Talking about and thinking about narratives isn’t just important today. It’s essential if you are to arm yourself with the truth and ultimately stand any chance of not being driven completely mad.
Unfortunately, the reasons that make critical thinking necessary, as we absorb and digest any of the information that constantly flows towards us, usually through the digital devices that we carry, are not just as simple as working out the credibility of sources, identifying the truth, or filtering out the rampant levels of views and opinion which have regrettably become the bigger part of the content of all news.
It is increasingly necessary to identify where names and the nomenclature or branding of ideas, approaches, systems and even recognisable activities have been deliberately changed with the intention to confuse. Usually to create the misleading idea, in our minds, that somebody is doing something or selling something to us that is completely new or specialised beyond our comprehension. Just so that they can gain advantage over us until such time as we have worked it all out.
Regrettably, the establishment – that’s government, the public sector and all the big businesses and money organisations that are actually running things – has reached the point where they change the names of everything, either to make more money or benefit themselves, or increasingly to give the impression they have stopped or moved away from doing anything that has been publicly outed as being wrong. But for whatever reason that’s important to them, they intend to keep on doing it anyway and believe they need to nothing more to cover it up than change the name.
The more things change, the more they stay the same
Whilst it would be foolish not to acknowledge the power for good that some forms of digital technology and artificial intelligence have – in the right hands and when being used for the right reasons, the way that so many of us have taken the coming technical or AI revolution as read, and seem to have just accepted that many will no longer have jobs as a result, does illustrate the danger that we have become to both ourselves and to our own future. All because we don’t ask questions and simply accept whatever we are being told to believe – usually because it’s come from the voice of someone remote who we don’t even know!
The rather inconvenient truth that all those creating new terminology for whatever they control, are trying to control or attempting to regain control of; is that there isn’t much going on that’s genuinely new, as we consider life in the aspect of 360 degrees around us.
It is just made to look and feel that way.
Indeed, most of us would quickly grasp this, if we were to refuse to just accept the sales pitch and ask what they are selling us, what it will do and how it works.
This approach is applicable to method as well as to machine.
We would all be wise to take time to consider everything that touches our lives in some way, in terms of the pathways that bring it to us, how it works, who benefits and why those interests have brought them to us as and when they have.
Some would say ‘Oh it’s obvious!’
But is it really? And has it ever been?
Magic only works on us, when we don’t understand whatever is happening
Sadly, many of us are all too happy to accept the premise that what we don’t know can’t hurt us.
We accept that names, memes, keywords, industry terms and abbreviations mean that whoever is using them knows things that we do not. Usually making those people more knowledgeable and therefore powerful than we are, with a somewhat strange accompanying surrender to the misplaced idea that we should simply shut up.
Exploding the very dangerous myth about people who are considered to be experts and specialists, often in ways that are taken to mean they have universal understanding of everything, when they most often have been doing just one job; have studied more about the subject than us, and have been given a qualification by someone else who is actually just like them, is now becoming essential.
Not just to stop ourselves from being played like complete fools. But because the idiocy and self-aggrandisement that blankets so many of the people in positions of power, influence, control and that we therefore revere, are hiding behind the façade of terms we don’t understand, just to benefit themselves whilst all the time creating a very unhappy and unhealthy world that for us, that is never really going to work in our favour for as long as people like this have influence and control.
Dishonesty is regrettably rampant throughout everything that the establishment now does. Not necessarily because everyone within the establishment is dishonest. But because the way that normal people like you and I are being exploited, manipulated and used, so that those doing these things can benefit in some way, is simply now accepted as being the ‘normal’ way things work and therefore as being the done thing, for everyone.
Using and abusing others at any level is not ok. And as we find ourselves transiting a tumultuous period of inevitable change, one of the things that we should all be striving for to experience in whatever new world awaits us on the other side, is that lying, manipulation and the abuse of any person for any reason by another, just so that the abuser can become advantaged in some way, should be outlawed and treated as the horrible crime that it really is.
Politically speaking, Friday (5th September) was quite the day in the U.K.
With what felt like a conveyor belt of macro and micro stories kicking off first with the anticipated and then confirmed resignation of Angela Rayner; Nigel Farage bringing his conference speech forward (to try and capitalise); The Format and flavour of the Reform Conference itself; and then Keir Starmer’s second (and far more substantial) reshuffle of the week certainly left the political pundits with a weekend to ponder which story will have really stuck most in people’s minds.
Perhaps the speed of both Farage’s and Starmer’s reactions are telling in the sense of just how important they both now feel it to be that they be seen to be out front on the news pages and airwaves. Even if Starmer and his Party almost certainly now know that the narrative is no longer theirs to control, and despite having proven himself to be quite canny politically, when real power was never at stake, Farage is now taking for granted that even a clown show will get taken seriously when he’s the obvious king in waiting.
