Below is the result of an exercise in writing current history from a post-monetary future.

A brief overview of globally impacting events through the 20th and 21st century, and the beginning of the age of Enlightenment. Attent.

Early 20th century.

The creation of the corporately controlled monetary system(where human worth, weight and importance is measured and related through the amount of symbolic credits one controls. Attent). Although bartering credits and tokens were common throughout the history of humanities, we see the rise of centrally created and controlled flow of these in the American area’s. Ergo, one corporation responsible for creating the symbolic credits, controlled the suppressing government bodies through a self-created enslaving system called “debt”. Symbolic credits were supplied on order by the government. Debt is created by the promise of future credits from one group to the other. The problem therefore is the vacancy of government credits to acquire the symbolic, printed and coined credits from the credit supplying corporation bound by the accepted bye-laws of business (enforced rules for exchange of services and produce for symbolic credit). Attent.

With the suppressing government in promising debt through this monetary system, the public (a group term for controlled masses of populous. Attent) remained unaware of the puppeteering throughout the beginning decades of the 20th century. Money, as they called the symbolic tokens, became the main tool for dividing (natural) resources and determining the “quality of life” (the level of how people lived without fear of social exclusion and without materialistic yearnings (see Consumerism and Public enslavement.) Attent.). We call this greater system of monetary religion for national wealth: Economy.

By the late 1950’s, the American leaders had successfully created the Newa-system (the artificially instillation of materialistic needs and wants in the public), slowly pushing the general lifestyle of the public into a deep state of slavery acceptance and masochism. Attent, specifically attenting the difficulty we now have for understanding the addiction to materialistic newa which was generally shared at the time. The push into slavery also meant the push away from critical thinking, free-thought and emotional development.

In the 1960’s there was a brief period of critical reflection within small parts of the public. Referred to as the first great refusal, the public discarded the view and orders from the oppressing government and the Newa-system in the Western area’s (North America’s, Europe, parts of the Asian continent). Their attempts to enlighten the remaining mass public failed, ending the brief period of broad critical analysis.

The population continued to work in accepted servitude to the monetary demigod, feeding the Newa system by creating services and produce in exchange for symbolic credits. Through mass media’s, wants remained artificially created in order to propel this system.

Modern Wars (acts of conflict resolve through violence, destruction and cruelty for economic gain) continued to be accepted, by using these devices of mass-instruction to guide the public’s intake and analysis of events. Attent here how our current information system attempts to guide people to wholesome anaylis and reflection, where before the populous was hypnotically induced into accepting a singular view of the worldscape (see Television, media, indoctrination and alpha brain state).

The 21st Century

In 2001the American governments pushed the acceptance of slavery over the edge, sacrificing human lives to create justifiable cause to gain public acceptance for the final war. This self-sarcifice however became the foundation for the second great refusal. Through a mass communication platform called the Internet (see The fall of mass media and Consumerism) the public slowly became aware of their slave-state. 10 years after the self sacrificial act, the American government, controlled by corporations in need of more resources, pushed into the final war. The public however, dismissed their leaders, claiming them to be untrustworthy and villainous. Attent. The corporations required controll to be maintained and using now out of date methods of indoctrine, attempted to reclaim control of the populous.

Revolution (the act of mass change in mindset), started through a small group of so-called revolutionaries who took control of a European country (called Greece) in 2009. They removed the oppressing monetary system and it’s devices of media, returning to a resource driven means of living. With the removal of the monetary system the people saw the removal of jobs (positions of slavery in order to claim credits) and the creation of the centres of Dialogue and the predecessor of our Informatorium called the Diguni (short for Digital University).

In 2012, power hungry corporations took control of the American armies (groups of people trained in warfare) and attempted to control the population by force. The attempt backfired and on the 23rd of November 2012, the corporations implemented the use of nuclear weapons (explosive devices capable of destroying smaller cities and irradiating lands) in another act of self-sacrifice. Attent.

After 2012 there is too much unconfirmed information to create a somewhat wholesome piece of text. It is known that the great nation of America self-destructed. When Asian powers attempted to liberate the suppressed, the corporations responded with force. We remember this day collectivy as the Great Removal as the monetary system destroyed itself through the power of approx 84 nuclear weapons.

Attent the following:

• How has the “Internet”, survived today?
• Can you emphasize with the “public”, accepting that values are translatable into materials?
• Why can we no longer imagine wars?
• Were we have machines and technology, the leaders in the 20th and 21st century used people. Discuss weather this system could ever have worked and how.

This is a very short overview of recent history severly lacking in detail. Yet it is a very important part of history that you must research yourself from all possible angles.

One of those words that we always keep close to heart, is Freedom. We closely link that word to our consciousness. In other words, we live free. And there is so much weight attached to the word, freedom. A lot of this is historical: Free from slavery, free from social repression, free from gender/racial bias, free to express oneself without being reprimanded. All these have severe historical fears backing them up. Mandela, imprisoned for expression, desired freedom. The African-Americans in America during the slave trade, desired freedom. And so we create, in our minds, a golden frame around the single word: Freedom.

It’s similar to happiness, which everyone can agree to desire in their lives. Happiness however is an emotional state, which can shift and change. Freedom on the other hand, seems to be a possession; you either have it, or you do not have it (oh heaven forbid). And so we have created a mindset for society: Freedom is something we need and will do anything to keep it.

