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I just took the opportunity to watch once again the video in this post of this thread. I just love that video, an extract from Zeitgeist, for the beautiful music combined with the beautiful wisdom. Here is one example of the wisdom:

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When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace. -- Sri Chinmoy Ghose

The way I see that quote is this: When people of empathy overcome the sociopaths, the world will know peace. For it is the people of empathy who best exemplify the power of love, just as it is the sociopaths who best exemplify the love of power.

When people of empathy lead humanity, instead of sociopaths, a new age will dawn, one of peace and unity.

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When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace. -- Sri Chinmoy Ghose

The way I see that quote is this: When people of empathy overcome the sociopaths, the world will know peace. For it is the people of empathy who best exemplify the power of love, just as it is the sociopaths who best exemplify the love of power.

When people of empathy lead humanity, instead of sociopaths, a new age will dawn, one of peace and unity.


Hell yeah!! I get goosebumps not only visualizing this but seeing it continue to sprout and grow, albeit not as quickly as I would like, but I do see it when I look and it is what keeps me motivated; as well as experiencing it in my local world with amazing leaders punching through obstacles with their strengths to lead with empathy. The age of transparency, thanks to technology, I believe is finally upon us and although we constantly have to work diligently against censorship, (nothing new there), I don't think the genie of the internet can be put back in the bottle, so to speak, which is our progressive tool for bringing accountability to the fore.


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I want to highlight Peter Joseph again, this time being interviewed by someone who is not adversarial / sociopathic, like Alex Jones and Stefan Molyneux were. Sociopaths are recognized in this conversation as key components of the problem, which would be unheard of even 10 years ago. This is really exciting for me, to see the root problem being mentioned almost casually, as if everyone knows all about it by now.

This is a quality interview, with insight and discovery into the big picture, thanks to Peter Joseph's questioning, analysis, research, and synthesis. When I think back to all the demerits Rose listed for Peter Joseph at Inphinet, which were so superficial, so tenuous, and so emotionally biased, I can't help but chuckle. Uncle Zook did the same thing to so many whistle-blowers, like Edward Snowden, Julian Assange, John Pilger, Howard Zinn, and so many others. It's so telling how easily we are fooled all while believing that we can't be fooled. That too makes me chuckle, as I may be being fooled right now with this video!
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What also inspires me is discovering when there is a "connection" between people who have the same mandate for re-inventing our economic, political, environmental and social culture based on all-inclusive egalitarian meritocracy, for example, Peter Joseph and Jeremy Rifkin, even if it is only because Peter has researched Rifkin's ideology and aligns with it. These are strong interconnected "network nodes", if you like, on our global platform that I see as being a strong root system being established for the seeds of change to sprout. Rifkin is making headway with political leaders in various countries and Joseph is supporting the unprecedented new changes with mass dissemination of information at a citizen level within our current hierarchical system. In my opinion it is these interconnected forces of unity, (of which there are many and of course we are also part of), that what will culminate in bringing transparency to sociopathic ideology and leadership, whilst enabling fertile ground to disable it.

[I find Rifkin's intelligent application for "transitioning societies" impressive for without a global catastrophe to provide the opportunity to re-build with new infrastructure there has to be an alternative for controlling stakeholders heavily invested in our outmoded infrastructure who will resist change vehemently because it threatens their security. In my understanding Rifkin is building a bridge that will break down resistance by providing transitional opportunities. http://foet.org/JeremyRifkin.htm]


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I find Rifkin's intelligent application for "transitioning societies" impressive for without a global catastrophe to provide the opportunity to re-build with new infrastructure there has to be an alternative for controlling stakeholders heavily invested in our outmoded infrastructure who will resist change vehemently because it threatens their security. In my understanding Rifkin is building a bridge that will break down resistance by providing transitional opportunities.

What do those "transitional opportunities" look like, and how will they sway those "controlling stakeholders heavily invested in our outmoded infrastructure who will resist change vehemently because it threatens their security"? Because that appears to be an impossible task, since those people tend to be sociopaths!

On my snow-bound walk this morning, I was looking at all the overhead electric wires and the heavy (and potentially toxic) electric transformers on many of the wooden poles, and I realized that all of this multi-decade expense and effort was completely unnecessary! It was all done for the benefit of the controlling sociopaths. Massive centralized power production coupled to extensive distribution networks ending in metered power consumption is a system of power and control. We need individualized access to the abundant energy of space with no meter attached! Tesla was going in this direction over 100 years ago until sociopath J. P. Morgan realized it and shut him down. Many others have since suffered the same fate, like Thomas Henry Moray and Stanley Meyer. Sociopaths simply don't see their power and control being taken away as "transitional opportunities". They see it as a fate worse than death.

