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Sunday, 1 January 2017

Mutually Assured Benefit

2500 Years and Counting.......

What is wrong with humanity?

Two thousand years ago the Romans and Greeks were building beautiful cities, had central heating and running fresh water, fostered poets and dramatists, philosophers and historians. Four hundred years before, Plato had founded the world's first University and written a philosophy which to this day has great worth. At around the same time Laozi authored the Tao Te Ching (the Way of Inner Virtue), from whence Confucius and Mencius drew their philosophies. In India, the Bhagavad Gita was probably contemporaneous.

In India, in Greece, in Italy, in Egypt, in South America, architects and builders were creating structures we travel to now to marvel at for their beauty and endurance. Mathematicians were deducing the building blocks of creation and using that mathematics to create buildings expressing those principles as art. In the East humans created temples based upon what we now term Fractals, expressing the infinite. In the West, Phi and the Golden Ratio were employed to build the Parthenon. At around this time, Democritus (“Chosen of the People”) was writing about how creation was made of atoms, with a void between these tiny particles.

In those days ideas of “Republic' and “Democracy” and “Law” were born. The true nature of creation and the Creator were explored. Learning and knowledge became ends in themselves, valued by societies that saw the benefits of such cerebral endeavour in practical outcomes, creating devices that brought ease and building cities that pleased the senses.

And here we are. Two and a half thousand years later and we exist in a cesspool of physical and mental filth, everything fine and noble and virtuous almost forgotten, the world dominated by warmongers, humanity enslaved to usurious debt, the understanding of the benefits of tribal consciousness dissipated, our cities uglified and our environment ruined, the trivial glorified and the deep and meaningful derogated, our search for connection with the creator mummified within ancient, lying religions and their perverse books.

What went wrong?

Money, that's what.

In our tribal origins we human beings shared. We did this because we understood that by sharing when we had stuff to share that others would share with us when we hadn't. This simple understanding created a bond between peoples that understood that 'self' was less than 'tribe', that we worked best and were safer as a community. Better hunters shared their haul because they understood that better gatherers or growers would share what they had, that better bow makers or teepee builders would provide. This was not even barter as we might think of it today. This was a condition of mutually assured benefit. Slackers and the greedy would be frowned upon, but the weak or incapable were supported as it was understood that we all become weak or incapable at some point. From there we developed our first civilisations, but commingled with that came money and kingship.

Tribes had leaders, the wise that advised or decided, selected by common consent. The bullies that might otherwise dominate were shunned or cast out by the whole tribe, banished as the Amish do today. This was a powerful method of ensuring the tribe continued its harmonious, just and fair existence, for it was understood that once a bully is allowed to dominate, everyone becomes a slave.

In exile the bully became a lone wolf and often died quickly, lacking the benefits of sharing and caring that the community provided.

Even in places where bullies dominated and pronounced themselves king the situation wasn't yet too bad. Even kings can only eat so much, only occupy so much space. Their taxation of their subjects was limited. Why take all the grain, when a year later it would be ruined and worthless?

Then money was invented, and kings put their faces on it, and this single event determined the rest of human history. Money is in effect energy. When you labour, your expended energy becomes money. That energy-as-money can be stored, whereas grain or meat have a shelf life. That stored energy can be passed from generation to generation. There are still aristocrats in England living off the stored energy of Chinese opium addicts of the 19^th Century.....

As we all know now, it was later discovered that money could be made that had no intrinsic value, that a human being's labour could be bought for a piece of paper. Later still, bought for a piece of electronic data at the tap of a key.

This worthless stuff now controls almost everything we do. It is the electronic expression of all of humanity's real work; its creativity, its invention, its sweat and grunt. Seven billion of us labour in exchange for digits and we allow our modern day rulers to create as many digits as they like from thin air and charge us our energy for it.

This creation of money as debt from thin air is, in effect, the creation of energy from nothing, an act of demonic Magick.

