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Morgoth creates the orcs, balrogs and dragons to destroy middle earth. Metaphorically that has what's been happening here, in the antithesis part of the dialectic Thesis-Antithesis-Synthesis. I knew this bloke was off.
@@ario4795 he doesn't. He just wants you to think he does. I've been approached by some very unusual looking security operatives. They don't all come from public school.
5 years ago I escaped New York City to start a small organic farm in the countryside. We’re poor but happy. My wife raises the children. We homeschool of course. Turns out there is a Christian Greek Orthodox monastery nearby. I have spent quite a bit of time with the monks there and learning a lot about the lost knowledge of the desert Fathers. Rejecting modernity isn’t that hard, you just have to decide. I’m going to be baptized, learn Ancient Greek, be the spiritual leader of my family and maybe even one day attain some wisdom! The only alternative to evil is good.
Let me guess. You're now at a Church that doesn't have big screens, wrap around microphones and people standing up give their testiphonies, otherwise known by my deceased mother as "airing your dirty laundry". I'm glad you escaped New York City. I've been there a couple times and it doesn't seem like a healthy place to live.
Imposition is the correct word. In their ideal world, no stone would be left unturned, and even the Siberian farmer, or the high altitude shepherd on the Tibetan plateau will be forcibly digitised. No one will be left alone. These people, who hate their own material and spiritual realities, would have us all corrupted for their sake. We must absolutely resist this technological hell, and refuse to allow our humanity to be augmented in any way.
I think augmentation can be acceptable, so long as we have exclusive access over it and the processes involved in it. Anything outside of this however would easily and inevitably become a technological nightmare.
@@Gogglesofkrome Tall poppy syndrome thanks you for your curious comment. After all, why should anyone be happy with what their parents' combined genes gave them? Everyone should want to be absolutely equal to everyone else. A land full of Eloi, no? Here you are, introducing that viewpoint in small, almost subtle pieces.
@@seanoneil277 If you even knew a fraction of my politics, you'd find that you're purely working off of assumptions, because I don't believe that even for a second. When I said "We have excusive access over it," I meant the person who owns it, and has it attatched to their body. If anything, augmentation will allow for hyper-individuality to become a common thing; you'll have all sorts of bizarre phenomenon taking place as people increasingly modify themselves into entirely different shapes and functions, be it for their own tastes, or for the needs of their workplace. something like this would of course be bizarre, but also likely limited to the few people who could afford it, unless these things could be made widely available to the public.
@@Gogglesofkrome Thank you for that, but my position stands even more firmly upon reading your longer explanation. Maybe you don't see it, but it's obvious to me. Specifically, if you want "augmentation," or choose to defend it, then you somehow find your natural body inadequate and thus believe your genetic inheritance is in need of modification. Don't know why anyone would feel that way. But science fiction often is read or seen as a prediction of what must be, rather than as the fiction it is.
"If the British soldiers on the beaches of Normandy in 1944 could look forward to the end of the century and see what England has become, they would not have bothered to advance another 40 yards up the beach."
yeah, this doesn't look sustainable at all. And you see this specially with the catastrophic recent drop in birth rates all across the world. We are simply not made to live like this, and this system will probably begin to unravel in the next few decades as there will be no way to sustain economic growth any longer.
when anybody tries that argument “so secret conspiracies were doing all this stuff for a hundred years and it never came out? How did they keep it secret when so many different people would all have to be working together?” Remember that it WAS NOT SECRET, and any keen eyed contemporary observer, such as Spengler, could and did notice, and let us know what was happening as it happened.
@@drifter402 When I was a small business owner I'd meet with other small business owners and chat on how to keep our boats afloat. I think its not to much different for Billionaire elites. They know whats good for eachother is also good for themselves.
"We've ran the numbers and that means you should be happy" lol that pretty much encapsulates how these demons think. They have no soul, they can't feel love or empathy. They don't understand humans but they think they do. They underestimate Gods creation.
