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“Missing Audio Files- 2 Page: Proudhon Raises Up the Love" (for the April 10, 2016 and Subsequent Show Audio Files To…

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These audio-files are presented with the most recent first.

For other recent show audio please go to the: "Facing Fear... Raise Up Love" Audio Page and also to the first "Missing Audio" page, although it is being messed with, but it has the audio for earlier shows: Missing Audio Files - 1 Page

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Our May 29, 2016 show:

 

[“160529theystealourgreatness_1.mp3”:]

 

After Prince was killed we began the next show asking: “Will the question never end?… how long shall they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?” – well… the same question restated answers it: “How long shall they steal our greatness while we stand aside and look?” Is this not the question of all prophets under 'class'?… from Socrates and those who inspired him… to their precentors… on down… to now. Is this not “Socrates' Dilemma”?… and Jesus'?… and Proudhon's?… and Kropotkin's?… and Martin Luther King's?… and Malcolm X's?… and Alice Miller's ?… and Bob Marley's?… and Bruce Lee's?… and Prince's?… (Prince modeled owning himself in an entirely fresh way… by the way… a way 'power' was completely unprepared for… He showed the true-power released when we put our bodies' truth – the earth's truth – first… and it terrified the 'power'-guys… who unleashed a campaign of suppression and containment such as no artist… save Paul Robeson… has ever seen. When we read that the record label he was contracted to wanted him to stop producing things so fast… we have to understand the degree to which the combined assault of EMF and false-folks forces you to speed up… Unless you move… the battering becomes overwhelming: the swelling… the muscle-stiffening and aching all over… the 'gunk' (mucus)-build-up' in the head and chest… swathed in cotton while being pressed in a vise… a burning pressure… a burning-buzzing head… your movement a burning-pain-bit burdened drudge…) With Prince… and Proudhon… as we did with Alice… we're going to be probing our stolen greatness… the Immense Puzzle that struck us all under 'class'… by age two… and as we do let's consider the effect of the walls around us… and the rooms in which we sit… imprisoned…

 

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For our May 29, 2016 show:

 

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“…the other strategies for reproducing (perpetuating…) the totalitarian 'class'-system: keeping us so busy… and so separated – jobs and atomization and manufacturing 'scarcity' and violence and 'the law' – the centralized state structure… that is another means of keeping us 'busy'… always jumpin'… another means of manufacturing 'scarcity'… because it ensures there is never enough… despite the earth being abundant… When we are kept 'busy' and separated we can't develop our thought process –and that's changing for many reasons… we're sharing our thoughts globally… they can't provide the jobs and more and more folk are regaining their thought process… because they're able to sit back and look at 'the system' more objectively… and the word is spreading about the actual dynamics… the processes… the factors… shaping us that have not been discussed… that have been intentionally suppressed… discussions that we need to get on an authentic path to freedom…”

 

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Our May 22, 2016 show:

 

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Prince was a shining light – a beacon – sent to us so that we might see… the power of letting the body speak… a living example of the truth: “A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid…” He took those words to heart… and then 'power' unleashed on him their secret weaponry… for the use of which… until we change this… they have zero accountability. But all over the globe we can see the power and truth of letting the body speak… We see it in the older women dancing in the streets across China… and we see it in the youth of Afghanistan – their elders following – saying with their voices and feet that the state will not force them to be second-class citizens… …and we see it in Nuit Debout… and Tunisia… coming together to claim an 'evolutionary' moniker… coming together to say that the problem is 'the system'… and everywhere we do this… states fight back with infusions of media-propaganda and the funding of hidden 'assets'… to sow seeds of division and confusion… (…and though we often say this… it must be reiterated [as all we get from the propaganda-machinery is versions of it in the affirmative…]: these guys want us to think the problem is 'greedy corporations'… that the problem is 'money'… and they aren't about that… is their rationalization… not accumulation for its own sake – they just want all the money… and for us to get out of the way… after all… they have a world to make… and we're just the hired help… Confusion as to 'the truth'… confusion about what's going on… is literally an energy blockage… We need to know the truth… the actual forces that shape our world in order to release our energy and our power…

 

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…the Plato's Tribesmen's is a conscious ambition… that being to see every head bowed to them… they've been disastrously effective. Their recipe for making themselves seem like gods: “Possess ever-increasingly… accumulate ever more… consolidate religiously… quantify and centralize into global financial institutions that you control… all the resources – and make certain you possess not just control of knowledge and technological and military resources… but that your possession is supreme (which means they cannot claim innocence of all the breaches of electronic security that occurred in banks… e.g.… in Bangladesh… Vietnam… and Ecuador [despite oversight of transactions by a cooperative utility set up by the banks themselves: the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT)…] and at Sony…) – fabricate the illusion of 'scarcity' and of a supposed inherent bad faith between humans… then lean back and admire your 'intelligence'…)

 

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We learn the necessity of looking beneath appearances from Proudhon… what we don't learn from him is that these appearances are being made by the Tiny Few… who then sneer at us for believing in them… who use our being duped by their fabrications as evidence of their supposed superior 'intelligence'…and… take note… for the record only… the enormous amount of resources they devote to rigging the game of course means they're afraid… afraid they're not 'the best'… and so… mommy or daddy 'won't love them'… and… they have to believe they deserve to rule… otherwise… they're but murderers and torturers and thieves… i.e.… they would have to face that reality. …and please let's not be conned by the fall-back argument of those who plot and plan in secret that 'you have no evidence'… do we really need to 'prove' that the world is being shaped by a Platonic vision of fixed divisions… with a splash of the so-called 'meritocratic' sprayed on the brew of misery being dished out to us? Let's not forget Gore Vidal's warning to us to not be put off by the slur 'conspiracy theorist'… He said (in substance…) “of course the rulers plot and plan in secret and in concert… that's the way 'privilege' is preserved… Come on… Duh…” Let's use the evidence of our reasoning… Does 'the system' consolidate 'wealth' (money… capital… control…) in fewer and fewer hands? Yes. And is it money that compels or allows actions that engage… address… or influence… The Many in a privatized… commercialized… ranked and divided non-society shaped by the decisions of the Tiny Few? Yes. Moreover… do we really need 'proof' that the Hidden Few plot and plan and act in concert… in order for us to want our bodies back?… and to want this for all of our Brothers and Sisters?

 

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Global General Strikes are not only effective (essential) strategy… but illustrate perfectly that the most radical act to end 'class' is to 'do nothing'… except 'associate'… as Proudhon says… with each other… we're talking low-overhead strategy now that we have the means to intercommunicate instantly… globally… now that we have social media… (and our minds stayed on freedom…) requiring us to but walk… gather… talk… share food… dance… share plans… discuss…make songs … party on from dusk till dawn… next day… the same… repeat till free… is our recipe to end millennia-long suppression… of our inherent freedom… and our inherent One-ness. And of course our discussions are key… or we would not have needed Alice Miller… Karl Popper… P.J. Proudhon… Peter Kropotkin… Jeremy Bentham… John Boswell… Terence K. Hopkins… Immanuel Wallerstein… Giovanni Arrighi… Sebastian De Grazia… Alfred O. Hirschman… and Martin Bernal… to name but those we found most critical… most critical for unpacking the fear… of the 'power'-guys… why they stay hidden… most critical… for outing them.… We are born a'fearing nothing… as we are from and of 'the all'… and we arrive with the assumption… that to 'the all' we are come. Let's return to them their fear… and take up our original endowment: in the form of our 'unity-responsibility-project'… which means… sowing seeds… fostering discussions… knitting networks… overcoming divisions… towards a single end: Global-System-De-Commission… Recall Proudhon's guidance to us: “…you need a clear, positive, and exact expression of your whole idea, – that is, an expression which states at once the principle, the means, and the end; and I add that that expression is association.…” 'association'… as few understood so well as he… is the master-key to all the doors of our captivity… it overcomes fear and atomization… it aligns us with truth… it is generative… it 'makes more' through innovation and creativity… it is wealth and energy… it is true power… it allows us to re-conceive our allegiance and reclaim our bodies: our bodies being the treasure we came with – 'power' owns no part of it…

 

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Children perceive the rigid imposition of a fixed structure… the artificial 'order' (of a 'class'-system…) with fear and anxiety – it violates their nature… their inherent freedom… but as it is parents who impose it… they must construct the belief that there has to be a terrible-powerful reason to require that which is unpleasant and sad to replace that which is joyous and free… and the puzzle consumes them… for it is never authentically explained… and in the end most give in and become what they believe their parents want: small… rigid… humans… on the lookout for violations of 'the structure'… the 'necessary' rigidity. The systematically privileged among them are sent to 'advanced' education to learn intricate 'explanations' for the madness in order to separate them from their Brothers and Sisters… and serve as buffers to protect the hiddenness of 'power': to stop we-the-people from putting two and two together such that truth can flash round the world and our uncoerced future… based in abundance… begin. “Let's return to them their fear…” we said… “and take up our original endowment: in the form of our 'unity-responsibility-project'… starting with: “unity with the children…” children need to see our confidence… see that we do indeed know we are here to be powerful and exuberant… to fully develop our gifts… and that we value their likewise assurance… the 'power'-guys have been disastrously effective in shaping the planet because they work in concert and their ambition is conscious… They show us the critical elements for the achievement of a global vision… we need strong cores… the body is the temple that harbors our souls – our knowledge of the eternal – and our bodies have been 'invaded' (occupied…) by thieves… and just as Prince said… they're looking for our souls… to murder them… the global-state-statesmen are very much aware of the political implications of the truism that “children are the future” – i.e.… as Kissinger told us… they believe the role of the 'statesmen' is to determine the future… and they are determined to aggressively install it ('the system') in the children as early as possible… which means that their authentic selves are threatened… and must be defended. Global-state statesmen believe they own us (there's a cachet associated with their degree of control of us… as they vie with each other for rank…) And they start by breaking the spirits of the children… and all lovers of freedom – and as 'class' is totalitarian (inherently…) this is a global phenomenon. We see it in the kidnapping of school children in Nigeria and Mexico… the slaughter and displacement of villagers – they with the whole spirits – everywhere… but particularly in Africa… Asia… and the Middle East… Central and South America…

 

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Proudhon: “But is it possible that we are not all associated? Let us call to mind what was said in the last two chapters, that even though we do not want to be associated, the force of things, the necessity of consumption, the laws of production, and the mathematical principle of exchange combine to associate us.” …we-the-people must not forget this… we are all associates… which puts all of us… in the crosshairs… never has there been a greater threat… to our living without fear… In the just society… equality lives unbent among us… all of us help each other… allow the children to be 'big'… because we are 'big' ourselves… and there will never be any chains on… or walls concealing… the truth… [and we must demand the truth about EMF…] and… I should add… writing this one month after they killed Prince… I still have not read or heard tell of the official story they've decided on… for 'cause of death'… it will be a while till the truth is documented: that it was assault by EMF… Was there muscle contraction?… had he complained of electrical paralysis… stiffening of the muscles… numbness?… swollen-ness?… difficulty moving particularly after having been asleep?… was there a lot of mucus in his body?… thirty years of this torture he endured… without being able to fight back… because these guys who believe they are gods hide… they assault and kill in secret… And the head of the Department of the Navy must be made to answer to the people… under oath… as to the specific EMF weapons they possess… to be used against individuals… what specifically exists… and who is getting targeted?…

 

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Proudhon: “With the exception of the proprietor, we labor for each other; we can do nothing by ourselves unaided by others, and we continually exchange products and services with each other. If these are not social acts, what are they?” [They highlight for us as well… once we are in possession of the right story… the complete and total irrelevance of 'power' – which I'm getting is Proudhon's point – to the story of our greatness… we must simply get them off our backs to extend that story to its full brilliance… – P.S.] Proudhon: “Now, neither a commercial, nor an industrial, nor an agricultural association can be conceived of in the absence of equality…” [although a hidden miniscule elite changes things… they make up their own 'rules'… – i.e.… no rules – “conceived in the absence of equality”… as we saw in the example cited earlier of SWIFT (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication…) its member banks are definitely not all created equal… Hidden-'power' creates a lot of hidden rules in everything they do… It is a system based in falseness … for falseness… will perpetuate falseness… ad infinitum… until we regain our world… – P.S.]

 

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Our May 15, 2016 show:

 

[“160515invasionoflies_1.mp3”:]

 

Lied to… lied to… lied about… lied to about his hip… What they did to me… days before they killed him (but what was the precipitating event?… They'd been torturing him with EMF for decades… and these guys are sadists…) Do we have an inherent right to freedom?… to light?… to truth? It is a a single truth… and so a single 'opposite'… a single opposite operating premise: 'Authority'… 'class'……a single counter-truth… 'falseness'… that the prophets of all religions are reacting to… who see……that we are meant to be free… that all have a right to develop their gifts unhindered and without limit… as they see fit… without coercion – all of which is prevented from so being… by folks who literally take over our bodies…(…so what does it authentically mean… we are asking… to defend them? – and in the answer is merged… everything… all 'spheres' of the social relations of 'class': ethics… politics… economics. And 'power is determined to destroy those who… like Prince… answer that question by claiming full ownership of their own bodies… which is what 'artist' means – an artist can have no other master and be an artist… truth must be their currency… love their fuel…) the invasion of our bodies as a global-'class'-society-wide process of forced relinquishment necessarily requires massive censoring… massive lying… total withholding of the truth… and… as Emily Dickinson well-knew… a 'disappearing' of those who manifest the 'one' truth… who offer to youth the model of honoring oneself and the gifts the earth gives only (and all of our words for 'God' in essence mean 'the earth'… as on earth we dwell… of earth we are… from earth we learn… to earth we return… the earth is all: eternal… and infinite…)

 

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Proudhon: “For there is one truth of which I am profoundly convinced – nations live [and now… as 'class' is profoundly totalitarian… we may say 'the world lives'… – P.S.] by absolute ideas, not by approximate and partial conceptions; therefore, men are needed who define principles, or at least test them in the fire of controversy. Such is the law, – the idea first, the pure idea, the understanding of the laws of God, the theory: practice follows with slow steps, cautious, attentive to the succession of events; sure to seize, towards this eternal meridian, the indications of supreme reason. The co-operation of theory and practice produces in humanity the realization of order, – the absolute truth. [And what Proudhon means by these terms is not of course what the 'power'-guys (like Hegel…) mean by them… – P.S.] All of us, as long as we live, are called, each in proportion to his strength [and let's not forget what Alice said: to force on children the principle of 'absolute obedience' saps their vitality and destroys their strength… rendering them for their lifetimes servants only of their masters ('power'… 'abuse'… 'Authority'…) never of the truth… – unless… by some happy chance… they gain the information they need to break free of that conditioning… – P.S.], [as long as we live we are called] to this sublime work. The only duty which it imposes upon us is to refrain from appropriating the truth to ourselves, either by concealing it, or by accommodating it to the temper of the century, or by using it for our own interests. This principle of conscience, so grand and so simple, has always been present in my thought.”

 

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What I am waiting for… is for Proudhon to admit… that 'falseness'… lies… 'fabrication'… 'spies'… 'craft'… artificial construction… suppression of information… clandestine operation of government… are inherent in the 'class'-project… and that while we… each one of us… is born honest… we are forced to deny that part of us: our honest assessment – that is… our very human-ness… our capacity to reason authentically (in consonance with truth… with our social nature… which is truth)… the abuse of each one of us this entails… the waste of our lives in countless ways… upon due thought… the thought of the prophets… stirs us to outrage… and then… with Proudhon… to thought… Proudhon: “What! if we suffer for truth and justice, must we, in retaliation, thrust our persecutors outside the pale of human society;… Such is not the wisdom of Christianity. O proletaires, proletaires! how long are you to be victimized by this spirit of revenge and implacable hatred which your false friends kindle, and which, perhaps, has done more harm to the development of reformatory ideas than the corruption, ignorance, and malice of the government?… How successful you would have been if, in order to influence men, you had appealed to the self-love of men…” – with Proudhon… we want to understand… and… more specifically… as our Alice said… gain information about the despised 'other' – would not this… gained experience… be the most needed content… of authentic 'self'-defense?

 

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The shadow-state… the global shadow-state… is 'the coerced work system' (why did it take me so long so see this?…) because we have been trained to obey Authority: control the top spots and you control the hierarchy… and dupe the lot with the ruse 'democracy'… the ideology of 'better-than'… of 'citizen' - 'barbarian'… the facade is not the reality… the 'false friends' who spread hatred and division… all of them… regardless of place in the hierarchical-global-'class'-society… is the state… under the system of 'hire-by-“power”… (Is this clear?… can we see that… while the top spots needed to control government operations are gained by infiltration… through the insertion of loyalists who serve the global-state-statesmen… the global shadow-state encompasses more than just them and the legions controlled by them who are in government… but also their counter-parts in the private sector. A UPS driver who obeys and places his truck in a given location and turns on his hazard lights to assist in the clandestine tracking of someone is part of the shadow-state… likewise the Uber and the private ambulance drivers… etc.… etc.… It is the coerced-work-system that forces our bodies into compliance… forces them to be subject to control… and it is the global-shadow-state that commandeers them… The visible government is but facade.)

 

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…we want to be effective… we want to de-commission 'the system'… Proudhon: “There has been no true revolution, says M. Cousin, without its idea; so that where an idea does not exist, or even fails of a formal expression, revolution is impossible. There are mobs, conspirators, rioters, regicides. There are no revolutionists. Society, devoid of ideas, twists and tosses about, and dies in the midst of its fruitless labor. Nevertheless, you all feel that a revolution is to come, and that you alone can accomplish it. What, then, is the idea which governs you, proletaires of the nineteenth century? – for really I cannot call you revolutionists. What do you think? – what do you believe? – what do you want? Be guarded in your reply. I have read faithfully your favorite journals, your most esteemed authors. I find everywhere only vain and puerile entités; nowhere do I discover an idea… Suppose that, perceiving all the mutual relations of men, whether they produce or exchange or consume… – in a word, social relations; suppose, I say, that, perceiving this, you wish to give this natural society a legal existence, and to establish the fact by law, – I say that then you need a clear, positive, and exact expression of your whole idea, – that is, an expression which states at once the principle, the means, and the end; and I add that that expression is association…”

 

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…'class' is now intentionally-made totalitarian… global… Proudhon's 'transition'-vision has a 'nation'-frame… (we'll have to discuss whether… in a sense… as long as our allegiance in global …that's helpful… as in our de-centralized… cooperative… network of associations… the 'outer' and the 'inner' are mutually-reflective… -supporting… and -determinative…) But also as with Alice… the truth – a single… current of love – runs through it… that guides us true. But… in the shadows… a Tiny Few have been scheming in concert with a global-view… requiring that we take into our grasp this dramatic shift in 'power's plans – and update our analysis… and shape our plans… to manifest and make a global vision.

 

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It was from Kropotkin that we first learned of Proudhon's 'system de-commissioning' strategy (which sounds very like St. Luke, 20: 25… which we'll get to next week: “Render therefore unto Caesar the things which be Caesar's, and unto God the things which be God's…”) He favored an approach he called 'Mutuellisme'… Kropotkin: “Under such a system… all the exchanges of services would be strictly equivalent. Besides, such a bank would be enabled to lend money without interest, levying only something like 1 per cent, or even less, for covering the cost of administration. Every one being thus enabled to borrow the money that would be required to buy a house, nobody would agree to pay any more a yearly rent for the use of it. A general “social liquidation” would thus be rendered easy, without expropriation. The same applied to mines, railways, factories, and so on.”

 

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How complimentary Kropotkin and Proudhon are – Kropotkin was thinking a lot about what it would look like: our de-centralized… mutually-supporting… network of associations…And Proudhon was thinking similarly – in fact… Kropotkin may have been inspired by that idea of Proudhon's – Proudhon may have stimulated his thinking to go to the next step of actually doing it. But Proudhon is so critical for the actual 'transition'-thinking that we're doing… because 'the system' is a train that we have to gradually slow down – and I don't mean 'gradually' in terms of 'years'… because we have a 'global' system with 'global' folk… seven billion – it is simply a matter of getting the critical mass working on this… each of us doing our bit… working on some part of it… that slows this sucker down… grinds it to a halt – that is our sole focus in coming shows: “how do we do that?… how do we withdraw our 'fuel' from that train that is determined to destroy everything?”… because of that repetition compulsion. See… we needed all of them… all these necessary folk been thinking on this stuff for a while…

 

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Proudhon: “The principal cause of the evil [of the current system] lay in the accumulation and immobility of capital of all sorts, – an immobility which prevented labor, enslaved and subalternized ['kept below every other'… – P.S.] by haughty idleness, from ever acquiring it… Labor invented money. Afterwards, this invention was revived and developed by the bill of exchange and the Bank. For all these things are substantially the same, and proceed from the same mind.… By this means [the bill of exchange], oppressed equality was enabled to laugh at the efforts of the proprietors [the aristocracy], and the balance of justice was adjusted for the first time in the tradesman's shop [this is why… as Wallerstein explains in his book The Modern World-System IV: Centrist Liberalism Triumphant, 1789 – 1914… (sections of which we read in our “Embracing Global Goals” series of shows… for example in our November 15, 2015 show) this is why they were called 'liberals'… – P.S.]. Now I say that, to establish equality among men, it is only necessary to generalize the principle upon which insurance, agricultural, and commercial associations are based. I say that competition, isolation of interests, monopoly, privilege, accumulation of capital, exclusive enjoyment, subordination of functions, individual production, the right of profit or increase, the exploitation of man by man, and to sum up all these species under one head, that PROPERTY is the principal cause of misery and crime…” …and he would abolish it by means of reforms to what exists… without any expropriation… both because… with Karl Popper… he believes the development of we-the-people to be necessarily continuous – as it is our nature… our earth-gift… to do so – and so believes… with Karl Popper… in piecemeal social engineering…

 

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St.Luke: “And he went into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold therein and them that bought; saying unto them, “It is written, My house is the house of prayer: but ye have made it a den of thieves.” And he taught daily in the temple. But the chief priests and the scribes and the chief of the people sought to destroy him, and could not find what they might do: for all the people were very attentive to hear him… And the chief priests and the scribes the same hour sought to lay hands on him; and they feared the people: for they perceived that he had spoken this parable against them.” [Since 'class' begun those who strove to stoke the courage of the people to rise against it – before prophesy ruled moot their subtlety – spoke in parable and poem… metaphor and song… in short… were forced into a delicate dance… to do what the earth called them to. This is the position of artists across 'class'-time… But too much is now at stake to indulge the illusion that subtlety as to 'vision'… can lay down with commitment… and we stand up whole… and claim our bodies are our own… or pretend that subtlety protects us… from paranoid 'power'… when it's just the opposite… they will go after you just to keep you from saying the obvious: that getting free – an end to the coerced-work-system – is within our reach… that it can only be done by associating globally and withdrawing our energy from… de-commissioning… 'the system'… and sharing these discussions as broadly as you can reach. If you make 'the inherent freedom of humans'… stated thus… your raison d'etre… it will inspire all of us to rise up… and the ancestors will back it…

 

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In our reading last week Proudhon was making the point that we – with all animals – are alike in our possession of a social nature… and that this social nature is incorporated consciously into our personalities… by means of our powers of analysis… in a just human society… but that fears afflicting some ('class'-reared-humans – although in truth… to be just… we must fix this responsibility on Plato's Tribesmen…) fear caused them to project onto the future their assumptions about what 'must be' to prevent the 'coming-to-be' of their worst fears (that being… I suspect… underlying the lies they tell themselves… that they were unloved as infants… and that their entire schema for 'rationalizing' the world is a product of this abuse… their experience of psychic and physical Abandonment… and that all of their subsequent actions are sprung from that damage – that fear of exposure of their fundamental weakness of constitution… their lack of wholeness… their loss of spontaneity… vitality… feeling – these lacks in them they fear will be exposed for all to see… that all will see they are the root of their deep-seated hate… and their fear as well… that we-the-people… once free of the hate they have fixed on us… will create our over-due world of abundance and love… a world bounteous and just – the very opposite of what they contend… that we represent 'chaos.' [This brings us to the consideration of whether this mindset reflects… in fact… the central dualism of 'class': the distinction between 'citizen' and 'barbarian'… upon which distinction (assumption… premise…) the Plato's Tribesmen have hung their entire self-justification – destroying countless lives in their fundamental misconceptions – forcing all life into its Utopian social engineering experiment.] Popper: “Inherent in Plato's programme there is a certain approach towards politics which, I believe, is most dangerous. Its analysis is of great practical importance from the point of view of rational social engineering. The Platonic approach I have in mind can be described as that of Utopian engineering, as opposed to another kind of social engineering which I consider as the only rational one, and which may be described by the name of piecemeal engineering.”

 

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For our May 22, 2016 show:

 

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…Kropotkin (whose voracious and fertile mind captured all the rich conditions which furthered the planting of decentralization (what… in Waking Up… I thought of as 'distributed generation'… a different way of saying the same thing… or at least… definitely complementary…) allowing us to … finally… pursue happiness – as a people… because we cannot pursue happiness as a people without the land… our conditions of existence…) Karl Popper (so critical on so many levels…) Miklos Nyiszli (ditto… but let me add… he shows us in 'power's m.o. their desperate need to keep their killing secret… and provides that necessary reminder that there are physical traces of theses things… these weapons they're using: iron in bodily fluids… swelling throughout the body… e.g.… that we need to be documenting…) Martin Luther King (who demonstrated the power of public 'voicing'… in… or along with… a global-frame – took 'the word' to the pulpit-in-the-streets… and did so globally…) and Terence K. Hopkins (to represent for our Good Three… who did attain and push forward unrelentingly that truly global-vantage… that we need to get free…) Martin Bernal (his Black Athena… that exposes the facts behind the invented 'classical heritage' that the would-be gods use to convince their children they harbor an 'historic mission'…

 

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Our May 8, 2016 show:

 

[“160508decommissiontheinnersys_1.mp3”:]

 

The flowering of suppressed creativeness – our spontaneous feelings held back out of a false sense of allegiance to our parents – that comes with the recovery of the true self… we are saying is our definition of 'economics-in-two-aspects': as on the feeding of the soil depends the subsequent harvest… doing this… tending with attentiveness to the goal in mind… and describing it as such when we do it (because we possess the right story…) is “de-commissioning the inner-system”… is saying “we are working to establish the conditions that allow each one of us to be self-sufficient (my entire life that 'each one of us'… along with the global-emphasis… has been an absent emphasis on the Left – how do we end 'class' without it?…) the conditions that mean 'we do not need you (“the system”)' to feed us (either body or soul) anymore… but which embrace the conscious mutual-interdependence of all human beings globally…” – because we must work together globally to get free of global-'power'… to feed ourselves… to help each other… and to repair the damage done to the earth during the mad romp over us – for two and a half centuries – of the Plato's Tribesmen… …it's saying that we are the sufficient power and energy we need to create our just and fair and joyous global society. “De-commissioning the inner-system” – developing a strong core – allows us to “de-commission the outer-system”: develop the networks and associations that allow us to 'switch' our allegiance – expressed in securing land together… growing our own food as associations… and exchanging our goods and services globally: by-passing (as our Good Three said…) the interstate system (which of course is only accomplished by means of Global General Strikes as part of the process of wresting free our lives from their entanglement with the abusiveness of the 'class'-system…)

 

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…the New York Times (of May 5, 2016) concoction of elaborately mixed b.s.… could not illustrate better both the threat Prince is to 'power'… and the reality that the media is but the Department of Propaganda for the global-state-statesmen. The amount of space they devote to saying nothing is a big tell… as well as the fact that this 'nothing' is paraded as truth despite being nothing but the unsupported testimony of precisely the false folks Prince strove heroically to defend himself against his entire performing life [and the full extent of his heroism is only just now sinking in… They tortured him… by surrounding him with false folks and by hitting him with EMF radiation – both tactics inflicting a soul-crushing isolation by making it impossible for him to talk about it (because of the nature of the weapons…) for if he tried… not even his friends [I've learned the hard way…] would believe him… and the 'power'-guys would be all over the attempt… using it to invalidate him… his work… and force him into an even deeper silence… as it was he was forced to deal not just with the energy-draining pain… electrical paralysis… and swelling of the assault – the never feeling well – but also a terrible isolation… all the more terrible for a person who so loved and needed touch and authenticity… to sustain his soul – his art – particularly as EMF blocks our natural electrical connections – a kind of torture no one understands who is not experiencing it… …and I have to add this about the tactic of EMF [although please don't think EMF is their only tactic to 'neutralize' a threat: there's also 'give them a job'… or 'a mate'… or a mate and then EMF…]: they tend to use it on only one person in a given network – and I'm talking about their political 'eliminations' (as opposed to their use of it for 'population management' – for 'High-tech Auschwitz'…) – only one 'treatment' at a time… so folks won't connect the dots and have the support of another person… His assassination suggests (unless he was about to release some powerful songs of resistance…) they have in mind another target. So do we see that if we allow anyone to be EMF-assaulted… we could be next on the list… to receive the same 'treatment' one day?… We let Prince suffer because we didn't know… but from this point forward… we are complicit in the suffering of any artist… and we will lose their gifts… which we need to see our true selves… For until we regain our world… reclaim our 'selves' and our gifts… artists harbor them… They are our treasures… the treasures within…)

 

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These guys live to concoct lies… it's apparently all they do with their time on the planet… and then to attempt to smother all the goodness and love with said lies that they can find… If there was anyone authentic left around Prince after decades of them 'working' on him… I'd be very surprised… Even the fact that he was killed in an elevator is likely significant – these sad abandoned children can't seem to resist making fun of us – “Love come quick… love come in a hurry… There're fascists in the U.S. of A.… Love come quick… love come in a hurry… There're fascists takin' our lives… our world… away…” – and I'm talking about the global (shadow) U.S. State [and we're gonna be talking more about what I mean by that'… I've gotten help with that concept by just noticing how state functionaries can be put to work in the tracking and the targeting of me – and not just state functionaries… but 'workers' in general… public or private – a 'shadow state' is not what you might think… it's simply the global 'class'-system… it's having people paid to do what they are told… and it is a global 'class'-system… it is a global 'shadow state'…] Let's honor Prince's courage and love in death better than we did in life… let's not let them sneak away with their EMF weapons…pretending they didn't kill him. If there is no such thing as a whole array of EMF-weapons used against citizens of the U.S.… that can cause a variety of symptoms… symptoms that are then diagnosed as diseases and illnesses… say so… Department of the Navy… say so under oath.).

 

[“160508endingthepunishment_4.mp3”:]

 

There's two fronts on which we can immediately address these hidden threats: circulating a petition demanding accountability of the Department of the Navy – to divulge… identify… itemize… and explain the use of any EMF-weapons that can be used against individuals… and then… under oath… to explain whether they are used against citizens of the U.S.A. – and then… reclaiming ourselves… beginning to practice wholistic (authentic) self-defense… is key… We've been allowing artists to be put at extreme risk in order to be an artist… We may likely never know how many did so at the cost of their lives… This is not going to stop until we step up… – and Prince's example – a potent illustration of the power and vitality that comes from owning one's authentic freedom – could have provided the answer… might have convinced more of us that we have to talk about these things: the punishment heaped on those who are authentic beings – and doesn't 'authentic' mean 'happiness'?… which explains 'power's determination to punish it… to make it – force it to be – 'unhappy'… and forestall any challenge to the state on these grounds. These folks that bring 'the punishment' – hidden-'power' – have been breathing down Prince's neck for almost all of his adult life. Imagine the courage it took to not let them steal his love.

 

[“160508facingfearofthestate_5.mp3”:]

 

…the global U.S. state (which is a shadow state…) is rolling out an overt Fascistic 'reality' – globally… it always happens globally… as we saw in the 1930s… that's the point… it is a global system of 'class'… that's how they realize 'Plato's vision (and the need for totalitarianism to be global if it is to be rigid and fixed explains why Plato thought his vision could only be Utopian…) So they have very consciously been making this a global system. We understood this in the early twentieth century… and the wars of annihilation of our global socialist consciousness [World Wars I and II] held that consciousness back… forced us to continuously re-discover… re-learn…what we knew before it was destroyed: that our movement must be global… – the pace at which they are imposing a fascistic reality… and attempting to force us (and that includes the elected 'representatives' – they too must be puppets – it may help to just say “we got a fascist state… and we cannot fade… we must step up if we want a free future for ourselves and our children…”) the pace at which the global U.S. state is attempting to force us to accept it… – its vested domination of the existing global totalitarian 'order' – makes addressing this… fear… in our resistance a number one priority… Two recent articles in local community weekly papers illustrate this… [So you see the strategy that's going on… they do not want us using this technology to convene our global movements… or… here in the U.S.… to convene our conventions and our referendum on our right to happiness… to 'call that question' here in the U.S.… They want us to fear doing this… and… yes… to do this we will have to convene… at points… large public gatherings… and smaller gatherings… – and… yes… those will be monitored… we cannot fear to do this… We have to use these tools… it's absolutely essential that we not allow ourselves to be kept from our due freedom… kept from our due solidarity with our Brothers and Sisters who suffer much more at the hands of their states than we… out of fear that the state will read that we want to call the question of our right to happiness… or to convene Global General Strikes… We have to get clear that either or both of these things are within our right…]

 

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Proudhon: – “In all these cases, man is moved by an internal attraction towards his fellow, by a secret sympathy which causes him to love, congratulate, and condole; so that, to resist this attraction, his will must struggle against his nature. But in these respects there is no decided difference between man and the animals. With them, as long as the weakness of their young endears them to their mothers, – in a word, associates them with their mothers [I've also witnessed (in seagulls) how 'weakness' in one's fellow inspires we-animals to help… We see then what a complete overthrow of our natures is accomplished with poisonous pedagogy… when children are led to despise 'weakness'… – P.S.], – the latter protect the former, at the peril of their lives, with a courage which reminds us of our heroes dying for their country [Let's update this… now that we've got a good look at our Global Band of Brigands who coalesced in the aftermath of the French Revolution… and their cynical adoption of fascism when it suits their purpose… the Plato's Tribesmen – let's update this to read: “…for the freedom of human beings globally… – P.S.] There is, however, a difference between us two-handed bipeds and other living creatures – what is it?… It is by our reflective and reasoning powers, with which we seem to be exclusively endowed, that we know that it is injurious, first to others and then to ourselves, to resist the social instinct which governs us, and which we call justice. [Two thousand years previous to Proudhon's writing this… Plato attempted to overthrow this definition and replace it with: “service to the state…” and yet… it lived on… until Plato's Tribesmen… Republic in hand… re-vitalized it… by seizing command of our world… using its tool… 'the economy'… – P.S.] It is our reason which teaches us that the selfish man, the robber, the murderer – in a word, the traitor to society – sins against Nature, and is guilty with respect to others and himself, when he does wrong wilfully.… [This provides support to the argument we've been making in this space… that the mindset of 'rule'… of 'power'… of 'class'… leads to the atrophy of thought… – P.S.]”

 

[“160508ourgiftsareincommonwith_7.mp3”:]

 

Proudhon: – “Finally, it is our social sentiment on the one hand, and our reason on the other, which cause us to think that beings such as we should take the responsibility of their acts.… Our appreciation (I do not say exclusive appreciation, for the animals also realize that they have done wrong, and are indignant when one of their number is attacked, but), our infinitely superior appreciation of our social duties, our knowledge of good and evil, does not establish, as regards morality, any vital difference between man and the beasts.”

 

[“160508justiceunpacked_8.mp3”:]

 

Proudhon: – “The second degree of sociability is justice… The sentiment of justice we share with the animals; we alone can form an exact idea of it; but our idea, as has been said already, does not change its nature. We shall soon see how man rises to a third degree of sociability which the animals are incapable of reaching. But I must first prove by metaphysics that society, justice, and equality, are three equivalent terms, – three expressions meaning the same thing, – whose mutual conversion is always allowable. If, amid the confusion of a shipwreck, having escaped in a boat with some provisions, I see a man struggling with the waves, am I bound to go to his assistance? Yes, I am bound under penalty of being adjudged guilty of murder and treason against society. But am I also bound to share with him my provisions?… That which in this instance obscures our duty is our power of foresight, which, causing us to fear an eventual danger, impels us to usurpation, and makes us robbers and murderers.” [This strikes me as a key point… one which explains the psychological dynamic underlying what Karl Popper calls 'historicism' (which I believe is an expression of the 'scarcity'- or 'abandonment'-mindset of 'class' that has so plagued us for millennia…) – and which may allow us to gain a deeper understanding of his related discussion of 'Utopian social engineering' – imposing on the present…or forcing it to accord with… irrespective of the demands which the present makes… one's concept of 'the future.' But then… this is not 'foresight' but 'anticipation'… 'assumption'… that what has been will be again: the posture of 'resistanceless-ness'… 'passivity' vis-a-vis 'possibility'… because unconscious of… a repetition compulsion. But also because the central dualistic mindset of 'class' (another dimension of the 'Abandonment' disease… akin to… or another way of looking at… the assumption of 'scarcity') – the split between 'citizen' and 'barbarian' – attempts to prevent the acquisition of experience with the rejected 'other'… such that we could gain new information… and re-form our consciousness (as Proudhon… with Alice… is confident we can do…) – and this… upon consideration… sends its support to Nikola Tesla's contention that once we attained full access to each other – through instantaneous communication – we would shortly thereafter attain our freedom….

 

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For our May 8, 2016 show:

 

[“151220hateaintprogress_1.mp3”:]

 

In this week's show we return to this matter of our cultivating a new 'economic' allegiance… using our definition of 'economic': 'suppressed creative expression flowering'… and our on-going need to create and use a language between us that reinforces our right to an authentic Freedom – i.e. based in individual self-sufficiency… which means “no masters”. We will be arguing that the road to this accomplishment is through owning our own spontaneous feelings… a section of the chapter, “Progress” in Waking Up I would write differently… Today… with the benefit of Alice Miller… and Karl Popper… and John Boswell… and Martin Bernal et al.… we can see that it was not the “pressure of 'Necessity'” that drove the (what would eventually become) 'Plato's Tribesmen' to unleash their hate on us… rather it was… base and corrupt… child abandonment – these Tiny Few who plague us today are the progeny of the oblates John Boswell writes of… the abandoned children of the abandoned children of 'princes'… who were mis-guided by that 'original' of the 'global-state-statesman': Plato.

 

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Our May 1, 2016 show:

 

[“160501subversiveofinterstatesys_1.mp3”:]

 

To the degree possible… during these shows we will be continuing to follow in the newspapers – and certainly here be giving thanks for – the “Nuit Debout” (“Night Standing Up”: which I take to mean… that those who have been disappeared are disappeared no more…) occupiers of plazas across France… and particularly in the Place de la Republique in Paris… and ask all of us to consider this May Day… and every day… organizing Global General Strikes in order to begin planning our future based in abundance (the mutual aid and cooperation of nations) and non-coercion… de-centralization… and the end of hierarchy… 'class'… rank. This means linking our resistance together…Arrighi, Hopkins and Wallerstein: “Perhaps the central question is this [say our Good Three]: how, and to what extent, can the well-organized arms of progressive movements in Western Europe, framed as they are by their current forms and immediate concerns, recompose themselves into agencies, not of national realization but of world-historical transformation? This recomposition would mean they became in the future as subversive of the interstate system per se as they have in the past been its products and proponents…”

 

[“160501princeandemf_2.mp3”:]

 

I've been pondering the degree to which artists are at risk because there is no division within them 'servant of the state' and 'human'… one is a human being first… last and always… If we have no choice but to advance that truth without qualifiers of any kind… we will find ourselves targeted. So in our upcoming shows we turn our eyes and hearts to those who possess that… and do that… and call them 'artists'… acknowledging that 'power' is a jealous and paranoid Tribe of restless seekers of 'proof' of their own superiority… and that those who refuse to confirm this lie… by 'taking the money' and pretending that 'the system' is a fit tomb for the soul… the self-hating Tribe of Plato is determined to destroy.… In a previous show when I said that the song “Baby I'm A Star” was quite enough to get Prince targeted… I said it without stopping to let that – what it fully meant – sink in… that the pain… buzzing head… electrical-paralysis (my skull feels numb most of the time these days – the 'hitting' is continuous…) and swollen-ness – and the off-the-charts 'harassment' in ways that cannot be 'proven' (“They don't care where they kick… Just as long as they hurt you…”) The global-state-statesmen hate those who know they shine (for they cannot be controlled…) I knew he was being targeted because targeting me – given my particular circumstances – allowed me to see them… and see therefore their preoccupations… their strategy… and their m.o.… Targeting me with false folk and hidden weaponry… was revelatory… revealed the degree to which they are determined to construct all the thoughts in all of our children's heads… so thereby to interrupt Thought's natural process of growth and prevent any of us from ever recovering our true-power… and therefore from ever wanting to recover our authentic freedom…

 

[“160501thievesinthetemple_3.mp3”:]

 

“Then answered the Jews and said unto him, What sign shewest thou unto us, seeing that thou doest these things? Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up. Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building and wilt thou rear it up in three days? But he spake of the temple of his body…” I believe he was using 'temple' as metaphor for the body – and “thieves in the temple” perfectly describes the assault with EMF of the 'power'-guys on the 'temple' that is our body – and (as Leuren Moret said…) they can literally remotely monitor brain activity.

 

[“160501haveartistsbackagainsttheclandestine_4.mp3”:]

 

We have to understand that we are butting up against folks with limitless resources – so long as we allow them to continuously draw on us… because we are the abundance they bloat themselves on – who see themselves as playing the long-game… that is… they live to conceive and execute plots that require years to bring complete denouement… i.e.… they never see 'end' to their meanness… will never concede… We… on the other hand… have been… not just too tolerant of their need to feel dominant… not just too unsure of our own gifts… too unappreciative of them… too trapped in the immediate… and the imposed atomization… but we haven't had a language in which to discuss it… and of course the means of discourse… and this is where artists come in… striving courageously to provide it… both the language… and the linkages between us… That artists exist provides the clear… living… evidence that 'class' is totalitarian… as… by their contrast we see the degree to which our world has been sculpted such that the vast majority are kept from our due development… conditioned to see ourselves not as human beings but as 'workers'. In the absence of our backing… artists have no choice but to lay low… go private… to the detriment of all of us. We are not making it safe for them to take chances… use their greater reach to support global freedom for all – and in that absence we prolong our due freedom indefinitely. But if we were to demand discussion of 'power's clandestine tactics and weapons… would that still be the case?

 

[“160501commandeeringthechildren_5.mp3”:]

 

“The Outer From the Inner derives its magnitude…” said Emily. The 'power'-guys want to construct our 'inners' to ensure we will never develop any magnitude sufficient to challenge them… And this is done by taking control of the children (because that is… in fact… how the system reproduces itself… how could we ever have not been discussing this?… it is so obvious… and that is done – taking control of the children is done – by means of the coerced-work system – we are forced as parents to abandon them… This commandeering of our spirits has happened to each and every one of us (under 'class'…) reducing our lives to a choice between being strictly controlled – staying where we're put on 'power's dinner-table – or being cleared from the table… never getting a chance to grow our gifts… always remaining inanimate objects (until our freedom animates us… that is unfortunately what we are: puppets of 'power'… when they construct and hold the strings that constrain us…) objects subject to 'power's “'right' of disposal”… This brings us to another group of highly-targeted folk (also 'artists'…): those who work with children. 'Power' wants the influences that reach our children to be strictly monitored… regulated… and overhauled – not to ensure that children's self-development is supported… but rather to ensure 'power's continued domination by sowing within the children fascistic proclivities. How do we 'be authentic'… in a totalitarian reality?… in the absence of the support we create in our 'associations' to build global unity towards freedom? I raised this question last week because my process of thinking-through what an “authentic 'self-defense' practice” must do… along with some observations as I assist with the teaching of pre-schoolers 'self-defense'… has raised questions… and brought up my own unconscious channeling of the hidden-'state' – demonstrating to me how much we need each other to grow beyond 'power's totalitarian conditioning of us.

 

[“160501thegoldenrule_6.mp3”:]

 

A lot of us start out asking why the 'Golden Rule' – “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you…” – cannot… it seems be observed… We know now that to do so would end 'the system'… making it a radical and heroic act to continue raising the question. Let's start with the children… we must not tell them what words to speak… what thoughts to think… they have their own thoughts… which surpass ours for clarity by far. I have learned to ask a favor of the parents who prompt 'political' (i.e. state-sanctioned) speech or acts in their children… to please refrain… because children have their own voices… their own minds… their own ability to judge and think… and that it is by watching us that they learn what it is possible to be… and that one thing we absolutely do not want… is for them to become robots.

 

[“160501bandofbrigandswhorule_7.mp3”:]

 

Proudhon: “Now, all systems exist only on certain conditions…” [that of 'class' being to train children to be puppets of 'Authority'… – P.S.]. “What, then, are the conditions, the laws, of human society? What are the rights of men with respect to each other; what is justice?” [And he is talking about what should be… what must be… for us to be human – not in his worst dreams could he have imagined what we are accepting today as our 'reality'… – P.S.] “To practise justice is to obey the social instinct [i.e.… to be in harmony with the earth… which means being in harmony with our bodies… respecting their longing to be free… crediting it when they tell us we are not… despite the 'education' we receive… – P.S.]; to do an act of justice is to do a social act. If, then, we watch the conduct of men toward each other under different circumstances, it will be easy for us to distinguish between the presence and absence of society; from the result we may inductively infer the law. Let us commence with the simplest and least doubtful cases. The mother, who protects her son at the peril of her life, and sacrifices every thing to his support, is in society with him – she is a good mother. She, on the contrary, who abandons her child, is unfaithful to the social instinct, – maternal love being one of its many features; she is an unnatural mother. [In the Preface to Waking Up I noted that animals in zoos often turn on their own babies – but… this aside… I do not doubt that Proudhon would recognize in psychic abandonment abandonment-still… and in the poisonous pedagogues of his day and beyond… and in its adherents we call 'Plato's Tribesmen'… a most unnatural band of humans… – P.S.]

 

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For our May 1, 2016 show:

 

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“Now that’s a great illustration of the contrast between the clarity with which children see… and the challenged vision of adults under ‘class’… due to manufactured ‘scarcity’ and the stories we’re led to believe. So while 10,000 years of subjection produces a profound paralysis of action in us… each child starts out fresh… with backs that must be made to bend…” [From the Waking Up Radio show of February 22, 2015]

 

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“And officially classified debtor states are required, on pain of losing their creditability as states (and hence of losing, in today’s world, their very “stateness”), to reduce the cost of their exports by reducing the costs to capital, direct and indirect, of labor within their borders. Popular demonstrations against such officially constructed austerity plans are reported almost daily. This world-level, organized pressure to depress the living conditions of the world’s more and less proletarianized workers is hard to construe as other than a strategic escalation (by capital) of class struggle.…” And my comment on what we were just hearing: the overall point here… is that the debtor – creditor relation strips the illusion of any material basis for the ‘theory’ that gaining state-power… could lead to a people-led and defined (determined) global transformation to a ‘socialist’ (however defined… and I’m arguing it must mean ‘freedom’…) world… – P.S.] [From the Waking Up Radio show of February 22, 2015]

 

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Our April 24, 2016 show:

 

[“160424killingprinces_1.mp3”:]

 

Will the question never end? “How long shall they kill our prophets – the ones who model an authentic allegiance – while we stand aside and look?” How do we support those who manifest authentic power when we know they are in the crosshairs of jealous… paranoid… false 'power'?… when we know they have been completely surrounded by false folks… when we know they have no one… but others like themselves who also have no one… that they can completely trust… because these Tiny Ten Thousand have constructed a world so fundamentally dishonest… that it checks our authentic impulse to come together and help each other… Artists – and we are all artists – are in the crosshairs of 'power' because their work requires listening to the authentic voice of the earth… if our art is to develop as it is meant… So… what then?… must we live forever under the gun? “…must not justice be done and our education be finished?…” asks Proudhon… should we not all ask ourselves this… ask ourselves do we want it… do we want to shine?… do we want to be Princes?… It was quite obvious Prince has a soul that was attended to… a “thirsty heart” (“Be thirsty heart… seek forever without a rest… let this soundless longing hidden deep inside you be the source of every word you say…” – Rumi, the Afghan poet, 1207 – 1273… – that thirsty heart cannot exist in this system. The ones we honor for being such despite the obstacles the system throws up sooner or later are shot down… for their search cannot but bring them to the truth that hidden folks have constructed a 'reality' completely false… designed to contain us…

 

[“160424lightoftheworld_2.mp3”:]

 

I have to tell you… my experience of my life since writing Waking Up: Freeing Ourselves From Work feels quite surreal… I can't tell you how often I've thought… “I cannot be the only one saying these obvious things… why do I never hear them on KPFA? After all… these words I quoted – “The Mayans just stared at him. They said they weren’t workers but people, and, besides, land wasn’t property but the heart of their communities…” did not fall on my ears alone.”… And then the harassment started… and the placing of false folk first across my path… and eventually all around me… along with the clandestine bombardment with microwave radiation… and… admittedly… it took years – and Leuren Moret's work – to sort out: “The Historical Roots of the New World Order and Its Permanent War Economy”… There is a complete black-out of the message that “we are not workers…” along with the message that we must reclaim our world by organizing together globally… across the inter-state-system… a black-out extending… mos def… to the Biblical text… We are told… approvingly… that we are “the salt of the earth…” we are not told that we are “the light of the world…” that we are stars… each one… shining to show the way out of the lies we are trapped in… It is past time for us to both see each other's light… shining authentically… and to join our light with our others… our Sisters and Brothers. Because the question is profound: “…if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted?…” What is the answer? Whose responsibility is it? When will we answer “Mine”?

 

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We will not be guided by the vetted pundits… who advance a 'philosophic' view… and caution patience… tell us to wait until 'History' finally chooses to advance our cause of living freely as we're meant to do… wait until 'History' 'allows' our release from millennia-long chains of deceit… and cruelty… and from the Hell of welding them together ourselves… out of fear… that no one will stand with us… [Vetted pundit]: “But theory would lead us to expect that capitalism would be replaced by socialism as a result of the development of the means of production coming into contradiction…” Meanwhile… while we're told to wait for 'History' to deliver us… 'power' is rushing to close down the obvious opportunity of instantaneous global communications… [The Economist]: “In the case of protest movements, the waves of collective action leave a big digital footprint. Using ever more sophisticated algorithms, governments can mine these data. That is changing the balance of power. In the event of another Arab spring, autocrats would [and of course the shadow U.S. global-state (we have to have the right language to grapple with these things…) is not 'autocratic'… it just kills ('neutralizes') all the folks who point the way to authentic freedom… – P.S.] autocrats would not be caught off guard again because they are now able to monitor protests and intervene when they consider it necessary. They can also identify and neutralise the most influential activists…”

 

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It may be that all the ill-health of the last century may be justifiably laid at their door (and I say this because they have been experimenting with these weapons for a long time… figuring out how to intensify the hit… flooding the atmosphere with substances that would allow that… and as I said in another show I'm beginning to suspect that that whole 'geo-engineering' discussion that was current for a while and that Bill Gates was a big funder of – he seems to be at the intersection of a lot of the signifier-issues of global-'power': 'education' initiative [getting control of our heads…] 'food security'… [interfering with our ability to be self-sufficient…] atmosphere-modification [EMF-weapons / High-tech Auschwitz…] – I know we're not supposed to care who these 'power'-guys are… but in some instances it is just so obvious… that he has bought his way into the 'inner circle' of these folk – absolutely no doubt… megalomaniacal for days these people are… imagine playing with our lives… deciding who lives… who dies – it's just beyond the ken of earth-loving… human-being-loving-folk…) – what an achievement! – while they boast of the wonders of their 'science' designed to ameliorate or terminate the ill-health they cause… Authentic movement (in body… mind… and spirit…) they want not… they fear it it seems – in their 'system' what 'downward-spirals'… or 'tracks-up' they want to be their 'gift' or punishment – as 'evidence' of their 'god'-like status'… And so now they have a large repertoire of 'diseases' (and I'm serious… I keep finding out new ones: Parkinson's and pneumonia…) that they make happen in us – what a legacy of their time on the planet.

 

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In other words… the 'system' is self-reflecting and all aspects are designed to continuously re-manifest 'the state': 'scarcity' manifests the state in 'the economy': that's why they have to continually ensure that scarcity exists… despite the obvious reality of our earth's abundance; dualistic / utilitarian thinking ('citizen'-'barbarian') manifests it in the 'polity': and I have learned that whatever official name the 'power'-guys give to the polity in whatever the state happens to be… it is… until we have our world back… in reality… Fascistic… totalitarian; the abandonment of children manifests it in 'the family'… and lack of empathy manifests it in the individual… We can riff on any aspect but we're always talking about one thing…Last week we said: “In our collective grieving it doesn't matter if anyone else is authentic… as long as we are – we model it… and let the earth-in-us do the rest…” – and that's “the earth-in-'us'”… collective 'us'… But it may be more difficult to be 'authentic' than to 'defend' the authentic self – 'defending it' being that collective effort towards our freedom (materialized in the alternative we make… together…) A recent experience confirms this… confirms that the problem of our 'understanding' the state (our parents) runs very deep in our psyches… in our habits of being. …Zora concludes: “I do not know what was the ultimate right in this case. I do know how I felt at the time. There is always something fiendish and loathsome about a person who threatens to deprive you of your way of making a living…”

 

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Proudhon: “Man is a rational and social animal… said Aristotle. This definition is worth more than all which have been given since. I do not except even M. de Bonald's celebrated definition, – man is an intellect served by organs, – a definition which has the double fault of explaining the known by the unknown; that is, the living being by the intellect; and of neglecting man's essential quality, – animality. Man, then, is an animal living in society. Society means, the sum total of relationships; in short, system.…” [I resist the word 'system' with its mechanistic implications: “a set of things working together as parts of a mechanism or an interconnecting network…” – I resist the idea that this word – so evocative of totalitarianism – has anything to do with human societies inherently… i.e. with our voluntary association… i.e. with our future. In our July 12, 2015 show in which we discussed 'de-centralization' as an essential characteristic of our freedom… we quoted Paul Goodman's phrase: “the organization is how we cooperate…” which conveys a thing ever-growing and changing as we learn ever-more about our world and each other. I prefer this conveyance of the dynamic into our picture of freedom… for instance Kropotkin's way of describing it… but he was standing in a place decades-on past this writing of Proudhon's… with the benefit of those decades of intense introduction to the ever-growing concentration of 'power' in the centralized state of the advancing global totalitarian 'order'… He had no choice but to come to grips with the full implications of it in his analysis… on which he based his strategic guidance… – P.S.]

 

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Proudhon: “…Now, all systems exist only on certain conditions…” [This sounds like Wallerstein: “My analysis is based on two premises…” he wrote: “The first is that capitalism is a system, and that all systems have lives; they are never eternal. The second is that to say that capitalism is a system is to say that it has operated by a specific set of rules during what I believe to be its approximately 500 years of existence…” – and then he went on to say: “In my view, for a historical system to be considered a capitalist system, the dominant or deciding characteristic must be the persistent search for the endless accumulation of capital – the accumulation of capital in order to accumulate more capital.… The priority of accumulating capital in order to accumulate still more capital seems to me a thoroughly irrational objective. To say that it is irrational… is not to say that it cannot work in the sense of being able to sustain a historical system, at least for a considerable length of time. The modern world-system has lasted some 500 years, and in terms of its guiding principle of the endless accumulation of capital it has been extremely successful. However, as we shall argue, the period of its ability to continue to operate on this basis has now come to an end…” are we feeling it?… the need for authentic thought right now?… – P.S.]

 

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Our April 17, 2016 show:

 

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Shout-outs and thanks to those taking to the streets of Paris and across France… in movement called 'Nuit Debout': “In the night… Rise up!” – Seriously. And while it's in protest of Fascist creep… neo-liberal economic policies… imposed austerity – more and more less-and-less – and a global system that wants to keep tight control of us – may it move beyond protest to global planning for a future based in the assumption of abundance and non-coercion… And may we here in the U.S. do the same… and link arms… and aims… and love… and action… inspiring the world to believe in our right to freedom. 'De-commissioning the system' needs to be a world-wide effort… Let's flesh out what that means… in terms of exorcising the internal state and withdrawing our support… denying it human energy… So instead of demanding 'jobs'… we demand land for Earthships… communal living arrangements… and linking our intercommunications globally… It is time to wake up… from our numbing trudging slumber… our treadmill drowse… – the thought that all else but this was being systematically snipped from the picture of our possibilities… that haunted us as we read Alice: “Can this vicious circle ever be broken?… It may be that I am trying to attain something with these texts that either is not possible at all or is completely superfluous. For as long as you are not allowed to see something…” [and regardless of how overt or subtle is this message from the parent… the system 'saying it' is ultimately what silences us – i.e.… there is no alternative available for us to see – there is no option other than performance… pretense… collaboration: the pressures of 'power' on us to conform is merciless. And so what choice do most of us have… but to dissolve our authentic-ness – our original-ness – or bury it… and get on the same side… with 'power'…] Hence our present focus: providing the necessary alternative… beginning the 'de-commissioning' process… understanding the abuse we received as infants… all together… experiencing it as an intentional injury of 'class'… all together…

 

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That we-the-people inevitably move toward claiming our full gifts – and in claiming ourselves we are also claiming each other… and all the more rapidly as we more fully utilize our enhanced capacity for interaction offered by the Internet and instantaneous communication – that this tend exerts an irresistible pull… is undoubtedly true… but is it true that 'power' “can't figure these things out”?… can't resolve the central contradiction for it of our continuous growth and our building unity globally… tied inexorably to 'globalization'… It seems to me today that the 'power'-guys have indeed settled upon a solution… of a kind… the only kind that fits with their repetition compulsion… with their contempt for us… and Plato's imperative of 'cattle'-management: continuously sow divisions between us by funding 'fascists' and 'terrorists' and 'dictators'… and 'corruption'… and 'criminal gangs'… and random acts of tyranny… and 'natural disasters'… while systematically 'managing us' by reducing our numbers – 'High-tech Auschwitz'… how was it that we could imagine that their obsession… systematically sown around the globe just a few decades ago – and on-going – had ever left us… would ever leave us alone? Are we ready yet… to provide to the would-be-gods their needed 'check'?… to play the 'emphatic partner' to the 'power'-patient… such that… we can develop the world our children need to grow their gifts… under their own direction… a world unsullied by the sick lies and corrupt intents of the 'power'-guys?

 

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And I hate to talk about the 2016 U.S. presidential election because we got a bigger ambition… but so does 'power'. Let's not forget that we are embracing global goals because that is the only way to get our lives back… stand with the planet… and with all our Brothers and Sisters… I.e.… 'power' is global… and its strategy of containing our thoughts within the narrow bounds that its allows means… all media – and perhaps particularly progressive media – is strictly monitored and vetted… and this means two things when Hilary is attacked from all 'ends' of the political spectrum: they know she can win… and that she is not the total puppet they want in the Oval Office – and it also means they want no further impediments to getting a firm lock on us here in the U.S.… forestalling our ability to help our Brothers and Sisters globally… They want that office… and the fact that they are afraid of Hilary is actually sufficient reason for me to support her… but… again… our ambition is not 'fixing the state'. 'Fixing the state' is fixing 'for 'power' our cage… making it 'nicer' and 'tighter' so they don't have to fear us. If we must ensure that a Republican not get in that office… please weigh strategically… what that would mean.

