The End of the World and the Future of the Human Race
In Which a New Idea is Presented
This “Truth Movement” has been happening for quite awhile now. Those of us who have been involved in it for a significant amount of time have seen the public awareness of factual information which has been commonly referred to as “conspiracy theory” rise exponentially. Most people you meet are aware of the questions surrounding the attacks of 9/11. Large numbers of people understand the devious nature of the banking system. Significant segments of the world population are finally becoming informed about, and in turn adopting a righteous hostility toward, the one world government system that is being rolled out by the mainstream media as the only solution to the engineered global economic collapse and the totally fabricated “climate crisis”.
The world is headed nowhere good, and a lot of people get that. But still it moves forward, and we stand helpless, stunned like deer in the headlights, incapable of reacting in any meaningful way to the certain death we appear to be facing. I believe our inability to effectively respond to this crisis is rooted in our inability to see it for what it really is. We know the details. We see what is wrong, but we don’t know how to stop it because we haven’t yet looked at what caused it, and we have yet to question the deeper meaning behind it.
In a series of articles, of which you are now reading the first, I am going to attempt to explain in the simplest terms possible what is really happening, and why it is happening, and finally the only sensible way that we can possibly respond to it. This is less a “series of articles” than it is the new theme of this webpage. I have spent more than two years now trying to come up with a way to describe the revelations that I have come to regarding the state of the Planet Earth, and I have decided that I must simply tell it how it is, as best I can, and let you all do with it what you will.
We need a new paradigm. Mine is a rather straightforward one, when compared to those offered by the moguls of this so-called movement. I have immersed myself in the available information regarding the world system for a long time. I have been all the way around the problem, looked at it all from every angle, and I honestly believe there is only one conclusion that a person looking at this thing with pure honesty can draw. My hope is that the brighter ones among you will take what I am presenting and run with it.
What I have determined is that civilization as a whole was a scam from the beginning, and the only logical path for humanity to take is to utterly abandon it and return to a hunter/gatherer lifestyle. Ultimately, this is going to happen whether you want it to or not, as there is no other way it can go, but if you understand that it will happen, and why it must happen, you are going to be psychologically, and perhaps even physically, prepared for the total collapse of the entirety of world civilization. At the very least, you are going to be able to quit wasting your time running around talking about Ron Paul and building 7.
So let us begin. In the following paragraphs I will lay out the basic concepts which I will proceed to elaborate on in future essays.
The Future as They See It
A person who is moderately educated in world happenings can see pretty clearly what the future holds, if he wants to. Most people don’t want to. Let’s run through a quick review of the not-so-distant future, as envisioned by the ruling elite.
The once sovereign nations of the planet are very rapidly being brought under the umbrella of a system of “global governance”. This is very public nowadays, with Obama figure-heading the recent G-20 summit where it was declared that we need a “New World Order” where a “world authority” will regulate the “globalized economy”. For those who don’t know, the economic system of any country is the basis for its government; so this was a hardly veiled declaration by all of the world’s power entities that they are now taking steps to solidify a system of global government. The plan is to set up the United Nations as a global authority under which the individual nations are simply “states”, the laws and practices of which are dictated to by the top. But you already knew that.
It does not take an MIT statistician to determine that this system of global government will follow the same trend that all of the governments which are coming together to form it have been following. Personal freedom will continue to deteriorate while those in power continue to make more and more of our decisions for us. The gap between the rich and the poor will continue to widen. The education system will continue to step up the intensity of the bizarre indoctrination our children are undergoing. We will keep fighting Muslims in the name of an elusive concept called “democracy”. We will keep drinking fluoridated water and eating genetically modified food. Political correctness will be enforced more and more aggressively. We will still be inundated with ubiquitous microwave radiation from cell phone towers and wi-fi antennas. And the masses will still be watching TV and letting the experts do the thinking.
The United Nations has stated on more than one occasion that China is the model state for the world. So expect it to just keep getting slowly worse, until you find yourself being pulled out of your apartment and tortured in a van because you looked at something you weren’t supposed to on the Internet. Or you get put into a prison where you will wait for your organs to be harvested and sold to some rich technocrat because it was found that you were taking part in religious practices not condoned by the state. Or your wife gets dragged off to have a forced abortion preformed on her because you didn’t pull out in time.
Meanwhile, as the governments of the world move swiftly to set up an Orwellian nightmare society in the name of security and saving mother Gaia, parallel developments taking place in the world of science and technology are mind-bendingly insane. This side of the equation is not being broadcast as loudly, but the information is all there, for those with the desire to look it up. Science magazines and websites are reporting daily on developments in nanotechnology, biotechnology, artificial intelligence, genetic engineering and brain-computer interface technology.
This certainly might sound a bit far-fetched to those living in the mundane world of television fantasy, but it is all there for anyone interested to see. Ray Kurzweil, the 62-year-old head of Singularity University, a joint venture between Google and NASA, believes that technology is progressing at such a rate that he will be able to extend his life indefinitely. Active denial systems are capable of subduing entire cities with the use of a single soldier. Paraplegics with wires plugged into their brains are operating machines and surfing the Internet with their thoughts. Scientists have been mixing and matching genes of animals and plants to create new species for over half a decade now; it was recently announced that the glowing green monkeys are able to have baby glowing green monkeys. This is all happening now. We are living in a science fiction nightmare.