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The following article is a good highlighter for transitional development. It is exciting to read that a "prototype" is already in the works to prove viability with Nord-Pas-de-Calais. I have always wished for some of our greatest minds to collaborate and create a transitional prototype city so it is really exciting for me to see this potential happening; because if they get it right I have no doubt the majority of people globally will embrace, demand, and create similar transitions - I am optimistic that it will only take one success to start a domino effect!

http://www.euractiv.com/section/sustain ... ic-vision/

So COP21 is just a parlour game. Talk is cheap. You should see what’s happening in Nord-Pas-de-Calais. There is an entire region totally mobilised —3,000 businesses have gone through seminars, we’re laying out these grids, the universities are changing their entire pedagogy. We’re taking 850 million euros of loans, and leveraging with private money to retrofit and turn every high school into a power plant that connects to the grid. Almost 1 billion euros just for the high schools! What I’m saying is if a region like Nord-Pas-de-Calais can do this, every region in the world can do it.

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You’ve been involved in advising European regions and cities about the transition to a low-carbon economy. What are your first achievements?
I chair a global group that’s made up of the leading architects, construction companies, ICT, logistics, transport and power utilities. We’ve done a number of collaborative economic plans so that the regions can begin to build out and connect infrastructure. But we’ve always come up against a wall, which are regional development funds to the European Investment Bank. Because those funds were not designed to be allocated to a paradigm shift that would change the communication, energy and transport infrastructure and create an Internet of Things.

This changed in March, during meetings held in Berlin hosted by Jean-Claude Juncker, Chancellor Merkel and Werner Hoyer. What happened is that the EIB changed their priorities. So now we can begin to lay out this infrastructure. The new priorities for the initial €340 billion that’s been committed (and then for regional funds afterwards) are in digital communications — digitalised and renewable energy; digital transport; and health and education.
So those three pillars are now fundable. With the Nord-Pas-De-Calais region in France, we’re currently deploying over €2 billion of projects. Now, they can go to the EIB and we have real projects – not pilots – to transform the whole region, which is the oldest industrial region of France.

[…]
When do you see a zero marginal cost for energy?
Germany will be at 40% solar and wind power across the grid within seven years. We’ll be at 100% well before 2040. So imagine when you can plug into a system with zero marginal cost energy. Then you put in a transport grid —driverless automated transport and drones ?and you’re again reducing the cost of transporting goods and services.
This completely wipes out the business model of energy utilities.

It already has. Ten years ago, we thought the four major power companies in Germany – EnBW, RWE, Vattenfall and E.ON —were invincible. They were vertically integrated global organisations. What happened to them in the last ten years is what happened to the music industry, newspapers and the media. People started creating electricity cooperatives ? farmers came together, urban dwellers, small businesses. Every one of them got low interest loans from the banks. No one was turned down because the banks knew they could pay back from the premium energy they could re-sell to the grid.

And the power utilities can’t scale laterally in the same way. Their ideal for centralised energy requires vertical organisations but these new energies require cooperatives which allow for everyone to collect little amounts of wind or solar where they are. And this is overwhelming for the old power utilities. So the power companies are already out of it. They know they can’t compete with zero marginal cost.


