Do We Have a Future?

Since everything is permanently flowing, only history, the past, can exist. We experience it happening when we are alive. Nothing can stop the flow resulting from the energy and heat from our sun and the spinning of our world. As for the present, that is simply our awareness, since the eternal movement of matter in never-ending space that we try to measure with clocks, cannot stop and create a ‘present’. History lies in our memories, which are also filters made up of our own experiences, feelings, loves, hates, fears and prejudices. Thus the ‘future’ cannot exist in reality, but only in the memory of our minds.

The ‘future’ has already happened. Our task is to guess in what new names and colours it exists, and this is where our memories come into play. Those of us who remember have only to recall how NATO, instead of disbanding, ignored Russia’s concerns and attempts at serious dialogue, expanded, and then illegally bombed Belgrade, ignoring the UN. That was not enough, as the West then destroyed Iraq (lying, into the bargain) and Libya, and tried to destroy Syria. Russia kept warning NATO to stop, but the latter had, and still has, no reverse gear, controlled as it is by enormous financial interests.

Why is humanity blindly stumbling into disorder? Perhaps, because the very mass consciousness of humanity is now subject to the speed of digitalization and the control of communications by titanic financial interests (viz. Google et al), aided by the so-called ‘Great Reset’.

Before even addressing this question, a particularly relevant one, given the current frightening disorder and madness in most of our so-called ‘western world’, I must stipulate that the future does not exist, except in our minds. This makes the question redundant, unless we think deeply, and simplify. So do please try to read on.

Explanation

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Since everything is permanently flowing, only history, the past, can exist. We experience it happening when we are alive. Nothing can stop the flow resulting from the energy and heat from our sun and the spinning of our world. As for the present, that is simply our awareness, since the eternal movement of matter in never-ending space that we try to measure with clocks, cannot stop and create a ‘present’. History lies in our memories, which are also filters made up of our own experiences, feelings, loves, hates, fears and prejudices. Thus the ‘future’ cannot exist in reality, but only in the memory of our minds.

It follows that we are simply bipedid minds, only aware of our existence and of what we see because of our memory. What we call the ‘present’ cannot stop, as everything moves in perpetuity, with our awareness permanently becoming the past. In this sense, the ‘present’ is the immediate past. The ‘future’ in our minds takes the form of imagination, representing only what we think, want, hope and assume will occur. Our thoughts and emotions about the ‘future’ are the past as they occur. Moreover, history does not so much repeat itself, as return in new colours and names.

If you have grasped these basics, then you are beginning to see simplicity, something which humans tend to fear, since it implies and requires nudity, albeit mental. The human race is an insecure one, often suspicious of transparency, and arms itself against real or imagined enemies; and the less clear the communication, the more suspicion.

The Question

Thus, I can now attempt to answer the question as to whether we have a ‘future’, given that this ‘future’ can only be in our minds, and is becoming history in perpetuity, into eternity, as I write. Simply put, every split second that you think of tomorrow (the past to come) is already the past in your mind.

The ‘future’ has already happened. Our task is to guess in what new names and colours it exists, and this is where our memories come into play. I remember the euphoria accompanying the fall of the Berlin Wall and the alleged end of the Cold War, which led to a unipolar world. But how many of us do properly recall the major events that have occurred in recent years? Given our fast digitally-controlled lives, the masses tend to have ever shorter attention spans, and memories are becoming shorter. Many of us have rationalised ourselves into comfort zones, and are becoming subliminally programmed to accept the so-called ‘Great Reset’ which, although announced not so long ago, was set in motion years ago. Our opinions are subtly being replaced by appinions.

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Tomorrow brings yesterday: we are heading for perpetual war, with the danger of the obliteration of most of humanity. Those of us who remember have only to recall how NATO, instead of disbanding, ignored Russia’s concerns and attempts at serious dialogue, expanded, and then illegally bombed Belgrade, ignoring the UN. That was not enough, as the West then destroyed Iraq (lying, into the bargain) and Libya, and tried to destroy Syria. Russia kept warning NATO to stop, but the latter had, and still has, no reverse gear, controlled as it is by enormous financial interests.

Greed was, and is, the order of the day. Russia’s attempts to move closer to, and even join, NATO, were cynically rebuffed, just as they had been in the Fifties, when Khrushchev tried to engage in serious dialogue. The Maidan coup was the last straw for Russia, which had no choice but to protect the quarter of Ukrainians of Russian stock. Military action was inevitable, as the Anglo-Saxons well knew, having been arming and financially supporting, since 1992, one of the world’s most corrupt states. Had Russia not reacted, NATO would have continued to encroach on Russia, in particular in the Caucasus, and Moscow knew this, especially after the failure of the Minsk Accords, which turned out to be western window-dressing.

The past is as the future. The same human characteristics are always there, acting in the same way, but in new guises. Leopards do not change their spots: just as Poland brought in Britain and France to prepare for war against Germany, by being stubborn on the Danzig question and mistreating Germans (a stubbornness recognized by the then British Prime Minister, Chamberlain) [1], so US cheerleader, NATO member and Russia-hater Poland has been instrumental in stirring up anti-Russian sentiments today. Going further back, it was Britain (with its then French acolytes, and even Sardinia – Cavour wanted France to support Italian independence against Austro-Hungary), who interfered in Russia’s war against the Ottomans.

