Utopia, Chaos, Anarchy and Salvation

Utopia

u·to·pi·a (y-tp-)n.1.

a. often Utopia An ideally perfect place, especially in its social, political, and moral aspects.

Is it a 'real' place? Or is it like Atlantis? Long sought after, impossible to find? What an amazingly WONDERFUL definition it has! And yet so far from what we have created with our 6,000 year rule.

Chaos

cha·os (ks)

n.

1. A condition or place of great disorder or confusion.

2. A disorderly mass; a jumble

Unfortunately more accurate? Would we intentionally choose this option? Have we?

Anarchy

an·ar·chy (nr-k)

n. pl. an·ar·chies

1. Absence of any form of political authority.

2. Political disorder and confusion.

3. Absence of any cohesive principle, such as a common standard or purpose.

Is this the next stop along the way? Is it happening now? Can anything be done to stop or slow it? Is it... too late?

Salvation

sal·va·tion (sl-vshn)

n.

1.

a. Preservation or deliverance from destruction, difficulty, or evil.

b. A source, means, or cause of such preservation or deliverance.

2. Christianity

a. Deliverance from the power or penalty of sin; redemption.

b. The agent or means that brings about such deliverance.

Is this what we need? Would it lead us out of confusion and chaos, prevent anarchy, lead to Utopia???

As I have stated here previously, I am not a particularly religious person in life, or in practice. Yet I have a great love of, and respect for, religion. I have spent many years of my life absorbing all the information I can about religious practices from around the world. Just for fun. Just because I haven't ever tired of the tremendous amount of historical information that is available on the subject. The when's, the why's, the how's, the who's, etc... It seems to me, based on what I have learned, that in the past religion was most often used, by a controlling elite (ie; the Church in the past), as a means to control some/many of the undesirable behaviors of man. As defined by the then ruling elite.

Was this, is this, a valid use of authority? Or was it/is it an attempt to stifle the free will and creativity of man? Would God approve of the intentional prevention of the exercise of free will? I don't know. I don't pretend to have all the answers. I don't pretend to have any of the answers. I have only questions. MILLIONS of them! Constantly... I question everything. I dissect everything. I examine everything. If I had to explain what it is I seek I guess the word would have to be 'logic'. 'What makes sense' and 'what does not'? Don't we all do this in our daily lives? But of course this is 'problematic'. By design? What may be 'logic' to me may, at the same time, be utter non-sense to someone else.

How is this possible? How have we ended up where we are? And, I suppose more importantly, where are we? Mankind has ruled the planet for 6,000 years. We have no doubt 'evolved'. But, can evolution not also be digressive? Is it possible to 'evolve' in the wrong direction? To 'evolve' merely means to 'change gradually'. It does not denote a necessarily correct path at all, only slow gradual change. I guess my pretense here is that perhaps for decades, perhaps for centuries, perhaps for millennia, those who have attempted to 'control' our evolution have been going in the wrong direction all along, slowly, gradually. So are we sheep? And if we are then, why? What have we 'lost' along the way? What have we 'given up' that maybe we shouldn't have? And who have we given it up to?!

Talking, as usual it seems, about the ruling elite. Wondering why we, Americans, humans in general, submit ourselves to such controlling influences? Is it merely because we have always done so? Throughout time it seems...

Is it really time for change? This time? Do we have the capability, the desire, the will to effect real change? Could this really be the end of an age? Is there something that we are all searching for? Do the net and communication networks, social networks, make the difference? Do these things make change possible?

I think they do. I think things have already changed a great deal. I see it in many people I know. I see it around the world to one degree or another. But, what will it take to effect real change? A new beginning, a new era, a new reality, an enlightened society, indeed a utopia. We simply need to unite around a common theme, a shared cause. We need to find import and hope in our lives. We need to find a desire to fix what is wrong and do what is right.

But alas, therein the problem lies. It seems, at times, that we are incapable of uniting for change for the better. It seems to me, we knowingly continue to allow ourselves to be governed by the ruling elite. Has our long evolution simply been headed in the wrong direction for a very long time?

So what in the hell IS going on?

Politics, in a word, is what has gone wrong in the world. Politicians have usurped power from the Church for their own use in shaping, changing, controlling the human experience. Politicians use great complexity, rather than morality, to control us, to control our behavior. Politicians divide us along party lines. They divide us on 'issues' of supposed import. Guns, abortion, civil rights, many others... I think this is, and has been for a very long time, the single most powerful weapon the political elite wield over us, their ability to divide us, one against the other.

