Sept. 3, 2023 "Cutting Through the Matrix" with Alan Watt --- Redux (Educational Talk From the Past): "The Dilemma of Individualism in Stormy Seas"
--{ "The Dilemma of Individualism in Stormy Seas"}-- Conformity within Groups - Darin from South Africa, Conformity and Invisibility of the Individual - Original Talk on 27 July 2007 - Global "Climate Change" - Al Gore's "Goring" - "The sky is falling" - Aerial Spraying and HAARP pulsation. The Sphere of Our Lives and What Reality is - Projections of Reality - Effects and Forces - Laws of Nature - Thesis, Antithesis, Synthesis - Life in Middle Ages - Feudal System of Kings, Queens, Aristocracy, Learned Class - Illiterate Populace - World Run by All-Seeing Deity - Protestant Revolution - Reaction against Suppressive Old System - Protestant "work ethic" - Beginnings of Trade Guilds - Price and Wage Fixing - Monopolies - Ownership of Resources. Goldsmith - Gold - Money Lending - Views of Life and Death in Ancient Times - In Greece, Egypt - Judaism - Christianity - Fear of Death in Western world - Money Spent on Funerals - Looting and Plundering Buccaneers - Capitalism - Piracy - Monopoly Making - Fads, Fashion, Education, Indoctrination - Conformity to a Group and Its Standards - Maintaining Elite and System - Animalistic Traits vs. Self-Expression - Suppression of Emotion - Neurosis in Society - Commercialization and Exploitation - Expensive Placebos for "Happiness" - Psychological Warfare in Media and Advertising - Strength and Happiness Within - KNOW THY SELF. (Song: "Whose Garden Was This" by Tom Paxton).