military to take over. No one owns a
gun for a start, it is not a given right in the unwritten Constitution. Hunting
small animals in the countryside has just been declared illegal, now we
understand why this unpopular decision was necessary. There is no reason for
anyone to buy a gun, unless you wish to buy one on the black market to shoot
the Prime Minister.
The reason for this difference is obvious.
The police force has become an almighty force in the last
decade, the military has also grown beyond measure since the terrorist war.
There is no need to build concentration camps like they do in the
I believe they were also planning for something much more
destructive and appropriate than in the
This is what they have been working on. There has been so
much talk about bird flu and ricin in the press at some point, all information
coming from the government, we were all convinced we would all die within days.
Since then, perhaps the film V for
Vendetta, exposing all of this, has stopped them, and they must be planning
something else.
People criticised the film V for Vendetta as being an indirect critic of Bush and Cheney’s
regime, well, if you had lived in
The
Are we to believe that such an expensive network is for ensuring
that we pickup the droppings of our dog on the streets, or that it is for ensuring
that we do not litter the area with our cigarette butts? Though at the moment
it is use for these small crimes you could still have wished to get away with
less than a decade ago, it is safe to assume that it is for a grander scheme
which will become real and evident fairly soon.
It has been said many times in the press that terrorism in
You must have read about the
Why such an elaborate system to know exactly whatever
anyone is doing and saying at any given time? Yes, city councils cannot believe
their eyes, they are making millions because now there is not one person in
their county who can escape any futile contravention to the most minuscule law,
and believe me, we are paying a high price. I alone received over ten fines in
the last two years, me, who never got one prior to that time, and who never
goes anywhere. It is all very excessive, and must be for some other purpose
than cashing money to help the rejuvenation of city centres as some sort of
hidden tax that they know citizens would simply not accept.
The question is, where does it lead? At the moment we know
it leads to incapacitating anyone in doing anything slightly against the law,
some sort of ultimate harassment by the police and the government, a clear
message that this is a police state, they are watching us. The real question
is, where will it lead once a state of emergency has been declared? The answer
is simple, a dictatorship.
And so, not only are they prepared in the
Will that be enough to conquer the world? One can only
wonder. But you better believe it. I think it will be enough, and the power
that be, seems to also believe it.
Are we veering towards a dictatorship on both sides of the
It amazes me how whether you are American or not in this
day and age, the American elections are now followed closely worldwide and
concern every citizen of the world. Just a shame the rest of humanity cannot
also vote for their next President and party in power.
This is an interesting question, considering how powerful
I have a feeling that the rest of the world is tired of
American politics, and if they could vote, it would be neither for the
Democrats nor the Republicans. The very reasons why Hillary Clinton was not the
right candidate for the presidency over Barack Obama, is perhaps because the
Democrats are not right for the job. It will take at least a decade before the
Americans can forget what the Republicans have done to
There is no doubt that Barack Obama is the right candidate
and that he will be the next President, if somehow he does not get
assassinated, and that will be a real test for democracy. However, the Democrats
in general have not changed since Bill Clinton, the old policies are the new
policies. George W. Bush followed very similar strategies, he simply brought it
all to a whole new level, and made it clearer that ultimately nothing good can
come out of these policies, as they are now threatening the world.
Extreme capitalism and extreme greed, the way it has been
practiced recently, can only bring about the Third World War, after millions
have died from starvation, and perhaps, with the lack of action on the
environmental side, it will also bring humanity’s extinction within years. This
is no longer a matter of transferring the problems to the next generation.
Nothing convinces me that the Democrats will be our savior,
and that suddenly we will witness miraculous changes in the world. In fact, I
feel we will see much more of the same, developing at a slower pace, and so
humanity will survive a bit longer. If you do not agree with this fair
assessment, then please bring me your arguments.
The Democrats seemed to have shown too much complicity in
the Republicans’ decisions in the last decade, and voted yes to most of their
bills, no matter how horrifying they were. They are equally guilty for what
Their unwillingness to impeach George W. Bush right now,
following Dennis Kucinich’s 35 articles in Congress, is another example that
these people are more about being elected and being in power, than actually
caring for the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and the citizens of the
When a representative has to follow the party line, you
have lost democracy. One person decides for everyone else. In those actual
conditions, being in power requires no thinking or decision making, the message
to politicians is clear: just do what you are told and everything will be fine,
you will even get re-elected without having to prove your worth. The American
people have lost their rights, their democracy and their freedom, and the rest
of the world has lost it all as well as a consequence.
There is a real chance this year for the people to take
back some sort of control, and send a clear message to Congress that we have to
be listened to: everyone should simply vote for independent candidates
belonging neither to the Democrats nor the Republicans.
No association, organization, corporation, should endorse those
two parties, and they certainly should not give them any money for their
campaign. They should help and support any independent. And don’t worry, the
Democrats will still win, Obama will still be the next President. Even if the
Democrats spent zero money on their campaign this year, they will win. George
W. Bush has seen to that, he has singlehandedly annihilated the Republican
Party. Weird that no Republican seems to have picked up on that.
People have to stop thinking in terms of two or three
government parties, for once they should consider other options. Instead of
voting for a political party, you should vote for the candidate who you most
agree with, as long as this candidate is not a Democrat or a Republican. Is
this not how it should be anyway? Do you even know anything about your own
local politicians and what they are all about? Or do you just vote for a
political party?
If only this message could spread around, if American
citizens could see how these two parties have failed them in the last 20 years
and perhaps even centuries, maybe, just maybe, we could change the face of
politics in America and worldwide, and bring back real democracy by and for the
people.
It would be a shame for Obama, because he certainly
deserves his chance. However, once again here comes a religious President who
stated that we cannot abandon the field of religious discourse in politics. I
say yes we can, in fact, we must.
Obama surrounded himself with many religious figures who
sound just as extreme as George W. Bush and some other leaders of the
Middle-East. In the end, no matter who leads, the Democrats have proven that
they are no better than the Republicans and it is time for a radical change, it
is time to send a clear message of who is ultimately in control: us.
Normally, such an idea of voting for independents would be
dangerous, because we would risk electing by default the party we really do not
wish to elect to power. On the other hand, there has never been a better time
to promote the idea of voting for independents, since there is no way the
Republicans will get in power this time around.
Unless of course the extent of the corruption surrounding
the electronic voting machines turns out to be more serious than anyone
thought. Which may very well be the case, when we cannot even trust the
official election polls. One would also need to control the polls, so
everything adds up. No one you know ever vote Republican, yet, they seem to win
against the odds.
Many Republican representatives are jumping ship, because
they know they will not be re-elected this year no matter what. Some have
joined the Democrats. I propose they should go independent, and let’s see if
they will get re-elected on their own steam, or if being part of a party is all
they need in order to get elected in this country. And if you still wish to
vote for your Democrat representative, encourage him or her to go independent.
This time around, forget about Democrats or Republicans.
You don’t even need to say who you support, here are the new slogans, feel free
to come up with your own:
“Elections 2008, I support my independent candidates!”
“In 2008, I Vote Indie!”
Remember, denouncing is not enough, proposing solutions and
moving into action is required at this time.
Let’s start a new trend where going into politics will be
available to everyone, even you, without all the screening and impossibility to
actually get to represent a popular political party. Because if somehow you
could succeed in doing that, well, you would still need to be heard, to make a
difference, and you simply could not within a political party, you would have
to follow the party line.
Vote Indie! Please, pick up on it and spread the word. It
could save democracy and bring about a real needed change. Political parties are
undemocratic, they have to go.
The American government has become a master at manipulating
opinion polls, surveys and all sorts of statistics, they can make them say
everything they want and convince us of anything in order to manipulate public
opinion and the passing of new laws. The
Opinion polls in the
How can you fight this outrage to democracy? A return to
paper ballots would have been the solution, but no one wanted it, or else the
electronic voting machines would have disappeared by now. So maybe we can fight
with discrepancies between strict and scientific independent opinion polls
compared with final electoral results. But then, since you cannot ask for a
recount, you will need to fight for a new voting session on the basis of fraud.
Which brings an important problem about opinion polls. If
you do a search on the Internet and start comparing opinion polls for the 2008
US presidential election, you will quickly realize that depending on the
sources, sometimes you can witness differences as large as 15% on similar
questions, occasionally more.
A few actual polls, when only considering the Democrats and
the Republicans, predict that Barack Obama will win with 51% of the vote,
others that he will lose with 40%. Same for John McCain, he is supposed to win
with 51% of the vote, and lose with 37%. How is this possible? Is there not a
science behind these surveys? Have we not been told that they were highly
reliable in reflecting the final outcome?
Are opinion polls too biased in the
If you have many official opinion polls in the mass media
stating wrongly that John McCain will win with 49% to 51% of the votes,
reflecting the final manipulated results, someone could safely say that these
latter opinion polls reflected a reality which is in fact a myth, facilitating
election fraud. Which is why we need to ensure unbiased local opinion polls
everywhere in
One quick look at this page on Wikipedia will tell it all:
“Nationwide opinion polling for the
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_2008_United_States_presidential_election
If you study that page carefully, you will immediately
understand that opinion polls are all over the place, contradicting each other
in large amounts, and ultimately none of them can truly be trusted. There is
another page on Wikipedia which you need to study in order to understand how it
is possible to manipulate opinion polls, short of lying outright about the
results, which often is probably the case: “Opinion poll” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_poll
Why is this important? Because if you wish to prove that
there was trickery with electronic voting machines, it will be helpful if you
can prove that there have been outright lies in opinion polls. One would have
to control both the voting machines and the opinion polls in order to avoid
questions about this corruption of democracy.
Why is it also important? Opinion polls are an efficient
tool to influence the masses. If a voter can see that both the Democrats and
the Republicans are head to head, they may decide to go and vote, because
suddenly they know it might make a difference. If a voter can see that a
certain candidate has already lost the election, they may intrinsically feel
that there is no point in voting as it is a lost battle (boomerang effect).
The “spiral of silence” is when someone’s answer is
influenced towards the most popular answer, but does not reflect his or her
real opinion. Surveys could also influence opinions through a bandwagon effect,
where the poll prompts voters to back the candidate shown to be winning in the
poll.
Other ways by which an opinion poll can be biased range
from offering alternative answers, suggesting who is leading the election (for
example by presenting a candidate first over another), the wording of the poll,
the order in which the questions are asked, and so on. An important bias can
come from not using effective control in the survey, going about it less
scientifically, which apparently is the case in the polling industry in the
You could also use a less representative sample, or survey
people who you might already know their preference. For example, people
watching Fox News are more likely Republicans than Democrats. Any opinion polls
from that source, we know the outcome, the Republicans will win the next
elections with a landslide.
It can be difficult to start checking the source of the
poll, the questions that were asked, who was queried and where, etc. You should
always compare any opinion poll with other similar ones from other sources.
Sometimes the real opinion might be somewhere in the middle, sometimes one will
be completely biased or falsified, and the other more representative of the
truth. This needs to be proven somehow.
I suggest a few courses of action this year for the
presidential elections. There should be a proliferation of unbiased and
independent scientific opinion polls coming from everywhere, national and
local. Second, there should be a careful comparison study of many similar
opinion polls from various sources.
The sources that are clearly out of range of the others,
should not be considered, and even should be denounced publicly until everyone
is aware that the opinion polls from those sources are highly biased. And then
we could try to assess why they are so biased, who has to gain from those lying
surveys?
Many have denounced in the past opinion polls using flawed
methodology and offering unreliable and sometimes misleading results in order
to boost a marketing campaign or influence the outcome on an issue. In the
“Lies, damn lies - and opinion polls?” A £1bn industry is
accused of distorting results to produce what clients want to hear
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2004/jun/06/marketingandpr.polls
The title of the article is a reference to a 1977 book by
Michael Wheeler called: “Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics: The Manipulation of
Public Opinion in
Some interesting links to investigate:
Someone comparing the different official polling
organizations:
http://anonymous.coward.free.fr/polls/pollbias-details.html
The
I had a hard time finding interesting links. Is there no
one checking up on biased opinion polls and if they correspond to final
electoral results, as to avoid electoral fraud? Hopefully others more informed
than I am will pick up on the topic and develop it further.
I am still too much in shock from what the Republicans have
done to
I am now considering wild ideas to reform everything, take
a huge step back and think how we could change the whole political system
overnight. I find it so hard to support any politician these days, if I could
vote to get them all exterminated and start anew, believe me, I would.
So, when they presented me this new politician called
Barack Hussein Obama II, branding him as the new modern and young President of
tomorrow who will save us all, you bet I had my doubts. So I decided to read
his book “The Audacity of Hope”. I thought, he will most probably be the next
American President, I might as well find out what he is about.
Then after reading the prologue and the first chapter, and
yawning out of control, I realized that it was a lot of talk and wind, just
like many other politicians, with no firm commitment. So I did a bit of
research and read instead his blueprint for change, his plan for
Here is the PDF, you should read it:
http://www.barackobama.com/pdf/ObamaBlueprintForChange.pdf
How are we supposed to find the time to read all these
things? Sometimes I understand why most people don’t bother reading anything
about who they will vote for, and then, I understand how people like George W.
Bush become President. I will read all of this even if it kills me in the end,
after all, it is my duty as an ordinary citizen, it is all our duty to know who
we vote for.
It is 64 pages long and it took me one afternoon to read.
Well, it was worth reading, even though I’m still wondering if this is just
political propaganda in order to get elected, or if this will seriously become
an elaborate strategy for the next presidency.
It is clear indeed that the man identified many problems in
American politics and society, it suggests he might actually do something about
it, since it is part of his big political plan. He does not talk about
religion, I suppose it means it is not one of his priorities, thank God! He
does not mention gay issues either, hopefully it does not mean that secretly he
is very much against the idea of gay marriages or even gay relationships (we
won’t talk about gay sex, of course).
Reading his blueprint, I have to say, I am impressed by
what Obama says he intends to do once in the oval office. He used to be a political
blogger, and he speaks like one. He gives the impression of having read most of
them, it must have helped him no end to develop his blueprint, as it seems to
me that he says everything we want to hear, almost. Is it too good to be true
or should we be weary?
You know, I wonder if all Presidents who enter their office
start with so much idealism and convictions, and that ultimately the system
fails them and nothing they intended to do gets done. Obama does kind of say in
his book that no Democrat government would be able to achieve these grand
schemes unless Republicans also wish to see
If truly Obama will go out of his way to end this corporate
lobbying getting all that they want and controlling everything in Washington by
financing political campaigns, if truly he will bring about transparency and
end the abuse of the last administration, and invest so much on all sorts of
social securities, maybe he could restore my faith in the Democrats. Well, if they
are all mostly asleep, at least I know the President will not be.
Is this what people supporting Obama have been reading, his
blueprint for change? No wonder Hillary Clinton was beaten. Sounds like a
utopia, but that’s what we need right now, any kind of crazy idea, anything but
Bush and the Republicans.
There are so many “Obama will do this”, and “Obama will do
that”, or try to anyway, that one wonders where he will find the money for all
his reforms and social securities.
Silly me, if we were able to spend so many billions on
those wars in the Middle East, I guess if we were to stop them, Obama will have
enough money for all his reforms, and more. I suppose also that the end of tax
breaks to large corporations alone, will bring enough billions to build the new
health care program and educational reforms he is hoping for, that we are all
hoping for.
About his new energy policy though, vowing to renewable
fuels and ethanol, I would think he should be aware by now that the food crisis
is due mostly to that, the use of land for fuel instead of growing food. Which
highlights his serious omission of anything about the worldwide food crisis in
his plan.
It is true that people in
When I lived in
I was astonished by how merciless
What I witnessed was far from being the land of the free.
We were treated like prisoners chained to our desks, with dire consequences if
we could not produce miracle results. I think I succeeded in walking on water
once or twice, as this is what was expected of me, whilst I worked over 80
hours a week through all my holidays, and yet, it was never enough to satisfy
their greed.
Obama seems to have identified many of those corporate
problems, mostly for women, and I hope he will go further. I wish he will
deliver on these points which may not seem that important, but in fact are more
important than anything else for our own personal happiness. Overall, our own
existence is very much what we spend most of our time doing, our daily job. I
don’t care being poor, at least I wish to be happy, not suicidal as I was then
in
When you work in a horrible corporate environment, fearing
for your security, under emotional distress, you quickly reach breaking point
and depression. For me, these issues are as important as health care: providing
security and happiness at work, not a stressful environment where making money
becomes so important, if you do not perform 200%, and make the company at least
a million dollar in the first six months, you are fired without financial
support or safety net to fall back on. And bye bye health insurance.
Obama is also trying to fix the health care system, when in
fact, it is flawed at the core and salvaging it is simply impossible. It may
prove useless in the end the way he wishes to go about it. He should scrap the
whole health care industry and system, and get inspiration from countries like
You cannot have a health system based on capitalism, that
is the obvious flaw, is it not? Corporations should have nothing to do with
paying health insurances for their employees. Health insurance should have
nothing to do with getting a job good enough in order to get access to such
insurance or being able to afford one.
The government should pay for everything for everyone
through general taxes, as simple as that. Why complicate your life with all
these health insurances that are all different from insurance company to
insurance company, from corporation to corporation, from State to State?
Eliminating all this bureaucracy and this health
privatization, would save a lot of money and headaches, and would ensure that
every single American gets the exact same treatment nationwide whether they are
rich or poor, whether they are working or not, whether they have a great job or
a dead end one, whether they are living in California or Alaska, whatever their
skin color, whatever if they are illegal immigrants or not.
By the way, I am aware of many Americans crossing the
border to
Some countries have solved these problems a long time ago,
is it that difficult for politicians to look at what is happening elsewhere and
draw some inspiration from it? It is time for radical thinking and radical
change. There is no better time than now.
About immigration, I am a bit afraid of what Obama said. It
seems he wants to build a Wall of China all around
At least he did say that he would like to facilitate the
twelve million supposed illegal immigrants to gain citizenship, and that would
be about time. They are after all the new American slaves sustaining the economy,
no government can deny that. Which is precisely why
As an immigrant myself, I suffered the whole brunt of what
it means to be an undesirable. Even though I am a Canadian immigrant, that I
have a Masters degree, that I can contribute to society and that I am here
legally. Gosh, I suffered greatly and I am still suffering. I don’t have my
British citizenship yet after 15 years in the country, I simply cannot afford
it, now that I am allowed to request it. It only took me 14 years to get that
right (I am gay, living in a 15 year old relationship).
On the subject of not being able to afford the essential,
Obama points out that 37 million Americans live in poverty. There are more
Americans living under the poverty line, than there are Canadians in this world
(I think there are 27 million Canadians now). Imagine, a whole population,
larger by ten million than the whole Canadian population, living in poverty
within the
It makes you think twice about helping the poor in other
countries, or launching costly wars on the other side of the planet, when at
home you have that serious a crisis. If all 27 million Canadians were poor, we
could not even afford a military, help anyone or dictate anything in the whole
world. No way would we have such a percentage of our population being so poor,
or would we leave them in such dire straight. Is there any compassion out here,
or just selfishness, just pure capitalism?
And I am one of them. As a civil servant in
True, I am in
About Civil Rights, I think Obama is not going far enough.
Bill of Rights is mentioned three times in his political plan, in the context
of “credit cards’ bill of rights”. The word Constitution is mentioned once, and
it is about
I understand that Black and Hispanic Americans (and women
and gays) suffer a lot about their civil rights in
How can you have a whole blueprint of what you would do
once in power at this time, without stating that you will restore the
Constitution and the Bill of Rights as they were before George W. Bush came to
power? How can you not even mention anything about those unwarranted spying
laws, the lost of privacy, the lost civil rights of every American? After all,
most political blogs talk only of that.
Should we assume then that Barack Obama has no intention of
reversing those unpatriotic laws that the Republicans pushed into Congress?
Because then, no matter what Obama intends to do in order to help the Black
(and the Hispanic) community, it will prove totally useless. I’m sure they will
be the first ones who will suffer the most from this new abuse of power that
the police, the prosecution and the spying agencies have gained under Bush.
Obama might have talked about this in other speeches, I
don’t know. However, it should be in his blueprint, so we can hold him
accountable. Civil rights right now, is no small political issue. We need clear
assurance that the Democrats will redress the situation, or else it might be
worth voting independent, any independent candidate.
And dear me, don’t talk to me about reforming the broken
death penalty system right before stating that torture is not acceptable. Death
penalty should be banned altogether from any civilized society, especially when
one understands how the whole criminal system works nowadays. Another important
political issue not mentioned. As far as we know, under Bush, we are all
criminals at the moment.
About Obama foreign policy’s ideas, it sounds easy and
wonderful, but a bit vague. How he intends to achieve what he proposes, I don’t
know. Nevertheless, he favors diplomacy with everyone; he wants to get out of
He could have mentioned working with the United Nations
though, he does sound like he will lead an international coalition and that he
intends everyone to respond and rally behind American leadership. Well, I’m
sorry, but diplomacy is everyone working together, not
On building a 21st Century Military, Obama
believes we need more soldiers and more Marines, and better military equipment.
I can’t really say anything on these points, I have no clue if this is
necessary in
All I know is that whenever someone says we need more
policemen and policewomen on the streets, I shiver, and wonder, do we? It seems
to me that we will all be their next target, whether we deserve it or not.
The only reason I am now actually just reticent, instead of
being scandalized at the idea that we need to invest more in the military, is
because I just watched two documentaries about the Falklands War. If it was
just for defense purposes, then yes, we need to ensure that we can defend
ourselves against anything. If it is for attack, pre-emptive strikes and
policing the world, just like under the Bush/Cheney’s regime, no, we do not
need to invest one more cent into the military. What we need, is to spend much
less on military and reallocate this money to social securities and eliminating
poverty within
Unless they could train those soldiers to help communities,
build things instead of destroying them, it is not worth considering spending
any more on an already out of control military budget, which has recently
brought the nation near bankruptcy, in financing these unnecessary pre-emptive
strikes in the Middle East.
As to this whole last chapter about helping the Veterans’
Affairs, me, who is so against over militarization, find it hard to see the
need to turn this into a political presidential election issue. I suppose it is
important to care for Veterans, as it is so traumatizing to go to war and to
get back to some sort of normal civil life afterwards. We are all now suffering
from post-war syndrome, we could all benefit from that money.
But the real problem is not that we need to invest so much
more in Veterans’ Affairs, the real problem is that we should never have gone
to war in the first place unless it was for defense purposes. But now that we
did go to war for no reason, as usual, I guess we might as well pay for it,
again and again, forever. And perhaps ensure that we don’t in the future put
citizens in such position to mentally wreck their lives needlessly, so no one
will ever become that dysfunctional.
And while we are at it, if our own veterans are so
traumatized by what they did in those countries, we might wish to reconsider
what it is that they do in those countries. And to also help the chaos and
psychological collective nightmare they must have caused in those other
civilian communities. I bet they are as distressed as our veterans, the ones
who survived at least.
Overall, Barack Obama’s blueprint for change is inspiring,
and if somehow he is capable of achieving half of that in his first mandate, I
think he might turn out to be the most successful American President in recent
times (which, let’s be honest, cannot be that difficult). His plan shows many
links to past achievements in
Which reminds me, I have not started yet investigating all
the negative ads the Republicans are putting out on him, with all their
millions and billions they spend on their political campaign… got to do that
soon.
I don’t really wish to support the Democrats, neither the
Republicans, but you know, I would not mind to see Barack Obama as the next
American President. Something exciting might happen and we might witness some
real needed change. I hope history will not prove me wrong in saying so.
Promises, promises… will one ever finally deliver on those
promises? Will that be Barack Obama?
Obama wants feedback on his blueprint, a copy of this
article has been sent to him. Please, do the same, send him your own feedback
here:
http://my.barackobama.com/page/s/contact2
He is more likely going to listen to you before the
elections, than after. We are all well aware of that now, after George W. Bush,
who never listened to the voice of the people he was supposed to represent.
Before and after an election, are two whole different
worlds. There is no reason to make it easy for anyone to get to power and to
suddenly start dictating our destiny out of our control. Enjoy the little
control you have right now, before the elections are over.
This world is all about irony. When you have absolutely no
identity, any identity becomes yours. America meant so much to so many, it was
the dream come true, it was what every single country aspired to be. We all
wanted to be American, we all secretly wished that our country would be
To be honest, we went through hell. From afar we looked at
everything that has happened since George W. Bush came to power. We went from
being surprised, to being amazed, to being totally disgusted. We could not
believe our eyes!
What in God’s name happened? We witnessed the absolute
annihilation of everything we admired. And now, dear me, perhaps our own
country, with its own ever lasting dictatorship, is better than
My own personal dictator is not as bad as George W. Bush
was. That man has reached a whole new level of dictatorship, as it was
worldwide that he was fooling around, it is humanity that he was playing with.
At least my own personal dictator limits himself to my own backyard.
I needed hope, desperately seeking some sort of liberation
in my mind, the thought that perhaps somewhere else in this world people were
happy to be alive, to exist, to be fully emancipated. Somewhere at least,
beyond my own country, someone was living exactly what he or she was meant to
live. Absolute freedom, the chance to say what one needs to say, without
censorship, no consequences for speaking one’s own mind! What a dream!
I thought that this only existed in
True, I have not said one word against my own government, I
have not denounced anything about what is happening in my own country. I
limited myself to speaking for Americans, against their new found dictatorship,
against their psychopath leaders. I have not been shot yet, I guess my leaders
hate Bush and Cheney as much as I do. For different reasons, no doubt, still, I
have never felt that free in my whole life.
You see, in my country, we have always lived under threat
from the government. We have always been starving. Unemployment is quickly
reaching 100%. The Global Warming you are so keen on talking about, we suffer
the whole brunt of it. Within years my country will become inhabitable.
Where I live, it seems, every single policy and decision of
the American government, seem to be another nail in our national coffin. We are
dying by the millions. Of course, none of you has ever been made aware of that.
Your mass media are totally silent about that global genocide.
However, I do not wish to talk about this right now. I want
to embrace the idea of freedom, of prosperity, of living full on, towards some
sort of escape from this reality, the very idea of being an American, or at
least, what it used to be.
My President does not like me. All the books and articles I
have written, they have been banned in my own country. I have been put under
house arrest. Every phone call I make, is recorded and listened to. Every
website I visit, the President is made aware of. There are already many
websites my country has banished from my computer. I get this Blank Screen of
Death instead telling me that this is inappropriate content. Search engines are
no longer listing anything I was searching for. Soon my government will have
severed every single link I still have to the American dream, to what it means
or meant to be American, to be free!
And the more I study what is happening in
You can be forgiven for now, you feel change is around the
corner, but there is no reason to believe Obama will change all that, as it
seems out of the control of any new President, so intrinsically linked it is to
all your institutions, your corporations, your powerful lobbying groups. Can
Barack Obama operate change, even if he wants to? Interesting question.
In fact, it could be asked of George W. Bush as well: was
he really at the root of all those disastrous decisions that brought
My brother died in the last civil war. My father was killed
by the government way before the civil war. My mom was a teacher, she was the
hope of my country, and yet, she was judged a danger to society, she was shot
in front of me in our own house. This is probably the last thing I will be able
to convey to you before my Internet connection is cut.
Be careful, because what I have witnessed in my own
country, is happening to yours right now, you are inches away from that state
of affair. You have already lost all your rights, the American Constitution is
now meaningless, just like your Bill of Rights. Any new President can now
unitarily declare a state of emergency and martial law at any time, just like
they always do over here. You have no experience with that kind of thing, we
have become experts on how dictatorships develop. So please, be careful. We
know what is going on in the
Elections have never been fair in my country, we all knew
the outcome before anyone ever voted. The ones in power always remained in
power no matter how they were hated by the people. I see you had the same
problem in
Our leaders are war mongers, they always want more power
and wealth, they want what our neighbours have. So we have always been at war,
it has been one genocide after another. I see you have the same problem in
Our mass media are so afraid of the government, none of
them would venture to talk about anything else but the most trivial
entertainment news. So we have heard a lot about Madonna, since this was judged
unthreatening by our leaders. They had no idea. It is rare we hear anything
about what is happening in your part of the world, and so anything we are
allowed to put our hands on, becomes our whole philosophy of life, our sole
reason to exist. That kind of thing is the product of revolutions. Just like
the Beatles have been instrumental in the dismantlement of the U.S.S.R.
I love you! I love you all! Even if your country was nearly
destroyed and civil war might still be declared over this money crisis. You
have inspired me no end! You showed me, you showed us all, that for a limited
time at least, humanity could feel free. Not be free, that is of no
consequence, but feel freedom.
This is what your American dream is all about, the hope and
faith that one day we will all be free, we will govern ourselves, we will have
a true democracy by and for the people. It was such a great concept. But I
guess, that if even you, my American friends, are unable to make it happen, us,
in the rest of the world, have no chance at all. Let’s hope that one day all
this will be behind us and none of this will ever happen again.
The dream is all we have left. The dream of democracy and
freedom. Oh dear, just to feel the wind on my face under a sunny sky, with a
view showing me a wide area over the horizon… this is what freedom has been for
me, since forever, nothing else. Perhaps this is what freedom is meant to be,
or maybe this is what freedom is now reduced to.
Welcome to my world! The world of the rest of humanity, to
which you have been blind for most of your life. Well, I feel somehow pleased
that you had a taste of what we have been going through for most of our lives.
It ain’t easy out there, you have to fight to survive, you have to become an
idealist, and constantly fight for your rights to even exist, and be prepared
to die at any time for what you stand for. Cowards survive, the others don’t.
It shows that you are exactly like us. You will learn to
fight for your rights, for your existence, for what you believe in, just like
we always did. You will become aware of all the tricks used by untrustworthy
leaders, you will read between the lines in the media and instantly see through
all the lies, and live though it, just like we did. So painful it is.
Just like us, you have no more rights. Just like us, you
have no more democracy. Just like us, you have no more privacy. Just like us,
you go to war and commit genocides against your will. Just like us, you have no
more freedom. Have you ever wondered if this life was worth living? We always
did wonder about that, we never found an answer.
Yes indeed, welcome to my world, welcome to what the world
truly is and has always been, a world governed by psychopaths, tyrants and
dictators, a world where there is no hope for humanity.
Is there truly hope now? Will you fight for it, like we
always did? I guess it is up to you to ensure that not only it gets back to
what it was, but that the fight goes much further so we can ensure none of this
will ever happen again.
Otherwise, it was so nice for a while to cling to some sort
of dream that somehow there was a land of liberty out there somewhere called
I took three classes in Economics when I was younger in
College. I realized then that it was just like mathematics: if you can easily
learn everything by heart, you can get a perfect score of 100%. Yes, I excelled
at Economics, and yet, I was the only one who stated out loud that none of it
made any sense, that I could not understand how it could all work. I think I
was the only one still based in a world of reality and logic.
How is capitalism to work, I asked my teacher? Why is there
a recession every 10 years or so, and a big crash at least every century? What
causes them? I never found a satisfying answer. And today, I wonder, are
recessions just a transfer of money from many poor and rich alike to the
billionaires controlling the markets? Are these recessions and stock market crashes
artificially created? Dear me, what a thought! This thought could annihilate
the world as we know it.
That would explain a lot, finally Economics could make
sense. None of the identified factors affecting the economy truly affect it,
and all those elaborate equations and diagrams to explain how markets evolve,
are false pretence and explain nothing.
Those courses I took are way in the past, and today I know
next to nothing about money matters. Perhaps it is good that a layman should
question what might be really going on, since, can we really trust Economists?
Most people in my class were puzzled indeed about what the
world of Economics was all about, and never questioned anything. Forecasting
the markets, is like predicting the weather, they often get it wrong. They get
it wrong more often than usual, as if suddenly statistics and probabilities
were not operating as they should be in those markets. They don’t. It seems all
random, but is it really random?
As if somehow, pretty much everything is controlled at a
distance, by governments first, then by powerful financial institutions, then
by very powerful corporations and then by very rich men. Who could predict what
any of them will do next, how powerful they truly are and how badly it will
affect the markets? No one can reliably forecast anything, I thought.
Especially when a small war between two unknown countries somewhere can affect
the markets so much. Who can predict wars? The ones planning and ordering wars,
of course.
It was not so long ago that I remember how expensive it was
to send a shuttle into space, so expensive in fact, two billion dollars was
simply something NASA could not spend just like that on a whim. This was how I
actually understood what was really expensive and what was not. If you spent a
billion dollars on anything, I thought, you are mad. Twenty years later we are
spending 100 billion dollars on a space station, we are spending 500 billion
dollars and counting on a war in
I understand about inflation and other financial
mechanisms, and that a billion today is worth much less than a billion a few
decades ago. However, I will not believe that spending a billion today is like
spending a million less than 20 years ago. Something is wrong here, really
wrong. I am not a fool.
Our salaries have not multiplied by any such factor in the
last 20 years. Quite the contrary in fact, the standard of living keeps getting
lower and we are getting poorer. Where once a man alone could support his
entire family, now both the husband and wife are working like crazy and can
barely make the ends meet. Moreover, they are being completely alienated at
work under such pressures of today’s corporate structure designed to send us
all into deep depression, if not driving us to suicide. No one can think
anymore, that much is certain.
A quick calculation of what we are spending right now on
just about everything, will show you that we are certainly spending at least
two if not three billion dollars per American citizen! How is this possible?
How can capitalism still work under those conditions?
Is this just adding to a huge debt somewhere, kept hidden
as much as they can, and one day
In that case, you can see that I may feel justified in questioning
if recessions are not actually artificially created, and if they don’t profit
to someone. How else would you explain that the American government one day
decided to spend two to three billions for every single American alive, within
two presidential mandates?
Is it not obvious then, that after that, the country will
have to declare bankruptcy? Or certainly will take forever to get out of that
next economic crash, and it won’t be pretty? The results could actually be as
bad as if there was a civil war or a nuclear attack, it could easily be worse.
And yes, I have read here and there that the American
government is actually expecting a civil war over everything that has happened
in Iraq, the consequences of 9/11 on the Constitution and the Bill of Rights,
and also, because of the incoming crash.
We might still be slow to react when we lose our
Constitution and our Freedom, however, when you cannot find any work anywhere
and that you are starving, after losing your home, suddenly you have a lot of time
to think, to read about what actually happened and to act about such matters. I
have no doubt that this civil war will take place, and it might still have
nothing to do with the fact that this country has become a dictatorship.
It is important here to mention that I am not talking about
a few planes crashing in a few buildings, bringing worldwide chaos into the
stock exchange markets, or a few people making a few millions or billions as a
consequence. I am talking about a much more devious long term plan of the whole
capitalist system, which is set at its core structure for everyone to fail and
lose money.
Unless of course you are a big player, that you know the
secret rules of success and you are privy to information no one else is. And if
you are lucky, you might even help create chaos, working hand in hand with the
government, to ensure that you will make those billions you so desperately
seek.
I remember only one sentence from that teacher I had for
three semesters in a row in Economics. He said it only once. Recessions are
just a transfer of money from some people to others. And whilst many are
ruined, others become overnight billionaires.
Not just George W. Bush and his colleagues at the White
House and at the Pentagon, but just about all those who finance their political
campaigns and PR machine, might well have thought of a way to ensure that this
recession will pay off so wonderfully, it is all worth destroying the country
and the planet in the process. And if it brings a crash in the financial
markets worldwide, so be it, it is all worthwhile for their own financial
interests and insatiable greed. Not only capitalism is flawed, the whole
government structure is as well.
There Is no need for me here to denounce what the Bush
family and their friends have been doing for almost a century now, there are
enough articles about that out there. It seems that even the mass media speaks
about it at length, and yet no one reacts, no one is scandalized, no one is
doing anything about it. It is as if we have just accepted that is like that,
and that there is nothing anyone can do but hope for the return of Jesus Christ,
who might once again rattle their golden cage.
I’m only hoping some people will keep in mind and
investigate further if perhaps recessions are artificially created, as a mean
to ensure that most investors will lose all their money every ten years or so,
and if this money will go to larger fish in the financial markets. As if this
is so, and it is perhaps even already well known, we ought to make it quite
clear to everyone, so they will stop investing for no good reason, since they
will assuredly eventually lose their money.
And at that point, you get to understand, and you can no
longer bury your head in the sand, that capitalism does not work and never did.
All it ever did was to make the extra rich people even richer. And whilst they
depend on the investments of smaller players, who will perhaps enjoy for a few
years a good return on their investment, they will definitely eventually lose
it all. So no one would in fact benefit from capitalism except a few rich
people.
If this is true, our crime against humanity, that we let
happen because of our ignorance and lack of action, will be much more serious
than we could ever have imagined. This is not just killing one million Iraqis,
or letting millions starve to death with this new worldwide famine, it will
actually affect us all directly and leave us all in a hole.
As it means that, this time around, this crash coming could
be worse than the one in 1929, and frankly we might just not recover. Add to
this the environment disaster of global warming and a Third World War looming
over our heads, and we will be lucky if humanity survives at all.
If somehow we could identify clearly how it is happening,
and prove it, no one will ever trust the financial markets again, and it could
very well mean the end of capitalism, upon which everything we do is based on,
even the health care system. The legacy of the likes of the Bush family.
I know now why every 10 or 12 years there is a recession.
It takes about a decade for all the small investors to feel confident enough to
invest all their money and their assets. Then they are ready to give it all
away, and a few people are ready to take it all over.
I know now why there is a big crash every century. It takes
about a century to accumulate such wealth in the worldwide markets, without any
suspicion, to make it worthwhile creating the crash that will make it possible
to take over all the wealth of the planet in one single transaction. You could
only do that once in a century, if you wanted capitalism to survive.
What will that go on to finance, I do not wish to know. All
I know is that even if you wanted to prevent such recessions and crashes, or
alleviate how bad they are going to be, you couldn’t, no one could.
It is well orchestrated, it plays on the fears of the
market, it plays on and exploit exactly what is being thought in those classes
of Economics. To the point that if you truly wanted to make money out of the
stock market, it would be wise to do the exact opposite of what your financial
adviser is telling you to do. Because he or she must have heard all the false
information going around, and most assuredly this will lead you to utter
despair.
Capitalism is designed at its core to crash and transfer
most of the money in the markets to a few hands. Only Economists and your
Financial Advisers appear to know nothing about it.
Brace yourself, as planned, in a spectacular way, and for
other reasons than stated, it is all about to crash.
Monopoly is one of the oldest board games in the Western World. It has
become a symbol to everything that we are about, a symbol to capitalism. It is
such a simple game, anyone can learn to play it in minutes, and yet, within
this simple game, it is amazing how our whole way of life can be resumed. Is it
still worth playing the game though, or is the bank playing alone nowadays?
I always loved playing Monopoly, I have been playing since I was born.
My first time must have been when I was 3 years old. Today I play it on my
Nintendo DS, on my PC, and even on my phone/Pocket PC. I still enjoy it
tremendously. Critics of the game have pointed out that you can get tired of
playing Monopoly, since it is always the same, and it lasts for a bloody long
time, before everyone goes bust, except the winner.
Of course, they are right, which is why my generation is so lucky: now I
play alone, with five other AI players. Artificial Intelligence or CPU players.
They never get tired of playing Monopoly, they will play as soon as I order it,
they will also lose on command (once set at the easy level), because I still
have to lose one game.
I lost only once at Monopoly, you don’t want to know the result. I was 7
years old, I hit my playing partner in the face (common assault), destroyed the
game, destroyed a table, threw a chair out of a window (damaging property), and
I sulked for a week. Thankfully I lost only once. A second time… and certainly
I would have started a Nuclear Third World War on your head! Because, you know,
this is human nature, in the West. This is who we are! No one needs to be
ashamed of it.
I bet you want to know my strategy, the strategy of a real winner in
life. It’s very simple, you have to ensure you play with brainless people.
There is only one strategy at Monopoly, you need to own every single piece of
land in the world, after that, only you can build and own any piece of real
estate and make a profit.
Now, it is difficult to buy everything, to land on everything, so you
have to pay big money to get all those lands from the other players, and this
is when playing with brainless people is essential. It has been said that
anyone had a price, and if you have enough money to throw away, you can always buy
anything you want, everything that exists in the world, even the government! I
always risk it all, this is the sign of a real capitalist winner. The Shock
Doctrine would also come in handy, or The Prince of Machiavelli if you insist
on being old fashion.
At first this is difficult, because though everyone else seems to go
around the board like if there was no tomorrow, and win cash right left and
centre, you always appear to be stuck forever in a loop. You never pass go, you
always end up in prison.
No problem, I just mortgage everything I buy, and somehow that leaves me
enough money to buy out everyone else out of it all. So at the end I own
everything, and everyone pays me a fortune. As soon as I build my first house,
that’s it, I simply have to wait a few rolls of the dice, until everyone goes
bust and that I acquire all their money and everything they might still own
that I don’t already own. Monopoly is such a satisfying game, as long as you
always win.
If you had never heard of the game, and even, did not know I was talking
about a game, you could potentially be horrified right now. Because the very
basis of Monopoly, our international national symbol of all that we are and
represent, is all about becoming the richest person alive, but also to ensure that
everyone else goes bankrupt, and hopefully die a painful death. And when they
do, cheer up and open a bottle of
I find it terribly ironic that I have enjoyed winning at Monopoly for
most of my life, and yet, in real life, which is more or less based on the very
same principles, I never owned anything, and my partner is about to lose our
apartment to the bank, because of the depression. I have never applied those
same principles in life that I have applied for so long playing Monopoly. And
so, my partner and I are totally bankrupted.
Others have won, the banks, they are the ones popping up the
And the worst part of it all, the Bank has become God, the God of the
capitalism religion. The Bank is all powerful, has always existed, is
omnipresent, it knows everything about you. And the money it lends you, is not
based on any asset it had to acquire, or even on assets of others they have a
claim on, or money or gold they have at their disposal. That money is created
out of nothing, with each loan, guaranteed by the government (us). And when we
all go bankrupt, the bank simply finally acquire everything we own. This is not
in the instruction manual, or else, no one would play Monopoly.
Actually, the real worst part of it all, is that despite registering
record profits of billions in recent years, on our back, whilst we were all
going bankrupt, banks still managed to go bust themselves! And, we bailed them
out! If it was not so ridiculous, meaningless, plain stupid, and sad… I would
cry myself to death.
