I'm no doctor, but they say laughter is the best medicine.

What a sick joke it all is. You might want to let your friends and family know about the meaning behind their name-game before they take it down.

Check out our latest video: Did No One Bother to Look up This Word?! 
https://youtu.be/FEzD3FnsIOc?feature=shared

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Thank y'all for your generous support; you sustain us, and we need to keep going. Much more on the way.

In Liberty,

Aaron and Mel

The best of times, the worst of times...

Or the worst of times, the craziest of times...

Or, the Time of Orwell; the Time of Huxley...

Or perhaps it's simply the most decadent + vapid of times, contrast with the simultaneous truth that it is also greatest time of information, self-awareness and cultural awakening...

If this video is even allowed to be seen in your slipstream of reality, would you bother to watch it?: 

VIDEO: Amusing Ourselves to Death: Orwell vs. Huxley in 2023
https://youtu.be/dH_omJrPHNs?feature=shared 

Any way you slice it, the critical changes are upon us, and people seem more polarized than ever before. Politics are beyond steamy; trigger words and identity politics are incendiaries in the online culture where anything goes, until it doesn't. Cancel culture and censorship follow. The marginals are predictably marginalized even further beyond the bounds of acceptability. Too much to think again. (We know that refrain.) 

Are we living through 'Collapse of Rome' levels of decadence, or are we witnessing a new digital order to build better systems above the clouds of the problems of the past? 

Are we becoming 'more human than human,' or still trapped in the same human-problems we've never really untangled, and could hardly transcend via a handy toolkit of buzzwords and feel-good phrases? Has the wisdom of the ages been burned once-and-for-all on the scrap-heap? Does anyone even care anymore, anyway?

Author Neil Postman termed his take on our post-modern dilemma 'Amusing Ourselves to Death' [PDF link] in his 1985 book (subtitled: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business), a work that grew out of a debate centered around Orwell & Huxley that took place in 1984. Cultural milestones on the path to hell... re-arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic, etc.

Postman's forward sets up the familiar comparisons and contrasts between Orwell and Huxley, updating them for the lens of a society revolving around 24/7 electronic media... and beyond.

While noting the propensity of an increasingly technological and centralized society to repress information and stifle dissent, in line with Orwell's forecast, Postman tends towards Huxley's antithesis, favoring the view that advanced societies of the near future 'won't need to burn books, because people won't be interested in reading them.'

Instead, a vapid culture non-unlike H.G. Well's Eloi would become so self-centered and obsessed with entertainment and immediate gratification that it would fail to notice issues of substance, much less understand them.

While Postman's argument holds plenty of merit, and appears to reflect the society that we do live in to a significant degree, it isn't the whole picture; and the Orwell-Huxley debate is hardly resolved.

Those of us who've seen our videos, ideas, posts and discourse buried in the algorithm, penalized and censored for no good reason; our means of support evaporated; our audiences behind a wall of 'visibility filter', all while being trolled on social media by shadowy government agencies  and their collaborators in social media and academia (in actuality, as the Twitter Files demonstrated, and not merely inside of an imagined paranoid-noosphere of police state-isms).

While there seems to be less influence than ever by individuals on the entrenched institutions (your vote definitely counts, though), online communities and viral ideas have proved to have so much influence that the powers-that-be have felt the need to restrict anything and everything that passes through their net. Obviously ideas and knowledge and discourse still rank somewhere on the power-scale; they must have some effect, or the system wouldn't be so concerned about what is said, what is published, and what is seen. 

Controlling the message is perhaps one of the most central aims of the entire system, and that speaks counter to the idea that we are all just wasting away in pure-bliss & ignorance, as Huxley would suggest.

Perhaps we are not so powerless after all, in spite of obstacle after obstacle, even as the system of hyper-capitalistic financial blocs, oligarchical collectivism and misguided A.I. social-management systems become hyper-dominant in our lives in ways that we never dreamed of, not even in Orwell's grittiest nightmares.

Please share / watch: https://youtu.be/dH_omJrPHNs?feature=shared

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Thanks for your support; your love; your recognition; your shared sense of purpose and your awareness for all that we have to work with here. We deeply appreciate you, and humbly suggest that we couldn't much do it without you.

The debate goes on, and so does our work. Maybe, just maybe, we can shed some new light...

