To the Illuminati/the rich/our reptilian alien overlords: you know who you are. You know how you should be addressed. Please understand my position, my groping, childlike ignorance, and pretend I’ve addressed you properly. I offer my respect, as for any living thing, rich, poor, earthly, or otherwise. (I have no opinions regarding extra-terrestrials; I simply strive to be inclusive.)
The end is coming. Not for everyone, just almost. Guess who survives. When the oil runs low, there will be no miracle, no new macro-Hanukah. The rich are not blinded, like the poor, to the coming disasters, just prepared. Their interests are not our interests. Make no mistake. Barring a miracle, it absolutely will come down to them or us. Guess who wins.
What follows is the most important paragraph in this document, the heart of it. Do not misunderstand me: I am not advocating revolution. I am not advocating violence of any sort. Don’t misunderstand me. It is not my intention to be a Lenin, a Guevara, a Spartacus, or a Charlie Manson; my delusion is higher than that. I want to be a Gandhi, a Jesus. I do not advocate violence. This paragraph will be repeated throughout this document, and this document propagated and printed widely, to insure it is seen in this form by many, many people, to preserve its context. I advocate only non-violence. I believe, and I want everyone to believe this: violence, always and forever is the problem, not the solution. This is the most important paragraph in this document, the heart of it. This is not a legal technicality, not a subterfuge, not an irony. It is not sardonic or sarcastic. I am not winking or crossing my fingers. Make no mistake. I do not advocate violence. Circumstances cannot change to change my mind about this. Things are already quite hopeless. Not desperate, that would indicate more hope than is warranted. Understand me: in the face of hopelessness, I advocate only non-violence. If anyone uses this document as a justification for violence of any sort, I shall deny them. This is the most important paragraph in this document, the heart of it. Make no mistake.
A prelude to my arguments.
A thing cannot be created until it can be imagined. Even existing, empirical things are nothing if they produce nothing in the mind of the observer. They are something if they produce a reaction of ‘what is that?’ in the mind, but still only a something. They are not yet a particular thing, until the mind has a particular imagined thing with which to match them up. If it cannot be imagined, it cannot be, let alone be made. This is true, and social things have a corresponding truth, a fractal child. For mankind to imagine a thing, the first step towards a thing’s existence, it must be said. Speech is thought for the larger, social mind of man.
As an individual intelligence is limited by things unimagined or unimaginable, the larger mind of man is limited by things unspoken or unspeakable. Hoping to publish these thoughts anonymously, I shall attempt to speak some such things. I hope to be the truth serum, the ecstatic hallucination that brings forbidden thoughts to the consciousness of the mind of man, to make thought possible regarding taboo things . . . lofty delusions, I know. Has it all been said before? I truly hope so. Certainly no-one has said some of these things to me. Some ideas, then:
1. (For the Illuminati: ) Did ideas of humanity, equality and the like not originate in your world, that is, among the educated, the privileged? Failing that, do they not have appeal, surely you have young, surely you have those who never lose their youthful enthusiasm? I understand about the ‘real’ world, but are utopias never dreamed about? Is it not pleasant to contemplate a truly conscious, cooperative population where you needn’t fear enmity and reprisals? Is it not pleasant to imagine a world where the nightmare of getting caught outside the gates of your community doesn’t trouble your sleep? Having everything you want is grand, but don’t you yearn for one more thing, namely freedom from the fear of losing it all? To put it another way: must the task of creating a perfect world fall only to the poor, the deluded, the disenfranchised? Certainly, from your higher vantage, you’ve seen our efforts to date (communist and democratic revolutions, religious movements, etc.) and found them laughable. We need your help for this work. Make no mistake. The poor are angry, but we are not beasts. We know what happens when one bites the hand that feeds. This is the slim hope I hold out: technically hopeless, worse than desperate, but the only road to a perfect destination.