So when you combine the emerging totalitarian world state with these emerging technologies which have an incalculable risk of abuse, what we end up with is a hell on earth. Humanity as we have known it is going to cease to exist as we move into the post-human era. Every trait by which we have defined our humanness will be lost in the whirlwind of progress. The existing populations we be utterly subdued through electronic means as the ruling elite, at last capable of attaining eternal life, begin production of new types of genetically engineered slaves to serve in their everlasting kingdom.
This is the plan as it stands.
Can We Save Our Society?
The popular rhetoric spewed by all of the so-called leaders of the Truth Movement focuses on targeting the people in power, claiming that if we are able to somehow remove them from power, we have solved our problem. What I am arguing is that the people in power are interchangeable, and simply mechanisms by which a very old process is reaching the stage of fruition. We are rapidly approaching the end of a very long cycle.
These official talkers, on the Patriot stations and websites, typically talk about Jews and Masons and whatever else, and how they have hijacked our system, and if we can simply take it back though some unexplainable means, and transfer power over to Ron Paul or whoever else, we can use new technologies for good and establish a paradise on earth. Let me state clearly that I am not claiming these people in power are not responsible for their actions. I am simply saying that if they were not there, others would be. They are playing a role.
Take a brief look at the history of “civilization” and what you see is an virtually unbroken line of slavery and oppression. There are almost no examples of governments that were not oppressive. From Sumer, Egypt, and Rome, to European feudalism, and up through modern day capitalist and communist systems, there is always a small elite ruling over a mass of peasants. As everything about our society changes, this remains a constant. This is the simple fact of the matter. What we are seeing now with the encroachment of this scientific dictatorship is merely the logical conclusion to the process of what is commonly referred to as “progress”.
Civilization is based upon the centralization of a power structure over vast numbers of people. Centralized power necessitates centralized leadership and control. Whenever you have this, you are going to have a situation where very intelligent people who desire to be in control are able to attain these positions. These people are psychopaths. That is the personality type that seeks power over other people. Normal people don’t have this desire, and will generally even feel uncomfortable with the idea of holding such positions. Again, history bares witness. As technology advances, power becomes further centralized, with the ruling forces able to exercise control over finer and finer details of our lives.
Many seem to have the idea that technology, and societal “progress”, will ultimately result in our freedom as a species. The popular propaganda film Zeitgeist: Addendum is a prime example of this ideology. Believing that this system, which has always been rooted in slavery, and used every new advancement in science to further exploit and abuse the huddled masses, will somehow eventually lead to freedom after progressing to a certain point is equivalent to a girl who is repeatedly sexually abused by her step-father believing that eventually, if he just keeps raping her in more and more perverse ways, it will eventually lead to a meaningful and loving relationship. It is pathological.
And what if we did put Ron Paul (or some like minded populist) in charge? Never mind the fact that this is impossible, given the state of the popular media, which ultimately makes people’s choices for them. Let’s say it happened, and by some inexplicable miracle, the real powers behind the throne did not have him assassinated. For starters, in this globalized world of free trade, where slaves in China can make everything for cheaper than people in the first world where people are accustomed to a semi-decent standard of living, his free market capitalism would be utterly useless in stemming the collapsing markets of the United States, as it is no longer viable for corporations to produce anything here. As a matter of fact, given globalization, and the fact that technology has made the world a very small place, independent nations are themselves no longer viable. It just doesn’t make sense. The people talking about Ron Paul saving us are trying to bring back a system of doing things that simply cannot work in this new age of ours.
In the fantasy world where getting a populist leader into power were possible, there is also no way to stop the progress of technology, which is more and more removing human autonomy. You could attempt to outlaw the implantation of computer chips into people’s brains, but the fact of the matter is that people are going to demand that computer chips be put in their brains, so they can take part in the virtual reality video games and pornography. The companies producing these chips are inevitably going to be taking liberties with people’s brains, reviewing their thoughts and marketing specific products to them based on what they find, for instance. Then it would move quickly into the government demanding access to people’s thoughts in order to determine who is likely to be a threat to society, and ultimately collaborating with the companies in using the implant technologies to alter the brain patterns of users in order to keep them in line. This would be logical for any leader who wanted to eliminate social ills.
The same goes for genetic engineering; if you can remove the genes that make someone liable to get cancer, why not start breeding people who don’t get cancer? And from there we logically must ask, if we are able, why not make people stronger, smarter and better looking? And then it quickly moves to, why not make people genetically prone to docility and obedience, if we can prevent violence, rape, and murder?
The life extension technology brings up a similar ethical conundrum. If we are able to extend people’s lives significantly, and perhaps indefinitely, we are going to end up with way too many people on this planet. The government, even a benevolent one, would be forced to implement breeding laws, with forced abortions and sterilization, in order to avert a crisis.
So even for leaders with good intentions, the apparently logical and responsible uses of these technologies would lead to a world of mindless slaves, automatons not really even existing at all, living in a totally controlled environment. And the people in charge do not have such intentions.
Where Do We Go Now?
What I am ultimately saying here is that a civilization run by a government has never worked, and it never will. Institutions of power will always end up corrupt, and technology will always end up being used by those corrupt institutions for their own ends. Luckily, the cycle of oppression and degradation is coming to a close, as this system will soon implode in on itself. Humanity approaches a new dawn. Sadly, everyone has become addicted to the conveniences of modern living; it is very difficult for anyone to even imagine giving them up, and so the end of the scientific era is going to result in the deaths of most of the people on the planet.
