Why Socialism, Neoliberalism and any other ism isn’t the silver bullet (no matter how much you like the Politician)

As I write in December 2023, there is much talk in the news of the UK’s Conservative Prime Minister Rishi Sunak being replaced by his Political Party, and of the next General Election which is generally considered most likely to be called for the early Summer or Autumn of 2024.

Politics in the UK today is regrettably very tribal. But within these tribes, two different ideologies dominate, even though for some people, they will not be recognised by name.

They are Socialism and Neoliberalism (Or what most believe to be Capitalism with a more modernised name).

Whilst Socialism and Capitalism (which has really been Neoliberalism since the removal of the Gold Standard in 1971) were clearly very different political ideas historically and were previously easily defined through analysis of the public policies that they espoused and implemented; such clear definition no longer exists.

The only discernible difference between the Political Parties that exist in the UK today is the language that they use to frame and promote the Neoliberalism that now drives and is common to them all.

Neoliberalism is a control-level obsession with money, overtly displayed as a fixation with the idea that the markets are much better stewards of everything than government could ever be.

The true purpose of Neoliberalism is also its greatest danger to Humanity.

To be successful, Neoliberalism requires constant growth of the volume of money in circulation. This in turn means that whilst newly created money is funneled towards those who are already rich, the value of everything owned by everyone else is constantly becoming less and this now means that the wealth divide is growing exponentially – which is why so many of us are now getting hurt.

The wealth divide is now so wide, that what we are now demonstrating to be the meaningless ideologies that the different Political Parties in the UK play around with can only dictate or influence the speed with which the lived experience of the masses continues to degenerate and get progressively worse.

Both Socialism and Neoliberalism are presented to the public as being the champions or causes of freedom. Socialism through the freedom to be equal with all things, where that equality is inevitably designed or defined by someone else, so is never really about equality at all. Neoliberalism, where freedom is presented as being the removal of the state or government from every part of life and the public sector with the inherent suggestion that market freedom can only benefit everyone. Whereas what that freedom really becomes is freedom for big money from law and restrictions, meaning that those with lots of money can increasingly control everything and everyone using civil law and the courts as if they have become the government itself.

The Neoliberalism pursued by politicians is nothing more than a dictatorship by private proxy that just creates misery, harm and poverty for the masses. It facilitates a System that doesn’t either represent or resemble anything like freedom at all.

If you can understand and accept that this is how the reality of the narrative really works, the only suggestion that I will add is that it will serve neither your own nor anyone else’s interests to feel angry about what the people we have elected have really been doing all the way along.

Politicians, public servants and people in the public eye are human too. It is simply amazing just how many of them don’t really see how they have also been played and as such, they have no real understanding of the damage that they genuinely do.

This excerpt is taken from One Rule Changes Everything, Published on Amazon for Kindle, 23rd December 2023.

Where does money come from?

Please stop and think about this question for a moment, before you continue reading.

You may have just realised that we don’t think about money in any great depth at all. And the reason you don’t think very deeply about money is likely to be because of the myths that surround money.

The myths around money are paradoxical. Because the money myths are what make money work in the way that it does today. Yet at the same time, the money myths hide the way that money works in a way that stops the majority of us from even questioning things that ‘don’t add up’ about money.

But the truths about money are quite literally hiding in plain sight.

The simplicity of the money system is what makes it seem intelligent and intelligent people don’t question the money system because the way it works is literally too simple to believe

Understanding how money really works within the Money-Centric Paradigm is like going on a voyage of discovery, all of its own and in itself, and there is a risk that it will feel like going down a rabbit hole.

The simplicity of how the economic and financial system works around us is breathtaking in its simplicity. The principles which we all accept as being far more complicated than they really are.

This is what helps anyone who works within or who is benefitting from the way that money works to convince the rest of the world that money is not only real, but how it works is far too complicated for any normal person to understand, to question or get involved.

If you follow the news or current affairs, you will regularly hear newsreaders and commentators talking about National Debts in the Billions and Trillions of US Dollars and Pounds.

But this raises questions about where all that money came from first.

Most people think that the money we save is what banks then use to lend to other people and to businesses, when those people and businesses take out loans.

But where did the money come from that means Governments around the world can now be in Trillions of Dollars or Pounds in debt?

Did we all have that money in our hands or in our bank accounts to begin with?

Have big companies really earned all that money and then kept it in their bank accounts so that they have accumulated all that money so that it can be used to bail our governments out?

The answer – as you are probably beginning to realise, is that the money being used to accumulate all this debt, doesn’t actually exist.

The money we use, borrow and save, has been created by monetary and financial systems that are in private hands and not controlled by the government or the public they represent.

The fact that the money in the Money-Centric Paradigm is controlled by private, profit-making hands makes all the pain that is being inflicted on everyone because of money even worse.

So, yes, it is this same system that is used to ‘print’ or create the money that we all borrow and probably earn or maybe receive in benefits too.

Therefore, the money that runs everything is effectively being conjured out of thin air.

Money is nothing but a belief.

