4 Hard Truths That Will Wake You Up

“The truth will set you free. But first, it will piss you off.” – Gloria Steinem 


1) Money Is A HoaX
“The Western worldview says, in essence, that technological progress is the highest value and that we were born to consume, to endlessly use and discard natural recourses, other species, gadgets, toys, and often, each other. The most highly prized freedom is the right to shop"
“It's a world of commodities, not entities, and economic expansion is the primary measure of progress. Competition, taking, and hoarding are higher values than cooperation, sharing, and gifting. Profits are valued over people, money over meaning, entitlement over justice, “us” over “them."

2) Debt Is Fiction 
“There are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation. One is by the sword. The other is by debt.” – John Adams
“When the economic system fails, will we know how to behave, how to act, how to appreciate, how to value, how to survive, how to be and how to love in a world that no longer defines relations by money?”

3) Media Is Manipulation
“There are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation. One is by the sword. The other is by debt.” – John Adams 
Media has always been an effective method for manipulating people. We are social creatures who are also psychological creatures. This combination makes us unwittingly vulnerable to the power of suggestion.
As it stands, media has been our Achilles Heel. These days the “news” we receive from corporate media is more likely to be disinformation. Skepticism is a must when reading or viewing the information provided by these outlets.
 The key: Don't believe anything you hear and only half of what you see. Analyze the Kool Aide before you swallow it. Even then, be prepared to vomit it back up at the first sign of deception. Remain circumspect and question all authority.

4) Government Is A Corporation 
“The end of democracy and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions and moneyed incorporations.” – Thomas Jefferson 
Here's the thing: we do not live in a democracy, and we probably never really have. A prestigious Princeton study recently concluded that we live in an oligarchy: rule by a few individuals. And these individuals just so happen to be plutocrats, making this particular flavor of oligarchy a plutocracy: rule by the rich. 
The problem is that money itself has become an immoral agent within an otherwise amoral system that praises itself as moral.
 Ask yourself: do you wish to live out harried lives of nine-to-five slavery, giving up your days to heartless corporations that don't give a damn about anything except making money, or do you wish to live a happy life of loving compassion, doing what you enjoy, in spite of plutocracy, oligarchy, and tyranny?