Bizarro World - Government Created and Approved

[NightOwwl]

If you were free to leave an insane asylum run by the insane, would you stay and try to reason with the insane rulers, or would you put your health and welfare ahead of theirs - and run for safety?



You are in living in Bizarro World, programmed by the politician's aka wall street aka banker's media to believe this is it, this is all there is, this is life, this is normal. This is a lie. People believe the insane rulers are the only ones who can help the needy, the poor, the disabled, the less fortunate. This is a lie. People believe the only way to oppose the insane rulers is through anarchy and violence or apathy and dropping out. This is a lie. People believe the world will stop spinning without the insane rulers. This is a lie. The truth is, the insane rulers can't stand on their own. Without the people propping up their house of cards, they can't survive - and they know it.

They rape and pillage the people and the planet year after year. And we wring our hands and whine and point fingers - and put the rapers and pillagers back in office year after year. That is insanity.

Live in an insane asylum long enough, and you begin to think insanity is normal. They need us for their war machine and their profit machine, so they have convinced us - using well-known propaganda techniques - that they have a right to use us as their killing machines. This is freedom? One human owning the rights to another human's life? Yet people have been living with insanity for so long, instead of seeing this as slavery, women are demanding they also be allowed to be killing machines for the insane rulers.

As for The American Dream (aka The American Lie), if you think money and power is the be-all end-all to happiness take a look at the ones with most of it. There can never be enough money or power in the world to fill the black hole in their souls.

You can't beat them at their sick game, but you can choose not to play. Pay your taxes. Obey the rules of law. Don't give them any more of your energy, your time, your thoughts, your emotions, your life. Take care of yourself and the people you care about. If you are concerned and passionate about the state of the world - nothing and no one is holding you back from feeding the homeless or saving the environment, or getting out there in the world doing what you are passionate about. There are people working for a better world, but when you are only fed a diet of fear, terror, hate, anxiety and divisiveness - anything else seems unreal, fanciful and bound to fail. https://www.thevenusproject.com/en/

Of course, first you have to recognize that there is no two-party system. That's the big hurdle they put up - and it's a very big hurdle. A hurdle dripping with guilt and self-doubt. This is why political campaigns never end. Their very purpose is to drive a wedge between the American people and to up the guilt factor on the off chance someone tries to leave the asylum. 'You aren't going to vote? You traitor! If the enemy wins it's your fault!' As long as they have you believing that - you aren't going anywhere.

The world makes less sense every day. Little children are randomly slaughtered in their schoolrooms. Predator drones roam the skies over foreign countries exterminating bad guys, along with innocent women and children (collateral damage when it occurs in a foreign country). Drugged up mentally ill kids with no hope and no future live lives of secluded quiet desperation until they snap. Ignorant, government educated, welfare dependent drones with no self respect or respect for others, assault, kill and rob within their government created urban jungles. Sociopathic criminals who committed the largest financial crime in world history walk free and continue to occupy executive suites in luxury office towers in downtown NYC, collecting millions in bonuses as compensation for crushing the Am­erican middle class.  Academics, whose theories have been thoroughly disproven, continue to steer our economy into an iceberg while accelerating the money printing and debt issuance that will sink our ship of state. Corrupt, bought off politicians pander to the lowest common denominator as their votes are only dependent upon who contributed the most to their election campaigns, which never end. Delusional, materialistic, egocentric, math challenged consumers (formerly known as citizens) live for today, enslave themselves in debt, vote themselves more entitlements, and care not for future generations. The alienation and isolation created by our sprawling, automobile dependent, technology obsessed, government controlled, debt financed society has spread like a cancerous tumor, slowly killing our country.

“The real hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal. Many of them are normal because they are so well adjusted to our mode of existence, because their human voice has been silenced so early in their lives that they do not even struggle or suffer or develop symptoms as the neurotic does. They are normal not in what may be called the absolute sense of the word; they are normal only in relation to a profoundly abnormal society. Their perfect adjustment to that abnormal society is a measure of their mental sickness. These millions of abnormally normal people, living without fuss in a society to which, if they were fully human beings, they ought not to be adjusted.” -  Aldous Huxley

http://www.thedailysheeple.com/hey-you-are-you-just-another-brick-in-the-wall_122012

[Nuclear Unicorn]

1. You want bizarro?

I saw a thread the other day that said the corporations had captured the regulatory agencies meant to keep the corporations from devastating the environment so the proposed solution was to affect an ancient legal theory that the government holds the earth, sky and water in trust.

