The 2%er/98%er Profile and How to Become More Successful -- Part 5b

IMPORTANT NOTICE: Many 2%ers succeed spectacularly well in many ways, without concerning themselves about all the Fakery in the world, and without becoming aware of the Second Big Inversion. A system can be seen as "evil" if it produces bad results. That does not necessarily mean that any people in the system are "bad" or "evil." It's possible for all the people in an "evil" system to be "good" people. The reason for this is that "good" people may suffer from "Selective Blindness" that effectively blinds them to the "evils" of their system.

WARNING: Capture-bonded, domesticated humans with selective blindness (including typical psychologists and psychiatrists) may regard anyone who has recovered from the Second Big Inversion as "insane," a "psychopath," or a "sociopath." In general, the best strategy when interacting with capture-bonded, domesticated, and selectively blind ("normal") humans is to pretend that you're just as capture-bonded, domesticated, and selectively blind as they are!

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Alan Greenspan was a student and friend of Ayn Rand (author of Atlas Shrugged and founder of Objectivism) for about 30 years. In principle, Rand rejected the initiation of violence. Most libertarians learned this principle directly or indirectly from Rand. About 40 years ago, Greenspan wrote an article ("Gold and Economic Freedom") on the merits of gold as money and how inflation was a form of confiscation (I call it "theft"). Rand had a great deal to say about "objectivist ethics." What happened to Greenspan's mind that enabled him to become the head of the federal reserve scam with its debt-based "US$" fiat currency. (Google: federal reserve scam.)

The "Ron Paul: Greenspan, Gold, FED Inflation, Debt, Better Money" video (above, right) includes a quote from "Gold and Economic Freedom" by Alan Greenspan -- it can be found in many places on the Internet. I quote from it:

"In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. [emphasis added] There is no safe store of value. If there were, the government would have to make its holding illegal, as was done in the case of gold... The financial policy of the welfare state requires that there be no way for the owners of wealth to protect themselves... This is the shabby secret of the welfare statists' tirades against gold. Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth. Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights. If one grasps this, one has no difficulty in understanding the statists' antagonism toward the gold standard."

What phenomenon would make it possible for someone with a strong objectivist background and the author of "Gold and Economic Freedom" to become chief confiscator of the federal reserve scam? Selective blindness is one possibility. Another is that he's been faking certain things -- more on that below.

Clip from "Jon Stewart Interviews Alan Greenspan" video (above, right). Also appears about 5 minutes into the "Charlie Rose - An hour with Alan Greenspan" video (above, center):
Greenspan: "The trouble is that we can't figure that out. I've been in the forecasting business for 50 years. ...I'm no better than I ever was, and nobody else is. Forecasting 50 years ago was as good or as bad as it is today. And the reason is that human nature hasn't changed. We can't improve ourselves."
Stewart: "You just bummed the [bleep] out of me."

Here's a list of "noteworthy" Greenspan utterances (some paraphrased; some sequence changes) from the Rose interview, with my questions in red:

• "We can't improve ourselves." In a coercive political system, the power of the captors depends largely on the helplessness of the captees. So is telling people they can't improve themselves "good" captor strategy? Or is it pure fakery? Haven't millions of people improved themselves in all sorts of ways, including learning things and acquiring skills?
  
  
• "I've been in the forecasting business for 50 years. ...I'm no better than I ever was, and nobody else is. Forecasting 50 years ago was as good or as bad as it is today. And the reason is that human nature hasn't changed." Isn't this "excuse" for economic forecasting not having improved in 50 years silly? Surely, a constant "human nature" would be one fewer variable, making improving forecasting easier? And a changing "human nature" would be an extra variable, making improving forecasting more difficult? In any case, are there so many transactions (many of which are not measured), and so many variables, that most "economic forecasting" is largely random hit-and-miss? Have you read Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets by Nassim Nicholas Taleb: "...[W]e don't have much of a clue in the social "sciences" like economics, in spite of the fanfares of experts." Do you really understand more than a fraction of what you pretend?
  
