oh hey if you play these funky little logic puzzle things you might discover them when bored silly at the airport nothing mysterious they give you a set of system rules which discipline you towards achieving a certain goal yes perhaps not the most exciting thing in entertainment today i don't know maybe there's something more to this whole logic and reason deal than just killing time while in transit of course we all naturally assume that we're being well reasoned in our making right in fact it can be argued that to some degree such associative causal logic is inherently inescapable effectively wired into our brains with respect to how we interpret and link our experiences yet it's that very issue of degree that appears to be where the problems arise as all too often the foundational premises upon which we frame our conclusions are indeed utterly faulty or without proper evidence to be considered factual to begin with needless to say being logical within a cognitive framework of the illogical only takes you so far and today if you dig deep into the origins and basis of perpetuation of our most cherished institutions from religion politics economics to the social order itself you might discover something called faith rather than reason and faith by definition is not a premise of logic  quote make the world work for one hundred percent of humanity in the shortest possible time through spontaneous cooperation without ecological damage or disadvantage to anyone unquote it's a pretty simple and rational thought exercise a a puzzle if you will on the most grand scale which even in basic gesture actually stands in stark contrast with the organizational frame of reference our established society currently operates with  this train of thought suggests is to take a broad design perspective to the earth and human society using what we now know regarding scientific causalities as opposed to the wheeling and dealing inherently elitist market anarky which moves the world by arguably a rigid superstitious faith that the invisible hand of the market knows all and sees all i ask you what if we dared to earth as a single puzzle with a problem to be solved with our logic based around the earth's natural rule set the known laws of physics science what if our goal was to maximize our economic efficiency to design out poverty to design out nationally or to work structurally to create a clean energy abundance and has to work facilitate a material success for the whole of humanity in harmony with nature itself utopian you say too idealistic communist well i don't know about you but when i stumble around this planet we call home a system condition that demands one thing to ensure the prosperity of the human family adaptation i once impressed at our tremendous accomplishments as a species and it once horrified at the ignorant failures mostly resulting from a refusal to see the earth as one system design and humanity as one family found within so as the season finale of culture in decline will argue humanity is being faced with a choice a fork in the road it is my personal conviction that the broader social decisions made this generation might very well be what makes or breaks our species in the long run and perhaps by the end of this episode you like me will feel the need to think about which path you should choose a culture in a sense or a culture in decline science fiction writers scientists and so called futurists of the world painted many pictures of what the future may hold some are modest positive or even utopian some are dystopian dark impressive as far as the the best we can do is measure the trends and average out the projections with perhaps of course the most relevant trend being the influence of science and technology of course technological progress has its culture lead right however today doesn't it seem like the gap between our scientific advancement and our actual and are standing in consideration of that advancement is growing wider and wider doesn't it seem a little bit obvious that technological capacity is exceedingly social it's actually a frightening point in truth as it's a cultural value issue science and technology put into the hands of forward thinking developers who perhaps recognize the profound passerby to create an abundance stabilize ecological influence and become sustainable both environmentally and culturally tend to view the world very differently than the more common market nationalist elitist mindset which sees society through the filter of narrow self interest and competition constantly reinforcing that gain at the expense of others is a law of nature and hence a virtue to be praised and rewarded in this context we might see how those same tools will be used to bigger weapons more surveillance technology an ever stronger physical and psychological prisons for the vast majority of humanity to remain in servitude to a small group of people and essentially ownership class so with that in mind i present to you a thought exercise using my fresh new time machine here i'm going to be your guy on a trip to possible future first we will visit a world that just may be the current social ecological and technical persist as they are then we will visit a possible future that could be if we as a species were willing to simply employ our vast potential to forge a new highly efficient societal design with new practices by design which is not utopian or idealistic but rather quite simple practical and doable if we simply made the decision to change in accord with the logic of our natural exist new york city twenty one ten it's been a while since the fall of the us empire and by extension the general decline of much of the world the massive influence of u s economic policy along with the corresponding materialistic inefficient and wasteful values born out of the consumption based growth economy began to reach its physical limits in the may twenty first century until that point the race towards global industrialization continued unabated with the world still pining for the so called american dream not computing that if the entire world acted with the same waist patterns as the us we would have needed four more earths worth of