Some of Rifkin's Benchmarks: http://foet.org/benchmarks.html

. Mr. Rifkin served as an advisor to Romano Prodi when he was president of the European Commission- the governing body of the European Union. In that capacity, he developed the initial strategic memorandum for the EU outlining the game plan for a hydrogen infrastructure across Europe. The plan he outlined was subsequently accepted by President Prodi and became the basis for a multi- billion dollar research and development initiative across the EU to wean Europe off of fossil fuel dependency, and into renewable energy and a hydrogen regime.
. Spearheaded the formation of the Green Hydrogen Network (GHN) to promote renewable energies and a hydrogen economy. The Network is made up of leading U.S. environmental organizations, including: Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace, Sierra Club, Public Citizen, Rainforest Action Network, US Public Interest Research Group (US PIRG), Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE), National Association of State PIRGs, Nuclear Information Resource Service (NIRS), Southern Alliance for Clean Energy (SACE), and Snake River Alliance.
. Helped facilitate the creation of the European Parliamentary Leadership Group for the Hydrogen Economy. Fifty European Union parliamentary leaders of all 6 major European political parties - The Popular party, Party of the European Socialists (PES), Alliance of the Liberal Democrats of Europe (ALDE), Green group, European Unity of the Left (GUE), and Union of European Nations (UEN) - have made the commitment to push ahead on plans to make the EU the first renewable energy hydrogen economy in the world.
. Provided the analytical foundation and strategic vision for the Hydrogen Cities plan, an economic interest group created to bring a hydrogen economy into practice, by planning and implementing hydrogen and fuel cells based projects on the municipal level, and also promoting hydrogen production centers that use renewable energies.
. In May 2007, the European Parliament passed an historic legislative initiative committing the legislative body of Europe to a 5-part program to usher in a renewable energy era, a green hydrogen economy and Third Industrial Revolution. FOET drafted the declaration and spent three years mobilizing the Parliament’s support for the landmark legislative initiative.


I agree that sociopaths rule the world and that identifying and disqualifying them and the capitalist system they have created is essential. I also believe that as there are many ways to cook an egg, complimentary solutions will heavily assist with the transparency and awareness required to disqualify sociopathic rule; hence my enthusiasm for new economic models proposed by Rifkin and Joseph and the roll-out of prototype areas putting these new models into practice.

As Sean Stone and Peter Joseph discuss in the vid you shared @16:00 there are so many people that started in the commons that have become so heavily seduced and deluded into practicing sociopathic logic to the point of believing it is 'the norm'. We are, however, seeing a transitional trend of rejection of sociopathic logic with our Millennials, for example, Teach For Australia (TFA) is a program whose mission statement is for all Australian children, regardless of background, to attain an excellent education. The program encourages high achievers to become teachers in order to lead others to achieve their full potential. I have been fortunate to meet and work with TFAers who are individuals that place a high value on ethical community development whilst forfeiting opportunities for higher income packages.

However, Millennials feel that most businesses have no ambition beyond profit, and there are distinct differences in what they believe the purpose of business should be and what they perceive it to currently be. Often they put their personal values ahead of organizational goals, and several have shunned assignments (and potential employers) that conflict with their beliefs.
https://www2.deloitte.com/content/dam/Deloitte/au/Documents/human-capital/deloitte-au-hc-future-of-workforce-critical-drivers-challenges-220916.pdf

As sociopaths rule by confidence, not only in their ability to convince the majority that their way is right, but in their own unwavering confidence that they are right - (watching Milton Friedman and Adnan Khashoggi [especially @1:05:05] in Jamie Johnsons "The One Percent" Doco is a classic example) - confidence from empaths needs to not only level the playing field but provide enough of a critical mass in leadership to create and develop a new empathic civilization. I believe we are seeing this level of confidence emerging in our Millenials and great empathic intellectual minds which is aided by mass dissemination of information via the internet and open sourcing. This wave of confidence is not only resisting sociopathic logic but forging a path for those who are historically embedded in the old, unsustainable, barbaric systems of inequality. It will most likely take another generation or two for these transitional movements to coalesce into having fundamental global impact, although maybe even sooner as perhaps it is quite unpredictable due to exponential growth and impact with technological advancement and the fact that it is unprecedented historical change.

The vision I see is that sociopaths will literally be forced to get out of the way as this empathic wave gains focus and momentum and seduces populations away from the ruling sociopaths. The newly created systems will render their systems obsolete and they will wither and collapse, but of course not without their share of resistance, opposition, and attempts to stall the inevitable.


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An addition to my recent post: Third Industrial Revolution in Nord Pas de Calais
https://eu-smartcities.eu/sites/all/fil ... nglish.pdf


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Gemma wrote:
I am optimistic that it will only take one success to start a domino effect!

I really want to believe this is true, but I am having difficulties.

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We’re taking 850 million euros of loans...

The new priorities for the initial €340 billion that’s been committed (and then for regional funds afterwards) are in...

They know they can’t compete with zero marginal cost.

It makes no sense to talk about zero marginal cost when you are starting from enormous debt.

I can't help but see the banks (controlled by sociopaths) running the show. It's like J.P. Morgan giving Tesla $150,000 to fund his work, then later refusing any other monies, driving Tesla into bankruptcy and ruin.

