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The Future is
Being Written Right Now
The Establishment is Fighting to Stay Alive as the Globe Reaches a
Critical Juncture in History
Old-Thinker News |
July 28, 2010
By Daniel Taylor
The world, it seams, is reaching a
critical juncture in history. Current trends are pointing towards
dramatic changes in government and society. Long standing institutions
are scrambling to stay afloat as new rivals challenge old ideas.
Meanwhile, the global elite, foreseeing these changes, is fighting to
retain control over a global system that is being torn apart by economic
meltdown and a global political awakening. As top global strategists
like Zbigniew Brzezinski
have admitted, cracks are forming in the
many bases of establishment control.
Global Political Awakening
Global governance has been a long term
goal of elites for decades. However, a global political awakening is
taking place that is proving to be a major stumbling block under the
feet of the world's elite. During a recent Council on Foreign Relations
meeting in Montreal,
Zbigniew Brzezinski admitted that,
“Mankind is now politically awakened
and stirring,” stating that a fractured elite “...makes it a much more
difficult context for any major power, including currently the leading
world power, the United States.”
In an earlier speech in 2009, Brzezinski
elaborated further, saying, "...in
early times, it was easier to control a million people, literally it
was easier to control a million people than physically to kill a million
people. Today, it is infinitely easier to kill a million people
than to control a million people. It is easier to kill than to
control...."
An example of Brzezeinski's
lamentations can be seen in the failing European Union. The EU, an admitted
brainchild of the Bilderberg Group, is a globalist pet project that was
to be a model for global governance. Today however, the EU is suffering
an economic meltdown and discord that is bringing a backlash against the
collectivist ideology behind the union. Global and regional governance faces
an additional problem, specifically the fact that without
the perception of an outside threat the coherence of the system falls
apart. Pascal Lamy,
Director General of the World Trade Organization and frequent attendee
of Bilderberg meetings, stated in
a
November 2009 speech that,
"The anthropological dimension of
supranationality has probably been underestimated. Once the
imminence of the menace of a new war has disappeared from our
horizon, it is as if the glue that holds Europe together as a
community will also disappear. As if there were no common myths,
dreams and aspirations."
Lamay further stated that "...We are
witnessing a growing distance between European public opinions and the
European project."
Indications of a fractured and
apprehensive elite were abundant during the 2010 Bilderberg meeting in
Sitges Spain. Public awareness has spread significantly enough for
several Bilderberg attendees to
decline invitations to the annual meeting
this year, fearing reprisal upon returning home.
While the global political awakening
is breaking methods of control that have worked in years gone by, the
current financial crisis and the resulting
power grab by global banks
presents another problem for free peoples world-wide.
Dinosaur media bites back
A brief look at the failing mainstream
media will unveil one of the top trends indicating this historical time
period. Sensing the rise of alternative news
sources, government is moving to tax news websites in an attempt to
stifle competition. At the same time, several
newspapers are moving to online content and
charging for the service.
In the
21st Century, Online media and news websites have become
the dominant provider of information.
China has blocked
a large portion of the internet from its citizens for
this reason, seeking to maintain control. The
future of the internet world-wide, according to author and "web
critic" Andrew Keen, will be monitored by "gatekeepers"
to verify the accuracy of information posted on the web. The
"Outlook 2009" report from the November-December issue
of The Futurist reports that,
"Internet
entrepreneur Andrew Keen believes that the anonymity of
today's internet 2.0 will give way to a more open
internet 3.0 in which third party gatekeepers monitor
the information posted on Web sites to verify its
accuracy."
Blogger Andrew Steele
writes, concerning
a
recent incident involving Congressman Bob
Etheridge of North Carolina, "Because cameras are more
widely available to the average consumer and because of
the popularity of user fed sites like YouTube, citizen
journalists have become abundant in America over the
past decade." Steele continues, "This phenomenon has
weakened the controlled media’s power to influence and
shape reality, as well as the power of politicians to
control their exposure through that media."
The current consensus among the intelligentsia in government -
Obama
regulatory Czar Cass Sunstein for example - is that
information must be filtered in the new media age. "Conspiracy theories" are becoming too
prolific, and an intellectual elite must guide society toward "right
ways" of thinking. This type of social engineering is the driving
philosophy behind many of the current initiatives coming from the Obama
White House.
While the mainstream media will
attempt to hold its position and stifle the growing juggernaut of
alternative media, its growth has proven too explosive to be contained.
Bloggers and alternative news websites continue to break stories of
significance across all spectrums of society. An example; BP's recent attempt to use photoshopped images to give an exaggerated impression of its oil cleanup
efforts
was exposed by a blogger.
Looking to the future
During the past few years, several
reports have been released from the United Kingdom's Ministry of
Defense, the Washington Post, the U.S. Army War College, and the Rockefeller Foundation in
conjunction with the Global Business Network that outline potential
futures for humanity. Ominously, they all carry strikingly similar dystopic
themes.
As Old-Thinker News
reported in March, the
United Kingdom's Ministry
of Defense published the
Global Strategic Trends - Out to 2040 report.
This report was an update to an earlier 2006 MoD report -
DCDC Strategic Trends 2007-2036
- which extended
its strategic vision to 2036, depicting
flash mobs, brain chips and revolution.
