2012 – The Dark Side of Anarchy and Naked Ladies

March 4, 2012 in Equal Money Blog

The following article discusses a picture that depicts a woman standing at a protest rally with bared and pierced breasts and a piece of fabric covering her mouth and nose. The picture is posted on Facebook in support of anarchism and activism. The picture stands as yet another snapshot of a world-view as it exposure of a Dark Side of humanity, of who and where we are in 2012.

The basic idea with how the picture is presented by the activists on Facebook is that this woman is a symbol of fighting the system, of freeing oneself of the oppressing grab of capitalism and conformism. From what people express in the comments, what they see when they look at this picture is a symbol of empowerment and self-emancipation.

The Dark Side that is exposed here, as a veneer and vice of humanity’s self-deception and delusion is that the picture is not depicting activism, empowerment or freedom in any way whatsoever. Why? Let’s have a look at the more than 1000 words this picture is portraying.

One of the perspectives shared in the discussion about the picture of the activist with the naked breasts is that: “Anarchy is the ability to be free from one man’s rules and governance over one’s self (when not harming those in that society)….”

So the woman is seen as freeing herself from the restrains of oppression, she is making a bold statement to claim her right to be naked in public.

A bold question to ask could be the following: is being naked in public not simply the same as porn and other forms of portrayals of nudity and sexual images?

It is apparently being ‘outrageous’ that a woman shows her breasts is public – that is considered anarchy – when in fact every day there are images of women with naked breasts in our faces, with new twists of fetishes that people jerk off too. All over billboards, phones, screens and in magazines we see pictures of naked and half naked women. The fact that it is still considered outrageous and over the edge, is in itself quite a paradox. Naked women can be used to sell anything, even anarchy.

Another question is that if the woman had been 100 kg. Heavier, would she have been seen the same way? Looking at the picture, the women resemble Lara Croft with her facial expression and how her backpack is placed around her shoulders. She looks fierce, like an amazon warrior and just like there are men that are turned on by girls in school uniforms, so is this a classic fantasy portrayal of women, one that is impulsed by the capitalistic mass-media industry. Accordingly one commenter says: “I FKN Love Hot Women in Masks!”.

Such an image would thus never have been applauded if the woman had been weighing 100 kg or if she had been a naked man. It “works” because she is fitting the picture of an attractive young woman with perky breasts and a slim figure. The fantasies and fetishes with specific narratives also bear witness of this, with the storyline of a naked anarchist woman that speaks to the mind of the anarchist man. This image falls straight into the lap of the generic porn industry where money is made on the portrayal of a certain body-image and fantasy. So the image is ironically not expressing anarchy, but in fact conformism. We are so used to seeing images of naked women, so used to being impulsed and directed by sexual subjection that we don’t even see that what we are considering to be emancipating, is in fact subjugating to the utmost extend.

Another statement goes: “It’s a protest… she looks angry… and she looks like my many anarchist friends… nothing more”

Alright so the woman looks the part of an anarchist at a protest. That is not emancipating or empowering for anyone, including her. What this comment is revealing is that being an anarchist or an activist is a life-style, a culture that requires specific symbols and costumes where one does in fact ‘fit an image’ or a symbol – rather than that being free in itself, or happy or revolutionary.

I used to believe that activist people were the most free. When I joined a group of radical left wing anarchists, I was shocked to discover that most of them came from middle to upper-class homes and had proper educations. Their culture was in most cases a vice they had dressed themselves in, not unlike the business man puts on his suit to fit the part in the corporate world. I remember one time where I went to a squatted house where all the ‘radicals’ hanged out. Over the door there was a sign that said “NO sexism, NO racism, NO specism! When I entered the house, all the people were dressed in black, the proper uniform of a radical activist. I was the only person wearing color and the people there clearly felt I did not belong; the girls would speak about me and whisper exactly as in any other narrative of a teenage or high school drama. These people were exactly as judgmental as everyone else – a big difference however was the bigotry of claiming they were not.

That was when I realized that politics exists within me, in every moment of interaction with other human beings.

If we claim to be political activists that fight against war and for the oppressed, how can we be intolerant in our personal interaction with other people? How can we exclude others in our reality and at the same time claim to be tolerant towards the oppressed?

Let’s look at another comment from the Facebook discussion on the women with the bared breasts. The commenter says:

“I see a loud statement. She isn’t hurting anyone and obviously knows people are going to react. It’s a sound tactic.”

It is absurd that the pinnacle of making a “loud statement” is to be naked. This is my point exactly: the fact that we need naked women to make loud statements says more about our view on naked women than actual statements of change – and it shows exactly the kind of politics that is predominant in this world.

Another commenter says: ” Don’t forget the component of compassion. Nobody is trying to hurt anyone. Helping other is a good thing. We just don’t want to be oppressed.”

Being naked in public is not the same as not being oppressed. The point with protesting against being oppressed is that one is in fact validating one’s own oppression by accepting oneself as powerless to begin with – changing the system requires that we stand equal to it, that we change it from within it and take self-responsibility for the system instead of seeing ourselves as victims of the system – naked or not. Let’s have a closer look at this:

“I don’t think revolution is the answer either. Rebellion is a different story, we should think about taking down the corporations that own the government, not the government itself.”

Who is it that “rebels” in this world? What is the essential symbol of a rebel? Children fighting against parents, children throwing tantrums. Yet who has the power? The parents. Rebellion by definition points to a power struggle between oppressor and oppressed. It points to the very existence of the possibility of someone oppressing another. Superiority and Inferiority is two sides of the same polarity-coin. One cannot exist without the other. This reveals a side of power-relations that once realized, can be the key to actual freedom. Only by standing equal can we change what is here.