 

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Organizing for Global General Strikes ('global' in every sense of the word: 'all of us together' across those categories… the false divisions… of 'class'… and all of us geographically… Only by happenstance did I learn about Nuit Debout – a lot is going on around the world with our Brothers and Sisters that we don't know about… We have to struggle with unifying our efforts together… but I really hope folks across the globe in thinking through the analysis have arrived at the conclusion that the Global General Strike is irreplaceable as a strategy for moving us forward and developing the unity we need…it's so important… and is a strategy that needs to be on-going to move us to de-commissioning… But once we start having Global General Strikes… that is linked… necessarily… to the conversation about global de-commissioning… and I'm so grateful to Proudhon for having thought this through… thought through some suggestions and options to share with us… to give us hope… I'm so moved by the notion of someone two hundred years ago providing hope… writing… trusting… it would arrive despite… and… believe me… there was a whole lot of 'despite' thrown against this man… as with all of the ancestors that we need… who saw the reality of our unity… and our 'bigness'…

 

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In coming together we invoke the true power of the earth… to challenge the disaster we have been intentionally sunk in. And I have to tell you… that before this – this personal story I'm in… of being tracked and targeted and assaulted – started… I didn't know there were so many lost souls – though I should have done… for I was one (the very reason I couldn't know…) But we have to know… to change it. In our collective grieving it doesn't matter if anyone else is authentic… as long as we are… we model it… and let the earth-in-us do the rest. And we must remember… our individual and collective purposes are conjoined – Alice conjoined with Proudhon – that while 'de-legitimization' and 'decommissioning the global-system' have been discussed before as abstract concepts… rarely… if at all… before… have they received practical expression… particularly in the context of our asserting our right – in association – to happiness.

 

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Disregard then, reader, my title and my character, and attend only to my arguments. It is in accordance with universal consent that I undertake to correct universal error; from the opinion of the human race I appeal to its faith. Have the courage to follow me; and, if your will is untrammelled, if your conscience is free, if your mind can unite two propositions and deduce a third therefrom, my ideas will inevitably become yours. In beginning by giving you my last word, it was my purpose to warn you, not to defy you; for I am certain that, if you read me, you will be compelled to assent. The things of which I am to speak are so simple and clear that you will be astonished at not having perceived them before, and you will say: “I have neglected to think.” Others offer you the spectacle of genius wresting Nature's secrets from her, and unfolding before you her sublime messages; you will find here only a series of experiments upon justice and right, a sort of verification of the weights and measures of your conscience. The operations shall be conducted under your very eyes; and you shall weigh the result.

 

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Proudhon: “Nevertheless, I build no system. I ask an end to privilege, the abolition of slavery, equality of rights, and the reign of law. Justice, nothing else; that is the alpha and omega of my argument: to others I leave the business of governing the world. [Exactly… end 'power' and our 'power'-bent backs will straighten… our souls will expand into our greatness… and our society will unfold in accordance with that… – P.S.] One day I asked myself; Why is there so much sorrow and misery in society? [Is that not our first conscious question… under 'class'… if… as he says… “(our) will is untrammelled, (and our) conscience… free…” – P.S.] Must man always be wretched? And not satisfied with the explanations given by the reformers… I sought to fathom the matter myself. I have consulted the masters of science; I have read a hundred volumes of philosophy, law, political economy, and history; would to God that I had lived in a century in which so much reading had been useless! I have made every effort to obtain exact information, comparing doctrines, replying to objections, continually constructing equations and reductions from arguments, and weighing thousands of syllogisms in the scales of the most rigorous logic.… But I must say that I recognized at once that we had never understood the meaning of these words, so common and yet so sacred: Justice, equity, liberty; that concerning each of these principles our ideas have been utterly obscure; and, in fact, that this ignorance was the sole cause, both of the poverty that devours us, and of all the calamities that have ever afflicted the human race [under 'class'… Is this not a perfect illustration of how… by following our questions… we recover our authentic self… i.e.… we make ourselves… and a perfect illustration as well… of why 'power' wants to stop our thinking?… – P.S.]”

 

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Proudhon: “Hence we reason by the eternal and absolute laws of our mind, and at the same time by the secondary rules, ordinarily faulty, which are suggested to us by imperfect observation [or one's parents perhaps?… – P.S.]. This is the most fecund source of false prejudices, and the permanent and often invincible cause of a multitude of errors. The bias resulting from these prejudices is so strong that often, even when we are fighting against a principle which our mind thinks false, which is repugnant to our reason, and which our conscience disapproves, we defend it without knowing it, we reason in accordance with it, and we obey it while attacking it. Enclosed within a circle, our mind revolves about itself, until a new observation, creating within us new ideas, brings to view an external principle which delivers us from the phantom by which our imagination is possessed…”

 

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…what he is proving… as he said… is that 'property' not only possesses no social utility… but… far worse… it leads… as Polanyi said… to the “dissolution of society…” – which we can see is so when we look around us with conscious eyes and minds – i.e.… with reclaimed bodies and therefore 'selves' – and recognize that anything that still contains a modicum of health – the earth and its species… ourselves and societies – does so as an act of defiance and constant struggle to exist… when what we need is a world that supports it… Now… given that Proudhon wrote this almost two hundred years ago… which means the 'power'-guys have long-since studied it and perceive the threat it poses to its official raison d'etre – i.e.… to further 'progress' – we cannot but accept… as we synthesize and advance Proudhon's gift… that the result we see around us is the intention: that while 'property' serves no social purpose… it does serve an anti-social one – what the 'power'-guys have in mind… is complete consumption (privatization) of the earth… and the dissolution of us… Proudhon: “Property, being capable of defense only on the ground that it produces utility, is, since it produces nothing, for ever condemned. All consumption which is not reproductive of utility is destruction…” … i.e.… he is identifying… describing… trying to help us see… the 'conception'… birth… of 'property'… in a fundamental deceit… So when he calls 'property' “an effect without a cause…” he means without an honest cause – that its existence is hidden in… he would say: “lies we tell ourselves…” or 'misconceptions'… but which I would call an 'ever-seekingness' (which is the opposite of 'following our questions'… discussed in Waking Up…) and Alice Miller would call a 'compulsion'… utterly irrational… and rooted in the early childhood experience and practice of abandonment…

 

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For our April 17, 2016 show:

 

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“If the goal of 'power' is to privatize everything… obviously the goal of 'power' is to create scarcity. Period. It's very straight-forward… our reasoning powers lead us to the truth… because it's obvious when you disregard the conditioning… the deep propaganda… and use your own reason… as all of our ancestors have been telling us…” [From the Waking Up Radio show of November 25, 2012]

 

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“Terence Hopkins wrote about this whole issue of the relationship between individual state sovereignty and the world economic system… Basically… he says that there's no theory of the formation of states on a world scale in any way comparable to the theory of the accumulation of capital on a world scale… He pointed out decades and decades ago that there were some fundamental contradictions that 'power' has… and I believe that 'power' cannot figure these things out because fundamentally they can't… because they believe that we are 'cattle'… What they can't figure out is that their 'system' is self-defeating… They can't stimulate patriotism and allegiance to the global economy simultaneously because the global economy is designed to create 'scarcity'… by 'eating' and privatizing the earth… But then… the 'cattle' can't be herded… and then the drums of 'nationalism' are then heard… Terry Hopkins wrote [in his summary of the 'modern world system theory'] that there were contradictions in 'power's whole… 'supremacy project'… So he put his finger on the crux of the problem from 'power's point of view… and ultimately the problem is us… Fundamentally… we aren't cattle… and we want to develop our gifts… and we want to live freely… But Terry saw this quite clearly… that 'power's vulnerability lies firstly in that states want their sovereignty… because the people they sit on will always want to be free… and will continuously push back against the walls… the limits of our captivity… until they fall…” [From the Waking Up Radio show of November 25, 2012]

 

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Our April 10, 2016 show:

 

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(Please bear with the website-update delays – my uploading effort has been slowed still further… with laptop-voltage-surge-attacks when I go to do my wireless uploads: and I don't want to replace the drive yet again at the moment… so I will be uploading more at the libraries.) We are beginning a new series of shows. This 'Proudhon' series is intended to flesh out our 'Transition to Freedom' issues and practices… based on the progression of the analysis of our present dilemma of being confronted with hidden-'power' – the very organized and determined global-state-statesmen (and a conversation with another member of the BLR Collective who was leaving as I came in reminded me that another important objective of these show is to get clear on our definitions: develop the lexicon of freedom…) determined global-state-statesmen… determined to lock us into a fixed global totalitarian 'class'-system – issues and practices identified in our “Embracing Global Goals” and “Raise Up Love – 1” series of shows… These issues include: “Facing our greatness – we are the wealth we've been waiting for…” we're going to be doing a lot of thinking about transforming our concepts of 'work'… 'wealth'… and 'the economy' – what do those words means under conditions of freedom for all of us…

 

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We owe a great debt to Jeremy Bentham (and he to Plato…) for outing hidden-'power'. [Bentham: “Now government supposes the disposition to obedience: – the faculty of governing on the one part has for its sole efficient cause, and for its sole measure, the disposition to obey on the other part…” He states 'power's objective quite clearly: getting us to obey… is that what we want for ourselves?… for humanity globally?…] Ever since Bentham wrote (if not since Plato… although… granted… Plato had to be resurrected…) there should have been no confusion in the minds of we-the-people what the 'power'-guys are about: that they are unequivocal… that they see us as a species apart… that they believe their objective 'justifies' the sacrifice of our lives… that they believe that 'Perfection' is a legitimate aim… and that it can only be achieved through the imposition of 'order' – a rigid hierarchical ordering… ranking… with positions… to which we all adhere closely… and tiered compensation to reflect 'power's prejudices and objectives… Given that 'Bentham' (his contribution…) was a re-imagining of Plato… who wrote over two millennia ago… given that Bentham's statement of purpose… logic used… and objectives… were presented mostly without artifice… why are we so backwards of them?… why has 'power's strategy… which… after all… is quite obvious… not been discussed as transparent… why haven't progressives been working on it… these two centuries since?

 

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And while you cannot know this… when I go to the library to upload… or walk at the park… or at home… or drive… wherever I go… it's an endurance test… sitting and modifying my website at the library left me so full of mucus I ended up gagging it up at the library… I can well imagine what folks thought… But what they could not imagine… is that we have a shadow-state that attacks people with electro-magnetic-force weapons… Somehow… we have to get a handle on this… we on the Left… who are willing to work for freedom… for all of us (…and by the way… it's important that Leuren Moret (the DARPA whistleblower who we cited in our March 13, 2016 show ) reminded us that these are weapons developed and used internationally… and I find it suggestive that the U.S. astronaut upon his recent return from the International Space Station complained of his head burning – as mine is right now – and of having extremely sensitive skin – which I have now all the time.)

 

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Why wasn't 'power's strategy of getting the parents and the system of 'education' to instill obedience in our children… while suppressing our access to information (the true story) and strictly monitoring and vetting media (and all our interconnections) – why wasn't its strategy for maintaining control of us foreseen? (or… for that matter… the fact that that – maintaining control of us – was… is… the point… the objective… of 'power' in the first place?…) which is another way of asking: why haven't we been discussing 'power's strategy of 'getting us on the same side with them'? – essentially through the multi-millennia-long strategy of 'divide (the self) and conquer… everyone'… of getting us to accept the split in our common humanity between those who are 'in' and those who are 'out' – the psychological dynamic Alice Miller calls… “splitting off and projection…” (…and we call: the core division of 'class': between 'citizen' and 'barbarian'… I read a brief piece recently by the writer Tim Wise on the subject of 'education'… in which he quoted Thomas Jefferson [and… recall… Sebastian de Grazia said… in Of Time, Work, and Leisure… that the 'Founding Fathers'… “had gone back 2,000 years for the source of their ideas…”]: “Jefferson wanted to set up schools so that “geniuses will be raked from the rubbish annually”… The problem is… we-commoners… for the most part… weren't reading 'power's texts… particularly in terms of their strategic relevance… as… we would have known what to do with it. Case in illustration of a commoner knowing what to do with it: Shakespeare.

 

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Outing hidden-'power' in our personal stories by translating them into the terms of coercion – with the help of our Brothers and Sisters and the 'right story' – is walking right up to and through our early childhood experience of coercion… so that we can process it… understand what happened – is standing what had been in darkness in the light of day… so we can see what it is… and no longer be afraid – is… in essence… a process of 'getting big'… of exorcising 'the state'… Until now… we have not been able to synthesize and advance our understanding of this experience such that this understanding can be continuously developed… and passed on to our children… and implied in this is that we haven't had a language… developed ourselves from the synthesis of our common experience… and from our analysis… of the past two and a half centuries… to give to ourselves… and to others… and particularly to our children – this language… this 'right story' – to use to make sense of what is happening to us all. Of course the Internet and instantaneous communications now changes all that… but there is a lag between our grasp of our changed possibilities… and our fully utilizing this new potentiality to more rapidly share this language… this 'right story'… and change the thoughts we are thinking… and dramatically shift the terms of engagement with our future… to our advantage…

 

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The key points the writer is making: She's arguing that she: “…had been conditioned since childhood to believe that 'girls are just better' at emotional labor. I, like many other women, was taught to unconsciously take up the position of emotion manager… Emotion labor is usually 'unseen' labor that is part of most women's everyday lives.” “Stripping is one of the few jobs where workers are compensated for emotional labor… If [it] has taught me anything, it's that my time and energy are valuable. There are throngs of people who are willing to give fair compensation for emotional labor – and learning to ask those in my personal life to reciprocate and shoulder their fair share has been incredibly freeing.” What stands out in her account is 'power's absence… her seeming unwillingness to say explicitly that these are questions of 'power' (although her awareness of this is expressed in her use of the term 'social capital'…) I am very grateful for her honesty… for her sharing with us what is our common confusion… one we will have to grapple with as we form our associations. She shows us ourselves: most of us are children who… as Alice said… at the cost of their authentic selves… 'understood' their parents… 'understood' why her mother or his father abandoned them… and so cannot own her authentic grievance… and must displace it onto other 'objects'… and in a 'class'-system… there are no end of folk willing to play the role of “he or she that dismisses or abuses you”… because we've all been trained to be dismissive and abusive of those with less 'power' (and believe me… if you're a young person and didn't know that before you have a baby… you learn it quick then… as Alice has shown us…) So when we come to our 'associations' for global human freedom… we'll be bringing with us (or a lot of us will – probably unbeknownst to ourselves…) unconscious… and so unprocessed… Grievance… So what do we do with it?… We're not born with it… it was made in us… it is not authentic… 'Grievance' is 'power' manifested…

 

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And… as Alice says… we should be wary of our intellectualizations of our grievances… because in them hides… an allegiance to the state… they are hidden manifestations of 'power'… what [the playwright] is saying is that she's made her peace with 'power'… which she admits implicitly by suggesting that her 'peace' is conditional… based on 'power's recognition… its acknowledgement… But when not integrated consciously into our personalities… Grievance – rage at the theft of the 'true self' – no matter if subsided… lurks… awaiting but the stress of re-stimulated Abandonment to re-emerge… which is true for all of us… until we establish our world on the premises of Abundance… and non-coercion.

 

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Beginning with this show we will be reading from Pierre – Joseph Proudhon's First Memoir… What Is Property?… For the previous year we have been reading excerpts from Alice Miller's For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-rearing and the Roots of Violence… Our thought-process over the course of these shows has led us to some of the same questions Proudhon is pondering in this book: particularly the need to think authentically in order to gain the understanding we need to claim our full gifts as human beings… our freedom globally… We've been discussing with Alice's help the role of hidden-'power' in instituting globally a utilitarian conditioning (a 'make-use-of' mindset…) by suppressing our authentic self / spontaneous feelings as infants… through the poisonous pedagogy of child-rearing… which installs false beliefs (lies) in us as children that damage us for a lifetime by transforming us into functionaries in service to the 'state'… by means of an imposed training in self-abnegation: conditioning to view ourselves as objects in service to 'power' ('the state'…) and subject to 'power's creation and screen (to keep them from being seen…): the 'economy'. One of the residual questions we have from these discussions is: Can thinking authentically help us release suppressed (spontaneous) feelings… and support our experiencing the trauma of 'class' consciously… The mindset of 'ever-seekingness' is unique to 'class' because we enduring under it have been robbed of everything… and are trapped in the need to get 'it' back (this is an unconscious compulsion…) but lacked the language and the understanding of how to do so authentically.

 

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What Is Property?… the correspondence of its themes with those on which we are trying to gain greater clarity struck me… particularly: first… his explanation of why… in the world of our making… and in our transition to it… the individual must be the basic unit of political organization… second… his insistence on 'claiming the lexicon…' and the fresh manner in which he does… third… his thought-full approach to the 'de-commissioning-of-the-system'-process… so needed in this moment we are in… our transition to freedom… fourth… his model of 'claiming the authentic self'… and fifth… the fact that the brilliant freshness of his thought has been rummaged about in without giving him his due credit – let's correct that…

 

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Proudhon: “M. Blanqui acknowledges that property is abused in many harmful ways; I call property the sum of these abuses exclusively. To each of us property seems a polygon whose angles need knocking off; but, the operation performed, M. Blanqui maintains that the figure will still be a polygon (an hypothesis admitted in mathematics, although not proven), while I consider that this figure will be a circle. Honest people can at least understand one another… For the rest, I allow that, in the present state of the question, the mind may legitimately hesitate before deciding in favor of the abolition of property. To gain the victory for one's cause, it does not suffice to overthrow a principle generally recognized, which has the indisputable merit of systematically recapitulating our political theories; it is also necessary to establish the opposite principle, and to formulate the system which must proceed from it.”

 

[“160410truthseeker_11.mp3”:]

 

Alice: “I contend that neither labor, nor occupation, nor law, can create property; that it is an effect without a cause: am I censurable?… Reader, calm yourself: I am no agent of discord, no firebrand of sedition. I anticipate history by a few days; I disclose a truth whose development we may try in vain to arrest; I write the preamble of our future constitution. This proposition which seems to you blasphemous – property is robbery – would, if our prejudices allowed us to consider it, be recognized as the lightning-rod to shield us from the coming thunderbolt; but too many interests stand in the way!… Alas! Philosophy will not change the course of events: destiny will fulfill itself regardless of prophecy. Besides, must not justice be done and our education be finished?… My name, like yours, is Truth-Seeker… Speak without hatred and without fear; tell that which thou knowest! Now truth reveals itself to all; today to Newton and Pascal, tomorrow to the herdsman in the valley and the journeyman in the shop…”

 

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Our April 3, 2016 show:

 

[“160403faceourgreatness_1.mp3”:]

 

This moment exists for us to “face our greatness…” – our authentic-ness has been suppressed… our true lives misdirected… into serving the dreams of our fathers… while our own we dared not believe in… It is this – our greatness – that 'power' hopes to suppress when it insists on manipulating us… constructing a 'reality'… a strict hierarchical 'ordering'… that allows it to do this… ad infinitum – a 'reality' that divides us… keeps us separate… forces us to live our lives in narrow compositions… rigid scripts… absent our understanding of what is happening… that would allow us to step out of them… and smash this artificial atomization… When each new consciousness comes… it is to a 'world' intentionally sculpted… which then sculpts our consciousness to mirror the priorities it presents… and suppress our knowledge of the infinite… forcing us into a stultifying psychic isolation (reinforced by structural atomization…) 'psychic isolation' because each one of us feels alone with our early 'earth-knowledge' and our conditioned suspicion of it… Because of atomization we're not allowed to discover the powerful way in which we create new things when our minds and our hearts and our love begins to merge together… and that that is not something they can calculate or document 'scientifically': it is magic… it is mystery… And it's time for us to begin allowing that to live… in our hearts and in our relationships with each other – not to wait a lifetime to begin to trust what our bodies tell us… what the earth tells us… but rather… now that we have global communications begin doing this… all of us together… in the here-and-now… so that we can use that energy to go for what we deserve: our freedom… finally.

 

[“160403powersownpsychicisolation_2.mp3”:]

 

So this 'virus' of 'power' is simultaneously the 'virus' of psychic isolation: keeping us 'small'… keeping us separate… keeping us afraid – that's what it's all about… “Facing our greatness” means facing our fear that we are alone (our 'sources of power' – true power: the ancestors… the earth… and each other – are sources of power because they confirm our one-ness with the eternal… In reality it's not possible for us to be alone… but 'power' constructs this experience of 'alone-ness' and calls it “the human condition…” [And we'll be pointing out again next week… as we do later in the show… how the innumerable 'philosophical explanations' we've been bombarded with… over the course of the 'class'-experience… evidences yet again… our debt to Alice… as she explains it: the need of the abandoned child to construct an 'explanation' that 'justifies' his experience of abandonment…] When we can't overcome material and psychic isolation… when we cannot create “our own things…” we cannot be authentic (unbowed) beings… Rather… necessarily… as we are social beings… and need each other for confirmation of our existence… we are forced into 'state'-sanctioned social identities: to assuage psychic isolation we join state-sanctioned groups / identities… and… as Alice said… we necessarily tend to narcissistically-cathect them… falling in with 'power's mindset of believing one's particular sect is 'better'… and in reproducing the divisions… we manifest 'the state'… When we can't overcome material and psychic isolation… we cannot help but to manifest 'the state'… in the absence of an alternative that we ourselves create…

 

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[“160403globalineverysense_3.mp3”:]

 

Organizing for Global General Strikes ('global' in every sense of the word: 'all of us together' across those categories… the false divisions… of 'class'… and all of us geographically… Four: Land acquisition for building Earthships – most likely city-owned abandoned lots… that simply require the pressure of numbers to be turned over to community responsibility and caring – for Earthships… establishing a demonstration site… modeling what our future looks like in micro – and far from there being “too many of us…” we need everybody on board: there's a big mess that these 'power'-guys have made of our earth in these past two and a half centuries… and I suspect they intend to “put us to work” doing it on a compulsory basis: “work for food…” or “work for 'chits'…” or whatever it is they come up with to signify… quantify… our enslavement – that is their 'solution': 'winnow the population'… and put the rest 'to work' under terms they determine… when we're at a moment when the opposite of that must happen: we embrace the alternative that has been created by our ancestors – both indigenous / earth-connected [who don't need this work of getting their minds… their true selves… back…] and also the ancestors like Peter Kropotkin and Pierre Joseph Proudhon who have literally thought this through in so much rich detail that it's just there waiting for us… We have to believe in ourselves to put it into reality… Five: (here in the U.S.) organize a referendum to 'call the question' of our right to happiness (which is a tool… a wedge… that we must embrace here in order to take some of the bigger responsibility onto ourselves because we have more room to do so… politically speaking: they have to kill us clandestinely… our Brothers and Sisters in the 'Global South' don't have that little bit of 'wiggle-room'… of having official 'freedom of this' and 'freedom of that' – they can be killed openly – So let's use our 'greater freedom' to take the lead here…

 

[“160403reignofthefalse_4.mp3”:]

 

In our practice we are undoing an enormous amount of damage done to us… through our experience living in a 'class' system… So in recovering ourselves… we're recovering our balance: we're getting oriented to authentic reality… and so we need our feet beneath us – a solid… life-prioritizing… set of ethics… a sense of fairness… – we need our certainty… – to act… and for that we need the 'right story'… sound definitions… We need to know what happened… to us… and to our fathers – we need to know what we have been carrying on our backs unbeknownst… their unmet dreams… unmet dreams that have held us captive – all of us… under 'class'… regardless of our particular set of given circumstances… The infection began with the domestication of non-human… and then human… animals… with the advent of what 'power' calls 'civilization'… but which is rather just it's own never-ending 'seekingness'… a longing to be seen as a god-like thing… A longing for divinity proclaims a proclivity for Dishonesty – so we are living in the time of the 'Reign of the False' – although Plato smoothed any niggling conscience that may have troubled the 'philosopher-kings' by terming this a 'Necessity': lying that was 'lordly'… avarice for a 'noble' purpose… they were taught… was avarice-not… lust not-lust-but-just… to realize the Perfection that 'the stupid ones' will only 'mess up'… Once we see what we – all of us – have been doing when acting unconsciously… see that we've been seeking to be our father's unspoken dreams… Because we sense the distress… when we're born into it: the obsession to 'gain' “that which we have not…” at the cost of what we have: the 'all of it'…

 

[“160403mysteriousinterconnection_5.mp3”:]

 

“Rage and pain can… pass quickly if one is free to express them.…” [Suppression of authentic feelings – internalized force – is the defining quality of a totalitarian 'class'-system… and 'class' became totalitarian in the aftermath of the French Revolution…] “And the rage, if it is really acknowledged and experienced, can make room for a feeling of sorrow over the meaninglessness as well as the inevitability of the sacrifices.” ['Inevitable' given systemic 'class'… We will be… in sense… experiencing this sublated rage at the trauma of 'class' for the first time together –(I've never written about my friend Bob because it's just too painful… I can't help but wonder if his death was an 'elimination'… due to our connection… as… since I've been targeted with EMF… every death in my life has become suspect… The GF had illustrated his order. Seeing this filled me with such a complex mix of emotions… because by then the notion of 'waste'… how our lives are just thrown away… had already found a settled seat in me… “Who is that?” I asked. That was Bob…) As Alice Miller said… our coming together is not first and foremost about 'understanding' the story of 'class'… but rather about experiencing it together… because our bodies… the earth our bodies are… are our touchstones to truth… We 'know' 'what happened' once we experience our bodies consciously… and feel… realize… that they are not tools for use… objects for hire… but a sacred trust… a mysterious interconnection… a bond… a promise… a borrow of breath… a sacred pact with all life… to honor which we are given this capacity… and when not allowed to use it… to keep our promise… we are lost… When 'power' forces us to lose ourselves… we lose our reason for being… become shadows searching for substance… looking for 'Authority' to explain our existence… we become fodder for Fascists… as Alice said… which is why they do it… force us to forfeit… our authentic-ness…

 

[“160403permissiontoknow_6.mp3”:]

 

Alice: “Loving parents in particular should want to find out what they are unconsciously doing to their children. If they simply avoid the subject and instead point to their parental love, then they are not really concerned about their children's well-being but rather are painstakingly trying to keep a clear conscience.… The attitudes of “poisonous pedagogy” are not restricted to outdated child-rearing manuals of the past. There they were expressed consciously and unabashedly, whereas today they are disseminated more quietly and more subtly; nevertheless, they still permeate most major areas of our lives. Their very omnipresence makes it difficult for us to recognize them. They are like a pernicious virus we have learned to live with since we were little. We are often unaware, therefore, that we can live without this virus and would be better off and happier without it. People… can become infected without even realizing it. If they do not happen to undergo analysis, they have no occasion to discover the virus, no opportunity ever to question later in life emotionally charged convictions they adopted from their parents in early childhood. In spite of their sincere efforts to bring about a democratic family environment, they simply cannot help discriminating against the child and denying his or her rights, for, on the basis of their own early experiences, they can hardly imagine anything else. The early imprinting of these attitudes in the unconscious guarantees their enduring stability… Rage and pain can… pass quickly if one is free to express them.… And the rage, if it is really acknowledged and experienced, can make room for a feeling of sorrow over the meaninglessness as well as the inevitability of the sacrifices [although this… her use of the word 'inevitability' to refer to our incalculable losses suffered these last two and a half centuries… assumes the 'inevitability' of 'class'… which (thanks and praises to Karl Popper… Martin Bernal… Immanuel Wallerstein… et al.…) I think we can now see… is a mistaken assumption… that… on the contrary… 'class' was a conscious creation by the just-forming Plato's Tribesmen… in the aftermath of the French Revolution…]”

 

[“160403knowledgepermitted_7.mp3”:]

 

Alice: “…Now that my mother was showing the strength to face what had happened head-on, not to make excuses, not to deny or distort anything, because she felt that she, too, had once been a victim – now I was able to admit my knowledge of the past. It was a tremendous relief not to have to pretend any longer. And the amazing thing is that now, in spite of all her failings, which we both know about, I feel much closer to my mother and find her much more likable, animated, approachable, and warm than I did before. And I am much more genuine and spontaneous with her. The insincere effort I had to make is over. She no longer has to prove to me that she loves me in order to hide her guilt feelings; I sense that she likes me and loves me. She also doesn't have to prescribe rules of behavior for me anymore but lets me be as I am because she can be that way herself and because she is herself less under the pressure of rules and regulations. A great burden has fallen from me. I enjoy life, and it all happened without my having to go through a lengthy analysis. But now I would no longer say that my suicide attempts were unrelated to my childhood. It's just that I wasn't permitted to see the connection, and that must have intensified my feeling of desperation…”

 

[“160403aquestionofpower_8.mp3”:]

 

Alice: “…Then I quoted my sentence that appears on page 132: “If parents are also able to give their child the same respect and tolerance they had for their own parents, they will surely be providing him with the best possible foundation for his entire later life.” After giving a short, spontaneous laugh, my colleague looked at me very gravely and after a moment's silence said, “But that isn't possible…” “Why not?” I asked. “Because… because… our children do not use coercive measures against us, they don't threaten to leave us when we are bad. And even if they say it, we know they wouldn't do it…” He became increasingly reflective and then said very slowly, “You know, now I wonder if what is called pedagogy may not be simply a question of power, and if we shouldn't be speaking and writing much more about hidden power struggles instead of racking our brains about finding better methods of child-rearing.” That's exactly what I have tried to do in the book I have just finished,” I said.… I can imagine that someday we will regard our children not as creatures to manipulate or to change but rather as messengers from a world we once deeply knew, but which we have long since forgotten, who can reveal to us more about the true secrets of life, and also our own lives, than our parents were ever able to. We do not need to be told whether to be strict or permissive with our children. What we do need is to have respect for their needs, their feelings, and their individuality, as well as for our own.”

 

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January 24, 2016 Show:

 

[“160124functionariesofthestate_1.mp3”:]

 

…'power's use of weapons-technology to control dissent… limit population… and 'manage' our heads – determine what thoughts we think – only works by targeting singly those who challenge this thought-control… by returning to our thought-process the alternative vision of suppressed ancestors…those who expose hidden-'power' and the cons by which it maintains its domination… and who offer us clear alternatives to 'power's global 'system' – it only works by picking us off one-by-one… provoking fear in those who remain… and then suppressing the existence of the attempt – or re-writing the story of it – such that subsequent generations see 'class'… 'hierarchy'… decision-making-by-the-few… as the only possible way to 'manage' 'our' 'complex' 'modern' 'society'.… Alice says we must 'respect the child'… where in the above do we see that happening?… where in our sacrifice of dissent – and so a thought-process that is authentic – and in our capitulation to fear and dishonesty… does 'respect for the child' come in? Can it be that we don't see that we are betraying our children?… in every possible way… when we teach them they exist… not for themselves… but to be functionaries of the state?…

 

[“160124thepunishment_2.mp3”:]

 

Can it be that we don't see that we are betraying our children?… when we teach them… by our example if not overtly… to obey bosses… and to respond to money as a trigger of our behavior… Combine that training with material ('economic') dependence… and we get fascism… A bit of thought and this conclusion is obvious… but I must admit… until I became a target… because of my dissent… until I had no choice but to see how easily large numbers of folks could be turned into trackers and hounders of me… convinced to participate in my being extra-legally assaulted…and… more and more I'm becoming convinced that the drones are primarily used as cameras and processing and sending data to some weapon… located… where?) my head feels like a solid block of mucus… my chest likewise… and… once I get back from uploading this pdf it will require hours of loosening and clearing to ameliorate… while simultaneously being subjected to more of the same… 'punishment'…

 

[“160124endowmentofjoy_3.mp3”:]

 

None of the above is what we want… but it is inevitably what we will get when we accept 'power's 'right-of-management'… when what we want… is good fellowship… globally… Good fellowship is what our children expect when they come to us… it is an expression of our experience of 'the infinite'… The good fellowship of an honest world is what they must get… if we are to make our beliefs and our acts coalesce… and if we believe that our children deserve our respect…

 

[“160124permanentblankcheck_4.mp3”:]

 

If we were to ask ourselves why we accept subject-status for any of us… but especially for the children… many rationalizations would come in response… but they would all boil down to… coercion – i.e.… we feel we have no alternative. We have been using this space of the radio discussions to explore whether that's the case… whether 'class' exhausts the possible global social arrangements… and whether there is a way to confront global-'power' successfully… Even the shallowest probe of our sincerest heart and mind requires this honest assessment: that superior force in the hands of those who benefit from our subjection to them means not only that our subjection (our remaining forever children…) will continue ad infinitum… but that we will be… and have been… subjected to continuous manipulation… – because 'power' exists for itself… not us… and because it despises the 'weak'… and because its 'power' is unchecked by any repercussions for its abusiveness… If they can create crises – whether personal health disasters or broader social catastrophes – and get us to pay for them… where does this lead?… Isn't it issuing a permanent blank-check by the very terms of our existence under 'class'? Can we see that 'power' has concocted one scheme after another to bring about massive transfers of wealth…

 

[“160124outofthepanopticon_5.mp3”:]

 

“Breaking out of the 'Panopticon' globally…” means affirming our right to have access to each other and support each other…in order to both develop our personal gifts maximally as well as develop our social gifts maximally… through the design and implementation of self-management practices… We start by developing anti-coercion positions and pledges (this relates to the point we've been making – an extension of Alice's – that we have to experience the trauma of 'class' consciously – which encompasses the abusiveness of child-rearing – and integrate it into our personalities… on the road to reclaiming our 'selves' and thinking authentically…) And we start by sharing these pledges with our Brothers and Sisters around the world… working toward mutually supporting their public affirmation… affirmation of these commitments… pledges…

 

[“160124defendingtheself_6.mp3”:]

 

Where do we begin to address 'self-defense' in a 'system' (of 'class'…) that denies the right of the authentic 'self' to exist?… a 'system' whose essence is coercion… and whose 'nature' is totalitarian – as it is impressed across all social institutions… and is global… Most likely if we tried to bring Alice into our work with children… geared toward helping children identify… navigate… and openly confront… honestly… not just threats to their physical existence (in the broadest sense of those words… i.e.…including in an 'economic' sense…) but as well threats to their intellectual and emotional development… the money would dry up… agent-action would escalate… meetings and facilitated planning sessions would follow… along with smooth and orchestrated guidance from multiple (especially funder) sources… The 'evolution' to our global future that's free will not be funded by philanthropy – just the opposite. It will come from focused… concerted meetings… discussions… and actions – globally – and from endorsing and sharing anti-coercion knowledge and practices… with ourselves and with our children…

 

[“160124platoslonghaunt_7.mp3”:]

 

For a lot of us it is too fantastical… almost too silly – if they have not read Karl Popper… Miklos Nyiszli… John Boswell… Alice Miller and Martin Bernal – to believe that the lives of almost all the people of the planet have been structured and limited by the musings of a frustrated… two-millennia-long-dead would-be 'philosopher-king'… It is an horrific notion… and yet it is so – our lives have been structured and limited by a handful of guys… since the French Revolution… who developed a scheme for aggregating all of the 'money' – read: 'resources of the planet' – in order to implement the Republic… They literally used the Republic as guide… along with Bentham… and the child-rearing pedagogues… for locking rigid hierarchy in place. Look around you today and note his precepts arrayed… in particular: “no one should ever be without a leader…” – isn't that what a coerced-work system means? We have had no opportunity… most of us… to develop our inherent leadership… and 'power' intends that to never change – and they have the answer to folks who try… when we stand to the side… and so can see the hidden hand on the levers… ultimately… we can only 'break out of the Panopticon' globally – by working together across nation to build alliances for challenging the management-right of states… When we consider it… EMF-weapons were the 'perfect' 'solution' to such folk… – dissenters – from 'power's perspective: 'surgical' and 'humane'… simply apply a bit of 'punishment' when people 'disobey'… and we are effectively checked in our ability to dissent. These weapons have put a lock on our ability to develop – both as global humans and as a global society. There are no independent actors anymore if we don't check this threat… – everyone would indeed have a leader…

 

[“160124addressinganger_8.mp3”:]

 

If those who harm us… are functionaries of… those who say they are 'self'-less… fragments of an 'idea' that lives in them… an 'idea' of 'Perfection'… if those who harm us… say they are but following orders… to whom do we address… our anger?… [I've been wondering who gets to decide who uses 'the weapon'? Is it a perk?…

 

[“160124learningfromnewborns_9.mp3”:]

 

At the end of last week's show she was telling us that the first key element of supporting our children is to respect them… – Meanwhile… how do we do that when we indoctrinate them into a system of 'class'? This is getting to my point about the need to advance the gift of Alice… because 'class' itself is inherently abusive… and yet because it presents itself as 'progress' it remains largely hidden to us… even Alice – and saying this is not to minimize Alice – just to be able to see the inherent integrity of that new being is a huge advance under 'class'… and to be humble enough to recognize that we have to learn from these babies… they are so whole and healthy and in touch with the true knowledge of life… of what it means to be alive… and healthy… and part of the vast infinite… Alice: “Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn. It is a different matter for parents or educators who would like the child to be a certain way or think they must expect him to be that way. To reach their sacred ends, they try to mold the child in their image, suppressing self-expression in the child and at the same time missing out on an opportunity to learn something.”

 

[“160124hiddencruelty_10.mp3”:]

 

Alice: “The reason why parents mistreat their children has less to do with character and temperament than with the fact that they were mistreated themselves and were not permitted to defend themselves. There are countless people like A.'s father who are kind, gentle, and highly sensitive and yet inflict cruelty on their children every day, calling it child-rearing. As long as child beating was considered necessary and useful, they could justify this form of cruelty. Today such people suffer when their “hand slips,” when an incomprehensible compulsion or despair induces them to shout at, humiliate, or beat their children and see their tears, yet they cannot help themselves and will do the same thing again next time. This will inevitably continue to happen as long as they persist in idealizing their own childhood…”

 

[“160124storedanger_11.mp3”:]

 

Alice: “The greatest cruelty that can be inflicted on children is to refuse to let them express their anger and suffering except at the risk of losing their parents' love and affection. The anger stemming from early childhood is stored up in the unconscious, and since it basically represents a healthy, vital source of energy, an equal amount of energy must be expended in order to repress it. An upbringing that succeeds in sparing the parents at the expense of the child's vitality sometimes leads to suicide or extreme drug addiction, which is a form of suicide. If drugs succeed in covering up the emptiness caused by repressed feelings and self-alienation, then the process of withdrawal brings this void back into view. When withdrawal is not accompanied by restoration of vitality, then the cure is sure to be temporary…”

 

[“160124selfdiscovery_12.mp3”:]

 

Alice: “At puberty, adolescents are often taken totally by surprise by the intensity of their true feelings, after having succeeded in keeping them at a distance during the latency period. With the spurt of biological growth, these feelings (rage, anger, rebelliousness, falling in love, sexual desire, enthusiasm, joy, enchantment, sadness) seek full expression, but in many cases this would endanger the parents' psychic balance… society's views, which are represented by the parents, and which the adolescent has long ago internalized, must prevail: the consequences of having strong, intense feelings are rejection, isolation, ostracism, and threat of death, i.e., self-destruction… The drug addict punishes himself for seeking his true self – certainly a justifiable and essential goal – by destroying his own spontaneous feelings, repeating the punishment that was inflicted on him in early childhood when he showed the first signs of vitality.” [Isn't the clarity and simplicity of the truth exhilarating?… – P.S.] “…in these out-of-the-ordinary moments, the young person discovers how he might have been [George Eliot wrote… and Alice concurs – and illustrates repeatedly in her essential and transformative work – that “it is never too late to be the person one should have been…” – P.S.]; he has made contact with his self, and as might be expected, once this has happened, he can find no rest. He can no longer act as though his true self had never existed. Now he knows that it does exist, but he also knows that ever since early childhood this true self has not had a chance.” [But when we are denied our true selves it is our entire life that is like a dream… and that is in fact the intention of those who have set it up: this global reenactment – on a vast and massive scale – of their own suppressed traumas… – P.S.]

 

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January 17, 2016 Show:

 

[“160117hightechauschwitz_1.mp3”:]

 

A couple updates before we begin: first… long story short… I slipped in the mud and my left wrist is out of commission… typing is out for a bit… but the show goes on and its resulting audio will (hopefully) get posted… second… a January 12, 2016 New York Times piece suggests an explanation to a (personal) mystery of why these 'power'-guys are so obsessed with 'hitting' me at Lakeside: “Merger Will Create a Giant in Drugs for Rare Diseases”…

 

[“160117offthechartshubris_2.mp3”:]

 

“What thoughts and practices could deliver us from the trap of the false notions of 'class'… and by what process would this happen?…” in which discussion we will… “revisit concepts of the 'emphatic partner'… and “the trauma of 'class'”… We'll consider what these concepts mean for our building that critical mass of committed folk working to 'de-commission the global-system…” and… “given that our conditioning is (in a sense…) the 'whole of it'… the whole of the matter of our containment (under 'class'…) and given that the gaps between our 'understanding-of-what-is-happening'… and 'power's… and between our 'certainty' – our confidence in ourselves and our belief in our right to our unhindered movement in the world – and 'power's – as 'power' has established a grossly disproportionate 'advantage' in technological… military… and psychological means… as well as an extreme gap ethically… – i.e.… given our absolute dependence… we ever exist in a constant state of extreme risk of being harmed in their arbitrary process… euphemistically known as 'management' of us and the planet (all of these being… essentially… gaps between our sense of our capabilities and the off-the-charts-hubris of 'power'…)” So… “how do we address these disproportions?

 

[“160117seethrufalseprotest_3.mp3”:]

 

…de-commissioning the 'global-system' does not mean 'chaos'… but “the blossoming of 'the peoples' cooperation…” (at long last and hallelujah!)… In Waking Up I argued that we have to prepare now for the (manufactured) 'crises' they will inevitably throw at us once enough of us are waking up… This is even more true to the degree we nullify their 'agent-provocateur-strategy' (which we do… minimally… by letting our goal lead… which should sort them out of our organizing efforts (and into the community to snipe at us there…) “Letting our goal lead” means keeping our eyes on the prize of human beings freed globally – freed from the compulsions of Necessity… and from all forms of coercion… in the global-society of our making… and by employing the principle of 'utility': by asking of everything we do: “how does this lead to our goal of global freedom?”…) We must ask ourselves not just how we nullify a strategy of agent-infiltration of (and implementation of invented / staged…) movements (e.g.… at this point in the development of our understanding… any 'fix-the-state'-based movement must be seen… not just as an ill-informed strategy… but as a conscious attempt to either 'pied-piper' our resistance down fruitless paths… or turn public opinion against the very notion of resistance… for instance… the “quotation of the day” from 15-year-old Ashlie about an “armed occupation” in Oregon…

 

[“160117betrayaloftrueself_4.mp3”:]

 

Recall Alice telling us that we don't question that which is a continuation of our childhood. What are the essential qualities of our childhood under 'class'?: Dependence… Coercion… Obedience training or… training to be 'of service'… 'Utilitarianism' (which… in our opposing… we are sharing Alice's anti-pedagogical position…) and so ultimately… a key characteristic: Performance – relinquishment of the authentic 'self' or 'self-betrayal'… and so Duplicity or dishonesty… These are qualities that weaken our spirit… cause erosion of it… and deepen the loss of vitality that stems from the betrayal of our true 'self'…

 

[“160117regainingourselves_5.mp3”:]

 

Thoughts we are pondering: The threat that the global-state-statesmen pose to us is essentially militaristic… given their adherance to Plato's 'dictum' that the 'master class' must achieve and preserve absolute military dominance over 'the people' (and this obviously includes technological superiority and within this a monopoly on supreme surveillance technology…) Feelings and thoughts are one (from the December 27, 2015 show…) – if feelings and thoughts are one… and… as Alice says… our suppressed anger from our early childhood experience of being forced must be tapped into and re-experienced consciously… what does all of this mean for regaining our thought-process?… The Global General Strike is 'the people' as the experience of 'the infinite'… 'the infinite' being that experience that we come to the world with… which immediately is challenged by the global 'class'-system… and so what does all of this mean?

 

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In our October 25, 2015 show… we said that as we 'make ourselves' – both individually and collectively… constituting ourselves as 'a people' made of fully-developing individualities – we 'un-make' them – the 'power'-guys: “command exists but with obedience…” as George Eliot said… and we meant this psychologically no less than materially… we cited Karl Popper's point that Plato advised… essentially… lying to the children (of the elite) such that they would come to believe in their inherent superiority… they must be certain… said he… that they have nothing in common with the broad generality… and steel themselves to be ruthless… unbending… firm… in their enforcement of their “management-right” over us. (Why is it that has never occurred to us to talk about? It's so glaringly wrong… and in our face… and invisible… like the EMF-weapons they dispose of us with… those they deem superfluous…?) And because these Tiny Few (.0001 per cent at best of the global population…) aggregated tremendous means – those means being our blood… sweat… tears… and love (and the earth's generally) converted into that noose of control around our neck (the economy… – I mean it's quite obvious that a privatized earth means we can't feed ourselves… that this is not immediately perceived as its purpose speaks volumes on the con job they've done on us… De Tocqueville and Bentham saw this need of we-the-people's to break out of 'power's imposed constraints… – saw it would never cease. So the issue for both of them became… how to control it… this ceaseless attempt… Both of them believed that this need of ours can only be controlled by “controlling the thoughts we can think…” to do which requires the nation-state system… Nikola Tesla… on the other hand… worked in the opposite direction… worked to see the 'open society' become a reality… Nikola worked tirelessly for the day – and we are in that day – when the technology would exist to allow our thought to blossom…

 

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…but the Miniscule Few believe they can install… manufacture for us… the “greatest 'happiness'…” and so work against this… and are organized… possess tremendous resources in aggregate… and have a plan… hatched in the aftermath of the French Revolution… which consists in constructing our psyches such… that we would exchange freedom for containment… Given all this… what are the thoughts and practices that would free us of the weight of all of it? If dependence… obedience… betrayal… performance… duplicity… is our experience of childhood in 'class'-society… and so form the basis of our assumption about 'being' itself… – how do we begin to overcome these false notions… such that we can reclaim our original 'selves'?

 

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…our experience of 'class' is itself a trauma that needs to be experienced consciously… and integrated into our personalities (can we experience 'class' as a trauma consciously if we have not first experienced the abuse we were subjected to as infants and small children consciously? – we're going to be trying to sort that out as we work toward building numbers of folk committed to working for global human freedom…) such that we can become 'fully-developing individualities'… as opposed to manifestations of 'power's priorities… and we asked: “if 'we-the-people' – the nation – are the child… who… what… might be… the “emphatic partner”?… by which word… 'emphatic'… I take it she means… strong… in possession of certainty… And what does it mean?… being the emphatic partner? – voicing those original suppressed thoughts? What does it mean to be the psychic support of our Brothers and Sisters in our common process of healing from the wounds of 'class'? We're going to be thinking again about these questions… especially in terms of the kinds of 'safe spaces' we want to establish…

 

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…We have been kept silent… our voices haven't been used for exposing and exploring our truth… rather… as Alice says… they have been used to hide from… and conceal… and deny… our truth… and because of the problem of our having been trained to be 'of service' – the generalized imposition of the mindset of utilitarianism – known as 'economics' in 'modern' language… even when we attempt to address social ills and inequities… we ourselves… our personal dilemma of lost vitality and our omnipresent subjection to compulsions within and without… are never put in that picture of the 'unfairness of society'… but… we should factor in: the coerced-work system is the linch-pin of the global-'class' system… the linch-pin of their control… and the coerced-work system is in its process of disintegration.

 

[“160117lifeisreturning_10.mp3”:]

 

…the center that coerces cannot hold… a field fed by force must inevitably lose its source… life… suppressed… is returning unfettered… and afresh…

 

[“160117usingchildren_11.mp3”:]

 

Alice: “First… If parents have had to learn very early in life to ignore their feelings, not to take them seriously, to scorn or ridicule them, then they will lack the sensitivity required to deal successfully with their children. As a result, they will try to substitute pedagogical principles as prostheses. Second… Parents who never learned as children to be aware of their own needs or to defend their own interests because this right was never granted them will be uncertain in this regard for the rest of their life and consequently will become dependent on firm pedagogical rules.” [Her insights… so critical for us to discuss and grasp have been suppressed… because to discuss them would call into question the entire 'class'-system… – P.S.]

 

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Alice: “In contrast to generally accepted beliefs and to the horror of pedagogues, I cannot attribute any positive significance to the word pedagogy. I see it as self-defense on the part of adults, as manipulation deriving from their own lack of freedom and their insecurity… There is in the word pedagogy the suggestion of certain goals that the charge is meant to achieve – and this limits his or her possibilities for development from the start. But an honest rejection of all forms of manipulation and of the idea of setting goals does not mean that one simply leaves children to their own devices. For children need a large measure of emotional and physical support from the adult. This support must include the following elements if they are to develop their full potential [so we see in some of the assumptions she is making… a degree of ambivalence about 'class' society… a degree of… denial… perhaps?… about the full scope of the abuse she is documenting… and its roots in a 'system' that requires our dispossession… Essential elements of our support of children: – P.S.]

 

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January 10, 2016 Show:

 

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…and let's never forget… this is destruction by clandestine means… consider the teams of criminal 'doctors' they must have [and Miklos could not be more dead-on in his sense of urgency when he warned us about them… he could see that 'power' was seeking ways to improve the secrecy of its killing continuously…] consider the teams of criminal 'doctors' they must employ to think up ways to use microwaves to cause ill-health… disease… and death… – we have to accept that if they can compel our 'labor'… they can compel [and are compelling…] fascism…

 

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……and though… upon thought… it is obvious… we… as a people… have never had that discussion of the fact that 'hierarchy' requires (by definition) the relinquishment of the 'thought-process'… Recall that Bentham's gift to 'power' of the Panopticon allowed for the mechanical… in a sense… installation of obedience in we-the-common-folk… in his design the Few can control the Many if the Few strictly control the thoughts of the Many…a strategy that extinguishes our thought-process (and I'm speaking of us as a broad generality…) as what a 'thought-process' requires to exist… we will be arguing… is the absence of coercion… which means the absence of 'class'…

 

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…I'm considering this in the context of our question: “is there a non-therapeutic… or 'non-analytic'… route to the re-experiencing of suppressed feelings (a Global General Strike perhaps?…) such that we can recover our authentic 'selves'… and thereby exorcise the 'state-in-us' – freeing our energy for our movement to achieve global human freedom?…” – i.e.… to heal humanity itself.… Because 'class' is totalitarian – global and omnipresent throughout all social institutions – …means that there is a generalized suppression of authentic feeling and thought… across the global populations… What… specifically… are the feelings that have been suppressed… And given the training we all receive… under 'class'… in utilitarianism… subjected to varying degrees of manipulation and coercion… in every social institution of 'class' – in order to 'mold' this 'desired' behavior… coerce into being these qualities – given this generalized (often unconscious) expectation (under 'class') that we exist to serve 'the economy'… and that children must be trained (shaped) accordingly… …when a fresh new life enters this 'scene' (and it is very much a 'scene' – a theater-construction…) a child who sees the world 'right-side-up'… i.e.… honestly… who has not been conditioned to believe that it exists to be of service… what is the reaction of this child to this 'molding' process? Is it not rage?…

 

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…because to displease the parent could mean total psychic isolation (under conditions of atomization…): the threat of 'exile'… banishment… and this is completely unacceptable… must be prevented at all costs – the cost of an authentic 'self'?… So be it.?… So what is our conscious… political… strategic… response to this dynamic that… when never discussed… works against our resistance?… Because we lost our certainty… Because our true thought… our authentic questions… was met with frowns… while our performances received warm praise… We set them aside… our questions… Our parent… the state… was proud of us… But they waited for us… our questions…

 

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There has been suppression of the work of Alice: her documentation of the correspondence between the parent's attempt to shape 'the perfect child'… and the state's… or rather the tiny Few's (those tiny Few who have crafted and now run the global-system…) the tiny Few's aim to shape 'the perfect state.' It is critical that we begin to have that discussion… that we no longer forfeit the growth of our – we-the-people's – understanding of what is happening to us to those whose interest it is to limit and control us… beginning… perhaps… with a discussion of that quote from Goring that includes him saying this on the subject of 'war': “the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders [i.e. to kill their Brothers and Sisters]… …But the thrust of both articles is that there are 'evil states' that… for some reason never explained… do want this… that… for some reason never explained… states must persist in a constant state of competition. Clearly… then… states are worse than superfluous… they are engines of destruction. Now that we have the Internet… let's discuss this and plan our alternative. We have Sisters and Brothers in other lands driven to armed struggle in self-defense (which 'power'… of course… counts on… in the last analysis…) because they don't have the means to shut down the 'global economy' for a day – we do… it's called the Global General Strike… and it develops… and is… the building consciousness of all of us (we're not talking about cavalier acts… but rather a strategy that builds numbers methodically…) we could spare them lost blood and loved ones… we could stand with them… and with ourselves…

 

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Alice: “If someone who has turned into this kind of a person [a person who has been forced to develop a false 'self'… dominated by the principle of 'obedience'…] becomes a father himself, he will be confronted with a situation that threatens the whole structure he has taken such pains to erect: he sees before him a child full of life, sees how a human being is meant to be, how he could have been if obstacles hadn't been placed in his way. But his fears are soon activated: this cannot be allowed to happen. If the child were allowed to stay as he is, wouldn't that mean that the father's sacrifices and self-denial weren't really necessary? Is it possible to have a child turn our well without forcing him to be obedient, without breaking his will, without combating his egoism and willfullness, as we have been told to do for centuries? Parents cannot permit themselves to ask these questions. To do so would cause no end of trouble, and they would be deprived of the sure ground provided by an inherited ideology that places the highest value on suppressing and manipulating vital spontaneity… If the father had been able to face his doubts consciously, come to terms with them, and integrate them, his son would have been freed of having to grow up with them and could have had a full life of his own at a much earlier age and without the help of analysis.” [When she says: “face his doubts consciously…” we could as well describe this as “facing our questions consciously…” and… when she says he should then “come to terms with them…” is this not placing them in the most accurate context?]

 

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[And as we read what follows we should keep in mind that… as the parent is the 'deputy of the state' – per Bentham's advice to 'power' (i.e.… we are talking conscious planning here (and that's a significant piece… part… of our ability to recover our full selves… – we'll be thinking more about this…) on the part of the 'single Mind' that 'power' allows to exist under 'class': it's…) – it is the state that is benefitting… 'getting its needs met'… not the parents. But what we should also keep in mind is that as we reverse this condition: the condition that only 'power' is able to act consciously – albeit megalomaniacally – only 'power' determines the design of our global society… while all the rest of us are required to remain un-conscious… unaware of what is happening to us… required to accept the imposition of a constant state of paralysis of our thought-process – that as we reverse this… the 'class'-system is de-commissioned… – P.S.] Alice: “The reader will have noticed long before now that all pedagogy is pervaded by the precepts of “poisonous pedagogy…” [Note this] example from the following passage from Emile (Book II) (by Jean-Jacques Rousseau… [1712 – 1778…]) he who literally abandoned all five of his children… “deposited them at foundling homes…” over the mother's protests… – P.S.]: “Take an opposite route with your pupil; always let him think he is the master, but always be it yourself. There is no more perfect form of subjection than the one that preserves the appearance of freedom [Whoa… that pulled me up short – it is almost as if Bentham (1748 – 1832)… reading this… made it his goal… and worked backward from it… – P.S.]; thus does the will itself become captive. The poor child, who knows nothing, can do nothing, and has no experience – is he not at your mercy? ['Manipulative' don't even begin to touch it… this is pure sadism here… – P.S.] Are you not in control of everything in his environment that relates to him? Can you not control his impressions as you please? His tasks, his games, his pleasures, his troubles – is all this not in your hands without his knowing it? [Recall Hitler's “It also gives us a very special, secret pleasure to see how unaware the people around us are of what is really happening to them.” This is 'power'… this Plato-derived… abandonment-driven… longing to be 'in control'… totally… and… beyond this… in its totally misanthropic obsession… – P.S.] Doubtlessly, he may do as he wishes, but he may wish only what you want him to; he may not take a single step that you have not anticipated…” [These are folk… themselves made puppets as infants… obsessed with doing the same to us… ad infinitum…]

 

[“160110freedommeansnopowerguys_8.mp3”:]

 

Alice: “All this does not mean that children should be raised without any restraints. Crucial for healthy development is the respect of their care givers, tolerance for their feelings, awareness of their needs and grievances, and authenticity on the part of their parents, whose own freedom – and not pedagogical considerations – sets natural limits for children…” [It seems to me that in this point… her use of 'freedom' suggests either the 'power'-approved sense of 'personal freedom' – i.e. 'freedom to do as one wishes…' – or what the 'personal' sense unconsciously manifests or expresses: the assumption that hidden-'power' doesn't exist… that the world is not controlled by a global-elite who have been systematically tightening their noose of control around our necks ever since the French Revolution… the assumption that 'freedom' is a variable thing… depending on 'local'… 'national'… and one's 'personal'… conditions – but that… regardless of these 'natural' limits… we must be 'honest' with our children about what we want… as we respect their needs within the context of respecting our own. None of which asks us to consider that we cannot “respect our own needs” within the context of 'class'.In the end… this approach abdicates our responsibility to challenge the global totalitarian system – which is what 'class' is – undermining from within her stated objective to ensure that every child retains his or her authentic 'self'… without interference from adults… – and most particularly not from ten thousand guys… who want to be gods…]

 

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[Our January 3, 2016 show):]

 

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Update on our house becoming a planning resource: The process of accessing the funds held for me from my electrical work days (which are almost exactly the amount needed to pay off the mortgage… which is what I intend to do with them…) is much more drawn-out than I'd hoped… which means weeks on end of 24 – 7 weakening of my immune system with EMF / microwave weapons… I'm mentioning the house because my intention is for it to become a center for planning global-system de-commissioning… although at the moment I feel sort of at a loss as to how to begin… so… your input is appreciated. And… on the subject of EMF-targeting… I also want to mention that I was 'hit' constantly during the 40 minutes-trip going… and 40 minutes-trip returning… to and from the trust fund office on Monday – while I was driving 60 miles pre hour. There were a lot of cars and big trucks around me – there always seems to be a lot of metal positioned around me these days (which is what I suspect they're putting in the air…) We need to ponder seriously what can track and hit a vehicle going sixty miles per hour for forty minutes – what could do that?… and how many of these things do they have?

 

[“160103theftofthought_2.mp3”:]

 

Proudhon: “We discover phenomena and laws by observation and experience; only this deeper sense reveals to us existence. Humanity believes that God is; but in believing in God, what does it believe? In a word, what is God?” …is not our knowledge of 'the infinite' part of our experience?… and is this not knowledge that we bring to the world? “…is it our knowledge of 'the infinite' that is suppressed?…” “and isn't 'suppression' a theft?… reinforced by our atomization?” …suppression that left behind questions?…” “with an imprint to be rediscovered… or not?…” “and so… then… isn't 'suppression' a theft as well of 'the one who asks questions'?… suppressed… when questioning is forbidden… when it is too threatening to the parent?” “…and isn't the theft of questions… the theft of 'thought'?…” “…must it not be so that… at the core of 'Thought's suppression… is 'Fear'?”

