Det er gammel ret
Fuglen og den fattige skal også være mæt…
Er det ikke sådan det hedder, i den gamle sang?
Jeg kom til at tænke på den, da jeg gik ved Søerne i lillejuleaftenskumringen, denne Fimbulsvinter 2010. Juletræssælgerne havde tændt fakler og bål. Det var smukt med sneen, der føg i spiraler hen over den tilfrosne Sortedam. Enkelte stjerner glimtede blandt de drivende skyer. Jeg kom til hjørnet ved den Franske Cafe – Normaliseringens Centrum. En famile stod ved vågen med en levende masse af ænder og svaner omkring sig. Det var som én stor, kværnende krop af baskende vinger og ivrige næb, der blev rakt op mod hænderne med brød. Farmand skulle selvfølgelig imponere de unge og lod svanerne snuppe det lige ud af hånden på ham. Det lykkedes ham i hvert fald at imponere mig!
Det slog mig, at det var et stykke tid siden, jeg havde set mennesker fodre fugle her i Danmark. På tilbagevejen gik jeg igen forbi juletræssælgerne, som sad på hver deres kasse omkring det lille bål. En enkelt forpjusket ædelgran, halvt så høj som mig, havde de tilbage. 280kr med fod. Det måtte jeg indrømme, at jeg ikke havde råd til. De forbarmede sig og lod mig tage et lille bundt afklippet gran gratis. Så fik jeg også den grønne duft ind i hjemmet i år. Det er lige til at blive glad af.
Hjemme i kollektivet er der tyst og tomt. Næsten alle er taget afsted til Jylland eller Thailand for at fejre Julen med familien. Men Asger kommer forblæst ind af døren kort efter mig. Det er først i morgen, at han flyver til Portugal for at fejre Jul hos en ven. Sørens så kosmopolitiske vi er blevet her i Danmark. Jeg kommer i tanke om sækken med gammelt vintertøj til hjemløseherberget, som stadig ligger i skabet og bliver flov. Hvor meget mener jeg det egentlig, når ikke jeg kan få den afleveret, bare fordi der ligger sne?
Asger og jeg får tændt op i lidt risengrød og deler den med saftevand og en snak om verdenssituationen. Politiken ligger på bordet. Pap beskriver i lederen, hvordan ‘VKO er hovedarkitekt bag den tiltagende fattigdom’. Man ville korse sig, hvis ikke det var den slags overskrifter, man efterhånden var blevet vant til. Nederst på siden drister pap sig til, at ‘håbe, at 2011 byder på to nyskabelser i dansk socialpolitik’.
Det er et håb, jeg kan tilslutte mig med hele mit hjerte. Det er et håb, som tegnene i sneen og de drivende, grå skyer lover ikke vil blive gjort til skamme. Men det er ikke fra politikere, at disse to nyskabelser vil komme. Hverken fra den væltende regering eller den næste, der er ved at vakle på plads ind i det absolutte vakuum, som Løkke & co. snart efterlader sig. Retorikken, der strømmer ud fra Christiansborg vil givet vis ændre sig i det kommende år. Men den førte politik ikke nævneværdigt. Prove me wrong, Helle. Please.
Nej, det er blandt os borgere, at nybruddene i socialforståelsen er ved at opstå. Den tiltagende fattigdom, som ikke længere kan fornægtes herhjemme, er nemlig ikke noget dansk fænomen, hvor ihærdigt den end bliver branded som sådan. Hele den udviklede verden er ved at vågne op til det armod, som de sidste årtiers opskruede låne- og forbrugsgilde har kørt vore samfund ud i. Fattigdomen er tiltagende i hele vesten. Politikere har ladet stå til, tiet om, fornægtet, ikke forstået og i nogle tilfælde ligefrem tilhjulpet denne tilstand. Politikere vil ikke kunne hjælpe os ud af den. At nå til denne indsigt, at rejse sig, at kaste passivitetens åg af sig og gribe sin frihed med den ene hånd, sine borgerrettigheder med den anden, er det ene sociale nybrud, som endelig er ved at indfinde sig også i os danskere.