When will we ever be able to understand that we, Americans, humans, are but pawns in a much larger game? It's all nothing more than a huge, exciting political game run by financial elites. I'm not breaking any new ground here. This idea has been kicked around for generations now. But, now it seems so painfully obvious, the corruption and greed at all levels of government, the corruption and greed that has captured our capitalistic system, our corporations.

Bubbles, bubbles and more bubbles...

It has become obvious to me that the government of the United States is currently terrified that the bursting of yet more bubbles is imminent. We went through the housing bubble, we are going through the credit bubble still. Add to these a health care bubble, an energy bubble and commodities are still bubbling away as well.

The big push for health care 'reform' at all costs. The desperation in forcing this health care legislation down everyone's throat as fast as possible, helps to prove the point that, in fact, health care IS the next bubble to burst. Listening to the President a bit last night it struck me when I heard a few of the numbers that are now being thrown out there to support the rush to nationalized health care. 50 million uninsured, 1,300 health insurance companies, 14,000 Americans per day are 'losing their health care coverage'.

Are they, in fact, 'losing' their coverage? Or, more likely in my opinion, are they canceling their health insurance due to job loss and/or other expenses/problems? In this economy, unemployment, lower wages, fewer hours, many Americans are diligently looking for ways to cut expenses and increase cash flow. It doesn't take very long at all for anyone to spot the thousands of dollars a year, in potential savings, that are being handed over to insurance companies. It's a gamble for sure... but one apparently worth taking for many Americans.

With many Americans VOLUNTARILY dropping health care coverage to save money who gets hurt? The 1,300 insurance companies who sell it! The drug companies, who receive the money from the insurance companies, who bill the consumer for 'the possible need of medical services at some point'. I will not be surprised to see MOST relatively healthy people canceling health insurance to save cash.

THAT is the problem that government, not Democrats, not Republicans, but government faces now. The entire medical industry has done the same thing the banks and mortgage companies have done. They have effectively priced themselves out of business. We have been told for YEARS now that inflation is practically non-existent and certainly not a problem. What?!

Apparently, incredibly, most big business is completely ignorant when it comes to how their pricing structures affect average Americans. They raise prices dramatically for as long as they can and as fast as they can. Did NONE of them ever wonder what might happen if they actually over-priced their products and/or services? If, in fact, they created a bubble?

It's another case of big business, industry, destroying the very customer base on which they depend for revenue! And for what purpose? In pursuit of the almighty dollar. To drive profits. To increase share price for share holders. To keep sales and profits humming along. They have all been so blinded by the 'pursuit of money', by the 'love of money', that they have COMPLETELY lost touch with not only their own customers, but with reality itself.

Now, in a desperate attempt to fix the situation, the Congress wants to FORCE everyone to pay into a BROKEN health care system. It is but one more money grabbing effort by the government. They pumped Trillions of tax payer dollars into the financial system, into the very entities that CAUSED most all of the problems. They handed over Billions of tax payer dollars to $AIG, to the auto industry/unions, basically tax payer dollars are available to anyone with their hand out, it appears. Now they want to pump Trillions into the health care industry to prop it up as well! To protect NOT US but the insurance companies, the drug companies, the inefficient hospitals and money grabbing Doctors. That's the thing that makes me so mad. None of it is about US at all. None of it is really about 'all Americans having access to quality affordable health care'. That SOUNDS wonderful and that's why they all continue to repeat it over and over. But, it is only more 'how can we fool them today?', more 'smoke and mirrors'. It's but one more attempt to grab tax payer dollars to prop up unsustainable industry. They are even talking about requiring everyone to carry health insurance, by law, like we have with auto insurance now. This is ridiculous! We are required to carry 'liability' and uninsured motorist. These are to protect OTHER DRIVERS, not ourselves. If we want to risk covering damages to our own vehicle we still have the option to do that. It sounds as if soon we will no longer have the ability to decide whether or not we want to risk covering our own health care costs.

The Congress has never passed a 'law' that requires every American to purchase a specific product from a specific industry/sector. Not that I know of. Yet that is where they are headed and what they want to do. They are panicked. They are panicked big time. Because they see what further 'bubble bursting' will do to this weakened economy. Push it over the edge... off the cliff...

