What better way to begin than by taking a look at the way of life for the majority of the general population world wide and the roles of the remaining elite? Some go as far as to call this video "The most dangerous video on the Internet".
Stefan Molyneux on the illusion of freedom
If you appreciate this video and would like to see a transcript and/or find out more about Stefan Molyneux, please see the following URL (I have no affiliation with him or the site):
http://freedomainradio.com/board/blogs/freedomain/archive/2008/11/26/true-news-13-statism-is-dead-part-3-the-matrix.aspx
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Somewhat interesting. But "The most dangerous video on the internet"? That flatters way too much.
Molyneux spends the whole video praising "freedom", yet doesn't even allude to what that is. Freedom to do what you want? Freedom to own your own production? What is it?
He constantly vilifies "the rulers", yet doesn't say who they are. That's obviously an important component in his metaphor. So let's think about it: where do the rulers come from?
Are the rulers the ruling class? Hard to say that such a class exists in a democracy, seeing as how our leaders come from all walks of life: businessmen, lawyers, doctors, academics, whatever. These are all professions that Molyneux says are livestock. So do some of the livestock rule the herd? Or are they ruled by some shadowy group that no one knows about? The more you talk about "the oppressors" without being able to identify them, the more I think you're just blowing hot air.
And you gotta love the conclusion: "philosophy" is the answer. Yet, once again, he doesn't offer the slightest idea of what that is. That's a bit like me saying that "good" is the answer. Makes for an interesting soundbyte, but hardly an earth-changing movement.
I do not believe he is suggesting some specific crazy in-depth conspiracy, but that it's more generalized than that. History tends to repeat itself and he is looking at patterns which have repeatedly come up. I also do not believe Molyneux is really trying to come up with a tangible solution to the problem he gives; only that he is bringing it out into the open for people to contemplate and discus.
What I take from him is that individuals tend to end up as part of a larger pattern (which could and is probably slowly evolving like anything else on this planet). What part we play can be dependent on a multitude of things such as: place of birth, time in history, gender, religious beliefs, race, wealth or poverty, who we know, etc.
If you were born into an impoverished violent country to a poor woman with no education and little if any world experience your life would be nothing like you now know it. If you were lucky enough to somehow overcome this and to, let's say for sake of argument, take over your government and install yourself as the new ruler, you have changed your position within the existing pattern but have not changed the pattern itself. You probably haven't even realized you are part of the pattern.
Most of us, including many leaders (possibly religious, academic, business men - maybe even some rulers of countries?), may not realize this either. This does not mean that it does not exist or that there aren't people and groups that try to control what we like to call "the general population". There are many ways this is currently being done and I will post more on this when I find the time.
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