Det andet nybrud kommer, når vi indser, at denne situation, denne enorme samfundsudfordring, er en gave. En gave, der giver os noget at samles om. En gave, som giver os en chance for, at finde en folkesjæl igen. En gave, der lader os tænke på næsten, på de stadig flere og flere danskere som sættes fra hus og hjem, på de mennesker, som indenfor de næste 5 år ligeså godt kan være dig og mig. Der er ikke ret meget coolness i bare at lade stå til længere. Vi kan nu alle sammen se hvad det med 100% sikkerhed fører til. Denne globale, tiltagende fattigdom er den julegave, som vil få os til at indse, at vi her i Danmark stadig har vores frihed til at handle som borgere. I 2011 vil vi for alvor begynde at bruge den igen. Ganske simpelt hen fordi vi forstår, at folk her i landet har brug for os. Ellers dør de i disse vintre.
Rigtig glædelig jul, 2010. Nyd nærværet, traditionen og freden. Hold jeres kære tæt. Sig tak for alt I har at dele. Vågn op til frihed.
Following the recent events all over the internet, it has become quite obvious that we all have to stop and think. The internet revolution is at hand, but it has been brewing for almost three decades now. It started with a few geeks that began adhering to a motto of “Information wants to be free”. Now almost 20 years have passed and we are really seeing the idea take roots. We might seem to be winning, but we have to pause and recheck our plans. The reaction from the “establishment” is becoming more and more radical, even verging on the absurd. The US are talking about treason charges against a non US citizen, this is not just an attack on freedom of speech and open free journalism, its an absurd claim. The trench cyber- and psyops war is derailing the issues. We have to make sure we aren’t looking at the flash bombs while plans might be at work to shut it all down.
It is obvious now that the movement is not just a fad, it’s strong and only gathering in strength. We have shown that a free information society is not just extremely creative, but also an actual force for change. The only risk I see now is that we allow this creativity and this force to be commandeered and re-centralized. You might not even have noticed these developments, but they are happening all over and using the “Totalitarian tiptoe” as David Icke likes to call it.
We began sharing information and creating free and open media. We began sharing videos on relevant topics and ideas about the change we wanted. This momentum was picked up by groups like TED, and they started creating free media. Is it really free though? Isn’t it actually the established agenda disguising itself in “our” clothing? They may be genuine, but it should really cause some alertness. Can we really assume that things like google, youtube, facebook, and skype are forces of good? The accumulated financial wealth of these companies and their distribution of their resources should make us wonder. Big things like this always begin as a “revolutionary” cause. This was true for Microsoft taking on Big Blue, for Apple taking on established media and the corporately focused computer industry. These – now major – players all started out with an resistance agenda, but when they prevail they usually forget their initial ideals and intentions. They loose their edge and street cred.
So my warning is: Beware those bearers of gifts of yester years. We have to ready ourselves for the next “counter attack”. If we want the current movement to remain strong and keep its momentum we have to create a stronger foundation for decentralized development. For grassy roots to grow we need a rich and nuturing soil. Its all a matter of feeding and keeping our ears to the ground. Soul United’s Call to Reaction is for all of us stay the course and keep digging the dirt of the underground. The only true redundancy is human redundancy of open-source, creative common user conduct.
Politic have long been a farce throughout Europe. We, the people, have been coerced to accept the gradual loss of freedom and to continue voting for variously hued, parasitic bureaucrats through increased consumption capabilities, ubiquitous disinformation and new technology overload. We have not been given an opportunity to properly upgrade our user conduct as the appeals, appliances and applications have been unleashes on us with greater and greater rapidity. Our trust in (or acceptance of) our leaders has not been honored. Our citizenry-time has been spent on entertainment and bourgeois leisure. Meanwhile, our heritage has been stolen, fenced and hedged with derivatives uncountable.
But there is something happening all over the developed world. The paradigm of perceived powerlessness, that has seemed to grip us – even our youngsters and students – for decades, is being thrown off by more and more people daily. Let the word go out that there is a new tone in the air that won’t freeze or wither or fade away. We, the people, have always had the power. We only need to be the change we want to see.
