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'The elites run economies for themselves and their own benefit. They have set up central banks producing fiat money that generates endless booms and busts. This monopoly fiat system is intended to consolidate and centralize the economic vitality of the societies to which it is applied. In order to get people to go along with their own destruction, the elites had to create a system in which the average person was invested. In the US, especially, they did so through the creation of the "investing" meme and by inventing the inflatable fiat dollar, which virtually demanded that people had to do something with the eroding value of their "money." Even today, amidst the wreckage of their portfolios, middle-class Americans still view the breakdown of the elite's banking system with fear and are even confusedly elated when the US Federal Reserve prints trillions to salvage the elite's corrupt and devious monetary system. Too many remain trapped in the system as it is, and the "investing" meme is responsible, even though it is increasingly a threadbare and tattered one. The powers-that-be are beginning to cast it aside. It has served its purpose. The modern economy has been developed to support elite priorities but unfortunately, what the top Anglosphere elites seem to seek are dysfunctional and impoverished societies that won't oppose their globalist schemes. They're trying to create a dumb, poisoned, litigious middle class. It's both infuriating and diabolical. Western middle classes have been coerced into participating in their own demise. This is hard for people to accept.' -- The first rule of business...

'...there have been no substantial retrenchments of the US government, and the situation is getting worse, on a hyperbolic curve. Trends in motion tend to stay in motion until a genuine crisis changes them, and this trend has been gaining momentum for over a century. The fact is that when a government collapses, especially when the government is providing all the things the US government does today, people want somebody to fix it; they want their goodies back. It's well known that over 50% of the US population are net recipients of state largess. And the degree of state support and involvement in the US is far, far greater than it was in France, Russia or Germany. After a period of chaos, it's always the people who are most political, who have the most rabid statist ideas who get the public's attention and rise to the top. It seems highly likely that the US will get a savior, someone full of bravado, who assures the booboisie that he can straighten things out – if he is given sufficient power. Perhaps it will be an arrogant windbag like Gingrich, perhaps some general. The government won't wither away; it will reassert itself. I don't see any way around it, actually. We are already moving into a police state...' -- There's no stopping what can't be stopped, no killing what can't be killed.

"In an absence of principles all that guides you is immediate self-interest. That's the drugs, that's the sex, that's the divorce. Massive growth of the State. The National Debt. Without principles there's nothing to apologize for."

"Everyone can see this massive bulge of baby boomers is going into retirement... you've got these budding, newly-hatched, wrinkled vampires about to feast upon the jugular of the young, and they're just going to swarm them..." -- "Governments have no money. Repeat after me: Governments have no money: They steal through taxation, they borrow through debt, and they counterfeit through monopoly control of currency."

'You can compare Pig Narratives on the basis of the degree of prey liberty (or conversely, predator control) they represent, allowing you to plot the evolution over time. ...to remain secure, Pig Narratives must not be shifted too quickly, because they provide the functional logic of dominant institutions. Ideally, changes should be so small that the prey barely notices. Fortunately for the Pigs, Pig narratives are naturally hard to shift. Unfortunately for the Pigs, there is also a dynamic which forces rapid shifts despite their best efforts. This is the impact of the defining events for each generation, which provide the motivation and raw material for each rewrite, and therefore constrain the level of spin achievable. Things get garbled during such times, leading to widespread anomie among those waiting and expecting to be programmed by a Pig. The pig narrative is a normative behavior at the scale of the average life, and it can change no faster than the rate at which generations displace each other from the population.'

'This is a critical call to action #OccupyWallStreet. We must first end the global central banks and jail the criminals they employ before we can talk demands.' -- A challenger appears

'Revolutions are dangerous and unpredictable beasts, and for a population to enter into one without fully understanding what is at stake is much like handing a loaded 45 automatic to a toddler.' -- What have you bought into; what will it cost to buy you out?

'...the idea that Occupy Wall Street protesters have a right to share directly in the private profits earned by others is immoral. The protesters were correct in being outraged by having to share in Wall Street's losses. But if they do not want to share the losses, they have no right to demand a share of the profits! One protester equated the low wages paid by Wal-Mart to slavery, yet thought the government should take 70% of my income. In the case of Wal-Mart, employees are free to choose other jobs. What choice would I have when faced with a 70% income tax? They call it "slavery" when Wal-Mart offers workers better opportunities than they could find elsewhere, and "justice" when government enslaves me by forcibly taking 70% of the fruits of my labor. Another protester challenged my claim that businesses create jobs by stating that consumers create the jobs by spending money. When I asked him where the consumers got their money, he replied "from their jobs," which actually proved my point. Without jobs, consumers have no purchasing power. And without production, there is nothing to purchase. I'm calling for these protesters to educate themselves on the causes of the current financial decline and not to waste their time attacking the wrong target.'

