by StarmanSkye » Fri Mar 24, 2006 9:57 pm
QQ said:<br>--quote--<br>I hope that humanity can move forward - through knowledge, conscience, hope, faith and love.<br><br>The majority of people deserve better than the life they live.<br><br>I hope there is a fundamental change coming. And I hope it's coming soon. I don't pretend to espouse an agenda or ideology as to how this will occur but I believe it will come through the majority exposing the minority for their continual crimes.<br><br>This may sound cliched, trad and inappropriate but to paraphrase from the Shawshank Redemption --<br><br>'Fear can hold a man prisoner. Only hope can set him free.'<br><br>--unquote--<br>Hear-Hear! Well-said.<br><br>I can't presume to have a good handle on what's comin' down the pike -- I sure see the incentive the Bush-fronted neocons have to hold onto power thru the fear-and-terror scene they've orchestrated, and so expertly exploited for their financial syndicate partners. And I *see* the coming impasse-confrontation between the US and China -- as I'm sure others here as well as Russia, the EU, Latin America and Africa have taken note of. Perhaps MOST of America's foreign policy for the past 30 years has been primarily about securing strategic resources -- certainly that's key to understanding the US's adventuring in the Middle East and its alignment with/support of brutal Indonesian policies in East Timor and West Papua, and its coup-support/planning in Venezuela and its covert subsidy of Sudanese violence.<br><br>Elites' hold on power has featured, they've become extremely adept at molding public opinion through controlling the press (including electronic media) and exploiting social tension, esp. playing opposing factions/interests against each other. The 'result' is to keep people so at-odds with each other over incidentals that there's no possibility of reaching wide consensus over the truly BIG issues -- war and peace, environmental decay, Global Warming and climate-change, chemtrails, economic disparity and injustice, wise-use energy and develoipment policies, energy diversification, genocide, institutionalization of human rights abuses, war crimes, weapons proliferation, trafficing and exploitation of people, nationalized debt-indenture racketeering, false-flag terrorism, political-illegitimacy and election fraud, feudal-corporatization, privatized military-intelligence complex -- <br><br>JeeZ -- Have 'we' ever been farther from being able to actually forge international cooperation on tackling some of these issues? We've been distracted and our collective energies dissipated, rendered impotent to create and take-part in effective social institutions to tap into, make full use of our vast capacity for intelligent decision-making, imagination, resourcefulness, inspiration, generous sharing, cooperation, peaceful co-existence, empathy, problem-solving ...<br><br>Basically, we've 'lost' the courage to stand on principle and struggle for our beliefs -- we no longer have reason to trust our 'leaders' or have confidence in our social institutions as we see the tremendous betrayals and corruption that have watered-down our unifying ideals -- we didn't call our politicians on the appearance of hypocrisy and fraud, we didn't demand they be held accountable for saying one thing and doing another, we accepted the lies of the Warren Report, the Tonkin Affair, Iran-Contra, Watergate, OKC, support for a long succession of brutal anti-democratic despots, Death Squads, the 'Drug Wars', the 'Evil Empires' and the 'War' on Terror, 'Justice for All', quaint and obsolete Human Rights conventions, 'justifiable' pre-emptive attacks based on fake evidence -- <br><br>As a nation, we've 'bought' the free-lunch/no-fault bait hook-line-and-sinker, no questions asked (hardly) -- It's the end-justifies-means idealogues on behalf of money and power that have ripped us off, kidnapped our national will and bribed our conscience, employing the latest Pavlovian conditioning techniques to turn-off our critical mind and replace it with a capacity for brand-loyalty impulses and name-dropping as an aid to upwardly-mobile social climbing.<br><br>It's to be seen when and how this 'experiment' in social conditioning will fail, will the laboratory-modified, reprogrammed masses go-along with the program of plodding-along in their mental harnesses, or will they revolt -- and most importantly then, correctly identify who the master-controllers are who have been controlling events behind the scenes, or will they lash-out at a convenient target-scapegoat or fallguy 'them'?<br><br>I think we give the PTB too much credit if we imagine they have everything well-planned long in-advance -- in reality, I think the PTB are a more amorpheous 'group' of similiar but conflicting agendas and interests, with shifting alliances and tactics making-use of fluid-changing circumstances -- thus the difficulty in identifying WHO some of these characters are and how they are linked -- let alone WHAT, specifically, they intend, when and how.<br><br>Cripes, it's a puzzle. <br>But to keep it simple -- Anything that disempowers the individual, that misinforms them or prevents them from acting on their own and community best interests, or that prevents them from working constructively with others to develop peaceful solutions to problems, or makes them dependant on some authority or subject to arbitrary rulings or favors -- is generally NOT a good thing.<br><br>Starman <p></p><i></i>