One has to wonder, who thought of this system, or who was able in the
first place to impose it on us all through time. I suggest we leave it out of
our history books, something we have become very good at. We don’t want future
generations to know how brainless we were at playing Monopoly, do we? I could
not justify it, it would bruise my die hard capitalist Ego.
One could be tempted here to talk about a great analogy of the game of
Monopoly, the real great corporations buying everything they can, because they
have unlimited funds, and, remember my strategy, everyone has a price. And once
you own everything, you can charge whatever you want, and people pay, and then
they go bust.
This is how it actually happens in real life, and these large
corporations eventually end up owning everything, including us. They do
whatever they want, even dictate politics worldwide. But at the back of it all,
there is always a large bank supporting them, making it all happen. The
almighty bank, our God of capitalism.
Monopoly is limited to real estate, lands, money and banks, and in the
end, it is pretty much it. Monopoly leaves out everything about products, food,
marketing and sales, all that we have truly become. I am not even talking about
the Stock Exchange markets, for that you would need to play another great board
game I love called Racetrack, a game no one as yet thought of creating a PC
version of.
In the game Racetrack, you do play the Stock Exchange markets, the life
of the rich and poor, with yacht clubs, racetracks, powerful weddings and
costly divorces. Delightful! The king game of spectacular bankruptcies! There
is always a way down, but are we even given the chance for a way up these days?
I just love that game, I may have to create a Nintendo DS version myself, so I
can play it all day long in the toilets at work, whilst my whole life and
career are going down the drain.
Another great game that came from the same source is Careers. That too
needs to be resuscitated. The Parker Brothers were visionary and geniuses about
their games, some people might even think it was a conspiracy theory. They were
so spot on and instrumental in cementing it all, they were the symbol of everything
we were, everything we are all about today.
Their only miscalculation was their failure to foresee that eventually
the banks would take over, eliminate all the players, and play alone endlessly,
in some sort of meaningless loop. Well, what’s the point in playing then?
What’s the point of living? No one can compete against the bank, or
globalisation, or those international corporations who have become banks in
their own rights.
The whole idea of this article, and we are getting now to why I spent so
long writing this introduction, is that life has very much become a game of
Monopoly, except that none of us can possibly play or win any longer.
The game has gone off the scale. Where one dollar used to be worth one
dollar, now, a million dollar has become, in the space of less than 20 years, worth
a billion dollars. And we are quickly reaching a state where one dollar will
soon be worth one trillion, and all whilst leaving inflation completely out of
it all. How can this be explained? I don’t know.
No one can even buy the cheapest piece of land left on the whole planet,
no one can even afford to pay the taxes on any apartment they are renting, and
no one ever reaches GO anymore, as there is no job left. Maybe we can spend
three rolls of the dice in prison, just to get some breathing space and
consider all our options. Even though we know there are none, and we will all
go bust any second now. Did you really think you were somehow immune? Think again.
I hate losing, I cannot stand to be manipulated that way by the bank,
which has unlimited funds, which owns everything including myself, and against
whom I could never possibly compete. We are all now destined to fail by design.
There is no point playing Monopoly, Racetrack or Careers any longer, because we
can never be a player anymore, only a bystander, an observer of the game of
life being played in front of our eyes. And lucky us if somehow we can escape
being slaves to those corporations, those monopolies, those banks.
I used to enjoy playing Monopoly, I used to be a real die hard
capitalist. However, the rules have changed, and this existence no longer has
anything appealing to anyone. Until such time that we get back to what the rules
were, until such time that we bring back a chance for all the players to win.
Until then, we might as well forget it. If this is what capitalism has become,
well, we’ll have to come up with something else, new games to play.
I never thought we could push it so far, to such an extreme, that
suddenly the game Monopoly could lose all its appeal. My God, it is our whole
way of life, all that we are, that we are on the verge of losing, whilst we are
being launched into the unknown of what else could replace it all, at a time
when people are truly actually considering changing everything on a massive
scale.
I guess we better sort ourselves out and find the solutions, bring back
the capitalism we were born with, or else, well, we’ll just have to consider
new types of games. Surely someone could think up a game play not too boring
about socialism, or even communism? Oh dear… I might as well shoot myself in
the head right now!
Bring back the real Monopoly! The one where not only the bank is
playing, but where we all have a chance to get rich and live the American
Dream, and collectively get out of our eternal misery. The hope of it is usually
enough! But you were too greedy. You killed all hope, for all of us.
Starving people have no wish to play any game any longer. They cannot
listen to anything, they can only revolutionise everything. And do remember,
they are in power, not any monopoly. The people can always take it all away
from you, and they will. Your power can never be that absolute for too long. We
can all just take it back, all those privatisations, now all public again,
overnight, without compensation!
You were quick enough to buy out our corrupt leaders, thinking it would
lead to insane profits. You should be prepared now to lose it all. There is not
one Judge in the land that will go against this indictment, and suggest that it
should all be anything else but a guilty plea. It is all part of playing the
game, isn’t it? The risk will not pay off.
We’re all bad losers, and collectively, we can never afford to be
losers. We can still break the bank and win. Because collectively, we establish
the rules, we dictate around here, not you!
You killed our hope, and my God, you were asking for it, there will be a
revolution. Until such time that, by law, we will restore the real rules of the
game, where all the players will have a chance, and where, once in a while, the
game does end and can be reset, and we can start all over again at GO.
I think we have just reached that point in the game. Don’t you?
Where do we need to move now to escape Big Brother, and
would the North Pole suffice? I wonder. I came back from work tonight to find a
new CCTV camera right outside my door, this is as close as it can be before
they install one in the apartment I live in. I live on a lone street in the
suburbs of
We can no longer deny that our governments are control
freaks, they will not stop until they know everything we all do and say at any
given time. This is called paranoia. Why the need for such a police state? What
are the authorities really fearing? Great questions.
Let’s study the consequences of such a Big Brother policy
on all of us, and if really this is something we want in any self-proclaimed
democracy. And if we don’t want it, why is it still imposed on all of us?
Crucial questions.
As soon as you get your birth certificate, we have
established your identity. We know your name, your date of birth and where you
were born. After that, to get your first identity card or passport, what is
required, is simply generally your birth certificate.
Imagine a world without birth certificate, none of us would
have an identity. Imagine if none of us had a name and didn’t know where we
were born and on what day. Sounds weird, but it is a fact for all animals on
this planet, except of course our cherish pets which we now microchip and
follow online. Only humans have this obsession with identity, identifying, and
eventually to track down anything about anyone anywhere on this planet. You
will never witness that anywhere in the animal kingdom.
If it were to stop there, it would be easy enough and it
would be nothing to worry about. Unfortunately, your birth certificate is
simply a login and password to your true identity, who you really are. That
identity being every single thing you will ever do in your entire life, be it
getting married, divorced, switching country, getting a loan or a mortgage. And
if you do anything wrong at any time, this is when your identity becomes quite
important to every single authority on this planet. Be it a great crime or
something as simple as a little white lie in order to get something. That’s it,
your identity might prevent you from achieving anything you ever dreamt of.
Identity is what drives every single government wild, in
truth, they will not stop until they can have a quick and easy access scheme to
everything you have ever done in your life from the moment you came into this
world. Whatever you might want to do to protect your privacy, it is useless.
Up until now we have been lucky, the technology was simply
not there, and we could still hope to get away with a little lie or two to get
a job, a loan, some other benefits. Now you can forget it. Multiple central
databases have been put together, I have already given my thumb print last year
in order to pay with my own credit card, I had my eye scanned when I entered
the
From now on, everything is tracked down, to the beers I
bought in a Seven Eleven a few months ago where they had to scan my Californian
driving licence. I was quite shocked actually, I shouted that I didn’t want the
President of the
I can already see it: that man has been buying 24 bottle of
beers every single week he spent in
That guy has travelled to this country, visited this city,
the very same one where some terrorist attacks took place. He has been visiting
this and that website and read for 20 minutes and 30 seconds all about these
conspiracy theories concerning the so called governments cover up. What
credibility has he got?
Today there are good reasons for you to wish to keep your
anonymity, keep some privacy about your identity, because you never know how
the government laws and policies will turn against you, and these changes come
fast.
In the last few years, since the destruction of the twin
towers in
There must come a time
when you no longer own your identity, when you are no longer free to build that
identity, move about and do what you wish. This has not yet happened globally,
but a large percentage of the population has already lost its identity, or the
freedom to build one. For example, the unemployed, whether they are retired or
simply incapable of finding a job, and people who simply run out of money.
The government and the financial institutions don’t ask much
from you, until that is you run out of cash. If you need anything from the
government or banks, they will want to know everything about you in return, up
to where and what you spend your money on. At this point they control your
destiny.
You are no longer free to move to another place, change job,
or play video games all day. You have to look for work, you have to repay
somehow your debts, you need to report on everything you do to get yourself out
of your situation, you have to report your expenses and justify them. Any change
in your life will need to be declared.
And believe me, they already know the truth about you. Do
not dare lie to them, you will pay highly for the consequences. And from all
that data which form your identity, decisions will be made, things might or
might not be granted, you could be penalised or punished in ways you can’t even
imagine right now.
If you are thinking about taking any risk, forget it,
banish it from your thoughts. The Big Brother State is here, they know
everything, it is always used against you in a Court of Law. I know, I work in
a Crown Court. I am more amazed every day by what the Prosecution can now use
in Court. It is like infinite power, and there is no end in sight to this abuse
of power which does not respect the most basic human rights of privacy and
freedom.
It is like, the government own us all. And don’t you ever
forget it, because I do know what I am talking about. You can no longer get
away with anything, you can only be, perfect citizens, conforming to the max,
and be more conformist than most. Your only way out, I’m afraid. So go on pretending
to some sort of existence, and explode at some point, no doubt, as such things
can’t really be helped. So much repression, can only lead to explosion now and
then, and again.
Financial institutions
tried to prevent me from moving to the
It is not hard to imagine how these schemes, procedures and
other protocols could become global in a few years, where everyone will be in
the same boat. In a way, the tax man already checks up on everything you do and
spend your money on, how you acquire it and how much of it they will get. The
tax man is not yet at the point where it can dictate what your life will be,
like with people who have no money, like in my case, but we’re getting there,
especially now that we are facing a crash that will make the one of 1929 pale
in comparison.
They will only be satisfied when they will have your complete
identity on record, when they will control your life to the second. Which, by
the way, sounds very much like the communist socialist countries, like for
example
Might as well be dead then, as this is no way to live, not
by our own so called definition of what it is to be living in a so called free
world. There is no more free world to talk about here, we have all become
desperate to even breathe!
So called democracies give the impression of being
different, that you have more freedom. However, I found it not to be the case,
and we are much closer to this state of affair than one would like to admit.
Thankfully, I can’t have children, and I will never have
the money to buy a house, so I don’t want one. I might still wish to move about
though, and now I find that I can’t even do that. I am but a prisoner on probation,
and I feel that globally we are all moving towards that social status.
Where it starts to look like a real prison, is in the
corporate world. Let’s leave the financial institutions for a moment, to
concentrate on employers, even though this is again a financial question. An
employer is ready to give you money as long as you provide your identity in
full, who you are, where you come from, what you have done in your past up
until that very moment. This information will be verified, they need reference
letters, forms to be filled out by previous employers sometimes reaching 20
pages. They need to have your whole life planned out in front of their eyes
before they can make a decision. No chance for a fresh start anymore in this
life.
You then have to go to
work everyday, do what has been established as your job, and report anything
that might change in your life. Do you need time off for some reason? Why, what
happened, what has changed in your life? Are you sick, are you having a baby?
Are you going through a divorce, has someone close to you died? We need to know
everything. If you are to be late for five minutes tomorrow, we need an
explanation, we need you to call in to let us know, we need to establish if
being five minutes late was justified. If it turns out that it was not
justified, or that you are late a bit too often, disciplinary actions will be
taken against you and eventually will lead to your dismissal.
If it was just
dismissal, it would be all right, however all the mind games they use via their
HR or Personnel department are most likely to make you physically and mentally
sick before any action is actually taken against you.
There is not even the
smallest freedom left in this world, that you cannot go to the bathroom for
fifteen minutes without having to justify it in great detail, filling out forms,
and it being reported to all corners of the world to the authorities within the
hour. You think I am joking? I am not. This is the world in which you are
living in now. This is how anal they have become.
By all means, test it,
go to the toilet for thirty minutes tomorrow at work, and see what happens, see
the consequences. You will live to regret it. If not, try it again the next
day. It won’t go unnoticed twice in a row, I can assure you. As it will not go
unnoticed the first time around, and you will have to justify yourself. I hope
you are a good liar, whilst it has become now useless in this world, they
always know the truth.
Having eaten an Indian
meal the previous night is no excuse, as nothing is no longer an excuse to
justify anything. You are transparent, you are always lying, and so you shall
pay for the consequences, no matter if you are telling the truth or not.
Guilty until proven
innocent, is the world we are now living in, as perhaps it always was. It is
better to bypass the toilet, shit all over your trousers and show them proudly,
without shame, as it is your only way out. And burst into tears, god knows,
that might work. Maybe there is still a part of them which is human, and not 100%
corporate management training brainwashing, making them more like reporting
machines than humans.
Through these fears
they control your mind completely. You are chained to your desk, and cannot
leave it for too long, and will also need to justify anywhere you go and why
you left your desk unattended for so long. You better have a good excuse,
constipation and having to spend hours on the toilet bowl might work once or
twice, but I wouldn’t bet my life on it. This is your corporate nightmare.
We are all prisoners
and slaves to our employers, the financial institutions and the government.
They want to establish our identity, they want to control it, they want to tell
us what we need to do. And so far, they have been highly successful. One more
step and it will suddenly become clearer to everyone. And all that is left for
us then, is to be depressed before our incapacity to lead the life we always
wanted to lead, cry due to our lack of freedom. And it all starts with your birth
certificate, the day you gain your very own identity. As after that, they can
track you down from the day you were born.
In a perfect world, in
utopia, we would not have an identity. We would not have a past, a timeline of
all our actions recorded for posterity and for authority to probe and decide if
we deserve this and that or not. What they would see at the interview, would be
what they would get. And if somehow you’re not wearing a suit with a tie with
shiny shoes, but decided to go there in jeans and T-Shirt, that would already
be giving away too much about your identity, they would make an instant
judgement, and you wouldn’t get what you should get by right.
Your appearance is also
a big give away as to your identity, who you really are, what you think, what
you are all about. Dear me, never could I stand this idea of wearing a suit and
a tie, I wish I could kill the bastard who invented those. I think of it every
day. I bet he was French, bastard!
You might not be racist
at all, but if for one second of inattention in your lifetime you say a racist
word, lucky you if you were in your own house and you can trust your family not
to tell anyone of what you said. Say it in the work environment, or anywhere on
the street where there are witnesses, and watch your entire career go, your
whole identity changing overnight, you are now a racist and do not deserve
anything for as long as you live.
Your identity is
everything. If you were born in
If you have committed
any crime, even just being arrested at some sort of manifestation or campaign
against the government, you might not be able to immigrate that easily to
another country either, you might find it impossible. Every single action you
do every day defines your identity.
And now in the
The only solution would
be for you to remain at home, alone, shut all the doors, get rid of your
computer, your phone, and any other gadget that could be used for communication
and monitoring. Then, you can only hope the government has not yet bugged your
place in order to monitor everything you do and say. That is the next step, and
most government believes that it is no longer necessary, because with your
phone and your internet connection, they know already everything they need to
know, anything they need to successfully prosecute you in any Court.
A few years ago a man
fell asleep at the wheel of his van, and somehow found himself on a train
track. The ensuing accident killed a lot of people, and it was just that, an
accident. The British government went out of its way to find anything to
incriminate the man. They found out that he was chatting in a chat room with
some lady at 2 am the night before. That was enough to inculpate him without
doubt, this was no longer an accident, it was multiple murders. Had it not been
that he was chatting on the Internet at 2 am the night before, I wonder what
else they could have come up with to justify his culpability. Perhaps something
to do with insurance companies? They are all going bankrupt now, thank God!
Anything will do at
this point, there is no denying that. If you were spotted walking the dog at 1
am by a CCTV camera just out of your doorstep, or just opening your front door
to get a bit of fresh air at
I have decided tonight
that the dog no longer needs to pee before I go to bed. That camera outside my
door, the government, the prosecution, the police, don’t need to know when our
dog goes for a pee. Of course, our dog shitting on our own bit of green, even
if we pick it up the very next day, is another £100 fine, 20% of my monthly
salary, so out of proportions those fines are.
Of course, none of you
worry about all of this, most of you are not even aware yet of all of this.
Because most of you have not yet been in a bad situation where suddenly every
single action you have done can be used against you to incriminate you,
whatever the gravity of the crime or negligence.
You are all, however,
about to find out very soon, because sooner or later, with so many new laws
being passed every day, you are bound to break a few laws without even noticing
it. And suddenly they will all jump on you like a ton of bricks. And then you
will be in awe, you will wonder, puzzled, how this came to be, how did you and
everyone else let this all happened without even a blink.
You can have a taste of
it right now, take your car, go at
However, maybe this is
not frightening enough, how likely would you be to be flashed three times
within 10 minutes, even though most of us are now collecting points on our
licences and collecting parking tickets for 30 seconds of being at the wrong
place at the wrong time.
Just throw a bit of
paper on the sidewalk, perhaps even unintentionally, there are CCTV cameras
everywhere, your identity can now be established quickly with just a shot of
your face and the databases. You’re an instant criminal with a huge fine to
pay. So many people have been fined hugely in
Because it has not
happened to you yet, and when it does, you will feel powerless to stop it, you
wouldn’t know what to do, and so, you will do nothing but accept that you’re a
criminal and that you have to be punished. Abuse of power, this is what will be
on your mind. And the lack of power to redress the situation. We are so
powerless, we could never hope to be heard, to change anything, even, to warn
others. Well, I am doing it right now, and so you can find a way to do it too.
Any government or other
authority wishing to create a perfect orderly society, cannot bypass the fact
that we need some privacy, rights and liberties. Every day, bit by bit, they
blur the line between your rights and liberties, they justify it in such a way
that the chart of rights and liberties, or the constitution, written or not, no
longer apply. The key is to establish your true identity, and control it
somehow, be it by fears of some horrible consequence if you do not comply in
any way. No doubt, no one could possibly comply 100%, and so we are all criminals
now, if not terrorists, in such an extreme world.
There is not much
anyone can do about it, or is there? There are many organisations out there
fighting against the Big Brother State, and yet, they have met their goal with
little success. Millions of people walked to
A civil war at this
point is the only solution left to reverse our lost of identity and freedom. This
requires good justification, convincing, whilst taken individually, all the
little decisions of the government never seem that threatening, especially when
it all seemed justified at the time for whatever reason.
Civil wars are bloody
things, many people would die, and in this day and age, it almost sounds unthinkable.
Until at the very least the government goes global on all its policies and it
affects everyone, and alienate everyone at once. Something they will be careful
not to do, to cross that unacceptable threshold. So for now, even a civil war
seems impossible, and we will have lost everything before the idea seems right.
So what is there left
to do? Nothing? Do we have to simply sit back and watch our identity being
changed and eroded, witnessing losing all our rights and liberties, becoming
drones to any authority out there? Maybe making everyone more aware here and
there, bits and bobs in newspapers, chapters like this one in books, articles
in magazines, will eventually slow down governments, who knows. You might enjoy
a few more years of partial privacy and partial freedom before it all disappear
completely before your eyes.
So I’ve done my bit,
what are you going to do about it? And it all begins with safeguarding your
identity. No one needs to know who you are, what you do, what you have done,
where you were born and the very second you came into this world. Together
let’s work at erasing our identity so nothing can be used against us at some
future occurrence. Sounds like the beginning of an underground movement working
in the shadows. Well, I guess authorities pushed it too far, and they will do
much worse before this is all over.
And yet identity could be something entirely different, and
it was for a while. We could be proud of our identity. This is who I am, this
is where I was born, this is all I have achieved, I am proud of being who I am.
Let it be known to everyone what my identity is, as for it I will fight wars to
defend my identity, my country, what we stand for, what I stand for. This is my
sports’ team, they have to win, because they are who I represent, where I come
from, they are who I am.
In fact, as long as you only get a fine here and there,
never had trouble with money, never wished to live in a different country, are
quite successful at work and collect awards from your old days in school, your
identity is not only safe, but it is something to take pride in. If you love
your country, even better, that gives you another collective identity, altogether
you are working towards something great, building the future, evolving with times.
In reality, we should be proud of our identity, and certainly not try to erase
it.
The problem is, when you are no longer in control of that
identity or the collective identity of your country, and when everything is now
used against you to turn you, to turn us all, into criminals, this is when
identity can no longer be celebrated, or can be something to be proud of.
We have reached that
threshold, when no one can now recognise themselves in what the government says,
when what you read in the mainstream media sounds like a distorted lie coming
right out from the horse’s mouth. When you live in fear of saying one little
word which could irretrievably destroy your career, make you lose your car and
your house overnight, and worst of all, your credibility and your reputation… does
honour still mean anything?
Don’t even think that
word in your mind. One racist comment, and you’re finished. One little trip in
your car, one little accident, you’re finished. Don’t show at work one day
without calling your boss or justifying yourself afterwards, and you’re
finished. Throw one bit of paper on the sidewalk, and you’re finished. Be born
in an “undesirable” country, and you will never have a chance. Did you take a
day off recently, because if you didn’t you would have gone mad and kill your
manager? I know, mental wellbeing means nothing, unless you are physically
dying. Whatever you do, do not breathe! Sounds extreme, sounds like reality to
me.
And at that point, I no
longer want an identity. I don’t care if I am being blown up by a terrorist
attack, better that than having a policeman or a camera on every corner, which
only seem to be there against my protection, to most assuredly turn me into a
criminal, and ultimately making me lose my freedom.
There are again five
police cars in front of my flat today. There were ten last week. I have no clue
about what is going on, and I will never know until the day they come for me.
All I know is that everyone we spoke with about it, felt that the police was
there for them, as if somehow they were all guilty of something. And there we
are, we’re all fit for prison because they could always find or invent something
to use against us. We are all now criminals by default. We are all guilty, and
there is no way to be proven innocent, not against such lies.
You must think I am one
of those lunatics who have been speaking against authority all their existence,
but it is not true.
I never thought I would
be writing this kind of stuff, but if you live in
I’m not sure if I like
what we have become, because of a few terrorist attacks. We had plenty of those
in the past, virtually nothing changed after that, and we were happy for it. I
don’t know where all this is leading, I am not going to prophesise here, but I
don’t like it.
I tend to avoid
North America along with
It was easy 50 years ago to define the free world, it is
not so easy now. It is not enough to say that we are free just because others
have it worse than us, as it would not be fair to say we are living in rich
countries because
What is it that people are talking about when they wish to
claim freedom for an entire nation? What kind of freedom can be gained by going
after terrorists and attacking the Middle-East? What kind of freedom is Paul
McCartney singing about in his famous song written in response to the 9/11
attack? I am puzzled when he states that we are free and that we need to fight
to remain free. I am puzzled, because I cannot see how we are actually free
right now.
With more rules and regulations coming into play every day
by many governments, with the advent of new terrorism laws and patriot acts, I
can see that the collective freedom has taken its toll, and that the little
freedom we already had has just gone up in smoke.
Still, this was not freedom in my mind. Because I can only
define freedom from my own small frame of reference. How every citizen is
actually free, taken individually, not as a nation. So were we free before
those terrorism laws? I feel that any kind of small freedom you might wish to
take, has got a high price to pay attached to it. And you would be right to
wonder if it is worth exercising your right to freedom, with such consequences happening
every time you choose to do so. This can be better understood when assessing
what goes on in our daily life.
Freedom starts at home and continues in school and later on
in life. Are you free to decide to leave your parents’ home to live on your
own? No, not only your parents or family would not allow it, the law will
support their decision until at the very least you are 16. Are you free not to
attend school and high school? Usually not until you are at least 16 years old.
So, until you are at least 16, perhaps 18, sometimes 21,
you are not free by any means, you have to do what you are told by a string of
different authorities which will ensure that you cannot deviate even slightly
from the path they will lay out for you.
By the time you are old enough to free yourself from your
parents and other authorities, let’s see how free you really are. You have to
work, and since those previous authorities would have guided you for nearly 20
years, you will usually be trapped in working in a certain field depending on
what you studied.
You could always decide not to work, but then you cannot
simply decide to find a bit of green somewhere and erect your little cabin
there to live. That bit of green will need to be purchased, taxes and other
bills will need to be paid, and so you are not free to do as you wish, you have
to work or receive some sort of government benefit. In which case you will not
be free at all and will once again have to live where they tell you and do
whatever else they order you, or else you won’t get your benefit.
When you have a job, how free are you? I’ve already said so,
and there is not much else I could add, being chained to a job is as good as
being in prison. You again have to do what you are told by your boss or
manager, and if you don’t, you will quickly realise how little freedom you
really have. You are free to change job, find a new employer, you might then be
a little bit more free, but probably not by much.
Then you
could always start your own business, be your own boss, you are free to do so,
if you have the money, usually you don’t. And then you will understand that
this is hard work, with little freedom, as if you had a boss. Because one way
or another, you always have to answer to someone else, be it creditors, banks,
governments and tax people. Not getting up one day cannot become a normal
occurrence, you will be married to your business and it might be more demanding
than a hysterical partner or a control freak manager.
Which brings freedom on a personal and social level. You
are usually not free to sleep around, you are required to marry and have kids,
and after that, any sort of freedom you might take could lead to disastrous
consequences. Being in a relationship is like the end of your last freedom. You
need to report back on everything you do, spend or decide, and it is never
easy. If you have children, you might as well consider you have lost all your
freedom, because then you have, in the eyes of the law, a whole book of
responsibilities and obligations.
And what
about the freedom of suddenly moving to
Though
you will be able to enjoy holidays abroad once in a while, if you work hard
enough to save money to do so, and then again, many places will require visas
and other form of bureaucracy. Aliens from outer space witnessing such a state
of affair might be puzzled by our lack of freedom to roam the world freely and
the chance to live wherever we want on that small planet of ours.
And finally, perhaps the most important freedom of all, the
one to say what we feel inside, the freedom of speech. We are all told that it
is in the Constitution, but really, we have no such freedom. Criticising the
American President in recent years has proven so. Anyone who decided to say
that going to war with the Middle-East was a bad idea, has been ostracised by
everyone else and their career standing in shambles right after, with no more
credibility than a child who has not witnessed anything in his life and doesn’t
know what he is talking about.
You are free to criticise political parties or other
groups, but you are usually attacked as a result and stand to lose a lot. So in
the end you better shut your big mouth and continue with your other duties, responsibilities
and obligations. Before some authority decides that you are not fit to live in
their society and starts restraining your freedom a bit more every day, by
closing in your face every single door to any kind of freedom.
You will
rarely be able to do whatever you want in life, any decision requires a lot of
planning and usually a lot of bureaucracy. You cannot decide to go to France
this afternoon, you have to go to work, you have to think of your employer,
your wife or husband, your kids, your passport, your bank balance, the list
goes on.
The Free World has wrongly been called free, we are not
free, it is in the Social Contract of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Your freedom ends
where your neighbours’ freedom begins, and since we are surrounded by
neighbours everywhere we go at any time, the only freedom you will ever enjoy
can only be in your own mind. The freedom that we have all been told we had, is
a virtual concept that in practice does not materialise.
Freedom is but an illusion, there is no free world to speak
of in the here and now on this planet, and as hard as I could try to figure out
a way to bring this world any sort of freedom, I cannot see it happening any
time soon.
And now I have to go back to work, my lunch hour is over by
five minutes, and God knows in how much trouble I will be for being that late. This
is another battle for freedom I will most assuredly lose, and there will be
draconian consequences.
Writing this entry is my last taste of freedom against such
social repression I live under. There is no such thing as freedom.
It has not been 100 years since the First World War, and
the Third World War is upon us. We have not even begun the preparations for the
celebrations of the 100 years since the First World War ended, but we are ready
for another one. What an achievement! Does it not feel great, as a humanity,
that our history can be so bloody and deadly? What is wrong with us? Are we not
in control of our collective destiny? Or do we have a death wish, a secret
desire to see this world end?
We are lucky that the Second World War ended with only one
side having nuclear bombs. We are lucky that two of those nuclear bombs ended the
Second World War. However, the Third World War will begin where the second one
ended, with nuclear bombs all over the place.
We will not be celebrating that Third World War in one
hundred years, I can assure you, because there will not be anyone left to
celebrate anything. Did you not realise what a Third World War was all about?
If not, it is time for you to wake up. The Third World War will be the last one.
You can always dream that a few will survive, but it will be so destructive, it
is likely that none of us will survive.
The very first time I became aware of war, I was 5 years
old, perhaps 4. It was right after the Vietnam War, a war I heard nothing about
until I was much older. I had five years of blissful ignorance before I found
out that in some parts of the world, people were killing each other by the
thousands, by the hundreds of thousands, by the millions, and that, for
millennia.
I don’t remember many specific events from that early age,
however I remember my sister telling me all about war very clearly, as it was
so shocking and stunning, I didn’t sleep for a week. It might have had
something to do with the way she described it to me. She simply said: “War is
soldiers coming into our house with guns and shooting all of us dead right
here!” As far as I could try to define war today, I find it so perfect a
definition, coming from the mouth of a 7 year old little girl, that I will
stick with it. This is what war is.
If she had been really bright, and had wanted to frighten
me to death, she could have added: Who needs soldiers? One nuclear bomb and we
are all gone!
War at
its simplest level, is about human killing other humans, and that’s it. So the
immediate question that comes after that is: why? Why would they do such a
thing? What could possess them to kill us all?
Try to
explain that to your children, you will quickly realise that, on that topic,
they are certainly more mature than you, because nothing in their innocent mind
could justify such an action. Unless they were born right in the middle of a
war, and then again, they probably wouldn’t understand anything about it, they
just know that soldiers come and kill their family and bombs are falling
everywhere, destroying everything, killing everyone. At that point, I guess the
reasons are unimportant, you have to run for your life.
As I grew older and got more educated, or brainwashed, I
finally understood, of course, we have to go to war, we have to eradicate them
all, they have to kill us all, it is in the nature of humanity to find reasons
to go to war and take over power and steal natural resources of others. Or
bring them freedom and capitalism, or Christianity, over some other weird and
incomprehensible religion which would definitely take away our freedom.
I might
have thought at that time that it would also be acceptable for me to kill all
my neighbours and steal all their possessions, and convert them to anything I
felt like, but it seems that there were many laws to prevent me from doing just
that, and if I dared to try, I would quickly rot in a prison for the rest of my
life.
Funny how
we have all these laws to ensure we don’t decide to do personal wars against
our neighbours, but once the government decides it is time to go to war, then
it is permitted and you will be trained to do just that. So, it appears to me
that governments are above the law they oblige us to obey.
I never understood wars, I was never able to justify them.
Only when I was confronted with the idea that Germans were about to conquer the
whole world and decided to attack us, I finally came to term with the fact that
you cannot avoid war if your sudden enemy decides to declare war against you.
In my mind, before I was even a teenager, I thought there were some barbaric
nations out there who still believed in wars, whilst us, as pure and innocent
as we were, would only go to war in self-defence.
The problem was that I came to meet many German people, I
visited
Then I understood that no nation decides to go to war,
governments or a few lunatics decide for them. Unfortunately the population
appears incapable of saying no to their governments, and so war is still
inevitable at the time of writing these lines.
I also
came to understand that my own country has gone to war when we started it,
along with our supposed allies including mainly the
We ensured
that communism or socialism or some other bad political system other than
democracy would not take root, we ensured that some undesirable religions would
not grow too quickly and take over the world by surprise, unless of course it
was Christianity. Subsequently we probably got lots of natural resources for
much cheaper, and made a few others quite rich, which was probably ultimately
the reason we went to war in the first place.
There are
always people fighting these things, seeing through the games our governments
play, and yet, their plea is never heard, we always go to war. Millions get out
on the streets to denounce it, and yet, it has no impact whatsoever. I find this
extraordinary. The population is incapable of stopping the war machine once the
government decides to go to war, it is puzzling.
When the
majority of the population says no, the government should fall. I think it is
in most constitutions, and yet, governments rarely fall or listen to their
constituents. It seems that even our political representatives, supposed to
talk for us, are powerless to stop their leaders. It is as if our governments
are like tyrannies; and democracy, at the end of the day, doesn’t count,
doesn’t work.
Even more
puzzling, the PR machines of the governments today are so powerful, they can
actually go to war without any good reason, and yet get everyone to accept it
as the only solution, and most surprising, they get re-elected at the next
elections.
You have
to admire such ultimate power, that you can be a tyrant, and yet have everyone
love you, give you all the money and carte blanche, to declare war on the
Middle-East for no valid reason, and then still love you and re-elect you afterwards
(assuming the elections and opinion polls are not rigged, as we all know now
that they are).
This world has become a very sad place to live in, and as
long as a strong overhaul of the political system is not accomplished, then we
will continue to go to war to serve the interests of a few rich people and
corporations.
I was brainwashed for most of my youth and teenage years, I
thought I was living in the best country in the world, that I could be proud of
my flag, that we were respectable people, we had a democracy, we had freedom. What
more could you ask when you read all the horrors of history?
I thought humans had evolved, we were not like in the past,
we were now more clever, intelligent, reasonable, self-defence kind of people,
even though the Second World War was not even 30 or 40 years behind us at the
time. And the worst part of all this, is that most of the population is as
blind now as I was when I was a kid. They still believe they are living in a democracy
and that terrorism is not government sponsor terrorism in order to go to war.
War pays, it is an industry all in itself, and a lot of
people get rich over it. If only the whole population could benefit from it, if
only suddenly the price of petrol and other resources were to fall down
dramatically all over the United States, after taking control of all the Oil in
Iraq. However, this is not happening, the prices are going up and up and will
never go down. In fact, these wars are ruining the country, the debt is so
large now, we are entering the worst economic crash in history. These wars made
for profit don’t even profit the population, and so there is really no
justification for them.
Pre-emptive
strikes cannot be justified either, let the first bomb fall over our country
before annihilating the whole of the Middle-East. And twenty lost souls
succeeding in destroying two towers in
“My first
world war, this is so exciting!” War is not a game, none of us really
understand it, we are not there witnessing the hundreds of thousands being
bombed and dying. And yet, on the charts of every video game store all over the
Western World, all the games are war games of shoot them up. I wondered about
that for a long time, how it is that these kids love these games that are so
boring, without a plot or story to them, but filled with tanks, helicopters,
soldiers bombing everyone, etc., and now I feel it must be part of an American
and other governments’ ploy.
They are
usually so quick to move on to protect the poor fragile mind of their children,
and yet, they let them be exposed to such violence with impunity, when the word
“fuck” or “shit” in a film or a television series is automatically beeped. Dear
me, what would we become as a nation if our lovely children were to hear “shit”
or “fuck” on TV, and yet, let them all kill soldiers and civilians in video
games all day long. It makes no sense.
Don’t get
me wrong, I have nothing against these games being sold and played by children,
I would not want that to stop, we should have the right to play these games. I
however question how and why the market is saturated with these games to the
point that no other games at all reach the charts. I am also puzzled by the
fact that no government listens to the crying parents who want this carnage to
stop, whilst they otherwise move so quickly on less important issues.
I think
the governments in the Western World have been preparing a whole new generation
of warmongers, who will find it natural to go to war and kill mercilessly
without thinking twice about it. After all, the reality these days is just like
the virtual world of a video game. Does it matter if your victims are real
instead of virtual, is there really a difference? Perhaps not.
So we’ve
been prepared for quite a war, it is coming very soon, I would think we are all
ready now.
I have
rarely witnessed love and compassion in this world, I witnessed a lot of
jealousy, envy and anger. If there is a God, you can be certain that we will
all burn in hell, there is no question about it. Whether you are filled with
compassion and love or not, does not matter. If you haven’t done anything to
stop wars, or even if you have not been successful at stopping them, then you
can be most certain that you will burn in hell. (Is my fear mongering working? No?
I don’t understand, it works so well when the government does it.)
War is a
reality of our species, it has always been, it will always be, no matter what
we could do to avoid it. Power, money, religion, are all still very popular, and
they are all responsible to some degree for wars. I cannot see wars being
eliminated any time soon, and I am not certain what could ever ensure that there
will never be another war in this world. Unless we were already all living in
some sort of global Big Brother State without the chance to breathe or think,
whether we were aware of it or not. Even then, as long as one nation would
still want to resist that state of affair, we would still have to go to war.
Shame
really that the United Nations failed to prevent wars, and will fail again.
Could have been our last hope, but now we know that illegal wars are of no
consequence, and crimes against humanity only count for leaders from the enemy
countries.
It is a question of time before the next World War, it will
always be just another question of time before the next World War, no matter
how many World Wars there will be. Are we all ready for that? In a sense, I
think we are, in other ways, I feel we will never be.
It has
been a while now since the last significant war, even though at the moment we
are at war with
There is
no democracy in this world despite the illusion of it, the population is
powerless to stop their leaders and to prevent the next World War. The third
one within 100 years, there is really no hope for people like us, we never
learn. We’ll just have to, once again, learn to survive it all, if we can this
time.
One of the main reasons for wars right now in this world is
energy related, natural resources, oil, natural gas and pipelines. There are
two critical reasons why we have to solve the energy crisis, and both reasons
lead to the absolute annihilation of the human race. There will be more pollution
as we consume ever more energy, hurrying global warming and our extinction, and
as resources become more scarce, wars will continue to erupt everywhere in the
last battle to secure the so-called remaining litre of “juice” on Earth. How
can we avoid total destruction by solving our energy crisis?
We have no choice, we have to find solutions, and we need
them now. So let’s think hard on this problem, nothing else truly matters,
since no one can deny that this is one main source of our misery.
We have heard for some years now that we are moving towards
renewable energy, we even tried to oblige the world to reduce consumption and
pollution, to move towards cleaner energies, whilst none of us intended to do
the same within our own countries. When you look around, despite how desperate
this world has become, nothing has truly happened.
We are perhaps running out of gas and oil, we are also
suffocating in one huge smog, we are about to declare a Nuclear Third World War
in order to secure more of what already may exist only in a small amount.
Some people say that perhaps there are more resources than
we initially thought, but we are obviously acting on the assumption that those
resources are running out. We are without a doubt desperate, and the worst of
it is, this battle cannot be won, it can only bring the utmost disaster, the
last war of our history.
What’s happening? Why have we not already got electric cars
or at least hybrids? Why instead of reducing our carbon emissions are we ever
more destroying the world? Why are we ready to kill unnecessarily millions of
people to avoid being held at ransom by alarming costs for energy resources?
Why is it that after killing millions of people and taking over many countries
and their possessions, those natural resources are still highly expensive to us
all? Why indeed.
None of us profits from this, only some big corporations
and rich stockholders profit from these wars, and some corrupt government
officials. Even war is no solution to our greatest problems. What should we do
then, apart from impeaching and replacing our governments entirely, something
which has already proven to be impossible?
They all think the same anyway, a change of government
makes no difference, they all have the same obsession for war as the only
possible solution to everything. I can already predict Obama will be the same.
I guess diplomacy never worked, I suppose we are just too
greedy at the negotiation table. We want it all, with no sense of justice and
fairness. We do not expect to pay for what we want so desperately, we will
simply take it, as we have always done.
For a start, none of the renewable energies that we are
heavily researching and developing at the moment, at high costs, are promising.
Wind power, solar power, hydropower and geothermal power, they are all
insufficient and impractical for our growing and desperate need for energy. How
shocking! But, oh so well known and referenced… none of them offer a viable
solution.
Ethanol is perhaps the worst, since as we witnessed in the
world, using so much land to power our cars and trucks, simply prevents food to
be grown, contributing to the worldwide famine causing the death of millions.
Ethanol has been described by many experts as being a crime against humanity.
And what about nuclear energy? Lobbyists have moved quickly
and have been far reaching in convincing us that it is the cleanest energy for
the future, even though as we speak they are back-pedalling. The problem is,
nuclear power brings nuclear waste which glows and is mortal for millennia, is
quite dangerous for the population since a power station might explode at any
given moment, and yeah, the output of energy you get for the input you put in,
is not that great either. We won’t even talk about coal. This is a desperate
world in search for desperate solutions which do not exist, yet.
So, let’s admit it, we are heading for disaster. Energy
resources are running out, only wars can ensure we will have enough for a
limited amount of time, at the cost of killing and starving millions. And
ultimately, it will all be for nothing, because global warming will finish us
all if a nuclear war does not achieve the very same result first.
We also need to consider the new ice age, which has been
predicted for decades now, hopefully it will cancel out global warming. And oh,
have you looked into global dimming, this increase of human-made particles in
the atmosphere which prevents the radiation from the Sun from reaching us? That
too might help us, before it starts threatening us. As if we had not enough to
worry about. We have reached a no win situation, we have reached the end. Can
you put it any differently?
I have been furiously thinking. We need to find a solution,
we need to solve the energy crisis, one way or another. And at this point, only
radical solutions will do, nothing less. It will hurt, it will require a lot of
thinking and planning and headaches, but it must be done.
One solution would be to ban altogether individual
transportation, cars would become illegal, everyone will have to use public
transport. We may then wish to oblige employers to keep their employees at
home. Technology has evolved so much in the last two decades, we all have
personal computers with high speed Internet connection, there is no need to get
to an office in order to be harassed by management. Almost everyone who can
work from home should. Employers have been so reticent to this idea, almost no
one works from home. Let’s pass a law, let’s oblige them to make it a reality.
There are a myriad of other solutions, like obliging
industries to upgrade to cleaner technologies, even if they have to declare
bankruptcy in the process.
We are running out of time, we are running out of solutions
no one wishes to see being implemented. The warning signs are all around us and
we have chosen to ignore them. If collectively we are not willing to do
anything about it, the solution must then come from one person or a group of
people, through a breakthrough technology of some sort. This is the last
answer, and perhaps the only one.
Theoretical physics, chemistry, science. We could have
hoped for a breakthrough, a theory of everything which suddenly would have
solved all our problems. Infinite amount of energy almost for free, violating
the laws of thermodynamics. Why not?
