My concern and worry for the future of society has taken an exponential increase in the past few weeks.
It started when I when I watched the second Zeitgeist movie: Zeitgeist Addendum. It's basically a documentary about the entire concept of money and the complex systems that are involved with it. Have you ever had the conversation where you ask yourself: "what is money"? It's just paper right? Yes, it kind of is. Thankfully it's widely agreed that it's worth something to other people. We trust the fact that is worth something, and that it will be worth something in the future.
I've also watched Chris Martenson's Crash Course, which really clarifies the changing times ahead and questions the state of money in general. You owe it to yourself to watch this series of videos, and you'll be glad when you do. The more I think about this concept of money, the more I realize that we live in old fashioned times. Our grand kids will look back at this time as a time of gluttony, waste, and ignorance.
One point that I took away from the Crash Course - which is something that I think of often - is how much energy we get from oil. Chris Martenson's main point about oil is that we live like kings!!!! Why? Well, a gallon of gasoline is worth 500 hours of man labour. We all make much use out of this liquid slavery. Sure, we can be seen as slaves to oil. In actuality, we harness the energy of several slaves with this energy source. Currently, a gallon of gasoline(that's 3.79 litres) costs about $3 and that gallon will give you 500 man hours of work. So, if you burned 1 gallon of gasoline in a car, and then had someone push it back to where you started, that would be how much energy was used in that gallon. So, how much would you pay that guy for pushing your car that far?
Chris Martenson's thesis in this series of videos is that "The next twenty years will be (much) different than the last twenty years". Watch these videos, and get your own opinion. There is no fancy music to heighten the emotional impact of his points. Rather, he presents facts in a logical and seemingly unbiased way. Of course, he states his opinions, but he tells you when he is. I personally do not have the time, patience, or even intelligence to conduct the research that he has done. So, take advantage of this package that he has produced.
In watching these movies, I realized that I don't fully understand the concept yet. But, what I took away from it all is that money is really quite fake. It is created out of thin air by the federal reserve. Can you write yourself a check and get rich off of it? Obviously not. But, the government can. This irresponsibility on behalf of our leaders will catch up with everyone (government and citizens) sooner than later because inevitably, we will all be bound by the planets environmental limits. It's plain physics really, not the results of marijuana smoking/hippy/environmentlist/left winged influenced ideologies. Nope, physics. We'll hit these limits hard and fast. Humans don't deserve to live like we do right now and making this change will be very difficult for our society.
Please, watch these videos. It's important. Give me suggestions as to how to influence people to choose to watch them. It's not as easy as I thought it would be.
To be continued........
Saturday, November 15, 2008
The next 20 years are going to be very different than the last 20 years
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I also watched the "Crash Course" series. However, I am cautious of the kind of paranoia it could create.
ReplyDeletePeople tend to have what I call a 'lemming tendency:' they need to be told what to do. If everyone were to go out and buy gold with the money from their bank accounts, as Martenson suggests, it would cause a complete economic crash. This is one of the main contributing factors behind the Great Depression. Also, if there was a social and economic crisis of epic proportions, bricks of gold would not be worth anything: you can't eat them and you can't burn them for heat or fuel. Although I suppose you could create shelter from them if you had enough.
Yet, I do believe it is good to be cautious and prepared. It is obvious to me that we are on the brink of some kind of change. But as Martenson says, the amount you're willing to prepare will depend on how drastically different you believe the next twenty years will be. If we are in fact at the dawning of an enormous social and economic crisis, being prepared is important, but remaining calm and not becoming paranoid, or taking paranoid action, is even more important. Paranoid actions will only make the situation worse.
Should everyone watch the "Crash Course?" I'd like to say yes, so long as it is for the purpose of intellectual contribution and discussion, not to insight paranoia or mass hysteria.