4-3-2010 ~ Good Post Brother Rohann ~ I for one appreciate your tireless efforts to help educate the people as well as you do from different levels, from different perspectives and from different platforms. This helps to create a more informed and educated General Population on this prison planet.

In general, I agree with Senor Robert D. Steele The Amerikan public is lethargic and progressive activists who are online are essential in order to create a collective alternative media that will help educate the broad Masses of the people, including the Third World.

At the same time we need to Educate to Liberate the Masses by creating, maintaining and expanding Mass Literacy and Mass Internet Access so that the bulk of us have a general understanding of what is really going on in connected reality.

All along the way we need to remember the three pillars of power: a strong collective culture to replace the present selfish individualistic ‘me first’ culture; a strong social-political organization that can help us all link up from the immediate local level, the regional level and up to the global level; and the pooling together of our own property (including intellectual property, personal property, land ownership and other forms of capital).

Obviously we need to get rid of the present corporate capitalist economic system. I advocate global democratic socialism. All along the way, we will also have to transform our own spirits, transform our own mentalities and understand that the bulk of the General Population has been infected with the Seven Deadly Sins that perpetuate our oppression and make us susceptible to self-repression: false pride, selfish greed, lazy sloth, petty jealousy, undirected wrath and other character defects.

Keep up the good work. This is just off the top of my head. With an open mind and creative consciousness we can share our ideas and ideals in ways that will result in a upward rising of our Collective Mass Consciousness.

Power to the Truth! ~Che Peta
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c/s

Rohaan,

I am in complete agreement on this issue. The authorities have been stepping up their efforts to censure the internet for some time now. Within such an environment, knowledge truly becomes power and the well-informed are apt guerrillas. I trust you are familiar with the Zeitgeist movement? Local chapters are forming everywhere in an effort to push polity in a more democratic direction. But the revolution will not be televised – though perhaps ‘twitterized’. As a public confined to certain limits, we are locked in one of the most important custody battles of all time, without even realizing it.

A friend told me an interesting story related to systems of control:

A king, on his deathbed called on each of his three sons, one at a time. To the first, he gave a dove and told him to try taming it to obey him. The first prince cupped the bird between his hands and spoke to it softly in reassurance. No sooner had he loosened his hold than the dove darted out the window. The king sent the first prince away and called in his second son, handed him another dove and asked the same thing of him. The second prince cleverly spread birdseed on the floor and let the dove peck at it freely. However, not long thereafter, the dove had its fill and flew off too. The second son was sent away and the third brought in – given a dove and similarly instructed. That prince clamped the pigeon between his palms, squeezing the life from it without hesitation. Now the king became outraged and called his two other sons back in. The king took a fourth dove out from a cage and began ruthlessly plucking every one of its feathers. He then held up the bald dove, which was nestled in fear atop his palm.

“You see,” said the old king, “I have taken everything from this dove and behold – it is grateful simply to have the warmth of my hand!”

I believe this is a harsh lesson not lost on contemporary plutocrats. It is Machiavelli 101: cripple your opponent’s ability to retaliate.

Anyhow, I commence rambling and shall desist.

Sorry I haven’t been more outspoken lately – I do still mean to redact certain points pertaining to our past communication. Unfortunately, assignments and exams at school require the brunt of my mental abilities at present. Will hopefully be in touch again soon.