There are still many mysteries in science, so many
anomalies, we are far from having discovered everything. And yet, nothing seems
that promising on the horizon. It is unlikely science will bring us a
breakthrough before we reach extinction, despite much hype to the contrary. It
all goes largely ignored, if not suppressed.
What else is there then? Well, you might not appreciate
this last solution, but desperate times call for desperate measures. There is
Barack Obama’s vice-presidential running mate, Mr. Joe
Biden, has stated before in an interview with “grist”: “While campaigning for
president in 2007, Biden said that, if elected, his top priority would be
‘energy security’. He has also been quoted as saying ‘If I could wave a wand,
and the Lord said I could solve one problem, I would solve the energy crisis’.”
Let’s see if we can wave a wand and solve this crisis. We
now need to enter the realm of the “crackpots”, and there have been many of
them in the last 100 years. There is no way at this time to know if these
people were simply insane or fools, or if they have simply been made to look
that way. I am talking about those inventors who claim to have invented
perpetual motion machines, free energy devices or over-unity devices (more
output of energy than input, inexpensive energy).
We have all heard of this fantastic discovery at some time
or another of someone who invented a car powered by water, many of them did so,
apparently, and how they died mysteriously soon after. We have heard of those
scientists discovering cold fusion. We read about new inventions producing lots
of energy out of almost nothing.
And yet, we were led to believe that every single one of
them turned out to be mistakes, experiences impossible to reproduce, or the
fruit of madmen. Here is the list on Wikipedia, a very long list indeed, and
highly compromised now:
History of perpetual
motion machines
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_perpetual_motion_machines
Check out also this
great book which presents a better list: “Suppressed Inventions and Other
Discoveries” by Jonathan Eisen
http://www.amazon.com/Suppressed-Inventions-Other-Discoveries-Jonathan/dp/0895298090
And look at: "Over
Unity Power" Research
And: Water Car Inventor
Murdered! - Cars Running On Water - Stan Myers
http://www.loveforlife.com.au/node/4847
Finally, if you first
need a revolution in Physics and you are poised to find a Theory of Everything
which, in the words of Agatha Christie: “One must provide an explanation for
everything. Each thing has got to be explained away satisfactorily. If you have
a theory that fits every fact — well, then, it must be the right one.” Then you
should investigate Expansion Theory in the book “The Final Theory, Rethinking
our Scientific Legacy” by Mark McCutcheon
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1581126018/ref=nosim/dissertationcomd
Could all these people have been wrong and mistaken? They
were so certain of their discoveries, they presented them to the world, when
they knew full well that if suddenly no one else could reproduce those results,
they would be covered with ridicule and it would annihilate all their
credibility?
Even, many secured millions in investments, successfully
created commercial companies, and announced that they would have products on
the market within months. You don’t get investment without impressing
investors. There was something there, and suddenly, in every single case, the
dream vanished into thin air.
No wonder there is a whole conspiracy theory surrounding
these “crackpots”, which claims that far from being useless inventions, these
discoveries would change the world and save us all. That people in the shadow
have been working very hard in the last 100 years to prevent any of these
discoveries from reaching the mainstream and production lines. Oil and gas
companies, governments, whatever, who knows. It might just be true. Have you
ever wondered, and quickly forgotten, after the PR machine went through to
convince us all that this was lunacy?
I decided to do a little bit of investigative journalism, I
contacted my hub of friends with whom I work very hard to make people aware of
where the world is heading, trying so desperately by any mean to save this
world, and I got a great feedback. I cannot name any name or any particular
invention or any particular company, because these people were seriously
threatened with their life if they continued to work and develop their
breakthrough technology.
This is at least one conspiracy theory we can eliminate,
any investigative journalist contacting a handful of these inventors, will quickly
realise the reality that big players will stop at nothing to prevent any new
clean energy from reaching the market; energies that could produce such a high
output compared with the input, it would solve all our problems.
It would eliminate wars, our dependence on unstable
countries, it will render any pipeline useless, it would annihilate all those
money grabbing oil and gas corporations, reduce considerably corruption in
governments worldwide, also in the high end world of finance. It would boost productivity
and eliminate starvation. It might even eliminate poverty. What have we got to
lose at this point? Nothing, as we are desperate.
We have a lot to gain, we have to explore this avenue,
however dangerous it is. I don’t know, work in secrecy perhaps, reviewing these
technologies one by one and find one that works, and find a way to bring it to
the mainstream. It should not be that hard, all those inventors have taken
patents to protect their discoveries, anyone can look for these patents and
build these inventions. So let’s do it, let’s test it, let’s make it come true!
Even Nikola Tesla, who invented wireless communication
(radio), alternating current electric power systems, induction motor and
rotating magnetic fields, who has been described as the Father of Physics, the
man who invented the twentieth century, the patron saint of modern electricity
and helped usher in the Second Industrial Revolution, had such ideas we need to
get back to. He believed, and even demonstrated, that energy can be transmitted
wirelessly, and can be gathered for free from the ionosphere. Have a look at
this:
Free energy suppression
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_energy_suppression
“In June 1902, Tesla moved his laboratory operations from
his
“Tesla intended for the tower to demonstrate how the
ionosphere could be used to provide free electricity to everyone without the
need for power lines. Morgan, who could not foresee any financial gain from
providing free electricity to everyone, balked. Construction costs eventually
exceeded the money provided by J. P. Morgan, and additional financiers were
reluctant to come forward.
“By July 1904, Morgan (and the other investors) finally
decided they would not provide any additional financing. Morgan also encouraged
other investors to avoid the project.
“In May 1905, Tesla's patents on alternating current motors
and other methods of power transmission expired, halting royalty payments and
causing a severe reduction of funding to the
“Soon after Tesla's death, the FBI instructed the
government's Alien Property Custodian office to take possession of his papers
and property, despite his
“However, the likely cause for the seizure of Teslas'
documents was that he had been working on the teleforce weapon, or death ray,
that he had unsuccessfully marketed to the US War Department - not because of
his work on free energy devices which had ended eleven years earlier.”
For more details on
this topic, see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wardenclyffe_Tower
The conspiracy theory could possibly start with Nikola
Tesla, over a hundred years ago. Where investors suddenly were afraid that,
with free energy, there would not be any profit. And so, Tesla was shut down.
It was perhaps not so worrying a hundred years ago, but today we are not living
in the same world. It is no longer a question of profits, it is a question of
survival, avoiding another world war which will most likely be the last,
avoiding a global warming cataclysm and the extinction of humanity.
We have no choice, we have to go back to all those ideas,
and seriously develop them, make them come true, as soon as possible. The
government, or some sort of association if governments cannot be trusted, will
have to ensure the safety and security of its employees. No one can be
threatened in the development of the technology which will solve our energy
crisis and every single one of our actual problems.
By the way, there is no need to threaten me, my involvement
in all this ends with this present article designed to motivate others to break
free and save us all.
Somehow, let’s solve the energy crisis and save this
planet. I know we can, because we have to in order to survive. Let’s just walk
all over anyone willing to stop this from happening, they can no longer matter,
can they? Even “they” must understand this now. If they can’t, we’ll just have
to do something about it, make them understand somehow, because we have reached
the point where our very survival is at stake.
They may not care about solving the energy crisis, as long
as there is money to be made, but since none of us will make any money from
their hidden agenda, or profit from it, surely we care for any possible other
solution over the horizon, no matter how crazy it is? Surely we truly do care
about solving the energy crisis?
Well, I have offered a few solutions. Better than
threatening the world with nuclear bombs. Now, since you all seem to know
better than I, let’s hear your own solutions to this energy crisis.
I do speak for the people, for a change. It has been said
throughout history that money and religion were the root to all evil. It would
be hard to deny it, both are responsible for most wars in this world. They are
both about control and power, though they are both presented to us as our
salvation. Well, are they our salvation? This is a message of hope, that you do
not require money to survive, or to achieve your dreams.
I suppose you could have a completely different point of
view about what money really means, depending on how much you suffered in your
childhood and later on in life for a lack of it, or how much freedom you
enjoyed because there was always plenty of money around you.
My opinion is that money does not really matter, depending
on how you truly feel about it. For example, if it stops you from achieving
whatever you feel you should achieve, then you’ve got it wrong.
There is no reason why money, or a lack of it, should ever
stop anyone from achieving his or her own dreams. If you feel otherwise, you
need a reality check, you need to learn to live, you need to learn what life is
all about. Just take risks, there are always solutions over the horizon.
It has been my observation that people who always had
plenty of money appeared quite peaceful, happy, laid back, and even beautiful.
It’s like, they never had anything to worry about for most of their life, and
it seems to show.
On the opposite side, where there was a lack of money, it
was a living hell. Shouting, fighting, arguing, compromises, rage and anger.
You could easily add an ABH (Actual Bodily Harm) or a GBH (Grievous Bodily
Harm) to the mix, it would not be unexpected. Like if that sense of injustice
could make you permanently ugly and incapable of thinking about anything else
but your own misery.
This is called the path to self-destruction. We are
reaching the root to all of this, what we are all about. It is my new found duty
to change all that, to show some sort of a light, a way out. There is a way
out, even if at first, it will not seem that way.
Peacefulness
and happiness never come from poor families or failures. Genius, yes, it can.
You are born genius whether you are rich or poor, and hopefully you have a good
chance to use it to your own advantage and become rich one day out of it. But
peacefulness, happiness, contentment? You can only hope to discover those once
you’re rich, if it is not already too late by then.
There is
a point of no return where you can never be happy no matter what, as if one
could get used to be miserable and could never be anything else. Pessimistic
one day, pessimistic for a lifetime. Miserable for too many years, misery for
the rest of your life. You can only hope to find what you expect in life. And
so, you can reach a point where what you will only be able to see, is a
nightmare with no way out.
I am
damaged beyond repair, I will never now find happiness in this lifetime. If I
were to become rich tomorrow morning, I’m afraid, I’ll never be a new man, I
would still be the miserable human being I am now. I would also be so cynical
about it, I would be convinced that it would never last, and so, I could only
possibly be rich for a little while, and then go back to normal, a life where
everything is about money, every single argument, every fight, every sentence.
People
are so obsessed with money, with getting out of their misery, that they can’t
sleep at night anymore. Their dreams are larger than the universe, and at the
end of it there is only disillusion. Is the only solution left, is to listen to
Nine Inch Nails’ new albums, and feel something in between? Between feeling reaching
some sort of freedom, or actually accomplishing something towards it? That
would not do. You are significant, you can be as significant as you feel you
should be. You would be surprised, you can get heard, you do make a difference!
Thinking
otherwise, is the result of the capitalism system we grew in. You are reminded
every time you open a magazine or watch the TV. Happiness is only possible when
there’s plenty of money around. Freedom, or the feeling of it, without the
finance to back it up, is a utopia.
Never
mind that I have been at the height of my happiness when I had to count my
pennies to buy a bag of chips, or crisps as they are called on this side of the
I was never affected by money, the lack of it, or having a
lot of it. There are always solutions presenting themselves when you drop
everything to seek adventure and exploration. I suffered though from the people
around me who could not think about anything else. It drives their mood, their
whole existence.
I always thought that having money was some sort of an
obstacle, because the risk of losing it is too great, and so you do not take
any risk anymore. When you don’t have any money, you have nothing to lose, you
can leave tomorrow morning for
I used to be worried about the fact that my lifestyle of
moving from country to country, after thinking about it for one long second, could
leave me dry without a mortgage, a house, a flat, a car, or any other real
asset. Now I feel free from not having any of those, because for me, moving
country or going into space won’t be a problem.
I have nothing, so I can’t lose anything. I even sold my
last book on eBay, these were desperate times. I appreciate that freedom, more
than you could ever imagine, for what it gave me the chance to experience,
living in so many different countries, and see for myself what those Belgians,
for example, go through every day. (Nothing much to say about that I’m afraid,
better commit suicide than live in
And yet, I would love to have a bank account filled to the
brink, to ensure maximum freedom, so then I could really truly have anything I
want, to go anywhere I want,
It’s great I have done so much without any money, and yes,
money should never stop anything or anyone. In my case, money never stopped me from
achieving anything I always wanted to do, but it would have been much easier if
I did have plenty of it, I would have done much more. But when you’re rich,
it’s a different ball game. You cannot do what I have done, too many other
things come into play.
I also feel that if I had plenty of money, people around me
would be nicer, smiling, more emancipated. So then we could talk about
philosophy instead of what we are going to do about the car. Fuck the car! I
agree money might not necessarily bring happiness and make you happy, but I’m
sure it cannot hurt, as the lack of it will most definitely bring you eternal
misery, bring you to the brink of war.
Not everyone thinks like I do. Without money you might as
well be dead, in certain circumstances where it drives your other half bunker
and to the brink of insanity, as you will witness everywhere in every single household.
One is usually obsessed with money or the lack of it, the other half does not care
one way or another, because nothing truly depends on having plenty of money if
you can take risks and do not care about any consequence.
What is money really? Well, you do learn early on in school
that there was a time when money didn’t exist, and everything was just trade.
You fish, you exchange your fish for butter, bread, carrots, etc. In
Self-sufficiency, with no need for money. That is what I
often aspired to, self-sufficiency. However, I’m also realistic. I’m not sure
if it would be possible nowadays to grow carrots in my backyard and survive
that way. The taxes alone just for me to exist in one little square, would
quickly bring me to prison.
Money is just a commodity, a currency. You give your fish
away, you get money, and then you can use that money to buy something else. It
is known that the richest people are getting richer, beyond belief, and the
poorest people are getting poorer. I think it has always been that way, isn’t
it? Boy, how poor we must be by now! And it is true, standards of living have
only gone down since I was born.
I don’t really care. I am not one of those idealistic
persons who feel that socialism will cure all our problems. I won’t deny that I
am a capitalist at heart and that I dream to become filthy rich one day, whilst
all my neighbours are dying in appalling poverty. Fuck them, I hate them all
anyway and wouldn’t mind if another war was to eradicate them all.
I told you I always thought like an American President, as
this is how they have always been thinking. Unfortunately, this is also how the
presidents and leaders of communist and socialist countries have been thinking.
And so, as they were getting richer, socialism and communism failed
spectacularly.
I never
really cared for poor people or rich people. I have no desire to help any of
them. I was never moved by those dying Ethiopians, and I have never helped any
charity. I always thought anyway that I have always been poorer than the dying
Africans. Because they can still be happy, smile, while I always wanted to shoot
myself, with debts larger than a continent. They never had any money, but I was
in a worst shape, I was minus tens of thousand of pounds, with no hope to ever
pay that back. I’m bankrupted now, for another five years at least. Don’t judge
me so harshly, you are about to become bankrupt yourself. Just read the
headlines.
And yet, I had dreams of saving the planet,
and if I become filthy rich one day, it is most likely that I will help the planet
one way or another. I always had at the back of my mind the idea of a string of
companies covering just about everything, including banks and grocery stores, all
non profit organisations. How successful would be a chain of grocery stores and
banks working for no profit? It could easily destroy the economy and bring
everyone in deeper shit. But got to be idealistic, and keep my desire to help
humanity somehow. Got to be realistic, let’s go nuclear, because my electricity
bill is way too high, I can’t afford it. You can’t quote me on that.
Money is
a joke, a bad one. It reminds me of an episode of Sherlock Holmes, the Blue
Carbuncle, where at the beginning they tell us the history of that rock. That,
in its short life, that blue crystal had already cost the lives of something
like a dozen human beings, because greed knows no boundary. And you can only
laugh at it, because at the end of the day, it is only a rock, no matter how
rare it is. Who cares to own it? What could it possibly change to one’s life?
I myself
have no jewellery of any kind, I don’t even have a watch, and I don’t want one.
I always managed to lose or destroy everything I ever had anyway, so I no longer
value anything. I suppose I can sustain myself out of air, no one has yet put a
price tag on that, selling it at high price around the corner. I can see though
that we are getting there.
I
digress, I’m not supposed to talk about my life here. I need to talk about
money, what it means, what purpose it plays in mankind’s destiny. Though owning
a blue carbuncle would be totally useless, having a bundle of money would give
you the chance to tell your boss to fuck off, buy a yacht and live anywhere in
the world on any ocean. Is there anyone on this planet who does not believe in
God or religion who could refuse such freedom?
The thing
is, there is only one thing on this planet that we are all seeking, our liberty
to do whatever we want whenever we want. And as far as I know, money is the only
thing that could bring you that kind of freedom. So I love money, because I
love my liberty. And as a bonus, without money you are so restricted, you
cannot wash as many times as you would like. You have to take cold showers, you
have to worry about leaving the computer on, because dear me, it costs more
monthly than cable. And all these little insignificant and petty things are
what make everyone around you lose it completely and jump at your throat the
second money is mentioned. We’re all living on the edge of insanity, and the
lack of money is the first spark which will bring about the war.
So in
conclusion, I love money, because I love my liberty, and money is what will
lead me to freedom. I am aware that money is the root to all evil, that money
has caused all wars on this planet since the very beginning of humanity, and I
don’t care. I value my liberty too much to worry about any of this. I cannot
help others to survive until I have myself found a way to survive, and
surviving for me means my freedom to do whatever I want whenever I want.
I freely
admit that I have done so without having any money, so it is not that necessary
for anyone who is determined to lead the life one has set it to be. And if it
happens that one day I become filthy rich and gain total freedom, I will then
help humanity as much as I can, to reach the same state of euphoria. I’ll then distribute
the class A drugs freely myself (only kidding).
Money is
the root to all evil, and yet, it could very well be the path to total freedom.
Why can’t we just print more? I remember asking that very question to my father
when I was barely 4 years old. I’m not that dumb now. I have studied economics
in college, finished with a perfect mark of 100% every year, and yet, I never
understood anything about economy, which means, not many economists out there
must understand what economy is all about. Frightening, when you think that
understanding economy could mean eating bread tomorrow or not, and yet, no one
on this planet understands how it works.
What is
economy? What is the significance of money? Honestly, I don’t know, or more to
the point, I don’t care. I just know that I always thought that one day I would
have plenty of money, and that thought alone has sustained me all my life, even
when I was the poorest moron alive. That’s why I never thought I was poor when
I was. I guess this is the true meaning of the American Dream, in a world where
none of us will ever have enough money to even afford a house.
I don’t
have a million right now to buy a house, this is how much they cost these days.
Something must have gone wrong with the economy, surely. I remember reading
years ago that in
It
doesn’t matter, as long as I am still free to do whatever I want whenever I
want. No need for money for that, you just need guts and be able to bypass your
brain or conscience. Don’t think, just act! Leave it all behind, drop that
bitch or that bastard you’re living with, never mind about those kids, someone
will take care of them. Act irresponsibly for once, you are allowed! No one is
expecting the world from you. Go on to explore all that this world has to
offer, without thinking about any consequence. You will be held in higher
esteem by the world for following such impulsivity.
Go for
it! Now is the time, you have lost everything, or you are about to, so why not
leave for the other side of the planet as you always wanted to? You don’t need money
for that, for being that insane. Just feel the freedom, just go for it! I’ve
done it before, I’ll do it again. You might just change the world.
Religion is the last remaining taboo in American society,
and God, do I know it. I just hope I won’t be censored, for talking about religion,
and, oh, being drunk at the same time. Hopefully it is within your book of
truth, your Bible, to forgive such things as I am about to do. What has Jesus
Christ said exactly, some 2000 years ago? I am so drunk, I can’t remember
anything.
If you are about to judge me, you are following the wrong
immoral type of religion. And you better wake up to this world, the real world,
before someone else takes advantage of you, using against you your most cherish
beliefs, your own religion. It happens more often than you think. Just think
about it.
I wonder
if I’m not too drunk to talk about religion right now. Just finished a hell of
a week at work, drank myself to death tonight, after I had sex with my
boyfriend (a homosexual deviant diseased mind like me, to use the religious
term), smoke more roll ups that I would care to count, and here I am, I will
talk about religion. Did I mention drugs in there somewhere? Oh!
I am your
son! I am the son of every good American out there! Because I am just a
statistic, and according to statistics, so many are just like me. I am your Useless
Alcoholic American Gay Son! Please remember that, if you cannot remember
anything else.
I am
testing your limits, have you exploded yet? At least I will not talk about war,
or nuclear third world war, which religion will most definitely play a major
role in making it come true. Nuclear death by religion… it has a great ring to
it.
Right
now, I’m just afraid that I’m no longer objective, that I will be right down
cynical, and will alienate any of my readers who might be religious even slightly.
I guess I would do just that in any case… so let’s go! You are not afraid of
your own opinions, why should I?
What
would you say if I were to tell you that I am Catholic, and Catholic is the
only real religion, and that if you do not convert to Catholicism right now,
you will suffer for eternity once you die? We all know that only Catholics will
go to heaven, anyone else goes straight to hell.
I can
already tell you that your religion is crap and filled with lies, and you all
need to die sooner or later, sooner rather than later hopefully, and that I am
quite willing to help eradicate any believer in any other religion.
If you
are not Catholic, you’re most likely to think that I am mad, and that someone
needs to stop me, kill me, before I somehow succeed in my plan to annihilate
humanity. And you would be right. After all, we all know that Catholics are
wrong, they will all go to hell, and any religion originally based on
Protestantism are the right ones, they are the ones who will go to heaven. Does
that include the Mormons? I wonder… probably not.
I will
tell you the truth, I am a Muslim. Oh, I need to be shot now, don’t I? But why?
Why indeed. Since it cannot possibly be justified, under any Court of law,
under any kind of rule of any God that ever existed. Is it not so? Come on,
tell me, I am listening.
If you
believe otherwise, there is an indictment ready for you under our Court of law,
and it leads to a trial which will lead you straight to prison. Please, do
remember that, if you cannot remember anything else.
If you
can’t reach reason by reason alone, the law will lead you to reason. All
religions are to be respected, even the lack of belief in any religion will be
respected. Are we free to think and believe whatever we want or are we not,
what do you prefer? A prison sentence? I will arrange it, believe me. The law
is on my side (at the moment, at least).
I am
highly surprised by this need for people to have a religion, since at the end
of the day, why would they need such a thing? What is a religion exactly anyway
to start up with?
A
religion, I would think, starts with a leader who spoke some sort of wisdom to
some other people who obviously trusted the man. This man either talked a lot
and was listened to, and some others wrote about him, or he wrote himself a
bunch of books that could be thought of as some sort of wisdom or book of truth
about the nature of humankind and the universe, and a whole set of ethical and
moral behaviours to observe that no one in their right mind could possibly ever
obey.
I can see
why this is attractive, since we are all, as humans, curious by nature about
who we are, what we are all about, and what is this universe in which we evolve
in, or were created within, and who initiated this whole existence. We could easily
go mad just trying to elucidate these mysteries. And when someone comes along
and tells us exactly how it is, how it could have been and how it will be, I
suppose it can be refreshing and welcomed. We all need answers to the main
existential questions.
Of course,
some sort of truth would not suffice, this man needs to be charismatic, quite
clever and bright, to come up with instant answers about everything, and
usually would be so caring, and the people around him as well, that it must
give a sense of importance to the disciples of any religion. We all feel the
need to feel important, to feel that people care about us, love us, to fulfil
this need of belonging to a group of people who share our philosophy, whether
that philosophy is ours or comes from someone else, if the imagination lacks.
I never
felt the need to belong to any group, must have come from the fact that I was
gay and, quite early on, I was rejected by everyone from everywhere at once,
most specifically by all religions and religious people.
I always
wondered why my whole being and nature could be so despised and offensive to
any religion, as if I was such a threat that, I alone, could bring about the
end of the world as we know it. And so it is not surprising that I came to
wonder why people would need a religion or set of beliefs and behaviours to
believe in, and go about life, always thinking in those terms their religion
would have taught them. It makes no sense to me, no sense at all, as I was
denied just all of that. I was a target to be eradicated as soon as possible,
the sooner the better. A miracle I survive without committing suicide, society
tried its very best to drive me to it.
So, for a
long time I always believed that religious people were not that intelligent,
could not think for themselves and were highly suggestible. I was so interested
in this puzzle, I read a lot about religious sects and secret societies in
order to better understand what happens in the macroscopic world of religions,
and I found many illuminating answers about human nature.
I wrote a
novel about it, in French, even though I think no one on this planet has read
it or even understood what I was really trying to say in there. I’m not sure
myself, since I tried to be objective, just painting a picture of reality, and
that was it. People can read and interpret whatever they want from it, but at
least I told them how it works, how it is that people can get caught into these
beliefs which make no sense to even people of other religions suddenly getting interested
in believers of other religions.
Not only
will we get to believe in a certain religion, most likely the one we were born
into, but then understanding and tolerating other religions is quite a feat to
achieve, because most religions have been designed to teach to despise any
other sort of truth as a lie, and that if you do not believe in your own
religion, you will most likely go to hell or something similar.
When you
start analysing religions, you see clearly how clever they have been in
ensuring the longevity of their own truth, whilst eliminating any other
religion or people in the market believing otherwise, eliminating any other
possible explanation, so it becomes difficult to get out of any religion, and especially
believe in another one.
Within any
religion is the seed for war against anyone who does not believe in that
religion, and so teaching tolerance for other religions has always been impossible.
It never
seemed to be a contradiction to anyone that most religions at heart have a
message of love and understanding, but then turn ugly as soon as you go beyond
a certain point, then love and understanding become hate, war and destruction.
I always
wondered why most religious people were blind to this fact, how they could look
at history, see for themselves that most wars were caused by religions, and
yet, quite willingly choose to ignore that fact, and probably would go to war
once again for those same beliefs which caused millions if not billions to die
over the centuries.
More
specifically, why is it so important for any human being to have any sort of
religion, when they could be quite happy without it, whilst still be loving and
caring people, and pursue on their own what could be the truth about the
universe we live in?
Why would
you need a religion? Why do you feel the need to belong to any group of people
believing certain things and giving you truths you are not even allowed to
question? Why indeed? It is something I might never understand, and I believe
that anyone who is free from any religion will also be as puzzled as I am.
I would
have thought that, as time goes by, more and more people would ditch religions
and start seeking other answers to life. However, quite the opposite is
happening, more and more people become more and more religious by the day, and
85% of the planet, from old statistics I can remember, all believe in some sort
of religion and God.
It is
astonishing and frightening to me, as I cannot explain this behaviour, and I
know that most of them would be quite happy if I were to die today just because
I am gay. How do I fight this, can I even fight this? Or do I simply have to
accept it and hope I will still be granted the chance to lead a normal
existence? Or should I be killed right now? With stones?
Most
religions are also highly restrictive, no freedom whatsoever, and many of them
require from you a lot of time and money and devotion and prayers, and little
space to think and develop at your own pace. Why would anyone enter a new
religion knowing full well all that it entails, and how much of their freedom
and liberties they will lose once within it? What could possess them to give up
so much, if it is not a belief that they will gain much more in return? But
what do they gain if anything? Are they more peaceful with themselves? Are they
now closer to God and anything spiritual? Are they more loving, or ready to
kill?
Is there
something I am missing here that no one told me about? Because if 85% of the
population is talking directly to God, and get some hallucinogenic buzz out of
it, I ought perhaps to get on the bandwagon. But then, why would they keep such
ecstasy to themselves, whilst being unable to even give us a glimpse of what is
it that their religion is bringing them, without us thinking they are deluded,
too far gone and ready for the asylum? Could 85% of the planet suffer from mass
delusion? I sometimes think so. Just think of Allah, then you will begin to
understand how I feel. Because Allah has declared a Jihad on you, and you all
need to die, all of you, non-believer in Allah! I will kill you myself, in the
name of Allah!
I will try to be a bit objective. If my father had divorced
my mother when I was quite young, and if I had spent most of my younger years
with my mom without my dad around, God knows how much brainwashing I would have
suffered and how good a Catholic I would be right now.
You see, my father never believed in religion or God,
whilst my mom was completely devoted to them, and still is. It would have been
difficult for me, if not impossible, not to believe in God and fall back into
religion, if both my parents had been nuts about it. It is nearly impossible to
shake off something that you have been banged on the head about from an early
age. This is how I explain why people can still respect any religion and
believe in God, even when they are quite intelligent, and should normally, in
my opinion, have at least some doubts about it all.
There are
plenty of reasons to at least take a step back and assess the whole question of
religion, God and other related beliefs as hypothesis, and not the complete
truth about this world.
The very
fact that whatever you believe in, whatever if it is the biggest or smallest
religion there is, you can count on the fact that not even 1 person out of 5 on
this planet will believe any of it. There is not one religion on the planet for
which at least 20% of humanity will agree on is the truth. How can it be the
real truth then, when a whopping majority would say no, it is all a lie?
Why would
that Muslim or that Jew be more wrong than I would be, being a Catholic or a
Christian? It should tell any reasonable person, capable of taking a step back,
that perhaps others are right, or that perhaps, no one is, because no one
really knows the truth. I have not seen any proof anywhere, none of us have.
I’m sorry, faith alone does not make it true.
How could
we be right? Religion is worse than philosophy, and philosophy has a really bad
track record. In philosophy, no one can agree on anything, and yet, it is based
on logic. Religion is not. And millions of people are forced to believe the
most fanciful inventions about humanity, its origins, about whatever could be
out there in this universe.
It is so
sad when you meet the most intelligent person you have ever met, the most logical,
and yet, when the time comes to talk about religion, there go logic and good
common sense. They’ve been brainwashed, they will not let go. They will not
compromise, they will not even consider other possibilities to explain the
unexplainable. No need for proof, no need for half convincing arguments, this
is the truth, this is how we all came to be, this is what this existence is all
about.
Religion
is quite important in a way here, because it addresses what this existence is
all about, and all religions claim to know the answer. There was a creation of
some sort, there is a God of some sort who created us, we appeared one day out
of nothing, out of nowhere, and God controls everything, as he is some sort of
control freak, and if you’re a bad boy, he won’t come down the chimney and
bring you gifts at Christmas. Or am I confusing God with Santa Claus? Oh dear.
When I was
in grade 5, I stopped my English teacher in front of the class and I asked her:
what is Santa Claus? Everyone around me seemed to know, we were hearing about
it every day in English classes, and yet, I had no clue about Santa Claus and
what it was. She laughed, everyone did, it seemed that I was the only lost one
out there who had no idea about who was Santa Claus. I must have been 10 years
old by then. And then she said that Santa Claus was the “Père Noël”. I
instantly knew then what Santa Claus was, it existed in French as well, though,
never in my life had I believed he existed. Like I never believed the “Bonhomme
Sept Heures” existed (the bogeyman), though most kids in my area were so afraid
of the “7 pm Man”, they all went to bed, frightened to death that this monster
would come to eat them alive if he found them not in bed and sleeping by 7 pm.
I have to
admit that my sister and I never slept when we were young. We would fall asleep
out of exhaustion at 4 am every night, after talking all night and getting up
all evening, to the astonishment of my parents. My parents never believed in
lying to us in order to convince us to act a certain way, so they could have
peace once in a while. As a result we were wild, but at least we were not fed
lies.
I would
guess that if you control your kids through fear at an early age, you will most
certainly make them perfect slaves to some other opportunistic boss or bitch
later on in life. Leave your kids to become wild, and they’re most likely going
to end up being management, controlling the other weak minds around. Never
mind. All that to say that it is easy to have beliefs when they were implanted
at a young age. And then logic and common sense seem to go out the window.
I don’t
know if there is a God, I don’t know if what any of these religions state is
true or not. I can only take it all as possibilities, hypothesis, and to be
honest, not very convincing ones at that, for someone like me who was not
brainwashed at all on any religion or philosophy at an early age. Again, I
value my liberty or freedom far too much to adhere to any religion or
philosophy. And that’s the problem, isn’t it? The real conundrum of any
religion.
Religion
is not about some sort of distorted truth about the origin of existence and
whatever might happen after death or in between re-incarnations. No. If
religion was simply that, some sort of truth about a God who created us and the
universe, it would be great, it would be bearable.
Religion
is about control and power, and so adhering to any religion implies following
many rules, obligations, giving up your life, freedom, liberty, and whatever
else, everything. But to whom? The high priests, the leaders, to whoever
profits from it all. It is like giving up everything you have, everything you
are, and any sort of individuality you might wish to have, to some half baked
ideas or concepts, which in the end, makes no sense at all.
Religion
is the end of your freedom, the end of your own individuality, your identity,
who you are, who you could possibly become. Religion becomes you, you no longer
exist. You serve, you’re a slave, no longer in charge of your own thoughts or
your destiny, frightened to death of one simple thought, the idea of sin, which
in itself, is completely meaningless.
We’re all
animals, nothing more. We only answer to nature, our own nature, whatever it
dictates, not what religion or any sort of leader dictates. Whatever we truly
desire, is nature. It doesn’t mean we should act upon it, upon that desire, but
it certainly doesn’t mean we should feel guilt about it to the point of wishing
death. Guilt, guilt of even being alive, that is what has plagued my life since
the very day I was born. And yet, I don’t believe in religion!
Religion
is something you need to free yourself from, at any cost, no matter the
consequences. You will feel better at any rate afterwards, no matter the
consequences. Then, and only then, will you be free to observe this universe
and come up with your own answers.
All
right, there may be a God after all, who created the whole thing, who knows.
You don’t need organised religion to dictate that to you, when there are so
many others stating the complete opposite. These questions about nature, about
humanity, about the universe, should be pursued freely. You should be able to
think on your own, figure it out on your own, believe what you feel might be
the truth, not what others tell you the truth is, when so many other truths
exist.
I don’t
know who, years ago, decided to create these religions, all religions, and how
they came up with these truths which make no sense at all. I don’t know why
they felt the need to create religions and to ensure that everyone would
believe them and obey them. I can only guess that it was a question of control,
power, and hence, turning you into mindless drones, slaves, whatever.
I just know
that I’m glad I have nothing to do with any of these religions, secret societies,
religious sects. I am free! Free to think, to assess for myself what this life
is all about. And I will come to my own conclusions, after reviewing everything
everyone has ever said on any topic, and from whatever I feel seems right. No
one will tell me how to think or what to believe. I will observe and come to my
own conclusions about this world and what it is all about, all on my own.
I only
wish it would be the same for most of humanity, we could get the answers much
faster that way. More freethinkers is what this world needs. I do not respect
one religion over another, I do not accept any truth over another, unless I,
myself, have a vague feeling that it may be the truth.
I never
encountered a religion which agreed in the slightest with what I felt the truth
might be. Perhaps because, a long time ago, I came to the conclusion that I
will never find out about the truth.
No one
knows the truth about anything, and no one could ever know the truth about
anything. Makes you wonder if there is any sort of truth to discover in this
world, perhaps there is no such thing as the truth. And so, all religions are
simply wrong. What a thought! A revolutionary thought. As without religions, my
God, we might just have saved this world. But now, there is no hope.
Religion
will be the death of us all.
Barack Obama has mentioned many times he wanted to
radically implement change. He boasted in his book about listening to the population
at large (mostly old war widows, from what I gathered), understanding them,
with a desire to change everything. Even after the elections Obama still sends
e-mails asking us ideas about how to change the country (besides asking for
more money, of which we have none, so stop asking!). Well, let’s start with
identifying the real root of society as we know it: education. You know me by
now, you can trust me for providing the most extreme ideas.
There is a real problem in this world concerning education.
I will try to resume it in a few sentences. If you have no education, you will
quickly find a job and perhaps even excel at it. You will immediately ensure
your survival, but you will never dream of owning a house, lucky you if you even
get to buy a used car plagued with problems.
If you have a lot of education, you face the exact same
situation. You can’t find a job in the field you studied. Of course, thousands
every year graduate with the same diploma. I hope your dad can plug you
somewhere, otherwise, well, it will be difficult to even get the same job
someone without an education is going for, as those are the only jobs available.
One has to survive.
You will have to lie on your résumé, claim that you are in
fact brainless and never achieved anything in life. You’ll be blessed if they
let you wipe tables. This state of affair is very prevalent with new lawyers,
most of them are taxi drivers (if they’re fortunate, and learnt to lie early on,
on the way to their great career).
There was a time, before public education, when a degree
meant something, and achieving it would guarantee you a great position: the
three houses, the five cars, the garages, the lot. But when everyone is now an
engineer, a lawyer and a doctor, well, there is no need for more, there is no
need for you and your great education. It becomes meaningless, and certainly
will not ensure your survival. Go back to live with mommy and daddy, they will
know what to do with you, for a few months, before they can no longer stand it
and kick you out for good, stating: “never ask for money ever again!”
And if you try to claim those same benefits reserved for
brainless and uneducated people, even the government will feign surprise and
ignorance: “I don’t understand, you have a PhD, and you cannot find a job? What
is wrong with you! Are you sure you are not just a loser, and do not deserve
any kind of help? Perhaps there is one good solution for you, why don’t you
just declare yourself a failure and commit suicide?” That’s the answer I got, a
miracle I did not follow it through.
Oh yes, higher education brings you there, the thought of
suicide. When facing such an incomprehensible world, that has lost touch with
reality. That a degree not only will not get you a job in the field you have
studied, but on top of it, it will make sure you can’t even get a job as a street
cleaner. I know.
You would then be in your right to wonder why you spent 25
years of your life, if not 30, to study. And wonder how you will ever repay
this astronomical debt you contracted to achieve this degree. It is clear you
will never work in that field, you will never get the salary they promised you.
And hence, before you even begin your life, at 30, you can only feel despair.
Of course we are all intelligent here, we are all
intellectuals, we are all educated. We can easily debate Capote, Hemmingway and
Nietzsche. But don’t you see? This is not wanted in this market. Not only it is
not required, it is despised, as the workforce can truly recognise the truth:
education has become futile, you are useless, even most probably unwanted. Know
about Kant and Descartes? Good! And now get lost! And then your only solution
is to read Machiavelli, and finally understand the full extent of its true meaning.
If I had been responsible for implementing a system of
education initially, I don’t think I would have come up with the system most Western
countries have at the moment. I also understand that now it may be too late, it
would need to be changed globally. Because if one country changes its system,
none of its citizens will ever be able to work abroad, their skills would
simply not be recognised. However, let’s identify the problems with education,
and perhaps without a radical change or revolution, a few things could be
adapted and developed along the way.
It is obvious education does not work. It is the biggest waste
of resources, energy, time and money anyone could ever witness. I’ve said it
before, I’ll repeat it now: how dare we have a huge portion of the population
wasting up to 25 years in schools, colleges and universities, if not 35, doing
nothing productive for society except learning things most of them don’t even
care about or wish to learn, that nobody in the active world gives a damn
about, when statistically a huge portion of these people will not even live to
be 50 years old?
It is a huge waste! Have we gone mad? Is it not time to
re-adjust this whole system of education? Perhaps we don’t even need such a
thing at all! Certainly not to the extreme we brought it to.
Learn on the job is truly all that is required. After all,
your boss is always the mindless one who had no intelligence whatsoever, no
education whatsoever, but ended up at the top because he was incapable of
finding a better job somewhere else. And hence, he spent 25 years working for
those fools, and was eventually somehow promoted, again and again.
After all, that secretary who is nothing, knows more about
your case, and will help you more, than the professional who does not have the
time, nor the will, to care about you, no matter how much money you spend for
those out of reach services. Oh! Always trust the one without the degree
willing to help you. He or she is the one who will save your meaningless
existence, certainly not the expert who never has time for anything, let alone
for you.
And now, see what truly happens at the end of it. It turned
out that the whole goal of studying had nothing to do with teaching something. It
was all about testing you, comparing you with the moron sitting next to you,
eliminating you. If you turn out to be better equipped in memorising all that
crap, or simply if you had more time than that moron to do so, then you will do
better in your exams. And depending on that, you may go higher, and end up in the
best institutions. Though, in retrospect, maybe you did not truly deserve it.
Most likely you are that moron.
I was so obsessed with studies, the day I abandoned
sciences in college, I thought my life had come to an end. It certainly felt
like it in my family, they all had a heart attack. I studied natural sciences
instead, and then went on to study law at university. Everyone was happy again,
but I was about to commit suicide. I was doing nothing I really wanted to do, I
was studying the last thing I would ever have picked.
When I dropped out of law and switched to philosophy and
literature, I didn’t tell my family. When they found out, they all said my life
had been wasted, that I might as well be dead. Perhaps they were right after
all, my Master Degree in Literature certainly never brought me any money. At
least I studied what I wanted. Unfortunately it didn’t bring me a job. And so
now I am as depressed as ever.
This is
how obsessed society is now with studies. We all need to push our children to
the brink of insanity into those universities for years and years and years,
and hope that at the end of it they will get the diploma that will ensure them
a big income. We don’t care about what those children truly want to do, what
they like, what they might enjoy doing for the rest of their life. We don’t
even care if they will have a job at the end of it all, as it is now clear that
they won’t.
The
result is horrendous. The ones who succeed never wanted to succeed in these
fields in the first place, they were bored to death and now they will be
unhappy in their new cushy jobs for years to come. The ones who failed, that’s
even worse, they are contemplating suicide, how a wonderful concept it all is.
Better be useless in death, than go through being useless through life. You can
quote me on that.
The big
competition game gets to you, your parents and your teachers make sure of it,
even employers and other universities, and even your friends. You need to win,
you need to get to the top, and if you fail, you fail big time, no one wants to
know you anymore. It is soul destroying, it leads to depression, sickness,
sadness, a sense of absolute hopelessness.
So who
wins in all of this? Who finally gets the job he or she always dreamt of? No
one. Nothing in the education system will truly assess what you truly want to
do, and expedite you on your way to become it. On the contrary, everything
works against you. And it does not even give you a job at the end of it!
I think
we should prevent anyone from wasting half of their existence learning something,
whatever it is, on a bench in a class anywhere. I don’t believe this is the way
to go. I think we should spend much more time finding out what these children
want to do with their life. Then, I feel they should learn on the job, more
training than anything else, less boring classes.
For
example, I wanted to be a writer. Has anyone, at any time, stopped me to assess
this desire, and helped me get there? No, on the contrary, I only met
obstacles. After I finally destroyed all the obstacles along the way,
alienating my whole family in the process, disappointing all my teachers,
virtually committing social suicide by studying literature and philosophy, I
was once again met by a brick wall. It turned out that you do not learn to
become a writer or a philosopher when you study literature and philosophy, you
just learn about a few authors and what they wrote about. Big deal!