@@AMeanDude can you explain how a worldview which prioritizes the spirit, and explicitly asks you to reject material wealth got us into this late stage capitalist nightmare? I know you can't, because both things are diametrically opposed.
@@Fed-tt6cp It is forced christian altruism that opened the floodgates for hordes of non-whites to demographically replace us in our own countries because "We are all equal in the eyes of God". Christianity has always been a slave-religion based on slave-morality. It seeks to deny nature, to deny the only reality in front of your very eyes, in favour of a made-up construct called heaven. In my personal experience, there is MUCH more wisdom to be found in the polytheistic religions of ancient Greece, aswell as the old Norse/ Germanic religion of Wodan/ Odin rather than the bible. The bible, particually the Old Testament has some genuinely interesting stuff, but in the end it just isn't Europe's religion. I could go on and on about my problems with christianity. Nietzsche sums up my and many others' issues with christianity quite well, I'd recommend reading some of his works. Christianity is a blight on the West.
The funny thing about Marx’s criticism of capitalism was that back in his day at least they had sound money. In the age of fiat money, we have - in effect - capital-free capitalism.
I've been eagerly waiting for this, and you've more than succeeded in covering each subject that needed discussion, from the money power to grim dark nationalism (quite like that phrase of yours) alternative authentic options and their dull simulated counterparts. So.. thank you. A fantastic video.
@@MorgothsReview1 Whether we like it or not , the strong man is the only known way out. I don't know of another way out . The mule , the ceaser has to come around IMO . Also should we win in the future, democracy should never ever be used again . Democracy is a sham system ! We have to look into the influences of usury (banking ) , and mass media also . And we have to have to bring back religion, we need romanticism , we need fanaticism. The merchant is powerful but sometimes he can be thrown out , but we have to learn our lessons . If we even can at this stage . Sometime in the future maybe . The problem is they have the science, they have the psychology,the methods of manipulation of the masses and information travels instantaneously . Everyone has a little screen , there has never been a power like this before .
Brilliant summation of where we are, Morgoth. In truth, we must always return to our own hearts for inspiration. We are the subterranean saints: imprisoned, but with eyes fixed on the meagre skylight.
Excellent video Morgoth. I like the idea of Carthage as Germany and America as the new Roman republic, Germany being the home of the old religion (in this case Protestantism, created by Luther) and the US being the home of the new religion (materialistic capitalism and technology) which has to crush the old. Germany is of course heavily forested and the forest is symbolic of an older primeval order, paganism, magic and the subconscious mind - all things that are anathema to the new technological order where everything is mapped out for us.
Germany just announced major restrictions on the unvaccinated. So however ancient the temperance, it has fallen to globalism, big pharma and mass obedience.
@@thehammer9599 Carthage was rebuilt by the Romans after it was razed to the ground in the victors image. Seems like Germany suffered Carthages fate...
@@moeleicester9179 "All nature is but art, unknown to thee; All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony, not understood; All partial evil, universal good: And, spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, One truth is clear, Whatever is, is right." Alexander Pope
Spengler was probably aware of Robert Mickels’ “Iron Law of Oligarchy” outlined in the book he published in 1911. Aka “Money Power”. The technocracy appears to have succeeded in establishing a level of materialism that causes most people to be satisfied enough to give up almost every other aspect of their lives to ensure that security and comfort is never taken away from them. The only way to disrupt that kind of slow blink rate existence is something catastrophic which forces people to adapt or die. Sadly most of us will be lacking that skill. On the positive side, a massive cull might stimulate an innovation Renaissance much like the one in Europe after the Black Death.
Modern day materialism surely have a hypnotic effect, and all cultures are being affected. Perhaps Japan is the most nightmarish example; the Japanese literally work themselves to death, and those who survive until pension die alone.