The pertinent question here is: how exactly has technological society improved the quality of our lives? Even the most ardent supporters of “progress” have a very difficult time answering this question. People will eventually give improvements in health care as a definite benefit of the scientific age, as this is really the only one which even appears to make sense. However, other than the infant mortality rate (which is something I plan to examine in detail in a future essay), I think it is hard to argue our health has improved at all, even with the abundance of futuristic medical technology. Virtually everything in our environment contains toxic chemicals; our bodies are infested with them. We are inundated with electromagnetic radiation. The food we eat is for the most part poisonous. Our water is filled with drugs, fluoride and poison. People lived better and often longer before any of this technology existed (the statistics for the average lifespans of pre-civilized people factor in infant deaths; these folks often lived to be 100).
When we then examine the positives of tribal living, it becomes clear that as far as quality of life, there really is no comparison at all. For instance, cutting out “work”, which I find to be an utterly horrid concept, would make my life exponentially better. To this people will often respond with claims that tribal people did work, and some will even claim they worked harder than us, which is a nonsensical statement. The “work” that pre-civilized people did was solely related to providing for basic survival needs; no one was making a profit off of them. Picture a tribe who’s main source of food is fish. Their “work” then consists of: fishing. That is it. The women would be responsible for making whatever clothing was needed, which in warmer climates, where people generally lived, was minimal, and sometimes people simply went nude (the profound psychological and spiritual implications of nudity among tribal people will be examined in depth in the near future). Possibly people would stitch together tents, or build huts of some type (if they didn’t live in caves), but this was not something that had to be done very often. I would imagine all of these activities were rather enjoyable, and as such they can be in no way compared to the wage slavery of modern man. Another example to cite is the buffalo hunters of the American planes. The buffalo were an abundant food source, and very easy to kill. These people lived bountiful lives.
Cutting out work, one has time to spend with ones family and tribesmen, having fun, telling stories, making music, creating art, dancing, making love to the wife, joking with the old folks and generally living it up. People lived at peace with God and nature, and where we, in the age of discontent, have holes in our hearts and a yearning for something real, they had peace. Their lives were the diametric opposite of our own.
Thankfully, like the days and the seasons, the ages of man are cyclic, and this too will pass. As I have said, there is nothing else that can happen. The universe has a way of balancing itself out. The choice we face is whether we want to accept this inevitability, and do what we can to secure a future for ourselves and our progeny, or simply die with the masses. The first and biggest step in the process of saving oneself is to recognize and accept the reality of our situation. Most will not, and a lot will become angry at the mere suggestion; but everyone has a choice.
I hope I’ve succeeded here in presenting a basic outline of the direction that I believe the Truth Movement needs to be moving in. I know I am throwing out a lot of different concepts here, all the while trying to keep it as succinct as possible, but bare with me. In the future I am going to be elaborating on all of this, looking in depth at the nature of civilization and the roots of the concept of “progress” and it’s effects on human beings, as well as drawing comparisons between modern living and tribal society and examining how best one can go about living within this scientific dictatorship and maintain some level of personal autonomy, while preparing to deal with its eventual end.
I know that every one of you is confused by everything that is happening, and I know that all of the talkers who have been posted up as our leaders only make you more confused. What I am offering is a different way to look at our own existence, a new paradigm in which everything makes sense. What is happening is happening because we have abandoned our own human nature and gotten lost in an artificial world that is incapable of providing us with the meaning our souls long for. Civilizations have come and gone for millions of years. The ancients have told the tale of global empires which risen and fallen, and this too will pass. As the world burns around us, we stand at the edge of something marvelous.
Stay Free
–Andre
Great post Andre, glad to have you back, and I’m looking forward to the upcoming installments in this series. However there is just one thing in this article that I don’t quite understand:
You have the belief that civilization is going to implode on itself, and as a result we will all become free, with the opportunity to take part in tribal life. It appears that you base this solely on the idea that there have been global empires in the past that have fallen. Where is the proof of their existence?
Even if this is true though, what makes you think that the elite of this age are going to inevitably fall into the destructive cycle? It is clear that in the end, we will all be huddled up in technocentric cities, lining up for brainchips, while those who venture off into the wilderness will be stalked by machines similar to those in the “uncooperative humans” article. Or satellites. Or death squads. The elite have got it planned pretty tight. Have you forgotten about that?
I just do not see a future in which humans will be allowed to remain alive outside of elite-made civilization. It is not realistic to me, given the elite’s mad desire for total control over everything.
Croyon, you are the one who is forgetting. You forget that power intoxicates: it corrupts not only the morals, but the mind as well. Icarus flies close to the sun, whose radiance melts the wings he used to soar to such heights. This was given to the elite as a warning, by the ancients, in the very first stages of their emerging system. If you look close enough at a stuttering Bush, or slant-eyed idiots like Kim John Il, or the freakmasons who don’t even know what “Jabulon” is anymore, you will begin to see the droplets of wax, falling to earth.
You have no right to be irrationally fearful at a time like this. You have a duty to look this system in the eye, and poke a dagger straight through it, prior to meting out its other deserved punishments. This beast can fall, will fall, and must fall. And no other beast should be allowed to rise in its stead. If cowardice prevents you from doing your duty, get the hell out of the way.
A book to read is The great experiment
by Strobe Talbott. (Although in the end you may see global warming propaganda)
In the article, you mentioned, “People lived better and often longer before any of this technology existed (the statistics for the average lifespans of pre-civilized people factor in infant deaths; these folks often lived to be 100).” - Could you refer me to the data you used?