No one
helped me or did anything to point me into any direction where I could learn to
write and live out of my writings. I guess I could have done more research,
find out other schools or something, but by then it was already too late. I
could not now abandon that degree in pursuit of this. The system had failed
completely, and would ensure I would never become a writer. And to this day, I
am still just but nothing.
And then
I turn around, turn on the TV, and hear all these actors or actresses, or
successful musicians in bands, and in three seconds flat they say: “I can’t
believe I am being paid so much to do what I actually enjoy doing. I don’t
think I could be doing anything else, I would be useless at anything else.” And
that’s it, this is so illuminating! I only want to do what I enjoy doing, nothing
else matters. If I don’t do what I enjoy doing, then I may as well be dead. I
don’t even need to be paid millions for it, as long as I can ensure my
survival, I will be happy, at the very least.
It could
have been worse, I could have thought that my long life ambition was to have
the simplest life there is, picking up garbage for a living. Funny, I often
think that this is my destiny, and that all would be so simple and easy, if
everyday, all I had to do, was to pick up your garbage. As ironic as it may
sound, I have considered it, and may still consider it. How low does one needs
to go in order to find happiness and to free himself or herself from all this
crap of education and responsibility you can’t never truly achieve?
And what
fries me the most, after spending 25 years in schools, colleges, universities,
in no less than three different countries, I still know nothing! I am still an
ignorant bastard! I barely read 100 books in my entire life. I know a few
authors, I remember vaguely what they wrote about, but that’s it! That was
however enough for me to sustain any conversation about French literature,
whether I was in
In the
end, I understand, no one who studied anything knows anything about anything,
except the main lines of it, a few classic authors and movements, and yeah,
they may remember a few books they read. I bet they all know about Samuel
Beckett and his “Waiting for Godot”. If I hear one more student in literature
mentioning to me Samuel Beckett, I will scream so hard, the whole world will
hear me. That book was shit, just like the author who wrote it. And that’s the
end of it. That book certainly does not deserve to be studied worldwide. Who
decided this? Why is every single student in French Literature worldwide will
eventually get to read and study this book? It’s crap! I’m sure anyone in any
field of study, economics for example, could easily identify that author and
that book who are the classics which need to be eradicated from the curriculum.
Like
Dangerous Liaisons of Choderlos de Laclos? At least that book was great, I did
my thesis on it, but you won’t read that thesis any time soon, it is the worst
thing I have ever written in my entire life. That was my big contribution to
the world, after 25 years of hard study. A miserable fifty pages that never got
out of some drawer somewhere, and that I am too ashamed to show the world. I
wrote the damn thing in one night, to get the diploma, and that was it. But
just wait for my PhD thesis on Agatha Christie, that will be something! And I
suspect it is the same for everyone else. Complete waste of time and money.
So, in
résumé, the problem about education is that we are spending too much resource
on it, too many young people waste way too long learning useless things they
will never need and don’t even want to learn. In the end, not many people will
end up leading happy lives, because not many people will be doing what they
truly want to do. No job is guaranteed at the end of it.
The
system of competition has become overwhelming, causes too much pressure, for
little results other than comparing and eliminating students, when perhaps
there is not so much a need to compare them to that extreme over the idea that
they should learn something productive to society, whilst actually enjoying the
process.
What sort
of society can afford to have half its population studying things for 25 years
if not 30, doing nothing productive for us all, whilst the other half is
basically either retired or about to retire if not dying? So, who’s doing all
the work then?
Silly me,
all the vegetables of the world are being produced in some weird country by a
handful of slaves, and many machines. And our electronic equipment is being
built by children in
I
understand now how we can afford to spend our lifetime studying, we have our
slaves working for us in the
Have I
mentioned somewhere that education should be free and accessible to everyone?
No? Oh dear, I’m losing perspective. I guess I did not see the point of that,
if we could not first guarantee a job to everyone at the end of it all, you
see?
Many
countries offer great education for free, it might explain why our market is
flooded and saturated with foreigners from all those weird countries. More
competition we could never hope to overcome. How we have become totally
useless, us, the very sons and daughters of our nation.
Might
have something to do with the fact that any foreigner pay so much more money to
study here than our sons and daughters, and as such, only they, are guaranteed
entry in our great educational system.
God only
knows where they get the money from, their entire family it seems, knowing full
well the future of this entire family will depend on the success on that son or
daughter in a foreign country. Our parents? No way would they finance our
education, whilst the government still somehow believes they have a duty to do
so.
Those foreign
students, you meet them in university libraries. They have gone half mad,
cleaning the inside of their nose with their two hands, in front of everyone,
without realising they are doing something astonishing. So much depends on
their success, you see, they don’t care anymore about the quirkiness of upper
society.
Ah!
Foreigners! No manner whatsoever. We should create a special education for
them, to teach them our ways. I bet it would be a failure, whilst they only
think and succeed in taking advantage of our policies.
As long
as you pay the price, you can take the place of our sons and daughters. This
university will survive, no matter the cost, since the government will not
help, since society does not value education. And why should it? In the state
it is in, we all agree that at any rate, education is totally useless.
I invite
you to study the French educational system. At first it seems crazy,
irrational, unthinkable. It does not end with education, it is all interlinked
with the productive world. The government will not only ensure you will get a
free education, it will also ensure you will get a job in your field at the end
of it. The government will find you a job, and until it does so, it pays you
the salary you would expect from that job! And somehow it works. Study it
carefully, it might be the solution we are all seeking, even if none of it
makes any sense. A sure sign it might be the solution, we certainly require a
radical change.
We need
to reassess our priorities. We need to take every child aside and make sure we
know what they like to do, and give them the chance to do it, get experience
first hand in training in the real world. Or at least get the right school,
college or university where they can really learn what they want. We need to
terminate this obsession with producing more and more doctors, lawyers and
engineers. It leads to too many unhappy lives and probably many suicides.
Right now
I would like to study some more, yeah, you heard me, as if 30 years was not
enough. I want to study theoretical physics, because it is my passion. I don’t
have the money, I need to work. I abandoned the idea after I registered and actually
started at the
I now want
to study to become a teacher of literature, apparently in
And oh
yeah, my dream of being an author, I still have it. Could I study some more to
become a writer, a journalist perhaps? Where do I start? Where do I find the money?
How could I sustain myself? And thank god I have no children, then, there
really would not be any hope. No help there either.
You have
failed with me, miserably, just like you fail most of us. Get back to the
drawing board and redesign a new educational system that will show more promise,
one that would at least give us some hope for a better future! Or at least,
some sort of future. Should all be done and planned in parallel of work, of a
job, a career, right from the start.
A future
connected with the real world, some productivity to help us all survive. Let’s
see… what are again those most basic needs, or did you have time to forget? Food
(including water), shelter, and clothing. Oh… no jobs on the market at the
moment are even remotely connected with any of those most basic needs. I think
I just identified our main problem with education.
Before
long, we will suddenly understand it all. A simple prediction of the future, we
will forget the wonderful world of marketing and sales, we will get back to
basics, out of necessity. I so wish it was not true, whilst we continue to hope
and never achieve this wonderful American Dream. After all, we have been
disillusioned for so long, could it not continue until at the very least we all
die?
Just as I
said, my life long ambition now, for the simplest existence without any kind of
worry, has always been to pick up your garbage. So simple a life, after all, it
could have been and still could be, as this does not require any education, and
would have spared me so much of your exasperating and nightmarish educational
system.
As long
as I can ensure my survival, I don’t care what I do. I have just applied to
become a street cleaner in
I lied on
my 98 pages application form, I stated I had no education whatsoever. Oh dear!
I just hope and pray to God that I will get the job, before it disappears, and I’m
just hoping that I will not be prosecuted for so blatantly lying on my CV! Who’s
to prove I studied at all? My references? I provided none.
Have I
mentioned that we are losing our mortgage, our apartment? So much education, so
much intelligence, so much success overcoming so much competition, I thought
that we were worth it. We are losing everything, we were worth nothing after
all.
And it
kills me to see that those mindless morons of my childhood, who have no
education whatsoever, not only have such a great three floor house made of
white bricks, but the economic depression does not seem to affect them at all.
They are happy, thriving on our misery, whilst we are dying.
Is it
possible that too much education kills? That perhaps even, education guarantees
your misery? Could those morons somehow succeeded in achieving the easy and
successful life I was promised but never got?
I am
getting desperate to survive and escape, struggling to even eat, banging my
head on the walls wondering where I went wrong. Just like the rest of us all.
So many things, are just fake and faking it, just like
life. You might think this entry will be my least significant one, I feel it is
my most significant one. Because it touches to our daily life, everything we
do, everything we are. It defines one’s existence from the beginning to the
end, if there is such a thing in sight. What are we all about? What is it that
we do, that we are? A job. How are we treated in that job? Very badly indeed.
Like children, like prisoners, like animals. Well, we will have to put a stop
to this corporate bullying.
Tonight I went completely berserk. I shouted so loud, I am
certain every single person in that lost street of
All because of a Line Manager digging at me all day, all
week, all month, all year round, before I can no longer hold it, hold to my
last shred of sanity. Dear me, I could then so easily push the button to
annihilate the whole world, you would not believe.
This is the result of the American Corporate Management
structure, now common place all over
I sincerely believe, without being able to prove it, that
most crimes, most domestic violence, most murders, can be derived from the
alienation and insanity resulting from management hierarchies mind games. And
that if we were to work very hard in order to make the work place a peaceful
and nice environment to work in, where happiness might actually be a real
achievable goal, the crime rate would be lowered considerably in society.
Why is the word “work” so offensive? The mention of it can
give cramps and send you to the toilet within seconds. The thought of it will
most likely keep you awake most of the night. Work is our nightmare and we all
have to go through it. Is there a cure on the horizon? Or are we all condemned
to be forever slaves to the corporate structure and small minded control freak management
the Americans export so successfully everywhere?
I understand that it would be impractical for a society to
abolish work altogether, but how nice would that be? Or how necessary will it
become, if we wish to keep our sanity and find some form of happiness in our
lifetime? Big changes are required, we are going about it the wrong way, I am
telling you.
For a second there, I thought it would happen. All those
newest corporations being created, with billions of dollars in their name, they
serve no purpose, they do not produce anything, they don’t even provide a
worthy service or fulfil a need for anyone. And yet, they are rich, they are
made of marble, perfect empty shells made of billions, serving no need, which,
logically, should not require any of their employees to do anything. They are
mostly all in the financial sector.
Unfortunately, even though the Tapeworm Corporations (the
empty shells) still do nothing worthy to justify their existence in the first
place, they still ask a lot from their employees, they are driving them all mad.
No help there. It is amazing how a company that does nothing helpful to
society, still requires so much work and headaches from its work force.
For example, what have I been doing for the last 15 years?
I produced conferences, making millions for some lucky guy in the process. What
does it mean? I brought together a bunch of losers who are perceived as the
leaders in their field or niche market, and other losers paid a lot of money to
come and hear them talk, sometimes hoping to sell them other useless ideas of
their own.
Perfect example of a company serving no purpose in this
world. What sort of meaning can I then give to my own existence? All my life I
have brought together a bunch of trash corporate people to talk about nothing,
all over Europe, all over
At $15,000 a place, I hope they learnt something, or sold
something. They certainly did, sold more empty ideas that went nowhere, or were
huge big mistakes from the start. I could have told them that, I was the only
one extensively researching the topic in the first place, a big empty egg,
symbol of what corporations have become today.
If truly there was a need for people to meet and talk, they
would do it without spending that much money. Meeting and speaking to anyone is
free, no need to spend the price of a house in
And, if this had been all I had to do, bringing those
losers together and making big money, it would have been great, it would have
been bearable. But I had to deal with the great American Corporate Structure,
its management, for which I have always been at the lowest level, even though
it seemed, I was the only one doing any work, the one making it all happen. I
now suffer from every single neurosis known to humankind.
I heard 20 years ago that we were all veering towards a
society of leisure, with more time to enjoy walking the dog in the park and watching
those children grow, whilst working less and less hours so we could enjoy some
sort of existence.
Now, 20 years later, any job I ever had, turned out to be a
real nightmare, with hours going off the scale, with weeks of up to 75 hours, with
mind games capable of rendering you either completely alcoholic, dependent on
drugs, or at the very least completely neurotic.
If not, then you must be that sadist bastard who feeds on
alienating everyone around you at work, and for that, you need to be shot. We
dream of it every night, thinking of new ways to assassinate you. Sometimes
thinking about how we could get away with it, most of the time, beyond caring
about the consequences, as long as you die a painful death.
How nice must it be, for a job, to ensure that every single
form of discrimination is implemented as an unofficial policy. And spend the
rest of the time fighting in Work Tribunals with HR, justifying that indeed
this was not discrimination, all employees are ungrateful liars and simply incompetent!
They deserve to be sacked without pay, and suffer as much as possible. That
revolting word “management”.
I bet you felt the same just about all your life, but for
some reason could never express it in such words, that suddenly it sounds like
the whole truth about this world, what every single one of us goes through
every day, struggling to survive. Here you are, a now well identified problem,
let’s do something about it!
We are making millions, I can assure you. I don’t know how,
I can’t explain it, since we are not really doing anything, or provide any
needed product or service to this society, but the millions are coming in. So
leave me alone! I don’t need more bullshit, Ego trips from you, and self-made
crises.
Sorry, did you mean that I need to make billions now instead
of millions? Oops! Let me see what I can do. Let me see if I can kill myself
ever more, and find out who else I can kill in order to make you a multiple billionaire.
I had jobs that I actually liked a little, most I hated
beyond belief. Actually, I hated them all. The jobs I actually liked a little,
quickly became unbearable, because the people I was working with couldn’t help
themselves, they always managed to turn the place into a living hell.
Is there a need for this? Does it serve a purpose? Does it
bring more millions in? I feel it can only breed resentment, a serious lack of
loyalty, sheer hatred, and a deep need to sabotage the company and your
ambitions. I have dreamt of seeing you and this company go down the drain, so
many times, you would not believe. Do we all feel the same? I’m sure we do.
Perhaps this is where the revolution will start.
The whole concept of management, a string of managers and a
big boss at the top who, if you’re lucky, you will never meet, has put so much
strain on us, I’m surprised we’re still alive. For a long time I thought it was
only me, I know now that everyone has the same sad story to tell about his or
her job. We have all reached breaking point. You better pay attention, this is
a serious crisis.
How can we make this work? What could we do to prevent bastards
and backstabbers from destroying everyone else? How could we ensure that management
does not play these little mind games which have far reaching impacts, more
than they probably even realise themselves?
Their allies are Human Resources departments, packed with
highly paid lawyers, who will ensure your utter destruction, since, how could
you possibly defend yourself against those? You couldn’t, you will lose every
time, since none of us understands the language of the law.
How can we finally make sure that the week below 40 hours
does not simply and uniquely apply to civil servants, but to everyone else out
there who’s working for a bunch of greedy and disgusting business people
requiring over 60 to 70 hours of work a week? Most of us already spend two to
three hours a day suffocating in the packed transport system to begin with.
That is soul destroying enough.
I don’t know, I really don’t. I wish I did know, but to be
honest, I have suffered many years, I have written a complete journal in
several volumes about it all, and I am still nowhere near finding the
solutions. Work being an obscenity, has been the central point and obsession of
my entire existence, it was all leading to this present article.
Even though I was not expecting to find happiness at work,
I certainly did not expect to find depression, murderous thoughts, and suicidal
ideas in order to escape the nightmare. Well, I do have a few radical
solutions, I doubt they would be practical or that they would be implemented,
but let’s see.
If I ever hear the word teamwork ever again, I will shoot
someone. I think this translates all our thoughts upon the subject. Banish it
from your vocabulary this instant, or there will be blood! After all, we are
all over the edge right now, it would not take much to start the war.
It is clear that in this society there is no such thing as
team work or a teamwork player. A team cannot work together, that much is
certain. People are too selfish, too self-absorbed, too arrogant, too
ambitious, too jealous, too power hungry, too self-centred, too insecure, too
much ready to explode under too much pressure, too everything, in order to work
in a team. So teams need to be eliminated.
Everyone hates their colleagues at work, you might like a
few, but most of them, you wouldn’t mind too much if they were to suffer a
heart attack or a fatal car accident tonight on their way home, no matter how
many children they have, because at that point, you don’t care about anything
else but the idea of getting rid of them. So teams need to disappear.
We are not socially apt enough to work in harmony with
others, we are more prone to fight and alienate everyone. So workers need to be
separated, you should never find a floor shared by 6, 12, 20 or even 40 people.
Even cubicles would not do, you would really need to not be able to see your
colleagues, in fact, it would be great if you never knew they existed.
So either you provide all your employees with separate
offices, no matter how important or useless their job is, or you get them to
work from home. We all have computers now with internet connections, whatever
can be done from home, should be done from home. No question about it. You’re
less likely to alienate a whole office and get sacked or get your colleagues
sacked if you’re working from home. It would, in the process, solve many, many,
many other problems. No more commuting in trains or cars, hours wasted in
transport, draining the energy of your employees. Traffic problems and train
congestion, and parking situation, all that solved. And what about how much
money you would save from not needing so much office space?
When I was young, I dreamt of working from home. I read
everywhere that soon we would all be working from home. Somehow it never
happened. I know no one who works from home, even though all the people I know
already have all the equipment necessary to do so. Trains are still packed,
congestion charges in Central London had to be implemented, now
150,000 young professionals leave
See how cynical I am? This world made me, this is my
generation, completely alienated, terrorised, ready for the big crunch at any
time. With nothing to lose, well, you can expect anything at any moment, we no
longer care.
All right, so working from home would solve the first
problem of work. The second one is management. This obsession with authority,
supervision, competition, people constantly checking on others, telling them
what to do every minute of the day, micromanagement, starting to freak out or
panic if we are five minutes late or went to the toilet for too long, all this
needs to end. Measuring the results of one’s work not on time they work on it,
but how much they have done whilst at home, is a solution.
Management never ends, you have a Line Manager, a Main
Manager, another few Managers in between who can all control you as well, a Director,
sometimes an Assistant Director (and dear me, if you have an Assistant Manager,
you might as well shoot yourself right now), another bigger Director, VP, perhaps
even a few more, and then ultimately a boss, General Manager, Managing
Director, President, owner, whatever.
So what do you do, yourself, when you are at the bottom of
this hierarchy or even if you are stuck in middle management, with a person or
two to supervise? You are a slave, you cannot be anything else. You have more
people telling you what to do, and double checking that you are doing it
correctly, than there are actually people doing anything. And since all these
meetings and talks and checking up take most of your time, in the end no one is
really doing any work. No productivity whatsoever. The downward spiral of the
corporate hierarchy.
We are all way too absorbed into management games to work,
it has become our whole existence. So much so, that when we return home, we
cannot think about anything else but work, we cannot do anything else but
thinking about these mind games. Perhaps we may even work at home in the
evening, as I did so many nights before, as it is the only way to actually do
any work, free from the corporate structure. So the society of leisure, what an
utopia that was.
How do we solve the growing problem of management. A few decades
ago it seemed all promising, new books on the market came out, and suddenly we
were all going to have a new management style, a soft touch, a human side to
management, understanding and all. Work would become a happy place, and as a
direct consequence, a more productive place.
It never materialised. Management works with Personnel and
HR departments, collecting information about you, to eventually get you sacked.
And they succeed big time, working against you all the time, this is all we can
think about. I can’t see this changing any time soon. Production and results
are, as a direct consequence, quickly reaching zero.
You cannot motivate a suicidal employee, or one you could
so easily tip over the edge by simply saying that he or she cannot take a day
off in the next two weeks. That employee is already dead, and certainly
unproductive. Counterproductive most likely, moaning all day long to anyone
still willing to hear that never-ending bull.
If I were
paid on how much work I do instead of how many hours I do, unsupervised, I’m
sure I would be much more productive and motivated. The harder I would work,
the more money I would make. Simple idea, and yet, it has never caught on. They
decided instead to pay me by the hour and use the whip to make me work harder.
That leads to neuroses, depression, lack of loyalty, a frank desire to sabotage
the organisation I’m working for.
If I
didn’t have so many people to deal with, if there was not so much pressure on
my shoulders, if I were given the possibility to do my job, I actually might be
able to do it. I didn’t say I would enjoy it, but at least I could do it. So
less management would be an idea. Less meetings. Less reports. You should find
other ways to measure my work, ensure that I do it, without having to threaten
me or send me off the wall. Micro-managing us the way you do, is a bad idea.
The thing
is, what these managers don’t understand, is how humiliating it is for us to be
told anything. The smallest comment has such a huge impact on us, the smallest
sentence rings in our ears and will be repeated in our mind for at least 12
hours afterwards. We are all trapped in time loops and we cannot escape them. Anger
builds up so quickly, this patronizing, at that point, anything could ignite
the little ticking time bombs we have all become in the work environment.
How do
you get rid of management, and still ensure that the job gets done? You should pay
by the work your employees do, not by the hour. If one lazy bastard doesn’t
want to do anything, he or she simply won’t get paid. If what he or she did is
not good enough, find a way to make that person understand it, without igniting
the ticking time bomb. Surely there are ways, besides sending us all to the
asylum.
At the
very least, avoid having any management talking to him or her. The less verbal
contact you have with your employees, the better they will feel. Send a nice memo,
accompanied with flowers and a box of chocolate. You get the gist, use kid
gloves, we all desperately require it, and expect it.
If I
never had to speak to any manager or director or boss ever again, I would be
beyond pleased. And if I never ever had to meet and work with any of my working
colleagues ever ever again, I would be doubly beyond pleased. In fact, if I
never ever ever ever had to work ever ever ever ever ever again, it would
simply be perfect!
Now you
understand the worker’s mentality. Any motivation, any way you could invent to motivate
positively your employee to achieve anything, is essential. We do not give a
f*ck about the millions and billions you dream of. If you so desperately seek
them, and depend so desperately on us to get them for you, you will have to get
creative, you will have to work for it, and think hard in order for us to work
hard to make those millions and billions for you. Slavery is no longer an
option. That little tyrant you hired to micromanage everyone, has got to go.
And now
you are scandalised by such a statement. What you don’t know is that everyone
thinks the same damn thing. We all entertain murderous thoughts about our Line
Manager or Line Director, VP, or even the President. And whilst we think of
that, we think of little else. So take that under your hat, and make that damn
working place a worthy place to work in, a place where someone can actually
still have a wish to live.
This will be my most conspiracy theorist entry ever. I am
writing it because it is moving towards the mainstream and is perhaps no longer
part of the conspiracy theorists’ domain. Globalisation does not benefit anyone
but a few rich people and corporations, and whether or not there is an
organisation such as a New World Order, some sort of new world order is being
created at any rate, and we all stand to lose from it. It can only lead to
worldwide poverty, famines and wars.
Globalisation, second tentative. Second, because I first
wrote an entry which has now been deleted, and that hopefully you will never
read. As I kept a copy of it, it is possible that one day you will read that
fantastic positive entry about globalisation that I have written, against my
will (after some brainwashing). I went into lots of definitions, and now I
realise I cannot provide any definition of what globalisation truly is. As you
dig further, it becomes blurry.
Why have I deleted it? Because when you read about
globalisation in an encyclopaedia, it sounds ideal, it sounds perfect, it seems
like the only way forward. But then, globalisation has got nothing to do with
McDonalds on every street corner from
In this day and age, globalisation is synonym with New
World Order, and we all know what that means, unless you have been living under
a rock for the last decade. New World Order means the end of any sort of
freedom, right or liberty, it means, in the best conspiracy theory fashion, the
end of the world as we know it. You lose your own culture, your own language,
your own religion, your own beliefs, your own identity.
Most people still laugh at the idea, I almost do myself,
especially after taking such topic as globalisation so lightly. I read a few
books, and I thought, could it be true, is it possible, or is it just
conspiracy theories? But when the new Prime Minister of England, Gordon Brown,
makes a first speech after taking power, with no less than 17 mentions of New
World Order and Globalisation, I have to wonder, who is he really working for?
Not the people, that is most certain:
YouTube’s “Gordon Brown
New World Order Speech”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uv5cqh26CC0
Even the BBC states it
clearly: “Brown wants a 'new world order'”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6277747.stm
It is everywhere in the
mass media, Google it. The New Statesman: “Brown's new world order”
http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2007/05/brown-blair-iraq-israel
And then, I feel so lost, desperate, that even new elections,
new Prime Ministers, new Presidents, does not change anything, that they are
all on the same war path, they are all about globalisation and New World Order,
and ultimately, not many of us really understand what this is all about and
where it will lead us all.
We can only see the state of the world today, genocides
here and there, a Nuclear Third World War around the corner, the greatest stock
market crash in history awaiting us at the bank, we are all now Americans and
our world leader is the American President. Have I mentioned Bird Flu and
terrorists? Dear me, it is the End of the World, as my grandfather would say,
after blaming it all on the Communists.
I don’t even know what a communist is, the concept has been
eradicated from my education, as I am from one of the new generations, the
ignorant one without a purpose in this world. Not the Baby Boomers Generation,
not even Generation X, not even the new youngest generation, Generation Kill. I
am from a lost generation in between Generation X and Generation Kill, as I
said, a lost meaningless generation without an identity. For a while we were
called Generation Y (why), it came after X. As I said, an insignificant and
utterly powerless generation. That’s me!
Generations have been globalised nowadays, it transcends
countries and nationalities and time. We were all listening to the Moody Blues
when I was born in 1972, if you can remember, whether we were in
I don’t know more than you, I have a full time job as a
civil servant, at the bottom of the corporate hierarchy, I can’t read all the
literature on the subject and write clever fully researched articles. But it
seems clear, a new world order is being drawn over the horizon, none of us will
survive it if the trends continue as they do. Something is going to happen,
something huge, I can say that even without being alarmist, all the obvious
signs are here. And whenever
All I know is that it does not sound like any sort of
paradise or utopia, but more constraints, less freedom, less rights and more
misery, whilst they continue to reap humanity’s global wealth.
It is almost like an opened invitation for one crazy tyrant
to rule the world, because after globalisation is complete, the way they want
it to be complete, one man decides everything. And that most coveted job will
be the one no one will have any power in deciding who gets it. Money and power decide,
which means a few men decide, and then, our future is definitely going to be
bleak as their personal interests will most likely clash with the masses’ self
interests.
You can’t make money if anyone else is making money, the
solution is everyone should live in utter poverty, or die if you somehow can
make it happen. It seems to have been the prevalent course of action lately in international
politics. Perhaps it has always been the case, it would explain why most of the
world is living under despotic political regimes instead of peaceful real
democracies.
We are no exception, I’m afraid. If what the majority of
the people in the country wants does not happen, there is no democracy. What do
we want most right now? We want to end
Then we need to go back to the drawing board and come up
with a better system which will be democratic. I hope a civil war will be
unnecessary for this to happen. Perhaps the people we have elected as our
representatives will wake up and make it happen for us, before we have to take
control of the government ourselves, and replace it entirely.
Globalisation is the way by which some humans that you can
count on one hand will take over the world and drive it to extinction. Greed
and thirst for power as main motivations will make sure of it, as greed and
thirst for power know no boundaries. You can quote me on that.
This is difficult to grasp, because most of us don’t know
what greed and thirst for power really mean, we barely can conceptualise what
having billions of dollars or pounds or Euros at our disposal really means,
because most of us would not know what to do with so much money and power. We
wouldn’t even know where to start in order to make some good in this world,
eliminate poverty and famines, work towards some sort of a beginning of a
utopia or golden age for everyone. There are enough resources for everyone in
this world, you know.
Any step anyone could take towards doing some good, is
ambushed by the greedy and blood thirsty people who are in power. Any New Real
World Order would need to eliminate, eradicate from its cogs, anyone who seems
too eager to seek power or seems a bit greedy, perhaps already rich and buying
an election and the mass media, and then, perhaps only then, the idea of
globalisation would not seem so offensive.
Even if there was no New World Order organisation working
against us, globalisation benefits only a few die hard capitalists capable of conquering
the world’s markets with near infinite financial means. And so, whether there
is a New World Order conspiracy or not, makes no difference. Globalisation can
only be offensive as it can only profit the few over the many. This is
essentially all I have to say about globalisation.
What is true of humans, is doubly true for anyone in power.
We all know humans cannot be trusted and will backstab you at any given
opportunity. Because we are all selfish at heart, we all want what’s best for
ourselves and our children, and it is doubly true for any politician or
religious leader. None of us can be trusted. In these conditions, globalisation
can only be a bad idea.
At this time we cannot deny that some evil force has been
at work in international politics, mostly coming from leaders of the most
powerful countries. There is enough evidence to show that there is smoke, and
that there is no smoke without fire. It seems also that a change of leader,
even if it involves a change of political party, does not seem to change
anything.
The course to globalisation seems to be the mean to achieve
some unknown goals. All we know is that these goals have nothing to do with
making everything easier, bringing peace in the world, eliminating poverty or
bringing some happiness.
So, if globalisation does not appear to be a priority for
anyone, what good could come out of it except that you will have a McDonald
within a mile of your home, and your TV packed with
More money? I doubt it, though it might make a few people
richer. The chance to move more freely between countries and work wherever you
want? That might ultimately be the only advantage of globalisation, like any Western
European can now move to
At least they are now in
I don’t know about the European Union, but the American
Union between
In this day and age, as long as you are not American
yourself, it is likely that the word
Whatever you vote for, whoever gets elected, has already
been decided by others you will never hear anything about. And whoever you
elect does not matter, they are all working towards the same goal, they are all
working for the same people and corporations, the world of high finance.
I am not convinced Barack Obama is not already one of them.
If he wins the elections and becomes President, then we will be certain,
wouldn’t we? You could not possibly be in power and work against them, even
with the best intentions, moral and ethic that God can provide. Fear has always
been the most powerful tool in politics, and fear needs be applied only in a
few high places for it to work so perfectly.
Globalisation sounded like such a great idea, just like
democracy. Just like socialism sounded so great in theory. However, nothing is
ever like it seems, and if you read upon the subject even just a little, you
will quickly understand that there is no such thing as democracy, freedom,
evolution towards a better free world, a happy peaceful world. That no
political system or solution will ever work, because other dark people in the
shadows are working terribly hard to make sure they remain in power and become
richer.
At the first sign of this we should see rebellion. But this
is never going to happen, it is unlikely on a global level, because in this day
and age, it is clear as day what leaders are doing, what they are working
towards, and yet, everyone chooses to be completely blind to it.
There is an expression saying: hidden in plain sight. In
this case it is no longer hidden, and yet we choose to do nothing. We believe
everything, we are weak over the ones who are not. We are all being
manipulated, and one does not need to be a conspiracy theorist to see it. It
explains why what was once conspiracy theories, spoken by unknown people, is
now moving beyond that, and well known personalities speak openly in such
terms.
There comes a point when it can no longer be overlooked or
denied. We have reached that point, conspiracies are reaching the mainstream,
and everyone is talking about it. Even the mass media, between the lines, if
you listen carefully. A sure sign of a dictatorship and tyranny, and some
resistance movement forming. We are going to need it.
Let’s just make sure that in the end this is exactly what
we will get, a true globalisation to make this world a better one, a happier
one for everyone, crowned by a real democracy. No political system will ever be
what we hope for as long as greed and thirst for power can still get to the top
and decide for everyone. Something needs to happen, something revolutionary,
and yet, it might not bring anything better for anyone.
There are always ways to go around everything, to still
control everything despite all the laws to prevent such deceptions. Democracy
and globalisation are meaningless concepts if you choose to ignore what is
going on behind the scene and how events can be used and abused to the
advantage of the few over the masses.
Wake up and be aware of the lies and what is untold, at the
very least. The terrorism we are witnessing right now is obviously government
sponsored terrorism, or at least there are excellent reasons and evidences to wonder.
No sudden change should come out of terrorism, it would be a big mistake. All
that we have lost since the first attacks, will need to be regained at some
point, let’s just hope it can be done without civil wars.
At this time, globalisation sounds like a bad idea, because
we cannot be certain why it is really happening and what will be the benefits
compared with what we stand to lose. We just have to wonder who profits from
globalisation, and on an individual level, if we do profit from globalisation.
And first of all, one needs to clearly answer what is globalisation anyway, and
I’m afraid we won’t find the answer so easily.
So, I say no to globalisation, until such time that we can
be certain that everyone can benefit from it, and I mean everyone. We still all
have our own distinct national identity and culture, what could possibly be so
threatening about this, that we are all being offered this ultimate choice: total
assimilation or total annihilation? We should be able to say no to joining this
new world order, and we should be able to say no to war. Is this still a choice
or none of this can be stopped? Are we that powerless against our leaders?
Could what the Jewish historian Professor Benny Morris says
in the New York Times be true? That if
You have to read this article, it is illuminating and hallucinogenic
all at the same time, it confirms in my mind that
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/18/opinion/18morris.html?pagewanted=1&_r=2&ref=opinion
Historian Professor Benny Morris must know what he is
talking about, he is working closely with
He is telling us exactly how Israel leaders think and what
they are actually about to do in order to save their country and prevent at any
cost Iran from acquiring a nuclear bomb, from fears that they might themselves
be obliterated in return.
I believe Benny Morris is simply stating a fact about what
must happen if
Moreover, since
It will most likely eventually get
I thought
I would much prefer to teach future generations that
I was not yet born when six million Jews and one million gays
were eradicated during the Second World War in
I can already tell you now, that I will not have on my
conscience 70 million deaths through a nuclear war which will just be the
beginning of it all. I am here now, I am able to say no, this cannot happen, I
do not want it.
This time I will dissociate myself from your history, and
go back to live in my own little bubble universe where I always lived, from where
I claim I am just an observer of what goes on in the world.
After all, I have nothing to do with what you do, I am but
one human being in this world, what difference could I possibly make? None of
this has anything to do with me, or has anything to do with any of us. Or does
it? Who is responsible then for our collective destiny?
I don’t even vote, I never did, thank God, as I can never forgive
myself for anything I do, or that I don’t do whilst I know I should. So many obligations,
am I alone responsible for the fate of humanity? Sometimes this is just how I
feel. And that whatever I could do, the result would be just the same. I don’t
count, none of us do.
Besides, I would never be able to explain or justify such
insanity, even if done in my name, without my consent. And then, well, I would
have to acknowledge that none of us truly deserves to exist. I would have to recognise:
why not blow ourselves up?
If global warming does not achieve that very result within
years, we might as well make doubly sure we will all disappear for good as soon
as possible, before we start to threaten not only our small planet, but the
whole universe with it. Who knows, perhaps there is life elsewhere. If we do
not feel we deserve a chance, and decide to be so destructive instead, we might
wish to give them that chance.
There is no doubt in my mind that if we ever develop a
technology that could destroy the entire universe, we would certainly use it at
the first opportunity. I’m sure the American President would be eager the press
the button, just to find out what happens, in case somehow it brings him more
wealth. Maybe the President will think that it could get his God to finally
reappear? I wonder.
How will we write that down for history, how will we
explain such a lack of common sense? Is there truly something that important
going on behind the scene, of which we are totally unaware, which warrants this
crisis? And why is it that it is thought that we would not accept the real
version of event, the motivation behind what we do? Because it could not possibly
be justified?
How could we ever make this look good and acceptable to future
generations? I don’t know. We will have to be highly creative indeed, and
perhaps invent some more lies to cover it all up.
What else can we do? Just admit we’re monsters and do not
care at all for human life? That history is just a long series of genocides,
and that the worst ones all happened in the very last chapter of our history,
not forgetting of course all the ones happening in
I am sitting here tonight wondering how we could possibly
make the last decade look good on paper for history, how we could twist
everything so none of this will look so dirty and simply revolting. My God, I
don’t think we will be able this time.
We will have to re-adjust our definition of humanity,
describing humans as the most savage and destructive animals of the known
universe. And that religion certainly did not help in the slightest, that in
fact, religion was used a great deal in order to expedite our way out of this
world. Worth having Gods, for the good it brought us.
One Vietnam War was enough, it took only 20 years to
decipher the truth. Do you know the truth now? This time around we were very
much aware of the Second Vietnam War in
What is history? No, really, what is truly the history of
humankind? We often hear that history is written by the victors, but I have to
add, history is also written by the losers, so it might be more acceptable to students
trying to understand whatever it is that might have happened before they were
born.
Even though, good luck now, students probably don’t care
about any of it. And so it should be, because our vision of history is so
twisted, so biased, that in the end, our history is just a bunch of lies and is
worth absolutely nothing. Our own version of history could not tell anyone what
actually happened here.
Dear me, am I the first person on this planet to realise
that and say it out loud? Hopefully not. Come on now, you know better, you know
this is true, history is worth nothing. Because we all know or can guess that
this is not how it happened, that these were not the true motivations or the
real version of events they are trying to teach us.
Was
We can read between the lines, we have the Internet now, we
can find out what truly happened there and then. We know most sources cannot be
trusted, they’re lying for whatever reason. History is simply hypocritical and
has always been. I have no doubt Benny Morris, as an historian, does not help
the true history of this world or of his own people, as he is now very much
provoking it, making history happen, for the worst. Who would have thought that
historians could make history happen? They always did, it is the whole point.
You can
only but try to hide the truth, in this day and age it is all but useless. The
truth is, humanity is so unworthy of existing, that you on top of it all,
trying to hide the true facts about it all, is just too much for anyone to take,
because we all know it all. No one in their right mind could wish to live in
such a world of make belief.
No matter how you could present it, no matter how you could
try to justify history, you will never succeed in proving this wrong: humans
are all bloody killers, way too ready to take over the land and resources of
the next one, and kill whoever might stand in their way.
History
is undeniable on this point, humanity is all about wiping itself out of
existence, the sooner the better. And one human life counts for nothing, hell,
six billion lives count for nothing. If we all die in the end, for whatever explanation,
as long as one last tyrant survives all alone, rich as Croesus with all the
worldwide wealth, then it would all have been worth it.
This is history
in the making, as horrifying as it may seem. Wars to bring richness to a few,
whilst eliminating the rest of the world to that expense. There is
unfortunately no other way to put it, and it continues to this day.
One human
life has always been worth nothing, and will continue to be so for hundreds of years
to come, until none of us survive another world war. And then, what would be
the point of power and money in such a world? No one can tell, but we will all
fight to the death until this reality comes to be.
History might actually be the worst subject ever in school,
because first it is just a series of dates between war and peace times, and
second, it is just a bunch of misrepresentations about the true motivations for
these wars.
I feel that if greed and thirst for power were to be stated
as the reasons for wars, and religion and philosophy, then it would expose way
too obviously humanity as what it really is. And yet, this is what history is truly
all about, to show how human nature is selfish, greedy, an endless desire to
kill everyone else on this planet for its own sake. This is history as we
really came to know it.
Don’t kid yourself, nothing has changed, we are still as
barbaric today as we were hundreds of years ago. Technology is by no mean
making us look any better. It makes us look worse, because now, we are capable
of annihilating the whole world, and we will eventually do just that.
There is no hope for humanity, this is what history tells
us. And as much as you would like to believe that history does not apply to
what is happening today, that somehow we have now learned all the lessons of
history, that we are so civilised compared with those barbarians of the past,
you would never be so wrong.
History will be there to tell it all to future generations,
just as it was, as long as then, they will be as good at reading between the
lines as you are right now when you read your own history books. This world,
all of history, is just a distorted truth, and it is up to you to find the real
truth behind it, just like it is your duty today to find out what is the truth
behind what will one day be described as our history to future generations.
I think it is fair to say that we had enough of wars, that
humanity at this time agrees that the history of humankind is ugly and shows
nothing commendable. It is also fair to say that no one wants another world war
justified by half baked arguments, like false flag terrorism, or potentially
threatening countries we all know are not threatening. It is simple, if we were
to stop acting as if we own the world, if we were to stop threatening everyone
around and start working towards a lasting peace in a just and fair world,
there would be no threat, there would be no war.
And what if
How to make a nuclear bomb has never been a secret, it is
basic physics, and then only a few tests are required to get the balance right.
Oh, and this little problem, easily circumvented, of finding the ingredients. Or
what did you think, that they were impossible to find or buy, in a capitalist
world?
We all have a nuclear bomb ready to explode in our back
pocket, no one can now prevent that. Trying to prevent them from exploding
through pre-emptive strikes, will most assuredly ensure that they will all
explode at once. You can quote me on that.
You could not possibly annihilate every country that will
develop a nuclear bomb, since any country could do it now. Perhaps if left
unprovoked,
History is not made by the victors or the losers, it is
made right now by a few leaders/dictators elected in so-called democracies. The
history of humanity will not become what we make it to be, it will become what
a few unwise leaders decided it will be, because despite so-called democracies,
we are not in control of humanity’s destiny.
There is no reason to believe that even in 1000 years,
history will be any different from what we have observed in the last 2000
years. It will just be more destructive, that’s all. At least it won’t be
bloody, nuclear just vaporises people out of existence. It will still be about
killing everyone else in order to take advantage of their natural resources,
and whatever else, imposing unto others religions and political philosophies
like capitalism, communism and socialism. The day we finally succeed, is the
day we are all dead.
Humanity’s history cannot change until a few leaders can no
longer decide the fate of that humanity. Until a true democracy, involving the
decision power of every single individual, is actually put into place.
We can no longer afford a few people deciding the fate of history.
Either you have a true democracy or you don’t. We have not witnessed at all, at
any time in history, a true democracy. It would require for that every single
person on this planet being able, individually, to vote on any decision, on any
new law, on any new war to be fought.
Today for the first time we have the technology to make
this come true. And at that point, if individually, everyone on this planet
were to say that being gay is wrong and that I should be executed for being gay,
I will accept it and gladly die.
Since then, it would not be one politician who decided my
fate, or one priest or religious leader. It would not be one little group of
people, it would be everyone, and then you cannot but accept what everyone
decides.
And if everyone decides that it is right to obliterate half
the planet to become richer, at least I will know that half the planet is
insane, immoral and unethical, instead of just a few leaders who appear to
control everyone else, for their own self-interests. And then I would at least
be certain that annihilating so many people will at least profit many of us,
not just a few of us that you can count on one hand. I can accept democracy as
long as it is a real democracy, and every single voice has been heard.