  
• "The fed has excellent research staff with more PhDs/sqft than anywhere else in xgovernmentx. We get a wealth of information from all parts of the economy." Really?
  
  
• "Q. Why didn't you do anything about the questionable practices related to subprime mortgages and the housing market? A. Until very recently I had no idea of the extent and significance of these practices." Your PhDs/sqft didn't tell you?
  
  
• "When I met Ayn Rand I was a logical positivist -- an extreme form of empiricism. She asked me (1) If I was certain I existed (which can't be verified empirically)? and (2) Who made the statement that I was a logical positivist? These questions exposed contradictions in my philosophy..." Really? Were you a fake "logical positivist?" Wouldn't a real logical positivist have answered the questions easily?: (1) "Better question: What is certain about what exists? Answer: Eyes and brain can see body; fingers can feel body." (2) "Better question: What makes statement? Answer: Brain and mouth." If you were a fake "logical positivist," would Rand have demolished your "philosophy" very quickly?
  
  
• "...So [I became a student of objectivism]." Really? Did you become a fake "objectivist?" When you wrote your "Gold and Economic Freedom" article, were you just parroting some Rand ideas? Did this make it possible for you to later become chief confiscator of the federal reserve scam, without seeing any contradictions between your new job and your fake "philosophical background?"
  
  
• "I admired the people in the Ford Administration, particularly Dick Cheney and Don Rumsfeld. Q. Just during the Ford Administration or also subsquently? A. I continue to admire Cheney and Rumsfeld." Do you suffer from an extreme degree of selective blindness? ...Or do you admire them because of all the people who dies as a result of their "deadly ecapades?"
  
  
• "I don't know of any dishonest motives behind the invasion of Iraq... Saddam needed to be deposed... To ensure dependable oil supplies." Has your mind gotten twisted?; When Cheney and Rumsfeld (whom you admire so greatly) say that the motive is weapons of mass destruction, while the real motive is oil, how does that demonstrate their honesty?
  
  
• "I know how government works... There should be more resignations of officials who disagree on principle with the policies and actions of their superiors. Then they should go public and explain why they resigned." Interesting. Seeing that you didn't resign in the manner you describe, and you admire Cheney and Rumsfeld, does this mean that you agree with the wanton torture and slaughter of other humans? Are you a sadist who gets vicarious pleasure from such torture and slaughter? Does helping to finance such torture and slaughter give you extra pleasure?
  
  
• "I'm a libertarian." Are you the ultimate fake "libertarian?" -- Does this mean you see no contradictions between being a libertarian and defrauding millions of people via "confiscation through inflation?"...And playing a major role in financing the "deadly ecapades" of Cheney, Rumsfeld, et al? I wonder if Lysander Spooner would have included you among his "cheats, and usurpers, and robbers, and murderers and blood-money loan-mongers for masters?" Are you concerned that some day you might be prosecuted as a "war criminal" for "crimes against humanity?" Or does your selective blindness make you think you've been a great benefactor to humanity? (Otherwise, why did you get paid over $8 million for your book?)

Quoted from No Treason No. I and No. VI, The Constitution of No Authority (1870):