It is no different in Denmark that anywhere else – except that more of us have been kept in cozier comfort than most. We have been sold the narrative of an isolatedsystem.dk, when in reality nothing happens here, that is not a reflection of what is happening elsewhere. Maybe this pervasive lie of Denmark as an Untouchable Island in the world is why it’s harder for many Danes to wake up and feel direction of the spiral the earth moving in.
Well, we are as much in per capita debt as any other nation European nation we can name, except Ireland. We have been artificially kept from feeling it, but the dam will break soon enough and the facts will not go away like a bad dream. We dug this hole ourselves. Are we ready, now, to help each other climb out? Are we the Generation Change?
Resistance can be counterproductive, however, if it isn’t as intelligent and focussed as the force it is resisting. Demonstrations are important symbols, but lasting change requires lasting changes in behavior patterns. The power in unity and activism, that is coming back to people at this time in history, needs to find new technological (i.e. user conduct) implementation in the 21st century. The threat to our future is not limited by borders, ethnicity or age. It affects us all and it is powered by most of us. The establishment thrives on our dependency on the service-economy and our predictable habits of individual consumption. Only by a concerted move towards greater independence, mutual open-source sharing, as well as more efficient production and consumption can we begin to change establishment attitudes, even as we change our own.
This budding revolution we are seeing has parallels to the events of 1968. But of course things are different now. Technology has advanced. So has consciousness. There is every indication that this time we can do it right. Or righter. They had a lot of good ideas back then, but they did not have the internet. They did not have a notion of a global underground movement that you could contact instantly for free; anywhere, anytime, to share any information.
This is what we can do. This is our privilege. This is our freedom.
Denne post bliver et meget kort udtryk af et livslangt tankegods. Om du følger med i nyheder eller om du lytter til stemmer kan snart være ligemeget. Der er ikke længere nogen måde at skjule på for mennesker med adgang til information, at samfundsudviklingen – politisk, socialt og kulturelt – går hurtigere og hurtigere, både lokalt og globalt. Der er mange plausible forklaringer på hvad dette kan skyldes, men det vil blive for omfattende, at komme ind på her.
De begreber, de fleste af os i Danmark hører denne udvikling udtrykt i – indenfor nyhedsmedier – er ting som kriser, reformer, rentestigninger, meningsmålinger, frygt, korruption, krige, løgne, nedskæringer, terror, omstruktureringer, fyringer, tvangsauktioner og der er ikke noget at komme efter. Hvad stemmerne siger om denne samfundsudvikling, til de af jer som lytter, tør jeg nærmest ikke tænke på.
Hvis vi kigger ud over Danmarks grænser bliver denne udviklingstrend endnu tydeligere. Der er tilstundende kaos og utryghed mange steder – nu også i det vi er blevet vandt til at tænke på som den “udviklede” del af verden. Udviklingen går i mange retninger og profeterne synes at blive flere og flere og flere. I takt med at de tilgængelige forklaringer på denne uoverskuelige tilstand bliver flere i antal og bredere i perspektiv bliver mange villige til at overveje, om der kunne være andre sammenhænge end dem de tidligere er blevet givet og har måttet tage for gode varer.
Hvordan forholder man sig til alt det her, som ganske almindelig dansker med boliglån, børn, kaskoforsikring, offentligt arbejde, avisabonnement, træningscenterkort, fladskærmsTV fra L’easy, fugtskader i kælderen, forældre, man aldrig får besøgt, julegaveræs, man ikke har råd til og begyndende tandpine? Trækker man dynen op over hovedet og tager endnu en stressrelateret sygedag for at gemme sig med en plade Marabou og en flaske billig rødvin en stakket stund i en yndlingsserie, hvor solen skinner, kærligheden vinder og problemerne er overstået når kendingsmelodien lyder?
Er det vores danske frihed her i 2010erne?
Hvis man skal begynde at forholde sig konstruktivt til alt det, der sker derude, så må det være der, hvor selv Michael Jackson fandt svaret. Én selv. Hvis jeg nu påstår at dise forandringer vil tage til i styrke og komme skyllende i bølger ind over Danmark, som resten af verden, så er det ikke for at være dommedagsprofet. Det er bare et faktum og du vil snart høre den samme historie udtrykt med andre ord, hvem end du lytter til. Forandring er ikke af det onde. Frygt for forandring er.