resources just to keep it all going what happened well there were three nails in the coffin of societal collapse the synergy of these issues compounded each other with vicious storms and by the time the earth had a population of eight billion right before the third world war global unemployment and health epidemics alone in asia and beyond the catastrophic a third of the planet still uninhabitable today due to industrial pollution today the global population has fallen by forty percent  polluting energy stores in the earth realizing the almost unlimited abundance generative universe and energy provide for everyone many times over if we only moved fast enough to create the proper infrastructure unfortunately such a transition and was met with great resistance financial interests you see there was this thing called the free market which was far from free in truth it was a war in the lead us protection system and the bigger and more profitable industry became the less financial incentive existed to alter it money was the goal of this game not sustainability or efficiency and the fact was we needed to move fast once the true scarcity of our hydrocarbon resources became understood social destabilization and panic rapidly commenced to further and what little progress did take place was wrong but we destroyed their after by the water and energy at the same time the world faced the largest unemployment rates in history long considered a luddite myth the exponential increase in machine automation in the twenty first century created a powerful excel aeration of industrial productivity that ever cheaper rates displacing workers more rapidly than technology could actually create new jobs forward thinkers saw a great shift in the architecture of society perhaps ancient idea of earning a living could be replaced with living a life we could see the new capacity to create in abundance to meet the needs of every human being on earth eight billion and beyond but sadly this prospect met the same fate as our energy ambitions the corporations locked into a manner of thought which viewed mechanisation as not a means for abundance put rather a means to save even more money in the process of production and set up a variance for abundance put rather a means to save even more money in the process of production and set up a violent clash not only a clash between workers and owners but ironically a clash of system functions for capitalism was faced with its most grand contradict where suddenly labor could exist with increasingly less human involvement and hence the constant pursuit of cost efficiency for profit inevitably meant that less money would be put into circulation through wages and so the system ran itself down into an ever leak and in slump noticing this the cry of some of the stuff mechanisation knowing the economy literally needed jobs by design others performed activism to try and convince the world that it was time to adapt to simply give humanity what it needed to bypass the market why should we invent more jobs to waste human life just to keep this system going yet of course they were bashed in the media dismissed as socialist upstarts and freedom hating communists trying to corrupt the supposedly liberty of what was nothing more than a religion the all seen market and by the time the corporate controlled governments couldn't look the other way any longer the momentum of anger and dismay was too much the unions one strike and the cry for revolution exploded the luddites blame technology for the problems the business is blame government interference the counterculture blamed idealized conspiracies with few realising that it was a system failure natural evolution of our culture which demanded respect and admiration and the third and perhaps most absurd of all social plagues was the illusion of financial debt it's an interesting historical note that for some reason the mafia style organized crime mode of the market was never really accepted as a legitimate consequence when it was in fact a ruling those inherent in the competitive scarcity driven nature of the system centuries of the nile can be found in the analysts economic textbooks of this now failed model saying that if any such behavior did occur it was an anomaly a corruption rather than a coup or characteristic expected of the system itself within this propensity system whether structurally intended as a force of class warfare or not on the system to serve the elite quite well for a little while every form of currency produced was created out of debt and loaned at interest to the governments businesses and individuals yet it was a mathematical impossibility for this debt ever be repaid as there was always more debt in the global economy than money to pay it back due to the profit mechanism of interest being charged and while this allowed for a surplus of cheap labor that further divided the classes moving from one percent owning forty percent planet's wealth in the early twenty first century to now one percent i mean seventy percent the viral nature of the mechanism got the best of everyone in the end to expand the delusion global banking institution installed to loan money made out of debt again to the now bankrupt countries only to watch these world banks fail over time as well it was the greatest inadvertence scam of all time a pyramid scheme on steroids destined to fail for all and by the time of world war three all the countries had to fall to each other and the global banking system collapsed of course during these trials the illusion of so called democracy still persisted equally as religious and mythological in its understanding as the so called free market everyone turned to their representative government a mafia constituency to be sure intimately in bed with the corporate financial interests which by virtue of the ruling ethic of social and class warfare and competition had little structural incentive to care about the vast majority of the world and so it went not too pretty high well  future may be a little extreme in its presentation keep in mind this is what the trends suggest however i think it's time to take a positive view of the future when that's actually