BRAVE NEW WORLD ORDER PHILOSOPHY and the 7 Day Horizon

When I was about 15 or 16, still in school and trying to decide what to study in college, and what I wanted to do with my life, I had two very clear concepts that remained with me and which continue to colour my view of the future.

The first was that in contrast to the thinking at the time in the late 70s and early 80s which said that technology would lead to a shift for mankind towards shorter working hours, more leisure time and a more utopian lifestyle for us all, I came to a conclusion that I would probably never be in a position to retire - I would work until the end of my life.

The second thought that crystallised for me was that in addition to the paradox that an ever-increasing acceleration in the power and performance of technology would lead to a faster and faster pace of life, rather than a gain in leisure time, more and more people would find it more and more difficult to live at that higher pace.

I began to make the statement back then that suicide would be the greatest killer in the 21st century, and that technology would be the root if it.

Thirty years later and my two premonitions of the future have not been revised as to their eventuality, but have been reviewed in their causes and the processes that will - and are - leading to them.

I thought that I would not be able to retire because there would be no such thing as pensions.  There was no logical, sequential reasoning behind this idea - I didn't work out why this would be - I just believed that it would be.

The morbid idea that suicide would be hugely prevalent and a major, if not the major, cause of death was similarly not really based on some philosophical cognitive reasoning process ... it was just a thought.  But a very clear and very strong one.  I thought that with increased technological advances, the pace of life would outstrip our ability to manage it.  In fact we have proven to be very capable of adapting to the faster pace of life.  The improvements in mobile communications and computer speed and functionality took our daily lives from third gear straight to sixth in a flash, but we easily mastered the change and have learned to live at a frantic pace.

Today I am approaching 50.  I have been married and divorced. I have three beautiful children.  I have good friends and family and generally I enjoy life.

But while my youthful imaginings might seem to have been unfounded, the world at 50 has materialised just as I imagined.  And it wasn't technology that was at the core of this - it was man himself.  More correctly it was greedy men : politicians, bankers, mega-industrialists.

Just today (Feb 21 2013) in the UK, the government have extended the age limit for college fee grants and told pensioners that over 60s will have to go back to college to keep up date with their skills in order to remain in employment for longer before retirement.  Government wants to work us to death because they need our tax revenue to pay the bankers that keep them in power and keep the system in place.

Pension funds have been wiped out for generations of honest hard-working men and women.  Today families struggle to get to the end of the week with food on the table ... that is the extent of their future horizon.  One week.  Seven Days.


Home owners are being evicted across Europe by banks who have no conscience when it comes to money.  In Spain, evicted citizens have been committing suicide in desperation.  In France a citizen set themselves on fire in an employment agency office.  In Ireland, Shane McEntee - a member of government - committed suicide just before Christmas 2012.  The government have officially blamed the people through social media when in fact the truth is very different.

So my two premonitions - thirty years later - are coming true.

What went wrong?

The system.

For Ireland in particular, Colm O'Gorman of Amnesty International stated it really well on Newstalk radio in a conversation about the governments apology to brutally exploited women in the infamous Magdalene Laundries :

“Enda Kenny talked about our almost ridiculous self portrait of ourselves as a God-fearing, good nation.
I’d even question that idea of Ireland as a nation. I don’t think we’ve ever been a nation. We kind of fell out of colonialism into independence and thought that, sure we’re a republic now, everything will be grand.
We’re a good, God-fearing Catholic republic, we’ll be fine, well we weren’t fine. We’d never operated as a nation. We’ve never made that decision, to come together collectively around a set of common values that reflected who we would be.
We’ve never had a discussion about the role of the state in a meaningful way here. We’ve never had a conversation about were our human rights central to our values and if they are, how do we provide for them and what is the role of the state in doing that?
We need to have that conversation. It’s 2013. We’ve failed abysmally in so many different areas and there’s no point in pretending that it didn’t happen and that we’re not now responsible for past failures.
I tell you when we become responsible for them, if we don’t learn from them and if we continue to perpetuate the same failures without changing, we’re as bad as everything that came before us.”

Our system of government, justice and social unity was destroyed when we were taken into the control of the crown.

From : http://www.tirnasaor.com/06/17/brehon-law-an-introduction-to-the-laws-of-ancient-ireland/

Ancient Ireland was home to one of the most forward-thinking systems of law of its time and possibly even today. There were no prisons, no police force and no government enforcement. The laws carried force by virtue of their morality and by the will of the people who respected and revered them. These laws were so pure in essence, and with such a strong focus on justice, fairness and equality, that mechanisms of enforcement were not necessary. They allowed for divorce and respected the rights of women and they were the first body of law to recognise copyright.

 Once Ireland was ruled by the crown, the crown system of corporate law and governance became our system.

The Oireachtas was set up by King George V and granted authority by the crown to administer government in Ireland in 1922.  Having already TAKEN our State back from the crown and establishing a sovereign government under the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of Saorstat na hEireann in 1919, the English crown had NO authority to grant us anything, least of all our status as a free country.

When the Oireachtas was set up the people once again became subjects under the crown and the system of government and judiciary was taken directly from the crown. The Irish people have NEVER been allowed to choose their own system of government, their own system of justice, and live on their own terms. In 1972 the Oireachtas first stepped onto the path of subservience to an even more terrifying power - the incestuous and immoral structure that has become the EU under banking control.

We need to find a way back.  Back to our true selves.  To the nation we were before Cromwell.  To a nation of sovereign royalty .. . but not a monarchy of fear and oppression .... a democracy of justice, truth, community, family, equity.

We were once a nation of Tribes, of Chieftains, of Warrior Heroes : In our heritage we have more in common with the Indian Nations of North America than the Feudal Kingdoms of Europe...Red Skins and Red Necks ....

Today I see my teenage premonitions coming true, but I also have new premonitions.  Hopeful ones.  I believe there is a new age coming and there is a possibility that my children will inherit a better future and a better world than we did.

And out of this perception I have a new mantra for myself :

If I can ... I will 

If I can help my family - I will

If I can help my friends - I will

If I can help my country - I will

..... why wouldn't I?

That is my antidote to the BRAVE NEW WORLD ORDER philosophy which governs everything in the 21st Century.....

the philosophy that offers you a choice for living in the 21st Century

you can work til you die
or

you can kill yourself