“Sadly, we are victims, whether we like it or not. The system is so corrupt that there is no way to change it from the inside. It doesn’t matter who you vote for. The corporations own the politicians, all of them. We have to bring change from the outside…”

Each and every one of us is equally responsible for what is here. Some are capable of responding in a way that makes change possible, while others are not. More than 3 billion people, half the Earth’s population is not because they are excluded from participating in the capitalistic system. The top-elite are too brainwashed by their own greed, fear and power to let it go – that leaves us, the middle-class, the “middle-ground” – the ones that are able and capable of making change happen – the “democratic consumers” as it were. In order to do that we require stopping seeing ourselves as victims and realize that if we don’t direct a change, no one will. Throwing tantrums and being angry, helps no-one, least of all ourselves. And we can’t do that by seeing ourselves as victims of an evil system – only by taking responsibility for that system and our own participation in it, can we make change happen. For many years I refused to participate in the system. I lived “off the grid”, made money through odd jobs and remained in the enclosure of my activist community.

I went to rally after rally, protest after protest and participated in street riots. I finally realized that what we were doing was abdicating self-responsibility for what is here by judging the system and claiming to be more than it, while we were in fact equally a part of it, whether we liked it or not. So – I started taking an education, standing in the system, yet not off it – and are slowly but surely placing myself in a position of being able to make an actual difference. This is not to say that the system is not corrupt – but it is the realization that the system only listens to the system itself and that no one is free until all are free. I dedicate my life and myself to change what is here, no matter what it takes – until it is done.

“What do we do, as the middle class, to protect ourselves from the ‘they’ that don’t exist, as our wages decrease, the cost of living goes up, and we find ourselves amongst the ranks of the poor, unable to do anything but try to survive?”

We cannot protect ourselves – the system is as brutal as it gets. In terms of survival as the system currently exists, all one can do is to make sure that one can support oneself financially and support others to do the same. So what is required is that we place ourselves in a stable position from which we can start making the necessary changes. Before I refused to take an education. Now I am almost done with a masters and will continue to place myself effectively in the system. Why? Because the system listens to people it considers being “experts” – The system only listens to those that have a paper saying they are approved by the system to speak. That is “having a voice” in this world – screaming against politicians in protest is not as we’ve seen over and over again. Why? Because the political system is representing ourselves, whether we like it or not. That is the cruel joke of democracy. So what we are protesting against, what we judge, what we turn our backs to: is ourselves.

So instead of going haywire with anger and desperation, we utilize democracy. We change the family-systems, the education-systems, the relationship-systems and the inner systems of our minds that are reflecting and reflected in the world-systems. We go into politics; we educate ourselves in understanding the political and economic systems in depth. One of the major reasons for our current powerlessness is that we don’t understand the economic system – only those on top knows how the system works and by keeping people ignorant, some remain in control of others. By understanding how the system works, by not fearing it or whining over it or feeling powerless towards it – we can start changing it. We become educated in law, in psychology – in the fields that the system respects as valid and we expose the system for what it really is to ourselves – because essentially, at the end of the day: we are the system. Claiming that the world is someone else’s responsibility is conveniently used to abdicate one’s own.

“What are you saying? That we should just accept the fact that we are getting fucked over, and move on? I don’t get it.”

No quite the contrary. The acceptance of being powerless is in fact a giving-up, a giving-in and an acceptance of the system as it is – remaining within a desperation and rage instead of actually taking self-responsibility, realizing that we’re not powerless – because we are self-responsible for what is here. This is what we require accepting. Then real change becomes possible. Investigate the Equal Money System.

Politics happens in every moment of every breath. Every thought we think, every step we take, every feeling we participate in – is political in-fact, because through that we make our statement of who we are, of that which we are going to be and of what is acceptable in the world.

We are living politics as we speak.

Suggested reading and listening for extended perspectives:

Articles:

Anarchism & Equal Money System by Marlen Vargas Del Razo

2012 Democracy Is The Key To Freedom Allegory of the Cave: our excuse to remain as slaves by Marlen Vargas Del Razo

2012 When is ‘Inner Revolution’ real? by Kim Amourette

Videos and interviews:

2012 Real Progress = Political Reform of the System

Attention Anarchists: The Secret to Real Anarchy and my story

SHOUT-OUT to all the Activists out there that want to CHANGE THE WORLD!

REVOLUTION 2.0

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Q and A – “Do we need an Academic Elite to Change the World? “

March 9, 2011 in Equal Money Blog

The following Question was asked by Tood as a reply to the article: “Academic Education – A Waste of Space, Mind, Money and Time?”in my column on The Sociology Journal

Q – from Tood:

Do you not think that your call to action in creating an imagined world of equality is also a product of one of these theories of university education which you denigrate in your article? Before action can be taken toward any goal, what is required is a thorough analysis of the situation at hand. This will require thinking, not acting. After this task is complete (and it is not), you must subsequently be able to define the goal toward which you would like to steer society as well as to justify that goal as a proper goal. Given that your goal seems to be equality for all, in all aspects, the next step would be to formulate a process of transition from the current situation to the desired one– a plan of action. This will require an immense amount of interpretation, theory, data-gathering, statistical analysis, historical considerations, etc. (e.g. consider Karl Marx’s more than 3000 page collection of volumes known as Das Kapital). Before beginning work toward global equality, we ought to consider its feasibility, desirability, and complications it may bring– questions which, by the way, are being asked and answered inside the University (consider, for example, the work of analytic marxists such as G.A. Cohen in “Self-ownership, Freedom. and Equality”). I agree with you that the University has a socializing function, and that success in the university is at least contingent upon learning the language-games of academia, however it also functions to open up a space for the dedication of oneself to inquiry– a space which is not generally provided outside of the University. And as a final consideration: when is success outside of the University going to be devoid of the socializing function of the University, or of its criterion of “learning the lingo”, apart from living a hermitic life?

A – My reply:

Hi Tood – When I (and when most people) were a young child, my basic outlook on the world situation was that of: “Why are people starving, when there is enough food?” – “War is stupid, why can’t we simply be friends?”