quite possible if we are intelligent enough to adjust accordingly future is going to be like in say one hundred years well i think we go down to two paths the first would be that we continue to sort of build on top of this cancer consciousness separation and every human being for themselves kind of a thing i don't necessarily like that idea but i do think there's another direction that we could go and i would love to see people working together in community i think we're missing the whole kind of tribal element as as miles would say i would love everybody to live in tree houses i mean i really believe that we have the technology to deal with every imaginable problem on the earth we have plants that can bio remediate like sunflowers for example we have you know everything that's available to us to fix all these problems to create incredible there to leave the swedish festival it really is amazing all the arts contribute to social development and yes life really should be a celebration not a trial but ok let's get back to work los angeles twenty one ten in what was once a sea of congested traffic and agitating urban sprawl in the early twenty first century has been transformed into a model of efficiency and safety the nine to five work day tradition which forced most of society to cram into gridlock highways in route to a kind of covert slavery is a distant memory of a new highly advanced technological society contribution to society is no longer based on the narrow selfish pursuit of personal gain and lost its use long ago as the foundational premise of its existence was outgrown the culture finally realize that a basic technical system of collaboration sharing resources and ideas would enable a highly abundant sustainable and stable world unlike anything the market ethic of scarcity competition and class warfare fathom it was called the great transition for the benefit of taking an earth wide system perspective coupled with the application of basic physical and social science set in motion a train of thought that transcended most everything we had considered normal in the early twenty first century and while it is far from perfect the basic design to take care of everyone work while still structurally respecting the natural environment unleashing a kind of human freedom in capacity for development never before seen stand how this new world emerged we need to start by recognizing a trend which became apparent in the early twentieth century with humanity having spent the vast majority of existence under the veil of superstition impending scarcity and general elite ism the idea of not having enough to go around and the perpetuation of haves and have nots appeared to be simply an immutable law of nature war after war genocide after genocide it intuitively appear that this was simply the way the human condition was to be however with the development of science and the notion of something called technical efficiency a pattern began to emerge which set the stage for likely the most radical change in human society operation in history it was called ephemeral ization the ability to do more and more with less and less as paradoxical as it may seem all right advancement in understanding how to use our planetary resources in conjunction with the emerging laws of natural science set in motion a pattern of conservation and efficiency where over time less and less materials labor and energy are needed to produce and execute more and more life supporting processes for example the first computer built in the one nine hundred forty s covered eight hundred square feet of f space weighed thirty tons and consumed one hundred sixty kilowatts of electric power today an inexpensive pocket sized cell phone computes substantially faster running on virtually nothing in comparison communication which used to require enormous amounts of arduous copper wire to pursue a taped phone calls has been replaced by lightweight satellites physical home construction which took massive amounts of resources and labor eventually evolved into using lightweight prefabricated structures which could be assembled by automation using a fraction of the materials and labor as before and yet were substantially stronger and even the core foundation of nutrition agriculture which since the start of the  was bound to certain regions for certain climates and land propensity saw a revolution in versatility where soil is farming systems to provide organic food locally without pesticides using less fertilization and with little energy wasted on transport the very idea of globalization was a distant memory along with the vast waste created in effect no industry or sub industry was amiss with this trend even labor itself with the application of automation finally applied as a target means for production exploded efficiency and capacity with less and less human toil necessary overtime by the mid twenty percent or even the idea of mass good production was also no more as advancements in modular robotics and nano technology allowed for good production to exist on site on demand in a kind of variety never before seen in capitalism the idea of producing goods in mass and storing inventory was no more in fact most homes now had production rooms which printed the basic clothes household tools and general needs right there on site and on and on the efficiency grew bring in the world into a condition of post scarcity abundance where within the educational framework of natural law respecting that there are indeed limits to growth and consumption a new human value system emerged which glor capacity to increase efficiency and maintain ecological balance and stain ability not only physical state ability for say but cultural sting ability taking care of everyone was not a poetic consequence it was a core focus to create a form of earthly harmony a known before of course none of these transitions came easily the market economy and those who profited most dogmatically tried to stop this advancement as the leaders and they held dear was drawn into question it took decades of activism and showing the world including those of great power and wealth that life could be much better for them as well