By chasing bling need money and we create banks that make money out of us while they invest nothing, we need prozac and we make pharmaceutical companies that sell us products that are less useful than the placebo. We have to read the lastest gossip stories and we make the market for newspapers that tap our phones to get intimate details of our darkest moments.

And then we have the audacity to say, “how bad are they, can you believe it”. What we miss is that you and I created these monsters.

I am reading A Course In Miracles and decided to also read A Return To Love by Marianne Williamson. She wrote the book on her experiences on A Course In Miracles. Great books. Let me share a quote with you that I believe is relevant:

 
Let me give you some background:

Because they are a theater group they get unsolicited reviews about their shows. Most are great reviews but there are one or two negative reviews. They currently share the positive reviews with their followers. But what do they do when they get a negative review?

Should they share negative reviews?

I believe they should and this is why:

People that follow you on Twitter or Facebook are there because they choose to be followers and the majority are there because they want you to succeed. And as long as you give them what they want they will defend you.

If the above is true, and I believe it is, then you (The Mechanicals) need to allow people to defend you. A reviewer has every right to his opinion but you have followers with their opinion. And by having the guts to share these negative reviews with your followers they now have the right to balance the scales with their own opinions.

As you know controversy creates discussions and Facebook is an ideal place to spread the controversial virus (ala Seth Godin’s Unleashing the Idea Virus). When you allow your followers to react to controversy on your Facebook page (your brand) then each comment made is seen by many others who are not followers of your page. Yet. As long as the controversy continues your brand gets exposure and, I believe, you’ll get many more followers; because your followers’ friends are potentially people who also want to follow you.

Can this idea back fire on you?

Yes it can but then you should not be in business. This is only for brands like the Mechanicals who love what they do.

Morpheus: This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill – the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill – you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit- hole goes.

Morpheus: What you know you can’t explain, but you feel it. You’ve felt it your entire life, that there’s something wrong with the world. You don’t know what it is, but it’s there, like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad.

Morpheus: I’m trying to free your mind, Neo. But I can only show you the door. You’re the one that has to walk through it.

Commander Lock: Not everyone believes what you do Morpheus. Morpheus: My beliefs do not require them to.

Just because you do not know the source of a smell, doesn’t mean there is not a stink in the room.

What does all of this mean? For me it’s the fact that we are being kept as slaves by our governments and banks because we are ignoring the pong although we we know the place stinks. For example: the banks and governments are there to serve us. Then why do you have to beg them? Why do you have to afraid of them? And more.

I am reading book called Violation Tickets: Never Pay Another. It’s more than a book on traffic tickets and the above is quoted in the book. To further wet your appetite here’s another quote from the above mentioned book:

Frederick Douglass:

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.

A concern I have; the ultimate ignorance is the rejection of something you know nothing about and refuse to investigate.

– Dr. Wayne Dyer

I suppose I should not be worried about your ignorance (or not); the real issue is if I refuse to investigate. But I can ask you to come along and let’s find ways to become free and not ignore the pong. And I suggest you do. Why? Because of statements like these:

The actual process of money creation takes place primarily in banks … bankers discovered that they could make loans merely by giving their promise to pay, or bank notes, to borrowers. In this way banks began to create money. Transaction deposits are the modern counterpart of bank notes. It was a small step from printing notes to making book entries crediting deposits of borrowers, which the borrowers in turn could ‘spend’ by writing checks, thereby ‘printing’ their own money. – Modern Money Mechanics, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

If the banks can create money out of nothing why do they take your home when you cannot pay?

You’ll find many answers to your questions and more enslaving quotes in the free book by Mary Elizabeth Croft @ SpiritualEconomics (see her book on the right margin of her website). Or Veronica Chapman’s book Freedom Is More Than A Seven Letter Word or download it as a pdf.

When you have read the above books and your are interested in more books on your own freedom then let me know. Or just go and visit the Freeman Society. For a South African view of traffic tickets and our own freeman forum go here.