On The Process Of Awakening

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There is a tremendous amount of pain in our society. There are many sources of this pain: the emotional desertification of dysfunctional families, the knowledge that we don't fit in and never will, a widening disconnect between the narratives we're told are true and our experience, and a social and economic structure that tosses many of us on the trash heap. 

The lifestyle we're told we need to be happy is unattainable to many, and disconcertingly unsatisfactory to the top 10% who reach it. 

We cannot help but feel a hunger for authenticity, honesty, spiritual solace and human connection, but these are precisely what is scarce in our social and economic structure. 

The process of awakening has many paths. For some, the path starts with the incoherence of official explanations and narratives. For others, it's the inner search for truth via psychotherapy or spiritual practice.

For some, it's an investigation into the way our economic and political hierarchy function. For others, art is the starting point: a film, a novel, a comic, a song.

For many of us, it begins with this simple but devastating realization: I don't fit in. I don't fit in, have never fit in and never will fit in. I play along because it's easier on me and everyone I interact with to do so, and I value my independence which means I have to find a way to support myself. That is difficult, as what I like to do has little to no value in our economy. 

What interests me is how the epidemic of pain and alienation that characterizes our society is the direct result of how our economy and social order is structured. Incoherence, self-destruction, pain and alienation are the only possible outputs of the system we inhabit......

.....My conclusion may strike many as radical, but to me it is self-evident: the primary source of the rot, insecurity, inequality and alienation of our society is the way we create and distribute money, which is the conduit for creating and distributing political power.....

.....If we don't change the way money is created and distributed, we change nothing. Money = power. If we don't devise a form of money that is beyond the reach of central banks and states, all "reform" is just window-dressing, simulacra of "change" that simply solidifies the system's bogus claim of being reformable......

-----"On The Process Of Awakening", Charles Hugh Smith, Of Two Minds, September 17, 2016.

FuelMix says:

1.   The Source Of Discontent
2.   The Difference Between Money And Currency
3.   Create, Manipulate And Destroy - For Profit
4.   The Corruption Of Capitalism
 

1.   When someone like Charles Hugh Smith writes or speaks, we pay attention.  When someone like him articulates what FuelMix has been articulating in this blog for sometime i.e. "that the Official Narrative On So Many Fronts, Is A Fake",  we get kinda smug.....OK we admit it.....validation is a wonderful feeling.


1.  The Source Of Discontent


2.  Smith is absolutely right in asserting that the root source of the discontent, unease and anger that so many people are feeling, is the method of creation and distribution of money - or more accurately, the outrageous fraud that is behind the "out-of-thin-air" creation of fiat currency.


2.   The Difference Between Money And Currency

1.   Most people are unaware that there is a huge difference between money and currency:

• Money is a store of value: historically it was sea shells, livestock, fruit and veggies, gold, silver.  Anything that had intrinsic value in it.  PAPER MONEY was merely intended to be a convenient portable receipt that was backed by the actual commodity is represented.  (In other words, it was much easier to carry a receipt confirming that it was worth One Sheep, than carry the sheep in your pocket).
• In the good ol' days, PAPER MONEY could only be printed if there was an actual physical commodity backing each note.
• Currency is NOT money:  It was - and still is - created out of thin air AT WILL.  That is why it is known as fiat currency (from the latin word, "fiat" meaning "at will").  Historically, it was just physically printed as needed.  Now it is created electronically as needed.  This "out-of-thin-air" trick is based on a scam known as Fractional Reserve Banking.  This allows unlimited creation of fiat currency WITH NOTHING TANGIBLE BACKING IT - EXCEPT THE CONFIDENCE THAT PEOPLE THINK THEY HAVE IN IT...

2.   Therein lies the problem.  The Central Bank's control and creation of synthetic - inherently WORTHLESS - currency triggers:

• Debt;
• Interest;
• Taxes;
• Inflation;
• Booms and Busts;

3.   Create, Manipulate And Destroy - For Profit

1.   As has been very well documented, these 5 phenomena are ARTIFICIALLY CREATED AND MANIPULATED BY AND FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE BANKING ELITE.

2.   That is how Bankers:

• create and profit from Wars;
• create and profit from economic destruction of entire countries;
• create and profit from the economic destruction of people;

3.  Only now, thanks to the Web, are some people beginning to realize that all of this is cynically manipulated.


4.   The Corruption Of Capitalism

1.  The corollary to the fake creation of currency is the fundamental corruption of capitalism in 2 ways:

• new currency is accessed by insiders who can "invest" it and make massive returns.  For everyone else, new currency simply debases currency already in circulation, crashes interest rates, increases debt, causes artificial asset bubbles and inflation;
• capital becomes mis-allocated and misused.  This usually occurs via the creation of financial derivatives that add nothing to the real economy - except hefty commissions to the investment banks creating them and selling them to so-called "sophisticated investors".

2.    Can you now see the scam we've set out above..?  Smith also talks about Bitcoin as a means of de-centralizing control of currency.  We're not sure about that - although we are inclined to accept his fundamental point that Central Banks have made a major mess of things and that a radical overhaul of the financial system will be required.

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