Thus my perspective was that of Simplicity and Common Sense – without moral judgments towards those creating wars: I saw the World and the people within it, as Equal. Therefore the call to action – based on the basic Principle of Equality is not an ideological conception constructed in the Academic class- room.

Unfortunately we have as adults, covered and sugar-coated ourselves in fancy words and knowledge to hide from ourselves within ignorance and abdication of Self-Responsibility – which Actually for any Child, is Common Sense. Thus – we will back up Self-Deception with Self-Righteous regurgitation of useless knowledge simply to postpone the Moment, where we literally have to ACT – where we Actually have to Give up this armor of theories upon theories and see the World and Ourselves for what it is.

It is plain to see, even within the theories of Social Life: Common Sense Perspectives that All can agree on is being reproduced, mutated an twisted into oblivion, even though they always say the same: That to Change the World, we require to Change Ourselves first – because whatever We are, is what the World is too. I have heard professors regurgitating the glory of knowledge and thinking as enlightenment and cure to the disease of ignorance and inequality. Yet – we see none of those professors or students Changing anything in their own Participation. Instead the regurgitation of knowledge is used as the justification for NOT ACTING and thus being reproduced and recycled with every new batch of students in hope of Changing the World.

We do not require anymore “thorough analysis as thinking” of the issues at hand – The sustainable solutions to the World’s problems ARE invented – we are simply not Applying them. If every Child can see the Common Sense of war being stupid and not even blaming those that create war, but simply suggests for us to stop it – it is clearly not assisting to create long theories upon the impracticality of War. It is basic Common Sense: 1 + 1 = 2.

If the 1 eats all the food, the other 1 will starve and the 2 will exist in inequality – which is Clearly not what is Best for All. This requires not Socratic or dogmatic systems of approach – It does however require Self-Honesty of each of us as re-educating ourselves to take Self-Responsibility for what is Here.

The plan of action towards Global Equality is to create a Global Political Party based upon the Principle of Equality, where each commits themselves to Stand Self-Responsible in Common Sense Equality and do what is Best for All – at a Practical, Physical level – in All ways.

This we are doing with the proposal of the Equal Money System, which of course requires thorough planning – but within the Principle of Equality as what is Best for All, no ideological discussions are necessary, which will give us room to investigate and research Practical, Real Life Solutions.

Even though the tradition of the universities place themselves within the “honor” of the objective inquiry (aka truth producing business) – this is in Fact not so and the Space of universities as learning facilities could be utilized for so much more fruitful and practical purposes – not simply to reproduce knowledge for it to be reproduced. Activism without Practicality as well as knowledge without Application, is useless…

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Q and A – Discussion: “How do We Fight the Big Corporations?”

March 9, 2011 in Equal Money Blog

From the article “Corporations, Governments and Consumers – The Unholy Trinity of Inequality” in my column on The Sociology Journal on Sociology.com

Q – from Derrick:

What is the obligation of a corporation to the people of the world? I believe it to be a bit more than making a cheeseburger that half of the world can’t afford and that kills the half that can – – – at the expense of the most bio-diverse eco-system on the planet, the rainforest.

I would like to see a buyer caveat on products and services. If there is no legal way to nudge corporations towards philanthropy, then I want to at least see a sign in front of the mega-department-store pointing to the millions they gave in the recent election to anti-gay candidates. How can such massive entities move without a sound?

A – My Reply:

The corporations can move without a sound, because of a system of governance and consumption that we have all accepted as legit – It moves without sound, because We move without sound. Because the sounds we do make, are accusations, blame and acceptance of ourselves as powerless.

I have fought many battles in my life trying to beat the System, trying to get off the grid, to live sustainably – until I realized that the System is within me, that I am the System – That a poor man given the chance would do exactly the same as the rick guy, once getting his fingers into the cookie jar. That the System in which we have Accepted ourselves, is build on fear, competition and greed and that actually Living by Principles that Stands for What is Best for All Life requires a score to be settled with all and everything that we have ever done and been – that words are easy, but action not.

As shown by Raj Patal and others, the only political power the modern consumer-citizen has, is to chose between organic and regular products – And for many that is seemingly enough to make us sleep through the night. The problem is that responsibility is shifted between corporations, governments and consumers in a way where no one is held accountable, let alone holding themselves accountable and where half the world literally is left with the consequences of what we are collectively accepting and allowing in this world.

The solution is therefore not to simply stop buying certain products, and anyway that is most often done to keep one’s own hands clean, while not considering that choice comes with money and that money is what motivates all of us, because it has become synonym for survival, comfort, safety and happiness. When you are poor you do not have the luxury to go organic or vegetarian and thereby this choice is an elitist choice, that does not have an actual impact on the world as a whole.

A collective Stand is required, where each takes it upon themselves to be accountable for what we are participating within and as, as a collective – That is firstly done by researching what it actually is we are allowing, by removing the veil that lets us sleep through the night, by recognizing that we not only have the power, but that we are also using it, knowingly or unknowingly every time we shop, think, eat and breathe.

Next it is required that we Stand together to actually create the necessary changes – to realize that behind corporations and governments and money, are people just like ourselves, living for their own survival only, just like ourselves.

We’ve gotta move the System as the System, from within the System – We’ve gotta Stand by what we have created and Change it in fact, in practical, actual reality – into a world that we would want our children to be born into. Dreaming up some Utopian society, bashing the powers that be – that is easy. What is not easy, but what is also required is for us, each of us, one by one, to be the Change.

If your life, your thoughts, your actions represented One Vote, what is yours? Are we even able to answer that honestly? Or is the brutal facts of what we are Accepting in this World too hard to Face? Is there even a choice?

