from the top down

we are living through chaos unleashed by the wealthiest on all beneath them
Nick Cohen, writing in The Observer (thank you Alice Cook for the link)

Our economic systems, our political systems, and our financial systems are all OLD-PARADIGM systems, that is they are based on control of the many by the few. The key word here is CONTROL: this old paradigm for human organization, which we are now witnessing the death throws of, is based on pyramid control structures, whereby the many are controlled rigidly by a few power mongers. The old-paradigm way is "from the top down".

Other old-paradigm attributes of our societies include: conflict (war is good for the economy), separatism (divide and rule), and competition (survival of the fittest).

It is all fear based: those in power, at the top of the pyramid, are driven by fear, and the rest of us live in fear that is largely induced in us by our leaders. The system embraces brainwashing (advertising), and produces fear through encouraging our weakest human traits: greed, envy, selfishness, lust, desire for material wealth. Spiritual values are ignored and even disparaged, as we are programmed to base our lives around competition with our neighbours, in the race to maximize our physical wealth. Real wealth, which is inner harmony and the union with other beings and with nature, is forgotten about, and this is deliberate: control requires fear and division - if we were to work together in harmony, with common purpose, then the few leaders at the top of the pyramid become powerless to stop us.

Although the old-paradigm ways have been in control of the human race for thousands of years now, the old-paradigm has now passed its "sell-by" date, and indeed its' "use by" date. Those at the top have recently been engaging in a final frenzy of greed and excess, and have bled the system dry. Just like fishermen over-fishing a sea, and thereby losing their livelihood when the stocks the run out, those at the top of our pyramid have been greedily plundering the material wealth of the rest of us, and now we have nothing left to give them. They cannot take what we have not got, and so their spree has hit the buffers. Having exhausted the mines of capitalism (which has now eaten its own guts and is in its death throws), they are now plundering, with breathtaking audacity and unprecedented speed and greed, the socialist (a.k.a. public) purse - They are making sure that our countries and currencies are going down together with the sinking ships of our industries.

These are the end days for the old-paradigm systems of control, greed, selfishness, separateness, conflict, competition, and fear.

But they need not be the end days for us. As human beings, we are blessed with spiritual traits that have been repressed under the old-paradigm. To replace fear we have love, spiritual love, that is selfless, unconditional, and giving: love for ourselves and for all of our fellow beings. Instead of competing we can work together for the common good. Instead of fighting we can live in harmony and peace. Instead of being divided and isolated as lonely individuals, we can unite together as one people, in the understanding that to hurt our fellow being is to hurt ourselves - at the spiritual level we are all one. In place of selfishness and greed we can help each other and share with each other. In place of a controlling authoritarianism we will have a free and distributed equality, in which each of us has our own role in which we are happy and fulfilled, and which serves all of us as a society.

This is not a dream of paradise. It is where the human race is heading right now. This is the NEW-PARADIGM rising like a phoenix from the ashes of the old.

I implore everyone who reads this to shift your attention and energy FROM any attempt to fix or sustain the old paradigm ways, TO a sustained and joyous embrace of the new-paradigm ways that will lead us out of our current darkness to a new world of light of love. We have to create that world ourselves, but we are equipped to do so, and our time is NOW.

The meek shall inherit the Earth.