And then, you better not start thinking in terms like: “No
problem, we’ll just brainwash everyone and impose our own point of view upon
this world through publicity, public relations and propaganda. We’ve done it
before with great success. And then we’ll just convince ourselves we have
convinced everyone, and go ahead with our delusional plans.”
We will put a stop to this as well, as history has
certainly taught us to recognise such manipulations of the masses and where
they ultimately led. Eventually we will learn something from history, right?
It is so easy after all to convince anyone of anything
these days, no one seems to think for himself or herself anymore, have we ever?
One day someone will convince us all that we do not see in colour, everything
is black and white, or perhaps they will convince us that everything is either black
or white. We may have already reached that point.
It seems there is always but one leader deciding for
everyone else in this world, and from the point of view of history, this is no
longer acceptable. History will always be the same, until we decide
collectively to put a stop to it, and make it something no one will ever be
ashamed of telling their children what we are all truly about.
We are so eager to go nuclear, as it means ultimate power,
as it means ultimate protection. Let’s give a nuclear bomb to everyone, let’s
all have one nuclear bomb in our own back pocket. Then we will all be powerful,
we will all be safe.
What version of history would you prefer to teach your
children and grandchildren? It is about to become highly complicated to tell,
if you wish to remain honest to the facts. Don’t worry though, you might never have
to make excuses for humanity’s history, as humanity is unlikely to survive for
much longer.
In science fiction there is a specific category of books
called alternate history where you simply travel into the past and suddenly
change history. What if you could travel to 1754 just before the French and
Indian War in
These could sound like strange questions but this is
precisely what many science fiction authors must deal with, they have to think
of ways of changing history for the better. Like stopping wars through wars or
demonstration of power in order to build a new world order. I am writing such a
novel right now and it is not as easy as that. Because suddenly my small town
in
The idea is to find a way to end all wars and occupations,
if only we could put an end to all exploitation, slavery and injustices against
human rights. Eliminating poverty, starvation, pollution, global warming, the
list is endless. It makes you think about what could be done in the present to
achieve just the same results for the future, if somehow a real superpower was
actually keen on achieving these goals. History proves that such a superpower
will never exist, since its self-interests and the self-interests of its main
constituents always take over, take over the world.
In a way this is what today’s superpowers are playing at,
unfortunately this is no science fiction. Re-arranging and eliminating the
world’s frontiers to permit an opened international commerce which translates
into exploitation. Trying to stop wars in the Middle-East through more wars
that only make things worse, because our intentions are not exactly honourable.
If it was all to the benefit of the people of America or
the United Kingdom that we went to war in the Middle-East, or for the purpose
of freeing Arabs from their so-called horrible leaders, it would already be
more respectable, it could benefit us all. But these wars for profit are
entirely for the benefit of very large and rich corporations who no longer have
any identity or nationalistic pride. Winning the wars in the Middle-East today
will not bring anyone’s pride after many million deaths, it will simply bring
more money and financial gains to these corporations, most likely without
benefitting any of us.
In fictional novels it is far easier, most authors are
usually idealistic in nature, they are moral and ethical people. Most books on
alternate history are about ensuring Adolf Hitler is killed before any genocide
happens and JFK’s murder is prevented somehow in hopes that he would have changed
history and saved our failing democracy. There is also a morbid fascination
about changing the outcome of the American Civil War of 1861. There I suppose
the idea was to preserve slavery and prevent the reunion of the American
States? I’m not sure, books on that topic bores me to death. Who cares about
the American civil wars of the past, unless it was concerning the next one that
is long overdue?
Here is my problem. I have now an army of the future
capable of annihilating the whole world of 1754-1756. I intend for my small
town of
So of course my first move is to stop all immigration from
the Spanish and the British countries, and only encourage French immigration to
such places like North, Central and
But what about the aboriginal people barely populating the
new worlds but still with a right to the land? I can no longer just eradicate
them all like we did in the past. Can I just squeeze them out to some
particular state no one wants even today,
It will be difficult because I could not turned Amerindians
into slaves, it is well referenced anyway in history that all attempts to
enslave American Indians failed. So instead we just drowned them into alcohol.
It was not an ideal solution, but you do what you can when you build a new
world order. Spoken like a true colonizer of the world.
What do I do with the British and the Spanish colonies
already in
And once everyone is well on their way to be assimilated,
keeping to French as the only main language in the world, I will have turn to
preventing the Seven Years’ War, which basically could be qualified as the real
First World War. I will have to drop a few bombs all around any army still
fighting or moving toward another nation, without killing any of them. I will
have to install my big hegemony upon the world. And if one country truly cannot
get the message, I might as well just annihilate it.
I’m already becoming quite the monster in my plans to build
a new world order. I came to understand that perhaps there is no way really to
save the world or help the planet on a global scale without becoming a tyrant.
But the worst is still to come, because once peace has been established in the
whole world, even if I decided that the aboriginal people could keep the
Americas, New Zealand and Australia, to see how these first nations could
develop in time into great nations if we had not interfered, it still remains
that I would need to eradicate injustices and provide human rights to all. And
what about capitalism versus socialism?
My small town in
We kind of tried that recently in
We can’t have that in 1754, my new world order will be a
true democracy, and all these countries will eventually stay home and govern
themselves the way they want. Even though the only way I can see this ever
happening, would be to actually babysit them until they get there, and then, I
suppose, babysit them even more to ensure the perfect and ideal world we all
hope for. It could easily become a tyranny one way or another, even with the
best intentions, as soon as we interfere anywhere in the world.
So no problem, I already have in mind the creation of the
New United Nations, headquarters in the extreme north of Quebec’s province
(near the North Pole, where everything and everyone is already frozen to
death), so I will be able to keep a close eye on everything they do. The aims
of my new UN will be the same as today: facilitating cooperation in
international law, international security, economic development, social progress,
human rights, and the achieving of world peace.
It is just weird that if the UN today is incapable of
achieving any of those aims, how can I possibly expect my new UN in 1754 to
accomplish anything? Very puzzling this state of affair, and a real headache
for my new humanity. How will I make it work, or more precisely why is the
United Nations failing to make things better? There are only two explanations:
either the UN is a corrupt organization serving the financial markets and large
corporations of the world without regard for human rights, just like most
governments today, or the United Nations organization is a powerless toothless
giant that no one cares about. Which is it?
I will have to ensure no corruption and a very powerful
United Nations in 1754, backed up by my army from the future. There will be no
disobeying the United Nations any longer, and no five main superpowers
controlling most if not all of the Security Council. I wonder if I will be able
to pull it off. Of course I will, the author of a novel is God, and as long as
God is moral and ethical, nothing can go wrong in the creation of a new world
order. Wait, where have I heard that before? God or the belief in God never
stopped any war or genocide, on the contrary.
So now I have to decide between imposing capitalism or
socialism unto the world. That’s an easy one, I will just take
I might have some reservations though about stock exchange
markets and such volatile economy that can be brought down to its knees every
time the slightest insignificant news is announced on TV. Not sure if I want to
recreate a world that will have to go into an economic crisis every 10 years,
and a deep depression every 100 years or so. How could I prevent that, the
manipulations of the market? Will I need to go into that many details in my
novel? My God, I will lose all my readers.
In conclusion I can now appreciate how difficult it is to
build a new world order, impose it unto the world, even with the best
intentions ever. People will get hurt, many will be left out, corruption
quickly gets in and then you face instead a great force of evil that can be
extremely destructive to the world. Perhaps I should not try to create a new
world order, maybe I should just ensure no more wars and conquest, and leave
all these countries to their own devices.
After of course making sure they were all real democracies,
unlike the fake ones we have today. Oh, I must eliminate slavery, and women
must instantly have the same rights as any man. And there I am, already
meddling about and planning interferences. If I could just annihilate all
religions with one nuclear bomb, it might be worth it. Wouldn’t that be a reign
of fear and terror that could only bring about misery across the world? It is
never easy to play God with humanity.
Interesting how writing a science fiction novel about
alternate history can suddenly expose all that we do wrong in this world. The
solutions I have to find to make it all work are the very solutions we are
struggling with today, that we could implement today to make this world a
better one without ostracising anyone. Have you got any solution? Should we go
ahead with creating a new world order or not? If so, how should we go about it?
Better not leave it to our leaders and governments, corruption there has taken
over at every level a long time ago.
Whenever 50,000
citizens across the country decide to walk on the streets to denounce
something, that they feel somehow it is important enough for them to get out
and denounce that something, surely there should be a device in place to
automatically launch a referendum on the subject. So everyone could individually
vote on the issue, since we can no longer trust politicians. Or else, where is
democracy then, what more do we need to do to convince others that their
decisions are wrong and unwanted?
National pride has been for far too long a weapon of mass
destruction. It has been used to justify the worst atrocities, like illegal
wars and torture, in the name of honour and nationalism, all under a floating
flag over some land somewhere. We’ll have to think twice from now on before
acting collectively on pride, we’ll have to pay attention and see through the
manipulation of the masses by any kind of authority, be it the government or
religions. Are we never going to learn the lessons of history?
Pride. Proud of being who you are, of belonging somewhere,
of your personal accomplishments, of your collective achievements. All sounds
very important, and yet insignificant, unworthy of any attention. When you take
a good look back, what is there truly to be proud of? I can’t think of
anything. And yet, pride can be such a powerful weapon, as long as you have the
public vote, as long as you can manipulate the public opinion to your own
advantage so it suits your agenda, even your war agenda.
You might find it difficult to identify to a group if, for
example, they are all Black, or all Chinese, or all Indians, and you are a White
British born in
If you are an American
born in
I was never into
sports. I was never really into politics. I was never truly into being proud of
being French-Canadian or Canadian. I was never proud to be American (
I find it difficult to
understand how pride can be used to create a sense of belonging, strong enough
to justify going to war with any nation. We are Americans, we are the strongest
nation in the world, we will take the world by force, because we can, we are
Americans. Our values are the best in the world, everyone should want to be
American, to claim our flag as their own, because it means freedom and
democracy. Not so true nowadays, but never mind about that for now.
A flag is often the
symbol of our pride as a nation. It is the argument to justify anything. To
provide a sense of belonging, to give a reason to our existence in a
collective. I was never part of any collective, I always considered myself an
individual, never really paying too much attention to international borders and
their significance, apart from complaining about how hard it is to cross these
borders and go live somewhere else.
I guess that pride
comes at a cost. That if you are not like them somehow, becoming part of them
might just turn out to be impossible. And if somehow you succeed, then you
might as well be a traitor to your own people, your own nation, a traitor to
yourself and what you personally believe in.
Unless of course you
forget who you are, where you come from, your flag, your identity, who you
really are, and start supporting Manchester United, just like everyone else. Assimilation
complete, you are now a true Brit, even if you speak Russian or Punjabi, or
French in my case. Who should care about Manchester United or Chelsea?
Or else, let’s then eradicate
and take over Iraq/Iran, that has always been the main so-called collective agenda
since the very day I was born. Will we ever, together, succeed? This is all
part of the same thing, local and national pride. This is how we are being
manipulated.
Why should you be proud
of anything just because you are born in a certain place on this planet? Why
should you be proud of a flag just because you are living within the borders of
a land that this flag symbolises? Why do you feel the need to belong in any way
with a certain group of people, and then be ready to go to war with another
group with perhaps different ideas or religion?
National identity is
the first step towards war. City identity is the first step towards city
rivalries and chauvinism. You would not think of using weapons to kill the
people in the next city or county, why should you feel the need to go to war
with another nation?
Because you are still
proud of being not only from that city, county, province or State, but also of
that country. And well, it must be different when you cross those international
borders. The only language they must be able to understand is the one spoken by
bombs. Urgh, where has my logic failed?
You could never be
proud yet of being a human being compared with all the other animal species on
this planet. You could never be proud yet of being a human belonging to Planet
Earth. Until at least there is only one nation in this world, one flag, and
hence, only one identity.
But by then, the only
reason such a thing could happen, would be to the benefit of some tyranny, or global
Big Brother government, a New World Order in the likes Hitler so desperately
wanted to build. At that point, being proud of anything would be impossible.
Pride of any kind can
only create rivalries and wars. As soon as you belong to any group or subgroup,
that’s it, you have established that you were against the ideas and values of
another group or subgroup. War in any form can then begin, as it somehow never
fails to happen.
Pride is a very
dangerous weapon. It is used to justify wars, it is used to justify killing millions
of people. Not that we really care, since these people cannot be proud of what
we are proud to represent, proud to be. They are not really humans or civilised,
are they? They become insignificant.
It would never occur to
many that pride is only a pretext, a pretence, and really, wars have nothing to
do with pride or identity, or religion. It is a tool to manipulate the masses
into believing anything, to do anything, in the name of identity, in the name
of a flag, a fake symbol which does not ultimately mean anything significant,
and should not reasonably be used to justify atrocities and genocides.
I can barely believe
that I have just written this. I never thought when I was young that I would be
trying to convince anyone that war was wrong, as I was so convinced there would
be no need to by now. However, wars, just like everything else, are cyclical,
they always come back after a certain amount of years. We never learn anything
from the past, from history. And the same old arguments, symbols and tools are
being used again and again to justify any political agenda. Amazingly it always
works.
Pride is an essential
component to all this. And the sooner we realise that we do not belong to
anyone, to any political party, to any set of already established philosophies
or political ideas or religion, the better we will be.
We are not a mindless
collective controlled by a few bad men, a flock of birds with one collective
mind. We are all individuals capable of having opinions, capable of stating
what we want. Take a step back, and understand that a flag, a feeling of
belonging to any group, does not justify anything.
And most importantly,
we need to understand that governments can fall and should fall as soon as a
majority of the citizens wishes it. Under the democratic rules, I would have
thought that many more governments would have fallen within my lifetime. As it
stands, I have never witnessed such a thing, no matter how unpopular any decision
any government made. We simply accepted it and went on our way. Or decided to
wait for the next elections, and we know now that fraud is rampant everywhere,
at every level.
Democracy is gone, we
have to move to new tactics in order to be heard and operate change. As soon as
50,000 citizens walk out across the country to denounce anything, a referendum
needs to be called, across the country.
No, no, it does not
matter that Obama has won, electoral fraud still happened in California with Proposition
8, will still happen again on any new proposed law, and more likely also at the
next presidential elections. We are not out of the woods yet, far from it.
Don’t even think that
once we succeed in getting back to paper ballots, fraud would have disappeared.
We are aware now of what has been going on for so long, we have proved it. We
need to be doubly careful in the future, and ensure some sort of democracy
still exists, not just a pretend one.
If you truly feel the
need to be proud of anything, it should be to be proud of yourself, who you are
as an individual, what you are capable of accomplishing on a personal level,
not on a collective one.
You are quite certain
that you have nothing in common with your next door neighbour, why should you
think that you have so much in common with a whole nation? You could quite
easily kill your neighbours, because you know by now that you simply cannot
live next to these people, and they deserve to die. And yet, you do not kill
them. Why should you then decide in your mind that you are proud to be the same
as million others living in your country, and find it acceptable to go to war and
annihilate entire nations on the other side of the planet?
Be proud of yourself,
of your own little family, but do not go beyond that nucleus. Go any further
and you will no longer be acting under the influence of what defines you as an
individual, you will no longer be establishing your own values and beliefs, you
will no longer belong to yourself. You will belong to others, and those others
will make sure you will be obeying their will, their rules, not yours.
Pride is a dangerous
weapon, never forget it next time you see the flag of your nation. A flag will
always be but a flag, it is meaningless, it cannot be used to create a false
sense of belonging and justify wars through pride, through being part of
something larger than you could ever hope to be. You do not need to be part of
something larger than you. You are yourself, an individual with rights and
freedoms guaranteed by law, and that is all that is required.
Think for yourself, be
proud of yourself, do not stop thinking or expressing your opinion. As soon as
you begin to be proud of something larger than you are, you are lost, humanity
is lost, whether this influence is political or religious in nature. Others
have now taken control over you and what you will be proud of.
Most certainly one day,
you will be ashamed for having so blindly followed any idea or course of action
dictated by others, without first considering all that is truly involved, the
real motivations behind any decision. As soon as you are proud of something
other than yourself, you belong to other people, and other people will decide
your destiny.
So, any reason you
should be proud of anything you did lately? No? What a shame, I guess this is human
nature. That you can barely be proud of yourself, when you can be so readily
proud of just about anything else. We will not be fooled again, we can no
longer afford to be proud of anything in this world.
History teaches us, how
easily pride can be turned into shame, and yet, we learn so slowly, it might
take us another millennium to finally get the message, once we are all
completely extinct.
More direct democracy through
referendum involving every single one of us is what is required at this time,
if we have any hope of salvation. And please, no more pride! We are all human beings
here, we are all equal, every single voice count and shall be heard. More
direct democracy is the new buzz word around here, do repeat it everywhere
until it becomes a reality.
50,000 people walking
on the street to denounce something, is a clear sign that something is not
right within this world. Call a referendum so we can all, in our own
individuality, decide what should be. And please, please, please, let’s get rid
of electoral fraud, or else, this is all meaningless. We all know now that
proposition 8 has not really passed in
We have a long way to
go in order to restore democracy. At the moment, the law is against you,
everywhere you turn. Such important issues must come only once in a lifetime.
This is it, this is saving democracy. Without it, nothing is possible. That is
the first hurdle to overcome, having a real democracy. So, stand up and say and
do something about it! Voice your opinion and walk out! Just make sure you
don’t get shot.
The problem with leaders like Blair and Bush is that they
reset everything as far as civil rights and liberties are concerned. Once again,
instead of fighting for freedom, a better world, we are here fighting to regain
our most basic rights that we have lost. Clever, but let me bypass all that and
fight for more. We need to free ourselves from everything in this world,
everything.
Blair was much worse than Bush when it came to building a
fortress of a Police State, and though in
I should take a look at those so-called progressive Liberal
Democrats who were centrist before the New Labour came about, and see if there
is any hope there. I doubt it, not on the scale I wish to witness change in
this world. Even Obama could not achieve it. It can only come from all of us,
as long as we keep it in mind and operate those changes in our day to day life.
After all, it is a realistic and achievable goal. No need
for government or any kind of authority to achieve a world free from discrimination
and oppression, we only need to look at ourselves and change the way we go
about doing what we do, no matter who we are and what we do.
We all have within us this power to alleviate pain in this
world, if we could only look at ourselves and treat everyone the way we only
wish to be treated. And have this capacity to feel the pain we inflict unto
others. Sounds like something right out of the Bible, and yet, dear me, I so
wish we could understand it once and for all.
The problem with equality is that it is often only defined
as part of history, humankind’s struggle to gain some equality and liberty in
life and politics, including the right to a property, to achieve something in
life no matter from which class we come from, ultimately not being a slave to
anyone.
Well, it might still be quite recent that women can now
vote and be CEOs or Prime Ministers, that Black people no longer have to be
slaves or suffer all sorts of discrimination, and that gay people do not have
to be killed or commit suicide, but here we are, now we need to move on to
another level of equality.
Even though this world
is far from being perfect, as discrimination is still rampant and we still have
to witness a woman or someone who speaks Spanish or a gay being President of
the United States, the kind of equality and liberty I am now looking forward to,
is the concept I was born with before I learnt the atrocities of history and
took part in any social life. Am I upsetting you? Good, we are on the right
track.
What I have in mind is
much more at a personal level in our daily life, and perhaps much more selfish.
Forgetting about the obvious initial struggles to get where we are today, I
believe we have forgotten that there is still a long way to go, and that we
need to realise and accept, that, in this world, we will never have complete
equality, liberty and fraternity. And then, what can we do?
I don’t feel equal to anyone else on this planet, I never
did, do you? If you do, then it must be one more of these great illusions democracies
and public relations were capable to make you believe. The whole education and
work system are based on inequalities, competition, who’s better than the next
one, who should get that job, become the leader, the manager, the supervisor,
and especially in politics, who’s going to be at the top controlling everyone
else and tell them what to do.
There is not really any equality or liberty in our society.
If you think otherwise, then you must have had a very loose definition of these
concepts to begin with. Or perhaps I am too extreme, an extremist, maybe even a
terrorist?
Why not, if that is what is required to operate real change
in this world. I don’t care what happens to me, and dear me, I certainly risk a
lot to bring you this, everything in fact, as these are the times we’re living
in. Well, as long as you think further, it is all worth it.
Whatever you say, Sir! I’m no yes man. Certainly this is part
of the problem. Are you a “Yes Sir” kind of person? I don’t doubt it, there is
no way to function in this society otherwise. I’m sure we’re all subservient
and submissive. Certainly this is part
of the problem.
The French are always on the street striking as soon as
something smells bad. We should learn something from it, that we should always
be on strike, as it does work somehow, believe me. Let’s go on strike then, a
general strike across the country, as the only way to be heard, us, the small
and insignificant people, fighting for crumbs, never seeing the whole bread
ahead of us, the one always ready for the slicing.
I am inferior to just about everyone else on this planet. Everyone
is fencing me with some authority or other, whether it is by law, by contract
or convention, moral duties or responsibilities. It does not matter if you are
being paid a salary, as if you are treated like a subhuman, if you just obey
orders, pay dearly for any liberty you take, and live in fear of living another
day because of corporate bullying, then you are a slave. Is this just not the
life of everybody I just described? And don’t we just wish to see an end to
this?
In the end, none of us are equals, and for my part, I have
always felt unworthy and inferior to everyone. I’m sure a lot of us feel just the
same. No matter how inflated your Ego might have become. We are well trained
nowadays to inflate our own Ego even when there is no real reason for it to be
inflated. Look at yourself, really, you are as miserable and insignificant as I
am. We are all nothing, even the President.
Is it a conscious
decision I have made then? I could study hard and finish top of my class, I
could go into politics and eventually become Prime Minister (of
The great idea of
democracy was supposed to mean that everyone was equal in the eyes of the law,
everyone could go into politics, everyone could own a property, no one would
have to be frightened and be bullied into blindly following orders. This is
where equality ends, because for the rest of what you will go through in your
life, equality does not exist. How could it? For that, social hierarchies, any
kind of hierarchy, would need to disappear, and truly all decisions and actions
would need to be decided and accomplished by everyone, willingly.
For example, let’s look
at what a true equal society would be like. First of all, you could not be
obliged to do anything, because equality means also the liberty to do something
or not. As soon as you are coerced into doing something you do not want to do,
then that’s it, equality is gone. Someone higher in the hierarchy, be it a
parent, a teacher, a policeman, a social worker, a probation officer, a
politician, or the law, has just confirmed that you are inferior, if not
inexistent, or just existing to justify the whole hierarchy or system in the
first place.
So a perfectly equal
society means the liberty to go to school or not, whether you are just a child.
Because even though you may be a child, you are still supposed to be equal to
everyone else. I understand that inequalities are built on any pretext to
justify why you are so inferior compared with others, and why you have to
follow the orders of any authority, and cannot make your own decisions because
of this or that, whatever, all that is gone in our utopia.
Once you are in school,
if you decide to go, there could be no longer any competition, exams,
comparisons between you and your other fellow students. Because this is the
device by which society, at an early age, will decide how unequal and
inadequate you are. So, some teacher will talk stupidities all day long in
front of the class, and you could be free not to listen, to walk outside if you
wish or to not show up for the rest of the week. And at the end you will not
receive any test or mark or anything that could turn you into an inferior human
being.
So now you are ready to
find a job, if you wish it. There is no basis on which an employer can tell you
that you are inadequate, we are all equal, independently from your abilities,
knowledge, intelligence or experience. So if you want to be the director of a
conference company, or a surgeon, then you should be. And the salary you will
receive and the amount of taxes you will pay should be the same whether you are
a surgeon, a director or a refuse collector, otherwise, we are not equal. In
any case, no one will be your superior and no one can tell you what to do. If
you decide to go on a drinking binge for two weeks, you don’t have to tell
anyone, you have that liberty to do whatever you want, without consequences.
I could continue, but
you get the point. A society where we would truly be equal and have the liberty
we feel we deserve, would be chaos. And so, equality and liberty cannot exist,
which might explain why the education system is more about testing you and
comparing you with others, than actually learning something worthwhile and
productive for society, without all the pressure.
So let’s clearly state
it, in this world none of us are equal, and our freedom is ridiculously
restrained, as restrained as the one of prisoners. Think about it, there is not
much difference between you and a prisoner, if you are working full time. The
latter might have more time to live freely in his or her own mind than you do,
as long as they are not being bullied by fellow prisoners or police officers,
but is it not the same at work? It certainly affects you the same way, for
someone who knows nothing of what could be worse.
The way most corporate
hierarchies are going about it in this day and age, plagued with bullying
tactics, discrimination and a rigid authority controlling your life to the
minute, you could easily described them as tyrannies or dictatorships. However
I will settle here for calling them autocracies.
An autocracy is a form
of government in which the political power is held by a single, self-appointed
ruler (he who rules by one's self). Compare with oligarchy (literally means
rule by the few), and democracy (rule by the majority). So you see, at any rate
we are far from living in any kind of democracy. The President or the Prime
Minister of the country still decides for everyone, and at work the President
or CEO or General Manager of the organisation decides for everyone, via a
string of VPs, Directors, Managers, Supervisors, Team Leaders, my God, the list
is infinite.
As for the last part of
the French motto, fraternity or brotherhood, you already know what I think
about this, you cannot hope that anyone will come and rescue you. Everyone is
selfish and will think of its own person and family before even thinking about
helping anyone else. Worse than that, I am sure you have noticed how excited
and pleased your colleagues are when you are in trouble and you are called in
the office for a little chat. How quickly they forget that they will be next,
and that this is a serious problem that requires attention. This patronising,
this bullying, I could easily make it my life long ambition to eradicate those
in the work environment, as I suffered so much from this wherever I was,
whatever I was doing.
We rarely witness any
sort of fraternity or brotherhood in life, I seldom did. If you feel otherwise,
then you must be one of those happy go lucky persons that whatever it is that they
do wrong, everything goes for the best in the best world there is (then you are
brainless). I would think you are the exception rather than the norm, and
probably there must be an excellent reason to explain why strangers would break
their back to help you, or even your family and friends, when for the most of
us they would rather let us die in the street than give us money or help us in
any way when we’re in trouble.
I have a normal loving
family, I have normal loving friends, and every time I was at the deep end,
none of them came to help, even though I had to go through the humiliation of
asking for their help. In the end, a stranger in
The fact remains that
generally fraternity and brotherhood simply do not exist. And if somehow
someone helps you, like some religious group for example, you can bet they do
so expecting something in return, normally with some hidden interest that it
may take you a while to figure out. By then it is too late, you are trapped.
Beware of all those preying over your head, they will only limit you so ever
more. Don’t think, just do what you’re told! No longer, as here comes freedom,
and what a liberation! Finally we can breathe around here!
If society was so ready
to help everyone, then we would have solved poverty worldwide by now, we would
not drop another bomb on some city anywhere in the world, there would be no
war, we would all be happy. As this is also impossible for now, then we cannot
expect any time soon that it will change, and that out of the blue suddenly
everyone will start loving each other.
There is no love in
this world, and when there is, there’s usually an ulterior motive to it, even
the one of wishing to reach heaven. It is now time to be reminded to try to be
more compassionate, and I feel many of us are doing a genuine effort to do so,
but only to a certain point. In the end we are all selfish and we all worry
first about our own survival. This fact needs to be taken into account when
rebuilding this world, after its soon to be destruction, since everything seems
to have been planned that way.
So despite the French
motto of Equality,
It is called
propaganda, and we all fell for it. Just like in Russia, when for a very long
time common people were very poor, never eating enough, living under an
oppressive regime, and yet they all believed they were living in the best
country in the world. Whether they truly believed it or not, or that they
thought that everywhere else it was even worse than in their own country, I am
not certain, but the propaganda over there has been very successful, just like
it is now in our own Western civilisations. One needs to free itself from all
this.
We all think that we
have the freedom to do whatever we want, that we have a perfect democracy that
works, that we are all purer than pure and compassionate and helping, that we
are all advanced and so much more civilised than in the past, and yet, when you
stop for a second to assess it all, you realise that it is all but a lie.
But to find out about
it, you need to do a bit of research, you need to start thinking for yourself,
and you cannot do that whilst watching the TV or reading the newspapers,
because the mainstream media are either blind to it, fear reprisals or some
consequence, and therefore become part of the propaganda machine. They
certainly report blindly all the statistics, news and opinion polls the
government provides them with, they certainly don’t question anything. This
state of affair has brought us to the brink of collapse, and we’re still
heading right for the centre of the black hole.
The Internet is the
last remaining tool for the truth, and that too will disappear within years, if
not months. Laws are already limiting a lot of information on the Internet, it
is a just a question of time before it too becomes like the mass media and part
of the lie. Have you tried lately to find out the lottery results on the
Internet at work? Did you get the Blank Screen of Death? More than half the
Internet is blocked to me at work. And from moving from this situation of being
one at work to one at home, is a question of time, it is but only one step away.
There are serious talks
in
Faced with this
situation that we do not have what we thought we had, that none of those great
rights and freedoms we thought we had actually exist, and even worse, that it
would be utopian to believe that such a world could exist, what can we do?
There is no equality, none of us decide anything around here, soon we won’t
even have the right to denounce it.
Well, first you need to
be aware of it. You also need to find the truth in any way you can. You also
need to accept the fact that we are not equal, we have no real liberties or
freedom to speak of, and that democracy is not what they claim it is. After
that, no one will take you for a fool, at the very least, and manipulate you into
doing something that truly you should not be doing, or that you simply do not
wish to do. And then let’s hope that some sort of change or salvation will
eventually come.
And then you have to
work in the details of everyday life, about how to go about eliminating a
little bit more everyday those inequalities, this lack of freedom. How to be a
bit more compassionate and helpful toward everyone, even strangers, and somehow
be ready to tell any authority when something is just not what you want, or is down
right not acceptable. Find ways to stop something horrible before it happens,
even in a small capacity, on a small scale. It might make a bit of a
difference, reduce bureaucracy and autocracy somehow, or at least make it less
rigid, and it might bring a little more happiness into this world.
At this time we are not
what we claim we are, we are not even making an effort to become what we claim we
are. You cannot count on any government or authority to change that, you can
only change it yourself on a personal level in your day to day life, all of us
together, somehow.
We are not equal, we
will never be equal, but we can stop pretending that we are and we can work
toward making us a bit more equal. Is there any compassion left within you? Is
there any compassion left in this world?
Mr. President, it is getting harder to understand and
follow up on your hidden agendas. What’s next, the total annihilation of
humanity? Except of course for you and all those billionaires, who miraculously
will not be affected by the greatest financial depression since 1929. We feel
you will all be partying like if it was 1929, as perhaps this is how you make your
fortune, whilst the rest of us, fools, will foot the gargantuan bill.
Mr. President, what is the truth now? Was 9/11 planned? Is
this financial terror also artificially created by you? Is it true that by your
doing, democracy is now dead? I bet you still have plans to attack
You give the impression to be pushing for the Third World
War in order to profit through all those war contracts, and in the long term,
reap more profits out of oil contracts by beating
Mr. President, do you really care if the price of oil goes
ballistic, if the whole
It is true that in your country, not only no one can afford
health care, but also, no one can afford any kind of justice through the legal
system. In Eastern Europe, even in many places in the
You may soon be responsible for turning your country, the
Mr. President, is it true that electoral ballots are
rigged, that those voting machines are easy to manipulate, and elections have
been stolen twice? It does seem that McCain’s victory is now assured no matter
how people will vote. I have heard that you might declare a state of emergency
before the next elections, and even declare martial law and cancel the
elections in order to stay in power.
I cannot believe, whilst the rest of the world is
completely clued up about you, that half of
Is it possible that nothing we read or watch on TV, is the
truth any longer? It appears that most key journalists are all now on the
payroll of your corporate friends financing your campaigns, and they are the
only ones reporting to the masses. Are we so deluded that we think the nation
thinks a certain way, vote a certain way, when this is all but a lie?
John McCain, the Republicans, cannot possibly be still
popular. Too much has gone through, too much has been said, too much evidence
against such corruption at every single level of this society has become known
and is now transparent.
Nothing we do makes any sense anymore. Trying to figure out
your big plan for a fascist state is not easy, because we have to see through
all the lies, read between all the lines, and there is no real resistance
against you. We cannot be heard, we cannot get through. We have the facts, we
have proof, we write and publish books about it, and yet, somehow, you are
still winning, only your own distorted truth reaches us all.
If I was not fighting you, Mr. President, I would be so
depressed from the fact that the people have become so powerless to stop you, I
would commit suicide. As it stands, I’m still hoping I can make a difference,
alone, against such power, the power of corruption, the power of lies, when it
comes from the authorities against such a small voice, the voice of millions of
people.
Your citizens you are paid to represent, whilst you did
everything else but represent them in the last decade. What a traitor you are
to your own nation, what traitors are Republicans to their own country! And
don’t kid yourself, it is now common knowledge all over the world.
And the world knows that Democrats are not to be trusted
either, they supported you and your hidden agendas all the way. Your supremacy
is absolute, and will be ongoing. So much so, we have all lost faith in
democracy, in politics, in our institutions. We can no longer trust anyone.
Complete chaos you leave behind, and a national debt which can never be repaid,
sinking the rest of the world with it as everything is now so interlinked
together.
It was well done! People say you are brainless, others that
you are a psychopath, it is because they ignore your true hidden agendas. At
the very least I will acknowledge your brilliance, what a clever man you are!
Never would have I dreamt someone would have the guts to go through with such
grand plans, and this time it might actually succeed beyond your expectations.
True, it is the third time, if not the fourth, your family has tried this sort
of worldwide takeover. Let’s study this further.
Mr. President, perhaps you would like to tell us the truth
about your grandfather helping Hitler rise to power, by financing his campaign,
and thereafter his company's assets were seized in 1942 under the Trading with
the Enemy Act. And that the money he made from these dealings helped to
establish your family fortune and set up its political dynasty:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/sep/25/usa.secondworldwar
Maybe you should tell us about your great-grandfather who
was also involved in the armament business during the First World War, and
somehow worked towards making it happen in order to profit from it:
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0208-05.htm
And we would welcome a few words about
your actual family involvement in the 70s in the Savings and Loan Scandal which
cost American tax payers over $1.4 trillion dollars. Are today’s events just a
repeat of this corporate theft on a grand scale, interests that you and your
family represent? Most of you are all sitting on these boards of directors, of
these large corporations who profit from all these irrational decisions we have
made recently. We have a hard time keeping track of who’s who in your family,
and who’s doing what exactly. We all know though that it represents gross
conflict of interests, and yet you get away with it:
http://rationalrevolution.net/war/bush_family_and_the_s.htm
Well, now you know why I do not trust you, why I am sure
you are lying through your teeth, and I demand we change the name of that
airport in
It is a safer bet that the brother, son, grandson or great
grandson is doing exactly the same thing his family has always been doing, and
the signs are there that you are, as corrupt as all of them, fomenting world
wars and global control of the world. Repeating history, the same schemes to
steal as much money as possible from anyone and everyone, ensuring your family
will always remain somehow in power, in charge of the world, creating chaos.
There is no doubt John McCain will simply continue this legacy.
I wonder how long it will be before your brother becomes
the American President, and hence, of the world. So powerful you have made the
But for how long, you have brought about the destruction of
your country, as greed and power were far more important to your family, than
the health and wealth of your own countrymen. How so unpatriotic of you, to
turn the multiple millionaires into billionaires, whilst the rest of the
country starves to death and has only one solution left, civil war. Something
you are in fact encouraging, as it serves your purpose, and you are ready for
it. Hoping the financial meltdown might suffice to provoke such a state of
affair.
Mr. President, explain yourself on those concentration
camps in the
http://www.libertyforlife.com/jail-police/us_concentration_camps.htm
http://www.libertyforlife.com/jail-police/us-concentration_camp-locations.htm
I stopped reading newspapers years ago, because I could not
stand reading all those lies coming out of political life, whether I was in
And the rest of the people unaware of it, with statistics
telling them that this is what they want and always wanted. Of course, none of
us ever wanted any kind of freedom in this life. Your statistics are so
blatantly lying, it is ridiculous. No one can ever trust anything coming out of
any government, certainly not any kind of statistic or opinion poll, not at
this time anyway.
I was tired of lies, of ignorance, of the collaboration
everyone seemed eager to give any authority in their pursuit to our
unhappiness. It does drain you, if you have a brain to see through all that.
You might then wish you were brainless and could go on living in absolute
ignorance. Somehow you can’t, as it hits you on the head on every street
corner. So in our life, so in our face, all this is. Still, most people are
asleep. Or are they? Or is it just the impression the mass media is giving,
pretending to?
You cannot contain 300 million people when they demand the
head of their President. And it is about time something happen to stop you, Mr.
President. It doesn’t matter how many days you have left in office, because
from you, we can expect anything at any time, and don’t we know it!
The impeachment procedures might be going nowhere, they
still went far enough to prove one thing: you are guilty and you deserve to be
impeached. If not sued for crimes against humanity, but that will come in its
own time.
The main problem with truth is that we are all obsessed
with it and we are ready to sacrifice a lot just to find out any old truth
about anything, but most especially about us. On the other hand, the other main
problem with truth is that we were all born with this extraordinary ability to
lie most of the time. You can see now why the battle between truth and lie has
often been mistaken with the battle between good and evil.
It is generally accepted that truth is good, and lie is
evil. It must be written in stone in virtually every single bible or religious
book on the planet. It is also one of the first things you learn when you are a
kid, not to lie or else there will be consequences. And when you are caught
lying, I dare say, there are dire consequences.
You might even hear it on your first day in school, it must
be a golden rule, if not the most important one of any teacher. Courts of law
are all about finding the truth, so much so that the sooner you tell the truth
and your trial cracks, the lighter your sentence will be. But waste the
people’s money, lying until the very end, and see what happens to you. The law
will not forgive you, because then lying becomes almost a bigger crime than
whatever else you may have been charged with, be it murder.
As for the government, the police, employers and financial
institutions, they have now finally developed extracting the truth out of you
to a fine art. I have found that, within the last five years, you could still get
away with lying a little bit, but no longer. Not since all those Patriot Acts
in the U.S. and Terrorists Laws in the United Kingdom, as those laws are not
applicable to so-called terrorists, those laws are all designed and applied to
all of us. You might still be blind to this, it won’t be long before you
realise it though. Just check out the cases going through the legal system, it
will suddenly become all clear.
I nearly lost my job last week because I said I had taken
no sick day at work, when in fact I took seven. It wasn’t a lie as it turned
out, as at the time that I wrote my second application form, in order to become
permanent, I had taken no sick days. And yet, they saw a lie and they were not
joking about it. The smallest lie is punishable by utter destruction, you will
lose your career, you will lose your house, you will lose your family, you will
lose all your benefits, you will lose your freedom to move and travel to other
countries, you will lose money, you will end up in Court for fraud or whatever
else they can think of.
You are constantly being recorded on every phone call you
make, every single e-mail you send, and it doesn’t matter if you were truly
genuine about everything, but somehow a little white lie came out of your mouth
and they can prove it, you are then finished.
Cameras everywhere, an army of colleagues, friends and
bystanders ready to backstab you, as amazing as this may sound, you can no
longer get away with doing anything wrong at all, and you better know the law,
as ignorance is no defence.
It is a shame really, because lying is second nature to all
of us, and to be honest, we should be able to get away with lying a bit, or
else it is chaos awaiting us. Politicians lie all the time, and they do pay the
price when they are found out (well, sometimes). The police and the prosecution
in Court are lying all the time, certainly a lot of white lies, or else they
would never get their defendants convicted.
Will your employer, after you have brought them up into a
work tribunal, really admit that they have victimised you in some way? Watch
them move the Earth with their army of lawyers in order to ensure their
success. I have heard the worst lies ever coming from management and HR
departments, because at the end of the day, the end justifies the means. And
this end is to get you sack without pay, as you must always be in the wrong.
If somehow a new drug was invented and no one could lie
anymore, or even simple telepathy was now possible after a new technology came
to the market, I would very much like to see what kind of world that would be.
It is obviously what the government and the police always wanted, a perfect and
infallible lie detector.
Dear me, if they could read your mind, you bet this would
be turned into law immediately, and you could never ever again get away with
anything. Though we’re there already, through other clever ways they came up
with, mostly by gaining access to all sorts of databases and linking them all
together. Wherever these databases come from, be it innocent companies offering
services on the Internet.
I cannot imagine any Court of law declaring such lie
detector unlawful. Will the human rights in that context allow us to lie once
in a while, even if it is just to make something really bad look a little bit
better? No such right to lie will ever be granted to anyone by anyone, and yet,
considering that it is second nature to all of us to lie, you would think they
would think twice about this, allow for some attenuating circumstances.
But they don’t, they never will. Our politicians, our Mr.
President, must obey the same rules, they must not lie at any time, and must
pay dearly if they do. It does so happen that we can prove that most
politicians lie most of the time.
If one day lies are no longer possible for whatever reason,
it will be chaos. Can you imagine if I cheated on my partner a few times and
came back home to admit it all in the greatest details? My relationship would
be over instantly. Can you imagine me going to work tomorrow morning and tell
every single one of my colleagues what I truly think of them, including my
boss? They would kick me out the door so fast, I could quite possibly go faster
than the speed of light.
It wouldn’t matter though, every single employee would also
be kicked out as soon as they finished telling us their true colours and all
the things they said behind our back, and all the other backstabbing that we
all know goes on daily in every single office on this planet.
If the President of the
It is not
reasonable to expect the truth from anyone. We know we lie all the time, we
know we can expect people to lie all the time. And now it has become a game of
digging out the truth until people get caught, and then we can create scandals
all over it, destroy careers, plans, schemes, families, companies, economies, everything!
Such a Big Brother state is not worth it at any rate, because then we are all
guilty, we are all criminals, every single one of us!
Who would
want to live anyway in a world where no one would be lying? How boring would
that be? There would be no need for us to worry about anything, any problem
would be confronted on the spot, we would always know exactly what everyone think
of us. There would be no more mysteries to uncover, truth to find, people to
destroy.
