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Zeitgeist: Moving Forward Page #17
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are dangerous, because it gives you mis-information.
That the person is "bad"... or that person is a "serial killer"...
Serial killers are made
just like soldiers become serial killers with a machine gun.
They become killing machines, but nobody
looks at them as murderers or assassins
because that's "natural"...
So we blame people.
We say, "Well, this guy was a Nazi - he tortured Jews"...
No, he was brought up to torture Jews.
Once you accept the fact that people
have individual choices and they are free
to make those choices... Free to make
choices means without being influenced
and I can't understand that at all.
All of us are influenced in all of our choices
by the culture we live in, by our parents
and by the values that dominate.
So, we're influenced - so there can't be "free" choices.
What's the greatest country in the world?' - the true answer:
I haven't been all over the world and I don't know
enough about different cultures to answer that question. '
I don't know anybody that speaks that way.
They say 'it's the good old USA!
the greatest country in the world!'
There is no survey... 'Have you been to India?' - 'No.'
Have you been to England?' - 'No. '
Have you been to France?' - 'No. '
Then what do you make your assumptions on?'
They can't answer- they get mad at you.
They say, 'God dammit! Who the hell
are you to tell me what to think?!'
You know... Don't forget: you're dealing with aberrated people.
They are not responsible for the answers;
they're victims of culture and that means
they have been influenced by their culture.
[Part 4:
Rise]When we consider a Resource-Based Economy
there are often a number of arguments that tend to come up with...
[EH!] (Interrupted)
[Eh! Hey!]
[Now hold on just a minute!]
[I know what this is. This is called Marxism, buddy.]
[Stalin killed 800 billion people because of ideas like this...]
[My father died in the Gulag!]
[Communist! Fascist!]
[You don't like America you should just leave!]
All right, everybody just calm down...
[Death to the New World Order!]
And as the irrationality of the
audience grew, shocked and confused:
suddenly the narrator suffered a fatal heart attack. '
And the seemingly communist propaganda film was no more.
[System Error]
[Backup Initiated - Restored]
But you know, I've said that sort of thing to people
in 'think tank' type situations
you know these Club of Rome types and so forth...
they say "Marxist!"
What? Marxist? Where did that come from?
They just got this icon they hold onto -
It's their Holy Grail
and it's such an easy one, you know.
People ask if I'm a Socialist or a Communist or Capitalist
I say I am none of the above. Why do you
think that those are the only options?
All of those political constructs
were created by writers who assumed
we lived on a planet of infinite resources.
Not one of those political philosophies even
contemplates that there might be a shortage of anything.
I believe that communism, socialism, free enterprise, fascism
are part of social evolution.
You can't take a giant step
there are in-between systems.
Before there's any "Ism", we have a life ground
and the life ground is as I've just described
most easily as all the conditions
required to take your next breath
and that involves the air you breathe
the water you get, the safety you have
the education you can access- all
these things that we share and use and that
no life, in any culture, can do without.
So we've got to reset down to the Life Ground
and the life ground is no longer any "Ism"...
"It's life value analysis."
[Beyond The Pale]
It's simply a matter of historical fact
that the dominant intellectual culture
of any particular society reflects the
interests of the dominant group in that society.
the beliefs about human beings and human rights
and so on will reflect the needs of the slave owners.
In the society, again, which is based on
the power of certain people to control and profit from
the lives and work of millions of others
the dominant intellectual culture will
reflect the needs of the dominant group.
So, if you look across the board, the
ideas that pervade psychology and
sociology and history
and political economy and political science
fundamentally reflect certain elite interests.
And the academics who question that too much
tend to get shunted to the side or
to be seen as sort of "radicals"...
The dominant values of a culture
tend to support and perpetuate
what is rewarded by that culture.
And in a society where success and
status is measured by material wealth
- Not social contribution -
it is easy to see why the state of the world is what it is today.
We are dealing with a value system disorder
- Completely denatured -
where the priority of personal and social health
have become secondary to the detrimental
notions of artificial wealth and limitless growth.
And, like a virus, this disorder now
permeates every facet of government
- News media - entertainment - and even academia.
And built into its structure
are mechanisms of protection
from anything that might interfere.
Disciples of the Monetary-Market religion
the Self-Appointed Guardians of the Status Quo
constantly seek out ways to avoid any form of thought
which might interfere with their beliefs.
The most common of which: are Projected Dualities.
If you're not a Republican, you must be a Democrat.
If you are not Christian, you might be a Satanist
and if you feel society can be greatly improved
to consider, perhaps - I don't know -
taking care of everyone?
you're just a "Utopianist"...
And the most insidious of them all:
if you are not for the "free-market"
you must be against freedom itself.
I'm a believer in freedom!
Every time you hear the word freedom
being said anywhere or government interference
said anywhere, it means, decoded:
blocking maximization of turning money
into more money for private money possessors.
That's it. Every other thing they'll say:
'Oh, we need more commodities for people';
'Oh, this is freedom against tyranny' and so forth
every time you see it, you can decode it down to
that and I think you'll find a one-to-one correlation
with every time they use it.
And this, in a sense, we might call:
a Syntax. A governing syntax of understanding and of value.
So, it governs beneath their own recognition of it
so they might say: 'Oh, I didn't mean that at all!'
but in fact, that's what they do.
Just like you may speak a grammar
and you have rules of grammar you follow
without recognizing what the rules are...
and so what we have is what I call the "Ruling Value Syntax"
that underlies this. So, every time they use these words:
government interference'; 'lack of freedom' or 'freedom'
or 'progress' or 'development'
you can decode them all to come back to mean that.
Of course, when you hear the word 'freedom'
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