First, the Globalist peril.
"Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the
best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as
'internationalists' and of conspiring with others around the world to
build a more integrated global political and economic structure-one
world, if you will. If that is the charge, I stand guilty, and I am
proud of it." --David Rockefeller, Memoirs, 2003
The man who wrote those words represents a family that has dominated
banking, oil, modern medicine, behind-the-scenes politics, and
powerhouses of Globalism (e.g., the Council on Foreign Relations) for a
century.
Globalism asserts that no nation can be independent from "the family" of
other nations, as if it were a matter of fact beyond dispute. A nation
claiming its sovereignty thus becomes a lunatic traitor to the natural
order of things.
What really binds nations to one another is propaganda, and treaties
which are based on the same propaganda, resulting in engorged
super-profits for mega-corporations.
Globalism is a secular piece of messianic hype. A Disneyesque altruism
is the prow of the ship. Spend 10 minutes educating any street hustler
on Globalist principles, and he would recognize it as a standard long
con.
Obama's recent warning to the Brits, that their withdrawing from the
Globalist European Union would put them at the back of the line in
negotiating a separate trade treaty with the United States, was sheer
fiction.
Britain, or any nation, that has goods to sell and a desire to buy will
find trade partners. An agreement could be scratched out on a napkin
over dinner.
Impending trade deals like the TPP and TTIP are thousands of pages and
take so long to negotiate, because the heavy hitters at the table are
looking for new ingenious ways to cut and paste the world into larger
profits for themselves.
Globalism, hiding behind thousands of academic analyses, picks up jobs
from one nation, where wages are reasonable and working conditions are
tolerable, and dumps them in hell holes where wages are nearly invisible
and conditions are poisonous. It's that simple, and any moron could
see how the job-exporting nations would suffer...if by nations we meant
people.
Instead of criminal corporations and criminal investors.
But all this is layered over with "share and care" sop.
The United States government could repeal the NAFTA, CAFTA, and GATT
trade treaties tomorrow, and throw current TPP and TTIP negotiating
documents out the window...and all would be well. Better.
Much better.
For instance, without NAFTA, US producers wouldn't have been able to
flood Mexico with cheap corn, throwing 1.5 million Mexican corn farmers
into bankruptcy, leading many of them to cross the border and come to
the US to find work.
No US President since Nixon has disturbed the march of Globalist "free
trade." All Presidents since then have been on board with the
Rockefeller plan. And the US economy---which is to say, jobs---has thus
faltered. The 2008 financial crash was only one factor in the
decline. The promise of cheap imports for sale in the US---the
justification for free trade---doesn't work when people here have no
jobs and no purchasing power.
Major media, fronting for free-trade, have panicked over Donald Trump's
claim that he'll reject Globalism. They would have panicked over Bernie
Sander's similar promise, if they thought he had any chance of
defeating Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination. The media have
their orders from on high---the deck is stacked, the cards were dealt
long ago.
Hillary Clinton's pathetic promises about creating jobs reveal nothing
of substance. Small tax breaks for small businesses that "share profits
with employees," the "removal of government red tape," "funding
breakthroughs in scientific and medical research," "expanding job
training opportunities"---the truth is, her basic method for stimulating
the economy has always been: find a war, any war, and fight it.
---Now, let us consider The Individual. Is he just a tiny force pitted against a colossus?
No. Unless he sees himself that way.
But what can he do?
First: find the thing within himself that defies the odds, supersedes
the "normal response," casts aside all ordinary formulations of what he
is.
That thing, that power is imagination.
Imagination has the ability to come up with solutions and strategies
that have never been considered before. Imagination is the wild card.
Imagination belongs to The Individual.
---The individual is not the group.
"Exercises and techniques for accessing and deploying imagination...
these would be essential. Exercises that allow the individual to
reinstate his basic creative position in life. Exercises that allow the
individual to use his imagination in many different ways. Ramping up
power." (Preliminary notes for Exit From the Matrix, Jon Rappoport)
What does the individual have to offer? He has everything he is capable
of doing, when he liberates himself from petty ideas and limitations
about what he is. That journey of liberation is his own. It isn't
anybody else's.
It is, as I've pointed out many times, a journey of imagination.
Imagination lets a person know what could exist but doesn't now exist.
Imagination lets a person know what could be invented. Imagination lets
a person know that, despite claims to the contrary, the future is open
and unwritten.
Imagination lets a person know that he can think thoughts that have never been thought before.
The journey of individual liberation is, therefore, much more than discovering what already exists in one's own mind.
The world as it is, things as they are, Globalism as it is,
collectivism, the group-this is eventually the sensation of depleted
imagination.
Of course, imagination never diminishes, it just waits. For you.
The deployment of imagination unlocks hidden energies. A power, sought after and never found in other endeavors, appears.
"Tiny imagination" is just part of this absurd culture. You don't have to go along with it.
Imagination is larger than any universe. It needs no sanction from the
world. It is not some secret form of physics. It is not religion. It
is not cosmology. It is not any one picture of anything. It's what you
invent.
The Collective does not have imagination. It poaches on individuals with imagination.
The Collective is a graveyard where imagination has been downgraded and forgotten.
Imagination soars. It is the individual at the edge of his own exploration.
Imagination was the source for the building of modern civilization. But
then civilization became dedicated to itself and the group.
The individual never goes away, and neither does his imagination.
Imagination can light up a room, a house, a city, a nation, a planet, a galaxy, a universe.
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