Has The Lifeboat Been Sabotaged?
Bitcoin
One coin to find them
One coin to bring them all
and in the darkness bind them.
Debt Debt Everywhere Until There Is No Food To Eat
Precious Metals
Interest Rates
The Death Of Crapitalism
Conclusion
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Best thing I've read for ages, anywhere. The way you break things down and communicate your point is briliant and I wish I had your skills !!!
I fear that most people will react to the planned collapse in the way that is expected by those that bring it about, and you and I will be forced to submit and watch the bleak future unfold in front of us. It's something I think about often and find it harder and harder to accept.
I am trapped by debt and stuck in the system just as they planned and sometimes I wish I was ignorant of it all like pretty much everyone else I know (some wilfully)
Articles like yours are like a little glimmer of hope because they have the power to change people's perceptions or maybe even repair their perceptual flaws ;-).
High resteemed and will be sharing with friends.
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Hey @jimbobbill thank you for stopping by my friend .. I really appreciate the kind words and support and I'm glad the post resonated with you.
Although I don't perceive them to be as all powerful as they would like us to believe .. the architects of the system are masters of propaganda, deception and manipulation .. never more so than within the minds of those that arrogantly fail to believe that they have been manipulated. I'm currently watching social media, the msm and can (and will) pick out numerous propagandic talking points (and tools of division) that are being birthed into our reality.
Since I was a child, I've been observing how they implement these entrainment cycles to shape the direction of our society. In order to supply the pre-planned solution to their self created problem .. it's my belief that the architects of crapitalism are the same ones that are now fermenting anger towards it (problem, reaction, solution).
I think (to varying degrees) we are all trapped by a system that is corrupt, greed/debt ridden and thus paranoid, obsessional and in order to hide it's true intent .. increasingly controlling over every facet of our lives .. and indeed I can very much relate to your personal circumstances. Thanks again my friend.
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Thank you @wakeupmd
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Fortunately, every piece involved is a double edged sword.
Sure, the internet is a way to monitor everyone, but it also allows everyone to talk to everyone else, so that the govern-cement can hide no lies.
Robotics is coming... and so people are worried about their jobs, but one step past that is, robots do all the work that people don't want to do, and humans do only what they want to do. Once a 3D printer is programmed to make a part, every 3D printer can make that part. It can't be stopped.
Bitcoin may be controlled, owned, by the people at the top, or it may be a group of freedom fighters who own all that bitcoin that has sat idle. BUT! bitcoin is just code, and you can fork it, or clone it any time you want. The banksters want to own the playing field, but if we realize that they are making unfair rules, we will just go create our own ballpark.
Unfortunately, it has to be this way. Every light casts a shadow.
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Thank you for stopping by @builderofcastles
Yes I very much agree with you, in fact I have written fairly extensively about how I am very optimistic about the long-term future of humanity. Indeed, if the control system was as powerful as people think it is, then they wouldn't need to spend billions on propaganda and doublespeak that keeps us fearful and looking outwards for salvation. Equally, in the short term I think many people are going to be in for a rude awakening and that the control system is not simply going to gently pass into the night. When you begin to unravel the control mechanisms that have bound the world into servitude, when you begin to really understand it, you can begrudgingly see that this system is in effect a work of genius .. it might appear like a complete and utter disorganised mess, and on the ground floor it is.. but at the upper echelons it's worked very well to garner ever greater power and wealth into ever fewer hands and to insidiously reshape our very definitions of humanity, success and power .. this isn't a spell that will easily be undone and this isn't a control they will easily relinquish.
in terms of technology, I very much understand the nature of duality and how this manifests itself within the tech that is being created. Indeed, if as a species we can overcome our egoism, greed, narcissism and self-absorption then the future is very bright indeed. For me that is the lesson, the control system is pushing us to change .. whether it's a change for the better resides in how much we want it. As I ended the post.
This post was intended as words of warning, the direction they want to take us is not a statement of what will come to pass. That said, I feel the collective must awaken to what is before they can build what can be .. and in many ways, the vast majority of people are still jumping to the tune of the manipulator.
Again, I very much appreciate your take on tech and so will leave with a few words I wrote in a previous post that spoke to the duality of technology.
Thanks again my friend.
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Another instant classic!
I try to be more of a solution guy than a problem guy but seeing the problems far in advance helps not get caught off guard when they manifest. This is awesome education to raise awareness and I am going to read through it again.
As far as blockchain goes, I am hoping that enough capital gets pumped into it to reach critical mass before the current monetary systems complete their decline.
It dies look like we are headed towards a Feudal system with American leaders taking up that torch lately with the trade draconian-ism.
Such a great post again bud.
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Thank you @zekepickleman .. really glad you enjoyed the post!