Der er tre helt grundlæggende, pragmatiske ting man kan gøre, uanset hvem man er, for at komme frygten og bekymringen til livs. Det drejer sig om at indse, at frihed er en proaktiv, ikke en reaktionær størrelse.
1) Begynd at orientere dig selv aktivt. Afsøg andre informationskanaler end dem du er vandt til. Undersøg ting ved hjælp af internettet. Vær åben overfor andre tolkninger end du hidtil har accepteret. Diskutér væsentlige emner med din omgangskreds, frem for irrelevante eller virtuelle soundbites, som du har fået smidt i hovedet.
2) Forbrug mere kritisk. Den ene artikel efter den anden advarer om de yderligere prisstigninger, der vil komme på snart sagt alle produkter. Årsagerne til dette er mange og varierede, og det vil helt sikkert få større og større indflydelse på både private og offentlige økonomier, udover den påvirkning vi allerede har mærket. Ved selv at gå villigt ind i en holdningsændring til ens egne forbrugsvaner, undgår man at blive presset og stresset i samme grad af de forandringer, som hele samfundet vil gennemgå. Find ud af hvad du behøver og hvad du kan undvære. Gør det til en leg at spare penge. Handl lokalt og (hvis du har et patriotisk sindelag, eller bare ikke bryder dig om unødvendigt ressourcespild) køb danske produkter, når det er muligt.
3) Invester mere af din tid i dine nærmeste og dit netværk. Med en mere bevidst og kritisk holdning til informationskilder følger mindre tid brugt på passivt at blive underholdt. På samme måde frigør en mere kritisk forbrugsholdning tid og ressourcer, som kan bruges på at skabe merværdi for dig selv og andre – gennem meningsfyldt samvær.
Disse ‘bløde værdier’ har været i omgang ligeså længe, der har været mennesker. Vores overflodssamfund har ført de fleste af os væk fra dem i løbet af de sidste par årtier. Nu hvor samfundskursen vender, har vi igen muligheden for aktivt at hævde vores frihed til at ville hinanden. Dermed sætter vi os selv i førersædet for den udvikling, som verden gennemgår i disse år. Deri består vores danske frihed.
During these days of Wikileaks furora there are a few simple questions that should be asked.
- Why is so much mass media attention being directed towards this one operation, when others have been and are still so much more efficient, user friendly and direct in their critique of the US and other governments?
- Why is access to www.wikileaks.org now blocked by the inscrutable operative forces of your internet browser?
- What is the nature of whistleblowing?
@1: Potentially because the revelations they put out are that damaging. But how? To whom? It is not a great surprise to anyone that within a government as large, compartmentalized and militaristic as the American one, there is corruption and clandestine, illegal and immoral activities. No one seems to be able to do anything about it. No official have yet denied any of the claims made by the media, on the basis of the wikileaked documents. They tell us it ‘damages their diplomatic relations’. But no citizen of any country is directly able to do anything about the practice of US diplomats spying on UN officials. Other than talk and perhaps blog about it, that is. It’s kinda like the paradox of terrorism. It’s only scary if you know about it. So it is only effective terrorism if the mass media reports it. Which they do, whether an attack succeeds or not. Which makes us terrified. Which means we let our governments control things even more, because we believe we cannot protect ourselves, but they can. A nice tri-lateral structure of circular logic.
@2: Who knows? It’s funny to watch, though. Type in http://www.wikileaks.org/ and see what happens. This begs the further question: If “they” can do this, why didn’t they do it long ago? Maybe because it’s not very effective. It simply means that bloggers like myself, who find these things interesting, have to call their IT-guro friends, who directs us to websites such as this one, where they explain how you subvert this procedure by logging directly onto your desired webpage’s IP address: http://213.251.145.96/ Then , while we’re still chatting on skype, we get into a discussion about how you could take down a website if you were a high ranking American official and you really wanted to. Turns out you cannot, if it is set up with sufficient redundancy on multiple servers. So there you have it. Free unblockable internet. The good news of the day 
@3: The sign of the times? Whistleblowing is all the rage. The ‘disclosure of wrongdoing’ seems to be the core of google’s definition. But that comes in so many forms. From so many sources. All the time now. There must be a lot of wrongdoing going on out there. Which brings us back to the original question: Why the focus on wikileaks? You would think that pages like this one would get a similar kind of attention when they brazenly and freely present the documents to support these kinds of claims:
The Chinese/Soviet communist system of education, including the Pavlovian method, is being implemented right now in the USA, as recommended by William Foster, former chairman of the Communist Party, USA, in his 1930 book “Toward a Soviet America.” He was buried with honors in the Kremlin. The conditioning method is necessary for work force training, as well as political brainwashing. Communist governments are atheist so they consider their citizens as nothing but animals, with no soul, conscience, or free will. Has our government adopted the same atheistic view of its citizens?