What is striking to anyone looking at the theatrics of both Labour and Reform yesterday, as well as the attempts by what’s left of the quickly disintegrating Conservative Party to sound relevant and be heard, is there is a distinct vein of commonality that goes through all their actions just the same. That they all remain obsessed with how everything sounds and how everything looks – to the point, in Reforms case, of even being prepared to make it look and sound like they’ve already won.
As one who can recall the run up to the 1992 General Election, Reform’s approach to their Birmingham Conference this weekend sounds very reminiscent echos of Labour’s Rally held in Sheffield, about a week before, when it was very clear to all watching that Kinnock’s party took it as read that the election was already in the bag.
The Spitting Image Election Night Special nailed it completely. With one sketch focusing on the Rally being akin to something like the presidential campaigns coming out of the USA, and then a rather prescient sketch with Neil Kinnock sat on a tree branch with Roy Hattersley asking him what he was doing, only to be told that winning this election would be as easy as falling off a log – at which point Kinnock then fell and his legs tied, leaving him dangling.
That said however, the question this time isn’t about whether Reform can win.
Right now, and I mean as we look at all this today in early September 2025, it really does look like Reform can win and will win, when the next General Election is called.
But if Reform does win the next General Election, what can we really expect and what happens next?
It’s important to recognise that one key reason ALL of the political parties we have today are so obsessed with media time, being seen and being heard online, and running the narratives that are sticking in peoples minds, is because this vector that basically contains little more than the distraction of noise, does indeed reflect how they all expect people to behave and in turn to think – not looking beyond the messaging that will be obvious and therefore taken as read at immediate glance. With the overall impact of their efforts seeming to be more geared towards getting away with shallower consideration the whole time.
For all the glitter and spotlights pumping their way onto our phones from the midlands yesterday, the phrase ‘you can’t polish a turd, but you can roll it in glitter’ came very much to mind. Not because of anything or anything we could hear or see (no matter how many ex-conservative MPs and Councillors have no declared that our saviours from what they were part of causing will be their version of Reform). But because the substance of the policies we are hearing about and where it’s clear Farage’s objectives and approach lie, aren’t suggesting anything other than more problems ahead:
because the motives behind them and the other parties are pretty much the same and
because just like something out of the Trump playbook, where Trump appears to be trying to return the world to what he sees as US hero worship and subservience based on his reading of the dynamics of free-world politics having been around the time of Breton Woods 1944, Reform have this idea that the same fundamentals are ok for the UK and you just need to bully your way through removing everything that has been added in the past 80 years, that will then keep the public quiet or which simply doesn’t work for Farage and his vision.
In case you were wondering, these are also resets in both Trumps and Reforms case – with both resets not being about changing anything for the better, nor anything quite like the ‘Great Reset’ of the WEF; just turning back the clock (and thereby giving the corpse of a system that’s running only on latent momentum the chance to hurt even more normal people and keep them in the limelight until the whole thing finally runs out of time)
The biggest tragedy and with it the problem going forward for all of us, is that Reform could be getting everything right AND putting together a government in waiting that was prepared and able to deal with what really needs to be done. Rather than coming up with what are intended to sound like very clever ideas, such as the UKs very own DOGE and bringing in people from outside politics, just to move the chess pieces around the board so that ultimately it will all just resemble the same shit show with all the wrong things happening just as it is right now.
We should be under no illusion that where things stand today – even with all of the ministerial changes that have now taken place, Labour have created for Reform, what is pretty much an open goal, that this new home and hotbed of restless quasi-Tories will be only too willing to fill with new (and returning) MPs who will very quickly realise, post-election, that saying and doing are two very different things. And that no matter what talents Farage and Reform HQ try to buy in, the only way to change anything will be by changing it all.
We don’t have any politicians big enough to take on the job at hand
The quality of our politicians today is generally poor, right across the political spectrum. But with Reform still recruiting in pretty much the same way that UKIP and the Brexit Party did before, it would be fair to anticipate that there will be a lot of anger – and understandably so – from all those who have rushed to the Reform banner and put themselves forward as candidates, expecting everything they have been promised, to be delivered overnight, just as soon as they are through Westminster’s doors. Quickly finding that instead, their expectations could take decades to deliver – if indeed it will be possible with the intended approach, to ever deliver them at all.
Predictions about the timings of General Elections may be sensible to avoid. Not because it’s impossible to see where things are going at any moment in time; but because even the smallest factor can and probably will have the most profound implications and change the direction of everything at any stage. Meaning the longer the time between now and then, the chances are that what looks certain today could easily be left well and truly behind.
That said, with Labour having outed themselves for not being in any way representative of the people who elected them last year, and instead having all sorts of different agendas they are following, that probably just include their affiliation with the Fabians and WEF – but will never be about doing what’s right for me and you, there’s every chance that this government will collapse and a general election will be called much sooner than 2027 – which Reform have been talking about in the past 24 hours.
