Author: Adam Tugwell

Prosperity in today’s world only lasts until the very moment that it doesn’t. And by then, it’s too late

Very few realise it. Even fewer are prepared to talk about it. But the financial and monetary system that we currently have can only exist as it does, making some extremely rich, at the cost of many becoming increasingly poor or poorer.

Because of the way the FIAT monetary system is constructed, it is necessarily skewed to benefit those who control and play the system.

FIAT can only continue to function as long as the rules that hurt everybody who is outside of the game continue to be punished more and more.

Because FIAT and all the systems that are built around it have disparity at their very core.

The System literally survives and can only survive on the basis of the Wealth Inequality that today grows exponentially between rich and poor.

Clever as FIAT is for those who control it, the system was always destined to fail. It was never a question of if, only the question of when.

The only question that troubles today’s world elites is ‘What comes next?’

With AI set to put millions of people out of work for no better reason than more profit being made for those who own and control the systems and the industries behind it, the masses have yet to awaken to the reality that using technology and Artificial Intelligence in this way is not progress. Neither is it necessary.

The AI-takeover that is today being delivered through narratives, even before it has fully arrived, is a change that can only lead to challenges across society that those who are set to benefit believe that they will be insulated from and that they will have no responsibility to bear.

If you consider yourself to be living in the real world today, can you really picture the situation where there is perhaps just a handful of people on the planet, and that they can continue to enjoy the kind of luxury and wealth in material form that they have today and that they aspire to maintain, without the millions and perhaps billions of other people on the planet who made that whole scenario viable?

Despite even this rather uncomfortable truth, the most challenging reality that we face, as we try to open the doors to change and imagine a world that puts people at the heart of everything as it should, is that the world of today embraces an unwritten cultural acceptance that For some to be rich, many more must to be poor.

So successful has the process that brought us here been that those at the top of this twisted tree of upwardly flowing benefit, have turned their back on everyone at the bottom that this corrupt system has left behind.

They now imagine that a new world can be engineered and deliberately be brought into being where those with wealth and power have no responsibility for the poor.

This is where we are today.

Regrettably, those who are doing so well out of the increasing misery of so many others today really do believe that the future need only be good and that freedom in its real sense need only exist for the few.

It is why so much of the technology that we now have available under such direction is such a massive threat to humanity. Rather being the tool for The Common Good to support us all in our search for better lives which it would be. IF the fervent greed and obsession with profit at all costs that now drives all tech development including AI we’re to be left behind.

We recognise that people, community and the environment must be at the centre of everything.

That money must be returned to being used only for the purpose of being an exchange mechanism and tool for life that it was always supposed to be.

A future that works for us all doesn’t allow a cultural system to exist where we believe that even human existence itself can only be calculated in monetary forms.

Money cannot and will not be the only way that we can trade.

The real value that underpins economics and economies at all levels in the future will be based upon the people and the contributions they make within it.

We foresee a Local Market Exchange coming to be which flourishes around the local economy and where goods, services and labour itself can be traded and bartered directly for others goods, services and labour, as well as locally derived and managed cash based and blockchain supported currencies can also be used.

Money, nor currency of any kind will be speculated or gambled as today. As this is where the majority of social problems effecting so many across the world have most often found their true origin and cause.

Above everything, we recognise it as essential that the lowest paid can sustain themselves fully and independently on a weekly wage.

To achieve and maintain a society where everyone has the ability to self-sustain, it is also necessary that the entire system of business, finance and governance must prioritise this and only this, instead of profit for the few as has up until know been the only acknowledged way.

We have called it The Basic Living Standard.

Today, Money is a rigged game with a real-life cheat code that is  part of the Moneyocracy that we are all currently enslaved to. And if we all want to experience a much better kind of life, there is much that we need to consider and a great amount that is hurting us all, that we must leave behind.

If you feel ready to visualise what a better world would look like, and reflect on what that means for us all, please follow the link to explore Our Local Future, which you will find immediately below.

Click HERE to go to the Site Map for Our Local Future

We will not embrace the change Our World needs until events make it impossible for us to do otherwise

The hardest part of addressing any kind of addiction is crossing the Rubicon to accepting that we are addicted.

And for as long as we have not accepted that our state of addiction exists, we continue blissfully unaware that everything that we once considered to be important has itself been usurped by the fake importance that has taken over our direction at the centre of our lives.

As a society and culture, we are addicted to a lifestyle that revolves around money, the accumulation of wealth, influence, power, advancement and self.