@@borisnegrarosa9113 Yes true. People often (rightly so tbh) praise Japan mostly because of its optics, and a few important things like homogeneity, no SJW entertainment etc but they’re still rotten to the core, aesthetically invisible in comparison to the west where the rot is visible to the naked eye, but they still live in atheistic, hellish consumerism/economy based lives, still have a massive incel epidemic, even worse than here despite their women being way better, and the modern culture/entertainment is still sexualised to the max. It’s all happened rather quickly I think. I mean modern anime is smut but anime from late 90’s to mid 2000’s isn’t. Same with their vidya games. Modern JRPG’s are unplayable harem drivel. I’d rather live in current Japan than Britain from the last few decades if I was of rootless persuasion but still, it is actually quite a bad existence where in some of the most important ways, just like our own here. The stories of people working to death doing mundane clerical and (lower) middle class type office/corporate jobs are crazy. Even in like 1910 normal working class people didn’t work more than 90 something hours a week, granted it was backbreaking. They try to be as machine like as they can, like a kiosk or spreadsheet as a human. Their economy is probably more competitive and unforgiving than a caveman style life, but there’s almost no reward unless you do really well and become quite wealthy, then you can have a proper detached house with a garden of sorts, and pretty wife and kids. I wouldn’t take that existence but I would easily trade Japanese loveless anime loser over my own western version of that. I don’t think there’s a whole lot of differentiating between the worse and more middle class lives in Japan, in west it’s a bit more varied. The baseline is better though.
@@eldontyrell4361 Corporate life is hell anywhere, it is the crab bucket and Japan would not be able to change it. The goal to live in Japan is to be creative and learn a trade that puts food on the table, and actually has cultural value for the Japanese. If you try to be an US ant on the Japanese soil you gonna die, that is for sure. But if you are a butterfly in their garden, you might actually have a shot.
Disturbing, but very well put together. "The final battle of Western man" is a perfect way to encapsulate our present condition. 3000 years of western civilization has led us to this crossroads: will we forever enslaved, or will be be free? I shudder to think what will become of the West if we should fail in this struggle. Godspeed, and great video.
Sheep Farming Tip: Historically to achieve flock control the farmer ‘marks’ each sheep with an individual ID, and that ‘mark’ enables the farmer to identify his flock, and any individual sheep that has escaped from the farm. The 21st century sheep farmer knows that better flock control is achieved by allocating a smart digital ID mark (QR code etc) to each sheep. These digital identification marks are tracked 24/7 by a AI smart surveillance system across the entire farm, which harvests additional biometric data (gait, facial recognition, height, weight etc) to add to existing veterinary DNA profile of each animal. Tracking all movement on the farm, the AI smart surveillance system will quickly establish a detailed digital database of each individual animal’s physiological characteristics, emitted sounds, physical movements and general habits. The AI smart surveillance system will also target any individual sheep that fails to display a verified identification mark, this will enable the farmer to intercept that animal and retrospectively perform marking and data capture for the farm inventory. Flock behaviour can also be strictly controlled 24/7 by offering appropriate psychological and physiological nudges (incentives and disincentives) and monitoring resultant compliance via the AI smart surveillance system. This will enable the 21st century sheep farmer to minimise expenditure on expensive land, even dispense with all fencing and minimise the number of sheep dogs needed, and yet will retain strict 24/7 control of his entire flock. Typically most sheep like the extra security and feel very safe being watched over 24/7. However it’s natural for some defiant animals to deviate from the prescribed behaviours on the farm. In such cases the farmer can deploy the sheep dogs to capture the animal for retraining or slaughter. Such technology reduces the farm operating costs, maintains 24/7 control of the flock, and keeps the sheep feeling safe. Q: why wouldn’t the wise 21st century sheep farmer employ such a system?
Because it disconnects him from his sheep and treats them exclusively as economic units to be plied unto his will. He is no longer seeking synergy and cooperation.* This is coming from a fella who just wrapped up caring for his Shetland flock, and is currently watering his cattle. *Analytics on my animals are lovely. I'm not here to force a lifestyle on them that denies their genetics in toto.
