- Actually, this gluttonous festival of consumption began
in earnest when Ronnie made it all VERY fashionable with "GREED is
GOOD!" (A line from Wall Street memorialized on film).
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- But that was only the beginning because his polices
were founded on this idiotic stone of self-defeat that "Only suckers
"give" or give-back to society - "winners" TAKE it
ALL, without apologies: and between these two impossibly simplistic statements
- the fate of billions of people was sealed.
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- The world has forgotten just how much people had
to suffer these same axioms before: Always the same dominant monsters
controlling it all (the MONEY*CHANGERS). In the twilight of the Dark
Ages there came into the world what we look back on now as The Renaissance,
that 'golden age' that was the artistic and scientific explosion of breakthroughs
that coincided with the beginning of the Inquisition, and the penury of
most of the ordinary people of the time. In 'art' the church was King,
Queen and 'god' to every working craftsman in Europe - and the 'courts'
of monarchies were only eclipsed by the Holy Roman Empire of the Church.
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- Society chose to remember ONLY the Renaissance and
skip over things like the Black Death (precursor to everything else -
another model for the New World Order's way of death) that killed a third
of the existing world then - or the Inquisition that made a total mockery
of not only the rights of most human beings, but of any semblance of the
individual's right over his or her own life. Because collectively "we"
still fail to remember the prologue to our own existence - we must now
repeat it at a million times the severity of those early days of massive
crimes and tortures so freely dispensed by the rich and powerful.
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- The hidden beauty in what is happening now lies in
how much is just now finally beginning to take root in the awareness of
many more people than ever before. Of course in this highly charged and
polarized environment very few will notice - and yet the power of what
is being given to us all is vast-enough that some of it must get through
the jungles of our collective nightmares that keep us from seeing what
is right in front of every one of us. Things like Zeitgeist, the film
(1) lays out the origins of why and how we came to personify the heavens
and later on the worlds of myth and power that stem from all of that -
and this left us with George Carlin's five minute take on the needs of
'religion' as the pretext for all that has now come after that. Yesterday
Naomi Klein's new book came out - The Shock Doctrine - The Rise of Disaster
Capitalism: (2)
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- These two breakthroughs in the way we collectively
view the world and what continues to happen in it - could easily form
the foundation for a new renaissance that enables us to finally throw
off the heavy chains of the metaphorical along with the very real imposition
of slavery, in which we are still pretending that we can "live."
To be alive involves a hell-of-a-lot more than just breathing. Actually
LIFE is not present in those people who simply follow their dogmatic-routines
and remain apart from any real involvement with what they claim to be
their existence. Life is about imagination, creativity and promise -
it's about hard work and the gratification that comes from being part
of the life of others in ways that add to the health and well-being of
the society: instead of just stealing from everyone and everything else
that's still out there.
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- The global solution to our problems has always received
the same response from those "in-charge in any era" - and that
is "It's time to move-on, because CHANGE* HAPPENS." How convenient
for those who ought to be in prison or at least before the courts - yet
because of the artificially fast-pace of this society that values data
over knowledge and accumulation over thought: we have yet to pause and
reflect-as members of a society. What we're doing now is tantamount to
trying to run full-speed through a tropical jungle of very real dangers
- and that simply cannot be done.
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- Every step in that kind of jungle is weighted with
potential problems, quick-sand, poisonous plants and animals, clutches
of undergrowth that would stop a bull-elephant - and yet the yuppies
think that they can conquer all on the laptop of their lives - if only
they have "the data". . . and THAT given this six minute video
(3): is never going to happen! Because it is NOT the data that matters
but what we do "with it" - that ultimately counts!
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- Of course the problem for those who really are trying
to run through the jungles of their lives - is that within seconds they'll
smash head-on into a tree, or step off an unseen cliff, or just be swallowed
up within the darkness - maybe they'll be buried- alive in the unseen quicksand
of everything that will assail them instantly. It's the same reason that
no one tries to drive 200 miles an hour through any city's streets: and
yet millions of sheep keep trying to do this in order to obey their political
shepherd's orders: and that, by any definition, is sheer insanity!
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- We are all just people. At the moment we're still smarter
than the machines, and the one thing that makes us different are our
cognitive abilities to think, to reason and to critically weigh the choices
that we face: after which we must act on what we finally decide to do
- because that's what makes 'humans' into "BEINGS."
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- kirwanstudios@sbcglobal.net
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- 1) Zeitgeist the movie
- http://zeitgeistmovie.com/
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- 2) The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
- http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18327.htm
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- 3) The SHIFT
- http://www.glumbert.com/media/shift
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