This demonic Magick drives almost everything evil in the world, from the bribery and corruption of all governments and rank upon rank of corrupt government employees, down to the lowest levels, the street corner heroin dealers and the modern day slavers that supply prostitutes to those without a moral compass, the suppliers of paedophile pornography and snuff movies. Every aspect of humanity at its basest is driven by this dark Magick.

We live in a world gone wrong. A world where relatively harmless cannabis is illegal yet harmful alcohol is freely available. A world where war criminals are celebrated and voted for instead of being hung by the neck until they are dead. A world which has forgotten the benefits of community and sharing and where money pits each human being against every other. A world where we build ugly places, where we destroy the very nature that supports us. A world where child murderers dominate our leadership everywhere.

This great machinery of dominance and wrong would stop working without money. It is the oil that keeps the machinery of evil lubricated and functioning, without which it would, like any engine without oil, quickly blow up.

If the world's currencies failed, which we know our masters are intending, we human beings would be plunged into utter confusion. Without money we can neither buy nor sell. Would the bus driver go to work if the company had no money to pay them? Would the farmer grow food if there was no money for him to pay for his fertiliser, the fuel for his tractor, nor to pay for what he or she grew? When money is crashed, the world will be further plunged into chaos. From that chaos we will pray to be saved and our rulers will be able to introduce their final insult to our great species, purely electronic, digitised money as debt, the instrument of absolute control forever.

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The world is co-created by humanity's conscious will.

That conscious will is controlled, as we have written about and described here so often.

IF we decided to live, as a global tribe, as a single species, without money......

We would have to determine some way to frown upon the greedy.....

We would have to find some way to decide which of us would get the Ferrari...

We would, millions of us, be released from non-productive work...

We'd need no tax collectors, no bankers, no salespeople, no marketeers, no insurance people....

Millions would realise that they could be doing something USEFUL

Some solutions:

We lotterise what's luxurious, from champagne to executive cars.

We provide exchanges for those items, for all stuff, we swap as our forbears did, we give what we can and we take what we need, sharing a tribal understanding.

We frown upon the greedy and the lazy as our tribal forbears did, punish them by exclusion.

Crime is mostly money motivated.

What crime remains we all of us police, as our tribal forbears did.

Everyone should act as a peace officer, everyone take responsibility for the freedom from fear of the whole tribe....

Do you see?

When the financial crash comes, there should be nothing to fear

A GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS PROVIDES HUMANITY WITH THE OPPORTUNITY TO SET ITSELF FREE FROM MONEY AND THE STORED ENERGY THAT CONFERS ALL POWER ON OUR RULERS, ITS CREATORS.

What, then, could we do with the next 2,500 years?

Olive

xxx xxx xxx

From Olive Farmer @ http://olivefarmercrete.blogspot.com.au/2016/11/mutually-assured-benefit.html

Imagine A World without Money, debt and Slavery

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And from Zeitgeist:

The Story of Our Unenslavement

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Saturday, 31 December 2016

Can Buckminster Fuller’s Vision of the Future Help Save Humanity?

by Amy L. Lansky, PhD

All over the world and over many centuries, one of the objects that most captures the human imagination is the globe. Globes sit in living rooms and in children’s bedrooms, serving as vehicles for outward expansiveness and inner hope and imagination.

But what if globes were alive in some way? What if we could say to our globe: show me the growth and movement of humanity (or any animal or plant population) over the course of history; show me the development of weather patterns over the past month or year; show me earthquakes (or any earth-based data) over the past 5 years; show me the movement of various natural resources as they are mined, utilized, and recycled; show me all the troop movements and wars and skirmishes going on; show me the movement of airplanes and boats; show me who is watching a particular TV show or YouTube or buying a particular product over a particular region during a particular period of time; show me how content is spreading through social media. The possibilities are endless.

And what would be the impact of such a tool on humanity? The mere image of the Earth from the perspective of the Moon changed the consciousness of everyone on the planet. How much more so might this kind of tool change us?