And so we live, obviously free to think, say and express ourselves how we see fit. It’s great! So I can sit here for the rest of my life, surfing away on the net, writing my stories and living a fulfilling life of freethought. Cool! I love this freedom thing. WOW!

I spent my Saturday in Birmingham with my lady. Perching at Starbucks we looked down at the mass of people entering and leaving the shopping centre. I counted the people coming up and down a flight of stairs to the center for one minute and reached 89 in total. 89 people in one minute, that’s 5340 per hour and approx 42720 per day (if you count the day as 8 working hours. A staggering about of people, all passing up and down this flight of stairs. All on their way to buy shit they don’t need.

Freedom. Or is it freedom. Or is it just the sense that you are “safe” and part of this world. That you can make your own choices in life. Are you paying attention?

Freedom is held as an idea, a state of mind, even a weapon to control. I said what? Control? How so. Well… If freedom is embedded in our lives as all important, as it is spoon fed through our society, we are fearful of losing it. “The terrorist are out to kill you! Yes you! That could have been you in those towers! We need to protect you.”
“Oh sir you are right, what do you need me to do?”
“Give up your liberties!”
“Oh ok”

Did we think freely? I guess no. Can we think freely? I guess no. Why? Because our world is built upon assimilation theory. This states that the brain creates “understanding” by linking it with other bit’s of “understanding”. House (Building where I sleep, eat, play, relax.). The more links you have to “House”, the more you understand it. At least, thats a general overview of the theory.

So. Freedom (… , …. , …. , …. ,) What can you fill in that assimilates the concept of Freedom into your mind?

Here’s mine: Freedom - Thought, belief, trust, safety, individualization, self, expression.

Society built that for me. No one ever came up to me and asked me: What do you think freedom should look like? It’s not a question one can answer, it’s done so by society.

So I’m having my coffee with my dear lady. And wondering how free these people are? They think in their own paradigm, their own world created in their mind, through assimilation with sources that the get from mass media: “You need this new lip-gloss by Rimmel London! - Get the London look” - “Nivea skin cream for Men. Only for realmen.” - “Prada jeans… So you!”. Oh yes the joy of having fake voices pour needs into your void, telling you that you really do need things. That’s freedom. That’s freedom in a nutshell. The freedom to allow yourselves to be controlled by a society that needs you to consume so you will dismiss the need to think.

A quote from the movie “Fight Club”:

God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don’t need. We’re the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War’s a spiritual war… our Great Depression is our lives. We’ve all been raised on television to believe that one day we’d all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won’t. And we’re slowly learning that fact. And we’re very, very pissed off.

From the “The Universal Declaration of Human Rights”

Article 4.

No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms.

Servitude. I suppose we can all just quit our jobs and embrace freedom then. Bollocks. What a concept.

For the visually oriented people: (it’s only 2 hours)

Now. It’s great to sit down behind your screen and just amaze yourself at the possibilities it can provide you. Statements are made that television was introduced by media companies not to entertain, but rather to sustain human ignorance. Filtering theory concludes that the human mind is firstly a trained storehouse for stimuli, where we are developed by society to favor some things and choose to ignore others. So this means that we develop a selective device that ignores specific senses and highlights others. Every second our brain receives over 2000 bits of information and paying attention to all of these at the same time is something our brain can not (yet) do. We don’t feel the pants we are wearing, unless we force ourselves to think about it.Once you start thinking about the things that you do not think about, weird things happen.Think about this carefully: **You are now blinking manually**. The result of that sentence had now made you focus on the otherwise unconscious process of blinking. Same goes for breathing which is actually something we used to think about more often.

Now. We sit behind screens in a slightly entranced state of mind. Glossy eyes bulging at a screen containing an overload of stimuli. The brain adapts, enhances it’s filter and so the continual process of mass hypnosis continues, creating “desires” in our mindset. See a show, watch an ad, want the car, work a lot, save a lot, buy the car, feel the satisfaction of the prefect family in that advert. Being the created-image that makes us “individual”. Fake lives that we created by listening to how our environment wants us to live. Culture.

Then. Movements in the 1960’s showed a massive movement towards the possibilities of revolution. The people should not fear the government, the government should fear their people. The underground press put forward all ideas and articles for the sake that they were alternative. Regular press was of course filtered by a team of editors and marketeers whom of course steer the news into the favor of their contributors. Not the underground press however. Here voices were heard, be it shitty voices or good ones, they were all heard and left to the reader to determine the weight. “Let all be said, for not everything will be heard.”. The underground press died after a court case claiming the content of one periodical to be too explicit and aimed at children. “Let all be said, but shut up about sex, drugs, alternative thinking, conspiracy theories, provocative music. (for not everything will be heard).”

Now. The internet is a fabulous place of freedom. One of the last havens for the “underground press” ideas of the time. Not always with voices we find good, but also with junk (it’s okay).Exabytes of text, images and video flush down the “digital highway” and it seems the totalitarian ideas that suffocated my educator state of mind yesterday are just that. Yesterday’s ideas. “Here and now boys!” is a quote taken from island where parrots are trained to say this phrase. It keeps the state of mind focused on the now. Another thing these birds say is “attention”. Attention to what? Attention to everything. Or at least attention to something you would otherwise dismiss as regular or things that don’t conform to your brain’s filter (can you feel the pants you are wearing?).

Now. How the hell do we deal with this data? How does my role as educator fit in (if fitting in is what I want)? And then I found this video below. If I can teach this, I beleive I can teach freedom to some extent. “Let all be said, but pay attention.”.