I am One Vote for World Equality and an Equal Money System – Where governance is about making the choices Always that considers what is Best for All, not as an idea or a philosophy but as a Common Sense, Physical Fact – Once we get there, it will be easy to see and do what is required to be done.

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Why it is Impossible to Be A Good Person and Do The Right Thing

January 13, 2011 in World Exposed Blog

Morality – Has it ever occurred to you how difficult it is to be a good person? In fact it seems that even the best people amongst us, cannot be good all the time – how many times have we not heard of priests, ministers, politicians or soccer moms, whom everyone around them, saw as the best people of their community; giving, loyal, honest, selfless and hardworking – who turned out to be sexual predators, tax evaders or drug abusers? Who were leading their perfect life, with perfect marks, perfect children, degrees, gardens and characters and in secret living a shady life of porn, abuse or addiction? I have realized something for myself: It is not possible to be good all the time. It is not possible to be the model citizen, the perfect mom, a good person. Why? Because ‘good’ is a polarity – the polarity of ‘bad’ and as such the balance will always tip from one end to the other. It might take years or months, we might be living both the good and the bad at the same time, exerting the good to the public, shamefully or spitefully keeping the bad hidden – but it is there.

I Realized that it is not possible to be good, without also being bad – and that no matter how good deeds I would do, how much I would try to redeem and clean myself from the bad, it was not possible – because inevitably the balance would tip and I would find myself doing or saying exactly that I had been fighting and trying to keep away. This explains why these seemingly good people, after years of being law abiding citizens, suddenly go on a killing spree or leave their family: because the good requires an equal bad to balance itself – and we, we are caught in the middle constantly having to keep the bad away, doing our duties, while thinking about the teenage daughter next door or just another glass of red wine. So if bad follows good in an infinite balance that seems to be as accurate as a law of physics, can we actually say that there is such a thing as being a good person?

I discovered for myself that being a good person, that doing the right thing, made me feel good and that this was the primary reason for why I tried to be a good person – because it made me feel good, it made me feel better about myself – When the balanced tipped and I then did what I considered bad, I felt bad, or even reversed, felt constrained by the good and liberated by embracing the bad.

This world as we collectively participate in it and portray it, through our movies, news and public life, confirms for ourselves that the world is good, that we are good – that there is something inherently or at least possibly good underneath it all. To this we give our hope, our faith, our donations to churches and charity organizations, to show and prove to ourselves that we are capable of treating each other with dignity and respect. I discovered for myself that I would do anything to feel good, to feel like a good person – I would follow any leader that told me that what they were promoting was in the name of the good – I dreaded the feeling of being a bad person. But no matter what I did, what I sacrificed or desperately wanted to be true, the bad kept luring in the shadows as a monster that I could not rid myself of. I tried everything, from meditation and anti-materialism, to positive affirmations and vegetarianism. I was deeply committed and truly believed that this time, each time, I would succeed. And in these states of ‘purity’ and cleansing myself of the blood of humanity’s humanity, I felt better than those who did not participate; the meat eaters, the shoppers, the unfaithful – I felt that I was finally raised above these savages, above the savage in myself, and I would feel surged with energy and motivation to do the right thing. Not long would pass and I would get bored, my motivation would drop and soon I would find myself in secret stealing bacon from the kitchen or buying a gossip magazine. For a while, I could block these misbehavings out and pretend like it was not me or say to myself that it was only a moment of weakness and that I would re-commit myself even more firmly to my vows. I remember as a child, praying to God for something to occur, to be saved from a situation and promising that if God would hear my prayer and give me what I wanted, I would stop being bad, I would commit myself to his work. There is no doubt that there are many monks and missionaries out there, who are in this exact position, because they have done the same. But if it is impossible to be good, because good and bad exists in a balance, what are we actually doing? And can this explain why the world exists as it does, of haves and have-nots, of people speaking good, while acting bad, of people who after years of faithful service to gods, wife’s, husband’s or governments, suddenly in a surge of energy, turn bad?

The next question is then what happens is we stop trying to be good? Many would say that the world would run amok, that Suffering would increase, that not having moral standards would legitimize people to do what they wanted; to shoot each other or steal from each other, without remorse. But if we look at the world as it exists in its figures and numbers and digits – is this not already what we are doing? Is this not what we have always done? And if the truth behind why we so desperately want to do the right thing, is that it makes us feel better, how can morality be legit? What if we take both good and bad, right and wrong, out of the equation? Then we are left with the World as it is – no reason, no meaning, no purpose – simply they way we have Accepted Ourselves to Exist and the question of if we are going to keep Accepting Ourselves to Exist like this?

Right and wrong, good and bad are implied through there already being a moral standard, already being a source – whether that is Adam and Eve, God and Satan or The Evolution of Human Consciousness and the ability to make rational and altruistic decisions. But if we look at the World as it exists in its digits and numbers of money spent on war, child deaths and financial inequality, it is evident that it cannot simply be explained through the belief in right and wrong or good and bad. Our laws are not protecting us, our faith and beliefs is not making us compassionate or loving towards our neighbors. Our prisons are not rehabilitating its convicts and the news does not show what is really going on. In our public lives on the streets, supermarkets and at our jobs, we are bullying each other, fighting to get ahead in the line, being consumed by road rage or thinking about having sex with every woman we see. Still we pretend like there is order and civility, while underneath, in our Secret Minds, we only Care about Ourselves. Many people will say that this is not so – That they Care. But if we look at the state of the World, and what we, as citizens, parents, corporations and governments are doing about it, the answer is evident.

