The government and large business are full of liars, corrupt politicians, and above all dumb, incompetent people. One thing, however, very few large organisations are able to do, and a quality you ascribe to them, is to work efficiently and in concert with different departments. All of my life experiences contradict this, and even on a very abstract level, big systems never function efficiently.
Does McDonalds operate efficiently at selling burgers?
If you worked in McDonalds you might say there are inefficiencies and difficulties between departments but as an overall organisation it does what it sets out to do very well. In fact it is also a successful real estate manager owning properties in the centres of cities and towns across the world.
The cabal sits at the top of the control pyramid and it achieves its aims very successfully which is to centralise their power more and more. However there are setbacks and the process has been going on for a very long time. Further to that awareness is growing among the worlds population and this is going to frustrate their efforts to gain total control. The rise of the 'BRIC' nations (Brazil, Russia, India & China) is also a challenge to their global hegemony....it appears the anglo-american empire is coming to an end
With all your slogans, you seem to be overlooking one thing. You subscribe to the Hollywood stereotypes, in which the bad guys are omnipotent. Nobody and nothing is omnipotent.
No i don't subscribe to that. YOU are trying to project what YOU want me to be doing onto reality instead of listening to what i am ACTUALLY saying. I don't believe the bad guys are omnipotent. In fact the world is split right now with the cabal operating a clump of countries under the neoliberal umbrella whilst many countries outside that club try to oppose or frustrate their efforts
For example the recent NSA whistleblower Snowden ran to China and then to Russia because he knew these countries would protect him from the US (which is dominated by the cabal)
I see. Well, now we're on to something.
No i was on to something before its just you don't understand it yet
You know that the same European wines cost a lot more in Australia? (I just got back from a European vacation, and was shocked to find a bottle of Paulliac costing about 13 euro.) Do you think this deters people completely? And this is what I want to stress here. You have the top responsibility for your actions. You! Not the government.
Price DOES have an effect on consumption. The Scottish nationalist government is trying to bring in minimum pricing for alcohol to help tackle the nations drink problem but the other parties are trying to block this move. This is because alcohol plays a vital role in pacifying the population who use it to let off steam every weekend.
I don't need to be told that responsibility lies with me, i am the one talking about taking power off these guys that want to control every aspect of our lives
That said people can only make sensible decisions as far as they have good information and are able to engage with reality and not projected false perceptions of reality.
This is the crucial point here that the el-ite know but many of the public don't:
humans are NOT rational creatures, they are creatures capable of rational thought
For a large part humans are emotional beings.
Emotions affect how people perceive things. if you can affect a person emotionally you can affect how they perceive things. This is the crucial thing to understand about the PUBLIC RELATIONS industry which was built on Freudian ideas.
If you want to sell someone something it is not always enough to tell them how good your product is....if you really want to be successful then you have to make them believe that they NEED your product and that they will not be complete with out it.....they need your product to fill a part of themselves that they feel is missing. This is why advertising tries to manipulate people on an unconscious level hence rule number one of marketing: 'sex sells'.
So you say responsibility lies with the individual....i would say yes but only as far as that individual has not been brainwashed and manipulated and is able to actaully think for themselves
Governments (using well documented 'propaganda' techniques) have historically mainpulated their populations. It is easy for them to do this becuase they also control the emdia and the education system so the people are not able to get information from outside of the bubble that the government has created around their mind
If you want to talk 'responsibility' then lets talk about the responsibility the government needs to take for lying to and manipulating the public
The internet is changing all this and people are now getting info from the alternative media which the corporations don't control. This is why we are seeing the governments trying to control the internet.....because it is circumventing the rinformational ringfence that they have built around the minds of the public
If there is a tradition of binge drinking, you don't need cheap booze for alcoholism.
The binge culture was created by the ready availability of cheap booze. In the UK this came with the arrival of vast quantities of very cheap GIN. This lead to so much social deprivation that the famous English engravor William Hogarth made his famous piece 'Gin Alley' showing the state people were being reduced to by the influx of cheap gin. You can see fights, poverty and even a drunk woman dropping her baby:
To illustrate how this was a coherent policy by the el-ite of Britain to help control the working class here is a quote from Queen Victoria (empress of the largest empire the world has ever seen, ruling over millions of people all over the world):
''Give my people plenty of beer, good beer and cheap beer and you will have no revolution among them''
The British also used the lands they took in India to grow opium which they then shipped to China and forced onto the Chinese people using gun boat diplomacy to sweep aside the objections of the chinese authorities. This got many chinese people addicted to opium. Britain got very rich out of this and built many fine buildings from the proceeds. You could probably arguie that the british government is the biggest smack dealer in human history.
If the society is bent on productivity, you get the entire package, both the good and the bad (neurotic, "fix it fast") sides.
Societies don't just get 'bent' on things they are manipulated into them. For example a famous culturally created aspect would be the 'protestant work ethic'. Here pressures were put on people from the pulpit which themselves were centrally administered by the control structure of the church which itself is linked intimately to the monarchs
Escapism, yes. Again, let me mention my USSR experiences. You may have heard (or not) that in late 1980s, along with other reforms, Gorby tried to handle one of the top Russian societal ills, alcoholism. In case you're not familiar with the topic, the magnitude of this disaster was difficult to imagine to a Westerner. British or Irish pubs would appear pinnacles of civility and rational thought in comparison to the Russian drinking culture.
They tried to uproot it, they really tried. Bottle shops closed until 2pm, no more than two bottles to one person, even cutting unique vineyards in Caucasus. "The people", however, won. They fight is still going on:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcoholism_in_Russia.
So no, you can't pile everything on the government - if you really want to fix the problem. Of course, it's OK if criticising "them" is merely escapism.
This is where I happen to agree with you, this is a disgrace.
Why do you think there is such a drinking cutlure in Russia? The russian people have suffered a huge amount.
The upheaval their country saw at the start of the 20th century was created by the cabal of european/american bankers that I am talking about. This cabal funded Trotsky and Lenin and it trained revolutionaries that were sent with these two men to take over russia. The cabal wanted to open up the russian market so that they could exploit it.
The cabal is still doing this to countries now...they call it 'liberalising their markets'
The russians got severly burned by the cabal who were aided by Gorbachev in achieving their aims.....they have however become very streetwise now and the Russian president himself can be heard online speaking out against the aim of the cabal to create a 'unipolar world' which would be controlled by them. He believes that there should be many centres of power: a multi polar world and that is why he is stopping the cabal from taking out Assad in Syria...because once the cabal do that they will then turn on Iran and gain total control of the regions oil:
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