There’s something very wrong with the AI story that we are all being sold:
Nobody seems to have noticed that the script of man’s pathway to the pinnacle of human intelligence is about to come to its end, by handing our ability to think, over to machines.
As I write, I’m wondering if the name ‘Artificial Intelligence’ was a deliberate way to hide the truth in plain sight, all along.
Not because the technological breakthroughs that are coming at us thick and fast aren’t very clever.
But because just like the surrender of our value set to an artificial, valueless and damaging world dominated by money that manipulates everything about the way we think, we are about to give away our ability to even do that, to systems and technologies that cannot genuinely benefit any human being – other than those who own and run them.
In my eBook Actions Speak Louder than Digital Words, I talked about AI only having the ability to look back at history and the past. Even where back meant what had been published or ‘sensed’ by the Internet up to the very moment when the system was responding to a specific command.
This overlooked or deliberately whitewashed flaw of AI echoes one of the greater faults in the Human experience, where we inherently look backwards to our past experiences to provide guidance for the future.
This should be troubling enough.
But what wasn’t apparent even when I published that book in June 2023, was that as AI began filling everything across the web and digital sphere with its own responses, muses and anything else we can give AI-derived content as a name, it would then begin leveraging just as much and increasingly more of its own diluted content as a source, which is almost certain to increase as human input or creativity dries up.
And the contribution of human creativity and intelligence to the smorgasbord board of information and data that the AI engines feast on is most certainly drying up, as more and more of us surrender to the narrative we have been fed that tells us AI is now the only way, and jobs are threatened by the accompanying suggestion that AI can do things that we can never do!
Dictating our future by using the past as our point of reference certainly holds us back and creates all sorts of difficulties at all levels of life that we didn’t ever need to have.
However, the one thing that makes that experience manageable and, in some ways, arguably beneficial too, is that our human creativity and ability to look at every new situation and make sense of it and its context in ways that allow us to build bridges into the future, means that we are making progress all the time. Even if that progress is slower, whereas a machine that is limited only to reading what has already happened simply cannot.
People – and many of them too – genuinely accept the stories and myths that we have and are now being sold.
They believe and, in many cases, have become fearful that AI can already or very soon will take over every function that humans currently carry out within any business or organisation. Despite the reality that anyone using their common sense or daring to listen to their inner voice will recognise a very big question, ‘Where in this future does that leave any need for me?’
AI is very fast at what it does and is able to look at potentially all the information that is available to us in digital form at the very moment in time that a question is asked or an instruction is given.
That – and only that – is the real magic of AI.
It is the reason that we are all just accepting the idea that AI is already infinitely cleverer than Humans could ever be. Just as those who benefit from us believing this to be true intend us to believe.
However, our acceptance that we no longer need to be creative or think for ourselves, means that we will not only increasingly become dependent upon a pool of ‘knowledge’ outside of ourselves – albeit a very large one of everything that has been recorded, spoken, considered and then committed to the internet and digital platforms up to some point in history before. But this pool of knowledge that we will use for everything will become increasingly diluted by the growing amount of poor and corrupt information, data and ‘understanding’ that our already burgeoning use of AI with everything is now spaffing out into the digital ether.
As you read, Humanity is literally giving up the ability to think and create for itself, to a machine-driven world that is incapable of doing any more.
What is more, Humanity is surrendering these cornerstone abilities for survival voluntarily. Because someone who benefits from us believing we are inadequate without technology has told us this, when a change of the kind that overreliance on AI could be about to usher in would have needed something akin to an extinction-level event to take place at any time in world history before.
This uncomfortable truth will not stop those who stand to benefit from the AI takeover from pushing and promoting this path. They will continue peddling the myths that the AI takeover will be in our best interests and will be inevitable all the same. When it is nothing of the sort.
The Technology we have available to us today will not live up to its greatest potential. Because the greatest potential any technology that man invents will have, is to help improve the lives and experiences of all men, rather than to replace any one of them.
We know this to be true, as this has regrettably been the way that technological advancements have always impacted Humanity since the ending of the Agricultural Age.
Technology has always been employed to make money for those who own and control it since then.
The rise of new technology has always been at the cost of all others at some level. No matter who they are or what their connections might be.
The reality we face is that it may already be too late to save the world we recognise from a fate that we have all unwittingly chosen. Rather than there being any kind of event or catastrophe at the heart of future change that no one person could have been responsible for.
However, if we are to address the slide towards universal ignorance, with the accompanying potential to take us back into the dark ages once more, we must reassess, reimagine and regulate the uses of every kind of technology. So that technology’s master can only be the public good. Rather than profit and the disaster that is following hard in its footsteps right now.
If we value the Human experience and wish to improve it, it is time to learn, share and then live the truth that there is no need for any technology to replace jobs, other than so just a few can increase their profits and control.
The best way for everyone and everything to live well, is without the complications and diversions that misappropriated technology imposes upon us, and the technology we do embrace should always be used for the greater good and for the benefit of everyone involved.
For a long time, I’ve been concerned about Food Security, The Food Chain and the way that the role of Food seems to have been deliberately dismissed, as if Food is not something that is essential for everyone to consume, each and every day.
