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Often I will have a conversation that sparks a topic for a post. It's happened again!
It basically all comes down to personal accountability vs societal accountability. Imagine if aliens came to this world and were going to cast judgement upon us. Galactic Federation First Contact: Sure why not? It's a thought experiment.
Do you think they'd care what a few individuals were doing on the fringe of society. No, of course not. They are here to look at macro trends and view the entire planet as a whole in its entirety. It doesn't matter what individuals decide to do. This is a numbers game boys and girls. Statistics matter. The ultimate outcome matters.
So if we look at the Earth as this singular living entity in this way, we can see that it's obviously pretty fucked. If I say that we are perhaps, out of balance, there isn't really any argument to the contrary. The world is out of balance. It's pretty obvious on dozens of layers.
Some would even go so far as to call humanity a cancer. We have never been in balance. The best recent example of a culture that was in balance were Native Americans... and then imperialists killed them all and stole their land. So that's fun.
Even our global economic system is a pyramid scheme that absolutely depends on infinite growth. Every pullback within the economy is absolutely devastating, which is something everyone here has intimate experience with. It's happening right now. The unsustainability of everything is catching up to us.
This is why conspiracy theorists who think there is a Deep State depopulation agenda are actually showcasing their lack of knowledge when it comes to how the world actually works. Everything about the pyramid scheme that is fractional-reserve central-banking points to the fact that we need more people. Constantly. That's how Ponzi schemes work. You need a constant inflow of new users or the entire thing goes belly up and the party is over for everyone running the scam.
Within this context, it becomes clear that if there was a depopulation agenda then the obvious target would be older retired folks. Chew them up and spit them out. If we get rid of all the old people and stop taking care of citizens who no longer provide value to the pyramid scheme, eh maybe we can eek this scam out for another 10 or 20 years.
There isn't some secret agenda for the vax to kill everyone that took it. Again a lot of these conspiracy theories do not align with reality. They don't make sense even within the context of their own ruleset. Lot's of paradoxes out there to sus out.
That being said, the world we live in today is stranger than fiction. Quite the Clown World we have going here. The truth of these matters is way more complex and/or weird than anyone knows. In fact, a lot of it can be chalked up to sheer Chaos Theory and a world full of 8 billion humans running around as the unsustainable world around them collapses. Everyone is scrambling. Rats on a sinking ship.
If the powers that be want less people in the world... why are we giving tax breaks to people who get married and have families? Have you noticed that nobody, on the left or the right, has ever tried to remove these tax breaks? If the "Deep State" wants a smaller population, then why haven't they removed the financial incentive to have children? Isn't that like the most obvious first thing to do to get a lower population? Remove the financial incentive. Like, obviously, right?
And yet I've never heard ANYBODY recommend doing this. That's because everyone knows, on the left and the right, that the pyramid scheme needs more people. Infinite growth. Let the cancer expand. Kick the can down the road one more time. Maybe the problem will solve itself by then.
My bad, I've talked about the conspiracy angle for too long.
I could delete it all right now, it's not even relevant to the main topic. Blame it on my A.D.D. baby.
You will eat ze bugs!
In my opinion, Snowpiercer had one of the worst hype:bad ratios ever. The movie was so bad... and yet critically acclaimed across the board for some god forsaken reason. I tell people to watch it just because of how bad it is. It's hilariously bad. And here we are a decade later and the WEF is telling everyone they should eat bugs? What? Like the Snowpiercer movie? LOL... wtf?
Predictive Programming?
Predictive Programming is theory that the government or other higher-ups are using fictional movies or books as a mass mind control tool to make the population more accepting of planned future events.
Well shit now I'm doing conspiracy theory again. I guess this is conspiracy hour.
Woof
I remember when this kind of thing was reserved for Fear Factor. Remember Joe Rogan? (lol)
Think about cultures that already eat bugs.
The dominant insect eating countries are the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Congo, the Central African Republic, Cameroon, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Nigeria and South Africa. The most commonly eaten insects include caterpillars, termites, crickets and palm weevils. Jan 10, 2017
You know... the left-winger in me would say that we are kinda being dicks about this whole thing. "Ew, I'd never eat bugs that's dehumanizing as shit..." Well if you say that to a culture that already eats bugs, you kinda look like an asshole, right? Just saying.
You know what it's going to take to get the entire world to eat bugs? A famine. People will gladly eat anything when they are starving to death. Give me those bugs; please and thank you. 100%. Coincidentally... all the conspiracy theorists are talking about a massive food shortage in the near future. What a coincidence... hm. Alright then, we'll see how that goes.
Here's the thing about Predictive Programming... it's kinda like seeding a prophecy. You seed 100 prophecies and maybe only tap into 5 of them and make them real. It's the ultimate form of cold reading. Weirdly enough this is one of many strategies that the Bene Gesserit employ in the science fiction novel Dune (by Frank Herbert, 1965).
So maybe even way back then this was a tactic that got legitimately employed in the real world. Herbert seemed like a smart cookie, even if his novel is a bit dated in the modern era. Everything created before the Internet is automatically outdated. It's one of those mystical technologies that nobody could have imagined and correctly exptrapolated. Chaos Theory hard at work.
Actually I'm kind of annoyed because I was supposed to write a post about the new Dune movie but I never got around to it for some reason. Perhaps I'll move that note back to the top of the queue.
Here is the actual point of this post.
We are all responsible for what goes on in the world. Everything is connected. Everything feeds into the broken cancerous system. Imagine a couple of cancer cells trying to tell the doctor that they don't replicate so therefore they are not part of the cancer. The doctor doesn't care; his job is to exterminate the cancer. Making sure the benign part of the tumor stays alive? Yeah, that's not a priority, like... at all. Those cells are not part of the solution. They are part of the problem and need to be eradicated in their entirety.