2. (For the poor: ) It’s all about rich and poor, make no mistake. The rich will and do have their way with the poor, one way or another. Communist revolution has failed because the rich, mobile and international, won’t have it. Democratic revolution has failed, because the rich subvert democratic systems, systematically, in a thousand ways. Make no mistake. Don’t blame the governments, the politicians. Know that the rich will have their way, and that individuals all have something to lose. Don’t talk about the corporations. Look past. CEO’s, spokespeople, they say it, right out loud: we have a responsibility to our shareholders. ‘Shareholders’ is not a euphemism for ‘poor’. Make no mistake. Corporations are offered up as scapegoats, they are the means, not the man. They are form and not substance.
3. (For the poor: ) The capitalist idea is that life is competitive, people are aggressive, always there will be winners and losers, wolves and sheep. This is idealism. This is one of those things that, if you believe it, it’s true. It’s true for wolves. Are we wolves? If that were hard and fast, water-is-wet true, it would be self-evident and those who call themselves wolves would not need to howl it so often.
4. (For the illuminati: ) OK, the planet will probably comfortably and sustainably only support half a billion people or so . . . but the rumours I hear of your vision of that future, well, that is not the utopia either. First, we need to get there in a reasonable, merciful way, and second, it could be better, even for you. It could be the difference between being a power-needy ruined child- man with a girl chained up in his basement and being a healthy, happy man with a conscious, loving wife, a man with no guilt or fear of exposure, truly a man, and a life lived in the sun.
5. (For everyone: ) Fundamentalism is psychosis in the larger mind of man. Action is a form of fundamentalism. Action is where speech, thought in the larger mind, ends. When speech ends and action begins, this is a form of madness. To fanatics of all types, I am sorry, but this needs to be said. This is not a call for action.
What follows is the most important paragraph in this document, the heart of it. Do not misunderstand me: I am not advocating revolution. I am not advocating violence of any sort. Don’t misunderstand me. It is not my intention to be a Lenin, a Guevara, a Spartacus, or a Charlie Manson; my delusion is higher than that. I want to be a Gandhi, a Jesus. I do not advocate violence. This paragraph will be repeated throughout this document, and this document propagated and printed widely, to insure it is seen in this form by many, many people, to preserve its context. I advocate only non-violence. I believe, and I want everyone to believe this: violence, always and forever is the problem, not the solution. This is the most important paragraph in this document, the heart of it. This is not a legal technicality, not a subterfuge, not an irony. It is not sardonic or sarcastic. I am not winking or crossing my fingers. Make no mistake. I do not advocate violence. Circumstances cannot change to change my mind about this. Things are already quite hopeless. Not desperate, that would indicate more hope than is warranted. Understand me: in the face of hopelessness, I advocate only non-violence. If anyone uses this document as a justification for violence of any sort, I shall deny them. This is the most important paragraph in this document, the heart of it. Make no mistake.
I ask for thought, and larger thought, speech, discussion. This is not a call for action. Action should only begin after thought is complete, and in 10,000 years of history – we’ve gotten caught up in action, and reaction - we’re not finished thinking yet. We haven’t yet got all the concepts out into the light of day, so we have not yet even begun larger thought. We’re almost ready to start. Once we can say the things we’re holding back, well, then we can begin. More forbidden thoughts:
6. (For the Illuminati: ) You can do anything. Surely your ambitions are not all animal? Of course not. We hear rumours, but surely animal survival and feudal lordship are low dreams, offered to us, your idiot children. You must have better things in mind. You know I know you do.
7. (For the poor: ) The end is coming. Make no mistake. This current doom-and-gloom frenzy is all true: global warming, peak oil, over-population, it’s all happening and faster than anyone thought. (The deniers of global warming fall into two groups: those who deny that man is causing it and it’s happening at an unprecedented rate, mostly these are the rich and their denial is expedient, false, and self-interested; and those who simply deny it’s happening at all. These people are operating out of an infantile need to believe nothing ever changes. If they followed the thought far enough, they would see they are denying science in general, clinging to a primitive belief that the world is infinitely vast and no amount of carbon gas will affect it. My belief in global warming is based in my worldview: if the chemistry was false, your car wouldn’t run, your television wouldn’t work. Things lead to other things in my real world. If we do something, if hundreds of millions of people do something, do it a lot, for decades and decades, effects will happen. If we burn the essential oils of all earthly life accumulated for three quarters of a billion years in a hundred or two hundred years, the air will change. If the air changes, other effects will follow. I believe global warming is real, because something, some change, has to happen. When we move, when we act in the physical world, physics will rule, physical things will happen, and it is not up to us to decide what aspects of science, physics and chemistry, apply or don’t. There is a real world out there, and our beliefs don’t control that truth. The same science that makes your car go makes it pollute, whether we like it or not.)