I wasn’t aware that a common theme was emerging as I began writing a series of eBooks that started with Levelling Level in early 2022, and has now spanned 8 or 9 different books, essays, and blogs.
Food is so much more than being about what it costs. Even though our culture expects and encourages us to think about Food that way.
However, Food isn’t all about Farms, Food Production and the Economy either. And I have been saddened as I have watched the growing issues surrounding UK Food Production and specifically the UK Farming industry. Not because I don’t agree that our Farmers need help. But because none of the issues surrounding Food are as they appear, but everyone continues to believe that treating them as if they are, is how all our Food-related problems will be solved.
The Food Chain should be at the centre of everything. And if we were treating the importance of what we eat in the way that we should be, the way that we live and the way that we experience life would be much better than what we are living through right now.
The Growing Food Crisis
Farmers, like many others with absolutely nothing to do with Food Production who will read this, are victims of a growing Food crisis that many of us don’t even realise exists.
Everyone is being affected in different ways.
This growing Food crisis isn’t directly to do with Farmers Inheritance Tax, building on green belt land, covering productive agricultural land with solar farms, any one of the seemingly endless issues in the News causing upset, or anything you are likely to find from an internet search around foods, farms, climate change or the environment. Although it will certainly flag all sorts of stories that will be viewed by different people, differently.
These Food-related issues are all important in very specific or subjective ways.
But there is a much bigger issue at the heart of all of this that we need to consider carefully before any of the solutions that we can come up with can really work.
The real crisis about our Food and what we eat each and every day, is this:
We take Food for granted.
We take Food for granted. Not just in terms of the supply of our Food and the misplaced confidence we all seem to have that Food will always be there, on a supermarket shelf or ready to be delivered. But more significantly, because we rarely, if ever, give real thought or think consciously about what it is that we actually eat and what the ‘food’ we treat as being a normal part of our lives contains.
Yes, you may have immediately thought something like ‘It’s not that I don’t think about it. It’s just not worth it because what I eat is always about what it costs.’ And you certainly wouldn’t be alone if you did think this.
However, this and the many other thoughts and different perspectives that might be triggered by touching on this question certainly reveal or open the door to a rather uncomfortable truth: We have all allowed or just accepted that the food we consume is not as important to everyone as it should be.
The importance of The Food We Eat
Let’s be clear. Food is as important as the Air that we breathe and the Water that we drink.
Yet because the results of eating food that isn’t good for us aren’t in any way as immediate as they are if we breathe bad (or oxygen deficient) Air, or drink Water that is contaminated in some way, we really have become dangerously indifferent about the Foods that we eat.
Perhaps the easiest reason to be dismissive (or excuse not thinking consciously about our Food) is the idea that as long as we are not feeling hungry, nothing else matters when it comes to what we eat.
Yes, people do eat whatever food is available, that is accessible and fits with their lifestyle and think that if it has all been financially affordable, then as far as what they eat is concerned, that really is all there is to worry about.
We cannot and should not blame anyone for feeling that way. They are supposed to.
Regrettably, accepting the status quo and all the messaging that goes with it, without question can have and for some already has had life-changing consequences.
Mental health issues, physical health problems, obesity, compromised longevity and the many offshoots that shoot out in every direction of life are just the issues already affecting millions of lives because of the Food that we eat. And that’s before we begin to consider what our relationship with Food should really be because of the impact that it has or will have in so many other ways across our lives too.
Changing Minds Changes Lives
The importance of the Food we eat is something that we all have in common – whether we like it or not.
Once politics, idealism, religion, profiteering and other agendas and self-serving ideas are removed from the Food Chain, We are all the same. We all have the same essential needs.
We are all human beings with the same need to consume Foods at every mealtime that are genuinely good for us.
Eating properly and eating well should be normal for all of us. Just as it once was, before an endless list of apparently compelling reasons began to grow, peddling what sound like compelling stories like the one that says, ‘Good Food is too expensive to eat’.
The reason stories like these become the accepted truth is because Good Food being expensive to buy IS the experience that some people genuinely have. An apparent problem that someone else always seems happy to provide a solution to that only really benefits them in some way.
If the idea that we cannot afford good food, as opposed to the reality that we cannot afford the cost of not eating well in so many ways sounds conflicted to you, you are certainly not alone. And thinking differently about ALL of the Food that crosses our lips and that we consume at every mealtime really is the start of a Food Journey that has the ability to fix so many different things that aren’t working well for us today.
Please join me on the Foods We Can Trust Food Journey
I’m writing about this today, because I have just launched a new website and social media channels to begin a discussion, information sharing, signposting and awareness raising ‘Food Journey’ that I have called Foods We Can Trust.
Foods We Can Trust really should be a name that immediately speaks for itself – and it does.
But ‘Foods We Can Trust’ also triggers many different thoughts, feelings and suggestions that always being able to eat the right Food for us is no longer something that the world we live in today can enable us to do.
I’m about to begin posting about Foods We Can Trust, and I hope that as someone who eats Food every day, you will join me along the way.