The description I just gave provides merely an inkling of the possible functionality and impact of an idea first conceived by visionary inventor Buckminster Fuller over 50 years ago. Explaining the full scope of Fuller’s work in a short article is impossible, but let me try, as briefly as I can, to get across the flavor of the man and the humanity-saving potential of one of his as-yet-unrealized but long-sought-after dreams: the Geoscope.

Who Was Bucky Fuller?

Somewhat forgotten in today’s world, but never forgotten in the annals of history, is the groundbreaking and mind-blowing work of R. Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983). Although he is most well-known for his invention of the geodesic dome, Bucky (as he liked to be called) was so much more than a visionary architect and inventor.

Buckminster Fuller was the epitome of the home-grown genius and free thinker. Groomed for the Ivy League, he was quickly ejected from that world due to his nonconformist thinking. Bucky always started from first-principles and relied on his own intuition. The very core of his being rejected conformism to “accepted wisdom”. In his designs, he liked to use the natural world as a model and inspiration, reasoning (correctly) that nature always chooses the most efficient path.

Bucky was also a futurist, and tenaciously studied the long-arc of human society and planetary evolution in order to understand the possible futures that lay before us. His response to this research was to direct his own work toward what he called “anticipatory design” — to create, 50 years before they would be needed, sustainably producible physical objects that could serve the greatest number of people with the least use of energy and material. He strongly believed that it was futile to change anyone’s mind about anything. However, if one created an object that was obviously the best tool for a given purpose, people would naturally adopt it. Thus, in order to effect positive change for humanity, Bucky felt that the best path was to alter the human environment in some way that led to that change. Think about the world-transforming effect of the internet or of the iPhone and you get the idea.

The most well-known anticipatory-design artifact that Bucky invented was the geodesic dome. Its amazing ability to house humanity (it uses the least amount of material to create the largest volume of space, naturally creates a healthy atmospheric habitat inside, and can be scaled up to city-size) has not even been tapped yet — but it likely will be in the future. There are dozens of other Fuller creations as well.

Guinea Pig B

Of course, Bucky was subject to the conformist pressures of his world, just as anyone else is. Don’t forget, he was born in 1895. He attempted several times in his life to “earn a living” for his family, but these efforts were repeatedly unsuccessful. In his early 30s, after his first child died and his wife and new infant daughter obviously needed care and support, the architecture and construction company he had founded went belly-up. On the verge of committing suicide, Bucky experienced a spiritual crisis and received direction from some higher source. He decided to conduct the rest of his life as an experiment, calling himself “Guinea Pig B”.

From that point on, Buckminster Fuller dedicated his life, not to helping himself and his family, but to helping the most of humanity he could. He refused to work for any corporate entity or organization (with the exception of the Navy during WW II). Bucky wanted to see what one small average man could accomplish on his own, that no government, corporation, or large organization could achieve. He reasoned that “Universe” would naturally support activities that most fostered its own positive evolution. And when he dedicated all his efforts according to these principles (instead of to “making money”), he met with success. Over time, his brilliant ideas and influence extended throughout the world. He had particularly tremendous influence on a global level after WW II. By the late 60s and 70s, Bucky had even become a kind of Yoda-like guru to the student movements of that period.

The Geoscope

Fuller envisioned something much like the living globe I described earlier, way back in the 1950s, and he called it the Geoscope. Bucky knew that humans could not easily perceive global trends over time. His conception of the Geoscope was as a tool that would enhance our perception, providing a literal “scope” (like a telescope or microscope) to see and understand what Bucky called Spaceship Earth (Geo). He believed that if we could see this information, especially collectively, we would also begin to see and understand patterns that could help humanity.