Yes, Rifkin's accomplishments appear mighty impressive, but there is much that reminds me of a politician hawking his accomplishments. I have little red flags popping up. I am hoping I am in error here.

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I agree that sociopaths rule the world and that identifying and disqualifying them and the capitalist system they have created is essential. I also believe that as there are many ways to cook an egg, complimentary solutions will heavily assist with the transparency and awareness required to disqualify sociopathic rule; hence my enthusiasm for new economic models proposed by Rifkin and Joseph and the roll-out of prototype areas putting these new models into practice.

The organized sociopaths have probably seen all the ways to cook an egg, and I suspect that they have well worn, tried-and-true methods to spoil the broth. I'm not trying to be negative here, just realistic.

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Teach For Australia (TFA) is a program whose mission statement is for all Australian children, regardless of background, to attain an excellent education. The program encourages high achievers to become teachers in order to lead others to achieve their full potential. I have been fortunate to meet and work with TFAers who are individuals that place a high value on ethical community development whilst forfeiting opportunities for higher income packages.

That is most encouraging, I agree. I love that concept.

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As sociopaths rule by confidence...

They rule by deception. Their confidence is a result of their successes at deception and manipulation. It is also quite often a deception itself.

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The vision I see is that sociopaths will literally be forced to get out of the way as this empathic wave gains focus and momentum and seduces populations away from the ruling sociopaths. The newly created systems will render their systems obsolete and they will wither and collapse, but of course not without their share of resistance, opposition, and attempts to stall the inevitable.

You see the empathic changes forcing the sociopaths to the sidelines. To me, this seems like placing the cart before the horse. I see forcing the sociopaths to the sidelines as the necessary prerequisite before empathic changes can truly succeed. I can point to the last 2000 years of human history as strong evidence that empathic changes have utterly failed to push the organized sociopaths to the sidelines. It's like psychologists pursuing hopeful treatments to "cure" psychopaths, only to realize the treatments have produced more educated and dangerous psychopaths.

Believe me, I don't like my perspective on this matter. I much prefer yours. But as always, the real question is where does the truth reside. What will work? I don't care what the solution is, if only it will work in a permanent way to free humanity from the sociopaths' control.

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You see the empathic changes forcing the sociopaths to the sidelines. To me, this seems like placing the cart before the horse.

That's because I don't now see our emerging future being with a horse and cart anymore, only horses. Technology is providing opportunities to free us up from having to drag around a cart which is freeing individuals up to apply sovereign creativity cooperatively rather than by forceful, imposed demand to furnish a crooked system. The implications of what will emerge within societies that are converting to producing their own sustainable, revolving door energy grids is staggering - and this is not a dream anymore it is a reality.

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I see forcing the sociopaths to the sidelines as the necessary prerequisite before empathic changes can truly succeed. I can point to the last 2000 years of human history as strong evidence that empathic changes have utterly failed to push the organized sociopaths to the sidelines.

I don't see it as either/or but as a partnership that is happening simultaneously. The third industrial revolution is complimentary, providing fertile grounds for transparency and as a consequence shining a spot light on sociopathic control and resistance. I will borrow from Rifkin's Paper here:

4.4.3 Mobilization of society
Mobilization of society is the most important key success factor as it enables innovation and breaks down barriers. Trust is first acquired by training and education. The Third Industrial Revolution (TIR) will include the definition of new educational pathways that will encourage people to be part of the project. Innovative training methodologies should be created, so that young people gain confidence, believe in their ideas, and work hard to make them happen. Trust in the project will also come from tangible demonstrators, proving that ideas can become initiatives and, when their impact is confirmed, be deployed. Those demonstrators will be lighthouse projects for the TIR. For implementation, we can suggest identification of several lighthouse projects to be implemented throughout the Région Nord-Pas de Calais districts. Each local government can be positioned to be responsible for one or several lighthouse projects in its area and work with local companies for their implementation. This would ensure proximity management and involvement and support of local companies.

Breaking down barriers is also necessary. Many frontiers or barriers need to be broken to foster innovation, confidence in the future and entrepreneurship. Clusters aim at breaking down barriers between university and industry. Public and private sectors must also move forward together. Local governments (Region, Département, Communes, Communautés de communes) will be stronger if they cooperate and adopt a territorial point of view beyond the administrative divisions. [...]

