Listen to a reading of this article: You may vote and debate freely on any issue which does not affect the functioning of the empire. When it comes to how money, weapons and resources move around the world, however, you suddenly find that your votes don't matter and your position has no mainstream representation. They'll let you argue until you're blue in the face over whether or not you can have an abortion or whether minorities should have civil rights; they might even let you vote on it. But things like military expansionism and neoliberal globalization and deregulation are off limits.
"The entire political/media class exists for this purpose: not to help people, not to fight for civil rights, not to create a well-informed populace so that democracy can function, but to keep the grubby little mitts of the unwashed masses far away from the true levers of power. That’s their whole entire function."
This says it all...add the courts (obviously part of the political class, though)...to complete the trifecta. As a lawyer I know there's no such thing as fucking justice either. Love your work!
Caitlin, This is another great article! You have told it like it is, and that shocks people either to take the truth seriously, or jump as far away as they can. A few years ago, when I first found your articles, I was so very excited to resonate with your wisdom and insight. At the time I was sincerely hoping that my successful sister, who received a full 4 year scholarship to do her doctorate at American U, just might grasp the depth, meaning and brilliance of your writings. I was very disheartened, that she was very critical. I kept trying to show her a more open portal of true facts, but with each article I sent, she stood by her reserved fear of stubborn-ness which she presented harshly. That was the end of that--in order to stay within each other's superficial-graces. I am most grateful that over the last two years, I have learned to avoid all of the people like my sister, while cultivating a preserved-covenant to honor those, like yourself, who sacrifice their lives, to share the truth. Those, like my dear sister, who have let themselves be cursed by the system that groomed them, unknowingly let gravity take them away from the Light within. . . Thank You and Bless You Caitlin.
Well, the cat has started to claw its way out of the bag and might be hard to control from here on: Canada has decided, against Zelensky's wishes - because he isn't, after all, Canada's prime minister - yeah, that Zelensky who got perhaps a billion bucks from somewhere and decided Minsk I and II could go fly a kite, Canada has decided to release those essential turbines so that Germany and Western Europe won't have to starve and freeze in the dark this Fall and Winter. Good decision. May there be more like that. The cat has developed some muscle.
If people can’t agree on what the definition of a word means, then there is no argument ever. Because in order to disagree, there must first be an agreement. Otherwise, if there is no common agreement about what a word means, its just people talking over each other and sometimes getting emotional about two entirely different things, not the same thing.
ola Slavic proverb...whoever digs a pit under others, falls into it himself...translation: they (elitists) are digging a pit for American citizens, but they will fall into it themselves.....which we can see through history!...
The US centered empire has always marginalized the left. That they tolerate even the extreme right is clear from the number of right-wing leaders and dictators they have supported or installed. That should cause the right to pause and consider.
That said I do not see a political solution. We are divided and conquered.
We can raise our own vibrations. When low frequencies come into contact with higher ones they typically try to resonate and change, rising higher. The way is unconditional love.
My 2 cents: we are the top predator species on the planet. The physical ability to be violent, exploit and dominate--and the intellectual ability to do the same with words and numbers have coalesced into Institutionalized Predation by cultures designed to enforce Social Dominance Hierarchies. Both of these are programmed organically with limited flexibility. We refuse to acknowledge this subconscious primal pattern, fight over the territorial and moral high ground, and do not explore more balanced, informed, conscientious
systems of Institutionalized Altruism to protect social, psychological and ecological interdependent survival. (Ultimately, the egos of the alphas mobilize weapons and machines to concentrate wealth at the expense of the "expendable " earth and all others.)
*does anyone know how to organize a healthy group of visionaries for Wholesome Planning (theory and practice)?
This explains everything that is going wrong in the world: "The entire political/media class exists for this purpose: not to help people, not to fight for civil rights, not to create a well-informed populace so that democracy can function, but to keep the grubby little mitts of the unwashed masses far away from the true levers of power. That's their whole entire function."
The solution? We the unwashed masses need to get our grubby little mitts on the true levers of power--and to hell with the entire political/media class! #PowerToThePeople
Hi Caitlin, I just did a video last week on this logical fallacy. It’s the most pervasive one to me in driving divide. Keep up the good work! Sorry for double comments. The original disappeared :-(
Careful with the "Capitalism" v "Corporatism" rant. While your point is ABSOLUTELY TRUE, why squabble about semantics when we are being raped and pillaged of resources and dignity, the problem lies in the lack of options and concentrated supply chains, which has led to these shortages. One company has such an impact that if they go down, there is a baby formula shortage for the ENTIRE COUNTRY!? This is more the point to be made, which has at it's source, greed. Offshoring jobs so the products can be made cheaper? Greed. Planned obsolescence? Greed.
