Secret Agendas and the Vehicle We Call the ‘Self’ Part 1

It’s moments like these that I am glad I have a blog to air my thoughts and that I have 2 years work into an unfinished Bachelor degree in Philosophy. This makes for great parlor talk, and at times people will leave my house angry or leave enlightened, with a rush of questions racing through their minds.

My friend Jose has been questioning existence lately and its inevitable demise. The latest find that he shared with me was this video mashup of philosopher David Icke and comedian Bill Hicks.

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This simple video brings to light a lot of profound ideas and questions. There are a couple of points I’d like to elaborate on.

{secret agenda.} Icke mentions a ‘secret global agenda’…an Orwellian spin off that creates a world government, world Army and world currency. A Global State in which we are all tracked and numbered somehow. I’ve touched on this subject just a bit on Twitter. I believe that the makings of a Global Tracking system are already here, cleverly disguised in Social Networking.

Building a Social Networking Future Without Big Brother [DocStoc Document]

On a broader scale, nearly everything we do nowadays is tracked in one form or another. Your Taxes are filed online, your Library rentals are tracked, your daily work clock ins are saved on a server, your email in a cloud.

I have to admit that I am a huge fan of cloud computing in its simplest definition; it makes everything much more convenient, accessible and it saves money and space. What we tend to forget is that someone controls that cloud and control can be transferred. What if the Government bought Google? Or Yahoo? What if your ‘secure’ information was placed on a local grid? This video from ACLU sums it up.

Bill Hicks then goes on to explain the present problem of Fear versus Love.

Fear closes us off to everyone and Love, which emotionally opens us to the world, sees us as one. This generation is one that has been raised on fear. The atrocities that have been happening in Iraq, Afghanistan, China etc. have unfortunately made death a common place and acceptable part of everyday life.

For example, when ‘Operation Iraqi Freedom’ started, people were outraged about a couple of soldiers dying. Now, most people are apathetic about it. We are now a part of a society that has become comfortable with Death. People are more outraged with their dwindling 401(k) than the brutality that our soldiers commit and are subjected to on a daily basis.

Fear is a psychological weapon that has been used on this generation to numb the masses and make even more unspeakable atrocities possible.

Hicks goes on to say that the money that is spent on the War, should be spent of more humanitarian efforts, such as feeding the poor and educating the world. The below graphic is from Information Is Beautiful and it illustrates the vast amount of money that is spent on ridiculous things, such as the 36 Billion spent on Wall Street Bonuses. It would, however, cost 54 billion dollars to feed every child on Earth for a year. Hmm. (If the graphic is too small, click on it for the original source)