The agreements between the United States and the USSR and China are simply the full realization of the merger of the United States and the Soviet Union as clearly spelled out by Rowan Gaither, President of the Ford Foundation, in his conversation with Norman Dodd, Research Director for the Congressional Investigation of the Tax-Exempt Foundations in 1953, when Mr. Dodd visited his office in New York City. Gaither said to Mr. Dodd: “All of us here at the policy making level of the foundation have at one time or another served in the OSS (Office of Strategic Services, CIA forerunner) or the European Economic Administration, operating under directives from the White House. We operate under those same directives…. The substance under which we operate is that we shall use our grant making power to so alter life in the United States that we can be comfortably merged with the Soviet Union.”
What?!? This can’t be true. We would have heard about it from the media. Read about it in history books. Wouldn’t we?
Kunne ikke undlade at dele denne søsterside med vores endnu ikke oplyste læsere. Den er et virkeligt godt eksempel på det væsentlige ved denne form for virksomhed, som Soul United bedriver. Det er simpelt hen private borgere, der, på eget initiativ, har scannet vigtige dokumenter, kategoriseret dem og gjort dem frit tilgængelige som .pdf filer. Af en eller anden grund tvivler jeg på, at hjemmesider som denne længe vil overleve den lov om censurering af internettet, som den amerikanske regering er igang med at vedtage, fordi det er så farligt det Wikileaks laver.
Hvis bare Wikileaks “afsløringer” indeholdt informationer, der var halvt så relevante som disse dokumenter og afslørede noget overraskende, spændende eller reelt oprørende om den amerikanske regering – for ikke at nævne den virkelige amerikanske magtstruktur – så var der i det mindste bare en lille grund til, at mistænke, at de ikke er den bestående magtelites påskud for at indføre denne lov. Som i øvrigt snart kommer i europæisk version takket være vores alle sammens vidunderlige og nyligt opdaterede NATO sammensværgelse.
Nuvel. At denne patriotiske side findes på nettet den dag i dag er gode nyheder. Jeg tror jeg vil bruge resten af aftenen på at finde et saftigt dokument med en masse dejlige afsløringer og så sende det til redaktionen på Information. Det er jo i dag at ‘Infokrigen er brudt ud‘. Hvis jeg nu gør det journalistiske arbejde for dem, mon de så ikke vil være interesserede i at bringe “nyheden”? Der må jo være læsere i lortet, siden de kører forsider om det.
Jeg vil ikke være for pessimistisk, men jeg tvivler. Det er noget med at de danske officielle massemedier har svært ved at forholde sig til international kritik, som ikke er blevet kørt rundt i større landes mediemaskiner først. Man skulle eller tro at de ikke ville have noget imod at komme først med en nyhed. De har syv fuldtidslønnede ansatte til at kigge Wikileaks efter i krogene. Det kan da ikke være fordi de ikke, ligesom os almindelige dødelige, ikke altid lige har tid til at sætte sig ordentligt ind i tingene og læse på lektien…
Capitalism is actually a rather useful and efficient system, if its done right. The problem is that to utilize its power and benefits we need to agree about some fundamentals. There are things in the world that should be shared and can not be monopolized of protected for minority benefits. On our planet there is potentially enough base resources for everyone, the problem is we are running a competition scheme on these things and sacrificing human life in the process.
Water, Food, Housing and Energy.
These have to be considered common wealth and be distributed to every human being on the planet according to fundamental needs. We have to make all governments no matter what ideological bias understand this. Socialism and Marxism is maybe not preferable for everyone, but letting minorities own and control fundamental human necessities is facilitated slavery.
