Occupation

Well… these last few weeks have been very interesting to say the least. There have been a lot of promising trends… but also a lot of discouraging ones too. The public occupation of Wall Street went off to a bit of a rocky start, with an underwhelming turnout in the beginning, but with the police doing the usual Statist pimp slapping, and videos of this going viral on the internet (since the Old Media preferred to pretend it wasn’t happening), it ballooned very quickly, and as of this week, it has gone global. A number of events are even taking place down here in Australia… sadly none in my city.

So what is my impression of Occupy Wall Street, or rather… Occupy Earth? I have mixed feelings. On the whole I find it very encouraging, but I definitely have some concerns.

OK, so to get what I find discouraging out of the way… firstly, there’s a very strong vibe that reeks of Marxist class warfare. While I definitely agree that the big mega-banks such as Goldman Sachs are getting a way too easy ride at everyone else’s expense, its not a matter of ‘The 99%’ being an issue of rich and poor. This ’1%’ that have stood in the way of our freedom and prosperity are in place because they have been able to get into and use the government to force their terms upon the rest of us.

One of the mechanisms of this control system that is key to the continuation of the oligarchy is the Federal Reserve. Ultimately this applies to every other central bank in the world with the authority to churn out fiat currency, but what makes the Federal Reserve especially heinous is the fact that it is a privately owned bank masquerading as a ‘federal’ bank. Its taken a lot of effort for people like Alex Jones, Ron Paul and their supporters to educate people of this fact.

But does millionaire film maker Michael Moore recognize that the Federal Reserve is at the heart of the problem? Well…

And there is definitely a loud presence of people who agree with Michael Moore’s message that capitalism at fault for corporatist collusion with government. Now… ultimately I have to question whether Michael Moore really is all that genuine about his criticism of capitalism. The millions of dollars he made on his many documentaries over the years (though I do admit to liking Bowling For Columbine) wouldn’t have been possible without capitalism… or rather, that tiny sliver of it that is left in America. Not to mention the cameras and DVD players used to shoot his films and distribute them, and the stores that sell them wouldn’t have been possible without capitalism. The cellphones and cameras used by those who fall in line with his stated belief in socialism are capitalist innovations that wouldn’t have been possible just ten years ago. Hell, you could even buy his documentaries digitally on such software as iTunes thanks to capitalist innovation.

To say that capitalism is the problem is akin to dealing with your house’s roach problem with dynamite. Yes… there is a very unpleasant element in the marketplace who absolutely detest competition with more competent players in the market and will squeeze them out using all manner of unscrupulous tactics. I don’t doubt that. But the most unscrupulous tactic they have at their disposal comes thanks to this socialist idea that we need a big government to take care of everyone. They will use the government to push for crippling regulations against their competition and will have themselves granted exceptions (as an aside, this is why the carbon tax will do nothing to stop pollution and will just make everyone who is not General Electric pay more for everything… but that’s a story for another blog post).

A discouraging development very much related to the Michael Moore/Democracy Now/smelly leftist college kid bloc I’ve mentioned is the concerted effort by certain groups to try and co-opt the movement. Of course, it shouldn’t be all that surprising that George Soros types would attempt to take control and ownership of this movement, or claim credit for creating it… after all, the Tea Party began as a libertarian group out to promote Ron Paul and ending the Federal Reserve and the government bailouts and by early 2009 had become the circus we now know it to be. It would do a great disservice to the legions of people worldwide who are participating in these protests for Occupy Wall Street to turn into the Leftist Tea Party. An opportunity of this scope to challenge the global ruling establishment might not come again for quite some time if this gets quashed the way the Tea Party did. Worse still, there are some zombies out and about pushing to reelect Obama.

