tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8579186424195604522.post1388916018248761941..comments2024-02-03T07:59:43.146+00:00Comments on SURVIVING THE FUTURE OF BRITAIN: GOODBYE MOTOR CAR?sonofhoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09113084932498758924noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8579186424195604522.post-86527147379879472372010-02-04T15:30:32.399+00:002010-02-04T15:30:32.399+00:00I think that the way forward is for people who can...I think that the way forward is for people who can think for themselves is just to learn to live with 'The System' or in my case, work around it.<br />I like to share ideas with everyone who wants to but I have given up on trying to change the System. <br />The Powers that be have all the brain power, all the resources, limitless finances and far reaching connections.<br />There is only one way for me to deal with 'The System' and it involves a dirty word!sonofhoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09113084932498758924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8579186424195604522.post-41547736190558468252010-02-04T14:44:17.636+00:002010-02-04T14:44:17.636+00:00People can either wake up (was that the red pill?)...People can either wake up (was that the red pill?) or continue to live in the Matrix until they pull the hose. That is about to happen.<br /><br />If you want to read another article to shake your world, check this out<br /><br />http://permaculturesendaverde.blogspot.com <br /><br />and look for the article "Understanding money is central to self-sufficincy" (sorry can't paste links here, and it is a long one with too many chances of mis-spelling). Also look for "The right to ignore the state by Herbert Spencer".<br /><br />SYLOjudyofthewoodshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16915238889263579309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8579186424195604522.post-73736758125527464502010-02-03T00:05:00.997+00:002010-02-03T00:05:00.997+00:00Umm... sorry just noticed typo above!
Meant Ray ...Umm... sorry just noticed typo above! <br /><br />Meant Ray Bradbury... and his short story, later 'Bladerunner'... 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?'<br /><br />'Wake up... Time to die...'<br /><br />People DO need to wake up.The Cathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05669245584536152572noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8579186424195604522.post-65959196495098487492010-02-02T22:19:17.092+00:002010-02-02T22:19:17.092+00:00I was an avid reader of science fiction when a tee...I was an avid reader of science fiction when a teenager... SO many of the ideas I read in those books, by Asimov, Bradburt, Heinlein, et.al., have come to pass in one form or another!<br /><br />The surveillance regime of Orwell's 1984 with the 'Thought Police' is not too remote from 'Surveillance Britain' where 1/4 of the World's CCTV cameras are operating [to 'prevent terrorism', of course].<br /><br />Apart from 'terrorism', we are also to be afraid of everyone... all are potential muggers, burglars, identity thieves, paedophiles, kidnappers, drug dealers, addicts... <br /><br />The Matrix? Now that gets the Cat a'thinking...The Cathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05669245584536152572noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8579186424195604522.post-31164185592666714672010-02-02T20:55:44.162+00:002010-02-02T20:55:44.162+00:00The Matrix is the one that I identify with. I avoi...The Matrix is the one that I identify with. I avoided mentioning it in the blog for fear of being labelled a fantasist.<br />I think that is such a clever observation of how most people live.sonofhoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09113084932498758924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8579186424195604522.post-23230090700986670002010-02-02T19:14:47.249+00:002010-02-02T19:14:47.249+00:00Thanks for the welcome. If you refered to *me* as ...Thanks for the welcome. If you refered to *me* as a Big Brainer, I hope you won't be disapointed to hear that I am rather uneducated, at least in the academic sense. I just slaved my way through secondary school, which may, in fact, have contributed to a more independent way of thinking. Had I not been day-dreaming about playing in the woods, I would have been more brain washed. <br /><br />I came to some realisations a little late in life, but I now what you mean about waking up and not being able to close your eyes again. You can't unsee things. Not always pleasant living with the awareness, but I prefer what little control it gives me to the tepid bliss of the ignorant. Sheep to the slaughter, my friend. <br /><br />If people were to consider films and books like Soyent Gree, Bladerunner, Logan's Run, The Matrix and The Handmade's Tale as more realistic about what is happening or about to happen, than so-called reality TV they would be making a huge step forward. Thanks for speaking out.judyofthewoodshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16915238889263579309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8579186424195604522.post-31828757743891464422010-02-02T08:01:26.384+00:002010-02-02T08:01:26.384+00:00I am glad you are following Judy. It's nice to...I am glad you are following Judy. It's nice to have a 'Big Brainer' on board. I am no intellectual. I am just a person who chose to wake up. I think that becoming an enemy of the TV was the beginning for me.<br /> After a while of doing without the constant barrage of mind numbing adverts and the pallid propaganda that is churned out by the BBC I decided that I had to make some changes.<br /> I don't have all the answers but I have to slog away at it.<br />Once you have opened your eyes you can't close them again and join the dumbed down throngs of sheep who will be watching tonight's episode of "I'm A Simpleton Get Me Out Of Here."sonofhoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09113084932498758924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8579186424195604522.post-46001462715710122992010-02-02T04:01:27.860+00:002010-02-02T04:01:27.860+00:00I'm deep green and no friend of cars, but I ha...I'm deep green and no friend of cars, but I have to concede, that it has been my suspicion for some time, in fact ever since politicians jumped on the green band wagon, that the whole climate change issue is a ruse. And I put it down to Peak Oil and the very reason you state - hamstering away dwindling fuels for the rich and powerful. <br /><br />About 5 years or so ago, when we were blessed to see some auroras here in the southern UK, I have been following daily a graph on a page from the Lancs. University website, called aurora watch - www.dcs.lancs.ac.uk/iona/aurorawatch/rt_activity/ so that I wouldn't miss another oportunity. Over the last couple or so years I have noticed that there is an absolute flat-liner of a graph, i.e. no sunspot activity whatsoever. Now, there are scientific heretics who dare say that climate is related to what goes on on the sun (duh!), but whos voice is stifled. Any coincidence that we have had several cold summers and winters? Any coincidence that the Little Ice Age of around the 17th century happened at a time of very low sunspot activity? <br /><br />I should be pleased, as an environmentalist, that there are some environmental benefits from restricting fuel consumption, or so it would seem on the surface. But when politicians can simply switch on a global paradigm shift like a light switch, what else can they turn on or off at the flick of a switch? They have been preparing for a while now. "War on terror" and the police state are simply the brain wash department and enforcement agency of that sinister bunch.judyofthewoodshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16915238889263579309noreply@blogger.com