Either you’re with us or you’re against us

This is an Anonymous message from the Global revolution to politicians dictators and plutocrats all over the planet. Surprised by the global disobedience? Let us explain to you your delicate situation.

Tens of Thousands of years ago, human beings began to evolve. Since then, our species has walked a dark and bloody road, which isolated people condemned to live in fear caused by ignorance.

Knowledge, ethics and technological development have always been conditioned by the elite and their wars, which as in the Orwellian metaphor, have done nothing more than perpetuate vertical and obscurantist social schemes.

We have arrived to the 21st Century of our era, after two World Wars, endorsing the possibility of nuclear conflict with assured mutual destruction. Their so-called economists and intellectuals, having announced that it was “the end of the story”, it seemed, more than ever, that looking for a fairer order was meaningless.

Thinking that they had slowed our rational development enough, they let us carry on with a progress model whose sole objective was never more than to make them even richer and more powerful.

However, they did not consider that the real human spirit refuses to bow, always. While they believed they were overcoming us by using economic shocks, our species has evolved in a new manner. Using only the powers of culture and freedom, we have reused those technological resources that were born of our genius and that were only provided to us with consumerist intentions.

So we have updated, improved and immunized our force operations and effectiveness. We absorb their own tactics techniques and power of persuasion to form our own means dreams and challenges.

Today, the revolution is spreading around the planet as a challenge to their oppression and they shamelessly try to shut down our freedom of expression. Finally, information has reached critical mass, exploding in a melting-pot of voices whose new wishes and needs can’t be covered by their old paradigm.

Now, physically and digitally interconnected, we form a huge collective consciousness. Maybe their corporate media silences what is happening but they can not fool us anymore.

They can temporarily stop some points but the process will continue unstoppable and ever-changing. Now It doesn’t matter which measures they take for trying to counteract us. The more violence censorship and obstacles they put in our way, the more they expose their weakness.

From every place on the Earth, with different ideas and from different conditions, women and men have always existed and always will exist who oppose the pretends of undemocratic and unjust governments. After millenniums of suffering, our species has stood up, and nothing will ever be the same. Their totalitarian game is ending.

But friends, the story hasn’t ended. This is where it begins. We’ll take the streets and Occupy. Change is happening. The people should never fear the government. The government should fear the people. We are the people. We are the only system.

We are Anonymous. We are legion. We do not forgive. We do not forget. Expect us.

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If a social problem exists, how should a society fix it?

There is almost no doubt that social problems do exist — there is probably no society on Earth that doesn’t have some kind of problem.

Yet if society is the social norm, how can it even recognize that it has a problem? For example: Since a society that has no slavery might be considered healthy, why would a society that has no “employment opportunities” be considered unhealthy? Likewise, if in a society most of wealth were created by misinforming most of the population and then tricking them into buying bogus insurance policies, then perhaps these people might not even realize that they were being fooled at all. Would this be very different than fooling people by telling them to enter a room to take a shower, but instead sending them into a gas chamber? If someone dies because they were made homeless, were not able to afford food or medical care, then is their death by starvation really more acceptable than a death by disease or by murder or through a terrorist attack?

The most fundamental issue, probably, is that when there is a society-wide belief system (whether in capitalism, or in Christianity, or in an ideology such as freedom), then calling such a bias into question can easily lead to a situation in which the individual is isolated and quarantined because they are interpreted as eccentric, “anti-social” or perhaps even a communist or terrorist threat. It was precisely in this manner that Nazi Germany isolated and removed elements from society which questioned the Nazi society itself… — and this is also why Rosa Luxemburg’s famous quote concerning freedom (i.e., that a society is free if and only if people are allowed to think differently) so irritated the society she was a member of.

Much like Socrates was executed thousands of years ago, Rosa Luxemburg was executed less than 100 years ago. Millions were exterminated in the Nazi concentration camps. And millions more lead lives of quiet desperation as slave laborers producing fashionable gadgets so that the 1% can post pretty pictures depicting how successful they are at exploiting the masses to their sheepish follower fan base. Many societies are very successful at eliminating those who question the social order — that was precisely Rosa Luxemburg’s point… and for stating that in public, her society made her pay the price.

