the goal is poverty, not riches

It’s weird. What’s weird Doug?

It’s weird that we believe that the very same people exploiting and robbing working people everyday of their lives somehow care about us. Of course this belief is installed by design to prevent open rebellion. It’s quite clever, really and made all the more convincing by some within the hierarchy who actually do care about the welfare of their populations.  Saul Alinsky is credited with designing the system we currently suffer from.

His 8 point plan to subjugate the people has been 100% effective and here it is for your reading pleasure:

And so the likelihood of overthrowing a system when upwards of 80% are utterly helpless without the system is practically zero.

And for a time, you may choose and probably have already chosen to benefit from it by forfeiting your God-given right to self-determination.  And it is arguably logical to do so.

What good really is freedom if it involves digging up dandelion roots in the cold rain wearing garbage bags , casting nervous glances all the while for predators?

Imagine , however , what the end result of having less than 2 percent of the people actually producing things you can wear, live inside or eat might be!

Of course, all this free ridesmanship comes at a cost, and the cost is a loss of self-respect, the loss of the joy of real productivity, and loss of physical health , because sedentary living produces soft flabby people.  Of course , this situation suits the program perfectly. How likely is a revolution to occur when the typical middle-aged fighting males deepest concern is finding his favorite bag of chips at the store? 

There are those who have detected civilizational historical patterns , patterns like the decline and fall of empires , and view the current situation and its outcome as inevitable and perhaps it is.

Human beings generally do not take action until the situation becomes intolerable. We seem to prefer putting off any unpleasantness as long as we can, like a door ripped off the old outhouse and being used to temporarily support the structure. Trouble is by the time we decide to act, the downward momentum is nearly impossible to stop.   So far, so good, should be Canada’s moto.       

The point of all this flappery is that the idea of actually doing something constructive each day might have some merits!   There have been times in my own journey where the obstacles seemed insurmountable.   I am guilty of analysis paralysis myself, but the more I analyzed the situation, the worse it got.   That is until I took the initiative and began producing products for others to consume and shockingly, suddenly my own situation improved amazingly.

The idea that AI will save us, that robots will do all our work for us is foolish on its face. Every machine wears out over time and a machine as complicated as a robot duplicating a human being’s capabilities, will definitely break down over time and need repairs, and who is going to pay the cost of all of these expensive machines? Do you really believe that the hierarchy, the billionaires and the trillionaires are going to provide you with a machine that will do all your physical work for your own benefit? What is the incentive for them to bear the cost of all that?  And Imagine the reality of having a robot do all of your physical work and all that it will be left for you to do is watch as the activity happens around you and wait for your next meal to be prepared. What will become of your physical body over a period of 2 years of Doing.  Absolutely. Nothing.  We already are afraid to walk a block or 2 because we might strain a hip or something and the less we do , the more pronounced are the physical problems we encounter as rigor mortise begins to make itself at home. To counteract this tendancy , people take out gym memberships , so perhaps that is something you might want to consider investing in as the future unfolds or unravels.

It occurs that all the grifting that’s happening, the scams, all the efforts to dip into the tax base by large corporations, all the buying of lottery tickets and investing in stocks that are definitely going to rise to the moon all has in common the desire to avoid physical work. Welfare recipients , both the grade a and the great b plans have this in common: little physical work is done at the end of each working day. It seems  we all want someone else to do the distasteful physical jobs that we ourselves shun.

And yet, when I have lived in low-activity conditions, all I really did was to rob myself of the satisfaction of a job well done.   At the end of the day, there is something special and sacred about lying on a couch with your body absolutely exhausted, knowing that you have accomplished a tremendous amount of physical work and the world is better off because of your efforts.   Things have improved. You’ve improved a house you’ve provided heat for someone you’ve provided food for someone.  It’s a really , really good feeling , and the deprivation of it , whether through a I robots or importing low paying workers to do all these things for us is only hastening the decline of our society.

The alternative to making changes at the grassroots level, meaning changes in the way we treat each other, in the way we think about life and the way we think about the purpose of our lives is to simply continue on the trajectory we are now embarked upon and arrive at the inevitable  miserable sad conclusion of poverty , war and destruction. Yes it really is that serious.

Without a vision the people perish. The brutal reality we face is that the money people , the hierarchy, our overlords , desire poverty for us not riches , they know that an impoverished dependent society is much less likely to overthrow them. Their deepest fear is that we will catch on one of these days and do something about it.

The dampanic for all the evil it did, taught me something valuable. It taught me how to say no, and it taught me how to stand up for what i believe in and for those I care about.

I hope it did the same for you.