@@ayylmao2319 WELL, EVEN CHRIST CALLS HIS PEOPLE sHEEP. eveRyone is SERVING SOME MASTER OR ANOTHER. the most insane inDIVIDUALISTIC MYSTIC PSYCHEDELIC MADMEN I HAVE EVER MET HAVe aT times admITtED TO me THAT SOMEthiNG WAS LEADING THEM, But they eitHER COUD not or WOuld not name that "thing". alL humans are moved by one spirit or another. it does no good to CALL some pEOPLE sheep and other peOPLE SOMETHING GREATER THAN SHEEP. EVEN THE WOlf, which SEEMS MUCH more rugged AND INDIvIDUALISTIC ANd iNDEPENDENT than THE SHEEP, IS LEAd by an alpHA WOLF... and ulTIMAtely, even the alpha woLF ANd hIS PAck ArE iROnICAlly LED BY THE BEHAVIOR OF THEIR PREY. the sheep leads the wolf, yet the wolf believes otherwise. and the little LAmb leads them ALL.
@@andrewmccombs7347 this is something I was considering the other day, that we are all following something. I boiled it down to the realisation that, though we are all sheep of some variety, some sheep are clearly better at selecting their shepherds.
You have inspired me to read Spengler. No more excuses. Thanks for the content as always. And I have been watching you for years. You do not come off as a libertarian.
Morgoth, three books I believe you would enjoy reading are all written by a British author in the late 40s/early 50s. From Smoke to Smother, Somewhere South of Suez, and Far and Wide. Douglas Reed begins the three books looking at England and the dangers it faces in the post WW2 era. He then travels to South Africa in the second book and finally in the third he makes his way to America. All are well written and are very prophetic for our current times.
Brilliant as ever Morgoth. I consider you to be one of the most authentic voices of resistance to this new hell being imposed upon us by the moneymen and the technocrats. I, like you, also yearn for a counterpoint to this overweening and soulless worldview which consumes everything and everyone in its path. Living in Wales, I sometimes imagine that our 1,500 years of Christian heritage here can provide some form of spiritual defence for us. But having seen how all churches here have bowed so submissively and cowardly to the new God of Covid over the past twenty months, I'm not so sure. The new defence needs to come from without the churches now, compromised with the world as they are. But a renewed spirituality and affinity with the land again, as you suggest, is definitely possible. Please keep on recording these wonderful videos. You have no idea how valuable an influencer you are in these dark days.
This, I do not feel that we can unironically return to Christianity en masse after this war is over. Not more so than we could unironically go back to being Liberals.
A Peoples Bull of the Diet of Christ needs to be placed on every church door. We need a replacement church that actually interprets Christ through his teaching and teaching in action. Hypocrisy was his number 1 target.
Have you checked out the Irreverend channel, two sometimes three vicars with guests going over current affairs and the state of the powers at be of the CofE.
Something that I realized far too late: when you don't understand something, you're by default ceding power to those who do. While it's not possible to know how everything works, you can do your best/join groups of others and combine knowledge. The vast majority of the world's population have no understanding of the most critical technologies of our society: cars, computers, electricity, internet, food production. All of these industries have been or are being co-opted by our overlords. And I think people are starting to realize this en masse, but that pill is too bitter for most to swallow so they equivocate and lash out at anyone/anything trying to push it into their consciousness.
We are assailed by comforts on every side. War is what brings out the best in men. Without it, we get what we have become. William James wrote a great essay on the need for a moral equivalent of war.
He really does have a massive intellect . I understand that I will never be able to operate at the mental heights that men like Morgoth function on -- but I do take comfort in knowing that at least my inner voice , my soul resonates perfectly with their ideas and conclusions . It really is reassuring that even a dummy like myself isn't crazy after all .
