This post explores Voluntaryism, Brehons, "The Indigenous Critique", what Charles Eisenstein describes as "The Concrete World" and offers sign posts to instead choose a different future
Governments actually do not borrow from banks directly.
The Fed Bank sells the Government debt on the open market and it is purchased by People, Institutions and other Governments.
The largest holder of US Debt is the average joe out there through their Social Security contributions which purchase US Debt as their only asset. Most 401K's own anywhere from 40 to 60% government debt as an asset.
Many corporations own Government debt.
Many Pensions own large amounts of Government Debt and the Government has passed laws making it mandatory that Banks must hold Government debt as their Reserves.
So you see first, banks do not just create the money out of thin air, they get it from us and other governments and from bank deposits.
The interest on the debt the government pays is collected from taxes and worst, the government does not really pay off debt, they borrow money by rolling old debt over in new debt to pay the old debt and that is how the US got to 34 trillion.
It would be like you borrowing money from the credit card company every month to pay the debt.
Worse, Governments are CHRONIC defaulters and the Great Reset is all about the current Government Default which is a default on you, your bank and other countries.
We read the same books, and have come to the similar conclusions....it is good to not be alone. the only difference is that i studied the healing wisdom and spiritual practices of ancient cultures since 1991. Because religion and worldview determines a lot....
I appreciate how well you broke down the current system we have had forced upon us, and for offering alternative ways of being. As for the voluntaryism, the part where it believes in violence to "protect property", is where it goes off the rails for me. As long as people view the earth we all share as something to be carved up and owned, we will continue on a destructive path. In my perspective. In my view, until humans remember that we were put here to help take care of the earth, and share all it's abundance, we will be lost, wandering obliviously to our demise. The video of Robin was quite heartening however, and gave me confirmation that I am on the right track. There is a question I've been asking the universe, something I was doubting that I feel called to do, and her explanation of the prophecy answered my question. Though I kinda already knew the answer, it was nice to hear it from another source. Thanks so much.
Anarchy, yes, another one on the problematic word list for sure! But, I do believe what we had before colonization was a kind of voluntarism for most of times and places, so it shouldn’t be terribly difficult to relearn such ways, right? I think we first need to give up the notion that ‘we’ were the colonizers, and ‘they’ were the colonized, because it is not a true picture at all.
We are lucky to have so much information now at our fingertips, plus a bit of time and freedom to do the research, and wonderful like-minded, wise partners to share our journeys with!
Awesome essay Gavin, so much to explore! I’ve also been wanting to learn more about the Celts and Druids for several years but have not yet ventured into that territory--just been collecting some titles for future study. I love studying history, real history, not fake war history and the nonsense shoved down our throats in school. It’s really tough to get to any degree of truth, as your meme demonstrates, so very much to unlearn before the real learning, or maybe, unveiling is a better word.
Speaking of words, I don’t like the word ‘love’ in this context, never have. I’ve complained about it a few times on my own blog, but I find it over-used and too cliched to have the impact it needs to have. Our culture no longer attaches the word “love” to the word “care”, as in, connecting the passive term to the active participation required for its flourishing. Most think of love as romantic love, the kind of thing which just rushes over you in a fit of hormonal intensity, which drives us to do things outside our comfort zone, to compromise for another, or devote ourselves to their well-being. The idea we should all ‘love one another’ is creepy to me! I’m being a bit of a ‘word Nazi’ perhaps 😀 but words do cast spells. If the word is not casting the right spell, what good is it? After all, most folks say they love nature. My mom believes she loves nature--but that is the love of nature from the comfort of her new couch in her climate-controlled house far too large for one old lady looking out her window at the bird feeder from Walmart in the still rapidly-growing city suburbs. We need another word, imo. If I had a better one I’d offer it, but I keep looking. “Courage” if we kept the “coeur” (heart) in it? Maybe coin a new word?! -‘Coeurcare’ -- “heartcare” LOL! 😂. I’ll keep working on it!!
You mentioned kindness being perceived as weakness in our culture--so true. And, even worse, sensitivity is perceived as weakness as well. Yet it is precisely sensitivity that we should be cultivating. Once we become sensitive to our surroundings, we become in tuned, we start hearing what it needs, it starts to feel very reciprocal, and that feels magical!
And on studying history, ‘alternative’ history as they are calling it, I’ve learned one crucial thing that I now accept as true. In the US there were many centuries, which are pretty much scrubbed from our mainstream history, where ‘civilized’ city centers existed, relatively peacefully, with ‘natives’ in the large expanse of wilderness (aka ‘unincorporated’) areas. Movement between ‘civilized’ people and ‘wilderness’ people was fairly common during this time. The ‘mound-builders’ peacefully co-existed not only with neighboring tribes but also with those living in the well-established city centers, many of which were destroyed. I find contemplating this hidden history more compelling than the popularized narratives, which have been mostly written from the standpoint of conquered peoples, who have long been colonized. (Let’s not forget, the ‘modern Europeans’ were not the first or only populations living side-by-side with the indigenous peoples--the floods of populations came after the lands were made ‘safe’ but there were many different races here for ages before that). This has led me to believe the Constitution was never truly a ‘founding document’ and never worked as (perhaps) was intended, was not approved of by the populations who lived here at that time, and was more like a ‘conquest document’ forcing laws onto populations which did not want, need or care for them. In other words, before Africa was colonized, the US was colonized, and there were not just ‘indigenous’ or ‘uncivilized’ peoples here at the time.
So nice to share ideas like this, thank you so much for your compelling work that has the power to get us all pondering and talking about the important, indeed crucial, topics to take back our history, our nature and our true selves!! 🤗
Governments actually do not borrow from banks directly.