We all know what usually happens when an individual questions society. Society marginalizes the individual, and if that doesn’t suffice, it may call the individual a sociopath… and it may even eliminate such individuals by driving them out or killing them.

When an individual questions himself / herself — as Socrates did thousands of years ago — he / she may turn to other individuals and ask them for help. When a society questions itself, then what does it do?

In my opinion, it should seek advice from other societies. In this vein, a global society dominated by one world government is indeed a very frightening apparition.

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Insane: Norwegians cannot convict Anders Breivik as criminal

A psychiatric evaluation of confessed mass killer Anders Behring Breivik has found he was insane during the July 22 bomb and shooting attacks that killed 77 people in Norway.

The finding by the two forensic psychiatrists will help determine whether Breivik is sentenced to prison or psychiatric care. Prosecutor Svein Holden said the report shows Breivik was “psychotic” during the attack.

If that assessment is upheld by the court then Breivik cannot be sentenced to prison for the attacks.

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How to Prevent Family Problems from Infecting Wider Society?

Perhaps an ethic of collaboration (instead of unmitigated competition) would help: The Family Unit Plays a Pivotal Role in Facilitating Relationships Between Individuals and Communities… and the Goal Should Be to Build Community Relationships that Foster Collaboration

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Grin and bear it

If something is wrong or if a problem exists, why is it considered socially acceptable — or even heroic — behavior to pretend the problem doesn’t exist?

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Problem: People do not feel responsible for the society the live in

I have started a little questionnaire, and preliminary results show that most people do not feel responsible for the society they live in. :|

This is a problem.

To make this more clear, consider these statements:

  • The people of the United States of America are responsible for the financial crisis in the United States of America

  • The people of Europe are responsible for the financial crisis in Europe

  • The people in Japan are responsible for Fukushima

  • The people in Norway are responsible for Anders Breivik

  • The people in Germany are responsible for what happens in Germany

  • The people in Greece are responsible for what happens in Greece

  • The people in China are responsible for what happens in China

  • The people in Egypt are responsible for what happens in Egypt

  • The people in your community are responsible for what happens in your community

Do any of these statements sound wrong to you? If so, what do you think is wrong with them? How would you correct the mistakes?

If there is nothing wrong with such statements, then how do we fix societies in which people feel they are not responsible for their own community?

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Depression is a Symptom

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

For years, I have been fascinated by the term “depression”. It has 2 primary instantiations: “psychological depression” and “economic depression”. Both are very significant topics. Both seem to be similar in some ways, yet miles apart in academia.

Over the past year or two, these two phenomena have become much more clearly linked (in my view). The way I see it, we could simply refer to pychological depression as individual depression and likewise we could refer to economic depression as social depression.

A sick society (to use Krishnamurti’s words) is the cause of both.

In the case of individual depression, society treats the individual poorly. In the case of social depression, society treats itself poorly. Both cases lead to health problems — either for the individual or for the entire society.

The case for social depression was recently elucidated quite well by Paul Krugman:

What we really need is a change in the destructive social dynamics that brought us to this point. And I wish I knew how to do that. But my problem is obvious: I’m an economist, and it seems that we need some kind of sociologist to solve our profession’s problems.

The case for individual depression is explicated quite well in a new book by Joachim Bauer called “Schmerzgrenze“:

Schmerzgrenze, Abbildung 2

The diagram above shows what happens when motivating factors are shut down and replaced with demotivating factors, leading to frustration and — in case there is an effective communication breakdown — aggression.

The point of these two perspectives is that there are social problems — and in particular, I feel these problems are mostly related to faulty communication (and/or information) — that can lead to either individual depression or social depression (or perhaps even both?).

According to this hypothesis, many — if not most — of the greatest problems we face today are created by a lack of social order (yet I do not mean that this order needs to be commanded in a top-down authoritarian manner — but rather that it should [optimally] engage and empower all of society in all social affairs). And I do not have a ready-made plan for “how to” do so.

The point here is merely to recognize where the problem is, so that we can better deal with resolving it.

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