This is the heart and soul of the problem, and that is the CORPORATE edge to our company overlords. Because the consumer is not the boss, but the investor. The consumer has been relegated to a STATISTIC, or dehumanized. This dehumanization has spread into our communities and societies and crumbled the bonds which hold us together.
Capitalism, on it's face, is not the enemy, it's what created our middle class, but the concentration of power, the corporate merger, and expansion of corporations to represent an entire industry has put us in the position we see ourselves in today. Are there solutions? Of course. BE THE REASON. You got grandmas formula recipe? Now's the time. You know how to manufacture? Put your hat in the ring.
It is time for people to remember they WERE the mom and pop shops that have been displaced by mega corporate interested.
Just because you choose to serve the community, and not the world, does not mean you deserve to be relegated to the dustbins of history.
But it takes a community to support local for this to happen. That is how a brand grows naturally, without marketing telling us it is so.
Love the article, would love to hear your thoughts. Thanks Caitlin!
"we're at the point where consent for this expansion has been so widely manufactured that they don't even need to be sly about it. They can just say "Yeah well that hurts our government's propaganda war against Russia, so we can't have that." This is huge."
I grew up in the late 60s-80s in the US. We were constantly told that what we see now daily in US gov't statements and the MSM US news is what the dangerous commies in the USSR do. The irony would be funny if it were not so serious.
So true! Part of the problem is people believe some misapprehensions from Adam Smith and Karl Marx. As an unschooled student of money I have not had them hammered into my head. Henry George was far more popular and had a far greater influence on economic thought than Marx, sold more books than the bible for ten years running. Schools and media do their best to make sure we never heard of him and don't know that the progressive populists of the late 19th century had a much better grasp of what capitalism was and the flaw in Marx's definition. At the risk of word-diddling, it was simple; (capital = money) + (ism = system) = capitalism = money system. It was the unjust and usurious bank credit-money system that they all wanted to change and why it was at the top of all their platforms. They lost, but we can't afford to. The money is power embodied in law therefore can change and should be a public power, not a private one. As Henry George put it, "Money is the government's responsibility."
You know the means of production isn’t the end all be all. Most people are not familiar with the means of distribution. Which by the way is how retail giants could push around producers to cut prices and eventually relocate to a lower cost of production areas. So here we have companies that own the means of distribution dictating what producers do.
Without common, agreed to definitions of what words mean, communication and rational argument is impossible. Regarding capitalism and corporatism, does Caitlin think there is no difference between a sole proprietor food truck and McDonalds?
"The entire political/media class exists for this purpose: not to help people, not to fight for civil rights, not to create a well-informed populace so that democracy can function, but to keep the grubby little mitts of the unwashed masses far away from the true levers of power. That’s their whole entire function."
This says it all...add the courts (obviously part of the political class, though)...to complete the trifecta. As a lawyer I know there's no such thing as fucking justice either. Love your work!
Caitlin, This is another great article! You have told it like it is, and that shocks people either to take the truth seriously, or jump as far away as they can. A few years ago, when I first found your articles, I was so very excited to resonate with your wisdom and insight. At the time I was sincerely hoping that my successful sister, who received a full 4 year scholarship to do her doctorate at American U, just might grasp the depth, meaning and brilliance of your writings. I was very disheartened, that she was very critical. I kept trying to show her a more open portal of true facts, but with each article I sent, she stood by her reserved fear of stubborn-ness which she presented harshly. That was the end of that--in order to stay within each other's superficial-graces. I am most grateful that over the last two years, I have learned to avoid all of the people like my sister, while cultivating a preserved-covenant to honor those, like yourself, who sacrifice their lives, to share the truth. Those, like my dear sister, who have let themselves be cursed by the system that groomed them, unknowingly let gravity take them away from the Light within. . . Thank You and Bless You Caitlin.
Well, the cat has started to claw its way out of the bag and might be hard to control from here on: Canada has decided, against Zelensky's wishes - because he isn't, after all, Canada's prime minister - yeah, that Zelensky who got perhaps a billion bucks from somewhere and decided Minsk I and II could go fly a kite, Canada has decided to release those essential turbines so that Germany and Western Europe won't have to starve and freeze in the dark this Fall and Winter. Good decision. May there be more like that. The cat has developed some muscle.
If people can’t agree on what the definition of a word means, then there is no argument ever. Because in order to disagree, there must first be an agreement. Otherwise, if there is no common agreement about what a word means, its just people talking over each other and sometimes getting emotional about two entirely different things, not the same thing.
ola Slavic proverb...whoever digs a pit under others, falls into it himself...translation: they (elitists) are digging a pit for American citizens, but they will fall into it themselves.....which we can see through history!...
The US centered empire has always marginalized the left. That they tolerate even the extreme right is clear from the number of right-wing leaders and dictators they have supported or installed. That should cause the right to pause and consider.
That said I do not see a political solution. We are divided and conquered.