'As Baby Boomers are discovering now, it was all something of a dream. In fact, here at DB we refer to the 20th century these days as a "dreamtime." It was a century when what we call "directed history" was in its heyday. The elites entirely controlled the media and could relate whatever stories they chose. The fantasy of stock market wealth was just that – a fantasy – for most people. Yet no dominant social theme was much more successful than the investment meme. In the 20th century and even today the Anglosphere elites continue to push the idea of "investing." The buy-in of the middle class means a psychological endorsement of the world as it is, including central banking and fiat money. it is all becoming increasingly evident in the 21st century: the manipulations, the control, the larger elite agenda. Many white-collar jobs are make-work and a modern, "investment-enabled" retirement tends to work only in the "up" part of the business cycle when fiat money is in demand. This extended down-cycle is going to be an extended and brutal one because of all the past re-stimulations of the world's economy.'

'The 1% do not generate any wealth of their own. Everything they have they get by taking from others under the cover of law. They live at our expense. Without us, the State as an institution would die. The State is the only institution in society that is permitted by law to use aggressive force against person and property. The State is the institution that essentially redefines criminal wrongdoing to make itself exempt from the law that governs everyone else. It is the same with every tax, every regulation, every mandate, and every single word of the federal code. It all represents coercion. The State is everybody's enemy. Why don't the protesters get this? Because they are victims of propaganda by the State, doled out in public school, that attempts to blame all human suffering on private parties and free enterprise. They do not comprehend that the real enemy is the institution that brainwashes them to think the way they do. They are right that society is rife with conflicts, and that the contest is wildly lopsided. It is indeed the 99% vs. the 1%. They're just wrong about the identity of the enemy.'

"We demand global democracy. Global governance for the people and by the people. Today we demand replacing the G8 with the whole of humanity: the G7,000,000,000." -- What have you bought into; what will it cost to buy you out?

'As we walked through the winding path in the park, I was handed materials from various occupants. One leaflet was titled “ARE YOU AN ANARCHIST?” After reading it, I’d have to say yes. I liked the quote at the end of the leaflet – “If voting changed anything, they’d make it illegal.” – Emma Goldman. There were some Chinese people protesting AGAINST the communist oppression in their country. I explained to my sons that this entire protest was really about their futures. The past and current generations in control had saddled their generation with unpayable debts and a system that will eventually collapse under the weight of military expenditures and entitlement promises that can never be honored. Young people have done what they were told to do by their parents and are left holding the bag, as the jobless recovery enters its third year. Meanwhile the Wall Street bankers are paying themselves billions in bonuses because somehow bank profits are “soaring”. The crowd was made up of normal people. It was made up of young, middle aged and old people. It was made up of men and women. It was made up of white people, black people, asian people, and hispanic people. It was made up of Republicans and Democrats. It was made up of you and me.'

'These self-appointed "leaders" (who do not exist, they say) such as DeGraw and Assange seem to have outsized clout in a movement that is supposed to be grass-roots and consultative. The non-leadership of OWS seems intent on focusing the movement directly on Wall Street and its captains of greed, despite dissenting voices and libertarian involvement. Zero Hedge carried an article yesterday warning about the scapegoating of Wall Street as a "catalyst for class warfare." The article cited a new poll commissioned by The Hill concluding that, "in the minds of likely voters, Washington, not Wall Street, is primarily to blame for the financial crisis and the subsequent recession." This does not seem to bother DeGraw who merrily soldiers forward as the scourge of Wall Street. Talk of guillotines, of the French Revolution and class warfare (that inevitably ends in the bloodshed of the middle class that DeGraw is supposedly avenging) seem not to bother him. Is DeGraw aware of history's lessons? If you don't change the system the problems will reoccur. Sure, punish people if it makes you feel good. Hang 'em high. Behead them. But first do SOMETHING SERIOUS. Confront the real issue, which is money creation and the euphorias it causes.'

'The protesters offer few policy prescriptions. Their goal seems to be adding to their numbers and thus magnifying their grievances. The Democratic party, meanwhile, is trying to figure out how to harness this energy for 2012.'

Vlad Teichberg, Co-Founder, globalrevolution.tv: "These principles of equality are going to redefine everything. Because we're basically creating the new United Nations except it's not the united nations, it's the united people." -- Useful idiots are useful

'The polls show a vast lack of even a modicum of confidence in political leadership, the failures of which are all around us. The longer the depression persists, the more the rebellious spirit grows, and it is not limited to the Wall Street protests. Poverty is growing, incomes are falling, business is being squeezed at every turn, and unemployment is stuck at intolerably high levels. People are angry as never before, and neither political party comes close to offering answers. The State as we’ve known it – and that includes its political parties and its redistributionary, military, regulatory, and money-creating bureaucracies – just can’t get it together. It’s as true now as it has been for some twenty years: the Nation State is in precipitous decline. Once imbued with grandeur and majesty, personified by its Superman powers to accomplish amazing global feats, it is now a wreck and out of ideas. It doesn’t seem that way because the State is more in-your-face than it has been in all of American history. The mask of the State is off. And it has been off for such a long time that we can hardly remember what it looked like when it was on. Fascism, like socialism, cannot achieve its aims. So there is a way in which it makes sense to speak of a stage of history: We are in the stage of late fascism. The grandeur is gone, and all we are left with is a gun pointed at our heads.'