The Village Pump.
If you have a village of 100 people and on one of the plots of land there is the only clean water pump, then you would potentially have ruling nobility arise from the owners of that plot of land. As long as they are allowed to control the villagers access their wishes and ways of pricing this life giving resource will control everything in the village. If these owners systematically draw more and more wealth to themselves and manipulates the availability to the water, eventually the rest of the villagers will riot and reclaim their land. Then you would create an interim ownership and eventually these new water governors would become the elite. This power play can shift back and fourth for ages and will just create a competitive state in the village. The only way to focus productivity and efficient living is to agree that access to this resource is shared equally. As new types of wealth and abundance is created this story will repeat itself.
Socialism is only relevant in regards to natural needs and abundant resources. This is why it is so crucial to have rulers that are aware of this and can protect the general population from powerhungry and wealth controlling entities. Socialism is not applicable on any other parts of our economic system. You can not allow anyone to be sole owner or controller of assets that generate base human necessities. Ideally all communities should work towards all individuals being self sustaining in all these aspects. When fundamental needs are covered the individuals will be able to use their productivity to compete and develop a new and higher degree of abundance, until this can be “socialized” and distributed to grant new Independence. This phenomenon is what has driven all modern human development. All our progress can be reduced to this simple description. It is important that we make sure we all are aware of this and can start focusing on using it constructively instead of attempting to work against it for our personal or minority group gains.
If the people arent aware of these things, the elite will abuse their ignorance.
At least until the people become aware and reap vengeance on them..
The only way to avoid the strife and war mongering is to agree on peaceful and constructive competition only.
We have to change now. In the pursuit of happiness and wealth we have neglected and ignored the most basic fundamental rules of nature, we have totally lost perspective on how things really work. To get back to basic we need to once and for all resolve these issues.
Human Needs:
We are actually not that demanding when we return to the fundamentals. We need WATER, FOOD, HOUSING, and for better living ENERGY and heat. These things have to be our main focus and we have to make these abundant and cheap. Any activity that oppose this need to be shut down. The only needed argument being that it is detrimental to human life and thus globally ILLEGAL.
Artificial Scarcity.
All the above needs are being hijacked and submitted to artificial scarcity. The methods and excuses are many and extremely inventive. Suffice it to say we need to start closing them ALL down. The governments of the world and the people at large need to make sure these life fundamentals are made available and preferably free for everyone. If we allow things like banking and fiat currency speculation and other fancy economic systems to become a parasite on these aspects of human life we are all going to loose. If we allow companies or other interests to take control and create an artificial low supply and thus resulting high costs we are simply killing our selves. We need to take back our “common wealth”.
Flip side economy.
Our everyday lives are being abused. Everything that should and could be abundant and cheap is made expensive, and everything that is scarce is under an illusion of abundance. Using this system our economy and corporates are creating a tragedy of the commons beyond anything that individuals could ever imagine. Whether we are looking at Japanese fishing, American water supply, or European agriculture its all the same. We have to disallow these practices at least in regards to the above mentioned human life fundamentals. Whether they keep doing these things with everything else is not relevant to us the people.
Middle man scams.
In all our necessity dealings we are getting infested with middle men. These parasites go in and use the mechanics of scams, half truths, and constructed behaviour that all leads to you wealth being taken from you. Its one big game of chairs where more and more middle men are added and more and more chairs removed. Thus your initial created real value is tapped to a degree where you only have a fraction left due to all these people needing to be paid off. This is an inefficient system that we allow to grow every day. Again this is not a problem in regards to resources that are only nice to have, but it needs to be removed on our essential needs.
I BEG YOU RESEARCH THESE THINGS, OUR LIVES DEPEND ON IT…!
Some links and related topics: Google is your friend…
Artificial Scarcity : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_scarcity
( Example the diamond empires: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6186684678299366197# )
Tragedy of the commons: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons
The Broken Window: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window
What is Money? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_as_Debt
Food Inc: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1286537/
Tapped: http://www.tappedthemovie.com/
The corporate model: http://www.thecorporation.com/
and much much more.. get future ready…