You have a real Gift of being able to verbalize my own feelings on reality. You never disappoint. Thanks Morgoth for showing us that we are not going insane 👍
Another great video, Morgoth. I seem to remember Spengler writing that Japan was also analogous to Carthage. Japan was also caught up in a frenzy of modernisation by 1919, when Spengler wrote the Decline of the West. Japanese traditionalists vehemently criticised this process labelling it 'Americanisation' a specific undesirable form of modernity. They warned that Japan should not blindly follow the money driven, consumerist model of America. Will you be doing 'something cosy' again this Christmas? Look forward to it.
Spent a couple decades in Tokyo, and one thing I can say is that as hide bound and stiff necked as the Japanese can be, they will at least be around and have their own culture and nation in a hundred years…unlike the west which has been divided against itself by multiculturalism and mass immigration of non-assimilable cultures. The Japanese seem to be one of the only modern nations that has successfully defended itself from the predatory tribe of small hats and globalists.
@@williamsmith7340 they had an advantage, a small ethnostate Island I'm the far east would not be effected as much by the elites targeting the West primarily.
@@williamsmith7340 They won't actually. The fall of Japan has already begun. They've opened their borders and their criminal underworld has already been thoroughly assimilated into the global cabal. Expect Japan to fall like America has within 5 years.
At 6:30: Morgoth, true that Germans would have had as much freedom as Britons. I think it gets back to the distinction between democracy and liberty. Under a constitutional monarchy, Germans had the same rights against their government as Britons did (more or less), even though the government was undemocratic. I think the conflation of democracy and liberty is one of the grave evils of our day
So the question is where do the caesars arise? Spengler says they are supposed to defeat the capitalists but all I see is victory after victory for money.
I don't think the Rome/Carthage analogy is particularly apt; Carthage was no less materialistic than Rome, and Rome was no less mystical than Carthage, imo.
I personally would disagree with the beginning statement “optimism is for cowards”, for it is the cynical, pessimistic, hopeless mind that sees no way out and so becomes numb to the world, and so becomes machine like, and adds to the greater machine. Yet it’s the optimist mind that feels the pain, and the despair, and says no more, and out of the darkness arises a determination and a hidden power within to bring change for a better way.
Absolutely brilliant. I never heard about Oswald Spengler and checked. He is historian and philosopher. Died in 1936. What an enlightened mind. He was 80 years ahead of his time. This video clip is spot on.
I am a long-time follower from the USA. Keep up the always excellent thought-provoking work. "Just look at the world today."= Understatement of the century.
I did discuss this very perspective with my case worker at the unemployment agency on a walk in the countryside, today... After two hours he exclaimed, he couldn't really argue against this 'brown study' of a dystopian, historical outlook of mine and that time will tell.
Excellent work, I enjoy being spoken to like an intelligent adult (surprisingly rare these days) when I listen to your broadcasts. Thank you. Goats grazing in Wembley stadium sounds like a prophecy of sorts. To be realized perhaps by 2049, a few years after the nukes have completed the reset.
Nice. The simplest life is often the most fulfilling but it's also hardcore, many people seem to have a longing for an 'easy life' but expect it to provide all the satisfaction of a challenging life, once they are stripped from the grounding effect of hard work they become demoralised & subject. Freedom comes at a hefty price.
Sure the Siberian man on his tractor may be freer in some sense. But that is only temporary as the modernity and technology creeps closer to him. Will he be able to resist it on his Soviet tractor with stamped writings on it ''made in USSR'', the same USSR that has already destroyed much of his cultural spiritual heritage.
thanks Morgoth, great vid. The Culture, as described by Iain M Banks is a wired society that does not exist 'in warehouses plugged into the metaverse, bodies decaying etc.' It is techno utopia, and it seems plausibly managed by benign AI who do not have the 'human condition' that stuffs everything up.