(Much more on the way)

In Liberty,

Aaron and Mel

Hi everyone,

Here's Mel's latest video 'Now Corporations Want to Hack Our Dreams' 

Please watch and share when you get a chance. https://youtu.be/5wnldtZVfbo 

It amounts to an almost unbelievable level of arrogance in regards to the masses that a coterie of corporations pretend at ruling over.

However this technology ultimately develops, it feels like an affront to consciousness, and towards the fulfillment of Aldous Huxley's depiction of Hypnopedia / Sleep Learning in Brave New World, or Pink Floyd's Welcome to the machine ("we told you what to dream").

At the end of the day, it's seems another creepy front that is over the line of human decency. Into a dimension that they just shouldn't venture into.

It brings to mind certain aspects our documentary 'The Minds of Men.' Crazy amounts of progress have been made -- not in comprehending the great mystery of the mind and its meaning for our existence, but in hacking brain processes for the benefit of those that would manage and control us. Unsettling, but unfortunately a major part of our modern reality.

What do you think?

Now Corporations Want to Hack Our Dreams

https://youtu.be/5wnldtZVfbo 

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We're back at it full-time after a month of moving in unprecedented summer heat; frankly, it's been exhausting. But we're back at developing the next big film, with some fresh ideas and back to keeping the regular videos coming.

We love you all and are so grateful to have your love and support in return. May you and yours be blessed, and stay strong amidst some of the toughest times we've seen. Stay vigilant!

In Liberty,

Aaron and Mel

Hi everyone,

Mel's latest video is one of the most critical for our future-- and the message must get out to the masses who don't realize what kind of fresh hell is coming if people don't resist and disengage from this system.

Please join us NOW for the PREMIERE or watch/share when you can: https://youtu.be/lIW6ULWNyug
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Central banks and governments, at a global scale, have prepared to implement CBDCs (Central Bank Digital Currencies) with important consequences for every aspect of freedom in our lives.

Though they will introduce it to the public gradually, its capacity for total control is immense.
It isn't merely that the new dollar is digital, traceable and trackable. It's based on blockchain technology, of course. It isn't merely that small business will be hurt (yet again) or that private transactions will be eradicated. Nor will it be merely consequential for drug dealers, scammers, or illicit trades.

CBDCs will be PROGRAMMABLE. Where and how money is spent is literally built into this new currency. And they plan to use it to change how money is used.

Yes, CBDCs are programmable. The executives that frequent the World Economic Forum and the other elite forums have said so.

And so, CBDCs will not just be money. No, not at all. CBDCs are designed as tools of a very political and ideological agenda; some of the worst policies that have been pushed in recent decades will now have the force of spending controls to "nudge" people into submission and compliance.

Again, CBDCs ARE PROGRAMMABLE. Whoever controls the money controls the agenda. That is the point.

Why is this important? Central banks, private banks, government authorities and global designers will have the power to turn on and off transactions of every kind. They can algorithmically-determine precisely what the CBDC money can be spent on; when and under what conditions; and by who.

At the touch of a button, PROGRAMMABLE cash in the form of CBDCs can block the sale of firearms, alcohol, cannabis or tobacco. Or other sensitive products. But that's just the start (you knew that).

At the same touch of a button, PROGRAMMABLE CBDCs can prevent the sale of meat, dairy, candy and junk food, or disallow the purchase of gasoline or use of a vehicle (and an endless array of other examples; you get the idea.)

With yet another press of the button, they can also freeze bank accounts of political dissidents — like those supporting the recent trucker protest in Canada, for instance.

Spending under CBDCs could be allocated for specific purposes — like rent and groceries — or be timed to expire, requiring, for instance that money be spent by the end of the month.
CBDCs could also prevent individuals with "bad social credit scores" from purchasing anything more than the bare basics of survival. Black Mirror's Nosedive has already depicted as much, but that's mild compared to what's possible.

Blackrock CEO Larry Fink recently said: “Behaviors are gonna have to change. And this is one thing we’re asking companies — you have to force behaviors, and at BlackRock, we are forcing behaviors."

BlackRock CEO: “At BlackRock we are forcing behaviors… you have to force behaviors.” pic.twitter.com/2Q2H84GPC7— TexasLindsay™ (@TexasLindsay_) June 4, 2023

The compliance of private businesses — any major business who relies upon good standing in the global financial system — can also mandate adherence to any number of political agendas and purchasing behaviors. Energy caps; green conscience laundering; medical misinformation policies; sensitivity about world events, wars and catastrophes; identity politic political correctness shifting sand madness; polka-dots-over-stripes; anything is possible!