along with everyone else and that the market system simply was incompatible with this new mode of optimized efficiency and efficiency desperately needed to not only progress society but see that shit i got to get back it's almost time for my favorite t game that tests your understanding of the global economy and reminds us that true freedom is our ability to restrict the freedom of others we're now in our final action round with the remaining categories of those wacky austrian fuck you and your college degree and gimme gimme gimme mine mine mine tell me it's your turn to family it fuck you and your colleagues steam for three hundred three currently in the united states which form of indirect slavery is most actively saving the ownership class by generating legions of young desperate laborers attempt sam that would be dead slavery that's correct jim in fact there's now about one point two trillion dollars in student debt alone an excellent career motivator to be sure jim you're up i'll take what mafia four hundred plus which free market induced cartel currently maintains the most oppressive power over life improving public health policy to me the federal was there close but you know fred the food drug administration there we go that's right folks we do have cures for cancer too bad it would interfere with the bottom line of the existing medical mafia fred yes and i'll take gimme gimme gimme mine mine mine for six hundred which continent has been most capitalized upon for its natural resources and cost efficient labor since the start of the british empire bred asia very close but no jammy top america even closer but no bueno africa you got it boiled mineral spices land and even people have been taken by the west and put to good economic work for hundreds of years economic efficiency at its best that buzzer means we're out of bread you are a new winner him please enter your designated free market fund sacks as your fates have been set to help contribute to the emerging market economies of the third world ed that's right sam tami is off the luscious time to be a sex slave in one of the most most people have no idea that golf was invented by alfonse likert whose glass eye popped out in the park when he sneezed too hard because of his broken leg he had to putt the all the way home before his wife retrieved it for him but by then he knew we had a new sport and a dream it's all true no why because you heard it from some guy in a tie final thoughts i spent the beginning of my focus  activism by doing what most everyone else was doing blaming other people and institutions don't like the war let's blame the president congress or political lobbies don't like ecological disregard let's blame this or that corrupt corporation or some regulatory body for poor performance don't like being poor and socially immobile let's blame government coercion and interference in this free market utopia everyone keeps talking about the submarine truth of the matter is that the only thing that blame is the dynamic causal unfolding of system expression itself on the cultural level in other words none of us create or do anything in isolation it's impossible we are a system balance both physically and psychologically a continuum therefore our view of causality with respect to societal change can only be truly productive if we seek and source the most relevant sociological influences we can and begin to alter those effects from the root causes and i don't know about you but i am so sick of listening to ninety five percent of the world's media social critics political parties economic philosophers so called scientists and yes activists communities as they continue wasting time and energy trying to patch a sinking ship that never had structural integrity to begin with it isn't to say that we don't need such measures ok because we are truly hemorrhaging from our wounds but the level of the paris mint now upon us with respect to the hamster wheel of pointless  must truly made one hell of a reality show for the possible aliens watching our rather idiotic planet orbit into oblivion the late great george carlin once said when you are born on this planet you are given a ticket to the freak show and if you're born in america you are given a front row seat it's just maybe true that behind every cynic there is a failed idealist but in a world where no good deed goes unpunished it is easy to see how the most sensitive of the human condition can't help but suffer a kind of trauma of the spirit with a child like goodwill curiosity and rational development is stopped suppressed in destroyed by stubborn traditionalism forged by the supposed  virtue of arrogant leaders and yes if you haven't figured it out at the root of this series is not a light satirical view of modern life it is a deeply frustrated and agitated expression that furthers in part my personal attempt to ward off the condition of simply not giving a shit anymore and my hope is that those of you out there who can identify with this plight will begin to understand the seriousness of this societal struggle and work to help  redeem this epidemic of intellectual belligerence known as the zeit geist we endure with that i would like to thank all of you who have supported the show this far and perhaps we all may emerge to see a common human and in time realizing that everything is you and you are everything a spiritual responsibility of sorts if you will perhaps finally lifting us out of the dark age we wallow in today my name is peter joseph and perhaps you like me will no longer perceive yourself as a victim of a culture in decline but rather as an agent of evolution an agent of a culture an ascen on the very day of september eleventh several commentators drew a parallel with the historical events of pearl harbor and it's a day that will as well as the case of pearl harbor live in infamy in american history the last time there was an attack like this on the united states was pro harbor remember sort of another terrible day the attack on pearl harbor but there was also someone i think in the same day who offered a prediction after the attack on pearl harbor guess what we did we went back and found out that yes the