Therefore we require of ourselves to bring about new Solutions that does not depend on hope or on a seemingly inherent dormant ability to do the right thing or to be a good person – By holding onto this, in ourselves, towards each other and our children, we are Deceiving ourselves. Therefore we require to Face ourselves, Self-Honestly, Directly, Straight Forward, even though we know that we are not gonna like what we See. And then we require of ourselves to reconsider what we are doing and what the Actual Starting-Point is, for our Participation within and as this World – not the Starting-Point that we’d like to believe we are coming from – and in this, we require to Consider the possible Solutions for Sorting our this Mess that we have Accepted and Allowed Ourselves to be and become. In this, there is no pointing fingers, blaming or pushing the Responsibility away – because each of us, even though that might require some Self-Honest Self-Investigation, are Equally a part of the Creation and Acceptance of this World as it Exists.

Then we can Finally Decide to Live according to Principles of Common Sense, wherein We Realize, that What is Best for All, at a mathematical, physical and practical level, is Best for us to. And finally rational decisions can be made, sustainable Solutions can be developed and Politics and legislation can be used to implement these Solutions. This is what we are doing at Desteni and with the Equal Money System – Because we have Realized that morality is not inherent, that good is an equivalent of bad and that the purpose of doing the right thing and being a good person, is about the energetical surge of feeling good and avoiding Facing Ourselves in taking Self-Responsibility for and as this World. Thus we require to literally Change Ourselves, the nature of ourselves that we have taken for granted and to, both within and without re-educate ourselves and Change the Principles upon which we Govern this World and Ourselves in and as it. It is simplistic to Participate – all it requires is for us to Push Ourselves to be Self-Honest, even when we do not like what we See and to, within that, make the Decision to Live differently, to Live according to What is Best for All.

Lets Sort Out this mess that we have become and Live in a way where Life is Actually Valued and where we do not have to Fear each other or what is inside us, because we have taken Self-Responsibility and re-educated Ourselves to Live according to Principles that can Stand the Test of Time and not energy, beliefs or emotions that weaver and fall and in which we are Separated and Distanced from Ourselves and Each other. Join Desteni, The Desteni ‘I’ Process for Personal Re-Education to Self-Responsibility and Accountability and Join the Equal Money Movement to Create an Equality System of Economics and Politics, that will Give Each and Everyone and Chance to Live without fighting to Survive, without trying to do and be good and never Actually Succeeding.

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The Academic Elite – A Waste of Space, Mind, Money and Time?

December 4, 2010 in World Exposed Blog

Academic communities and higher learning facilities like universities are the places where great knowledge is born and passed on with the purpose of ‘enlightening’ our societies for the better.

It is where the great thinkers of our world has been shaped and formed into the greatness, making the world prosper and develop through science, philosophy and through all possible fields of knowledge and technology. It is the world where great men, since the days of Plato have sought and thought the solutions that would create the best world, the best societies and the best Man.

The academic world is a special world; the world of Academia – the world of reason and objectivity, where freedom of thought transcends the shackles of survival and the bounds of religion and politics. Galileo was one of its martyrs, the great thinking, and in all but different ways, so was Oppenheimer. In the days of Plato, the man who could think the Best was the man that could take civilization to a new level. The legacy lives on today with universities being the hatching ground for all great men, be that politicians, scientists or doctors. These are the experts of our world; the one’s we look to for answers about the Universe, about today’s economy, about avoiding cancer and even about the meaning of life. We educate ourselves to BA’s, MA’s and doctoral degrees with the purpose of getting a head (pun intended) and we go through years of writing papers and reports with our eyes fixed on the microscopic detail, with our heads in the books, in classes, attending seminars and lectures until we become something more than we were when we started: The Academic scholar, the intellectual’s – The Elite.

When I was working my way through the years towards the time of deciding upon a future career, I deliberately chose not to go to university. At the time I was rebelling against the shackles of ‘The System’ and I believed that were I to venture towards a university degree, I would be soiled and spoiled by the academic world and by the knowledge that I feared would make me stuck up and arrogant, because that was what I was seeing in people who had been through the limbo of college and university – they came out as different people, believing they were more than the rest, speaking in a secret code that only they could understand. In the end, I ended up exactly where I was pre-programmed to be: At university – that was what my parents had done, what my sister had done and what they had all wanted me to do; become smart, become something, making something of myself.

Thus as a participant rather than a critical observer, what I am seeing is that the world of Academia does exactly what I had feared it would: It indoctrinates and socializes its students through the academic language and culture and through the seductive nature of knowledge being power in this world. We learn that the point of gaining power through knowledge is so that we can make the world a better place. The actuality is that most knowledge simply produces more knowledge, useless for anything than itself, and that the reasons for why we obtain university degrees in the first place, is for self-interest only. When we stop having to worry about physical survival, we can begin worrying about social, mental and spiritual survival.

Recently I attended a seminar where an esteemed German theorist claimed that it was through thinking more and better that we would be able to rip the veil of delusion that is the cause of inequality in this world (Marx would have turned in his grave). He had a romantic notion about universities being the places where peace and respect is born, where knowledge makes the student become self-reflected and thus able to empathize with others. He claimed that it was through the enlightenment of consciousness (he was a sociologist, not a new-age guru), that we could stop social inequality. I asked him if he really thought that thinking was the solution to stopping social inequality and suggested that it might be problematic to simply think and not act. He responded in a way I can only describe as unable to compute, so effectively designed as a great thinker, that he could not even fathom the concept of action being required in stopping social inequality.

I hear professors talk about ‘society’ and never once have I heard any of them state that what is tacitly implied in this word is ‘The Western society’. When I have asked about it, they agree that it is problematic and go on to saying that globalization sure is a hot topic these days. They say that there is no more hard labor, no class division, that we live in a knowledge society of freedom and innovation, but fail to mention that the rest of the world is doing the dirty work, while we wash our hands with Eco-friendly products. I see academic and intellectual people using long and complicated words as synonyms, instead of common words that everyone can understand, for no apparent reason. It is the language of the scientific method I am told, the language of objectivity and empiric proof and therefore it is the language through which all conclusions made about this world becomes valid and true.