I no longer have any doubt that our Government is going to collapse. The economy is shot to hell, the consumer is dead in the water, the entire pricing structure of the economy is askew, real supply and demand curves seem to no longer exist, the dollar is going to hell, geopolitical problems abound, fighting expensive wars, the markets NEED DESPERATELY to correct but the Government CANNOT allow it to happen. They seek desperately to re-inflate an economy with absolutely no help from the consumer. Look for further money grabbing adventures in the energy and commodity sectors. We probably will end up with 'inflation from hell' at some point. Or whatever other really cool 'tricks of the trade' the FED and Treasury can come up with. Maybe Obama should just tell us all to 'go to the mall, go to the mall and shop and stuff.'

Politicians truly are pathetic, all of them. I think they are already well aware of the fact that it's Game Over... It's TOO screwed, they can't fix anything now, it's too late, they only continue to make things worse. I think the politicians get it, it's really Game Over this time... We're not 'bubbling' we're BOILING! Alive...

So what's next?

There are some things I would like to see... Things like Hope and Change (Change we can believe in) I hope that people around the world will begin to realize, finally, that hope and that change MUST come from US, the people, not Governments and Central Banks... I hope that people will tire of taking marching orders from those who seek only to divide and confuse. Those who lie and conceal the truth. Those who seek to use every tool at their disposal AGAINST us, not for us. For no other purpose than to protect their own wealth and power. They have all, government and big business, sold us out for money and power... Now they want our help. I want to help. I want to change the world...

And... YES WE CAN!

I truly believe that we CAN change society for the better, the world over. But WE have to do it OURSELVES. We obviously can no longer trust Governments to look out for us. We have to find a way to convert those who support the nanny state idea. We have to get through to those who couldn't care less what happens to the human experiment, those who are far more interested in American Idol than the Federal Reserve Banking System. We must kindle an interest in the the true meaning of life. We CAN and, IMHO, MUST change things.

And it's a very simple thing to do really... All we have to do is make up our collective minds that we will NO LONGER PLAY THEIR GAMES. WE WILL NO LONGER FOLLOW THEIR RULES. We each must do what we know is right and just. We must rebuild society from the ground up. We must all turn our backs on their greed, corruption and manipulation.

And what if we DID rise up? What if we did stand up and say ENOUGH! What would happen in the USA? I suspect, in a real 'crisis', in a real uprising by the people, for the people, that the response of the United States government would not be so different than that of the government of Iran. Think about it... The loudest protesters who seemed to be something akin to 'leaders' or 'die hard reformists', activists, would be arrested and locked up. The main stream media (MSM) would downplay the events as a few 'extremists' acting up... I can see it all as if it were happening right now. God forbid anyone should question government's/Obama's determinations, about which 'ideas' or which 'particular group of people', are in fact 'extremists'... We ALL BECOME 'extremists' exactly at the moment 'they say we are extremists'! Those who make such determinations are aided and abetted by the MSM. These days it seems about all it takes to be stricken by the 'extremist' label is to 'disagree' with anything the elites wish to do... Is this REALLY freedom?

Could it really all fall apart? Here? In the United States of America? The young people of today would, no doubt, think we're nuts for even suggesting such a thing could be possible. Has it happened before? Here? Elsewhere? Throughout history? We all know that it has...

The cities would be hit the hardest. Hit the hardest by food shortages, transportation issues, power problems, rioting/looting, police issues, more. As government services and safety nets collapse, as infrastructure becomes unavailable, we could face anarchy... Civil war is possible. We are no different, in the end, in the true scheme of 'things' than anyone else in the world. Nor should we be any different. Indeed a new day is coming, fast. We should be ready and eager to seize the opportunity to fix America, to fix the world. We should all actively seek a new way of life, a simpler way of life, a new desire to live in wonderment of God's many marvelous and beautiful creations. At peace with ourselves.

On that point I would direct those who might be interested in further reading to the top link in my Favorite Links The Prophesied End-Time Revealed

What we really need is...

Revolution

revolution

Noun

1. the overthrow of a regime or political system by the governed

2. (in Marxist theory) the transition from one system of production in a society to the next

3. a far-reaching and drastic change

As extremist as that may sound...

Greg