Gerald Celente is a good speaker.  He speaks directly and is great to listen to.  Don’t miss the next 3 parts after this first part.

Neil Postman, a media and education critic, has been an inspiration to me for many years.  He came up with the concept of ‘teaching as a subversive activity’ in a book of the same name, which was an extremely attractive idea and one which inspired me to remain in the field despite the enormous problems with education.  I don’t agree with many of the things he says in this video, actually.  But, I agree that people need to be extremely cautious with technology, and he suggests that with any new medium we make a “Faustian bargain”, that is, a deal with the devil.  Media giveth and taketh away. In that there is no doubt.  With greater access to information, I lose more and more of my time.  However, I disagree that it is to the Internet we must look to hold responsible for the increase in ‘tribalism’ we see in the world.  For that trend, we must hold the mainstream media to account: the media conglomorates who all push a homogenous propaganda of fear, lust and envy on the sheeple who do nothing else to inform themselves than to hit the remote.  No, the Net is superior on that point.  I save more time, and spend more time reading and interacting with others. TV doesn’t compare.

It is worth considering just ‘what is’ cyberspace.  There’s a lot of stuff coming out now about human consciousnessand how the human mind is actually an electromagnetic field.  If true, then the Internet may not just be a tool for getting your daily dose of news, but a bridge between fields of consciousness.  An incredible “inner technology” may soon be accessible to all information geeks, and perhaps everyone in the future, called “telepathy”.  But, if so, we must take heed Postman’s warning: while it might be an exciting discovery to find that our wildest dreams may be coming true, we have to ask: what’s the problem to which this technology provides a solution? Who is going to use it?  And, what are the repercussions of it?  What kind of a world will it be, if our very thoughts are readable?  I surmise that this kind of technology will only serve humanistic objectives if the people themselves are in control of it.  How people will wrest control from those who currently monopolize the tools of modern society may be the penultimate struggle of our times.  There remains no doubt anymore that the monopolization of media by the corporatist oligarchy must end.  The old journalism is dead.  We need to manufacture our own dissent, rather than have consent manufactured for us. It seems to require self-design, which is appropriate for the birthing of a new global society, one which is truly autonomous and which breaks down the old propaganda that tribalized and demonized the world for us for so long.  An antidote to the psyops, meme warfare attacks and disinfo is the taking up of the tools into our own hands.

It becomes more and more clear each day that there is a dangerous blowback in the  pipes for the current economic structure.  The huge monetization of debt behemoth could only have been carried on as it has, it is hypothesized by the Gold Anti-Trust Committee who have recently elicited an admission by one of the Fed central bank chairmen that they have the ability to manipulate the market price of gold (i.e. suppress it)  through the secret sales or leasing of gold bullion reserves by central banks around the world.  In other words, one of their people have admitted that they have the ‘instruments’ in place to do such manipulation.  While there has been no admission of actually trying to suppress the price, having the instruments in place alongside the great efforts they’ve been making to waylay Ron Paul’s audit of the Fed is strong evidence that they do engage in the practice.  If GATA’s hypothesis is correct, it seems their age long strategy to prop up the greenfrogskin is coming to an end as the truth slowly surfaces.  Many journalists are reporting that a dollar collapse is immanent.  No one seems to know what that means.  There appears to be a power vacuum opening up as several elite groups engage in asymmetric economic warfare.  The mainstream press, meanwhile, cheerleads for the status quo and no mention is made of the abyss opening up in front of the powers that be, nor to the inquiries many people are starting to make about the structure of our society and how we would like to see the future unfold.  But, there’s a voice to be heard underneath the din of confusion that’s beseeching us to make no mistake, we are witnessing a transformation, the beginning stages of Kunstler’s ‘long emergency’ where the old guard falls away and the fisher-king arrives to redeem the land of the woe that’s cursed it for so long.  The vorpal sword of the bankers is broken, and in the conjunction of a million spheres that approaches, their grip will falter, and something new, hopefully, will arise.

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