However, with Reform changing nothing they are doing now and continuing to approach the run-in towards government, either as a majority or lead partner, and as they openly intend right now, we should not be in any way surprised if their new government doesn’t then itself collapse within 12-18 months. When it will become resoundingly clear, even to them, that the Councils they have run since the Local Elections in May weren’t just a plaything or game.
Indeed, since May, Reform have given us all a very clear warning about what will happen under a Farage premiership. Where the strategy isn’t any more about the people than what we have now.
What awaits us, without change, will be the collapse of everything, as jobs for real leaders are filled to breaking point with people who may have taken them with good intentions, but don’t have the foggiest idea what they hell is expected of them or what they are going to do.
Neither this government nor the next can or will stop the coming collapse and that’s when you may well end up owning nothing and be forced to be happy about it
Yes, there are a lot of people already shouting that it’s time for a General Election and many more who genuinely believe they are already backing the horse that will win – and they might even be right.
Things are looking bleak for sure. And that’s just at the level most people are paying attention to.
Indeed, go in search; look beyond the purveyors of the narratives that we are all relentlessly expected to suck up and follow, and you will soon begin to see just how deep the problems are that the UK is facing. All set within a World where everything is the opposite of stable and a critical mass for change and whatever may follow could be reached in a range of different forms or events, in any location, or at any time.
Whilst we seem to have this ridiculous unwritten rule or shibboleth across the UK, that being upbeat and therefore blind to reality somehow means that any messaging that fails to correlate with what we believe is therefore unquestionably negative and unacceptable in some way; facing reality and speaking the truth about what we are seeing, feeling and experiencing as our own reality, is not something that any of us should be hiding from right now, in any way.
However, whilst such sentiment may be welcomed by the growing number who consider themselves to be aware of what’s really going on and therefore ‘awake’, the need to look closely at what public figures and channels are saying; why they are saying it, and whatever the outcomes they might be suggesting (if indeed they do actually have any recognisable outcomes at all) really consist of or will lead to, is just as important – if not more.
When we do take the time and make the effort to try and understand what backing any of the people who want to be in charge or take control of the UK today would lead to, we can begin to see that there are distinct commonalities that flow between all of them. No matter whether they are politicians, political parties, activists, podcasters, media figures, celebrities or anyone that we could identify as having ambition to be a future occupant of No.10.
One of the commonalities that flows between the voices that different people are still choosing to follow, is they all pay lip service to the kind of change that will be necessary in order for the UK (and World) to change course from the direction that it is now travelling in.
However, they are only putting policy suggestions on the table that add up to nothing better than it would have been to move the deck chairs around on the deck of the Titanic, with the doomed ship already on its way down.
A big problem for us all in our understanding of the problems that the UK faces – and what it will actually take to address them AND then start putting everything into place so that we all experience a system that works for us all, is that we are all bought into what we believe to be the benefits– to us, personally, of staying exactly where we are, today.
We are not only comfortable but take for granted – and often feel entitled to remain within and taking all that we can from a system of living that is and always has been unsustainable. One that we are unlikely to accept as being the biggest problem of them all, for as long as:
We aren’t feeling any direct pain from the consequences ourselves, and/or
We can find someone or something to blame when anything doesn’t appear to be working and therefore work on the assumption that removing or waiting until we can remove them will be all that it takes to rectify the fault.
Pointing the finger in the right direction, but not at the correct source
The chances are that despite the massive majority of seats that the current Labour government has, and that as I write, they have only been ‘in power’ for 14 months (and we are still the better part of 4 years until we might normally expect the next GE), the next General Election will come a lot sooner than anyone currently thinks.
As unbelievable as it may seem, the contempt that the current government has for the British People has been made very clear by the comments that a number of their ministers and politicians have made, about the prioritisation of temporary accommodation for immigrants. Not only over local people, but the existing apparatus of local government itself. Which although limited and heavily influenced by Central Government, did, until now maintain the idea that we, as British Citizens did at least have a say over our own lives.
Hard as it may be for anyone who cares about other human beings to swallow, no Country can be all things to all people and survive.
You cannot continue to help and do good for anyone if you destroy yourself or your means to do so in the process.
The utterly ridiculous situation that successive governments have all created and contributed to, where we are prioritising the wellbeing of economic migrants above our own people – that’s the people who are being expected to pick up the tab – takes the whole issue of unsustainable public policy, that’s not really about the public in any way, into a completely different league.
Destroying the fabric of society – whether it be our laws, traditions, independence, environment, countryside, industries, ability to grow and produce our own food – just so that one group of politicians or another, can have or maintain power, despite being utterly incompetent and unfit for the task; so whoever they are really working for can achieve whatever outcomes they really want, or both; are not in the interests of the British People in any way.
This, and many governments before this one have not been working in our best interests.
The real outcomes from the efforts of all the so-called politicians who have been involved in the destruction of the UK are not pathways that any of us should be allowing anyone who covets the power and glory they believe they will get by climbing towards No.10 to do or continue to do, just because they say they will be different.