When we are led to believe in something that doesn’t exist and behave as if that thing is real, the reality is that we have been conned and are living a lie.

This Blog is an excerpt from my book One Rule Changes Everything, published on Amazon, for Kindle on 23rd December 2023.

If you want to understand the money lie better, some of the best information on how the world really works is available for you to watch, listen to and read at your fingertips. You just need to ask the right questions and make sure that you check the credibility of either the sources and speakers or repeat the same process over and over a few times until you have listened to a range of different sources and are able to conclude what you believe to be the truth.

If you can, please avoid using AI for any research if you want to really understand how anything works, as you will never be sure if you are reading the truth, or the truth that someone else wants you to believe, if you do!

Why not give the video linked below a try to begin with: It’s called The Four Horsemen by Renegade inc. It’s now a decade old, but it will guide you to further questions and to finding all the answers that you really should know.

To solve society’s problems, we must switch from the Money-Centric Paradigm we are in, to a values-based People-Centric one instead

Amazing solutions to the problems that people are experiencing today have been suggested and put on the table by some equally amazing minds.

However, the reason that none of the solutions that would make life better for people are working, they work only temporarily or on a very limited scale, is because the solutions being given are about people when the world, system or paradigm that we live and experience today doesn’t work that way.

Everything in life today either revolves around or is focused upon the value of money. So money is and only ever will be the solution to any problem, even when as far as the people in that equation are concerned, the money-based solution will never work.

To solve all the problems that society and the world has, we have no choice but to refocus and reprioritise all the things that are important in life, which are values, relationships, community, our environment and everything that exists locally to us, rather than being orientated around material wealth and the things that we could have.

The Money-Centric Paradigm =

Money, Profit, Material Wealth or Possessions and the Influence and Power that we believe it brings

The People-Centric Paradigm =

Values, Humanity, Value of the Person, Rejection of Difference, Happiness just to be

Ideally, enough people to create a critical mass would adopt the change voluntarily. However, because of the hold that the Money-Centric-Paradigm has on almost everyone, the chances are that it is only seismic change in the form of an event that changes everything, that would in itself precipitate the Paradigm Shift that will be necessary to make this level of change possible.

It’s not just British Beef at stake: the future of U.K. food production and our food security is on a knife edge

So obsessed have we become with tech, the next big thing and the apparent ease with which we can get everything that we want, that we have forgotten what’s actually important in life. And when it comes to the basic essentials for life, there’s likely to be nothing more important than what we eat.

Just like the air that we breathe, it’s easy to take the supply of food for granted. Unless you are already one of the growing number of us who cannot always afford to buy enough.

Yet, it’s not even as simple as having access to the food that we genuinely need.

For half a century and probably more, the food we eat, the systems, the supply chains that provide it and the governance that is supposed to be there in place to maintain supplies of the things that meet our basic needs have been changed, manipulated and replaced from top to bottom and from left to right. For no better reason than to allow someone somewhere to make more and more money, without any regard for consequences or what for us – and for our farmers and growers, is already becoming a very high price.

To really grasp the horror story currently unfolding, there is need to have understanding of our political system, of human nature and how money runs the world and makes everything work. Not in the sense of how we see it or how we talk about it. But in the sense of how it all really is.

This past weekend saw Channel 4 give a platform to yet another attack on meat production and specifically beef farming, leaning very much upon the narrative that to tackle global warming, cutting down and ideally stopping eating meat is the best place for everyone to begin.

Never mind the queues of private jets lining up at the very same time to fly an ‘elite group’ of very rich people to a meeting where they can all work out plans to force more of their green rules on the public, all in the comfort of luxury hotel suites in Dubai.

Regrettably, many of the people gifted high profile platforms to speak passionately about the guilt people trying to eat a balanced diet should expereince for eating properly have become the useful idiots of a very cynical strategy. One being pushed by people who were never elected to their roles and so recognise that to have control over everything, they must gain control of any basic essentials for life that everyone seeking to exert their own freedoms and will must automatically prioritise first.

What they forget to mention – even when these same people have responsibility for public health, is that good, healthy and nutritious food, as part of a balanced natural diet, is the essential building block and foundation of a happy life.

So, why would anyone of sound mind want to destroy or kick the foundation of good, healthy and nutritious diets away?

You can be sure that its not anything to do with the methane that animals, humans and just about every natural biological process produces. But it certainly has a lot to do with money and the two things that come with it: power and control.

Yes, it sounds like a conspiracy theory. But everything that the world is doing to itself today is thoroughly unsustainable.

The irony is that it is the same people, businesses and financial minds that created the false ‘need’ we have bought into who are responsible. On one hand, they have normalised unsustainable behaviour that has depleted the planets resources for no good reason. On the other they have systematically destroyed the governance and infrastructure that would make it easier for us to choose and adopt alternative ways of living that would be much healthier, affordable and sustainable too.

It is these same selfish and self-serving minds that are now determined to dictate the solutions to the problems they caused, so that we change and then behave in ways that will work better for them.