“Luckily, the cycle of oppression and degradation is coming to a close, as this system will soon implode in on itself. Humanity approaches a new dawn. Sadly, everyone has become addicted to the conveniences of modern living; it is very difficult for anyone to even imagine giving them up, and so the end of the scientific era is going to result in the deaths of most of the people on the planet.”
^-Are you stating that for some inevitable cause, technological advances would perish?
In Kealey’s fantasies he talks about some great catastrophe, destruction of modern civilization, then the rebirth of a new man through genetic engineering. -.-
-Neo
Ciggy:
Power intoxicates - but that hasn’t stopped the elite so far. They’ve still been at it successfully, for long long periods of time. There is no logical reason to believe that they are going to just fall in the next 50 years and not complete their goals.
Also, things like Bush’s declining ability to speak do not represent the elite as a whole. He is one man, chosen for complete character assassination in his latter term in order that the masses make a complete 180 and welcome Obama. Bush means nothing in the big picture of the elite’s mental stability.
And I have no idea what this “duty” you’re talking about is supposed to mean. You are making no sense at all. In addition this talk about “the beast can fall, will fall, and must fall” is coming out as just gibberish faith. Please, explain in detail that I can understand. What does poking the system with a dagger mean -specifically-, and how in any way does that defeat it?
Croyon,
The proof of the existence of previous advanced global civilizations is legion. The most obvious evidence is the massive megalithic structures, which are all built using the same advanced technology, which cover the entire planet and line the ocean floor. Beyond this we have the various historical records kept by ancient people, the most comprehensive of which are written in Sanskrit. The Vedas describe the rise and fall of civilizations over a period of millions of years.
And no, I have not forgotten that the elite have set up a detailed plan for the implementing of a global straitjacket. You’ll notice I describe this plan in some detail in the above article. I simply believe this all amounts to fanciful nonsense in the face of the inevitable cycle of change and rebirth. I do not know when this system will collapse, but I know that it must. There are a multitude of practical elements which make this so, along with my seemingly philosophical ones, which I can understand may see somewhat ambiguous, and I am going to explain both aspects in detail in the near future.
Andre:
Regarding the global civilizations, thanks for explaining some of that. It’ll make it a lot easier to research (and hopefully verify) when I finally get to it. But these Vedas people, how can we trust that they know the great human histories? I mean do you just take their word for it, or can their info be proven to be the real deal? But that is a question for the thread in the History section of the forum.
About your second paragraph there - I hope you do elaborate on that stuff soon, as it’s leaving me kind of frustrated. I accept the possibility that the elite could fall one day, in the far future due to fighting amongst themselves or that they might accidentally destroy themselves with wild shit they come up with in the year 2369, but to think that they will fall soon and we prepare for tribal redemption in -our- own lifetimes… eh…
I will just wait for your future explanations.
[CORRECTION] Just searched… The Vedas are a bunch of texts, not people. Whoops. Anyway you can clearly see what I’m asking.
Neo,
The data comes from several places and is repeatedly cited by those calling themselves “anarcho-primitivists”, a group which I don’t agree with the complete philosophy of, but which has extensively cataloged data regarding this debate. The part about infant deaths is simply a part of the equation through which statistics are calculated. On the whole though, little is recorded about the general health of pre-civilized people, and I have pieced together my own interpretations of the available data. Physical anthropologists are beginning to calculate the health of ancient people using skeletal remains, but this is still a rather new field of science. Having personally read a whole lot about the Native American Indians, it is for me a plain fact that these people were not dying in their thirties because they didn’t have hospitals as so many people seem to assume. Just look at the famous photos that were taken of some of the chiefs in the late 1800s. Many of these guys are clearly in their 90s. We can also look at the few remaining primitive civilizations in South America, Africa and South East Asia and see that people are living to be elderly.
I understand you are asking for specific sources, but as this sort of data is scarce, it will take a research paper put together specifically on this topic to really cover the issue adequately. I will do this eventually, as it is a part of the whole theme I am working. Right now I am going off of my general knowledge of the subject based on the entire body of research I’ve done.
“Are you stating that for some inevitable cause, technological advances would perish?”
Not exactly. What I am saying is that civilization itself is going to inevitably collapse, and without a centralized power structure maintaining specialization and industrial production, there will be nothing at all to support the continued propagation of technology, or even maintenance existing technological systems.
The inevitable cause behind the collapse of civilization on the other hand is obviously not dealt with in detail in this essay, as it is intended as simply an introduction to a wide range of ideas. As I said to Croyon, I believe there are a multitude of historical, philosophical and practical reasons why every civilization is bound for destruction, and I will elaborate on these in great detail in future writings.
Croyon,
The Vedas contain historical records, and we don’t have any scientific way of verifying any historical record other than on the anthropological data supporting it. Any written history could be fabricated. A Russian mathematician named Anatoly Fomenko believes that most of what we are told is history is actually made up, based on some mathematical equations relation to astrology that I don’t fully understand. I think that a book called Underworld by Graham Hancock which records the discovery of giant megalithic cities existing on the bottom of the ocean goes a long way toward proving that an ancient global civilization did exist at least once before in prehistorical times.
I agree with what Croyon is saying. This longing to be Tarzan is a not a practical option for dealing with the present state of affairs. Its actually called regression by psychologists, a symptom of a an inability to cope with present circumstances. That being said, being a organic farmer/ subsistence producer will always be a bulwark against hard times, that is a smart and natural way to live. There is a growing organic movement and the elite can’t stop it, and they won’t, the caveat is, and always has been……who can afford the good foods, with the lower classes getting the scraps(gmo today).