Nor should we open the doors to power for anyone just because they make it sound like they are going to do what we want them to, because what they are saying today when they have no power sounds just like we imagine everyone thinks.
The Money-Centric Paradigm
Being seen to work for or prioritise any person, people or group before British Citizens and arguably our wider system of governance too, is not what any government genuinely working for the People who entrusted and elected it and for which it is responsible would do.
But this is where we are today – in so far as where the news is, what it keeps telling us and what most of us are having our attention drawn to.
However, there is more and much more when it comes to the things that aren’t making much sense. Which probably becomes one of the things you may have heard in passing, once it is mentioned and you are questioned about what you might or might not think.
Not least of all these other issues is the money problem or the ‘public finance problem’ and what ‘surprises’ are likely to be included in the upcoming Budget, which has now been confirmed as set for Wednesday 26th November 2025 (That’s 12 weeks’ time).
Watching the explosion of the Public Debt and what it is now costing Central Government to borrow the money that it needs to make everything that government does work and then service the escalating debt that years and years of overspending by governments of all kinds have racked up, is really quite frightening.
Taking on board what some of the more credible voices, that are independent of the establishment or its thinking, are saying about the unfolding fiscal drama, suggests that a point could quickly be reached where the banks, financiers and ‘markets’ will refuse to keep buying the bonds that the government sells and pays interest upon. Which in real world terms is the same thing as we understand as being a loan.
Making sense of a system we were never meant to make sense of
The mechanics of the money system that has allowed this whole situation to exist are truly alarming when understood for what they really are and just how long this whole mess and the process to create it has been underway.
Amongst the darkest and most troubling of all the factors that we as normal people need to face are that:
The money that the government is borrowing doesn’t exist
Privately owned banks are ‘printing’ or creating the money that they are ‘lending’ to the government by ‘buying bonds’ out of thin air
The government is then paying interest for money that doesn’t exist and never existed before it was loaned to it (to us)
The rules that have legalised what is arguably a completely corrupt and criminal money system have been put in place over multiple parliaments, by successive governments and generations of politicians from all sides who have ‘done what they were told’ to get where they are
The entire system and structure of rules governing business, production and services have all been twisted and manipulated to make the way that money works ‘legal’.
The payoff or benefit for government and politicians like these is that clever accounting using GDP and the obsessive capture of output data through organisations like the ONS mean that as long as more and more money is being printed and then changing hands many times very quickly, the Public Debt gets smaller, meaning that although the public debt figures are exploding, any government that continues to maintain ‘growth’ can fraction-down the debt they are accumulating through little more than poor or deliberate mismanagement
The real situation – that’s the transfer of genuine wealth – has been underway for decades – and remains hidden.
Unfortunately, that transfer of wealth also wrested away the UKs ability to produce just about everything that we were once known for.
The focus of this attack on ‘natural productivity’ recently reached our ability to grow and harvest our own food and the UK no longer has the industries and manufacturing output that we have been able to rely upon in the past to bail us out in times of national emergency and real need, so that more money can be generated from forms of real production to get us out of trouble.
Our ‘leaders’ aren’t leaders. They are glory seekers. They want the job, but not the responsibility
Whilst the Labour government we have today may be truly awful in just about every sense possible for people to consider from outside of the system of government itself – as most of us really are, we all need to understand – no matter hard it might be or unwilling we may be to do so, that no matter how bad this specific government may be, the building blocks of the crisis now unfolding have been stacked up by government after government over a period of decades – and not just a matter of months.
The problem is now so ingrained, so deeply intwined and so comprehensively embedded across every part and every level of governance and public service delivery that we have in the UK, that it cannot and will not be fixed by anyone or anything that intends or even tries to work and continue working with the system – and specifically the money system – that we currently have.
None of the politicians or would-be politicians lining up to take the place of the Labour government – whenever the next General Election might be, are looking to step beyond the system or money-centric paradigm that we currently have in place.
And that’s a real problem for us all.
Listen closely to what they are all saying, and they don’t have meaningful change of any kind in mind.
All this, despite so many warning signs coming from right across the UK, telling us that very little in life is working for anyone, unless:
You already have money and
Have the means to keep accumulating more
In reality, even those with money and what may appear to be guaranteed incomes may not remain safe for long, as the government has already or is about to bankrupt the UK. (Which in government terms means that they cannot ‘borrow’ any more – because those printing the cash know their own scam is going to be outed if they keep breaking their own rules).
We are in a land filled with false prophets with not one of them ready to lead
The tragedy reaching across politics now and not only the right, is the absence of publicly recognisable voices speaking the truth that not only does nothing work as it should, but there is also no longer any way that it can. Because the structure of the system that has carefully been put in place over a period exceeding 50 years was never about benefitting any of us.