 

[“160103bodyknowingofconnection_3.mp3”:]

 

What is this fear… essentially?… in a 'class'-system… given… as Proudhon says… “the eternal and absolute laws of our mind…? and given… as Kropotkin suggests… that one… if not the core… 'law of our mind'… is mutual aid?… the assumption… and so the search for… association… relationship with 'the all' – i.e.… our deep 'historical-body-knowledge' of 'the communal': the fundamental 'knowing'… that we are not alone… What prompts this fear… if not the deep 'historical-body-knowing' that something is amiss… that what should be present… isn't… What is this fear?… …That we are alone. The ancestors have our back… that's the point… that's why they're suppressed: they hold… for us… wealth… sustenance… joy… and vitality… they hold for us connection… in holding fast the truth – a gift beyond 'generous' – they guide us back to our 'selves'… so that… once we are back… we can also learn from all other beings that are free…

 

[“160103movingbeyondfear_4.mp3”:]

 

And what Proudhon… cannot know… because the plan was in its inception… was the organized ambition of 'power' to do our thinking for us – this is Bentham's gift to 'power' of the Panopticon – that it – 'power' – would be 'the Mind' of which we would be possessed… that it would be 'the Mind' that possesses… all of us …such that… 'the Mind' we revolve about… 'the Mind' we become… is not our own… …such that… when our children come… we don't see them… which stimulates an enormous fear in them… because they come with the body-knowledge of 'the infinite'… with the body-knowledge of 'connectedness'… they come with the expectation of deep… eternal… 'Relationship'… …and when they don't find this… And this is a 'system'-wide Fear… a 'system'-wide confusion… that we are now… …moving beyond…

 

[“160103powersreflection_5.mp3”:]

 

For what are we when separate?… if not but 'power's reflection… the totalitarian center holds… when we revolve around it… the single 'Mind' of 'power'… enclosing us… repeating their compulsions… the single 'Judgment' of 'power'… disposing of us… when we are deemed superfluous… And we?… …just a'troddin'… endless… endless… a'troddin'… lost in… mist? …souls a'drift…

 

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Alice: “…Against the backdrop of the rejection of childishness instilled by our training, it becomes easier to understand why men and women had little difficulty leading a million children, whom they regarded as the bearers of the feared portions of their own psyche, into the gas chambers. One can even imagine that by shouting at them, beating them, or photographing them, they were finally able to release the hatred going back to early childhood. From the start, it had been the aim of their upbringing to stifle their childish, playful, and life-affirming side. The cruelty inflicted on them, the psychic murder of the child they once were, had to be passed on in the same way: each time they sent another Jewish child to the gas ovens, they were in essence murdering the child within themselves… [This need to split off and murder what they see as weak in themselves… includes that weakness called “fear-inspired obedience…” and that to the degree that we do not claim our power… we stimulate this urge in them to destroy us… Those they consider 'weak' and 'deficient'… those in 'power' long to destroy…]

 

[“160103theunseenchild_7.mp3”:]

 

Alice: “Most of the children saw themselves in an extremely negative light, describing themselves as “stupid,” as “a child no one likes,” who “can't do anything” and is “bad.” They could never admit to being proud of something they obviously did well. They hesitated to try anything new, were terribly afraid of doing something wrong, and frequently felt ashamed. Several of them seemed to have developed scarcely any feeling of self. This can be seen as a reflection of the attitude of the parents, who did not regard their child as an autonomous person but entirely in relation to the gratification of their own needs…” […this insidious insinuation of 'rank' throughout our lives… the omnipresent insistence on 'obedience' that destroys spontaneous feeling and silences voice… is in reality (never-discussed) “hidden-'power'” manifested…]

 

[“160103rageoftheunseen_8.mp3”:]

 

Alice: “Dolls and fictitious persons were constantly being beaten, tormented, and killed. Many children repeated their own abuse in their play. One child, whose skull had been broken three times as an infant, always made up stories about people or animals who suffered head injuries. Another child, whose mother had attempted to drown it when it was a baby, began the play therapy by drowning a doll baby in the bathtub and then having the police take the mother to prison. Although these real-life events played little part in the children's openly expressed fears, they were the basis of a strong unconscious preoccupation. The children were almost never able to express their anxieties verbally, yet they harbored intense feelings of rage and a strong desire for revenge, which, however, were accompanied by a great fear of what might happen if these impulses should erupt…”[I hope the extreme violence of this example does not distract us from seeing the degree to which 'obedience' / utilitarianism… as the base mindset of 'class'… makes puppets of all of us… places us in the hands of hidden-'power'-actors… the only ones who benefit from the imposition of this mindset… who have ever… through the ages… insisted on 'making use of' us… for any purpose that occurs to their heartlessness… a 'use' that has grown ever-more heinous… Time to break that cycle… is what our ancestors are telling us… time for us to get 'big'… grow our gifts… work together to build that alternative… And mos def time to take responsibility for all the children…]

 

[“160103respectingthechild_9.mp3”:]

 

[…and that's a hard notion to wrap our minds around – this idea of taking responsibility for all the children – we who have been trained to view ourselves and our children as property of 'power' – unconsciously: and our reading of Proudhon will help us see how our stated beliefs and our behavior are generally (under 'class') not in consonance… and argues that in making our behavior conscious… and the beliefs implied by our behavior conscious… we can reclaim our original thought process – our original 'selves'…] Alice: “It appeared as if those children who were forced to serve the needs of their parents in general were not spared having to serve the parents' sexual needs as well, which usually took the form of covert, unconscious advances toward their children.…”

 

[“160103obedienceasstrategy_10.mp3”:]

 

Alice: “Child-rearing is used in a great many cases to prevent those qualities that were once scorned and eradicated in oneself from coming to life in one's children. In his impressive book, Soul Murder: Persecution in the Family, Morton Schatzman shows the extent to which the child-rearing methods… were based on the need to stifle certain parts of one's own self… tries to stamp out in his children is what he fears in himself… Little attention has been given up to now, however, to the fact that what is called child-rearing is based for the most part on this mechanism and that, consequently, the exploitation of this mechanism for political purposes would be impossible without this kind of upbringing.……” [And let's not forget… the complete and total correspondence – that Alice showed us in the excerpts from the poisonous pedagogues – between their methods for creating 'perfect' (that is to say… perfectly obedient…) 'citizens' and making the 'perfect' State… i.e.… the invention of 'child-rearing' was a conscious political strategy… – P.S.]

 

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Alice: “…A. described his father as kind, good-natured, understanding, appreciative, contented, and genuinely devout. All his family and friends also admired these qualities in him, and there was no ready explanation for why his son, having such a kindhearted father, should develop a severe obsessional neurosis. Since childhood, A, had been burdened with disturbing obsessive thoughts of an aggressive nature, but he was unable to experience feelings of annoyance or dissatisfaction, to say nothing of anger or rage, in response to actual frustrations. He also had suffered since childhood because he had not “inherited” his father's “serene, natural, trusting” piety, he attempted to attain it by reading devotional literature, but “bad” (because critical) thoughts, which filled him with panic, always stood in the way… In his analysis A. was now able to acknowledge the helpless rage he felt at the terrible constrictions that had been imposed on him by his father's attitude. He was expected to be, like his father, good-natured, kind, appreciative, undemanding, not to cry, always to see everything “from the positive side,” never to be critical, never to be dissatisfied, always to think of those who were “much worse off.” A.'s previously unrecognized feelings of rebelliousness revealed to him the narrow confines of his childhood, from which everything had to be banished that was not suitable for his devout and “sunny” nursery.”

 

[“160103routinizedcruelty_12.mp3”:]

 

Alice: “Now that A. had found the way back to his childhood emotions, he was also able to empathize with the child that his father had once been. He asked himself how his father had dealt with the fact that his parents sent eight children so far away without ever visiting them, for the sake of promulgating the Christian idea of brotherly love in Africa. Wouldn't he necessarily have deep doubts about such a love and about the meaningfulness of work that required such cruelty towards one's own children?…” [This routinized cruelty is 'the system'… is 'power'… though never discussed as such…]

 

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[Our December 27, 2015 show):]

 

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Today we'll be exploring the areas of intersection and connection between these three discussions: “Claiming feelings claims the world…” “He who owns the lexicon rules the world…” and “Transitioning to our (global) freedom is to thoughtfully de-commission 'the system'…” and at their point of nexus we may discover the answer to our questions last week… inspired by 'Alice's Dilemma' of how to make the impact of her work 'bigger'… such that it shakes the system of 'class' itself: “What is the route… or what are the routes… to 'recovery' – of 'authenticity'… of spontaneous feelings… of 'voice'?… Could one route be… the debunking of the con 'economics'?”… and: “Is authentic thought a route to the recovery of our spontaneous feelings?”… [And… as an aside: While we always hope for some good-hearted whistle-blower to spill the beans on their secret weaponry… our focus must be… single-mindedly… on getting free… and then… may we have some truth-outing period to 'clear the air' and… on 'getting free'… if you're seeing a way to do that that I'm missing… or even if you just want to encourage some way to expand these conversations… or come in and have a conversation on air… whatever it is… I'm totally open to having these discussions in an on-going and big sense… so if you have some suggestions… please let me know… at: nas2endwork@gmail.com]

 

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Alice Miller: “…a younger, very empathic colleague whose work I regard highly… became [in the course of their conversation] increasingly reflective and then said very slowly, 'You know, now I wonder if what is called pedagogy may not be simply a question of power, and if we shouldn't be speaking and writing much more about hidden power struggles…' 'That's exactly what I have tried to do in [this] book… In the same way that technology was used to help carry out mass murders in the Third Reich in a very short space of time, so too the more precise kind of knowledge of human behavior based on computer data and cybernetics can contribute to the more rapid, comprehensive, and effective soul murder of the human being than could the earlier intuitive psychology…” [I.e.… she is very much aware of the larger political implications of systematically-inculcated obedience in the population… Still… does this answer the question of her colleague?… It's interesting to juxtapose this statement about “well-raised people” with the observation of 'America's first anarchist'… Josiah Warren… So… 'obedience' was seen… well before Alice… as a problem to overcome… a matter for contemplation. What was not seen… perhaps… was that the problem of 'obedience' was a matter of suppressed spontaneous feelings… due to an intentional scheme of 'child-rearing'… systematically-driven… by those who would become Plato's Tribesmen…] “Since one's use and abuse of power over others usually have the function of holding one's own feelings of helplessness in check – which means the exercise of power is often unconsciously motivated – rational arguments can do nothing to impede this process…” […these folks… the ones who hide… the ones who hoard the coin to tie us to the strings of their making… are like a machine that cannot stop on its own… and in being obedient… we stimulate their need to destroy us…]

 

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So… they have a vision (of 'the Republic'… which provides them with a sense of their inherent 'justice': they believe they are entitled to rule – “Plato said so…” – because they are the ones who are the dialecticians… they are the 'trained and qualified philosophers') their abuse is systematic and calculated. And as… as Alice says… they cannot be reasoned with… and so we – the vast majority – must find means to protect our physical and spiritual existence… not just from a 'mindset'… not just by healing from our early childhood conditioning – though we certainly do want and need to get that hidden-state out of our heads – but means to protect ourselves from these 'power'-lusting global-statesmen… we have to defend not just our individual selves… but humanity itself… it is the global perspective that places a global threat in proper perspective… a vantage that allows us to see through 'power's proffered 'particularistic' (state-based) 'solutions' to the problems facing our existence… (it is a moment in which we must make some decisions about the purpose of our lives while we're here… face the fact that we cannot… now that we see the cons… let them continue… this is just our responsibility given what we've been shown – falls on us folk…)

 

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In my recent posting of Kropotkin I found it both validating (in seeing that the issues we are engaged with necessarily interconnect – that there is a necessary correspondence between them…) and somewhat dispiriting to face… yet again… that this pathway of truth we've been carefully marking is not just extremely well-trod… but that its riches along the way have been entirely neglected… systematically suppressed… kept from us. I'm thinking not just of Kropotkin… though certainly this applies to him… but of P – J Proudhon… whose work… What Is Property?… I am discovering through the fresh lens of Kropotkin (and I'll share bits of this work as I did with Kropotkin's… we will be excerpting from the Dover edition… the Benj. R. Tucker translation…)

 

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[The EMF-assault on me from these hidden-'power'-functionaries has been particularly rough of late… as the chance to get our house fully-paid unexpectedly came: a letter explaining I can now apply to receive the electrical trust funds held for me (the inner workings of this bureaucracy has been for me even more opaque than most…)]

 

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I am struck… in the bit of reading I've done of Proudhon… by the correspondence between the issues he discusses and the very ones we are grabbling with here: the importance of claiming the lexicon… the fact that individual self-sufficiency must be the basis of our new world… that strategies for transitioning to that world are through a process of thoughtful 'de-commissioning'… and… moreover… the modeling… in the insistence on personal freedom… of the authentic self that we are hoping to bring to our communities. I suspect that our reading of Proudhon will provide needed strategic assistance in this moment of transition… “…which Proudhon described as 'Mutuellisme,' all the exchanges of services would be strictly equivalent. Besides, such a bank would be enabled to lend money without interest, levying only something like 1 per cent, or even less, for covering the cost of administration. Every one being thus enabled to borrow the money that would be required to buy a house, nobody would agree to pay any more a yearly rent for the use of it. A general 'social liquidation' would thus be rendered easy, without expropriation. The same applied to mines, railways, factories, and so on.” [Let's ponder this for a long moment… and the thoughts that come… about 'easy 'power'-liquidation…' I suspect… will be key to our 'thought-full' de-commissioning process…

 

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[As an aside… they are really plowing the skies this morning – and I suspect there was a large element of 'butt-covering' in that recent article planted in the Express about 'chem-trails'…because I have often noticed aircraft one-eighty-ing up and down… or shooting across the sky… leaving trails… associated with my experience of intense swelling… such that I've come to believe it is intended to boost the effect of assault – FYI… but we must find a way to end the use of hidden weapons… they are a stranglehold on dissent… – P.S.] Kropotkin: “In a society of this type the State would be useless. The chief relations between citizens would be based on free agreement and regulated by mere account keeping. The contests might be settled by arbitration. A penetrating criticism of the State and all possible forms of government and a deep insight into all economic problems, were well-known characteristics of Proudhon's work.”

 

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Rosa Luxemburg: “it was decided to repeat the celebration every year.… In fact, what could give the workers greater courage and faith in their own strength than a mass work stoppage which they had decided themselves?… Thus, the idea of a proletarian celebration was quickly accepted and, from Australia, began to spread to other countries until finally it had conquered the whole proletarian world.… The first to follow the example of the Australian workers were the Americans. In 1886 they decided that May 1 should be the day of universal work stoppage…” What I've been pondering is: the feelings that must arise when we see the unity of our fellow human beings in claiming together our inherent freedom… not as a particular tribe… but as a united humanity… i.e the development of thought required to see that… must trigger our earliest knowledge of it: the feeling of oneness – our knowledge of being 'big'… infinite. But there's also this to throw into the mix: this observation of Proudhon's… in a sense directed to Alice: “…that habit, like a second nature […like a 'false self'?… – P.S.], has the power of fixing in the mind new categorical forms […like 'obedience'?… like a 'master'?… like 'submission to authority'?… – P.S.] derived from the appearances which impress us, and by them usually stripped of objective reality, but whose influence over our judgments is no less predetermining… This is the most fecund source of false prejudices, and the permanent and often invincible cause of a multitude of errors… Enclosed within a circle, our mind revolves about itself, until a new observation, creating within us new ideas, brings to view an external principle which delivers us from the phantom by which our imagination is possessed…”

 

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Self-creation… self-creation is the source of authentic happiness… is what we've been arguing… and we've been arguing as well that we are made of words… as words form feelings in us… How does this happen? George Eliot also wrote that “feeling's a sort of knowledge…” and might it not be so that re-experiencing our earliest feelings triggers our earliest questions… and vice versa?… that with authentic thought's development… our authentic self is summoned?… and that this happens when we see with the eyes of the ancestors… the ones who figured out 'class'… figured it out for us… in this moment… and show us all we need to know – and with that knowing… the feeling-knowledge comes back… the certainty that the truth we were born with… is not just legitimate… but essential to our continued existence.

 

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“Mutually-conceiving”?… meaning?… We are lost without our common home… our common souls… our mutually-seeing… still-born… adrift… without our knowledge… our experience… of the infinite… to 'be'… means… to 'see'? to see… to hear… to touch… to feel… for understanding without purpose… to be… the soul's oneness… in merging…

 

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[Our December 20, 2015 show):]

 

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In this week's show we return to this matter of our cultivating a new 'economic' allegiance… using our definition of 'economic': 'suppressed creative expression flowering'… and our on-going need to create and use a language between us that reinforces our right to an authentic Freedom – i.e. based in individual self-sufficiency… which means “no masters”. We will be arguing that the road to this accomplishment is through owning our own spontaneous feelings… a section of the chapter, “Progress” in Waking Up I would write differently… Today… with the benefit of Alice Miller… and Karl Popper… and John Boswell… and Martin Bernal et al.… we can see that it was not the “pressure of 'Necessity'” that drove the (what would eventually become) 'Plato's Tribesmen' to unleash their hate on us… rather it was… base and corrupt… child abandonment – these Tiny Few who plague us today are the progeny of the oblates John Boswell writes of… the abandoned children of the abandoned children of 'princes'… who were mis-guided by that 'original' of the 'global-state-statesman': Plato.

 

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…‘progress’ lies in our authentic unity… the authentic unity of all human beings… i.e.… a unity ‘based in individual self-sufficiency’ – and that to think these necessary thoughts (necessary for advancing the species to freedom…) we need to discuss… essentially… the story of 'class'… such that we understand its hierarchy and division and compartmentalization accurately… and can challenge ‘power’s story that it is the 'inevitability' of 'necessity' and 'scarcity' – and 'our' inherent greed' (as opposed to their greed… lust… for 'power' – that (supposedly) makes our unity as human beings an 'unattainable dream'. That we are essentially the same… all made of the same 'stuff'… that we are all good… and want the same things out of life… is never acknowledged… it especially never comes up when the 'power'-vetted media brings out its pundits to 'analyze' the 'geopolitical scene'… or 'national security'… or the 'weapons systems' that DARPA is developing. (And who are the targets these weapons are designed to be used against ultimately… if not us?… Especially now that we are in the time of manufactured resource-shortages… and calculated depletion… it is the 'domestic theater' that looms large in the militaristic ambitions of global-state-statesmen… and let's not forget that the police are designed to be the 'fall-guys'… I thought about this when I realized… contrary to what I'd assumed initially… that the police were ignorant about the EMF-assault on me… I'd thought the opposite at first because it was from someone in a police lock-up – an 'Occupy' protester I believe… who wrote about it – that I learned to use garlic to recover… and now my extensive experience of being targeted and hit from some distance above… showed me that detained folks can be 'punished' – and let's not forget 'punishing' is 'power's m.o. – and the police never know… though in the minds of detainees hit… it will seem as if the police are the cause of it…)

 

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Not only is 'progress' in our… authentic… sense never discussed… but rather… the assumption is that 'our' divisiveness' is endless. It's as if Göering's words from his jail cell were never uttered… In that broadcast we asked… “how are we supposed to enter into… authentic discussions of our future… when authentic thought is not allowed to exist?”… and today we ask the question this way: “Is authentic thought a route to the recovery of our spontaneous feelings?” …and then: once authentic thought flows… as our recovered language grows… and as we find our 'tribes'… and start the necessary conversations… once our discontent becomes conscious… because we have an adequate language for it… and so an adequate understanding of it… and we pool our resources… will we discover that Shakespeare is correct… that “all difficulties are but easy… when they are known…” and that heart… and faith… are sufficient… to meet this challenge facing us… as global humans…

 

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…recall that in a previous show we discussed Antonio Gramsci's speculation (in Prison Notebooks…) that 'revolution' must come [given… though he didn't put it like this… the 'totalitarian' nature of the 'capitalist' system: the State reflecting and manifesting the 'logic' of 'capital'… and vice versa…] must come from an 'economic element' that has been suppressed rising up… that flowed as a wave across states… unifying folk behind… in the same way as did the French Revolution… behind the expression of that suppressed creative element… and we are arguing that it is our creativity… our life-force… that has been hidden in the concepts of… and the term… 'economics'… and that has robbed us of speech because we haven't found a way to express what we really need… what we are… and we're going to keep exploring this notion until it's clearer… I've been struggling with the fact that Alice herself is struggling with how to help folk recover the authentic self… those suppressed feelings… I'm hoping everyone is pondering this deeply: strategies for working with ourselves and our Brothers and Sisters to release those suppressed spontaneous feelings…

 

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If, it is contended, society were organized on these principles, man would not be limited in the free exercise of his powers in productive work by a capitalist monopoly, maintained by the State; nor would he be limited in the exercise of his will by a fear of punishment, or by obedience towards individuals or metaphysical entities, which both lead to depression of initiative and servility of mind. He would be guided in his actions by his own understanding, which necessarily would bear the impression of a free action and reaction between his own self and the ethical conceptions of his surroundings… He would thus be able to reach full individualization, which is not possible either under the present system of individualism, or under any system of State socialism in the so-called Volkstaat (popular State)… As to their economical conceptions, the anarchists… consider the wage-system and capitalist production altogether as an obstacle to progress. But they point out also that the State was, and continues to be, the chief instrument for permitting the few to monopolize the land, and the capitalists to appropriate for themselves a quite disproportionate share of the yearly accumulated surplus of production. [And I would add… allow the 'capitalists' to 'appropriate'… to privatize… the entire earth… and we have been arguing in these spaces… that that is… in fact… their 'purpose' in the schema of the Plato's Tribesmen… from the perspective of global-'power': is to remove the resources of the earth… our common treasure… into private hands… that is what was accomplished by 'capitalism'… – 'was'… past-tense… being the operative word – “was accomplished”… 'power' is now ready to move on to… what they consider to be… the 'next and higher stage': “we on 'permanent-lock-down-can't-get-out' called global totalitarianism”… which we already have… but with a 'friendlier' face (which is more expensive to maintain…) for those in the more privileged place in the hierarchy of states… – P.S.]

 

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In virtue of the above principles the anarchists refuse to be party to the present-State organization and to support it by infusing fresh blood into it [a most important point… and so much more difficult to achieve… we can see today… with our expanded perspective… as we know we are wrestling with a hidden-State – and we have a vantage not available to Kropotkin: we can see that we need our own definitions… new concepts… and new strategies… to advance to our freedom… We can see that our actions must be global and local simultaneously – that it is only by working with our communities to stem the tide of the functionaries – expanding the number of our Brothers and Sisters in soul-sufficiency – while uniting globally… that we can get free… We can see that the categories 'labor' and 'capital' are themselves weapons against us… that the compartmentalizations of 'class' are part of the atomization process that prevents our working in concert (as does 'power'…) – all of us – globally… We can see that 'power's key strategy: the systematic suppression of our authentic feelings… means that the individual must be the basic unit of political organization for us to get free… We can see that 'progress' exists in our unmediated… unfiltered and unfettered access to each other… globally… else… how grow our gifts?… and growing our gifts unfettered is 'happiness'… which is our right as human beings – as well as our 'right' as 'a people' yet leashed by the U.S. state… our codified right – codified in the Declaration of Independence – granting us… here in the U.S.… the honor of the lead-position… on the path to our Freedom…]

 

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…what's the difference between claiming one's spontaneous feelings… and claiming one's body – i.e. refusing a system of coerced work?… if one is an advance toward the restoration of a healthy humanity… is not the other as well?… This cannot be emphasized enough: we all want this… our self-creative energy has been suppressed… each one of us senses that we're being wasted… thrown away as worthless… each one of us is life that longs to live in the full possession of all our gifts – and 'all' requires self-directed. We've been waiting for help in how to do this… waiting for authentic clues beyond 'the system'… and we who are claiming our authentic selves can provide the outlet for this development… this longing-to-exist that are our authentic voices… We saw this in the Occupy Movement… before agents infiltrated it… the truth of 'Stone Soup'… each one brought something to contribute… we can always do this… create 'communes'… because that ability is in us… only this time… we do it de-centralized (seriously de-centralized…really small-scale de-centralized… each little core-tribe… we who love each other… nonetheless… we have our eyes are open and we realize our love embraces all…) we do it de-centralized… we do it with consciousness… seeing our prize of freedom… we do it knowing what to do with agents… i.e.… we openly… as a group… acknowledge their presence… own that until we've established our freedom globally – that is… as long as 'power' exists – on some level we are all agents… and then… we engage Alice… and exercises to address this problem of the internalized-state on a regular basis…) Our gifts and talents we don't want to put on the market… we would rather use to help grow those of our Brothers and Sisters… and thereby our free future… …merging that strategy into our goals… our 'Three Prizes'… brings material sufficiency for our movement…

 

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Perhaps… the definition of class… is that which drains energy… and gives nothing back… but it also traps… holds back… and silences… but the pent-up energy… the swallowed words… the earth that sings in us with all life… denies their death obsession… rejects it… and searches for its like… which… melding… mating… mutually-conceiving…

 

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It is unlikely that strictly intellectual attempts to seek explanations and gain understanding during adulthood can be sufficient to undo early childhood conditioning. Someone who has learned at his or her peril to obey unwritten laws and renounce feelings at a tender age will obey the written laws all the more readily, lacking any inner resistance. But since no one can live entirely without feelings, such a person will join groups that sanction or even encourage the forbidden feelings, which he or she will finally be allowed to live out within a collective framework. Every ideology offers its adherents the opportunity to discharge their pent-up affect collectively while retaining the idealized primary object, which is transferred to new leader figures or to the group in order to make up for the lack of a satisfying symbiosis with the mother. Idealization of a narcissistically cathected group guarantees collective grandiosity [which describes perfectly the tribesmen of Plato… as well as their exploitation of the children they intentionally wound – but among totalitarians… how do 'leaders' happen?… are they shaped with intent… as are their minions… only fed and stroked as is the Queen Bee by her drones… the 'shepherds' in the ideology of Plato?… or is their arrival a thing 'organic'… arising mysteriously from the morass of suppression of all spontaneous feeling… creativity… and initiative?… Rather… as she suggests… the 'narcissistically-cathected group' is the “idealized primary object”… Because it seems to me… the attempt to make oneself 'kingly'-by-design – even 'philosopher-statesmen'-'kingly' – can only achieve its opposite… as Popper and Kropotkin have told us: to raise-by-rule-book destroys initiative… results in 'yes-men' (and sociopaths…) “How do 'leaders' happen among totalitarians?” – they don't… 'power' robs… rapes… and pillages – they take what they want… – P.S.].

 

[In Preparation for Our December 20, 2015 show):]

 

“‘Economics’ is a tool for conquering language. So the problem is bigger than it seems… particularly as we’re never allowed to see it…. When Bentham tells the ‘philosopher-king-global statesmen’: “He who defined the language ruled the universe…” we haven’t appreciated – because we’re not encouraged to think the thought – that this is quite literally true… that as “creatures of illusion” we are made of words… sculpted with words… invented… designed… with words. Which makes their use… a sacred trust… a bond… between humans… not to abuse it… and ‘abuse it’ the so-called ‘rulers’ have done… without cessation… from “Day ‘One’”… since ‘class’ was begun… by ‘philosopher-king-statesmen’. And what are these words we’re ruled with if not versions of ‘be productive’… ‘be useful’… ‘be good’… ‘be obedient’… and when these words oppose the body… we’re told… “the body is wrong… and must be governed…” and thus begins our training in ‘management’… in ‘utilitarianism’… in ‘economics’ – the world-view we’re all trained in… is designed not for us… but to facilitate the use of us by… to convert us into resources for… the statesmen. So how are we supposed to enter into… authentic discussions of our future… when authentic thought is not allowed to exist?” [From our June 1, 2014 radio broadcast.]

 

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The lost child is the source of our troubles…. [And… thanks to John Boswell's The Kindness of Strangers: Child Abandonment in Europe from Late Antiquity Through the Renaissance… we understand now how this happened… That is an important book. If you get a chance… I hope you'll read it… or bits of it… and that you'll try to feel it… if you know what I mean… feel the full implications of that – thousands of years of child abandonment – and how that gets embedded in what people think is part of being 'human'… but isn't… It's like Kropotkin telling us that in ancient texts gorillas were described as 'gregarious'… breaks your heart to think about that… how much damage has been inflicted… on life – we are not yet what we're meant to be… but we will recover all that was stolen from us by this sick system of rigid hierarchical rule.] It’s time for us to heal the hurt, complete the circuit – return home. We have nothing now but our imaginations and our biological memory, but that’s enough for the task at hand, which is reunion. [From our February 8, 2015 radio broadcast.]

 

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[Our December 13, 2015 show):]

 

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So it seems they are ready to roll-out a more hard-core totalitarianism… – So… best vote for Hilary! And… by the way… is it not the Horror Story of our days that most of us didn't know that we're living in a Fascist state?… I certainly didn't… when I blithely released Waking Up… starting myself on this path of developing 'certainty' about the existence of hidden-'power' – and so I do understand when folks have a difficult time crediting the existence of these guys… and this treatment I'm receiving is not necessarily something the average folk are going to experience… so we are going to have to proceed… plow forward… even in the absence of perhaps the degree of 'certainty' I have… simply based on the truth of our body's need to be free… to begin to discuss with Alice Miller. Because you don't have to believe in hidden-'power' to credit what she says… the truth of what she says is so patent… and when we hear it… it is earth-shaking… our bodies shaking… when we realize the degree to which we have been deeply conditioned… She's going to say that when you plow through that conditioning and see reality… and claim your true self… you can't go back: “Once you have found your authentic self you will not relinquish it for any price… and that is the truth – it is hard-won getting there… And isn't that a Horror Story… that we didn't know we're living in a Fascist state –So we understand this 'structure of class itself' a little bit better now that we've been delving into Alice Miller… and Martin Bernal… and Karl Popper… and Immanuel Wallerstein… and Alfred O. Hirschman… and John Boswell – we owe many good folk for our ability to put together these puzzle-pieces… I'd like to see some left-wing commentator do a show that integrates all of those… and then tell me they find it difficult to believe that there are hidden 'power'-guys who operate on the down-low… behind scenes.

 

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In recent shows we've been trying to grasp how it was that training in obedience came to be viewed as simply a 'mode of thought'… as almost a 'cultural' achievement… an 'evolution of the human' (most egregiously…) also-known-as 'civilization'… …and this pinpoints… I think… the difficulty we've been having gathering together our ethical resources (globally) and determining to move on… because… as Kropotkin says: “When we have but the will to do it, that very moment will justice be done: that very instant the tyrants of the earth shall bite the dust.” (From “An Appeal to the Young”) …a difficulty captured in Kropotkin's use of the word 'tyrant'… because while there's no doubt the word fits for our current crop of 'power'-besotted men… they would deny it… deny that it applies to them… and in truth they are a breed apart from the 'power'-lustful 'kings… priests… and capitalists' (the guys Kropotkin meant by the word 'tyrant'…) of which he wrote – these new 'power'-guys… by going into hiding… by inventing 'child-rearing'… and by using 'Plato' for self-justification and guidance… rewrote the terms of 'the class struggle' such that it gave us no purchase… [Kropotkin's] analysis is useful… I think… to dispel the fog enshrouding our relations… across the false divisions: the fog of 'economics'… but it should be updated to reflect [the new terms of the 'class struggle'… and] our current situation of 'power's depletion of our common planetary resources…

 

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…consider to what degree the maxim “might makes right” expresses utilitarianism… and that both concepts underlie the “separation of 'the self'”… and that… further… in 'dualism' / 'utilitarianism'… is included not just “Might Makes Right”… which implies “'conquest' as raison d’être”… but also: “worth must be 'proven' / 'demonstrated' – and therefore 'performance'… 'abandonment / betrayal' – and the 'scarcity-mindset'… which underlies and… in theory… according to the propaganda… 'justifies' everything that 'power' does… Is it clear that in the above… we're but naming the same item – again and again – from slightly different perspectives?… that the 'reality' we're given is totalitarian?… The 'power'-guys have been working apace in the decades since the French Revolution… to instigate a massive 'cultural' shift – in truth the kiss of death for 'culture' in any authentic sense – such that we would see this 'mindset' of utilitarianism… authoritarianism… subjection of self to 'Authority'… as 'modern'… as an 'advance' over 'barbarism'… as representative of 'Progress'… in order to silence the authentic voice of the earth… the earth in us… the voice calling us to our authentic allegiance: to her… to our Brothers and Sisters… and to the ancestors who dedicated themselves tirelessly to helping us see… our inherent freedom…

 

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…no taking our eyes off the prize… Three prizes.'Utilitarianism' is totalitarian… but 'the principle of utility' (that one that Bentham so loved…) has no allegiance to any particular political cause – it is a key principle of strategy – it simply means that we have thought through the chain of steps… that lead from any particular act… to our intended… ultimate… effect… Three effects: An annual (to coincide with May Day seems best… doing so saves time discussing it…) One-Day-Global-General-Strike – to roll into a series of such when the time is right… Continuous key (suppressed) conversations – perhaps using our “Reflections of '3.7'” as guide…) with the broader community… Regaining our 'will': practicing soul-sufficiency… this last is a bigger deal that we've heretofore credited it as being… because up to now we haven't made conscious and discussed child-rearing as 'power's key political strategy… Alice is helping us see the degree to which 'obedience' – submission to Authority – has been trained into each one of us (under 'class'…) So we'll have to get creative in unlearning it… and ask for the support of our 'cores'… our 'heart' – our collective 'selves' – to accomplish it.

 

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So… if we're given our meanings… made 'subjects'… but… without seeing the one who's doing it… such that… ours 'selves' are lost… but there seems no cause but us… then… it's a question… isn't it: “who are we?”… (Clearly… if the world is [literally] a stage… we are [literally] only actors… performers for the Director of this tragedy…) …not 'tragedy'… no… there is no 'inevitability'…

 

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Heinrich Himmler: “We had the moral right, we had the duty to our own people, to kill this people that wanted to kill us… By and large, however, we can say that we have performed this most difficult task out of love for our people. And we have suffered no harm from it in our inner self, in our soul, in our character…” Alice Miller: “This speech contains all the elements of the complicated psychodynamic mechanism that can be described as splitting off and projection of parts of the self… Schooling oneself to be senselessly hard requires that all signs of weakness [apparent weakness… – P.S.] in oneself (including emotionalism, tears, pity, sympathy for oneself and others, and feelings of helplessness, fear and despair) be suppressed “without mercy.” In order to make the struggle against these humane impulses easier, the citizens of the Third Reich were offered an object to serve as the bearer of all these qualities that were abhorred because they had been forbidden and dangerous in their childhood – this object was the Jewish people. Freed from their “bad” (i.e., weak and uncontrolled) feelings, so-called Aryans could feel pure, strong, hard, clean, good, unambivalent, and morally right if everything they had feared in themselves since childhood could be attributed to the Jews and if, together with their fellow Germans, these “Aryans” were not only permitted but required to combat it relentlessly and ever anew among members of this “inferior race…”

 

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Alice Miller: “It seems to me that we are still threatened by the possible repetition of a similar crime unless we understand its origins and the psychological mechanism behind it. [And is there any doubt at all that she's not only right… but that the threat never left for an instant since… and that the lack of any global-society-wide process of doing precisely what she calls for: understanding the origins and psychological mechanism behind totalitarianism… rather… in fact… the opposite has been the case… there has been suppression… 'proves' that 'rule' is continuously engaged in suppression of this knowledge… and reproducing the conditions for… its 'working out' of its 'abandonment issues' – using us as object – through its massive misanthropic crimes… – P.S.] “People with any sensitivity cannot be turned into mass murderers overnight. But the men and women who carried out “the final solution” did not let their feelings stand in their way for the simple reason that they had been raised from infancy not to have any feelings of their own. These were people who, as children, had been proud of being tough and not crying, of carrying out all their duties “gladly,” of not being afraid – that is, at bottom, of not having an inner life at all…”

 

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Alice Miller: “This perfect adaptation to society's norms [which… in our May 18, 2014 show we referred to as 'self-betrayal' because it is from this angle… perhaps… that we can best see empathy's absence… – P.S.] This perfect adaptation to society's norms – in other words, to what is called “healthy normality” – carries with it the danger that such a person can be used for practically any purpose… Witnesses of sudden political upheavals report again and again with what astonishing facility many people are able to adapt to a new situation. Overnight they can advocate views totally different from those they held the day before – without noticing the contradiction. With the change in the power structure, yesterday has completely disappeared for them…”

 

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Alice Miller: “Yet it is possible that both those who admire and those who scorn these protestors are missing the real point: individuals who refuse to adapt to a totalitarian regime are not doing so out of a sense of duty or because of naïveté, but because they cannot help but be true to themselves. The longer I wrestle with these questions, the more I am inclined to see courage, integrity, and a capacity for love, not as “virtues,” not as moral categories, but as the consequences of a benign fate… Morality and performance of duty are artificial measures that become necessary when something essential is lacking. The more successfully a person was denied access to his or her feelings in childhood, the larger the arsenal of intellectual weapons and the supply of moral prostheses has to be, because morality and a sense of duty are not sources of strength or fruitful soil for genuine affection. Blood does not flow in artificial limbs; they are for sale and can serve many masters. What was considered good yesterday can – depending on the decree of government or party – be considered evil and corrupt today, and vice versa. But those who have spontaneous feelings can only be themselves. They have no other choice if they want to remain true to themselves… once they have found their authentic self they will not want to lose it.”

 

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[Our December 6, 2015 show):]

 

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Themes and things: “…what is a healthy 'tribalism'?… and how do we use it to combat… the destructive notion (destructive of our earlier rich diversity… and which we are recomposing… in forming 'open tribes'… 'associations'…) to combat the destructive notion of 'class'… and build certainty that 'happiness' requires the individual self-sufficiency of each one of us globally…” and that we are… “working together to 'pursue this happiness'… which is our codified right here in the U.S. – granting us the ability and responsibility to initiate a global movement to end the 'class'-system ('rule by the few'…)

 

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In our June 14, 2015 show on “practical politics”… we said that we counter 'power's tactic of infiltration (including the form of 'infiltration' we have been calling 'internalized discipline'… or 'the state in us'… or Marcuse's 'democratic introjection'…) – the point of which tactic… infiltration – in the case of our mobilizations to move the agenda of 'freedom' – would be to attempt to identify 'the leadership' (those in whom an alternative [and authentic…] allegiance resides… in order to mess with it – and that we counter agent-infiltration by ensuring that our movement (for the release of human energy globally) is simultaneously a movement for soul-sufficiency…

 

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…I feel like they're using me as a test subject… that they're testing a sizable chunk of their arsenal – and definitely as a hierarchy of punishments – we'll hear more about that later… – a sizable chunk of their arsenal of microwave weapons on me… including lasers [more during the day it seems…] and this latest [used on me as I sleep at 'night'…] de-hydrates to an extreme degree… and feels like being stuck in an electro-magnet – the skin of my hands and feet have dried up. And in this pointing-headlights-at-me business… for years I assumed it was simply about targeting [and that may be mostly what it is…] but given the immediate pain it sometimes causes I'm beginning to consider the obsessive insistence of these tracker-folks on doing this in light of Leuren Moret's warning that these 'shadow-state'-guys have the ability to 'weaponize the energy in the environment'… and lasers are light-energy EMF weapons… [Leuren Moret is also mentioned in our November 17, 2013 and January 19, 2014 shows…] the only way to defend our right to resistance is to put forward our alternative…

 

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Point being: these folks are trained to be like pit-bulls… to have a commanding presence… to take charge… and I've been pondering how 'real' will that 'practical politics' guidance be… as we must be tender and open for a 'love evolution'… and yet as determined to achieve it as 'power' is to stop it.… That training to grab our hands and lead us… is troubling… and I think we should make more specific something previously said… that the agreements we make together at the outset of our collaborative efforts are critical to the success of them. But let's also consider the implications for our dilemma of what Kropotkin has said… and shared with us: …each one of us must be leaders – and that it is simply… the multitude of our global associations on which our future is based.

 

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“All the elements of the revolution were there, it was only necessary to set them to work. When I returned to my lodging at night I said to myself, 'How fine is humanity after all, but no one knew it; it has always been calumniated.' Then came the elections, the members of the commune were named – and then little by little the ardor of devotion and the desire for action were extinguished. Everyone returned to his usual task…” From Kropotkin we learned the following lessons: “… each one of us must be leaders… each one of us has to get 'big'…” – acknowledging… obviously… that each one of us is at a different point in that process of regaining our power… our full power… our authentic selves… and we'll be talking more about that reality check as well…

 

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…so when agents come among us – as they will… they must… – it's important that we acknowledge their inevitable presence (speaking generically… I'm not suggesting we can be certain… who is or is not an agent…) acknowledge the presence of paid-folk among us with love… and in such a way that every single one of is… in a sense… 'indicted' (and this is definitely not an individual process… this business of accepting the fact that there are folks among us paid to disrupt or mislead our movement… we need the support and mutual aid of our fellows to do this…) But… as to being 'led' by any particular one… this must be denied by the very structure of our cooperative association… …because the basic unit of political organization – in the transition no less than in our freedom – is 'the individual'… What does that mean? It means self-sufficiency politically (and there's a lot captured in that phrase which we'll have to unpack next week…) It means the light of our individuality shines bright… It means… as Whitman said… no papers bind our agreement… only our spirit of freedom leads us…

 

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So… what is the problem?… is the problem 'the state'… is the problem 'coercion'?… or is it the unequal distribution of resources?…is the problem the rush… that we can't live our lives fully?… or that we don't know our neighbors… that there is no community?… is the problem our training in 'obedience'?… and our inadequate education?… or is it the censoring of the media​… and the suppression of key conversations… or is it hierarchy and division?… or is it atomization?… or more basically… simply 'scarcity' and need?… or is it the abandonment of our children?…

 

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Quoting Alice and then Alice quoting Goering and then commenting: Alice: “In The Face of the Third Reich, Fest documents the servile, uncritical, and almost infantile naiveté with which the men who were to enter the annals of infamy spoke of Hitler's omniscience, infallibility, and divinity. That is the way a little child sees his father. And these men never advanced beyond that stage. I shall quote several passages here because, without them, it might be hard for today's generation to believe that these men who later went down in history could have been so lacking in inner substance. Fest here quotes Hermann Goering:” Goering: “Anyone who has any idea of how things stand with us… knows that we each possess just so much power as the Führer wishes to give. And only with the Führer and standing behind him is one really powerful, only then does one hold the strong powers of the state in one's hands; but against his will, or even just without his wish, one would instantly become totally powerless. A word from the Führer and anyone whom he wishes to be rid of falls. His prestige, his authority are boundless.” Alice: “What is actually being described here is the way a little child feels toward his authoritarian father.”

 

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“A child cannot acknowledge the negative sides of his or her father, and yet these are stored up somewhere in the child's psyche, for the adult will then be attracted by precisely these negative, disavowed sides in the father substitutes he or she encounters.… My patient was much too little at the time to bear these sudden separations without a feeling of panic. In her analysis we had been aware of this for a long time, but her fear of being abandoned by her husband did not subside until her dreams revealed to her what had hitherto been unconscious: the other – brutal and cruel – side of her father, whom she had until then remembered only as loving and tender. As a result of confronting this knowledge, she experienced an inner liberation and was now able to begin the process of becoming autonomous.” [I imagine there is an analogous process of confrontation and healing as we separate from that 'substitute father' 'the state' and its many surrogates… – P.S.]

 

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Quoting Alice: “And so, when a man comes along and talks like one's own father and acts like him, even adults will forget their democratic rights or will not make use of them. They will submit to this man, will acclaim him, allow themselves to be manipulated by him, and put their trust in him, finally surrendering totally to him without even being aware of their enslavement. One is not normally aware of something that is a continuation of one's own childhood. For those who become as dependent on someone as they once were as small children on their parents, there is no escape. A child cannot run away, and the citizen of a totalitarian regime cannot free himself or herself. The only outlet one has is in raising one's own children. Thus, the citizens who were captives of the Third Reich had to rear their children to be captives as well, if they were to feel any trace of their own power.”

 

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Quoting Alice: “When feelings are admitted into consciousness, the wall of silence disintegrates, and the truth can no longer be held back. Even intellectualizing about whether “there is a truth per se,” whether or not “everything is relative,” etc., is recognized as a defense mechanism once the truth, no matter how painful, has been uncovered. I found a good example of this in Christoph Meckel's portrayal of his father in Suchbild: Uber meinen Vater (Wanted: My Father's Portrait):” “On the heels of the lavish dispenser of sweet treats came an officer with a whip. He had punishment ready for his children. He was the master of what amounted to a spectrum of punishments, a whole catalogue. First there were scoldings and fits of rage – that was bearable and passed over like a thunderstorm. Then came the pulling, twisting, and pinching of the ear, the blow to the ear, and the little, mean punches to the head. Next came being sent from the room and after that being locked away in the cellar… Finally, as reminder and as climax came the punishment, the exemplary punishment pure and simple… administered with an iron hand. Corporal punishment was used for the sake of order, obedience, and humaneness so that justice might be done and this justice might be imprinted in the child's memory…”

 

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Quoting Alice: “When someone suddenly gives vent to his or her rage, it is usually an expression of deep despair, but the ideology of child beating and the belief that beating is not harmful serve the function of covering up the consequences of the act and making them unrecognizable. The result of a child becoming dulled to pain is that access to the truth about himself will be denied him all his life. Only consciously experienced feelings would be powerful enough to subdue the guard at the gates, but these are exactly what he is not allowed to have…”

 

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[Our November 29, 2015 show):]

 

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Numerous ancestors have noted the 'evolutionary' trajectory of 'class'-bound… 'class'-mutilated… humans… We could say it is towards freedom… but… even more essentially… it is toward reunion: we want to be together. We are the living analog of that robot in the story The Iron Giant that cannot help but reconstitute his original 'self.' That is us… ever-striving to restore our original wholeness… our 'species-existence' presses upon us. This is why we can be certain we will get there… if the 'power'-lustful do not destroy all humanity first… for they are stuck in a death-spiral… and cannot help but pull all of us into it with them. If we let them. Which we won't. To get to our 'freedom/reunion'… we must: know what we want… see what stands against it (for our getting it is not 'inevitable'…) and be determined to get there. I believe this last comes from 'Aidos' – the Balance – our earth-given gift of Fairness. Let's listen for a moment to Peter Kropotkin's observations of the event called 'the Paris Commune'… “Of course people now blame the men, the individuals for this; but it was not the men who were the cause of this failure – it was the system. The practical solution will not be found, will not be made clear until the change will have already begun. It will be the product of the revolution itself, of the people in action, – or else it will be nothing, the brain of a few individuals being absolutely incapable of finding solutions which can only spring from the life of the people.” – If just those few paragraphs had been read and discussed by every 'revolutionist'… would they not have to become an 'evolutionist'?

 

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The strategic point of developing 'certainty' is 'gathering numbers'… gathering numbers rapidly. But what has made doing this such a challenge until now… was… as Kropotkin says… that we are confronted with a system – i.e. a false reality that is totalitarian… “Ah, if the bulk of the nation, of the commune, could only understand before the movement what is necessary to be done as soon as the government is overturned! If this dream of the utopians of the chair could be realized, we never would have had bloody revolutions. The will of the bulk of the nation once expressed, the rest would submit to it with a good grace.” – …so… just as the illusion was layered… piece by piece… upon us… so… in just this way of 'layered-ness'… perhaps… for some… must certainty come: first doubt as to the lies we are told arrives with new information that challenges them… then questions… and with them… thought develops… as we seek out discussion… and then looking about us… testing our new insights… noticing how powerfully they explain… and then eventually the enormity of the outrage of massive Dishonesty… explodes into our psyche… and then we have certainty.

 

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…and the only way to break into that conditioning (speaking in terms of its existence societally…) as Socrates and these 'power'-guys well know… is to reach the youth… the children… because the earth gifts them with openness (and we ourselves as well… but our openness freezes shut to the extent we have investment in 'the system'… – at least until we are presented with the alternative: “The will of the bulk of the nation once expressed, the rest would submit to it with a good grace…” – and then we find ourselves… perhaps even to our surprise… eager for it.)

 

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But is 'capitalism' why we can't pursue 'happiness'?… why we are so burdened with bills and worry… and obligations?… why we have no time to stop and catch our breaths… let alone 'pursue happiness'… why each year the burdens grow heavier?… there's more mutual suspicion… more hardship… more children unhappy… more hunger… But who will protect us from the terrorists?… What if 'the terrorists' are as false… as the Society of December 10 was… when Louis Napoleon established… 'rule-by-clandestine-means' practices… in which the shadow-state operates behind scenes?… Isn't it likely that the Tiny Few who have scooped up the resources of the planet… and established 'states' with them… and so have the means… and the motive… to keep us dependent and weak… would produce 'reasons' why we need them? Aren't the acts they commit toward our 'management' kept secret?… like their use of microwave energy-weapons? How can we believe 'the state' exists to serve us… when our lives grow ever-more closed-in with surveillance… and dissent is silenced with media-censorship… and with weaponry they refuse to admit exists? Could it be we only feel insufficient… because we've been kept separate?…

 

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And that's what we see… in every 'evolutionary' moment – in Egypt… Istanbul… and definitely in the Occupy Movement… like the friend of Kropotkin said: “How good humanity is! I didn't know that!”… We've been so misled… because they have insinuated agents… and captured the media… to a degree we never imagined – …and while I say here that “we don't need anyone else to tell us what to do…” the reality is… that these babies… who 'power' seizes – and we're going to hear more about that from Heinrich Himmler himself… the game-plan laid out for us right there… very clear… if we had had really 'freedom of speech'… if we had had really an independent 'Left' speaking… this would have been discussed decades ago: the fact that they take from the 'lesser' 'nations' those children they consider 'the better ones'… those of better 'blood' from 'the lessers'… and raise them… – and it makes sense… we've never talked about the obvious: how do you reproduce 'the system'… the belief that you are 'a superior race'… by blood… destined to rule… to be… the 'philosopher-king-statesmen'… unless you train children to believe that? So while we say in this space that “no… we don't need anyone else to tell us what to do…” Alice is going to be explaining today that… in fact… these children are raised who absolutely need someone to tell them what to do…

 

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[What we are learning… from Peter and from Alice… is that the process of developing empathy is the process of freeing ourselves from 'the state'… is the solution to “Socrates Dilemma” – and Peter's and Alice's and ours – that being: how can “…the bulk of the nation [the world…] understand before the movement what is necessary to be done as soon as the government is overturned!…” The evolution of our love means 'the state' has already been overturned in us… what follows is mere housekeeping tasks… and modeling for our fellows-still-enthralled the empathic parent who releases them from the bondage of their identification with 'power'… with Authority… grants them the permission – those few still caught in unconscious patterns – to develop their thought.… “It is clear from the foregoing that a relativity of traditional moral values is an intrinsic part of this system: in the last analysis, our status and degree of power determine whether our actions are judged to be good or bad. [My son told me an interesting story of a kindergartner who pushed another child out of his way… and when my son talked with him about what happened… the child asked, “what would you do if I was a giant?”… – P.S] This same principle prevails throughout the whole world. The strong person dictates the verdict, and the victor in a war will sooner or later be applauded, regardless of the crimes that have been committed on the road to victory.…”

 

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“Those who were permitted to react appropriately throughout their childhood – i.e., with anger – to the pain, wrongs, and denial inflicted upon them either consciously or unconsciously will retain this ability to react appropriately in later life too. When someone wounds them as adults, they will be able to recognize and express this verbally. But they will not feel the need to lash out in response. This need arises only for people who must always be on their guard to keep the dam that restrains their feelings from breaking.… A person who can understand and integrate his anger as part of himself will not become violent. He has the need to strike out at others only if he is thoroughly unable to understand his rage, if he was not permitted to become familiar with this feeling as a small child, was never able to experience it as a part of himself because such a thing was totally unthinkable in his surroundings…”

 

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“Someone may object by saying that an individual human being cannot destroy an entire people on such a scale, that the economic crisis and the humiliation suffered by the Weimar Republic contributed to producing the catastrophe. There can be no doubt that this is true, but it was not “crises” and “systems” that did the killing, it was human beings – human beings whose fathers were able to point with pride to the obedience instilled in their little ones at a very early age…” …and again… this gets us back to that gap we are here addressing… that it is 'class' itself… the coerced-work system… that sets the totalitarian nature of this manufactured (false) reality that we are forced to accept… forced to teach our children is legitimate… – P.S.] …When they were little children full of vitality, their parents had offered them up as sacrifices to a grand pedagogic purpose, to lofty religious values, with the feeling of performing a great and good deed. [And what sets the mental frame for our being 'made-use-of'… for all akin and subsequent 'uses' to which we put our children… but 'class' itself… and its utilitarian ideology of 'rule'… but absent our Karl Popper and Martin Bernal… John Boswell… and our Good Three – Terence K. Hopkins, Giovanni Arrighi, and Immanuel Wallerstein – and Alice herself… what sense would we have made of 'power's compulsive acts?… To understand… to see the full picture clearly… is everything: “All difficulties are but easy when they are known…” our William told us… and for this and innumerable other insights that allow us to know 'power'… and so to solve this massive 'difficulty'… we owe him endlessly… – P.S.]

 

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“But what happens when not a trace of vital spontaneity remains because the child's upbringing was a total and perfect success, as was the case with people such as Adolf Eichmann and Rudolf Hoss? They were trained to be obedient so successfully and at such an early age that the training never lost its effectiveness, the structure never displayed any fissures, water never penetrated it at any point, nor did feelings of any kind ever jar it. To the end of their lives, these people carried out the orders they were given without ever questioning the content. They carried them out, just as “poisonous pedagogy” recommends – not out of any sense of their inherent rightness, but simply because they were orders.… Yet, it was also Himmler who said: “One principle must be absolute for the SS man: we must be honest, decent, loyal, and comradely to those of our own blood and to no one else. What happens to the Russians, what happens to the Czechs, is a matter of utter indifference to me. Good blood like ours that we find among other nationalities we shall acquire for ourselves, if necessary by taking away the children and bringing them up among us.…” [It's useful to recall this historical bit of geopolitics (from our October 5, 2014 Waking Up Radio show) provided by Kevin Phillips: “During the winter of 1942, the Swiss-based Allen Dulles discussed with emissaries, at least half seriously, a settlement in which Germany would keep Austria and some other new territory, SS chief Heinrich Himmler would replace Hitler…”

 

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[It's useful to recall this historical bit of geopolitics (from our October 5, 2014 Waking Up Radio show) provided by Kevin Phillips: “Roosevelt also faced dissension in the military and intelligence communities. Not a few senior officers, especially in the navy, disagreed with the White House priority on supporting Britain against Germany. They urged greater attention to the Pacific theater and war against Japan.… Some intelligence officials, in turn, were ambiguous about favoring the Soviet Union over Germany, maintaining quiet connections through Switzerland with non-Nazi Germans and some Nazi officials.During the winter of 1942, the Swiss-based Allen Dulles discussed with emissaries, at least half seriously, a settlement in which Germany would keep Austria and some other new territory, SS chief Heinrich Himmler would replace Hitler… Truman had argued in 1941 that as between the warring Russians and Germans, ‘if we see that Germany is winning we ought to help Russia, and if Russia is winning we ought to help Germany and in that way, let them kill as many as possible.’ It was not a sentiment that got Truman in trouble…” …a good illustration… I think… of the fact that it is the 'system' of 'class' itself – 'Rule by Sociopaths' – that is diseased… – P.S.]

 

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[This is one of those critical discussions that we must have: the importance of reclaiming our children – I recall in an audio-file titled “Richard Aoki and the Abandonment of Children”… a conversation between my son and I in which he asked… “well… what do we do when we see that our children are being sucked into this agenda?”… Our response?… we have to have an alternative…] “These are only three examples of the endless number of people whose life took a similar course and who no doubt had received what is considered a good, strict upbringing. The results of the child's total subordination to the adults' will were not seen solely in his future political submissiveness (for example, to the totalitarian system of the Third Reich) but were already visible in his inner readiness for a new form of subordination as soon as he left home.…”

 

[Our November 22, 2015 show):]

 

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We've been arguing that hidden-'power' exists in our internalization of it – that our identification with 'the state' is a transference of our identification with 'Authority' more broadly… with that of our parents… in the mental frames they set in us… that 'power' hides in the absence of any real challenge to it… accomplished with the creation of the nation-state in a global interstate system (specifically to provide the 'power'-guys with cover… backup… and structural support) in the period post-French Revolution – in its elimination of all other options… that hidden-folks… 'power's agents… have insinuated themselves into every nook and cranny of our lives (and especially into our resistance) feels like a new thing… but only because we are only now confronting it openly… with tools that allow us to discuss the strategy globally…

 

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…'power' is looking here in the U.S. to transform progressive communities into conservative ones. [The manufactured 'foreclosure-crisis' was the tactic used to destroy established diverse communities in which folks got along across the false divides… 'Power' wanted the cities back… they got them back. Low-income folk have been forced out of their former homes. This is a transparent effort to rigidify 'class'-divides… such that we don't interact with each other…] Here in Berkeley, California for instance… the shift has been dramatic and continuous in the past six years or so… The City Council this week just intensified its assault on the low-income by further criminalizing homelessness… an assault the UC – Berkeley student paper calls “regulating streets…” quoting merchants who complain of public defecation. There is no doubt that folks hanging out without homes are infiltrated with numerous false folks… there to shift public opinion against the low-income. This tactic of infiltration… because it can't be proven soon enough to stop its object from being achieved (and 'proof' in any case wastes too much energy… given our more pressing priorities…) must… as we've discussed… be made null in our 'organizing the transition' working arrangements… [the experience of being hit with EMF weapons feels like being frozen and fried at the same time…])

 

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[We need Alice to help us understand 'power's agents… We can see the world we want… open… free from coercion… in which our harmony in abundance will make our world a paradise so easily… it's very difficult to understand the fear of those who stand against it…]

 

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(Alice: “Almost everywhere we find the effort… to rid ourselves as quickly as possible of the child within us – i.e., the weak, helpless, dependent creature – in order to become an independent, competent adult deserving of respect. When we reencounter this creature in our children, we persecute it with the same measures once used on ourselves. And this is what we are accustomed to call “child-rearing.”) It's perfectly clear and obviously true… that the parent does the work of the state in conditioning us to subsume our 'will'… i.e.… what our bodies want… to the command of 'Authority'… to 'the state'. So long as the parent does this work… 'the state' continues. Yet never is this said on the Left… that ending this torturing of children called 'child-rearing' is the only way for this 'system' of 'class' to end… It's not just Fascism that is distinguished by its underlying hate… but totalitarianism broadly… …and saying that… knowing that 'class' is totalitarian… strikes sharply obvious… The normalized cruelty called 'child-rearing-under-class' explains the cruelty with which all those who are made-dependent are treated. It could not be more obvious or straightforward: allow children to be 'big'… powerful… and we end 'the system'… Meld 'power's 'secret' weapon of (differential) child-rearing (in generalized abandonment…) with its clandestine actors… its hidden planning… and hidden EMF weapons… and the result is a massive certainty-disproportion between them and us.

 

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The progressive vision of 'socialism' was stripped of its internationalism in WWII's massive slaughter and destruction… and the ideology of 'Marxism' worked to defeat from within… like a Trojan horse with a secret mission… by mystifying 'mind' it served to divide us… by making it an Academic discussion… and by co-signing the 'mind-body-divide' propaganda. Shouldn't our actions be guided by 'Reason'? But there's no contradiction… it's the split that's the issue… the elevation of 'mind'… the silencing of our bodies'… the omnipresent propaganda that we are here to serve… – which means what our bodies want can never be our priority… that we must ignore them… to be 'productive'… when what we want for our lives… is 'wholism'.

