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If you want to contact me, you can do that here, if you want to support my work, I don't have business paypal or any of the other things everyone seems to be using to try to 'monetize' their writing, seems to me very small returns for a lot of work for we non-internet-stars (aka 'influncers') (and also subject to the commands of the rulers as we are seeing with Paypal so often recently) - what would really help all of us is finding me an agent or publisher for Green Island below - a book which really should be the 'true democracy fighters' standard fictional reference in answer to Atlas Shrugged, the 'bible' of the capitalist reactionary revolution libertarians et al beginning in the 70s.
And a book for younger readers too, Dave's an eclectic sort of person - Aquila 
These and Dave's other books can be found at Dave's Smashwords EPUBS page - and for the curious, if anyone cares, a few words on From Hastings to Green Island - the (very) short form story of Dave's own journey.. The View from Green Island GI Central - my 'net home' for many years, retired a few years ago, the phoenix has not fired yet, but may soon - lots of venting, lots of good writing, lots of 'out-of-the-box' ideas you aren't EVER going to hear on the CBC The Democratic Revolution Handbook by Dave Patterson
Knowledge is like a candle. When you light your candle from mine, my light is not diminished. It is enhanced and a larger room is enlightened as a consequence. - Thomas Jefferson |
Democracy Study Guide v1
What it's about,
By Way of Intro: A curious question,
1. Basic Democratic Building Blocks 1 - the Democratic Citizen,
2. Basic Democratic Building Blocks 2 - the Democratic Framework,
3. Creating or Awakening the Democratic Citizen,
4. The Ways of Power,
5. And in the end ....,
A1. Basic Democratic Process,
A2. Basic Democratic Economy,
A3a. Big Lies 1 - Democracy, Media, Money,
A3b. Big Lies 2 - Wonderful Capitalists!! EVIL!!!! Commies!!,
A3c. Big Lies 3 - Pure evil indeed - but who???,
A3d. One lie to rule them all, one lie to bind them
Perhaps the biggest lie of all - one lie to rule them all, one lie to bind them - you can trust your leaders!!!!!!!!
- when you see all the lies described in the previous sections, then the 'One Big Lie!' underlying all the other lies, that ultimately leads to so many people believing all of these lies, starts to become identifiable, from the 'big picture' view, we can see that all of these lies lead back to one place. And that is, we are all taught through school, and the media, and the entertainment industry, and the books we read, and the authorities in our lives, and reinforced 24-7-365-endlessly by all our peers, and the current bighivemind socialmedia, that in our Great Democracy - the default baseline belief is that all of the institutions I've talked about in this essay - government ('our' elected leaders!!), the media, the education system, religious leaders, Greatly Honorable!! bankers and doctors and lawyers and judges whose integrity must NEVER be questioned!!!, etc - are inhabited and managed by people more or less like you and I, just good, average, decent citizens, maybe a bit naturally elevated through their superior abilities, but still normal decent folk, honorable people, people who would never do any terrible things, people who might not be perfect, who might make mistakes from time to time, but are good people more or less like us who would not intentionally do bad things - you can trust them!!!! - and as you trust the people, you trust the institutions, the system we all live within, the matrix - all these people who are responsible for all of these lies - we (most of 'we the people' anyway) just naturally - following on a lifetime of endlessly reinforced indoctrination - trust them. When 'push comes to shove', when an important decision needs to be made - our instinctive, default position is - trust our leaders.
They all tell us we have a Great Democracy!! - they all tell us the 'legacy' media and the legal system and the banking system are the epitome of honesty and integrity and act only in the best interests of all of us and the truth!! - our education system and its teachings of 'history' and the current world happenings are just factual - and etc.
It's a difficult thing to overcome - we want to believe our leaders, we should be able to believe our leaders - but they've all betrayed us over the last few decades. Children naturally believe their parents whom they depend on, a trust which carries over to the schools the parents send them to, and the 'news' about their society and world they slowly begin to partake of as they grow older - and with that deep deep history of 'believe your authorities', the default position simply becomes that, believe your authorities - even if things seem a bit questionable at times - well, that's only due to your ignorance and shallow perspective, our wise leaders understand far better than you what is good and right - so just go back to your tv or hivephone and trust them.
