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Another fine review. Much appreciated.

“But, as we saw to such a shocking extent with the Covid totalitarianism and the ongoing threat of smart-city digital slavery, this is the inversion of the truth: our freedom is anathema to the system.” — T-shirt moment: our freedom (front) is anathema to the system (back).

Berlan: “Belief in Progress by means of techno-science has performed the same function, in the modern era, as religions: convincing the exploited to be patient by saturating them with illusory promises of the ‘radiant future’ that lies before them”. — From The Best Slaves by Far:

"As typified by how they're only too willing

to unwittingly help build their own digital prisons

for something as trivial as increased convenience

believing they're free the best slaves by far

are always the ones who don't know they are

slaves who by lavishing frank praise

upon those they fail to perceive as their masters

display unalloyed ignorance of their virtual captivity

enamoured as they are of their mesmerizing captors."

Berlan, worth repeating: “Giving unlimited power to the pyromaniacs in power will never transform them into firefighters”.

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The proposed digital agenda will form the core of their powerbase, those who decline will be excluded from society.

"BlackRock's Next Plans Will SHOCK THE WORLD" - Whitney Webb's LATEST LARRY FINK EXPOSE'' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6f5Ml6JwJQ

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Yup! Nothing new to the red-pilled but it's a decent summary.

Fink Schmink, Carney Schmarny, Schwab Schwab!

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I'm not surprised as you are well informed Red Pil Poet.

Here's a virtual like [something to do with my pc]

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As I like to say, ignorance may be bliss but knowledge is power. And when the SHTF, ignorance ceases to be bliss, but knowledge remains powerful.

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I thought a bit better than "decent," lol.

It lit me up like a Christmas tree, b/c I just don't see a lot of this kind of thing, even on Substack... "EVEN on Substack," LOL LOL LOL

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Deliberate dispossession is the topic of discussion on a few more outlets.

Dispossession is the end game - Covid is related - the ''pandemic'' which was about a lot of things but also served to increase debt which becomes a tool for those in pursuit of the great taking.

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Oh, they're already TAKING. Trust me on that.

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100% they have indeed.

Even though it appears to run counter to anarchistic ideology - simmering in the cauldron of the financial elite is the confiscation of assets [which would invite questions about the entire concept of ownership]

A detailed explanation about confiscating assets in this conversation between David Webb and Edward Griffin - ''End central banking power'' https://bigpicture.watch/

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I'm aware. Here's another source:

https://stream.gigaohm.bio/w/cHUfaKFthRJWBmhHdf4rjD

This is not a trick. But it's like, 2 hours long and sort of a slog... probably pretty much the same as yours above, which I will watch, and I've seen several things from E. Griffin. David Webb, I know that name, but not sure from what! Maybe I've seen it. Cheers.

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Okay, NOT the same. HAVEN'T seen it. Watching now. Thx.

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YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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I did write an optimistic song for the normies though Doomsday Prepper

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gtsRhv0gj5Q&pp=ygUgRG9vbXNkYXkgcHJlcHBlciB0aHVtYm5haWwgZ3JlZW4%3D

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Nice!

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I can’t tell you how much this resonates. In 2020 I learned three large equity firms owned almost everything at my local rural stupidmarket. I felt the thick tight not. I have 10 acres of forest fruit and nut chickens vegies off grid powered water everything. But. You can’t stem this tide and I’m just one guy with a family and this is going disastrously. I haven’t met anyone jabbed off-grid. They can’t see the deep dependency. The already bent knee. They are my brothers and sisters and they are taking me with them.

For now it’s “life-hack” like I’ve never life-hacked before.

Like the Luddite before me - me days are numbered.

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ALL our days are "numbered." But I see so much HOPE here... We have to do the SLOG before we can embrace the life we're meant to have... I think we'll get there, I just hope that I'll live to see it happen. Hold Fast!! xo

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The Mystics Keep You Hypnotized While They Steal The Whole World

https://roundingtheearth.substack.com/i/146780664/the-mystics-keep-you-hypnotized-while-they-steal-the-whole-world

Tokenized, Inc: BlackRock’s Plan To Own The Fractionalized World

In the aftermath of the recent Bitcoin ETF approvals, BlackRock’s Larry Fink revealed that soon everything will be “ETF’d” and tokenized, threatening to fractionalize not just existing assets and commodities, but the natural world, reducing most living things into Wall Street financial products to be traded on a single, universal ledger.

https://unlimitedhangout.com/2024/02/investigative-reports/tokenized-inc-blackrocks-plan-to-own-the-fractionalized-world/

"This is corporate capture down to the molecule: a ledger entry for the protons in the new and improved fractionalized atom – courtesy of Larry Fink and his Tokenized, Inc."