If once you’ve visited www.foodswecantrust.org, you’ve had a look around and you feel there is something more you could share that might help others – even if its just a recipe for making a great meal out of Foods We Can Trust, or tips on how and when to Grow Your Own, please do get in touch.
Let’s all share this genuinely important Food Journey together, as it may give us an opportunity to help everyone else who values Foods We Can Trust too.
The ‘Great Reset’ is just 1 of at least 3 resets underway. We should all consider what the desperate attempts to reset the world actually mean
Everyone knows we are in a mess. We just can’t agree why
We are awakening to the reality that a conspiracy theory is no longer a theory and is certainly no longer a conspiracy, once everyone can see that whatever it is, is actually true.
There is much to ponder over the question of the ‘Great Reset’. In terms of who or what is resetting anything; why they are trying to reset it and what it will mean if any of them actually turn out to be successful.
As many of us are likely to realise painfully, very soon, the intended forms of ‘reset’ or ‘resets’ that are underway – and there are arguably at least 3, are relying on a lot more chance than they are anything that resembles any modicum of control.
Collectively, we may soon begin to realise that these planned ‘resets’ were just the manifestations of different forlorn hopes of what was once the very same new world order, now falling to bits as it loses control.
‘They’ know the game is up. That’s why ‘they’ are trying to ‘reset’
‘It was good whilst it lasted’ should be very much at the forefront of the minds of everyone with power, stood in front of their mirror, who is desperately trying to carve out a new future led by themselves today. Rather than whatever the sense of entitlement to continuing power and the accompanying delusions of grandeur that they are actually holding now.
You will not need me to explain how today’s media and the narratives that they so religiously convey would never share how vulnerable the establishment is now feeling. Nor any of the truths and therefore unspoken secrets that would actually explain to everyone how everything within the system does indeed work.
On this basis, you may also therefore be able to understand and appreciate that the last thing that anyone with power and influence wants the general public to know, is just how fragile everything currently is. How close things have been to collapse for a number of years, and how the almost constant flow of policy decisions and steps being taken that we are experiencing are actually a clear sign that the establishment is now in a very serious mess.
In real terms for us, the existing world order will continue to exist until the precise moment that it cannot convince the majority of us that it is there, still functioning and in control of everything, anymore.
Those who we are about to look at in more detail have known or been aware that ‘the game is up’ for a long while. Yet they are now in the process of attempting to create and implement a new world or new world order systems, that they then intend to lead and control.
World governance looks like a massive race against time. However, the reality is that they are all racing against events, forces, factors or whatever you feel comfortable calling factors, that are way outside of their control.
Reset 1: The reset that won’t reset the world as we know and generally accept it in the way they want
First in the list of the three resets, is what many will have heard and what those labelled as ‘conspiracy theorists’ celebrate as ‘The Great Reset’.
The Great Reset is being pursued, pushed, demanded and implemented by those involved with and aligned with the WEF (World Economic Forum).
In terms of the government and establishment figures who are ‘in on it’, the WEF ‘plan’ and what we now know as The Great Reset has, for a long time, been the only real ‘reset’ game in town.
There is so much that I could write about the realities of what ‘the few’ who sit beyond Western democracies and effectively ‘pull the strings’ of many different governments have done, that it would probably take many different books to get even remotely close to the detail.
The WEF are the group that we usually hear most about early each year, when the great and the good fall over themselves to head to Davos for a big meeting. Where it seems like an endless number of private jets, flown by everyone who is preaching at us to go green and look exactly the same get lined up.
These are the people who are responsible for the way that public policy has actually been formed and implemented for over 50 years, as part of a strategy or plan that has always been about a them and us approach to world governance.
These are the governing elites who use and manipulate existing ‘democratic’ systems to make what they are doing look legitimate.
They use a top-down hierarchical approach, that we believe to be all that it says, because elected representatives are technically still in charge.
Those who really understood neoliberalism and what the adoption of a FIAT money system, alongside the deregulation and manipulation of laws and rules to favour big business and profiteering that is under their control, also knew from the start that the life of the system it was driving was finite and that the wealth divide that it would necessarily create would eventually become too wide for even the uneducated not to see for all that it was.
Tools such as the EU (which has never been in anyway democratic but has been able to hide behind nationally elected governments so that it can perpetuate the lie that it has) have deliberately chipped away at the mechanisms, infrastructure and governance of sovereign nations. So that borders and basically anything that can give identity to people, groups and communities – i.e. the tools which are necessary for independence – have not only been removed, but then destroyed, so that there is little or no way back for any kind of revival of sovereign states, once they have been absorbed by whatever was supposed to come next.
What they didn’t bank on, was that the financial and monetary system would unravel in the way and with the speed that it has – helped in no small part by the responses of inept politicians to Covid and the War in Ukraine – and that events have now reached a point where the whole bus is about to go over the cliff, without the necessary tools of unquestioned societal control being anywhere near in place.
The front and belief that these people have not only had, but exerted through the governments that they have basically controlled for many years has been breathtaking.
In the majority of respects, all that they have been doing has been almost perfectly hidden in plain sight. Not least of all because control of the narratives and the media that share them with us has meant that the harm they have inflicted upon our own people as a consequence of their actions has been hidden. Whilst the impact of their behaviour on entire nations and peoples beyond their direct and desired sphere of influence has never been openly acknowledged or exposed to the people unwittingly under their control.