 

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(I hope folks are checking out the Kropotkin pdf – excerpts of his essays – that I continue to add to… I am very grateful to Peter Kropotkin… it is trying to figure out – as he did – why do not more of us share his certainty… that has… led us to the folks we need to answer that question: Karl Popper… for his explanation of the 'power'-guys' use of Plato for self-justification and political strategy… Alice Miller… for our understanding of how child-rearing itself became their secret weapon…) “…What becomes of all those people who are the successful products of a strict upbringing? It is inconceivable that they were able to express and develop their true feelings as children, for anger and helpless rage, which they were forbidden to display, would have been among these feelings… Unfortunately, it does not disappear, but is transformed with time into a more or less conscious hatred directed against either the self or substitute persons, a hatred that will seek to discharge itself in various ways permissible and suitable for an adult… Without a doubt, the conscious ideals of young parents of the present generation have changed. Obedience, coercion, severity, and lack of feeling are no longer recognized as absolute values…” [except among these 'power'-guys… except among those 'trainers' of a whole 'army' of children… specifically to reproduce their 'rule'… and this is one of those 'insights' – a big lesson – that derived from my book getting out into the world… – that it is not simply 'how things roll' that they maintain their 'rule'. No. Rather… it is through serious and concerted planning… to the extent of 'creating' the children who become the adults who will reproduce the conditions of class… and continue the mission of realizing the Republic… as a global vision… So this is not by happenstance that the 'rule' of these guys has gotten tighter and tighter… that things have gotten worse and worse…

 

[“151122resistingpowerrecruiters_7.mp3”:]

 

[So… while she's saying that these values of strict obedience to Authority is changing among us… we commoners… we-the-people – and that is precisely why they are accelerating their efforts to lock us down… is because we are less and less obedient… we less and less are willing to subsume ourselves… we are more and more wanting to develop our thought… and grow our gifts… and we'd best accelerate that process… and do so as a conscious strategy of resistance… And I encourage those who have received this kind of training to serve… without question… 'the master'… 'the shepherd'… and to have as an objective becoming a 'philosopher-king' (I realize now that they use this lure to try and recruit young people… because young people want to develop their thought – that they use these philosophical tools as a means of intercepting potentially critical youth and getting their thought going down the wrong direction…) and serving this vision of installing Plato's Republic… to continue inviting ideas that challenge this notion that there is a 'best'… that deserve to rule over 'the rest'…]

 

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“It also gives us a very special, secret pleasure to see how unaware the people around us are of what is really happening to them. (Adolf Hitler)” [We have to begin discussing this core strategy of 'power' of fabricating events in order to create divisions between us and discord among us… we have to begin discussing that it is in their interest for us to be divided from each other… for us to feel unsafe with each other… suspicious of each other… and that the only way for us to address this is to put forward our alternative… and get focused on it… completely… and work with our Brothers and Sisters… so that we can be the 'counter' to that 'sowing seeds of mistrust'-tactic… that we can be the love that they're trying to destroy…]

 

[Our November 15, 2015 show):]

 

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Facing Fear… Raise Up Love” (Part 1): my attempts to add text and audio to the “3.7” page have been blocked.) You recall I wrote about the 'jog circuit' in the first chapter of Waking Up… well… this is a good illustration of it. 'Power' likes to break our flows when we got a good one going… and I think we do with this “Embracing Global Goals 3.7” page.… So… for now… I'll write and type up the commentary portion of each subsequent show as a single pdf… such that the result… in conjunction with the “3.7” shows… might serve as practical guidance for working with our Brothers and Sisters…

 

[“151115raiseuplove_2.mp3”:]

 

Facing Fear… Raise Up Love” (Part 2”): [And… to reiterate a personal request… it sure would be a big 'assist'… if I had a way to upload without putting my life at risk… Here's the pattern: I venture out pre-3-AM and journey to my upload spot… cars with pointing headlights identify the road for the coming drone… I start my upload tasks… and soon overhead the drone passes… I get blasted… I know because my body starts to swell (though I feel it most in my knees… chest… and head…) then either it… or some other one… hovers off at a distance… and plays “Man in the middle” for all my 'url' requests (I know because there have been a few glitches…) it seems when I think I'm uploading… they're intercepting it… who knows why… or what they do with (to) it… but it sure would be sweet to have an upload-alternative…]

 

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Facing Fear… Raise Up Love” (Part 2”): Sisters and Brothers: I admit to a dream… I don't mean our free future… for that is certainty… each one of us becoming 'big' ends this system… withers 'the state in us…'… …no… the dream I see is all of us singing… “Facing fear… raise up love…” a song written by Sifu Coleen Gragen…

 

[“151115ourglobalprize_4.mp3”:]

 

It's urgent that we claim the turf of the world we want...

 

[“151115infinitehubris_5.mp3”:]

 

The only 'progress' being made is 'power's 'progress' in hardening our chains.

 

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The chief difficulty facing us is kept hidden from us...

 

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We are reading Alice Miller to understand unconscious damage.

 

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"The child is never capable of describing [the abuse] because he or she doesn't know that things can be any other way..." [this mirrors precisely our dilemma...]

 

[“151115alicemillerpt2_9.mp3”:]

 

"Who will bear the brunt of this humiliating treatment when the colonies are no longer there to perform this function?"

 

[“151115alicessummary_10.mp3”:]

 

These 'power'-mad Few eliminate anyone they want on a whim… [the current state of things is hideous… we could not be in more need of Alice… Notice the close correspondence between what was done to them… and their stance toward us…]: “These passages teach us that: 1. Adults are the masters (not the servants!) of the dependent child. 2. They determine in godlike fashion what is right and what is wrong. 3. The child is responsible for [the parent's] anger. 4. The parents must always be shielded. 5. The child's life-affirming feelings pose a threat to the autocratic adult. 6. The child's will must be “broken” as soon as possible. 7. All this must happen at a very early age, so the child “won't notice” and will therefore not be able to expose the adults.

 

[“151115aliceexposesliespowertells_11.mp3”:]

 

The significance of the command to not place blame on one's parents is due… not only to the fact that challenging it is key to our healing – key to our healing from the abuse of child-rearing to recognize that our parents were wrong – but also to understanding – through Bentham… and through our own observations… the larger political reality – that the parent is indeed the deputy of the state…

 

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[For our November 15, 2015 show:]

 

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“Facing fear… raise up love… raise up love… Facing fear… raise up love…” (Thandiwe's word-beat of Kate singing Coleen Gragen's song, posted to the November 15, 2015 Waking Up Radio show)

 

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“Facing fear… raise up love… raise up love… Facing fear… raise up love… Raise up love for women and children… Raise up love for the homeless and the poor… Raise up love for human rights… …for all people… Raise up love… put an end to war… Facing fear… raise up love… raise up love… Facing fear… raise up love…” (Kate Hobbs singing “Raise Up Love”, recorded at her home on November 5, 2015)

 

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[Our November 8, 2015 show:]

 

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And while the invention of the global-state… the global interstate-system… made 'class' consciously…intentionally… totalitarian (i.e. no matter how we turn and twist… chafing at the bars and bits… no matter how we struggle against it… in the end we find… our cage awaits us… This is accomplished as Peter Kropotkin helps us see… by means of words only: “We are so perverted by an education which from infancy seeks to kill in us the spirit of revolt, and to develop that of submission to authority; we are so perverted by this existence under the ferrule [a metal encircling band] of a law, which regulates every event in life – our birth, our education, our development, our love, our friendship – that, if this state of things continues, we shall lose all initiative, all habit of thinking for ourselves. Our society seems no longer able to understand that it is possible to exist otherwise than under the reign of law, elaborated by a representative government and administered by a handful of rulers.” (Peter Kropotkin)

 

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(I love that Nikola Tesla placed his work to establish instantaneous global communication in the context of its bringing about the unity of men and women globally… and …though not saying so directly… implied that 'power' can manipulate us if we cannot talk to each other directly… share our thoughts directly…) “Law, in its quality of guarantee of the results of pillage, slavery and exploitation, has followed the same phases of development as capital.” (Peter Kropotkin)

 

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“Thus the protection of exploitation directly by laws on property, and indirectly by the maintenance of the State is both the spirit and the substance of our modern codes, and the one function of our costly legislative machinery. But it is time we gave up being satisfied with mere phrases, and learned to appreciate their real significance. The law, which on its first appearance presented itself as a compendium of customs useful for the preservation of society, is now perceived to be nothing but an instrument for the maintenance of exploitation and the domination of the toiling masses…” (Peter Kropotkin)

 

[“151108usbiggetsourfreedom_4.mp3”:]

 

…we are honing in on a strategy… and perhaps a short way of summarizing it is that we… each one… must be leaders – that's what it means to say that the basic unit of political organization in our freedom and in our transition to freedom is the individual – no more surrendering our leadership capacities to others… each one of us has to get 'big'… doing so immediately overpowers a system based on coercion and force – it extends their resources too thin… and very shortly then they're ready to cut a 'deal'… And we have to understand… that there are no 'deals' cut when it comes to our freedom. Just like you can't be 'a little bit pregnant'… we can't be 'a little bit free'… It is all or nothing… and we are in the end-game… we are in the time where if we don't claim our freedom then we are setting our children up for chains and leashes… and constant fear… I have got this: these folk only feel safe if we are obviously afraid of them… if we are not afraid of them they don't feel safe… and so then they will 'up' the force… 'up' the coercion… 'up' the clandestine violence. You do the math… where does that lead?… that endless escalation from their endless fear?

 

[“151108believeinourgifts_5.mp3”:]

 

The hard work and common sense of our ancestors who long for generalized human freedom (globally) has been suppressed. All states (who participate in the interstate system… whose statesmen want to be 'global players'…) do this – and do this in collaboration – this 'work' of ensuring that the vast many cannot develop our thought… cannot see the obvious: that ten thousand guys who want to be gods must not be allowed to decide for seven billion… must not be allowed to coerce our human energy for purposes which… as Peter says… all end with the object of keeping us as children… dependent on them… ad infinitum…

 

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(Last week I said that my house feels like a prison… I forgot to add “where they torture you every second…” I think sometimes about these people who do this… who torture their Brothers and Sisters… and I have to think they must be children… teenagers… who have no experience of life… who have no ability to think what they're doing through… – we'll be talking about that: their use of children to do these things… and I say 'children' because I'm sure they're encouraged to think of what they do as a computer game – they're trying to turn everything into a 'game' so that we don't take our lives seriously anymore… or anyone else's… – I imagine these 'children' are sitting in front of a computer screen somewhere and the people they do this do aren't real… You see?… only a child can be satisfied with just fulfilling the task and getting their reward of 'candy'… At some point… the thought process… even in these trained to be obedient… must start to kick in… and I wonder what they do with folk at that point…)

 

[“151108childrensrighttotheirfeelings_7.mp3”:]

 

…which brings us back to 'sticky hands'… and the result of our analysis: the need to redesign education… create an education for us… for free humans… and then… find ways to disseminate it… …both derive from the priority of re-engaging our thought process – the thought process of all of us here in the U.S.… and throughout the world of 'class' – by causing that which is not seen (or the sight of which has been suppressed…) to be seen… We are seeing (in our readings) how that thought process got shut down… in our individual lives… and historically… This priority of re-engaging our thought process can be expressed in multiple ways… we could describe it as 'breaking a spell'… or establishing a 'new ethics' in a world of our self-conscious creation – based in our children's right to their feelings… their right to honor their bodies' voice… and follow its guidance… honor its living manifestation of love… …our children's feelings provide 'right guidance'… to follow which… is their inherent right of self-creation. Our children deserve… we deserve… to live their… our… gifts freely… without coercion… The Talking Tree – both the book and the CD are intended as tools for a process of helping children see and believe in the authentic… the true… their feelings… the root… the ethical basis of our future.)

 

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(I'm hoping to obtain video of Coleen Gragen… the woman who started Hand to Hand Martial Arts Center in Oakland… singing this song that she wrote: “Facing fear… raise up love… raise up love… Facing fear… raise up love…” – and also video of Coleen in motion – to share… because it strikes me that they tried to silence her voice… and I find it to be… necessary… in this moment… to raise her love… an enormous love.)

 

[“151108walkingwiththedead_9.mp3”:]

 

Harrison Sims… died of 'congestive heart failure'… I know they did this to… He is the man I think of when I say those words: “a gentle Black man”… none more gentle… I fear for the psychic safety of his son… because I know they've done their homework on him… keep tabs on him… insinuate false folks around him… because that's their m.o.… that's what they do… I've learned in the course of the past six years… that's what they do… I had no idea… which is why it works… no one has any idea… until they find themselves in the crosshairs… and usually those people don't last too long… It is really important that we start mobilizing… these folk are so deadly serious… and so damaged… and it's difficult for us to believe that such folk exist because we tend to judge others by ourselves… but I've learned they definitely do exist… They are a shadow-state… they operate as a shadow-state with enormous resources… and absolutely no rules… no rules apply… they do what they want… and they are supremely obsessed with knowing what we think… at all times… in particular those who are challenging their world-view with another… putting another way out there… or simply just… as we've been doing here… returning to discussion suppressed ancestors that they don't want discussed…

 

[“151108cultivatedchildrenofpower_10.mp3”:]

 

How can the Miniscule Few control the Vastness of Us?… is the question that 'occupied' Jeremy Bentham… and the 'Panopticon' was the answer he presented to statesmen… a prison design which… you'll recall… kept us from working together and developing our thought… as it required us to not 'see' each other… but rather to only look up. But to control us globally – the seven billion of us – required more than just hierarchical organization. And so the 'solution' 'power' settled upon was to intentionally multiply its 'children'… a simple matter when the structure of 'class' rests on the basis of child abandonment… how easy it was to lure our lost children with the message lodged in them of their 'specialness'. These cultivated children span the globe… and 'Sticky Hands” is their m.o. The strategy illustrates perfectly how trained intention 'bests' the uninitiated… manipulates the honest… and as a bonus sows despair and mistrust… when eventually we conclude we don't know what's true… and what isn't. (There was a likely illustration of this strategy this week here in Berkeley… at Berkeley High School…)

 

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[Our November 1, 2015 show:]

 

[“151101individualenergyasbasis.mp3”:]

 

The 'state' that Kropotkin writes of is now – 'power'-produced-propagandistic-promulgations notwithstanding – a global state… we are… in a 'political' sense… one tribe… we have been made physically so (though spiritually we have always… necessarily… been so…) through the structural interconnections we have created… created while on leash… but for our Freedom-time… when there would be no leashes… when we allow “the broadest possible development for the principle of free agreement, and [acknowledge] the independence of all possible associations formed for definite ends, embracing in their federations the whole of society…” the whole of the globe…

 

[“151101eachoneprecious.mp3”:]

 

Let's assume for a minute that our basic needs are met… because of the circumstances of 'overproduction' in the existing ('class'-) system… and because we help each other build Earthships (a structure built into the earth that I wrote about in Waking Up… in balance with the earth… oriented optimally to maintain a constant 70 degree temperature… that supports our self-sufficiency by growing its own food… generating its own electricity… 'fries' the owners' excrement which can then be used to fertilize the plants growing in it…) – a structure that uses discarded automobile tires and aluminum cans as wall insulation… a structure the primary cost of which is our labor……what purposes beyond meeting basic needs – those basic needs met by the voluntary associations just discussed – would we have?

 

[“151101personalexpansionisthebasis.mp3”:]

 

Given that we will be free from Necessity and once again in possession of ourselves… our gifts… our time… our lives… given that we are global-humans… what are the conditions we need to establish to support our freedom… our need to explore our affinities and expand our possibilities limitlessly?… these form the purposes for which we need associations… Consider: if we are to manifest (in the words of Kropotkin) “the fullest development of individuality…” “the greatest possible development of personal initiative in every individual and group, and to secure unity of action, not through discipline, but through unity of aims and mutual confidence…” – we need the globe for that. Think of our biggest spirits… our brightest lights… each of them embraced the globe in their hearts… actions… and minds. This does not negate village life… just the opposite… it infuses it with the incalculable richness of our personal expansiveness…

 

[“151101wewanttobefullyalive.mp3”:]

 

People in organizations like this… and good hearted folk in Academia… believe they are working for we-the-people… perhaps even advancing the cause of our freedom… and in rare cases… as with Popper… our Good Three… Alice… and Bernal… they are indeed… but they have to have a 'global' (i.e. affecting all humanity…) political objective in order to do that… they have to know what they are dealing with… (This is key… I've been thinking a lot about this… about how many good… good-hearted folk who believed in working with their Brothers and Sisters… and helping us to transform ourselves from within… lost their lives for want of knowing about these clandestine operators with their clandestine plans… and their belief in sculpting the reality they want… and eliminating those they consider 'unfit' from it… and… ultimately that's every single one of us… because with the exception of themselves… they believe the elderly are no longer needed… I would suspect that they even see themselves as 'humanitarians'…) Most folks don't need to see the history of it… the trajectory 'Plato – Hegel – Bentham – Guizot'… disseminated through the elite universities to the next-generation-global-state-statesmen… to be moved to action in the cause of freedom… most folk may be curious about how these stunted souls merged their isolated smallness into a confederated One Stunted Smallness in time… but the sense of urgency that leads to action seeds in love… love for our last-gasping great gifts… We want to be fully alive… we want our gifts to grow… and we need to see that it's possible… that is the longing we reach out to and support in our Brothers and Sisters… as we build this movement…

 

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…it is a new invention… the 'nation-state' (and we can un-make it…) an invention of self-conscious global-state-statesmen… a construction requiring that we remain as children… dependent on the 'adult' for our existence… yet… never before has this construction been as vulnerable as today to our interventions toward its de-legitimization… due to the Internet… This means that our discussions with the broader community will have some degree multiplied the impact… as ever was before… …and we are reading Wallerstein to help us get clear… as we design our education work with the broader community… on this notion of 'progress'… given that it is their – these 'power'-guys' – core propaganda… their raison d'etre and self-justification… Immanuel Wallerstein is showing us (particularly with Alice Miller's additional light…) how the notion of 'progress' is indeed but the notion of 'class'… – the con that 'progress' increases as 'class' deepens (by means of 'education'…) trained in us by our parents when we're infants – and from thence to 'society'… globally… Each one of us is precious and unique… and before the 'statesmen' can throw us away like garbage… by manufacturing war… disease… and scarcity (this being the reality of their 'progress'…) we must first throw ourselves away…

 

[“151101theresultistheintention.mp3”:]

 

“The internal problems of Great Britain and France never became large enough that those powers could not concentrate attention on the geopolitics of the world-system. [And I'm certain it was pretty obvious to them that therein lay the 'solution' to their 'internal problems'… – P.S.] The July Revolution, repeated and confirmed by the independence of Belgium and the Reform Act of 1832, was to have an immediate effect on Europe. Whereas the relations of Great Britain and France between 1815 and 1830 had been correct, and those countries often found themselves on similar sides of world issues, the heritage of the two-century struggle for hegemony continued to ensure enough mutual suspicion to preserve a degree of distance. The July Revolution overcame that, affecting even the Tory government of Wellington before the Reform Bill was enacted Europe now entered the era of the entente cordiale, a marriage perhaps not of love but certainly of reason, one that would survive all subsequent quarrels until at least 1945.” [And in our Savage Continent readings we suggest that “when 'power' remains hidden… the result is the intention”: WWII destroyed our growing global movement for freedom… – P.S.]

 

[“151101progressunmakesus.mp3”:]

 

“No government can now expect to be permanent unless it guarantees progress as well as order; nor can it continue really to secure order, unless it promotes progress.” [It certainly seems the global-state-statesmen have taken this advice to heart… although modified to say: “seem to guarantee 'progress'…” that message is drummed into all school-children and every other 'class'-bound human… across the globe – an associated set of messages actually: “not everyone is smart…” “the system identifies and rewards the 'smart ones'…” “the 'really smart' are busy making our lives easier…” “'the system' works hard to provide you with 'the good life' but you must do your part too… and keep your skills marketable… because 'science' is developing so fast… if you don't you could fall through the cracks (and of course that would be your fault…”) – these are just a few of 'the system's key messages about 'progress'… – P.S.]

 

[“151101enlightenedrepression.mp3”:]

 

“The uprising of February 1848 illuminated the hopes of a 'social republic,' a vague socialist utopia that would provide jobs to the unemployed and liberation to all those who suffered indignities and inequalities. Everyone put forward their claims: the “artisans,” who sought to restore their privileges and their mode of production; the peasants, who sought to reestablish traditional rights of collective usage; the women, who sought the extension of “universal” suffrage to include them; the slaves, who sought abolition. The pendulum was beginning to swing too far, and in June the forces of order under General Cavaignac reined in the unruly dangerous classes… Cavaignac could repress; he could not relegitimize the state.… When Louis Napoleon made his coup d'eat on December 2, 1851, the primary objective was to repress the left… the outcome of the repression, which was both real and effective, was that of a centrist regime, oriented to capitalist expansion, constructing a liberal compromise – one led not by a classical liberal but by an enlightened conservative.”

 

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[Preparation for Our November 1, 2015 show:]

[“140413manageus.mp3”:]

 

“In Founding & Realizing A Test-Site… we noted – or rather De Tocqueville does – that this is a long historical process (much longer than he discusses…) coterminous with ‘class’… and that it was with the French Revolution that the dutiful sons of ‘rule’ finally got what Plato was trying to teach them… that the only way to successfully… to permanently… sit on the people is: if they (‘power’… the philosopher-king-global-statesmen…) unite… while we (the people) are systematically riven (by them…) by divisions… and – and this is equally important – they cannot successfully sit on us… and thereby maintain their ‘superior’ position… unless the development of our thought-process is prevented. Just as ‘power’ was slow to grasp Plato (it took the French Revolution and Bentham to accomplish it…) ‘power’ has been likewise slow to ‘get’ De Tocqueville – or maybe just slow to accept his message… that we-the-people will never stop pushing to use our gifts… and that they must ‘manage’ it – this longing (preferably… for ‘power’… in the way that Bentham said – and De Tocqueville heartily endorsed: “get them to internalize ‘discipline’…” [and – going beyond this – De Tocqueville praised the U.S. way of de-centralizing our – we-the-people’s – management… because it makes the state seem non-totalitarian.])” [From the April 13, 2014 Waking Up Radio show.]

 

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[“140413powterms.mp3”:]

 

“Yet the consumption of the planet… and the advance of the Internet… occurring at once… pose an unmeetable challenge for ‘power’.… When De Tocqueville describes ‘democracy’ as an irresistible force he’s but noting that we human beings are determined to grow our gifts… to get ‘big’… and use our leadership (capacities.) This is the earth speaking in us. So what can ‘power’ do about it? What it does is to… simultaneously (again following Plato’s guidance…) rank us… teach us to deify ‘mind’… equate ‘mind’ with growing our gifts… while only allowing some to devote their lives to this ‘mind-worship’… and… if all else fails… try to orchestrate a way to make us (the broad populace…) feel we’re growing our gifts… our leadership (a quality… again… inherent in every human being… by virtue of our being living things.) So… ‘leadership’ is in all of us… and as the Piper’s price (his blood-lust of consumption of the planet’s resources…) has now fallen due… is weighing on us… ‘power’ has three choices… which in its desperation it unleashes all at once: first… appeals to nationalism… by creating external threats – the threat of war; second… population-reduction… by unleashing catastrophic events; third… buy-off the former ‘better-offs’… the ones it used to placate with jobs… with offers to let them use their ‘leadership’…. (And now that I’ve delved a bit into ‘Campaign Sic-Rifkin-On-’Em’… I have to admit a fourth option… though it’s really an amalgam of all of them… but for convenience let’s call it “re-energize ‘capitalism’”.) Which is the proper context… I think… for making sense of this series of over-lapping orchestrations that we’ve been witnessing… from ‘power’s bought-and-paid-for media. This is what ‘power’ does… when it unleashes significant propaganda. It throws it at us from every angle… using multiple pundits but with single messages… variously stated… employing inter-linking… mutually-reinforcing… terms and concepts – all designed to paint a clear picture… of the future ‘power’ wants us to want (while always controlling the definitions): “local economies”… “worker-owned businesses or cooperatives’… “‘democratic’ economics”… ‘self-sufficiency’ (of course what they call ‘self-sufficiency’ isn’t ‘individual self-sufficiency’…” [From the April 13, 2014 Waking Up Radio show.]

 

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“And perhaps the most telling fact dropped along the way is that: youth today can’t be bought with a wage… they want their ‘work’ to also be a contribution… they want their ‘work’ to be socially significant… probably because… the earth is in the throes of consumption… and the Internet has brought us all closer… and they care about their brothers and sisters…. So… ‘power’ asks itself… “how to control them?”… “how to manage this matter of shrinking resources… and swelling numbers of humans who no longer want to be ‘factors of production’?”… “how to push back into boxes the growing numbers who are determined to get out of them?” If not by controlling the menu of options available to them? (It’s not about ‘saving the planet’. There’s an element in the emphasis on climate change disruption which is propagandistic… in the sense that… once again… we’re not supposed to care about ourselves… Let’s not be suckered at this juncture… not just because our freedom is long overdue… but also because it’s only us – out of the boxes and out of harness – who can truly brings things back into balance… because it’s our being used… our energy being stolen… which is the major imbalance that is the root of the problem.)” [From the April 13, 2014 Waking Up Radio show.]

 

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[“140413questions.mp3”:]

 

“What about all that ‘legacy-disparity’? While the youth are building the ‘healing economy’… (there… I grant you a new term to try to co-opt… go ahead… fill it with empty content…) Isn’t what’s needed that we-the-people free our souls of ‘obedience’? …the current terms of ‘governance’ disallow ‘all of us’ making the decisions… and rather, as Spearman said, ever tend us toward totalitarianism. How is this so-called ‘new’ vision not “the subordination of the individual to the collective purpose…”? as Diana Spearman described ‘dictatorship’? ‘Power’ must end for our world to be based on reverence… instead of obedience.” [From the April 13, 2014 Waking Up Radio show.]

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[“140413pilot.mp3”:]

 

“The more I probe this latest thrust… from ‘power’s ‘Shape the Future’ Project… in which they make use of Jeremy Rifkin (I listened to an interview with him yesterday… promoting his latest book…) particularly as there’s quite a pile of spokesmen now stacked up (Venus… Zeitgeist… Thrive… the MIT guys… the pop-economists asking us to help save ‘capitalism’… or 'the economy' – we're always supposed to put that first – all the ‘visionary thinkers’ telling us what our future will be…) the more it seems to me… we need strategy sessions… ‘planning-ins’ (‘Planning-ins’ to launch our transition… ‘PILOTs’…) Because… truly… we must somehow make our voices louder… somehow get our priorities out there… those of us who want to move forward an alternative for popular discussion… demonstrate to our brothers and sisters that ‘power’s plans are being met with an alternative…. This cannot be only an academic discussion. …seeing this… a strong sense of urgency in me surges… that says: we on the Left… that is, those of us who admit that ‘power’ is not engaged in ‘objective’ ‘scholarship’… but is deadly committed to its ‘future-vision’… we have to start talking about how to challenge it… meet it with an alternative vision that is not elitist… but rather is ‘power’s opposite.” [From the April 13, 2014 Waking Up Radio show.]

 

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[“140413coreofvis.mp3”:]

 

“We learned from Sebastian de Grazia that ‘power’ has known for decades that ‘wage work’ is an antiquated system… and that it doesn’t need us on leash anymore. It’s long past time for us to figure out how to have our time back – that’s the only way we can be happy…. So we have this right… here in the U.S…. to plan freedom… and it’s just so completely reasonable to say “let’s have a test site… – just the folks who want to… we’re not trying to impose nothing on nobody. We just want whoever is interested… we need a sufficient little bit of land… we want to use all this amazing knowledge [Michael Reynolds’ Earthship… David Blume’s de-centralization of energy production… e.g… each village having it’s own energy co-op…] that people are putting on the table because they want all of us to be free [globally….] So this is reasonable. There’s no reason aside from ‘power’ nakedly exposing itself why this shouldn’t be… a test site…” [From the April 13, 2014 Waking Up Radio show.]

 

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[“140413freeuscrit.mp3”:]

 

“David Blume… argues that de-centralized production of alcohol… from a variety of plant sources… could allow all humans to be energy self-sufficient… “Rest assured, there is enough land to produce solar energy in many forms, including alcohol, for a world that makes energy-efficient design a priority. We can have a large cooperative cellulose distillery operation in each county, producing ethanol and biomass electricity to keep our essential services running. We can have small integrated farms that produce fuel, food, and building materials. We can eat well on locally produced food and locally processed products. We can even cogenerate our electricity and hot water at our homes using our cars running on alcohol in a pinch…” [From the April 13, 2014 Waking Up Radio show.]

 

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[“140413telegraph.mp3”:]

 

“The parade of ‘power’s prognosticators are revealing of their plans for us. But I’ve yet to hear our commensurate response – i.e. one global in scope… that penetrates the deep social relations of class (as ‘power’s does implicitly… never inviting discussion of course…) and attempts to enlist global humanity in this massive ‘transition’ project. Now that’s largely a matter of our not having our own public media commons… our own shared public discussion space… our own shared voices to echo throughout our day to counter ‘power’s. But that we must figure out how to create such spaces could not be clearer.… “Immanuel Wallerstein explains the rationale for predicting the breakdown of the capitalist system. Over the next three or four decades capitalists of the world, overcrowding the global markets and hard pressed on all sides by the social and ecological costs of doing business, may find it simply impossible to make their usual investment decisions.” […he will be arguing that the sine qua non of ‘capitalism’ as a world system is not wage labor… or production for exchange and profit… or the class struggle… or the ‘free market’… but rather the endless accumulation of capital… which Rosa Luxemburg told us a hundred years ago… So this historical situation will ultimately reach its systemic limitations… – P.S.]” [From the April 13, 2014 Waking Up Radio show.]

 

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[“140413rapist.mp3”:]

 

“As with all ‘power’s propaganda about ‘the future’… it uses the declarative voice. It brooks no challenge… no counter vision… and certainly no squawking from mere commoners. This is ‘Big Boys Business’ is what he’s saying… the ‘Big Boys Game’… the exclusive province of the Global Players… So we’re told what we’re going to get – and it’s an appalling vision… all this “billions of sensors” business has always been ‘power’s longing: total surveillance of us and all life. But it’s not what we want. Where are the healthy, happy babies in this vision? Where is the limitless time? Where is the boundless roving and the spanning of seas to explore new things? When ‘power’ salivates about how it can monitor the entire planet from it’s Control Room atop the Panopticon… and waxes poetic about how we also should want it… should passionately wish to contribute our small bit to the “billions of brains” working on Total Surveillance… what it’s lusting for is the end of our efforts to even try to be independent… the achievement of their deep longing that we will end all resistance… and become passionately ‘self-regulating’… eagerly offer our allegiance… so what ‘power’ most wants is for us to turn our backs on our brothers and sisters. Where they keep in place the harshest regimes live the people they plan will feed the more ‘privileged’ sectors of the global economy. But they don’t want us thinking about that. They want us to keep to our given tasks… and be obedient. (And… and I’ve said this before but it’s not being discussed… ‘power’ wants to control the so-called ‘knowledge resources’: ‘Knowledge Infinite’… for which they’ve always lusted.)” [From the April 13, 2014 Waking Up Radio show.]

 

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[“140413corpcover.mp3”:]

 

“…he thoughtfully leaves the dire predictions to the end… when he says: Extreme storms and floods… Droughts are proliferating everywhere… The impact on agriculture in the Middle East and North Africa over the next four decades because of climate change is equally alarming… Is it any wonder they’re pushing so hard to create an ‘economy’ based on ‘cooperation’ (for us…) to get us to give generously of our time… and… willingly… continue to let them direct our lives. And every good fairy tale needs a villain… would it surprise you to learn it’s corporations?…‘power’s traditional cover – the facade global-‘power’ apparently cannot do without… “‘scarcity’ is self-justifying”… and if imposed universally reduces the need for economic ideology… ‘capitalism’s ideological function… in this stage of the game… is less about providing motivation – or legitimization and justification of ‘rule’ – and now almost exclusively about providing ‘power’ with needed cover… i.e. shielding its totalitarian planning from public scrutiny… and trying to get we-the-people on ‘it’s side… And who is the only player strong enough to do battle with this villain? – the evil corporations – well, ‘the state’ of course… only Daddy has sufficient resources… we-the-people are way out of our league… we must go back to our bedtime stories… and let the Big Boys lead. He tells us there’s an ‘epic struggle’ going on… and I agree… but of course his is not the ‘epic struggle’ that I see…” [From the April 13, 2014 Waking Up Radio show.]

 

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[Our October 25, 2015 show:]

[“151025economyofhonoring.mp3”:]

 

What we want is to structure our relations authentically… such that we can honor that to which we owe our lives and exuberance… our joy… Life begets life… whatever is given is returned – that is the 'economy' of honoring our relations and our gifts… of mutual interdependence… It does not waste – because there is no 'waste'… as we feed only that which lives… and when life is fed… it gives back in like… Feeding death makes more death… like a poison that in time travels through all life's intertwinings… freezing that which moves till all is still.

 

[“151025wearetruewealth.mp3”:]

 

We don't need 'the economy' to live… just the opposite… Rather… both within and beyond 'economics'… it is the opposite 'end' they have in mind for us… because they think we are too 'numerous'… as they have no 'jobs' to give… no ways for us to serve them… It's time for us to plan our alternative to 'the system'… Think of all the luxuries we used to have but have no more because our lives are not our own… we have no time (a.k.a. our lives…) to do them for each other: all our homemade you-fill-in-the-blank… our body-loving-massages… our walks… and time unbounded with ourselves… …we are true wealth… we know this… but we're made to forget… by all that 'busyness' they give… to 'occupy' our heads… and stop our thinking… close our eyes… …except… now they can't provide the 'jobs' in sufficient number to accomplish this… and so resumes our thought process… and so we start to see again.

 

[“151025discussionbreakstheirhold.mp3”:]

 

“[Plato] twice expresses his hope that even the rulers themselves, at least after a few generations, might be induced to believe his greatest propaganda lie; I mean his racialism, his Myth of Blood and Soil, known as the Myth of the Metals in Man and of the Earthborn. Here we see that Plato's utilitarian and totalitarian principles overrule everything, even the ruler's privilege of knowing and of demanding to be told, the truth…” We have been trapped by people trapped in their deeply-implanted misconceptions… who have become like robots… function on 'automatic' – they cannot be reasoned with (and I'm talking about these global-state-statesmen… not those who do their bidding out of some form of compulsion…) …but as we… one by one… begin having our broad globe-encompassing discussions… planning how to inaugurate a new social arrangement… on the fresh premises of non-coercion and the full development of our gifts through self-creation… the very range and depth of our vision… the fact that we see the world itself as our province… will be… for these 'power'-guys… deeply disturbing… profoundly unnerving… …as the very act of our discussions breaks their hold on us… for if 'thought' – broad and all-embracing – is not their exclusive province… then their sense of themselves is shaken… their entire 'philosophy' mistaken…

 

[“151025theindividualprogressofeach.mp3”:]

 

…let's take in what Popper just said… that what these 'power'-mad folk did… was to lie to their children (as they were once lied to….) As they were inculcated with Plato's philosophy… it wasn't presented to 'their children' (who extend beyond their biological children…) as propaganda that was created to cement their rule in place… no… it was presented to them as real… as actual… that they were actually in possession of a 'higher dialectical knowledge'… that the rest of the populace could not understand… they were actually taught to believe that…. “We seek progress in the fullest emancipation of the individual from the authority of the State; in the greatest development of individual initiative and in the limitation of all the governmental functions, but surely not in their extension. The march forward in political institutions appears to us to consist in abolishing in the first place the State authority which has fixed itself upon society and which now tries to extend its functions more and more; and in the second place, in allowing the broadest possible development for the principle of free agreement, and in acknowledging the independence of all possible associations formed for definite ends, embracing in their federations the whole of society.” Let's think more about the implications of Kropotkin's words [for our discussion next week] for the physical design of our new world based on non-coercion and the full development of our gifts. On the individual progress of each… as a broad social endowment… depends progress overall.

 

[“151025cloakofliberalism.mp3”:]

 

“Practical liberals… shied away from political democracy… The social discontents, revolutionary movements, and the socialist ideologues of the post-Napoleonic era intensified this dilemma [of relying upon the majority to carry out the dictates of reason] […and there… embedded in that off-hand remark… is the core… key… almost originating propaganda piece of 'class': that you cannot rely on the majority to deliver a society that is optimal for everyone… that only a tiny few who are in possession of the philosophical wisdom of Plato can do that for us… Before continuing it would be helpful to understand clearly what Wallerstein means by 'liberalism.' The following quote should help clarify how he is using the term 'liberal'… and 'liberalism' – which… I'm encouraging us to consider… refers to a new strategy and tactics… invented post French-Revolution… by folks with a Plato-allegiance… determined to supplant the old aristocrats… because they believed they had a better plan… to suppress us… we-the-people… “liberals sought to propagate their views and intrude the logic of their views within all social institutions…” – [and that of course is the definition of totalitarianism – and why… my whole life… has that never been said – out loud – so we can start discussing it?… as well as the fact that they have succeeded in their ambition… thanks to the poisoned pedagogues that Alice discusses… and the use of war to slaughter the opposition and beat us into submission… – P.S.]

 

[“151025optimaltotalitarianism.mp3”:]

 

“In short, liberals were those who wished to control the pace of change so that it occurred at what they considered to be an optimal speed. But could one really know what is the optimal speed?…” [And how is the ideology that we-the-people must have 'Reason' imposed on us… and… that 'reality' must be so constructed as to force us to 'progress'… anything but totalitarian? – P.S.]

 

[“151025totalitarianstrategy.mp3”:]

 

…these guys don't just want to be kings… what they lust for is divinity… and Guizot et all-the-rest-of-his-fellow-Tribesmen had hit upon a strategy that… down the road… would bring them to that first step… on the throne. Albert O. Hirschman ties Guizot's proclamation “'Enrichissez-vous!' as a model of conduct for the citizen…” (p. 122) to this calculation: “…those who observed money-making activities from a distance and with some disdain… [nonetheless derived comfort from the thought that when] the 'lower orders,' or the 'great mob of mankind,' have only interests to pursue [they] have little time or taste for the passions [revolution].” He makes the case effectively… and what Wallerstein documents here backs him up… that 'accumulation' was encouraged intentionally by “the few who play for the higher stakes of power” as a conscious strategy to keep 'the mob' too busy simply surviving to bother 'their betters' with thoughts of getting free… This is old strategy… but… once… with the help of Plato's propaganda-playbook – his political strategy handbook – the Republic… once a small but very organized group decided to orient the whole of society around it… they altered decisively… to their advantage… the terms of engagement with we-the-people…i.e.…it became something different when resurrected as a totalitarian vision…

 

[“151025platoupdated.mp3”:]

 

…when we note… the hierarchical ordering systematically promulgated… imposed… by these totalitarian social engineers in Plato's mold… we shouldn't forget what Plato said to 'rule' of his day and beyond… 'if you want to “win”… then… the gulf must be widened… between the “rulers” and the “ruled”'… “the stronger the feeling that the ruled are a different and altogether inferior race, the stronger will be the sense of unity among the rulers.” That it is Plato-updated that imbues these self-proclaimed 'liberals' with such self-righteous fervor and conviction I think there is no doubt… and we should note as well (as we have before) that when we agree to self-limit ourselves by keeping to the narrow categories imposed by self-appointed global-'rulers'… it means the atrophy of 'thought' itself. What a bunch of nut-cases 'rule' our world… these 'power'-mad few… simply because they have amassed the means to impose on us their sick world-view… It's time (long past…) for us to amass our 'means' too…

 

[Our October 18, 2015 show:]

 

[“151018theworldwemakeishonest.mp3”:]

 

We are reclaiming our authentic selves… and in order to do that we need support… we need others similarly focused on the development of 'self / soul-sufficiency' – individually – as well as on our development… collectively… into 'a people' able to advance our right to pursue happiness… What's unique about this moment… different from any other time when our ancestors fought for freedom… unique in the history of 'class'… is that we are in the 'end-game'… the time when all 'power's lies are exposed… our internalization of them pulled out and examined… and we decide where our allegiances lie… whether with the Zapatistas… with all the struggling earth-connected… with the oceans and all life… or with these ten thousand 'power'-guys – a 'teaching'-moment we might say… when we chip away at the numbers of folks willing to serve a dying system… and increase our own… those of us who choose 'life'… choose 'self / soul-sufficiency'… and choose our right as 'a people' to grow our own gifts without coercion… our right to pursue happiness… …so we must confront and discuss the barriers before us… – all of these barriers being in essence one: “hidden-'power'”… And I think there is some advantage… some ways in which it may be helpful… for us to understand where they came from… these Plato-worshippers – it is important to see 'power's destructive tactics… in order to move around them. What are the kinds of things they will want to do… to undermine our solidarity?… and how do we withstand such attempts?

 

[“151018adronefreezone.mp3”:]

 

The question we will be exploring with our organization… is whether the degree of our understanding… the complete nakedness of 'power' – its origins and intentions – itself provides protection from its agents… No one… in that setting… will want to out themselves as 'agent' by attempting to sow seeds of dissension and stress… no matter how subtly they go about it… ultimately where we're moving… is to extract agreements from the state to allow us to exist autonomously within it… as Zapatistas do – only without the constant threat of annihilation by the state hanging over our heads – a transitional (to generalized human freedom) legal framework establishing our right as a people to pursue happiness… to be replicated in other regions globally – that we inter-link with. This claiming of this right… we will be arguing… means that we need a little oasis… except from taxes… building codes… and surveillance – a 'drone-free-zone'! – to identify the conditions for the pursuit of human happiness.

 

[“151018mediacraftedthoughts.mp3”:]

 

……as… the continuous manipulation of our thoughts is the name of 'power's game – they have been laser-like focused on that since Bentham pulled their coat… The global-statesmen own the media… its results they must own as well… When it comes to the crafting of public opinion… the result is the intention. What is the main U.S. media-crafted message of late?… “racism is rising in the United States.” Intended result: divisions grow… hope erodes… retreat of critique into exclusive identities… 'power' is left in control. ('Division' is the name of 'power's game Brothers and Sisters… 'unity' must be… 'solidarity' must be… our watchword… Let's have discussions of that… of how to get to a future without coercion: every single one of us… regardless of false division that 'class' has created for us… every single one of us wants that.)

 

[“151018economyasideology.mp3”:]

 

So… we're going to be looking at an authentic way to understand what's called 'the economy'… exploring the ideological nature of the one we're told is the only one that can provide… allows us to survive… …as well as examining the character of our education work with the broader community… Both of these things require that we confront the notion of 'the economy' in more depth… exploring this ideological quality… the fact that while it is posed to us as essential to life itself… it actually means 'destroying the earth'… which is why 'the system' is dying… and 'they' – the global-state-statesmen – are trying to impose a harder form of coerced work (as well as reduce our numbers by clandestine means…) on us globally… before enough of us can wake up and work together to create our sensible alternative to coercion and death: that being… freedom and life… for every human being…

 

[“151018thebillionsofuswantfreedom.mp3”:]

 

These opposite operating premises for our lives when our human energy is free… must also be the premises of our working together collaboratively… and to participate means with these premises we agree: no coercion…; we are reclaiming our 'not-lost-but-waiting-for-us' gifts… – that requires a lot of independence… that requires a lot of quiet time… to listen under conditions free of coercion… coercion is what silenced our authentic thought process when we were infants… so we need to trust in each other… and in the possibility of freedom – no coercion…; hidden-global-'power' (its clandestine agents and EMF-weapons) is ever-engaged in an attempt to undermine our efforts (infiltration is inevitable and we must ensure our planning design is such that we move toward our goal regardless of agent-action… and should that agent in our midst mime EMF-weapon-victimization… I think the way we have to handle that is to have an agreement that… the only ways we can help that person is to support their de-toxification needs however we can… and through consistent education in the broader community in order to create sufficient public awareness that pressure will build on legislators to force the state functionaries involved to disclose what weapons they have and to testify under oath as to their use… – but we cannot make the victimization of one among us the focus of our work together in any other sense… because it absorbs too much energy…); the principle of 'utility' must be applied to our actions… i.e. we must ask of everything we do: “how does this further the goal?”… The vast… vast… billions of us want to be free of coercion in our lives and world… want to strengthen our empathy… we don't want to lose our humanity… We just want to see our way out from under 'the boot'… out of 'power's obsessive vise-like hold on our throats… We want to believe in our free future… and need a realistic sense of hope… and nothing could be more 'realistic' than a social arrangement that the vast billions of us want. The only thing that has gotten in the way of us having the world we want… based in non-coercion… is not being able to talk to each other globally… not being able to organize globally – well now we can.

 

[“151018bonaparterollsincentralism.mp3”:]

 

“Above all things, France demands tranquility…” “Bonaparte had with his own hand sacrificed the scapegoats on the altar of the country. He had blunted the edge of the expected collision. Finally, the party of Order itself anxiously sought to avoid, to mitigate, to gloss over any decisive conflict with the executive power. For fear of losing their conquests over the revolution, they allowed their rival to carry off the fruits thereof.… “Above all things, France demands tranquillity.” Bonaparte demanded, therefore, that he be left in peace to do as he liked and the parliamentary party was paralyzed by a double fear, by the fear of again evoking revolutionary unrest and by the fear of itself appearing a the instigator of unrest in the eyes of its own class, in the eyes of the bourgeoisie.…”

 

[“151018economiccraftofclass.mp3”:]

 

As we think about the form of state that was put in place in the aftermath of the French Revolution from a world-systems perspective… let's not forget what Marx showed us about the deeply clandestine nature of its 'politics'. While 'power' ('class') has always operated through clandestine action… what makes the current crop of 'power'-mad unique is their conscious crafting of 'class'… the conscious implementation of a totalitarian vision… using their interpretation of the Republic as their inspiration. This is what Kropotkin is noticing when he says: “Furthermore, the State (state-justice, state-church, state-army) and capitalism are, in our opinion, inseparable concepts. In history these institutions developed side by side, mutually supporting and re-enforcing each other. They are bound together, not by a mere coincidence of contemporaneous development, but by the bond of cause and effect, effect and cause. Such was the origin of the State; such was its history; and such is its present essence… Consequently, to imagine that capitalism may be abolished while the State is maintained, and with the aid of the State… is really too childish. A new form of economic organization will necessarily require a new form of political structure…”

 

[In preparation for Our October 18, 2015 show:]

 

[“140309econtool.mp3”:]

 

“The machinations of states is theater… with two tightly interwoven objectives: first… 'work steadily to conquer the people… according to “the laws” of hierarchy… i.e.… ensuring there are “winners” and “losers”…' This is key overall strategy… And by the way… when we said that “the responsibility of 'the intellectual' is to stand with the people and renounce the privilege of standing apart…” – this is not a national project… a national Left is useless… it effectively means you stand with 'power'… agree to its terms… agree to betray your Brothers and Sisters who happen to be the designated 'losers'… globally speaking… So… ensuring that there are “winners” and “losers” is key strategy both for maintaining the undergirding ideology “merit rises” – the notion that there's some legitimate reason in this gross unfairness – behind the hideousness – and it's necessary for maintaining 'power's invisibility – the notion that there's just these “natural forces” at play… And… according to the “laws of PR-chest-pounding-posturing”… this must be on-going… And the second key objective: 'play the game of “Supremacy” successfully… using quantifying means to keep score… – otherwise known as “the economy”… while maintaining the chest-pounding to draw from the people the requisite energy…' We've said that the definition of “the economy” that's most authentic is “eating the earth…” controlling the resources of the planet… the most key one strategically being us… But… looking at Europe before the spread of fascism across it… 'socialism'… which in the people's minds simply meant 'freedom'… sweeping across Europe… 'infecting' the colonies even… So… that resource which is absolutely key was at risk of being lost… So 'economy' geared up… for 'destroying' is also 'consuming': removing resources from our use… so 'eating the earth' can be destroying the earth by means of war… or destroying the earth by means of what's called 'growing the economy'… 'development'. The book Savage Continent (by Keith Lowe) provides prodigious illustration of resources being removed from our use… and…turned back over to ‘power’… Keith Lowe describes… an orgy of destructiveness. This systematic attack on ‘economic life’ was itself the ‘economic system’ working at a clip (because the point is privatization: atomization plus privatization equals control of us… manufactured ‘scarcity’…) racing at a pace unequaled since… The ‘economic system’ is not ‘capitalism’…. It’s called ‘power’… and they invent a tool called ‘the economy’ to keep us confused… War is an expression of this ‘economic system’… and ‘the economy’ is war by other means… i.e…. it’s about controlling the energy of the majority… the goal being… to beat us into submission… and… in the ‘normal’ course of events… overt violence is (as Solozzo said…) “too expensive…” in terms of maintaining legitimacy… as a means of controlling. And so they ‘normally’ rely on Bentham… whose Panoptic guidance says: “wage war by other means… i.e. be ‘economic’… and ‘efficient’….” “Let the weight of scarcity weigh on their minds…” Bentham advised.…” [From the March 9, 2014 Waking Up Radio show.]

 

[Our October 11, 2015 show:]

 

[“151011endgametime.mp3”:]

 

Our argument here is that to successfully organize to design a global alternative to the regime of 'class'… reclaiming our human energy globally… we have to address the actual conditions that 'power' has used to defeat our organization: agent infiltration… and EMF (electro-magnetic-force) weapons… These actual conditions then become assumptions of our activism… and only focuses of it in the sense of (in the case of agents) structuring our practice to eliminate the possibility of agents undermining it… and… (in the case of EMF weapons) to protect ourselves against them… …and… we need discussion: various venues and platforms for propagating it… particularly in neighborhoods… using the tools above just mentioned (more on this next week…) (When I talk about 'agent infiltration' I'm not talking just about 'movements'… I'm talking about into all aspects of our existence under class… This is something they have been preparing for… this 'end-game-time' when the resources run out [which they read as “too many people…] and as 'stewards' of Plato's dream – the Republic – they follow that playbook pretty carefully… and Plato advised them: “You've got to manage the population… don't allow it to get so large such that it threatens your rule…”)

 

[“151011theftofourgreatness.mp3”:]

 

Perhaps the most useful (strategic) way of thinking about hidden-'power' (as we neither know nor care who the ten thousand 'power'-guys are exactly…) is as a series of suppressions… or thefts… i.e.… the effects of these busy-as-bees-global-misanthropists: what has been taken from us – our 'selves'… most fundamentally – that must be recovered for us to have certainty about the need to defend it… the recovered self… the authentic. (More and more of us today are seeing that it is this individual 'self' that we have to have allegiance to… in order to want the bigger societal vision that allows that individual self to flourish… We can't want that global alternative if we don't desperately want this jewel… this gem… this treasure… which is ourselves… our individual 'self'… to be able to flourish and expand limitlessly… And we want the 'authentic' – that's key… – as we can't expand limitlessly unless we have a world… designed by us… which is honest…)

 

[“151011wearenotworkers.mp3”:]

 

“We are human beings… not 'workers'…” What is this 'history' that we're given? If not a 'history' of our suppression? What does this 'history' mean… for us?… if not the theft of our greatness?… leaving us with a dangerous (for 'power'…) pack of unanswered questions… that we set aside when we decide to 'fit'… into 'the system'… into one of those 'roles' those ten thousand guys have created for us…

 

[“151011followingourquestions.mp3”:]

 

…from infancy up… 'force' never felt right… provoked unease… and unanswered questions… stimulated discord… put us at odds with the very ones we must learn from… and this process was for us… various… Our determination… despite this early silencing… to “follow our questions” is the re-education process… it is the 'pursuit of happiness'… as… to solve long-buried riddles not only gives us satisfaction… but peace… it is restorative of calm… to finally find ourselves on a true path… the path that leads to a reincorporation of all the true power of which we were systematically robbed. “Following our questions” begins by writing them down… taking them seriously… it means never being without our notebooks…

 

[“151011derangeddreamofthepowermad.mp3”:]

 

We have been collectively enacting the fantasies of the deranged. It's long past time for us to live authentic lives. Karl Popper has reminded us that 'the state' is a recent invention… coterminous with the 'birth'… the 'self-creation'… of the global-state-statesmen… these self-same 'power'-mad Few… …and we said that it is only by self-creating ourselves into 'a people' here in the U.S.… that we can confront global-'power'… confront the 'logic' and the repressive machinery of 'the state'… and this is confirmed by Kropotkin when he says that “mutual aid leads to mutual confidence… which is the first condition for courage…” The key to the successful organizing of ourselves into groups… 'core-selves'… and broader associations around the implementation of specific plans… lies in the open acknowledgement of the tactics 'power' uses to destroy 'solidarity' (which is an embedded goal in whatever we do.)

 

[“151011sleepingmonsterawakes.mp3”:]

 

“The state must be self-sufficient. It must aim at economic autarchy ['economic independence… self-sufficiency…]; for otherwise the rulers would either be dependent upon traders, or become traders themselves. The first of these alternatives would undermine their power, the second their unity and the stability of the state.” [And here we are in debt to Hirschman… who explains the way in which the 'modern'… self-created… 'power'-guys implemented this injunction… by monopolizing the financial mechanisms… access to credit. And so… we see… the sleeping monster Plato… awoke in the minds of these sick folks… and from the seed of his flights of fancy and careless jokes… was built… millennia later… a massive yoke…]

 

[“151011disposedofinsecret.mp3”:]

 

“As to my translation, Shorey puts it a little differently; I shall quote from his translation (the italics are mine) also the preceding sentence (referring to infanticide): '…the offspring of the inferior, and any of those of the other sort who are born defective, they [the rulers] will properly dispose of in secret, so that no one will know what has become of them. “That is the condition,” he said, “of preserving the purity of the guardian's breed.”') It must have seemed like a dream come true… manna from heaven… these EMF (electro-magnetic-force) weapons… to the 'power'-mad Plato's Tribesmen… confirmation that they were 'meant' to 'rule'… But could they get people to do it?… administer 'shocks' to fellow 'citizens'… How many of our loved ones… in the years subsequent… have they killed? You know folks who have had these weapons used against them. I suspect that almost all of us in urban areas know someone who was targeted… “disposed of in secret…” as Plato authorized 'rulers' to do: eliminate the 'unneeded”… the elderly… the homeless… the disobedient… those with 'heart'… those who care about their Brothers and Sisters. These weapons… after all… would 'have' to be tested… and 'the deficient' needed to go… a 'perfect' conjoining of streams of Necessity… …all of us have lost folk… without knowing it – and those targeted wouldn't know either… because the symptoms are misdiagnosed as 'strokes'… 'heart attacks'… congestive heart failure… various cancers… and Alzheimer's…

 

[“151011lossofthemothersaffection.mp3”:]

 

How much damage has this one man… Plato… done? It is incalculable… but one thing is certain… it is on his authority that the abandoned-children-who-would-be-gods have contaminated society with the glorification of their own fundamental dishonesty… their obsession with hiding… and lying: “The contrast between the Platonic and the Socratic creed is even greater than I have shown so far… Plato's complete break with anything resembling Socrates' intellectualism is nowhere more obvious than in the place where he twice expresses his hope that even the rulers themselves, at least after a few generations, might be induced to believe his greatest propaganda lie; I mean his racialism, his Myth of Blood and Soil, known as the Myth of the Metals in Man and of the Earthborn. Here we see that Plato's utilitarian and totalitarian principles overrule everything, even the ruler's privilege of knowing and of demanding to be told, the truth…” and in this compulsive need of 'power's to lie… to stay hidden… to punish the 'disobedient'… and eliminate the 'unneeded' (or merely 'deficient'…) we see a key 'repetition compulsion.' They – these ten thousand die-hard misanthropists – have been afraid of us and afraid of us and afraid of us for… – let's say for the sake of convenience – two and a half centuries… ever since the French Revolution… they have projected all of their fear of the unknown onto us. This is… for our purposes… perhaps their most devastating repetition compulsion… …but it is derived from another… more basic… one: their need to 'win' affection… to 'prove' they deserve our attention… because they are 'the best'… this is the key side-effect… of abandonment… of loss of the mother's affection.

 

[“151011theaterforrevolution.mp3”:]

 

“The political housemaids of France are sweeping away the glowing lava of the revolution with old brooms and wrangle with one another while they do their work.” [Now that's astute political analysis… Do we have a press… of any kind… that independent of 'power'… or its utilitarian mindset… today? Moreover… we see that no one is deceived… not even for a moment… the performance is so seen…]

 

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[Our October 4, 2015 show:]

 

[“151004tofillagap.mp3”:]

 

 

They kill the folks who owe them no allegiance… who grow their gifts despite… not because of… them… they kill our biggest spirits… who by their very physical existence show… we need no state… Seven billion on a leash? Is that not obscene?… when we could be free?… when all we have to do is stand with the earth… meet with our Brothers and Sisters… discuss a future without coercion… and get 'big' in the course of it… 'Power' can't offer it as a perk… agents can't stop it.