8. Make no mistake. It’s all happening, and faster than anyone thought, but there’s more. The rich will turn it to their cause, our sow’s ear, their silk purse. That’s why the republicans of the world are denying it all, it will work so well: we kill our far-too-numerous selves off by driving our cars, watching our televisions. Imagine! We can take ourselves out, all at once, by over-breeding! Multiple food crises approaching fast, people. It’s ninety-nine point nine nine percent likely too late to stop it, but we can slow it down, if only minutely. Every time we turn off a light, wash our clothes in cold water and dry them on the line, every time we choose to walk to the corner store, will push it back a bit, a little tiny bit, although certainly not enough to save us from the future that’s coming. We’re fighting for minutes, for days. Not important in the middle of one’s life, but always big at the end! Make no mistake. Now is the time to beg for our lives, to appeal to the humanity of the wolf.
9. (For everyone: ) It comes down to a relatively few questions. How can we:
A) Transition to a world with a sustainable number of people?
B) Begin to live both morally and sustainably?
C) Secure the good will of the rich, without whom any policy we choose will not be allowed to happen?
First, the transition seems inevitable, just not in a way the great masses will enjoy. The processes, already under way are numerous. Global warming and the associated food crises will kill billions; Pollution-produced hormone imbalances are already having their effect on reproduction, a global mass emasculation; The coming wars over food, water, and energy (already begun) will take their toll . . . it seems the New World Order might not even require the usual death squads and concentration camps. Perhaps just as a last resort, a cleansing of the palate between the illuminati’s meal of the old world and their dessert of the new. Not to count the camps out, though – they are time-honoured traditions. But is it possible to get the population down nicely?
(An aside, to the poor: ) It burns, of course it does, that the same power that has for millennia used the church to discourage any control on human breeding is now plotting to see billions of us eradicated. Of course it’s still the wealthy fighting abortion and teen condom use . . . it’s a horrible irony, the ultimate example of their obscene prerogative. They’ve used our fertility to keep us poor and enslaved – and now we hear there’s five billion too many of us. Blind, bite-the-hand-that-feeds rage is a natural and obvious reaction to being so monumentally, epically jerked around, but of course, unproductive. I believe that throughout most of history, a righteously pissed-off peasantry had the real power, and could always rise up and overwhelm the rich, but I’m afraid modern technology has changed that. That is the real problem with weapons of mass destruction, the potential of their use not between nations, but between classes. As a last resort, of course, only in extraordinary circumstances – but that is where we’re headed. At least in the first world, there can be no successful revolution. So put down the pitchfork, and let’s try to think this through.
Of course, any discussion of population control leads, horribly and inexorably, to eugenics. To date, it’s been impossible to convince the great unwashed to breed less. Will the architects of the new world order allow anyone to suggest that the poor’s choice is stop breeding or die? I’ll ask. If the poor miraculously stops breeding, today, will the factors listed above (food, water, energy shortages and the accompanying wars) be enough? Will all that be enough, and might the rest of the poor be allowed to live out their lives, no man-made plagues, no nukes, no poisoned mandatory vaccinations? I, for one would submit to compulsory sterilization if the rich would make that deal. Easy for me to say, I’m old. I’ve had my children already. Would you forego your progeny to avoid your siblings’, your spouse’s, your own extermination?
Gawd, where am I going with this? My miniscule thread of hope is disappearing a little more with each word! This is quite a chestnut! I thought I was a liberal, but I’m on the verge of asking the world’s poor to submit to mandatory sterilization, and handing the world over to the rich, officially, voluntarily, no less! Will I sign over my life, and everyone’s, all in a desperate, pathetic plea for mercy?
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