What are changes or developments you would like to see?
As far as population reduction, COVID-19 hasn’t killed nearly as many as childhood starvation (over 15000 per day, every day, every year; WHY isn’t THAT on the news?) and probably won’t; and yet the population of humans continues to rise. Surely, many more will succumb, but not enough in total to realign our population imperatives. This isn’t the Black Death. But the impact will touch all facets of society, at least for a while. Let’s hope we gain some wisdom in the process. The gist of my question here.
The rest, with respect to all of the ideologies you put forth, would still remain in play regardless, so long as there are those in positions of power with such designs. And there are many, overtly and covertly. But I suggest they seldom work in cooperation with either each other or a specific plan or timeline. It’s about appetite for power amid timely opportunism. Suffering of the vulnerable is a tool, an opportunity and an inevitable by-product. This is why it is good to be rich. And it is also how the parties of faith prey so successfully on the desperate, the ignorant and the disenfranchised. No bigger, more obvious, more dangerous scam than religion. None more successfully manipulated by powers-that-be..
But there is nothing new in any of that. Croakings of doom are a bit premature, in my view, life will continue. I would say there are still a sizable core of “woke” humanity who can affect the course of our history to a mutual advantage, the question remains how the contest with the other factions plays out.
We both recognize the myriad perils of too many people, the masses of the idle and indigent weigh upon our collective success and future as a species. Can we address the problem and still retain our humanity?
Ok, let’s see if any kind of new social “awakening” becomes evident, I suspect a majority will only embrace what nourishes their old biases.
If people do not think that the people on top are concerned about population growth and a means to control that, then they haven't read or listened enough. It is common sense that if people are outnumbering produce then something needs to be done, it follows along the rationality you like Don. However, considering the current numbers of Covid 19 deaths, like I said no way match those of the flu, and as you rightly say do not match those of starvation, and that you don’t expect it will realign our population, then why the lockdown? Or at least why the lockdown for those who are not classed as being vulnerable?
Other reasons for viruses could be that there is a lot of money to make from big pharma.
However, I think it's more than that and this will be about societal reform. Throughout history man has gone through a tremendous amount of societal changes, but no less so than the 21st century, if you look at the beginning of the century until now, and if you have read anything of Karl Marx, you will see the implementing of the same ideas he put across, and many of these came through such processes such as the Frankfurt school, the Tavistock institute, and the United Nations.
And Karl Marx's teachings can be seen in women's rights to work, and so literally putting the children in the hands of the state from birth. It can also be seen in the promotion of a more freedom of sex and a lessening on family values, the sexual revolution, the lessening of Christian values and promotion of atheism, that there is no eternal law, no moral right or wrong.
Aldous Huxley also wrote about these things, and he was the grandson of Thomas Huxley (Darwins Bulldog), his brother being eugenicist Julian Huxley. Also in what George Orwell wrote about regarding Big Brother and the invasion of privacy, and Orwell was a student of Aldous Huxley. Darwin was also obsessed with eugenics as his books show, his grandfather was Erasmus Darwin a 33rd degree freemason, who gave him the idea of evolution in the first place, and you cannot be a freemason if you are an atheist. So if a person was to take an interest in the main influences throughout history, they would see that yes our evolution of thought is being guided by an outside influencing force.
As for money, and being rich? ALL money is simply a paper IOU, a "promise to pay the bearer on demand," and this is printed out of thin air. The economy (or labour forces) is based on how much money is worth in its circulation, which is why you have two opposite political parties, which is part of the Hegelian principle, one always promising to spend, spend, spend, and so putting more money into circulation but devaluing labour at the same time, and putting future generations into debt; and then the other one comes in and tightens the purse strings, this is less about money, which has always been a scam, (see the banking system the biggest scam in history, far bigger than religion) it is about power, and that power to control the labour force, or the plebs, or slaves (whatever you want to call us). We work on debt and discharge, that’s all you can work on when there is nothing of any worth to back money, like gold and silver use to.
Hence, given the above I think it odd to think that a people's cannot not work together to become a dominating world power, when throughout history there has been big, and successful civilisations that have wanted to dominate. Egypt never disappeared it just turned into Greece and Rome. Rome never disappeared it just turned into Western civilisation, which is why you still have the Roman goddess Athena/Minerva on the capitol (head) building, the personification of wisdom, merchants and war, she is seen with the fasces which are also seen the US congress chambers, which again come from ancient Rome.
This is also why you have the Washington Monument which is an Egyptian obelisk representing Osiris penis, inside the vesical Pisces of Isis, reflecting the As Above, So Below in the water in front of it. The US predominantly founded by Freemasons. It is no secret that George Washington was a freemason and had achieved apotheosis, (The Great Work), the Washington Square Arch is a memorial to him, which is a replica of the Arch of Titus, which was built in order to celebrate the destruction of the second temple of Jerusalem on the 9th of Av.
So although you may believe religion is a big scam you can see that it has intertwined throughout history. Freemasons often follow their heritage back to Cain who was the first builder or master mason, and Tubal Cain the first blacksmith. And religion is just one tool, we can know this by just looking at how many millions have been killed in the more modern era under communist regimes, 60 to 110 million, do we call that progress?
And religion hasn't gone away for this new aeon, the United Nations which is the platform for ALL countries, promote the new age religion under the Lucis Trust.
As you say, life will continue, but to say that there hasn't been great alterations or social reform between 1900 and today, is to be ignorant. World war 1 and 2 resulted in the development of the League of Nations, what eventually became the United Nations. So despite what people might like to think, our life doesn’t mosey along with some random course, it has always been directed by a few.
As the great Chinese philosopher Confucius (551-479 BC) said:
‘Signs and symbols rule the world, not words nor laws.’
This post was edited by kjames at April 4, 2020 3:58 PM MDT
Good points, Randy. All of this over-the-top sanitary practice business rings like a germaphobe’s wet dream. But maybe not the worst thing, all things considered. Time to pick up some stock in Purell and Lysol products.
It might lead to more conscientious (or paranoid) personal interaction, and higher standards of hygiene, can’t find fault in those. But as I understand it, the long term cost may be a weakening of our immunities toward the minor pathogens we encounter and presently overcome without much fuss. Future generations may bear this out.
My thoughts lean toward a growing surplus of available commercial office space, as more employers realize the benefits of having their employees work from home, and more classes of employees demanding it. Think of the business savings of not having to lease office space, obtain office furniture, and retain in-house tech support. The demand for paid daycare for the children of employees would also decrease. We may be seeing the demise of the traditional “cube city” office culture, at least to some extent.
I appreciate your response.
This post was edited by Don Barzini at April 4, 2020 3:59 PM MDT
I think the shortages in critical items that we depend on foreign sources for will lead to a rethinking of how we can become at least more competitive domestically. Rethink the tax codes, labor laws, and business practices to enhance domestic production that has for decades flowed overseas. Especially for medical supplies.
If there is gonna be a world economy, it has to be set in a level playing field for all countries. A big wish, but perhaps more impetus for it now.
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