 

[“151004pursuehappinessasapeople.mp3”:]

 

This 'self-organization' of 'power' is called “'the state' and all its institutions” – making it a totalitarian system – the key function of which is to prevent us… we-the-people… from similarly organizing to pursue our… authentic – because it honors the ancestors… the earth… and each other… as source – self-creation… simultaneously as individuals and as a people… our authentic happiness. (On the one hand… we have the codified right here in the U.S. to… as a people… pursue happiness… on the other… the state… by definition… disallows our pursuit of happiness because it disallows our formation into a people… …which… arguably… we have a responsibility to do: not only have we been benefiting from the 'excess-suppression' and squeezing of our Sisters and Brothers elsewhere [in non-'core' 'states'…] but simultaneous with that debt we have greater leverage… which we must start utilizing.) 'The state' is an absolutely essential mechanism of management for 'power' – management of our inherent drive to self-creation (happiness…) because 'power' cannot exist if we do not forfeit our earth-given gift of self-development… individual and collective… And 'the state' is warring on precisely these: on fully-developing individualities… to seek to become which… is the most radical political act under 'class' – there is no other way to our freedom…

 

[“151004recoveringouroriginalself.mp3”:]

 

We have stuck with the theme of “outing 'hidden-power'” because it's hard to fight an opponent that you can't see (this obviously has relevance for their use of EMF-weaponry – and their attachment to them – all utilized completely without legal authority [they sure interfere with our right as a people to pursue happiness…]) …we are the opposite of them…: they want to force everyone to stay small so they can seem big… we want to create the conditions so that everyone can be big – own their own gifts… develop and share them without coercion… so that the beauty we create together will dazzle us… we have faith in our Brothers and Sisters… Our first allegiance is to life… and in its restoration to health lies our purpose. We have to seek our place in the story of “life regaining its freedom…” Our original… authentic …'self'… provides the key to our gaining that path… so we start there… in recovering it… and we seek help from the ancestors… the earth… and each other… in order to do that…

 

[“151004thechainsaregone.mp3”:]

 

…we are at the moment where we can literally organize a 'world evolution'… – it is time for us to move on… ten thousand years of 'class' is more than enough… and the moment we have the means to move on we have to… that's our responsibility to life… it is no accident that the earth's ecosystems… its biodiversity… the health of its oceans… our air and water contaminated… This is not by accident… that they want us struggling to actually breathe… that we're looking at famines and hunger and droughts a'plenty… This is called the wages of… not 'greed' but rather… a hubris scaled beyond belief… beyond the comprehension of most of us… So… we all… must… in this moment… become 'martial artists'… and the terms have changed… we have new terms of engagement with 'power'… The chains are gone… we just haven't been discussing it so the word hasn't been passed on…

 

[“151004zapatistamartialarts.mp3”:]

 

“…[a teacher from Tuxtia] asks what people think of the Zapatistas. I reply that when I was younger, 6 or 10 years ago, everyone on the left talked about the Zapatistas, but it seems to be less in fashion now. 'You know, I think everybody looks at movements in other countries for how they relate to your own. When the talk was about globalization…' [and isn't it interesting how 'the talk' is no longer about 'the world'… no longer about 'class struggle'… because remember our Good Three reminded us that the concept 'class struggle' is by definition… because 'power' is global… a global endeavor… but that got 'lost' along the way… so… these things just 'pass in and out of fashion'… Well… how is it that something as major as our existence as free humans becomes 'out of fashion'?] “It's all about producing healthy and pure food, remembering that man and woman are equal, education of the children [recall in a recent show our comment that the front line assault from 'power' on us was being conducted… as Marx wrote… right under his nose… that it simply would not occur to him… to look for the 'power'-guys offensive on us… among child-rearing activists…], and resolving conflicts with each other…”

 

[“151004somethingnewforthechildren.mp3”:]

 

[So the speaker from the Clandestine Committee isn't interested in talking about the 'glory' of fighting… the speaker wants to talk about life… about the glory of creating something new for the children – that's what we need to be focused on… that's what 'power' doesn't want us focused on…] “I think about the difference between the Zapatistas and radical folks in the US. Radical rhetoric and imagery from anti-government folks usually focus on the glory of resistance and struggle, crowds in the street and cop cars on fire, as the important thing, the exciting thing. In contrast, Zapatistas see the real work, the important thing, as growing their own food, raising their children, living together. They are willing to engage in armed struggle to defend this autonomy from a government they feel has no legitimacy, but that's not what they want to devote their energy toward.… Their autonomy is due both to their own unbending will, and international pressure that keeps the Mexican military from slaughtering them wholesale…” The challenge we face is not lack of courage but lack of certainty. Certainty is what we get when we recover the 'self' that is authentic… which is why Alice – her deepest argument that child-rearing under 'class' is totalitarian – is suppressed… and why it's important we incorporate her into our discussions… into our new education that we design for each other.

 

[“151004decembertensociety1.mp3”:]

 

“This society dates from the year 1849.” [And let's not forget… from our 'Good Three's analysis… that 1848 was the first world revolution…] “In his Society of December 10, he assembles ten thousand rascally fellows, who are to play the part of the people, as Nick Bottom that of the lion. At a moment when the bourgeoisie itself played the most complete comedy, but in the most serious manner in the world, without infringing any of the pedantic conditions of French dramatic etiquette, and was itself half deceived, half convinced of the solemnity of its own performance of state, the adventurer, who took the comedy as plain comedy, was bound to win.” [And that's an astute observation about 'power': those folks… in our case ten thousand global-guys… who take the comedy as comedy are bound to win over those (we-the-people) who are not able to wrestle with the real conditions that are determining things…

 

[“151004decembertensociety2.mp3”:]

 

Take this drama to the world stage and you have hidden-'power' today – just think 'ISIS' and drug cartels… 'Boko Haram' and infiltrators-of-police-forces… agent provocateurs of all sorts… etc.… – or in my micro-micro situation: students and the 'low-income'… including immigrants and formerly-incarcerated… and I suppose some bored Plato's Tribesmen-sympathizers eager for action… for the human-weaponry Marx names… – plotting and planning behind scenes (they live to scheme – it's the only way they can feel smarter than everyone else… and they definitely need to feel smarter than everyone else…) while keeping us… not just ignorant of their actions – that goes without saying – but… as Marx says… ignorant of the play… ignorant that there is a play going on… oblivious that we are the puppets… while the hidden 'adventurers' as Marx termed them – and is that not a good word to use… to describe Plato's Tribe?… out to deceive the world while designing the global-stage as a House of Horrors – hand us sentences drenched in blood… our own… and the blood of our Brothers and Sisters… [It may be… it's worth our consideration certainly… that Marx has alighted here… unwittingly (as he could not see the aftermath… as we have…) at a moment of initiation – of the almost-but-one first generation Plato's Tribesmen… first fruit if not First Cause – of the plan to re-invent and realize… Plato's Vision and Handbook… Because … it seems to me… this is not buffoonery… but 'hidden-power' cracking its knuckles… experimenting… and readying itself… for 'play' on a larger stage…

 

[“151004preparationforlaunch.mp3”:]

 

“When Louis Napoleon made his coup d'etat on December 2, 1851, the primary objective was to repress the left. The secondary objective was, however, to constrain the ability of conservative forces to act other than through him. One can, if one wants, emphasize the Caesarist – the so-called Bonapartist – element in the regime. If one does, however, one risks missing the degree to which the outcome of the repression, which was both real and effective, was that of a centrist regime, oriented to capitalist expansion, constructing a liberal compromise – one led not by a classical liberal but by an enlightened conservative.” [If… as is the argument here… 'power' has gone shadow… to pursue a vision on the down-low… views accumulation as means (as Hirschman has helped us to see…) to realize this dream… then Napoleon the Nephew may be helping to launch that vessel…]

 

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[Our September 27, 2015 show:]

 

[“150927contemptisalltheyknow.mp3”:]

 

I think it's time to start calling this global-state 'fascist'. Not just because of the continuously building body-count and looming ocean-death… etc.… etc.… but also because they hate it… these Plato's Tribesmen… hate the thought that even Plato might – at this point – say they're 'wolves' (apologies to our righteous wolf-friends…) instead of 'dogs' (ditto…) For these folk it's all about 'obedience-training' (the flip-side of 'conquest'… Alice calls this dynamic the 'cycle of contempt'…) – that's what they got… that's all they know… So they hate all things natural (earth-grown…) because we will not obey.… But we cannot grow our gifts… and then share them without coercion… we cannot become 'big'… being obedient… and 'power' so sets things… that if you choose to be 'big'… and particularly if what you want is for others to be 'big'… and you help them to do it… as Coleen did… you will be targeted…

 

[“150927coleengragen.mp3”:]

 

Coleen Gragen… the woman who started Hand To Hand Martial Arts Center in Oakland, California… has been coming up for me… partly… I think… because my son is still training with folks connected to it… and we've been having intense conversations about what a martial arts practice would be that was relevant to the current threat facing our global humanity… a threat that has engulfed the planet.… How would a martial arts practice address that threat?… “…the demand to state the concrete alternatives is justified… Negative thinking [i.e.: a world based on 'freedom' (non-coercion) is the opposite of a world based on 'coercion'…] draws whatever force it may have from its empirical basis: the actual human condition in the given society, and the “given” possibilities to transcend this condition, to enlarge the realm of freedom. In this sense, negative thinking is by virtue of its own internal concepts “positive”: oriented toward, and comprehending a future which is “contained” in the present…” (Marcuse)… we all carry within us the potential… to 'be it'… be… that inherent freedom…

 

[“150927coleencouragecreativity.mp3”:]

 

“There are problems 'power' can't figure out… because it can't see that we're not cattle. What Terence Hopkins sees quite clearly… is that this is 'power's vulnerability… Firstly… that states will want their sovereignty because the people they sit on will ever want to be free [i.e. to grow our gifts continuously…] and will ever push back against the walls… the limits of our captivity… until they fall… If… instead of 'economic growth' we heard 'transfers of the wealth of our common earth…' we might begin to see beyond the present system of death… to the future of our creation… based in our abundance…” …we… are a 'creative element' artificially held back… and an intentional suppression requires an intentional summoning… a 'bringing forth' of our energy… consciously… This is what Coleen was doing.

 

[“150927transformingforce.mp3”:]

 

I want to consider more deeply Gramsci's observation that the 'transforming force' (transforming to a free future…) in this global social arrangement called 'class' – an arrangement long-since drained of vitality… an arrangement already dead… needing now but our act of burying – comes from a strong 'economic capacity' that's being artificially held back… us.

 

[“150927imaginefreedhumanenergy.mp3”:]

 

I ask you to please imagine that world in which every human being has access to their full capacity… their full power as a living thing – as a free… uncoerced… living thing… it was waiting for this moment… for this technology: “the conditions have changed…” and we must base our thinking on these changed conditions. We have instantaneous communication… we have the Internet… we have the means to organize a one-day global General Strike… almost over night… over and over until we get our freedom… These are new conditions. We are that elephant who can now look down and see that that chain is gone… and that it's time to walk free… It's time for us to act on that new information…] So… these are folk… in Seven Samurai… inexperienced with confronting 'power'… who seek the help of 'artists' – students of life's pulsations – in order to get 'power' off their backs… [we have to work together to do that… we have to see how 'the system' reproduces itself so we can thoughtfully de-commission it… starve it of our energy… as we grow our free future… which… I'm arguing… is about creating our happiness… which gives us a lever here in the U.S. Artists! – musicians… actors… Marxists… martial artists (and in this circumstance we must all become 'martial' artists… we are at war…) – must start us down the path to the restoration of souls…

 

[“150927criticaldiscussions.mp3”:]

 

'Defending the weak' must be a global motive as… with the resources of the planet tapped out… nation-states hunkering down… 'improving conditions' in one's small piece of the planet is no threat to 'power'… on the contrary… that's 'prettying up' 'power's mess… while leaving their control of us unaffected… they want our eyes narrowly focused. So we broaden out… with our voices and acts… we fight back… we claim the world… joining hands with others of like-minds… we're open-tribes… a school… bringing… creatively presenting… the 'taboo' (for 'power'…) discussions: What would it mean to live our lives without coercion? What would it mean to be a 'fully-developing individuality'?… to be 'self-creating'? What would a society… a global “'community of communities'… of 'fully-developing individualities'” look like? How do we link hands – link our practice – globally? As we flesh out that picture of a world based in non-coercion… how do we share that developing picture with others around the world… and exchange ideas? …dedicating our practice to freeing human energy globally…

 

[“150927towakefolkup.mp3”:]

 

…and I know this was the path that Coleen was on… and Bruce Lee… and Socrates: “What is needed to wake folk up?”… you know?… and so I look at my own experience – and I asked this question in Waking Up… “Why was the martial arts not enough?”… and I'm more and more convinced that we have the answer now… that there are these missing pieces that have to be integrated wholistically in our practice: awareness that there is a 'war' on full-developing individualities… awareness of 'hidden-power'… that we have to dedicate our practice to freeing human energy globally – that we have to consciously incorporate…

 

[“150927firstfullstride.mp3”:]

 

Keep in mind as we read that we're seeing the first full-stride of these new-born 'power'-guys… hidden from even Marx's discerning eye – and let's not ignore that suppressed conversation: “why is 'decision-making' disproportionately allocated?”… – P.S.] “After the first revolution had transformed the peasants from semi-villeins into freeholders, Napoleon confirmed and regulated the conditions on which they could exploit undisturbed the soil of France which had only just fallen to their lot and slake their youthful passion for property. But what is now causing the ruin of the French peasant is his small holding itself […now that strikes me as a really twisted way to describe it… this is the same tactic we saw in the 'foreclosure crisis'… and in every scheme of 'power' to transfer wealth massively… “cause indebtedness and strip us of what little we have…” – P.S.], the division of the land, the form of property which Napoleon consolidated in France. It is precisely the material conditions which made the feudal peasant a small-holding peasant and Napoleon an emperor. Two generations have sufficed to produce the inevitable result: progressive deterioration of agriculture, progressive indebtedness of the agriculturist.…”

 

[“150927wehavebeenstripped.mp3”:]

 

“But in the course of the nineteenth century the feudal lords were replaced by urban usurers; the feudal obligation that went with the land was replaced by the mortgage; aristocratic landed property was replaced by bourgeois capital. The small holding of the peasant is now only the pretext that allows the capitalist to draw profits, interest and rent from the soil, while leaving it to the tiller of the soil himself to see how he can extract his wages.” [There we have it… that tactic hasn't changed since… This is called “make them hunger”… “strip their ability to be self-sufficient… strip their access to land – it has not changed since… this conscious tactic to destroy our ability to live… except by going hat-in-hand to them… So what do you think lies at the end of it? It ain't a pretty picture. They decide who lives… who dies… They decide if there's 'too many of us 'or not… and they decide what happens to those they consider 'superfluous'… They decide – those ten thousand guys.… Are we ready to start talking about it?… and then organizing…for our freedom? We have the means. It is possible. Our thinking has to catch up with the technology. We can get free…We simply have to begin discussing it… meeting together and picturing it… visualizing it…

 

[“150927peasantbloodsucked.mp3”:]

 

“The mortgage debt burdening the soil of France imposes on the French peasantry payment of an amount of interest equal to the annual interest on the entire British national debt. Small-holding property, in this enslavement by capital to which its development inevitably pushes forward […this attribution to an imposed scarcity (i.e.… a result born of force… coercion) of some 'natural' inherent 'development' and an 'historical role' – proposing the existence of 'inevitable' 'economic laws' that produce it… is doing 'power's work for it… weaving the curtain that 'power' stands behind… – P.S.], has transformed the mass of the French nation into troglodytes.…”

 

[“150927disordersavesorder.mp3”:]

 

I've been pondering in what sense The Eighteenth Brumaire is 'class analysis'… and for whom it represents… as the word 'class' itself serves 'power' as both ideological tool and weapon… depending on one's relationship to 'Plato's Tribesmen'… i.e.… that it's reality is prescribed by those with the 'power' to do so… and we-the-people have been silenced……and as those who speak 'officially'… speak 'falsely'… and their public presentation is only so much 'role-playing'… – why does Marx take their speech for what they really think?

 

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Our September 20, 2015 show:]

 

[“150920designbydualism.mp3”:]

 

…before we get started: according to a local weekly… the weapons-industry declined to present more EMF-weaponry at this year's Urban Shield “police war-games exposition”… They must be feeling the pressure of our questions… so let's please keep it on them Brothers and Sisters… Unless we display some solidarity on this question it will be hard to move ahead with assurance having forfeited the authentic turf before even getting well-underway… And forfeited other things as well… Sisters and Brothers: When we don't have an “authentic 'self'” – and we're reading Alice Miller so she can help us understand what that means – what do we have? Where does the authentic 'self' go? If we had been subjected to utilitarian child-rearing methods as infants and youth… in which… per 'Plato'… consciously or no… our parents with us were trying to design the 'perfect human'… early on we would come to believe that our worth was not clearly seen… that our parents needed 'proof'.

 

[“150920utilitarianfacets.mp3”:]

 

…we will be considering… is both what Marxists mean by 'bourgeois revolutions'… and constitutes the 'new' terms of our exploitation – the installation of “'the state'” in us – terms elaborated by Bentham and his adherents… and the poisonous 'child-corrupting' activists – the political goals of which Alice has exposed… A case can be made that by 'dualism' what we really mean is 'utilitarianism' – “putting 'the self' to work…” – as the brilliant infant readily perceives that this is what the poisoned parent is doing in regard to her or him: “Since the child's affection can be gained by expressions of love, this same affection can be made use of to make him more amenable to discipline…” consider to what degree the maxim “might makes right” expresses utilitarianism… and that both concepts underlie the “separation of 'the self'” (they discuss…) and that… further… in 'dualism' / 'utilitarianism'… is included not just “Might Makes Right”… which implies “'conquest' as raison d’être”… but also: “worth must be 'proven' / 'demonstrated' – and therefore 'performance'… 'abandonment / betrayal' – and the 'scarcity-mindset'… which underlies and… in theory… according to the propaganda… 'justifies' everything that 'power' does.

 

[“150920embraceourabundance.mp3”:]

 

…this is how they get us to betray our Brothers and Sisters… both within the nation-state and – what's really up – globally… because the propaganda that 'power' is putting out for us in the U.S. is to turn our backs on what is going on elsewhere… We're told: “things are going to get really rough… focus on the folks you love… get ready for… if not the apocalypse at least really difficult times… and just hang on and try to get through it… Well… I'm arguing that these are times for just the opposite… these are times for us to embrace our abundance… to realize that they are conning us… that… as soon as we embrace each other globally… we see… that we are everything… – that is abundance: we help each other… we release the power that's in each one of us… in each one of us that power is limitless… and we create everything we need… to be self-sufficient and happy… globally.

 

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…unfortunately our academic Brothers and Sisters… in their efforts to escape that 'slave' category… have done exactly what Virginia is pointing out… have overly-complicated things… and in that song-and-dance that they put out there for us to try to digest… try to figure out… untangle… in the course of all that we lose our ability to fight back… we lose our certainty… and that's what we're honing in on in recent shows: regaining the certainty we're born with – because we start out 'big'… and confident… and raring to go… and then we get blasted with all the confusing messages and the unhappiness that we see around us… and it sets us on a path… a lifetime course… to try to understand 'what is going on?'… That's what I mean by 'wasted life' – a sacrifice imposed by 'power' regardless of 'station' – all of us have our lives wasted when we are not allowed to confront the truth: the reality of what's going on with us… and with our Brothers and Sisters all over the world… This is a global system… and it's only when we confront that openly and honestly with each other that we begin to… in our living authentically… we begin to make of our lives what they were meant to be… growing our gifts as we're meant to… not as we've been conditioned to allow 'power' to use them… our gifts are for each other… for helping each other get 'bigger'… to release our energy… to get free of those who want to 'make use of' us and the planet… and to start realizing our inherent freedom.

 

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“In 1809, among other reforms undertaken to face the French Revolutionary challenge, Humboldt was entrusted with the reorganization of the educational system. He based the new structure on Bildung (derived from his earlier sketch: 'On the Study of Antiquity and of the Greeks in Particular') which he believed would reanimate the German people after their crushing defeats.… It is possible that Humboldt originally intended this Bildung for the whole population. In the event, however, it became the stamp of the meritocratic elite… Hegel's argument that the Orient was the childhood of mankind and Greece its adolescence strongly resembles, of course, the views of the Young Hegelian Karl Marx.” [And the Wallerstein book I mentioned (The Modern World-System IV: Centrist Liberalism Triumphant, 1789 – 1914…) – published in 2011… is directly relevant to the subject matter we're now engaged with… which is: “What happened in the aftermath of the French Revolution? These 'power'-guys got busy. What did they do?”

 

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“Marx loved freedom…” Popper told us… So do we all at base… It's how we arrive… and it's how we long to stay… Unconsciously we follow our body's longing for it as we attend to those around us for clues to the mystery of generalized unhappiness… (And I think some may dispute whether that's the case… whether there's generalized unhappiness… Certainly this is the case by my definition… which I see as 'earth-based'… and therefore authentic… that being: 'self-creation'… creating oneself – because we long to use our gifts… and that's what 'self-creation' means… it means we grow our gifts… and we see ourselves develop as we engage with all our relations: the ancestors… the earth… and our Brothers and Sisters… and we share with those… and in those… relationships… That makes us happy…

 

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It's time for us… whether we're ready to defend ourselves or not… to defend the children irregardless… and for us to start here in the U.S.: to use our “freedom of speech”… use our “right as a people to pursue happiness”… to push the limits of 'power's need to protect its seeming legitimacy… to speak up for the children. Two hundred years ago these Plato-lovin'-proto-Fascists devised a conscious strategy to confuse… corrupt… and condition… the children… We have to undo that damage. It is wrong for the brilliance of our children to be working on lies – we want to release their brilliance for the creation of our beautiful free future… for our freedom… When I read the following from a young student… the first thing that struck was that it illustrated well enough the typical psychological abuse our children are subjected to under 'class': forced to make of themselves an object that must perform… 'prove' its 'worth' by 'objective' criteria… the utilitarian mindset masks 'power'… misdirects our children's energy away from the true culprit… 'power' itself… to them'… to gain our freedom… move on from ten thousand years of 'class' (and these ten thousand guys who want to be gods…) we need only to disseminate widely… and especially to every youth we have access to… our discussions of hidden-'power'… the need for an alternative (to a 'class'-based… hierarchy-based…) global social arrangement…

 

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…recall that we're on the look-out for hidden-'power' in the utilitarian-mindset… and consider as well the implications of this 'utilitarian' / 'Might Makes Right' / 'scarcity'-mindset thinking on Marx himself… and on his resulting theory… consider that he followed Plato's thinking (as Popper has shown us he did) further… in the equalitarian direction Popper suggested… and asked: “What leads to divisions in human society?”… and answered: “…an insufficiency materially…” Hence: “…there must be 'the development of the productive forces…'”…except… his 'proof' had the opposite effect: it misled the self-proclaimed 'leaders' of 'the people' to believe that 'history' required them to harness our energy… 'benevolently'… 'for the greatest good for the greatest number'… delivering us into the hands of Bentham… into the hands of the 'power'-guys… now securely ensconced in their private place of hiding… from which they plot and plan their malevolence… dressed up as 'benevolence'…

 

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Gramsci says that the transforming force (transforming to a free future…) comes from a strong 'economic capacity' that's being artificially held back… (among other things) this calls attention to the spiraling-consumption pattern of 'accumulation'… which is also the effect of its totalitarian nature… requiring ever-more (all) “to come in…” – eating ever more until the resources of the planet are effectively tapped-out… and… if their propagandistic control and superiority in arms is sufficient… to then start winnowing our numbers… I believe that's what they've been busy doing… clandestinely: 'winnowing our numbers'… Brothers and Sisters… it is time for us to reclaim responsibility for our lives… to start these conversations in groups together… under the aegis of our right as a people to determine what makes us happy… We do… each other… being together… is what makes us happy… growing our gifts freely is what makes us happy…

 

[In preparation for our September 20, 2015 show:]

 

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“What defines ‘class’? The mindset of “‘in’ and ‘out’” (Pt. 1): “But very little attention has yet been paid to the intellectual and spiritual effect of this division of duties [imposed by our totalitarian 'rulers'…] upon those who are enabled by it 'to forsake all worldly cares and studies.' Yet there can be no doubt that we owe to this segregation the immense elaboration of modern instruments and methods of war, the astonishing complexities of theology [into which category can there be any doubt now that Marx himself falls?… – P.S.]; the vast deposit of notes at the bottom of Greek, Latin and even English texts; the innumerable carvings, chasings, and unnecessary ornamentations of our common furniture and crockery; the myriad distinctions of Debrett and Burke; and all those meaningless but highly ingenious turnings and twistings into which the intellect ties itself when rid of 'the cares of the household and the family.' The emphasis which both priests and dictators place upon the necessity for two worlds is enough to prove that it is essential to their domination.” (Virginia Woolf, Three Guineas, p. 181, quoted during our March 24, 2013 Waking Up Radio show.)] (“While the root manifestation of totalitarian thinking… the root ideology of class is: “we are nothing and the state is all…” its core mindset is “the ‘citizen’-‘barbarian’ divide”… which Virginia Woolf and Alice Miller variously identified as the divide between ‘insiders’ and ‘outsiders’… or those who are ‘big’ (important)… and those who are ‘small’ (unimportant)…”

 

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“The ‘classical’ mindset of “Might Makes Right”… is inculcated in all future statesmen… as… you cannot manifest your vision of the Republic unless you’ve cultivated the human material willing to do it… willing to subjugate the true, authentic, self… And as this is a totalitarian system (mindset…) and therefore one we are all trained in… although in wildly divergent versions… these rules apply whether you’re Plato… or Hitler… or Bill Gates… or an underage member of a gang… …and it is only by leaving behind that state of mind… rejecting the rules and the game entirely… that ‘conquest’ is no longer your raison d’être… because you have chosen to represent… with consciousness… the ‘all’ of it…” [From the July 13, 2014 Waking Up Radio show.]

 

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[Our September 13, 2015 show:]

 

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“…the setting of ten, for example, as the ultimate age for such donations in some locales matches age distinctions for other forms of parental divestment, such as fostering or sale… Dynastic considerations might render children not only unwanted but dangerous: younger sons or siblings regularly challenged succession to the thrones of early medieval Europe, and children of second and third marriages represented threats to those of the first, and vice versa. The motif of the child destined to injure his parents, his family, or his kingdom, ubiquitous in ancient and medieval mythology and folklore, must to some extent reflect anxieties of this sort: “The fewer full-grown male relatives a king had around him, the easier he slept at night.” Abandoning such persons as children – through exposing, fosterage, or oblation – was certainly more humane than murdering them, sometimes resorted to in later ages.” (from John Boswell's important book: The Kindness of Strangers: The Abandonment of Children in Western Europe from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance)

 

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“The essential history of the introduction of 'class', as a word which would supersede older names for social divisions, relates to the increasing consciousness that social position is made rather than merely inherited…” [i.e.… the conscious awareness that there is a system… i.e.… signals that 'power' has retreated behind scenes… has gone into hiding… – P.S.]. “What was changing consciousness was… the new sense of a society or a particular 'social system' which actually created social divisions, including new kinds of division.” What these observations suggest – particularly in the context of our on-going theme of 'power' hiding itself in the aftermath of the French Revolution… in its determination to 'make-itself'… and the world… make mischief clandestine… according to the 'guidance' provided by Plato's Republic – is the emergence of a conscious strategy… among a self-identifying (self-creating?…) self-reflecting trans-national people… adopted with a missionary zeal… to make 'order' from 'mess'… using money and 'philosophical education'… and of course… us… we who make everything… as means. In order for them to 'make themselves'… they 'make us' simultaneously… – this is making the 'society' they want. This is why we've just been along for the ride… because consciousness is everything. Those who act with consciousness multiply their impact many many fold… This is one of the lessons 'power' has shown us that we need to begin taking to heart. ASAP.

 

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…and in the context of us being made into means… a 'class analysis'… is by definition 'historicist'… – and is not 'historicism'… in the examples Popper gives in The Open Society and that we are considering… a conscious tactic… and so necessarily social engineering?… i.e.… a conscious attempt to re-make 'society'… and to realize… impose… the vision of the few? – an imposing upon events a pattern… a mold… into which you make them fit – the primary political effect being… to train 'the people' to accept those new categories: 'class'… and 'economic development'. (Those are key tools that 'power' has used to make the world they want… and we're going to be considering that Marx unconsciously played a role in that…) So… I am encouraging us to start being 'bigger'… 'bolder'… and claiming what we want openly… saying what we want openly… standing with those who say this openly… to… e.g.… contact KPFA and say: “Why are we not talking about a one-day global General Strike?… Is it not true that 'power' is global?… There is this book called Antisystemic Movements by Giovanni Arrighi… Terence K. Hopkins… and Immanuel Wallerstein… which argues that we cannot get free except globally… and that we cannot get free working within the nation-state system… it is designed to contain us.”

 

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It gets back to the fact… again… to what I've experienced since Waking Up… these hidden folk have had to show themselves in order to attempt intimidation… In my shoes… from my vantage… folks would see… if you were in them… if you were seeing from my vantage you would see… they have been busy… and that the 'news'… so called… we are given… is created… is presented… is vetted… and to a degree that most of us would not believe on its face… the degree to which they simply 'off' the people that they find 'inconvenient'… none of us could ever have imagined… until you're walking in these shoes… – and we're going to read some quotes from Karl Popper that explain why that's the case: that they must seem to be a 'superior race'… and what they cannot demonstrate 'superiority in… they just eliminate the 'competition'… I remember seeing a documentary about the life of Bruce Lee after he died… in which an actor-friend… I think it was James Coburn… said that when he saw the body of Bruce Lee at the funeral… it didn't look like him… Well Brothers and Sisters… when I look at myself in the mirror after a night-time of being subjected to this EMF-barrage… bombardment… it don't even look like me anymore… the swollen-ness in my lower cheek… along the jaw-line… So… I have to think… I have to be suspicious… when someone who is other-worldly supreme in what he does – and… further… not in 'power's pocket… does not 'fit' with the picture of the top of the hierarchy that they want us to see… and… moreover… a man who wants us all to be powerful… and wants to help unite us across race and culture – that person is more than 'inconvenient'… that person is a direct threat. I don't want a world in which the 'reality' we are given is invented… is created… I want a world in which our children apply their magnificent gifts to what is authentic.

 

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“My story… focuses instead on the reaction… by what is called today the intellectual, managerial, and administrative elite. That reaction was favorable, not because the money-making activities were approved in themselves, but because they were thought to have a most beneficial side effect: they kept the men who were engaged in them “out of mischief,” as it were, and had, more specifically, the virtue of imposing restraints on princely caprice, arbitrary government, and adventurous foreign policies.…” [And here we have another prime example of a suppressed book… as… with Hirschman's and Popper's help… had their words been discussed by we commoners… we would long since have seen the flaws in Marxism as an ideological tool to assist in our mobilization for freedom… and… clearly… these Plato's Tribesmen see themselves as the opposite of 'mischief-makers'… and therefore entitled to 'rule us… to see this is false… we need only look around us… look at the mess they have made of our common earth… – P.S.]

 

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Whence this sudden obsession with taxonomy linked with 'historical progression'?… Martin Bernal ties it to the project to re-write the origins of 'classical civilization'.… But why?… “This racism pervaded the thought of Locke, Hume and other English thinkers. Their influence – and that of the new European explorers of other continents – was important at the university of Gottingen, founded in 1734 by George II, Elector of Hanover and King of England, and forming a cultural bridge between Britain and Germany. It is not surprising, therefore, that the first 'academic' work on human racial classification – which naturally put Whites, or to use his new term, 'Caucasians', at the head of the hierarchy – was written in the 1770s by Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, a professor at Gottingen…” [Here's another good example of 'power's m.o. (and fundamental dishonesty) from the get-go… it pawns its defects off on us – chief among them… its violence and racism… – and in 'exchange' seizes the credit for our innovation and creativeness… – P.S.]

 

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“Plato's best state is based on the most rigid class distinctions. It is a caste state. The problem of avoiding class war is solved, not by abolishing classes, but by giving the ruling class a superiority which cannot be challenged. As in Sparta, the ruling class alone is permitted to carry arms, it alone has any political or other rights, and it alone receives education, i.e, a specialized training in the art of keeping down its human sheep or its human cattle. (In fact, its overwhelming superiority disturbs Plato a little; he fears that its members 'may worry the sheep', instead of merely shearing them, and 'act as wolves rather than dogs'. This problem is considered later in the chapter.) As long as the ruling class is united, there can be no challenge to their authority, and consequently no class war.… The workers, tradesmen, etc., do not interest him at all, they are only human cattle whose sole function is to provide for the material needs of the ruling class.…” [Any doubt… from the above… that Plato's Tribesmen are salivating at seeing… in this moment… how close they are to realizing… this 'vision'?… – P.S.] …Since the ruling class alone has political power, including the power of keeping the number of the human cattle within such limits as to prevent them from becoming a danger […and we don't have to imagine their tactics in this regard… our whistleblower at DARPA [Leuren Moret…] has already said… they know how to “weaponize the energy in the environment…” create earthquakes and hurricanes and such… Let's not wait for hearings in Congress… before waking up… – P.S.]

 

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[Our September 6, 2015 show:]

 

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A one-day global General Strike… followed by another one… followed by another one… is the only way we can get free… We cannot get free working within the interstate system. What is the mechanism by which we organize it? We pick a day… May Day… say… and a year in advance everyone who claims to be a 'Marxist'… or a 'Socialist'… or a 'progressive'… or an 'Anarchist' – anyone who wants global human freedom… and not global totalitarianism (which is what we got in this 'class'-system because it admits no alternatives…) all who want this… commit… to using every means… network… connection… and medium to promote – with the express and clear goal of global freedom – a one-day global General Strike… But the second we start… trust… a battalion of false folks will descend on each one of us – and there is no business… non-profit or institution… public or private… that they have not infiltrated. We will need the strategies we've been discussing here to stay focused. (And if they pooh-pooh a global General Strike… that's a 'tell'… But the point is not to expose… the point is to stay focused… what is key for us (in beginning to move toward 'the global unity of we-commoners'…) is a process for clarifying our picture of the world we want: a world fit for the self-development of our gifts… based in our mutual-aid arrangements (“the organization is how we cooperate…”) and for that we need certainty – and therefore what is key… is keeping 'power' from undermining it – with agents… and with economic hardship…

 

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As Popper said… Marx's world-view was skewed by its dualism… its division between 'mind' and 'hand'… and in that division… 'Thought' always took precedence… and this 'Thought'… because not rooted in our deep earth-connectedness… sought… like 'power's… to rule 'earth'… subject it to 'Thought's authority – and especially the earth-in-us… for we are the raw material from… and by… which… “'Thought' (or 'History'… if you prefer) realizes itself…” and the Plato's Tribesmen – the 'power'-guys – 'make themselves.'

 

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The first shift implied that the market was no longer seen as enclosed within (or “embedded” in) each nation-state as an independent economic space, and that the world-economy was no longer conceived of as an interstate economy linking discrete national economic spaces. Rather, nation-states were seen as jurisdictional claims in a unitary world market. By effecting the socialization of labor on a world scale, the world market determined the most general context of the class contradictions and therefore of the class struggles of capitalist society, which Marx defined by its constitutive orders, the bourgeoisie and the proletariat: ['Earth-speak' would be: those 'power'-mad-few – and… by the way… while they tell themselves they want all the 'power' (resources) because they are the only ones 'qualified' to have it… they are all the more mad for believing that – these 'power'-mad-few are determined to ground all earth… but particularly the earth which is us… down into one placid unresisting material… on which they 'work'… made uniform in being made uniformly malleable to 'its' 'will'… – P.S.]

 

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“…in the same proportion the bourgeoisie developed, increased its capital, and pushed into the background every class handed down from the Middle Ages.” (The Communist Manifesto) […I am searching for a good metaphor to explain why that's a con… because it is we who do this… and yet 'power' that gets… takes… is given… the credit… and that con has been so embedded in our heads… primarily by the 'official' Left (the academics and pundits…) the professional Left has driven… with Marx's help… that notion into our heads that somehow without these 'power'-guys 'doing it' (forcing us…) we would not have been able to be innovative at all – that is so wrong… so backwards and upside-down… so twisted… I'm searching for a way so we can see that clearly… – P.S.]

 

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…to get 'force' off our backs and allow our gifts to grow and develop under their own agency and initiative… the guidance of the earth – nothing more exciting than that…

 

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…Hirschman saw a different trajectory: the 'evolution' of 'statecraft' – putting the hand that crafts… their acts… before the abstractions that 'Thought' creates… to legitimate those actions. Because 'explanation' in terms of 'inherent laws of development' is necessarily legitimization… What Hirschman found: a continuously renewed and strengthened attendance to Plato's dictum… “there must be no split in the unity of 'the master class'…” i.e.… the point then… now… and ever will be while it lasts: preserving 'class'… which means… 'herding the cattle'… Marx was looking for money and means… so to theorize how we-the-people would conquer them… thereby 'guaranteeing' our freedom… it wouldn't even occur to him to look for child-rearing activists… for a bunch of Humboldts and Cousins… installing the 'systems'… that would make us all – 'rulers' and 'ruled'… 'shepherds' and 'sheep' – obedient to… and lusting for… 'Authority'… – because that's how we got conquered… that's what we needed Marx's eyes on… not the stage… the theater… And so… in answer to the question: “why are we devoting time to an Eighteenth Brumaire reading?”… one answer… so we can get clearer… and all get on the same page and together… that we're wrestling with an entirely different animal from what Marx thought – so we need to not allow that weight of mistaken thinking to hold us down right now… it's time for us to take off… and we need to encourage each other in so doing…

 

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…Hirschman ferrets out the seeds of the belief that emerged in late seventeenth century Europe… that 'the interests' might be able to tame 'the passions' (i.e.: the 'power'-guys tearing themselves to shreds… This absorbed Plato too… by the way… trying to figure out how to rein-in those 'power'-guys passions… And this would be a really good example of 'projection' if it weren't primarily political strategy: always telling us that we're the violent ones. What a con. It's just the opposite. It's their own rage they're trying to control… while telling us that we are the ones who are violent… and then create the conditions to ensure that that seems so… because caged animals under stress do lash out at each other… that does not mean that violence is inherent in our nature… far from it. Keep in mind as we read… that… as Adam Smith said… our voice is “little heard and less regarded…” that we have been [up to now] simply along for this wild ride of 'Mind-Deified'… beginning its stampling of the planet – long past time for us to be the ones who decide… We have the right to be happy – and we can only be authentically happy – within the core of our being – when we are free… We start out free and we need to stay free… “No coercion” is the world we make to serve us… a world in which we never dissemble – there is no need – only honesty can knit together our human communities):

 

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“As happens frequently with concepts that are suddenly thrust to the center of the stage – class, elite, economic development, to name some more recent examples – interest appeared so self-evident a notion that nobody bothered to define it precisely. Nor did anyone explain the place it occupied in relation to the two categories that had dominated the analysis of human motivation since Plato, namely, the passions on the one hand [that's the 'power'-guys tearing themselves to shreds… – P.S.], and reason on the other [that's Plato and his fellow philosophers thinking they had to find a way to stop these guys from killing each other… – P.S.]”

 

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Ferguson and Tocqueville's point: “…as long as not everyone is playing the “innocent” game of making money, the total absorption in it of most citizens leaves the few who play for the higher stakes of power freer than before to pursue their ambition. In this way social arrangements that substitute the interests for the passions as the guiding principle of human action for the many can have the side effect of killing the civic spirit and of thereby opening the door to tyranny.” A pregnant point to end on… a lot to ponder in it towards our discussion of “seeing 'power'” where it hides… because I believe he hit the nail on the head… While we have been kept busy simply surviving… the global-state-statesmen have been busy constructing a world in the image of their paterfamilias… Plato… who provided for them all 'rulers' needed… to keep us contained… “controlling the 'human cattle'” is the name of that game… But 'the cattle' are growing up aren't we?… and throwing off that pejorative and beginning to talk to each other despite the atomization… considering the possibility… that at long last… it has come to pass… that ten thousand years of 'class'… will very shortly be… in the past…

 

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[Our August 30, 2015 show:]

 

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My son watched the child pretending to “lose control of the dog” over a month ago – practicing… as we now know… while singing “Hit the Road Jack”. You were such a good friend Iggy… You live in me… but you should have lived in your own skin… These sick folk know how to create sadness… that's the only thing they know how to create.

 

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Consider the reaction of the 'power'-guys – hidden 'power' – to the Paris Commune: 30,000 dead… to the Russian Revolution… how many millions dead across Europe in World War II… that ended the global mobilization for socialism? Do we see the trajectory? The 'global-state-statesmen' have been upping the body count exponentially in reaction to our global efforts to get free of them… and as their experience in secret repression has progressed… i.e.… their objective has been not just to eliminate dissent… but to eliminate dissent in such a way that we don't even know they did it… let alone be able to 'prove' it… to recognize this… is 'practical politics'… basing our strategy on an analysis of the actual conditions facing us… which includes the existence of hidden-'power' [or the 'global-shadow-state' if you prefer…] what hidden-'power' is doing to us… and our conditioned subservience…

 

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…those truly responsible stay hidden from us… well out of view… and to blame those who do the dirty work is helping 'power' to carry out its vision… its mission… to keep us at each other's throats… so they can 'win'… which in their minds means keeping us forever under their thumb. But once we discuss what we want… their obsession with 'winning' becomes irrelevant… And it does not require that we convince all of us… all 99.999 percent… it just requires that enough of us begin 'painting that picture': that picture of the beauty that we are … and that we want… and start working together to spread that good news… to see a sufficient number gravitate to it… and want to help do it. But we have to be conscious of 'power's tactics for undermining that organization… in order to get through that serious… heavy-duty effort of 'power' to set it back… Point being: all the Marxists… Socialists… Anarchists… the entire 'Left'…out there… globally… is enough for us to get this job done… and if we need to go through this process of understanding why Marxist theory is not sufficient for the challenge before us today… – after all… he wasn't coping with EMF-weaponry (although… interestingly… what we'll be seeing in our reading of Marx's Eighteenth Brumaire… is that he was there at the onset of the modern use of the tactic of 'agent provocateurs'…) We are at the point where it is patently clear that we need some new strategies and I think we've identified the correct ones here… based on an accurate analysis of the conditions we are in… and the opponent… and their strategies arrayed against us.…

 

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…and then… while he sees the inevitability of a voracious 'machine' butting up against physical limits… and… therefore… the resulting immiseration of all of us (what our Good Three… and Claudia… termed “the pauperization of people on a world-scale…” – calling our attention to what it means for we-the-people to be stripped of dignity… a process von Werlhof thinks of as 'housewification'…) – he misses entirely the key aspect from which to view our dilemma of how to get free… that which must be overcome in order to feel certain that we are done… with 'the system'… and so a critical strategic focus: i.e.… our conditioned helplessness… and so… our obedience. And how to make us so… keep us so… if not by taking the advice of Townsend and Bentham… to “make us hunger…”

 

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Today we'll be considering more deeply how that 'certainty-disproportion' got installed in us… Karl Popper explained it: Plato told the would-be 'masters'… there must be a clear line between them and us… for we-the-people to believe they are entitled to 'rule' us… “The great importance which Plato attaches to a philosophical education of the rulers must be explained by… reasons… purely political… The bringing up of that class is, therefore, the great preserving function of the sovereign, and a function which must continue as long as the state exists.” [This is key for us to understand for our strategic planning… that the strategies that have been tried heretofore have been worse than useless because they've continued the confusion… that… as long as 'power' continues to reproduce itself… it continues to exist… so what's key is our focusing on this… on structuring our resistance and our planning to get free such that it interferes with their ability to continue to reproduce themselves…

 

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So… after you convince the people that we are nothing and they are 'all'… what comes? next… constant… incessant… suppression of this obvious plan (to make sure we hunger…” keep us from having any sense of security… either materially or spiritually… i.e. manufacture 'scarcity'… – make us believe we are not 'worthy'… and if we have to 'please' to eat… while simultaneously abandon all hope of being 'thinkers'… like those who 'rule' us… then they've got us trapped… pretty effectively… and so we have to get ourselves out of this trap… spread the good news that each one of us is imbued with limitless power… endless gifts from the earth and the ancestors… waiting to be developed… and this is the time we do this… so it's an exciting moment… once we get those discussions going… globally…

 

[“150830classisconcrete.mp3”:]

 

But… what we will be considering… is that assigning motive power to theoretical abstractions is not the same as seeing the forces that motivate the humans hidden in… the abstractions – some of those humans are open and honest about their actions… some are not – but none of them… in our analysis… are abstractions (and… I should add… not abstractions also because we are calling out 'class' as the problem… not 'capitalism'… 'capitalism' – that ideology – has been extremely useful for 'power'… but if we recognize that the problem is ten thousand years in the making… and that it is therefore based in relationships that we experience every day… that's very concrete…that's our bodies talking…

 

[“150830rulebyphilosophy.mp3”:]

 

“In France this Germanic trend is best represented by the popular philosopher and politician Victor Cousin, who flourished under the grand bourgeois, compromise regime of Louis Philippe. Cousin established French primary education on the Prussian model, and like Humboldt [in the wake of the French Revolution… “after the humiliation of the traditional government and its beloved army after their catastrophic defeat by Napoleon at Jena in 1806 (the Prussian monarchy turned to Humboldt to undertake reforms.) In 1809, among other reforms undertaken to face the French Revolutionary challenge, Humboldt was entrusted with the reorganization of the educational system. He based the new structure on Bildung (derived from his earlier sketch: 'On the Study of Antiquity and of the Greeks in Particular') which he believed would reanimate the German people after their crushing defeats.” (Martin Bernal, Black Athena…“ …consider… that the second we recognize that the problem is 'class'… not 'capitalism'… “poof!”… those abstractions ['historical mission'… 'free competition'… 'unchained productive power'… 'economic development'… e.g.…] become obviously propaganda… we automatically get back on the right track… by that one thing alone… by recognizing that the problem is 'class'… not 'capitalism'… So… that tactic: the elevation of the few… the so-called 'philosophers'… – pushing forward the stance of a supposedly 'value-free' 'science'… – is the key propagandistic device… used to lure us from the side of 'life'… from our solid ethical stance that demands freedom as a right.…

 

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I'm pondering how much time to devote… and why… to Marx's Eighteenth Brumaire… because… although I was drawn to it… I have to be honest… I don't entirely know why. I mean… I've known that the aftermath to the French Revolution of 1789 is a critical moment in the history of 'class' (when a group of Plato-lovin' social-engineers decided to get busy…) – the moment of birth of the Tiny-Few: the birth of themselves as a conscious actor… And Marx (writing in 1852… almost as the events he describes were happening…) without being aware… had his eyes on their conception… And they “made themselves”… as V. Gordon Childe said (and I suspect he was in sympathy with these guys…): Man Makes Himself… they were “making”… literally… “themselves”… with their raw material – us and their children. So… they were taking the world in hand… and this is the moment in which this… incomparably honest person… Marx… captures and lays down for us… his observations… his thoughts… And if he's not seeing something… it's significant… and we need to ask ourselves… what?…

 

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[Our August 23, 2015 show:]

 

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“The separation between leaders and workers which I had noticed at Geneva in the Temple Unique did not exist in the Jura Mountains. There were a number of men who were more intelligent, and especially more active than the others; but that was all.…” [What Peter observed is what I've observed too…: that 'leadership' is fluid… a result of many factors… that changes over the course of a lifetime… as we gain experience… as we absorb new information… Never is it fixed or given… – P.S.]…

 

[“150823watchmakersofjura.mp3”:]

 

“…the workers would have against them, not the rotten generation of aristocrats against whom the French peasants and republicans had to fight in the last century, – and even that fight was a desperate one, – but the middle classes…” […those 'classically-trained'… mission-imbued… newly minted and gleaming-fanatic… Plato's Tribesmen… – P.S.], which are far more powerful, intellectually and physically, and have at their service all the potent machinery of the modern state. However, I soon noticed that no revolution, whether peaceful or violent, had ever taken place without the new ideals having deeply penetrated into the very class whose economical and political privileges were to be assailed.…” [This is a revealing… a portentous… vantage from which to view our current situation… – has anyone taken it in?… – P.S.]

 

[“150823pariscommune.mp3”:]

 

“The question is,… that the oppressed part of society should obtain the clearest possible conception of what they intend to achieve, and how, and that they should be imbued with the enthusiasm which is necessary for that achievement; in that case they will be sure to attach to their cause the best and the freshest intellectual forces of the privileged class…” “When the workers became, in March, 1871, the masters of the great city, they did not attack the property rights vested in the middle classes. On the contrary, they took these rights under their protection… Having lived for two months in fear that the workers would make an assault upon their property rights, the rich men of France took upon them just the same revenge as if they had made the assault in reality.… If, then, – my conclusion was, – there are periods in human development when a conflict is unavoidable… let these conflicts take place not on the ground of vague aspirations, but upon definite issues; not upon secondary points… but upon broad ideas which inspire men by the grandness of the horizon which they bring into view…” The chief difficulty we face is not one of an overwhelming disproportion in resources… between we-the-ninety-nine-point-nine-nine-nine-percent… and the tiny-ten-thousand… but rather one of an overwhelming 'certainty'-disproportion between us… and 'the tiny ten' – and this because they have kept us busy working… surviving… and so unable to develop our thought… The chief difficulty we face… is that the 'power'-guys plan… they keep themselves hidden… What the spirit of freedom needed… the missing structural-supports in our successful strategy… was its solid ethical basis – our claim is not based on 'scientific legitimacy'… it is based on what we have always known: our right to be free… in our hearts we know this… that our gifts do not exist to be marketed… – its global-range… and the technological-backbone needed to support global-decentralization: 5n instantaneous electronic communication network… available now… for us to realize our ancestors' dreams – and our own.

 

 

[“150823picturetheworldwewant.mp3”:]

 

…and by the way… of course those who have exclusive hold on global-Authority conspire to keep it. It is time to get over our shock that they do heinous things in secret… and start talking about what we want. The vast majority of us understand that 'power' acts clandestine. Only the propped-up media-intermediaries demand proof of it – that is their function. Rather… what we need… as Kropotkin says… is “a clear conception of what global-society we want…” it ain't hard… we start with our own bodies: sleeping-in… connecting with those we want to connect with… force gone from our lives… It is for the 'work' of discussing and fleshing out and promulgating this picture… that 'core'-leadership is needed: those willing to put in a little extra energy… to get us to 'the flow'… break through the logjam of inertia … – P.S.)]

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“If treatment of this sort is carried through consistently enough and early enough, then all the requirements will have been met to enable a citizen to live in a dictatorship without minding it; he or she will even be able to feel a euphoric identification with it, as happened in the Hitler period… Just as in the symbiosis of the “diaper stage,” there is no separation here of subject and object. If the child learns to view corporal punishment as “a necessary measure” against “wrongdoers,” then as an adult he will attempt to protect himself from punishment by being obedient and will not hesitate to cooperate with the penal system. In a totalitarian state, which is a mirror of his upbringing, this citizen can also carry out any form of torture or persecution without having a guilty conscience. His “will” is completely identical with that of the government.… Our capacity to resist has nothing to do with our intelligence but with the degree of access to our true self.”

 

[“150823draculaunbound.mp3”:]

 

“He must arrange everything so that it be nature's doing and not his own, or at least so that this appear to be the case. The unpleasant occurrences in particular must not betray their origin if he is the one responsible for them.” The person actually benefiting from this manipulation must not be detected.… – A.M. [This 'theory'… applied politically – globally and nationally – provides the ideological expression… of hidden-'power'. Here's an illustration – in what follows let's consider the possibility that this “hidden 'power'” described by Weiller is not just the pattern… but the basis… of all such that grow out of it… under 'class'… We will be looking at events in France after the Revolution of 1789 – For our purposes… viewing from below… the actors on the political stage and their machinations are less important than the motive forces which generate them. What's interesting is that Karl Marx – whose The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte we will be quoting from at length – what's interesting is that Marx tells us this is his primary motive as well… identifying 'the class struggle' as the motive force… – P.S.]

 

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[In preparation for our August 16, 2015 show:]

 

[“130303keycons.mp3”:]

 

“Last week we said that the manual – mental divide… or rather our unconscious belief in the manual – mental divide… plugged into the 'citizen – barbarian' division – our belief in the necessity of 'the state'… or rather… the necessity of its physical infrastructure [today… with the benefit of Alice… I would say that our 'internal infrastructure' is even more determining… – P.S.] is the motive force that turns 'power's key coin of control: 'violence is inherent in our nature'… and 'labor is our inevitable lot'… This means… the force is double-edged… as we learned from Bentham…one end is in the physical world – the material constructs of the state – and the other… within… our internalization of discipline… Another name for this key myth is 'the necessity of rule'… which assumes and manifests the division between mental and manual labor… the key expression [of this division] for 'rule' being… the division between 'citizen' and 'barbarian'… Now Bentham is certain that we must be driven… and… once 'power' got fully behind him… it made them incredibly effective… 'Coercion' for Bentham is a 'given'… in his moral universe… that there's no other way to drive 'the people' to 'happiness'… because of our 'class' position… or because of our alleged 'violence'… our 'passion'… and so… to be 'passionless'… in Bentham's world – dominated by centuries of tyrannical blood-letting by and of those who claimed the sword of 'rule' – was a virtue… equated with the rule of 'Reason'…” (From the March 3, 2013 Waking Up Radio show.)

 

[Our August 16, 2015 show:]

 

[“150816platostheoryistotalitarian.mp3”:]

 

…and by no stretch of the imagination can such sad folks be seen to represent anything but weakness… damage… …that these worshippers of Plato… of 'power'… nonetheless believe themselves to be 'the best'… is our best evidence… of thought's atrophy in them. Let's give thanks for Karl Popper… whose rich analysis has been suppressed…

 

[“150816theyhavetolie.mp3”:]

 

Why is it that Plato does not wish his leaders to have originality or initiative?… In fact, we are faced here with a fundamental difficulty of the leader principle. The very idea of selecting or educating future leaders is self-contradictory.… The authoritarian will in general select those who obey, who believe, who respond to his influence. But in doing so, he is bound to select mediocrities… [And… by the way… in case you were wondering how an education system that produces toadies is also supposed to produce Il Duce… Plato explains it (propping up his invented 'Socrates' to make the crap go down easy…) (…and this is not the historical 'Socrates'… this is an example of an on-going device of 'power' over the years… to take those it is threatened by and put words in their mouths… or proclaim a provenance to them that is untrue [e.g. with Shakespeare…] or try to discredit them… as was done with Emily Dickinson… by saying they were not fully in possession of all their faculties… – they have to lie because they are sculpting a false reality for us to live in… in which we look at them in awe – and they have to shape the facts to fit that reality… and try to shape our belief system to fit that reality…) Plato explains it as a selection… or an anointment even… of someone recognized for his excellence in 'dialectics' (another word for which might be 'heartlessness'…) as well as in 'politics' (ditto)…

 

[“150816controlbydemoralization.mp3”:]

 

…we see a more significant consequence…: the threat of 'thought's erosion in us all… in global-humanity as a whole… Could this then be 'power's 'vision'?… Does a totalitarian ethics demand 'thought's erosion…? Could that be its destination? They would certainly not say so… this is not what they tell their children… but is it so? And what… exactly… do they tell their children? They have to convince us and them… their offspring… that we are dangerous… that we are brutes… consumed by our passions… needing superior 'Reason' to govern us… 'Power' controls by means of demoralization… by always having the better of us… by always seeming to possess superiority in all things… the global-state-statesmen cannot be 'the strong' unless we are 'the weak'… Toward that end… nothing defeats us from within so well as violence… unless perhaps its having no purpose… being unwanted… deemed 'useless'…

 

[“150816anethicalissue.mp3”:]

 

This world is illusion… these constructed social relations… created by the few to maintain 'rule'… existing by bloodshed… by the hoarding of means… and like coercion… by enormous energy-cost… on the one hand… and our loss of our vital-selves… on the other… loss of a world of our own creation… loss of security in our mutual relations… in our helping one another… All of us are forced to endure tremendous stress… when life is ground down to mere existence… when what we are – in reality – is abundance… De-centralization' simply means our 'core-selves' are multitudinous… but all aligned… as we agree with Bakunin… with freedom as the 'sole creative principle'… and… as we are in transition… behind the guiding light of that goal… the goal to which all of our actions bend and which both clarifies and extends them… beyond their particular-ness – and which all come together in the planning and organization of our global actions. And by 'global action' I don't mean… e.g.… the 'labor movement' organizing an industry globally… I mean what our Good Three meant: that we need an alternative vision of a new global society based in… as Bakunin said… freedom – that's the discussion that we have to start having: we cannot… turn our backs… yet again… because we in the U.S. have a little bit more… on those that are being set up for the hard work… set up… to be wiped off the planet altogether… We have to do this hand-in-hand with all our Brothers and Sisters…

 

[“150816aworldfitforchildren.mp3”:]

 

These poisonous 'exercises' that Alice has captured here… so that we might be aware… are still being done to children today… that this is in fact how the global-state-statesmen create (their corps of obedient followers…) that mindless submission of 'the will' of children… to Authority… to 'power'… to 'rule' – to the state… we have yet to face. It has been extremely effective for them… I am absolutely certain this continues to this day… hidden… for too long… What would a world-design be… if children were our highest priority?… Let's think about… discuss… this… please… because I know some folk read these exercises… this advice… and vibe with it a bit… because under the conditions of a 'class' system: the atomization we're all stuck in… the inability to express our communal nature… the inability to make a world that's full and 'big'… with the earth fully present moment to moment in our lives… with trees and beauty all around us… with our lives in our own possession again… our time… our lives… are our own… “If he should show displeasure when an object he covets is withdrawn, should also cry and scream, then pay no heed nor seek to pacify the child by caressing him or by returning the object…” [“This advice reminds me of one of my patients, who was successfully conditioned at a very early age not to heed his hunger pangs; his attention was diverted from his hunger “solely by demonstrations of affection.” A complicated set of compulsive symptoms concealing his deep feelings of insecurity later resulted from this early training.… – A.M.]”

 

[“150816puppetsrevenge.mp3”:]

 

So… they've discovered that we respond to different tones differently. That they literally have been turned into puppets explains why they literally want to turn us into puppets… explains the appeal for them of 'EMF' or microwave weapons… as they've discovered that different frequencies have different biological effects on their 'subjects' (there may be a connection here between their fondness for torture-via-use-of-low-frequency-wave and their early [suppressed] experience of torture-by-parental-voice…

 

[“150816moraltorture.mp3”:]

 

“Can it ever occur to a small child that the need for thunder and lightning arises from the unconscious depths of the adult psyche and has nothing to do with his or her own psyche? The biblical quotation, “For whom the Lord loveth, he correcteth,” implies that the adult shares in the divine omnipotence, and just as the truly devout person is not to question God's motives (see the Book of Genesis), so too the child is supposed to defer to the adult […'the state'… – P.S.] without asking for explanations… – A.M.]”

 

[“150816givingbirthtoabuse.mp3”:]

 

“Obedience appears to be the undisputed supreme principle of religious education as well.” [This has been observed over and over… but never has there been a strategic response from the Left to C.L.R. James' point that “passive obedience is precisely the basis of ['class'] society…” I believe he uses the word 'bourgeois' rather than 'class'… but I think it's time we started naming the problem as 'class'… so that we can design strategies that are effective… – P.S.] “A doting love lets itself be guided by the infants's crying….” [I recall a man from the U.S. who had visited Nepal report that in Nepal it's considered child abuse to let a baby cry… Places where children are loved and respected are in 'power's crosshairs… We must get our world back tout suite… and stop this on-going assault on our human-ness… Let's don't let it degrade further… Let's don't lose anymore of our most precious Brothers and Sisters who love their babies… We need their model… their knowledge… their help… – P.S.]

 

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[In preparation for our August 9, 2015 show:]

 

[“130728tendernessfor.mp3”:]

 

“So what would the authentic conversations about ‘race… about ‘socialism’ be?… the ones that do lead to a true road?… They would... as Gustav Landauer told us… [Gustav Landauer] defined as the task of the socialists and their movement: “to loosen the hardening of hearts so that what lies buried may rise to the surface: so that what truly lives yet now seems dead may emerge and grow light.” (quoted in Erich Fromm’s The Sane Society…) as Fry told us… as Alice Miller told us… as all the ancestors who see that we must be the opposite of what we have been made to be… under 'class'… have said… …they must lead to tenderness. What else but this could our future be… if its opposed to the frozen misery of centuries… breaking… now… finally… at long last.” (From the July 28, 2013 Waking Up Radio show.)

 

[Our August 9, 2015 show:]

 

[“150809rulesthoughterosion.mp3”:]

 

Last week we said that the most significant implication of the fact that we're stuck in a story called 'class'… is the atrophy of thought – certainly in those would-be 'gods'… the global-state-statesmen… but also in us… to the degree that we let them lead… and that without an authentic 'self'… thought can't develop. Today we'll look at another aspect of this… essential weakness of constitution in the 'leaders'… which has infected the body of 'the people'… with its 'atrophy of thought': the dismantlement of the authentic… of truth itself… as 'power' suppresses all but what legitimates its existence… while feeding us for 'history'… a story that is its invention.