Here in the UK, people cannot earn enough to actually live on what the establishment dictates to be the Minimum Wage and the growing infliction of poverty amongst our own people, so that this grand strategy can be pursued, is troubling enough.
However, in many different countries abroad, the way that they and their kind have used money, markets, commodities and even wars to achieve these nefarious ends have not gone unnoticed.
With some of the more recent steps, that have simply taken things too far, there is a growing group of countries that have been considered to be outside the exclusive club that has been the West, that now see and have been actively working towards the implementation of their alternative choice of reset.
Reset 2: BRICS and a very unhappy world beyond ‘The West’
If you already think that what you are reading here is the stuff of conspiracies, it is more than likely that you also accept and take at face value, everything that the media tells us about events and what is happening in countries and across the world beyond what we know as the West.
The western narratives certainly don’t entertain or make suggestion at any level that our governments and the big businesses that are based across the west and which are traded here, have been exploiting every resource that they could capture control of. Simply by manipulating foreign governments, replacing them or invading sovereign states and taking over so that they can do pretty much the same thing.
Where the Western ‘few’ have done this already and taken all that they could through other ‘acceptable’ means, they have then artificially lowered, raised and even held prices of commodities, precious metals and currencies within the markets that they control, so that anything that these vested interests that are based in the west have needed to pay for has always been available to them for less.
This in itself is in no small contributing part to why the west is hated as much as it is.
The reality that we all face is that no matter how little we have been aware of what the establishment and those who control it have been doing ourselves, the people from these other countries who have suffered and gone without so that the few from the west can profit from them, don’t see any of us as being different from those who are actually responsible.
One of the most horrid parts of the whole sordid affair that the majority of populations right across the world do share in common, is that the only way that the western few have been able to do all that they have done, is by having created and implemented a financial, monetary and economic system that has effectively provided them with money that isn’t real and therefore money that they wouldn’t otherwise have had.
They have then used this money to buy up land, resources, infrastructure and even businesses that it would have been impossible for them to have done so otherwise.
Growing numbers of these countries from outside of the west have been progressively working together.
In recent years they have created another international group or body that you may have heard of which is called BRICS.
Two years on, I understand that the currency now has a name and is called The Unit; that it has already been tested in electronic or digital form, and that whilst Asian Countries in particular have been using the price suppression that our governments have stupidly played along with to hoover up and transport massive quantities of precious metals to the Far East, the BRICS Nations are also working towards the launch of a grain (and commodities) trading exchange.
Those who have been watching the evolution of BRICS will attest to the reality that very little of this was even on the cards during the last Trump Administration.
The ‘final straws’ have appeared and in turn broken the camel’s back, in the form of US Foreign Policy during the Biden Term. Which not unlike the actions of the Labour government in the UK today aren’t just an isolated one-off whose actions can be corrected once they are gone.
The policies that these governments have enacted are in fact the end of a very long downward chain of decisions that have been made to benefit and most recently save the skins of a few vested interests. Rather than being about anything to do with what is in the best interests of the people that they actually represent.
Any or all of the systems that BRICS are known to be building or working on have the potential to create financial and market chaos across the whole of the West and not just the USA, potentially within days if not hours of them being launched.
However, as plausible and as well thought out as these plans might be with the aim of effectively switching market and financial power to the East from the West, they do rely on what may prove to be the naïve idea that everyone in the West will simply accept the change and willingly step aside.
The real risk of a financial, market and economic collapse in the West, that is precipitated by BRICS systems or similar, is what western governments decide they (and therefore what we) should do in response, as the first thing that BRICS would almost certainly do is expose the systems that we have as not being in anyway real.
That means that we will have a critical emergency when it comes to the need for real leadership to step in and do whatever we will then need to do.
Reset 3: Trump is too Trumpian, too Late and too much of the same
Barely two months into the second Trump Administration and the flurry of headlines that policies such as DOGE have created, the noise and many distractions being caused are taking much of our attention away from the events that are unfolding around the world.
There is very little discussion or thought regarding what the result or outcome of Trumps ‘strategy’ will be. Not only in the long term. But critically within perhaps just the weeks and months that lie immediately ahead.
Many cannot see and fewer can accept that recent US Democrat Administrations under Clinton, Obama and Biden were all very much geared towards pushing a system that Trump appears to be destroying, overtly for all the ‘bad reasons’ that can be seen such as open immigration and woke policy.
Unfortunately, all those things that people didn’t like about the Biden Administration and those that contributed before, as well as all the recent governments in the UK, were just side effects or symptoms of everything bad in the centre. A direction of travel that has long since required growing chaos in all directions, so that the policies can be delivered which were their priority or genuine choice all along.
Politicians who are owned by self-interest and greed are all doing whatever it is that they believe necessary to keep the ‘Moneyocracy’ afloat.
It just looks different across different countries. Because the systems in each country are still different enough for a different approach to be required, IF they are to succeed in making the ultimate end game work.
