Show Me The Money!!!

One of the most astounding ironies I’ve learned in living in the land of the free is the relationship between money and education. Why is this ironic? Because there really is no relationship, and I think that is bizarre. I’ll put the two side by side in the fashion I like. Here goes.

Money: We use it every single day of our lives. It “makes the world go round”. It is the driving force behind arguably every decision to do with government, business, and household finance, and, to no exclusion, education. Money, and what it represents, has been the material glue to our expanding global culture. In its more modern form, money has played a role in every single person’s life in the entire world. There it is, it’s that simple.

Public Education: Not a single course about money. Math class taught the principles of counting money, but there was, and is, not one course in the public education system (in Canada or the U.S., as far as I know) that directs students to understanding how money works, where it comes from, its history, and its emphasis throughout our lives. Its importance is assumed, and that’s it.

So my question to you is - What do you think about a system that has built itself on the foundation of raising, educating, and informing our youth and helping them learn the skills they need to succeed in tomorrow’s world, while leaving absent an entire field of study about a subject that affects every single person throughout the entire world every day of our lives?

The next question to ponder is – why is this set up in place?

What is the purpose of pursuing an education system that excludes a field of study that involves a subject that includes everybody?

Our Dirty Little Human Family Secret – September 11, 2001

“That we may have actually, collectively, together, all of us, made a mistake in judgment that cost thousands of lives, hundreds of billions of dollars, and nine years of internationally invasive behavior is just too colossal to even talk about on an adult level now.”


There is a debate brewing, but we seem mostly concerned with sweeping the subject of this debate under the carpet. Problem is that it is bubbling loudly now, especially on the Internet. All one has to do is type a few words into Google to see how many results come up.

So we’re all playing a little game of pretend, and have been for at least nine years that I can see. The problem that we are facing together with events like September 11, 2001, is that it has showcased to all of us that there actually is something very wrong here, something missing about the way our Earthly endeavor is moving forward, but we cannot collectively accept it. We just cannot seem to break that barrier, and this is a conflict that has maintained its energy for a reason. As soon as I mention 9/11 in any way shape or form, people walk away. People stop reading. Those out there who would point the finger and yell “conspiracy theorist” do not understand the nature of the bulge in the carpet of our global living room, nor does there seem to be any willingness to just have an open discussion about it. The door is shut, father hath spoken. And a whole lot of people are sitting on the other side of the room yelling back “wake up!” The response comes back “stop being so negative”, followed by “wake up!” again. I’m tired of the arguing, whatever it’s about. Let’s talk about this in an open, accepting way that behooves us to listen and give feedback, because clearly, there is something to talk about, or we wouldn’t be here, and I wouldn’t have written this.

It’s not the facts about the 9/11 conspiracy theories that disturb me. What is disturbing is the ongoing unwillingness, the resilience, from those allergic to any idea to do with conspiracies to even talk about any of it in adult fashion. The discussion is closed. This matter is final.

Like our financial woes and our environmental woes and all the other woes that we are all woeing about in this guilt-ridden year we’ve walked into, we are living in a global society of denial. Here we are, trying to pull together solutions, praying and hoping for peace on Earth while weapons development pulls in billions, and here is this magnificent bulge in the carpet that has become so obvious, so troubling, and so threatening to the unsustainable way we are living our lives, that we’re busy trying to put out unusually long-burning fires that aren’t even really there. Why are we doing this? We are a dysfunctional family, and the fact that we cannot admit that is even more telling. We’re blaming (and bombing) minds thousands of miles away, when it’s becoming ever more clear, to me at least, that it is none other than the minds within ourselves that we may have to look at a little more closely.

I’m not going to point the finger and cry conspiracy about 9/11. But I have to ask why there are so many people that are calling this out, and why there is such a massive resistance to listening to it at all. In conversation, it’s not that people question these theorists on what they are talking about regarding 9/11. There is a presence, even from some of the most intelligent people I’ve met, of relentless hostility to the very idea of even discussing the possibility that what we think happened was a lie. It’s not just that there is a war about factual information, and that the side that accepts the official account has built its case. There is a relentless hostility to the simple act of asking questions about this event. Conspiracy freaks! Morons! I’ve seen some big-time name-calling when it comes to all of this, as if that is going to strengthen the resistance to seeing the elephant in the living room. I’ve even read denouncing sentiment related to the popularity of these 9/11 inside-job theories. It’s a popularity contest now! Forget discussion. Start accusing. Start name-calling. That is a trademark of denial if ever there was one. And we’re doing it together now. Happy together!

This hostility reflects our society-wide inability to look both within ourselves for the truth, and without, for all deception begins with self-deception, and until we can see this and observe it and discuss it, we remain a conflicted, dysfunctional human family, unable to admit that one big one may have slipped us by, that we may have been actually fooled, that we are not quite as integillent as we thought we were, that we might have been just a little too naïve and distracted and unaware to see the truth for what it really was. That we may have actually, collectively, together, all of us, made a mistake in judgment that cost thousands of lives, hundreds of billions of dollars, and nine years of internationally invasive behavior is just too colossal to even talk about on an adult level now. We’re a drunken family. Too innocent (yeah right) to look further. Too busy to pay attention. Too happy to care. And we are, and have been, bombing minds as a consequence of our inability to look within ourselves and come together on the truth that enhances our real strengths and enlightens our spirits. In trying to be adult about this conflict, I’m a little frightened by the resistance to the mere discussion of said conflict. To me that spells trademark dysfunction, mystification, and dishonesty. What about you?