It is merely the momentum that exists within a system that has been functioning in the same way and same direction for as long as it has that is keeping it going. Maintaining the illusion that everything will continue to be alright and that life as we know it will ultimately remain just the same.
Whilst there may be nothing inherently wrong with the solutions, answers and outcomes that any of today’s wider political class are suggesting within the existing framework and narrative that everyone accepts, those solutions, without fail, add up to little more than changing the wheel on a speeding bus as it leaves the road and goes straight over the cliff.
These aren’t real outcomes that are coming from any of these sources, because they have no basis or relationship with the reality of how things work, how we got to where we are, and what will happen when anyone attempts to tackle anything in isolation for ‘quick wins’ when everything is linked and things that relate to public policy are as interconnected as they are.
Whichever direction we look in, what we are experiencing is an echo chamber of what we are already thinking – and in many ways, that’s how the establishment wants us all to think.
In real terms, there is no political vehicle available to any of us to choose from at the next General Election that can or will do anything to help change anything meaningful for any of us in any long-lasting way.
For ANY political party or movement to really mean it when they say they will represent all of us properly, they would have to be ready, prepared and able to actually stop the whole bus from reaching the cliff – and none of them will.
We have to understand that they either won’t (because they have already tasted the reality of what power in the UK today really is and where it is going) or because they can’t (because when faced with the reality that the only way this mess can be fixed is to crash it all and start again anyway, they’d rather just keep playing along and taking the money, until the next politician on the gravy train comes along).
Meanwhile, whilst we wait and then change the guard once again, the direction of travel towards chaos and the darkness that follows is maintained.
The destruction of the structure of UK society and our ability to function reaches completion. And we are then left completely at the mercy and whim of the very people who have cleverly, and very patiently engineered it all through multiple generations – creating yet another covering that makes the whole reality one that is indeed very hard at first glance to believe.
How do we get out of this mess without the right people seeking election?
By now, you may have realised that the Labour government isn’t really in control of what they are doing with power, any more than they are in control of anything else.
You might also conclude that there is a game of pin the tail on the donkey to be played. One that covers experts, spads, academics, government executives, advisors, business leaders and moguls, bankers and everyone with influence in all of this. In order to try and work out where the buck really stops and who amongst all of them, who is really in charge.
But would it really matter if you or I could definitively work the whole thing out?
Are we really going to wait and see what happens once everything collapses and nobody steps up with an alternative to this ‘system’ – so that we can finally righteously say to ourselves – being happy in our misery as we realise’ ‘ah – so it was them and what they wanted that was behind all of this the whole time’, all the time knowing that because we waited on politicians, so-called leaders and false prophets to deliver on our behalf for so long, that we no longer possess the independence or power to even attempt to turn things around – just on our own behalf?
Even if the whole system were to collapse tomorrow and there never was an agenda or grand plan sitting behind the levers of power, the question of who could do the fire fighting, meet the challenges that we face, deal with all of the most pressing of issues and then start putting a new structure for our society in place on our behalf will still very much exist. Because none of the politicians that we have are even talking about leading the kind of transformation and change where our governance is replaced whilst life itself remains functioning and liveable for us all.
Where we could end up if we continue going along with the way things ‘work’
If it isn’t already apparent, the one thing at the heart of every problem that we have across the UK (and the World) today, is money; how the money and currencies we have work; the role that money plays; and then how everything got effected by money this way in the first place.
The ironic part of this whole problem is there are still too few of us who are prepared to look beyond a World and way of living that has money at the heart of everything and right at its core.
Meanwhile, the belief that money can and will only continue to work as it does now is as ridiculous as most people would find it to consider living in world that puts people and our freedoms first. Especially when some believe they already do…
Money as we know it, is over. It just hasn’t ended yet.
It doesn’t matter whether its the erosion of our personal wealth and ability to function without debt. Becoming dependent upon digital tech and a universe based upon online, remote and dehumanised rules. Or because the financial system and the way we use and create money is quite literally now spent and government can only survive a little longer by stripping us of all that we have ever had:
The world and our experiences of life as we know them; are comfortable with and take for granted are over. It’s just the system hasn’t yet reached its end, yet.
If we ourselves fail to act, change the way we think, interpret priorities, and personally contribute to the change that is within our power to facilitate; the future knocking on all of our doors will be one where nobody other than those who are in control are living lives that they can afford.
Every job that can be done by a machine will be done by a machine.
Those of us who are left behind will become fully dependent upon a system which monitors every part of our lives digitally and requires us all to abide by rules that they and only they can set.
Otherwise, there will simply be no means for us to remain included and therefore to survive.
We are all boiling frogs
The money system that we know and every part of life is now based around is failing rapidly.
However, it was always the intention of the elites that by the time everything we know to have meaning has collapsed, the ownership of every bit of real, tangible wealth or what we know as businesses (that control entire marketplaces); property (such as land, houses, factories, shops and warehouses) and infrastructure (such as railways, airports, water treatment works, reservoirs, electricity generating stations, solar farms, ports), would have already been transferred to those who controlled the creation of the new system.