Last, transparency is a factor of trust: TIR governance already exists and must be continued. Transparency about objectives, actions taken and results achieved is absolutely necessary. That can be summed up in “say what you do and do what you say.” With transparency comes success monitoring: Operational and financial monitoring will drive macro-economic performance, and support communication on achievements.


I believe it will be behavioural accountability and localized/territorial action plans that will be the formula within TIR that spotlights accountability onto uncooperative sociopathic ideologies and individuals, whilst simultaneously disengaging local areas from "big brother directives".

Our social consciousness is also morphing, (not just my observation either, the Deloitte Paper I linked above has litmus tested/discusses this also), and as we begin to see more and more successful revolutionary non-violent paradigm changes there will no doubt be ever increasing investigations from within our social sciences as to why and how this is happening and why the "old" sociopathic systems endured for so long - in another words complimentary exposure is happening in multiple sectors in society now, tomorrow, and inevitably in hindsight.

The formula for ousting sociopathic dictatorship/leadership historically has had to swing toward violence which is of course a losing option as the sociopaths have greater resources to apply retaliatory violence and suppression. Empathically we are taking the long road for sure, but for the first time historically I do believe we have tremendous odds in our favour for getting this shift right.

One can only hope. :) And of course continue to walk our talk as emissaries, beacons, and supporters for our confidence emerging empathic generations.


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That's because I don't now see our emerging future being with a horse and cart anymore, only horses. Technology is providing opportunities to free us up from having to drag around a cart which is freeing individuals up ...

By employing the "horse and cart" analogy, I just meant that the order is wrong. I see it as a sequential process -- until sociopaths are identified and disqualified, empathic change is not possible. Empathic people using transparency and honesty cannot overcome sociopaths who are using deception and manipulation. Keep in mind that the vast majority of humans are Followers. They can be led to follow a path that is honest and transparent, or they can be led to follow a path that is clandestinely misrepresented. The deceptive path can always be made to look more enticing than the honest one. And that is why the sociopaths always win this game.

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The implications of what will emerge within societies that are converting to producing their own sustainable, revolving door energy grids is staggering - and this is not a dream anymore it is a reality.

I agree the implications are staggering and highly desired, but the dream is definitely not a reality. Free energy researchers are still shut down like clockwork through a whole variety of neutralizing techniques (buy-outs, bribes, sabotage, threats, murder).

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I don't see it as either/or but as a partnership that is happening simultaneously.

I understand that you see it as a parallel process rather than a sequential one. I admit that is an alluring vision, one that any empathic person would readily align with. However, I believe that the ruling sociopaths know that only the sequential process of identify and disqualify will succeed in sidelining them, and they gladly encourage the parallel process vision as a way to ensure their continuing control. In other words, the parallel process vision is a defensive deception to allow the sociopaths a winning hand.

From your Rifkin quote:

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Breaking down barriers is also necessary. Many frontiers or barriers need to be broken to foster innovation, confidence in the future and entrepreneurship.

The real barrier that has to be broken is preventing sociopaths from occupying positions of power and control. Until that is done, there are an infinite number of ways for organized sociopaths in positions of power and control to sabotage the effort.

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The formula for ousting sociopathic dictatorship/leadership historically has had to swing toward violence which is of course a losing option as the sociopaths have greater resources to apply retaliatory violence and suppression.

Agreed, but there has never been a clearly defined solution identifying the root of the problem (the psychology of people lacking empathy) and putting in place a method to ensure that these people are disqualified from exercising power and control over the Followers. That is why violence has always failed.

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One can only hope. :)

The sociopaths are counting on us to do exactly that, and never act with properly thought out direction and unity.

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And of course continue to walk our talk as emissaries, beacons, and supporters for our confidence emerging empathic generations.

I really hate being the party pooper. I want to be a cheerleader for this movement too. I very much want you to be right, and me to be wrong. I want Rifkin and others to show us the way to break out of this insane situation. I badly want an empathic civilization, but I don't see Rifkin's plan working. His plan is broad, complex, comprehensive, well thought out in many areas, encouraging, and hopeful. But will it really unseat the organized sociopaths, and do so permanently? A temporary solution is not enough.

Rifkin is already playing within their system of money and loans, and that alone tells me that his success will be mitigated by those that control the system.

Forgive me for taking a dissenting view here. I like Rifkin's message and his work, and I like your enthusiasm for it. I believe I am not being pessimistic here, but realistic. Even my solution, identify and disqualify, is defective because I don't see how to implement it when sociopaths rule. It's definitely a conundrum.

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