When Bucky first conceived of this idea, he imagined it as a large exhibit for a World’s Fair. A huge geodesic sphere would be suspended in a stadium, covered with an accurate image of the Earth. Then, slowly, the tessellated sphere would open, creating a flat rendering of the Earth that would descend to the floor. This unique Earth projection was also a Buckminster Fuller invention, called the Dymaxion Map. Unlike other projections, it preserves the relative sizes of the land masses and also fosters an awareness of the interconnection between them. On this map, various forms of animated data would be depicted for all to view.

Although this vision was never implemented, Bucky kept promoting the idea of the Geoscope until he died in 1983. One of the most well-known implementations he lobbied for was a giant 200-foot diameter geodesic sphere suspended over New York’s East River, in view of the UN building and covered with lights. He envisioned the UN officials looking at this depiction of the Earth and the various data animated by the lights upon it, who then would make more informed decisions that would help the world. He also imagined viewing platforms within the Geoscope. From this perspective, people could accurately view the outer universe of stars and galaxies from different points of view on Earth.

Although a few small-scale Geoscopes were built, none accomplished anything like Bucky’s vision. The technology was simply not there yet — but it is now. Once again, Bucky may have been envisioning something over 50 years in the future. And that future is now.

Imagine this. What if we combined something like Google Earth with VR technology, advanced data visualization techniques, and modern media? Put on your VR goggles and see the Earth in all its glory — close up or from far away. Spin it. Project it as a Dymaxion Map. Ask for any form data to be presented to you, over any period of time, at any place on Earth. Speed it up. Slow it down. Correlate it with other data. Ask for hidden correlations to be revealed to you. You might even run simulations or projections of the future (which Bucky called “playing the world game”). This technological framework would comprise the Geoscope itself.

Next, put the Geoscope out there for everyone to play with. Artists, scientists, movie-makers, any kid in his or her bedroom, could make content using Geoscope data.

Finally, use global media to create collective Geoscope experiences. Geoscope TV. Geoscope Movie Theaters. Social media networks and blogs focused on Geoscope content.

Now ask yourself: How would it change humanity if we could accurately perceive what is really going on and communicate with each other about it? How would our consciousness change? What would we do?

I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately. Indeed, Bucky’s goals with the Geoscope coincide with many of my own in writing Active Consciousness. Just as meditation can allow each of us to enter a “witness” state and see ourselves and our stories for what they are, perhaps the Geoscope will enable humanity to enter into a state of global mass meditation in which we really witness ourselves as a whole. The resulting shift in consciousness would be magnificent!

After having spent some time familiarizing myself with his life and work, I believe that Buckminster Fuller was a truly enlightened visionary who would not have spent decades promoting an empty idea. Bucky knew the Geoscope was important to humanity. And the time is now to build it.

As we all sit in our respective post-election worlds, perhaps it’s a good time to focus on something real and substantial that could fundamentally change our world for the better. Just as digging into the earth and planting seeds can help us feel grounded and hopeful, working toward something that could improve humanity’s perception of and connection to the Earth and its global civilization might also serve to be grounding and fill us with a new sense of invigoration and hopefulness. If you are inspired by this article, please share it, talk about it, write to me, or help make it happen in some way. Let’s take this moment in history, get grounded, and plant a seed that could really grow into something wonderful!

About the Author

Amy Lansky was a NASA researcher in artificial intelligence when her life was transformed by the miraculous homeopathic cure of her son’s autism. In 2003, she publishedImpossible Cure: The Promise of Homeopathy, now one of the best-selling introductory books on homeopathy worldwide (www.impossiblecure.com). Since then, Lansky has broadened her investigations to include ancient and modern teachings about consciousness, psychic phenomena, synchronicity, meditation, and our collective power to evolve and transform our world. The result is her second book, Active Consciousness: Awakening the Power Within, published in 2011 (www.activeconsciousness.com). Lansky was also featured in the recent movie about synchronicity, Time is Art. Her blog can be found at: www.amylansky.com.

From Waking Times @ http://www.wakingtimes.com/2016/12/07/can-buckminster-fullers-vision-future-help-save-humanity/

Thinking Out Loud: Buckminster Fuller

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