It is the fake FIAT money and the devices it has given life and meaning to that have enabled the seemingly legitimate transfer of all our wealth and our ability to earn and own anything again to the few, when this carefully designed and engineered process has at no point been right or correct in any way.
As things stand today, we could wake up in just a matter of months and find that we really do own nothing and that we are expected to be happy – by those who then have us all fully under their control.
We have surrendered our power whilst we were kept happy and occupied with easy living, ‘correct ways of being and doing everything’ and constantly hearing news of all these shiny material things we must have to keep up, pumped into our ears and vision in every direction that we have turned.
Everything that represented freedom and independence at every level of life has been taken away from us.
All the time, we believed that money was the only tool that could make us rich. And now, the money we have revered as a god is not worth anything to us or anyone in its current form – as has been the truth – except for our manipulated beliefs, all the way along.
Who will really have the last laugh?
In case you are wondering, we have reached the point where all those who have been advantaged by this system feel sure they don’t have to worry about money or what the currency that replaces what we believe what we believe money to be today will look like when everything changes, because they and only they appear to own everything that has any value to us.
The transfer of wealth that we have never questioned will mean that they can then rent out, sell, charge for, qualify people to use/receive anything and everything.
All because they successfully invented the wealth to do it; took it for themselves and used and exploited everyone, including the stupid fools who weren’t ever leaders but were nonetheless desperate to be recognised politicians, to make the whole thing appear legal and therefore morally correct. Right up to the point where the rather massive penny drops for us all, that we no longer have any say and there isn’t any way back.
There is no good to be had here, from looking more closely at what could happen thereafter.
But for those who genuinely think that the story being pushed at us all, that we are at the door of an inevitable Tech and AI takeover is true, they may also wish to ask themsleves ‘If this was the genuine truth and that tech (and those behind it) was about to deliver a perfect utopian world where everything is going to be provided for us and work will just be done by machines, would we already be witnessing people being left behind with the threat of potential millions being months away from losing their jobs?’
The solution isn’t pretty – IF you believe that having everything easy is key
It stands to reason that most of us believe in a future that keeps and maintains all the things that we feel good about now – but conveniently removes or drops all that things that don’t work. Preferably right now but otherwise just as soon as we’ve elected someone who thinks the same as we do, will obviously do.
If only it were that simple.
That feeling is no accident. Just like so many things that feel good about the lifestyles that we are all currently able to have – if we can afford them, that constant feeling of everything becoming easier, requiring less effort and that it’s doing us good is in fact doing anything but.
The price we are going to have to pay, is that to go back to living lives that may at first glance seem less exciting, not as clever and require us to interact with real people, real life and real responsibilities means leaving all the ‘great’ things behind us.
Because all the things we want to keep are a big part of a problem that is harming us in countless ways and are as such, not ‘great’ at all.
Money and the way money works today is the root problem or cause of every problem that humanity faces. And money or the values set that we have that are now pinned to money, are controlling every part of life and the system that governs it all.
Nothing less than Paradigm change will now do – and that needs you!
A reason that none of the politicians or those who would lead us will look at embracing something as seemingly radical, but nonetheless essential, as the need for universal change – at least in terms of governance of everything and the way that we are governed, is that this process will itself require that we leave behind the centralised, top-down hierarchical view of the world where a Prime Minister or President is the most important person in any country.
Centralisation, top-down hierarchies and a very modern interpretation of what a patriarchy really is are key components that thrive off this money model and the disruption that its adoption and application throughout every part of our lives has typically enshrined.
Localism and locality are the solution to a problem that can only be solved by rejecting everything that is built upon the money-centric model.
The existing political parties (including the new ones), their structures and the motives and ambitions that drive the politicians within them or the people within them who want to be in government and in control as part of them, are not locally orientated in any way. Just as we can be sure that very few of the politicians we have possess genuine affinity for the local areas and people that they are representing or would be only too happy to claim they represent.
People, their local communities and only the small businesses that we all need to provide and do everything for us within them are where the real answers to all the problems that we have currently lie.
It is you and people like us who need to cast aside the manufactured arguments and fights that we have with others over matters which are out of control, and which suit those behind the narratives all too well.
We must begin to work together and collaborate to create a new, appropriate, fair, balanced and just system of governance that is fundamentally restricted to the people and only the people under its specific geographical or localised area of rule.
A system that puts people, community and the environment we live in and share together firmly and securely back in front.
Fundamentally, change and changing what happens next is all about you, what you do and what people like you choose to do and accept they have responsibility to do.
It sounds hard. And the first step really is. But after that, the rest will be a lot more straightforward and ultimately rewarding than you might think.
Everyone’s ability to work and be financially secure is vital to humanity, whereas accepting an unnecessary AI and Tech-Takeover that nobody genuinely needs will ultimately only benefit the few
The narrative now dictating to us that the Tech and AI Takeover is inevitable is tiring. Not least of all, because the whole idea that progress can and will only go one way is a myth.