 

[“150809differenceabookmakes.mp3”:]

 

…Kropotkin (whose voracious and fertile mind captured all the rich conditions which furthered the planting of decentralization (what… in Waking Up… I thought of as 'distributed generation'… a different way of saying the same thing… or at least… definitely complementary…) allowing us to … finally… pursue happiness – as a people… because we cannot pursue happiness as a people without the land… our conditions of existence…) Karl Popper (so critical on so many levels…) Miklos Nyiszli (ditto… but let me add… he shows us in 'power's m.o. their desperate need to keep their killing secret… and provides that necessary reminder that there are physical traces of theses things… these weapons they're using: iron in bodily fluids… swelling throughout the body… e.g.… that we need to be documenting…) Martin Luther King (who demonstrated the power of public 'voicing'… in… or along with… a global-frame – took 'the word' to the pulpit-in-the-streets… and did so globally…) and Terence K. Hopkins (to represent for our Good Three… who did attain and push forward unrelentingly that truly global-vantage… that we need to get free…) Martin Bernal (his Black Athena… that exposes the facts behind the invented 'classical heritage' that the would-be gods use to convince their children they harbor an 'historic mission'…

 

[“150809taskofsocialists.mp3”:]

 

In our 'voicings' of suppressed thoughts – our putting out into the world… using whatever form of self-expression we are moved to use … thoughts that have been… with intent… kept hidden from we-the-people… by the 'power'-guys… the global-state-statesmen – both 'outer' and 'inner' expressions are reflected… …that is… both the 'public' (collective) and 'private' (individual) forms of suppressed (necessarily-) political speech – recognizing that that distinction blurs in a totalitarian system: everything under this system of 'class' is necessarily political because the world is crafted to keep us from seeing our containment – are needed to be returned to us… for our thought's development… as a people… [Gustav Landauer] defined as the task of the socialists and their movement: “to loosen the hardening of hearts so that what lies buried may rise to the surface: so that what truly lives yet now seems dead may emerge and grow light.”

 

[“150809powerguyslietochildren.mp3”:]

 

“My pedagogy is hard. What is weak must be hammered away.… There must be nothing weak […and of course these guys see tenderness… love… as 'weak' – their mistake… – P.S.] or gentle about them.…” [All those children sacrificed on the altar of this man's misguided notions… – P.S.] We must consider in more depth the lies the 'power'-guys tell their children… as part of our strategy… for getting free… “Lenin's policy was not a product of the moment, it was the logical consequence of his political thinking, conceived many years before the outbreak of the Russian revolution…” Is this not extraordinary… as we stop now to ponder it (it reminds me of Mao saying that he had “20 million at his beck and call…”) – and here let's not forget what Karl Popper tagged this: he called this phenomenon 'historicist'… to which we appended the shorthand: “thought leading reality…” i.e. we have been along for the ride… while these 'power'-guys… these 'power'-hungry 'historicists'… determined to be 'world-historic'… or else to just sink their 'thought' in that which is… use us as the raw material for “creating something new…” as Hitler said.

 

[“150809dualisminmarx.mp3”:]

 

“It is [in Marx…] a practical dualism… The passages quoted indicate that although our feet have to be kept, as it were, on the firm ground of the material world, our heads – and Marx thought highly of human heads – are concerned with thoughts or ideas. In my opinion, Marxism and its influence cannot be appreciated unless we recognize this dualism.” – …this point of Popper's… as… were it thoroughly discussed… clarity around it could help unify us… given the large number of sincere Marxist-Socialists around the globe who could… and should… be providing leadership on the question of whether it is a rank-rooted 'science'… or 'ethics' – the ethical stance of our inherent human freedom… and our freedom alone… as we will hear Bakunin say… that must be “the sole creative principle and basis…” of our global human society…

 

[“150809tendernesspath.mp3”:]

 

“Marx loved freedom, real freedom (not Hegel's 'real freedom'). And as far as I am able to see he followed Hegel's famous equation of freedom with spirit, in so far as he believed that we can be free only as spiritual beings. At the same time he recognized in practice (as a practical dualist) that we are spirit and flesh, and, realistically enough, that the flesh is the fundamental one of these two.… But although he recognized that the material world and its necessities are fundamental, he did not feel any love for the 'kingdom of necessity', as he called a society which is in bondage to its material needs…” – […interrupting Popper for a moment… I cannot see anything to dispute in this… do you agree with it?… this 'Marx-assessment'?… that there is this fundamental dualism in Marx… and the fact of its existence… to my mind… works against the stance of 'tenderness'… calls instead (potentially… and historically did…) for a stance of ruthless suppression of anything that (potentially…) interferes with the task of 'conquering' 'necessity'… which necessarily means an over-valuation of the so-called 'economy'… 'production'… (and ultimately…) 'development'… Fromm calls the opposite mindset “faith in man…” – we've been calling it “longing for each other…” which is also “trusting the earth…”: “Consider the ravens; for they neither sow nor reap; which neither have storehouse nor barn; [the earth] feedeth them: how much more are ye better than the fowls?”… – P.S.]

 

[“150809solecreativeprinciple.mp3”:]

 

“Faith in mankind without faith in man is either insincere or, if sincere, it leads to the very results which we see in the tragic history of the Inquisition, Robespierre's terror and Lenin's dictatorship. Many democratic socialist and socialist revolutionaries saw the dangers in Lenin's concept; nobody saw it more clearly than Rosa Luxemburg. She warned that the choice to be made was between democratism and bureaucratism, and the development in Russia proved the correctness of her prediction. While an ardent and uncompromising critic of Capitalism, she was a person with an unshakable and profound faith in man. When she and Gustav Landauer were murdered by the soldiers of the German counter-revolution, the humanistic tradition of faith in man was meant to be killed with them. It was this lack of faith in man which made it possible for the authoritarian systems to conquer man, leading him on to have faith in an idol rather than in himself.…” – “The great teacher of us all, Proudhon, said that the unhappiest combination which might occur, could be that Socialism should unite itself to Absolutism; the striving of the people for economic freedom, and material well-being, through dictatorship and the concentration of all political and social powers in the State. May the future protect us from the favours of despotism; but may it preserve us from the unhappy consequences and stultifications of indoctrinated, or State Socialism.… Nothing living and human can prosper without freedom, and a form of Socialism which would do away with freedom, or which would not recognize it as the sole creative principle and basis, would lead us directly into slavery and bestiality.” – “Kropotkin summed up his idea of Socialism in the statement that the fullest development of individuality “will combine with the highest development of voluntary association in all its aspects, in all possible degrees, and for all possible purposes; an association that is always changing, that bears in itself the elements of its own duration, that takes on the forms which best correspond at any given moment to the manifold strivings of all…”

 

[“150809blackathena.mp3”:]

 

How did Bakunin… in the mid-nineteenth century… know there was a totalitarian reality growing?… that would only deepen its hold?… “[In the last decades of the nineteenth century…] Scholars…, for various reasons, wanted to avoid giving credit to the Phoenicians… [The chapter in Black Athena, “The Final Solution of the Phoenician Problem, 1885 – 1945”] is concerned with the consolidation of the Aryan Model and the denial of both Egyptian and Phoenician influence on the formation of Greece. The denial of Phoenician influence is clearly related to the strong anti-Semitism of the period…” – “It was solely in France – with its post-1870 suspicion of German Aryanism – and among republicans – with their hatred of Catholic Royalist anti-Semitism – [that challenges to 'Extreme Aryan Classicism' could be found…] There was a strong tradition of secular and socially radical individualism in both the French and Swiss Jura which made it the model for the 'big three' social anarchists, Proudhon, Bakunin and Kropotkin…”

 

[“150809handsontheworld.mp3”:]

 

…What does this tell the child… if not… “I will give you your assignments… tell you what to think about…”…with the reminder implied: “I am in charge… ever-watching… ever-monitoring… ever-managing…” (a perfect set-up of the child… for the state…)

 

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August 2, 2015 Audio Files:

 

[“150802securehappinessglobally.mp3”:]

 

Voice gets silenced early in a 'class' system… because… as Alice will be pointing out this week… we cannot risk losing the love of our parents.… Reclaiming voice literally means detaching… separating… from 'the Master'… So in claiming our voices… we're going back and un-doing… unraveling… the web of deceit would-be 'rulers' weave. This is called 'self-creation'… or 'self-re-gathering'… 're-composition'… through invitation… And because suppressed thoughts by definition can only be voiced by others… we need each other to do it… help each other remember our initial freedom and our reaction to its suppression… …and ultimately we need to be 'we-the-people' to secure it… secure freedom in the concrete for every human being… beginning right here in the U.S.… and then by extension globally… across 'nation' (Gramsci's 'wave'…) across 'class'… it is only as a global-people that we can stand up to organized global-'power'. The strategy of a… U.S.- initially… and global-ultimately… General Strike… paired… with 'stemming the tide of the functionaries': 'public voicings of suppressed thoughts…

 

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Further… what we are now able to see… is that Alice Miller's For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence… is the companion piece to Martin Bernal's Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization, Volume 1: The Fabrication of Ancient Greece 1785 – 1985… …that a conscious… and horribly systematic and 'efficient'… effort was thought up and implemented to institutionalize the quest to realize Plato's 'vision' (the Republic)… by installing it in the minds of the children of 'privilege'.…

 

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The degree of falseness to this crafted reality (of 'class'…) that folks participate in the craft… knowingly participate in giving this falseness to the children for their intelligence to work on… the waste in this… of our children's minds… lives… is indescribably hideous to me…

 

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“Such is the future – already possible, already realisable; such is the present – already condemned and about to disappear. And what prevents us from turning our backs to this present and from marching towards that future…” [Of course… I would argue that what prevents… and has prevented us for centuries… from 'marching towards that future' that we all want… is hidden-'power'… an active… damaged… organized… group-intelligence… and it is in fact a 'group'-intelligence… and my six-years-plus journey into which the degree of organization of hidden 'power' has been revealed… in fact flaunted before me… but to those who are not privy to what I have seen… how take my word? I think about this daily. But what is certain… I need to get with some other folks. For real… – P.S.]

 

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What Kropotkin is doing here… as did Paul Goodman a few shows back when he addressed students on the common-sense… for the advancement of our happiness… of de-centralization… is voicing suppressed thoughts: the soul's deepest hope… and torment – our longing for good fellowship… and our daily horror at its violation… and consider what we've learned from Alice: that the denial of an authentic 'self' necessarily means the suppression of 'thought' itself… what else – given our inventiveness as a family of beings – can being stuck in a story mean?… but the atrophy of thought in those tiny few obsessed with 'rule'… and… to the degree we let them lead… in we ourselves too… How to avoid repeating the mistakes of the past? (in seeking global human freedom…) when 'power' was able to sucker us with 'division'… parading its buffers before our woundedness… provoking the need to revenge ourselves on them… This continues into the present. This is called getting suckered again… What Alice is saying… is that we have to look at our need (under 'class'…) to revenge ourselves on others… be they police… our children… or our fathers.adding in Alice… we have to face the fact… that there is a 'state-in-us'… understanding of which is key… to seeing what our new strategy must be… Our new strategy ties 'child-rearing'… to 'voice'… to 'global-action'… to 'de-centralization'…

 

[“150802ongoingnightmare.mp3”:]

 

“In the midst of eating, drinking, or playing, tell them from time to time with friendly gravity to interrupt their enjoyment for a few minutes and undertake something different… Fulfill no request you have once denied. Seek to satisfy children with a frequent “perhaps”… [Doesn't that sound 'regal'?… doesn't that sound like the parent wants to be on a throne somewhere?… “perhaps… perhaps I shall grant your request… I just want to see if you please me or not…” We have to save our children from such things. Please. Let's all get together… let's talk. This is not some 19th century… in the past… stuff… This… in various forms… is an on-going nightmare our children are experiencing… – P.S.]

 

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“Deception seems to be a universal method of control, even in pedagogy. Here too, as in the political sphere, ultimate victory is presented as “the successful resolution” of the conflict…” [No matter how much blood is spilled in the process… no matter the cost of so many souls lost… I've noticed in the tracking of me a broad public (USPS… AC Transit… PG&E… Berkeley Fire Department and Public Works… East Bay Paratransit… for instance – when I asked one firefighter why they were parked in that particular location with the truck's hazard lights flashing… he replied that they had been dispatched there…) - private (UPS… FedEx… Waste Management… Penske Truck Rental… [AT&T and Comcast go without saying…] and lots of smaller businesses' vans or trucks…) a broad public – private partnership is going on… The level of coordination and cooperation across various government departments… and between public and private… the fact that so many people could be mobilized so instantly and easily (using the technology that we all created… and that we need to get free…) – this can be done simply because all humans under 'class' are subject to hierarchical organization ('hierarchy' has got the whole world structured for the benefit of 'power'… of 'rule'… and as money can buy anything – they set it up that way – they can buy top-spots for days… – P.S.]

 

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“Moreover, in the case of practicing self-control, fortitude is required only in the beginning. “Success breeds success” is a favorite adage of educators. “With each victory, the power of the will increases and weakness of will wanes until it is vanquished entirely…” – [Later Alice will quote Hitler saying something similar: “My pedagogy is hard. What is weak must be hammered away. In my fortresses of the Teutonic Order a young generation will grow up before which the world will tremble. I want the young to be violent, domineering, undismayed, cruel. The young must be all these things. They must be able to bear pain. There must be nothing weak or gentle about them. The free, splendid beast of prey must once again flash from their eyes. I want my young people strong and beautiful. That way I can create something new.” – That sums up the way the 'power'-guys look at the youth – I think in our good-heartedness we have missed the degree to which these behind-scenes 'power'-mad-few – and one gift of this quite surreal aftermath to my writing and speaking out about the quite obvious immorality of training us to see as 'normal' the commodification of our human energy… has been learning to what extent hidden-totalitarians… Plato's Tribesmen and perhaps subscribers to Hitler's philosophy… have been insinuating themselves throughout 'society'… keeping their secrets… playing their false parts… to fulfill the demands of their fathers… to realize Plato's vision… – P.S.]

 

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July 26, 2015 Audio Files:

 

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And as “organized 'power'” – Plato's Tribesmen – came to dominate… this false 'knowledge' has infiltrated our 'everyday'… and we find that we ourselves have been made… into 'power's drones and clones… into softer versions of them… that carry their traits within… But is there an alternative? What should our lives be instead? It is long past time that we made that title: Fields, Factories and Workshops… Today… all of us want the same things for all of us: peace… harmony… love… good fellowship – this has been our fantasy for thousands and thousands of years… and it has only been the active undermining of a tiny few that has kept that reality from us….

 

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“Almost half a century in advance of contemporary economic and technical opinion, [Kropotkin] had grasped the fact that the flexibility and adaptability of electric communication and electric power, along with the possibilities of intensive biodynamic farming, had laid the foundations for a more decentralized urban development in small units, responsive to direct human contact, and enjoying both urban and rural advantages.…” – [Kropotkin saw – and not he alone… Nikola Tesla being his most notable peer… contemporary compadre… in this – that the accumulation / concentration of resources (in earth terms… the separation of us from our earth and each other…) makes no sense by any rational criteria… is… in fact… highly irrational… and only persists because those who have done the dis-appropriation… and the hoarding… conned us into accepting it…. What I'm realizing – something I sorta knew – is that we can't be fully alive unless we know what's (truly) going on in the world we're born into – in terms of its motive forces… the real factors shaping it… so to authentically engage with it… From the cautionary tale of the Sirens… to Adam and Eve… 'power' wants to keep its secrets… as they enable them to seem omnipotent…

 

[“150726theheartside.mp3”:]

 

It is not knowledge of the 'technical' side of how to 'de-centralize' (i.e. 'detach' from… and disperse…) global-'power' that we lack… it is understanding of the 'heart' side: of how our hearts were bound – bound-up in the trauma of that early loss… of 'self'… of 'voice'… imposed by global-state-statesmen (and we'll be exploring how each reflects the other… in upcoming shows.) And I trust… that before the solid unity that we are is visible in action… we are actual in spirit… and must ever keep that unity before us… ever in our eyes…

 

[“150726gotothesource.mp3”:]

 

How come we haven't been discussing the fact that stoping the flow of misanthropic youth who serve as 'power's troops is the obvious solution?… We have to stop the flow of misanthropic children… ready to reproduce a sick… 'class'… system… In a previous show when we talked about the subjugation of the Chinese people… and we were reading excerpts from the book Red, Inc.… and because we were considering Mao's Little Red Book… we read this fable in it about “the old man and the mountain”… and in commenting on it I said that I imagined Kissinger (who wrote a book on China…) salivated over that story…

 

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“An ancient Chinese fable… This is entirely a fable of class…” (From the May 19, 2013 Waking Up Radio show.)]

 

[“150726hegelonhappiness.mp3”:]

 

[“…the child is supposed to learn “self-renunciation” from the very beginning… – A.M.]: “The training just described will give the child a substantial head start in the art of waiting and will prepare him for another, more important one: the art of self-denial.…” [Bentham and Hegel… all snuggled up close here… what did Hegel say?: “The History of the World is not the theatre of happiness. Periods of happiness are blank pages in it, for they are periods of harmony – periods when the antithesis is in abeyance… The changes that take place in Nature… exhibit only a perpetually self-repeating cycle; in Nature there happens 'nothing new under the sun,…' …only in those changes which take place in the region of Spirit does anything new arise. This peculiarity in the world of mind has indicated in the case of man… an impulse of perfectibility… In actual existence Progress appears as an advancing from the imperfect to the more perfect…” – […who benefits from a 'child-rearing' method in which children are convinced they are 'not good enough' as the earth made them… and must work ever-harder to become 'more perfect' and achieve recognition… if not those who see themselves as our puppet-masters?… and we as the energy to realize their schemes… 'prove' their belief in 'scarcity'?… And that is a deep… deep belief of theirs that they then grafted onto us… which we will have to scrape off of us… as we begin to connect with each other and see… our abundance… – P.S.]

 

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“A consideration of the idea of punishment reveals that, in the task of education, healthy discipline must always include corporal punishment. Its early and firm but sparing application is the very basis of all genuine discipline because it is the power of the flesh that needs most to be broken….…” [“…Schleiermacher's “inhibition of life” is openly avowed here and extolled as a virtue. But, like many moralists, the author overlooks the fact that warm and genuine feelings are unable to grow without the vital soil of “exuberance.”… – A.M.] [Inclusion of “hidden 'power'” in Alice's analysis allows us to consider that 'the author' did not 'overlook' at all the fact that the methods advocated would eradicate warm and genuine feelings. As Alice has herself pointed out… the suppression of feelings is the point… Alice… despite the very titles the pedagogues choose – “of families and nations”… e.g. – telling her as much… that these pedagogues have a larger agenda… misses the conscious intent behind this mis-education… – P.S.]

 

[“150726voiceiscore.mp3”:]

 

“The pedagogue must also put a very early stop to the desire to know, so that the child does not become aware too early of what is being done to him.… Once the child's intelligence has been stultified by answers such as these, then he can easily be manipulated…” [This applies to all of us… broadly… across 'class'… This is why Kropotkin's 'complete education' was never implemented… – P.S.] Our voices get stolen… we lose our light… our way in the world… Voice is central… Voice is core… We'll be exploring this notion more in upcoming shows…

 

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July 19, 2015 Audio Files:

 

[“150719arewehappy.mp3”:]

 

Are we happy… when we can't use our gifts as we see fit (we who harbor them and are the only ones who can determine their proper direction​…) to help our Brothers and Sisters?… The state exists to command our energy… in order to create and maintain conditions of artificial scarcity… so to fulfill its aims for the further aggrandizement of its 'power'… it therefore must prevent our self-organizing… our organizing ourselves authentically… as this would manifest the abundance that we are. Do these petty… ignoble… unjustifiable… restraints on our ability to grow our gifts make us happy?

 

[“150719aglobalchallenge.mp3”:]

 

“All countries which have long continued progressive, or been durably great, have been so because there has been an organized opposition to the ruling power, of whatever kind that power was… [and 'organized resistance' when 'power' is global… must be global to be meaningful… this is our Good Three's point… – P.S.]” I particularly want to challenge those on the Left to accept the reality of the situation. There is no other way… but to accept this as a global challenge.

 

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We will be returning to this question of a coerced-work-system in this time of increasing disparity globally… the 'power'-guys cannot provide the jobs in sufficient numbers… and so they have to reframe this question of 'work' themselves… or be overwhelmed by 'the obvious'… which are the discussions we put out here… So they're very desperate to reclaim the initiative on the issue of 'work'… and… with that… the notion of 'decentralization'… and 'saving the planet' – all of this they want to massage into an integrated whole which leaves some need for them… when the reality is: there is no need for them. The need is for us to be unleashed so we can use our gifts freely – that's the need.

 

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…this moment of transition we are in… is altogether fresh… a moment when original questions rise from that bed of suppression… As we explore the suddenly emerging possibilities… with each others help… globally… using the technology to develop each other's thought more quickly… we are finally overcoming the millennia of conditioning…

 

[“150719newmentalframes.mp3”:]

 

…that the question as to the state's 'utility' for achieving our freedom (as defined by us… not by 'power'… which will say it means 'safety' from the violence it creates…) was made unthinkable… evidences the complete suppression of all opposition… evidences that we have arrived at that state of degeneration (and to force fixed rigid constraints on our humanness is degeneration…) that Mill is here warning about…

 

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Arrighi is right to bring again to our attention Gramsci's concept of the 'passive revolution'… We've said that the role of the state is to create scarcity in order to force us to work… This point was also made in a recent show in reference to Gramsci's 'passive revolution'… that unfolds and engulfs in “myriad waves concurrent…” The two points together suggest… that a 'state' cannot play that leadership role expressed by the words 'Piedmontese function' in our freedom-wave… not if we are to grow up as a global people…: It – that which springs to action – is only 'antisystemic'… when antisystemic by conscious intent… eschews all particularisms… is antisystemic in depth… is the result of 'inner' development… and sees long… within both inner and outer histories.…the 'passive revolution' concept is useful because that is how our thought develops… in “myriad waves concurrent…” once we bring ourselves into contiguous relation… side by side… in thought and action……

 

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But… the present moment… with Plato's Tribesmen sneaking in behind official political ideologies… globally… trying to hide their totalitarian intent… allows us to see into this metaphor more darkly… see a more sinister aspect (seeing from their perspective…) “How do you know what's going on with 'the people'?” The French Revolution and its aftermath took the 'power'-aligned completely by surprise… They never wanted to find themselves in that position again… …which is the point… I think… of this massive surveillance structure being set up globally: to have every move we make tracked electronically… every thought we think 'power'-sanctioned and guided… How clear are we-the-people that that's the point of it? Why are we not discussing it?

 

[“150719itsaclasssystem.mp3”:]

 

“Blogs can disrupt society, business, and government activities [well… I would certainly like to disrupt the activities of this government to target this blogger with its weapons… I just had a new one unleashed on me at 4:30 this morning… a large… low-flying drone that roared across the sky when I was outside leaving seeds for the birds… after which the swelling in my head and chest took an hour to somewhat clear… – P.S.] [can] propagate anarchist messages… The question of oversight-free authorship remains the prevailing concern… Governments must combat bloggers engaging in deliberately radicalizing rhetoric… The assumptions of this piece are really interesting – its tacit acknowledgement of what our Good Three said: that the interstate system – and the men who run it – is where the authentic decision-making happens… its tacit admission both that 'the system' is global'… and by implication and definition… totalitarian… …a single… uniform… global… system of class… it's a class system… let's please stop saying 'capitalism'…

 

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When a government says that it cannot… for the sake of 'its' preservation… reveal whether (identifying the specific means…) whether it has the means to kill or injure its citizens secretly… silently… invisibly… without there being any way for media or victims to expose this action… there can be no doubt it has become “destructive of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness…” and it is our right to alter or abolish it… When it comes to 'the state's ability to destroy us in secret… undetected… it cannot claim a 'national security' exemption: our “life, liberty, and our pursuit of happiness” takes precedence.

 

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“…such exercises… can be presented in such a way that children gladly submit to them; you need only know the correct manner of approaching the children and choose a time when they are in a good humor. A example of such an exercise is keeping silent. Ask a child: Do you think you could remain silent for a few hours sometime, without saying a word? Make it pleasurable for him to make the attempt, until he eventually passes the test… Children especially love the pleasures of the senses. One must occasionally test whether they can control themselves in this regard. Give them fine fruits and when they reach for them, put them to the test. Could you make someone a present of it? “Now let us test whether you can stop prattling. I shall see how many times you speak today without thinking first.” Then one pays careful heed to everything he says, and when he prattles, one makes clear that he is in error and makes note of how many times this has happened in one day…” [The results of this struggle against strong emotions are so disastrous because the suppression begins in infancy, i.e, before the child's self has had a chance to develop… – A.M.]

 

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July 12, 2015 Audio Files:

 

[“150712standtogetheractivism.mp3”:]

 

…standing with our Brothers and Sisters across the false divisions is Number One in our activism… not just because there's a direct line between doing that and our free future… but because it's the right thing to do… it respects our inherent truth… the truth our bodies guide us to…

 

[“150712powerofavision.mp3”:]

 

All the 'official' issues we've been fed… on the Left… are designed to keep us going in circles… bootless… reproducing – turning over to the next generation – the same illusions… The real issues… critical for us to address in order to break free from 'the system' (in us – which ends 'the system') are never even discussed: that our true selves were stolen from us when we were too young to resist… crushed before they had a chance to grow… because the central issue is 'class'… not 'capitalism'… because 'work'… controlling human energy… is the key issue for us to address… and that all other issues are subsidiary to this… that 'hierarchy' serves none of us… that 'power' hides behind scenes… uses false folks to infiltrate and deconstruct (from within…) our movements… that it has hidden (including EMF…) weapons that it uses extra-legally against 'its' citizens… both arbitrarily… and against dissent (and also as part of its 'world-sculpting' process…

 

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[I like how he puts that: “the organization is how we cooperate…” and in a future show we're going to unpack that… I saw a good example of that when I was working as an electrician… – P.S.]

 

[“150712decentralizationbyus.mp3”:]

 

“The principle of decentralism is that people are engaged in a function and the organization is how they cooperate. Authority is delegated away from the top as much as possible and there are many accommodating centers of policy-making and decision. Information is conveyed and discussed in face-to-face contacts between field and headquarters. Each person becomes increasingly aware of the whole operation and works at it in his own way according to his capacities. Groups arrange their own schedules. Historically, this system of voluntary association has yielded most of the values of civilization, but it is thought to be entirely unworkable under modern conditions and the very sound of it is strange.” ['Power' is rushing to claim this notion of 'decentralization' right now… now that it sees that it can't hold the notion back as the technology itself forwards it… is designed that way… it's designed to empower 'decentralization'… 'Decentralization' is what we're meant to have… and it has to be designed by us… freely… – P.S.]

 

[“150712electromagnet.mp3”:]

 

[I have to put this out there… as I may have to end this show early (forgive the repetition…) the electromagnetic field weapon being used against me currently is different from whatever they were using on me at first (which I assumed was ultra-low frequency radiowaves…) and because the assault is so continuous… I can't get my face 'unswollen'… it feels like being in an electromagnet… feels and looks like my face has been pulled askew… – P.S.]

 

[“150712themagicandthemystery.mp3”:]

 

[…there is a lot of mystery in the world… I have learned in the course of my life… a lot of magic… that the mythic tales we are told are happening all around us and we just have to get on the path of the truth… start talking to each other… in order to compare notes to see the degree to which the magic and the mystery is all around us…

 

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“Now if, lecturing at a college, I happen to mention that some function of society which is highly centralized could be much decentralized without loss of efficiency, or perhaps with a gain in efficiency, at once the students want to talk about nothing else. This insistence of theirs used to surprise me… From their tone, it is clear that in this subject something is at stake for their existence. They feel trapped in the present system of society that allows them so little say or initiative, and that indeed is like the schooling that they have been enduring for twelve to sixteen years…” This was written a half-century ago… and provides us with… among innumerable such… a really good illustration of the degree to which 'power' suppresses the obvious truth… the truth each generation gravitates to… it suggests 'power's control… by granting or withholding funds… of what gets disseminated…

 

[“150712weneedeachother.mp3”:]

 

'Politics'… we-the-people are trained to believe… is not about us growing up… our souls expanding beyond the condition of being 'managed' by so-called 'betters' (an expansion to do which we need each other…) but is rather an 'activity'… like 'voter registration drives'… or 'protesting'…The problems that face us are big… and it's time we acknowledged that in the scope of our thinking-politically… Hierarchy serves none of us (commoners…) none of us like it and 'power' must pound us mightily to force us to accept it… but the questions never die… and not just… or simply… because the earth (in us) will ever rise…

 

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“More specifically, the neo-liberal counterrevolution did not just result in the destruction of the illusions of the older family of antisystemic movements as we pointed out. [And by 'neo-liberal' he's referring to the ultra-Right… but I think we can substitute 'the power-guys'… the 'global-state-statesmen'… and this counter-revolution is on-going… – P.S.] As we do not seem to have realized, it had also a profoundly corrupting and divisive impact on the 1968 family of antisystemic movements…”

 

[“150712truthtellers.mp3”:]

 

…getting out what they got out… even though it could not get out on a scale broad enough to reach we who need to be discussing it took courage… And given what I now know about what they do to folks who tell the truth… I cannot help but wonder… as I said before: any death of a powerful person (and I mean inherently… self-created… powerful… not system-identified-'powerful'…) any death of a powerful person is suspect… and Terry Hopkins died too young… and I suspect Giovanni Arrighi did too…

 

[“150712hiddenpowerfactor.mp3”:]

 

…creating the totalitarian system that Plato did not believe could ever happen… a 'problem' his devoted followers solved a couple millennia later… with the creation of the global economy… which… we're supposed to believe… matters more than our own physical bodies… we're supposed to defend that before ourselves… and that massive con has held us in check for too long… This is what Giovanni Arrighi means by saying that 'power' conned the Left into an “acritical acceptance of the benefits of financial expansion…” the notion that 'financial expansion' was going to solve all the problems of inequality (and I shouldn't say 'the Left' because the full Left never has a chance to speak… all we hear of what 'the Left' thinks is what has been cherry-picked and put over the airwaves… and in the media generally… so getting authentic / suppressed discussions going is something that we're going to have to do… We have to use the means we have… and then hopefully… down the road… we'll get the means we need…)

 

[“150712trackingagencies.mp3”:]

 

[It is the 'hierarchical organization' that is the problem… control the top-spot and you then have the whole organization under your thumb… – so… for instance… in noticing the clear and unmistakable use of the vehicles of certain public and private agencies in the tracking of my location… I'm assuming they got the top-spot covered… – P.S.]

 

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July 5, 2015 Audio Files:

 

[“150705letthegoallead.mp3”:]

 

We've been arguing that… while individually it's very difficult for our certainty (needed to overcome millennia of conditioning and begin organizing for our free future…) to survive the determined onslaught of the tactic of calculated-falseness… we cope with it in our planning spaces by relying on the strength of our planning design – commitment to the goal: letting the goal lead… asking the 'utility' of everything we do for realizing the goal of a free future…)

 

[“150705soulsufficiencypiece.mp3”:]

 

A case can be made that the planning design to realize the goal of global freedom… based in soul-sufficiency – and… 'soul-sufficiency'… reclaiming our true voices… our true 'self'… has… arguably… been missing in the analysis and in the prescriptions of the official Left… for reasons that are not by accident… and we have to locate that piece centrally in our planning and action… to create the world we want…

 

[“150705secrecyinkilling.mp3”:]

 

(We have to demand accountability from the Department of the Navy for an accurate reporting of the EMF weaponry they have developed [with our tax dollars…] I really don't understand why the ACLU or some organization like that doesn't put two and two together: that if there are weapons that can kill people… or silence them by causing them enough physical distress that they disappear into the 'illness industry'… that 'power' would use that against dissent… there has to be an organization whose job it is to protect our civil liberties that takes a proactive stance… that says: “because 'the state' has these weapons… it is obvious that they would be used against dissent… That's what 'power' has done over the millennia… secrecy in killing is their wet-dream: to get rid of folks they want to get rid of with no repercussions…)

 

[“150705comingtogether.mp3”:]

 

(We have been divided from each other by the tactic of 'atomization'… and it has worked like a charm… and because of the atomization… it makes it very difficult to empathize with each other's dilemmas… and if we cannot empathize with each other's dilemmas… then we can't unify… it's a key puzzle piece to put in place… and we here in the U.S. have the right to… as a people… pursue happiness…)

 

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[“150705stayingfocused.mp3”:]

 

That we know the attempt to undermine is happening… (…inevitably… and… again… this is the coerced-work system… it puts human energy on the market… available to the highest bidder… to… ultimately – as the highest bidder will be them-who-have-hoarded-the-resources-of-the-planet for this moment of intensifying resource-shortages brought about intentionally – bring in a permanent global totalitarian order for the benefit of these would-be 'masters' / 'gods'… to rail against the functionaries themselves… makes no sense – particularly as… their service to 'power' as buffers… creating yet another division… is included in their function […and to a degree this is every one of us… consider that we're always at each other's throats – when we're frustrated… when we're stressed… – who's nearest… this is something that we all do to each other…) 'Betrayal'… 'abandonment'… 'falseness'… 'duplicity'… fear that one is 'not good enough'… fear of being judged… fear that one is not loved: these are the 'legacy-issues' of childhood in a 'class' system… which 'power' is well aware of… and will direct its agents to stimulate accordingly…

 

[“150705thebeautyandgoodnessofus.mp3”:]

 

“The more persevering and patient one's disposition in general, the more efficient it is in specific cases in overcoming an inclination or bad habit. Thus, all exercises that teach children self-control…” [This is a key objective of 'power'… that we be 'self-regulating… toward the realization of their vision… They know exactly what they want… and we have to catch up. But… once we start discussing it… I don't think it will take us long to come to agreement… We all want the same things: to have our lives back… to have time… to smell and breath with an earth that has not been messed with… to saturate ourselves in the beauty and goodness of us… We've been denied access to each other for far too long… – P.S.]…

 

[“150705ouraffectisourself.mp3”:]

 

“Now let us see how exercises can aid in the complete suppression of affect… Thus, all exercises that teach children self-control, that make them patient and persevering, aid in the suppression of inclinations.” [Doesn't that just make you want to cry? Children raised under this regime are not supposed to want anything… Our 'affect'… our feelings… is our 'self'… It's taken me a lifetime to recover my 'self'… the certainty that I have the right to the feelings that I feel… – P.S.]

 

June 28, 2015 Audio Files:

 

[“150628littlemo.mp3”:]

 

As we said last week, we have to work together on this… and perhaps it was in this vein that a lyric came. I've made a deal with the ancestors that if I'm given something from their creative gifts… that abundance… I put it out into the world, even when it's an embarrassment… “Open Letter to Little Mo: Is it OK to offer your piece…”

 

[“150628claimingwhoweare.mp3”:]

 

'Unbound time' implies one's time is not owed to… owned by… someone else… – as is the case for the small child in the home… and we in the workplace.

 

[“150628thoughtfrozenwithfear.mp3”:]

 

So… if fear halts the thought process… how do we break the logjam of fear? Again… we consider the circumstances in which it was planted… translated into the language of feeling… what would the judgment… the frowns… the endless lessons and examinations mean?… if not: “I'm not good enough… he doesn't love me…” And if whatever you did was met with judgment… and you didn't know why (beyond “not being good enough”…) and you were subject to… utterly dependent on… this ruthless Authority?… Samuel Butler is absolutely right… we'd be like that puppy with the shade that drops over his face… would this not set us up for a lifetime of trying to please?… of seeking 'the master's praise?… a perfect way of things for those who want to suck on our energy… to sculpt a world in their own image…

 

[“150628falsevestment.mp3”:]

 

We will be asking whether… – if 'the will' of the parent is exorcised by seeing him or her through a new frame – the same might hold true for the broader 'will' of 'power'… for which… after all… the parent serves but as deputy. And we will be considering the implications of this insertion of the parent's 'will' for building an authentic (i.e. based in a process of the cultivation of 'soul-sufficiency…) global movement for generalized human freedom: considering that we must confront the tendency in us to attach ourselves to Authority… to 'power'… before we are conscious of it as a tendency… because it's our life-long training (under 'class'…) to do so… …and that we have falsely (in the sense of self-betrayal…) vested in illegitimate Authority… our authentic… true… power… It is in using our authentic 'power' / voices that – increasingly as we do so – breaks this paralysis of action… in ourselves… and in our Brothers and Sisters… …and… offers some measure of protection from death-abrupt-and-calculated made to look unplanned… an important reason for openness…

 

[“150628sadistsaremade.mp3”:]

 

“The easier it becomes by means of technology to destroy human life with the touch of a button, the more important it is for the public to understand how it can be possible for someone to want to extinguish the lives of millions of human beings. Beatings, which are only one form of mistreatment, are always degrading, because the child not only is unable to defend him- or herself but is also supposed to show gratitude and respect to the parents in return. And along with corporal punishment there is a whole gamut of ingenious measures applied “for the child's own good” which are difficult for a child to comprehend and which for that very reason often have devastating effects in later life.”

 

[“150628torturoustechniques.mp3”:]

 

“When one of them then upon occasion does something that deserves punishment, I reduce his status in the class, I don't call on him, I don't let him read aloud, I act as though he were not there. This distresses the children so much that those who are punished weep copious tears. If there is upon occasion someone who cannot be educated by such gentle means, then, to be sure, I must whip him, however, for the execution thereof I first make such lengthy preparations that he is more affected by them than by the lashes themselves…” For purposes of self-protection, it is only the adult's friendly manner that remains in the child's memory, accompanied by a predictable submissiveness on the part of “the little transgressor” and the loss of his capacity for spontaneous feeling… [A.M.]

 

[“150628punishment247.mp3”:]

 

“Fortunate are those parents and teachers who have educated their children so wisely that their counsel is as forceful as a command…” Samuel Butler describes this well… I'm seriously thinking about ending the show early as I'm getting hit hard here… We must begin demanding of the Department that develops these weapons (DARPA) to know exactly what they got… [P.S.]

 

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June 21, 2015 Audio Files:

 

[“150621weneedtoworktogether.mp3”:]

 

…whoever designs 'the inner' defines the society… and the 'inner' is defined in 'child-rearing'… We want a world that's honest for the children… a world that is a flower for all of us to tend… that is what this is about… and when we trust our hearts… we get it. Our free future is a careful interweave of notes… a harmony… …no matter not (yet) positive as sound… I hear that music… that voice… and am forever drawn…

 

[“150621dustonmybrain.mp3”:]

 

…from where I sit – not a public figure whose speech is limited – there's absolutely no doubt Nina was targeted… and that the assault was relentless… and that she fought back as best she could… and that expressing what was happening… however obscurely… took tremendous courage: “dust on my brain” is a good description of what it feels like… particularly when you consider that ear-ringing can sound like static electricity… and the mucus-build-up like extraneous stuff crawling around in your head.

 

[“150621wehavetobreakthesilence.mp3”:]

 

……they are fully conscious… that we are effectively controlled by the 'simple' means of atomization… and by the universal hierarchical relation / world organization – from the tiny boxes we live in… to the nation-state-system – which ensures that the top spots are all in that pocket… on board with the project of keeping us herded… from heads-of-state… to heads of media outlets –So 'power' trumpets its dominance… wants us to know it exists… and to be afraid of it… but not to say this… and especially not to say this… to the children. (Which is why we adults have to break the silence… start saying that states are here to corral us… are ruthless against their own 'citizens'… particularly those who dissent… that the problem is the coerced-work system… and the 'nation-state-system' itself… that we don't need them… that we are here to live our gifts… and that together we are limitless… They know… that to snow the next generation… perpetuate… ad infinitum… the illusion… they must control what thoughts reach them… Our children are being poisoned by this system… we have to get them healthy information…

 

[“150621wewanttodevelopourthought.mp3”:]

 

…while we are turning around a huge global system… embedded for millennia… it's been running on sheer inertia… on driven… unconscious… energy… 'single-phasing'… life wants its thought engaged… and that… this… is what tips the balance toward health…

 

[“150621destroyingthewill.mp3”:]

 

In what follows I am particularly interested… given what we earlier said… about the importance of three-phase-power – as applied to humans (under 'class'…) – for healing this mess… and tending our delicate flower called 'the earth': we said that we must allow our children to 'unify themselves' under their own initiative… their own (self-) will… I mean imagine… making that term the ultimate indictment of a child… imagine hurling it as an epithet at any creature except the human (under 'class'…)

 

[“150621methodicalbeatdown.mp3”:]

 

“…thus, willfulness must be driven out in a methodical manner… But if parents are fortunate enough to drive out willfulness from the very beginning by means of scolding and the rod, they will have obedient, docile, and good children whom they can later provide with a good education. If a good basis for education is to be established, then one must not cease toiling until one sees that all willfulness is gone… These, then, are the two most important matters one must attend to in the child's first year… They must also keep very fresh in their minds the outline or image of a mind disposed to virtue, as described above, so that they know what is to be undertaken.” [This is straight-up Plato… only the 'form' matters… life must be beaten and molded to conform to 'the idea' in the mind of the totalitarian… – P.S.]

 

[“150621childrenlosewhotheywouldhavebeen.mp3”:]

 

“Obedience is so important that all education is actually nothing other than learning how to obey… It is quite natural for the child's soul to want to have a will of its own, and things that are not done correctly in the first two years will be difficult to rectify thereafter. One of the advantages of these early years is that then force and compulsion can be used. Over the years, children forget everything that happened to them in early childhood. If their wills can be broken at this time, they will never remember afterwards that they had a will.” [“If primary emphasis is placed upon raising children so that they are not aware of what is being done to them or what is being taken from them, of what they are losing in the process, of who they otherwise would have been and who they actually are, and if this is begun early enough, then as adults, regardless of their intelligence, they will later look upon the will of another person as if it were their own…” – A.M.]

 

[“150621thestateisacronus.mp3”:]

 

“Such disobedience amounts to a declaration of war against you. Your son is trying to usurp your authority…” [Here is a good expression of Bentham's point: that the parent is the manifestation in the home of the state… the parent is the state… and the state is a Cronus… requires that 'its' children be crippled… stripped of 'will'… of authentic selves… so the 'master's will can be inserted in them… that was Bentham's whole reason-to-be: defining 'the logic of the will' that you then insert in the children… – P.S.] [“…the sad truth, which unfortunately still holds today. For parents' motives are the same today as they were then: in beating their children, they are struggling to regain the power they once lost to their own parents. For the first time, they see the vulnerability of their own earliest years, which they are unable to recall, reflected in their children. Only now, when someone weaker than they is involved, do they finally fight back, often quite fiercely…” – A.M.]

 

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June 14, 2015 Audio Files:

 

[“150614wasteofourlives.mp3”:]

 

…our lives are being wasted… and they don't have to be… thrown away… unnecessarily… to inflate the egos of the few… so they can feel 'better-than'… that is the nature of 'class'… and now that we can… it's imperative that we bring this sad unseating of our souls to its long-overdue end…

 

[“150614globalpower.mp3”:]

 

…planning requires some minimal degree of 'safety' in the spaces we make for gathering… for gaining certainty… and for building our numbers… globally…

 

[“150614livingouropposite.mp3”:]

 

…we must admit that the problem is coercion… a coerced-work system… not our Brothers and Sisters… that so long as our human energy is on the market… we are kept cattle to be priced… fatted… and slaughtered at the whim of the global-state-statesmen… we must recognize that every human being under 'class' has questions that they harbored as infants… which remain within them… and which must be addressed… for us to get our freedom… questions that manifest… and Alice Miller shows us this… a coerced-work system's dependence on our obedience… an obedience that must be sown in us… by means of coercion… as infants… and reinforced by all social institutions… which makes it deeply totalitarian… My son gave me a good name for this: “Total Immersion Coercion”… Fifth: learning is constant (so you see these points are the opposite of what we got… and that's the point… what we want is the opposite of what we got… and so we have to start living that opposite… in our spaces that we make for ourselves…)

 

[“150614practicalpolitics.mp3”:]

 

In our May 10th, 2015 show we asked… “is there a way to design a space… a project… such that the very act of participation in it… builds it… moves it toward its goals?…” and we emphasized the absence of coercion as a key element of this design… This quest is the opposite of Bentham's: a design so welcoming of freedom that even agents are accepted. But how realistic an expectation is this? How has agent-disruption worked in the past? Generally… folks are planted to influence / manipulate actions… thoughts… and emotions… such that the goal is never reached… the effort effectively derailed. Does our clear focus on the main goal of freeing human energy globally make it 'agent-destructiveness-proof'? We are getting to the nut… of the problem of our gaining our freedom… 'practical politics'… It's time to plan realistically for the 'power' we know exists out there… But how do we hold onto our tenderness (which is… after all… required of us to grow our souls…) in circumstances of constant attempts to destroy us?… our mutual support in knowing this is happening is key… and a huge advance… a treasure without measure… over previous activist generations…

 

[“150614thedesignprovesitself.mp3”:]

 

…and… on questioning the utility of whatever we do… asking always the question: “how does this action further the goal?” – the 'principle of utility' applied to establishing the soul's free expansion in a realm of its own creation.… because if the beast we're wrestling with is totalitarian… it necessarily starts in child-rearing… So this first step …then… which needs to be taken… is withdrawing our children (and ourselves… in time… with each other's help) from 'the system'… (…and I've thought a lot about that about how when my energy was claimed by the 'wage-work-system' I could not do what I'm doing now… and I'm really pondering that… the difficulty of that… particularly as I take these walks and I see the numbers of folks who have no choice but to participate in what I think of as a 'high-tech-lynching'… To see the ease with which 'power' can… commandeer our human energy and turn us against each other…)

 

[“150614scienceofcontrol.mp3”:]

 

He's saying… per Plato… that if the design itself is 'hard' enough… it can serve as a lodestone… a lodestar… a proof… – that tests the worth of any tactic (legislation, e.g.…) or strategy (the 'foreclosure crisis, e.g.…) So perhaps he's not advocating one ('indirect') over another ('direct')… so much as urging the statesmen of his day (and beyond… he was a visionary for his cause…) to get focused… and to… methodically yet surely… get there: get to the goal… in which no change is possible… all possible contingencies have been accounted for… all escape routes for we-the-people… anticipated and closed. So you see why I'm thinking of what we're doing as the 'anti-Bentham'… the opposite of this… because we want 'the goal' to lead the decisions we make…

 

[“150614principleofutility.mp3”:]

 

“In a system thus constructed upon this plan, a man need but open the book in order to inform himself what the aspect born by the law bears to every imaginable act that can come within the possible sphere of human agency…” ['The system' can only be 'self-regulating' if we are 'self-regulating'… the 'habit of obedience' is here assumed… always aimed toward an end. What end? Bentham would say 'happiness'… and add – to the global-state-statesmen – “make certain you control the definitions…” – P.S.] [So we see why his emphasis on 'punishment'… because 'punishment' ensures that there are no rogue violators of these mandates… because everything depends on what's written down in the law… if folks don't do it… then this perfect… crystalline… ideal… tool that he thinks he has made is useless… So 'obedience'… for the global-state-statesmen… is everything. (Notice too the assumption… deeply-held by statesmen to this day… that we are infinitely malleable… or… alternatively… can be made to be so like machines that the difference would be negligible… and notions like 'artificial intelligence' made to seem credible… They want us to be totally their creation… or believe ourselves to be…) – P.S.]

 

[“150614breakthecycle.mp3”:]

 

“In a map of the law executed upon such a plan there are no terrae incognitae, no blank spaces: nothing is at least omitted, no thing unprovided for, the vast and hitherto shapeless expanse of Jurisprudence is collected and condensed into a compact sphere…” [And in this we should understand the objective of identification and controlling minutely every human action – their longing that every possible human be seen… tracked… defined… and its limits set within the law… And trust… they are very much on this right now… very much wanting to get us on lockdown… because of their concern about these communication tools we have right now. In a previous show we discussed the 'Minerva Project” in which social scientists have been told to develop the rationale for criminalizing the kind of dissent expressed here… so they wouldn't have to resort to under-the-table… extra-legal means to shut it down… – P.S.]

 

[“150614wayofallflesh.mp3”:]

 

“Ernest was to choose the first hymn, and he chose one about some people who were to come to the sunset tree. I am no botanist, and do not know what kind of tree a sunset tree is, but the words began, “Come, come, come; come to the sunset tree for the day is past and gone.” The tune was rather pretty and had taken Ernest's fancy, for he was unusually fond of music and had a sweet little child's voice which he liked using. He was, however, very late in being able to sound a hard “c” or “k,” and, instead of saying “Come,” he said “Tum, tum, tum.” [What we have to keep in mind as we read (some of) this… is that the deeper abandonment… of our parents'… and their's… across the generations… is the abandonment of their souls – their true selves – given over to a coerced-work system that is deeply totalitarian… a system that rests… as Alice Miller shows us… on coercive child-rearing… resulting in a 'system' that is… in actuality: “Total Immersion Coercion”… – P.S.]

 

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June 7, 2015 Audio Files:

 

[“150607tosooth.mp3”:]

 

The vampire metaphor fits “hidden 'power'” because these behind-scenes 'power'-mad statesmen can only persist in darkness. Openness about our aims… drawing as much attention to what is… after all… our only possible future – unless we accept totalitarianism as the legacy we leave our children… and the earth… to struggle with – is the only way to get the world we want. They are bullies… they pick off people one by one… but two who work together (and if soul-mates… all the better…) moves life forward ('compassion' may come too late… but love… arrives right on time…)

 

[“150607emfweapons.mp3”:]

 

Because I want these discussions of how we go about reclaiming our human energy to be useful… I've… as I found myself targeted and punished (with EMF: electro-magnetic force… weapons…) for my publication and trumpeting (to the best of my ability…) of our process of thinking this challenge through… I have incorporated my experience of being targeted and punished (with EMF weapons…) into our analysis and discussions… because if it is happening to me… it has happened… is happening… and will continue to happen to many many others… unless we talk about it… and make it a practice for 'power' that is no longer tenable… for the reason that they cannot run the risk of widespread de-legitimization.

 

[“150607emfweapons2.mp3”:]

 

We've said that what's missing from the theory and analysis of the Left is a theory of why we obey… Alice for the most part provides it… but it has never been incorporated… And never has it been more needed than in this moment… in which… as Alice warned (and many before her…) the power of our collective thought… amassed and hoarded in the hands of a Tiny Few misanthropists… is wreaking incalculable havoc…

 

[“150607streamdown.mp3”:]

 

The stream was down this week…

 

[“150607whyweobey.mp3”:]

 

So this is very straight-forward… we obey because 'power' has studied… plotted… and planned… for millennia how to get us to obey – how to compel our obedience – as… without it… unless we internalize these limits… 'power' does not exist… Now… this 'theory' of 'why we obey' has been proven… by its successful implementation… generation after generation… is not in dispute… So why does the Left not incorporate it into its strategic planning? The answer… partly… is that 'Marxist theory' seemed to supersede the need to… seemed to render it moot…. There is an 'historicist' (to use Karl Popper's word…) bend in it… that says… 'society' develops in 'stages'… inevitably… and once 'the people' have sufficiently grown into their 'historical mission'… then comes our freedom… But… as Karl Popper shows… 'power' will always ensure this never happens… and… instead… we-the-people ourselves… must take our lives into our own hands…That being the case… what are the strategic implications of the theory of 'why we obey?…

 

[“150607bentham.mp3”:]

 

“Now government supposes the disposition to obedience: – the faculty of governing on the one part has for its sole efficient cause, and for its sole measure, the disposition to obey on the other part.” Bentham was very clear about his allegiance… We need to be as clear and focused in the opposite direction… Let's get the mind-locks off and start thinking…

 

[“150607lakeshorelockdown.mp3”:]

 

“Shall this habit of obedience be continued unbroken, or shall it be discontinued upon a certain occasion? Is there more to be gained than to be lost in point of happiness, by its discontinuance? Of the two masses of evil – intensity, duration, certainty, all included – which appears to be the greatest, that to which one believes one's self exposed from continued obedience, or that to which one believes one's self exposed by its discontinuance?….” Yes… by all means… let's talk about it… all of us… not just the global-state-statesmen… Bentham believed that for 'rule' to succeed 'rulers' must work behind scenes… and stay continuously focused on their vision… 'Indirect legislation' means… everything we're given to see… is crafted… E.g.… yesterday's 'Lakeshore Lockdown…' If we are turned against the police… we are effectively turned from our future… we have to begin working with the police around these messages that the issue is a coerced work system… that a coerced work system is inherently totalitarian…

 

[“150607whycantwebefree.mp3”:]

 

I hope folks will re-read the essay: The Limits of Jurisprudence Defined… If we are going to be successful we have to develop 'counters' to this that speak to our inherent truth… that speak to that child… as Alice Miller tells us… who wants to be honest… who wants those answers to those questions that never got answered as to “why is everything so false?”… “why are there things people don't talk about?”… “why can't we be happy?”… “why can't we be as free as the birds?… are they 'smarter' than we?”… I guess so. Let's start being like the birds…

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May 31, 2015 Audio Files:

 

[“150531fascismontheback.mp3”:]

 

And I have to apologize… because I've been in 'survival' mode – the amazing numbers of people helping to track me… to help with the targeting… has just astounded me… this is fascism on the back of a dollar… and I think fascism… totalitarianism… has always rode in on the back of a dollar – it's called the 'wage-work-system' – which compels the behavior you want… if you're hidden-'power'…

 

[“150531rootsrundeep.mp3”:]

 

Parents: don't you want your children to be full… complete humans? Well… if they do they will be targeted… We must ask what we want for our children.

 

[“150531hardsoil.mp3”:]

 

“This gave me the idea of juxtaposing certain passages from this excellent but very lengthy book so that with their help readers can answer for themselves and on their own personal terms the following questions I shall be raising: How were our parents brought up? How were they permitted – even forced – to treat us? How could we, as young children, have become aware of this? How could we have treated our own children differently? Can this vicious circle ever be broken?… It may be that I am trying to attain something with these texts that either is not possible at all or is completely superfluous. For as long as you are not allowed to see something, you have no choice but to overlook it… This is a version of 'Socrates' Dilemma'…”

[“150531theoryandpain.mp3”:]

 

For 'thought' to grow… and so for there to be a possibility to see through the lies of 'the system' – i.e. for there to be the possibility of de-legitimization – one's parents themselves must become questions. “Poisonous pedagogy” is in essence… Alice tells us… false information… i.e., lies… and with the hand of the state on our shoulders… its boot on our backs… we parents do tend… with the best of intentions… to lie to our children – not consciously… and not always in words… but as Alice says… with looks… inattention… and indifference.… In a post from September 4, 2014 of initial thoughts to our reading of the “Introduction” of Antisystemic Movements [see below], I argued that what was missing from the analysis and strategic thinking of the left was theory of why we obey. It seems this must be given a central place in our planning for how to make self-/soul-sufficiency gatherings 'safe'… and so for us to be able to reach our goals…

 

[“150531outrage.mp3”:]

 

…I don't think its 'sycophantic outrage' if you're doing everything you can to call attention to the fact that 'coercion' is the problem… the 'wage-work-system' is the problem… that this is a global issue… not the problem of one nation-state… but the nation-state system… and global-statesmen who have no allegiance except to themselves… and the world-view they all share and are working together to realize…

 

[“150531prigbegotten.mp3”:]

 

[Can you tell that this is a man who listened to his body… and as a result… a rich bounty came to him… not from 'the system'… but from the source into which he tapped… – P.S.] “You are surrounded on every side by lies which would deceive even the elect, if the elect were not generally so uncommonly wide awake; the self of which you are conscious, your reasoning and reflecting self, will believe these lies and bid you act in accordance with them. This conscious self of yours, Ernest, is a prig begotten of prigs and trained in priggishness; I will not allow it to shape your actions, though it will doubtless shape your words for many a year to come. Your papa is not here to beat you now; this is a change in the conditions of your existence, and should be followed by changed actions. Obey me, your true self, and things will go tolerably well with you, but only listen to that outward and visible old husk of yours which is called your father, and I will rend you in pieces even unto the third and fourth generation as one who has hated God; for I, Ernest, am the God who made you.”

 

[“150531leadstofollow.mp3”:]

 

How does this inform the design of a safe space? How do we build solidarity… mutual caring… meld our longings into mutually-reinforcing actions… unless we discuss how hidden 'power' is shaping us… keeping us unconscious through its conditioning of us… discuss the specific features of this conditioning… what circumstances prompt us to obey its dictates… and then how we resist it and turn again to our original earth-allegiance?

 

[“150531children.mp3”:]

 

“Theobald [the father] had never liked children. He had always got away from them as soon as he could, and so had they from him; oh, why, he was inclined to ask himself, could not children be born into the world grown up. If Christina [the mother] could have given birth to a few full-grown clergymen in priest's orders – of moderate views, but inclining rather to Evangelicalism, with comfortable livings and in all respects facsimiles of Theobald himself – why, there might have been more sense in it; or if people could buy ready-made children at at shop of whatever age and sex they liked, instead of always having to make them at home, and to begin at the beginning with them – that might do better, but as it was he did not like it.… It might have been better if Theobald in his younger days had kicked more against his father: the fact that he had not done so encouraged him to expect the most implicit obedience from his own children. He could trust himself, he said (and so did Christina), to be more lenient than perhaps his father had been to himself; his danger, he said (and so again did Christina), would be rather in the direction of being too indulgent; he must be on his guard against this, for no duty could be more important than that of teaching a child to obey its parents in all things.…”

 

[“150531women.mp3”:]

 

“The practical outcome of the foregoing [his reading into “the wholesome authority” which should be “exercised by the head of a family over all its members…”] was a conviction in Theobald's [the father's] mind, and if in his, then in Christina's [the mother's], that it was their duty to begin training up their children in the way they should go, even from their earliest infancy. The first signs of self-will must be carefully looked for, and plucked up by the roots at once before they had time to grow. Theobald picked up this numb serpent of a metaphor and cherished it to his bosom.”

 

[“150531splits.mp3”:]

 

“As for the child himself [I love that… well before Alice… he was clearly distinguishing between the 'true self'… and the 'false self'… – P.S.], he was naturally of an even temper, he doted upon his nurse, on kittens and puppies, and on all things that would do him the kindness of allowing him to be fond of them. He was fond of his mother, too… it was long before she could destroy all affection for herself in the mind of her first born. But she persevered.… Truly, Mrs. Theobald loved her child according to her lights with an exceeding great fondness, but the dreams she had dreamed in her sleep were sober realities in comparison with those she indulged in while awake.…”

 

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May 24, 2015 Audio Files:

 

[“150524demagnetize.mp3”:]

 

…and… by the way… if 'they' – 'global-'power' – operating in all states irrespective of official political ideology – daily simply kill whoever they want to – and in the case of the US… silently and without detection – then quite obviously these political ideologies are plays we enact for them… for their amusement… How many people have they done this to… and will… if we don't reclaim our human energy now?

 

 

[“150524actingout.mp3”:]

 

What are the relations between 'voice'… and frozen feelings… and the development of our thought… exposure to new thoughts… and the opening of the heart?… the development of 'empathy'… And while this is not our purpose… this process heals our tormentors… no less than ourselves… In what they do to us… the global-state-statesmen unerringly reveal what was done to them… they were turned into the puppets of their fathers… …and in our subjection to the hardships they impose… we have had to bear witness… to a massive… millennia-long… 'acting out'… …and it falls on us… to become the 'emphatic partner'… those strong enough and in possession of an accurate certainty… to help them… in the very reclaiming of our world… discover their true selves.