Free Radical, Andre’s attitude could -not- be classified as regression because he is not reverting to old behaviors. A more reasonable conjecture would be rationalization, but even that I do not propose. Andre is stating his point of view from his understanding. Some of which is agreeable while others, not so much. But these problems will hopefully be rectified by his future articles as hinted here:
“The inevitable cause behind the collapse of civilization on the other hand is obviously not dealt with in detail in this essay, as it is intended as simply an introduction to a wide range of ideas.”
Let’s not be so quick to jump to assumptions until we understand the entirety of Andre’s message.
-Neo
Free Radical,
Freud’s concept of regression has to do with adults returning to childish stages of ego development. It in no way relates to one’s views on applied science. You must be thinking of something else.
I may not have been accurate in classifying the wish for tribal life as regression to modern society, but the fact remains that despite Andres extensive knowledge of pertinent issues, he still comes to the illogical conclusion that the abandonment of modernity is the answer, and that civilization is destined to fail. We as humans, were not satisfied with living in Eden, so we bit the apple, because we wanted knowledge of nature, to be masters of nature. Theres no going back, only forward, to do otherwise is to fail as a species.
Nicely articulated post.
One of the paradoxes of human nature is that we are bred for greed. In this current system, we just want to be left alone to pursue our own ends while at he same time are baffled by the fact that there are “psychopaths” who want control over us. I always question the notion that the hunter/ gatherer societies were any more free than we are now. We are still essentially in the hunter gatherer continuum in the form of modern consumerism which probably harkens back much further into human prehistory than we think. All economic activity derives from hunting and gathering. Foraging through the urban shopping emporia has simply replaced searching for wild game and non poisonous berries. But has our taste for objects with no obvious survival value like bobbles and trinkets really changed? When did humans start attributing such value to objects which brings prestige in the first place? I don`t think it is the result of “civilization”. It`s in our basic nature.
I wonder why we think that things were any different in simpler times. Whoever had the finer pelts, exotic feathers or superior skills in areas such as hunting, knowledge of the environment etc. would have acquired a kind of deference or prestige and privileged treatment from other neighboring tribes. So the farce continues…
Thanks first and foremost Andre. Your articles are always thought provoking and original.
I would have to say I agree for the most part with Croyon, FreeRadical & Rogue. I do not think that pre-modern civilizations were not hotbeds of ingenuity and modernity. Each was modern within its era. What I think is ingrained in the human psyche is the need to develop, I mean, I’ve heard many blame ‘progress’ and I agree that what is currently labeled ‘progress’ is sick and perverse, but what I don’t agree with is the idea that humanity must stifle its ingenious urge to innovate and develop in order to maintain a sustainable existence.
Hunting and Gathering, while a fulfilling and wonderful existence, did not last, nor stifle technological advances, rather it provided a context and need for them. I do not believe man was created to remain stagnant. And if you think that technologically advanced civilizations have existed in the past, if it is the nature of our system, to die and regenerate, then how can you despise our current situation?
I agree that the system is messed up. Corruption, exploitation and economic slavery are its defining attributes. But what about now? I know it wasn’t a solution proposal but what you are saying is that in civilizations passed, there was an enlightened few who recognized the systems ailments and were consumed by its development, just as we will be.
I just don’t fully understand I guess…
So when are we gonna sharpen a spear and grow a blueberry patch? When the system collapses? I don’t imagine not building a windmill to pump water from my well, or using freon to keep food from spoiling, or printing presses to disseminate these helpful inventions to my ancestors.
Angels are celestial beings.
Animals are terrestrial beings.
Humans are celesterretrial beings who can attain a higher level of existence and enlightenment. I mean, so what of Prophets and God?
“I believe our inability to effectively respond to this crisis is rooted in our inability to see it for what it really is. We know the details. We see what is wrong, but we don’t know how to stop it because we haven’t yet looked at what caused it, and we have yet to question the deeper meaning behind it.”
You hit the nail on it’s proverbial head with this paragraph. The seeds of this evil are in all of us.
“What I have determined is that civilization as a whole was a scam from the beginning, and the only logical path for humanity to take is to utterly abandon it and return to a hunter/gatherer lifestyle. Ultimately, this is going to happen whether you want it to or not, as there is no other way it can go, but if you understand that it will happen, and why it must happen, you are going to be psychologically, and perhaps even physically, prepared for the total collapse of the entirety of world civilization. At the very least, you are going to be able to quit wasting your time running around talking about Ron Paul and building 7.”
It may very well be inevitable and I see many of our brethren self destructing as the signs are on the wall for hyper-consumerism and free-love. We all have parasitically benefitted from this cancerous synthetic symbiotic urban lifestyle and we will one day have to atone for our sins.
“And the masses will still be watching TV and letting the experts do the thinking.”
As long as Harpo is still on tv flashing that plastic smile everything will be a-ok after all as long as the tv station operators are fine then we are too.
“Or your wife gets dragged off to have a forced abortion preformed on her because you didn’t pull out in time.”
Men who are truly awake never pull out. They are balls deep for freedom.
“Science magazines and websites are reporting daily on developments in Science magazines and websites are reporting daily on developments in natotechnology”
You forgot your letter “n” in the word “natotechnology”.