The updated
Out to 2040 report covers a
wide swath of societal and technological issues, and anticipates an
exaggerated rift between haves and have nots. The MoD also saw
"...the emergence of a global elite, a
powerful network of individuals and institutions that sits above the
level of individual states and influences the global agenda..."
Analysts writing in the 2008 U.S. Army
War College paper "Leadership
in the Era of the Human Singularity: New Demands, New Skills, New
Response," portray a future in which multiple
scenarios are possible. One sees a new renaissance and unprecedented
human development aided by technology, the other a new dark age of world-wide high tech
totalitarian control.
In the
Human Singularity paper, Dr.
Barton Kunstler documents the impact of ESI's (Enhanced Singular
Individuals), as well as the profound effect on society that
human-enhancing technologies may have. Kunstler states,
"This is the crux of
power and also a focus of much futurist thought. Technocracy has
long been
depicted as uniform and oppressive, with social control the primary
aim. In broadest terms, ESIs will influence social organization to
reflect
and favor the expression of their outsized talents. This shift could
imply
a commitment to creativity and innovation, with society organized to
favor artists, visionaries, scientists, and inventors... Or it could result in 1984-like scenarios due to the power
endowed by invasive, body -and psyche- penetrating technologies."
Kunstler continues, foreseeing a
possible scenario of "...absolute totalitarian global control."
"The level of intelligence and
physical well-being ushered in by the human
singularity could lead to another type of singularity, a “historical
singularity.” It could turn out to be a condition of absolute
totalitarian
global control. Or we may witness its opposite: a dramatic rise in
collective wisdom..."
Yet
another recent report released
in May 2010 from the Rockefeller Foundation and the Global Business
Network presents a disturbing future.
Among
the many issues raised,
“Scenarios for the Future of
Technology and International Development”
outlines a world in which low level
conflict spreads world-wide while,
“The global have/have-not gap grew
wider than ever. The very rich still had the financial means to
protect themselves; gated communities sprung up from New York to
Lagos, providing safe havens surrounded by slums. In 2025, it was de
rigueur to build not a house but a high-walled fortress, guarded by
armed personnel.”
On April 27, 2008 the Washington
Post printed a lengthy report titled "Washington's Future, a History". The
article is the product of a collaborative effort of various experts
from governmental and business positions. The report outlines two future
scenarios played out over the next 17 years. One of them features an America in which national ID cards have been
adopted; citizen journalists are monitored and censored by round the
clock internet police; cities have become locked down zones riddled
with checkpoints (which can be breezed through by those who have the
proper electronic implant), and the standard of living for the
majority of the population has dropped dramatically while a wealthy
elite flourishes.
The Post article follows the footsteps
of various fictional characters in a future dystopia, one of whom is
Victor. This particular character is responsible for monitoring citizen
journalists. He is
"...assigned to
monitor and massage bloggers and citizen journalists who wrote
about and took shots at the feds. Just as the work of journalism had
devolved to a ragtag crew of volunteers working out of their cars
and bedrooms, now the government was outsourcing much of its effort
to communicate with voters, and Victor was supposed to be on
round-the-clock patrol to catch any opinion wildfire that might be
threatening the policymakers in his assigned sector."
Elsewhere, security clearance implants
allow "officials" to move freely through checkpoints. The Post article
continues,
"The privatization of the
roads and transit lines Paula would have to use to get to
Konterra, the nation's burgeoning satellite capital in
northwestern Prince George's County, made a commute from
Washington all but impossible. Only the top ranks in her agency
could possibly afford a long commute during premium-priced rush
hour, and Paula could hardly switch to all-night work hours with
the kids at home. The drive from Washington to Konterra took
long enough; now, the checkpoints at the gateways that
controlled movement in and out of the inner District could
stretch any workday by two or three hours, especially for people
like Paula who still had no security clearance implants and
little prospect of being able to afford any."
The report further describes this
society in collapse as energy rationing and "cyber meltdowns" spark
protests. The poor and lower classes are effectively walled off from
wealthy elites living in high tech cities.
If there were ever a time for activism
and involvement in the direction of society, it is now. While the future
may not look exactly like the picture painted here, there is a reason
that multiple reports over several years carry such similar language. Will the
internet remain uncensored? Will the press remain free? Further down the
road - but not very far in the distant future - how will we deal with
technologies that will intrude into our bodies and minds? Will a
tyrannical global elite - as envisioned by papers published by the
Ministry Defense, Army War College and others - dominate the globe in a
technocratic scientific dictatorship? We face complex and multifaceted
issues that need to be addressed.
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A message from
Daniel Taylor of Old-Thinker News:
Dystopia or renaissance, tyranny or
freedom? Our world is set to undergo dramatic changes. We face difficult
choices.
How are you treating
others? How are you living your life? One of the greatest challenges
over the coming years will be the prospect of retaining our humanity. It
is easy to harden your heart toward others, the world, and yourself. You
can change the world by starting with the world inside you. Set a humble
example for others to follow and carry the fire.
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"Dream of the future,
yes, dream.
Let the glow of visions gleam
and brighten your tomorrow.
Reach for far off
places,
yes, reach.
Let your vision teach
Enlightenment for humanity.
Believe in hope and
love,
yes, believe
Let visions of hope and
love weave the fabric of your life."
- Charles W. Taylor
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