'The anti-big business movement's now preparing to go international. Protests are due to take place in Canada, the UK, and are even spreading to Asia. RT's Priya Sridhar explains why people in India are preparing to join the "Occupy Together" club.'

"You who ask for welfare and handouts, and free education, free healthcare – are just as wrong as the 1percenters you protest. You're just not as good at using the guns of government as they are. The great divide is not between the 1percent and 99percent ... the great divide is between those who are willing to use the force of government to meet their ends, and the rest of us who want to find peaceful, cooperative, free-market solutions to society's problems – or at least, just want to be left alone by the moochers – the grandiose and the petty – and the social engineers, the deluded, the scammers, and even the 'well-meaning'."

'There are many people, organizations and media outlets within both the Democratic and Republican parties who are trying to label us as the Democrat’s version of the Tea Party. In this working groups opinion, not only is this incorrect, but in labeling us this way, you are, whether you realize it or not, undermining the very essence of this movement with your obsolete divide and conquer groupthink propaganda. Just as the mainstream media and both political parties aided and abetted the co-option of the Tea Party by the Republican Party, there is an attempt being made to do the same to us within the Democratic Party. We the People, We the 99%, are not the pawns of either wing of the two-party oligarchy.'

'All too often, humans have sought shortcuts in the path to a free world. They have done what emotionally and intuitively “felt” right without performing the necessary critical analysis required to truly “know” that it is right. It is only when we can configure our emotional wants and rewards to be in line with analytically sound mental constructs of causality that we will both be feeling like we are making a difference while at the same time actually be making one. These two outcomes, the perception of progress and actual progress, must never be confused; we can however work to make them congruent. A free world is being built today already by those who have understanding of its nature. It is not occurring through the passing of new laws, taxes, or treaties, the election of new local or global leaders, attacks upon perceived enemies and enslavers, or the occupations of public places and protests for a shift in power. It is being built through education of the intellectually curious, daily self-improvements, voluntary commerce, and the kindness we elect to bestow upon those who respond in kind.'

#OccupyTheFamily

'It sounds like the enemy is Wall Street, but observe that the slogan doesn't point to an enemy, it defines the group. The slogan is a twist on an old fascist standby: select a minority enemy, and create an impression of opposing unanimity. Once done, the leaders of the group have the powerbase to do what they want, making it impossible for anyone in the rest of the 98% to disavow this madness. When it all goes down you will be too terrified, or too busy, to dissent. -- Of course Wall Street has excessive profits, but just as your life has been an inflated delusion of easy credit, so has theirs; yes, they have received an obscene share of that fake money, and ten-twenty years ago maybe you could have redistributed that fake money, but that ship has sailed. The moment you take it away from them it ceases to exist, poof, it's gone. Double the taxes, triple the taxes, it makes no difference, it's over. The only way out is a massive tax on wealth; cold fusion; a war; a new media; or inflation. Inflation has the side benefit of pushing you into a higher tax bracket and we'll all get to see what a $1000 bill looks like. "We are the 99%." Stop it. There is a 1%, fighting another 1%, and while both of those megalomaniancs dominate the media coverage the other 98% has no recourse, no representation, no allies, and no savings.'

'This is not simply about “Wall Street,” this is about POWER. Those who have power, and those who don’t. When those who have power offer a hand in your struggle, their other hand holds a dagger. Remain grassroots, remain decentralized, remain outside and away from party politics, remain away from financial dependence. Freedom is not merely in the aim, it’s in the action. The true struggle is not left versus right, democrat versus republican, liberal versus conservative, or libertarian versus socialist. The true struggle is that of people against the institution: the State, the banks, the central banking system, the corporation, the international financial institutions, the military, the political parties, the mainstream media, philanthropic foundations, think tanks, university, education, psychiatry, the legal system, the church, et. al. In order to survive as a movement, money will become a necessity. Do not turn to the non-profits and philanthropic foundations for support. The philanthropies, which fund and created the non-profits and NGOs, were themselves created to engage in ‘social engineering’: to ‘manufacture consent’ among the governed, and create consensus among the governors.'

'...the protest isn’t angry. Quite the opposite, it is loving and accepting. If you go up to protesters with the opposite political view and debate them, they will express their undying love for you and ask for you to join them to increase the diversity of viewpoints. I did this myself, and watched this happen to others, including cops. This attitude pervades everything they do, and is frequently reinforced by the hard-core occupiers. They still haven’t defined themselves, and risk letting the press define the movement for them. They started out with the idea that occupying Wall Street for weeks would be a good way to get their message out, but they are still trying to come to consensus on what, precisely, their message is. The press (and critics) claim they need a message and that they need a concrete list of demands, but I’m not sure that’s true. This is something else, something new, something that doesn’t need to be defined by the old. In that way, it’s like the Internet.'