I know what you mean about solutions, they're so cheap that a friend of mine has been buying one silver coin (one ounce) per week since the last financial crash .. by estimations they must now have around about 530 coins .. give or take a few lol I've been watching memes and talking points on social media, slowly building anger towards the capitalist model and I think the populace are being primed for the aforementioned reset/feudal system/wealth redistribution .. in fact by the time it comes I think they will have built it to such a point that the majority will be cheering it on. My advice on the blockchain/crypto space is to put at least half of any profit that you make into precious metals.
Thanks again for the support my friend, I very much appreciate it!
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Awesome post, and I couldn't help but laugh out loud at the truth of "electronic thought ghettos" either. You gained a new follower, and I'm sad I hadn't found your content sooner! There's so much great content within the steemit bubble that it's difficult for me to keep up with all of it sometimes.
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Thank you for the kind words and @claydo .. really pleased to make your acquaintance and to have your support on this post. There are some amazing writers/content on this platform so I can very much relate to where you're coming from. Thanks again my friend.
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'Electronic thought ghettos'... don't be surprised if I use that term one day in my posts. Love it. A brilliant post as always, articulate and clear in your exposition of what many of us have been thinking. Just to add a little to your post, @acidyo shared this YouTube clip which affirms much of what we know or suspected all along.
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Thank you for the kind words and support @riverflows .. it's very much appreciated! Great video, with charts, analysis and details that certainly appear to provide a concrete foundation for my suspicions. When the banking institutions were talking tough about clamping down on crypto's, the fact there was a bitcoin machine just across the road from the bank for international settlements was an irony that didn't pass me by. Thanks again my friend and I hope you've enjoyed a lovely weekend. :)
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I almost missed this well written piece by you @perceptualflaws , discovered it through a re-steem from @creatureye who left a comment on a post of mine; and I'm glad to have followed it's pathway.
A well written piece you have here, with sound analysis and commentary. It was an interesting and enjoyable reading experience.
A pleasure for me to re-steem...
Ciao
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Thank you @angryman .. I really appreciate the support/resteem and hope you've enjoyed a good weekend .. and a big shout to @creatureye for gaining me the extra exposure :)
Financial matters are often thought of as a little dull, which is why I felt it important to at least try and keep it as interesting as possible .. hence I'm really glad it resonated with you! Thanks again my friend.
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Yes...financial matters 'can' be a bit "dull", but you did well in keeping it interesting with your writing style.
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Too late for digesting your whole post tonight, but before leaving I have to say that your posts are outstanding not only because of your writings- it is the chosen artwork which gets me hooked. You must spend a lot of time searching for that kind of pictures, I guess. The whole design of your blog is captivating, man.
Good night!
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Thank you for the kind words my friend, I'm glad you enjoyed the look of the post and I hope that the read matches up. lol You're right I do spend a lot of time choosing the right artwork for my posts, on my really big posts I can sometimes spend a day plus just choosing the images .. hence I'm glad you noticed! :D
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I must say, you write well!
That makes this kind of information easier to understand and digest. This kind of stuff isn't new to me, I've lived long enough to watch the economic destruction of this country by politicians doing the bidding of the people who actually control the system.
However, to have someone who writes well put it into words without all the inflammatory rhetoric that you see so much of in articles written by biased authors is rather nice for a change.
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Thank you for the kind words my friend, I really appreciate it. I very much feel that as a society that lives in an age of a million shades of grey that we are being pushed towards both simplistic black and white answers and the extremes of opinion. There are enough people running around with their chests puffed out, getting angry, twitter spats, social media breakdowns and in my eyes the only purpose it serves is division and hostility. When writing, my aim is to at least attempt to display that whatever your views and beliefs, we are ultimately all in this together and that we must not retreat into own own echo chambers. Thank you for noticing @amberyooper
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Fantastic post, thanks for sharing, you've articulated very well the problem in front of us and the risks of complacency.
What are your thoughts on Holo / holochain as the silver bullet to end this bullshit? I'm really excited for what this project will do!
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Thank you for the mind words my friend .. really glad the post resonated with you, I'm just trying to open peoples eyes to the potential storm clouds that are gathering around us.
In terms of Holo, yes I think it's a fantastic idea and one that points in the direction we need to be heading in. Whether it will be THE project remains to be seen .. but like yourself I'm excited by the fact that some people do get it and are building practical solutions to the problems we face. Although the system attempts to hold us back and keep us in monetary servitude .. from a different perspective it is instrumental in pushing people in this direction. I also liked the work of Ric Stallman and the GNU project .. great idea but pretty ahead of his time so not sure it gained the traction or exposure it deserved .. but I like the philosophy.
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I see much of the same thing. I do hold more hope in what relief crypto can bring in the situation though. We just need lots of different crypto options that are truly decentralized and that can be used instead of any government e-money.
And the way to decouple STEEM from manipulated BTC is to create fiat pairings for STEEM (and many other altcoins). I think Binance is hard at work making that come into being, as are many others, including Coinbase.
