time for a reboot

I have just read an excellent article by John Schettler at article by John Schettler called "Blue Screen of Death" in which he describes the unfolding of our current economic woes, with bankers getting fatter and fatter as they bleed us all dry. He proposes only one solution: "a complete shutdown and reboot of the system."

My favorite quote was president Wilson's lament on his creation of the Federal Reserve:

I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated governments in the civilized world. No longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men.

There we have in a nutshell, the essence of the old paradigm system: a small and secretive elite sitting at the top of a pyramid of power and controlling everything beneath them. Our governments are at the mercy of secretive and unelected power mongers, so we should not be surprised when these same governments repeatedly perform acts which make no sense to us. They are just following orders, and they are sworn to secrecy.

Yes - it is time to reboot this system. If we don't do it, then it is crashing quickly under its own momentum towards a shutdown that could be terminal. We need a reboot now, before any more damage is done: the sooner the misery of this old system is over, the better for all of humanity. The elite of power mongers have already hoovered up almost all of the wealth, leaving nothing much for the rest of us but debt and a planet that has been raped bare. The monster system they created is now consuming itself. We should now be celebrating the spectacular demise of the old paradigm, and looking forward with optimism to a fresh new start.