Hello all, in this post I would like to share my thoughts from a wide-angle perspective on the current state of affairs for humanity, and for planet Earth as a whole.

On the scale of absolute freedom to absolute despotism, humanity's current experience falls into about the 99th percentile of the latter, with current efforts to take it the rest of the way.

Sacred, holy and paradisacal planet Earth has been turned into one giant labor camp. This has been accomplished by brutally hammering a money system into the global population*, and then siphoning the bulk of that currency (power) into the hands of those who control the (power)banks. (Liquidity, 'underwater', 'frozen assets', etc)

A free planet Earth would feature an infinite variety of both natural and human life, with as many different types of communities and living arrangements possible as human beings. The planet would still be covered in sprawling old growth forests and meadows, as much of it likely was in the relatively recent past (ie, probably as much of the world was pre-European colonialism of the past 500-600 years).

The gut-wrenching concept of spirit breaking as discussed in relation to horses applies to humans as well. 'Schools', which have been in place in much of the world for several generations at minimum, in fact serve as spirit breaking institutions for human brings. The input of a wild, caring, loving and free human being leads to the output of whatever the system needs of that human - for many it is to be an obedient worker drone, but there are institutions to train politicians and economic managers as well.

It's a pyramidal system, in which humans at every level of the system have been warped and molded to serve a particular function, including the likes of Gates, Musk etc. Those types may enjoy certain privileges compared to much of humanity (though they experience a miserable existence as power-hungry, soul-blackened psychopaths), but they are ultimately still lackeys and cogs in the machine, enslaved to the market and a particular agenda, just at the top of the structure.

The architects of the system have also given themselves massive architectural advantage in an attempt to maximise their ability to maintain the system. What once were considered human communities, which were walkable, had town centers and a sense of common unity and goodwill (or may have in many cases been nomadic, as were many of the Northern American indigenous communities), have become a relic of the past, and been replaced largely by tightly packed urban centers or dispersed suburban sprawls dependant on automobile travel and lacking town centers or almost any sense of social cohesion. Even extended family units, which at least offered more opportunities for intimate social contact and multigenerational interaction, came under siege in the 1950s to be replaced by the 'nuclear family', and even that structure is under siege in an attempt to replace it with wholly atomized human 'units'.

The architectural design of the aforementioned living spaces makes mass human organization much more difficult to achieve (if those within were to even realize the necessity or potential positive outcome of so doing), because of the aforementioned dispersion and lack of any major common gathering or organizational space in modern living spaces. The fact that shopping and general non-residential spaces and activities are 'zoned' to be wholly separate from suburban neighborhoods further increases human alienation, as natural gathering opportunities in these places are reduced to passing someone on a sidewalk or kids playing in the yard.

Of course, the fact that people have been made to be wholly dependent on external entities for accessing the basics of human survival serves as yet another mechanism by which this unholy global system is maintained, as independence from such a system would require self sufficiency, of either an individual or a community.

I wish I could say why this has all been allowed to happen, or why there is not some kind of enforcement mechanism to prevent the wholesale destruction and enslavement of the very life force and resources of humanity and planet Earth. As it stands, it seems to me that we are currently in the midst of yet another process, similar to the one described in World War 2, designed to torture and subdue humanity into accepting yet further centralization of government, and further loss of freedom and of humanity's very soul essence, as those who wish to usher in such a system have not been shy in sharing their vision for the next phase of humanity's existence (for instance, Klaus Schwab's book 'The Great Reset), which would entail the full scale integration of machine technology into the human body, potential enslavement to an AI hive mind, and thus the complete and total death of human freedom and the human soul on planet Earth.