"...[T]wo men have no more natural right to exercise any kind of authority over one, than one has to exercise the same authority over two. A man's natural rights are his own, against the whole world; and any infringement of them is equally a crime, whether committed by one man, or by millions; whether committed by one man, calling himself a robber, (or by any other name indicating his true character), or by millions, calling themselves a government... Clearly all this is the work of force, or fraud, or both... The Constitution has no inherent authority or obligation. It has no authority or obligation at all, unless as a contract between man and man. And it does not so much as even purport to be a contract between persons now existing... Those persons, if any, who did give their consent formally, are all dead now. Most of them have been dead forty, fifty, sixty, or seventy years. And the constitution, so far as it was their contract, died with them... The proceedings of those robbers and murderers, who call themselves "the government" [emphasis added]... The "nations," as they are called, with whom our pretended [emphasis added] ambassadors, secretaries, presidents, and senators profess to make treaties, are as much myths as our own... Certainly, too, there is in existence no such firm, corporation, or association as "the United States," or "the people of the United States," formed by any open, written, or other authentic and voluntary contract... The lesson taught by all these facts is this: As long as mankind continue to pay "National Debts," so-called --- that is, so long as they are such dupes and cowards as to pay for being cheated, plundered, enslaved, and murdered [emphasis added] --- so long there will be enough to lend the money for those purposes; and with that money a plenty of tools, called soldiers, can be hired to keep them in subjection. But when they refuse any longer to pay for being thus cheated, plundered, enslaved, and murdered, they will cease to have cheats, and usurpers, and robbers, and murderers and blood-money loan-mongers for masters [emphasis added]. ...Inasmuch as the Constitution was never signed, nor agreed to, by anybody, as a contract, and therefore never bound anybody, and is now binding upon nobody; and is, moreover, such an one as no people can ever hereafter be expected to consent to, except as they may be forced to do so at the point of the bayonet, it is perhaps of no importance what its true legal meaning, as a contract, is. Nevertheless, the writer thinks it proper to say that, in his opinion, the Constitution is no such instrument as it has generally been assumed to be; but that by false interpretations, and naked usurpations, the xgovernmentx has been made in practice a very widely, and almost wholly, different thing from what the Constitution itself purports to authorize. He has heretofore written much, and could write much more, to prove that such is the truth. But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain --- that it has either authorized such a xgovernmentx as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist."

Quoted from Thus Spoke Zarathustra -- Of the New Idol by Friedrich Nietzsche (1884):

"There are still peoples and herds somewhere, but not with us, my brothers: here there are states.
The state? What is that? Well then! Now open your ears, for now I shall speak to you of the death of peoples.
The state is the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly it lies, too; and this lie creeps from its mouth; 'I, the state, am the people.'
It is a lie! It was creators who created peoples and hung a faith and a love over them: thus they served life.
It is destroyers who set snares for many and call it the state: they hang a sword and a hundred desires over them.
Where a people still exists, there the people do not understand the state and hate it as the evil eye and sin against custom and law.
I offer you this sign: every people speaks its own language of good and evil: its neighbor does not understand this language. It invented this language for itself in custom and law.
But the state lies in all languages of good and evil; and whatever it says, it lies -- and whatever it has, it has stolen.
Everything about it is false; it bites with stolen teeth. Even its belly is false.
Confusion of the language of good and evil; I offer you this sign of the state.
Truly, this sign indicates the will to death! Truly, it beckons to the preachers of death!
Many too many are born: the state was invented for the superfluous!
Just see how it lures them, the many-too-many! How it devours them, and chews them, and re-chews them!
... It would like to range heroes and honorable men about it, this new idol! It likes to sun itself in the sunshine of good consciences -- this cold monster!
It will give you everything if you worship it, this new idol: thus it buys for itself the luster of your virtues and the glance of your proud eyes.
It wants to use you to lure the many-too-many. Yes, a cunning device of Hell has here been devised, a horse of death jingling with the trappings of divine honors!
Yes, a death for many has here been devised that glorifies itself as life: truly a heart-felt service to all preachers of death!
I call it the state where everyone, good and bad, is a poison-drinker: the state where everyone, good and bad, loses himself: the state where universal slow suicide is called... life."

(I'm just enquiring; not making any accusations. I have no evidence to suggest that Alan Greenspan ever engaged in anything underhanded! As far as I know for sure, he's clean as a whistle!)

Could most of the above Greenspan utterances just as well have been made by Chauncey Gardner in the movie "Being There?"

Greenspan reminds me of the Seinfeld episode where Elaine explained how she faked it with various men. Jerry asked her if any of them ever found out. She said, "No." Jerry: "How come they didn't know?" Elaine: "Because I was goooood!" Then, after a brief pause, Elaine says, "You didn't know." Jerry: "You faked it with me?" Elaine: "Yes." Jerry: "How many times?" Elaine: "Every time!" Jerry: "But what about all the moaning, and groaning, and screaming, and writhing?" Elaine: "Fake!; Fake!; Fake!; Fake!"

