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This is what lies behind the devaluation of the dollar.
Svenson breaks it all the motherfuckin-way-down:
This is what lies behind the devaluation of the dollar. The forces that have been in control in America have been working to strategically weaken the American Nation-state on several fronts: Creating economic dependence on China for goods, sending jobs overseas, keeping borders open to promote widescale cultural integration with Mexico and reduce national identity, aquiring mass debt with China to bind the dollar to their production, and strategically losing a war in Iraq to devalue the brand of the American military, and doing this by sending military funds en masse to private corporations (security contractors) which are actually working to destablize the region, as has been shown through many, many incidents from random murders to selling arms to insurgents, something of which the Iraqi government is now well aware…
Another point I just want to tack onto this: talking about and showing how the stated purpose behind events may not necessarily equal the real purpose does not, to me, equal conspiracy theory. It equals being a discerning individual, developing media literacy, looking at how businesses and economies really work in the real world. We are not talking about lizards from outer space here…
October 25th, 2007 at 2:23 pm
I was just thinking maybe everyone will get their wish.
The Green hippy types can have sustainable communities, community currency etc. Folk culture, hemp clothing etc.
Then the global capitalists can exist in these networks jet setting around the world moving at light speed.
There could be these little hubs where the two worlds connect and trade.
October 25th, 2007 at 2:25 pm
Yea! Good stuff. It’s a strategy. “You can disrupt my economy but I’m taking you off the cliff with me.” “You can kick me out of the Gulf but I’m the only who can deal with the mess. But, it’s all yours if you want it.”
October 25th, 2007 at 2:38 pm
You don’t need to be either green nor a hippy to want to be part of a natural healthy human community.
October 25th, 2007 at 2:46 pm
Thanks for raising the visibility of that one Tim!
Ted, I actually think that’s the best way to think…Just visualize the world you want and try to work it in with the present. I for one am sick of worrying, and I find it much funner to think like that! At least it lets see the possibilities…
Julia, hell yeah! Its kinda scary brilliant actually…I just love the way the face for it in America is this “salt of the earth” president you could “have a beer with” that seems unable to articulate complex ideas, let alone come up with them. It cracks me up.
October 25th, 2007 at 3:04 pm
Yeah I actually don’t hate or fear the people who are executing these strategies… What they are doing is genius and masterful. Studying it is worthwhile, as is like you guys are saying, learning how to perfectly articulate the world you’d like to exist in instead. One thing I do think folks on the ground like us could stand to really learn a lot more about though are these types of long-term strategies, how to spot them, how to unravel them, how to reverse engineer them, and how to execute our own. I don’t blame anyone in the world for trying to enact their will, to live their vision or to protect what’s theirs.
October 25th, 2007 at 3:59 pm
I didn’t mean it in a derogatory way. I just think there seems to be these two ends of a continuum. I’d like to think there is room in the future for both visions.
October 25th, 2007 at 4:07 pm
I think we have as much room in the future as we have vision.
October 25th, 2007 at 4:17 pm
exactly.
October 26th, 2007 at 12:33 am
Unless, by lizards from outerspace you mean green paper currency…
I feel flip at 1am!
Good insights.
You can admire the chutzpah and strategic skill of certain groups and individuals without necessarily needing to worship what they *do* with their skill and chutzpah.
There’s some line in the Magus where Conchis (the Mage) says something along the lines of people shouldn’t blame Hitler for having had the balls to play the villain. That’s a shocking line, but the underlying point is his playing that role could only have such terrible consequences/results for the fact that there were millions and millions of people who did not have the courage to live their lives the way they truly wanted. If that had been the case, there would have been some sort of check and balance upon the ability of any villain to exact such harm upon the world. Thing is, when you lack the courage to live the life of your dreams, you end up simply being used and made over to play whatever roles other, stronger people want you to. There’s a win-lose thing. As more and more people live their dreams, you get a win-win…people have roles to play in each others dreams through mutually aiding and valuing each other.
…just some thoughts.
October 26th, 2007 at 2:11 am
Very true! When you begin living the life you want, you become a controversial figure regardless of how you’re doing it, never mind if you intentionally play it up!
Exactly perfect: the only check against powerful men is other powerful men.
A mentor of mine used to always quote Blake, “I must create my own system or be enslaved by another man’s.”
Excellently put and this is really the cornerstone of my new site and my new lease on life.
October 26th, 2007 at 9:20 am
I really hope there are reptilian humanoids living in outer space somewhere…Because they are sooo Cool! Conspiracy thinking aside, reptiles are awesome!
October 26th, 2007 at 11:20 am
Conspiracy thinking vs. cool reptilians
October 27th, 2007 at 10:30 pm
A mentor of mine used to say that too. “Dominate it or it will dominate you.” That applies to people, systems, habits, technologies, everything.
wicked, brilliant thread here.
October 29th, 2007 at 9:22 am
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October 29th, 2007 at 4:56 pm
It’s been at the back of my mind for ages that maybe Iraq was invaded deliberately to collapse the dollar… but my reasoning beyond that point has always been shaky.
Hm. What does the word ‘greenback’ mean to you guys?
> I think we have as much room in the future as we have vision.
Nice! Time for a vision-quest?
October 29th, 2007 at 5:20 pm
We should explore this theory and figure out the degree of truthfulness and usefulness behind it.
This:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Greenback_Party
No, time for an action-quest! The future is for visions. The present is for actions.
October 29th, 2007 at 10:11 pm
There are undercurrents in conspiracy theories lately about this. They or whoever either overextended our army/budget on purpose or They or whoever saw the mess that was being made and let-it-happen-on-purpose.