In real terms, this means that the core direction is simply being rewrapped and represented differently wherever it is possible to do so, so that enough people will hopefully accept this ‘new’ way of doing things, until the real truth of even that is then exposed.
Regrettably for us in the UK, we are much further down the road than even the US.
Whereas Trump is doing plenty that gives the impression that it his reset is not only different, but that it will work and it will be beneficial, the situation here is that we are knocking on the door of the Inn that we have been desperately looking for, just as the sign goes up outside to say no vacancies and the landlord is calling ‘Time!’
Money has no real value, yet we have made it worth everything, whilst everything with real value has been made worthless by money
If you’ve read this far and the story that is unfolding is making any level of sense, you will also have some idea of the mess that we are in.
Not because all of these things are happening – because they certainly are. But because the next thing that comes to mind when you can see and accept the problem is that as things stand, there also doesn’t appear or feel like there’s any way out.
In my recent eBook Your Beliefs Today Create Everyone’s Experiences Tomorrow we journeyed through the opportunity to consider the different perspectives that everyone has; those perspectives that groups of people share; how shared perspectives are then perceived differently, and then what this all adds up to, or rather could add up to in the bigger scheme of things.
What is now beginning to become ever more apparent to anyone paying close attention to events that are happening around the world – and not just on our ‘accepted’ media channels, is that there are common themes amongst all the different experiences that we have.
These common themes demonstrate that everyone outside of the elite and ruling classes have many things in common that are being overlooked, missed and hidden by everything that the establishment has done and is still doing to create divides.
Money and the importance that it has as the tool that the establishment uses to manipulate, control and basically con the entire population is also the common factor with the elite groups or amongst the VVIPs whose fights are now breaking into the open as they take whatever steps they consider necessary on what they believe is their own respective pathways to control.
To summarise:
1. The WEF/UN/Known western establishment ‘Great Reset’ is falling apart because the elites involved have lost control of the FIAT driven monetary, economic and financial systems. Not least of all because they have either abused or failed to adhere to their own rules.
The UK could easily prove to be the first domino that falls because of the actions of the current Labour government that appear to have snapped into even closer alignment with the ‘plan’.
Whereas many other Western countries are openly resisting in what has manifested generally along more ‘right wing’ lines.
2. The BRICS ‘reset’ has been building, developing and evolving outside and beyond of our mainstream news view – even though you are likely to have heard BRICS mentioned at various times.
From the information available by doing web searches, watching and listing to podcasts that are available, it is becoming clear that whatever BRICS is going to do with a new currency, grain and commodities trading, and the precious metals that offer a very different and potentially anchored approach to whatever it will be that BRICS does, it could be launched and begin to create chaos across the Western world as we know it very soon.
3. The Trump ‘reset’ has been underway since the 20th of January 2025 when the returning President of the United States was sworn in and the new Administration got straight to work.
Trump’s reset is an attempt to shed or eject all of the bad and damaging policies and issues that were created overtly by the Biden Administration and to remove all the issues that people have not taken kindly to, such as woke ideology and everything that is currently being presented as being in a mess.
What is not so clear is that the plans being followed are also about retaining US hegemony and the status of the US Dollar as the ‘worlds reserve currency’, pretty much with the approach and thinking that bullying and bulldozing will overcome the resistance of a lot of very pissed off countries that will very quickly snap back into line.
Unfortunately, just with the example of the BRICS nations alone, we can already see that they see a pathway to their independence from the existing world order, and there is little to suggest that they will be happy to welcome it back – just because Trump is demanding otherwise.
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It is reasonably safe to conclude that a system collapse precipitated by any or all of these 3 resets or indeed any other, will reach way beyond the scope of just the financial, economic and monetary systems themselves.
This is why our cultural focus upon money and the way that it has become the value mark for everything in life is not only dangerous. But has the potential to invite change and the chaos that goes with it on a level that has never been witnessed before.
If you were to have a conversation with a handful of different people and ask them for their view on the problems and what their solutions to those problems would be, it is unlikely that any of them would respond in a way that suggests that the existing monetary system and the way that we value money would be at its core. Even if they were to make suggestions that might at first glance appear to address the problems as they see them.
Even economists and highly regarded academics and researchers would fall into this category.
They share what we might call a situational bias that reaches across society and currently refuses to accept that the basis of what people are comfortable with (or benefit from) within the current system, would not or rather could not exist anymore.
It is important for those seeking solutions to understand that problems such as the exploding welfare bill, increasing poverty, the reliance upon debt and how it is considered ‘normal’, along with replacing jobs with new tech and AI are and would remain symptomatic of resets 1 and 3, with things likely to become worse much more quickly, if any collapse should be driven by a BRICS takeover.
Whilst any or all of the resets continue and appear to work, society as we know it will function less and less as we have known it – or at least not for the majority of the Western population whilst changes made under the resets favour some at much higher cost to many more.
Ultimately however, none of the resets can work permanently because of the disparity that they will cause. With even the BRICS reset working on the basis that it would switch one type of world dominance which is wholly unfair and unjust, for a completely different one which would only appear to be a switch of places for the specific VVIPs and elites who are involved ‘at the top’.