“So when you combine the emerging totalitarian world state with these emerging technologies which have an incalculable risk of abuse, what we end up with is a hell on earth. Humanity as we have known it is going to cease to exist as we move into the post-human era”
Yep. I’m sure most of the people on these boards realize this but as long as we have enough hallucinogens, alcohol and enough easy ass that’s all that matters right(I actually heard one of my good friends who is awake say these very words)?
“We rapidly approaching the end of a very long cycle.”
I think you forgot the word “are” in between “we” and “rapidly”. Good points in that paragraph though.
“The people talking about Ron Paul saving us are trying bring”
I think in this sentence it should be “are trying TO bring”
“And what if we did put Ron Paul (or some like minded populist) in charge? Never mind the fact that this is impossible, given the state of the popular media, which ultimately makes people’s choices for them. Let’s say it happened, and by some inexplicable miracle, the real powers behind the throne did not have him assassinated. For starters, in this globalized world of free trade, where slaves in China can make everything for cheaper than people in the first world where people are accustomed to a semi-decent standard of living, his free market capitalism would be utterly useless in stemming the collapsing markets of the United States, as it is no longer viable for corporations to produce anything here.”
I have yet to hear any of the Infobots address this problem with any clarity but you have certainly done so here.
“Then it would move quickly into the government demanding access to people’s thoughts in order to determine who is likely to be a threat to society, and ultimately collaborating with the companies in using the implant technologies to alter the brain patterns of users in order to keep them in line. This would be logical for any leader who wanted to eliminate social ills.”
I might have to slightly disagree with you on that point. I may have just misread it though.
“The same goes for genetic engineering; if you can remove the genes that make someone liable to get cancer, why not start breeding people who don’t get cancer? And from there we logically must ask, if we are able, why not make people stronger, smarter and better looking? And then it quickly moves to, why not make people genetically prone to docility and obedience, if we can prevent violence, rape, and murder?”
I also believe that they are creating this “don’t worry be happy” positive thinking type of mindset so that mothers who’ve been well indoctrinated will naturally demand that their children be genetically engineered so that they will be happy ALL the time and of course the engineer will readily oblige.
“The life extension technology brings up a similar ethical conundrum. If we are able to extend people’s lives significantly, and perhaps indefinitely, we are going to end up with way too many people on this planet. The government, even a benevolent one, would be forced to implement breeding laws, with forced abortions and sterilization, in order to avert a crisis.”
I don’t agree with you on this point either. The earth is humongous and it would take an astronomical amount of people to be born for there to be too many people and that theory that human overpopulation causes unmitigated disaster is probably just a falacy. If you look at it you will notice that most great minds in history come from big families. But I do agree with your basic argument that the technology in light of human predispositions may be inherently evil.
“The pertinent question here is: how exactly has technological society has improved the quality of our lives?”
You put the word “has” in there twice.
“However, other than the infant mortality rate (which is something I plan to examine in detail in a future essay), I think it is hard to argue our health has improved at all, even with the abundance of futuristic medical technology.”
The US is tied with Poland and Slovakia for 29th worldwide in infant mortality rates and trails Cuba!!!! The US has the second worst infant mortality rate in the developed world!
http://www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/parenting/05/08/mothers.index/
http://www.webmd.com/parenting/baby/news/20081015/infant-mortality-us-ranks-29th
All in all an extremely well written article and I enjoyed reading it Andre. Those are all the errors I could find.
Croyon,
The intoxication of power always stops those among the elite who come the closest to gaining absolute power. The Caesars did it. The Mongols did it. Napoleon did it. Hitler did it. And more recently, Babbling Bush. If 20 or more examples from the world we like to call ‘reality’ aren’t enough for you, I doubt any amount ever will be. It’s a combination of the Powerful Man’s own newfound stupidity, and the ambition of others who want to take his place, that keeps the top layer of the power pyramid continually boiling and roiling and in perpetual flux. If an organization achieves that top-layer status, that organization will similarly get a gigantic case of the stupids, as has always happened and always will.
You are too quick to ascribe “success” where it needn’t be ascribed. The evil of the power pyramid has been over us for 6,000 or more years, that is true, but that wasn’t assembled by an individual or even by an hermetic lodge. It was assembled by human nature. We, the people, the masses, have it in our nature to want the power pyramid to be there, because we carry this delusion among us that we might have a chance at climbing to the top of it. Or even at the middle of it, we humans relish the idea of stamping on the hands of those below us to make their climb more difficult. The conspiracy is US. The “elite” are those among us who have realized the ambition that we collectively have as a species. The solution is to take away from ourselves, the gimmick of civilization that we have resorted to for thousands of years, to engender political hierarchy. We need to reboot our species. We as humans need to get back to basics and rethink the world we’d decided to create for ourselves 6,000 years ago. And if our next decision after this is similarly wrong, 6,000 years later anarchists like us will have to reboot us yet again. Keep repeating until the lesson is *learned*.
That, essentially, is the duty I’m talking about: the duty to take part in the reboot. Specifics are not appropriate to discuss over the Internet.
I found three elements underlining this hollowed out essay.
The first being, it hints at the authors proclivity towards far right reactionaries.
The second being, the author is attempting to rewrite the wheel. Marx spent 25 years writing Das Kapital. Lenin, Trotsky, Mao and many others have all contributed with countless books and articles on the subject of revolutionary theory. Go visit and see for yourself… http://www.marxists.org/
My final analysis, is the authors failed attempt at Plagiarism of http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/
…a series of which is already being covered in the show archives of http://www.unwelcomeguests.org/
Very powerful introduction, thank you Andre. I am looking forward to future articles as more light will be shed - but diligent self-study and getting used to thinking for oneself is absolutely alpha and omega. Anarchy *means* thinking for oneself, as stated on one of the sites for anarcho-primitivism that I visited: That definition is actually spot-on. Again, thank you.
