The Systems We Create: Defining & Confining Ourselves

12 min readAug 20, 2024

By Adam W. Fitzgerald
Originally written in Feb. 2023.

“I think ideology is toxic, all ideology. It’s not that there are good ones and bad ones. All ideology is toxic, because ideology is a kind of insult to the gift of human free thinking.”
- Terence McKenna

Terence McKenna on Ideology

Terence McKenna on Ideologymedium.com

In my experience, no -ism seems to help humanity. Even humanitarianism and philanthropy seem to simply function as smokescreens: distractions and propaganda for so-called “elites” — the top one percent of our world who grow ever-wealthier — to manipulate the masses. Whether it’s systems of government or ideologies, they become systems of control; because humankind has yet to embrace any form of natural state of being where we can exist in harmony. Could you imagine a world where we are free to do as we please, wherever we please, debt- and oppression-free? So long as we’re not hurting others or the world at large, why can’t we live this way?

Whether it’s the UN, the WEF, the US, UK, EU, CIA, FBI, NATO, Royal Families, or the Vatican – we know they have lied, we have the receipts they have lied, they have tortured, they have bombed hospitals, they have killed millions. Our world is systematically deteriorating before our eyes. Yet still we give them our hope, attention, dedication, taxes, votes, and carte blanche of all decisions and leadership worldwide.

How, and why?

The wise and immortal Tupac Shakur once said:

“The power is in the people and politics we address.”

So how do we address the politics to empower the people?

Maybe the answer is that life is reflected within the mysteries explored in Dante’s ‘Divine Comedy’ — it’s a layered mess, perhaps cosmic in design and meaning, but beyond human comprehension. Who says we deserve to know? We were taught we need to work hard to achieve whatever we desire in life; but in reality, we need to work hard to survive.

How are humans free if 99 percent of us must give our best years, hours, and energy to earn a measly allowance (of which we must give increasing percentages to governments via taxation who use it to oppress poor countries while offering free healthcare to rich nations like Israel) only to barely scrape by? People aren’t even scraping by anymore, homelessness is rising, normal families cannot afford food or rent. These systems we have created — public education, welfare, social security, organized religions, the two-party system — have led to a lack of healthcare and veterans’ programs, rampant homelessness, hunger and starvation worldwide, and thirst for clean water that doesn’t exist, entire cities without clean drinking water (from “first world” to “third world”). To put it lightly: we have failed.

So, what comes next? As our “leaders” (better put: those with the wealth, resources, and military might — “the ruling class”) barrel forward toward disaster, our planet continues to grow more dystopian by the day. To most people, especially since the pandemic and recent revelations from WikiLeaks and Assange to Snowden and ludicrous elections, it’s obvious that “the powers that be” do not have the interests of the masses at heart. So much for the greater good and trickle-down-economics.

If you have not researched Epstein Island and the client list of human traffickers that includes politicians, celebs, royals, billionaires… what are you waiting for?

Unsealed docs reveal Clinton's visit to Epstein's private island

A trove of documents released in recent days could shed light on Ghislaine Maxwell's relationship with late financier…

www.news.com.au

What would it take to restart humanity? Could revolutions the likes of the past even be waged against militarized drones and the police state?

Learn what an anti-war veteran thinks of the US today: Greg J. Stoker
https://www.instagram.com/greg.j.stoker/

Capitalism, communism, and socialism have all failed due to humanity’s (probably inherent) greed and lust for power. Nowadays, propaganda is so prevalent and media so corrupt, no one really knows what to believe or what’s going on. Worldwide, humanity is overwhelmed, underpaid, unsure, and unsung. Somehow memes have become vessels for truth, dark humor making us laugh yet cringe. We are led astray by increasingly devaluing art, music, and education: pillars of honesty, communication, connection, understanding, and empowerment.

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The harsh truth is we have enough resources and room on this planet, yet we lack refinement. There is a reason education has been devalued over time and consumerism has peaked with phone addiction. We are doom-scrolling into a future where paradise has not only been paved for parking lots, but workers die from inhumane conditions owned and operated by the wealthiest corporations on this planet. As we speak, billionaires (namely Bill Gates and company) are buying massive amounts of farmland.

