Affirmation Collection

Enjoy this collection of truths, wisdom, affirmations and guidance I've found over the last couple of years, sprinkled with a healthy dose of humour.

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One Whole Week In The Life Of...

DAY ONE : Wednesday, 18:00

I kept this blank page for a week

Sitting atop my paperwork and stuff,

Waited for this moment right here

To declare to whoever dares to hear:

I'm announcing the ending of "old me"

And the beginning of a brand new identity,

One I've forged from pure effort of will

I'll be heard and seen, yet calm and still.

As I rise up before your very eyes,

Surprising many, but not noticing as I'm busy

Creating a whole new mindset, so I can get

From low to high without unnecessary upset.

Ya' get me?

Don't worry if this all sounds like bullshit,

Just watch me grow and don't forget

I said all this right here, no retreat, no regret.

R. C. Greenlow

[31.07.2019]

DAY TWO : Thursday, 02:07

Forging a path in the total darkness

Comes easily to neither man nor beast,

Requiring reliance on instinct and belief

In the power of will, that lies deep beneath

All the layers of conditioning and self-doubt,

Outside the walls built around and inside us,

Beyond even consciousness, words and thoughts.

The realm of undiluted truths, mysterious,

Yet as fundamentally real and interconnected

As atoms, molecules, quarks and electrons,

Contains secrets that those who choose both

Good and evil ways are dying to tap into…

There be dragons in them there hills though,

So be extraordinarily care3ful you don't go

Too close, too soon, to things not intended

For humans to discover, unguided and unprotected.

R. C. Greenlow

[01.08.2019]

DAY THREE : Wednesday, 05:11

I've been bad.

I'm extremely sad to say,

With burning tears streaked upon cheeks,

That I've weakened and gone astray…

Not what you may think,

Not drugs or women, but drink

And lack of food and sleep,

Making me fall back to being a sheep.

Burying one's head in quicksand

Leaves mud in mouth and ears,

Please forgive me, I wasn't hearing

The nearing disaster upon us…

But worry not my love,

I've dragged myself back

From the edge of dark black,

And found the light deeply within.

All I want is you, happy you,

No more upset at where I'm going

Or what I'm doing, 'cos darling

I'm only ever choosing you.

I never chose to leave, I fled

'Cos my bile and anger bled

Out my mouth and the pores of my skin,

And no way could I let that be happening.

R. C. Greenlow

[07.08.2019]

DAY FOUR : Thursday, 00:29

New day yesterday without a doubt!

No stressing out, not a single shout.

Help arriving from several sides,

Emotions bubble as away fear slides,

Replaced by unexpected relief

From somewhere buried deep beneath

The shared nightmare that has been life,

My outpouring bottled up anger and strife.

Back from the brink, that's all I can think.

I was drinking too much, overthinking,

Sinking further and deeper into the quagmire

Of collected up pain from a time long expired.

I'm amazed you didn't just leave and retire

From fighting me, feeling my raging fire

You’re totally depleted, yet love's not deleted

Because my wife, I may be like a fool but I’m no liar.

My strength was found only when I clung

To the edge of the last rung of sanity's ladder,

Madder than mad and rapidly going insane

Yet somehow, some way, I got through my pain.

Such a crying shame the cost has been so high.

We somehow have to try to rise and rebuild our lives

Individually, as a couple and a functioning family,

I know the terrible trouble has all been down to me.

My lovely children, my absolute angel of a wife,

I've been fighting just to survive pretty much all my life

And though it's so hard to go from that to thriving,

It's simply no longer enough just to be surviving.

I'll do it for you all and myself, just need faith and time

To learn to hear every syllable of my inner voice, line by line

And embrace and nurture and heal what burns inside me

I will put out this fire for the sake of our whole family.

R. C. Greenlow

[08.08.2019]

DAY FIVE : Saturday, 02:55

I love the still tranquil quiet at night,

‘Cos where I live in daytime it’s so noisy and shite.

The wee small hours provide showers of equanimity

That calm and embalm me in peace and harmony.

Daytime, mate, a road bustling with rude people

And non-thinkers tooting horns for no good reason.

I’m at the point where I keep having to leave here,

Just to escape the drivel of this fuckin’ street.

Oh, for a house in the suburbs or the outskirts,

The only sounds rustling wind, birds in trees,

Instead of this incessant urban hustle

I awake to every day, at crack of dawn.

No wonder I can’t sleep, can’t eat, can’t deal

With this constant absence of real peace,

Underneath it all I’m clinging on to my hope

With what strength I still have left in me.

R. C. Greenlow

[10.08.2019]

DAY SIX : Wednesday, 09:28

In seemingly hardly any real time at all,

Look – behold how high up I stand tall!

Now is my time to finally glimpse the whole.

The complete picture, no fences, no wall.

No relent, no back-sliding, no flipside,

Watch and wait, mark these words mate!

Time will show words converted into actions,

That to my ultimate and total satisfaction,

Prove my time spent explaining all this

Was always worth it, like my own kind of justice.

Moving onwards evermore, of course,

I’m patient more and more as we go forward

And I’m learning not to question our unity,

Our unshakeable, unbreakable, amazing family.

R. C. Greenlow

[21.08.2019]

DAY SEVEN : Thursday, 02:01

So at long last, yet so very suddenly,

We have finally flowed through a whole week

Across a couple of months of the life of me!

I’m not special, except very much to myself,

Don’t care if that sounds pure selfish, it is what it is!

I am simply expressing in words the turns I’ve taken

In a very short passage of time, changing my mind

About the direction I want my vibration to chime,

And using bad energy inside transmuted into good vibes.

Behold the temple of light that is the essence of me, myself and I!

Shining brightly for anyone who cares to notice,

I’m off that shelf I left my life on a long time ago,

So now I’m burning warmly and happily and it’s pure nice!

I honestly believed struggling through this one life

Was the only way to get through to the other side,

Then I was noticed, re-guided, helped and advised.

Told simply to try transmuting my dark energy into light!

So simple, it seemed impossible, yet it took no real time at all,

To put into actual practice the good advice and solid guidance,

Of others who have trodden this path and got past their darkness

To arrive at that positive vibration, staying steadily in the ascendant.

That’s the next stage of this journey of mine,

And now I know the work is no way as hard as I had thought,

I’m really looking forward to every moment of growth

With a stronger heartbeat in my chest to propel me to my best.

The very best version of who I can potentially be is my aim,

It has no end goal, ascending will continue, as long as I stay true

To the continued methods and iron will that I have manifested

For myself, harvested from inner energy, with help at just the right time.