That trust is just completely ingrained in most of us beginning in childhood in the education system, continually reinforced through any of the many 'authorities' we constantly have to interact with in one way or another, the media, and mostly in the end through the peer pressure of all who have gone before and reinforce such beliefs endlessly thoughout our lives, all day every day. To put this terribly misplaced trust in a bit more perspective, it's something of a frog-in-boiling-water situation, for of course our current on-the-edge-of-disaster situation being managed in every important profession by the worst betrayers in our history did not occur overnight, but what we face today has been a slowly implemented long-term plan of very clever people. As I have talked about earlier, going back to the 1960s, everything was much better in our western democracies, and indeed almost all of the major authorities could be at least more or less trusted then, it was a much calmer time overall, most politicians were local people you knew and could trust, your medical people were honest and doing their best with a healthcare systen not completely in thrall to Big Pharma, the media were generally populated by honest reporters who understood their job was to question public figures about their activities, not support their lies, and you had at least some differing points of view on the important issues of the day rather than the mono-mainstream-media of the last few years, the education system was much more peopled by true educators who encouraged questioning everything, rather than the freespeech hating brainwashers who control it today. Not perfect of course, but there was still a great deal of honesty and many good people in our public life, rather than the total corruption we have now. We still had the early deep state people operating in the background 50-60 years ago, but our democracies were much stronger, our people much much less dumbed-down and indoctrinated and passive, and our politicians much less corrupt, our media much more honest, our education system much better, and etc. All of which of course the 'true right' behind-the-scenes influencers were not at all happy with as Democracy began to take serious root back in the 50s and 60s, and began the great rollback of democracy in the 1970s, which by today has been fully accomplished, with corruption throughout the entire system, as discussed more fully in some of the earlier references, from the top level politicians right through the what should be high-value public service organisations such as our medical and legal systems. There may be, actually there undoubtedly are, honest doctors and lawyers and educators, but the heads of all these systems are rotten and corrupt to the core, and doctors or others who try to do honest work in responding to the covid scamdemic or other 'you must believe this!!!!!!' orders from the rulers are sanctioned and fired by the corrupt health care system.
So - if we are to finally climb onto this next plateau in the stage of our human evolution, as a species, as the child grows from childhood into adolescence following his or her realisation that everyone he or she had been taught to trust had been lying to him or her about some mythological gift-bearing 'santa claus', it is necessary for many many more of 'us' to cast off the blinders keeping them in some modern form of Plato's cave, to realise they have lived so much of their 'adult' lives in a matrix of lies, these ones much much less benign by a pack of terrible and truly evil liars, and grow into at least the next stage of our evolution, understanding that if we are to manage the transition from a barbaric war-and-horrors-forever society to a society of peace and true human progress - then that society can only be based on Truth. We must banish the liars to the dark places they came from, and let the disenfectant of Truth show us the way to the next stage of our civilization.
As the Great Self-declared Leader Klaus himself says, we must indeed redraw and reimagine the world - but in *our* image of Truth and true democracy, not their image of an all-powerful technocracy taking us far backwards controlled by lies and violence.
- and like the rabbit said, that's all folks - if you actually got this far, I really hope you found some useful info, and a bit of inspiration to, you know, get to work ....
What it's about,
By Way of Intro: A curious question,
1. Basic Democratic Building Blocks 1 - the Democratic Citizen,
2. Basic Democratic Building Blocks 2 - the Democratic Framework,
3. Creating or Awakening the Democratic Citizen,
4. The Ways of Power,
5. And in the end ....,
A1. Basic Democratic Process,
A2. Basic Democratic Economy,
A3a. Big Lies 1 - Democracy, Media, Money,
A3b. Big Lies 2 - Wonderful Capitalists!! EVIL!!!! Commies!!,
A3c. Big Lies 3 - Pure evil indeed - but who???,
A3d. One lie to rule them all, one lie to bind them
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If our leaders say something, it is just assumed by the good citizen to be true, or at least the truth as those telling it understand it, the notion that any of these authority figures would be intentionally lying for some nefarious reason is just beyond the pale, not to be considered. The Great CBC, our Health Establishment, our legal system leaders, our wise bankers managing our economy, our religious leaders, our educators and scholars - all honest people, we can take their words to the bank and trust their words like we trust the bank with our money. If our wise economic leaders say the economy is overheating and they have to raise interest rates, well they know best. If our schools teach us about fucking evil commies and the wonderful democracy we have in Canada and the mighty Freedom Defender the USA, then that is the 'truth' that gets ingrained into our deepest belief system, never to be questioned (we can read in the media how the mighty US deals with traitors like the fucking Trump). If the gov and health people, backed by our media and other 'trusted opinion leaders' all get up on the same big stage and say we have a terrible disease and these things will be difficult but necessary - most people are caught in that initial trap - unquestioning faith in the integrity of the leaders leading them to a first line belief in what they say. And once you're in their trap, it's very hard to get back out again, to dare think they may not have just been wrong, they may have been lying OMG!!!!!!!!!!!, or to face the scorn and ostracization of your fellow still-brainwashed citizens is not a place the average citizen will dare to go, after a lifetime of herd behavior and believing in the great integrity and ability of the leaders - as the media and the leaders have told them all their lives.
