@Pluto's Republic

Find the cause because THEY and THEIR actions are the true root cause of the majority of the world's ills.

Nobody wants to think they are a bad person, or an evil person, and that includes the baddest and most evil among us.

So therefore anything that could cause such self reflection is to be avoided and suppressed at all costs.

As a matter of fact...

Hey, what's with that funny sound and light coming though my tv???? I feel off...

(Reprogramming complete Oligarchy support mode activated)

We can't have these billionaires thinking they are bad people! It baffles me why you lower classes don't care about the suffering and social ostracism that these poor rich folks have to endure.

What's wrong with you people and your lack of empathy?

You think our lives are all wine and cheese parties and luxurious yachts!

Well, maybe they are, but what does that have to do with anything?

We still have to worry about the mortgages and insurance on our winter and summer homes as well as the regular residences, oh and the ski chalet, almost forgot about that one.

And do you think Foie gras and caviar grow on trees?

Won't someone think of Buffy and Muffy's debutante party? Those are spendy too!

How callous you 99% are... /s

Peter Joseph has near perfect clarity. It's such a relief to see it on display. You created the ideal presentation, allowing us to jump in at different points.

What Joseph brings, in the end, is the idea of "causality." It is the key to true understanding and the path to real solutions, but people and governments deliberately ignore the relationships between things. They treat every new adversity like a complete reality that we must bomb into submission, rather than seeing it as a part of a larger interconnected entanglement that is in a state of constant becoming. Each time we intervene in this complex system, bursting in with physical or economic violence against another country or people, we immediately harm ourselves and double the size of the chaos. Each time, the planet dies a little more.

One example of this comes to mind: On the day of 9/11 and on every single day since, there is only one question that needs to be answered: "What did we do to cause this attack to happen?" or "What did we do to make them so angry?" No one needed to be bombed. No country needed to be attacked. No war needed to happen. No regime needed to fall.

All we needed to do was to find the cause. The cause would reveal the solution. However, asking that question could make enemies and ruin your life. That was programmed into society from the top-down. It made you a traitor to suggest that America did something to cause 9/11. More likely, looking for that cause would ultimately reveal that 9/11 was not a "reaction" at all. That it was an isolated "action" that was initiated to launch all our reactions and counter-reactions since.

Regardless, the US deliberately pushed past any need to identify or explain what caused 9/11 and took the hastiest, most violent course of reaction it could muster. Americans had no curiously about the cause. They wanted revenge.

And what we are left with is what they got, instead.

Everyone can come up with their own example of not getting to the "cause" of things. The idea, says Joseph, is learning to think about everything in that more complex and analytical headspace, first. Whether we act or not.

@Pluto's Republic

Why were we attacked and why do they hate us? It's obvious to those of us who are against what our country does to others, but the people who will not acknowledge it need to be woken up instead of thinking that our military is really fighting to spread freedom and democracy. There are still too many people who think that way.

Peter Joseph has near perfect clarity. It's such a relief to see it on display. You created the ideal presentation, allowing us to jump in at different points.

What Joseph brings, in the end, is the idea of "causality." It is the key to true understanding and the path to real solutions, but people and governments deliberately ignore the relationships between things. They treat every new adversity like a complete reality that we must bomb into submission, rather than seeing it as a part of a larger interconnected entanglement that is in a state of constant becoming. Each time we intervene in this complex system, bursting in with physical or economic violence against another country or people, we immediately harm ourselves and double the size of the chaos. Each time, the planet dies a little more.

One example of this comes to mind: On the day of 9/11 and on every single day since, there is only one question that needs to be answered: "What did we do to cause this attack to happen?" or "What did we do to make them so angry?" No one needed to be bombed. No country needed to be attacked. No war needed to happen. No regime needed to fall.

All we needed to do was to find the cause. The cause would reveal the solution. However, asking that question could make enemies and ruin your life. That was programmed into society from the top-down. It made you a traitor to suggest that America did something to cause 9/11. More likely, looking for that cause would ultimately reveal that 9/11 was not a "reaction" at all. That it was an isolated "action" that was initiated to launch all our reactions and counter-reactions since.

Regardless, the US deliberately pushed past any need to identify or explain what caused 9/11 and took the hastiest, most violent course of reaction it could muster. Americans had no curiously about the cause. They wanted revenge.

And what we are left with is what they got, instead.

Everyone can come up with their own example of not getting to the "cause" of things. The idea, says Joseph, is learning to think about everything in that more complex and analytical headspace, first. Whether we act or not.