I give thanks and blessings to the Universe, to the precursors

Of my Rebirth and those who noticed me climbing, shared

Guidance to help me stop hiding behind outdated ways of thinking,

Which helped my sinking feelings convert into rising, to right where

I find myself at this very moment….right here!

Upful Risings,
Blessed Be,
One L:ove,
Peace, Love, Unity & Respect,

Each and every time.

R. C. Greenlow

[22.08.2019]

Millenium Rising

Millennium Rising – 20th Anniversary Re-Release

20 years ago, aged 22 and at a particularly difficult and transitionary stage of my life, I had to sell most of my possessions and move away temporarily from my hometown. This meant the loss of most of my beloved music studio equipment. I had no choice but to sell my mixer, synth, MIDI keyboard, monitor speakers and about 15 years of technical equipment. Everything except the computer was gone. It was that or starving and being pretty much homeless.

I found myself sharing a house with two friends for a short few months, both also in their own transitionary stages of life. It was a strangely good but also extremely difficult time. Three minds were on three very different paths, with different ideas and views and influences, but it was just how we lived. There were some great nights of wonder and laughter and fun, and there were low moments of despair and anguish, but mostly there was the space in between – lack of money, lack of employment and depression that caused lack of motivation to really get up and sort it out.

I ploughed as much time as possible into writing poetry and music. The music production was virtually impossible without my tools of the trade. I was stuck for a while, really stumped, but before panic set in a sudden spark lit me up. It was 1999 – millennium fever was rising. I had been working on a concept for an album to mark the coming new millennium. I had my ‘bits and pieces’, some half-finished tracks and a wealth of sampled stuff from my old setup before I sold it all. What to do?

I was introduced to someone who showed me how a guy he knew had made loads of tunes, on some really simple software called ‘Rave eJay’ that you can buy from any shop. I listened to his tunes and didn’t really think that much of them, but then I saw that he had uploaded them to an ‘unsigned artist’ website and was getting hundreds of plays and downloads. In fact, as I followed him over the next few weeks it went into the thousands…

I was in awe, totally shocked and also properly angry, all at the same time. Why? Simple – I was told that this guy had no musical background, no real interest in any music scene and simply did the whole thing as an experiment, to see how much interest he could get and if people would go for it. This made me angry because I had been uploading my tunes for a while along with a friend, music that took us years to get good at making, music that we had ploughed our hearts and souls into perfecting, and got barely a shadow of the listens and downloads that this guy was getting. However, I cast these feelings aside when my friend said something really simple but profound to me…

 “You know what they say - if you can’t beat them, join them.”

It hit me like a stone in the face but instead of pain, a sudden rush of excitement flooded my brain. Even though I knew all about eJay software – that once you use it, and if you dare put out tunes made using it, you’ll never be taken seriously in ‘the industry’ – I got a copy and installed it on my PC. I figured fuck it, no one has ever really taken us seriously thus far anyway, so what is there to lose?

I spent not much more than a couple of hours tinkering with this ‘Rave eJay’ software and two things quickly became apparent. (1) This software was so easy to use and simple that I could produce very quickly on it, and (2) despite its rudimentary controls and basic design it was actually reasonably adaptable and perfect for fast, heavy dance music. I am not ashamed of the decision that followed, any more than I am embarrassed at the results of that decision…

I chose to use ‘Rave eJay’ to make my tunes, perhaps more in desperation than anything, but it was a solution to my lack of equipment. I decided this was how I would create my ‘millennium concept album’. I would simply use all the bits already created, raid my massive sample library, and use the best and most attractive native sounds the software carried to produce it. In short order, project ‘Millenium Rising’ was created (spelling intended). I decided it would be a full-length CD album, non-genre specific but with a heavy Jungle/DnB/Breakbeat influence, combined with the fast 180 BPM techno/trance that the software was designed around.

Having heard what the aforementioned guy was putting out online using this software, and getting so much attention for, I already knew exactly how I didn’t want it to sound. I also decided that unlike all my previous efforts to get my music ‘out there’, downloaded and listened to, I simply did not care about how many people it would reach. Little did I know at the time, that by not giving two shits if anyone bothered to listen to the finished article, I would actually free myself to work on the project completely unfettered and liberated from pressure or expectation.

Strange things happened over the next few weeks. The software was almost addictive, and I could see why it had got a bad reputation and why there was a stigma to producing anything with it. It was so easy to make good sounding tunes with minimal effort. I have to say that I threw out about 70% of what I made over that time, not because it didn’t sound good but simply because it sounded too ‘eJay’! It struck me that a compromise would have to be made.

I gave a demo listen to my friends of two basic but fairly complete tunes. I asked specific questions about these tunes. Do they sound different to what you’ve heard before, from ‘that guy’ and others using the same software? Do they sound like my tunes, my style, as you’ve known it from the last few years? Do these tunes sound like they were just thrown together? The overriding feeling was positive and I was pleased, but I knew the real test was to come. Could I do a whole album this way?

I have no idea how long it took to complete the album from start to finish. I have no idea how much of it is a true reflection of my musical ability and how much is just a fortunate mix of half-decent samples and convenient mass-market software. I have no real idea if Millenium Rising is an album worthy of publishing online. Ultimately, I only know what I think of it, and what a mixed group of around 20-30 people thought of it, on nights when we played it at parties. And I know what I thought of it when I listened to it again for the first time in years, a few short months ago.

It is most definitely my own work, regardless of the software and many of the samples used. It definitely sounds like a complete album from start to finish. It is a product of the situation I was in – producing with bare bones, sheer will and determination. It is far from my best work, but it has moments on it that are among my finest musical creations. It is what it is.

So, as it is now 20 years since I finished the album, I’m releasing it in full on Youtube. I am more than happy to provide a copy on CD, and if interest is sufficient I may even use my valuable remaining free Soundcloud time to provide it to download from there. Either way, I feel it is worth publishing because it is a journey through the music that has shaped my life – rave/dance music.

You can hear the album here - https://youtu.be/x6kDwltt8FI

Copyright © 2019 R. C. Greenlow. All Rights Reserved.

One Legacy

I have of late found myself drawn to listening to Pink Floyd's final album, The Endless River, last thing at night. A sublime and ultra chilled-out affair, this mainly instrumental LP is not only perfect for relaxation, even perhaps meditation if that's your bag, but also an incredibly emotive yet beautifully subtle final journey through the signature Floyd sound.

Anyway, last night during one such listening session I felt compelled to write a few lines, and such is the universal appeal of this amazing band I have decided to share them with you.