I don't think the interest rate thing has anything to do with political parties. Trump was saying the Fed needed to raise interest rates when he was running (and was correct). Now he criticizes the Fed for actually doing it to the tiniest degree, because he doesn't want the contraction it brings under his record. So the only politics involved is self-interest and lies, as per usual. The Fed is just doing its thing and "managing" the economy. It really should have been raising interest rates a few years ago.
The problem lies within the fundamentals you espoused upon. The underlying economy is so weak, that only artificial inflationary actions like tax breaks for the corporations that can be used to buy back stocks and raise the stock market, artificially suppressing bond yields by buying up bonds, and so on has kept us out of global recession for years now.
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Thank you for stopping by @indigoocean I do hold hope for the inherent promise and possibility of crypto's ..my bone of contention being that if we appoach it with the same egotistic greed fuelled narrative that has blighted the world of finance, then we are standing on shaky foundations. Unfortunately, within the rise of bitcoin I witnessed many of these problems being birthed into the crypto sphere .. within the concept we have the possibility of lifting our brothers and sisters up and freeing them from servitude and bondage .. and yet, alas once again many squandered that premise on dreams of quick and easy money. For me this is our lesson and is what we must overcome .. if we can do that, if we can help others whilst helping ourselves, then I feel the future is very bright.
In terms of the FED raising rates, I can certainly understand your perspective and yes the rates should have been raised a very long time ago, in fact if we'd taken the hit back in 2008 and let the too big to fail's actually fail .. I feel those green shoots could now be bearing small flowers .. although, still I can't help but ponder whether (hypothetically of course) if Obama had secured another four years in office, would they be raising them with such haste?
Thanks again for the great comment my friend .. much appreciated! :)
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Not to take up all your time, but want to respond on the crypto co-opting you mention, which I also see. Someone said the most interesting thing the other day that I think you'll appreciate. He was talking about the different communities around each of the top coins that has a lot to do with how it is "mined." He said that in the BTC world there was a fierce, adversarial competition between miners. I must get to that computation before you, and only one of us can earn that BTC. Whereas in say the ETH community there is a lot of cooperation to advance the tech (or something like that, don't really remember the others that well). Main point being, there is an inherent value problem with BTC they will probably never go away. But other crypto offers much greater promise of actually being a part of the world we want to create.
In fact, I just came out of a meeting in which we discussed the possibility of our own community token that incentivizes certain behaviors related to a world awake, and creates a token economy around that. If you'd like to be kept in the loop on those developments, just let me know how to best reach you with any of that.
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Sorry for the late reply @indigoocean .. I've been offline for the majority of the week so I'm just catching up on messages. Yes, I think you've made some great and valid points and I very much agree that it's the intent behind the implementation of the coin that determines the outcome. In the long term I have great hope for the future of our species, and like I alluded to in the post (if we can detach ourselves from greed and bitcoin) great hope in the power of a truly decentralised crypto space.
My concern has always been for this moment in time and (although it's always darkest before dawn) the manipulation and division that is playing out around us. This is the chaos before the perceptual shift (the shift of ages) and although (like the winter storms) this chaos will pass, the power structure will not simply relinquish their grip upon this world .. and yet from a wider and deeper perspective, they are also the ones forcing our hand, demanding that we change, driving us to create ingenious solutions to the injustices and imbalances they have brought to our socities.
Whichever way you look at it and however frustrating this world can be, we are incredibly lucky to be alive at this moment in time .. although perhaps luck doesn't come into it. ;) Thanks again my friend and yes I would love to be kept up to date with the behavioural token concept .. incredibly interesting! Are you on discord? I'm still in the middle of this house renovation (hence I'm not around as much) but I will always catch up with any messages that are left for me.
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Resteemed this gem of truth.
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Thank you my friend .. I really appreciate the support.
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ENORMOUSLY helpful and well-thought-out post. Thanks!
I think you are EXACTLY on the right track.
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Thank you for the support and kind words @mepatriot I really appreciate it and I'm glad that the post resonated with you. :)
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You always put a huge amount of time in your articles, @perceptualflaws .... very impressive
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Thank you for the kind words @earthcustodians .. and I'm glad the post resonated with you :)
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Hi @perceptualflaws
So how come banks also most of the time do not have money and need to be rescued (bailed out)?
I dont get it.
LOVE how you labeled it hahaha :)
Yours
Piotr
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Hey my friend, sorry for the delay in replying to this but I've been offline.
We live in a debt based economy my friend, a financial illusion that ultimately only benefits the few .. equally we should be asking who we owe all this money to. ;)
As you requested, just to let you know that I have just posted my latest article: https://steemit.com/conspiracy/@perceptualflaws/the-psychology-of-control-social-media-and-the-frontlines-of-the-reality-war
Thanks again @crypto.piotr
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Thank you for being so responsive @perceptualflaws
Seriously you're the man!
and big thx for sharing this link. will read it before my bedtime :)
yours
Piotr
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