Firstly, great photo. Very applicable.
I think the problem with the technology side of the authoritarian system we live under is that apart from blocking technological development and freedom to invent, the utilisation and development of new innovative technology depends on an industrialised, large scale production economic system for it’s components. So, the “free energy” people are somewhat hamstrung on the side of things, and the goal of personal economic and technological freedom is that much more difficult to achieve.
I agree with all of the statements about the political and ideological systems.
In terms of a truly free and humane lifestyle, the hunter/gather system makes sense of only that subsistence living seems the most just and fair. But pure scavanging activity in order to live requires teaching and training, and a kind of practical degree or detailed study in plants and animals and climate. No one could or should decide to “go it alone” in nature without the necessary preparation.
Another other issue of going back to basics in nature is how to care for the frail and disabled members of the community. Will the tribe be able to do so? Also, will it be possible to maintain high moral standards overall, including a sense of compassion in a tribal society?
Prentice,
Thank for all that, man. I rushed a bit in getting this up, and apparently didn’t proofread it enough times. I’ve fixed the typos you’ve pointed out.
As far as the point about over-population, we are talking less about space than resources, but I would certainly agree that overpopulation is a non-issue at present, and that the reason people are starving is that the people in power want them to. However, if death were eliminated by technology, and people continued to breed, there would at some point be too many people. This is inevitable.
Karl Marx,
Wait, so, you’re accusing me of being a “far-right reactionary” attempting to rewrite communist revolutionary theory? Really?
And I have never heard of the material you are accusing me of plagiarizing, but I’ll certainly check it out; although if it has anything to do with far-right reactionism or communist revolutionary theory, I probably won’t be all that interested.
Klore,
Excellent points as always; these are some of the precise ideas I am wishing to discuss in the future.
Hmmm. Some food for thought, as always André.
I’ll be interested to read the future instalment in this series.
Good comments from Ciggy and Croydon.
You people might think that what I say below is not relevant. Read and think again.
I cannot imagine a person a hundred years ago (be it a farmer or professor) who would say something and wish to remain anonymous. Hundred years ago people had self-respect. They were proud of the product they were making with their hands and their brain. They were worthy human beings. Writing anonymous letters was considered indecent.
Now, how much you are worth if you hide who you are? If you do not want to stand behind your words, how much your words worth?
Someone at the beginning of Internet gave this communist idea of hiding your name. It doesn’t matter how good are your words, they now don’t worth anything. Internet worth nothing too. All the ideas are mirage, they never will have any impact because no one stands behind them.
Make a new beginning. Start respecting yourself.
Andre,
Nice work. I’ve been reading your site for awhile but this is the first time I’ve posted a comment. I have to say I’m with you about 80%. I don’t think we’re going back to the Stone Age but I think a reset of some kind is due. I think we tend to romanticize the past and most of us clearly have no idea how hard and brutal a primitive tribal lifestyle would be but I would take my chances in that environment as opposed to the soulless drudgery of the 9 to 5 world. I look forward to the new direction of the site.
Karl Marx,
Your hollowed out comment hints at a proclivity towards far left reactionaries. If you’re steering folks to the writings of Lenin(Ulyanov), Trotsky(Bronstein), and Mao then you need some help. Wake up and smell the coffee, comrade.
S’alright. This is all shit in the Bible but; Tower of Babel falling, stuff like that. Problem is this………..
What in the Fucking Hell are people like the ones you refer to being able to adapt to a more hunter/gatherer/chicks walk around bare chested and all guys have six pack abs lifestyle gonna do with, umm, let;s face it, the Chattel????
What I say!
Nice article, I wish I could share your optimism.
Oh and by the way: I ALREADY KNOW THE ANSWER. I want your punk ass to respond already so I can have something proved to me….
cr_trinity,
What are you asking exactly? What will happen to the chattel? I assume they will all die off, unable to survive outside of the comforts of modern society.
Looking forward to reading more from you. Seems a lot of ideologies are pointing in the direction you are going. Looks to be something of a reboot on the horizon, whether it be some galactic/universal cycle or some earth-centric man made catastrophe. We shall see. I hate to be a pessimist, but things appear to be getting a whole lot worse before they get better. But still, the thought that things will eventually get better gives me hope. I believe in Karma, cycles, the whole lot. Here’s hoping!
Nice article Andre. Couple of points though; mainstream history, anthropology, and archaeology are full of shite quite intentionally. Of course “civilisation” goes back well before 7000 years; of course the ancients of various times, places, and circumstances lived longer and better than we do today. Of course human culture is cyclical, often devastated by natural Earth cataclysms as well as warfare. Of course similar “Controllers” have existed in every era and developed systems of slavery and control - some more obvious than others. And yes, many other cultures / peoples had various types of “technology”.