Indeed, the myth that the AI and Tech Takeover is now inevitable serves only those who stand to benefit from everything being pushed this one, very specific and wholly unnecessary way.
Granted, many of us do feel that once technology has arrived and it is in our lives, there is no choice but to accept whatever the implications and outcomes of its arrival might be. Even when for increasing numbers of us it is beginning to become frighteningly clear that we and everything that we know may be about to be affected in some disastrous, life-changing way.
However, you may want to ask yourself, ‘Is this tech takeover, and what is going to change a voluntary choice that I am making?’
Did you consciously agree with the direction everything that touches your life digitally is now going?
Did you agree to changes that may quickly lead to you or people you know having no work or hope of ever getting another job?
Did you knowingly allow the parallel, digital universe and the role of arbitrary judgements about you and everything you are, do or can be, to walk in and begin the process of taking over each and every part of your life through the clever use of man-made codes which have been called algorithms?
So many of us fall into the trap of going along with the idea that jobs we know of today will no longer be required or even exist within perhaps just a matter of months because we are told that it represents progress and that the changes that the introduction of new AI-based technologies across life will be better for us all.
But when the narratives and words of politicians, tech gurus and influencers say all or everyone, just exactly who are they really referring to?
Are you going to benefit and in what way?
Are those benefits real, or are they just distractions that appear to make the very small and seemingly meaningless things that we do every day much easier?
Are those benefits really meaningful and long-lasting, or do they cover up how the small wins everything outside of us tells us we need actually covering up the real, long-term losses in our lives that unless we quickly wake up, we will never be able to replace?
Regrettably, few of us are even thinking about the impact and consequences of the changes that we have accepted for the simple reason that everything we have seen and experienced so far, whether it’s the way we shop, are able to access so much through apps or online, or are able to access whatever we believe we want in mere moments online, leaves us with the idea that AI and anything related to digital tech can and will only ever be good for us.
But what was wrong with the way things were two years ago; five years ago, or ten years ago, where the tech that we had in our lives or that we had access to was concerned?
Didn’t life work just as well, and perhaps in some ways that may seem unrelated even better then?
Have computers, smartphones and digital tech really benefitted our lives in the ways that we are led to believe? Or have they actually disadvantaged us and changed our lives in ways that make us very unhappy and create what for some are unmentionable problems, in so many other ways?
Technology and technological improvement or progress is a phenomenon that we must begin looking at in relation to ourselves, the people we care about and those who we have real face to face contact with, regularly within our communities; You know – people living in the real world that is OFFLINE!
Do we actually need a world where we and those people around us do not have jobs and cannot work, because a machine or different software systems can now do all the things that every person does at work, or once did?
Do those people who don’t have jobs really benefit from no longer having work?
Is the best use of AI and new technology to replace us? Or the best use of AI and new technology to assist us?
Surely there can be no doubt that the world around us would be a much better place to live and experience if everyone who can work, does work; and that in return for doing a full weeks work, they in turn receive enough money or remuneration of whatever kind to ensure that they can cover the cost or be able to secure all the basic essentials that give them independence, rather than a situation now evolving where the masses look like they are soon to be left behind.
Where is the drive really coming from for jobs to be lost and make it all seem necessary?
Who benefits from it appearing to be a foregone conclusion that ending jobs and mass redundancy is not a choice that is any of ours to decide?
What we can be sure of is it will not ultimately be people like you and me.
Technology and the advancement of technology and AI is like everything right across life that is being driven by the quest for greater and continuing profits, and the wealth, control, power and influence that quickly follows behind.
We don’t see it because we aren’t supposed to and that’s why what’s really changing underneath what we can see is actually leaving us, our communities and our humanity behind.
The choices being made about the way that new technology is being rolled out and used are not being made in the best interests of the masses. Because if they were, they would not be threatening to take away jobs and resulting in outcomes like the destruction of communities and to lives that it will bring.
If the purposes driving AI and new Tech were genuinely about improving life for all, the changes underway would not be beginning to impact us all negatively, just so that business owners, tech owners and those that benefit can elevate themselves in every way, whilst their actions and choices begin to leave everyday normal people like you and I behind.
Yes, the idea that all jobs, tasks and requirements could be met by machines, software and automation will sound appealing if it means that everyone can do and have whatever they might want without ever having to do a day’s work or lift a finger in effort, ever again.
But just how real do you or anyone that you know believe that idea to be?
Do you really think that the tech companies and those who control AI and digital technology are working day and night at an incredible pace to create a utopia where we all do nothing, pay for nothing, are given everything for free and have whatever we want in our lives without paying for it or working for it?
Wouldn’t we be seeing and experiencing signs of this great giveaway already, if they really were on the altruistic pathway to greatest giveaway to everyone else ever known?