Pink Floyd are worlds apart from the Jungle/DnB-rich aural diet I usually feast upon, but they are such massively influential artists for me that it makes perfect sense that I should want to write about them. So, enjoy this short poem inspired by 'The Endless River', and no doubt expect a future article or two from me about my favourite band...

One Legacy

The legacy of one band’s music

That spans nearly five decades

Captivates the very essence

Of the power that music holds over us.

The passage of time blurs

Into utter insignificance

Against the backdrop of what

Those five souls have achieved.

These songs are the inheritance

We pass dutifully down generations

These words of timeless relevance

Wrapped in perfect melodic elegance.

The endless river, onward flowing,

Upon which we've always been floating,

Reaches on into the distant horizon

As we ebb and flow with random precision.

R. C. Greenlow

[28.03.2019]

Words & Poetry Copyright © 2019 R. C. Greenlow. All Rights Reserved.


All references to Pink Floyd & associated images and artwork subject to Copyright Control by the respective owners and licensees.

On Conspiracy Theories

If you'll indulge me, this second piece is a break away from my usual creatively-focused style. I think it's good to know a little about where I come from, aside from music & poetry, when my thinking cap is on and I'm writing about my thoughts and meanderings.

So, the much maligned topic of conspiracy theories!

This subject has both intrigued and annoyed me in equal measure for many years, but never before has it seemingly been a more prevalent thing. The internet is absolutely rife with conspiracy - such is the nature of freedom of expression and thought, unregulated and unchecked as it so often is by the rigours of logic, reasoning and the scientific method. This freedom of expression, this sharing of ideas and theories, is both a good and bad thing - but wading into this arena can get you bogged down in a quagmire really quickly!

With that in mind, I've decided to wade in anyway. I will keep this as concise as possible, although that is not an easy task! Much of what I am sharing here is from articles and writings I have collected over recent years. Wherever possible I have cited the original sources. I do not wish to plagiarise but obviously I can't delve into the topic without quoting these pieces. I invite anyone who is unhappy with my use of their work, if found here, to get in touch with me and I will happily amend or remove it.

Okay, caveat's over with. Let's dive in...

First off, I included a piece on my Whispering In The Wind blog from last year, written by an unknown author, touching on the subject of conspiracy theory which you may want to read first - 'Tin Foil Hats'

The most important paragraph from this article is this:

"Most people can’t resist getting the details on the latest conspiracy theories, no matter how far-fetched they may seem. At the same time, many people quickly denounce any conspiracy theory as untrue … and sometimes as unpatriotic or just plain ridiculous.


Conspiracy theory is a term that originally was a neutral descriptor for any claim of civil, criminal or political conspiracy. However, it has come almost exclusively to refer to any fringe theory which explains a historical or current event as the result of a secret plot by conspirators of almost superhuman power and cunning. To conspire means “to join in a secret agreement to do an unlawful or wrongful act or to use such means to accomplish a lawful end.” The term “conspiracy theory” is frequently used by scholars and in popular culture to identify secret military, banking, or political actions aimed at stealing power, money, or freedom, from “the people”.

To many, conspiracy theories are just human nature. Not all people in this world are honest, hard working and forthcoming about their intentions. Certainly we can all agree on this. So how did the term “conspiracy theory” get grouped in with fiction, fantasy and folklore? Maybe that’s a conspiracy, just kidding. Or am I?"



What follows are several pieces I have gathered from the web over the years. I have included them in full rather than linking to them, as most of these pieces seem no longer to be available online - how appropriately suspicious and sinister! There is an awful lot to this - so please don't let your eyes glaze over and zone out! Judicious use of scrolling may be required!

If you're not up to speed and have some hours to invest, here's my list of documentaries I think one must at least try to watch in order to help separate fact from fiction, to make sense of this whole 'conspiracy theory' thing:

Documentary must-see's:

It is my belief, that everyone who is interested in gaining knowledge and understanding should have a chance to inform him / herself, therefore I am happy to be able to share this list of freely accessible, and from my point of view, important documentaries with you.

Available on Youtube:

1. Home

2. Thrive: What On Earth Will It Take?

3. Kymatica

4. Paradise or Oblivion

5. Earthlings

6. Zeitgeist

7. Zeitgeist: Addendum

8. The Money Fix

9. The Wikileaks Documentary

10. Owned and Operated

11. Overdose: The Next Financial Crisis

12. Apologies of an Economic Hitman

13. The Beautiful Truth

14. Love, Reality, and the Time of Transition

15. The Awakening

16. What Would It Look Like?

17. Making a killing

Not available on Youtube:

1. Fierce Light: When Spirit Meets Action

2. Religulous

Personally, I would also add the work of Adam Curtis as a whole to this list. Specifically essential docs, available on Youtube:

- Bitter Lake

- Hyper-Normalisation

- The Century Of The Self

- Pandora's Box

- The Mayfair Set

- The Power Of Nightmares

So, on the assumption that you have at least some grounding and/or awareness of these highly popular, acclaimed and factual documentaries which expose pretty much the bulk of what is today decried as 'conspiracy', I shall continue...

I love that phrase, "real eyes realise real lies." For me it sums up what it is to be a thoughful, discerning, thinking human being - interested in the world and how it works, and ultimately invested in humanity as a force for good and positivity. Here's a short piece I found on this:

The Toltecs have a saying, that we are all like "mirrors of smoke" and see each other's reflections in it, distorted by the smoke. The one who clears the smoke in his mirror, knows the smoke that is covering the other mirrors. Be a transparent mirror, and you will see all people reflecting themselves on you, because you know we're all a mirror. You will see what it is that makes them view you as they view you, and what smoke is still clouding them.

Once a person reaches to a certain spiritual enlightenment, he is able to see the lies or weaknesses of common people and work on betterment of people in general. ( Since they have their inner eyes or real eyes).

It means if you try to see the world as it really is, rather than believing things because you want them to be true (for example), you will spot deception more easily.

Source: Quora  https://qr.ae/TUfO2v


Moving on, here's something about 'awakening' - that process which one goes through when one begins to see past the mainstream media bubble, the myths and fairy tales one is raised on, and the outright lies and propaganda which society and culture would have us believe is reality:

Understand, create, change

A new way of thought:

Would you agree it is apparent there is something going on in the collective mind of humanity right now? With information so readily available to us, we have been able to stir the consciousness of humanity in a way that has allowed for a greater awakening. As we become more aware of hidden information we begin to organize that information critically, which now has created a consensus of thought that is spreading like wild fire.