'...the reason why some mainstream news journalists and many of the audiences they serve see the Occupy Wall Street protests as incoherent is because the press and the public are themselves. It is difficult to comprehend a 21st century movement from the perspective of the 20th century politics, media, and economics in which we are still steeped. Occupy Wall Street is meant more as a way of life that spreads through contagion, creates as many questions as it answers, aims to force a reconsideration of the way the nation does business and offers hope to those of us who previously felt alone in our belief that the current economic system is broken. But unlike a traditional protest, which identifies the enemy and fights for a particular solution, Occupy Wall Street just sits there talking with itself, debating its own worth, recognizing its internal inconsistencies and then continuing on as if this were some sort of new normal.'

'Was this all the "free market" at work? Absolutely not! Here’s the question when you get down to it: Do you want to fix this or not? If you do then the demand is not for “single-payer health care” or “free college educations” or “debt forgiveness.” Those demands, if you succeed in obtaining them, will make the problem worse. You will become more of a slave through those demands, not less. The demand you must issue is that all the special protections that are currently afforded by government are to be dropped. The government props under home lending are taken away. The government mandates that people be treated medically irrespective of ability to pay and are able to cost-shift their care to others go away. The non-dischargable nature of student loan debt goes away. You can’t fix this any other way folks. I am well-aware that this goes against the grain of “I need it right damn now” that has imbued our society, but mathematics simply doesn’t care about whether you agree or disagree. It just is.'

'We are the 99 percent. We are everyone else. And we will no longer be silent. It’s time the 1 percent got to know us a little better. On Sept. 17, 2011, the 99 percent will converge on Wall Street to let the 1 percent know just how frustrated they are with living in a world made for someone else. Let us know why you’ll be there. Let us know how you are the 99 percent.' -- Letter submission tumbleblog

'Welcome to OCCUPY TOGETHER, an unofficial hub for all of the events springing up across the...' -- World: Asia, Australia, Canada, Europe, Mexico

'Protestor': "If it maximizes social justice..." -- Relativism. No Future.

'Despite their honest intentions, many of the Occupy Wall Street protesters are being suckered into a trap and calling for the very “solutions” that are part of the financial elite’s agenda to torpedo the American middle class – higher taxes and more big government. The zeal for totalitarian government amongst some of the “protesters” is shocking. One sign being carried around read, “A government is an entity which holds the monopolistic right to initiate force,” which seems a little ironic when protesters complain about being physically assaulted by police in the same breath.' -- Useful idiots are useful

'Though narcissism demands the right to self-identify, narcissists are often unable to do so because they don't know what it is they want to be. Who am I? What are the rules of my identity? So people look for shortcuts, like modeling oneself after another existing character. But the considerably more regressive maneuver is to define yourself in opposition to things. What do the protestors want? Can they articulate it meaningfully, not in platitudes or "people over profits" or "more fair income redistribution" soundbites? They can't tell you because they don't know. They can, however, yell at you what they don't like, and the louder they yell it the more they hear it themselves. If I hate the protestors, I'm on Wall Street's side, and vise versa, no further branding, let alone thought, is necessary. And now you have a quick way to decide if you hate me.'

...when the oppressive entity is so poorly defined (e.g. Wall Street, “the banks”, corruption) these protests always and without fail turn into protests against the police. ...iphones at the ready, praying someone maces them so they can get a video out of it. Here’s a clue that this is a pathologic narcissism, the nihilistic kind that 17 yo boys have when they threaten to kill themselves if their girlfriend leaves them: I actually agree with the protestors about Bank of America in principle, but because they are putting their identity ahead of the cause and are making it about themselves, I find myself hating them more than Bank of America. Their arrogance and entitlement drives me away from them, into the arms of their enemies. I’m hardly alone in this. Either they are not aware of this effect, in which case they are merely idiots, or the are aware of this effect and do not care.'

'We are coming to the big face-off between top-down control by those who would be gods over us and impose value on us, and bottom up creativity which recognizes that any “god” (energy, good, intelligence) comes up through us and is connected between us. It is this “within” and “between” well-negotiated and exchanged that produces real value. We need to transfer that growth and “frontier” mentality to non-scarce, non-material assets like learning, intellect, culture, music, community, family, creativity, human connection and interest. This is now happening. This movement will be driven by the younger, Generation X and millennial generations. Baby boomers may follow, but probably only after initially resisting, and trying to make the system work long enough so they can cash in their corporate 401(k)s and extract their welfare state entitlements. ...but eventually they will have to capitulate, find a renewed purpose, dust off their 60’s idealism, and reapply themselves.'

'The statistics, sociology, police brutality, massive food price increases and economic catastrophes behind the recent and continuing riots in Britain.' -- "A culture that is undermined and dissolved slowly through government regulations, through the tax incentives to bear children and live apart – results in young men and young women growing up without father figures, often in households where they have never seen anyone work." -- Pointing finger is pointing at government.

