Out of Pod Experience

Stealing profits from artistic endeavors is bad, m'kay ?

But feel free to kill the thing you love because you don't want to pay money for it perceive yourself as special snowflake entitled to have all your entertainments as free.

Sounds like an air space disaster waiting to happen tbh

Can you provide a hard link on the UN declaring Sea-Steading Illegal? Curious about it. My google-fu might be weak and besides ample sub samples of proposed sea-steading projects I don´t see anywhere it being considered illegal, since even Women on Waves, not only exists, but performs abortions in the Sea "legally" under the flag of the ship (Dutch) they carry women off to plus many other organizations that use the sea for said purposes.

It's really bad how everything needs to be about money. Makes the world that much less interesting.

Some people, like Noam Chomsky have vehemently decried the status quo of Money as Artificial, and he has a lot of academic weight to back him up. I find his talks intriguing, and much more real on issues that pertain day to day existence, unlike other "academics".

His dissertations not only outline how Money and Capitalism today (and their Mirror Opposites in the Pseudo-Communist movements of today) are forced concepts that exist solely to enrich some, be them Elites or Governments.

No crackpot conspiracies, no chemtrails nor UFO/Lizardmen, but solid facts derived from logic.

If you believe him or not, I wash my hands off him, for the sake of your argument, but I invite you to hear the "other" side of the story from his lips


Yes, the world of today is Artificial.

Profit as a motivator is a rotten fruit past its prime that we keep eating without knowing why.

My areas of interest differ, but your Argument is a common argument in the youths of today, and it shows how our current way of living is non sustainable or at the very least questioned greatly.

More youths wanting all for "free" is a phenomenon that only glances at the tip of the Iceberg. Reducing it to money is , if a rather simplistic approach, perhaps the best way to begin tackling it.

Fortunately for inquisitive minds, not everything is about profit/money.

Several obscure communities, mostly in Latinamerica (the ones I am more knowledgeable of) have begun veering from the common path of "Money". Some of them living off the garbage of others, others surviving in self-sustained colonies. Early prototypes of a possible future or a "hippy dream". Only time will tell.

Keep questioning money friend.

Chavez had all the money in the world at his disposal, a country full of Oil and a cadre of loyal and loving supporters.

He is now rotting, in a coffin, like all of us will in the future.

Communism, Democracy, Money, Oil, all lies.

I have as proof the rotting Carcass of my own country to show to anyone that wants to inquire about what I believe.

Life is Cheap in Money, so is Pride and Self-Worth. Money is a coin we can no longer afford, yet I have calls from banks exactly 2 to 3 days after I clean my Credit Cards offering me awesome loans I dont need at amazing flat yearly rates I will never be able to pay in time, nor will I be able to deal with the mortgage of a house that I believed was my home but is owned by a bank, like all my clothes, equipment and assorted gear.

I enjoy talking to the operators and asking them about their beliefs, their needs and they go silent, their programmed script going off course, sometimes I am annoyed and tell them their money will never make me happy nor will help me find God/TFSM/Chtulhu/Raptor Jesus, and they go silent for a few moments and then begin telling me the next part of the memorized (or read aloud) parapgraph, and tell me "my dreams" will come true! A new car, a new holiday a gift for my wife or mother.

And I begin anew.

Reminds me of the time a non-medicated patient in the Psychiatric Hospital I spent my internship latched to me, to hide from the nurses as he was secretly holding a knife/shiv/his finger under his shirt and holding my shoulder with a strong grip, bloodshot eyes with no soul staring at me and telling me to comply quietly.

I feel safer with that memory than the memory of a faceless bank employee offering me money.

Question everyone, break their scripts, the look on their faces is worth it, the dread silence on the other side of the line as their brain scrambles , the absent look as they know you are not going along, the scornful look on your face as they try to anchor you and you quietly tell them to move their hands away or tell them the old PNL trick is not gonna work on you.

I enjoy street vendors, that want to sell me God, Happiness or the new Dead Sea Cream, I have even forced them, without moving an inch to show me they have money and they are not doing it for it, that they do it from the deep conviction of their souls as they wave a pack of dollar bills in my face and tell me how wrong I am and get angry and I am there, still as a statue.

Question everyone. When you in a show room notice the glare of the lights, the false spectators that act on queue (ever been to a forced conversion religious seminar?) the subtle changes in people.

So fake, everything is so fake.

The smiles that come from forced rictus in muscle faces, the polite greeting scripts, people that wave to you and tell you to have a nice day as they spit on your food at your back, or when you show them you are one of them, tell you not to eat the main dish nor drink the special tea in low voices.

People drinking themselves to death to cope with their lives as they cry on your shoulders, simply because they cannot let go. No one can let go these days.

The happy facebook photos that don´t show the beatings, the sickness and the ceiling high debts, the misplaced children and the unknown parents.

But yes, you know deep down everyone is more happy than you, and force yourself to believe it. Their Instagram pictures show it, must be true!

And why? they have MORE MONEY than you! Yes, that´s the magic trick! That´s everything! the Key to Life and Happiness!

And then I look at my worn hands, the scars on my fingers, the scars in my chin and eyebrow, the scars in leg. My life is nothing to them, the same way their life is nothing to mine, my only companionship the plethora of experiences that make me who I am ...

I guess musicians should be happy to just sing for their supper, literally, and be done with it.




For millenia, any kind of trade involved the exchange of goods or a currency representing such goods has been standard practice. Be it an actual monetary system or barter.

One or the other has to be in place. Trade goods or a monitored currency. Period. Final.

What's the sudden issue and problem with this ?

If people seem in a more desperate scramble than usual, have you checked out the price of housing lately ??? Mortgage companies do not take apple pies as payment.

Your alternative, and only alternative, is a barter System.

Pick one.

I just listened to him speak for a few hours on some current events. I do like his constant discussion about the various hypocrisies of west and especially how they effect foreign governments, I have heard a lot about what he said before and don't think they are discussed enough in the mainstream.

My major criticism hearing what he has to say is that he seems to gloss over a lot of non US centric problems by pivoting back to the US in discussions. For instance "they did this here, what do you think this means?" and he answers "ah but the US did some other crime here." Meanwhile he delves in deep at the purported reasons behind what the US does whilst dodging everything else.

I've never been fond of the equivalency argument. I am more then happy to talk about what one group does wrong or the other but he seems to band-aid the rest of the world with US criticism whilst trying very hard to avoid criticizing anyone else.

Most of the criticism of the US I read from average people on the internet has been ridiculous to say the least and that is the primary reason I like what I have seen from him. He keeps to facts, doesn't go off on secret plots and sheeple talk, and generally tells it like he sees it from actual evidence. The US needs more of that smart criticism levied against it, I just wish it didn't come so wrapped in apologist for everyone else.

I guess you would be driven to adopt such a defensive attitude in US criticism though since the Western Dominance opinion is so prevalent and the non democratic oppressive actions (especially in non violent-politics) of the US overseas is not talked about much.

Of course that's just my opinion which is very, very amateur.

Its a nice thought, but as everyone is Eve knows, when left to their own devices, drones rarely do what you want them to do.