“We have the money, the power, the medical understanding, the scientific know-how, the love and the community to produce a kind of human paradise. But we are led by the least among us — the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary.”
— Terence McKenna

As corporations acquire more property, articles are coming out saying private citizens owning their own property will become a thing of the past. Just as Klaus Schwab of the World Economic Forum (WEF) said of his ideal future: “you will own nothing and be happy.”

To learn more about the specifics, I highly recommend following this guy Ian who goes by Cancelthisclothingcompany — he makes incredibly detailed videos, showing the evidence, how he did his research, his sources, etc. https://www.instagram.com/cancelthisclothingcompany/

They want us dumb, divided, dependent, and distracted, and they aren’t exactly shy about their intentions.

Prime examples are the alarming sentiments from ruling class pedos like those of Bill Gates and the late Prince Philip.

According to Reuters (a Blackrock funded company) a particularly confusing Gates quote is often “misinterpreted,” so I’ll leave you with what they have to say so you can make your own judgements:

““First, we’ve got population,” he said during the talk organized by TED, a non-profit organization devoted to spreading ideas. “The world today has 6.8 billion people. That’s headed up to about nine billion. Now, if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we could lower that by, perhaps, 10 or 15 percent. But there, we see an increase of about 1.3.”
However, Gates was not suggesting the global population should be killed off using vaccines. He is instead saying that improving public health using vaccinations can reduce unsustainable population growth in the future — and with it, lower carbon emissions.”
— Reuters

In all honesty, I’m not a vaccine denier but I’m unsure how vaccines relate to population growth. I also don’t claim to be a scientist, doctor, or statistician. But neither is Gates, and he’s not an elected official either. He’s a (visibly unhealthy) billionaire, one whose wife recently left him over his connections to Jeffrey Epstein. Which leads us to Prince Philip’s most famous “gaffe:”

“In the event that I am reincarnated, I would like to return as a deadly virus, to contribute something to solving overpopulation.”
— Prince Philip

To again appease the cynics, skeptics, or perhaps those entrenched in mainstream media news cycles and fact-checking, I’ll provide you with this bit from Snopes(a fact-checking website who recently had to remove its own CEO and top writer whilst simultaneously unpublishing his work)

“…it is factual that Prince Philip once argued that he would like to be reincarnated as a deadly virus as revenge against humanity’s overpopulation and destruction of nature. As such, the claim is “True.”
— Snopes

With what we know about Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell with their connections to Gates, Musk, Trumps, Clintons, Prince Andrew and Jimmy Savile, plus who-knows how many other elites, how do these individuals remain not only not under investigation but fully supported, with fanfare?

Because we the people not only allow it, we encourage it. We vote not only in farcical elections (often between parties with very little actual difference and outcome) but we also vote with our dollar every single day. How, where, and what we spend our money on dictates the flow of commerce in the world, yet lite beer, cigarettes, and fast-food reign supreme.

We need to fix our priorities. Overhauling public education and paying educators fairly would be a start. In the US, limits on campaign finance funding, term limits, and the amount of power we allocate to our politicians is beyond necessary. We cannot continue to allow corporations to use members of congress as puppets. We have homelessness running rampant, yet Wall Street can bail out corporations, celebrities, airlines, and the like. Wildfires and oil spills continue to grow while we keep building oil pipelines, which both sides of the aisle defend with murder.

“In 2020, nearly $14 billion was spent on federal election campaigns in the United States — “making it the most expensive campaign in U.S. history”, “more than double” what was spent in the 2016 election.”
— Wiki

How far have we truly come from the colonialist and conquistador monsters who genocided the Americas? We ignore protectors of the land, we teach our kids tailored history, and most buy into false narratives bought and sold over and over again?

The ultimate irony for someone like myself who sides with neither major party: leftists who used to criticize the right over let’s say the Iraq War, are now totally at odds for opposite reasons over US warmongering in Ukraine. Do people in these countries need help? Absolutely. Do bombs from America help anyone? No — they are killing millions. The narratives change, but the outcomes remain the same. No matter who is in the White House, dominating the Senate or the House, the bombs continue to fall, people continue to die. How many of our own soldiers need to come home war-torn and telling us we, the States, are the real bad guys? Celebrity step-ins and Vanity Fair photo shoots cannot hide nor change the real truth.