'COMMENTARY: In Europe and America a new type of conflict has been simmering for years. In Britain, in 2024 it is about to reach flash point. This conflict is different from anything that has gone before. Members of the same family will find themselves on opposite sides. PROF LAURENCE KOTLIKOFF (Author “The Coming Generation Storm”): It’s not a matter of if there’s going to be a generational fall out, it’s a matter of when and exactly how nasty it’s going to be. COMMENTARY: In twenty years time, it is the old who are in charge. The ageing population is bringing Britain to the brink of financial collapse. Which the young generation are about to ignite. CHET TREMMEL (Foundation for the Rts of Future Generations): We are not going to keep quiet when a band of pampered pensioners steal the future from us. COMMENTARY: The young of 2024 are becoming angry. They’re calling it generational fraud. Some have decided it can’t go on. YOUTH DEMO: We pay, they play, we pay they play…'

'The economic, political and social realities behind the rebellion of youth which cannot be resisted.' -- Pointing finger is pointing at government.

'In the past weeks there have been several attempts to disparage Anonymous. We have been branded as terrorists, traitors, and forces of evil. This forces us to ask you a question: Which is the greater evil, an organization that coerces its members with force and feels the need to steal from them in order to finance its own bloated corruption, or a voluntary group of [otherwise] free people who choose to expose lies told by those in power? -- Anonymous is an inevitable product of the internet. We are Anonymous. We do not forgive. We do not forget. [We have "government" guns to our heads.] Expect us.'

'Why does a 13-year old with a three-minute, basically homemade, song get so much attention? Perhaps, the amount of attention paid to her is inverse to how fearful people are about commenting on significant issues facing their lives. We would suggest what is going on is what Sigmund Freud called "displacement." People are angry at how their lives are turning out, worried about their futures and generally feel helpless and increasingly furious because of the collapsing economy. No one is going to get into trouble for criticizing Justin Bieber, even harshly. But make the wrong comment in the wrong chat room about, say, Barack Obama and the police may show up at your door. So much attention and vituperation. Western society is in decline. People are well aware – deep down anyway – what's going on. But because of society's larger sickness, their anger and frustration is being channeled into unusual venues and finds its expression in places where it might not be expected.'

'American youth are slowly realizing that the old system is broken, and no longer holds the answer to all their dreams and desires. Together, we’re learning that instead of waiting for politicians and corporations to fix the system, it’s possible to create a better one of our own, right under their noses. A new way of living, in which access is valued over ownership, experience is valued over material possessions, and "mine" becomes “ours” so everyone's needs are met without waste. Consumption is no longer an asymmetrical activity of endless acquisition but a dynamic push and pull of giving and collaborating in order to get what you want. Along the way, the acts of collaboration and giving become an end in itself.' -- Long list of schemes and services. Also: http://www.shareable.net/how-to-share

("But Mommy said I was worth customized content. Mommy customized me exactly to *her* specifications.") -- Bad parenting meets world -- http://youtu.be/P81bb0Tzwbo

'This cartoon from the talented Emi Gennis is the first from Shareable's Share or Die: Young in Recession series, which culminates in the release of an e-book in May.'

'Hosni Mubarak has resigned. The Egyptian "color" revolution (ie: a peaceable one), carried out by heroic people risking life and limb, has been apparently been a success. I only wish it were that simple. But there is ample evidence the revolution has been manipulated and that the Anglo-American elite plans to replicate the Egyptian revolution not just in the Middle East but worldwide via the use of the Internet and swelling youth demographics. The Youth Movements may offer us insights into how the elite intends to build a new world order, one regulatory democracy at a time. For the most part one may need pliable candidates in seats of power. And certainly the elite wants to be seen as participating in the transformative power of the ‘Net. It may even be that they’ve realized the inevitability of convulsive change and are trying to get out ahead of it and to control it via such artifices as AYM.' -- What have you bought into; what will it cost to buy you out?

'The tribes of the world are uniting. Tied together by the arteries of the information superhighway, citizens of common dreams and common causes are forming human bonds that transcend national borders, religious beliefs and political ideologies. Bigger than blogs and more influential than the social networks, TechnoTribes will rally masses with calls for action when rights are violated, lives threatened and/or change is needed. Distrusting of politicians and critical of their leadership skills, the egalitarian tribes will unite those who share civic interests, follow moral codes and believe in universal truths. These Global Agers will garner wide support from the intellectually disenfranchised that don’t dutifully respect institutional authority or blindly follow the leaders. Whatever the issues, wherever the events, armed with information and filled with data, TechnoTribalists will conclude for themselves what to believe rather than looking to others to be told what to think.'

'#15. People just know more than they used to. Dictatorships rely not just on the suppression of news but on the suppression of narratives and truth. More or less everything you need to know to make sense of the world is available as freely downloadable content on the internet: and it's not pre-digested for you by your teachers, parents, priests, imams. For example there are huge numbers of facts available to me now about the subjects I studied at university that were not known when I was there in the 1980s. Then whole academic terms would be spent disputing basic facts, or trying to research them. Now that is still true but the plane of reasoning can be more complex because people have an instant reference source for the undisputed premises of arguments. It's as if physics has been replaced by quantum physics, but in every discipline. -- ...are we creating a complete disconnect between the values and language of the state and those of the educated young?'