As more and more people adopt this new way of thought, the power of the collective consciousness begins to push harder in that direction. At the same time, this new way of thinking is under siege by the old way of thinking. It is the fear of changing the world and giving the power of freedom of thought back to the collective that causes a hesitation to go forward and a desire to revert back to our reliance on a failing system. Much like becoming sober if one is an alcoholic, one must undergo a detoxification period where one is getting get rid of the substances that have limited their potential for too long of a time.

Another way to look at it:

Picture society on a boat in the middle of the ocean, the boat is slowly sinking, and the captain is reassuring the passengers that everything will be fine. Meanwhile, more and more water keeps coming on board. There is a life raft on the side of the boat, although the captain has said specifically for no one to touch it.

The vast majority of the passengers believe the captain still has the situation under control, and think the people getting in the life raft are crazy for disobeying him. After the captain discovers that some of the passengers have started loading into the life raft, he immediately tells the other passengers to stop them. His loyal obedient passengers try to stop the passengers from getting in the life raft at the expense of everyone on board.

There are also the onlookers who haven’t taken a side yet. They hope it doesn’t get to the point where they have to get involved in this conflict. Most of them aren’t ready to take sides because they feel they have too much to risk. Only once their survival depends on it, will they decide to intervene. These are the people both sides are fighting over, because these people will ultimately decide the outcome of the situation.

There is, and always has been enough room for everyone on the life raft. The passengers getting on the life raft are the mavericks, the messengers, and the catalyst for change. They know the boat is sinking and the captain is insane, so they want to get off of the boat. They also know that once they leave on the raft, unless they have enough people with them they will surely not survive.

The loyal obedient passengers are the captains army, they worship the captain because he gives them direction and security. They are willing to risk their lives for the captain than ever betray him. The onlookers are the creators. They hold the power of change.

The situation on the boat is a reflection of what is going on right now in society. It is a battle that will ultimately determine the future of humanity. Will humanity go down with the ship and lose everything, or will humanity gain full control of the resources available and save civilization?

It is up to us: 

We are all in charge of our own destiny, and it is a matter of not sitting back and watching, but following what truly resonates with us, without fear.

It is when the masses decide to take charge and change their lives in a direction they know is the right one, and lose the false dependency on a system that has failed them time and time again, will society be able to begin to rebuild.

It is a matter of taking control of one’s self, regardless of what anyone else thinks, and break free of the shackles that are holding one back from reaching one’s full potential.

Humanity is at a point in time where we all have the option to jump on the safety boat, drift throughout the sea until we reach a place where we can work on rebuilding a better society. Some might think we will repeat the mistakes of the past and will lose touch with what we are trying to achieve. This might be true, but we will never progress if we aren’t willing to try.

We are a collective being, we are ready to achieve what we want to receive, and we are ready to let go of negative influences and destructive ways of thinking to find a greater purpose of humanity. Let’s rise up during this critical time of growth and become what we are meant to be.

Great people, representing a greater cause of progression as an intelligence in a wonderfully expansive, and dynamic playground, we call the universe.

Source: Tim Marshall, Activist Post - Originally Posted: 16 Dec 2012 02:24 AM PST

So, a lot to take in for some, no doubt, but for others this will be preaching to the converted. The next short piece is, for me, another part of how we can think of our existence, our place in the present and also where we're going in the future:

"The truth is that everything is both light and dark but the world has become too obsessed with this whole light business, so be warned that through the upcoming transition we will all know the power, beauty and perfection of the dark.

All this positive thinking and 'be happy' BS is half of the story. You have been shown through nature and all of creation that light and dark are necessary but you seem to need a storm to change direction in your thinking, and so this coming shift will be your storm. Some of you will learn to dance in the storm. The way to prepare yourself is to learn to dance in the storm now and everyday, and to see the light in chaos everyday. 

The yin yang sign is the biggest joke. People have it on their bracelets, tattooed on their foreheads etc. but nobody really gets it. Because it is light and dark at the same time. Within dark there is light and within light there is dark. And that's the truth. In the transition of realities you will have to embrace your dark as well. 

With these earth changes people are going to freak out and there will be violence, but violence has been a part of humanity for a long time and by now you should know how to handle violence. You just need to be strong, very strong, and know your truth....know this truth. Because with what's coming, the people that will make it through will be the ones that can see past the illusion. And those people that won't will be consumed by their illusion - they will be consumed by their own fear."

- The General

Some may see that as a bleak and extreme picture. Indeed when I first read it, though stirred and affected by its simple poignant truth, I found it harsh and unwieldy. That was some years ago though, and I now see it as bold and unbridled fact. The best kind!

At this point I feel it's important you hear from me where I am in my 'truth-seeking', for want of a better term. So here it is...

Ya' know, I'm an open-minded kinda' sceptic - a 'careful thinker', for want of a better term.

I form my opinions, beliefs and ideas using logic and reasoning, garnering facts based on what can be proved or disproved.

I decide something is a fact if it has a firm basis in reality and truth, and discard as fiction that which is based on misinformation, falsehood, fakery or outright lies.

I'm a person who likes there to be an explanation for everything.

So, I tend to put anything that has no logical or reasonable explanation into one of two 'boxes'. The 1st box is labelled 'awaiting further information' - in that I put anything for which there is no current satisfactory explanation, but which I believe will be explainable in the future. The 2nd box is labelled 'magical thinking' - this is where I put things which are hokum, bogus, debunked etc.

Whilst this 'system' works for me in the main, there are always exceptions to every rule. In this case, the exception is what I can only label as 'mystery' - that which is totally inexplicable in nature, yet which I just somehow 'know' to be real. However, perhaps that which I call mysterious is just a small compartment in the box I label 'awaiting further information'.

It is ultimately a judgment call, deciding fact from fiction and deciding which 'box' I put the unexplainable into. So I take great care with my thinking. I engage in a definite process.

First, I objectively research and study the available information, checking sources and cross-referencing them. Then I add a few droplets of the subjective stuff - the anecdotal evidence of any personal experience I may have had, and the personal experiences that others have told me about. Lastly, I sprinkle in a generous amount of common sense and a small dose of intuition.

I find scepticism is mentally healthy, as long as it is flexible. It's actually this healthy scepticism that helps me to maintain an open mind on things. I know that separating fact from fiction, the truth from the lies, is essentially a judgment call.

So at all times my opinions, beliefs and ideas come with a disclaimer - they are subject to change without notice, pending new information.

At the end of the day, I think it's all about being aware of the falsehoods, misinformation and propaganda that riddles most of our information sources, along with knowing and understanding your personal biases in order to keep them in check.