As I am studying the classics of sociology and philosophy, I often find myself surprised that someone three hundred or eighty years ago was able to state the obvious and that we now haven’t gotten further than to re-produce the same words in new books and that we seemingly not have learned a single lesson. I often find myself asking: what if all of these great thinkers are all right in their theories and conclusions about the world? Often when I read I can agree with all the theorists, even if they are conflicting, because each of them has a point, but from a specific view or corner of the world. If that is so, is truth or Reality then not multidimensional and thus made up by every single being in this world, all the time changing, as we change and therefore irrelevant as a philosophical project or discussion? Bernard Poolman once said that ‘There is no truth, only denial of what is Here’ – so while we philosophize about concepts like peace or love, war is as real as it has ever been and it is lived whether people like it or not – not only thought.

When something is invented and created for the purpose of practicality, it holds no status or value besides how much someone can make off it on the market, while academic knowledge is valued and honored in itself, as though it was the holy grail of man’s accomplishments in this world. It seems that the head is the master and the hands, feet and body, the slave. Knowledge is seductively and endlessly spinning in on itself, like the magic of a kaleidoscope. But we forget that it is our hands that turn it, that it is our eyes that look through it – that it is merely pieces of glass reflected by light and that the magic we put into it – is a mental projection.

Universities are where What is Best for All is supposed to be thought and developed. It is where we are supposed to come up with Solutions to stop social and economic inequality, to unite people, to create awareness and reflection – But the academic world is the Elite’s world, excluding everyone that does not understand the academic language, including only those fortunate enough to have money. It is where we are seduced by the value and authority we have placed in knowledge.

Higher education holds no validity if it is not producing results that makes the world a better place. This is after all the whole point, isn’t it? Or is the point to reproduce the Elite, to make sure that the Have’s still get, that the intellectuals are stocked, inbred and isolated on an island of good intentions, but without a grip on the Reality, where for many, every day is a living hell?

We could claim that the difference between an educated person in the developed world and an uneducated person in the developing world is that the first is smarter and thus more civilized. But if We were to spend every moment of every day trying to stay alive, we would have little time or reason to consider ‘enlightening’ our consciousness. The severe exploitation of animals and humans is also a result of the educated western world, where the smarter we get, the crueler our methods of turning life into profit become. All brought to you, the live studio audience, the masses whose human rights have been reduced to consumer rights, whose democratic influence is as powerful as getting to choose between organic or regular eggs. And the academics are the one’s developing the justification that we need to keep our moral balance in check, feeding us expert opinions on the lack of sentinel awareness in animals or that an Indian does not require a higher living standard because he is used to less.

The academic world is not a place of education and development – it is a place that reproduces inequality, justified as the place where these problems can be solved – producing theory upon theory by people who have never had their fingers in the dirt. Academic Education is a waste of space, mind, money and time – if it is not applied towards making the world a better place for everyone. From the days of Plato this was the whole point with educating ourselves – to make ourselves the best we can be.

It is not through big thinking and big words that a difference is made in this world – it is through practical, sustainable Solutions that are most often simplistic and straight forward. Small children are great examples, saying that war is stupid and not understanding why mom has to work for money and not play all day. We require solutions that does not exclude some for the benefit of others, solutions that benefit everyone and makes no one special or more or less than another, simply because; we’re not.

And it is not because we are not capable of actually coming up with these solutions, just look at the development in sustainable energy, in water purification and medicine to name a few. We simply do not prioritize the knowledge and actions that places what is best for Everyone, at a physical, practical level, first – because knowledge in itself have become the grand prize and the token of greatness; we think therefore we are – Really?

Imagine if all education was focused upon working together towards making this world a better place for everyone. Imagine if we were able to focus on creating the best solutions in any given field or subject, without the competition between egos over who knows the biggest words or has the best memory. Imagine a world with Equal Money for All – where Everyone had an Equal Right to a Dignified Life, where Everyone had an Equal right to Equal education and that knowledge was merely a tool used to create what is Best for All.

Is that too much to ask for? I think not.

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EQUALITY IS NOT FOR SALE

September 12, 2010 in Equal Money Blog, World Exposed Blog

The Equal Money and World Equality System is literally what is says it is, unlike all other systems. The point is that Everyone is Equally Responsible and has an Equal Right to Exist and Live a Dignified Life without having to Worry or Suffer. So – Everyone will produce, Everyone will Support, Everyone will benefit.

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Living Politics

August 15, 2010 in World Exposed Blog

‘A living politics is not a politics that requires a formal education – a living politics is a politics that is easily understood because it arises from our daily lives and the daily challenges we face. It is a politics that knows that we have no water but that in fact we all deserve water. It is a politics that everyone must have electricity because it is required by our lives. That understanding – that there are no toilets but that there should be toilets – is a living politics. It is not complicated; it does not require big books to find the information. It doesn’t have a hidden agenda – it is a politics of living that is founded only on the nature of living. Every person can understand these kind of demands and every person has to recognize that these demands are legitimate.

S´bu Zikode – South African Activist living in a shack-township

Quote: ‘The value of nothing’ by Raj Patal pg. 142 For

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The World Leaders of today – a criminological profile

May 10, 2010 in World Exposed Blog

The following article is an analysis done by a freelance journalist who specializes in climate and development and it depicts clearly how the leaders of the world are incapable of taking the Responsibility they were elected to take and how they rather than being politicians with the citizen’s of Earth’s best interest at heart, seem more like vicious criminals on a ruthless killing spree.

Analysis by Jesper Heldgaard in Politikken news paper 06-May-10 pg. 8

Translated from Danish by Anna Brix Thomsen.

The development countries trust to the rich countries promises regarding the climate, suffered a serious break under the climate summit in Copenhagen in December 09. Now the question is if the trust can be reinstated towards the next summit in Mexico.