'It's one thing to say the poor/uneducated can't find work, it's another thing to say the explicitly desired outcome of this country's social and educational system can't find work. The supply is there; but there's no demand. And there's no demand because there's not enough people who create stuff creating stuff which would justify the other jobs. They never were creating new drugs, they were only creating new markets. ...markets were created to sustain both Lexapro and Zoloft; not one market with two products, but a doubling of the market. In a perfect world, Lexapro wouldn't have been invented, they would have worked on something else. But since they knew they could create a market for "another Zoloft," they took the easy route. And they hired a salesforce, accordingly. While that was good for Lexapro, it's terrible for the country. Temporarily – and ten years is temporary – hiring all these people to essentially duplicate efforts catabolizes resources from other industries.'

Gather round ye children come, Listen to the old old story, Of the power of death undone, By a computer born of glory, Son of Cyber, Son of OMM

'Partisan news missing the point: Youth, poor have greater reason for dissatisfaction than tea parties. Partisanship obfuscates truth. Global revolution?' -- Ya dun goofed and the youth have backtraced it.

'Like the punks of the past, British youths have taken to the streets. But they don't want Anarchy in the UK. They just want a job.' -- What have you bought into; what will it cost to buy you out?

'From Laurie Penny: "These young people are sick of leaders, even leaders our own age. They won’t be told what to do, but that sentiment is more of a honed manifesto than a collective teenage door-slamming strop. When the meeting is over and consensus reached, the collective slams back into action, planning an escalation in the protests leading up to the crucial vote on tuition fees later this month. These protesters have a honed protestant work ethic, a coherent ideological framework, stunning technological facility and absolutely nothing to lose. No wonder the administration is getting worried.“ -- And here from Phil: "Twitter is as capitalist as McDonalds. Facebook is fundamentally the same beast as Microsoft. Your internet connection is owned by a private company. Private ownership of the means of social media allows the ruling class to assert their monopoly over communication if needs be.”' -- Haha! "The means..." -- What have you bought into; what will it cost to buy you out?

"The cycle of life is that children are inconvenient when they're very young, and parents are inconvenient when they're very old."

'Society can try to make one feel like nobody, but the truth is we are born as somebody with a moral center. An enlivened childhood idealism can break up the rigid mask of adult persona, and fresh skin emerges out of the ‘One’-self. These ideals come alive within those individuals behind the masks of V around the world, and they are growing within movements like Anonymous and WikiLeaks. The darkness of the world, corruption and abuse of power represented by ... shadowy forces are within each person. Now many are coming to realize that they cannot run away from their own selves and that the darkness within must be confronted.'

"You're going to see a revolution worldwide. What's going to unite them is another major trend: Journalism 2.0. The internet has become the great connector. They all know what's going on."

'The public school system in the West is deliberately positioned to produce dumbed-down graduates. Industry in Western countries is so hamstrung by various regulations and tax provisions that those participating are actually helping to make them uncompetitive. Those who work in the public sector are also helping destroy the fabric ... that has nurtured their families in the past. The Anglosphere's organization of society has acquired the unwilling cooperation of the citizenry. People tend to believe that modern, Western cultures have evolved the way they have naturally. In fact, they have not. It is not normal for societies to have 30 percent unemployment. It is not normal for older people to find that their skills are unmarketable because they have "too much" experience. These deviant experiences are the hallmarks of a central banking economy that values destructive centralization over dynamic entrepreneurship and mindless production over creative profit-seeking problem-solving.'

NEVAR FORGET (when you were young and still believed in the lie called "government").

"Government" is not your personal army. -- What have you bought into; what will it cost to buy you out?

Doing it wrong.

What have you bought into; what will it cost to buy you out?

'(3) Internal Sacrifice Solution: If the leader cannot find an external enemy with whom to engage in a sacrificial war, he often turns to an internal sacrifice, either a violent revolution or an economic downturn. As Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon said in 1929 as the Federal Reserve pushed the world into the Great Depression, "It will purge the rottenness out of the system." Business cycles are driven by the manic and depressive cycles of group-fantasy, as manic defenses against growth panic are followed by depressive collapses into emotional despair and inaction. Depressions and recessions are thus not due to "the Invisible Hand" of economics but are motivated sacrifices that often kill more people than wars do, halting dangerous prosperity and social progress that seem to be getting "out of control." Periodic economic downturns are the antidotes administered by sacrificial priests for the disease of "greed." ..."greedy" childhood selves felt to be responsible for the trauma...'

'#Strong Phase: The leader is portrayed as grandiose, phallic and invincible, able to ... contain the unconscious anxieties of the nation; #Collapse Phase; #Upheaval Phase: The leader begins the upheaval phase pictured as a wimp, overwhelmed by poisonous forces, impotent to ward off disaster... Anti-children crusades multiply, attacking people's projected inner child for being spoiled, sinful, greedy and out of control. When the growth panic is at a peak, "poison alerts" are declared and fears of maternal abandonment and wishes for maternal engulfment and rebirth proliferate. Rational national progress seems to be unimportant, group-delusions and group-trance projects are at a peak, and action becomes irresistible as the nation searches for some magical restoration of potency. This restoration, rebirth or revitalization wish turns into a group ritual that at times can take one or more of three forms: (1) Regicidal Solution, (2) Martial Solution, (3) Internal Sacrifice Solution'

What have you bought into; what will it cost to buy you out?

