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Oct 04 2008
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106 reviews
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Extremely interesting video, fundamentally flawed and over-idealistic in many areas, but an brilliant and extremely important in others. Worth watching twice for the best bits.
I LOVE the first seven minutes.
Mistakes and a confusing, mixed up explanation are presented 7 mins to 20 mins, and Landlordism is ignored, but the the essence of the argument is correct and the tone is PERFECT, making this the BEST exposure of mass enslavement through inflation I have seen. The script should be redone, though.
2nd half hour:- Perkins is a remorseful hero. You should watch and read anything you can find by him, including this.
46:21 >> inflating currency would discredit the currency without oil denomination the currency value would plunge. The filmakers miss the vital importance of the historic deal to use dollars to buy oil (Saudi Arabia), military intimidation to coerce others to use dollars and the underlying power of natural resources here.
50:41 !!! heart disease vs terrorism- why so much fear of terrorism? - only because the current system is so dramatically murderous, theiving and oppressive that it will inevitably inspire terrorism.
55:00 Unecessary nay saying and pessimism
59:29 good critique of how people cannot afford to be moral.
1:09:44 idiotic oversimplistic economic theory. If you find more diamonds, the fact you receive less money per diamond is outweighed by the extra number you sell.
1:15:00 money without "submission through employment?" >> requires land reform.
1:29:00 VERY valid arguments, I have never heard anywhere before here.
1:30:00 specialised education as an ignorance engine - reminds me of Habermas (see wikipedia). Absoliutely correct. Specialisation leads to ignorance of the wider picture.
1:31:30 - common good thru shared natural resources
1:36 - scarcity was a reality- no longer is. very true except on the technologyical edge.
1:43:00 interesting parallels between Bill Hicks and John Perkins notions of common consciousness and universal love. I don't think I buy it. Sounds like hippy idealism to me. There's an element of truth in there somewhere though. I think its the commonailty in our interests and motives, that makes each of us predictable, and if mutally controlled, mutally benevolent. (eg if everyone had a nuke, noone would be a slave, because everyone from be deterred from enslaving anyone else.)
1:47:00 - US defence expenditure is founded on the need to defend from the US steals from.
1:49:25 - competition vs collaboration. Competition is the supreme method of forcing two people to fight against each other to serve their master.
1:50:00 STOP SUPPORTING THE SYSTEM. The system HAS to fail.
1:52:00 century long pyramid scheme.
1:52:00 stupid myopic boycott idea. The system is far wider than those 4 banks. You need to stop serving any of the corporations/governments they finance too, which is just about the entire US/UK economy.
1:53:00 correct advice to turn off mainstream media.
1:54:00 energy self sufficiency to help free people from dependency on corrupt governments and their violently controlled natural energy reserves.
1:56:00 reject the fake 2 party political system.
1:56:10 All global natural resources are the rightful inheritance of EVERYONE. This central statement makes this video a Georgist video.