We can raise our own vibrations. When low frequencies come into contact with higher ones they typically try to resonate and change, rising higher. The way is unconditional love.
My 2 cents: we are the top predator species on the planet. The physical ability to be violent, exploit and dominate--and the intellectual ability to do the same with words and numbers have coalesced into Institutionalized Predation by cultures designed to enforce Social Dominance Hierarchies. Both of these are programmed organically with limited flexibility. We refuse to acknowledge this subconscious primal pattern, fight over the territorial and moral high ground, and do not explore more balanced, informed, conscientious
systems of Institutionalized Altruism to protect social, psychological and ecological interdependent survival. (Ultimately, the egos of the alphas mobilize weapons and machines to concentrate wealth at the expense of the "expendable " earth and all others.)
*does anyone know how to organize a healthy group of visionaries for Wholesome Planning (theory and practice)?
This explains everything that is going wrong in the world: "The entire political/media class exists for this purpose: not to help people, not to fight for civil rights, not to create a well-informed populace so that democracy can function, but to keep the grubby little mitts of the unwashed masses far away from the true levers of power. That's their whole entire function."
The solution? We the unwashed masses need to get our grubby little mitts on the true levers of power--and to hell with the entire political/media class! #PowerToThePeople
George thanks you again..."The People Don't Know: The American Press and the Cold War" (1949) by George Seldes
https://archive.org/details/ThePeopleDontKnow/page/n9/mode/2up
Caitlin, do you believe in private property ownership? Or is that too exploitive for you a la your belief in the definition of "capitalism"?
I am attempting to figure out which system you believe is superior to the current USSA one.
Hi Caitlin, I just did a video last week on this logical fallacy. It’s the most pervasive one to me in driving divide. Keep up the good work! Sorry for double comments. The original disappeared :-(
https://rumble.com/v1bf1f7-dissect-fallacy-in-focus-false-dichotomy-false-dilemma-18-minutes.html
Careful with the "Capitalism" v "Corporatism" rant. While your point is ABSOLUTELY TRUE, why squabble about semantics when we are being raped and pillaged of resources and dignity, the problem lies in the lack of options and concentrated supply chains, which has led to these shortages. One company has such an impact that if they go down, there is a baby formula shortage for the ENTIRE COUNTRY!? This is more the point to be made, which has at it's source, greed. Offshoring jobs so the products can be made cheaper? Greed. Planned obsolescence? Greed.
This is the heart and soul of the problem, and that is the CORPORATE edge to our company overlords. Because the consumer is not the boss, but the investor. The consumer has been relegated to a STATISTIC, or dehumanized. This dehumanization has spread into our communities and societies and crumbled the bonds which hold us together.
Capitalism, on it's face, is not the enemy, it's what created our middle class, but the concentration of power, the corporate merger, and expansion of corporations to represent an entire industry has put us in the position we see ourselves in today. Are there solutions? Of course. BE THE REASON. You got grandmas formula recipe? Now's the time. You know how to manufacture? Put your hat in the ring.
It is time for people to remember they WERE the mom and pop shops that have been displaced by mega corporate interested.
Just because you choose to serve the community, and not the world, does not mean you deserve to be relegated to the dustbins of history.
But it takes a community to support local for this to happen. That is how a brand grows naturally, without marketing telling us it is so.
Love the article, would love to hear your thoughts. Thanks Caitlin!
"we're at the point where consent for this expansion has been so widely manufactured that they don't even need to be sly about it. They can just say "Yeah well that hurts our government's propaganda war against Russia, so we can't have that." This is huge."
I grew up in the late 60s-80s in the US. We were constantly told that what we see now daily in US gov't statements and the MSM US news is what the dangerous commies in the USSR do. The irony would be funny if it were not so serious.
So true! Part of the problem is people believe some misapprehensions from Adam Smith and Karl Marx. As an unschooled student of money I have not had them hammered into my head. Henry George was far more popular and had a far greater influence on economic thought than Marx, sold more books than the bible for ten years running. Schools and media do their best to make sure we never heard of him and don't know that the progressive populists of the late 19th century had a much better grasp of what capitalism was and the flaw in Marx's definition. At the risk of word-diddling, it was simple; (capital = money) + (ism = system) = capitalism = money system. It was the unjust and usurious bank credit-money system that they all wanted to change and why it was at the top of all their platforms. They lost, but we can't afford to. The money is power embodied in law therefore can change and should be a public power, not a private one. As Henry George put it, "Money is the government's responsibility."
You know the means of production isn’t the end all be all. Most people are not familiar with the means of distribution. Which by the way is how retail giants could push around producers to cut prices and eventually relocate to a lower cost of production areas. So here we have companies that own the means of distribution dictating what producers do.
Without common, agreed to definitions of what words mean, communication and rational argument is impossible. Regarding capitalism and corporatism, does Caitlin think there is no difference between a sole proprietor food truck and McDonalds?