I agree that the Occupy movement is not enough, and about 10 years too late. If people had realized their self-responsibility in the elections of 2000 and 2004 and had denied Bush Jr. the chance to seize up power, then the WTC collapse as well as the financial collapse of 2008 wouldn’t have happened, not to mention the Iraq war and Afghanistan. The sad fact is that people are just too stupid and too lazy to sit down, analyze the facts and vote for responsible people. They prefer to lie down in front of their TVs, and watch endless hours upon hours of sports and sitcoms, drink beer and smoke ’til they’re unconscious, and expect everybody else to wipe the a$$es for them and give them everything they want on a silver platter. They too easily believe in the lying politicians and their minions without investigating the basic facts, because they don’t want any responsibilities for themselves. That’s why the more a politician lies, and since people don’t want any responsibilities to search for the truth themselves, the more they are likely to be elected. The people don’t want to do anything that would cause them to do the effort to work at getting behind the real reasons for the sorry state of their country. The Occupy movement is the same sort of sillyness because I feel like everybody should be telling these silly folk, “I told you so…” 10 YEARS AGO! Rather than protest, they should inform themselves and others on WHO to vote for, WHY they should vote for them, and WHAT the world situation is and WHAT the solutions demand from each individual – i.e. – the use of geothermal energy, wind energy, solar and wave energy, the use of electrically powered cars, the need to stop using oil, etc. If these things were focused upon, then the OWS movement would be much more successful and productive. I am sorry, and I must say, that for someone who has read 15 FIGU books, it seems like you really haven’t learned that much.

I appreciate your interest, so thanks for the prodding.

It’s called returning to the gold standard and understanding basic Austrian Free Market Econ. If they can’t print the paper or digitize the fake money, they can’t control you. Read Human Action by Prof. Ludwing von Mises and find out how the world is really controlled by those who control the monetary system. That’s the key. If you accomplish this, then you can continue reading what the Plejaren have to say about Cause and Effect, Law of Identity, and other universal truths. Until then, you will just be going around in circles, arguing various lines of the major political parties or playing around in philosophical circle jerks with every theoretician and their brother. Good luck, Marco.

The way I see it, the only difference between now and before the financial crisis is that now the general public is awake about the bullshit that had been already happening for decades. It was coming and those who were awake did see it coming for many decades. MANY DECADES!!!

WE let it happen. US. And I say to any person who calls me little, speak for yourself! The laws of cause and effect apply to every human being in the universe. It works for anyone willing to apply it. It plays no favorites.

Well you raise good points and let me make a start towards answering them. I’m afraid that I neither have all the steps, nor all the answers…just some that have worked for me. The first thing for any of us to do is to recognize that we are responsible for each and every one of our thoughts, feelings and actions.

This is not some theoretical, or escape from the world, idea. It is foundational to everything in our lives, since our lives are created by our thoughts, feelings and actions…for better or worse.

So starting with this first step, we now have the opportunity to contemplate, and address, all of the facts, information, rhetoric, etc. pertaining to this issue. And this is issue is not something that is isolated and independent of all the other issues in our lives.

So we might ask ourselves, “Just what is it that I want to change?” (pertaining to the financial issues that are the focal point right now). And whatever answer first pops into one’s head…it will provide the opportunity for a closer and closer look, as the answer gives rise to the next question(s).

Now, do I live every moment of my life like that? No…but I do more and more. And since self-observation – and self-honesty – are necessary throughout life, and every lifetime without exception if we are to be consciously evolving beings, the sooner we start and the more consistently we observe our thoughts, the more clarity, the more…answers appear.

Now you may be tempted to say something like, “Never mind all that, what are the specific steps to get us out of this?” And I’d still have to say that the first step – and the one that will then be with us for a very, very long time – is to begin to take self-responsibility. Obviously, the mess we’re in came about because people NEGLECTED to consider the EFFECTS of the CAUSES…which start with their thoughts. And “they” are all of us.

What I will say specifically is that my own experience is that I am more in touch with what is NECESSARY in my life. I’m not attracted to the superfluous, the excessively unnecessary and unnecessarily excessive. This has come about to a large degree because being in touch with what is arising from within gives me the opportunity also to question, to ask myself “why” I would want, why I would need something. I’m curious as to the where, what, how and why of my internal process.

And just in case this sounds stare-at-your-navel-in-a-cave stuff, let me tell you that it is a 24/7 process (or as much as I am capable of now) and goes on internally WHILE everything else is going on externally.

To bring this back down to earth a bit more, while we may think that we have to create the remedy for this situation right now, that we MUST do so, we need to start clearing and cleaning up the internal environment from which all things flow and bring it in alignment with true, eternal values, etc.

So that means that we just don’t keep floating more strictly political, or even presumably financial “solutions” from the same stick-your-finger-in-the-dyke mentality that got us here in the first…second or third place.

I suggest that people who want to fix these, and the rest of our, problems prioritize getting very conscious and prepare themselves for a rather rigorous birthing process that gives life to a truly new way of thinking and living.

And I have no illusions that even under the best of conditions the problems we are setting out to correct will suddenly go away. To the contrary, they will appear to increase as we begin to REALIZE how lacking in understanding of the laws of cause and effect we – and the rest of humanity – have been for a very long time. Now that it’s time to pay the piper, no pun intended, now that the pendulum is coming back as a wrecking ball…well, let’s roll up our figurative and literal sleeves and get about the TRULY…revolutionary work at hand.

I know, everyone should become their own hero and bla bla bla. Yes, those are nice words and good advice but they don’t tell people where to start, they don’t give them something concrete to touch and feel, so to speak. It’s all just theoretical. There is something missing.