Disappointment and depletion was shown in the eyes of the experienced climate negotiator Quamrul Chowdhury from Bangladesh in December, when he summed up the COP15 and the Copenhagen Accord that was agreed upon during the recent climate summit in Copenhagen: ‘The people of Bangladesh had great expectations to COP15, but this is not a satisfying result’. And he said that in spite of the fact that Bangladesh actually was one of the 29 countries, that behind close doors took part in negotiating the Copenhagen Accord. But as he expressed it: ‘We are in the role of the recipient. We have to be satisfied with this Accord.’ Still the Danish Prime ministries concluded in an evaluation report, that so far has been kept secret from the public that: ‘The east states, the Africans and the least developed countries were generally satisfied with the agreement and ‘positive towards the Danish leadership’’. The evaluation report is frightening reading because it reveals a view of the world, soaked in ‘real politics’, where only the rich and powerful countries count and where the majority of small, poor and less powerful countries – have to adjust to what the few and powerful dictate. It does not get less frightening that even though the developmental countries clearly expressed that they were unsatisfied with the Copenhagen Accord, this is not acknowledged by the Danish Prime ministries. One cannot help but wonder if the Danish Prime ministries were even present at the COP15.

It started off so good when Denmark based on a Danish initiative in 2007 was appointed host for the climate summit. Denmark sold itself as the country that would build bridge between the gap of distrust between the poor and the rich countries. And Denmark have made a impressive, although very public effort towards showing their support of the development countries and the NGO’s preparations towards participating in the summit. But now the national score is being settled after the downfall of the COP15 and the so far secret evaluation report is addressing some important perspectives: It illustrates that the Danish Prime ministries and other central players most important criteria for success for the COP15, was to get a political eatable agreement between the powerful countries, rather than contributing definitely to solving the worlds problems with Global warming. The last bit of trust that the poor countries in general have had to the rich countries promises, whether on the matter of financial support, a fair global trade or a global agreement regarding the climate, was undermined during the COP15 process.

It does not look well for the trust that is vital for the continuation of the negotiation, that Denmark so openly went for derailing the Kyoto protocol, which is the only agreement, where the rich countries (minus The United States of America) obligate themselves to concrete downsizing of the CO2 outlet. The evaluation made by the Danish Prime ministries confirms that this was the Danish strategy and that this again was about getting the central players, The United States of America and the four BASIC-countries, Brazil, China, India and South Africa into an agreement. The evaluation report admits that the developmental countries wanted to keep the Kyoto protocol’s binding obligations, and it describes openly how the Copenhagen Accord was almost knitted together specifically for the industrial countries and the four big development countries to wiggle their way out of the binding obligations, against the wishes of the great majority of the development countries. In other words, the evaluation report is almost a case of confession: The purpose of the Copenhagen Accord was and still is to undermine the Kyoto protocol, that for the development countries is so important that the African countries on the Monday of the second week of negotiations of COP15, literally boycotted the negotiations, because there were not scheduled meetings in the groups that negotiate the Kyoto protocol. A detail bypassed in the Danish Prime ministries report. The report can in general be read as a sad confirmation of the fact that the negotiators at the big climate summits seem to exist in so different worlds that it prevents any joint solution. If it really is so, will the game for money to climate adjustment be the test of: The supporters of the Copenhagen Accord often refer to the fact that there in the content of the accord, was a concrete promise of 10 billion Danish kroner every year from 2010 to 2012 to climate adjustment in the development countries. The money has to come fast and they have to be ‘new and additional’, meaning that they shouldn’t be financed by the development support already promised by the rich countries. For the development countries, the financial development support, is not support at all but actually compensation. It is money that the development countries have a right to and a demand of as settlement for the consequences of the climate changes that the countries are already experiencing, based on the contribution of the rich countries to the enormous CO2 outlet. Even so, the goal of reaching 10 billion Danish kroner this year, is going very slow. A great deal of the money is being taken from the already promised development support and is thus called development support. This includes the 1.2 billion Danish kroner that the Danish government announced the 28. April, as a part of a new Danish climate packet 2010-12. But it takes more to reinstate the momentum that, before the COP15 gave hope to a historic climate agreement.

Perspectives by Anna Brix Thomsen -

It is clear that the rich countries have no intent of actually stopping the climate crisis –The only place the leaders of the world are leading us, is directly towards a Global disaster and eventually the demise and destruction of our world – They are so lost in their greed for power and money, that they are willing to compromise and sacrifice the future of Earth in any way possible. This has to be stopped. Since there is no way possible for the poor countries to be voiced as the global political summits are completely invalidated, it is up to the people of especially the rich countries to voice their discontent – However not as a plead to the leaders of the world, as they have clearly proven themselves incapable of actually acting for what is Best for All. Instead it is our Responsibility to create new political, environmental, social and financial Solutions that actually Support All of Earth as a whole and to Stand together within the principle of Common Sense – that what is Best for All, is essentially best for each individually. Since the leaders of the world, are no longer in a position to take this Responsibility, it is up to each of us as Global citizens to ensure that action is being taken to Stop the current accepted policies. A Solution is the creation of a Global Equal Life Party that take back the Responsibility and Authority of leading this world from the incompetent political and financial leaders, to create Solutions that not only deals with the climate crisis that is currently threatening all of our lives, but also with the inequality that is evident and pathologically proven with this example of the Copenhagen climate summit. We propose the implementation of an Equal Money System that ensures that every child born in this world has a right to food, shelter, clean water and especially education that is so important, if we are to prevent what is happening now, from ever happening again. Ironically it is also evident from the COP15 that the people with most Common Sense, that actually cares for the future of this world, are the people in the poor and underdeveloped countries, who are also the ones currently suffering the consequences of the spree of greed by the rich countries – that refuses to take responsibility and come up with Solutions. A psychological profile of the rich countries, as presented in this article, would, if they were a suspect in a crime investigation on one of the American crime tv-show’s, be that of a neurotic, narcissistic, pathological liar with self-destructive tendencies and the task would be clear: to be stopped, before more damage is done and more innocent lives are being exploited.