Ultimately, whatever the truth may be, awareness is everything.

So I have two more articles to share on this subject. The first unfortunately has no source - it is a declaration of independent free thought, written by, simply, 'the Internet'. If anyone can quote the original author I will of course cite them as the source. Here it is:

Freedom Fighters’ Declaration of Independence

Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, we come from the Internet, the new home of Mind.

On behalf of the future, we ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather.

We have no elected government, nor are we likely to have one; therefore we address you with no greater authority than that with which liberty it always speaks. We declare the global social space we are building to be naturally independent of the tyrannies you seek to impose on us. You have no moral right to rule us, nor do you possess any methods of enforcement we have true reason to fear. You are toothless wolves among rams, reminiscing of days when you ruled the hunt, seeking a return of your bygone power.

Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. You have neither solicited nor received ours. We did not invite you. You do not know us, nor do you know our world. The Internet does not lie within your borders. Do not think that you can build it, as though it were a public construction project. You cannot. It is an act of nature and it grows itself through our collective actions.

We have watched as you remove our rights, one by one, like choice pieces of meat from a still struggling carcass, and we have collectively cried out against these actions of injustice. You have neither usage nor purpose in the place we hold sacred. If you come, you will be given no more and no less power than any other single person has, and your ideas will be given the same consideration anyone else would receive. You are neither special, righteous, nor powerful here.

You have not engaged in our great and gathering conversation, nor did you create the wealth of our marketplaces. You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than could be obtained by any of your impositions.

You claim there are problems among us that you need to solve. You use this claim as an excuse to invade our precincts. This claim has been used throughout the centuries by many an invading kingdom, and your claims are no different, nor do they ring any less hollow. Your so called problems do not exist. Where there are real conflicts, where there are wrongs, we will identify them and address them by our means. We are forming our own Social Contract. This governance will arise according to the conditions of our world, not yours.

The Internet consists of transactions, relationships and thought itself; arrayed like a standing wave in the web of our communications. It is the last truly free place in this world, and you seek to destroy even that freedom. Ours is a world that is both everywhere and nowhere, but it is not where bodies live.

We are creating a world that all may enter without privilege or prejudice accorded by race, economic power, military force, or station of birth. A place where anyone, at any time, is as free to come and go, to say and be silent, and to think however they wish, without fear, as anyone else. There is no status beyond the merit of your words and the strength of your ideas.

We are creating a world where anyone anywhere may express his or her beliefs, no matter how singular, without fear of being coerced into silence or conformity.

Your legal concepts of property, expression, identity, movement, and context do not apply to us. They are all based on matter, and there is no matter here. There are only ideas and information, and they are free.

Our identities have no bodies, so, unlike you, we cannot obtain order by physical coercion. We believe that from ethics, enlightened self-interest, and the commonwealth, our governance will emerge. Our identities may be distributed across many of your jurisdictions.

The only law that all our constituent cultures would generally recognize is the Golden Rule. We hope we will be able to build our particular solutions on that basis. But we cannot accept the solutions you are attempting to impose.

In the United States, you repeatedly try to pass unjust legislature in an attempt to restrict us. You disguise this legislature under a variety of different names, and pass excuses that they are for our own protection. We have watched you, time and time again; attempt to censor us under the guise of Copyright protection, or for the protection of Children. These laws come in many shapes and forms, in the name of ACTA, PIPA, COICA, SOPA, but their intentions remain the same. You seek to control what you cannot.

We scorn your attempt to pass these bills, and as a result, our discontent at your misaligned efforts grows each day.

You are terrified of your own children, since they are natives in a world where you will always be immigrants. Because you fear them, you entrust your bureaucracies with the parental responsibilities you are too cowardly to confront yourselves. In our world, all the sentiments and expressions of humanity, from the debasing to the angelic, are parts of a seamless whole, the global conversation of bits. We cannot separate the air that chokes from the air upon which wings beat.

In China, Germany, France, Russia, Singapore, Italy, Mexico, Spain, Greece, Egypt, Canada, the United States and many others you are trying to ward off the virus of liberty by erecting guard posts at the frontiers of the Internet. These may keep out the contagion for a small time, but they will not work in a world that is already blanketed in bit-bearing media.

Your increasingly obsolete information industries would perpetuate themselves by proposing laws, in America and elsewhere that claim to own speech itself throughout the world. These laws would declare ideas to be another industrial product, no different than pig iron.

In our world, whatever the human mind may create can be reproduced and distributed infinitely at no cost. The global conveyance of thought no longer requires your factories to accomplish.

These increasingly hostile and colonial measures place us in the same position as those previous lovers of freedom and self-determination who had to reject the authorities of distant, uninformed powers. We must declare our presence in the world we have created immune to your sovereignty, even as we continue to consent to your rule over our bodies. We will spread ourselves across the Planet so that no one can arrest our thoughts.

We will create a civilization of the Mind in the Internet. We have created a medium where all may partake in the forbidden fruit of knowledge, where egalitarianism reigns true. May our society be more humane and fair than yours.

We are the Internet.

We are free.

So folks, tin foil hats at the ready for the final article! It's a very long read, so you may just gloss over it, but if you shoud choose to read it in full, it is a masterpiece of truth and exposes the underlying fact of this whole 'conspiracy theory' label - that the label itself is just another tool of the 'powers that be', those old grey men in suits who currently rule our world, to try to discredit the realities that more and more of us our awakening to.

I hope you will take the time to read at least it's main points. In any case, the documentaries I have alluded to in this piece say it all in visual form too. It just remains for me to say that whether you are blisfully unaware of most of this stuff, or fully 'woke', or at any stage in between - we all have a part to play in educating our children, pointing them in the right direction, and gently guiding them towards the truth and realities of the world as it is now, and the hope we all have in our hearts for a better future.

One love, one heart, one mind - peace, out.

The times they are a-changing

16/10/2011 (English translation 11/10/2012 by Josefien Bruijn)

In a world where the laws of the monetary-economic game brings us debt and the artificial necessity of profit, this law leaves us with real or perceived scarcity, harsh social inequality, segregation and ecological breakdown, each of which will have its own disastrous consequences. As a consequence there are great disaffection and the call for change can be heard clearly. It is time to start co-operating in order to bring about real change. Where are we today and which direction could we take?

The disaffection about our present system and search for change create a need for more profoundness, by which we do not just mean more profoundness of the present system. We also need to be aware of the possibilities of today in order to be able to shape the day of tomorrow. With recent developments around Occupy Together/Occupy Amsterdam and the ensuing media coverage I feel the need to clarify my position with respect to this.

