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The Ruling Elite Do Not Want Your Money. They want you to shut up.

Submitted by MikeLawson on Sun, 01/04/2009 - 10:16
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Imagine you have a group of 20 annoying kids at your house. If you could calm them down with a nice game of monopoly, wouldn't that be great?? What if instead of the official game money, you gave them money you printed? You could keep them occupied ALL DAY LONG. Whenever they need money, one child (the 'banker') comes in the other room and asks you for some. You, in the spirit of their little game, "charge" for that money and he goes back to play the game. Do you even care what's going on in the game? Well, maybe a little. You might see a chance to ruin the smelly kid's game and have him out of your living room. So the next time the banker comes to you, you tell him what to do. Next thing you know, two stinky parents are at the front door. And, you demand the all the other kids' real stuff in exchange for more of the play money when they need more. You have the power to take everything they own in exchange for something you don't want, need, or really care about beyond its capacity to keep the kids quiet.
You get the idea. Here's the point:

You own the house, you own the game, you are quietly enjoying yourself while they fight a bitter battle over the stuff you can print reams of. The money in the game has no real value to you, but it's everything to the kids in the other room. They have to follow a set of rules, you can do whatever you want to, even vaccuum up the whole board if you decide to. In the big game, imagine the kinds of things you could do if you were the parent and the entire financial system of the world was the childrens' game. That's just how it is. The only difference is, WE OWN THE HOUSE and just don't realize it.

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Great analogy!

Submitted by Prairiemae on Wed, 02/04/2009 - 01:53.

Except foreigners own the house now since you had to borrow from someone outside your house to pay for your house.

"People demand freedom only when they have no power. "
--Henry Longfellow

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"People demand freedom only when they have no power. "
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Not quite. But it makes a nice simple thing for people to

Submitted by ZbigniewB on Wed, 02/04/2009 - 01:56.

complain about. The elite own the house. Add a few other games in a few other rooms and the analogy is complete.

Absolutely!

Submitted by ZbigniewB on Wed, 02/04/2009 - 01:35.

What happened to this guy?

well put!

Submitted by see-thru on Wed, 01/14/2009 - 11:20.

well put!

We moved

Submitted by truth supporter on Wed, 01/14/2009 - 09:52.

to the country/ forest/mountains in 2000, burn wood for heat, drink our own well water, and spend minimal money. Some folks around us are not even hooked to the power grid. They use windmills and solar panels for electric power. I never watch TV. Now this is not for everyone. Some people could not stand not being plugged into the matrix, playing in the game, being over-consumers, running up debt...and whatever else people do that keeps them from thinking.... By the way I am a high level career person and can appear in the matrix in that role as well, but my participation is minimal. Does that make me still part of the matrix? I am not sure.

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No

Submitted by OregonBean on Wed, 02/04/2009 - 02:37.

No, if you are aware of the game then your not entertained then you're unplugged - but so long as the children are moving around the pieces the playground montors (administrators) still consider you part of the game.

Unplug from the Matrix?

Submitted by sunsue on Wed, 01/14/2009 - 05:21.

But it's scarey to make your own decisions. Blue or red pill?
"..shall not be infringed."

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They already

Submitted by 2bfree on Wed, 01/14/2009 - 03:24.

Have OUR money. Of course they want us to shut up.

Very true. I forgot to mention a few things

Submitted by MikeLawson on Sat, 01/24/2009 - 01:49.

story's being updated.

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Perfect

Submitted by SoBe on Wed, 01/14/2009 - 07:29.

Truth

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"Tyrants fear nothing more than insubordination"

"It's just one big club... and WE ain't in it!"

That is what

Submitted by ShineTheLight on Wed, 01/14/2009 - 04:55.

I was going to say.

Our frames of reference limit us.

Submitted by cw canadian on Sun, 01/04/2009 - 15:38.

When I am consciously working to see the world outside the game rules, those rules continue to govern much of the way I think.

The importance of a common media is that it is a common frame of reference. TV has worked very well to enslave us. Can we make the internet work for freedom in our minds?