Apparently the solution to the fox watching the henhouse is to put more hens in the henhouse.

I made note of the seeming disconnect between intention and potential result but no reassurance was forthcoming.

[The_Commonist]

2. I'm sure you've seen this quote many times...

...and in fact, it says pretty much the same thing as your Huxley quote:

"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." - Jiddu Krishnamurti

I remember when I first read that, many years ago as a young person, long before the internet. It made total sense to me, and helped explain why I felt I didn't quite fit in to the rat-race society that so many people I knew seemed so enthusiastic about.

Sometimes I see people who are caught up in the insanity and the rat-race, and I just have to shake my head. It's gotten so it's just boring trying to "argue" or "debate" or attempt to "convince" anyone any more. Plenty of people "get it" and others don't. Many never will. I suppose all we can really do is try to mitigate the damage done by those who will never "get it." At least for now. Until we build a better system, if that's possible.

There does, however, seem to be a backlash building against the insanity. OWS, "Black Lives Matter," etc. And each day, I see more and more stories about situations where people and society just won't put up with it anymore. Today it's Kirby Delauter and Cho Hyun-ah.

More Krishnamurti quotes, many of which are relevant, if you're interested:

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/j/jiddu_krishnamurti.html

[NightOwwl]

3. Jiddu Krishnamurti's writings are very familiar to me.

I remember being part of that rat race. I always felt like an imposter - naturally I thought something was wrong with me, and until I realized it was the other way around - trying to fit into that little box called 'normal' almost killed me.

There are really only two things I can't abide in this world - cruelty against the powerless and willful ignorance. I was surprised to see so much of the latter on DU in response to a thread I posted a few days ago. When I posted a link to The Venus Project in response to what I thought was a serious question, the derision was instantaneous. These are people who are actively working to change the world, not from within a corrupt system, but a complete shift in the way we think and the way we live. And the very people who claim to want change, claim to be open-minded and progressive - this person couldn't even take the time to look at the website before responding with contempt.

It is still difficult for me not to take things personally sometimes, and I will say, I was surprised at how much some of the comments hurt. What's so ironic, is for many years I was a passionate supporter of the Democratic Party - yet because an idea caused people discomfort - I was deemed crazy and worse.

Isn't it funny / sad that the assumption is always that there must be a right and a wrong. So if an idea doesn't jive with someone, instead of just talking about it - the idea, and the messenger are both attacked.

I guess people are ready to hear when they are ready to hear, ready to see when they are ready to see. But I agree that the backlash is building. The legalization of marijuana may result in changes that are more than the politician's bargained for. They smell money - so nothing will stop this gravy train of legalization. But they haven't taken into consideration marijuana does have a tendency to open one's mind to alternate ways of looking at the world.

Thank you for your insightful comments; I had a huge shift in the way I experience the world; it can be difficult sometimes when everyone I know still thinks 'The American Dream' is the be-all, end-all. It's nice to know I'm not alone.

[NewDeal_Dem]

4. Though I agree with some of the sentiments, it's ridiculous to voice those sentiments

while advising people to nevertheless "pay their taxes" which also means "continue to fund bizarre world".

[NightOwwl]

5. They would go to jail otherwise.

One can live sanely in an insane world without resorting to breaking the law.

[NewDeal_Dem]

6. While funding the insanity? Doubtful. Also, that they have the funds to pay taxes

implies they're also contributing the greatest part of their day to helping the insane profit and expand the insanity.

[NightOwwl]

7. Sounds like you have come to a conclusion.

Thanks for reading my post. You might want to read the article I linked to as well, if you haven't already.

[NewDeal_Dem]

8. Sounds to me like you have. I've read plenty about jacques fresco and the venus project,

and the 'zeitgeist' sponsors, thanks.

[NightOwwl]

9. Then you know the Venus Project advocates a moneyless society

You said:

that they have the funds to pay taxes implies they're also contributing the greatest part of their day to helping the insane profit and expand the insanity.

Well, it implies they have a job that pays a taxable salary. If the Venus Project were to become a reality, your argument would become moot.

You are focusing on one sentence in a long post. The reality is, we currently live in a society with rules. Some man-made, many arbitrary. I don't see it as a choice between Door A - continue with the status quo and Door B - dropping out of society. It's more of a mental process than anything - moving your attention away from the constant hype and noise as you continue to live your life.