The beginning of the end?

[IamFortunesFool]

134. Finally, some like minds!

Hello All!

As this is my first day actually posting here, let me first just say that I have read through this thread and am thrilled to see that there are others out there who see the signs of the encroaching Dominion. Thank you, Alex, and others for giving me cause to feel some sense of intellectual community in the vacuum of our day.

Your observations and deductions are spot on, and inarguable for any mind capable of hearing the argument. I would only add that this global cabal can be further traced back in history to the institutionalization of centralized banking across the western and near east world at the turn of the last century. If you consider the last 100 or so years of geopolitical and economic history within this context, the shadowed hand emerges from behind the veil. Since that time, this global Plutocracy has, with exponentially increasing technological capacity and masterfully designed social theatre, bred us to be increasingly apathetic and tribal as they go about consolidating and entrenching their power.

The first great world war against fascism became war the against Nazis, and then on communism. The Red Threat became the war on drugs, and the war on drugs became the war on terror, and the war on terror has become the war against each other; each one more abstract than the last. They are turning us against ourselves in order to sow the social war and violence needed to enshrine the ascendant police state and finally make an overt seizure of power. And the worst part is that we will beg for it. Just as we happily gave away our rights in the Patriot Act after 9-11, so will we gladly accept totalitarianism disguised as protectionism to save us from the social violence we are being bated into...our genetic tribalism is being exploited against us.

As you've stated, most are not informed enough or even willing to entertain this premise, as it too deeply disturbs more fundamental and likely even less informed assumptions. We still live in a world where the vast majority of people believe quite literally in some form of mythologies or parroted cultural cosmology. Science education has become so specialized that we no longer produce competent multi-disciplinary minds. Al of western popular culture, led by this country, has been running away from critical thought since the Industrial Revolution. The masses have happily sacrificed their minds for the comforts of the modern world. This original bargain is being reinforced by Darwinian selection processes at both a cultural, psychological, and sexual level. We are breeding and training ourselves to become progressively passive, placated, and easily transfixed.

I, for one, believe the die is cast. Our rampant and ballooning global population puts ever increasing strain on this planets limited resources. As I've posted elsewhere... You think things are bad now as we squabble over oil and minerals? Just wait until the wars for clean water begin... We haven't seen anything like that in all of human history, folks, and it's coming...

Our species is facing a genetic bottleneck. If we don't destroy ourselves and our chance on this planet in the next 100 years, we will likely be interstellar, still facing a genetic bottleneck... The fact is that we've so successfully evolved that we've lost our sustainability by overrunning our environment. The span of modern human conquest on a geologic timescale is absolutely minuscule. It is the ultimate human vanity that we thought we could ignore the chain of contingency. Every species that has ever lived has gone extinct. The question is: How long before we join that great hall?...not if we will.

Like I said, we face an impending genetic bottleneck, and we will emerge changed, if we emerge at all.