"Motherland" -- Growth Anxiety: Inter-generational warfare, perpetrated by elder generation upon the younger generation. Elders send youngers off to fight foreigner "enemies" whom the elders have displaced their anger at youngers onto. Elders need to attack and punish the youngers for their enjoyment of freedoms that cause the elders anxiety about new possibilities to separate from mother they feel they can't anger for risk of the losing all hope of their love. Unprocessed abandoment trauma. Reactionary against progress. Fear of freedom. Fear of challenging mommy's narcissistic needs. Religious/Statist savior fantasies. "God" wears a dress. -- Parents believe child is going to fill emptiness within them. Doesn't happen: Parent false-self narcissism vs Child true-self narcissism. Child experienced as "selfish", "defiant". Parental rage, abuse, abandonment. "Mommy doesn't love me; I'm bad. I upset Mommy. Mommy, please love me!" Love not possible. Hope springs eternal. The cycle repeats.

'...advertising isn't our window on society, it is society's window on individuals... It isn't about being white or being a guy, but about the class of people who have inherited the earth and then withdrawn from it, leaving it to entropy. Those people are the privileged middle aged – the Dumbest Generation of Narcissists In The History Of The World, and society hates you. Society is disgusted by all of you, even as you are disgusted by it. But look up at the ads, the ones who have to suffer for it are the next generation. The ones you suffocate with your physical presence. ...the larger point is that everyone around you feels your apathy, it senses that you are zombies going through life, you would much rather be elsewhere. Like on your phone. That withdrawal from reality has not gone unnoticed – not by your kids or your spouse... ...the problem is you. It is always you. And unless you change that thing first, everything else will be futile.'

"When it comes to getting resources when you're old, there are three basic strategies: #1. Save. #2. Invest in your relationships so that when you need resources, people will care for you. #3. Con people as if you're a victim, completely glossing over the fact that you're not a victim, that you did drive away people from your life. ...the more people give you money and resources because of this con, the less valuable (from a purely pragmatic standpoint) it is for you to invest in your relationships. This is a fundamental way in which statism has truly and catastrophically weakened the family and other kinds of social safety nets. If you can get old age pensions then you kind of don't need to have a great relationship with your adult children. Resource consumption in old age is the result of the virtuous investment in prior relationships. People who exploit and abuse others and who end up with no resources when they get older are gamblers, they are responsible for their own misfortune."

'A new scam preys on the elderly by informing them they have died and instructing them to reroute their social security checks to the "Department of the Dead."'

"I want to live a life of the mind."

"Things are different for my generation." -- #fail faster

'Sorry about all this… but some boomer had to tell you the truth. So, what do you think? The discussion of this column is on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/notes.php?id=161502633

'I think it's likely that the U.S. government will default on its debt, starting with obligations to foreigners, and the government will end up having to make some humiliating concessions. For example, the Chinese might demand that the U.S. withdraw from Asia. China might insist that's going to take over Taiwan, Korea and Japan. Right now, the Chinese are rapidly building up their military capability. I don't know why they're doing it, but there has been speculation that they want East Asia to be their sphere influence, just as the Americas are our sphere of influence. Are we going to go to war if/when China makes Taiwan a protectorate, maybe paying tribute to the mainland government? Are we going to go war if/when China makes Japan their protectorate? I doubt it. Maybe, years from now, the United States ends up paying tribute to China, but I wouldn't expect that Chinese officials will establish offices in the U.S. to tell us what to do.'

'I am graduating. I should look at this as a positive experience, especially being at the top of my class. I cannot say that I am any more intelligent than my peers. I can attest that I am only the best at doing what I am told and working the system. I am supposed to be proud that I have completed this period of indoctrination. I will leave in the fall to go on to the next phase expected of me, in order to receive a paper document that certifies that I am capable of work. But I contest that I am a human being, a thinker, an adventurer – not a worker. A worker is someone who is trapped within repetition – a slave of the system set up before him. But now, I have successfully shown that I was the best slave. I did what I was told to the extreme. -- I am now enlightened, but my mind still feels disabled. We are the new future and we are not going to let tradition stand. We will break down the walls of corruption to let a garden of knowledge grow throughout America.'

'Not sure what the New York Times is trying to do. I guess create ‘compelling cultural content’ that is sharable + can ‘drive mad hits.’ Anyways, they made another zany article about ‘hipsters in Brooklyn’ have ‘started to’ ‘dumpster dive’ behind high-end grocery stores. Not sure if this writing is ‘real.’ Maybe NYTimes is now just some sort of complex art piece/satirical commentary on modern journalistic techniques. Let's 'remix' dumpster food. Do u ‘call bullshit’ on this event/trend? Should I shop at Target, Walmart, or just dumpster dive? Does ‘trash’ belong 2 no1, or is it the owner’s right as an American to know that their garbage wasn’t re-used or recycled in any format?'