Moving away from chaos
Regrettably, it is very difficult and probably impossible to convince enough people that the way we are living, with the priorities that we have, is not only unsustainable and inflicting potentially great harm on everyone’s future. But that it is also only really benefiting the VVIPs and the elites, with the perceived material benefit to everyone else always proving to be transitory at best.
This means that things either have to crash, or other unforeseen events will need to take place that effectively result in the same thing and same experience for everyone, before enough of us will accept that the time has arrived for change and that change will not resemble anything like we have known before.
Until that point of acceptance, the elites and the VVIPs will retain control and continue to pursue every avenue possible to maintain and keep them in control.
Chaos will be the immediate result and the inevitable next step, with the alternative then being a power grab from opportunists who will prove to be even worse than the pathways of the 3 resets that we have now. OR the people and our communities can step up, take back power and determine the future for ourselves.
This is the only kind of ‘reset’ that we should ever allow or have.
As you read through the pages of this blog or read the eBooks that are available and recognise the story unfolding and the different parts that we can all see, you may be able to step back and observe the reality that those who ‘take from the state’ are the easiest for everyone else to blame.
No matter their background or reason for being dependent upon the State, Benefits Claimants have become scapegoats and little more than everyone else’s ‘guilty bastards.
Worst of all, they have now become a very easy target for those who are actually responsible for everything that is going wrong with the UK, to project their own guilt and fear upon.
For anyone receiving benefits when they could or would rather be ‘paying their own way’, being anywhere near the Benefits System, the many organisations that work within and around it, and being within the exploding sub-class of our society currently being gaslit by the financial benchmark of the National Minimum or Living Wage; life is a fearful, emotionally and practically challenging living hell.
Given the nature of the announcements due to be made as part of the Spring Statement this Wednesday and what we already know is on the way from the October ’24 Budget, I will expand here on 5 of the most important points of what being within or touched by the Benefits System means to many of those whose lives are touched by it:
1. It costs more to live than the Minimum or Living Wage allows
The elephant in the room that is the cost-of-living crisis, is this:
What we currently accept as being the National Minimum Wage or Living Wage, isn’t anywhere near enough for a single person without any parental, caring or partner responsibilities, to live independently without top-up benefits, help from charities (foodbanks), going into debt or raiding savings.
2. Working on the Minimum Wage means you still need help
People working in Minimum Wage jobs in the UK, cannot earn enough, working a 40-hour week, to pay their own way.
Those on Minimum Wage cannot live independently, without still having to jump through the hoops and requirements that come from being a benefit claimant; from ‘qualifying’ to get emergency food packages from Foodbanks; by going into debt using credit cards, loans or pay-day-credit type schemes; or by falling back on family or friends for handouts, just to make ends meet.
3. Being on benefits is no breeze: Welfare cuts are an act of increasing cruelty when many just want safe-to-climb ladder to escape
Being on benefits means being treated like you are someone else’s guilty bastard and like you are the one who is in the wrong.
The staff in jobcentres (understandably) often don’t really want to be there. They are regularly exposed to some of the UKs most unhappy people. When they themselves are at the cutting edge of a Benefits System that has ALREADY removed all sense of humanity from its heart and behaves like it already runs with the dehumanisation that we can expect from universal AI that is being introduced for all the wrong reasons.
People who are not working or who have personal issues that have made them dependent upon benefits often feel vulnerable.
They suffer from the lowered levels of confidence that any form of unexpected or inescapable vulnerability brings. Even before they contact Jobcentres, the Benefits Office or any other organisations that provides the different services and offerings that provide income and support that comes from the public purse.
Some active claimants do use anger and exhibit loud forms of frustration. But this is often a self-protection mechanism and way to try and secure what they need from the System.
Sadly, these few are the stereotype upon which much of the prejudiced behaviour towards those on Benefits that reaches far beyond DWP staff is formed.
The profit-led private contractors who provide ‘back to work’ or ‘welfare to work’ services and ‘support’ are no better.
The tick-box culture that is applied universally towards anyone whose existence touches the welfare purse is one where claimants are considered capable of working if they tried, and therefore there because they choose to be.
Once through the turnstile of the benefits door, benefits claimants are considered worthless.
Nobody operating or administering the benefits system from within is prepared to look at anyone asking for help as being anything other than the same.
The Benefits system is inherently cynical and labels everyone who doesn’t work as being in the benefits queue as a lifestyle choice.
Unless benefits claimants possess a CV or situation which would be strong enough to indicate that they wouldn’t even be there in the first place, the experience of being just within the benefits system itself quickly takes its toll. Once inside, it is a downwards spiral for many where there is no genuine escape, even if you find a way to leave.
Politicians may indeed be openly questioning the number of unemployed who there because of mental health issues.
But beyond the torture of what it takes for growing numbers to keep up with a financial and money-centric culture that demands everyone keep up, the constant hits that come from being in ‘the system’ and treated like you are sub human by those who do and can work, makes for a progressively difficult challenge, that in the situation we all face today, has come down to little more than lucky breaks for the many who do want to escape.
4. Very few want to be on benefits – Living independently on a basic wage is key
I mentioned the angry and the frustrated above.
These are the people that hide behind a mask and fight the contact that they have with the Benefits System, because it’s what they believe they have to do, to survive.