As Mark Cancian wrote at the end of 2022:

“U.S. aid to Ukraine totals $68 billion, and the White House has just asked Congress for another $37.7 billion. In the spring, the new Congress will consider aid in the context of the administration’s proposed FY 2024 budget. With these decisions ahead, it is worth reviewing how much aid there has been, what that aid does, and what the administration is requesting.”

*Editor’s note: Some updated quotes and statistics as of August 2024

Update as of August 06, 2024: Data until June 30th 2024
The Ukraine Support Tracker Release 18 now covers up to June 30th 2024. In May and June 2024, new allocations totaled 10.6 billion Euro. Among bilateral donors, the U.S. remains the top provider of aid, with a total of 75.1 billion Euro in allocations, driven in large part by its 51.6 billion euros of military aid. Germany, the U.K., Japan, and Canada follow, with 14.7, 13.1, 9.1, and 7.2 billion Euro in total allocations respectively, to complete the ranking of the top 5 bilateral donors. In terms of total bilateral allocations as a percent of 2021 GDP, Denmark, Estonia, Lithuania top the ranking with 1.8, 1.7, and 1.4 percent.
As a whole, Europe, which includes the EU institutions and member states as well as the U.K, Norway, Iceland, and Switzerland, has allocated a total of 110.2 billion Euro, of which roughly half (51.5 billion Euro) has been for military aid.

— Kiel.de

Congressionally Approved Ukraine Aid Totals $175 Billion as of MAY 10, 2024
With the recent passage of the national security supplementals, Congress has now approved nearly $175 billion of aid and military assistance to support the Ukrainian government and allied nations two years after Russia launched its invasion. The most recent national security-related supplemental includes $61.7 billion for Ukraine, 64 percent of the total budget authority included within the law, with the remainder dedicated to Israel and the Indo-Pacific region. This is on top of the $113.1 billion of emergency spending previously approved throughout 2022.

— The CRFB

How much U.S. aid does Israel receive?
Israel has been the largest cumulative recipient of U.S. foreign aid since its founding, receiving about $310 billion (adjusted for inflation) in total economic and military assistance.
Since the start of Israel’s war with Hamas on October 7, 2023, the United States has enacted legislation providing at least $12.5 billion in military aid to Israel, which includes $3.8 billion from a bill in March 2024 (in line with the current MOU) and $8.7 billion from a supplemental appropriations act in April 2024.

— The CFR

It’s time for change. For people on every level of society. We cannot remain divided and pointing the finger at each other — liberal versus conservative, black versus white, straight versus gay — while the one percent “ruling class” laugh all the way to the bank. They aren’t at odds with each other, the masses are, and that’s by design. These are more narratives of division spawned from imaginary systems we built in attempt to categorize. We put names on people, ideas, issues, and yet hardly ever address root causes.

To quote the first verse of The Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu:

“The unnamable is the eternally real.
Naming is the origin of all particular things.
Free from desire, you realize the mystery.
Caught in desire, you see only the manifestations.”
— Lao Tzu

It’s easier to find problems and voice complaints than it is to find solutions and take action. Let us take empathic and open-hearted steps forward to connect with the world and those around us to foster a society where our children can not only accept each other but help each other. Let’s stop reading headlines and doom-scrolling and start making critical thinking cool again. Don’t accept what you are told, do your own research. Share your resources, share humor, share music, and share love instead of passing judgment and criticizing all you see.

And to quote someone online who went viral recently:

“If we replaced cancel culture with critical thinking, we’d have empathic conversations instead of emotional reactions. And by talking, we learn to separate honest mistakes from actual hate.”
— Kyle Creek

As a reminder from a former educator and journalist, I will leave you with one of my favorite quotes of all-time.

“The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character — that is the goal of true education.”
— Martin Luther King, Jr.

This article was original written in February of 2023. Before my mom died of ALS, before my divorce, before moving cross country, changing jobs, before a lot for me personally, and before a lot has gotten spicier globally — this was written before Israel increased their occupation of Palestine and escalated their genocide to almost 200,000. This was before the most recent instance of Venezuela rightfully electing their own leader, only to have the validity questioned internationally because Maduro does not align with the imperialistic oppressive capitalistic goals of the US, the UN, and NATO.

More to come soon.

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