Staying Awake With Matchsticks In My Eyes
Apparently while I was too busy to watch the news, the North American Union was formed. Bush signed the agreement without the approval of Congress or our consent. Don’t feel bad if you havent heard about it, apparently hardly anyone knows about it yet.
“We shall have World Government whether or not we like it. The only question is whether World Government will be achieved by conquest or consent.”
~ Paul Warburg, Council on Foreign Relations
Architect of the Federal Reserve System
Ms. Wakame
Haha yeah. I do know they’re on the ball enough to collect my taxes every 3 months.
AJ
I have a hard time thinking that the government that brought us Katrina and ignored the ‘Bin Laden Determined To Strike In US’ warnings has it together enough to pull off a massive X-Files-esque thing such as people think.
After all, as one wag stated, at election time the Republicans go on and on about how big government is ineffective, then get into office and go on to prove just that 😉
Ms. Wakame
Hahaha! Okay. I’ll pretend like they aren’t there and let you know how that goes.
nathan
Ah, nothing like thought out conversation injected with some good ol’ fashioned brother and sister sack talk. 🙂
Way to put it, AJ.
Whether there’s a conspiracy or not, perhaps Canada has become the 51st state or Mexico City is now the capital of Florida, whatever – the point is here that while it’s impossible, or at least perhaps quite difficult, to live outside of the law and the reality of governments, they can be extremely without affect to your daily life. Just because a law exists doesn’t mean you need to follow it. For some things, like murder obviously, this can be a difficult practice, but I’m not talking about things considered to be universally wrong such as murder or rape, but things like choosing to smoke marijuana or gay marriage, these are all events we can generally take part in outside of the law.
Gay Marriage, for example, who says it’s illegal? The absurdity of thinking that such a thing can be possible, only if you let the government determine your most intimate togetherness ritual can you allow them to also take it away from you. If two people want to be together, why should the government be responsible for saying that’s okay or not.
Fuck the government, I say. Don’t pay them their taxes. Don’t vote for their positions. Ignore them all together and eventually they’ll go away.
ken
holy crap thats a long read…
well im a bit drunk… and diddnt get through all of it…
loving the vast difference in opinion between O & nat’s posts hehe
sound a lot like me and gina… 😉
well when i finally do get round to actually watching the post and reading the text probably ill understand.
for now, im off to hit the sack…
(no livvie, not my sack… the sack… as in bed… not good to hit your sack) 😛
AJ
Oh yeah – which reminds me (from my earlier comment which was lost to the ether),
the only websites that seriously mention all this North American Union crap are ultra-right-wing-nationalist (and even some out-and-out White Power) sites. So that’s the kind of minds we’re dealing with here.
Besides, do you think we Canadians want to merge with the US and deal with all of you people without healthcare (or give ours up?)
do the USAns want to deal with Mexico’s problems?
Do you think Quebec would want to deal with any of this???
no, all three times. So relax. It’s just someone in a bunker posting to YouTube who likely hasn’t been shagged in ages, if ever, and needs some Force of Order to give their so-called life some meaning…
AJ
Funny, I posted a comment earlier but I don’t know if it made it through…maybe it’s waiting to be approved?
Anyway, (assuming this gets through — feel free to delete this and all above)
Why do we keep hearing about it? Because it’s the sort of thing that appeals to the biases of a certain kind of mindset. I’d even go so far as to say certain people are neurologically, if not neuro-linguistically, programmed to “believe” conspiracy theories more than others.
We keep hearing about religion, even though there’s no empirical evidence for the Flying Spaghetti Monster. But there’s tens of thousands of relics and sites and myths and stories and anecdotal reports and statues that seem to “weep” oil, none of which prove anything, but which (if you choose not to think logically) mysteriously add up to evidence of some supernatural force. After all, 50 million Elvis fans can’t be wrong, can they?
Or can they?
I’ve been reading a lot of reports about neurology and brain pathology. There’s a fine line that divides genius and autism, and being perceptive / creative and being schizophrenic. One of the things that separates the human brain from that of other animals is that ours is a monstrously powerful pattern recognition engine. We come pre-coded to pick up language and in the lack of one, will invent one to communicate with our social tribe.
Of course, when this mechanism breaks down or when our perceptions are distorted, we start to see patterns where there aren’t any. Paranoid delusions are a hallmark of schizophrenia. Exposure to lead in the environment makes people aggressive — and so does steroid use.
A recent study seems to show some correlation (if not causation) between the way “liberal” and “conservative” brains work. It seems, then, that there is a subset of the population whose neurobiology revolves around concepts of “law and order”, and who are constantly trying to make things fit into their “received model” of how the world works. Things that don’t fit cause cognitive dissonance and are therefore “bad.”
