For decades I’ve watched the political discourse degenerate from the relatively factual news of Walter Cronkite’s era into the “fake news” everyone talks about today. Just as the news started to degenerate into this paradigm, the phenomena of “reality TV” was born. It’s as if corporate America realized that it had a serious problem and needed to mask it. Andreas Antonopoulos talks about why this is the case in this video…
On Facebook, I saw yet another story about Trump and something to do with lying about his height and how this is just another example of how “if we just vote him out of office everything will be fine” because “he apparently doesn’t understand reality”. This actually lets Trump off the hook and it’s the liberal left who hates him the most letting him off easy! He’s not stupid, he’s evil, like all other statists. It’s not exactly that he/we mean it either, just that the vast majority of the public, particularly in the west, is ignorant or apathetic.
They were saying that Obama is 6’1” in this picture below…
The western public is fixated on anything but what really ails it which is the massive theft perpetrated by the banking system. This works because the average person in North America and most of Europe has enough to survive and they don’t perceive how much they lost because they were never able to count what they created. The reality is that the industrial revolution over the past two centuries was so successful, that if wealth was evenly distributed, there would be no household worth less than a million dollars today. We’ve been fooled because in our ancient past, scarcity was the norm.
Authority has successfully steered protests away from the message of Occupy Wall Street a few years ago which did focus close to the problem as the epicenter was the corrupt banking system. Since then, the message has diverged away, and protests are against a man who has very little control compared to the banking system. During the time Occupy Wall Street was peaking in 2011, the Federal Reserve was doing the greatest amount of money printing. This is called “quantitative easing” by authorities, but what it really is, is counterfeiting.
Many people in developed countries will not rise up against the establishment, nor do they fully understand their engagement in unethical and violent means to support their lifestyle because it is hidden from them. Corporate culture has instilled in this population the “cult of selfhood” and “consumption as a form of inner compulsion” (terms often cited by Chris Hedges). No longer do they study philosophy or Aristotelian ethics, but instead they flag wave and engage in competitions to test each against the other in petty displays of ego. To the rest of the world, this display makes us look like a powerfully built, but retarded child.
Cryptocurrency Cypherpunks and the Black Swan Event
The average American is unable or unwilling to change their habits and this goes for most of the western developed nations as well. They are still caught up in the illusion that the vote has the power to make significant change. Your real power exists in your pocketbook. Bankers know this which is why since the 1970’s new regulations went into effect, essentially deputizing banks into a system of law enforcement.
A technological breakthrough in direct P2P without the use of central authority known as bitcoin occurred in late 2008, which is around the same time that the banks were getting bailed out. In fact, Satoshi Nakamoto made mention of it in the genesis block (toward lower right of the below image)…
This Document is a Declaration of Independence from the Banking System
The bitcoin whitepaper describes the process by which it potentially puts authority out of a job by solving the Byzantine Generals problem without using central authority. No longer does the public need to use state created fiat currency backed by violent authority, but they can opt out and send payments to anyone in the world without KYC (Know Your Customer) and AML (Anti Money Laundering).
What’s important to understand here are the numbers 1.5 billion to the ratio of 5.5 billion. These are the numbers of people who have banking privileges versus the number of people that suffer some form of exclusion from the banking system. The world isn’t going to change because some of them are protesting. Not this time.
What will create change is the collapse of the western banking system which will happen by my estimation sometime in the next 5 years. The reason this is happening is because there are currency wars creating a massive equity drain...
(source - Andreas Antonopoulos)
Change won't happen because people who are enslaved by this system object to it in protest. It will happen when the rest of the world which is not so comfortable has taken the exit in the form of cryptocurrency that stops the drain on their wealth.
When the USD is no longer the world's reserve currency, and what replaces it is bitcoin or some other cryptocurrency that doesn't make use of central authority, that will be when you see a significant change towards peace.
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