 

[“150524empathicconnectedness.mp3”:]

 

“Political action can be fed by the unconscious anger of children who have been so misused, imprisoned, exploited, cramped, and drilled. This anger can be partially discharged in fighting our institutions, without having to give up the idealization of one's own mother, as one knew her in one's childhood. The old dependency can then be shifted to a new object. If, however, disillusionment and the resultant mourning can be lived through in analysis, then social and political disengagement do not usually follow, but the patient's actions are freed from the compulsion to repeat.” How do we merge… or juxtapose… new information about the 'micro' and the 'macro'… the personal and the political… the 'inner' and the 'outer'… such that the heart is not just opened… but committed to engage in action… i.e. is connected to all human-ness? Or perhaps the better question is… how exactly does the heart open?… what is that process? How did it close? We could describe our communal nature as a capacity for empathic connectedness… but if we can't form a mutually-empathic connection with our 'mother' (in Alice's sense…) we can't form it with others… out capacity for empathic connectedness gets stunted… we cease to believe in it… we have no model for it… except of course with the earth… and the earth in us.

 

[“150524encodedexperience.mp3”:]

 

“On the other hand, the general public is still far from realizing that our earliest experiences unfailingly affect society as a whole; that psychoses, drug addiction, and criminality are encoded expressions of these experiences. This fact is usually either disputed or accepted only on a strictly intellectual level. Since the intellect fails to influence the area of the emotions, the practical world (of politics, law, or psychiatry) continues to be dominated by medieval concepts characterized by the outward projection of evil. Can a book help to bring about knowledge of an emotional nature? I do not know the answer, but the hope that my writings will set an inner process in motion at least for some readers seems reason enough to make the attempt.” [We have been arguing that hidden-'power' is a key missing piece from Alice's essential insights into how the base mindset of 'class' (and totalitarianism…) – 'obedience' – gets established in the larger society by means of its inculcation into the next generation through us… the parents… – P.S.]

 

[“150524thechildintheadult.mp3”:]

 

“Since I do not believe in the effectiveness of giving prescriptions and advice, at least when unconscious behavior is involved, I do not consider it my task to admonish parents to treat their child in ways that are impossible for them. Instead, I see it as my role to convey relevant information of a vivid and emotional nature to the child in the adult. As long as this child within is not allowed to become aware of what happened to him or her, a part of his or her emotional life will remain frozen, and sensitivity to the humiliations of childhood will therefore be dulled. All appeals to love, solidarity, and compassion will be useless if this crucial prerequisite of sympathy and understanding is missing.”

 

[“150524poisonousped.mp3”:]

 

“Addressing the child in my adult readers, I see it as my task to sensitize the general public to the sufferings of early childhood. I attempt to accomplish this in two different ways. In the first section of the present work I describe “poisonous pedagogy,” the methods of child-rearing practiced when our parents and grandparents were growing up. It is possible that many readers will respond to my first chapter with feelings of anger and rage, which can turn out to have a very therapeutic effect.”

 

[“150524hiddencruelty.mp3”:]

 

“Anyone who has ever been a mother or father and is at all honest knows from experience how difficult it can be for parents to accept certain aspects of their children. It is especially painful to have to admit this if we really love our child and want to respect his or her individuality yet are unable to do so. Intellectual knowledge is no guarantee of understanding and tolerance. If it was never possible for us to relive on a conscious level the rejection we experienced in our own childhood and to work it through, then we in turn will pass this rejection on to our children. A merely intellectual knowledge of the laws of child development does not protect us from irritation or anger if our child's behavior does not correspond to our expectations or needs or if – even worse – it should pose a threat to our defense mechanisms. It is very different for children: they have no previous history standing in their way, and their tolerance for their parents knows no bounds. The love a child has for his or her parents ensures that their conscious or unconscious acts of mental cruelty will go undetected. Descriptions of what can be done to children without fear of reprisal are readily available… Since training in many cultures begins in infancy during the initial symbiotic relationship between mother and child, this early conditioning makes it virtually impossible for the child to discover what is actually happening to him. The child's dependence on his or her parents' love also makes it impossible in later years to recognize these traumatizations, which often remain hidden behind the early idealization of the parents for the rest of the child's life.” [The challenge for us to begin thinking through… is how to begin doing this – “reliving on a conscious level the rejection we experienced in our own childhood and to work it through…” – on a society-wide scale… as we gain access to new information… and as we therefore begin to give ourselves new messages… tell ourselves new stories… We'll be considering that the feelings of anger and sadness that we repressed as children… that those feelings provide the source for our anger and sadness at the broader injustices of the world… the source for our love for… and determination to defend… our fellows trapped in this injustice… – P.S.]

 

[“150524willfulness.mp3”:]

 

“The little ones' displays of temper as indicated by screaming or crying without cause should be regarded as the first test of your spiritual and pedagogical principles.… Once you have established that nothing is really wrong, that the child is not ill, distressed, or in pain, then you can rest assured that the screaming is nothing more than an outburst of temper, a whim, the first appearance of willfulness. Now you should no longer simply wait for it to pass as you did in the beginning but should proceed in a somewhat more positive way: by quickly diverting its attention, by stern words, threatening gestures, rapping on the bed… or if none of this helps, by appropriately mild corporal admonitions repeated persistently at brief intervals until the child quiets down or falls asleep.…”

 

[“150524themother.mp3”:]

 

“Dr. Schreber doesn't realize that what he is in fact attempting to curb in children are his own impulses.… I can only state that every small child needs an empathic and not a “controlling” human being (whether it be father or mother) as care giver.”

 

[“150524themirror.mp3”:]

 

“An enormous amount can be done to a child in the first two years: he or she can be molded, dominated, taught good habits, scolded, and punished – without any repercussions for the person raising the child and without the child taking revenge. The child will overcome the serious consequences of the injustice he has suffered only if he succeeds in defending himself, i.e, if he is allowed to express his pain and anger. If he is prevented from reacting in his own way because the parents cannot tolerate his reactions (crying, sadness, rage) and forbid them by means of looks or other pedagogical methods, then the child will learn to be silent. This silence is a sign of the effectiveness of the pedagogical principles applied, but at the same time it is a danger signal pointing to future pathological development. If there is absolutely no possibility of reacting appropriately to hurt, humiliation, and coercion, then these experiences cannot be integrated into the personality; the feelings they evoke are repressed, and the need to articulate them remains unsatisfied, without any hope of being fulfilled. It is this lack of hope of ever being able to express repressed traumata by means of relevant feelings that most often causes severe psychological problems.”

 

[“150524waytoheal.mp3”:]

 

“Coercion often nips the development of these prerequisites in the bud and what then remains is a lifelong condition of strain. This is like soil too hard for anything to grow in, and the only hope at all of forcibly producing the love demanded of one as a child lies in the upbringing given one's own children, from whom one then demands love in the same merciless fashion. For this reason, it is my intention to refrain from all moralizing. I definitely do not want to say someone ought or ought not to do this or that (for example, ought not to hate), for I consider maxims of this sort to be useless. Rather, I see it as my task to expose the roots of hatred, which only a few people seem to recognize, and to search for the explanation of why there are so few of these people.”

 

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May 17, 2015 Audio Files:

 

[“150517wemustcreateourselves.mp3”:]

 

We can only be happy when we create ourselves.

 

[“150517liveourbigness.mp3”:]

 

We need a world (designed by us) that allows us to live our bigness.

 

[“150517traumaofclass.mp3”:]

 

Consigning us to the role 'wage labor' is a trauma… because it requires us to cut off huge trunks of ourselves… with no one confirming that that's what's going on… So it is a wound that never gets defined as a wound… and leads to endless confusion – the original trauma of a coerced-work system. What if “the story that one does not know…” is “the loss of the infinite…” that we all possess: “That what they have not – that which they possess – ” (Shakespeare's The Rape of Lucrece, line 135)…

 

[“150517weneedtheopensociety.mp3”:]

 

De Tocqueville and Bentham saw this need of we-the-people's to speak… to break out of 'power's imposed constraints (and the French Revolution showed them this in spades [blades]…) – saw it would never cease. So the issue for both of them became… how to control it… this ceaseless attempt… Both of them… and the current crop of global-state-statesmen… are in fundamental agreement: control the thoughts we can think… to do which requires that we be tightly managed… i.e. requires 'closely-monitoring and managing' (of us…) nation-states… Nikola Tesla… on the other hand… worked in the opposite direction… Karl Popper's and Miklos' and Du Bois' and Bob's and Alice's and Zora's and Kropotkin's direction: greater openness… the 'open society'… Nikola worked tirelessly for the day – and we are in that day – when the technology would exist to allow our thought to blossom… and we could provide each other the mutual aid needed for a world… and a global humanity… premised on Freedom.

 

[“150517borntoboss.mp3”:]

 

“The notion that ruling strata seek to legitimate their rule – so that they are as morally obligated to command as those they claim to rule are morally obligated to comply – is both very old and very widespread. Weber's central theoretical claim – that certain beliefs in popular consciousness are an indispensable condition of routine compliance and so of the 'stability' of the relational network administering the rules – remains plausible.” [A restatement… it seems… of Bentham's point (or Plato's… for that matter… that 'the people' must be trained to obey by strictly controlling what thoughts are allowed into our consciousness… for 'governance' to occur…]

 

[“150517haspowertamedus.mp3”:]

 

“However, the very increase in the efficiency of the ways in which each state controls its civil society, the expansion of an instrumental bureaucracy, itself creates the limits of its efficacy by generating an ever more widespread skepticism among those whom the bureaucracy is administering.” [But is this true today… we should ask ourselves. Has 'power' tamed us with its tight control rather than provoked an organized challenge to its Authority?… tamed us by means of the education… media… and technology it has systematically shaped to do just that – and along with these tactics… add its successful defining of what is 'legitimate' 'protest'. 'Power acknowledges now the need for 'protest'… anticipates it (sometimes creates it…) infiltrates it… feeds its redefined version of it… manipulates us through it…]

 

[“150517tochallengeauthority.mp3”:]

 

“Fourth, the demands of the disadvantaged status-groups – of gender, of generation, of ethnicity, of race, of sexuality – will get ever stronger.… And the oppressed of each explicitly seek not the turning of the tables but social equality, not only structurally but ideologically as well (in the sense of the elimination from social consciousness of presumptions of superiority / inferiority in relations of gender, generation, ethnicity, race, sexuality, able-bodiedness).” [But… it's a huge step… from challenging presumptions of superiority / inferiority in terms of one status group over another… to challenging the notion of Authority altogether… What we've learned… thanks to Alice Miller… is that to challenge 'Authority' itself… and choose Freedom… we have to go deeper… – and that 'power' can… and will… 'expand civil society'… grant formal legitimacy to former 'outsider'… even pariah… groups… if it reinforces the legitimacy of the state… and forestalls the realization of our global unity…]

 

[“150517rehearsalforwhat.mp3”:]

 

“We have no answer to the question: 1968, rehearsal for what? In a sense, the answers depend on the ways in which the worldwide family of antisystemic movements will rethink its middle-run strategy in the ten or twenty years to come. 1917, for good or ill, was the result of an enormous amount of collective and conscious effort by the world's old left in the years following 1848. No doubt it was also the result of structural developments in the capitalist world-economy. But it would not have happened without human organization and revolutionary programs. The risks of drifting are very clear. The tenants of the status quo have not given up, however much their position is weakened structurally and ideologically. They still have enormous power and are using it to reconstruct a new inegalitarian world order. They could succeed. Or the world could disintegrate, from a nuclear or an ecological catastrophe. Or it could be reconstructed in the ways in which people hoped, in 1848, in 1968.” [We give thanks for their amazing heart in writing and disseminating (as best they could…) their essential analysis… We're now going to attempt a long-overdue synthesis and advancement of their gift… We're going to be thinking about how the wage-work – coerced-work – system itself abets the installation of totalitarianism… – that “inegalitarian world order” which is the objective of global-state-statesmen… who “have not given up…” – and how the mindset crafted to fit the wage-work system – obedience – likewise fits with… is the mindset of… totalitarianism… and that this mindset continuously reproduced by the wage-work system… is simultaneously reproduced – as both product and cause – in the home… What we are considering… is what the imposed 'wage-labor-status' as Sohn-Rethel talked about last week… does to us on a 'spirit'-level… We have the codified right… here in the U.S.… to… as a people… pursue happiness. So we need some people willing to move that thought and planning forward… people who see that word 'happiness' rooted in… and so posed as… a global convergence…]

 

[“150517thebanalityofobedience.mp3”:]

 

“Since the end of World War II, I have been haunted by the question of what could make a person conceive the plan of gassing millions of human beings to death and of how it could then be possible for millions of others to acclaim him and assist in carrying out this plan. The solution to this enigma, which I found only a short while ago, is what I have tried to present in this book.… It can hardly be considered an idle academic exercise when somebody attempts to expose the roots of an unbounded and insatiable hatred like Hitler's; an investigation of this sort is a matter of life and death for all of us, since it is easier today than ever before for us to fall victim to such hatred.” […we're able to add that 'hatred' – conceived of simply – played less a role in the unfolding and carrying out of the horror than simply 'the banality of obedience'… built into the hierarchical structure of 'class' itself – fascism dressed up pretty… as 'productivity'… Recall Miklos' description of Mussfeld's pride in his efficient carrying out of his orders to kill… that eighty was no more difficult for him than one…]

 

[“150517everyactofcruelty.mp3”:]

 

“Hitler never had a single other human being in whom he could confide his true feelings; he was not only mistreated but also prevented from experiencing and expressing his pain; he didn't have any children who could have served as objects for abreacting [“'abreaction': the expression of a previously repressed emotion achieved through reliving the experience that caused it…”] his hatred; and, finally, his lack of education did not allow him to ward off his hatred by intellectualizing it. Had a single one of these factors been different, perhaps he would never have become the arch-criminal he did.… I anticipated a great deal of resistance on the part of the public when I advanced this thesis – which I am convinced is a correct one – so I was surprised to discover how many readers, both young and old, agreed with me. They were familiar from their own backgrounds with what I depicted. I didn't have to adduce elaborate arguments; all I needed to do was describe Hitler's childhood in such a way that it served as a mirror, and suddenly Germans caught their own reflections in it.… It was the personal nature of their responses to the three examples I present in my book that enabled many people to understand in a more than purely intellectual sense that every act of cruelty, no matter how brutal and shocking, has traceable antecedents in its perpetrator's past.”

 

[“150517poisonouspedagogy.mp3”:]

 

“Probably the majority of us belong to the category of “decent people who were once beaten,” since such treatment of children was a matter of course in past generations. Be that as it may, to some degree we can all be numbered among the survivors of “poisonous pedagogy.” [And as I said last week… in bringing our focus on… and analysis of… the wage-work system (including the critical contribution – to 'power's understanding of how to manipulate us… – of Bentham's advice…) to Alice's analysis… I believe we are adding a critical missing piece… needed to complete the puzzle of how we can free ourselves from 'power'… – P.S.]

 

[“150517breakingaviciouscircle.mp3”:]

 

“The more we idealize the past, however, and refuse to acknowledge our childhood sufferings, the more we pass them on unconsciously to the next generation. For this reason, I attempt to point out in these pages some underlying connections, with the hope of breaking a vicious circle. For a decisive change could well come about in our culture if parents would only stop combating their own parents in their children, often when the latter are still infants – something they do because their parents were able to attain a position of guiltlessness and inviolability by forcible means, i.e., thanks to the Fourth Commandment and to the methods of child-rearing they employed.… And if we are courageous enough to face the truth, the world will change, for the power of that “poisonous pedagogy” which has dominated us for so long has been dependent upon our fear, our confusion, and our childish credulity; once it is exposed to the light of truth, it will inevitably disappear.”

 

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May 10, 2015 Audio Files:

 

[“150510thespear.mp3”:]

 

Perhaps there is someone out there who could help establish… using my home as base… for a physical space… a non-profit for the planning of just such an artistic flowering that an advancement of global human freedom means.

 

[“150510thestorymustchange.mp3”:]

 

…and we've found 'coercion' and 'division' to be… in many ways… the twofold-heart of the system of 'class'… in order to compel us… from birth onwards… 'to come in'… and to convince us to believe 'there is no alternative' to it… and that… therefore… “labor is our inevitable lot”… that we are forever condemned to implement the plans of others… and to never probe our own… or even to come to know they exist… for far too many of us… …and what we have been considering in our recent focus on the importance of being able to express our love… is that a key place to begin digging for these hidden truths… is with that core hidden truth within each one of us in a 'class' system: that our human energy should not be directed by the state… (…and in future shows we'll be considering that this is the missing piece in Alice Miller's analysis – although her contribution to our understanding of our entrapment under 'class' is critical… and she is absolutely right when she says: “As long as the child within is not allowed to become aware of what happened to him or her, a part of his or her emotional life will remain frozen, and sensitivity to the humiliations of childhood will therefore be dulled.… All appeals to love, solidarity, and compassion will be useless if this crucial prerequisite of sympathy and understanding is missing…”

 

[“150510safedesign.mp3”:]

 

…reclaiming our human energy globally is based in… …“reclaiming our 'within'…” …and how do we do that if not by coming together in discussion – with a dual purpose of understanding: global-'power'… and 'internalized discipline' / the inauthentic (false) self – i.e., in order to upend… both of them… …and while there will be inevitable infiltration… if we 'do our planning' of these spaces right… we can nullify that tactic… What makes a space 'safe'?… safe for the envisioning and building of a new world without coercion? Put practically: no agents… no infiltration. But… as that's not possible… is there a way to design a space… a project… such that the very act of participation in it… builds it… moves it toward its goals… What helps to realize the goal of a world premised on individual self- and soul-sufficiency? Let's slightly modify Kropotkin's guidance: he told us that “freedom is always the best solution to the problem of gaining our freedom…” If we want a world with no coercion… a space that's 'safe' would also be premised on the absence of coercion… beyond fundamental agreement on the end-goal as the purpose of our participation…

 

[“150510soulsupport.mp3”:]

 

We're making the case here that reclaiming the abandoned 'self' requires that we confront our training in obedience. Now… Alice Miller makes an interesting point… one which could be interpreted as a version of what De Tocqueville said about 'obedience'… Recall that he said that: “Men are not corrupted by the exercise of power or debased by the habit of obedience; but by the exercise of a power which they believe to be illegal […control the thoughts and you do control the reality – I guess that's the essence of what De Tocqueville is saying here…]

 

[“150510thechoice.mp3”:]

 

The authority of the earth – present in the urge to grow our gifts in adventurous interrelationships with new lands and experiences… no less than in our communal traditions – is voiced in classless… as well as in 'class' societies. On the contrary… it is precisely the point of the totalitarian drive which came to exist in the era of De Tocqueville and Bentham to silence this authority of the earth… in order to compel our participation in the project of achieving… and fixing permanently in place… global-'power'.… The issue is 'force and division'… the choice before us in this transitional time is between the Open Society and Totalitarianism…

 

[“150510powerfetters.mp3”:]

 

“When it has reached this point, capital, i.e. wage-labour, enters into the same relation towards the development of social wealth and of the forces of production, as did the guild system, serfdom, slavery, and is necessarily stripped off as a fetter.” [To say that wage labor gets “stripped off as a fetter…” it's important that we understand that… even if so… that doesn't end 'power'… The global-state statesmen could end the wage – or call it something else… per Bentham… and Plato… you could call it a “guaranteed minimum income”… attach a few conditions for receiving it… – it's still someone else feeding us… we're still 'pets'… is the point… we still haven't grown up… So when Rosdolsky says wage labor gets “stripped off as a fetter…” I don't think the analysis goes deep enough… and that's where we're going in upcoming shows… – P.S.]

 

[“150510managementfetish.mp3”:]

 

“Hence the managerial fetishism that pervades our society, the accepted belief that modern industrial establishments or indeed large-scale establishments of any kind cannot be run without their hierarchy of managers in control of every detail of production and of organisation and in particular, of course of the workers. This fetishism accrues to the socialisation of labour by the fact that it is in the wrong hands, wielded by management in the service of capital and for the exploitation of labour instead of being the foundation for working class power in a society of production.… As seen from that angle the functions and conditions of [workers'] own socialised labour take on an appearance as of an object-nature extraneous to them, to be studied, elaborated, and enforced upon them by separate agents.” [We'll be returning to this quote as we continue unpacking the issue of 'obedience' with the help of Alice Miller in future shows… Suffice to say… an initial thought on this… is that the confusion we feel at age… say… two… as we experience the imposition by parents of their requirement for obedience… that that confusion over 'obedience'… which gets resolved under 'class' as 'power'-worship… easily transfers over to the whole mysterious work-process itself – a cast-veil of mystery that reinforces our submission to what seems the vast knowledge of an inscrutable 'power'. What we have to discuss is how to reincorporate this knowledge back within us… – P.S.]

 

[“150510fascismhasarrived.mp3”:]

 

…they wondered whether… and how… the total consumption of the earth… that pot of cash they sit on… conveyed with it the necessary control mechanisms to… in my words… keep the cattle herded… – P.S.]

 

[“150510drawnandquartered.mp3”:]

 

“At the same time, capital's increasing search for safe havens from organized labor unrest carries with it of course a growing relocation of industrial proletarianization and hence of collective efforts to control that process and / or to ameliorate its effects. The net result may well be an increasingly class-conscious focus to the nationalist sentiment that pervades the zones outside the core, particularly in semi-peripheral states. Similar phenomena are increasingly occurring in socialist states, notably (but certainly not only) in Poland.…” [And in this context we should consider further Sohn-Rethel's point about how global 'power's design of the global 'class' work-system – i.e. a work-system global in scope – so (continuously and increasingly…) fragments our work experience that we feel it as external… and superior… to us – i.e. as disempowering… – P.S.]

 

May 3, 2015 Audio Files:

 

[“150503redemption.mp3”:]

 

…and part of the process of creating these 'safe' spaces… part of that 'safety' is this process of helping each other get 'big'… and that's how I define 'healing'… because it's reclaiming the lost 'self'…

 

[“150503abilitytoexpresslove.mp3”:]

 

…because that's really what this is about… truly… the ability to express our love… 'power' has intentionally made our world hazardous on every level… in order to suppress our love… and our ability to express it… it's much deeper than I realized going in… six years ago… “Leisure IS Happiness…” …and our bodies know this… and when we trust ourselves enough to listen… we hear that… we know that… that we can't begin to be happy if we're being rushed around… compelled… coerced… to implement the objectives… the orders… of others… we have to own ourselves to be happy… no living thing wants to be in a cage… and we have not discussed the fact that we are living in a cage… in a class system… where our human energy is compelled…

 

[“150503leveltowhat.mp3”:]

 

I've been pondering this notion of how we could imagine ourselves being 'developed' as we're being 'made-use-of'… made 'cogs' in their machine… in our earlier discussions of this issue… when we discussed De Tocqueville's contribution to global-'power's self-concept and definition of their objectives… their goals… we discussed this in the context of what De Tocqueville thought of as 'the leveling effect of commerce'… – that it tends toward an 'equality of conditions'.… “Men are not corrupted by the exercise of power or debased by the habit of obedience; but by the exercise of a power which they believe to be illegal and by obedience to a rule which they consider to be usurped and oppressive…” How is it that folks can be 'happy' to be obedient?… Are we born that way?… No. We've discussed for a while how what feels happy is 'self-definition'… being 'big'… claiming ourselves… naming ourselves… that's what makes us happy… and energized… So how is it that someone can be 'happy' to be obedient?… which… De Tocqueville says… in that state they are not debased… Really? Just the opposite. I guess the point here is: what 'power' makes us to be is 'reality'… that's essentially what he's saying…

 

[“150503debasedbywage.mp3”:]

 

…and by 'universal level' we should hear 'a single pattern of thought'… the definition of 'totalitarianism'… Voice names what exists – that's why it's so critical we stop mis-naming reality to our children – if no one names totalitarianism for what it is… it can't be discussed. It's all around us… covered by 'the wage'… 'the price'… of a human being… wearing the face of normality. Notice – not even 'the Left' over the airwaves will say this… that we are debased by the wage… …Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America – this is a book I am absolutely certain 'power' uses as propaganda with our young people… because his words can be so mis-understood… and encouraged to be so mis-understood… like Plato's… it's a perfect propaganda tool for 'power'… We must not mistake his argument… he is wedded utterly to 'class'… Rather… he believes in the inevitability of 'social equality' between the 'classes'. And I think we're seeing indications of the influence of his thinking here in the US right now… we could include in that category the granting of legal equality to 'sexual minorities'… gays, lesbians, bisexuals, transgendered… to all formerly discriminated-against groups… that in granting 'legal equality' (which begins the process of conferring 'social equality'…) we are seeing an expression of what De Tocqueville is talking about in terms of everybody becoming 'equal'… he is not talking about the elimination of 'class'… Just the opposite… he's saying that “to preserve 'class' we have to ensure there is 'social equality between the 'classes' and the various social groups…”

 

[“150503theystackthedeck.mp3”:]

 

Of course De Tocqueville did not really believe in an 'equality of conditions'… because that would mean… if he's honest… 'equality of education'… and this 'men who exercise power' would never allow. It seems to me De Tocqueville is right… that 'commerce' does tend toward a 'universal level' – if not an 'equality of conditions' – recalling our earlier point that 'universal level' implies 'single pattern of thought'… i.e. totalitarianism. This has ever been the direction Plato's Tribe intends to take all of us… globally… while telling us… per Bentham… that as long as we're all 'happy'… our particular place in their 'grand scheme' is 'objectively' fine… being 'objectively' defined… by the 'system' of 'education'… they will ever and always while they exist… stack the deck – always have… always will… while class exists – so… as we said during the February 22, 2015 show… it is on this – the 'system of education' – on which they intend to rely… which is why those they intend for 'low-slotted' positions… are slaughtered by 'terrorists' (across the ideological spectrum… and continents…) when they aspire (against this planned assignment…) higher… and… what has 'power' done in the past when there were 'too many people' – when we started talking to each other globally… getting rowdy… what has 'power' done: starved… crushed… blown our bodies up… in all the 'crises' made especially just for us…

 

[“150503economicruse.mp3”:]

 

…their creation 'capitalism' is sinking… that ship of Compelled Silence… which is the wage-work system… into which we've all been driven… with all our safe harbors inundated… washed into their sea of blood… They of course – those global-state-statesmen – knew all along it was meant to take on water… to bloat… to sink… to cast we hapless-many in the drink… but this 'economic ruse' is but one among their 'High Tech Tools'… …add to that: controlling discourse – our communications – on the Internet… and over the airwaves… and the physical elimination of dissent… by means of their development of EMF weaponry… …all of which they're doing now. Do any of us doubt their objective… is to install hardcore totalitarianism? So what can counter all this? What do we do about it?

 

[“150503habitofobedience.mp3”:]

 

De Tocqueville's notion: 'leveling effect of commerce'… requiring the general imposition of 'the habit of obedience…' is… no less than Marx's 'general law of capitalist accumulation'… attempting to capture an extremely destructive process……in which… we're told… we 'develop' because that which is stolen from us… and from the earth overall… increases in quantity. De Tocqueville of course doesn't think about the depredations upon the earth required to force the globe into a common habit of obedience.

 

[“150503seeyadontneedya.mp3”:]

 

But here's the catch that caught Marx's eye: that because there's a 'relative surplus' of us… this surplus of us grows “proportionately to the advances made by capitalist production not because the productiveness of social labour decreases, but because it increases…” […automation… 'electronification' of processes… instantaneous communication and flow of information… which to acquire converted huge amounts of the earth into physical things and money (financialization)… – and as all that 'social labor' increases… 'power' don't need us no more… it stole our substance and now it's time ('power' believes…) to say “bye… see ya… don't need ya…” Alright… so what does 'power' do? Now… Marx could see far but he couldn't see as far as into the diseased souls of these guys… plug in the technology… and you have a lot of room for a lot of misanthropy… a lot of genocide… a lot of blood-flow… a lot of phony-crises… and 'natural disasters'…

 

[“150503talkaboutpower.mp3”:]

 

…so 'capitalism' is doomed (was doomed from its onset…) – Immanuel Wallerstein was simply telling the obvious truth… …can we please start talking about 'power'?… We are at that point. Marx is right… this is the most important thing for us to be thinking about: as our social… collective… concretized… existence… stands in vast quantity hierarchically over us… and runs us via automation and electronification… we ain't needed anymore… And… no more 'capitalism'… This is why I'm focusing on this issue of 'obedience' right now… it seems like 'the point'… this issue of 'obedience'… that Marx did not devote enough time to… the point we just made: that you cannot have the accumulation of the entire resources of the planet into this Tiny Few's hands… unless you've had… prior to this… the broad imposition of the habit of obedience… and Marx didn't have time to get to this… So we have to finish that work… Right? We have to talk about the other side of our twin-dilemma: the fact that we've internalized this mess…

 

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April 26, 2015 Audio Files:

 

[“150426greensleeves.mp3”:]

 

There is a whole body… mind… and soul… there in Mr. Burns… showing us how it is a longing for freedom-in-union-and-wholeness being expressed… in all healthy longing… based in a soul-sufficiency of spirit – …where we're going… where we tend… is what we must cultivate within.… Essentially our Good Three are asking whether… and if so how… centralizing the resources of the earth into the hands of the Miniscule Few could “replace the interstate system's market-regulation via hegemony…” (i.e. a hegemonic state maintains 'order' in the world through its deciding control of where resources go… via its command of pricing mechanisms…)

 

[“150426theworldwewant.mp3”:]

 

So we can make planning spaces that are 'safe'… once we define their qualities. (And that's the theme for today's show: “Establishing a 'safe' place to plan and express our love: places for the cultivation of soul-sufficiency”… so that's perhaps where we begin in defining these qualities: What would make a place a place of cultivation of soul-sufficiency?… because it has to be that to be 'safe'… we all of us have to be agreed on that… as a starting place.)… so another key quality is: 'continuous growth based in continuous discussion'… because we have to get to a place of 'comfort' in working with our Brothers and Sisters who… don't have access to the process that we're engaged in… and that's going to be difficult…What was the core longing of 1968 if not to be done with false divisions? – i.e. 'class' in all its manifestations?

 

[“150426redefinework.mp3”:]

 

…and we've talked about this in previous shows… how the wage-work-system makes of love… affection… and attention… a scarce commodity – ensuring that the mindset of 'being productive' is systematically reinforced by the structure of the family system itself… that we learn that we have to earn – and that we aren't really able to… truth be told – earn the attention of our parents… It is the perceived 'need' to 'prove' ourselves 'worthy' – the internalized state… our unconscious allegiance with 'power' – that is the problem we must overcome… and I have to add here… that it is real hard to do that while stuck in the wage… I can testify… but it can be done… I can also testify to that… and I write about this towards the end of Waking Up… that as we gain access to new ideas… new thoughts… and as they germinate within us… we can begin to redefine the meaning of wage work in our lives as 'that which must be done for now…' in order to gain the leverage to figure out a way to move beyond it… that's what this is all about… figuring out… how to get out of this trap that we're stuck in…

 

[“150426mustbeglobal.mp3”:]

 

…because 'power' has figured out that in order to control our resistance they have to lead it – that's a deep conversation… we have to seriously think about that… and that the wage-work-system allows for that… coerced work allows 'power' to lead our resistance… that's a big conversation…

 

[“150426notilluminati.mp3”:]

 

I totally vibe with Karl Popper's optimism. And… I totally think that we have to stop giving our attention to what 'power' is doing. And… by the way… there is nothing to do with 'light' about them… except for that light that makes them melt away… like the vampires they are…

 

[“150426millenniaofclass.mp3”:]

 

Karl Popper provides a key piece of the puzzle: the motivation of these 'power'-guys… the roots of totalitarianism in Plato… the point of their 'classical education – likewise Martin Bernal. It is in fact… those ancestors and present scholars of those areas of the world… who study 'class' and its related distresses over the centuries… who have been figuring it out for us… and we can't turn our back on all that work… we need their thinking to get free…

 

[“150426nextweekgeneral.mp3”:]

 

I feel the need to continue our discussion of Antisystemic Movements another week. If folks have the time I hope you will read and think about the quotes I put up to do with “the absolute general law of capitalist accumulation.”

 

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April 19, 2015 Audio Files:

 

[“150419systemdisintegration.mp3”:]

 

…'power's chief strategy is our atomization (achieved through many means… and primarily… up to now… through the wage work system…) and we're going to be thinking as we conclude our reading of Antisystemic Movements… and absorb the thinking of our Good Three (because it's very rich and has never been – as far as I'm aware – adequately followed up on…) we're going to be thinking more about how that atomization is achieved as the world-economy contracts… because of the consumption of the planet… and is unable to keep us all 'occupied'…

 

[“150419webringthehope.mp3”:]

 

It is in examining the underlying structure of things that we gain our footing… achieve the clarity we need… the certainty… to serve in a leadership capacity… membership in which is self-selected and dedicated… those of us who choose to do this are the doctors… the Miklos'… the givers of hope who take pains to see and accept the full strategic picture… the diagnosticians who take it all in… with passion and love… what is being done to ourselves and our brothers and sisters… grateful for the chance to help bend our collective energy to a future when coercion is off our backs…

 

[“150419democracycon.mp3”:]

 

“Notwithstanding the many and real differences that set the Prague Spring and the Chinese Cultural Revolution apart, the two movements had one thing in common: they were assaults on the dictatorship of the officials… But most Third World states, caught between higher prices for energy resources and stiffer competition from newly industrializing countries, have experienced even greater impoverishment and underdevelopment than they did before 1968. Similar considerations apply to the other subordinate groups. Thus, over the last fifteen years the progressive breakdown of generational, gender, and ethnic barriers to the circulation of elites (which has benefitted quite a few members of each group) has been accompanied by youth unemployment, double exploitation of women, and the immiseration of “minorities” on an unprecedented scale. As for the change in the balance of power between labor and capital, its benefits have accrued mostly to workers engaged in stepping up the automation of labor processes, or in servicing the expanded markets for elites, or in running the relocated plants in their new locations. For the rest, the gains of the late 1960s and early 1970s have been eroded, at first by the great inflation of the 1970s and then by the unemployment of the 1980s. It is probably too early to assess who is benefitting and who is losing in material terms from the crisis of dictatorships. But here too the preliminary record seems to indicate that the material benefits of greater democracy have accrued only to a small fraction of the population.”

 

[“150419sonsofthemother.mp3”:]

 

Is not the requirement that we be subjects inherent… not just in the 'capitalist world-economy'… but in the logic of 'rule' itself… across 'class'-time? And why should this premise of 'rule' be sacrosanct? Why should we relinquish our right to give to ourselves our own 'reproduction'… setting 'economic' categories aside so that we – as opposed to 'things' – may move about freely… and pursue our happiness? Here again we see the trap that is 'economic theory' leaves us nowhere to go… stuck in its 'logic'… In its frame and definitions we remain 'labor' – never human beings – ad infinitum… but in earth-speak… there is an opening… a road… a path… to freedom…

 

[“150419workableplan.mp3”:]

 

“To the extent that this subordination [of us] is lessened, the propensity of the capitalist world-economy to reproduce and expand material welfare is lessened too…” What worth a 'benefit' conditional upon our subordination?… our 'agreeing' to relinquish our power as living beings?… 'The economy' is merely 'class'-relations quantified… and if 'the economy' is sacrosanct… so is 'class'… What if von Werlhof's point had been followed up on?… and of course if we own our bodies there's no such thing as putting them on the market… for hire – paid… to follow orders… to do what you're told to if you want to live – that's a set-up for fascism… and this has to be the conversations… not in this tiny space… but in the streets… we have to start acknowledging that 'facism-creep' that is all around us right now… And it may just seem accelerated here in the Bay Area because it's been such a fount of 'progressivism' that it's been massively infiltrated… seriously… I had no idea until I put myself in the crosshairs… but it's good to know… we have to know the truth… Miklos is right… we have to face the full… harsh… reality… to develop authentic planning… “…self-esteem begins with a workable plan…” for real.

 

[“150419technologybasket.mp3”:]

 

“One may wonder, however, whether this failure of a more favorable balance of power to deliver welfare might not be swinging the balance of power back in favor of dominant groups…” I don't think we need to 'wonder' on that one anymore. They took the technology and ran with it. They put all their eggs in that 'Technology' basket… that 'Weapons Technology' basket. The argument in this space is that… so long as 'class' remains unchallenged… so long as the originating-concession – that First Cause – of our bodies' loss remains unchallenged… there can be no 'improvement' worthy of claiming our ambition… as 'power's ultimate aim will ever be to impose permanent conditions of enslavement – differentially expressed – on all of us. There simply is no turning 'power' away from – whatever it temporarily concedes out of necessity – its totalitarian vision of a permanent global 'class' system… [But then:] “The competitive system absorbs the full energies of most of the people at all economic levels. Constant application, attention, and concentration of energy are the conditions of survival within it, primarily in the specifically economic professions, but also in other activities organized on their model… In a purely capitalist world, what was once energy for war becomes simply energy for labor of every kind…” What 'power' is engaged in at the moment… because they fear what is being called 'the periphery'… and the fact that there are some 'been-wide-awake' folk in this so-called 'periphery'… – that their main concern is locking us down… here in the so-called 'West'… because we have those [technological] resources [that would allow us to facilitate the unification…] and so they want us to remain… indifferent…

 

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“In order to reproduce, or re-establish, the command of capital over labor in the workplace, the functionaries of capital are induced to mobilize an ever-growing proportion of the labor force in wage activities but by so doing they revolutionize power relations between the genders and among age-groups and 'ethnicities.'” [I love the dynamism of their thinking here… I've said this before… it is like jazz… the 'I-feed-off-you'… the living interplay… They recognize that this is ever in play… ever dynamic… – 'power's play ever-dependent on our staying asleep… And… remember… that we are now in a moment when they can't… though they want to… expand the proportion of us in the 'labor force'… in this moment… and we're talking 'globally' – always… 'globally' we have to base our understanding… our assessment… our planning… our strategizing… – on the 'overall'… the global scene… – P.S.]

 

[“150419longueduree.mp3”:]

 

Eurozone?… No… US?… Can't do it… You see what I mean about the dynamism of the moment… about how everything is in flux… everything is on the table… is up for grabs… let's grab our lives back!… We are not going to have a moment more opportune… They are ready to roll in global fascism… They just have to get all their players in line behind it… and get us… here in the 'West'… and perhaps especially the US… locked down… by figuring out how to nullify the Internet… and the capacity for instantaneous communication – the capacity it brings us for organizing on a world-scale… literally we can organize a global General Strike overnight… if the consciousness is there to do it… if we start talking about it… if we put our agenda out in the streets… not be afraid to say the so-called illegitimate thoughts… the thoughts not sanctioned by the official media. We have to make our media the only one that matters… the 'people's media'… the media of our voices in the streets… and let those seeds blossom in multiple 'safe' planning spaces…

 

[“150419titanic.mp3”:]

 

…and so… clearly… all the various financial meltdowns in the subsequent thirty years were entirely predictable and predicted by our Good Three… so let's don't kid ourselves that any of this was not clearly understood by the 'power'-guys… what was about to happen and was / is inevitable… because… as our Good Three say… these are structural trends that cannot be reversed… just like the Titantic… after so much water taken in… it's not going anywhere but down…

 

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April 12, 2015 Audio Files:

 

[“150412deeplove.mp3”:]

 

I'd lost my passion by the side of the road… and she picked it up… and claimed it. She's helped me see so much – which is not why… but derived from: my love for her is endless.

 

[“150412newworldpremises.mp3”:]

 

…consider how completely absorbing is the project of founding a new world on a fresh foundation… based in premises that are opposite to the 'logic' of 'rule': non-commercial… non-utilitarian… our right to develop our earth-gifts without force being applied to this process (continuous growth…) …a project therefore… with clear 'terms of engagement'… with clear terms for our coming together… rooted in the understanding that we are… first… reclaiming our 'lost' gifts (which are not lost… are always there… waiting… to be re-ignited…) second… that we are… each one of us… the axis that turns the wheel. There can be no more ceding… giving up… relinquishing… our power… our leadership capacities… to some supposed possessor of 'higher knowledge'. This has been 'power's principle con for millennia…. Third… agreement that it is our responsibility to… literally… reclaim the world. And… fourth… all of our creative projects must be 'inclined' toward our future – our future together uncoerced… And there is a fifth: our projects acknowledge the existence of hidden-'power'… we need safe spaces that are safe in every sense… 'safe houses' all over the world working on this… on ending 'class' and making our interrelations with each other…and with the earth… healthy.

 

[“150412worldrevolution.mp3”:]

 

“It seemed but a matter of decades until the goals of 1848 would be realized in every corner of the globe.” We are seeing here… once again… how critical is the focus on 'class'… the question of language… controlling the definitions… and… of course… acknowledging hidden 'power'… including the fact that each one of us is 'the system of class' in microcosm… – for if the 'central mood' moving that axis is 'rule'… 'hierarchical control'… the system of 'class'… and we do not challenge that… we are not 'antisystemic'.

 

[“150412fivesins.mp3”:]

 

“…the new left accused the old left of five sins: weakness, corruption, connivance, neglect, and arrogance…” …we are more and more… I'm feeling… rejecting the empty categories that we're told to think in terms of… and recognizing that this strategy of 'power' to impose this veneer of 'scientific rationality' on our lived and living experience in which we exchange mutually all the time… in which we reject categories all the time… we're moving… we're fluid – we're always… always changing and in motion… and… academe… I believe… has been complicit in the process of trying to freeze us in place…

 

[“150412walkinstep.mp3”:]

 

And… of course… von Werlhof's point… that: “…An alternative is possible only if we, men and women, succeed in getting back forever not simply the wage, but much more – namely the means of production: our bodies and our children, our houses and our land, our knowledge and our creativity, and the results of our labor.…” This was published at least four years earlier… written for some time before that… and by a woman in their own circle of academics… Why was it not followed up on?… There's confusion as to language in our Good Three's analysis: 'antisystemic' for instance… a point Giovanni Arrighi will himself be making… in the article excerpt shared on this page.… So we see… language… defining… is not some superficial nicety we glance at as we frame our strategic advancement (of the species… to our freedom…) – rather… it's the whole ball of wax… for without linguistic clarity we cannot have theoretical clarity… without which… we cannot… all of us globally… walk in step. Presently… we are not… walking in step… there is a gap… and what did Emily tell us about closing a gap? 'To fill a Gap… Insert the Thing that caused it – ' Brilliant woman, isn't she?

 

[“150412sixtyeight.mp3”:]

 

“When 1968 exploded – in Columbia University, in Paris, in Prague, in Mexico City and Tokyo, in the Italian October – it was an explosion. There was no central direction, no calculated tactical planning. The explosion was in a sense as much of a surprise to the participants as to those against whom it was directed. The most surprised were the old left movements… But the explosion was very powerful, shattering many authority relations, and shattering above all the Cold War consensus on both sides. Ideological hegemonies were challenged everywhere and the retreat, both of the powerful strata of the world-system and of the leadership of the old left antisystemic movements, was real. As we have already said, the retreat turned out to be temporary and the new movements were checked everywhere. But the changes in power relations effected by the movements were not reversed.”

 

[“150412legacies.mp3”:]

 

We have been arguing… that with the lens 'keeping the cattle herded'… along with “'power'-plans are clandestine” (a version of: “all politics… intra-state and inter-state… is theater…”) we can see clearly enough to begin to 'de-nationalize' ourselves as a whole… not just our 'labor'. Does Germany secretly work together with Russia to sink all hope of self-determination for Ukraine? Do the myriad 'terrorist' groups… from Mexico… to Nigeria… to Iraq… receive clandestine support from the global-state-statesmen? If we are waiting for 'proof' provided by the 'power'-vetted media to deliver us certainty on such questions… we wait in vain… It is to ourselves and our mutual authentic communications that we must now turn… to plan an authentic future…

 

[“150412statuscracks.mp3”:]

 

“Thirdly, and closely related to the above, pre-1968 power relations between capital and labor have never been restored. In this connection, we should not be deceived by the experience of particular national segments of the capital-labor relation. What must be assessed is the likelihood that the commands of the functionaries of capital be obeyed by their subordinates over the entire spatial domain of the capitalist world-economy, and over a period of time long enough to allow for the interplay of commands and responses to affect the relations of production and the distribution of resources. From this point of view, the central fact of the 1970s and 1980s has been the growing frustration experienced by the functionaries of capital in their global search for safe havens of labor discipline. Many of the locales that in the early 1970s seemed to provide capitalist production with a viable alternative to the restive labor environments of the core zone have themselves turned, one after another, into loci of labor unrest…”

 

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April 5, 2015 Audio Files:

 

[Apologies… this show did not stream over the Internet.]

 

[“150405hiddenpower.mp3”:]

 

In abandoning our – we-the-people's – original understanding of the concept of 'the class struggle' as global social transformation… the professional Left abandoned us.… So we see from this… the importance of basing action on analysis… and of factoring into it… “hidden 'power'”. Because all our clear-headed theory otherwise… leading… as our Good Three do… to the global theater… will… time after time… get ship-wrecked on the rocky shoals of this strategic weapon…

 

[“150405passion.mp3”:]

 

Can we fall in love with ourselves as we discover each other's voices?… we asked in a recent show… longing for what we are… longing to see it live… …and what we are… is passionate… deeply… expansively… voraciously… passionate: we want our passion – and real passion 'power' fears as it can't be predicted or controlled… real passion… which is but our full human capacity rising in us – to live… Longing… hope… and of course determination… these are the qualities that fuel our movement. Aren't they the taproot of solidarity?

 

[“150405mothertongue.mp3”:]

 

We are in the moment of “coming to terms” with the mission of fulfilling our ancestors' vision… in realizing this transition to a world established consciously… by all of us. Our Good Three have been arguing that we need a new way of conceptualizing and describing this challenge… but we've had that language… held in trust for us… by the earth-connected: it is the language of truth and beauty… the language of our Grandmother Earth… our mother-tongue… which we have been systematically kept from seeing… or trusting… when we do. Our great ones of heart who speak it… are there for us to turn to now… when we need unshakeable authority… for mutually inter-linking our efforts globally.

 

[“150405whosetsterms.mp3”:]

 

…the issue they are really calling our attention to… with this question… is Bentham's… it's all about language: who controls the lexicon… the definitions… So… what does it look like… this freedom?… and the forms by which we achieve it?… And what are its dimensions? What does it mean to be 'antisystemic'?

 

[“150405theaxis.mp3”:]

 

…'truth' and 'beauty' must be the axis that regulates the wheel of the world we want… Presently it is the soulless who make the decisions for us… This cannot be… if we are to honor our full humanity…

 

[“150405thingwithfeathers.mp3”:]

 

“Hope” is the thing with feathers –That perches in the soul – And sings the tune without the words – And never stops – at all –

 

[“[“150405ruleproduction.mp3”:]”:]

 

In our last show we questioned whether relations of 'rule' – the crafted 'legitimacy' (the internalized mental states that ensure 'citizens' obey…) nation-states use to compel our obedience – were… in fact… contradicted by relations of production… the rules for consuming the earth global statesmen invent to establish the material conditions that reinforce their rule… We could perhaps think of these two broad arenas as two locks on our ability to move… with the chain being our obedience…

 

[“150405civildepth.mp3”:]

 

“The tendency shows more fundamentally, if less clearly theoretically, in the question of how relations of rule relate to relations of production. We reach here matters of very considerable civilizational depth, where even the distinction which we have been working with disappears. For the challenge, in process of realization, is to the 'Westernism' of our ways of thinking – and, to short-circuit much – to our ways of conceiving of the 'socialism' of a socialist world-system and so derivatively to our ways of identifying what is or is not 'progressive'…”

 

[“150405denational.mp3”:]

 

“The further processes… entail the redefinition of trajectories. For the de-nationalization of domestic labor forces suggests a fundamental change, on the part of the left, as to what “national” means…” [I'm still wanting… at some point… to address the 'Black Lives Matter' issue – although it is “fraught with difficulties…” to use our Good Three's language… There was a photo in the local student paper in which was shown those words – “Black Lives Matter” – lit up in neon lights on the City Hall Lawn… and I couldn't help but think… what if all the resources (because there's money there…) had been put behind the Occupy Movement?… and all the media coverage?… Beaucoup… beaucoup… on this issue of how racism is supposedly still dividing us… discussion-time much better 'spent'… coming together and deciding what we want… instead of constantly reacting to what the media tells us is what we're supposed to be doing… We need our 'own things'… as Ntozake told us… back in the day… – P.S.]

 

[“150405vonwerlhof.mp3”:]

 

“An alternative is possible only if we, men and women, succeed in getting back forever not simply the wage, but much more – namely the means of production: our bodies and our children, our houses and our land, our knowledge and our creativity, and the results of our labor. We want all this without continuing to depend on “central powers” like puppets, so that we can work for our own, autonomous existence…” [What happens to all the hard work that is done by our good-hearted folks from academia?… – P.S.]

 

March 29, 2015 Audio Files:

 

[Apologies… this show did not stream over the Internet.]

 

[“150329diasdeamar.mp3”:]

 

Our themes in recent weeks have been 'voice'… how it expresses the soul's development… and how when we see this… when we attend to it consciously – attend to our inherent freedom – we are punished… by 'power'… and rewarded… by all that is true… and good… and eternal. That Goodness which is Beauty… Grace… and Courage in One – though I fear for her at the hands of these sick abandoned children… so determined to rule over us – I will follow anywhere. I have never known such love as she is… such a sun could never be resisted… for her my passion is endless…

 

[“150329elementsoflove.mp3”:]

 

…we have been moving to the conclusion that only by acknowledging the existence of hidden 'power' – and we tended to focus on the professional Left… the pundits – could our analysis… and so our strategy… be set on the right path… towards achieving global human freedom… defined as universal leisure – freedom from necessity – based in individual self-sufficiency and global mutual aid. We could call this… perhaps… the 'mental' route. But is there a 'body' route? Two routes… that meet in the middle?…

 

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To say that our new world – that comes from broad… conscious invention (of… by… and for… 'the people…) must be premised on individual self-sufficiency and global mutual aid… requires a closer look at these terms 'individual self-sufficiency' and 'global mutual aid' (along with the other terms that have come forward and we are exploring: 'authentic leadership'… and 'dissolution of rigid institutions'…) …and a useful place to begin might be with the question: can there be individual self-sufficiency truly… without the soul's sufficiency?… in the sense Emily Dickinson meant when she said that “the Soul selects her own Society” (poem 303)… or Walt Whitman… in saying that the soul follows its questions… possesses its own integrity…

 

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Can there be a broad… popular… movement for 'soul-sufficiency'?… But there must be… for us to achieve our freedom. What would it look like? How would we know it?… if not by its goals… if not by its representing for all the world?… i.e., 'soul-sufficiency' necessarily means a design tied to others all over the world… necessarily has a global cast… taking on the challenge of consciously composing… a 'global symphony'… of all our voices… “What do you suppose will satisfy the soul, except to walk free and own no superior?”

 

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By way of preface: I think it's fair to suggest… that three key objectives of Antisystemic Movements are… first to jog our unstimulated memory of the meaning of the phrase 'the class struggle'… to remind us that it is… by definition… the uncompromising commitment to the achievement of generalized human freedom globally (as it is a world-system in which we are enmeshed…) and second… to encourage us to be strategic… to base 'strategy' on 'analysis'… and then to show us – we-the-people – demonstrably – as the unequivocal result of their analysis – that we-the-people cannot achieve generalized human freedom with the strategy 'claim the state.'

 

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“On the other hand, these means of communication – constructed for information to move inward [up], commands to move outward [down] – are in place and rapidly growing. They are integral to the expanding centralizations of productive capital and its corollary, the extending technical divisions of labor. And they are even more integral to the expanding centralizations of financial capital and its corollary, the expanding official debtor – creditor relational networks. These developmental conditions and tendencies are not in doubt.”

 

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I think we can now see… that this whole matter of 'necessary labor' and 'relative surplus value' is about 'power' fine-tuning its control of us… these terms refer to the fact that… in Marxist theory… 'capital' is ever about driving down the price of the 'commodity' 'labor power' by forcing us to accept less and less in the way of our 'quality of life'… that is, by reducing as much possible what it is 'necessary' for us to have… what we must have… in order to keep getting up and going back to them…

 

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…that this is about sheer naked 'power' is obvious… that it has been elevated to the status of 'economic theory'… or 'science' has worked as a con only by the sleight of hand of 'power' staying hidden… in the three ways we've been talking about…

 

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…although I'm arguing here that a better angle on this process is achieved by calling it our atomization… that 'the principle directional tendency of capital is their – the global-state-statesmen – their determination to shatter us… we-the-people… they become more cohesive while we are scattered… systematically…) [hell of a night… not in a good sense – we will have to come back next week to this issue of EMF weaponry… because they're pulling out the big guns on me these days…]

 

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…could… under dramatically different circumstances… could we have unified through cooperation? (this question was discussed in the chapter “Progress”… in Waking Up…) 'Historically'… the lethargy attendant upon the coercive relations of 'class'… the so-called 'rulers' have ever attributed to so-called 'human nature' – a misdirection from themselves (perhaps the oldest expression of their key strategy for maintaining their exclusive position: managing [limiting] our access to information…

 

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The 'world elite' directs the 'global-state' institutions to foster the necessary conditions for massive 'capital'-accumulation… but why?… the question particularly penetrates as we see the massive social and ecological destruction that flows in its wake – ocean-death is looming… species biodiversity has collapsed… contamination of our common earth… water… and air resources has proceeded at a pace that staggers in its full weight. Surely… this is not simple greed for its own sake. Can there be any who still think this? How would such explain it?… Lust for status… ego-gratification… alone? Completely implausible once you consider Bildung – elite education – which is why Martin Bernal's contribution (Black Athena) is key.

 

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“We must remark here in passing what this contradiction, in this form, implies for those of us who subscribe to the theoretical notion that relations of rule operate by virtue of a condition of consciousness known, since Weber, as their “legitimacy.” Namely, it implies increasingly corrosive effects on the very “right” of the apparatuses of states to compel compliance with state-promulgated rules (“laws”). This sort of “legitimacy” crisis – …the structured incapacity of states to take care of their own, as it were, could so help shift modes of understanding and comprehension that the specifically legitimating domain of “patriotism” becomes secondary – but to what?

 

March 22, 2015 Audio Files:

 

[Apologies… this show did not stream over the Internet.]

 

We will be arguing today that… we have a collective voice and longing… and when one is stifled – individual or collective – both are stifled. 'The state' – a.k.a. the 'power'-guys – like to pretend they can service our need as living things… these 'stunted-heart-voice-beings' for whom voice is a tool for suppression… not the expression of the soul's course… set… for high-flight. When we take charge of our own lives… we are determined to make our songs soar… and soon enough we learn… that this is not a solo project… that we need each other to know ourselves… see ourselves… our mutual beauty and goodness… support our determination to grow our souls continuously… in a 'system' that punishes these qualities because they must be self-developed. We've lost track of ourselves as 'the people' because nowhere do we see ourselves – see these mutually-self-developed qualities of ourselves… developed in communal relation – visibly expressed… manifest… in the public sphere…

 

Once we hear our fellows' voices call… from other cells across the hall… what can it mean but that we are systematically seeking our songs… breaking down the walls… of the Panopticon?… We said last week that it is our longing – the creative element – from which springs the will… the need… to fight like that little parakeet I watched fight the cage… to fight for the right to speak in our mother-tongue of freedom…

 

In what follows I'm encouraging us to consider that it may be helpful to think of this challenge before us of global social transformation in terms of this word 'composition'… And I've been arguing that the Panopticon is the design by which the world – of 'class' – is structured… I mean… it's obviously hierarchical… this global 'class' system… but it is beyond just hierarchical… what is… I suppose you could say 'innovative 'about the Panopticon is that we are atomized in it… kept from seeing each other… knowing each other… talking to each other… It is… I suppose… for 'power'… the ultimate design for silencing we-the-people… Bentham was obsessed with proving that a tiny… miniscule few could indeed control the vast vast majority… So… with his plan and their vision in hand… 'power' has so far proven him right… We have ten thousand guys running the lives of seven billion… and this is so wrong we have no concept of it… no way to describe it… but… the realization of this untenable situation in its full significance is growing… is sinking in… we are beginning… now… to reclaim our world consciously… and that's the first step to reclaiming it physically… materially… with each other…

 

…'nation'… originally… was never meant to be an authoritarian way of our organizing ourselves… or a totalitarian way of defining ourselves… but rather simply as a way to develop our gifts communally… it's a 'tribalism' based in love… mutual aid… and respect for all peoples… and this explains why 'power' is eager to replace the notion 'nation' with 'region'… a cell in the Panopticon… What happens when 'the people' becomes… in the thinking of 'the professional Left'… 'the proletariat'?… or 'labor'? What gets silenced?… our full human-ness?… our heart and love?… our longing?… sent packing with the note: “Irrelevant”? It is a particularly peculiar relinquishment here in the U.S. given the codified right of 'the people' to pursue happiness…

 

“It is true that conquest of power and achievement of a new productive world are inseparable, and that propaganda for one of them is also propaganda for the other, and that in reality it is solely in this coincidence that the unity of the dominant class – at once economic and political – resides.… The problem can be formulated as follows: since the State is the concrete form of a productive world and since the intellectuals are the social element from which the governing personnel is drawn, the intellectual who is not firmly anchored to a strong economic group…” [I'm asking us to consider… hear… by those words ('economic group'…) that in earth-speak… this means 'the creative element' – our love and joy seized and directed to serve… 'the system' – us… striving to sing our songs… In the language of 'power' these are 'economic' qualities… So when Gramsci says… if a 'intellectual' is not firmly anchored… in that song… he's anchored elsewhere… – P.S.]

 

If the issue is how to find our way out of the maze… the trap… of 'class'… – and I believe it is – and 'the professional Left' has never asked itself… has never (in recent memory) been held by us accountable to answer… how they justify strategically their actions… explain how they lead us to freedom… how reducing us to narrow categories called 'economic' restores our stolen voice… hope… and knowledge of ourselves as powerful – who will step up and do these things? …'big openness' because… here in the US we have the right… the codified right… to come together as a people and discuss if we are happy… Other nations don't have that. We do. And… so long as we don't claim this… claim our right to discuss this… openly… every one of us is at risk… because 'power' attacks dissent clandestinely… and we have to provide big, public back-up for each other… Once we begin organizing… openly… it's much harder for 'power' to snip us out… one by one… Just as their tactic is 'hiddenness'… ours is 'openness'. We want to draw attention to this. That's our only protection. Given the current circumstances… of the 'class struggle'.

