“Save the intellectual and reestablish education”

“Save the intellectual and reestablish education”

How to take down the Billionaires

Chapter 10

The billionaires could not possibly have gotten away with a scam on this scale if the intellectual foundations on which the nation depends had not been rotten to the core. Most citizens are too busy just trying to get through the day, to feed their families and make ends meet. They must depend on a small group of experts, who have the training and the knowledge that they will never be able to obtain themselves. They depend on experts to explain to them what is happening in the world, how it effects them and what needs to be done in response.

The Treason of the intellectuals

These experts, intellectuals in the technical sense, are professors, researchers, lawyers, doctors, journalists, engineers, and a variety of other specialists in business and government whose job it is to identify the problems we face, present a rational and understandable analysis, and suggest solutions going forward.

Most of these intellectuals, have betrayed the trust of the citizens, leaving them blind before the onslaught of global finance. This betrayal is what we refer to as the treason of the intellectuals.

They have taken secret bribes to promote false stories about the 9.11 incident, the Patriot Act, the transformation of the military and intelligence into a secret government, and the COVID-19 pandemic. Although they received their training, and conduct their activities, with the support of tax dollars from citizens, they have descended into a narcissistic fantasy world in which their fame, and their personal needs, are central and they feel no obligation to sacrifice themselves for the benefit of the people.

Intellectuals are absolutely necessary and must play the central role in educating and leading citizens who do not have the luxury to focus on science, technology, economics, international relations, or history.

The battle against the billionaires’ demands that we restore the dignity and the sense of responsibility to intellectuals. We must support a new generation of intellectuals who are not looking for profit, or personal fame, but who are dedicated to the long-term interests of the citizens.

Corporations have invented bogus academic stars like Yuval Harari or Jordan Peterson to push a vision of the world in which the individual is central, not social organizations, and self-realization is the core task. In the false world of the paid-for intellectual, all responsibility lies with the individual and the parasitic corporation becomes invisible.

At the same time that these famous, inaccessible, stars, lecture us from on high, the actual intellectuals in our neighborhood, professors at community colleges, teachers at high schools, doctors at local hospitals and journalists at local newspapers have seen the foundations of their economic lives destroyed and are being pushed into poverty, or completely eliminated from the economy.

This is no accident.

There is literally no one to be found in the neighborhood who has expertise to explain what is going on in the world. The elimination of community colleges and local universities means that most citizens have no chance to talk with the educated classes at all and must rely on the corporate controlled internet for information.

Even on the internet, biased logarithms for searches on Google, and secret restrictions on content for the media, or social networks, mean that committed intellectuals concerned about the future of the nation are rendered invisible for the common man.

These ethical intellectuals must form an organic relationship with the citizens (as Antonio Francesco Gramsci put it) that allows citizens to understand what is going on, and helps them to organize themselves, drawing on the knowhow of political reformers over the last three thousand years.

Organization of tightly-knit groups of citizens ready to take on the billionaires must be started by a core of such committed, revolutionary intellectuals. We must set up regular meetings of citizens to discuss their concerns and create systems for participatory governance at the local level. These discussions will train citizens to wean themselves from TV and other corrupt forms of corporate media, to raise their own intellectual horizons, and to engage in positive discussions with each other. Committed intellectuals need to explain how the political economy works, and how to survive, but also to help citizens to think for themselves, to be confident in their creativity and their ability to imagine, and to realize a better society.

Once they start to regain intellectual independence and self-confidence in their role as citizens under the Constitution, the people will be able to engage in their own meetings, and create their own organizations that will carry on the struggle at the local level. They will no need swindler patron saints like Trump or Obama any more.

Education

If we want the intellectual and institutional independence necessary to take on the billionaires, we must create immediately alternative schools for our children that not only avoid dangerous vaccines and PCR tests, but also offer an opportunity for children to learn to think for themselves without the brainwashing that corporations slip into public education through bribes, seen and unseen, to politicians and policy makers.

Such alternative schools, from kindergarten to graduate school, will be critical for establishing an independent citizenship capable of standing up to the billionaires. It does not have to be expensive.

Merely making a proposal for independent education run by citizens without any corporate funding will change the mood in politics. Moreover, many citizens are entirely qualified to serve as teachers, part time, for their own children and their neighbor’s children. If we have the will, a new educational system can be launched quickly.

That project must include continuing education for citizens that allows them to meet regularly for discussions with ethically-committed intellectuals to learn about how the political economy really works, to study history and culture so as to understand our current situation. Continuing education must also cover practical skills such as how to raise one’s own food, or to how to use herbs to cure illnesses, how to make your own clothes and furniture, and other steps to become independent from corporations and government.

None of the money should come from foundations or corporations who have an interest in destroying the ability of citizens to think for themselves. No thanks, Carnegie Foundation! No thanks, Ford Foundation! No thanks, Rockefeller Foundation!

Learning to write and to create art must be a part of continuing education that empowers citizens to make their own music, create their own images, without relying on the branded content (music, texts and images), supplied by advertising firms working for multinational corporations. Commercial music and design is meant to put citizens to sleep, to brainwash them into accepting the fascist policies as normal. Citizens art, by contrast, can focus on real issues in our lives, and hint as how we can change our society with our own hands.

Education for citizens is the critical defense against the mentacide campaigns launched to destroy the ability of citizens to think for themselves. Mentacide means the destruction of, the “rape” of, the mind though trash music, videos, television shows, social media and other weapons. It is the front line in this class war.

Education is not the memorization of facts in order to qualify for a job. It is a process by which the citizen learns to think for himself, or herself, about the world, learns how to teach himself, and to use the scientific method and appropriate skepticism in the process of learning about the world every day.

Education is also about morality, about learning how to be a committed citizen by understanding the teachings from ancient times concerning ethical behavior and moral action.

Journalism

A critical extension of education is journalism that provides citizens with accurate and relevant information about our society and that challenges them to think for themselves. Needless to say, the corporate media does not offer journalism at all.

With the proper training, moral commitment, and the will, a small group of citizens can easily put together their own newspaper that presents information culled from various sources (including the corporate media) with proper annotation to make it accessible and relevant to citizens.

Journalism must address the issues that the corporate media tries to hide. It must, for example, expose the link between the introduction of technology and the increase in tyranny. Computers, automation and on-line shopping are not primarily about making life more convenient for citizens, but rather creating impenetrable realms wherein decisions can be made by corporations that impact our key constitutional rights, and do so without our knowledge, our consent, or our understanding.

Although we pay to purchase them, and pay a fee to use them, smartphones belong to corporations, not to us, and are constantly updated, and the information fed to corporate and government fusion centers without our knowledge or consent. More importantly, the stimulation of citizens by sexually suggestive programs, or information about food, fun and travel, is intended to destroy our ability to think independently and thus a blatant violation of our constitutional rights.

Unless we take a stand, we will be reduced to slavery, bit by bit, step by gradual step. Unless journalism exposes these tricks, citizens will remain unaware until it is too late.

Resistance by citizens to tyranny is critical for our independence and must be our highest priority.

Our intention is to completely replace corporate media and to create alternative education and alternative journalism that meets the needs of our citizens for their spiritual and intellectual independence. This goal cannot be accomplished overnight because those who have been brainwashed by corporate media for years will require significant engagement in our discussions and our debates to overcome their unhealthy dependencies. All of us have loved ones nearby who suffer from this tragic condition.