I understand why many native peoples over millenia used natural substances to free their perceptions. Can we trigger freedom thoughts without such intervention?

I like your analogy. It is well done and simply put. It is a place to start and it is worth having a couple of copies on hand to pass along when someone does not (want to) get the point.

Thank you.

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happy to help.

Submitted by MikeLawson on Sun, 01/04/2009 - 15:42.

Try to "see beyond the smoke of your own chimney". Try imagining you are from a small tribe in the middle of nowhere, and observe the world and people around you. You'll be surprised.

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It is part of the control grid

Submitted by tstorey on Sun, 01/04/2009 - 15:02.

The problem with calling it "control grid" is that we associate these words with "uncomfortable" or "prison" or "lack of freedom."

We are all set because we think we are all set.

We think it is "our" money.

We think it is "our" political system.

We "think" a lot of things because they have controlled our emotions and thoughts for hundreds of years.

If you "think" I am wrong, then I suggest that their program has been successful.

People get emotional when I suggest they shut off the TV.

I guess the TV control program is successful.

The best way to control folks is the WAY WE ARE BEING CONTROLLED.

Keep telling folks the truth. It is not a complicated method...telling the truth.

If someone suggests something

More complex

More organized

More complicated

More violent

Why? Just tell the truth, it is simple and easy.

Do you honestly think that whomever or whatever your God is would want you to hate, kill and "throw down" the ruling elite?

These people live on the the three things listed above...why feed them?

It's just a handful of men. Once enough of us know the truth they will be exposed and they won't be "ruling anymore."

We are not ruled by force. We allow ourselves to be ruled through lack of knowledge of the truth. I suggest that freedom is freedom from hatred and violence and lies.

I guess the truth will set you free.

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I disagree

Submitted by ShineTheLight on Wed, 01/14/2009 - 04:53.

that it is only a handful of men. At the secret top perhaps, but it spreads downward into something that has outgrown the serf. The people are now outnumbered. It is no longer a handful of men. They have our government, our schools, our colleges, our media, our courts and attorneys. How they can have all these people escapes me. I guess these people are brainwashed and think they are doing the right things.

They do not "have" all these

Submitted by john2k on Sat, 01/24/2009 - 02:56.

They do not "have" all these people. All the people you referred to are empowering the machine, or rather the beast, without realizing it. They are unaware. As soon as people wake up the ruling elite lose power. And people are awakening very fast these days.

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You have obviously never been jailed for a crime you did not....

Submitted by DeMolay on Sun, 01/04/2009 - 15:47.

...commit. Yes they do use force, everyday, somewhere. It has not happened to you, yet. Just keep speaking the truth, those in power will get to you eventually. If you don't obey the "law", if you don't pay your taxes, if you march against the NWO etc., you will have force used against you at some point.

It is true

Submitted by OregonBean on Wed, 02/04/2009 - 07:32.

I have not been to jail but fear is not my guiding star. So are you saying that silence will save you? I must ask at what point submission has slowed tyranny ? I don't think such action is the proper course.. When open society closes evil extends itself with maximum force with a terror driven or duped public cheering it along. The yoke is layed hard on the necks of the people to cleanse from it any concept of freedom to break in a more dosile generation more willing to accept slavery as a natural course.

There is no prison to escape; in the grip of tyranny its possible society will destroy itself.