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European Elitist Union

May 7, 2010 in World Exposed Blog

News report from an article in the Danish newspaper Politikken 05-May-2010 based on the research by an independent organization called subsidy.org on the agricultural support given by the European Union to farmers around Europe. In the research done in all the 27 European countries it is being revealed that the amount of checks given over more than 1 billon Euro has increased the last few years. These checks are specifically being given to big corporations in the dairy and sugar industries, which has been criticized as a way to keep the milk prices artificially high. Amongst those receiving this check are a Danish pool club, a Swedish Harmonica club and a Dutch ice skating club. Also the Danish Prince Joachim receives this support, even though he is also receiving a high salary for being prince of Denmark, by the Danish state and taxpayers. He owns a castle in the Southern Denmark, where he grows crops.
This is an outrageous example how companies and governments are merging to a point, where the two cannot be separated and it is the citizens of not only Europe, but of the whole world that is paying the price.
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Governments and Corporations are One

May 7, 2010 in World Exposed Blog

In looking back at history, it would appear that politics as a philosophy is far older in the Human society than corporate or market thinking, reaching back to Plato with Socrates and the vision of ‘The Good’. Market thinking is often sourced to before the industrial revolution, as some clever men found ways to privatize land and thus create the foundation for property and prosperity for the few. It does however also seem like market thinking is the smarter of the two, as it is coming up with solutions that are far more advanced and far more flexible, than the governments, in how to maintain and develop our societies. It has even been said by economic thinkers of today, that when the crash really hits, the corporations will be there to pick up the pieces (that is us), from the governments that has failed to protect it’s people and thus our countries will be run by corporations, which sole purpose is to create more wealth to those already wealthy, while enslaving the rest to produce, buy and consume for the wheels of the economy to turn. One could ask whether this is not already the politics that is being promulgated by our governments, and if so, are the governments not already existing as corporations or within the corporations, as separate entities only existing with the sole purpose of growing and generating profit for a select few?

This is especially seen as each government is expected on to take care of its own citizens, while the Global community is being neglected and overlooked, as each country is solely responsible for itself, even though the suffering of some is directly due to the exploitation by others – most often done shielded behind of corporations with no moral, political or legal obligations and therefore with the means to do whatever is necessary to squeeze the last drop out of any oilrig or diamond mine in the world.

One of the most important aspects of politics today, is the merging of governments with companies and corporations. In looking at this movement, it is not so odd as companies are build on the principle of profit and financial growth, only abiding the laws of the free market, which gives them power to act in ways that seem unlimited –with regards to human rights and environmental issues as well as with regards to marketing and public relations. In democracies, the governments are bound as the voice of the people and thus answer to the people, often within the ideological questions of how to live together and how to attain harmony and prosperity within our nations. A big difference between corporations and governments is however that corporations has the freedom to move and act globally, where governments are bound by bureaucracy and borders. And where democratic governments live of votes, the corporations live of profit. These two have now merged, with the introduction of the consumer-citizen – It is advanced survival 101.

Governments are only necessary as long as the fear of the people rebelling is relevant. Once the people are pacified sufficiently, they too will become expendable. It seems that the politicians today have embraced the corporations to such an extend that it is impossible to see where the one begins and the other stops. The governments have literally become corporations that exist solely for profit. The most fascinating aspect of all of this is that obviously behind the corporations are people – but because the corporations have been given a life of their own, as symbols, whatever is done within them is justified because it is not personal – it is business. An example where governments do the same is with the American governments handling of the prisoners in Guantanamo bay. The symbol of the company brand called America, allows them do bend their own rules and laws as far as they can, to get what they want – in this case either revenge or oil, but certainly not justice.

An entry into politics might be difficult in itself – but it is the symbiosis between governments and corporations that is the biggest challenge. Politics is no longer about creating the best possible society for everyone on Earth (which it should be), but about protecting the prosperity of the few, while keeping the masses pacified. In a country with civil war and corruption, it is easier to get away with pollution, with exploitation of children and women, with paying unacceptable wages and keeping people from forming unions. In wealthier countries it is more sophisticated as people like to think they are free, that they are doing good – which is why the bubble is created through television and media to create the illusion that we know what is going on in the world, that it is being taken care of by our governments and by a united Global community (that in reality does not exist) so that the people don’t feel guilty that they have more than the rest and thus can continue consuming, while still being encouraged to fear for their survival just to make sure that everyone keeps producing and that no one bites the hand that feed them, even though that hand is not the loving parent in the form of a caring government, but in fact the people that are exploited and abused in the name of profit in countries where we are not responsible, because our governments are not responsible, essentially because the corporations are not responsible and so the cycle is complete.

The challenge with removing power from corporations is that they operate globally, exploiting the land, resources, animals and people of one country, while the profit is being relocated to individuals in other countries – therefore political sanctions cannot work, without a global initiative that specifically deals with the money system as well as with supporting the countries that are being exploited. Because the corporations are basically running the world, a change in the political systems and thus in how we are currently managing our world, cannot happen without changing the way we deal with property, value, stocks, exchange and essentially as money is only thing that corporations respect and abide.

Essentially the point is to stop creating what is currently being created – which is based on consumption. Consumption by definition is to use something up until there is nothing left of it. For some reason this self-evident fact is being completely ignored by basically everyone in this world, that is not Directly experiencing the consequences and thus it is allowed to continue. The reason why it is the people in the top of this self-cannibalistic food chain that has to Stand up, is because those are the ones that create it through the acceptance of life being lived as consumption, through corporations and governments and how each of us live our lives.

The solution of an Equality System which is based on giving everyone Equal Money is the only solution that puts an end to the otherwise endless consumption and thus the only solution for a future on Earth.

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