A Message to America

Name one good thing you have done for the world, or even yourselves over the last 30 years? I believe that the western “Americanised” world hit its peak when everybody finally got equal rights. Since then America has achieved little to no good things, in fact only managing to spread its dangerous system further around the globe.

The people of America base their lives and pride themselves on their hard fought for “freedom”. I put it to you that their freedom has been in decline for decades. You have become so influenced and dependant on your media for your thoughts and opinions that you no longer know how to think for yourselves. This became lethal when paired with the dangerously violent way in which everything is conveyed to you by your media, especially your news networks. Violent behaviour should never be tolerated. Period. There should be no place for it in a modern society.

You need to wake up. But I’m not sure if you can be woken. Your whole lives you have been programmed not to think for yourself, not to be different, but to be a good American and quietly spend your life consuming all the products your TV tells you to without making a fuss. This is because a nation of people like this is easy to govern. Hey they don’t even need to govern well, because even if they don’t you are not going to do anything about it.

When was the last time you asked yourself what you really wanted from life? When was the last time you had a well thought out opinion of your own, not just something that you saw on TV? When was the last time you really needed any of the shit you bought? Wake up! The America you are living in is a dream world controlled by the rich, who by the way, don’t watch TV.

I want you to understand 2 points. Point 1: I believe in freedom of speech, but I do not believe every man’s voice is equal. Do you know why? To use one example, a lot of American are idiots, ignorantly achieving nothing of any significance in their entire existence, other than ensuring the continuation of a broken self harming system that they are prisoners to. Does that make me better than them? No. But it’s not their fault. Point 2: Everybody, and I mean everybody, is a victim of circumstance. But perhaps more importantly, everybody has the same potential. The potential to be happy in an honest universe.

To explain my first point, an example: in a vote on actions that should be taken relating to climate change, I do not believe than my opinion should count as much as someone who is an informed climate scientist. My opinions may well be completely irrelevant to the situation. I am not qualified to make the right call on this subject, an neither is your average Joe. Our opinions have no relevance to the facts of the matter, the facts in which a studied expert is in a far better position to conclude on the appropriate way. We need to live in an honest society. We live in an honest universe whether we like it or not, and our opinions will never change the real truth of this. I believe you should have the right to say what ever you want whenever you want to, but you should not necessarily have the right to have people listen to you when you do no know what you are talking about. Especially if what you say is harmful or evokes the will to harm other people.

As for my second point: You don’t get to choose where you were born. You don’t get to choose your family. You don’t get to choose the environment, education and influences you are exposed to exposed to in your childhood and youth. These are the things that will eventually define who you are. We are all victims of circumstance. Until we are taught to be self aware in the honest universe, taught the real importance in the choices we make, taught that we really are powerful enough to make our own choices and have our own values; until this happens, we are being dumbed down and are ignorant to the truth. You are victims of circumstance, and it is not your fault. It is not your fault because your system never allowed you the opportunity to be a free thinking human being. America is that system.

Wake up, reboot, do whatever you have to do. At least begin by opening your mind to the possibility that you have never truly been honest to yourself, because your system has never been truly honest to you.

The Real American Dream

It is vitally important that you watch and understand this video. Especially if you are American. If you hate paying your taxes, you don’t hate them enough, because you don’t know how they actually get spent. The truth is they are not spent, they are stolen from you.

The greatest robbery ever committed has been happening for decades and it still happening in front of our eyes and no one is doing anything to stop it. We have been convinced that all of our “stuff” is so important, that our savings accounts are important. No body cares about our freedom any more because we are convinced we are free. We are prisoners held at ransom. Here is the system explained in its simplest form.

2011: The Changes To Come

A new year is upon us, but what change will it bring? Governments of the world find themselves desperately struggling to claw back some of the Billions (if not trillions) spent bailing out the failed financial system over the past few years. Today saw VAT rise to 20% in the UK, with further tax rates likely to change, beginning a year of desperate cuts across the board in a desperate bid by the Conservatives to cut the British national debt.