And the private policies of private banks and businesses — ultimately steered by central bank CBDC policies — could easily circumvent restrictions on our civil rights under governments and public systems. (And what could you really do about it? Where else could you go?) The Bank of International Settlements recently announced 93% of the world's central banks are currently working on a CBDC, and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is already hard at work on a global CBDC platform.

Social media and other tech giants have already paved the way to this version of circumnavigation-hell (I'm not touching you; I'm not touching you!!), even as it emerged that shadowy government agencies were literally coordinating the takedown of free speech online in violation of First Amendment protections.

This nightmare of privacy-less technological enslavement under CBDCs is complicated and perhaps predicated by the advent of AI and the loss of employment for hundreds of millions and even billions of people who once held relative autonomy over their own lives.
UBI (Universal Basic Income) funds will be increasingly provided by governments — as it perhaps must be in a scenario with no meaningful employment — not just for the poor and unemployed, but for nearly everyone. Certainly, people will need financial support to live their lives.

But that money would be used to control as much as it would be used to provide sustenance. Not only would every transaction large and small be tracked, but its use would be specifically tailored to the vision of life proscribed by the very powerful and their AI tech tools. Anything in violation of prevailing policies would be automatically out-of-bounds.
While this design could be used for good (though such powers are unwise), and many would give it that benefit of the doubt, those paying attention can see plainly its drawbacks and potential for the very worst.

With little-to-no context and no one to appeal to, an "artificially intelligent" system administers, gives, and takes away as it is programmed to do. Perhaps clumsily suppressing on the basis of key words and categories... perhaps insidiously on the basis of personalized profiles with millions of pieces of data. This system can and will automatically behaviorize all who live under its auspices, with grave consequences which are easy to predict. And even worse outcomes are quite possible.

Even under the most glowing version of this vision of the near future, where personal behaviors are improved, and people become "better" citizens, nicer neighbors and excellent stewards of the environment — even then, if a positive outcome can even be supposed — it would be a world without freedom.

Freedom itself is on the line under programmable CBDCs, in an almost direct way.
Instead of technology freeing us from worry, labor, and drudgery, it stands to reinforce and radically expand top-down control. This is not hyperbole.

New behaviorism — such as living within one's allotted carbon footprint allowance — could and would be enforced easily, but tyrannically under this kind of system. Likely it would come with a velvety touch and a gradual implementation to dissuade outrage and condition acceptance; but in of itself, the system could nonetheless be flipped-on overnight.

A government powerful enough to give to all, and yet also take away from all is not only possible, but immediately part of the scheme. Accountability, dissent, free expression, and independent lives could all become a thing of the past, replaced by an engineered obedience, dulled further by the extremes of algorithmically driven group think.

Polls show that CBDCs — now being pursued by the Federal Reserve in the United States and by most every major government and financial system around the globe — are extremely unpopular with the people, but only by those who are aware of their potential existence and uses.

The vast majority of the public — most already lost in a sea of apathy and indifference — remain ignorant of how radically the money system they live under is changing. People need to be informed. Dissent needs to be expressed now while it still can be.

The unfortunate, flawed maxim "If you're not doing anything wrong, you've got nothing to hide" is due for a nightmarish upgrade. The elites, already concentrated in wealth and power — and now unleashing AI — plan to literally program and control your entire life through digital currency.

Something huge is happening. Please pay attention. Please tell people what this can do. Please make your voice heard.

RESOURCES
The Trust Game Ep. 10: The One Ring 
The Trust Game ten episode financial docuseries by Truthstream on Vimeo (to Support TSM)
The Trust Game on YouTube (for free)
Bank of England Tells Ministers to Intervene on Digital Currency 'Programming' 
CATO Poll: Only 16% of Americans Support the Government Issuing a Central Bank Digital Currency
CATO: Central Bank Digital Currency — Assessing the Risks and Dispelling the Myths
How to Identify Financial Abuse in a Relationship
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Thank you all so much for your support. We couldn't do this without you; and we appreciate all that you do in sharing the light of consciousness with a dim world and a potentially bleak future. Our effort, care and balancing views must surely make a difference, or else why would they so often come under attack?
More videos on the way, and major projects yet to come.

In Liberty,
Aaron and Mel