Also, for the first time in my life I saw a real hive mind, and I have to tell you, seeing so many dead souls in one place does give me chills

Finally, I get uncomfortable with the obsession with ‘democracy’ that is rife amongst all of these protests. Its a shocking thing to hear, I know, but I don’t like democracy. I see it as the ultimate form of collectivism, as the individual is completely trampled on by the majority. In fact a segment of the population as large as 49.9% can be preyed upon by a segment as small as 50.1%. I’m an anarchist… I see the prospect of a person having their life or their property voted away by a collective bloc of voters as something equally as heinous as that person having their life or property seized by a dictator or an oligarchical group of ‘elites’. If I absolutely had to pick one system of government over all others, republic is definitely how I’d roll. Having checks and balances in place to keep the government as small as it is functionally possible to be, and the liberty and property of individuals being protected is preferable to all of the others. But since the United States (and Ancient Rome) began as a republic and has reached this point of being on the precipice of a descent into despotism, I’d only ever think of the Republic as a temporary solution… a stepping stone on the way to getting rid of government altogether.

But its not all bad. If we can all keep it outside of the Lefty-Righty box that has been used to divide and conquer us, I think we do have a chance at a peaceful revolution out of this. There are definitely some very encouraging developments out of this movement as well.

For one thing, as I already mentioned, there’s a visible element who rightly identify the Federal Reserve as a major part of what’s so wrong with this system. Out of this, there’s a golden opportunity to educate on the fact that the Federal Reserve is about as ‘Federal’ as Fed Ex and is owned privately. Its also a golden (pardon the upcoming pun here ) opportunity to promote an alternative to fiat currency.

The fact that the banksters of Wall Street are also being put on notice goes to show that many are waking up to the idea that the government is not going to change things, that in fact they are more interested in taking bribes from the bankers. Of course, lets not forget who really rules the world…

Of course, with so many people rallying before this idea that the big banks are screwing us, here’s an awesome strategy to really hammer the message home…

If you’re still banking with Chase (J.P Morgan), Citibank, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, or any of the other large banks who screwed up, and you hate the way they do business… I really have to ask, why are you still banking with them? If you went to a restaurant only to find that the waiter is rude, obnoxious and unclean, the food is awful, there’s a foul smell wafting out of the bathroom and there’s a biker bar owned by the Hells Angels playing excessively loud music next door, would you ever do business with that place? What makes the banks so special that you should ignore all of the fraud, reckless gambling of your money and the fact that they can cry ‘too big to fail’ to get free money from the government after they trash the entire financial sector of the economy? This is something that I’m sure many people are starting to get. Go open an account with a credit union, or find a bank that knows not to gamble away its customers’ savings and crash the economy.

On another note, down here in Australia, it sounds like Occupy Sydney and Occupy Brisbane started fairly well. I definitely like that Occupy Sydney is situated outside the Reserve Bank, Australia’s counterpart to the Federal Reserve (apparently its just as privately owned as the Fed too). If I can get to Sydney any time soon, I’m definitely swinging by that way. Maybe I’ll have some photos and video to put up if I do.

So, much as I have my concerns about certain elements of Occupy Wall Street and all of its adjoining worldwide protests, so long as it remains leaderless and the focus can remain on the banksters and the Federal Reserve, Reserve Bank or any of the other privately owned banks masquerading as publicly owned, state run central banks, and we remember that government helped create the problem, so its not a good idea to look upon them as the solution, this could very well be the big break the people of this world have been looking for… a once in many generations opportunity at a real revolution through peaceful non-compliance.

Strawmen, Scapegoats And The Invisible Army Of One All Seeing Eyed Monsters

I’ve deleted most of my most recent blog posts. It is mostly because reevaluation of a lot of what I said in the past has led me to question it all. I pretty much failed in remaining objective and level headed as I delved into ‘truther’ territory, and that is something I gladly own up to. One of the issues that often comes up is the inability for people to own up to it when they mess up. Here’s a little secret that took me all too long to learn: Its OK to mess up. Mistakes are valuable opportunities to learn. Anyway, I was quite impressed with Charlie Veitch’s apology to the internets

The way I see it… with this Occupy Wall Street thing spreading globally (and apparently with George Soros desperately trying to co-opt it in order to neuter it and the old media desperately trying to either ignore or diminish it), its a good a time as any to extend our olive branches. Sadly, there are still a lot of so-called ‘truthers’ who aren’t exactly feeling that vibe of unity, apology and forgiveness. Trolls continue to harass Charlie Veitch, and I started seeing claims that even Anonymous are supposedly a Masonic front.

One phrase I’ve coined, though I certainly don’t claim to be the first to say it is this: “Careful not to open your mind too much… your brain might fall out.”