I also want to make a note about the concept of the 'industrial revolution'. Schwab and others have described the current situation as a 'fourth industrial revolution', pointing to the existence of three previous iterations. I would speculate that the last of these came during World War II, and that the terms 'fourth Reich' and 'third Reich' go hand in hand here, in the sense that each successive 'revolution' has entailed a major step forward in the subjugation of humanity. As can be seen in the nomenclature, these are revolutions not of human beings but of 'industry'. One way to look at this is in understanding the extent to which increasingly many (in the direction of all) facets of human life have been captured by industry (aka markets); for instance, the past few hundred years have seen the natural folk knowledge of how to heal and care for another, including significant matrilineal medicinal practices passed on over generations**, outlawed and brutally attacked to the point of destruction, so that the present day for profit medical industry could take its place. More recently, the natural and spontaneous realm of dating has increasingly been made into an industry under the control and influence of similarly massive corporations, in the guise of online dating, Brave New World-esque 'casual dating' apps like Tinder, and the like, not to mention the massive porn industry which unfortunately serves as a replacement for intimate connection altogether for some.

Food, shelter, communication, recreation (culture industry), are all further examples of the industrialization/commoditization of human life.

I feel it is also important to draw attention to the fact that (in my strong opinion) the idea of private property is not natural to humanity or any other species, but has been indoctrinated/conditioned into humans over generations. This is another topic that Caliban and the Witch discusses, as a critical aspect to the establishment of the powerful state in conjunction with capitalism in Europe in the middle ages was the enclosure of common lands to be turned into private property, with that property in turn being increasingly consolidated into a select few hands. Some will be familiar with the (UN or WEF) slogan of 'You will own nothing and be happy' as it relates to a near future, and I think this same concept applies to what was happening at that time as well - resources & areas that were once commonly understood as to be shared among all came to be owned by a select class, who then 'rented' out resources to the population in exchange for submission to wage labor and the doctrines of capitalism and state power as a whole.

If you understand that human nature is incredibly loving, caring and compassionate (as evidenced by how humans act when they come into the world before they are subsumed into the dogmas of modern life), you will realize that there is no need for greed or intense competition for basic resources between humans, and this applies to land use as well. There is no need (and in my strong opinion, no moral justification) for land privatization, such that the land comes under the exclusive jurisdiction of a single individual or corporation, to use and terraform the land as they see fit. I feel that the indigenous populations of the planet, whose way of life hasbeen essentially eradicated and whose populations have been nearly destroyed, understood this, as evidenced by a great quote that I have always resonates with from Chief Seattle:

How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? The idea is strange to us. If we do not own the freshness of the air and the sparkle of the water, how can you buy them? Every part of the Earth is sacred to my people, every shining pine needle, every sandy shore, every mist in the dark woods, every clear and humming insect is holy in the memory and experience of my people.

Blessings to all.

I would like to close by sharing a few links to articles, books and films that I have deeply resonated with over the years for their ability to powerfully connect to the reality of life on the planet now.

“We Are All Very Anxious: Six Theses on Anxiety and Why It is Effectively Preventing Militancy, and One Possible Strategy for Overcoming It”. https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/institute-for-precarious-consciousness-we-are-all-very-anxious

"11 ways our society treats us like caged rats": https://joeanderson.substack.com/p/11-ways-our-society-treats-us-like?s=w

"Oprah Winfrey: One of the world's best neoliberal capitalist thinkers": https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2015/may/09/oprah-winfrey-neoliberal-capitalist-thinkers

“Mass Mind Control Through Network Television: Are Your Thoughts Your Own?”. https://rense.com/general69/mass.htm

“Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation”. https://www.amazon.com/Caliban-Witch-Women-Primitive-Accumulation/dp/1570270597

*See the book 'Caliban and the Witch' by Sylvia Federici for a better understwnding of how specifically this has happened. In the exhaustively sourced book, Federici demonstrates how the European monarchies of the middle ages waged a massive state-sponsored campaign of terror and brutality, as well as numerous major armed conflicts, against the European population in order to privatize all the common land (establish a system based on private property) as well as a money (currency) system which could then be used to siphon the energy/resources of humanity to be controlled by a tiny few.

**The aforementioned Caliban discusses this topic at length as well.