In my view many of today’s problems are symptoms of our present paradigm and its socio-economic design. It shows us an obsolete social structure and therefore we lack the direction that is required to shape the future, a direction that recognizes these problems and in whose direction we can move. It does start with a more profound awareness of our present system – of the game and its rules.

The rules of the monetary game

Debt is a product of our monetary system, which is based on money, an invention that can be very effective and that can show us the value of products in a world where scarcity is rife. However, since money is no longer linked to gold, it has turned into a product of trust; in itself it has no value. The majority of our money (95%) is created by private institutions, banks. The value of this money is legitimised by its recognition by the Central Banks and the monetary rules that pertain to this system. These Central Banks are not subject to any democratic influence whatsoever. Neither parliaments, nor the authorities have a voice in the decision-making process.

This moneymaking process is described by Fractional Reserve Banking. Suppose you saved € 10,000 and you deposit this money in the bank. The bank only needs to guarantee 3% of the debts that have been put out. This means that it can subsequently lend € 9,700 of your savings. Your neighbour wants to buy a new car and is € 9,700 short, so he concludes a loan with the bank. The car dealer deposits this € 9,700 in his savings account for his old age. The bank needs to retain only 3% of this € 9,700, € 291; the remainder of the money can be lent again. And so the remaining amount of € 9,409 will be lent again. The economy is flourishing and there is enough money for investments!

However, after lending one hundred times an amount of € 317,958.02 will be in circulation. Deduct the original 10,000 from this amount and by this process € 307.958,02 has been created from the original € 10,000.

Through Fractional Reserve Banking banks can create a multiple of the original amount of money – by issuing new loans, money is created from thin air automatically and without effort. This causes inflation, devaluation of money and thus is a strain on the money owned by each of us. It means that you will have to work more for the same level of prosperity. Unless you have enough money in the bank to compensate for this inflation, you will either be losing out or not profit in equal measure.

However, the bank charges interest over the amount it lends. In order to pay the interest money will have to be taken out of the existing money circulation. This has to be produced somewhere and more loans will have to be concluded or somebody else will lose out on this monetary scramble. Debt through interest requires more debt and creates more interest. This is an exponential development that is not sustainable – a pyramid scheme where on the one hand interest on debt and on the other hand interest on money owned is a form of inequality that is built in into the monetary system. We will have to change from viewing money as a means of exchange to viewing money as a cause of inequality because of which money becomes a means of power.

"It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning." -Henry Ford

The rules of the economic game

The socio-economic model itself, which creates its own supremacy through profit, has its own disastrous consequences as well. Because of this monetary costs are shifted towards real costs for society. It is more economical to limit social costs (wages) and it makes more economic sense to shift these costs to the environment; in doing so these costs are ‘externalised’. Otherwise bankruptcy or take-overs could be imminent.

And inequality is built in through profit as well. The necessity for companies to make profit causes the joint labour, which results in profit, to end up with the shareholders, the banks or the wealthy. In the first instance this was not a problem. However, currently the inequality takes ever increasingly extreme forms. Small and medium-sized enterprises feel the multinationals breathing down their necks; they benefit in a more prominent way from the interest and profit mechanism. They benefit by the privatisation of public possessions – internationally even forced by structural adjustment programs created by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank (WB). Their voices increasingly jeopardize the voice of democracy.

We live in a world where 1% of the populations own 40% of our planet. What would your street or village look like if 1% of the residents would own 40% of the street or village? What kind of consequences would this have? Yet it would not do to point at culprits. In this example actions and their consequences can be understood. In our global economy the consequences of our decisions are concealed by the disassociation between our decisions and their consequences. Not only does this make accountability virtually impossible, it also makes it undesirable. We cannot expect a manager or a consumer to be conscious of the many consequences of their choices.

The authorities could compensate for these consequences, although I do not think that the authorities actually have this insight. This would, however, require extensive regulation, bureaucracy and considerable investments. Instinctively this does not feel like contributing towards society and in addition there will have to be an authority that will see to it that these rules are being observed. If we offset this against the huge inequality and the power this would require, this route raises serious questions with respect to feasibility and desirability.

The macroeconomic influence seems to have surpassed the influence of democracy. It is characterised by institutions such as multinationals that hardly pay any taxes. As a consequence the costs for the maintenance of our state spending are borne by small and medium-sized enterprises and by people with average incomes. In addition particularly small and medium-sized enterprises are put at a disadvantage by bureaucracy. The injunction on provisions issued by the Dutch Finance Minister that should solve the problem of the usury policies strike small and medium-sized enterprises, the insurance companies are excluded from this. The people and the scientific world may endorse sustainable energy but still nuclear and gas-driven power plants will be built. Iraq?

In addition to the desirability it should be realised that the authorities themselves are subject to monetary as well as economic rules. The monetary rules provide them with a national debt which grows exponentially due to compound interest. This debt is not allowed to exceed sixty per cent of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). And if the authorities do not want to exceed the boundary of this percentage and still want to maintain their spending pattern – after inflation and interest payments, they will have to follow the economic rules in the pursuit of economic growth.

In a globalising world we can wonder what shapes the morality, justice, and organization of our society if neither the market nor the authorities can supply them.

The last lap

Often the increased prosperity that we have experienced since the Second World War has been ascribed to the way the post-war world has been organized. Or it is concluded that the capitalist way of free-market thinking and the Washington Consensus may have gone too far but that it has brought us the prosperity that we know nowadays. However, this ignores the two most important factors that have caused our recent prosperity, namely the easy access to oil and the development of technology, which replace labour and increase production. It is mainly these factors that our pyramid scheme has profited from.

Paradoxically enough this technology is also the factor that makes evident the unsustainability of the economic model. The development of technology is what humanity has innovated time and time again and which has brought us progress. The bow and arrow were one of the first extensions of our bodies. The acceleration of technological developments that have subsequently brought us agricultural implements and the wheel has enabled us to set up villages. People were freed up from the daily hunt for food. Crafts, trade and cities came into being.

Subsequently the industrial revolution has brought us the switch from products that were manufactured manually to products that were manufactured by machines. This process was refined and has created another freedom. Gradually the production of goods required increasingly less human labour. This new freedom made way for the service industry.

In 2010 the service industry provided 72.5% of our jobs, the manufacturing industry provided 24.9% and agriculture a mere 2.6%. Globally these figures are 63,2%, 30,9% and 6%, respectively. However, a new freedom awaits us.