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EFF Larry Fink, the man with the appropriate last name.

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Brilliant stuff! At 61, the revisioning of society is something I have been working on a long time.

I think Native peoples had a better plan, and some of those ways are coming back - Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Earth-honoring ceremonies, subtle and powerful practices from sweat lodges to rain dances to a thousand other cultural adaptations, all providing orientation and support for being in the world. I have had at least one amazing experience with a multi-pronged Native-led successful action protecting land and water from terribly destructive fracking operations. I think such leadership is likely humanity's best hope. And we are all indigenous to somewhere - it's mostly a matter of decolonizing our minds to learn to cooperate again. When we humble ourselves, we begin to relearn the power of liminality and emergence, resonant fields, and other sane holistic ways of organizing our communities. This may seem new-agey to some, cutting edge to others, but they are also part of the ancient ways of knowing that are our inheritance as human beings.

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With this, and your previous book review article, it now feels a lot better to keep living here in rural France - there are, indeed, still bright philosophical candles in France amidst all this darkness.

There was a bit of a trigger with that Carrefour picture at the top though - our local supermarket is a Carrefour (and it has a monopoly). Still, with no car, cycling the 7km to town on market days and buying proper food is a very healthy pleasure. That kind of life does still live on...

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"Emancipation, for the working classes, was thus not about being freed from tasks linked to everyday life, but about abolishing relationships of domination”.

The issue is how does any culture, or way of life avoid hierarchical relationships.

The human species is similar to the animal kingdom in that packs of creatures tend to establish a dominant leader.

In any case, humans would need to think like "hunter gatherers" where social stratifications did exist, however, these groups were probably not organized into class heierarchies, but divided by specializations.

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Something to do with Dunbar's number - which comes from humans originally living in groups of 150 - a bad guy trying to get into a leadership position in a small group like that would be ostracised very quickly.

We might also call it localism, perhaps.

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Sorry for over comments.

Permaculture doesn’t address the system breaking aspects of this article but does give a VERY clear action based vision of where we need to walk. Low energy, high autonomy community and self reliance based on earth and people care achieved with thoughtful design and implementation.

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Are you the translator?

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Not of the whole book, no. I have just translated the passages featured in the review, so that those who don't read French can at least get a flavour of what Berlan is saying.

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Thank you for clarifying.

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I so much agree with this, except, that it started with the colonization of our spirit. the big 3 religions. they had to be in place before any industrial takeover could thrive, it was they that broke the clan system, where extended families were there to support people. because large family groups are real wealth. the family was the source of spiritual practice, not the church, synagogue or mo sq. the family was the source of healthcare, of manufacture. women often did well, in producing fabric, and clothing for trade.

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There has certainly been a long process of disempowerment, spiritual and physical, which made industrialism possible..

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We get what we deserve. If we have no spiritual or religious understanding and self discipline to go with it, the result of our collective karma is this hell realm.

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And those are the qualities we now need to nurture and restore, to enable us to get out of this mess.

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Incredibly insightful, thank you. Seeing it all laid out like this is salutary and quite depressing, but I can't disagree with any of it, and even those of us who might have done well out of the system are still just its prisoners in the end. The one saving grace to date has been that the system needed most of us (in the West at least) to help it make money, but it's pretty clear that deindustrialisation and the growth of robotisation and AI mean that will soon no longer be true. At that point most of us are Harari's useless eaters, and then what does the logic of the system suggest happens to us?

Even the kind of radical deindustrialization and degrowth some kind of return to a more autonomous system would imply probably also implies the demise of the majority of the population as the growth and debt based economy collapses. I have an unpleasant feeling our overlords are fine with that part but also full speed ahead on the dispossession of whoever's left. Not sure how we close Pandora's box at this point - it feels several centuries too late.

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What Is To What Is To Be

A bird's-eye view for us down here

https://tomg2021.substack.com/p/what-is-to-what-is-to-be

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