evidence was there we should known and i gan i think what we're going to see even in this instance this pearl harbor the twenty first century is very much the same kind of thing in fact the more information that has been emerging about september eleventh the more we have come to realize that many different aspects of the two event comparing twelve parallel but i think those were needed ultimate goals to go to war in both cases the ultimate goal was not the one initially stated roosevelt knew was surprised japanese attack would enraged the public and jump start according to their own documents before nine eleven the neo cons knew that a surprise attack like a new pearl harbor wouldn't rage the public and jumpstart the war machine against afghanistan in this way they would get a backdoor entry into what they really wanted the war with saddam hussein from the very beginning there was their conviction that saddam hussein was a bad person and that he needed to go he says that going after saddam hussein was topic eight ten days after the inauguration eight months before september eleventh before and during the war the propaganda machine made a relentless effort to create a direct connection between hitler and japan one poll taken immediately after pearl harbor showed that more than sixty percent of americans believe that germany was behind the attack the bush cheney propaganda machine made an even harder effort to create a direct association between iraq and osama bin laden by the end of two thousand and three nearly seventy percent of americans believed that saddam was implicated in the september eleventh attacks top levels of the roosevelt administration knew in advance that pearl harbor was going to be attacked general marshall when it most stark and indeed  knew the attacks were on their way there was so much discussion about this attack everybody was talking about it george tenet had some meetings others other analysts had meetings at the white house vital information on the japanese attack was kept from those who could have used it to defend the hawaiian port and to minimize the number of american casualties two men could use that information immediately admiral husband and lieutenant general walter short the commanders at pearl harbor about they never get it according to hill that was no mistake if f d r and his administration deliberately withheld the vital intelligence from pearl harbor and all the evidence indicates that they did then it was certainly a deliberate conspiracy to set pearl harbor up for a total defeat before september eleventh important information was kept from counterterrorism czar richard clarke who could have organized the defense and even have prevented the attacks altogether you have to intentionally stop it you have to intervene and say no i don't want that report to go we therefore conclude that there was a high level decision in the cia ordering people not to share that information in both cases the pre knowledge by the u s government on the upcoming attacks was denounced in front of congress in september one thousand nine hundred four republican representative forrest parness of indiana made the first congressional charge about a pearl harbor conspiracy he said that three days before pearl harbor the australian government had warned washington but a japanese aircraft carrier was headed towards hawaii but he said that information was withheld from kim september eleventh republican congressman curt weldon denounced the pre knowledge of information on the upcoming attacks which was intentionally withheld from the intelligence community this is an attempt to prevent the american people from knowing the facts about how we could have prevented nine eleven and people are covering it up today when honest officials stumbled on important information on the japanese attack they went straight to their superiors only to see that information ignored diverted or suppressed altogether the chief of intelligence in washington captain allen kirk recognized the message as bryant's from a bombing raid but is persistent attempts to warn kimmel ended when he was assigned to other duties at pearl harbor the admiral had no way of knowing been repeatedly refused permission to warn him in august two thousand and one f b i agent coleen rowley discovered information that could have led to uncovered the september eleventh plot but her memos never got past her superiors while she was prevented from pursuing the investigation any further it turns out they were not read by the lawyer in the f b i with the duty to send those over to the department of justice hours before the japanese strike roosevelt's chief of staff george marshall became suddenly unavailable delaying the process of communication within the chain of command general george marshall the man who should have acted was nowhere to be found colonel reference bratton was responsible for keeping marshall supplied with such vital information for brot national sudden and availability at a time when america was on the brink of will or could not have been accidental in the crucial hours of september eleventh defense secretary rumsfeld and other top military became suddenly unavailable hampering the decisional process within the chain of command but there any minute we couldn't find any withholding information however may not have been sufficient to guarantee the success of the japanese attack the military capacity of the hawaiian port was also kept below its requirements general short faced with the need to send out nine range patrols had only a handful of suitable a across his demands for more were not seen as a priority on september eleventh only four jets remain on alert to defend the entire sector of the country most likely to suffer an attack i've determined of course that with only four aircraft we cannot defend the whole northeastern united states president roosevelt gave direct orders not to interfere with the japanese attack president roosevelt told the general marshall to send a message to the hawaiian and for being commanders don't interfere with japan's overt act toward the united and cannot be executed on september eleventh vice president cheney gave a