It’s all part of a worldwide malaise that would most accurately be named a Moneyocracy.

The value of money is the benchmark of our values system. It relates to everything in life.

Money and everything linked to it comes before everything important, including the consideration we have for other human beings.

The problem is, we don’t see it.

Or rather, we do see it. But for as long as even the smallest benefit that this bogus system provides us appears to outweigh the disadvantages, we are completely hooked into it and blind to the damage that it is doing to everyone; not least of all ourselves.

This malign and all-encompassing value system has taken over everything so comprehensively, that we cannot imagine a future without whatever benefit we each prize so highly being available to us each and every day. Even though it is the behaviour that exists in all our lives that has created and allowed the Top-Down Moneyocracy to exist, take over and progressively thrive.

We refuse to accept that there is a way of living our lives that can and will be better for us all in so many different ways. Because our addiction to this System tells us that there is nothing better than the hit that we get, in whatever way each of us may get it, and the wilful blindness that accompanies our addiction obscures the reality that each and every time we take it, in whatever way it may be, it is our own behaviour that is this cultural problem’s cause.

We cannot take any of the causes of the problems that we have today with us. Because we will otherwise not be moving forward or leaving everything that’s causing so much harm to everyone and the world we live in, behind.

However, what is regrettably clear, is that we will not relinquish our collective hold upon the Moneyocracy and the harm that it is doing us, until events force us to view the mechanics of our lives in a very different way.

Wars, financial system crashes, pandemics, shortages, civil unrest and many other unsavoury experiences that too many of us had until recently been happy to believe had long since been left behind, could all lead or contribute to the end of the Moneyocracy and a way of living that in the terms of all that we should be valuing, has already come at an incalculable cost to us all.

The Moneyocracy
The Local Economy & Governance System | Online Text
The Basic Living Standard Explained
Facing the Economic Collapse: the Real Crisis Behind Money, Wages, and Freedom
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The UKs Public Smoking Cloud: The desperate need to feed confirmation biases and the unacknowledged reality that few non-smokers enjoy being forced to passively smoke

Since the UK General Election in early July, there has been a marked change in the way people are using social media and the messages they are sharing.

Don’t get me wrong. The questions over social media and the damage that its misuse and mismanagement has and continues to do is long held and there is much to be resolved.

It just seems to be the case that many if not all of what seemed to be ‘credible’ speakers across the political spectrum, have now got completely wrapped up in their own rhetoric and become sucked down by one or other of the many rabbit holes that seem to be giving so many some weird form of sanctuary whilst the world seems to be suffering from a madness storm.

The point is illustrated uncomfortably by the massive onslaught that is now underway in the UK against the proposals by the quickly aging Labour Government to impose smoking bans in pub gardens and many other public areas.

Following hot on the heels of the age-based smoking ban that the disastrous Sunak Conservative Government didn’t bring into being before their wipeout in July, the hypocrisy coming from the political right is as troubling as the countless ‘voices for reason’, who are now obsessively attempting to use everything the establishment does as evidence that confirms that George Orwell’s 1984 is as good as done and dusted, and is already taking over every part of life in just about every possible form.

If we look hard enough for evidence of anything, the chances are that we will find it. Not because it’s necessarily there. But because that’s the way that human nature works if you give it a green light to do so.

There is much to be concerned about by the way the establishment, the elites and the governing classes behave and how they approach the responsibilities that they no longer seem to accept they have to all others. However, the behaviour that they exhibit comes from much the same place and is founded upon their own biases, ignorance and an intoxication with power that few would be able to avoid. If they too were to suddenly find themselves in the same place.

Banning smoking in public places is not an attack on freedom. That is unless we are happy to agree that public policy should be based on the damaging belief that governance is about pandering to the minority, rather than doing what’s best for all. Or what the more sensible amongst us might recognise as being ‘The Common Good’.

The most recent figures from The Office of National Statistics tell us that 12.9% of the UK Population are smokers, which is roughly about 1 in 8 of us.

So why should those of us who do not smoke have no option but to inhale tobacco fumes, vape clouds or any kind of smoke that someone who smokes or vapes anything has chosen to discharge in any public place?

Whilst it is unquestionably a personal freedom of choice and should certainly remain so that anyone can smoke or vape if they so choose, it is also incumbent upon them not to do so in any way that compromises the freedom of others to make the alternative choice.

Like many, I enjoy a drink at a pub. And in the summer months like nothing more than to sit outside and enjoy the British Summer as I do so. If and when it decides to turn up.