The answer is that whoever and whatever is controlling all of this only has the benefits to themselves in mind. Or they would be happy for AI, for tech and the advancements that are available to be used only to improve life and working conditions for everyone, rather than them being imposed at the head of a revolution, deliberately hidden in plain sight, that is apparently set to leave the majority of the people across the world behind.
The narrative about the role of AI is a myth and the creation of a prophecy that can and will only become true, because we believe the narratives and respond to them as if they were already true. Not Because they are actually real and the AI takeover is as complex or on its imminent way to sentience or being genuinely all-knowing in any way.
The irony is that if we continue to believe the hype; continue to be fooled into thinking AI can and will do all we are being told it will, simply because we have been blindsided by the speed that it works and what we have seen it do so far, we will walk into an elephant trap where the masses will have made themselves irrelevant and we will soon be of no use to those who are controlling all of this and believe it is their right to exploit everything and the lives of all others, if it will help them to achieve whatever they want to do.
The advances in digital technology and Artificial Intelligence are just another step in a long-term process of centralisation and power transfer by design, where the power and Personal Sovereignty that all human beings should have the right to enjoy, has slowly but surely been stolen, but with our manufactured consent.
Our independence and personal power have been progressively eroded and transferred to organisations and people who have no idea who we are, what we do and know nothing about the communities and places where we live.
Yet they now find themselves on the cusp of being able to control every part of our lives and existence through the removal of our independence, making life dependent upon them and their system, which can and will only be able to exist because we have failed to question and reject the idea that this all represents progress for humanity.
Without change, the creation of a mass sub-class of people who can do nothing more than exist – if it is indeed possible for them to continue to do so – is now inevitable and the only way our subservience to this system and what it is dictating can take us.
To be clear, the AI Takeover and technology revolution that we are being conditioned to expect is not necessary. It is not legitimate at any level or in any way.
Technology and innovation should always be used to benefit the whole of mankind. Not just those who create it, own it, regulate it or pay for it, with money they would never have even had, if they had not first corrupted and manipulated the monetary and economic systems of the world so that it would appear to have legitimately gifted them everything that they now have.
Life and what it should offer every person was never meant to be this way.
Power over us all was never meant to be concentrated within the hands of just a few.
Centralisation, remoteness and the dehumanisation of every process and function that maintains and provides for life was never meant to be funnelled into the hands of others. People who will soon have the ability to choose whether other people live or die, based on using the digital chains that our own eagerness to have more of everything has unwittingly enabled them to wrap around a lot more than just our wrists.
Walking away from a system that puts money and the technology that enables it first, as the absolute priority before the masses of people is key to creating a different future. A good future for all, where everyone once again has the opportunity to be free, to be independent and to enjoy fulfilling the functions necessary to create and maintain a genuinely good life. All the time working together and collaborating only with those strictly necessary within our communities to provide everything that is essential for life in a real, localised world where everyone and everything can be trusted, because it can always be seen.
Simplicity of life; simplicity of governance; simplicity of business models and structures; simplicity of money and the systems that only administer it are key to improving every part of life and creating the equitable experiences and opportunities that only real justice, fairness and balance in everything can provide.
Yes, the technology we have certainly has its place.
But the place of tech is to help humanity; not replace it.
People need jobs more than anyone needs a Tech Takeover. Because we all need to function in the world; to contribute to it and to what we all need from each other collectively in some way, and then in return receive whatever we need that will at the very least meet all of our essential and basic needs, so that we can function and support those we care about without ever having to seek or become reliant upon help.
We must reject the use of AI, Tech and the takeover of real life by the digital universe.
We need to get back to basics with the prioritisation of businesses and business structures that are essential to life being sustainable and maintained locally.
Businesses that employ people need to be sized in such ways that mean everyone in every community has work to do and a contribution to make within a system where everyone who can work does work and receives everything they need to be functionally independent and therefore able to meet all their own needs.
Imagine the 21st century equivalent of the village green, where every essential and basic need for members of the community is met by small businesses dedicated to meeting just the needs of the people that everyone knows and meets face to face, pretty much each and every day.
Businesses that are and only ever will be big enough to provide services and goods to the people they serve as specialists in whatever it is that they do. So that customers always have the best experience possible for them to have, and the business itself prioritises just those needs and pays all of the staff and its working shareholders fairly and justly, ensuring that retail prices will never exceed an affordable relationship with what everything genuinely costs.
This scenario is not only possible. It has now become necessary, if we want to enjoy lives that are built around values and care for everyone, for our communities and the environment that supports us. Rather than pursuing a desperate path to make life and everything we ever do about whatever material wealth, possessions and power that we have.
Money, profit and everything that prompts and promotes the greed that underpins it are the real reasons for centralisation and the transfer of control.
There is no humane reason for any person to become impoverished by the implementation of any form of technology that isn’t being used purely for the benefit of humanity or the public good.
Adam Tugwell 