 

…but I find I'm thinking something so I'll go ahead and say it: it is impossible to predict how that 'wave' which Gramsci is encouraging us to think about… how it starts to build… or where it starts to build… I know that Marcuse… in a quote we cite often… speculated whether it would be the 'intellectual workers' withholding their critical knowledge and skill – in terms of keeping the systems running – was strategically… perhaps… a place to encourage that initial wave to get rolling. Perhaps. But perhaps it's with that word 'composition'… and beginning to meld our music together… in some way we haven't yet seen a way to… But I am concerned… from just recent observations… about the depth of the conditioning of young people who are trained to be servants of 'the system'… of the global-state-statesmen… I haven't seen a lot that's hopeful in those youth… but I am eager to be pleasantly surprised on that…

 

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…I think we’re at the point where we can… with greater assurance… reject the convolutedness of 'economic theory' of whatever persuasion… and challenge our ‘Marxist’ brethren to consider that to the degree that Marxist theory is an ‘economic’ theory… it harms rather than helps our chances of uniting globally such that the ‘interstate system’… as the means for ‘power’ to escalate its war on us… can be responsibly dismantled… or ‘re-imagined’ as a dissolution of rigid institutions…

 

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Now… this reveals the pitfalls in our path… when ‘hidden power’ (recall they act clandestine… and have infinite resources… they monitor our inter-communications… and have been who knows how long – and this is definitely one of the implications of global electronification – and another reason why we must insist on openness… because… why should they be the only ones who know what we're doing?… with love… for each other… We need to be this means of our mutual inter-communicating… We don't know… where each other is at… because of the design in which we are trapped……

 

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Now… this reveals the pitfalls in our path… when ‘hidden power’ (in both senses… as we'll discuss further below… point being though: what cannot be commandeered authentically by 'power'… is our longing… we long for each other… and I keep coming back to this thought… again… thanks to love walking in… this notion of that creative element… of longing… of what we want… that… when that is awoken in us… and how is that awoken in us?… these are the thoughts that are occupying me at the moment… because… this is how we do this thing… I'm more and more sure… with a love that is a passion… and a passion that is a love… because that can't be mimicked… can it?… See… there tactic is infiltration… is… pretending to be us… but you can't mimic… effectively… this creative element… Imagine… trying to pretend you're… Coltrane… or Billie… Imagine… See you can't even begin on the project… it seems… see I'm wondering about this… to what extent even attempting it… the earth begins to reclaim you…

 

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…and when ‘hidden power’ is not factored into our analysis… we fail to see that ‘claiming the state’ is a bankrupt strategy… and keep cycling back to it… over and over… and even when analysis exposes its futility… it becomes the back-up plan… when we don’t acknowledge that the problem is ‘class’… which… once global… is totalitarian… …and this recognition flows… once the global-state-statesmen… are flushed out of the shadows (conceptually…) and we give the gaining of our freedom… our total focus…

 

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Because we are not ‘forming class’ as we come together to shape our ‘freedom’-vision… we are dissolving it… and re-forming… our human-ness… ‘Class-forming process’ is not our language… Rather… in the language of our earth-allegiance… the process they’re describing means ‘coming to agreement’ – globally – to fight to get our own back… to set our sights… on Freedom… We are going through a process of re-establishing our terms… We were conned into relinquishing the ‘global’ scope… conned into ‘letting go’… the vantage of the whole… but now we know that we need our ‘world-view’ of what it means to struggle to achieve a transformation of society… in order to meet… the moral challenge of the moment…

 

March 15, 2015 Audio Files:

 

…creative energy seeks its mate… We do this for each other… miracle… grace… call it what you will… it it the energy by which we reclaim our world… My love and gratitude to those who give it… is endless… We but need to realize it in the physical world of our creation… It's as if all the trials… all the lessons… of my life were preparation for this moment… helping me to come to be… to try to be… fit… fit for being company with… one with… a quality of love I didn't know existed… in the arms of which I place myself utterly… But the proof is in the doing.

 

This means that one of these most key fundamentals expressed in this show almost three years ago… is that the creative energy generated… as we honor and respond to life… as we cleave to the life we feel in each other… is infectious… we hunger for each other… we want to be together – that is the most powerful force that furthers this movement… and we shouldn't underestimate it. So… once we start to do it… create the spaces in which life is honored… creativity flourishes… what comes from it cannot be predicted…

 

…creative energy seeks its mate… We do this for each other… miracle… grace… call it what you will… it it the energy by which we reclaim our world… My love and gratitude to those who give it… is endless… We but need to realize it in the physical world of our creation… It's as if all the trials… all the lessons… of my life were preparation for this moment… helping me to come to be… to try to be… fit… fit for being company with… one with… a quality of love I didn't know existed… in the arms of which I place myself utterly… But the proof is in the doing.

 

…so it took me years to put two and two together… and I'm sharing this symptomology because I don't believe that anyone has done that… has been able to put these things together in this way because they have not had that advantage of seeing the pattern… and seeing it… trail you about [referring to my using my car to sleep in to… as I at first thought… escape the EMF fields…]

 

…all to say… I do understand why folks who would otherwise challenge global-'power'… think twice… It is an irrevocable decision – and… for my part… I wouldn't change it for a minute… because I agree with Gorky… it ain't about me. But precisely for that reason… my heart aches at the thought of what others suffer… of what trouble these perpetual abandoned children cause Tenderness and Grace. I'm very grateful for Miklos Nyiszli's Auschwitz for showing us to what extent 'global power' depends on our inability to believe they could do such things… “Why infiltrate an arts organization? It makes no sense…” “Why bother with peace and love advocates?” We have insufficiently appreciated… I think… the degree to which keeping us from thinking is… everything… the whole game… and snipping out those who cause them the slightest trouble… troubles them not at all.

 

‘Shout-outs’ of gratitude this week… to all of you “grappling with the morality of the times…” i.e. facing the moral challenge of the times… these times “when wrong comes up to face us everywhere…” as Christopher Fry put it. Alaa Abd El-Fattah – whose thoughts (and it is for his clarity of thought that he now sits in an Egyptian prison…) – thank you… and please stay strong… and to Nicaragua: Eternal thanks for your determination… putting your lives at risk… to stop this further earth desecration… a canal the real purpose of which is your impoverishment… and stay strong Mexico… as with all nations under this vile global ‘class’-system you have suffered grievous loss… but you are showing us how what is stolen can be re-got…

 

While not all of us experience the ‘class’-system as direct repression (i.e. experience its repressiveness consciously…) or receive its more blatant punishments… we are all experiencing this horror that has never been named (itself a particular horror of ‘class’ – its ‘hiddenness’… that its assault on our humanness is never acknowledged – spoken out loud – as being such…): …the false limits imposed on us… that now… with great determination… we are struggling beyond… recognizing that what is key… is our working together to do this globally…

 

But ‘the people’ cannot determine whether we are… in fact… ‘happy’ as a people… without coming together and asking ourselves that question (and isn't it interesting… all these decades and decades and decades… with those words "as a people…" codified… in front of the face of the US Left… that it has never demanded that we do this… that we come together… as a people… to determine if we're happy…) asking ourselves whether the path down which we are being driven… is the right one…

 

The issues… Sisters and Brothers… are: conscious choice… and growing our gifts under our own earth’s guidance (i.e., our inclinations…) We can choose to come together and decide what we need… as a people… to pursue the collective happiness of all… the determination of which… requires… all of us – we don’t want to be children anymore – We have the right… as life… to develop and create together the conditions that allow this for all of us. The ‘Achilles Heel’ for ‘power’ is ‘free will’. We have to ‘agree’… for ‘rule’ to have legitimacy… And here in the U.S. (if we need such permission…) this right is codified in the Declaration of Independence – i.e…. ‘power’ can’t stop this once we are determined… …this is not ‘revolution’… but rather ‘evolution’… of the human spirit.

 

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March 1, 2015 Audio Files:

 

Please listen to this brief note… Sisters & Brothers:

 

[March 1, 2015 Note: “They changed the locks on me… and I feel so bereft… by the wayside left…”

 

So… here's the archival show I promised. This is our July 29, 2012 show on: "Why do we need an authentic language?" – look for partial transcripts of key bits over the next few days. This is Part 1. Thanks for your patience.

 

“Love is the highest principle…”

(The rest of the show excerpts will follow shortly.)

 

“We have the same earth beneath our feet… and we really have to start emphasizing… putting our energies on… what unifies us…” (Part 2)

 

“What do you mean by ‘authentic language’…?” “In order to unify and free ourselves of the conditioning of this system which is designed to take our earth away… we have to reclaim earth… It's really quite simple and basic… if we stop and think about it… which jobs don't allow us to do… which is what they're for… and now that there are not enough of the populace locked down in a job… 'power' is trying to figure this one out… and I think it's a rare and very important opportunity that we have to seize here. So… 'earth-based' is my short answer to your question… that… when we start talking about what future we want… we have to… little by little… start reconnecting with the earth… I'm very grateful to the Occupy Movement for… showing us that instantaneously we can begin creating that alternative that is in alignment with the earth if we start aligning ourselves with the earth. It is about saying ‘we're done with this system’… and [it is] the inability to say that… that is holding us back…” (Part 3)

 

“…I think what's key in getting to that place of certainty [that ‘I'm done with this system’…] is claiming your own language… and being able to use that to communicate with others… So I want to talk about how we recognize language that isn't earth-based… that is based on coercion… and manipulativeness… – when did that start?… and… how do you see that today… and how do we not claim that?… we're negotiating these treacherous waters… we're in a situation in which we're actively being atomized… so… how do we negotiate these waters and start claiming our own language… and at the same time avoiding that language which is toxic and used to keep us oppressed?” “…‘how do we negotiate these treacherous waters and begin developing our own authentic language?’… is challenging because we have no regular… purposed… practice of discussing… collectively… where we are at… so… that's a real challenging one. But before we go further into that… [to your question…]: ‘how long has this been going on?’… one of the many reasons I'm grateful to Karl Popper is that he was able to show that… literally… Plato's Republic serves as a propaganda playbook for 'power'… and it has been able to organize and focus the thinking of 'power'… not just towards a clear goal… but towards specific strategies… – propaganda being key because language is key for keeping us confused… because it is literally by controlling our thoughts that we are controlled… literally. So… when Plato was writing there was an active anti-slavery movement… and that Plato saw his mission (as would Hegel thousands of years later [renaming 'nationalism' as something authoritarian…]) to translate and turn around that progressive impulse that is in us as human beings… So… Plato would redefine 'justice' (which had been claimed by the antislavery movement…) as 'supporting the state'… So… I think we can see how focusing on language has enabled 'power' to move steadily towards its goal of 'the best state'… and it sounds almost silly to us… sounds [abandoned-childish…] that these nutty preoccupations could have hijacked the entire planet for millennia… So… how to go about reclaiming language after literally thousands of years of having it chipped away at…” (Part 4)

 

“…You can chip away at the human spirit… but we are alive… and that's in our corner… despite all of this energy that has been used to keep us down… we have the creative element on our side… that is very infectious… we want to connect to one another… we want to help each other… that's in our nature… I stay very optimistic when we're talking about something like language…” “…as you were saying… we're still living things… we're still alive… which means it's [pressure] they have to [apply] continuously… and increase the pressure each generation simply because we figure things out and we increase the pressure on them… so we are slowly… not just because of the consumption of the planet but because 'thought' wants to develop itself… little by little… we are figuring this out… we are growing up as a species… and because we can… not just begin speaking ourselves in concrete terms… and modeling this for each other… but now when we start modeling this for each other… and speaking in concrete terms… that's shared globally… so we are catching up to 'power'… and we are getting it that we have to start… not just on an individual or community level… figure out and expose the cons… but expose them to each other globally… and move ahead globally…” (Part 5)

 

“…So… what are some of the cons today… we were talking about how in Plato's day… and Hegel's… that they used language to shift… to change… the popular movements of their day… how do we see that today?… there are numerous examples… I just wanted to bring something up so that people can start to see… if they're not used to seeing how language is used in that manipulative way… So what are some of those examples today… in the media… in the political discourse… do you have some examples of how language is used to co-opt movements?…” “…well… in the July [8,] 2012 show we mentioned the fact that even the word 'future' has been taken from us. If you listen to the airwaves… whenever the discussion of 'future' comes up… guaranteed it's about the latest science and technology… so… that's not even subtle conditioning to tell the vast majority: 'go sit down and shut up and wait for us to deliver the future to you…' because… 'obviously'… that 's a specialized activity – creating the future – because only 'scientists' and 'experts' can bring us our future… because it's about the latest 'science' and 'technology' and we're not able to do that stuff… right? So… that's one example…another… – it's important to look at what concepts are particularly threatening to 'power': 'claiming the future' is one… another is 'claiming the earth'… so when you look at anything to do with that… you're going to see 'power' heavily into a propagandistic effort to control how we think about it… So for instance… because it's pretty clear that there's a hunger for the earth out there… and that young people today… in response to the absence of other options for their energy… are turning more and more to trying to reconnect with the earth… so 'power' has had no choice… given the consumption of the planet and the massive economic and environmental crises that result from the consumption of the planet – because you can't do that twice – has been forced to concede 'oh yes… we need to be more self-sufficient… we need to have good… healthy… locally-grown… organic food… ' – that is… those who are in a privileged position…” So this whole 'local movement' is something 'power' has rushed to claim… and I think you will inevitably see an effort to… every major propaganda effort by 'power' tries to divert progressive energy… the impulse towards loving your brothers and sisters… towards the state… 'power' has always done that… that's what unifies 'power's thinking over the millennia… is: 'take our wanting to be loving to each other and direct it towards supporting the state…' 'if you support the “best state” that's furthering all these great principles that you say you want… 'Justice'? 'The state can handle that!” 'Food for all'? 'The state can handle that!” And gradually we become more and more passive and our energy gets sapped because nothing is required of us… but to support the state in whatever ways we're told the state needs support… and it's very de-energizing… and it makes us lethargic… because as living things we are… limitlessly powerful… each child that comes into the world is a reality check: 'oh! That's what we're supposed to be?'… and depending on how you react… you will either create a major threat to 'power'… or you're going to take your anger out on that powerful being for your loss of power… so… to the degree we wake up and see who is the culprit… who stole our power… why we are lethargic… we're building that critical mass for a future in which we can all live our full human possibilities……” (Part 6)

 

“…I was thinking about a lot of things while you were talking?… one was when you were talking about my son… your grandson… and I enjoy talking about this topic because it's up for me right now… and I see how he's learning the language… and playing with it… He can already make sentences using his intonation… and he's fully talking… The other day we were feeding him soup… and he just wanted the rice… so he was saying all these sentences that didn't make any sense… ending in 'rice'…and it was very directing: 'This is want I want… rice…' so I see him learning the language and using it as a tool… He's very creative with [language…] and I think that we can learn a lot from that energy… As adults [under 'class'…] we can be very fixed… Seeing my baby is a very good reminder of what is possible… what is earth-based communication – language – because children are the closest source of that… and if people are unsure what we mean by 'earth-based'… you can just turn to the littlest person in your life… and start to notice them… start to appreciate them… and listen… Another thing that came up for me when you were talking was… I recently watched this documentary… 'The Nim Project'… it's a documentary about a chimpanzee that they try to raise from a baby… and at one point in the documentary they have him… this chimpanzee… in a room… it looks like a… basically… a prison cell… and that's his 'learning center'… and he has his trainers there with him… and they're doing various 'signing'… communication… language… exercises – and the chimp is bored… the chimp wants to be swinging on those branches… having fun… being… a chimpanzee… and… he knows how to sign – we are amazing creatures… and I'm talking about 'we'… meaning… all the creatures of the earth are amazing creatures… and chimpanzees have a particular gift… they can communicate with us… and this chimpanzee knew how to communicate with sign language – so he kept on signing (and this will sound very familiar to those of us who remember being in school…): 'I have to go to the bathroom…' And he kept on signing that over and over… and so he would go to the bathroom to get out of that freakin' room… because no one wants to be stuck in a room. And to me that was really interesting because… one… you saw the spirit of beings – who wants to do that – but also that he had to take on the language of [those] human beings… of… not being earth-based… because in order to get out of that room he had to 'play the game' [i.e., lie]… he had to say something that wasn't actually true… and so we have to take a look at that as human beings [under 'class']… who we are… and what we have become… in terms of this system… in terms of the conditioning… and even its spilling over into other animals… other species. And we talked about that with elephants… and how [if they were] raised in a circus from a baby… and when they're grown up… they lose their power… they don't know they can break that chain that's around their necks… so this is a disease that is spilling over into all walks of life… and it's our responsibility… this is our burden that we have to deal with… this being disconnected from nature… and language is key in starting to create… describe… conversate… a new world that we want… that is earth-based…” “…And modeling it…I think modeling it is where we start… or… maybe where we start is we have to begin having these conversations first… whichever… [given] where you are at… is possible… modeling is incredibly important… in the July [1,] 2012 show… at one point you said: '…why not just have this movement [grow] organically? Why do you feel that it's important to say “we're done with this system…”? Won't the system change because we're doing what we're doing?' And I replied… but just saying that… 'we're done with this system…' – is incredibly important… claiming the earth… out-loud saying… 'My allegiance is with the earth… The earth is the true source of everything…' The words that we've been conditioned to use… which shift that allegiance to the state… away from the earth itself… is a major part of the problem… if not the problem… since it is by controlling our thoughts that we are controlled… So… yes… we have to begin consciously seeing how the earth has been stolen from us… and… consciously… through language… reclaim it. So when we're saying what future we want… we have to speak concretely… we have to say… 'I want a future in which I can wake up in the morning and say “What do I want to do today?”…' knowing… that everyone in the world can wake up and ask themselves… 'What do I want to do today?'… That is literally our future… Now we have just this minor detail of getting there. But once you know that's what you want… it's incredibly focusing… and clarifying of what strategies work and what strategies don't… because then you're not going to be tricked by [someone] saying… 'But don't we want a world where everybody has a job?' No… that's not the world I want. But a lot of us are not at that point where we're ready to say… 'I am done with “class”…' because… whatever the particular nation-state… it is a 'class'-system… So we have to start acknowledging that the problem is not this or that nation-state… the problem is the 'class'-system… Are we ready to say… 'I am done with the “class”-system…' we have to say those words… We have to say… 'I want to own this body… and that means I don't put it on the auction-block…'” (Part 7)

 

“…But there's so many people out there… coming from different places… a lot of people feel that the system just needs some bandaids – it's a 'fixer-upper' – so this speaks to the importance of having this discussion… because we all have our own thoughts and ideas… and until we come together and talk about them… it's really hard to then move forward from that… You were talking a couple weeks ago about someone that you met on the street who was rubbed the wrong way by the language you were using because she felt like it would polarize people… What do you say to individuals… and I'm speaking specifically about individuals [active in] progressive movements like Occupy Oakland and how they use language… what do you say to those people who want to use language in order to… in order to bring about something different… but they don't want to… blam… put it in your face … they feel like you have to ease people in… to transfer them over to something new… rather than be in their face about it… What is the harm in softening truth? So… instead of saying that 'we need a movement to end wage work'… it's more of a thing where [you say] 'well… that's our goal… but let's not name it specifically…' – because I see that all the time. But I think I'm talking about two different things: one… people who are not yet done with the system… or feel that we just need to make adjustments… [in certain areas like] homelessness… or maybe the food crisis… or sustainability… – [that if we just] handle all of those little things… make slight adjustments… so that one day we wake up and realize oh! we're in a new world! So that's one way of looking at it… the other way to look at it is that we are very focused and specific about what we want… and vocal… using our language… in claiming what it is that we want… What do you think about the language that is being used in these movements… and it's kind of hard because… again… all of these movements are very different – I don't think I see one that is very specific in [the sense of] what you're talking about… which is 'reclaiming our thoughts'… 'ending wage work'… 'saying “no” to selling ourselves'… – that's a very specific movement – and I think what this woman was saying was that: people are going to react to that in different ways… a lot… in her mind… in negative ways… hearing that message put out there… and part of me agrees with her because I feel like the system is one that uses pacification… uses coercion… very effectively… and so… for me… I'm thinking… well… to move beyond this… do we need to use that same conditioning… or similar energy… to move people out of this… if they're used to a certain way of being communicated with? What is the best way to proceed… and communicate… knowing that we have had decades [of conditioning] – those of us alive [right now] – we've had a certain amount of conditioning already put in place? How do we overcome that… and how do we use language to overcome that? And are these movements that we're a part of… are they a part of the problem by using the language that they're using?… because it isn't their own language… it's still that language that has been co-opted by the system. What are your thoughts on that? ” “You asked a lot of questions in there… all of which are really interesting… You asked: What do I think about the language used in the various progressive movements that are out there?… You mentioned that people are reacting in negative ways… often… to authentic language… don't we want to soften… or sugarcoat… some of our language in order not to alienate people? How do we overcome centuries of conditioning? How do we use language in a way that does that? Are progressive movements part of the problem if they're using the master's tongue? So there's a lot in there… in those questions… and if I were to say one thing to begin tackling them… it's that… we have to have a process of regular… purposed… discussion in order to begin developing our common language… because the misunderstandings are going to be vast… because we don't have that language yet… so we have to begin overcoming those misunderstandings in order to get on the same page… It is incredibly important that we all – globally – get on the same page. And that may sound more daunting than it in fact is in practice… because when we stop to think about it… we're all made of the same stuff… we all want the same thing… but we've been conditioned – and there's various different ways in which our minds have been misled from that basic reality: the earth is the source of all of us… One little example: I had a brief conversation with someone and I used the phrase, 'what we all have in common is that we want to own these bodies we walk around in…' and he bristled immediately… and he said… 'I own myself… nobody has bought me…' so he is interpreting what I just said in the master's tongue… which is that: 'you want to be your own man… you don't want to be owned by anybody'… so we're not talking the same language… And by 'you don't want to be owned by anybody' that means 'you have integrity'… 'you have your own set of values and you live by them…' So even that language has been taken over… we can't communicate on even that basic level. But when I said that… for Sebastian De Grazia… the only authentic definition of freedom is “freedom from necessity…” leisure… that's authentic language… that's saying that the only authentic definition of freedom is the ability to feed… shelter… and clothe oneself… then you can say you are free… no one can pull your strings [addendum: if everyone else in the world is likewise free from necessity…] no one can dangle the threat of starvation… or loss of home… and warmth… and food – that's authentic language. So when we begin clarifying what we're saying… then… the 'aha!' comes… as it did with him. When he heard that… then he [agreed]: 'ok in that sense I don't own myself… I have to sell myself…' So there's an enormous amount of misunderstanding that has to be clarified. Now as to whether we soften truth… that's a longer conversation.” (Part 8)

 

“Now in terms of whether we soften truth… that's a longer conversation… whether… strategically – because I've been arguing that numbers is everything… because that's our advantage – so… strategically… I heard you ask… in a sense… don't we want to… in order not to alienate… in order to maximize numbers… use a language that is less 'off-putting'? For instance… in that July 1st [2012] show… that you referenced… when [I recalled that] someone said to me 'well… you might not want to talk about “bosses”… you might want to say “that dominator-class model”'… or something like that… you know: 'if you talk about “bosses” you're going to alienate “bosses.”' And then there's that example I gave at the beginning of the show… when a man said that he was put off by the phrase 'flesh-eater'… so: 'don't we want to use language that doesn't put people off?' So those are two examples at different ends of the [political] spectrum… because… I would tend to agree that 'flesh-eaters' loses people for no good purpose. On the other hand… if we alienate 'bosses' that might be a good purpose… so… because the vast majority of us want to be free of bosses… So we have to get our principles out there on the table… get clear on our vision… get clear we're done with 'the system'… and start to prioritize in terms of principles… like: 'love for our Brothers and Sisters is primary' – and there's no contradiction there with 'maximizing numbers' – so… let's start talking about it…” (Part 9)

 

“…so… let's start talking about it…” “…OK… I would like to do that… I think… that by this radio show that's what we are beginning to do. I would love to see this radio show broaden into a larger discussion with people in the community… because I know that you've been doing a lot of thinking about this… I've been doing a lot of thinking about this… and I know that everyone out there – the people that I run into and talk to – have similar feelings of being discontent… feeling frustrated… different emotions that come up within this system… So what you're saying is true… that… once we come together and start talking to each other… we then tap into the earth… what we naturally feel… and are connected to… once we start talking about that and sharing that individual experience… through that language… collectively… will be our future… our answer… and I think that collectively we create new language… through that rich discussion.” “And I think that there are certain key… just to start… just to show that this is going to be easier than we may think…that there are certain key catch-phrases that capture the essence of our collective problem… dilemma… as well as point us towards the solution… towards our future freedom… And I have such a brief moment with people when I have these interactions on the street I try to use such catch-phrases… For instance: 'we need a mass movement to end wage work…' immediately gets you thinking… or 'we want to own these bodies we walk around in…'” “Yes… using authentic language in order to stimulate deeper thought is really important… Again… I wonder what effect that has on people… and if people aren't really ready to hear that… that may… at first… be a negative thing. But I even think that in that instance… that's a seed that is planted…” “I think that's what I'm trying to get at here… that these are not just seeds… although they are seeds that are planted… But what I'm asking… or urging… us to all begin doing… those of us who feel… that it's daunting… ending a 'class'-system… [is to begin noticing language] that exposes the lie of the system… or that validates… legitimates… discussions of how we can have a world that's premised on non-coercion and reverence… We move towards our future when we start naming it… So… to say: 'we need a future in which no one has to sell their human energy'… or: 'it's time for us to move beyond a 'class'-system… On the cover of this small series of books I have the words 'we are living the transition that ends the “class”-system'… One man who looked at the cover said, 'Oh yes, I believe that…' but he believed it was a very long… intermediary transition… and I don't… I literally believe that as we start putting these words in our mouths… we begin making it the truth… and… logically… if these were not dangerous phrases… we would be hearing them over the airwaves… These are disallowed thoughts. Here are a couple I used in Beginning Again: 'those who dissent are targeted…' and 'all achievement is used as defense of the system…' – that's a big one… we have to start talking about it… And… what I write is that to begin again we have to start manifesting 'having each other's back'… this means… among other things… acknowledging actively… i.e. out-loud saying… the above two facts… 'Out-loud saying' is important because our brothers and sisters are not hearing these thoughts… [Addendum: My son is right… I think… to point out how effectively 'the system' uses coercion to suppress authentic thinking and isolate those who defy that suppression… i.e. its essential that we develop mutual support for each other… Tolstoi knew whereof he spoke when he wrote: 'Enough individuals, as well as nations, can be interested in civilization but not in true enlightenment. The former is easy and meets with approval; the latter requires rigorous efforts and therefore, from the great majority, always meets with nothing but contempt and hatred, for it exposes the lie of civilization…'] that alone is really important…” (Part 10)

 

“And 'all achievement is used as defense of the system…' is a big propaganda-technique… a major strategy that was given to 'power' by Plato – these are millennia-long cons that now… because of the Internet… because of these amazing tools… we can begin exposing and sharing with each other… but we have to say them out-loud… which is why these conversations are not allowed over major airwaves…” “…I really enjoyed this conversation [on language…] today because… before… I didn't really question 'language' in the same way… so this has helped me get to a clearer understanding of… how it's used… and how we can move forward using more authentic language… The other thing I appreciated… is that you say to just speak it… speak the truth… say it… You've said [before] that that was your beef with movements [like the] sustainability movement… that they're not including the entire globe in that… and the importance of doing that… and using language to get that across. To say: 'I am with you Brothers and Sisters of the world…' is really key. I remember in the revolution in Egypt… that after the Occupy Movement happened… people in Egypt saying, 'I see you… Americans that are standing up… we are with you…' that… to me… was a very powerful thing…” “Thank you for acknowledging… the importance of our standing with each other globally… it is very important for us to hear that from our Brothers and Sisters across the globe as we're doing our things to end 'class'… to stand with them and vice versa…” (Part 11)

 

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February 22, 2015 Audio Files:

 

The Raven: “Then [Kropotkin] says… well, that could be your response… or: “… Or, on the other hand, the dreams of your youth will become the firm convictions of your mature age. You will wish to have wide, human education for all, in school and out of school. And seeing that this is impossible in existing conditions, you will attack the very foundations of bourgeois society. Then discharged as you will be by the board of education, you will leave your school and come among us and be of us…” So… this is ‘authentic talk’… He’s saying that there is no way to ‘fix this’… there simply isn’t. And so he concludes his essay ‘An Appeal to the Young’ by saying: “You stop me at last! ‘What the devil!’ you say. ‘But if abstract science is a luxury and practice of medicine mere chicane; if law spells injustice, and mechanical invention is but a means of robbery; if the school, at variance with the wisdom of the ‘practical man,’ is sure to be overcome, and art without the revolutionary idea can only degenerate, what remains for me to do?’ A vast and most enthralling task, a work in which your action will be in complete harmony with your conscience, an undertaking capable of rousing the noblest and most vigorous natures. What work? I will now tell you. Two courses are open to you. You can either tamper for ever with your conscience and finish one day by saying ‘Humanity can go to the devil as long as I am enjoying every pleasure to the full and so long as the people are foolish enough to let me do so.’ Or else you will join the ranks of the socialists and work with them for the complete transformation of society. Such is the necessary result of the analysis we have made. Such is the logical conclusion at which every intelligent being must arrive provided he judge impartially the things he sees around him, and disregard the sophisms suggested to him by his middle-class education and the interested views of his friends. Having once reached this conclusion, the question which arises is ‘what is to be done?’ The answer is easy. Quit the environment in which you are placed and in which it is customary to speak of the workers as a lot of brutes; go among the people, and the question will solve itself.” So… he wrote these words one hundred and thirty years ago… I’m saying something very similar. What is ‘progress’? I agree with Nikola Tesla… and I agree with Kropotkin… that ‘progress’ happens as we start implementing that advice… of Petr Kropotkin’s… on a world-scale: we go among each other. And… in fact… what Kropotkin also says is that… we must come to a common understanding with our fellows… and form societies… and know that this has to happen across nation… So what we need to know has already been figured out… the question is how do we do it… and in the discussion that we hear from ‘the pundits’… that’s never addressed… See… those who honestly wanted our freedom as human beings… our generalized human freedom… are practical beings. They didn’t shirk their responsibility to address the actual human conditions that we’re living in… and so they came to the logical conclusion (as Kropotkin said…) that you can’t do this in the existing institutions… you can’t… and so what do you do? And [so the question becomes…] do you want your beliefs and your behavior to coincide? [Spoken word is from our September 30, 2012 radio broadcast. This is Part 5.]

 

To base ‘theory’ on what our bodies tell us means to acknowledge and honor our actual experience… which means to ‘see’ material reality accurately… and that to distort our ‘seeing’ so as to deny the validity of our original judgment… of our senses… and of what we know in our bodies to be so… is the point of ‘education’… Kropotkin says as much – in the wordbeat we posted with this show – about ‘education’… in saying that… in our hands… it will have to be re-thought… to include our experience… – which makes him dangerous to ‘power’. And our Good Three are likewise coming to this conclusion reached (by Kropotkin) a century previously at least… which makes Antisystemic Movements unique… in contemporary social critique… in inviting a ‘new story’ – and therefore dangerous to ‘power’. And this is what’s different about what is said here: we are inviting a new story – and drawing on the ancestors who are inviting a new story.

 

As of this writing (February 21, 2015) the new page I created (“Embracing Global Goals” – Part 2) is displaying the same ‘html code’ problems we encountered in preparation for the January 25th, 2015 show… So… we soldier on…

 

“The remainder of my schooldays were no more auspicious than the first. Indeed, they were an endless Project that slowly evolved into a Unit, in which miles of construction paper and wax crayon were expended by the State of Alabama in its well-meaning but fruitless efforts to teach me Group Dynamics… but as I inched sluggishly along the treadmill of the Maycomb County school system, I could not help receiving the impression that I was being cheated out of something. Out of what I knew not, yet I did not believe that twelve years of unrelieved boredom was exactly what the state had in mind for me…” (Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird, 1960)” Now that’s a great illustration of the contrast between the clarity with which children see… and the challenged vision of adults under ‘class’… due to manufactured ‘scarcity’ and the stories we’re led to believe. So while 10,000 years of subjection produces a profound paralysis of action in us… each child starts out fresh… with backs that must be made to bend…

 

We are considering today the broad impact of the fact that… as Jomo Kenyatta will tell us… there is no ‘freedom of thought’ under the global system of ‘power’… that the story of ‘Rule’ – into which is merged its multiple versions: “Thought Realizing Itself”… “Development of the Productive Forces”… “The Civilizing Mission of Europeans” [or ‘the creatives’…] “The Triumph of the Republic: Realizing Plato’s Vision”… “The Pursuit of Knowledge-Infinite” – that the ‘heroism’ implied in such… is a mirage… a faux-heroic attempt… to not-see an Abyss staring at it… which is best known by the name, Abandonment. If… as is undeniably true… one story… and one story only… has become dominant: the story of ‘Rule’… who has the ‘power’ to make it ‘systematic’… to embed it in all institutions?: only the tiny… tiny… tiny… miniscule Few. “…After king Kikuyu was dethroned, the government of the country was at once changed from a despotism to a democracy which was in keeping with the wishes of the majority of the people.…” Jomo Kenyatta is illustrating for us here… how we can change the story at any time… if we come together… and determine… to do so…

 

“In order to… prevent any tendency to return to the system of despotic government, the change of, and the election for, the government offices should be based on a rotation system of generations…. It was… decided that one generation should hold the office of government for a period of thirty to forty years, at the end of which the ceremony… [took] place to declare that the old generation had completed its term of governing, and that the young generation was ready to take over the administration of the country….” For those of you who have been listening for some time to these shows… it may have occurred to you just then… that this is exactly the opposite ‘system’ – approach to governance – from that prescribed… propagated… proposed… provided… by Plato’s Tribesmen… who propagandize that ‘the Republic’ – the ‘ideal state’ – requires that young people absolutely be denied access to the reins of anything until they are sufficiently elderly to be inducted into ‘the system’ (which never changes…) To prevent change was precisely the point of the system of permanent ‘class’-rule devised in the Republic. And Plato’s Tribesmen have been on this ‘mission’ for the last two and a half centuries.

 

“The tribal democratic institutions which were the boast of the country, and the proof of tribal good sense, have been suppressed. Oppressive laws and ordinances, which alone engross the monopoly of thought, of will, and of judgment, have been imposed on the African people… The land not only unites the living members of the tribe but also the dead ancestors and the unborn posterity. This fact is obvious, because it is in the ancestral lands that the ancestors lie buried, in the land which they once occupied. In this way the dead are able to keep direct communication with the living, and the sanctions which control behavior in both the collective life of the tribe and private lives of its individual members are the approval or disapproval of the ancestral spirits. Through incarnation the future generation is linked up with the past, thus bringing spiritually the three groups, i.e., dead, living, and unborn, into one organic whole. The annexation of the ancestral lands by the Europeans has robbed the African of the use of the productive asset on which his entire economic life depended.”

 

Practical solutions… guidance – guidance that reflects the actual circumstances of our lives – is precisely what we’ve been denied… and this is what makes our Good Three’s contribution so important… and no less so Kropotkin’s… whose words… built on here suggests this: that ‘power’ uses ‘education’ (under ‘class’) to provide the ‘objective evidence’ of ‘natural inequality’… and ‘science’ (including Marxist theory…) as the legitimating ideology (full-spectrum propaganda-coverage…) ‘Vetting’ is made automatic by the “‘class’ education project”… and that the ‘education process’ alone ensures that only the thought-parameters established by ‘power’ are allowed to see the light of day… the airwaves…

 

Nonetheless… a year on… we are still being referred to as “the world labor-force”… and our formation in unity as “the socialization of production…” Are we at the point yet… when we can clearly see… that this language is the problem precisely?… that language ‘controls’ the way we think?… and that… when not self-made… by we-commoners – “by… of… and for… ‘the people’…” – language becomes… mind-chains produced by the ‘podrunks’… to keep us… from waking up…

 

…so… where does this leave us?… “in urgent need of reconstructing the strategy, perhaps the ideology, perhaps the organizational structure of the family of world antisystemic movements […I would even question that language… “family of world antisystemic movements …” because they got a single… unifying… ideology that unites these ten thousand people globally… called ‘rule’. I believe we need a single… unifying… ideology… called ‘freedom’… – P.S.]; if we are to cope effectively with the real dilemmas before which we are placed, as the ‘stateness’ of states and the ‘capitalist’ nature of capitalism grow at an incredible pace…” …and… I don’t know about you… but… I think we are… right now… doing that…

 

“And officially classified debtor states are required, on pain of losing their creditability as states (and hence of losing, in today’s world, their very “stateness”), to reduce the cost of their exports by reducing the costs to capital, direct and indirect, of labor within their borders. Popular demonstrations against such officially constructed austerity plans are reported almost daily. This world-level, organized pressure to depress the living conditions of the world’s more and less proletarianized workers is hard to construe as other than a strategic escalation (by capital) of class struggle.…”

 

D-Way: “We’re talking today about “responsibility to resist ‘power’”… Very interesting quote by Kropotkin… and I agree the solution is very simple… yet it is… arguably what people are most afraid of: to see each other… to talk to each other… ‘Power’ has done an excellent job of conditioning us… of keeping us atomized in boxes… and that conditioning is very powerful… When you’re hearing these discussions… and you’re hearing: ‘if you do the analysis… we come to the conclusion that ‘the system’ isn’t just these military-… or educational-… or political-… system… or ‘system-of-class-structures’… that the system is inside of us. And when people start to sit with that… and talk about it… it’s not to feel like that that is an attack on an individual being… saying that ‘the problem is you… and you need to fix you’… in fact… we… ” The Raven: “And I actually believe that those who have access to the airwaves… the ‘punditry’… have a really big responsibility to talk in authentic ways because that’s what turns us on… that’s what excites us…” D-Way: “So… why?… obviously those in the media who have a megaphone to numerous people… and who you would think would be grappling with the morality of the times right now – if you do the analysis you have a responsibility – so… why is that authentic conversation… truthful… earth-based… discussions… why are they not happening more on the airwaves?… it seems like times are getting harder – The Raven… you say that the people [you speak with] on the street… more and more… are saying, ‘yeah, we’re in a totalitarian state right now… this is a reality…’ So… why… when you turn on KPFA… even on the progressive media… why are you not hearing an earth-based discussion? I mean… I understand the pressures of trying to keep that conversation under wraps… But… more and more I feel like that would be a hard task to try and control that conversation. And people on the Left… on KPFA and all those worlds… is it just that they’re being tugged by ‘power’?… that they have bosses and can’t say certain things because that would shut down their radio show… or whatever it is that they’re putting out there?… I don’t quite understand why the analysis that I hear on the radio isn’t… ‘streety’… isn’t earth-based… isn’t something that really, truly reflects what is going on? For One… OK… so why aren’t we hearing it on the radio… on the airwaves… and Two… if we’re not… then… let’s do it ourselves… and I think that’s where we’re coming in with what we’re trying to do… is to create the conversation for ourselves… because… if we are the most interesting people… then why are we giving our power… our thought… over to these ‘medias of distraction of thought’?” [Spoken word is from our September 30, 2012 radio broadcast. This is Part 6.]

 

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February 8, 2015 Audio Files:

 

The following mp3 files are from our February 8, 2015 show… following which – after uploading edits and audio for the opening of the show the following morning… later that day – no edits would subsequently 'save'… i.e. I was no longer able to edit the page (“Embracing Global Goals, Scope and Action: Becoming Global Actors… Claiming the ‘All’”). “Embracing Global Goals” is being suppressed precisely because it's right on target… So let's do it!… Let’s go… Let’s claim global goals! And please tune in to our February 15, 2015 show.

 

Our February 15, 2015 show audio-files and text are posted at: “The February 15, 2015 Show , which includes excerpts from John Boswell’s The Kindness of Strangers: The Abandonment of Children in Western Europe from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance… while I determine how best to maintain the momentum of our discussions. It includes the following urging as relates to ‘strategy’, which I hope you will consider deeply:

 

…and therein lay the success of hidden ‘power’… they operate clandestine… and ‘the media’ is designed to refuse the claims of its victims… and so ‘power’ can stay hidden… “Sweet…” I’m sure they think… a ruse they can use… ad infinitum… Except… despite the historical success of its central strategy… ‘power’ today is wading into uncharted waters… hence the danger of this moment… because surrendering their grandiose fantasies… is not in the mental-makeup… of global-state-statesmen… On ‘the news’ this week I heard that the head of the US Navy is ‘requesting’ use of ‘rail guns’ [if I got that name right…] on their vessels: weapons that use electromagnetic force… it’s not difficult to see… that the ‘same-family-weapons’ that they’ve designed to use against us… when applied clandestine… ends our ability to dissent… Given this ‘historical reality’… I’m putting this question out there: are there means for detecting and documenting the presence of these waves… or pulses… designed to cause harm… to interfere with biological electrical systems… and how can we get this detection means in the hands of folks being targeted? And then… as to the way in – because we need this ‘way in’… to re-claiming our thought process… into a mindset for getting free… of thinking… and taking action… globally – consider this: the Longshoremen have been our staunchest allies globally… over the course of recent ‘class’-history… Let’s plan and organize and call… a one-day Global General Strike in support of them… the Longshoremen… striking all up and down the West Coast US… Global-action is how ‘power’ breaks us… global-action is necessarily the means for our getting free… because the alternative… is the end of dissent… and we must not allow… that descent.

 

As always… thank you for your patience… Pamela

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Most of the wordbeats are also posted as “anti-coercion commercials” on YouTube. Art by Wassily Kandinsky (except in “Future Freedom” which presents “Freedom Sun” by David Sterenberg) and original music and beats by Thandiwe Satterwhite. They can be found at: “Nascence Anti-coercion Commercials”

Sisters and Brothers: The word-beats below are from the conversation that D-Way and I had during our September 30, 2012 Waking Up Radio show. They are part of a multi-part (probably 10- part) series on ‘Moving Forward’:

 

D-Way: “Then what is my responsibility to my Brothers and Sisters?… and how do my actions [get] in line with the analysis that I have done [confirming that class is totalitarian…] and also: you've talked with people on the street… and you're also seeing a lot of different perspectives… some people feel that they can only manage to do what they have control over… e.g. to be the best person… to effect change within their interactions in the physical world… and is that enough?… [in order] to not be overwhelmed by the overwhelming responsibility [of dealing with] this whole global system that has oppressed [all of us…] their far-reaches of control has suppressed the whole globe… – that is really overwhelming… So… how do we move forward?… those of us who are consciously trying to create a new world – where that system [of class] no longer exists… How do you do that… and still stay sane or feel powerful or feel strong?” The Raven: “I've been thinking about this question too… in the sense of: as you said D-Way… a lot of people both are done with a system of rigid… fixed… class divisions… and… feel powerless to change it… And so this is why I write… this is why I engage in conversations about this… because I don't see anything more important for us to focus on as a species right now. So I ponder what it means for our behavior and our beliefs to be so out of sync… what this means for our souls… what this means for how we are not addressing the problems that are critical for the species in order to heal the planet and ourselves… For instance… most people I talk to both agree that we are in totalitarianism… and yet admit that they don't really do anything about that. And that to me is horrifying. That to me is how Hitler came to 'power'.” [Spoken word is from our September 30, 2012 radio broadcast.]

 

Sisters and Brothers: The word-beats below continue the conversation that D-Way and I had during our September 30, 2012 Waking Up Radio show. They are part of a multi-part (probably 10- part) series on ‘Moving Forward’:

 

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D-Way: “I’m wondering why… for people out there who you interact with… and they say they feel like they’re ‘powerless’ to do anything to combat the creeping totalitarianism state… that totalitarianism is here… people agree… but feel like they can’t do anything about it… so… why do you feel like we can do something about it?… like… what do you say to people who say that to you?… you know?… because it is overwhelming when you think about the level of control and dominance that this system has put over the globe… So why are you hopeful that we can effect that change?” The Raven: “Well I think one way to answer that question is to respond to what we were just listening to prior to this show… When we got within a couple blocks of the station we started hearing the voice of Helen Caldicott… and she was interviewing Colonel Ann Wright… and Ann Wright was bemoaning the fact that can’t get people to mobilize around… anything… that there is a scary passivity on the part of us… and a scary hearing loss on the part of both [political] parties… and so they were in effect acknowledging that we don’t have an existing democracy… and that the problem was out there somewhere… ‘the problem is Barack’… ‘the problem is apathy’… the problem is everywhere but that man or woman in the mirror… For instance… [in her identification with the state… and lack of recognition that change comes from below…] being eternally ‘surprised’ that ‘power’ acts like ‘power’… and then they’re always ‘surprised’ that people have no time to engage in political activism… and they… almost as an aside… they said, “Well… people want to keep their job…” as if that’s an aside… and irrelevant… to how we solve this problem… As long as they can control whether we eat or not… as long as we are not questioning the deep underpinnings of a ‘class’-system… how in the world can we pull ourselves out of a sense of apathy?” D-Way: “I wanted to… back it up a little bit to the personal responsibility and how you said that people see… in the media… problems like violence or sexual assault… but we rarely want to internalize it… see how we perpetuate the system… but I just wanted to go back and say: it’s hard for people to hear… that they are the problem… Are you suggesting that people should think of themselves as a problem?” [Spoken word is from our September 30, 2012 radio broadcast.]

 

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D-Way: “Because… I saw as a bit of a dichotomy your saying that in one case we internalize ‘the system’… but at the same time when [Ann Wright] is saying: “well… we did this…” then… I hear you distancing yourself from that… saying that “we didn’t… we’re not a part of that…” So… we’re not doing these horrific acts around the globe… but in our language isn’t it important to make a distinction between this system of oppression and ‘us’?… or do we need to claim those horrific acts that are happening around the globe?” The Raven: “Well… the distinction for me is that… it gets back to: ‘What’s the objective?’… ‘What’s the goal?’… and when pundits talk about… with… perhaps… a sense of shame… what ‘we’… meaning ‘the U.S. state’… is doing… what they’re saying… implicitly… is that: ‘I want to be proud of my state… we must fix this… we must put in office those people who will implement in an honorable way the intentions of the people of this [nation-]state… the citizenry… and what I’m arguing… is that this is ideology in the guise of something noble… that… in fact… part of our apathy… our dispiritedness… around engaging in authentic activism is that no one speaks honestly… When I talk to people on the street… there’s so much more just down-to-earth honorable honesty than I ever hear… ever hear… over the airwaves… So when I hear an Ann Wright bemoan the lack of integrity of the U.S. state… as if a state can be anything but what it was established to be… that is contributing to massive confusion out there… So I say that the responsibility of pundits (but… of course… they wouldn’t be pundits if they did this…) is to begin using an authentic… earth-based language…” D-Way: “Well I wasn’t talking about ‘the responsibility of the pundits’… I’m talking about the responsibility of individuals and the language we use in describing the relationship we have with this ‘power’ that controls us. What I’m asking… what is the language that we use to describe that?… because if ‘the system’ isn’t us… how come we shouldn’t say… ‘this is what we’re doing…’ in order to claim it… in order to take responsibility for those atrocious acts that are happening… and then speak out and push to change those actions?” [Spoken word is from our September 30, 2012 radio broadcast.]

 

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D-Way: “That’s where I’m confused with where you’re coming from, Raven… is… when you take responsibility for your Brothers and Sisters what’s the language that you use to describe the relationship that you have with this system?” The Raven: “Well I believe that we… all of us… manifest ‘the system’… I believe it’s important to say ‘the U.S. state’ and not ‘we’ because I think using the word ‘we’ leads to confusion and we absolutely have to start getting clear… developing clarity of thought… When we say ‘we’ meaning ‘the U.S. state’ it could be interpreted in many ways… it could imply a patriotic position… it could imply confusion… it could imply a sense of responsibility that ‘the state’ is in us… as you were suggesting… although… for the most part… when I hear it used that way on the Left… it is used to say: ‘we have to make this state better…’ – it’s the ‘fix-it’ ‘solution’… and I’m arguing that that’s a dead-end… that it isn’t a real solution… that you cannot ‘fix’ a state established to keep us contained and corralled… it’s not designed to [do what the people want…] So… in order to speak clearly… when we mean ‘the actions of the U.S. government’ we should say ‘the actions of the U.S. government’… and when we’re talking about how ‘the state’ gets reproduced on multiple levels… in multiple institutions… that’s a different level of analysis… and then we can start talking about… because I believe we have to start explaining… as we do our analysis… the world we’re living in… it never gets discussed in an open… authentic… way… over the airwaves… and so we have to start doing that for each other… so we have to start explaining how there is a single operating premise in a class system called ‘supremacy’… yes… it is manifested in the military… but it is also manifested in us… in how we relate to our children… and… when we talk about ‘the responsibility of pundits’… and who gets over the airwaves… and who doesn’t… I want to always give thanks for the ancestors… and to remind everybody listening… that there are no new thoughts about how to deal with this ‘class’-system… and it is evidence of the degree of our containment… and the level of totalitarian control of our thoughts… that we are still repeating the same conversations… in fact… at a much much lower level of analysis than our ancestors had figured out hundreds of years ago… For instance… in a book I picked up recently by Petr Kropotkin – it’s a collection of his pamphlets… A hundred and thirty years ago he wrote a pamphlet called ‘An Appeal to the Young’… addressing this issue, D-Way, of ‘well what is our responsibility? – he’s saying to young people: ‘you have a responsibility…’ and then he speaks to young people who want to become doctors… scientists… lawyers… engineers… teachers… and he concludes with artists… And in the one on ‘teachers’ he says (and I thought about this because you work with children, D-Way…) he says… Kropotkin: “And what shall I say to the schoolmaster – not to the man who looks upon his profession as a wearisome business, but to him who, when surrounded by a joyous band of youngsters, feels exhilarated by their cheery looks and in the midst of their happy laughter; to him who tries to plant in their little heads those ideas of humanity which he cherished himself when he was young. Often I see that you are sad, and I know what it is that makes you knit your brows. This very day, your favorite pupil, who is not very well up in Latin, it is true, but who has none the less an excellent heart, recited the story of William Tell with so much vigor! – [“Tell, William, a legendary hero of the liberation of Switzerland from Austrian oppression. He was required to hit with an arrow an apple placed on the head of his son, which he did successfully. The events are placed in the 14th century, but there is no evidence for a historical person of this name, and similar legends are of widespread occurrence.”] – His eyes sparkled; he seemed to wish to stab all tyrants there and then; he gave with such fire the passionate lines of Schiller: ‘Before the slave when he breaks his chain, Before the free man tremble not.’ But when he returned home, his mother, his father, his uncle, sharply rebuked him for want of respect to the minister or the rural policeman. They held forth to him by the hour on ‘prudence, respect for authority, submission to his betters,’ till he put Schiller aside in order to read Self-Help. And then only yesterday you were told that your best pupils have all turned out badly. One does nothing but dream of becoming an officer; another in league with his master robs the workers of their slender wages; and you, who had such hopes of these young people, you now brood over the sad contrast between your ideal and life as it is. You still brood over it. Then I foresee that in two years at the outside, after having suffered disappointment after disappointment, you will lay your favorite authors on the shelf, and you will end by saying that Tell was no doubt a very honest fellow, but after all a trifle cracked; that poetry is a first-rate thing for the fireside, especially when a man has been teaching the rule-of-three all day long, but still poets are always in the clouds and their views have nothing to do with the life of today, nor with the next visit of the inspector of schools…. Or, on the other hand…” [Spoken word is from our September 30, 2012 radio broadcast.]

 

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[This wordbeat is from Waking Up Radio show of December 21, 2014:]

 

“Immanuel Wallerstein: “What is meant by hegemony in a world-economy is the ability of one state to impose a set of rules on the operation of all other states, such that there is relative order in the world-system.…” Recall: he along with Terence K. Hopkins and Giovanni Arrighi… the three of them together… wrote Antisystemic Movements… when he and his co-authors wrote: “Opposition to oppression is coterminous with the existence of hierarchical social systems. Opposition is permanent, but for the most part latent…” And while it’s certainly true that ‘power’ has ever… since ‘class’s onset… been strenuously endeavoring to shape us… make us… be what it ‘needs’… to accomplish its (variously defined over the ages… but all a specie of the same arrogance…) its ‘greatness’… while certainly this is so… there is a missing factor which only we-the-people can add: our earth-given-knowledge of freedom… which never leaves us. “Opposition will be continuous…” …now that’s straightforward and clear… It’s clearly true… we need no ‘proof’… we know it in our bodies… And yet… …treatises will flow… …there will be oceans of deserts of theories… …there will be endless dissertations on them… And so… clarity was let go… …because the incentives… …were so ‘generous’… Surely… he must know… …that there’s absolutely nothing natural in that ‘order’ he seems to approve… …and that ‘order’ is a pleasant word for ‘force’… …that coercion’s both a fine web… …and a tank that mows us down… This is earth-speak: …we will resist… …we continue to resist… …we will resist some more… So… wither-dry-husk-blown-to-the-wind your phony ‘scientific theories’… …your social algorithms… Get you hence you calculating-cons… …get you gone. How dare you reduce the intricate web of our thought process… …the sighing of our infinite hearts… …to postulates and raw data… …to be polished smooth… How dare you take the mystery and magic of the subtle interweavings of our myriad experiences in multiple translations… …both in fluid memory and real-time… The world of ‘logic-systems’ is an invented world… …elaborate and well-organized… …there’s much to master… …much to digest… …much to offer in placation… …that abyss where was your soul.” [Spoken word is from our December 21, 2014 radio broadcast.]

 

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Show Files:

 

So when the young college-educated… urged to devise new ‘apps’… or financial ‘instruments’… or run all the ‘systems’… or launch some new ‘start-up’… to serve the global-state-statesmen… are told they are ‘creatives’… they are… if they buy it… eating up the latest version of the Conquering Race story… and holding hostage our free future… …because if they… the so-called ‘creatives’… who operate the networks – the grid that hosts our interconnections – were to decide… finally… that they are not ‘special’… not cut from some cloth of a more refined ‘order’… and make common cause with all of us-targeted… then it would be ‘game-over’ for ‘power’ and its ‘system’… and authentic existence… could begin again… ‘Education’ is quite literally the means for fostering the divisions that perpetuate ‘the system’.

 

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(Request for suggestions for how to break out of this 'communications-isolation-unit' I feel like I have been put in… When I called I-Power [the Nascence site web host] to try to figure out why my web page html text / code for the January 25 show was seemingly being suppressed or overwritten… but in any case didn't show… I got a woman who was curious why I wasn't checking my stats… I replied that my files on the site were regularly being altered… so it didn't make a lot of sense to credit what the 'stats' said… She told me that my 'normal' daily 'average' number of folks visiting the website of '80' was ten times higher on January 18. I answered that that was extremely implausible and asked her to send me an email to that effect… She never did… – P.S.)

 

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…the way I see it is that in order for us to get our freedom… we have to have a new language [and I believe our Good Three agree… as we'll see in our reading shortly…] And so when I read excerpts from things… it's like… chunks of new language… new terminology… new stories… to fold into our thought-process. We have to have new thoughts to think… …but I will say this about Harper Lee: the news that she is publishing a new book was met (over the airwaves) with such lack of enthusiasm that it was striking… when you have folks announce the release of something new by Harper Lee and talk as if this is something that should not happen… it raises lots of red flags… and when something like this happens… we really have to make an extra effort… to flip it… and say "this is something we must read…" Harper Lee?… a new novel?… what a gift…

 

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…and right now… because we are in transition… because humans globally are turning from ‘Rule’… and are looking to the earth once again for guidance… ‘power’ is on the defensive… a wounded tiger… which means… that the next presidential election will be… ‘simply’… the most ‘kick-stomping-dirty-tricks-to-the-death vicious… that any now walking have unfortunately seen… but far from this being a moment for watching… for sitting back in shock at this hideous ‘show’… rather… this is a moment… to go for the gold…

 

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…there is intense infiltration… and what does that mean?… to know that nothing is real… is true… is authentic… I'm talking about the public world… in which they maintain exclusive hold on our thoughts… on what we are allowed to hear and think… What does it mean that it's almost guaranteed that media of any significant reach is infiltrated? I do want to emphasize that we need to think about this… think about this question of the insidiousness of omnipresent… widespread… infiltration by folks who are paid to help perpetuate illusions about the world we live in.

 

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…‘power’s obsessive need to both create and vet the stories we get from media of any reach can be illustrated with a story that seems to work against it… that ‘item’ we began with… the ‘inequality’-report by Oxfam – their response its release may help show what I mean… as well as ‘power’s sense of ‘economy’ and ‘layering’ strategy (both sources of pride as evidence… they imagine… of their superiority of ‘mind’ and therefore ‘fitness’… for ‘ruling’ over us… because while the notion of the ‘one percent’ is a key bit of ‘power’-propaganda… (for instance the latest speech by Chris Hedges urging folks to blame… not the global-state-statesmen… but rather one of the traditional buffers of ‘power’… along with the police: national ‘elites’… i.e. those with padded incomes… but who could never be aspirants to deification… as they have no global ‘reach’…)

 

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The lost child is the source of our troubles…. [And… thanks to John Boswell's The Kindness of Strangers: Child Abandonment in Europe from Late Antiquity Through the Renaissance… we understand now how this happened… That is an important book. If you get a chance… I hope you'll read it… or bits of it… and that you'll try to feel it… if you know what I mean… feel the full implications of that – thousands of years of child abandonment – and how that gets embedded in what people think is part of being 'human'… but isn't… It's like Kropotkin telling us that in ancient texts gorillas were described as 'gregarious'… breaks your heart to think about that… how much damage has been inflicted… on life – we are not yet what we're meant to be… but we will recover all that was stolen from us by this sick system of rigid hierarchical rule.] It’s time for us to heal the hurt, complete the circuit – return home. We have nothing now but our imaginations and our biological memory, but that’s enough for the task at hand, which is reunion.

 

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“The principle directional tendency of capital is its centralization on a world scale… This determining direction of capital on a world scale… entails for antisystemic forcs at least three broad consequential subordinate directional tendencies. First… the ongoing relocation of labor-using manufacturing processes to the semiperiphery and hence the shift there of the epicenter of “classically” framed and conducted class conflict… Second is the de-nationalization, in effect, of domestic (“national”) labor forces. The world’s workers, increasingly made into laborers under the aegis of capital, move as they always have in order to be in relation to capital, a movement sharply furthered in speed and extent by developments in communications and transportation… Ship, air, and electronics have for decades now been analogously forming the possibility of an organized world proletariat within “national” locales. The possibility is at once eliminated, however, so long as we think with the state-formed consciousness that there are “nationals” and there are “immigrants,” and in that way reproduce the varieties of racism these historically formed categories inevitably entail. “National” and “immigrant” are categories of the capitalist world-economy’s interstate system; they have no place (except as phenomenologically [i.e. to do with objects in our consciousness and experience…] phenomenologically real conditions to be overcome) in the language of world-scale workers’ movements.”

 

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“National liberation in segments of the capitalist world-economy, and the transformations it has effected in relations of rule and other social relations, have altered the social structuring of the world-historical accumulation process. That much is historically evident and therefore theoretically to be taken into account. [Don't you love that?… that analytical clarity?… I mean… who else… who says they're devising theory even bothers to ensure that it's based in reality these days?… or 'strategy' likewise… or particularly… – P.S.] But it has not eliminated the relational conditions through which the accumulation process operates. And precisely that world-historical elimination, of the relational conditions through which accumulation of capital occurs, is what is entailed in the idea of the class struggle as the pivotal process in the transformation of the capitalist world-economy into a socialist world order. [What happened to that as our goal… hum?… We seem to have lost track of that somewhere along the way… – P.S.] …If, however, we cease to accord strategic primacy to acquiring such state power within the interstate system, far more becomes historically possible and thereby, within the domain of historically realistic alternatives, theoretically possible. It would seem a dubious theoretical tenet to assert that national liberation, in its successive occurrences, is in any way a necessary condition of the revolutionary transformation of the world-economy. It is surely indefensible to claim it as a sufficient condition.”

 

Thandiwe's Word:

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...on the challenge of beginning to create the alternative:

“The imagination has to be stimulated – that imaginative part of ourselves that manifests our dreams, through that fire, that passion, that is our art. Asking questions stimulates that process of figuring out, visualizing, and manifesting what we want. But we need each other's help in order to do that – to manifest our power – and we've been cut off from helping each other.”

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