Anyway, with all of this demonization of Freemasonry in the so-called ‘truth’ movement, I’ve had to take a few days to step back and think about it. Not to mention do some research of other perspectives. The conclusion I’ve reached is that it looks increasingly like the Freemasons are an easy scapegoat. They have a long history of persecution, particularly by religious groups who tried in the 19th century to stir up anti-Masonic hysteria. Somehow, the old hatreds have burned on into the present day, driven by blatant cherry picking of quotes by Albert Pike.

Am I saying that all Freemasons are innocent? Hardly. But this is an organization with millions of members globally… a few oddballs might slip through the cracks here and there. There have also been some very exceptional people into Freemasonry, including the American Founding Fathers. If the Freemasons were really out to build a totalitarian world government, it hardly makes sense for them to found a constitutional republic on the principles of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Sure, I’d prefer an anarcho-capitalist society to a republic, but ultimately, republic is the best you’re going to get when it comes to government (yes, its even preferable to so-called ‘democracy’).

So, with that out of the way, I also have thoughts about that other secret society whose name is bandied about by so-called ‘truthers’: The Illuminati.

What I’ve come to realize is that the ‘Illuminati’ are the ultimate boogeymen. They are an invisible enemy that nobody can even prove exists beyond the ‘official’ disbandment of Adam Weishaupt’s Bavarian Illuminati group. In fact they’re almost as impossible to prove as the reptilian hybrids that David Icke talks about. I’m still pretty much keeping an open mind as best I can (without letting my brain fall out ), but ultimately, I don’t see the Illuminati as much more than a phantom, and invisible army of one All-Seeing-Eyed monsters like the Communists who weren’t hiding under McCarthy’s bed.

The way I see it is this: In all of the media, you’d be very hard pressed to find positive portrayals of the Illuminati, beyond your typical History Channel documentary talking about Weishaupt’s group in Bavaria being a gentleman’s club of freethinkers who secretly gathered to talk science and philosophy forbidden by the Church. In video games like Deux Ex, in novels like Angels and Demons and in movies and music, they tend to be portrayed as the invisible hand driving the antagonistic force in the story. I have to ask this: who does it benefit for ‘truthers’ to be chasing these phantom one eyed monsters? Either its all a distraction, they really don’t exist anymore, they’re counting on us fearing them too much or, <gasp><shock> they might just be getting a bad rap just like the Freemasons, who we actually know exist.

So, do I no longer believe conspiracies are happening? I definitely wouldn’t say that… after all, false flags keep happening, as does collusion between big banks and government and this whole global warming thing is definitely a hoax and stinks of a post-industrial zero growth agenda. I’m just saying that I don’t think that this anti-Masonic hysteria is entirely rational, and this anti-Illuminati hysteria is looking to me at this point like a pointless witch hunt. I’m right back to the mindset that ‘truthers’ all too often give those in power too much credit. I don’t think the so-called elite are doing this crap because of some generations long plan for a ‘New World Order’, I think they’re trying (and failing) to do it because its becoming impossible for them to hide their criminality and are trying to psych us out, to make us feel like its hopeless, that nothing can be done, that we ought to just get used to the idea of serfdom coming back. They can’t win when we don’t fear them anymore and I really believe we’re close to that point now.

The Only Thing We Have To Fear…

So… after a bit of soul-searching, and a bit of further research, I figured that much of the world of conspiracy theories is extremely questionable at best. Its just the kind of thing that has so many people absolutely petrified of the outside world, chasing their own tails and not getting any closer to any kind of truth about what they’re on about. There is also a tendency to be extremely dogmatic about it. One thing that illustrates this is the recent hype about Elenin culminating with Obama’s visit to Denver, where the infamous Denver International Airport is, with all of its gruesome murals and Masonic symbols. I never really bought into it myself, seeing as how just about every comet that passes us is held up as a sign by the batshit crazy that the end is nigh.

The obsession with symbols on corporate logos would be another example, like you can’t depict an eye without it being the same All-Seeing Eye as the one associated with the Illuminati, like a bull can’t just be a bull, it has to be a depiction of some old dead Middle-Eastern god that you are being tricked into ‘worshipping’ through buying the product.