'There is no money to pay for your retirement. Here's a way forward.' -- What have you bought into; how much will it cost to buy you out?

'In this story, survivors of a global thermonuclear war live in isolated enclaves in California, surviving off what they can scrounge from the wastes and supplies delivered from Mars. The older generation spend their leisure time playing with the eponymous doll in an escapist role-playing game that recalls life before the apocalypse — a way of life that is being quickly forgotten. At the story's climax, a couple from one isolated outpost of humanity play a game against dwellers of another outpost (who play the game with a doll similar to Perky Pat dubbed "Connie Companion") in deadly earnest. The survivors' shared enthusiasm for the Perky Pat doll and the creation of her accessories from vital supplies is a sort of mass delusion that prevents meaningful re-building of the shattered society. In stark contrast, the children of the survivors show absolutely no interest in the delusion and have begun adapting to their new life.'

'Did this article ‘uncover’ anything ‘insightful’? Do 20somethings need to ‘get their shit together’? Will Gen Y ‘retire’ without a retirement fund? Should we all just continue trying to be bloggers/social media gurus/buzzband members, instead of getting jobs as teachers/insurance agents/bank tellers? Will there be some sort of “Recession of Chill” when 20somethings don’t accomplish their dreams? Will u land ur dream job, or is ur head in the clouds? Do parents have a responsibility to get their kids’ head out of their asses, even though their children now ‘look like grown ups’? What is more interesting: the era of articles abt Gen Y ‘using the internet a lot’ or the articles abt Gen Y ‘growing up and not having real jobs’? Should I get my life together before it is too late? Should I just go to ‘grad school’/law school to extend my youth? Am I ‘above’ 98% of the job opportunities that are available for me? Does n e 1 know if it is true that every human on Earth will die one day?'

'The majority of those interviewed stated . . . that nobody has any natural or general responsibility or obligation to help other people. . . . Most of those interviewed said that it is nice if people help others, but that nobody has to. Taking care of other people in need is an individual’s choice. If you want to do it, good. If not, that’s up to you... ' -- Underneath the abused nihilism – voluntaryism! There IS hope for the future.

'While 45-65+Year olds are getting hit hard; 15-25+ Year olds have a unique culture, expectation and outlook which is not realistic given the context they are inheriting. I would want people in the younger age group to be more awake as they are demographically positioned as "revolutionaries" while older folks are simply too tired. ...the 15-25+ generation who would rather be rock stars, saving that they want a good job within the system that pays top money, they aspire to be executives at Goldman. They were told they were great by teachers and parents and they were special as they were driven around to a controlled agenda of activities. Only positive reinforcement was used and they were raised in group think, to work together. This is a large disappointment because rather than having a revolution we will have a group of people that are very vulnerable to government co-option thus they are expendable containers or batteries that will be herded and depleted in a slaughter situation.'

'When he was 19 years old, Braziel received a call from a collection agency, demanding money he didn't even know he owed. A full credit report revealed that he was already over $100,000 in debt. "There were just numerous things, including a $41,000 mortgage, that was on my credit file, and I had never owned a house, ever," he said. Braziel said he eventually discovered that his father had used his social security number to open up numerous lines of credit in his name. "It's extremely easy to do, especially when the father and the son have the same name," he said.'

'War is the elite's answer to social enlightenment as well as transformative technology ...the larger strategy is a pincer-like movement that uses both military conflicts and censorship to control the flow of knowledge and the growing comprehension of just how manipulated Western societies have been over the past century. Will it work? ...not in the long run ...the difference between the human ape and any other species is mostly in the dexterity with which we wield tools ...humanity has evolved along with such tools and perhaps our brains have even adapted to their advancing complexity. Young people, especially, males in their sexual prime, see the utilization of the most advanced toolkits as a way of enhancing genetic desirability. ...if the power elite believes it can control such cutting edge technologies, it is going to end up battling human biology. (Given that the power elite is indeed the power elite, it will do so anyway, we have no doubt.)'

'The people that owned the debt in the old days were identifiable; Karl Marx [using Adam Smith's prior conception of 'rent' ] referred to them as the rentiers. They were the ones who lived by clipping coupons, doing no work; they were the leeches that lived off the work of others. The rentiers were not only the ‘sometimes’ enemies of the king and his court, but they also were the ‘constant’ enemy of the working masses and the middle class. As such they could be singled out by the authorities and persecuted or robbed without much fear. Who are those who benefit from this passive income, today’s rentiers? We public and private pensioners and life insurance holders are the ones who are the rentiers. About 30% of US GDP can be classified as passive. European numbers are similar. And, now that more and more of us are at retirement age, we are expecting to live on our savings. Our retirement income might look like an entitlement to some, but to us it is our right. What happens next?'