I’d go further and say that this subset of the population is just a bit over-attuned to patterns, and are not raised to think critically — therefore there is no layer of empirical reasoning tempering their flights of imagination, as it were.
But it means they are very receptive to stories about threats from “The Other,” and other such threats to established order. If they start to hear the same story repeated (even if false) from multiple anecdotal sources, then they start to believe it.
Robert Greenwald’s documentary Outfoxed shows exactly how Fox News uses this effect to disseminate pro-Administration propaganda — using the “some might say” innuendos, magical thinking, appeals to authority, and of course the repetition of Talking Points at every opportunity.
nathan
I think this is primarily bullshit. Just because trade and immigration agreements are established on a continent with only 3 continental countries doesn’t necessarily mean
And since when is Bush easy on immigration, as this documentary would have you believe?
They also state how fashion and class and religion were all supposedly invented in order to apply different labels to us as people, therefore dividing us, all the while basing their point on the fact that we should all come from different nationalities. It seems oxymoronish.
While I am certainly not pro-Bush and am not completely disregarding the idea that governments set up giant conspiracies to make themselves richer, I believe that documentaries like this do nothing but spread distrust without providing any constructive information.
I’m not sure that a world government would be the worst thing, even if it wouldn’t be any better. If the world’s people did agree to be led by one government, well how often do such governments find themselves in Civil War?
If the people did not agree, which would basically be the only way to get to Civil War is by having at least two factions who disagreed and couldn’t get to a compromise, then Civil War would divide the world. There’s no way that a single government could take over the entire planet if there were huge groups of the world who didn’t want it to be so.
A civilization can only grow so large, and perhaps as technology grows so can that cap, but I don’t know – the size of the Roman Empire was its ultimate downfall, and perhaps the same is true of the British Empire.
And as for RFID chips, don’t you think that if this World Gov’t started shutting down huge masses of people that the revolt would be significant enough to stop it?
I think the masses will overcome corruption in government almost inevitably, or at least time has proven.
Ms. Wakame
The correlations that are made in this documentary and where it goes does seem a bit sensational (mostly due to the music and 911 references) but I can’t shrug off the creepy feeling I’ve had since I can remember first thinking and breathing, that foundations are being laid for a One World Government. Archaic religion and primal fear is being used to manipulate us towards that end… but I don’t believe the movement has anything to do with a one world religion or the Antichrist, but everything to do with ultimate financial power and resource control. Wars with other countries would no longer be waged, but personal wars will be fought every day in the hearts and minds of citizens who have no choice but to obey the demands of the government or be cut off from society. I would be very surprised if God-centered religion would even be allowed to be practiced in any form whatsoever. Buddhism may have the best chance of surviving the cull but since it will no longer be of use to the government to control the masses it will probably be ditched.
Each year that goes by, people without bank accounts become less and less able to integrate into society, and in a few years from now it should be impossible to exist on the grid without a bank account… legally. More and more countries are demanding that citizens carry around ID cards everywhere they go and it is well known that the new ID cards all carry RFID chips. Baby steps.
It is also well known around the world that freedom of choice and everything democracy once stood for died the day Bush was given sovereign rule over the USA, and as a final poke test on a comatose nation, he was given a second run. Only a few tears were shed here. Here we are living under a dictatorship after being sold democracy wrapped up in tasty capitalism. Nobody realised that democracy and capitalism don’t play nicely together until they saw capitalism bullying the crap out of democracy in the playground while daddy looked on and cheered. Nobody is outraged enough to do anything about Bush. Well apparently not enough people. We’re just all so preoccupied. Others are too afraid of terrorists to figure it out for themselves. We are just ripe for the plucking. What a bunch of suckers we are.
Don’t allow narrow-minded beliefs to manipulate you into thinking this is all happening because of the USA. The USA is simply the final stage of a big plan, plans that have been underway for many decades to unify the globe under one rule. America is just the final continent to join in the game. Because it’s all happening right now around America and we are looking for someone to blame it’s easy to focus on the smaller picture. But bear in mind the rest of the continents unified a long time ago. Even Australia is safely under Great Britains wing.
Now that China practically owns the USA in foreign debt, overwhelms in booming population numbers and is holding a gun to our heads in unimaginable natural resource demands, the previously powerful USA is now looking to merge and consolidate its assets so that it can still stay in the game.
I’ve heard through various sources since I was a tiny kid that one day we’d all get implanted with microchips and it will make life so convenient. Haven’t you also heard this since you can remember? If all this is so imaginary then why do we keep hearing about it in subtle ways even when we don’t want to know about it? Why would there be a world-wide consciousness for decades about something that doesn’t exist?