Comments on: The Emerging New World Order – Part 2. The End of Sovereignty

By: عوائد الفوركس

عوائد الفوركس — Wed, 27 Aug 2014 01:05:01 +0000

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By: FrozenBoots

FrozenBoots — Tue, 15 Apr 2014 04:20:28 +0000

Hi David,

I would first like to convey a few things that I have always felt about you. I have been a fan of your documentaries since The Flow of Time which I watched more than a decade ago, I think. In terms of the way it made me feel (and think) it was right up there with Carl Sagan’s Cosmos. Moreover, as a son of a pure mathematician, I was deeply moved by Dangerous Knowledge; I am sure he would have loved watching it any time he could, just as I do, not only because of your ideas in it which he too had lived by (not pledging allegiance blindly or dogmatically to anything just for psychological comfort’s sake), but also because of the way you look at those men who devoted their lives to such fundamental questions of life. Hat’s off to you, sir. In a world where the art of reflection and thoughtful exposition is being lost in a social environment where thoughts are expressed mostly vacuously and without depth and rigor, your documentaries are refreshing, rejuvenating, and reassuring.

As for your concerns about the state of the world as regards the financial politics that governs it, I was quite surprised that your book dealt with such an area – quite a departure from your documentary themes.

I have not read the book; but I have been aware of the voodoo made-up world of financial instruments and the mechanics and politics of colonialism via corporations. And it ‘is’ just plain old colonialism. The age of colonialism through the use of standing armies is gone; it is more sub-rosa in nature. But it is the same old resource-grab scheme as ever. I see sectors getting privatized now all over the world and I cannot help but feel the same thing that I felt while watching the growth of the colonial powers of the past. The East India Company’s history shows how it rose to power from just a bunch of desperates looking to profit somehow from the potentially huge margins (%age in ‘thousands’ not hundreds or tens) on sale of cinnamon from South Asia, to this huge monster that basically became the actual administration that ran colonies across the world. It started wars, enslaved entire populations, toppled governments, instigated financial and political plots, and always got its way because of the Establishment behind it as it tried to swallow every resource on earth.

In terms of fighting back in recent history, a precedent was set (for the current generation who have not suffered colonialism) by the people of Bolivia, who took on the company that made storing rainwater illegal (imagine that), and the government that was protecting that company. But, I can see that the problem is that most people have not been hammered down to that necessary degree. Even M.K. Gandhi did not do anything until he was thrown off a first-class carriage onto the platform in the middle of the night. (Until then he wanted to be a swashbuckling barrister in the British mold.) Life is still livable, isn’t it? I guess the water needs to get hotter for people to snap. But already even people who are relatively secure are feeling the pinch. “It’s too expensive to live, it’s too expensive to die,” an Irish friend of mine said. I wondered if she knew the state of the people who are much lower down in the social strata in poorer countries than her and are being turned back into slaves en masse. Imagine their plight.

It is not at all surprising that people, communities, and entire nations are being brought to their knees and robbed at monetary gunpoint as fears are induced of an uncertain future. But I suspect that people are afraid for a bigger reason: they know in the back of their minds every day that this won’t be won by merely blogging or tweeting. One day, it will get real. The way the world works is that you have to fight for your dignity, your self respect, and your freedoms. Tecumseh told us to respect others views and demand that they respect yours. We must demand corporations that we be respected. And the good thing is that if you do, you stand a good chance that you will win. But first you must stop being afraid all the time.

I hope that people realize that they are in the middle of one of most important phases in history and that they must wake up and stop being passive entities in the narrative. Remember the lessons of history. Percy Shelley (the inspiration for Gandhi’s “civil disobedience” movement) wrote:

“And these words shall then become
Like Oppression’s thundered doom
Ringing through each heart and brain,
Heard again – again – again –

‘Rise like Lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number –
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you –
Ye are many – they are few.”

And David, please keep making sober, thoughtful documentaries the way you always have. I swear I love them.

Regards,
SM

By: sam

sam — Wed, 19 Mar 2014 23:11:27 +0000

In reply to ConfederateH.

Unemployment.

At the macro level, i disagree- its just math. Unemployment is not an accident but a designed feature of the economy. (Hence the need for importation of excess labour, which you recognise).

At the individual level, it is very much determined by the macro situation and specific employers discriminations (legal or illegal).

Money/Capital is earned or (unless you have a printing press or a skim based on it ) by selling to buyers in society, no buyers = no sellers. So we are all joined and also intergenerationally. Your capital needs to provide your retirement. It depends on society accepting your stored capital. Indeed society creates the money for you to purchase with your labour.

One generation can repudiate inequity, it will happen. No doubt the tptb are trying desperately to ensure the current model of crony capitalism at any cost. This includes war. This crosses creed,color and sex.