Maybe the Evil Money Masters "captured" Greenspan with an offer he couldn't refuse... so he "bonded" with them.

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Man, Family and State

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Some time ago, I met a small group of Chironians -- inhabitants of the planet Chiron. They were raised by computers and robots, and were not brainwashed with all the "stupid stuff" permanenty planted into human brains, particularly American brains. They told me they were much more intelligent than Americans. I asked them to prove it. They replied that some time during Earth's 19th century, they were a bit short of funds. So they set up a collection agency in America to collect funds for them. They figured that Americans were so brainwashed, dumb, and selectively blind that they would never notice or figure out that this collection agency was actually collecting funds for Chironia.

I asked them how could they possibly have done something like this without being found out. They said they decided that they simply wouldn't tell anybody who the funds were really being collected for. You see, they named their collection agency the "Internal Revenue Service" which is part of the "Department of the Treasury of Chironia." They told me they figured Americans were so gullible, obedient, and stupid, that if they just left off the "of Chironia" (not revealing what state*, country*, or planet the funds were being collected for), Americans would just pay up like the suckers they are!

Now, you may think I'm making all this up, but I can assure you I'm not. If you don't believe me, just check any letter you receive from the IRS. You'll find it's from "Department of the Treasury, Internal Revenue Service." And if you look at any letter you receive from an American state* or federal government* agency, they always say what state* they're from (e.g., "Office of the Attorney General of Texas"), or if they're part of the US federal government* (e.g., "US Department of Justice") But IRS letters never have the "US."

I told them that I knew Americans were pretty dumb, domesticated, and gullible, but you can't fool all the people all the time. They admitted that over the years a few Americans did become suspicious. They tried to find out exactly how the IRS was created and who created it. All they could find out was that something looked "fishy." But when these suspicious few tried to tell their fellow Americans that the IRS might be a hoax and an extortion racket, collecting funds for "who knows who?," they were just considered "crazy" and laughed at. You see, they said, it's very easy to use "subjective social agreement" to render Earthians, particularly Americans, selectively blind.

[Note what Sherry Peel Jackson (two videos, top left) and Joe Bannister (first video, left) says about the money collected by the IRS "not going to the government*."]

By now you may start realizing that I'm not making this up. If you still don't believe me, I can tell you that I know of an Earthian who has actually reseached the creation of the IRS. Check out this website, where you can find: "...Congress had intended to establish a Bureau of Internal Revenue, or thought they had... A clerk of the collector is not an officer of the United States... [W]e are referred to no other act of congress bearing on the subject, making a clerk of the collector a fiscal agent of the government or bringing him within the class of persons charged with the safe-keeping of any public moneys."

I asked the Chironians about Mr. Justice FIELD who presided over the case United States v. Smith, 124 U.S. 525, 8 S.Ct. 595 (1888). How come the judge didn't tell other Americans about something that must have seemed very strange to him. The Chironians told me that most American judges were like selectively blind robots. In any case, the Chironians had trained some of their IRS agents how to "take care" of judges who didn't "toe the line." American judges know how to keep their mouths shut about certain things. They fear that if they "step out of line," the "IRS will get them!"

[Note what's said several times during the Alex Jones interviews about judges saying that, "Supreme court decisions don't apply in my court."]

I told the Chironians all this sounded a little far-fetched to me. They told me there had been a Congressman from Idaho who wrote a nasty book about the IRS: To Harass Our People. The Chironians thought this was outrageous, so they got their most ruthless and vicious agents from the IRS and elsewhere to jail and torture this stupid Earthian to within an inch of his life, as an example of what happens when a disobedient Earthian doesn't know his place and "steps out of line."

I still didn't believe the Chironians. I told them I didn't think anybody could pull off something like this and get away with it. They told me to search the Internet for "Congressman George Hansen."