My point of contention, though, is that technology need not infer machinery and computer gadgets. True “technology”, as practiced by various ancients (most notably the “Atlanteans”) was based on mastery of nature through occult, esoteric and gnostic knowledge / practices. For example, the Great Pyramid of Giza was not built with computers and hydrolic cranes, and in fact could not be duplicated today, so lack of “civilisation” need not infer a hunter / gatherer type of minimalistic existance. And that’s not to say that life as an American Indian was not great and fulfilling for thousands of years for all the reasons you mention in your above article, but more mastery over nature would allow for comfort approaching what we have today without all the corporate fascism we see today. The problem is, the Elite Controllers are well aware of the occult / esoteric teachings dating back thousands of years and are using it against us in exclusively negative ways. My personal view is that an Earth cataclysm is getting nearer and they know it, so they are draining the System dry in order to build more underground facilities, and perhaps space platforms to escape and leave us to die. And most of us will (95%), but we have to hope it will get most of the Controllers also. Then, the remaining 5% will be settlers again and be in one of three environments depending on the amount of destruction; 1) back in the “Stone Age” with nothing but memories of the gadgets and infrastructure and virtually no skills with which to rebuild anything for a very long time, 2) a “Planet of the Apes / Mad Max” type scenario where some gadgets and infrastructure is left standing and functioning, but little ability to rebuild or maintain, or 3) some infrastructure / gadgets remaining, but more of an understanding of the occult / esoteric technology, therefore able to build and ADVANCE upon what remains, and leave out what’s undesirable. Maybe all three will exist, but in different pockets of the World. We’ll see.
Dr. F
Andre, great to hear from you again; excellent article. Contrary to some of the comments posted, I believe it was written in a calm, rational manner. I can appreciate someone who remains steadfast in the midst of all the paranoia and fear-mongering.
With that said, I’d like to add that I recently converted from Christianity to Islam; I’ve been a believer all my life, albeit confused on certain concepts and theories in the Bible. I’ve been made aware of the blasphemous content therein (no doubt inserted by the “freakmasons” and / or other various entities).
Concerning all the worry about the economy, civilization, the end of the world and ALL of the other bs - I’d like to share a few verses from the Qur’an:
Surah 2 (Al Baqarah)
2:155 Be sure we shall test you with something of fear and hunger, some loss in goods or lives or the fruits (of your toil), but give glad tidings to those who patiently persevere,
2:156 Who say, when afflicted with calamity: “To Allah We belong, and to Him is our return.”
2:157 They are those on whom (descend) blessings from Allah, and Mercy, and they are the ones that receive guidance.
Salaam Alaikum, brother… (Peace be unto you)
Incredible!!!!! When I read this it brought out many thoughts & desires that I have always had but never had the guts to truly speak about it. God Bless you & although I understand exactly what your saying, just keep in mind…..that everything that is happening falls in line with what the Bible speaks of. With this being said, why shouldn’t we have “Faith” that our God will save us before the end occurs. By the end, I mean a change in society & human thinking where “Mankind is stripped of their God given right of choice (the ability to choose to be good or evil). Basically, allowing our thought processes to be governed & controlled by The Global Elite…….power hungry men, that merely see themselves as potentially reaching the status of the Ancient Pharoahs (men who were perceived as Divine or Gods). With this being said, it’s not so far feched to believe that if peoples thoughts & natural mind processes, as well as, their desires regarding spiritual needs are so far suppressed/lost, that technology will allow “Specific Men” to be perceived as God’s (Antichrist mortal wound then is healed-Revelation) . Continue to do this work this is great stuff….it breeds freeminded thinkers instead of brainwashed TV Junkies.
I agree with the premise of your article that civilisation as we know it is about to collapse and we will return to some kind of pre civilisation pre historic tribal existence. I also agree with you that this will be a much better much more natural and healthy way of life.
I also agree with some of the commentors that the global elite want total control and will/are doing everything they can to prevent us being free in this kind of tribal life style.
I beleive we need to return to this type of lifestyle NOW voluntarily whilst we still can, and before that option is taken away from us by the rulers.
What will stop the rulers taking this lifestyle away from us anyway?? My answer to that question is GOD. I beleive this simple tribal lifestyle is Gods plan for humans.
DOn’t forget that in Genesis when they built a tower reaching the heavens God came down from heaven destroyed the tower, confused the languages and seperated the nations. GOD did not want one world government.
Also in Deuteronomy 28:46 God says because you did not love Me and praise Me for the abundance of everything that I gave you, I will bring enemies against you and you will end up hungry, and thirsty, and in need of everything. The abundance of everything that God gave us is nature, the enemies He brought against us (because we rejected the wonderful lifestyle that He gave us) are the money lenders, Federal Reserve etc Global Elite Rulers.
If we return to a simple tribal lifestyle NOW whilst we can, GOD will ensure that we keep it and live in prosperity health, and happines, and GOD Himself will raise His hand against the global elite.
The global elite worship Satan. Can Satan exist and not God. Our only solution to defeat the Global elite is to worship GOD, and live the lifestyle He wanted us to.
Oh for fuck’s sake people: WAKE THE FUCK UP!!!
Society will not collapse.
The Profane will adapt, without complaint,, as they always do.
People like myself will simply cease to be, and our legacies unfulfilled mainly because our chances of finding a partner in this society with the views we have are exactly 0%.
Andre. You and I should talk on Skype or something. All this dialectical bullshit may rot your brain as much as it has done ALL THOSE OVER 40, whether they want to admit and accept it, or not.
I love your insightful articles and I notice in this post that you ultimately come up with truth being the ultimate ending to the argument. I would love to hear what you think of my definition of truth. Find it linked below. Feel free to repost it if you like it. I would fit nicely on your site.
http://superiored.blogspot.com/2010/02/seed-of-education-truth.html
I just got done watching Edge of Darkness and I have to tell you it is awesome! I enjoyed every minute of it from start to finish. I highly recommend this movie to anyone who enjoys good movies.