We could
stop worrying sick about what we think people think of us, the anger inside
because once again someone lied about us would disappear. We could actually
live much better lives, happy in all, assuming of course that somehow our
nature would change as a consequence of everyone knowing everything about
everything.
Would you
not feel better now that you have told the truth? How many times have you heard
that, and thought no, I won’t feel better, but somehow admit that yes you feel
better about it. When you see the direct consequences of telling any truth, you
certainly can only regret it. Let’s keep the pretence, let’s save face, why not
add another lie on top of it all?
It is
very simple, if you can no longer get away with lying, then perhaps you will
change, maybe you will never lie again, maybe the whole humanity will stop
lying overnight. Is it the case though? No, we’re all still lying, I cannot see
this ending any time soon. The fact that we no longer get away with it, just
causes more trauma and destruction along the way, makes this existence impossible
to everyone.
And one
day, maybe, we will finally get the message, all of us, the whole world, we will
never lie again. That would be the day that any form of authority, and even your
loved ones, will have total control over you, over your thoughts, over your
mind, everything. You might then call it mind control.
Will
ensue the inside struggle to keep happy when you actually are quite depressed,
keep thinking positive whilst your dark thoughts could actually annihilate a
few small countries. And whatever you do, perhaps you will be better off not
thinking and not talking at all, stop living altogether. And it all starts with
this obsession with the truth, when you can only expect lies from your fellow
citizens, your politicians, and even from Mr. President and Mr. Prime Minister.
Often we
only lie to protect the people we love. Sometimes we lie for a bit of freedom,
I don’t know, getting off work 10 minutes earlier, or get an extra 10 pounds or
something, or an extra 100,000 pounds. Well, in that case you are going too
far, greed takes over, and then I understand that some punishment is in order.
But for most of it, lies are just a way to gain a little bit more freedom,
happiness, or make an already unbearable situation just a little bit more
bearable. Nothing threatening, nothing really to worry about, when considering
the other side of the coin, the police state, the Big Brother state, the
nightmare of such an existence.
If there
is truly one thing every parents should teach their kids, or teachers their
pupils on the first day in school, is not that they should not lie, but that we
are human beings, we cannot change our nature. Everyone lies, and if you do not
lie yourself, they will manipulate you so fast in your life, they will have you
for breakfast. So watch out!
Yes,
better learn to lie convincingly as soon as possible, learn to distinguish
between lies and truths whenever anyone speaks to you, be it from any form of
authority, as they lie all the time but expect only the truth from everyone
else. And good luck with your life.
In any
circumstance, never expect the truth, or at least all the truth, and you will
be better off not to become obsessed by it. Be happy, somehow, with all these
lies you are being fed on a daily basis by everyone you will ever encounter. And
most importantly, never lie yourself, as you can no longer get away with it.
But how could you achieve such a feat. Then, be ready for the consequences.
After
all, it is only human nature to lie all the time. Isn’t this right, Mr.
President?
Beyond you, a whole world needs to be saved. We are at war.
This war is illegal. Our leaders are being prosecuted for war crimes against
humanity. This genocide has been accomplished by soldiers who were following
orders. It has screwed their mind up, they can no longer live with their own
conscience. So, when they decided they had enough of killing people and faced
being killed for no reasonable justification, and that they simply walked away
and decided to face either the electric chair or a seven year hard labour
sentence, we have to consider them the real heroes of this war. We need to give
them amnesty. We would have done the same, just to be able to live with our own
conscience.
No pity for the guilty. It takes courage to face a death
sentence over continuing an illegal war and genocide. More courage than most of
us will ever show in our lifetime. We have not been brainwashed into becoming killing
machines, trained to forget to think and simply follow orders. Who do you think
killed those one million plus Iraqis? Your sons and daughters, and they are
still at it, and far worse, against their will, against the will of the whole
planet. It has to stop! Sooner rather than later.
I don’t need to be reminded that I am dying now, we don’t
need to be reminded, that we are dying now. And that it is all in-house, pure
self-destruction, and that there is no need for it. Are we a dying
civilisation, desperate to strike wherever we can, while we can? What a great
bully we are, unable to see the full consequences of our actions. Shame on us
all!
If we could only change our perspective, change our
collective will, that we will do well in this world. And go about doing it and
save ourselves, and save the world. We can, and so we should. No need to bring
about destruction and death to this world, because this is now what we are,
great destroyers of worlds. I so wish we could justify it, but can we? I can’t,
can you?
It is in our power, and if it is not, it should be in our
power, to change the world. It is, after all, in the Constitution. Or has it
been erased from it… I can’t keep up with all those patriotic laws, because, oh
dear, I’m so unpatriotic, and dear me, I feel it might save me not to be. To be
a patriot nowadays is tantamount to be a traitor to one’s nation and what it
stands for, and has been standing for, for centuries. Who are you? What do you
stand for? Do you really stand for this mass killing?
This is not the first or second world war, this is not the
Nazis trying to take over the world in a surprising successful manner, to
establish a dictatorship over us all. This war is not about saving us,
protecting us, against a foreign power trying to control us and eradicate our
freedom and our rights.
This illegal war can only have one purpose, ensuring that the
dollar will still be the currency of the world, that rich oil and gas
corporations will have full access to all natural resources in the world
without having to pay fairly for it. This war cannot be justified, unless we
wish to be called evil, a nation taking without asking what does not belong to
us.
Fair trade, fair play, diplomacy, adapting to what the
world throws in our path, sensibility and compassion, compromise, is what is
required in this world at this time.
At the moment, we pay much more than it is actually
required through these wars, for something we need not pay so much for, and for
profits that would not benefit any of us. Let me stress this again. If we were
to pay fairly for those resources, it would cost us far less than what we spend
in wars to acquire it all, against the law.
The difference resides in the fact that once the costly war
is over, paid by us all, it will only profit corporations who spent nothing
toward these wars, except financing political parties. Only those corporations
will profit from these wars. Oh, they remain so clean that way! But oh so dirty
they are, and so much destruction they bring about. That no political party
ever should be able to benefit from any outside monetary source ever again.
First law to pass. And gone will be all those lobbying groups who believe so rightly
that they can buy their way of life, not ours.
I understand
We will have to accept that
Come on! We do not need to start a Nuclear Third World War
over
It is time to take radical decisions and move on to cleaner
energies. It is time to stop those rich corporations from controlling us and
dictating our destiny. We are almost there, almost past the need for oil and
natural gas, almost past the need to fight and go to war over natural
resources. If we can just continue a little longer, until some sort of
breakthrough in science, or simply a radical law about moving to cleaner
energies, not requiring all that we are fighting for, then humanity will
survive. At least a little longer. Can we just be reasonable and stop those
useless wars? Already we have all the solutions we require, there is no need to
fight over any of this. There is no need to die over any of this!
I get angry when I hear of how certain people will call
deserters traitors. When I hear that some righteous bastards, who did not enrol
into the army in the first place, feel the right to assault army deserters.
When us, the people, could consider executing or sending to prison young
soldiers who showed a conscience. Most of them are already gone anyway in their
mind, for the rest of their life. They already went for a tour of
This is not a war about protecting our families, our
nation. To ensure we will keep democracy and freedom. We have already lost all
that, through no fault of our enemies, and we dare hope that new
administrations will bring it back, but we have no guarantee. It seems that it
will be business as usual, and that it might only get worse. Oh dear, is there
no hope in this world?
Imagine, a traitor to the nation, who decides that after
killing so many people, and escaping so many times a certain death, that he or
she can no longer live with his or her own conscience. These people are already
dead, they have gone mad, never again will they function normally in society.
Their onlook on life is totally new, unexpected. They know what is going on,
what they have done. They suffer from what we have done to them. Brainwashing,
perhaps even packed them with drugs, in order to make them the perfect
soldiers, killing machines necessary to accomplish the genocides of the new
millennium. At a time when there was no need for any of it.
So civilized we thought we had become, and yet, it is just
more of the same. An immature humanity still being dictated what to do by a few
bad men. No hope for peace, when we are the attackers, when we are all about
pre-emptive strikes against targets that show no threat. We are as bad as the
Nazis, we are the evil ones in this war.
The last deserters who were executed were from that era,
the Second World War. I would not be talking like this today if we were
attacked and we were defending our nation against an evil force. I would feel
that deserters had it coming and were an example to the rest of them, to the
rest of us. Freedom and democracy, after all, have to be saved at any cost. And
if a generation has to be sacrificed to ensure their continuity for the next
generations to come, so be it.
But there you are. We have already lost everything we could
hope to be fighting for. There is no more democracy, there is no more freedom
of any kind. And none of it was a consequence of those wars. Explain that!
Those wars are not only illegal, they have no purpose other
than making oil and gas corporations money. A soldier today has the duty to
speak against it, to walk away, to become a deserter. But I know how difficult
this is. There is a whole hierarchy in the army, which is why these feelings
need to be felt and addressed higher in the hierarchy. You can either save your
nation, or be a participant in its total annihilation. We are near collapse, on
every side, about everything. The next few years should be interesting, if we
can survive them.
This is an illegal war. There are serious talks about prosecuting
our leaders for war crimes against humanity. This is not conspiracy theory,
this is reality. Any deserter has a strong case to make. These are no
criminals, they are the ones with a conscience, they are the ones who already
had their life destroyed. Never again will they ever function normally in
society.
None of them should be prosecuted, all of them should get
amnesty. And most soldiers should follow their example, and higher up in the
hierarchy, is where this all needs to happen. So speak up, for the people under
you, you are their only salvation.
When your leaders make irrational decisions, when your
leaders are risking the very existence you are there to protect, you have to
speak, you have to denounce it, you have to protect the ones under you. Amnesty
is logical, necessary, obvious.
And I am now talking to all those judges who will preside
over these courts martial. Do not be evil, be human. These kids, our sons and
daughters, who had the courage to face far worse than it would have been if
they had simply lacked courage, to walk away, and continue to kill mercilessly,
those are what this nation requires. Those are the soldiers with a brain and a
conscience that this society needs. At most, I suggest a community order, a few
hours unpaid to help veterans of war, they certainly need it, for what we made
them suffer. Certainly not a prison sentence, in the circumstances.
And the way we go about recruiting new soldiers, is so
immoral, so unethical, that it has been reported that there has been a high
suicide rate amongst those army recruiters. Let’s face it, an army capable of
developing and offering the most violent PC game downloadable for free over the
Internet, who will stop at nothing to get our sons and daughters to sign up for
the exciting life of killing people and get killed, when there is no real
necessity for it, can only be called entrapment. And so they do entrap many of
us, desperate enough, too clueless to realise what we are signing for. Oh dear,
I feel despair.
Because this is where it becomes all so unethical and
immoral. The contract those soldiers have to sign. It is for life that they
give their soul and body, because once signed, that contract, they no longer
belong to themselves. They no longer have any freedom. They can no longer break
the contract. There is no provision for such a thing. If they break the
contract, it is death that awaits them, or sentences that are more extreme than
the ones we give to murderers.
No one in their right mind, in normal circumstances, would
ever sign a work contract with any company, stating that they give themselves
entirely to the company for life, and that there is no way out. One month
notice is all that is required on both sides to terminate such a contract.
It is immoral and unethical that the State should offer
such contracts to any soldier. It is not reasonable for anyone to give up their
entire existence to anyone or anything, no matter what the circumstances. This
is against the Constitution, the Bill of Rights. Any soldier, just like any
employee anywhere in the world, should be able to break the contract of
employment within a month’s notice, two at most. Otherwise, I call upon this
planet every single union that exists, those same unions supposed to protect
us, and let them state what should be, and if it is acceptable that one
signature should doom forever the unthinking and misinformed entrapped person
for life.
We would not expect anyone to sign their life and soul to
any company. We should not demand it from our soldiers for the nation. It is
not reasonable to ask for a signature, and then own their existence until we
see fit to let them go. This is contrary to everything we stand for, freedom,
equality, fraternity. These soldiers should have the same rights as anyone else.
One month’s notice, two if they are already abroad killing people. After that,
total freedom, just as it should be. Especially when considering our immoral
and unethical ways of recruiting them in the first place.
Then, there would be no more deserter, they would know that
they can get out of it all just like any of us can get out of any job we ever
sign a contract for. Who knows, maybe there is a way to shoot bullets in the
air instead of at people, or sending a rocket a few meters away from the real target,
for a month or two further, until finally here comes freedom again, and feel the
escape from it all? Maybe there is a way to minimise the genocide? And live
with oneself afterwards?
All those things going through my mind! Saving myself,
saving people, as some sort of salvation. Can I still reach heaven? No, it is
too late for that. I should have thought about it before giving up my soul to
my country, a country so powerful, that it never required me giving up my soul
to it in the first place. Not at this time when there is no threat, and when there
never was a threat to begin with.
Considering how disloyally and in bad faith the army
recruits new soldiers, I feel, I fear, we have to put a stop to it. If the
government so strongly feels that it requires more recruits, let them justify
to congress that conscription is essential. Let them convince us that this war
is justified, somehow, if they can.
We all know it is not, we all know it is all a war for
profit, and that none of us will ever profit from it, and that our duty is only
to kill more people and avoid getting killed. None of us know why! None of it
makes any sense!
Amnesty, it is amnesty that we need to guarantee all
deserters. We need to invite desertions, breaking of an immoral and unethical
contract that goes against the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. I am also
talking about The United Kingdom here, not just the
Let us be free! Let us free the world! Let us be fair, let
us listen to reason, let us understand and be compassionate! Let us recognise
our real heroes of the war. Let’s guarantee amnesty to all deserters, let us
guarantee amnesty to all future deserters!
We understand you! We would have done the same. The future
will prove you right. And hopefully you will be allowed to come back and live a
normal life, despite all that we made you suffer, without good justification.
The Germans were not coming this time, God only knows why
we put you through all that. But our leaders will pay for such lunacy, I can
assure you. Your dad, your mom, your brother, will respect you again, they will
see you for the hero you are.
I’m so sorry, I’m so guilty, we are so guilty, please
forgive me, and please, forgive us all. We were so wrong, but, we were so
misguided by our leaders. It is no excuse, I know, we should have seen it
coming, we should have known better. Never again should we be so blind. Never
again. Especially when the Vietnam War already taught us all that we needed to
know about the future, and yet, we remained blind to it all, condemned forever
to make the same stupid mistakes, with far reaching consequences. We will never
learn, we have only ourselves to blame.
Welcome home son! Welcome back to your own country! Welcome
back to normalcy, after the horrors we made you suffer. We admire and respect you
for the decisions you made, for realising none of this was acceptable, or
justifiable. And now, we will help you forget, we will help you accept, that
none of this was your fault. You were only following orders. You will still go
to heaven, or else, none of us will ever reach heaven.
That’s a promise. Total amnesty, even from God, or else,
none of us deserve to be saved. Because none of this was justified, none of
this was even legal as per international laws in the first place.
I’m proud of you son! I only wish I did have the guts to do
the same, walk away, to desert, once I would have realised what was truly going
on. And now, let us deal with this court martial for you, let us deal with
those judges, let us make them understand exactly what is going on, what has
gone on. And here will come, from the whole world, an amnesty for you all!
And now, we will prosecute the real criminals of these
illegal wars. We will seek and gain, the maximum penalty for such real crimes.
The war is over. Amnesty for everyone, because we were
wrong, we acted against the law. You were right. Amnesty for all deserters, you
are our only true heroes in this war. Only you decided to walk away against
what was inhuman, against everything we are supposed to be and claim to be
fighting for.
There will be once again this world of freedom and
democracy where happiness is possible. And this time it will not be a pretend
world, that could so easily be overturned. It will exist and last, because we
have no choice now but to rewrite the Constitution, and make it a written new
Constitution that no despot will ever so easily go around to redefine,
everything that we are, that we stand for. One man should never again have that
kind of power, to destroy everything that we are! Curse forever the name Bush,
for generations to come! Never again should a Bush come to power, or have we not
learnt our lesson?
This flag will once again be respected, and people will
once again cry proudly whilst looking at it, and understand what that flag
truly means for the whole of humanity. True democracy, true freedom, peace, love,
emancipation, the right to happiness for all! Resources for us all!
No one will go starving in this world, no one will ever feel
despair, because we are all the same. And if managed with fairness, forgetting
any kind of monetary market, there are enough resources for everyone in this
world. We all deserve a happy and fulfilling existence. Never believe anyone
telling you otherwise, never mind whatever else that might be happening in the
world. We are all free, and we will all lead a happy existence.
Just think such a world, and make it happen!
Of all the issues I talk about within this book,
immigration is potentially the most explosive and I am well aware that I could
easily say something right here right now which could absolutely and irremeably
annihilate any kind of career I might wish to pursue. Immigration is a touchy
subject, filled with taboos, things people actually think with high fervour,
and yet, are not allowed to speak at the cost of being shut down and ignored.
There are problems to immigration that we cannot ignore, and they should be
talked about.
Fortunately, I never truly felt passionate about
immigration, and so I can see and agree with both sides of the coin. The real
problems are whenever something becomes extreme related to immigration, any
event, any situation, any point of view, any speech, suddenly it spins out of
control and we have a riot on our hands and feel surrendered by enemies whilst
there’s a war going on.
When I was young, with full intention to move and live in
Europe, in the United States, in China and everywhere else, I firmly wondered
why we had fenced the whole planet into large and small countries, moreover, I
could not get my head around the fact that laws made it impossible for me to
live in any other country but the one I was born in. To me then, there should
have been no frontier anywhere, and no government should have been able to stop
me from living wherever I wanted in the world. I still think like this
sometimes, however it would be ignoring just about all the main issues of
immigration, an idealistic point of view which could quickly bring about civil
wars.
First and foremost, there is this issue of a national
identity, a shared culture within citizens of a same country, similar kind of
values. Previously the governments’ ideas about these issues were to integrate
the immigrants within one’s society until they have been assimilated to our
culture, our values, until they become part of our national identity. Nothing
was supposed to change, however as soon as the immigration went out of control,
you found many people sharing cultures and values completely different than the
ones of the national identity. Rightly so, these people were not going to
forget their own culture and accept Christianity just because they moved
country. And if there are enough people like you around you, then why not
create your own little community within the larger one.
Governments understood these issues, and suddenly we
embraced diversity and multi-cultural nations, but only to a certain extent.
Because as soon as the immigrants wants more, or have their say about how
things should be run around here, inevitably there will be a divide larger than
an ocean, because values can differ to such an extent, it becomes an issue of
the most basic human rights.
A large Italian community in
So, who’s right, who’s wrong? How do we deal with these
issues? Do we accept a compromise and let any group have their say and together
create the world to be? Or do we fight back to save what we call our national
identity, our own culture, our own values? Do we let more immigrants come into
our countries every year and get them to live in their own communities as they
used to in their our countries, or do we reduce immigration considerably and
shut ourselves up to the world, protecting what remains of our land and values?
One way or another, it is a no win situation. Whatever
decision will be made, no one will be happy, because both sides are right, and
both sides are wrong, depending on the issue.
I believe the only solution is to remain far from any
extreme. You don’t open your frontiers widely to let in just about millions of
people, but you don’t fence yourself in either. You let communities develop on
their own, you give them all the most basic human rights there are, but of
course, you cannot suddenly sacrifice the national identity and the established
values so quickly, as these needs to change in time as a society evolves.
And most important, you should never limit your immigration
to groups in needs, political refugees, people flying from persecution in their
own countries, and so on. It is important to give them asylum and to open our
doors to these groups, however sometimes it feels they are the only ones who
can actually move to another country. I rarely meet Canadians or Americans in
On one side we protect ourselves to the point that no one
can move to another country unless they are willing to go through a nightmare,
and only if somehow they succeed in justifying their move. On the other side,
for humanitarian reasons, we feel obliged to open our doors to millions of refugees
from instable countries, often because of our own fault. The result, we see it
today, it leads to ghettos and riots, a situation no one is happy with.
I feel the situation today is not to close our doors even
more, it is to open them even more. The European Community leaders seem to have
understood that, and now hopefully some poorer countries get to be richer and
more organized, to a point where their citizens might not wish to leave their
country. And then, they can now go anywhere and work in any country in
We are very much afraid of foreigners, and no matter how
much propaganda we could devise, we will still feel alienated by a large flow
of immigration, especially if it comes mostly from a few countries and suddenly
these new communities wish to impose their views and culture upon our own.
How we get to the point of seeing all the sons of our
neighbours like our own sons, and that they deserve more of a chance than the
sons of foreigners, is perhaps a mystery that we may feel the need to fight,
when human rights tell us otherwise.
In most countries, if you are a foreigner who wish to
study, the tuition fees go off the scale. It was meant to discourage foreign
students, and give a chance to our sons and daughters, born from our ancestors,
to have access to education. This has backfired, universities have immediately
identified they needed money, and foreign students are plenty, and it pays
well. So many decisions we make are not the wisest ones. And once we find out,
we realise our mistake, and yet, we do not change them.
In
But then, I saw the other side. I was accepted to study in
It certainly opened my eyes at the time. Because I felt
like I was an immigrant, but of another class. A class of immigrants that
people from any country would not mind to see immigrating in their own country.
Canadians are after all well perceived worldwide. I finally understood that it
was not true. Yes, I am white, yes, I come from a rich country, yes I speak
excellent French and English, yes people from my country seldom immigrate since
they don’t feel the need, and so we will never for example find a whole
community of Canadians in
No matter what, I am still an immigrant, and people feel
that I do not belong in any other country but my own, that when I study there,
when I get a job there, I take it from their own sons and daughters, who will
not be given the chance they feel they deserve because of my mere presence
there.
My arguments were also useless. I said the percentage of
British people immigrating to
So now you see why for me immigration is a touchy issue,
why I can see both sides of the medal, and why I cannot take position on the
subject. I see the truth in both camps, I see wrong in both camps. Ultimately I
feel immigration policies have failed us terribly in the past, because they were
extreme, they were meant to protect us from something, through our fears of
foreigners, and ultimately they backfired and brought us all that we fear most.
If you truly wish to move to another country, I believe it
would be easier for you to first become rich in your own country, then simply
move around from country to country for periods of three to six months at a
time, as a visitor, never bothering with visas and immigration. It is easier to
become rich in your own country than actually move country and face immigration
laws.
If your country is in turmoil, well, it is a different
matter. If you can come up with a good reason to seek asylum anywhere in the
world, I’m sure you will be able to. It won’t be easy, however it will be
easier than first becoming rich. And once you reach your new country, there
will be a whole community of people of your country there waiting for you,
waiting to help you get a new start in your new life. You will stand a better
chance to this new life than I ever was able to, as I never felt this urgency
to survive like you must do after what you have gone through in your own country.
For me, it is felt, that since I come from
As for a true national identity, shared values and beliefs,
how important these are to a nation, well, I think you cannot be hypocrites. If
these are important to you, they are equally important to all of us.
Integration, assimilation, those are ugly words. Diversity and multi-cultural
societies is the rights way to go. And when one of those small communities
become large enough to be able to request something from the majority, well,
you will have to consider it, you may have to compromise. You could have saved
yourself a headache in the past by abandoning such radical immigration laws,
you could still save yourself for the future, and finally open your doors to
everyone and avoid these ghettos of so-called undesirables. But we’re not
living in that perfect universe, I doubt you will see the need to change your
policies, and if your leaders do, I feel this will be highly unpopular, just
because you always miss the larger picture and the consequences of your actions
in the long term.
By now, there should be a large community of Canadians,
Americans, Europeans, and people from all over the world living in
You will have to embrace the presence of the immigrants you
already have and listen to them, you will have to compromise at some point.
After all, we are all human beings, right? And those human rights, are for
everyone, right? Even immigrants.
Muslims are not about to leave your country, nor should
they. This is now our country, all of us, and we will learn to live together,
stop the discrimination, stop the creation of ghettos, stop being afraid of the
difference. We are not threatened in any way by the presence of foreigners, if
you feel you are, it is in your mind and it cannot be justified rationally, it
would not stand in any court of law. Yes, I speak French, I don’t believe in
religion, and since my arrival in
Your way of dealing with immigration has failed. Now, either
you close your doors completely and allow no one else to come in, creating
prisons as everyone else will do the same, and then you will have to die where
you were born. Or, let’s truly open the world to everyone! Let’s see what happens,
let’s deal with any problem as it arises. And if that does not work in the long
term, then we will re-assess the situation.
I understand this is extreme, and extremes when dealing
with immigration are a bad idea. But now we have to fight the extreme situation
you have created. I cannot see any other solution. One way or another, I think
we may now have to sacrifice a few things, like national identity, conformism,
shared values and beliefs, whatever. We should all be free to believe in
whatever we want to believe, we should all be free to move around and to
develop our own set of values. This needs to be done on an individual basis,
not a collective one, otherwise, it simply becomes imposed values and beliefs
on a whole country. Otherwise, your national identity is an artificial one
imposed on everyone else. And then, we will just have to learn to all live
together because this world does not belong to anyone, if anything, it belongs
to all of us.
Such an open door policy for immigration would create quite
a problem for socialist countries or moderate countries like most of the
Western World. Your biggest argument is that we simply cannot help the whole
world by welcoming them all in one go, and at first it would be that, all in
one go. Such a policy can only be achieved successfully in
It is however not true. When an immigrant enters the
So there are ways to protect yourself, even if I feel that
these policies are extreme and unjustified, and probably also create all sorts
of problems in the long term. But there you are, you have no reason not to
adopt an open door policy when it comes to immigration. And then, it is your
job to make sure it comes from everywhere instead of just a few places, for
whatever reason. And you have to convince others that they have to adopt the
same policies, so everything will eventually in time balance itself out and stabilise.
So easily you will
lose your social status
I work in a criminal
court, this is the best place to observe all in one go the different levels of
social status. It goes from the lowest to the highest all in one day, in any
court. I was able to identify with all these players in this great game of
judging and punishing citizens for the slightest misconduct. So easily all of
them can lose their social status overnight, you would not believe. The next
case I call could easily be yours.
When I go home at the end
of the day and need to escape this nightmare, I’m no longer certain what music
truly represents my social status. If I should listen to classical music
(everyone knows Mozart, but what about Brahms?), pop music (Céline
Dion/Madonna), rock and roll (sort of U2), indie music (Muse/Suede), or death
metal (Type O Negative). Someone will need to rescue me, as I listen to them
all.
As an author I often think
I do not require a social status, I am only an observer reporting what I see. I
have taken my last job in a criminal court for that very reason, observe, mix
in, become it, and report. But I am confused. I am now of all social status, a
hard criminal, a common criminal, a civil servant, a manager of civil servants,
a counsel, a solicitor or barrister and a judge of the high court.
Are we equal and all the
same, as human beings? Or, oh my God, who are we? I no longer have any
identity. This conundrum was reflected in many of my previous articles, people
thought for a moment that I was a hard core criminal. I am not, I’m a writer
before all, if anything else really. I become everyone as I am everyone. Maybe
I take myself too seriously, or too frivolously. I’m not sure which.
I am not completely
brainless or disconnected, we have to have a justice system of some sort, we
need to arrest and bring those who do wrong in a court of law, judge them and
punish them accordingly if necessary. I am part of that machine, the machine of
the justice system. Sometimes I really have to remind myself that I am only a
clerk, I do not condemn or defend these defendants, I don’t judge them, I take
no side, I certainly do not sentence them.
It is hard all the same,
because more often than you might think, it never goes as planned or as it
should. And I know, unlike others perhaps, what goes on behind the scene, what
it is like, what it means. I could not possibly wish it even on my worst enemy.
I have many of those.
All sorts go to prison,
rich executives and CEOs who somehow are caught decades later with a fake
passport, or some kind of fraud, some politicians who let themselves be bribed
so easily, to the lunatic who cannot control himself as soon as he drinks one
beer too many, and will go on to disfigure once again someone for life who was
at the wrong place at the wrong time. Better not be you then, just move out of
the way.
It really opens your eyes
to who we are as a society. I thought recently I should only write in French,
so no one would know who I am, or could read all that I wrote in the last few
years. As a civil servant, I am not allowed to have a political opinion, let
alone express it. This article is really at the edge of what I am allowed to
state, it is actually illegal, and yet here I say nothing of real consequence,
nothing concrete.
I cannot hide, you have
no idea about these judges of the high court, they all speak many languages,
French is usually their second language. Otherwise, their sons and daughters
who never needed to do anything of their life, certainly travelled everywhere
and learned all sorts of languages, after finishing their fourth university
degree that we all know will lead nowhere. The same can be said of all these
counsels, barristers and solicitors. Well travelled they are, so much money
comes their way, they don’t know what to do with it. How many huge HD TVs one
needs?
Such a contrast to all
these defendants we deal with on a daily basis. Those who are no one, who could
never dream of being anyone in this life, the minimum salary would be good.
Sometimes I am quite certain that if they were given every chance, it would
still be hopeless. Might as well die then. Oh but I am against any kind of
death penalty. I much prefer a nice spicy Indian meal, I admit I’m an addict.
In between these extremes
there are us, the court staff. It is a whole universe on its own, with husbands
dying of heart attacks and clerks having cancer. So much gossip, such easy ways
to destroy oneself if one does one mistake or speak too much at any point in
time. I wonder if I will ever learn my lesson and just shut up once and for
all, something I have not been trained to do.
You only require five
minutes of losing control of yourself, in order to annihilate any kind of
social status you might have reached in time. I nearly did it today, once
again. Losing patience with all these civil servants who are all depressive and
go off for days and months, and moans and complain and don’t want to do their
job. So I end up doing all the work. Well, I lost it today. I was certain it
was the end, either I would resign on the spot, or they will sack me. Well, no
one can be sacked from the civil service, and that is one major headache for
any manager there.
Try it, walk naked across
every court one day, I’m sure you will still manage to escape being kicked out
the door. It is not that all the civil service is lazy and does not want to do
anything, it is only half of it. The other half is being overworked to death
doing the work of three employees, and some days, well, you lose it. You then
go on to face so many management meetings about it. Because for you who work so
hard, there is a double standard. You will never be treated the same way as the
ones who have already been marked as totally useless and beyond hope. Those get
away with murder and it will never reach a court of law.
I have come recently to
be very close to all these judges. It is an entirely different existence, even
though it is all so closely related to the low life they sentence every day. I
have to believe there is still a way to read and hear the worst of human kind,
and yet, feel totally detached from it all. And yet, go on to play such a major
role in the future of any human being who’s done wrong once or twice, or a
hundred times before.
I have seen lists of
antecedents that could cover the whole world, and yet the Judge is clement,
especially when the defence counsel is convincing. I will admit that I would
always be clement, but sometimes you have to accept, there is a limit to one’s
patience.
When did I become so
righteous? When I discovered God one rainy night on a corner street of
So easily one social
status is absolutely and irretrievably wrecked as soon as one name is mentioned
in a court room. Many are brought there through so many lies from complainants
and victims of whatever. Some are justified for being there, and yet, you can’t
escape the fact that if in some way these defendants could have been facing all
this before acting, somehow if they could have thought first, their entire
existence could have been radically different. Or is it not possible in the
heat of the moment to think and stop what we are doing? Is it not possible to
think anymore? I can’t, can you? For me it has always been about surviving the
next day somehow.
Many are hopeless, they
come back every year to face the same charges and even worse, and well, what
can you think or do then? It is in their nature, they will not change, and
nothing could stop them from doing it again the very next day. These are the
extreme cases, and there is no hope for them. And I so wish there was, I so
wish I could somehow help them understand and prevent all this. They are aware,
they know, and yet, they cannot help themselves. They even accept their
sentence, they think it is well deserved (some of them).
I live in some sort of
welfare estate, having no money whatsoever, I am a civil servant after all. My
direct neighbours are often normal citizens who for one night lost it, and went
on to threatened to bomb the whole building with some remnants of grenades they
somehow got hold of. Others just can’t control themselves once they are drunk,
and will go on in search of a fight, smashing someone in the face, until the
wheel starts again: the arrest, the police station, the court case, the
judgement. Around me are pretty much the extreme cases, no one is listening to
classical music around here.
Down the road, a bit more
upmarket, higher social status, you find the odd one who finds himself in court
but certainly had good reason to act the way he did. Let’s see if he will get
away with it. We all feel the need to
kill someone sometimes, heck, I’m guilty of that myself. I must have read too
many books of Agatha Christie, I read all 80 of them. I usually don’t act upon
it unless obliged to, due to unusual circumstances. Let me see justify myself
in a court of law. Am I that clever, can I get away with it? Can you?
When one is lying in
court it is obvious, and then it does not matter if someone did you wrong,
being caught lying will always lead to you losing your case. I can tell you
that much, always keep to the truth as much as you can, even if it makes you
look really bad. I hope I have helped.
So easily I could find
myself in the dock. And yet, I always think I don’t belong there, that it could
never possibly be me. It will be me one day, it will be you. Then you will want
to rethink about the way we go about everything in the justice system, the
police treatment, the whole prison system, the whole of society! Because then,
you will be reduced to that, you will be nothing else but someone charged with
something. Your life is already gone by then. Someone will lie, someone will
get you there.
It no longer matters to
the police or the prosecution who you are and if you are unjustly being framed
by the lies of others. You go through it, the prison cell, the court case, the
trial, everything. You will be treated the worst way possible.
Many believe it is the
way to go, in order to get people to think before they act. Treat them like sub
humans, like animals are not even treated, they will think twice next time. But
what if you are innocent, or were somehow justified, or pushed to act the way
you did?
It is no easy ride once
you are arrested, you quickly get confronted with the worst of corruption from
our police force, a prosecution who will stop at nothing to ensure you end up
in prison for quite a while, even without tangible proof (hell, they will
invent them for you).
And then you understand
exactly how you have no rights whatsoever, you can only but be guilty until
proven innocent. The shock is always greater the higher your social status is
in society. You had no idea, did you? Low life criminals know all about it,
they could write books and books about it. I have written a few myself, in
secret, you will never read them as I could not possibly put them online on my
website.
I’m not even yet talking
about what happens in prison, if somehow you get convicted from a lack of a
good defence counsel. Well, never go to prison without money, you will need it.
Make sure people can smuggle things in for you, even though this is highly
illegal and will lead to custody for the daring friend, it is worth the risk
since you could not survive otherwise.
Who would have thought
that even in prison one would so desperately need money in order to survive?
And do not dream of going there with a mobile phone cleverly hidden up your
ass, they now have the technology to detect such object without having to put
their hands up your ass.
And so ironic that most
of these prisoners who are so straights and laughed and ridiculed all those gay
or gay looking students in school, driving them all to suicide eventually, that
once in prison for too long they quickly become the worst twisted bisexual men
you could ever meet in your life. As AIDS or any other incurable venereal
diseases like hepatitis is what your real sentence will truly end up being.
No one bothers with
condoms in prison, why should they? Everyone knows that with a condom you
cannot feel anything. If you somehow can survive all the mind games of the
authorities and other prisoners, and real consequences of incarceration, even
in detention whilst being a kid, you are quite someone I would like to meet.
You will no longer be a kid then, I can assure you. Don’t despair, you will
learn the trade and come out a complete professional criminal. Quite the
respectable figure, for such small minded and impressionable minds down there
in prison.
This is what I always
hope judges keep in mind. A prison sentence is a death sentence every single
time, one way or another. And no one cares, no one thinks of sorting this
prison system out apart from me apparently. Separate them all, always!
I’ll eventually write a
damn book about it, it will be real ugly. What can I expect from a government
ordering torture? Well, it existed well before it became worldwide news, it
will exist in the future for a long time in our prison system, even without
being condone by the authorities. This is what prison is and will always be.
Are you sure you need to
drink that last beer? You better think twice mate, you never know where that
last beer will bring you. Just hit someone in self-defence, or get mixed up in
some argument, and you will quickly find out, how far the lies of others can
bring you. How rapidly all that you worked so hard all your life, this
wonderful social status of yours, will come crumbling to dust at your feet, and
at the feet of your parents who thought so much of you and will even believe
you are guilty of all the lies of all parties.
Only five seconds are
required for anyone, of any social status, to self-destruct, to annihilate
their entire career. Never forget it. Even if declared not guilty, by whatever
means, the stain, the stench, will always remain. You are finished, even if you
somehow escape mental and physical torture you are sure to find in prison or
detention.
Better never go out of
the house at all, and even then, most often it will happen at home with your
loved ones, so quickly they will turn against you, because all of us are so
unreasonable. Better not exist at all then. I thought of many ways by which
someone could commit suicide, even if one is a coward like me and lack any sort
of courage to actually do it.
Sorry! Am I being too
extreme? So easily you could reach that point, you have no idea. You could not
possibly find any justice in this world, if you can even afford it, I’m fairly
certain of that. And remember, I am part of that justice system, I know all
about it.
I have a judge who always
listens to classical music in between cases. Another who speaks many languages,
how cultured he really is, no one had the chance to probe it to the end, not
even the ushers in love with him. I have new judges who are so lovely, so nice,
so high class, I am there thinking, yes, you are truly someone, someone I could
fall in love with and I don’t care of what sex you are. I could so easily
become a part of your life and drink your words every minute of this existence,
I cannot comprehend you are a judge in a criminal court. Should we have sex
right here on your desk Your Honour, with your nice cup of tea in between?
I will be shot for saying
that. I think I need to drink that last beer, never mind the consequences. I am
a human being after all, I am just like any of you, so don’t be so quick in
judging me. Why don’t you stop to judge yourself once in a while? Like now
would be a good time, before one of my judges does it for you.
I’ve got them all on my
side, none of them would send me to prison now, they would fight for me as so
limited are their horizons. Outside their bubble universe they only know me, I
am such the blue eye boy, I can do no wrong. Yes, I will be shot now, if I
could only shut up once in a while. I should really write in French, no one
reads anything in French (except those judges).
This is what I have been
identifying with recently, far from the world of the criminals, even the
counsels which we have been told as clerks we control and should never let them
take over the show in any court. And over those civil servants and their
miserable existence, being underpaid and overworked (half of them at least). I
see myself as a judge, I see myself at their level, I have to be that
delusional as an author.
Yeah, such a nice and
rich and peaceful existence. Such social status should never be hindered, not
even whilst dealing with such ugly cases, reading all these statements,
watching all these CCTV recordings, listening to recorded phone calls and
emails, and other ugly things low life human beings are capable of. Your
Honour, you are an artist! It is a creative existence you require! And yet,
without all this ugliness, you would be nothing, or what exactly would you be?
I know the route, if I
wanted to I could follow it myself. After all, I started as a student of law
many years ago. I could finish it, and work towards becoming a judge of the
high court. I could do it. I am not a judge however, they are. And these are
the people I speak with everyday, that I am helpful to, who appreciate me for
all my hard work. And yet, I would wish to go further, find out more about who
they truly are.
They can’t be saints
themselves, those who judge and punish us, can they? Are those your children on
the wall Your Honour? Tell me all about it, how proud you are of being alive.
Such ecstasy is so rarely found these days. Oh, it is not as perfect as it
should be, is it? Is this why you are so moody and out control most of the
time? You would not let any of that influence your judgment, would you?
Because then, I would
gladly put my trust into a computer only answering to logic. Only those can
truly be trusted. I am of that generation that only trust machines, only they
cannot be influenced by anything, or be bribed, or become corrupt by politics,
and even then, they can easily be manipulated, just like you Your Honour.
I wish I could fault
them, I wish I had something negative to say about my judges. But I don’t, they
never failed me, they never acted beyond their role, which in the end is so
framed anyway. They have little liberty to go beyond any boundary. There is always
a court of appeal, and don’t they know it. The “court of appeal” are those
three magic words that a clerk needs to state in order to calm down any of
those judges when they get carried away. I do abuse those three magic words all
the time, I have to say.
So I have come to admire
them, those judges, and feel that somehow, there is justice in our justice
system. In some way it makes me feel uneasy, as somehow it should not be the
case. On who’s side am I? They do sentence these people, they do send them to
prison. Is it always justified? So difficult to tell, and then, you can only
trust the system, trust that we are doing the right thing, that no decision is
actually unjustified and everything has been considered.
I think corruption in any
system of government or justice, is not to be found in every day life, at the
lower levels. The higher you go, this is where you will find corruption. And
yet, it does not erase the fact that anyone could so quickly annihilate their
social status as soon as their name gets connected to any court. Even the
judges are not immune, say one thing wrong at any one time, forget who you are
and what you are doing for one long minute, and that is it, it is national
headline news.
This is why I am so
confused. I took that job to spy on the justice system, to report its faults,
to prove there was no justice in this world. And my pre-sentence report is
simply positive, those people do not require a sentence.
However, I cannot say the
same for the police force, the prosecution and the prison system. Be afraid, be
really afraid is all I can say. Frankly, the higher your social status right
now, the lower your chances are to survive it all. But that is another horror
story, which I will only speak about in a few years, once I am no longer a
civil servant working in a criminal court.
All I will say though is:
complain, complain and complain at all levels. Because though these authorities
are prone to easily forget the law and get carried away, to the point of
becoming racist and homophobic and everything else as a matter of fact, many
others within these institutions are responsible for investigating every single
complaint, and turn the existence of the culprits into a nightmare. Eventually
they will get the message, eventually they will no longer act outside the law,
or, they will no longer be there to abuse their powers.
You will still lose your
great social status as soon as you get too close to any of us, but at least,
there is still some justice in this world you can get, especially if you can
afford it. Oh yes, mortgage yourself to the teeth, declare bankruptcy you have
no choice, you have to get the best to defend you. Otherwise, well, you will
lose the only thing that truly matters. No, not your honour, not your reputation,
not your credibility, not your social status (all that is lost as a given), you
will lose your freedom.
It is always best not to
live or breathe at all, better lock yourself up every night in a cupboard
somewhere. It is the only safe way out of this life. Remember, we are all
criminal at heart, as so easily we can end up in court and lose everything,
even with a not guilty verdict.
I have already said too
much, I’m sure I will be up for sentencing soon. This article is the end of my
promising career in the justice system. I don’t care anymore after one beer too
many. There must be a way to move to the northern part of
Better stay away from it
all altogether, as you can never trust anyone, not even your defence counsel
who will always but care little for you. Keep in mind that I will soon be
calling your name in my court, no one is that perfect.
So easily you will lose
you social status, in a world filled with convincing liars.
