"A declaration of WAR against the American People"

[Ed Jewett]

Hardly the time now to even discuss in detail 'how we got here'...

Will you lead and facilitate a thread about .

These are the thoughts that occupy my mind.

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Was that directed at me? ....

Well, you were the one that said we don't have time to reflect on how we got to this point, which isn't effective use of one's mind, but the earlier response (here mostly deleted) did suggest that it requires the input of others. You, if I have it right, are an environmentalist, scientist, educator, so I thought some ideas on the environment we find ourselves in might be in order. But the burden does not, thankfully, fall on you alone; others have given much thought to it.

For example:

A superbly valid hunk of congealed insight: the book "Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why". In today's world, it is worth your time. The Amazon link is here: http://www.amazon.com/Deep-Survival-Who-...0393326152


From the description found there:

"Examining such stories of miraculous endurance and tragic deathhow people get into trouble and how they get out again (or not)Deep Survival takes us from the tops of snowy mountains and the depths of oceans to the workings of the brain that control our behavior. Through close analysis of case studies, Laurence Gonzales describes the "stages of survival" and reveals the essence of a survivortruths that apply not only to surviving in the wild but also to surviving life-threatening illness, relationships, the death of a loved one, running a business during uncertain times, even war."


From a related web site (http://www.deepsurvival.com/ ):


"Deep Survival was the first scientific book on survival and has been embraced by everyone from the head of training for the Navy SEALs to the Sloan School of Management at MIT. Psychologists, oncologists, business executives, and clergy have brought the principles of Deep Survival to their patients, clients and congregations to help them face adversity, to manage risk, and to enhance decision making in every form."

Some quotes from the book can be found here: http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/3...e_Gonzales


"Survival is the celebration of choosing life over death. We know we're going to die. We all die.


But survival is saying: perhaps not today.
In that sense, survivors don't defeat death,
they come to terms with it."

"The word 'experienced' often refers to someone who's gotten away with doing the wrong thing more frequently than you have."

"To deal with reality you must first recognize itas such."

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George Soros, OWS, and the Otpor Fist (An Assortment)

https://deeppoliticsforum.com/forums/sho...#post47837

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Super-Empowered Individual
"A super empowered individual, in my view, is autonomously capable of creating a cascading event that grand strategist Dr. Thomas P.M. Barnett has termed a 'system perturbation'; a disruption of system function and invalidation of existing rule sets to at least the national but more likely the global scale. The key requirements to become 'superempowered' are comprehension of a complex system's connectivity and operation; access to critical network hubs; possession of a force that can be leveraged against the structure of the system and a willingness to use it." -- Mark Safranski, ZenPundit.


Super-empowerment has been defined variously as superior economic empowerment, technological empowerment, materiel empowerment, intellectual empowerment, 'connectivity' empowerment, etc., in which the level of empowerment so far exceeds the norm for any given society or system, individuals possessing the included powers are capable of causing significant and generally irreparable alterations to the environment (system or society.) Super-empowered individuals possess a greater ability to affect systems than the vast majority of others living within those systems.


See: Super-Empowered Angry Men


http://dreaming5gw.com/5gw_lexicon/s/sup...iduals.php


http://zenpundit.blogspot.com/2006/10/su...an-is.html


http://zenpundit.blogspot.com/2007/07/wh...ature.html


http://fabiusmaximus.wordpress.com/2007/...ered-ones/


"...eventually, the application of our military power will mirror the dominant threat to a significant degree. In other words, we morph into a military of superempowered individuals fighting wars against superempowred individuals"


- Vice-Admiral Arthur K. Cebrowski and Dr. Thomas P.M. Barnett (1)


"First, very few people would be needed to carry out the attack. A single individual could spread a nationwide pandemic using a highly contagious virus. A two person team would be sufficient to deploy and detonate a couple of nuclear weapons"


- Dr. Fred C. Ikle, Annihilation From Within


"In fact, we may have seen the the first of 5GW in the anthrax and ricin attacks on Capitol Hill. To date, neither has been solved. Apparently a small group, perhaps an individual, decided to take on the power of the United States."


- Colonel T.X. Hammes, The Sling and the Stone


"Over time, perhaps as little as in twenty years, and as the leverage provided by technology increases, this threshold will finally reach its culmination - with the ability of one man to declare war on the world and win."

• John Robb, Brave New War
  

So what we see above is some thinkers and militarists envisioning the future (which has become the present, especially in terms of people like Gyorgi Soros and his vast financial resources) but


the key here is for the well-meaning not-super-empowered individual to somehow become super-empowered and take away and use the weapons of the attacker/oppressor and apply them to the field of survival, the ability to thrive and the ability to empower or enlighten others.


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