direct order regarding the plane headed towards washington which in fact resulted in the plane reaching its target without being shot down young man said  planes ten miles out do the orders still stand the vice president sort of with his head around his head of course they do it was thanks to the indignation for the three thousand sailors killed at pearl harbor th president roosevelt could finally enter a war the u s had been preparing for months in advance was thanks to the indignation for the three thousand victims of september eleventh that president bush could launch a war that had already been prepared in the smallest detail c n n and time magazine have reported that on september tenth two thousand and one a military plan to attack afghanistan had been placed on george bush's desk to be signed by the president upon his return from florida may god grant us wisdom and may he watch over the united states of america report failed to meet many of the daleks expectations and concluded that nine eleven was merely a failure of them that your nation published in two thousand and four the nine eleven commission report has become the central focus of criticism by the nine eleven truth movement movement comprised of thousands of individuals and associations from all over the world all connected through the internet now the commission's report is accused of having simply rubber stamp the government's version of the events by ignoring all the evidence against it while covering up its most conspicuous holes with a long series of omissions distortions and even plain false gods led by researcher david ray griffin an international panel of twenty experts on nine eleven has compiled a list of the strongest evidence against the official version that has emerged to this day this evidence is available to the public on their website in four different languages despite all the evidence that has emerged in the last decades there are many who still reject the idea of a the official version by the government and dismiss such evidence as irrelevant these people are known as debunkers as their stated intent is to debug the evidence presented by the nine eleven truth movement against the official version the most aspects of the debate the most prominent champion for the official version in france is to rome kirov who also wrote a book called september eleventh and the conspiracy theories kieron also participated in numerous conferences in television debates on nine eleven and his own country but the flagship of the debunkers worldwide is certainly the american magazine popular mechanics in two thousand and six they published a book called debunking nine eleven myths in which the authors purport to have refuted all the major claims against the official version by the nine eleven truth movement jim eggs is the editor of popular mechanics magazine in two thousand and five he and his staff of reporters decided to take on a factual and scientific claims made by members of the nine eleven conspiracy movement but the results were first published in a magazine article that more fully developed in a book titled debugging nine eleven maps why conspiracy theories can't stand up to the facts i think the popular mechanics day and we have the three different locations that were hit by the four airplanes one of them hit the pentagon another crashed in shanksville pennsylvania the other two hit the twin towers in new york the debate on the hijackings is divided into three parts the first one focuses on the air defense and whether the failure to intercept the hijacked airplane was accidental or intentional the second focuses on the hijackers and whether they were actually aboard the airplanes or just the usual patsies the third part focuses on the aircraft themselves and whether the four airplanes used in the attacks were the same ones that took off from the airports that morning or something that only resembled them from the outside what initially racist missions on the true role of the military on september eleventh is the fact that the u s air defense which is arguably the most advanced and sophisticated in the world was unable to intercept even one of the four hijacked airplanes in the course of over one and a half hours i remember thinking where on earth are the interceptors on an old interceptor pilot and it's absolutely unbelievable that hijacked airliners could fly around for an hour and forty minutes without being intercepted as a former minister of national defense why did airplanes fly around for an hour and a half without interceptors things you know scrambled to take them you know with a quick reaction alert they should have been in there in five minutes or ten minutes if not as a minister national defense wins i would want to say why not this is stunning failure to respond was remarked by senator mark dayton in the post nine eleven congressional hearings but i find much more shocking and alarming were the repeated and catastrophic failures of the leaders in charge and the other people responsible to do their jobs to follow established procedures to follow direct orders from civilian and military commanders the official justification for this failure is a series of blunders miscommunications and mistakes that has come to be known as the the incompetence on that day you saw a lot of well meaning confused people struggling to make sense of it of a terrible situation that even though where the planes were one argument for the incompetence theory is that the air defense was concede to protect the us from external threats not internal ones the fact is that our our air defenses on the whole norad system was not all geared towards protecting us minutes normally to scramble fighter jets to intercept a civilian plane and to analyze the situation and see what is going on the f a a authority over the national airspace is clearly acknowledged in this exchange between the military from september eleventh if transponders the hijackers had made the airplanes very difficult to be tracked on radar that can't be overstated the fact that once the hijackers turned off the transponders you had air traffic control we're looking at something like forty five hundred primary