Justice (2)
The Justice system, pretty much everywhere in the Western
World, is now completely out of reach to anyone, except perhaps the poorest and
the richest. The richest can afford to sue someone, even though it could easily
break the bank and lead to bankruptcy if they lose. The poorest can usually get
legal aid or some sort of financial help. So, for most of the population, you
would only go to Court if somehow you have no other choice, because it means
guaranteed bankruptcy, whether you win or not, and guaranteed bankruptcy to any
other individual (not a company) you would sue. Justice is too expensive and it
takes too long. So in the end justice is rarely served. The rich will get
justice, especially that they will hired the best lawyers in the market, so
they will probably win even though they should have lost, and the poorest might
lose big time even though they may have been innocent, obviously, the counsels
and lawyers they will get are the ones who just started or cannot get any
business anywhere else because they’re not very good at their job and probably
don’t really care too much about your case in the first place.
Another major problem, especially in Common Law, is that
the law is vague, so vague in fact that a Judge can sentence just about
anything he or she feels is appropriate. As a consequence, for two defendants
committing the same crime, you will rarely get a similar sentence. Once again,
the richer you are, the more well-known you are, the more likely you will get
out of it easily. If you are a nobody, a wall of bricks will most likely fall
on your head.
Not only that, it is very subjective. Depending on the
Judge you will get and his or her mood on that very day, you could be spending
13 years in prison instead of 3 with another judge. Of course, there is always
the chance to appeal, but appeals are not guaranteed, they can be rejected, and
they are quite often.
In our Courts at this time, you are innocent until proven
guilty, and yet, because it takes forever for your case to be heard, you can
remain in prison for up to a year before your case is heard, even though you
have not been proven guilty yet. And now, with the terror laws, you are pretty
much guilty until proven innocent anyway, and can be imprisoned for a long time
without even a trial. So, it is getting worse. Anyway, how innocent are you
until proven guilty when a jury can decide that you are guilty without
evidence, just because they don’t like you? If there were truly no evidence,
then there would be no need for a jury in the first place. And if you lie, and
there is nothing or no one to say you are not, then a Jury cannot decide that
you are lying, as far as they’re concerned, you are telling the truth until
otherwise proven. I don’t need to tell you that this is not so, and that a
trial is a highly subjective process where quite often you are guilty until
proven innocent.
The law is vague, it is damn complicated, so complicated
that even lawyers and counsels are not too sure what the law is. There is no
way you could defend yourself and, most of the time, you could not even have a
good idea of what you’re facing once you’ve committed a crime.
Some of the identified problems have existed since Roman
times, and so I doubt I could find instant solutions. I’m sure there are books
on the market about how to reform the Justice system, I wonder if they go far
enough and if anyone is reading them.
I know I am not knowledgeable enough and probably never
will be to suggest what can be done about the Justice system. However, it would
be nice if the whole thing could become free for everyone, if you could not
choose your solicitor or counsel, if somehow the law could be written and
rendered more accessible, if a case could be dealt with within a week of the
crime happening, if the whole system could be cleaned from the bureaucracy it
has become, and if we could ensure that sentences are more or less always the
same and that your sentence does not depend on a hard or soft Judge nor his or
her mood on that day.
Justice
needs to become accessible again, it needs to act swiftly, it needs to be clear
and uncomplicated, and as much as possible should not require so many counsels
and lawyers in between. Self-representation should be more common, encouraged.
I am not certain how these goals can be achieved or
implemented, but I trust it can be done.
My Generation does not require any of this. What?
Everything you are thinking and worried about right now, the nightmare we are
in. I never saw the need to identify to any generation or to talk in the name
of a new generation, but such a mess you have made of this world, whilst the
worst is still to come, I feel now perhaps there is a need to. A necessity
maybe to speak about what will come after the destruction of most of our
institutions and way of life.
You have proven that none of you could be trusted with any
matter relating to humanity: happiness, compassion, sympathy, functionality,
stability, reliability, jobs, survival, fairness, justice, intelligence. And so
it is urgent we take over and fix everything, if it can still be achieved.
Far from acting like the wise patriarchs that you are
supposed to be, building institutions to last, putting into place structures
that can be relied upon in a society, and acting responsibly, quite the contrary:
that older generation is out of control, does not know what its doing, does not
seem to care for any of us, or for any consequence for its own actions, and
here we are, my generation might witness the end of everything before accomplishing
anything worthwhile in life.
I’m 35 years old, that’s already an older generation. Many
of you would qualify me as too young to do anything worthwhile, and it is true
that I have achieved naught. Certainly not however from a lack of potential or
wanting. But who can we trust?
The older generation invented nothing, they just kept what
previous generations had wisely already put into place, and through some
extreme greed and insanity, pushed everything to its own limits, and now
everything we worked so hard for is crumbling to dust.
The younger generation is no better, it has been called Generation
Kill, playing video games all day, trained from the cradle to be the perfect
soldiers in the wars the older generation is so desperate to fight, in order to
make huge profits through the war and security industries, and the resources it
can steal, never mind if it brings about Armageddon. And me and my lost
generation in between, who are we, what have we achieved? Nothing, we were
never given the chance.
I suddenly feel the need to reassert myself, bring together
people my age. I’m sure we are all sinking with the toilet’s water, in dead end
jobs around the country, already deep in debt because of expensive education, with
no hope to ever buy a house or being able to afford having a family. With no
hope for a better future but being at the bottom of any corporate hierarchy,
suffering all sorts of neuroses. None of us have ever even been a manager in
this pointless and soul destroying management structure, where everyone orders
everyone around to disastrous effects, with one man at the top deciding
everything for everyone else like a true despot. It is the same in politics.
We are witnessing the mess and destruction around us,
powerless to do anything about it. Is it something related to generations? Or
is it just that in that kind of system we have, only heartless evil people can
get to the top, through lies and devastation of others, and once there,
brainless as they are, things can only get worse?
Perhaps this is the case. Maybe our ways of climbing the
social ladder is at fault, so any intelligent person gets out of the way when
being confronted by some rotten human being willing to annihilate anything in
its path to the top. We end up with the worst psychopathic people running
everyone else around and making the most absurd decisions.
So I thought, perhaps I should start a movement of some
sort. What’s the quickest way to rally a whole bunch of people to my cause? Oh,
people my age! I will tell them this is a generation thing, but in fact I will
make it look like it is an emotional crisis, patriotic stuff, our country, our
flag, our future. The old arguments, it will always work.
I would tell them, in my indoctrination tactics: let’s
eradicate anything that came before us! We don’t need Democrats or Republicans,
Liberals or Conservatives or Labours, we certainly do not need anyone who has
been in politics over five years in his or her lifetime.
We do not require these soul destroying corporate
structures, social hierarchies, so many people in authority at every level,
that not one person can actually now think for himself or herself without being
confronted by an army of people controlling their existence.
If I don’t make it a generation thing, how else would I
rally anyone, to make them understand that everything has gone wrong, and
somehow it is in the structures that changes are required? Who else will I get
on my side? Lunatics, conspiracy theorists, convicted defendants who already
lost their head through sheer exasperation at this lack of any kind of freedom,
and who ultimately decided that there was only one thing left to do: pick up a
gun and start shooting?
We don’t need marketing and sales executives, managers,
directors, board directors, VPs, presidents, etc. Job titles that are so
meaningless, you could not possibly have any idea of what these people do, if
they happen to be doing anything worthwhile for society. So much management,
and look where we are now.
We don’t need capitalism, I think it is now proven without
any doubt that it can only cyclically fail miserably. We don’t need communism
or socialism, also too riveted in corruption and misery. It’s time to try
something new.
The whole financial sector, it started well, it was well
thought of, and then, a bunch of new decisions wiped it all out, to bring more
money to the richest people. And now, the economy runs in a vacuum, where
nothing is based on reality. Suddenly all the flaws of the economy and the
financial sector are obvious to us all.
It all needs to be redrawn completely to compensate for so
much greed and irresponsibility, keeping in mind that no one can be trusted,
just like children. However, I would more readily now trust children’s
innocence to govern my affairs than old businessmen in politics plagued with
conflict of interests that no one is denouncing as being totally unacceptable.
Can generations really help here? New people taking over,
no matter how old they are, just new people with new ways of thinking and
organising things. After all, there are so many people in this country,
whenever there is a major issue, there is always someone out there who thought
out all the solutions so perfectly, you can always find it if you dig deep
enough.
It is a fact that all solutions to all our problems already
exist, and could be implemented almost instantly to the better good, and even
to save us all. But no, we go for the worst decisions, as if they were the only
ones available. Is there anybody still left thinking around here? Or will we let
all these corrupted politicians and corporate heads (the line is blurred
between those) dictate how the world as we knew it will end?
Our political systems are not working, we cannot get heard,
as even our representatives are powerless. Politics is a one man show, and this
has to change. Following the party line is scandalous, political parties need
to disappear. More direct democracy has got to be implemented, and anyone who
has been in politics more than five years at this time, needs to be dropped into
a black hole, contaminated as they must be by now.
Corruption and conflict of interests in politics definitely
have to go. Political campaigns that cost millions and billions, this is not
acceptable. Everyone should be able to get into politics and given the chance
to make a difference. No one should be able to receive millions from anyone in
order to buy an election.
By a new generation, I don’t mean age brackets. I mean new
blood, new people, new ideas, to replace the old ones who have been there since
forever and can only see to further their own interests. I mean nicer people,
people who care for the people. Someone who will not jump ship as soon as the
powerful evil opposition, ready to exterminate everyone, will show its ugly
face.
We need intelligence, practicality, a willingness to change
structures and being able to find and implement those solutions. We don’t need
the stories of old. There are plenty of new ideas out there, even success
stories of countries who have done much better than we could have ever hoped to
achieve ourselves.
We could do with a new generation of politicians, a new
generation of financial advisers and any other political advisers, a new
generation of employers and bosses capable of seeing us as human beings before
tools of productivity to be harassed and abused.
We could do with a new generation of caring people, there
to help us for a change, building the real infrastructures we need instead of
destruction, privatisation the way it has been handled through so much political
corruption.
We could do with changing everything from top to bottom. I
don’t know how radical we will need to be. Don’t listen to me, because I have now
become damn extreme and cynical, but perhaps we can strike some sort of right
balance, as long as nothing of the old remains.
We desperately require a new generation of thinkers and
achievers who can establish and put into place new structures which will bring
about prosperity, freedom and happiness. We need to handpick these people and
put them in power, because they certainly are too bright to go anywhere near
what the world of politics has become. And then, we need to ensure they can do
their job without worry or intimidation.
Here comes the new generation who will rethink everything,
be able to find the existing solutions and implement them, and yes, for once,
they will be able to listen to the people, act for the people, work towards
making this world a better one for everyone. Let’s start with reinstating a
real democracy and reorganising the financial world, and not shrink in front of
such a task, as it is in the structures that we need to rebuild.
This is such an old discourse. They were saying the same
thing 2000 years ago, and somehow, we never made it worked. A real democracy,
people deciding their own fate, working towards a just and fair world for
everyone. Will we never be able to take control of our existence?
For once, let’s ensure that no one in 100 or 1000 years
will feel the need to say what I am saying here. I am tired of repeating what
every single generation before me has already stated in much better and
knowledgeable ways. Perhaps we should go back and listen to what they were
saying, we obviously did not pay attention the first time.
Well, now we are desperate and on the brink of disaster.
Seems like a good time to start thinking and achieving something new, no matter
how old it is. Solutions already exist, let’s review them all, and let’s act.
It is no longer a question of hoping of getting heard, it
is a question of taking back the power that belongs to us, sitting down with
people we can trust, and then simply act. Let’s hear your solutions, no matter
how crazy they are, we are desperate.
Is there anything more important than that, whilst we are
all now completely alienated by our all powerful, blind and deaf politicians
running around like chickens with their head cut off? No solution they offer is
a solution, it can only get worse. They suffered enough, we suffered enough, let’s
put them out of their misery, let’s kick them all out before the next
elections.
Why? It is very likely that the next elections will be
stolen again for a third time. Possibly the Republicans will win no matter how
more popular the Democrats actually are. The proof is in the fact that independent
smaller survey organisations all agree that the Democrats will win with a
landslide, but disagree completely with the major opinion polls from the mass
media, where apparently the Republicans are rating much better:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/10/12/1601/5665/599/627909
We need a world where all our money and resources will not
go to the military to fight wars, or rescue missions to save useless bankrupted
financial corporations. We need to invest in people, free education, social
securities, free justice, free health care, freedom, cheaper transport and to eliminate
poverty. These are all easy and reachable goals, do not believe any politician
telling you otherwise.
Another old discourse. Must be because a long time ago,
this is what people wanted, this is what people still want, and this is what
people never got. If that is not proof enough that we never actually took
control of our own destiny, I wonder what is.
I’m sure we can do it, if we forget personal ambition, social
hierarchies and pettiness. I’m sure we can achieve anything if we replace our
actual leaders. They certainly have the worst track record ever, whilst the
ones in line to replace them are just more of the same breed.
Let’s bring in a new generation of thinkers and achievers,
and let’s rebuild a simple, practical and productive world based on reality, a
world in which we can all finally find peace, peace of mind and happiness.
Marriage has reached its sell by date
Let’s start a real debate about marriage, not just a
question of if gay marriage is acceptable or not. Marriage is certainly an
interesting concept, mostly a religious one. Religions, great at officialising
for the record these unions, a task eventually also espoused by the State, and can
now be given legally, almost administratively. In this millennium, after so
much liberation in the Western World, is marriage not becoming a past date
concept, obsolete? And what about baptism? They are religious concepts we desperately
need to free ourselves from.
I will get straight to the point, I am gay, I have been in
a stable relationship with another man for 15 years. We are in love and are faithful
to each other. I didn’t say free from arguments and problems plaguing our
existence, I said faithful. Not because we hold dear to this concept, but
because not being faithful brings more troubles than it is worth. And I guess
there comes a time when, well, you don’t see the point anymore of going to
clubs and meeting people.
My sister has been in a relationship for perhaps ten years
now, she had two children with her boyfriend, with a third one from his first
marriage which failed spectacularly. The Court, the irrationality, the
nightmare. After that he does not want to marry again, and she, never saw what
marriage was good for, she never believed in this sort of institution. I’m
proud of my sister.
And you should have seen the crisis when they decided that
their kids would not be baptised, you would have thought they had simply
declared that the Third World War was on. It is possible to get un-baptised
these days, I would seriously be considering it, if it were not acknowledging
this institution in the process. I do not believe in any of these institutions,
neither should you.
What is marriage exactly? The union of a man and a woman
together, supposedly for life, unless somehow you can find a way to cancel it
or terminate it. We are getting expert at that, and there is nothing wrong with
this state of affair. It is in fact significant, you can only wonder if
marriage is truly necessary nowadays.
At the moment, the challenge is to extend this marriage to
gay couples, and perhaps also eventually to people living together in some sort
of interdependence without any sexual interaction. These unions are now
acknowledged in Common Law by any government for legal purposes, making marriage
obsolete. Still worried? You don’t need to get married to sign a contract
similar to a pre-nuptial agreement.
Most people only wish to get married because they have this
romantic religious idea that this is what we have always done, tradition, and
so, let’s do it, let’s make it big, let’s spend 100,000 on it and cherish the
memory forever. Until the divorce comes at least, when finally the horror and
mistake of getting married will hit you full blast, disgust you for life, of
what it really meant to get married. Before, divorce was not an option, but now
it is.
Also, we are pushed into marriage not only by everyone
around us, but by the government (preferential treatments if you are married)
and religions as well (fear of going to hell if you do not get married). It is
contrary to any idea of freedom to get married. And freedom is important, more
than marriage, is it not?
As soon as gay marriage is official everywhere, you will
see, we will have to marry, it will be like an obligation. I would never have
been able to remain in the
More exactly, to whom does marriage profit? Perhaps you can
help me answer that question. It does bring security I suppose. With marriage
comes a whole branch of the law, to ensure some sort of fairness and security
to both parties, very much like a contract between two business partners. And
remember, contracts are usually drawn between people who do not trust each
other. You do agree to it all in theory, even though most people fail to see the
extent of that contract. They finally understand when the divorce comes.
Marriage was a good idea before, when women were not
working and there were children in that union. Marriage ensured stability, it
was harder for anyone to just bin the family and leave for the other side of
the planet. If someone else came to break that marriage, in theory the other
person and the children would be catered to.
It is different now in this modern world, rare are the
marriages that will last a decade. Women do work, often earning more than their
husband. And the children, well, not only the nuclear family has finally exploded,
the law has taken over to ensure both parties will cater to these children one
way or another, marriage or not. So, why would you wish to get married now,
apart from “this is tradition”, or a romantic idea of what it once meant?
Who came up with this idea of marriage? I am trying to
imagine here how it came to be, why it was felt it was important to have
marriages at the time, when it burst out upon this world and became an absolute
necessity embraced by everyone.
Is it purely a religious concept, or was it incorporated
within those Bibles and religions from a tradition that already existed? Perhaps
some pure people thought that having sex with more than one partner was disgusting,
even, enjoying sex was unthinkable. Might as well separate the sexes for life, have
your babies in a test tube in a laboratory, and bypass marriage and sex altogether.
Men in
If I was at the beginning, and could decide how this world
would be organised, I do not believe I would have wanted to impose any kind of
marriage concept. I don’t think I would have thought it wise to ensure that a
man and a woman had to decide early on that they would need to make their union
official and that they would need to die together.
I would have thought it common sense that you remain with
someone for as long as both parties desire it and feel they get something out of
it, and once this is no longer true, you move on. For example, if you are
within an abusive relationship, with shouting and beatings, why should this
relationship continue? Maybe the abusive person would be peaceful outside that
relationship, within another relationship perhaps.
This idea that marriage was for life was a bad idea, and I
provided only one example, there are many more. Love is a mystery, and why it
is here one day and gone the next, is also a mystery. No wonder there is so
much hatred in this world, when most people living together in marriage despise
each other, enough to think of murder, and of course the ones suffering then
are the children.
The only reason this institution of marriage lasted so
long, was because it was at the heart of most religions. And once the religions
lost their grip on the modern world, and people started to live more freely,
gain some liberty, and started to think for themselves, suddenly marriage did
not seem such a wonderful concept anymore.
Divorces multiplied, and I cannot fathom why people would
want to re-marry. They should know better by now that it is not necessary, and they
could avoid so much trouble by making it a Common Law relationship instead, or
just: we are together now, let’s see if in a few years this is still working
out. No need to officialise everything, or making it permanent.
Today many people just get married because it brings more
benefits. In many countries you save a lot of money just for being married, and
I wondered why for a very long time. What purpose is it of the government to
encourage marriage, by giving you perks for being within a marriage? Especially
if many young couples just got married to save a bit of money, like students,
and hence, ensuring an early divorce once the incompatibility is discovered.
This incomprehension has been corrected in the
Today many people get married for some bureaucratic reason,
for example a visa, a passport, the right to live in another country, the right
to obtain certain rights within the law which are only accessible to you if you
are married. You would be surprised about how many marriages only take place as
rational decision to obtain something which would be otherwise denied. We
should eliminate those reasons, because it is clearly discrimination.
You can see this more clearly in a gay relationship when
both parties are from different countries. I am Canadian, my same-sex partner
is British. By some miracle we are still together, because the law has changed
in the
I needed to be with my gay partner for four years in order
to be allowed to request any kind of visa and remain in the
It took me 14 years to reach the point where I can now ask
for my British citizenship in my gay relationship, and now that I can, I am so appalled
by all this bureaucracy, and it costs so much money, and takes so long, I have
not requested it yet.
My partner had a good job with a company that provided a
lot of things for the partner of their married employees, like insurances and
other benefits. As I was gay, I had no access to these benefits. The law has
changed now and I would be recognised as his partner, and would have access to
these benefits. But you see, we only recently became openly gay at work, and
then again, it is not guaranteed that we will in future jobs.
For example, my partner is now working in the motoring
industry, very homophobic, and so he has not declared himself openly gay in
those last jobs he had. I never do tell anyone I am gay straight away in any
new job, because then I would never get it or become permanent.
And now, what if one of us dies and there is no will?
Apparently all his assets including the flat go to the government! I would be
left stranded on the street. If we were married, it would automatically go to
me, there would be no question about it.
What if this relationship ends? We discussed it. It is his
flat, it has always been, though we bought most of what it contains together in
the last 15 years. Do we share everything equally? Would it stand in a Court of
law that I am allowed to half of this content purchased since the relationship
began?
This is where marriage comes in handy, I could easily then
leave with half of it. Of course, I have no intention of doing so. I would get
my computer and that would be it, I would leave with nothing else. He has
talked about giving me a cash settlement if ever this happens, but I only need
the minimum, to get the chance to move out and find somewhere else to live.
Unlike married people, we are not blood thirsty to cause as
much damage as possible and gain as much as we can from a failed marriage. It
is one of the main reasons people do get married, part of this security clause.
So you can see that many people just get married in order
to get something which otherwise they would not get. This is why many people
still get married even when they don’t want to, and even though there is not
much point to it, if you exclude religious beliefs and tradition, and the
chance to claim assets and money.
I have to come back to this idea of who benefit from all of
us being married for life and building those traditional families for which
most laws and regulations apply to? The authorities, governments and religions.
What has the government to gain if we are married, single,
in a gay relationship, or not? Nothing. In the United Kingdom they recognised
that, finally, and now, it does not matter much what is your marital status, although
they do ask you the question on all the forms you need to fill out, the same
for all those employers when you seek employment.
I don’t know what they do with this information, if it
influences any decision about your future, if it is used for discrimination
against you. A bit like most high profile politicians, it seems to be a
pre-requirement in order to get elected to be married, have a family and to believe
in God. I am going to be sick.
Remain the religions. Why is this idea of marriage, and most
importantly, only between a man and a woman, stability, order, so central to
religions? What do they really gain by this? Why is it justified for them to spend
millions on promoting marriage, and anti-gay, anti-abortion and
anti-contraception laws? Oh! This is a large can of worms, it strikes at the
heart of any religion, an overall philosophy of life wildly opened to
conspiracy theories. I could not possibly discuss all this here.
I have a few of those theories, conclusions I have reached
in time. Religions not only want you to have as many babies as possible, and
hence gay relationships are vilified, but on top of it, those children need to
be legitimate, hence bastards won’t do. This explains why bullying has always
existed not only for gay people, but also for illegitimate children. Bastard is
after all a common nickname today, how shameful it was once to be an orphan.
Nowadays those children are recognised by their parents,
but before, not long ago, when religions still had a stronghold on our life, it
was not possible to recognise those children. They were truly orphans, and the
mother had to go into hiding to have that baby before giving it away, or marry
as soon as possible, as soon as she became pregnant.
Forced into marriage once again all for the wrong reasons,
where love would rarely come to fruition. Religions never cared about love
within any marriage, they only cared about more babies, the idea of sin and providing
more rules to obey.
Why would this idea of having as many babies within
marriage be so important to religions? Well, let’s see where it leads.
Overpopulation, unsustainable society, incapable of providing for everyone. Not
a problem, let’s have 30 billion human beings on the planet, as it will quickly
become after a few more generations, as it grows exponentially.
Moreover, they all need to be legitimate, meaning we can
track down exactly where they come from and their lineage. Something openly
highly important to the Mormons, but less openly in Christianity, but still
there at the heart of it.
It is the ultimate tool of surveillance, against your own
privacy, the only way they can tell who you are just by looking into their own
records. Born here, baptised here from those parents, married there with that
person with those witnesses, died there. We know who that person is, we can
hold that person accountable.
What then, what is the point? Well, the point has been
proven in
The French Catholics still in Québec are an anomaly. All
the laws for assimilation were in place. Not only it was carefully drafted in
the Constitution for all people to eventually speak English, it was also
designed for Catholicism to disappear once and for all. And you wonder why,
when you consider that Catholics and Protestants follow such a similar faith,
it is ridiculous to even have thought of fighting over this.
It did not work that way, religion was merciless in Québec.
Driven by fear, the population did exactly what all the priests had been told
to preach by the
So you see, it is not a stupid idea to have as many babies
as possible, it ensures the survival of a religion. Within a few generations,
100 years, 200, 300, you end up with quite a sizable population, all Catholic,
capable of defending itself, and even, attack in order to convert others.
This is why religions want as many babies as possible, are
against abortion, against contraception, against gays, and also, as it was
still popular in
Now, this part about legitimate babies is interesting. How
do you explain that it is important that those children are born within
marriage? What does it matter if one million children are born outside of
marriage in, for example, a population of 10 million? You still have 10 million
Catholics, you still have possibly one million more soldiers who can all rally
to your cause of spreading your religion around, until all of America is
Catholic, if that could still be a reachable goal.
Let’s study what happens to illegitimate children then. They
are lost in the system, they have always been. This is Biblical stuff, the great
families at the origin, tracking down without doubt your ancestors and descendents.
Power has always been a family matter, being part of a powerful family, with
money, capable of taking control, being justified in doing so. Look at the Bush
family, perfect example that even outside of a monarchy, it is still ongoing
today in an American republic.
It made a difference before, not today. In a monarchy
context, only legitimate children could inherit fortunes, only people with
established past could get into politics or achieve great things. But this was
the result of religious philosophies and teachings.
Apart from the fact that those children could not be
tracked down, recorded for posterity exactly where they came from, which
families, etc., well maybe there was a question of honour. If you do not have
any purpose in protecting the honour of your family, perhaps you were more
likely to go astray. And there is this question of not transmitting diseases by
sleeping around with many partners. It does not cut it though.
The Germans were high on espousing all of those religious
concepts, at the height of their power. I do not claim here that they were
intent on pursuing this idea of a superior race because of religion, but perhaps
they reached somehow the same conclusions based on the same arguments.
The Super Man was once an important concept, and though it
could openly be admitted by the German Nazis, it could not from the
The idea is to produce as many babies as possible, all
legitimate, all more intelligent with any new generation, no possibility for
deformity or infirmity. It was also essential that they should be strong built,
great soldiers for the nation. Blond with blue eyes as a bonus, would mean perfection,
purity of the races. Who knows, closer to God maybe. All in the name of the
survival and continuity of a nation, a religion. Power and supremacy.
All these concepts and ideas were once important, but no
longer. Religion is not, and should not, be central to anyone’s life, if we can
hope for any kind of freedom and real democracy in this world. With it should
go concepts like being anti-gay, anti-abortion, anti-contraception, anti-women,
and the last stronghold: marriage. No more control and power over us! Not
interested in fighting those wars for you, ensuring your continued power hold
on anyone, least of all us.
In conclusion, I do not support gay marriage, because I do
not support marriage at all. I support one law for us all, based on civil
rights. No discrimination of any sort based on if you are married or not, if
you are a bastard, if you are handicapped, if we can trace you to any important
family, if you are gay, if you smoke and drink alcohol or not. One law for us
all, without discrimination. As the French adage goes, it should all be about:
liberty, equality, fraternity.
Only in the name of
romanticism and tradition, would I still support marriage for anyone who still
feels like getting married. In that case, well, it becomes the liberty to do
so, a question of equality, and so, being in a straight or a gay relationship,
or even in a common law relationship, should not matter.
You should have the right to marry anyone you wish, but not
gain anything in return. It should not make any difference whether you marry or
not, because the law should be the same for everyone, for every single
relationship that exists on this planet or even if you are single. And then it
becomes a question of fraternity, accepting it as such, eliminating
discrimination of any kind.
Marriage, forced marriage, getting married because you
might gain something, all this need to disappear. Marrying because you want to,
in the name of tradition, because of love, no problem. It should be
meaningless, it is becoming more and more meaningless by the day, but you
should be allowed to do so.
And if you do want to marry your pet, this is also
acceptable. I have no problem with you marrying your parrot, and by law, giving
it all away to him or her upon your death. My parrot is after all, much more
intelligent and talking much more sense, than many people I meet everyday. This
is a real love story, the kind you would rarely witness in real life.
So if you wish to marry a rock, go for it! Because this is
where we need to be, where we need to go. Marriage is an institution that was
first established for reasons unknown, for reasons that do not seem to benefit
us in any way.
It should not matter, or make any difference to your
personal security or advantages you should get anyway within this life
depending on if you are married or not. Earning a citizenship just because you
are married, forcing upon you marriage and eventually a divorce, is
discrimination against those who are not married, or who cannot marry. This is
wrong.
Marriage should be obsolete. Any benefit you might get from
being married should entirely be covered by the law and applied to you whether
you are married or not. Marriage should only be entered into because of
tradition, but still change nothing to any kind of social status. And then,
free from any religious frame of mind, it should not matter if this is a
straight or a gay relationship, or if it is between you and the love of your
life: your dog.
At any rate, in any case, marriage has long past its sell
by date.
Genocides are no surprise in a world built on hate
I hate anyone who is not like me. I hate anyone who is not
white, who is not a capitalist, who is not a Christian, who does not live in my
country, who is not of the same social class as I am, who does not share
exactly all my ideologies and who is not a homosexual man. I could not possibly
love anyone, so I hate you! Don’t despair, you’re just the same, you just won’t
admit it. And now, let’s go to war!
Hate is such a satisfying emotion, it is even highly
encouraged by just about everyone around you, your parents, teachers, friends,
religious preachers and government officials. Hating what goes against the
party line, the main ideology of the country, is unthinkable. Hating that
neighbour is as normal as enjoying the Sun in the summer sky. And hating those
Muslims, those Chinese, those Russians, those Communists, those Africans and just
about everyone else in the world, is perfectly normal! Let’s face it, who could
possibly love them? Not I! I have been taught better. I hate everyone, even
myself!
Don’t worry, I am not a love preacher. Just like everyone
else, I love to hate everyone else. I can’t stand any of you for a start, you are
such a disappointment to any ideal I might have been born with, any ethical
value I might have picked up along the way. I love you just as you are, people
incapable of love, even although you’re preaching love to a screech.
As love is a concept that has been abused over the
centuries, love is a concept completely overrated at any rate. But not hate, it
has remained much the same for most of humankind’s history. Hate is the only
argument behind any of the foreign policies of any nation. So why should you be
so surprised to find out that we are incapable of love? You wanted it this way,
you made it happen, and now we can only hate everything and everyone, you above
all else.
Hate is an extraordinary driving force in this world. It
can motivate nations to go to war and gain something in return, though we are
rarely privy to what we might gain, if anything, if it does not all go to
corrupt officials and some rich corporations.
Some nations need to be eradicated, genocides just have to
be accomplished, and none of that could happen unless there was hate motivating
the ones accomplishing the dirty work. Unless we have been successful in
convincing them it was all just but a virtual video game? None of this is of
consequence, isn’t it?
As Sarah Silverman once said, who cares about genocides?
What is a
Which brings the question, why do we hate anyone? How is it
accomplished that suddenly a whole nation can hate another nation? Clever mind
games are obviously at work here, this is the reason governments spend so much money
in PR and propaganda, to further their own political agendas.
I was nearly convinced recently to hate all Jewish people
and all of
I know better, I know I need to love everyone, Jesus Christ
said so. You must have heard of him? I think he only spoke of love, though we
tend to forget it. Hate is so fashionable nowadays, as it always was. Jesus
Christ was all about hate, wasn’t he? Oh yes he was, if we are to believe
everything we hear. Hate it is, war it is, for eternity and to infinity!
At the moment we have been told to hate Muslims, all of the
Middle-East, and as a result we went to war and this war is still raging. More
than a million of people have died, most of them civilians. This hate was
driven home by the fact that 20 of them destroyed two towers in
There are
many people I hate on this planet, so much so that I wouldn’t mind if they were
to die right now. It would be interesting to analyse them all and find the
common points I can’t stand in all those creeps. The government thinks the same
or else we wouldn’t be at war.
Without
thinking too much though, I have to say, I couldn’t hate anyone who likes me.
And the ones I hate at first sight, I think I may feel that way because I
believe they couldn’t like me. No one could love
Which brings
the question, are there any occurrences of people I hated the first time I met
them, and it turned out that they liked me, and so I liked them back? Yes,
plenty. I’m wondering, is there anyone I would hate on this planet if everyone
loved me? Perhaps not, I might just have no reason to hate them.
This is
not true of the government though, they would still go on hating the people who
likes them. And anyway, who could even entertain the idea of liking them now?
They have done everything they could to be the most despised people in the
world. Not only our enemies want to go to war with our governments, but the
citizens in our own countries would like nothing better than go to war with our
own political leaders. Hate is just universal.
We will
go on hating as much as is necessary in order to eventually get to love
everything and everyone. Because ultimately we feel love! It drives us insane!
We just have to love everything and everyone! Pass me the bucket, the large one.
I am not unlike you an idealistic person. I’d rather go to war. Brainwashing
works beautifully on me.
I sometimes hate people I never met and will never meet.
And so I will never know if they could like me or love me. This hate against love
story could never be answered then. Is it just that I feel they could not love
me? That we are somehow incompatible? I am a fairly good judge of character, I
can tell right away if someone will like me or not. I’m rarely wrong, and those
people don’t usually make a complete turn around to suddenly declare that they
like me. And so there is always some hate between us, no matter all the efforts
I could make, or their efforts if they are wiling to give it a try.
Is there any other reason I could hate someone apart from
the “you don’t like me, then how can I like you”? Jealousy? Being envious of
someone who gets something I wanted, when I feel it should have been mine?
Especially when they’re crap and that I think I’m so great, never mind if I am
or not? Yeah, I’ve been known to hate people for these reasons. This
unfairness, the injustice of it all. This is the competitive world in which we
live, where only a few will climb the social ladder and succeed beyond all
hope.
Some people are just blatantly selfish, they will take
credit for what you did, and as it seems, will never even give it a second
thought. This is something I could never do, I couldn’t live with myself. And
yet many people did it to me. I cannot love these people, no matter what, no
matter if they loved me.
Some others are simply there just waiting for you to fall
down, hoping for it, making sure it will happen. They are there stirring up events,
overlooking everything you do, and then they run to your boss ready to denounce
you. What is surprising is that I never did that myself, and yet they feel the
need to destroy me without any apparent reason other than they simply dislike
me. I suppose, if they didn’t like me to begin with, I couldn’t like them
either, and so the war begins, until one or the other has been annihilated.
Usually me, since I never retaliate, take my revenge or play these mind games.
Anger is what then fills my heart.
A better analogy would be your immediate next door
neighbours. Do you love them? Is that so? Why then are the criminal courts
filled to the brink with disputes between neighbours? Most of these cases are
dismissed before coming to Court, without witnesses evidences are hard to come
by. We can’t even stand our next door neighbours, and they are virtually the
same as we are, how could we ever love foreigners in strange lands? Hence who can
possibly care about genocides?
This world is full of hate and I’m uncertain as to what is
at the root of such hate. Is it our whole system, our institutions, the way we
go about everything, the very foundations of our society? I’m told there are
drugs on the market that could do wonder, some of them even legal. Should we
packed ourselves with drugs then, go on living in a permanent haze but feeling
incredible love towards the world? Maybe a Beatles’ song will do.
I observed that many people around me seem to feel nothing
when confronted with these situations, it rolls all over their back and they
keep smiling. And the worst of it, is that it seems that because of it others
tend to leave them alone as they are not seen as a threat.
God I wish sometimes I could be Gandhi. I would never
usually refer to him or anyone like him except that for a while now I’ve been
thinking of him. How would he have coped with the bitchiness and the
backstabbing I witness everyday? What would Mother Teresa feel if she had gone
through everything I have gone through in this life?
I feel they got it easy because my life has been a
nightmare, paved with hate everywhere I have ever been. I was never prepared
for it, I’m still really bothered and upset by any insignificant dig against
me. How I wish I could just brush it off, and in so doing make it all disappear
as if none of it existed. Just go on ignoring evil around me.
Simple minded people tend to be blind to the bitchiness and
the backstabbing. They are always happy no matter what and how I so envy them.
My own brain is always in overdrive, I see everything, I overanalyse
everything, I don’t miss a trick, I see the hate everywhere. I can quote the
backstabbing that was reported to my boss, even though I wasn’t there and that
I cannot be certain that there even was a backstabbing. We’ve all become paranoid
with good reason as it is always justified, after all we live in a world built
on hate.
“Le Regard d’Autrui” is something often debated in
philosophy. A concept I thought was completely ridiculous and a waste of time. “The
glance of others upon you” is how I would translate that, though I’m sure there
is a better translation available out there. I never thought it was worthy of
philosophy until I had to spend hours in trains going to Central London, and
once there, walk all around those stations and especially climbing these
escalators. In one day you can easily be confronted with something like a few
thousand people looking directly at you, assessing you, judging you, even
though you will never speak with any of them.
I came to loathe it terribly. Almost reacting like those
people who, if you look at them for too long, suddenly will jump a few yards
just to punch you in the face. And your crime was to look at them for perhaps
10 seconds too long, and that proved to be too much for them. Their insecurity,
paranoia, instantly tells them that there must be something wrong with you,
since obviously you would not look at them if there was not something wrong.
You just can’t stop judging everyone, can’t you?
It is all pure hate, and this right to some sort of privacy
even in the middle of a crowd. Why not look at the ceiling instead? Why not indeed.
The ceilings in the London Underground are just peachy! Worth looking at
instead of anyone else. I do it all the time now, in order to pretend that no
one else is looking at me, in order to pretend that no one else exists in this
world. That would be just perfect. I need just one more great genocide, in order
to finally be all alone in the world. Is this not how you feel sometimes?
Well, you have to understand that I spent more than a
decade in crowded trains and underground all over
I’m not Avril Lavigne, this cool bird who, right at the
centre of the largest metropolis, wants the whole planet to notice her, singing
at the top of her lungs on top of cars. I want to go unnoticed, I want die
within the masses, as if I didn’t exist at all. And dear me, all I can see everywhere,
in everyone, is hate, people looking at everyone, judging everyone, hating
everything, hating the world.
So why don’t you just look somewhere else and hate
something else? There is a perfectly nice looking decrepit ceiling right above
your head, right in the Underground of Central London! Don’t look at me, don’t
speak to me, because by definition we hate each other, we can’t stand each
other! Look at that ceiling, die within it for all I care, it is fine by me.
I had enough of hate, we can go on ignoring each other just
like that for a whole lifetime as far as I’m concerned. Or we can go to war. Your
choice. If we cannot stop hating, perhaps we could pretend that others don’t
exist? That the Middle-East never existed and leave them be? I love to hate
hate.
Now, how can this be transposed to people who hate me and backstab
me? If I could somehow ignore it, then I could still be nice to them, ignoring
their true nature, how bad they are treating me. Very difficult, it is not as
simple as looking the other way, when you know deep down what is going on in
your back.
This is perhaps what Mother Teresa and Gandhi were capable
of, in my mind. They must have had this ability to be blind to the bitchiness
around them. Somehow it didn’t affect them in the slightest. They could go on
with their business without any confrontation, fights or wars. And never mind
if the whole country was at war in the background killing thousands if not
millions!
How can one be blind to all this? Not be bothered by it? How
can anyone acquire this weird but essential wisdom? I wish I could, this is
perhaps the hardest lesson I’ve got to learn. And it would explain why for the
last decade I’ve been but a prisoner of these offices, filled with bitchiness
to the brink. I still have to learn that lesson, and somehow I’m about to claim
that I will never overcome this obstacle, I will never learn to love even the
ones who hate me. We just love to hate everything and everyone, don’t we?
And yet, this is key. Loving the ones who hate us, whilst
not doing anything to justify that hate. And this is the whole Jesus Christ
message as well. That important lesson is one that everyone fails on, and when
you reach the point where you can clearly state it like I’m doing now, and look
for ways to reach the solution, to change enough to become a Saint, then I
guess you are wise. How wise you really are then depends on how successful you
are at being blind to everything going around you. Just live the best way you
can, good luck man!
It will help me a great deal now that I have written about
it. I will try, I hope I can succeed. To love the ones who hate me, to love
everyone. I always tried, I always failed in the end. Too much hate comes my
way, and to love in these conditions is proving overwhelming, simply impossible.
I just hate you, whoever you are. All you can do is kill me every day and commit
genocides as if it was the most normal act in the world. The ladder of values
in this world has been going downhill since the very birth of the first human
beings.
There must be a way, it must become possible somehow. It is
just a change in my own attitude, in our own attitude. Maybe, just maybe, once
I will succeed. I will love someone who truly hates me, who would stop at
nothing to destroy me. And then maybe, just maybe, they will eventually love me
back, or at the very least I could hope not to be bothered by their hate.
I don’t know. I don’t know if anyone actually hates us. Is
it just in our mind? Is it just propaganda? Maybe the world is at our knees,
loving us for what we are not? It doesn’t erase the fact that hate is the
emotion that drives us to go to war, to commit genocides, even though none of
us truly cares, none of us is even aware it seems. Hate is a powerful emotion.
It drives our destiny, and before we know it, it will also destroy the world.
Somehow we’ll have to learn to stop hating. Somehow, we’ll
have to learn to ignore all the messages from life. That despite it all, we are
incapable of hate, because life can be so wonderful, as soon as you are blind
to it all. I am so idealistic, I need to be shot. Hate has always driven this
world, hate will always drive this world. How can we love this world when the
world hates us? Couldn’t we do anything to change this state of affair,
couldn’t we do something so the world will love us?
This is now a debate between loving or hating. I love you!
I love everyone! I don’t care about anything else in this world. I can just
feel some sort of weird love for everyone, no matter how much you hate me, no
matter how you look at me down in the Underground of Central London.
I am at the top of that car, singing life away, just like
Avril Lavigne, and somehow we will end up loving each other and finally bring
peace upon this world, ignoring all government propaganda to satisfy
unimportant war agenda. Or, this is war. What will you choose?
Oh, I so love you all! How could you hate me for loving you
so much? You can’t. So let’s just fall in love with each other all over again. No
need for hate in this world, we can always turn a blind eye to it whenever hate
creeps up.
There is no need for hate in this world, because when you
start thinking about why, no reasonable answer could justify it, not when it
leads to wars and genocides.
Peace and Love: Time to Recycle the Flower Power Era
The Peace and Love era of the 60’s and early 70’s, with its
flower power gimmick, was such a ridiculous idea, I would not have been caught
dead being associated with it. It was not my generation you see, so instead I
hated anything related to it, including The Beatles and Donovan. I think back
now and I wonder, perhaps we need to recycle that era. Let me explain… perhaps
because there is only hate left in this world right now?
