Most governments around the world have been offering financial recovery packages to their people following the nearly two years of lockdown and what can only be innocuously termed as the Covid economic crisis. It’s all very noble, trying to help people get back on their feet, but the global economic system is in a tailspin and very few people seem to be aware of what is occurring. It is much more than the simple upward wealth transfer to the elites, which in itself is a bad enough situation. What we are seeing now is a rush for governments and reserve banks to cover up their disastrous economic policies with an even more disastrous policy. For instance, when I heard that the U.S. government had a Covid economic stimulus plan of $1.9 trillion I had to wonder how far down the road economic failure would occur. Add in the rest of the world’s countries and you get something like $3-10 trillion of money flooding the worlds markets.
This may sound good, but it is economic magic and illusion. It is simple printing up seemingly endless amounts of money to provide people with a way to buy things like goods and commodities. But it isn’t real money being printed anymore, it’s all digital. So, with a swipe of pen and a few keystrokes the world has possibly $10 trillion floating around. The simple result of this is a state of hyper-inflation (definition – a general increase in prices and fall in the purchasing value of money) with the mainstream media keeping quiet about the actual figure – It is estimated by many economists at greater than 25%. If you are wondering what that looks like, think about the German Mark after WWI, the Yugoslav Dinar of the late 1980s, or more recently the Zimbabwe dollar of 2009 and the Venezuelan bolivar since 2013. There are only two things that can happen when hyper-inflation occurs. Money becomes worthless as inflation rages unabated, or the banks finally pull bank the money and the global markets begin to reset slowly but with rampant economic depression (think The Great Depression of the 1930s only worse). Only, this time it is a global economic meltdown and not just one country. Supply chains that were already disrupted are even more fragile. Note how building supplies and big-box stores have shelves that are no longer full and the myriad options of choices the west have enjoyed for so long are now becoming more limited.
Many people are finally awakening to the global long-term economic oppression that is inherent within our global system of tightly controlled and often corrupt bureaucratic rule underpinned by the banks, monied elites, and corporate systems. This would seem to be the main start of what the WEF has termed the ‘Great Reset.’ I could go on about the terrible things going on around the world every day that the Mainstream media no longer bother telling us – just think about the numerous armed conflicts, many decades old, that are occurring even as I write this blog. Then add the environmental problems, the economic problems, the seemingly never-ending crises, along with the malevolent behaviors of so many people trapped in hate, fear, uncertainty and anguish and it can all seem overwhelming. There is no shortage of social media postings telling us how to survive the coming social collapse. While ‘Prepping’ is not a bad idea (the practice of making active preparations for a possible catastrophic disaster or emergency, typically by stockpiling food, and other supplies), preparing for a dystopian apocalyptic world is something out of a Mad Max movie. But I would like to take another direction. One that moves away from scarcity and uncertainty to a new kind of humanity that begins to live in peace, harmony and abundance.
As the Dalai Lama said, the path to peace is being peaceful. In the same vein, I quote that the path to a sustainable world is to be sustainable. In changing our internal focus, we change ourselves. How often I hear, it cannot be done. And that, alas, is the focus of helplessness and victimhood. Hope remains optimistic and positive in the face of potential change – I remain an optimistic realist. To be anything other is to accept despair and fear as your focus.
If the Cabal and the monetary elites begin to forge a new kind of totalitarian feudalism for us, then we simply have to create a parallel kind of society to what they might be planning. As I have often said in this blog, they need us, we do not need them. They have convinced us that we are dependent upon them but we can create an independent set of global societies that work for us. We don’t have to begin from scratch for the ideas of great thinkers that created change are already with us now.
Brazilian educational philosopher, Paulo Freire, developed his ideas of ‘Critical Pedagogy’ (see earlier post, Coming Back Into Our Sovereignty – Part 6: Whom do we trust to Lead? {April 2021}) as an alternative way to educate people into developing awareness what oppresses them. Only by becoming ‘Critically Conscious (Conscientization)’ of the oppression do people take steps to liberate themselves and begin social change that works for them. Through continuous metacognition (see earlier post, The role of Limiting Beliefs and Empowering Beliefs 1 – Becoming Empowered through Metacognition {May 2019}) individuals and communities learn about the root causes of their oppression and to understand and gain a critical understanding of their social reality through reflection and empowered action. This is when transformation begins. Conscientization is not a specific technique but a process of the creation of a space for people to see themselves as agents of change in which they question their beliefs and assumptions and critically analyze the social fabric of their lives.
So, can we develop our own alternative social system without hierarchical authorities to run it? This coming transition is not necessarily to get rid of the authority system, as it still has its uses, but to reduce its power to being the servant of the people rather than the controller it has become. We need to build structures that ignore the official ones while humanizing the systems that become too heavy handed in restraining individual freedoms. We cannot wait for a Superman to save us, but we have to actively participate in the development and running of a new ‘Parallel Society (parallel structured systems)’ that begins at the localized level.
Parallel societies can be built on the ideas of local self-sufficiency, creating sustainable communities of energy and food (e.g., Rob Hopkins and transition communities, see earlier post, Relocalization and Community {January 2018}). Other great ideas came out of the huge discontent expressed throughout the eastern European countries in the latter months of 1989 that saw the collapse of the Soviet party-state totalitarian system. More in the next post.
To Be Continued …………………
“The real question is whether the ‘brighter future’ is always so distant. What if it has been here for a long time already – and only our own blindness and weakness have prevented us from seeing it around us and within us, and kept us from developing it” Vaclav Havel.
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