Love the culture series, I was gutted when Banks passed. Ido t think he was far from the truth of things about the AI. I feel like that's what the technocrats are aiming for tbh.
I was brought to Spengler after reading Joseph Campbell's biography. Campbell repetitively mentioned Spengler. After listening to a variety of videos today, I am fascinated by his ideas. It's funny how I see similar themes in leftist thinkers, like Chomsky and some others. Not saying they completely agree but there's a lot of overlap. I am trying to read The Decline of the West now but finding his writing hard to follow.
It seems to me that the more immersed people become in technology the further they move from nature and when You loose contact with nature You do so at Your peril . Thankyou for a well made program !
To assume that human progression is a linear process is a somewhat a simplistic view point . We feel that now is a great turning point , yet history is littered with such examples . The natural world is governed by the availability of resources , we have stepped to some degree away from such limitations . But at no small cost to our place in the grate scheme of things . We are very good at assuming we are the be all and end all of everything , yet I fancy we are far from such importance . Do we really think if we were all to disappear tomorrow the earth would morn our passing . We occupy a smudge upon the earths surface , and what ever damage we feel so conceited about will be but a blip in its existence . What fools us mortals be
18:02 Since nobody else would do that, it has to be mentioned that the analogy with ancient Rome and ancient Carthage is _completely off_ when mapped unto 19th century Anglo-German rivalry. *Prussia* - the only relevant principality within the Westernizing liberal German empire was originally a 'frontier' state and fashioned itself to ancient *Macedon* - utilizing Hellenic military tactics of phalanx warfare and cultivating Greek culture - but really remaining _pastoral_ at heart - that is the ideal of the East Prussian 'Yunker' who is still invested into an *_agrarian_* economy and at odds with banking that has indebted farmland with the rise of cheap *American and Ukrainian grain* - which explains German military expansion into the Black Sea even until today. While ancient Carthage was _the 'mercantile' power per se_ of shrewd *overseas trade* and large *mercenary contigents, instead of a citizen militia* - where _human sacrifice of infants_ was still practized - although 'outsourced' to slave victims, sparing aristocratic firstborns and thereby corrupting any meaning of sacrifice. In fact, Roman propaganda was based on a antagonism between Punic corruption and Latin, _rustic frugality_ - with any Greek sophistication loathed - a cultural trait still persistent in Roman Catholicism where quasi 'military discipline' outweighs all theological subtlety.
Great video Morgoth, you always get to the bottom of things. I think the most paradoxical aspect of hell is that everyone shapes their own out of hubris, arrogance and selfishness; wanting to be a god instead of being grateful for nature, this is the choice Western civilization is making.
These would make a lovely collection in written form, so old school am I in thinking. Books will be needed to tell the children stories of how they came to be outside dystopia.
"Learn by heart this poem of mine books only last a little time and this one will be borrowed, scarred, burned by Hungarian border guards, lost by the library, broken-backed, its paper dried up, crisped and cracked, worm-eaten, crumbling into dust, or slowly brown and self-combust how hot your town will be when it burns down? Learn by heart this poem of mine..."
There was a reactionary blogger called Aidan MacLear, also a reader of Spengler, who claimed "we are Carthage", which is to say that in this iteration of the civilisation cycle, it was the gay thalassocracy that won rather than the based land power. His claim was Anglos = Carthage and Germans = Rome.
I remember seeing the insufferable Kirsty Wark on BBC2 surrounded by guffawing minions explaining that Lowry wasn't a real artist because, "he was a Tory for goodness sake!"
Can someone tell us the title of the “Grimdark nationalism/populism” video? Maybe it’s the algorithm but I cannot seem to find it using those terms. Thanks.
The human race is right now in no mans land. The masses have been led so far down the pit that a point has to be reached where each individual will have to make certain choices affecting both their own destiny and the destiny of their family,region,country and the human race as a whole. There will be/is no fence to sit on.We are in this time period now.
