Now this is a blog I been putting off for a while, over a year I'd say, as it has been lingering around in my head for quite a while just waiting for the right time. Although it wasn't until the recent panic that I realized that it is truley long overdue. I've noticed that things in my own life somehow seem to mirror the big picture of things around me, maybe it is my own personal quirk, or way of dealing with the madness around me, maybe its a way of rationalizing the amount of time I take up soaking up all of the information and news out there on the internet, so that I don't feel guilty for wasting my time, or perhaps it is a kind of replacement for traditional spirituality, this need of mine to tie in my personal life with a bigger picture of the reality of this world in order to find some kind of harmony and connectedness between all things. Whatever it is this past week I myself filing for unemployment and welfare, and my current financial situation is coinciding almost exactly with this current financial panic.

So I been reminded recently of a web page I once saw linked to from this site a while ago, I can't remember what it was exactly but it was a weird prophecy site, and I remember that it had a little box in the corner that had years 2000-2012 and each year had a corresponding feeling/emotion, all I remember now was that 2006 was anxiety, 2007 was denial and 2008 was panic, then fear was in there somewhere until 2012 which I believe was depression. For some reason this very simplistic prophecy stuck with me, and I first saw it in 2007, but it reminds me a lot of the general mood that people seem to be in all around this country at least, and I found it to be quite accurate. So what does this have do with anyway? I think it is this, that people in this country are beginning to realize that the party's over. I don't just mean that in the crass sort of give up your high on the hog consumerist lifestyle way, although there's plenty of that too, what I am trying to say is that its time people start re-evaluating how they live, how they act, their mentality, its time to start practicing some maturity.

To me this changes everything, this means having those difficult conversations with friends and relatives that maybe you put off for a year or two or three, this means being more honest in everyday life, this means its time to get off of dangerous, wasteful and expensive addictions be it drugs, television, food, gambling or even information overload (a condition where one finds oneself sitting at a computer for hours reading tons of data to the point where real life obligations are negelected) or anything else. This is an important time to be alive and to be heard, we can no longer afford to simply watch it all go by living out our lives in our heads simply for ourselves. If we want to change the world we have to become a part of it, and I hope that this is a lesson that can come out of this panic.

For far too long I have noticed that for the vast majority of people, they act as if nothing affects them, it wasn't until the news media and the president started hyping this whole mess up that most people started connecting the two together and realized that they too can be affected by things on a much larger scale. Some may argue that panic and fear have been used for some time after 9/11 the Iraq war (and before, for sure!), and yes this is true, but at the same time life went on as usual quite quickly, no worries, party on. I myself partied on pretty hard until the end of 2005, when I woke up to something that began to unravel this whole web of lies apart.

Of course, I caught on faster than my peers and family, but the whole process of maturing and changing still came only slowly, bit by bit. Although my thought processes are quite a bit different from most I would assume, as I have always considered myself a contrarian, that is I would find myself thinking the contrary when someone was telling me something, always looking for the opposite, and being a Camus fan I was always interested in what a true rebel is, so naturally I found myself trying to find the true opposite of the establishment, as it was presented by school, parents, the media etc. However in practice this meant I had to sample quite a few different groups' opinions and test and analyse their facts before I myself would take a position. So at first I thought that communism was the opposite of this system, and I went into more liberal or socialistic teachings. But in college it seemed more and more like socialism and liberalism were being heavily pushed, so I went to the opposite, to conservatism and libertarianism, until I found myself defending the status quo to the point where I came to like Bush. It wasn't until late one night after watching that video of WTC7 go down for probably the 20th time that my conscience got the better of me, and shook me out of my stupor, to begin this long journey.

I digress, but my point is here is that at this moment there is  an opportunity if we are willing to take it, as more chaos is being drummed up to steamroll their planned control, comes our chance to take control, starting with our own lives, with our own minds, a chance to win back our future. Which reminds me to bring up one last point here, since I know that a lot of people here are doing a lot more than most people. However, I have heard a lot of talk about this new Zeitgeist movie and the controversial Venus project stuff, which I admit does sound very new age and too fantastic to be real, but in its defense, at least it is suggesting an alternative, cause anyone it seems can point out the corruptions and the problems, but coming up with solutions is a much harder task, and that is exactly what we must be doing right, thinking and dreaming up solutions to the massive problems we face and ultimately the kind of future we'd like to see. I like the ultimate goals of the Venus project (for the most part, although my conservative estimate says its still hundreds of years off even if we started tomorrow), as it gives me some hope for the future, however what we need now is to fill in the gaps, the intermediate steps, and those are not easy answers. Its funny that another thing I see come up in this film, I remember from Erich Hufschmid's web page about building a new society, I remember it was one of things that made me very suspicious of him because it called for a sort of world body comprised of small cantons, and getting rid of religion, something I saw mirrored in this film, and maybe ultimately that is the way to go, but I don't see it as being very practical especially in the short term, as people don't give up their sovereigity or religion that easily, but nor should they, this seems like the trick that links the New World Order with the New Age movement, this call for a global community with no religion, where its all about sustainability.

Now, idealisticaly speaking, I can see where they are coming from, but I believe that if we are going to have a global community I want to see it grow from the grassroots up, that is I don't want it to be mandated from the top down, which is how it is currently being forced upon us. No, in my view we are all different and distinct and there is nothing wrong with that, I find that part of the solution comes from identifying with our friends, neighbors, family so that we can build active, engaged and loving communities, and I think that power should be de-centralized so that individual communities can develop their own quirks and ideals, and can run and govern themselves, I think that there is still that spirit somewhere here left in America, that we can have different and distinct communities yet still be guranteed rights and freedoms and can trade freely with all.

Yes this is what I found so appealing about Ron Paul, and it is what I think that that movement was really all about, giving more power back to the people, to the states, to communities, to families to decide whats best for them, and its not nor should it be the same all across the world, in fact it is an important part of finding out who we really are, if I had it my way I would probably split up a lot of the big institutions and hand the various branches over to the individuals in the areas that run them, like what happened with the phone companies, but this time on a much larger scale. For starters the bloated federal government needs to get taken down drastically in scale, and then I would really like to see the media broken up no more NBC/CBS what have you, totally dismantled and handed back to local affiliates, (I can go on and on here, but I'll try to collect those thoughts so I can share them later) of course none of this will happen if we first don't take on the criminals and their long history of crimes, but I think we can do it, bit by bit, and take them down, cause their party's over now too!

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Submitted by Beauchard on Tue, 2008-10-14 16:22.

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