Really… if everything really was owned and controlled by the ‘Illuminati’, including every opposition to them including a LEADERLESS ‘group’ like Anonymous, why even bother opposing anything then? Why even bother taking any kind of meaningful action to bring this system down? Hell, why even bother going on living if its the destiny of all of us to be wiped out to get the population down to what the Georgia Guidestones say it should be?

Of course this dovetails into something else I’ve grown to really abhor about the so-called ‘Truth’ Movement. There’s so much damn infighting. Whether its Alex Jones being labeled a pawn of the Jesuits, David Icke being ‘outed’ as a Reptilian himself, Ron Paul being called out as ‘controlled opposition’ for allegedly making certain hand-signs, the crucifixion of Charlie Veitch for daring to commit the unforgivable heresy of changing his mind about 9/11 or the demonization of anyone who gets big enough to earn mention in the Old Media, its absolutely asinine.

It has left me wondering just what kind of person you have to be to not be either a member of the cabal, a willing servant of the cabal, an unwitting useful idiot or a blind sheep, and I have to say, it ain’t pretty. They’re too damn busy pointing the finger at others, when if they really want to see someone who is helping spread darkness in the world, they need only take a look in the mirror, because the fear they’re helping to spread is very unhealthy to say the least.

I probably seem like I’m giving these people a hard time now. After all, I of all people should know irrational fear as intimately as one should know thyself. I’ve battled crippling anxiety issues for as long as I can remember, and being dragooned into such a brutal, Lord Of The Flies free-for-all in the schoolyard certainly exacerbated this. In hindsight there were definitely things I could have done differently if only I had the right guidance. I sure as hell know what it feels like to be in such a fear based paralysis that I literally can’t muster the nerve to step out that door. I’ve been there. But there comes a time when one needs to stop externalizing everything they’re so afraid of, and work on the darkness within.

Yes, there are definitely conspiracies happening. Yes, there’s definitely a lot of things the powers that be are not telling us about such things as the extra terrestrials, what goes on beneath the Vatican, or what’s in those vaccines that aren’t even putting a dent into the rates of disease in the Third World. Yes, bankers like the Rothschilds are definitely running the world through their paid shills in the government and presstitutes in the Old Media. Yes, Freemasonry gives me the creeps as well. But can’t you let in the idea that all this evil isn’t as omnipresent as you are thinking it is?

I’m sorry if I sound like I’m a shill at this point, if I sound to you like a heretic in the style of Charlie Veitch, but I’m just calling it the way I see it now. I really hate to have to say this to those of you stuck on these issues, but you are out of your minds and I would regret having delved into any of this stuff if not for the opportunity it allowed me to face some of my personal demons. So I suppose I can consider this particular blog post to be something of a catharsis.

Personally, I’m optimistic about the future. Yes, we’re going through a lot of pain right now, and there’s still more to come… but what we’re talking about here is almost completely unprecedented… dismantling such a firmly entrenched force as that which has gripped us for thousands of years takes a bit of time after all.

I know its going to drive a lot of these people crazy, and I really don’t like what this man did as President, but I’m going to quote him anyway: “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”

House Of Alastrian

So… I mentioned in my previous blog titled Why Do People Laugh At Truthers that in spite of the majority of what I write on here, I don’t live every day locked in the thoughts and ideas conveyed here… the ones that are absolutely out of most people’s comfort zones I’m sure.

Well… I’ve decided at long last that I want to blog about that stuff as well… seeing as how its something I enjoy doing with my spare time anyway. House Of Alastrian is my new blog where I will be writing exclusively about creative things such as video games, music, books and movies I enjoy.

Don’t worry… I haven’t decided to just apathetically sit in Love and Light like the New Agers, and I’m not going back to sleep or taking the blue pill so to speak… its just that I’m putting into action something I wanted to do for a while anyway that will be more cheerful and have wider appeal. It won’t be formal reviews with a score… more like the kinds of reviews that Zeitgeist Review over on YouTube does, or like Total Biscuit’s ‘WTF is’ first impressions of a game, and I will be trying to only talk about what I consider good. I figure Angry Video Game Nerd and Zero Punctuation have the shitty game rant market cornered anyway