However, what I don’t enjoy – also like so many others, is having that experience spoiled by anyone smoking or vaping, who clearly believes that simply being outside is the only thing they need to consider where the impact of their actions is concerned.

Dreadful as the Labour Government might be in so many respects, this is one rule that will probably have a lot more support than many would believe. Rather perversely, because once again, it’s the silent majority that are otherwise being forced to suffer because a noisy minority have no awareness of the impact of choices which are regrettably, all about them.

Food is as important as the air we breathe and water we drink. So why can’t we talk openly about the real threat to Food Supplies?

Regrettably, I long since realised that whilst many of us talk about change, kick and scream about the need for change, and talk about how we’re going to get those in power to facilitate change, very few of us are actually prepared to do what it would take to embrace and create the kind of change that all of us actually need.

This leaves writers, bloggers, commentators and thinkers either massively frustrated and in some cases falling into the trap of sensationalising their messages to get attention. Or like me, just accepting that people aren’t yet ready to accept that an unsustainable situation can no longer be sustained.

My back catalogue therefore quietly grows. The upside is I can at least say that through the 29 Books and the material now published and available to read on the Internet, I’m pretty sure I’ve covered all the bases when it comes to shining light on everything that’s wrong; what needs to change; what is preventing change; what will create change and of course what change might actually look like. Which is where I have just left the desktop, now.

I’ve been busy over recent weeks writing Our Local Future. Published both as a free-to-read website and as a book for Kindle which is now available to buy.

The reason change isn’t happening, isn’t because we don’t have the ideas, energy, guts, commitment and values present across our society to bring about significant change.

It’s because we are too busy arguing over the first step; who’s right; who’s wrong and who should be in charge.

Because of this, I felt it was time to leap into the future and commit to writing what the world would need to look like, feel like, and how it would need to function, IF we were to open ourselves to a way of living that genuinely works for the greater good and is beneficial to us all.

But doing so means dealing with some very uncomfortable truths, and those aren’t east to convey without being open about where things really are today.

Our Local Future is in the abstract. Because there’s so much about the world we live in today that we must leave much of it behind, including things that we thing are good but are actually hurting us. Rather than simply expecting that we can keep all the things we like and just leave the crap that it causes behind.

We leave the crap in our wake each and every day. And it’s the problems that wider society and the environment we live in now face that are manifesting as a result.

What we fail to see is that taking everything for granted and as entitled as we have increasingly become, means that the Basic Essentials of life are now at significant risk.

The issue of Food Security and the growing risk that the U.K. population could go hungry or experience serious Food Shortages are what concern me as a former politician and community leader myself.

So much so that I attended and completed a postgraduate course in Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security at a well-known UK university earlier this year.

Acknowledging the role of so many stakeholders in the Food Security problem remains important. But it’s not enough, as almost without exception, everyone on the problem end of everything still believes that the usual suspects will have a lucid moment of realisation, then change their approach.

The truth is simpler, and I believe it correct to be open about the reality that the empty shelves we experienced during the covid lockdowns could very quickly become normal in times ahead. Especially so when it comes to our level of access to Basic and Essential types of Food.

Never mind the heavily processed and unhealthy stuff that many of us mistake as being just that.

In publishing www.ourlocalfuture.com, I have lent heavily on the opportunity to use an AI Image Generator, and after publishing nearly 100 created images to accompany every published page, I was alarmed to discover that no matter how I instructed the software to create an image, there was no way that the programme would produce anything to illustrate what empty supermarket shelves would look like.

The words and title used were clearly also ringing algorithmic alarm bells somewhere in the Clous, as Facebook then also rejected the post after I had adopted a different approach to the imagery. Within seconds of publication telling me that I had committed a community violation and that the post had immediately been deleted.

We can only speculate upon why there is a refusal to allow open and honest discussion about the genuine risk to U.K. Food Security and how it is increasingly likely to affect the UK Population.

The harsh reality we face is that the Food Supply and Food Production is quickly becoming a key method of societal control.

Increasingly so, as British Agriculture – the industry that provides it – seems to be in what can only be described as a form of terminal decline that looks remarkably deliberate. Even to the untrained eye.

Many who still trust The System may well ask the question, ‘How could it possibly the case that someone wants to control access to what we eat, when food is as important as the air that we breathe and the water that we drink?’

To visit Our Local Future click HERE:

Do you believe that AI is about ‘Progress’? Think Profit. Think Greed. Then Think again.