Yes, many receiving benefits suggest openly and behave with a sense of entitlement. But this is the situation that decades of poor politicians – and therefore that we all have created, because of the responsibility that we all have, for appointing the politicians who have created, developed and maintained the mess that the UK is now in.
The stories of people who cannot step out of the benefits trap, because they cannot afford to do so, are also true.
There is something perverse about a situation where claimants will not take the risk of taking jobs and opportunities because of how they will be treated by the benefits system and what support they will lose immediately if and when they take those steps to get out.
Unless they cannot work because of other commitments or they find themselves genuinely unable to do so, there are few Benefits Claimants who have entered or remain within the Benefits System by choice.
5. A Minimum Wage that is guaranteed to be a Living Wage would change everything
Another truth that we have turned a blind eye to, is that many people who cannot do so currently, would be very happy to be working in Minimum Wage jobs IF they actually paid what its costs to live independently.
Many people would choose to work in Minimum Wage jobs, in receipt of a wage that they could live independently on. Because their only working responsibility or responsibility to others would then be to do what they are asked for the time that they are at work.
Many of us would be very happy just to work a working week and at the same time earn enough so that all of the bills and the essentials that it takes to live an independent and self-sustaining life today are paid for. Just as long as we don’t then have to go looking for and making ourselves vulnerable to anyone or anything else, reaching out for help, just to make ends meet.
In the days ahead, the Spring Statement that will be made to the Westminster Parliament by the UK Chancellor is likely to usher in mayhem of a kind we have never seen. Cuts to the Civil Service and Welfare Payments sit alongside taxation policies announced in the October ’23 Budget that should be flying red flags for many more of us than those who are ready to see, warning us about the mess the UK – and the World – are now in.
All for the love of money
The financial, economic or monetary system we have was designed by people who understood the following:
The power of money isn’t in the value of money itself. The power of money lies in what people without money can be convinced to believe the value of having money will be.
In the period running up to the ending of the Gold Standard, the launch of FIAT, GDP and tools like the (EU) Common Market, failing politicians who were desperate for control, power and the money they needed to spend on getting (re)elected, were easy to convince that FIAT and the tools that MMT and Neoliberalism had value, for us all.
The creation of a money system that wasn’t backed by gold or linked to anything with tangible value opened a world of possibilities.
Because at the bottom line of the whole balance sheet, money was always going to be worth whatever the people controlling that money said it was.
Naturally, the politicians didn’t really think about who would actually be in control of the money, as the real political pay-off was the way that the creation of money by banks and finance houses kept the true workings of everything far away from public view.
Creating the myth of credibility within shared systems
Through the adoption and regard of GDP as an accepted international economic benchmarking system, any money or unit of currency created by a private bank or finance house and introduced to the economy as loans or finance can be counted over and over multiple times.
Every unit (Pound, Dollar, Euro etc) adds another multiple of its original created value as it passes through each transaction or link in a supply chain, with the monitoring and publication of GDP recording output and growth that was really never there.
Total GDP figures are themselves then used to devalue or rather hide the debt that politicians incur through public spending, which is published as a percentage of what is required to be permanently growing GDP.
Traditional public spending is itself ‘dead money’. Because public service supply chains are typically short and revolve around providing public servants income and earnings.
The attraction for politicians to let the MMT genie out of the bottle was that they would be able to use money that they could borrow, rather than what they would have to obtain through raising taxes, to gain and maintain their power by buying votes. All with policies that they would not be able to afford or win support for in any other way.
The deregulation that was necessary – presented to all of us as ‘free markets’ – was never about freedom of small business in the sense that many even today believe.
Free markets are about giving freedom to big corporations and financial titans to set their own rules and control everything to do with money.
The freedom they have gained through deregulation has then dictated what the money they created can then buy. So that they could do whatever they want, take whatever they want and control whatever they want.
They knew that in time, the bogus system they created would eventually allow them to take over anything and everything that offered independence to anyone or anything that could provide a morally legitimate alternative to what they dictate would be our culture and way of life.
The big downside for every part of government and the ambitious and inept political classes who have blundered along whilst this has all unfolded using their signatures, is that they themselves have been manipulated, controlled and duped by the same interests that we have been conditioned by all along.
Politicians now go cap in hand to borrow from money creators who are always willing to use more of the false money that has enriched them to buy up the bonds the Government Treasury ‘sells’ them so that they can then charge interest on the money they gave the Government that doesn’t exist, but that we see made ‘real’ by our puppet politicians in the form of Public Borrowing.
The Credit Trap (For people)
Growing this system and measuring ‘growth’ is dependent upon the amount of money outside of the public accounts:
That has been added to circulation (the total volume of money that is known to exist in bank accounts or as cash) that can be realised or moved around, and
The multiples that can be added by the movement of that money, each time that it changes hands in a way that can be recorded through GDP.
This means that credit or money creation has become more important than traditional forms of production – which have historically been the source of value creation; and that these forms of production needed to be absorbed by the new system, so that everything within every supply chain could be leveraged – no matter the real cost to us all – so that they could force the creation of more new money or credit in some way.