In our economic model the producer needs the employee to manufacture his products that are then sold to the consumer. This game is kept alive by consumption. However, at the moment current technology is automating the service industry and thus removing the employee and therefore also the consumer from the equation; this creates technological unemployment. These jobs will not return. Technology currently frees us from the service industry.

The occupational therapy in economic, financial, legal, and security jobs, as well as the managers to keep the system alive have hardly any added value for society and can only absorb this blow for a limited amount of time, nor can the marketing industry on which many multinationals spend more money than on actual production costs. However, this type of advertising is necessary to maintain the system of essential cyclical consumption through manufactured demand and advertising. How would our perspective change if we replace the phrase advertising by ‘propaganda for our money value system’?

"Nobody is more hopelessly subjected to slavery than those who erroneously believe to be free.’" - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In case this technological unemployment or the collapse of the monetary pyramid scheme is not to herald the fall of the world as we know it today, it will be the current social unrest. In the increasingly prominent rat race towards the fulfilment of basic needs an increasingly stronger mentality develops in which our environment forces us in the direction of a more individualistic, more stressful, more intolerant and polarised world in which the solution seems to lie in the success of the individual; thus the empty concept of free market thinking is stimulated and given an increasingly prominent role. This is an alarming development in which the lack of social cohesion heralds the decay of society.

We all played along. The dissatisfaction and polarization are reflected in current political relations. This is not limited to the Netherlands or Europe, but it is a global tendency. We view an increase in prosperity but the majority does not seem to benefit from this or only to a limited extent. The polarisation of the political climate is only a recent reinforcement of a few of the many false dichotomies that we know and of which the antithesis right-wing – left-wing is the most prominent. The compassionate entrepreneur needs the freedom to pursue his passion in such a way that this does not contribute to the many disastrous consequences caused by the profit mechanism. He also should be free from the excessive restriction in the shape of ‘correcting’ bureaucracy by the authorities...

And yet each of us contributes to the reinforcement of this system through the alienated mechanism of our globalised world. The inhuman effects of the choice of the consumer or the manager limits the moral accountability because it makes it virtually impossible to have insight into cause and effect and in doing so says almost nothing about the humanity of the individual. All of us seem to be caught in a model in which social change can only be effected to a limited extent. In those of us whose human empathy inspires us to start treating the symptoms that the game entails, this causes a feeling of despondent powerlessness.

Beyond the game, the time has come for a holistic, multidisciplinary approach of our problems, a direction in which we can shape the future together. Is this at all possible or is it utopian?

The most important step to real change emerges from understanding the mechanism of our present society followed by realization of its possibilities. This awareness requires an effort of the critical mind. This takes time and energy and is rarely pleasant. It is an effort of the brain to reach a better understanding with our intellect. It is from this realization that a change of mentality and a different attitude to life can develop and from this realization the many individual initiatives can emerge that will find each other in a shared direction of change.

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."  -Margaret Mead

More profoundness changes ‘Utopia’ into feasibility. However, change never comes of its own accord – it requires work. Beside the critical mind this requires a second important human characteristic: empathy. We are not used developing fundamentally different thoughts about the design of our society. The empathic ability that our mirror neurons provide makes us the social beings that we are and provides us, in combination with our intellect, with the possibility to devise a different type of society. The need for a fundamentally more humane, social and liberal economic society is the greatest challenge for our generation. Science and technology provide our generation with the opportunity to take up this great challenge and to overcome the problems that our era poses us.

"You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created." 

"Imagination is more important than knowledge" 

- Albert Einstein

A truly sustainable knowledge economy: the resource-based economy In the past technology has given us the freedom of labour and shortage, as has been described briefly before. It is also the technology that will offer this to us in future. The introduction of personal sustainable electricity will not only create national and regional freedom but individual freedom as well. Currently the world produces an abundance of food. On a local and ecological level technology can provide almost fully automated food production in abundance through aqua- or hydroponics. This can even be done in stratified layers in the form of flats so that less land will be required for agriculture.

The technological know-how to automate our mobility – even cars – has already been developed. The precision and efficiency will make it possible to virtually bring down the number of traffic accidents to zero. For over thirty years we have disposed of the knowledge to power our cars with electricity. The magnetic elevation trains (maglev) may be able to realize speeds of 3500 km/h. Through RepRap and contour crafting we can ‘print’ 3D products, even houses with one press on a button. RepRap 3D printers, small-scale printers for home use that can also print their own parts offer endless possibilities. Why still buy tools?

This list could go on forever with examples from health care, education or the manufacture of goods. However, the list is characterised by the main expenditure for which we work for energy, food, mobility and housing. Through automation technology can provide these products in abundance and therefore for everyone. This means a dramatic reduction of the working week. Even more importantly it could make the middle class as we currently know it redundant in the near future. Any of these examples is also characterised by the opportunity to decentralise. Both abundance and decentralisation undermine the power structures by which shortage currently is maintained and reinforced.

"All truth passes through three stages: first it is ridiculed, second it is violently opposed. Third it is accepted as being self-evident." - Arthur Schopenhauer

A paradigm shift

Let us consider this for a while. What does technological decentralised abundance (TDA) actually mean? If this is combined with a sustainable relation with the environment, this will represent a fundamental, worldwide change in our way of life. There where sustainable TDA is present, money will not be needed for these products. If we connect this with a few developments mentioned before concerning TDA it follows that you do not need to work to pay for energy bills (personal energy needs), for daily food (hydroculture) or for products in and around the house (3D printers). The working week will be drastically reduced. And eventually your own job in the service industry will be discontinued because of technological unemployment. The labour for money paradigm is nigh.

A continuous movement will have to occur towards the use of sustainable raw materials as opposed to scarce raw materials and from global towards local. Science and technology are already providing answers to many of these questions; these answers range from alternatives for plastic and meat consumption to ideas such as cradle to cradle. If we are to realise a resource-based economy we will have to find our answers for tomorrow in a technological approach, instead of in a monetary or even a political approach.

If the authorities are to play a part in the resource-based economy they will have to invest in research but also to provide active support for practical decentralised projects. However, they will have to be able to rise above the monetary paradigm, above the mechanisms of profit and economic growth. This challenge will place them outside of the financial supremacy of the present time. Stuck in the navel gazing about a left or right-wing approach of fictitious distribution problems and stuck in the popularity franticness of election times I think the chances of a vision with future perspective are slim.

The answer is with you

Technological decentralised abundance as opposed to profit TDA provides us with an open playing field where we can learn from one another and thus can improve concepts. It is the world of open-source, science, expertise and experience. It shapes a world that returns freedom to the individual. It gives us the opportunity to develop ourselves with respect to our passions and ambitions. It returns insight into cause and effect and thus provides responsibility and accountability.