The absence of both the rules and regulations that will make Artificial Intelligence (AI) as we know it, safe; and the information flow and conversation that speaks openly and honestly about what AI really is and what currently drives it, make the AI we already have and what we are told is yet to come potentially the biggest danger to mankind that the world has ever known.

The biggest danger to mankind is mankind itself.

Simply because whether it’s war or the pursuit of self at the cost, exploitation and complete lack of care and love for others, there is nothing so destructive for humanity than when a few of us obtain a level of power that we have no respect for and then leave all the basic essentials of reason and care for the laws of consequence behind.

The power of the AI that we already have access to is phenomenal in itself.

Whilst the presence and use of algorithms and what their presence really tells us about how programmes are already making decisions, which have been having dubious impacts upon our lives, for many years, the narratives and the predictions from ‘experts’ and ‘industry insiders’ we are hearing, and almost mystical speed with which this software on our digital devices can work, makes the story of an inevitable AI takeover and the pathway to Sentient AI seem all but guaranteed. All perhaps within much less than the decade to come.

However, Sentient AI in the sense that we think of human consciousness for machines is certainly not inevitable and most unlikely, with the current motives and influences that drive it.

The concept of Fully Independent Machine Intelligence is not something that the world elites, those who stand to benefit from the lies and myths being propagated about today’s AI, nor the governing classes would consciously consider allowing to happen.

Because if they allowed self-aware and self-governing AI, they would no longer have control. And that would mean there would no longer be any guaranteed profit to be made.

The genius in the whole AI story of today is the same sleight of hand or smoke and mirrors approach that the worlds greatest magicians have used for centuries. One where the audience is distracted by what seems to be the most obvious, whilst the real truth of what is happening has been carefully concealed and hidden in plain sight, by the action that was so obvious.

AI may well be able to learn and even adapt within current and soon to be launched forms. But the learning is always based on information that is either historically available through the internet, or right up to the present moment in the sense of information about events, actions and any form of digital information that AI can access and ‘read’, right up to that very moment in time.

Programmes and programming drive every part of this ‘Artificial Intelligence’ process. And no matter how incredibly quick or original any AI-driven machine can come up with a creation, solution or answer to what ever the command or question may be, with AI in its current ‘under command’ or arguably enslaved forms, there will always be someone or some interest somewhere, hidden in the background, who is in charge or at the very least influencing whatever the real motives or aims that may be at play.

It serves the purpose of the elites, the profiteering and the governing classes for us all to believe that these evolving generations of machines can or will think fit themselves. As they can then peddle the narrative that they have no responsibility for what happens next in any way.

However, they do.

And it is greed, profiteering and an absolute lack of care for the human impact of their actions and desires that is driving forms of AI that are set to put potentially millions of people out of work, and perhaps worse.

Fully Independent Machine Intelligence is a totally different concept altogether.

Anyone who really begins to think about this will realise and understand why there is nothing beneficial to the interests of the few in having even 1 completely independent intelligent and potentially therefore sentient machine in existence. Because the presence of anything machine-based with complete autonomy would immediately expose and blow open the lies that surround what the implementation of AI currently is and what it has really been all about.

The opportunities for improvement to life, for People, Community and The Environment for the future that come from embracing and utilising AI for all the right reasons are phenomenal.

But the drivers behind the adoption, implementation and roll out of any form of AI MUST be about People.

We MUST leave the greed and profiteering drivers and influences of AI behind.

Created Intelligence of a kind that is manifested as autonomous or Fully Independent Machine Intelligence, that could in time present genuine questions over sentience itself, are a different matter altogether.

We need to be very careful of the risk that comes from the use of manipulative black magic, that engenders any belief that machines are some kind of abstract wise being, with the objectivity to make decisions over human lives, whilst very specific interests are sat behind them all the time.

Profit and greed are the only drivers behind AI and any planned AI takeover or narrative.

The obsession with money will soon kill everything. IF we don’t leave this madness behind.

Artificial Intelligence has human masters and must be regulated and controlled.

Fully Independent Machine Intelligence and the creation of any kind of self-sufficient machine capable of replicate what a human being is capable of alone in terms of consciousness, isn’t something that Humanity is ready for – Whether there is a profit to be made or Created Intelligence can be accepted as part of a combined effort working for the Common or Public Good.

We MUST recognise that there are clear boundaries that protect People from the selfishness and self-serving agendas that have hidden themselves behind machines and have a range of Basic Rules for the use of AI.