We can easily apply this logic to niche ideologies like libertarianism and veganism and sustainable-practice and whatever else. If your argument is something along the lines of, "Well if everyone thought the way that I thought and did the things I did than the entire world would be a better place." You automatically lose. Plain and simple: that is not an argument. That is delusional.
Not only is it delusional, but it also ironically attempts to use the same tools that created the problem to also solve the problem. Imagine coming to the conclusion that imperialism caused all these problems, and therefore the solution is to force everyone to act a certain way. Bitch, that's just more imperialism. What the fuck? We really think that's going to work? When all we have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail I suppose.
Libertarians are helping to build the Death Star.
Vegans are helping to build the Death Star.
The "Green" initiative helps build the Death Star.
8 billion people are all chipping in to do their part, forced or otherwise.
These are simple uncontestable facts of the empire.
It's exactly how empires operate by definition.
I'm not religious or anything, but this is very much like "original sin". We can't escape the fact that we are a part of this broken system. Trying to do mental gymnastics to "prove" otherwise is a fool's errand. Completely counterproductive and hypocritical mindset, that. Our personal choices are highly irrelevant unless they create a cure that spreads to others in a viral manner.
Take veganism for example. It is a self-defeating ideology because the majority of those who employ it just end up alienating the people around them. This is what happens when one group tries to take the moral high-ground over another and make the argument, "Well if everyone did it the world would be a better place." It's a self-hobbling strategy. The cure will never spread in its current form.
And you know what? Factory farms are fucking disgusting. You think bugs are gross? Do you know where your food comes from? Oh my fucking god. What a nightmare. But it tastes pretty good so who gives a shit where it came from? Yeah?
That's the thing about modern capitalism, across the board. The fees are hidden. People don't realize the price they are paying, and I'm not necessarily talking about money... he said, as he consumed a #1 from the Wendy's combo meal.
I have literally fantasized about living in society where you wouldn't be allowed to eat meat unless you were actually willing to kill the animals yourself. Nothing too crazy. You want to eat a chicken? Well then once a year you gotta get your hands dirty and kill a chicken. Is that really such a big ask? Seems reasonable to me.
These days too many people feel entitled to questionable things that will be carried out by someone else. We create these laws that impose our will on other living things... and then expect those laws to be enforced by a third party. It's hypocritical across multiple layers of society.
I can tell you for a 100% fact that if I had to kill animals to eat them as described above... nah... fuck that. I'm not going to kill a chicken or a pig or a cow. Not worth it to me. If you want to do it, no judgement. It's just not for me. I'd probably keep eating fish and eggs and dairy products, but that's about it.
It would actually be interesting to know how many people have never even interacted with the animals they eat. How many people go their entire lives without hanging out with chickens, cows, and pigs? I've been around chickens and cows... silly animals. Not too bright, although chickens are much more grizzled and dinosauric than I had previously imagined. No pigs yet. I hear they are smarter than dogs.
My compassion for animals is not limited by my estimate of their intelligence. --- Star Trek 4: The Voyage Home
Freedom Costs A Buck Oh Five
Humanity seems to just be in this constant state of needing to oversimplify everything. To be fair the world is quite complicated. Common sense and heuristics often need to be employed to prune the ol' decision tree.
Analysis
It does not matter what individuals choose to do in many contexts. The macro environment we have created is toxic to the core. No one is at fault. Everyone is at fault. The paradox of humanity continues into the sunset.
The problem is not fixed by small groups of people moving themselves to the outlying edges of society and acting like they aren't paying tribute to the Death Star. Like, they are though. Show me a single person that doesn't pay taxes. Look at the statistics. 60% of all the value flows to the empire and the military industrial complex that enforces it. Everyone pays into the system, even if it's just sales tax or property tax or simply renting space that the land-lord has to pay taxes on.
Perhaps I'm focusing on taxes too much, as they are only a small part of the contributions we make to the Death Star. Simply holding money in our hand or in our bank accounts is a contribution. Working any job is a contribution, regardless of income taxes.
In fact, an easy argument can be made that if one breaks the law to avoid these contributions... that's not a better outcome. How can societal change occur if the people trying to make it happen are thrown into prison, and once again fed into a system that farms them with tax dollars? All who disobey are turned into examples and legally enslaved under the 13th Amendment of the Constitution. All those who refuse to work in the slave camp are tortured with a little trick called "solitary confinement". They get away with it because it doesn't sound so bad in theory. DYOR.
If we want to change the world, we have to change the environment itself. We've done it before, we can do it again. We have to create communities that will do the thing. No one can do it alone. Lone wolves need not apply. The choices of individuals are largely irrelevant unless they work together to accomplish a common goal.
Clearly I am not alone in thinking that crypto is the foundation of such a radical shift. We will not make any progress while money and value itself are controlled by a third party. That recipe always leads to debt-slavery. Could Hive be part of such a future? I mean obviously we hope so. No guarantees. All these networks are still in their infancy when it comes to real changes on a societal level.
Hell, it's possible that we'll still be in our infancy on that front even when mainstream adoption of crypto hits the world like a ton of bricks. Actual change away from how we've always been doing things is a lot more difficult than getting people to use Magic Internet Money. Needless to say we can expect an uphill battle for quite some time. And then one day the tipping point is reached and the snowball effect kicks in. Slowly, then all at once.
On a lighter note...
Return from Everyone Chips in to Build the DEATH STAR; Everyone. to edicted's Web3 Blog