Poor, wretched, and stupid peoples, nations determined on your own misfortune and blind to your own good! You let yourselves be deprived before your own eyes of the best part of your revenues; your fields are plundered, your homes robbed, your family heirlooms taken away. You live in such a way that you cannot claim a single thing as your own; and it would seem that you consider yourselves lucky to be loaned your property, your families, and your very lives. All this havoc, this misfortune, this ruin, descends upon you not from alien foes, but from the one enemy whom you yourselves render as powerful as he is, for whom you go bravely to war, for whose greatness you do not refuse to offer your own bodies unto death. ...he has indeed nothing more than the power that you confer upon him to destroy you. Where has he acquired enough eyes to spy upon you, if you do not provide them yourselves? How can he have so many arms to beat you with, if he does not borrow them from you? The feet that trample down your cities, where does he get them if they are not your own? How does he have any power over you except through you? How would he dare assail you if he had no cooperation from you? What could he do to you if you yourselves did not connive with the thief who plunders you, if you were not accomplices of the murderer who kills you, if you were not traitors to yourselves? You sow your crops in order that he may ravage them, you install and furnish your homes to give him goods to pillage; ..you yield your bodies unto hard labor in order that he may indulge in his delights and wallow in his filthy pleasures; you weaken yourselves in order to make him the stronger and the mightier to hold you in check. From all these indignities, such as the very beasts of the field would not endure, you can deliver yourselves if you try, not by taking action, but merely by willing to be free. Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed. I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break into pieces?

The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude
by Étienne de la Boétie

I wrote it for the kiddies.

Submitted by MikeLawson on Sun, 01/04/2009 - 15:03.

who don't understand the truth and need a simpler version of things.

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Great analogy:

Submitted by Tramp on Sun, 01/04/2009 - 13:27.

I often use the game of monopoly as an analogy for things. I do wonder though, if folks have paid any attention to the new one.

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I am appalled by my government

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I love my country
I am appalled by my government

yes, disturbing eh? global...

Submitted by cultivator on Wed, 01/14/2009 - 03:21.

The dollar is a bill.

Mike

Submitted by quiltingsando on Sun, 01/04/2009 - 11:51.

great thread. I was just thinking about writing about something similar to this. You did a much better job of it than I would have, so thanks for saving me the effort. In my game the players start off with no bankers. The players live in small settlements and they barter with one another for services and goods. Along, comes the railroad and bam there's a corner bank and a McDonald's. LOL

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pass go

Submitted by Dale in Oklahoma on Sun, 01/04/2009 - 12:33.

and get $200 in Big Macs...wooohoooo!

Deleting

Submitted by CarrotTop on Sun, 01/04/2009 - 14:29.

this.

I like the headline of this thread.

Submitted by Brit4RonPaul on Sun, 01/04/2009 - 11:25.

It reminds me of something Alex Jones said about the banking cartel. I don't recall his exact words, but it was something along the lines that money is only a means to an end. What they really want is control.

"That Socialism would be immediately practicable if an omnipotent and omniscient Deity were personally to descend to take in hand the government of human affairs is incontestable." - Ludwig Von Mises.

No

Submitted by ShineTheLight on Sun, 01/04/2009 - 11:18.

We used to own the house and while we were arguing over who's fat and why, they had their lawyer stick a paper under our nose that said we were right about everything, we signed off and did not read the fine print because all we care about is that everyone recognize our superiority and intelligence. Then they got the house and are allowing us to continue to live in it until we become too annoying and until they have garnered enough support to eliminate us without any repercussions, just praise for how right they were.

Brilliant point re making people feel superior and intelligent!

Submitted by olafub on Sun, 01/04/2009 - 13:21.

When smart growth comprehensive land control planning is brought into a community, no effort is spared to make community members imagine that this is a unique plan of their own design and that they have empowered themselves with this plan. The plans always turn out to be nearly identical with other plans and bureaucrats wind up making decision formerly afforded property owners and their elected representatives. And now the people think they have cleverly voted for change.

It's called the Delphi Technique...

Submitted by liveFreedom on Sun, 01/04/2009 - 14:10.

You have a pre-desired outcome (agenda), and then a "professional facilitator" steers the people in the public meeting to the point they think the desired outcome is their own idea.

This was done with "educational curricula standards" in various states, and amazingly enough - all outcomes were identical to the national agenda after the local meetings were complete (with minor wording changes).

http://www.learn-usa.com/transformation_process/acf001.htm

Good article on how to "diffuse" the technique if you detect it's happening in a public meeting:
http://www.eagleforum.org/educate/1998/nov98/focus.html

Also, google it for more info.

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