Anonymity is replaced by respect for the individual. It shapes a world that brings back community spirit. A world in which time will return our humanity and creativity to us. It shapes an environment that is geared towards our human needs. Possession as a human reaction to scarcity will make way for access and for use in ways that are adjusted to these needs. The investment that will be required during the transition period will be huge, as will the number of jobs to be created. Not jobs for the sake of jobs, but jobs that make a genuine contribution. Work that matters again.

“Nothing is stronger than an idea whose time has come.”  - Victor Hugo

Profit gives us shortages: the greater the shortages, the greater the profit. This self-reinforcing process has a destructive effect on humans and on their environment. It gives us inequality which results in possession of land, raw materials and ideas (patents). Access to our land, raw materials and ideas is obtained through money: a means of scarcity that is perpetually losing its value through inflation and that keeps us imprisoned in the individual rat race towards money through labour.

Profit gives us propaganda for a money value system (advertising) that maintains a fictitious scarcity. Status is derived from certain scarce products over others. Conformity through propaganda teaches us to want more. By definition it is a race that cannot be won – the new, distinguishing scarce product is already waiting in the wings. We accept the psychological and physical health effects of these status differences and the struggle to survive, the stress that is accompanying this pursuit of money for access to land, raw materials and ideas, and we put up with the sacrifices as well – individualism, lack of parenting, the crimes committed for possessions or status. The monetary system with its money is the religion of our time. In ignorance we remain imprisoned in our illusion of freedom and democracy.

The next move… is yours

If we choose to continue the present macroeconomic monetary political decisions, we opt for a further concentration of power, for greater inequality and marginalisation of your democratic vote in a system that is bound in this financial supremacy; in this system the extent to which social change can be effected is reduced more and more. It precludes economic democracy and individual freedom. Food prices become the plaything of speculation. The rat race towards money in a world with increasing scarcity will result in social unrest. Small and medium-sized businesses will become a pool of patents and potence for the multinationals and sovereign countries will become obstacles for the procurement of scarce raw materials.

You will notice none of this; the authorities will keep you safe and will give you freedom and democracy. Television teaches you that the world is dangerous – fortunately it offers you amusement as well. You will obtain your certificate and work towards a job that has been promised to you. It may not be ideal, but at any rate you will earn some money. For the few for whom this society does work, as opposed to the majority, the role of self-appointed guardians of the status quo awaits, the proclaimers of the money value system.

Caught up in debt we wait until institutions such as the IMF will help us. We wait for cutbacks and privatisations. We wait until the sovereignty of countries, companies and even individuals gradually drains away. We will wait for the social unrest that is the consequence of scarcity and for polarisation. We will wait for the increase of the number of ‘terrorists’ and for the governments that will protect us. We will wait. We will wait and then we shall wonder how it could happen that our society has fallen apart.

"My work (…) is not directed to intellectuals and politicians. It’s directed to what are called ‘ordinary people’. And what I expect from them is in fact exactly what they are.

That they should try to understand the world and act in accordance with their decent impulses. And that they should try to improve the world. And many people are willing 
to do that, but they have to understand. I feel that I am simply helping people develop 
a course of intellectual self-defence." - Noam Chomsky


Or we could choose the path provided to us by TDA. You, your neighbourhood, your region will control your life and your living environment through co-operation and through adjusting available goods towards your needs. Justice will be done yet again to the word democracy, because it implies that voters are wise and knowledgeable as to the effects of their choices or of the choices that will be made for them. Not the voice of scarcity is decisive for geopolitics but the mutual advantages of co-operation.

The insight into efficiency created by co-operation will shape decisions taken by authorities, not from the power provided by money but because municipal hydroculture is more efficient. The need for possessions inspired by scarcity will make space for access and use. Not everyone needs a lawn mower and boating excursions on the lake can be adjusted to demand. Specialised access centres will provide in people’s needs where frequent use of goods is not required.

Carpe Diem, seize the day, one of the oldest wisdoms we know. Surviving for the day of tomorrow will no longer keep us from the freedom of the moment. Time will have been given back to us to realise what is really important in life. This will make you think of friends, family, a partner, of doing what you’re passionate about and subsequently being valued for this. People will find each other in passions and ideas. TDA will create the space for a society in which people can develop in balance with their environment and with their human needs. A society that will even enrich the ‘richest’ person on earth. All of this is possible today. The choice is yours.

"Be the change you would like to see in the world" - Mahatma Gandhi

The times they are a-changing

The industrial revolution has freed us from physical labour. It has also brought us fear of what was to come, fear of the unknown, and fear of the freedom that the industrial revolution would bring us; on a larger scale it has also centralised power into the factories, the land owners, a new elite. The chimney was not only the symbol of economic power and of progress but also of social inequality. The political movements came into being and people united in political parties. The problem of distribution could be solved politically and a new consciousness arose. We will now witness a similar process. Technological decentralised abundance, however, will move us towards a sustainable era that will provide us plenitude.

Our generation has the unique opportunity to live through these developments: the revolution is happening now. It is up to you and thus to all of us together to shape this future. Maybe it will not be shown you such black-and-white tones as outlined but it shows the tendencies that we should take into account when making our daily decisions. We shall have to learn to think outside of the self-imposed boundaries of the mind. If we stop taking this system for granted the door to new ways of thinking will be opened. It is important that we find the courage to start dreaming about the future again.

These developments have provided space for movements that have been spreading these ideas for a longer period of time, such as Anonymous, The Zeitgeist Movement and recently perhaps the Occupy Movement. It is the voice of a generation who have been teaching itself through the Internet by documentaries such as “Money as Debt” and “Zeitgeist Moving Forward”, who have studied and found one another. The Internet will be the platform for the next revolution – a role played by the printing press for the scientific revolution, the precursor of our industrial revolution.

It is up to us all to develop a new consciousness on the road to tomorrow. We have a choice between ignorance, apathy, passivity and fear on the one hand and awareness, empathy and trust in fellow human beings on the other. And the choice is up to you, here and now.

"Cowardice asks the question, “Is it safe?” 



Expediency asks the question, “Is it politic?” 



And Vanity comes along and asks the question, “Is it popular?” 


But Conscience asks the question “Is it right?” 



And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must do it because Conscience tells him it is right." – Martin Luther King

Written by Seth Lievense  http://www.limpidus.org/

Translation by Josefien Bruijn.

Source : October 12, 2012 | Filed under: Activism,Life,News | Posted by: True Activist

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