We are witnessing the same behavior today: selfish state interests, alliances (secret and public), emotion, anger, pride and greed. The future is the past, namely history. Only real statesmen understand this, those such as Bismarck (who refused to send German soldiers to the Balkans) and de Gaulle, who gave up Algeria and Morocco to stop the killing.

Resetting Minds

Why is humanity blindly stumbling into disorder? Perhaps, because the very mass consciousness of humanity is now subject to the speed of digitalization and the control of communications by titanic financial interests (viz. Google et al), aided by the so-called ‘Great Reset’ and the likes of Klaus Schwab, who even got King (then Prince) Charles to announce his plans, in 2020. Clearly, the plans had been operating for years before, insidiously altering our lives (Artificial ‘intelligence’; forcing people to buy ‘Smartphones’) and, crucially, altering our minds, subliminally. First came the 'New World Order', the ‘Third Way', 'globalisation', 'One World', the 'End of History', and then 'The Great Reset'. All the same stultifying sloganisation. When the 'Great Reset' starts to fail, what will be the next mind-numbing slogan to feed to the sheep, bought politicians, and slavish journalists? 'Small Government'? 'The Fourth Way'? Consider this: ‘It is easier to confuse in order to control, than to control in order to confuse; power without responsibility is easier than responsibility without power’. [2] George Orwell would surely understand this. Then becomes now. It is the ‘future’, in other word the past.

Transhumanism and the Great Reset

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Although Julian Huxley first used the term in 1957, it was only in the Eighties, in America, that the whole idea of eugenics and using technology to eliminate the weak and strengthen the strong, and creating super beings, took hold in a big way. Its proponents are essentially playing with Nature; some would say that they are playing God. In this connexion, we turn to Klaus Schwab’s the so-called ‘Great Reset’, and his so-called ‘Fourth Industrial Revolution’, with its clear attachment to transhumanism and Artificial Intelligence (AI). Those who criticise its implications tend to be labelled as ‘conspiracy theorists’. Their critique runs something like this: ‘Imagine a world controlled by a small group of people with the extreme power to control the flow of goods, services and other resources around the world. They have the ability to dictate to governments around the world to impose certain health mandates. They have the power to require passes for travel, and to have people confined to their homes. They have the power to tell retailers to refuse cash. This small group of people control the networks of commerce. One has only to consider the power of Amazon and Google (to name but a few) to realise the danger to individual freedom posed by these concentrated financial interests.’

The question must be posed as to how seriously the Schwabs of this world – and their followers – should be taken. That financial power is becoming increasingly concentrated in the hands of less people is hardly open to dispute. But it does not necessarily mean, as Schwab claims, that somehow governments will agree, and act on, a ‘Great Reset’, or the ‘Fourth Industrial Revolution’. In some ways, he and those of his ilk have jumped onto a bandwagon, praising, for example, the increasing tendency away from cash payments, and forcing people to buy Smartphones to pay for certain things, which depend on various ‘apps’. [3] These developments were with us well before Schwab’s ‘Great Reset’ was announced. The chaos will continue as a ‘Great Awakening’ takes place, but order might then be restored once the selfish excesses of globalism have been brought under control by a multi-polar and balanced world, as has happened in history when, for example, the chaos brought on by the Trojan Wars led to a Dark Age in Greece, in turn leading to a great civilisation, and then the order of Rome, followed in turn by the chaos of the Dark Ages, which eventually led to more order.

To conclude

As I have said, George Orwell would surely understand the current confusion, both intellectual and physical, and that then becomes now, that the ‘future’ is history. As the Western world sinks into social and moral decadence, let us recall the end of the western Roman Empire, the assassinations, corruption and orgies. Now we are witnessing children being asked by their schools to identify their gender, thereby confusing young and tender minds. This is the new narcissistically pseudo-compassionate ideology of those ideologues who hide their own weaknesses and vices from themselves and others, by forcing little children to be like them.

If apathy, the enemy of democracy, continues, we can expect a more totalitarian world. We have new colors and names, but the future does not exist. Only history does.

1. Chamberlain was advising Warsaw to be reasonable on the Danzig issue; see The Complete Maisky Diaries: volume 1: The Rise of Hitler and the Gathering Clouds of War 1932-1938; volume 2: the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact and the Battle of Britain 1939-1940; volume 3: the German Invasion of Russia and the Forging of the Grand Alliance 1941-1943; edited by Gabriel Gorodetsky; translated by Tatiana Sorokina and Oliver Ready; Yale University Press, New Haven and London, p. 579, in Mallinson, William’s review article, Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, vol. 22, 2020, issue 2.

2. Mallinson, William, Cyprus: A Modern History, I.B. Tauris (now Bloomsbury), London and New York, 2005, 2009, 2012, p. 201.

3. Opinions are now becoming appinions.