This conflict in judgment has become so telling that one of the buildings that fell that day apparently, publicly, knowingly, officially, governmentally, media-ly, didn’t happen! And in our silence of the issue we are complicit in this double-think. No third building came down in New York that horrible day; we have always been at war with Eurasia. I don’t need to be any kind of a conspiracy theorist to ask why we are told that there are five lights in the room when, clearly, there are only four; why we have been told (repeatedly) that two buildings collapsed that day when, clearly, there were actually three (unless you’re going to try and convince me and a whole lot of other people that our eyes are out of focus and we’re not seeing properly). Am I a conspiracy theorist because I’ve learned something and you haven’t?

I know three buildings collapsed that day. Does that make me a conspiracy theorist right there? Just for knowing that? Should I start questioning my own sanity because I’ve been repeatedly told that there were, in “fact”, and in the official account, only two? Are my eyes and memory playing tricks on me, and have been for nine years? Really? Is it me that’s playing head games with you, Mr. Green? Shit, if I type “building 7” into Google right now, all top ten results show something that, officially, never even happened. In fact, some of results are articles claiming to debunk this event…that never officially happened! How hilarious is that? How can that not be questionable? But enough about observations.

So we’re all merrily playing pretend here, and we know we are playing pretend, that’s the hilarious bit. We’re a family that has a dirty little secret. One of the older kids wanted to have his way and so he hurt us, but we’re not going to talk about that because he’s a big, mean bully, packing weaponry, and we don’t believe that we’re strong enough to stand up to him. In fact, he’s threatened us sufficiently that, despite our looking about here and there, we’ve managed to believe that there is no him. We quietly hear the voice reminding us that we’re just consumers with jobs, not human beings with spirit. But there he is, he’s lying to us, and because of this and because we bought it out of fear, and that we maintain our judgment that we’re not actually afraid and that we made the right call in our heads about this, and that we are “getting on with our lives”, he’s off across the world bombing other children’s children. We’re pretending that nothing dirty happened on September 11, 2001, that what we’ve been told through our “official” outlets and media was true. The arguments coming up against this have become overwhelming, and have plastered the entire Internet, and now that sense of relentless hostility has equally made its presence known online. The problem is that one of these two forces is wrong, and its foundation has not been founded on the truth, and it will fall apart because this is a conflict surrounding the truth. Both stories cannot be correct. Perhaps neither are correct. Where are we left then? What do we agree upon as truth within this conflict?

How long are we going to play pretend for? Deny it, shove it away, convince yourself you see five lights and that we’ve always been at war with Eurasia, this one is not going to go away until it is resolved. Nor should it go away, because that dirty little secret we’re keeping is a lid on something much bigger, and, secretly, we all know that too.

A Page of the New Paradigm

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It now seems, as of June 2010, that we are poised towards an incredible truth that has gone largely unnoticed by our human family - that we are not alone in this universe, and that we are far more than physical manifestations. Breaking through this barrier on a collective level now seems to be one of the most pressing and yet difficult situations that we have come across up to this point in our combined reality. It's just so unbelievable. We have been indoctrinated beyond comprehension, and if you can't see that by this point, you aren't asking questions that you should be. We have been indoctrinated to not question this reality, to accept it for what it is. The time to change our attitudes on this is now, and we need to start to do it together, or we risk being further divided by these unquestioned lies that bury the truth of who we truly are, and what we are actually doing here. How do we come together on this?

The lies have become so obvious that I don't even feel like I am a part of this world anymore. In my search for the truth, I have alienated myself on so many levels. I have been called out on being a conspiracy theorist, a degenerate, immature, a negative person obsessed with negative things, and a failure. But you know what? I have become an honest person, and I stand for the truth. I will question anything about myself, my knowledge, my lack of knowledge, or anything in this world without a moment's hesitation. I fear no investigation. I can say this with confidence. Can you?

A critical mind is not a negative mind. Acquiring that perspective along with this personal change has taken a great deal of effort, and the reward has been mixed. But it is a reward, a direction, that was inevitable. It was inevitable because the pain, suffering, and poverty of the lies that I have inflicted upon myself and others have gotten incredibly old. At this point, I would rather die than lie, because I have taken a very close look at what lies have done to us and to myself. This oppression has to stop. Our creativity has been stifled long enough. Enough. The truth is so real and powerful and points towards the goodness of where we come from, ultimately love itself, that it has forced me to see the lies within myself, and then, outside of myself.

If you actively give birth to lies in your life, or fail to question the lies around you through naivete or mere disinterest, you are perpetuating an unsustainable path that has now hit a breaking point. That breaking point is staring our species in the global face. We have to respond. Wake up now or go back to sleep for a long, long time.

Divided by lies, we will remain forever conquered. The truth must be the force that will unite us in questioning, for it is this force that we can all understand and respect and, in contemplation, take within ourselves and share with each other. We are now on the precipice of opening up a new reality that encompasses this truth, and does not suppress it. How...HOW can we do this together?

I ask you, now, right now, in reading this - how are we going to, on a collective level, question the lies that are the foundation of our current society, and guide one another towards the inevitable truths of the next society? How will we create new truths, new foundations that we can allow each other to be a part of? Now is the time to do this. But how? We have to find an answer, and we have to do it together. Only by doing this together will we have the combined strength to break through and move forward. But how?