I watched a documentary about Donovan recently and he said
something that truly caught my ear, about how everyone in the 60’s felt some
sort of euphoria as if paradise and utopia were within reach of the whole
humanity, and they were about to rebuilt this world based on something we had
never thought of before: love!
It was such an easy time for artists, you could make a
record within a week, you could write a book within a month, production
companies and publishers alike we’re ready to kill to give you a contract, and
it went on to make millions. At a time where marketing and sales and big
industries were in their infancy. Today it takes at least three years before
anything is overproduced, at least 100 persons will work on any product to be
released, and in the end it does not even see the light of day. With an
overpopulated market with so many authors, so many artists, with stringent
conditions and obligations to be commercial in nature, it has just about killed
art as a whole.
But this is not what I wanted to talk about. After all today
we no longer need those large corporations to be heard, we can put everything
online on the Internet as long as money and fame is of no importance to us. And
so as artists we can still be idealistic in nature and write whatever we want.
Something is missing though, this euphoria that we were going to change the
world on a massive scale, that love would change everything. Love?
Unfortunately it was too easy a period, it was the baby
boomers era as well. Money was falling from the sky, the children kept coming,
powerful executive jobs were landing on every doorstep, and very quickly the
flower power generation was replaced with the normal and usual gasoline power,
and with it the wars in the Middle-East resumed, more virulent than ever.
Except this time no one has been talking against it for over 35 years.
The result is astonishing, we have lost all our civil
rights, there is no more privacy, in the UK we have even witnessed the Big
Brother State/Police State becoming a reality and going even further than what
George Orwell ever foresaw. Every time you send an email or a text message on
your phone, you have to wonder: will this get some lights to beep on some
government spying agency, will I get arrested, even though I’m just talking
about the children’s play at school?
Genocides have become the daily news and no one really cares,
World War Three is just about to become a reality and that too leaves us
indifferent. There has been no love in this world since the early 70’s and no
hope for a better world. No one is going to change anything, we’re just going to
die unhappy, frustrated, powerless. But not me baby! As I will change this
world one way or another, even if I have to die trying!
We nearly reached the same euphoria with Barack Obama. For
a second there we felt it, what they must have felt in the 60’s. This feeling
of love and that overnight everything would change in the world. But just as we
calculated it would be, it has been very much business as usual since Obama
entered office. After he won the elections, everyone went back to their normal
existence and forgot all about it. None of our rights have come back, we are
still at war, there are still genocides everywhere, and worse, we are entering
an economic depression that could potentially be worst than the one of 1929. If
for some reason we could still find any comfort or hope in a better world, from
the great world of international politics, we were utterly wrong.
This is why I feel that such elation, such hope, such
actualisation, can only come from artists, from culture. It has to come from
singers, authors, painters, film makers, actors, poets, anyone who can reach
out to the world. We have to change our attitude, we need to bring some
positivism in this world, we need to bring back this same euphoria of the 60’s
and early 70’s, where artists thought they would change the world on a massive
scale! It does not matter that they could not, and that they have not, at the
very least they all felt something great, and so we can!
So perhaps it is not exactly the flower power or the peace
and love movement that I feel we should resuscitate, but something similar,
something that will bring us the same hope and drive to take control of this
world and bring it to a better place, where we could all find happiness, where
finally it will be peace the world over, and why not, love.
Love not only of “stinky-foreigners” and our so-called
enemies, or love for the world, but love in our daily life at work, our
colleagues, more relaxed management rules, less greed but happiness in our life,
and love at home. Before it becomes that all we will ever feel is hate and
destruction, and make the Armageddon a reality through the Biblical meaning of
the end of humanity.
After all, with George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and Tony Blair,
we really felt it. We all thought this was it. The fascist era was back, Hitler
had just changed name and face, but he was back. We thought we might actually
witness the end of the world within our lifetime, especially when you added on
top of it Global Warming that the Republicans worked so hard at denying its
existence, going as far as censoring American scientists. Such a blast this
was!
And then, we find that Barack Obama does not appear to be
changing course, neither Gordon Brown in the
And with this ends all hope for us to change this world,
because democracy is meaningless at any rate. Don’t blame Obama, just like we
now understand that we cannot blame Bush and Cheney, none of them have ever
been in control of our destiny, they were just obeying orders coming from
above. Poor souls, I forgive them such evil they have brought upon in this
world.
Any change in this world now can only come from mass public
opinion, until the people in power can feel threatened by such a movement,
until we are all on the FBI blacklist, just like in the 60’s and the 70’s. When
such a desire to change the world and bring peace and love to the world was
felt at every level by everyone, once the silence and corruption of the mass
media was finally broken and became insignificant. Reaching out, convincing
people, bringing back this hope and euphoria like the Beatles, the Rolling
Stones, Donovan, Bob Dylan, The Moody Blues,
Incidentally, being born in 1972, I can’t stand any of
these bands or artists except The Moody Blues, which is still my favourite band
of all times (after my dad listened to it every Saturday morning for something
like a decade, whilst I was growing up). I don’t think my dad ever heard of
Janis Joplin (thank God!).
And there lays a big problem. This new euphoria will not
come from the same bands and authors that highlighted the whole thing some 50
years ago, even though many are still active today. And I cannot imagine how
any of those actual manufactured bands of today, who are being dropped like
flies by their record companies, just like publishers drop their authors after
one published book, could make a difference. So who will bring back love to the
agenda? Who will bring back peace to the agenda? Scientists who will finally
find a way to power our houses and cars with flowers, without using arable
lands somehow?
Sometimes I feel like I am a senseless bastard, because
after more than 30 years in this world, I still don’t know what love is. Neither
life nor death, actually. As if these concepts were so indefinable that we
could never agree on a definition for these concepts in the first place. Hence,
what are you talking about when you state that all we need is love? What is
love? Paul McCartney is still alive, I wish I could ask him that question, but
John Lennon wrote the song. Maybe Uko Uno, or whatever her name is, would know
something about the meaning of that song? She is our last hope to explain it to
us, what John Lennon truly meant. This is where humanity is right now, none of
us know what love is, let alone figuring out why we would need love for.
True enough, the first thing I learnt whilst studying in
I tend to agree, within the same time frame, every time I
hear a love song or that I see a film about love (just about every film I watch
or song I listen to), I cannot recognise that love they are talking about. As it
is some sort of magical and powerful emotion for which we have to believe you
could kill or commit suicide for. I have never experienced any of that, even
though sometimes I got a bit too involved and felt something out of these films
or songs, which finally has nothing to do with what my experience of love
really was.
I would say that what I have experienced in life is more
like a strong physical attraction for others, sex, and I think many people
confuse this with love. It has always been known that the frontier between
physical attraction and love has always been very thin. But really, sex has
nothing to do with love, does it? It is not with sex that we will stop the
Vietnam War, the Iraq War, the Afghanistan War, and just about every other war
we are starting today (Iran is next). So what about love, can it still stop
wars, or pretend to at least?
So now I would normally talk about the love between a
parent and a child, as being some sort of real love without any sort of
physical attraction. However Freud destroyed this argument, and even then, the
love between a mother and her son, or a father and his daughter, is all
physical, strong physical attraction. Yeah, I know, a bit disturbing, but we’ve
all accepted it now, we have all come out of the closet about it, and we simply
continued to live our lives. The troubling thing here, is that this physical
attraction appears to be very strong even if your child or your parent is an
ugly fat blob. We are a generation of obese nowadays, the mass media just love
to remind us about it all the time. Love is more and more impossible by the
second, as Pop! here comes another fat one!
So that is what I really feel like about love. Something we
couldn’t agree on what it is, something we could never be certain if it was not
something else. At the end of the day, if love truly exists, like these weird
physical attractions, it must have more to do with a chemical imbalance in the
brain, electricity setting alight some neurones, and perhaps even magnetic
fields surrounding us. In the end, not only it will be easy to create machines
and robots to experience what love and physical attraction is, as these appear
to be so mechanical and physical in nature, and easily programmable in C++, that
machines will probably feel all these emotions at a much higher rate and
strength than any of us were ever going to be capable of in this lifetime.
I am of this generation living in a virtual world, none of
this is real, and yet, I will programme into my art some sort of love and
worldwide peace, and I will succeed as I’m good at what I do, creating my own
reality. Here’s something Donovan and George Harrison never thought of, as
perhaps they were not good at anything in the first place. So many drugs, and
yet, so little understanding about this virtual reality we’re living in. Drug
is quickly becoming all that is twisted about this world, and alcohol, is there
a way out of this nightmare?
Can love actually exist in this world? What were the 60’s
about then? We need to find out, or else, we are forever doomed! Oh! It was all
about hard drugs, silly me, magic mushrooms and so on, and I never took drugs.
Oh! My god, we cannot reproduce the 60’s, we cannot bring the same state of
euphoria, ever. Because drugs today are of such poor quality, I fear we will
never feel love again. So much for the flower power movement in the middle of
the
I know I am very cynical about all this, and of course you
most probably are yourself, just like
A musical
band called Foreigner had a song called “I want to know what love is”, and
though at first sight you could think that the author (Mick Jones) was a
senseless bastard like me, and that was the reason why he still didn’t know
what love was despite being a grown man and having experienced so much sex, I
think we could interpret the song much more philosophically. He must have fell
in love before, how else could he have written such a love song that still
plays on the radio every other day after 25 years? And despite having fallen in
love, he still didn’t know what love was. Because love is indefinable.
Just take the most celebrated android in history, Data in
Star Trek, he has trouble understanding emotions. There was an episode where he
tried to fall in love with a woman and it was useless. Another one where he
tried to understand hate and asked the Chief Engineer on the ship what hate
was. It turned out that the only way hate (or love) could be described, was
only through similar emotions, something the robot couldn’t understand. And so
explaining what love or hate is, to someone who never experienced it, appears
impossible. This is when someone could describe love as being a chocolate cake,
something the counsellor on the ship was fond of, something women would like
men to believe is a good substitute for love. Chocolate might as well be love
in a bar, if they can apparently bring out the same emotions in someone. Down with
Love was a movie about that.
And down
with my cynicism. I think we can fairly say that I loved three persons in my
life. And a few others I had some infatuations with, which probably is more
like physical attraction. I would also have to admit that I love my sister, my
mom and my dad, in ways I could not love anyone else. This bond with my family
is simply because I am their son and brother, we were all brought up together,
and so we developed some affinities, common points, and eventually love was
born out of it. Could be familiarity though.
For my
three big lovers, this is another story, as I couldn’t even begin to explain
why I loved them. Why them and not others? There are after all six billion
people on this planet, why would have I only loved one person in each of the
decades I was alive for? And, was it true love? Let’s review them all.
The first
love of my life, we stayed five years together. First it was a strong sexual
attraction. Six months later, almost to the day, it was already something else,
and love was born. A year later we were completely and madly in love. We truly
cared for each other, we were blind to each other’s bad qualities, as perhaps
we always were from the beginning, until of course the bad qualities were way
too obvious that even a blind man could see them, and then it was over. Two
years later I met him, I thought, what a monster! How could I ever been in love
with that? The physical attraction was the real culprit here, there was none
anymore, and love was dead by the same token. From that relationship, I cannot
describe what love really was. It was a nightmare, yes, but apart from that…
Before I
talk about my second lover, I have to assess my third one, which is still the
actual relationship I am in. Well, perhaps I should not talk about that one,
I’m not certain there ever was any love to begin with, even though in time this
relationship developed into a full blown one. When your whole existence to
remain in one country depends on you remaining with your “lover”, your freedom
is cut short and you can remain in a relationship a very long time for all the
wrong reasons. There must have been love at some point, there probably still
is, but perhaps it would be better called familiarity, closeness, friendship
and whatever else, after 15 years since this relationship began. It has been a
real nightmare and it still is. I’m so confused. Tell us, you are so confused
with your love life! Which brings me to my second lover.
That last
love must have been the only true one I experienced, probably because it never
happened in the first place, and will never happen. It was a secret love going
on during my first relationship, an American I met in
In fact,
there is only one true love story in my life, the one with my cat. I must have
had over 30 cats in my life, I loved them all, but nothing like the way I loved
Murmy. When I left for
I guess
this is how we can define love. By actions, reactions, extremes. Something no
human being was ever able to make me feel. So perhaps love exists after all.
How to conceptualise it, however, is another problem. Will I ever be allowed to
marry my Murmycat?
How does
love work anyway in the first place? Why do you only love the other sex? Why do
I only love the same sex? Why would certain people send me off the wall, while
others leave me as cold as a stone? Is it all chemical reactions, magnetic
fields, electricity in the neurones? Is it all in the brain? Matching
frequencies, energy? Ultimately love is a mystery which cannot be explained,
which is perhaps why it is so hard to define. It is all psychological, nothing
logical about it, it is flimsy, its origins are perplexing. Just like physical
attraction. The fact that we are not attracted at all to the same sex, and ready
to lose our mind at the sight of the other sex. And as soon as we see a fat
blob, that’s it, the game is over, we lose our passion and our hard on.
Love is
certainly linked to physical attraction, so much so that often we cannot make
the distinction between the two. And none of that responds to logic, it cannot
be computed, it cannot be predicted. It just happens. Like shit happens. Or
does it? Maybe one day we will be able to compute all this, predict it, tell
you exactly who you would definitely fall in love with if that person gets
within
Surely if
science was as advanced as we all seem to believe it is, we would have found
ways by now to calculate these things, and most probably one day we will. Because
love, like physical attraction, is in the brain, it is physiological, biological,
psychological, and so on. Nothing that mysterious about it, I’m afraid, we’re
just too ignorant right now to connect the dots and figure it all out.
Which is
why I firmly believe that the robots we will programme in the future, will
eventually feel love and other emotions a hundred times higher than any of us. They
will probably fall in love with every escargot they will meet on their way to
the car park. I certainly do. And that is a love story really worth talking
about. I should write a love song about it, and I will. Michael Jackson first became
popular, after all, after singing a song about a rat called Ben (what was all
that about?). That was a great love song, whatever a love song is, whatever
love is.
So, it is
not love that the Peace and Love era was describing, it was all about some
weird state of mind that told us that we were all very significant, that any of
us could make a difference and change the world for the better. And though it
all failed spectacularly as soon as they all became conformists, for a while at
least they were off their head, they truly felt this world would change. And
perhaps this is all we really need, once again, today. Hope in something that
will never materialise.
So
instead of despair, we will feel some sort of hope in a better world. Never
mind if the end of humanity is just around the corner. I truly feel the need to
be elated, without the need of hard drugs. Do something about it, write some
good songs, write some good books like this “On the Road” of Jack Kerouac. Can
this Beat Generation ever come to life again for a few years?
I tried
so hard to bring love and peace to this world, to try to bring something
uplifting. In the process I just managed to have the fight of the decade with
my partner. I destroyed first my keyboard, then my PC, then half the flat. It
is a miracle this article survived this war. It is a miracle I can still write
these lines with half the keys still remaining on my keyboard, at a time when
even Nine Inch Nails is not hard enough to translate all my emotions about this
world. I will write no matter what!
Who would
have thought that writing about love was such an impossible goal to achieve? I
fear, if all that is possible under my own roof, is a permanent state of war, whilst
I have such a desire for peace, I have no hope left for the rest of humanity. All
that this world wants, is war! And so the world should get just that, war! Will
I ever write a book mentioning love?
Please
bring back the flower power, the peace and love era, just for one more decade
before it all ends in a great firework display of an Armageddon! I’m afraid,
this is all my generation will ever produce, hate on a scale never witnessed
before. Love? God only knows what that is, if there is even a God to begin
with, if he was not a C++ programmer, or a C++ construction in the first place.
Love is
such a misunderstood concept nowadays, just like peace. We might never get to know
what these concepts truly mean, ever again. I’m not even sure if I wish to know
these concepts any longer. Bring me war! Bring me genocides! Bring me Armageddon!
I’m ready! This is the only language my generation will ever understand. Flower
power? Peace and Love? You are joking, aren’t you?
I have failed miserably. We have failed so miserably. Is
there any hope left for love in this world?
Christ father, is the meaning of life to kill all Muslims?
I asked my
That’s the secret of this existence, you are your own master.
You make out of this life whatever you want. Let’s just hope you are an ethical
and moral human being at the core and cannot so easily be influenced into
believing anything and everything floating around in the heavens. Or you will
quickly be joining the ranks in the never ending extermination of all Muslims
from this Earth. And what will this achieve in the end? I’m not sure.
When it comes to the value of your life, both governments
and religions have proven through history and even today that they don’t
believe it is worth much. Just about the cost of sending a soldier on the other
side of the planet to kill another human being with the Church’s blessing, and that
soldier being killed right after. Their meaning of life for us seems more like
ensuring their power over us through mass control and conformism. They have hardly
ever proven they had our best interests at heart, have they? So easily we doubt
everyone nowadays, what have they got to sell, what type of slavery are these
groups in the market for? This is certainly the capitalist mentality.
If someone cannot value the life of another human being no
matter if it is our enemy in war, that someone certainly cannot value your life
either. And all the headlines in the daily news prove it time and time again.
Your life is worth nothing in this world, you could never possibly be on any
right side of the fence. You can always only be the next target.
Governments and religions are responsible for so many
deaths every year, so much of our global misery, should we really put a price
on someone’s life and follow some meaning of life coming from them? They are
responsible for soul-destroying us all, until we all become mindless machines
stressed to death, incapable to even think, let alone living a meaningful
existence. At least this is how I see it, after all that has happened in recent
years.
I don’t need to get into the details here to justify how
and why, just open any history book, even the biased ones, it is all there to
see. I am that confident that you will find exactly that in any history book
you will ever read, until at least you take control over your own existence,
over the existence of us all, as you can be powerful enough to have quite an
impact upon this world if you want to.
One day we will have to free ourselves from such
conditioning, we will have to value all life and come up with our own meaning
to this existence. Perhaps even just to keep our own sanity, as nothing is even
remotely moral or ethical in this world right now. It is obvious that evil has
taken over, in a world where the ones speaking against evil are the evil ones.
And then ask yourself, is your
Do you need to be patronised, treated and spoken to like a
child? Do you need to be told what the meaning of life is and what to do? Or
can you wonder, research, question, debunk and debug all that comes your way,
in order to develop your very own understanding of the meaning of your own
life? It works for me, and I’d like to think that I am more ethical and moral
than most.
What is life? Note that I am not talking about existence.
The difference being life in general and your day to day achievements, against
a biological existence and how you suddenly came to be in this world, with some
weird conscience that there is a universe out there that makes absolutely no
sense. So what is this life?
I would say it is the sum of everything you have done in
your lifetime, for which on your death bed you will look back and assess
globally what it is that you have made of your existence. Of course, it will be
filled with regrets if you have not managed to do anything you thought you were
destined for. Or you may actually even be satisfied that you have achieved all
the small and larger goals you have set for yourself, including realising your
childhood dreams.
There is no reason to wait until you are on your death bed
to look back and assess your life, what you have done with it, what are your
regrets, what are your achievements. In the end it is all relative. It depends
on how pretentious you really are, what sort of potential you thought you had
inside of you, or that people thought they saw in you. It depends also on how
much vanity you are capable of and how greedy you are.
Failure to achieve anything after being born with such a
drive to succeed and get somewhere usually brings you closer to God and Jesus
Christ. That’s fine by me, I only suggest you stay away from any religion and
keep your freedom of thought and action.
We are no Mother Teresa, did you think you could become the
President? Or a simple Member of Parliament or a Senator, someone who could
never make any difference even if he or she tried very hard to do so? Someone
who would never make it after trying for so long, or perhaps a one hit wonder
type of person? Or were you aiming to become Madonna, Michael Jackson, George Michael,
never mind their flaws? Better be completely out of one’s mind and achieve
something great, than dying remorseful and unknown in utter poverty.
If your dream in childhood was to marry a respectable man
and have three babies, and you successfully achieved just that, then I guess
your life will be fulfilled at the end. This is where the problem starts. How
much did your parents pushed you into becoming God reincarnated upon Earth?
There is no cure for that, parents will always push it as far as they possibly
can, but you don’t have to listen to them. Won’t be easy, but you don’t.
This is key, the meaning of your life can only be defined
by yourself, or else there cannot possibly be any enjoyment or happiness for
you within this existence. Listen to your parents, to your teacher, to your
priest, to your political leader, and you will end up committing suicide. I
know, I’m an expert on such things.
You can only listen to yourself after dumping them all out
of your ear and sight. Free yourself, right now. Or this is all that will
torment you later on in life, even after they are all dead. It is the very
first step towards identifying what is the real meaning of your life. Free
yourself! Only then will you see clearly about what motivates you to even
continue to exist in this world.
I wouldn’t mind being a rock contemplating the universe structures
for an eternity, or something similar. That is what I truly always aspired to
be, but no one around me would ever say it is acceptable, that this is what I
should do with my life. And then, it has thrown me into a permanent existential
crisis. Is this how we could describe your actual neurosis? Smile, finally
someone understands you. You can stop the drugs now, it’s normal, you’re
normal. They are the neurotic ones.
Some people have incommensurable dreams, larger than life,
they need to become the most successful person ever in their own field,
whatever that field is. Every single movie has this premise. If you’re a
lawyer, you’re the best damn lawyer there ever was, or you certainly work hard
to become it. You’re striving to be Top Management, to be on top of the world, this
is life for the ambitious ones. And for the rest, well, 1.8 children in average
and a successful marriage out of three ought to do the trick in order to die
happily, and shame on you for having such low expectations in life. So shameful
you are, we might have to hide you from life.
I am an ambitious one, I have been boosted to the max by my
family and my environment, and I hope to never have to look back and feel that
I failed. I was born driven to get somewhere fast, and yet, after all those
years I’m still nowhere. It can be disheartening, this feeling of utter
failure. If I were on my death bed right now I would think: better die quickly
and forget the whole thing ever happened. If only I had set myself smaller
goals, a simpler purpose to my whole life, I guess I could die happily at any
moment.
I can’t even have children and suddenly solve my problem,
here is certainly an easy meaning to one’s life: popping babies into this world
like if there was no tomorrow. Trying to remain proud whilst watching them
wrecking their own existence and going nowhere fast. At least I’ll be spared
such disappointment, such despair of having fathered human beings more useless
than I am. How in the world can you sustain such a double failure?
What have you done wrong? Oh just about everything,
starting with how you picture this world and any kind of significant way of
giving any life any worthy meaning. The thing is, whenever a parent or a mentor
reaches a stage where he or she can be proud of his or her child, it is when
the child usually reaches breaking point and is about ready to give it all up,
ready to kill his or her parents and mentor in fact, and start a whole new
life. Such is life without freedom.
Half the planet will die happy, the ones from whom no one
is expecting anything significant, the ones expecting almost nothing from this life,
feeling lucky to be alive and that is enough for them and everyone else (they
mostly live in the Third World). The other half will die disappointed beyond
belief, having failed to achieve any of their dreams or the dreams of their
parents and any other authority around. Because only a few will succeed in any
given field. The probability that you will be the big winner is very slim
despite hard work. It would be like winning the lottery and we all know by now
that no one ever wins the lottery. You can only be destined for failure, this
is a certainty, no matter how brilliant you are. The days when even mediocrity
could reach superstardom status are long gone. Such notoriety was meaningless
at any rate anyway.
When I was young I
thought I had it all figured out. I knew exactly what life was about, and on my
own I came to the same conclusions that many other philosophers and religions
claimed life was. It was about learning from your experience, being stuck until
you understood why you were stuck, learning something from life so you could
finally move on. I see now that it was naïve of me to believe that life could
be just that, a training ground, a long learning process, figuring out what all
these people and these obstacles were all about. Well I did learn a lot, I did
seem to be stuck until I finally opened my mind and my heart and accepted a few
things, and then I did seem to move on with life.
Writing
your existence I thought gives you an edge, you figure out much more that way. It
seemed to me that my life was moving much faster, faster than I could have ever
dreamt of. I was figuring out everything along the way and I never got stuck in
any place or with the same horrible people for too long. And so I felt great to
have figured out the meaning of life, learning, learning to accept your
nightmare, learning to love the next ones at any given time and no matter what
monsters they were. Have a whole diagram of your whole existence right there in
your mind, where you were before, where you are now and where you are most
likely to be in the future: at the very top of any pyramid you could come up
with.
It was
naïve indeed. Because when you look back, everything about your life seems so
insignificant, boring, useless, that whatever you may hope to have learnt in
your lifetime, whatever wisdom you may feel you have acquired, all of that quickly
amounts to nothing. Does not seem to warrant the miracle of life as some put it,
or such an existence of deprivation.
If only I
had discovered God on a lone street corner of
Why
should I think about the meaning of my life when I know it’s hard, since the
answers are never forthcoming, when I can just let others think for me? Why
should I even make any decision in life when I can let others make them for me?
So simple to just then live blissfully ignorant and unaware of everything about
the universe we live in and any purpose humanity might have within it.
If Christianity
could have had its way, we would still be living in a flat world, and that
flatland would still be the very centre of the whole universe. Religion is a three
dimensional world for two dimensional people in a one dimensional thinking
process, welcome to paradise. You should quote me on that.
In time
it appeared to me that life was more like an accident than anything else, and
we were struggling to get somewhere to survive, waiting for our day to die or
be destroyed. This is another way of looking at life. We were not meant to be,
we’re like parasites, and somehow we built things, discovered sociology and
philosophy one day, and yet, it all amounts to nothingness and absurdity. Oh
look, here comes the bug who most distinguished itself in that certain sphere
of interest. How impressive! I’m going to puke now. I will always remain
totally unimpressed.
We as
humans don’t distinguish between smart ants and stupid ones. They all look the
same to us, we all crush them to their death, exterminate them when they decide
to build their nest under our wooden floor (just like a nest of Muslims
perhaps?). The same way it is not uncommon for the smart ant, I beg your
pardon, the smart human being who succeeded where most others failed, to still
feel unaccomplished, goals unreached, with still something missing in their
life. I’m so sorry, have I lost you now?
I know
enough of success and great achievements myself to have learned that much, you
still wake up the next day as empty as ever, wondering what life is all about. Which
is why a few great ones became what could only be described as lunatics in
their late years, jumping into weird religions or secret sects, never to be
heard from again. After all their success, they still had not found their
reason to exist. Perhaps because there is none, except maybe surviving the best
way we can without any kind of expectation.
And so,
you can only make the best of it and die at the very end of it. Sorry if your
life was filled with regrets. Sorry if you were highly successful and discovered
that it was all meaningless. That life ultimately must have been about
something else, something you could never have figured out on your own,
something no one could ever figure out.
Has your
There are
many religions out there, new age and spiritualist movements, who will tell you
exactly what life is. They can easily brainwash you and you might die
completely fulfilled in the illusion that you knew what life was all about, and
you will live exactly the way they meant for you to, that every single human
being was meant to according to their definition.
If I
wanted to I could start such a movement, I could create a new religion, I could
ensure you will all die believing you have fulfilled all the requirements of a
perfect existence. You better believe me because, as I stated earlier, God
speaks to me and he told me what your destiny was going to be. Now do you
believe me? Will you die happy? How could you even doubt. Should I throw some
fireworks and magic tricks in the package to make it all more convincing?
No one
has any answer, because no one on the planet could tell you who is right and who
is wrong apart from yourself. If there was only one religion in this world,
only one main religious book, then perhaps we could hold them as the authority
upon the subject. But there are too many religions, too many religious books
which all claim to detain all the answers, even, too many different versions of
the very same religious books, and they all contradict each other. There have
been too many wars fought over them and too many deaths. They have successfully
defined the value of your life to a naught. Christ! Father! The meaning of my
life is not to go halfway across the world to kill all Muslims! Who knows,
maybe one day they will fight back and humanity will simply annihilate itself. I
bet you will be cheering then, whilst brandishing your burnt Bible.
Remember that
your life is worth nothing in the eyes of anyone around you, even your parents,
until you think like they and become what they expect you to be, to conform to
the rest of them. If you don’t, you will always be but a pawn to be sacrificed
at any given moment until such time that you take control of your own destiny.
There can’t be any truer words ever stated in this world.
Did you
really think the meaning of your life was to become a suicide bomber? Well, I
think we have all become just that, even under Christianity, or what is exactly
the definition of a soldier in the
You can
only be but a rebel if you wish to be free. This is what you have been struggling
with for most of your life. Until the very day you will finally say loudly: I
am free! I am free to find my own meaning to my own life and follow my own
destiny.
There is
not one right religion, there is not one right religious book, until the whole
planet can agree that there is one, assuming that the whole planet would not
have been held hostage into believing so, through fears and guilt and wars. No
one has the answer, no one knows what life is about, assuming it is about
something other than surviving it all as long as possible.
So where
does this leave me? Where does this leave you? The truth is not out there, you
do not want to believe all that you are told. Not one religion or government or
person will come and save you and tell you what life is all about. If they do
then perhaps you should think twice, when so many others could do the very same
thing with so many different answers. It would be like picking at random one
solution out of a million ideas: here is what life really is, this is the
purpose of your existence. Really? I’m so mindless myself, I believe you, I’ll
believe anything.
This
would be delusion, and if you’re gullible enough to embark on any such journey
with strangers, then my God, contact me right now and I will easily turn you
into my own personal slave. I could achieve great things this way, I could
become filthy rich. I believe I could write a Bible and create my own religion within
six months, and I might one day, who knows? I met people in
We are
six to seven billion people on this planet right now. We are all wondering what
life is all about and we all have a different opinion or vision of what it is.
Many of us have been brainwashed by some philosophy or other, but most of us
who are still free, are still wondering, thinking, trying to find the purpose
of our existence, assuming there is one. Is there meaning to this life or not?
There is
only one possible answer to what life is when you truly sit down like me
tonight and try to figure that one out. Life can be as many things, have as
many meanings, as there are human beings on this planet with a working brain. What
life can be when all is considered, can only be what you yourself make of it. So
what is life for you? What is the purpose of your existence? And there you have
your answer.
But wait,
is this what you truly feel it is inside, or are the answers coming from some
dodgy book you read at some point in your life, or some dodgy religious or
political leader who gave you all the answers so you never even needed to get
your brain into gear in the first instance to try to figure it out for
yourself? That is most important. What life can be, what life is, can only come
from deep inside of you, not from any other charmer out there.
So after
all that, what is life for me then? What is the purpose of my existence? Great
question. I don’t think I will ever find the answer within my lifetime, this
quest has become the meaning of my life.
I could
end here, but that would be too easy. I must have some sort of idea of what my
life is all about? I do, I always did, even though the answers have changed
many times since my youth, and will hopefully still change many times before
the day I die. Because if we are supposed to evolve as a species, then surely
the meaning of life must evolve as well?
Or are we
created as one thing, and can only die as that thing? In that case there is
nothing to learn anymore, there cannot be a purpose to our existence. We just
follow our destiny, the path all laid out in front of us by others. No
evolution, everything is as it should be. Just don’t question anyone, just obey.
If your
potential at one time can only be to reach the first step, then that must be
the reason for you to exist. If eventually you develop or find out you have the
skills, knowledge and aptitudes to reach the top of the stairway, then the
whole meaning of your existence just changed. And if one day you reach the top,
you will have to set new goals, figure out once again what life is all about,
where it is you want to go, that you feel you should reach within this
lifetime. Don’t seek too much guidance, you must know deep inside what you want
from this life. Just reach out and do it.
The most
important thing ever is that you let no one decide for you, tell you what your
life is all about or should be about. You make your own life, you make it what
it is. Only you have the answer. If your own meaning of life is to get drunk
every night until you start destroying everything, or to ensure you always find
a large black hole to fall into, instead of being a loving person helping the
old lady next door, then this is your meaning of life and it is as valid if not
more than whatever anyone else might tell you. Because then it would come from
you, you would be free to seek out those answers for yourself. Your only destiny
is the one you build yourself. You make it happen as you go along, as you think
it should be. If it feels right, then you must be following the very destiny
you yourself set for your own life.
I used to
believe I was following a destiny. I could even tell you what that destiny was.
I even reached out to it, made it happen, in the end I simply constructed my
own destiny. I thought of it, I made it real. Was it meant to be this way? Was
I meant to succeed, fail or be in between? It is all up to me, whatever I can
imagine, whatever I will think to make it happen.
I just
wish I had not an unbounded imagination, as my destiny should get me very far
indeed, and at this point in my life I’m not sure if I will ever reach that destination.
Of course I believe I will, I’m not prepared for failure, we never are. We will
not be cured from such ambitions implemented since birth by the ones
surrounding us. It might take a while but I will try to reach my goals before I
die.
But truly
in my case, I understood too late, I have been contaminated beyond salvation. I
will follow the path all laid out for me by others. Unfortunately not even my parents
will ever be proud of me. I guess it’s their own fault, if they wanted Jesus Christ
for a son, well, they should have been born Gods.
This
article is dedicated to a friend of mine from
Life can
only be what you yourself make it to be. Life can only be what you feel it
should be. Careful though, you don’t want to have any regrets on your death
bed. At the same time, you don’t want to follow the destiny others have set for
you, when you know deep down that you have absolutely no interest in such a
destiny. Then you are free indeed to identify your own meaning of life, follow
it through and die happily in the end. Your own life is worth more than any government
statistic, or any religious war.
The battle of the sexes is still raging
I don’t think much of women in this world. This is quite a
hard statement to make, it is politically incorrect, I certainly will lose my
job for stating it so clearly. However you have not heard the end of my
argument yet. I don’t think much of men either. You’re all the same, you just
alienate each other as you’re simply incompatible. We’re all tired of this
life, we’re all tired of each other. If we could only just shut up once in a
while, the battle of the sexes could finally be over.
Tired of your woman? You shouldn’t have let her out of the
cupboard then. Tired of your man? Find yourself a high paying job, make sure he
loses his (it should not be hard these days), install him on the sofa every
morning with a baby in each arm and a remote control in the middle. I believe
you will not meet much resistance. After all, it is a myth that men cannot
change diapers, once they are obliged to do so by their other half.
The more the war rages at home, the more we witness the
impact at work, we’re all ready for the asylum. So can’t you just sort yourself
out? Before we have to pass a law that will separate the sexes for life? One
way or another, this world requires a well deserved peace.
There is no denying today that men and women are two different
entities, they have almost nothing in common. Of course, from the point of view
of biology they are virtually identical, it is even said that it takes a while
for a baby to have any definite sex, that it is almost randomly decided later
on. Babies can be either male or female, and that, weeks after conception.
The brain is the same for both sexes, although it has been
identified that some parts will be more active depending on the sex, it is even
different for gay people. Ultimately only some physical attributes will be
different, depending on which hormone will kick in, and that can also be
decided or encouraged medically. So we are all the same, and yet, as we grow
older, or even after being born male or female, we may have collectively
entirely different interests. This is where all problems start.
It is true that society, education and conditioning have a
lot to do with deciding what is proper for women and what is proper for men,
and improper for the other sex. And yet I’m not sure women would naturally in
big numbers wish to play with toy soldiers, do hard physical work or get passionate
about sports. As it would not be a majority of men who would want to become
nannies or nurses.
These are the traditional roles identified for each sex,
whilst today these roles are being redefined on a massive scale (in the Western
world at the very least). I did play with Barbie toys when I was a kid, and
plastic soldiers. I have a good excuse, I’m a queer, and then my identified
social role is no longer that evident, as I could be or become anything I want in
this world, even a surrogate mother. This is what most of you believe anyway.
There is no denying that both sexes could easily be good at
anything, and without the stigma society attaches to certain roles, we would witness
something quite different. Nevertheless there are some areas that women and men
are simply less interested in than the other sex. Sports, car racing, women
have a tendency to wonder why men like it so much. Textiles, emotional stuff,
shopping, psycho-analysis, men have a tendency to wonder why women are so involved
in that sort of thing. Why would we need to shop or feel anything anyway? And
what could possibly be so amazing about a bunch of people pushing a ball on a
field?
There are
many exceptions nowadays, the line is getting blurred as we go along, but it
remains that there is a fundamental difference between men and women. To the
point where many couples are stranded in some sort of trap, unable to get out
of it, wondering why they are together when they have absolutely nothing in
common with their other half.
Initially
there was only one thing they clearly had in common, this desire to get some
comfort by sharing a bed together. And for many this was not even an interest,
but was pushed upon them because society makes it an obligation for anyone to
marry and have children. I’m not even getting involved in forced marriages
here. We are all pressured into marrying as soon as possible and popping babies
out into this world before we’re 45, the ultimate psychological and biological limit.
I’m gay, and even though I’m a man, I still find it very
hard to see any common points between me and the next man I meet. At the same
time, still being a man, there is not much I feel I have in common with most
women. Even other gay men I meet often have either too much in common with
females, or too much in common with males, and so I have nothing in common with
any of them. No wonder I feel so rejected and out of everything, everyone to me
in this world is an alien from another planet. It explains a lot.
It is strange that this need to have sex and have babies,
this biological call to mate and reproduce, for which we humans have absolutely
no control over, brings together people who have nothing in common, and yet,
will be spending the rest of their life together, or at the very least until it
is really no longer bearable and they will eventually have to separate or
divorce.
Religions understood that quite early on, and decided
unilaterally to declare the man in power, and that the woman needed to obey and
shut her mouth. Even without religions, the only way a relationship could
really last, would be if one person within the couple was willing to compromise
all the time, to basically forgo making any decision or even exist. They then
become the slave of the other whole of the couple.
Some are forced into this role, men or women, because the
other person within the relationship is so unreasonable, he or she will never
back down on anything. The only way such a relationship could continue, would
be to accept that the other half will take full control of that relationship. What
a life this must be, and yet, many are happy to accept that social role. Others
simply suffer in silence, or eventually find a way out of their nightmare.
I am in the middle of such a nightmare myself, even within
a gay relationship that has miraculously lasted for over 15 years. And there
are children in this relationship: 7 cats, 1 dog, 2 snakes, 1 chameleon, 2
poisonous frogs, 25 assorted marine fish including a few killer shrimps (my
favourite), 25 tortoises, and Mr. Barnsworth, our dear blue and gold macaw, a talking
parrot. This last one is worse than a kid, believe me. Well if gay couples are
not allowed to have kids, they certainly will at least adopt a whole zoo.
I have nothing in common with my mother. I have a lot in
common with my sister and my father, in fact most probably because of my
father’s influence. All three of us could have a reasonable relationship, even
though still, we fight and argue all the time. If we were still all living
under the same roof today, that family could go nuclear at any moment. And by
nuclear I mean it would explode in a chain reaction that no one at that point
could get under control. As this is the definition of not only nuclear families
nowadays, but of all families. Better that than having a control freak of a parent,
a totalitarian figure controlling the whole family through fears.
Human beings were not meant to be social and share and love
each other. They were not meant to help or understand each other. They were
meant to fight in the wild for food and kill any other person they met along
the way, including their mate, which was not even supposed to be the same for
the rest of their life. And yet, because we multiplied so much, and that it
takes too long to walk out of the nest, we were forced to compromise and learn
to live together. What a misery.
Under
those unnatural conditions, some laws had to be established to ensure some sort
of order and control, so in the house the man is in charge, and at work,
another man is in charge of all the other men. And if somehow you disobey any
of the orders of the appointed authority, the consequences are so out of
proportions compared with the crime, that you soon learn to regret it deeply, making
sure that the next time, you listen and do what you’re told.
It is very rare that someone would actually like a boss,
like it is not common to find a woman who passionately loves her man if he is
abusing his authority a bit too much. Nowadays women are equally naturally in
charge and abusing their own powers, making their subordinates, their husband
and children angry.
I’m sorry but I will have to state it now. For most of my
life women were my Line Managers and Directors. I don’t think much of their management
style, it is as bad as any man’s management style. Let’s consider our most
prominent woman in the Western world, without contest Hillary Clinton. Do you
really believe her presidency would have been significantly different from the
one of her husband? Or is it more likely that it would have been very similar?
Women are not more compassionate or understanding, they are as merciless as the
next man. In a way this is reassuring. Women are no better than men in any
social hierarchy, we’re all the same as soon as we lay our hand on any kind of
authority or power.
Humans are simply not capable to live together in harmony,
despite any philosophy and radical change that came upon us in history. We all hate
each other, and trying to love the next stranger proves more difficult than Jesus
Christ may have led a few disciples to believe. It begins to explain why the
word team work is so offensive to any of us, because none of us ultimately wishes
to work within a team, we know it is always plagued with problems and
insurmountable obstacles which in the end bring us all to the brink of war. Just
like any normal hierarchy within any family.
This is at the microscopic level. If you want to verify
that it is also true at the macroscopic level, what are governments most famous
for? Waging wars, hating the next nation, stealing from them as much as they
can. This is all any government in this world was ever able to achieve. In the
last 100 years alone we had two world wars, and from what we can observe right
now, at the turn of the new millennium, the third one and perhaps the final
one, is just around the corner.
And yet, some optimistic people thought we were evolving,
that events and mentalities were changing, that a true era of peace and love
was upon us. There will never be such an era for humankind, we were not meant
to develop any sort of relationship at all. Neither between nations, neither in
schools, neither at work, neither within our own personal relationships or families.
Somehow
some biological laws of nature force us to have sex, to become completely
neurotic if we don’t have any sex for a long period, or even get us to feel
completely bunker if we don’t find a mate for one sex session for too long a
time. And if we have to marry for this to be, we’ll marry any day of the week,
any hour of the day.
You will
not convince me that only men think of sex, or else women would not go berserk
at the idea of not being married or at least being within a stable relationship.
Or is it just security women are desperate for? And men, as primitive as they
are, sex would be their only concern?
It is
well known that all women would die happy virgins if they could, whilst men
would have to go to war and kill to satisfy their most primal urge, if
prevented from spreading spermatozoids all over the place. It is a wonder
anyone should marry in this world, having such opposite motivations to couple
in the first place.
Some other parental instincts, still obeying laws of nature, push us to take care of our progenies until they can finally walk out the door and reproduce themselves. These illogical, basic and low animal instincts are what finding a mate and reproducing are all about, and most often never mind about any kind of convention. We’re desperate in front o