But 2011 will see a much bigger landmark in global change. According to National Geographic, the population of the planet will grow to over 7 Billion. Global population has grown 700% over the last 130 years. This is a truly massive change over such a short period of time, one that we have yet to grasp the effects of.

The financial, social and political systems that make up our civilizations have done us well over the past 150 years, but the fact of the matter is that they were not designed to cope with this many people. They have allowed us to grow and excel, create and share, but it simply cannot continue. These systems that are outdated and at their very core, cannot continue for long without self destructing.

Over population is the single biggest threat to humanity over the rest of the century. It is likely that world population will hit 9 Billion over the next 30 years. But discussing it is seen as political suicide. In fact, continuing to ignore it will prove to be suicide itself. What we have to accept is that our civilization and society has run it’s course. If we continue to carry on without vital changes to the way we do business, vital resources will run out, our environment will be damaged beyond repair, and eventually when these things will lead to shortages/outages of the basics like food, fuel and electricity. Paired with an ever growing and demanding population, this will lead to the self destruction of the civilization we have built.

In 1975, there were 3 cities in the world with a population of over 10 million (AKA Mega City). There are now 21 Mega Cities across the globe, and by 2050 70% of people will live in a Mega City. How can we expect a system which allows only the rich to get richer to function with this many people.

British Entrepreneurs ‘Over-Educated’

WikiLeaks has uncovered many things over recent weeks, but here is one thing you have perhaps not heard. A US diplomatic cable was released in which American ambassador Clark Randt detailed Richard Branson’s take on a negative assessment of British business made by the Chinese.

At an event titled ‘What makes a good entrepreneur?’ the Chinese criticised British entrepreneurs for being ‘overeducated, too conservative, lacking passion for entrepreneurship and too afraid of failure’. According to Randt, Branson ‘agreed that British entrepreneurs are over-educated and that schooling does not prepare one for entering the business world’.

Branson is one of those oft-quoted inspirational examples of someone making a success of themselves the other way; a dyslexic who struggled to concentrate in class, he left school at 15 to run his own business while his mates were still studying. It’s also true many other famous entrepreneurs failed to complete a formal education: Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Simon Cowell and Mark Zuckerberg, to name but a few. And he almost certainly has a point that schooling is no substiture for real-life experience when it comes to business.

Regular Guy to Give £1m to Charity

We all think that the average person is too insignificant to make a difference in this world. When it comes to helping people out, we also think that the effect of our generosity is often not worth our while. It is only natural, there are literally billions of people on this planet, but it does not mean that only the few rich and famous enough to have millions or billions of pounds at their disposal are the only people who can make a difference.

Microsoft founder and billionaire Bill Gates and Facebook founder and billionaire Mark Zuckerberg have both pledged to give away most of their wealth to charity over the rest of their lifetimes. The pair together will likely donate tens of billions between then to charity, but this does not eclipse the power of the average working man. One particular ‘average man’ has started a campaign to prove it.

Toby Ord, a university researcher at Oxford University, ears an average yearly sallery of £25k-£30k per year. But he has pledged to give away £1m over his lifetime to help address global poverty. In the past year alone, Ord has given£10k, more than a third of his earnings, to charities working in the poorest countries. He also gave away £15k of savings to mark the start of his pledge to give away £1m over his lifetime.

Ord’s current income breaks down like this, with over 1 third now going to charity:

“I realised that by donating a large part of my future income to the most efficient charities, I really could save thousands of people’s lives. Since I already have most of the things I really value in life, I thought — why not?” Toby Ord

Arguably, Ord is giving more than the likes of Gates and Zuckerberg. He has also started a campaign to recruit other people to give up at least 10% of their lifetime’s earnings in the same way. After 1 year, 64 people have joined him in pledging 10% of their lifetime earnings for charity donations. His movement called “Giving What We Can” now has a pledge of £14m from a few average people with average incomes.

When we break it down, we really don’t need most of the stuff we think we do. All these things spend all our money, we can live without. We are just taught to thought that we can not, so we keep spending out money, and it keeps falling into the hands of the rich. In the mean time, there are millions of people who don’t even have the very basics of life that we take for granted every day.