Food is power

Whilst it will make uncomfortable reading for farmers, including many great friends that I know, an entire industry populated by some of the most creative and entrepreneurial people imaginable has been reconditioned to accept grants, subsidies and ‘guaranteed’ contracts with big business and retailers as being ‘normal’. Instead of using their own freedom to do all the things that only British farmers and growers know how to do best.

The consequences of what is happening because of greed and self-interest are very serious indeed.

Yes, farms are going out of business and land is being taken out of production at an alarming rate. But the fact the food the U.K. grows or is capable of growing doesn’t often find itself into the mouths of the very people who live closest to the farms where it was grown is both part of the nightmarish reality that people in food poverty are suffering obesity and diabetes, and the accompanying reality that basic healthy fruit, veg and and high quality meat and fish that resembles its origin in an unadulterated form is now for many, simply too expensive to eat.

It shouldn’t be this way. Yet the travesty doesn’t end there.

Whilst we should all be able to depend on the public representatives that we have elected to put our health and the security of UK food production first, the reality we all have to face is that whether it’s the Conservatives this year, Labour or anyone else occupying No. 10 and the green benches to the right of the Speaker, next, none of these politicians have any idea of just how fragile the UK food supply is right now. Nor how serious even a few shortages of outside food supplies could make things get.

U.K. agriculture has reached the point where farmers, growers and the industries that are inextricably linked to U.K. food production will either choose to accept the risk of taking the steps necessary to facilitate its own revival or wait perhaps no more than just a couple of years and see everything that still exists swallowed up by some impractical idealists 2030-based agenda of some kind.

Farmers and the public are the two key stakeholders in U.K. food production and accompanying supply relationship. Yet neither farmers nor consumers have anything like the genuine say and influence that they should have.

It’s money, self interest and other people’s agendas at every step of the way.

The UKs Farmers shouldn’t have to lead the revolution of reality. But the reality is that a meaningful commitment to changing U.K. food supply and recreating the local infrastructure that would be able to make that work, will soon gather growing public support once the work has really begun.

Its then and only then that our hapless politicians will have no option but to follow.

Who controls Our Food controls Our Future (Full Text)

The need for a collaborative approach to the UK Farming and Food Security Problem

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When benefits are enough to live on, it will be fair to police them. But everyone has the right to have their privacy kept intact.

If the average U.K. wage isn’t enough to live on, the minimum wage certainly isn’t enough. So, anyone on the most basic level of DWP benefits must be going through a living hell.

Benefits are being used by the government to pretend that the cost of living in the U.K. today is something that most people can afford.

Yet the reality is rather stark. The most recent figures available show that at least 22 Million people in the U.K. receive benefits of some kind.

That’s just under a third of the population or one in three of us. And that’s before we even begin thinking about the people who, in receipt of benefits and whether working or not, are holding everything together by dipping into savings or taking on unaffordable debt.

Not knowing if you can afford to eat or pay the bills that can be planned for will challenge the mental health of anyone after a relatively short period of time. Yet the experience of unforeseen expenses destroying that downward equilibrium can create a level of pain and uncertainty that for anyone who hasn’t experienced it, is simply unimaginable.

The confidence of anyone falling dependent upon benefits, credit or charity of some kind is quickly diminished. But the system still treats anyone in this situation as everyone’s guilty bastards – just because they haven’t got enough, or they don’t the same as everyone else.

Not having enough to live on and being able to enjoy the peace and security that it gives anyone, is far from being the ideal stepping off point to secure work. Even if that job would remove any reliance the applicant would then have upon benefits or help, and provide the opportunity to pay off any debt they had accumulated until then.

Anyone who can appreciate the reality of the experience that so many people living in Poverty face – when even people who are working don’t have enough income ‘to live’, will quickly realise that the way to get people out of this dreadful situation is to help them in the ways that will actually help them. And to help anyone who genuinely needs help, you really do need to understand and appreciate what they are going through first.

It certainly isn’t helping to create an additional set of circumstances where those needing genuine help will suddenly find their remaining privacy destroyed with their financial conduct being policed at every turn too.

Yet that’s what public sector access to the bank accounts of anyone in receipt of benefits could now actually mean.

The strangest and most incomprehensible part of plans to legalise government access to the bank accounts of benefit recipients, is the fact that in the majority of cases, those receiving benefits only receive them because they are the victims of an economic system that functions, abuses and exploits them for no other reason than to service some other persons greed.

If the infliction of poverty on anyone was recognised as the form of abuse that it is, just like any of the others that society now refuses to tolerate, the government would not even have the option of playing the role of corrupt jailer for those imprisoned by Poverty, with the ability to abuse their own power to make the experience of the prisoners they control even worse.

But that is exactly where we are.

Whether wrong or right, the decisions and actions taken by politicians in response to the Covid Pandemic demonstrate just how much power our Parliament has – IF they choose to use it.

So, the real question we should be asking, is why politicians aren’t using that power to make life affordable for everyone, with the added bonus that doing so would automatically funnel a significant number of benefit recipients – who want the peace and security that comes only from self-sufficiency – back into work?