As you begin to understand how valuable consumerism and everything that feeds it, such as mass production, globalisation, rent, leasing, subscription and licensing has become, you can also see how what is arguably the biggest and perhaps the perfect crime enacted against humanity, has really played out.
Through the necessity dictated by its need for ‘growth’ and now survival, The System has relied upon developing new and ever more inventive ways to force the masses into borrowing and the use of credit.
Using politicians and the law, we have deliberately been led and in some cases pushed away from owning resources, earning enough or having any kind of financial independence (including the use of cash) of our own.
The Credit Trap (for governments)
The growing value of the public debt was never intended to be paid off using this system.
It couldn’t be, because all of the natural forms of production and infrastructure that the population, normal businesses and even government once owned have steadily been sold off, moved and even rented back to us.
All so that those who used fake money to trap us all, could use the material wealth that they had bought and accumulated with fake money, to force us to borrow even more of that non-existent fake money, so they could gain increasing control over everything and make even more.
Our currency has become worth less and less in proportion to the value of the money that the banks and finance houses have been creating, which itself has been increasing from the start.
Unfortunately, all this has meant that as the assets and genuine productive value of the UK economy have been increasingly stripped away.
Government at every level – like all of us, has been left with less and less in terms of options to find money or income in any alternative way – because there is basically less and less happening in terms of independent production that remains available to be taxed!
The basic equation that politicians and government can no longer accommodate is this:
Privately or corporately created money and its circulation through increasing growth MUST always eclipse public spending for The System to keep working.
That is why everything we know and understand about the role of money, our access to it and our use of it has moved towards credit and debt creation that allows the flow of created or printed money at a level previously never known, that has then been used to finance the takeover of everything that has followed.
This is why we are now in the mess that we are in.
The System was always destined to fail. The only question was when
Public spending could be argued as having been out of control from the very beginning of this ‘system’.
Even economists believe that The System is genuine, because for no better reason than the subjectivity within the realms of an intergenerational period of time, it can certainly be argued that it does.
However, the realities of a system with malfeasant legitimacy were hidden so well by what remained of the ‘traditional’ or ‘old’ system for the first two to three decades, that politicians really had a honeymoon period.
Once bedded in, and the turmoil that followed adoption of the new system and what it really meant in the 70’s was complete, Politicians believed they could increasingly do whatever they wanted and didn’t see any danger hidden in everything they were being advised and influenced to do.
In reality, it was only the level of our Politicians own stupidity that could prevent them from getting successive wins, within The System of the 80’s, 90’s and early 00’s as it then was.
The real turning point when everything should and could have gone a different way was the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) of 2007/08 (Which has quietly been renamed The Great Recession) – when the stupidity and recklessness of the bankers own making through the actions of their employees and systems should have brought the whole system down.
The System was saved because the entire establishment by then depended upon it to survive.
Everyone with responsibility for the way everything we should be able to rely upon working for us, was already in it up to their necks.
The volume of cash created to bail out the banks in response to the impact of the GFC removed any real question over whether the existing financial system has any moral backbone or grounding in reality or not.
The fact that public borrowing being used to refinance private banks was accepted as being ‘normal’ in the way that it was, does indeed tell anyone looking on objectively, all they need to know about where the real priorities within The System lay.
The Politicians, establishment and bankers we so emboldened by the idea that they had got away with that one, it really didn’t take much for those in power, but without the skills, experience or leadership skills they all should have, to abuse the situation even further to get themselves out of a blind panic the very moment that the Covid Pandemic arrived in early 2020 and people began to die.
The explosion in unnecessary public spending, in response to the Covid Pandemic and then everything to do with the War in Ukraine that has followed, have contributed exponentially to the situation we see today and are key contributors to the fiscal decisions that the UK Chancellor and the Labour Government behind Keir Starmer is taking now.
UK government no longer has the ability to pay for all the public services that we need. Because private money creation and the ‘growth’ in credit is no longer high enough to hide everything that government needs to do.
The historic or traditional forms of production that the UK once excelled in and led the world with no longer exist to create either the value and therefore the money flow (through taxes etc) in any other meaningful or visibly legitimate way.
Our Armageddon is already here, today
The reason that so much of this is breaking into the open now, isn’t a warning of what will come if we don’t change our politicians’ minds and get them to run government differently.
It’s all coming into the open now, because it’s already too late.
When we begin to appreciate just how deeply rooted this bogus financial system is and how it is affecting so many different areas of life, we can begin to see just how serious the collapse of The System will be.
It is already making many fearful for what not having a system that works this way at the centre of the lives will mean.
Not because there isn’t an alternative, but because of the fear of losing whatever we believe we have gained.
Those who are responsible for keeping this morally bankrupt excuse for an economic system going know this and feel this too.
They are desperate to rescue themselves, their positions, influence and wealth with a new system that will keep their interests in place.
Alongside, they also plan to create a new set of myths for those of us who can be useful, and disregard everyone else.
In order for them to survive, the elites must change everything we know that’s built around the lies that are either unfolding or can already be seen to no longer work and replace them with new lies and The Systems that appear to work until those inevitably break too – no matter the cost to all of us.
Adam Tugwell 