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Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
~Proverbs 18:21
By Catherine Austin Fitts
When did our deepest desire become the catastrophic failure of America? Every day I listen to a growing chorus of Internet pundits predict the failure of the American currency, economy and leadership with an anger and certainty that is full of sound and fury.
I find this all astonishing.
- First, because I suspect if you look at how they personally spend their time or what they are advising on specific portfolios, it tells a different story than what they are saying. Sound and fury get more hits may be the thing.
- Second, many of us are processing the grief we feel at the centralization of power and control by criminal and invisible means we do not understand – indeed many financial experts of my generation cannot comprehend. We scream in frustration about what baffles us – defaulting to the explanation that “they are bad” and “we are good.”
Why would we give away our power by wallowing in self proclaimed victim status? Why would we allow the best vision we can come up with to be catastrophic failure? Who cares if “we” are proven right, while millions of our family and neighbors are reduced to poverty, starvation and death?
Have we given up entirely on a deeper mastery of what is going on? Do we consider it hopeless to change ourselves, our communities, our leadership, our policies and to turn the ship towards an improved path? If we want to wish for extreme scenarios why not wish for a positive, hopeful one? Are we willing for things to work out in a hopeful direction? Being willing means being open. It means gathering and growing our power to take action and to create the world we want for our children and grandchildren and generations yet unborn.
The notion that the US experiences catastrophic failure and the world improves as a result is a naïve point of view. It may be emotionally satisfying, but only while we are sitting in the comfort of a world where we enjoy food, water and working transportation and sewer systems. I have lived outside the boundaries of civilization. It is not a place you want to go. Ask the people in Russia what it is like to live through a collapse engineered as a partnership between the local mafia and the worst of Washington and Wall Street.
Scripture says that there is life and death in the power of the tongue. Science says that our intentions have the power to change material reality.
Which is to say what you and I wish for matters. And if you wish for the end of civilization in your revulsion against those who are debasing it, appreciate that you may be serving their ends. As for me, I choose to shun the criminals as best I can, describe the reality of the financial markets as they are, not as I wish them to be, and in all things speak life into our situation.
