Slavery System: Perception
It slowly started dawning on me that we live in a well established and sophisticated Slavery System. Thousands of years of experimentation, testing one form or another, ultimately still residing thousands of years later.
I wasn’t reading science fiction that made me see the world in this way. I wasn’t seeking it out.
It was like walking in the night and bumping hard into a brick wall. It was unexpected. Jarring.
It all stemmed from my passion for Economics, for finance, for money. Reading understanding, unpacking, uncovering digging deeper.
Why. Why. Why.
I found if I hit a layer that I didn’t understand I’d go to the layer before that to understand it. Much like Richard Feynman would presribe for learning how to learn. Quite often if you cant explain it to a 5 year old or a 10 year old - any subject at any level, you don’t understand it yourself.
Pulling back the layers and inspecting them, it became shockingly obivous.
We’re a resource that exists to be exploited. We’re in a system that we have no control over. We play in an unwinnable game - they make the rules.
Fiat Currency and a Debt Based System
The two aspects of finance that showed me this were truly understanding Fiat currency coupled with a Debt Based System.
Fiat means they can create infinite power, infinite bribes, infinite weapons, infinite bombs, infinite murders. To shape the world as they see fit.
Debt Based System means they get to steal every asset and thing of value, within that system, along the way.
These are the two main systems work together to take everything and make everything.
With simple reasoning based off facts, the only logical conclusion is that this is a game that they designed and that we are participants.
Illegal really means something they can do but you cannot do. (Magic currency out of thin air).
Tongue in cheek - this reminds me of when my brother lost his shit when we were kids and we played Monopoly. I was the banker, I gave myself cash and penalized him.
This is the same.
It may not sound bad, but truthfully it is the root of perpertual war, slavery, death and misery.
Why Do They Need Us?
If they can make currency out of thin air - why do they need a population at all?
As I better start to understand the world with age, I see most things roll up to - Perception.
The Value of Currency is actually perceived value as explained here. Percieved is the key operative. Perception is everything.
There is no such thing as intrinsic value.
Their means - infinite paper dollars is only as good as peoples perception of it.
In order to have perception - you need concsioucness.
You need people - to have perceptions - to transmute this percived value into physical world impact.
They use our perception to control us to do what they want. Most of the time people’s physical outputs are channeled towards building a bigger version of the game that they control. Gather more resources, build army, invade, gather more resources, build army, invade, Gather more resources, build army, invade.
Those that make the rules are in battle with others that make the rules in other parts of the world. The ultimate goal is to own all the streets in Monopoly through violence. A mob gaining power, attacking the other mob to become the victor.
Plato’s Cave
In Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, Plato describes prisoners chained in a dark cavern who perceive flickering shadows on a wall as the only true reality, unaware that these are merely silhouettes cast by objects passing before a fire. When one prisoner is liberated and ascends into the sun-drenched world above, he undergoes a painful but transformative awakening, discovering the “Forms” - the ultimate, unchanging truths that transcend mere sensory perception. This journey represents the arduous process of education and the philosopher’s duty to transcend societal illusions, moving from the darkness of subjective opinion into the light of objective knowledge, even though returning to share this truth often meets with resistance from those still trapped by their own limited perspectives.
Plato’s Cave perfectly represents everything we’ve discussed.
A ~2,500 year old story. Saddening that it is still reality.
We think we’re much better year later - in fact - we are no different.
Perception is manipulated by those in control to achieve their goals. Infinite money funneled to news and media - their message broadcast. Send your sons to die in this important war. Give half of your income to the Government for roads and hospitals. You dont need firearms to protect yourselves.
Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant’s philosophy centers on the distinction between how the world appears to us and how it exists independently of our perception.
Phenomena: These are things as they appear to us. Everything we see, touch, or measure is phenomenal. Our minds automatically organize this raw sensory data using “filters” like space, time, and causality.
Noumena: This is the “thing-in-itself” (Ding an sich). It is reality as it exists completely independent of human observation. Kant argued that because we can only perceive things through the “lens” of our minds, the noumenal world is fundamentally unknowable.
Donald Hoffman
Somewhat related - but a thinker that I like to listen to - Donald is a cognitive scientist and professor at UC Ivine.
I really like his thoughts and explanations on Interface Theory of Perception which bolsters Kant’s deliniation between reality and perception. In that reality is dumbed down to us. All of the wavelenths that we cant see, quantum fluctuations all the low level detail gets abstracted and simplified.
Summary
In summary one can conclude that given the fact that rules for thee but not for me exists and that that facilitates currency creation and when applied through perceptions manifests into real world changes - we live in a game that the rulers play but the rules don’t apply to them.
The power of the rule maker only exists inside the game. All assets, resources, power only exists within that game.
A key point that you do have control over however is perception and reaction. Blinkered perception is only remedied through active discovery and new information aquisition. And as to Plato’s story - comes at a cost of being challenged by those who are inside the cave and cannot, will not, see outside.
Leaving on a happy note - one can exit the game should they choose.