The Fed Bank sells the Government debt on the open market and it is purchased by People, Institutions and other Governments.
The largest holder of US Debt is the average joe out there through their Social Security contributions which purchase US Debt as their only asset. Most 401K's own anywhere from 40 to 60% government debt as an asset.
Many corporations own Government debt.
Many Pensions own large amounts of Government Debt and the Government has passed laws making it mandatory that Banks must hold Government debt as their Reserves.
So you see first, banks do not just create the money out of thin air, they get it from us and other governments and from bank deposits.
The interest on the debt the government pays is collected from taxes and worst, the government does not really pay off debt, they borrow money by rolling old debt over in new debt to pay the old debt and that is how the US got to 34 trillion.
It would be like you borrowing money from the credit card company every month to pay the debt.
Worse, Governments are CHRONIC defaulters and the Great Reset is all about the current Government Default which is a default on you, your bank and other countries.
We read the same books, and have come to the similar conclusions....it is good to not be alone. the only difference is that i studied the healing wisdom and spiritual practices of ancient cultures since 1991. Because religion and worldview determines a lot....
I appreciate how well you broke down the current system we have had forced upon us, and for offering alternative ways of being. As for the voluntaryism, the part where it believes in violence to "protect property", is where it goes off the rails for me. As long as people view the earth we all share as something to be carved up and owned, we will continue on a destructive path. In my perspective. In my view, until humans remember that we were put here to help take care of the earth, and share all it's abundance, we will be lost, wandering obliviously to our demise. The video of Robin was quite heartening however, and gave me confirmation that I am on the right track. There is a question I've been asking the universe, something I was doubting that I feel called to do, and her explanation of the prophecy answered my question. Though I kinda already knew the answer, it was nice to hear it from another source. Thanks so much.
Anarchy, yes, another one on the problematic word list for sure! But, I do believe what we had before colonization was a kind of voluntarism for most of times and places, so it shouldn’t be terribly difficult to relearn such ways, right? I think we first need to give up the notion that ‘we’ were the colonizers, and ‘they’ were the colonized, because it is not a true picture at all.
Have you come across this book yet in your research? Looks interesting: https://archive.org/details/TheCelticDruids (by G. Higgins).
We are lucky to have so much information now at our fingertips, plus a bit of time and freedom to do the research, and wonderful like-minded, wise partners to share our journeys with!
Awesome essay Gavin, so much to explore! I’ve also been wanting to learn more about the Celts and Druids for several years but have not yet ventured into that territory--just been collecting some titles for future study. I love studying history, real history, not fake war history and the nonsense shoved down our throats in school. It’s really tough to get to any degree of truth, as your meme demonstrates, so very much to unlearn before the real learning, or maybe, unveiling is a better word.
Speaking of words, I don’t like the word ‘love’ in this context, never have. I’ve complained about it a few times on my own blog, but I find it over-used and too cliched to have the impact it needs to have. Our culture no longer attaches the word “love” to the word “care”, as in, connecting the passive term to the active participation required for its flourishing. Most think of love as romantic love, the kind of thing which just rushes over you in a fit of hormonal intensity, which drives us to do things outside our comfort zone, to compromise for another, or devote ourselves to their well-being. The idea we should all ‘love one another’ is creepy to me! I’m being a bit of a ‘word Nazi’ perhaps 😀 but words do cast spells. If the word is not casting the right spell, what good is it? After all, most folks say they love nature. My mom believes she loves nature--but that is the love of nature from the comfort of her new couch in her climate-controlled house far too large for one old lady looking out her window at the bird feeder from Walmart in the still rapidly-growing city suburbs. We need another word, imo. If I had a better one I’d offer it, but I keep looking. “Courage” if we kept the “coeur” (heart) in it? Maybe coin a new word?! -‘Coeurcare’ -- “heartcare” LOL! 😂. I’ll keep working on it!!
You mentioned kindness being perceived as weakness in our culture--so true. And, even worse, sensitivity is perceived as weakness as well. Yet it is precisely sensitivity that we should be cultivating. Once we become sensitive to our surroundings, we become in tuned, we start hearing what it needs, it starts to feel very reciprocal, and that feels magical!
And on studying history, ‘alternative’ history as they are calling it, I’ve learned one crucial thing that I now accept as true. In the US there were many centuries, which are pretty much scrubbed from our mainstream history, where ‘civilized’ city centers existed, relatively peacefully, with ‘natives’ in the large expanse of wilderness (aka ‘unincorporated’) areas. Movement between ‘civilized’ people and ‘wilderness’ people was fairly common during this time. The ‘mound-builders’ peacefully co-existed not only with neighboring tribes but also with those living in the well-established city centers, many of which were destroyed. I find contemplating this hidden history more compelling than the popularized narratives, which have been mostly written from the standpoint of conquered peoples, who have long been colonized. (Let’s not forget, the ‘modern Europeans’ were not the first or only populations living side-by-side with the indigenous peoples--the floods of populations came after the lands were made ‘safe’ but there were many different races here for ages before that). This has led me to believe the Constitution was never truly a ‘founding document’ and never worked as (perhaps) was intended, was not approved of by the populations who lived here at that time, and was more like a ‘conquest document’ forcing laws onto populations which did not want, need or care for them. In other words, before Africa was colonized, the US was colonized, and there were not just ‘indigenous’ or ‘uncivilized’ peoples here at the time.
So nice to share ideas like this, thank you so much for your compelling work that has the power to get us all pondering and talking about the important, indeed crucial, topics to take back our history, our nature and our true selves!! 🤗