To answer a question from the live chat, if they make vaccine 'mandatory' here, which I believe they will do in 3 to 9 months time, possibly faster due to the new O thing, you might be able to get out of it just from paying a fine, thats what I heard people saying, whether its one fine or repeating ones per variant I don't know.
@@gillps5130 better than them putting us in the C Camps forever, if its a once off fine under 5K. I'm actually getting quite worried after the last commentor said its repeated ones in Europe. I'm going to keep an eye on whats happening in Germany.
I have heard different numbers regarding the fines that will be imposed in Austria. If it is only a few hundred euro every couple of months I will pay. If is is much more than that, I will attempt to disappear and become a fugitive living below the radar until I am caught and imprisoned.
Spengler seems to me to rely a lot on a form of faith in cycles that have repeated and therefore will continue to repeat. Many economics experts take a similar view of cycles that repeat, as do some climate forecasters. I'd like to suggest that cycles only repeat until something significant changes in the system generating them. Such a change could occur now and end the cycles.
If you read Spengler you'll see that he actually doesn't posit civilization as a cycle, but a morphology. People just say "cycle" because they are speaking lazily. Spengler doesn't believe that winter is followed by spring unless a new civilization emerges out of the ashes of the old (which is historically unlikely).
@@williamhad Interesting comment. I did read Spengler about thirty years ago, so perhaps it's time to look again! You would seem to agree then that it might be possible to stop what is happening by introducing a new factor. What if I suggest that the new factor is an understanding of human interactions, motivations and society in terms of evolutionary psychology? That the Scientific enlightenment set in motion the technological age in which engineers provided the things that fed a hedonistic age, while leaving ideas about society to the random whims of non-scientists like Rousseau. If science had concentrated on understanding the world (the true function of science), rather than feeding human greed, might we have created a society that fed our instinctive need for fulfilment through our interactions, while recognising the tendency of pleasure seeking to make us unhappy - something Christianity got half right but without reasons?
@@lindosland I think we should not forget how power operates and the possibility of bad actors. The problem I see with your hypothesis is that scientific enlightenment concentrates power into technology. The more technology advances the more powerful people that own technology become. Given this, I don't see how enlightenment can lead to anything other than algorithms being used to enslave people. I think we're likely to end up in a dystopia like in Bladerunner. I know Spengler wrote on technology but I have not read those books by him. Forgive my comment if it has errors. I am writing from my phone
Remember though, there's no such thing as perpetuity. The powers that be may think they can end cycles but that itself is a fairy tale because nothing can sustain itself indefinitely. It's destined to fail one way or another, though it's hell whatever trajectory is taken because it converges on the same endpoint.
@@williamhad Your answer is interesting in demonstrating a basic simple misunderstanding that I might be up against. You seem to assume that science is only a route to technology. No, technology might be seen as it's evil consequence, even to the extreme that Ted Kaczynski told us it was. To men like Erasmus Darwin, Joseph Priestley (Lunar men at the heart of the Enlightenment), and even Crick and Watson later on, science was a means to understanding life. Such understanding cannot be 'owned', and you should not assume that it can be turned into a controlling algorithm. I am reluctant to say more, because I believe I have some important key realisations, which should be a subject of a book or film of my own. I believe that there are some key points which, if widely understood, could neutralise the problem we currently face.
Have you read Nietzsche’s ’Thus Spoke Zarathustra’? Cause his predictions are very very similair, Nietzsche also offers a solution in the concept of the Übermensch (a concept that is deeply misused and misunderstood in the public consciousness in my oppinion)
If you're interested in 'the money power' then you may want to look into the credit theory of money. I won't link to a paper else this comment won't show up but in short our money is debt, little more than an accounting trick created by banks through the issue of loans. Understand the money and you're well on your way to understanding where we are as a society.
Spot on, and when this is understood the wise guys who lay everything at the door of central banks will be exposed as either ignoramuses or tools diverting attention from commercial banking
