There is an amazing situation happening right now.
We are seeing, simultaneously, the world getting better...and getting worse.
On one hand, every statistic over the last 20 years tells us life is getting better in terms of the global poverty rate and human longevity. We are living longer and less people are stuck in dire poverty. The number of violent crimes are down while those killed in war dropped a great deal in the past 50 years. Infant deaths along with childhood diseases are on the decline.
All of these are great breakthroughs.
There is a down side. The discourse in our society is more polarized that any time I can remember. In most western countries, the middle class is disappearing. While the number of people in dire poverty is declining, those who are falling into the Western standards is growing. Addiction to drugs, mostly those prescribed by a doctor, is going through the roof. Their rate is only matched by the increase in debt levels. Governments, businesses, and individuals keep taking on more debt. This causes many to worry about the system collapsing.
The fact that the present system is deteriorating before us is a good thing in my opinion. To erect the new, we need to clear out the old.
My research into the shifts we are going to be experiencing tell me this is all part of the program. We are moving out of an era that was based upon the hierarchical, male dominated way of doing things. Fighting, in all its' forms, was the primary method. The violence in our society is very obvious. War analogies are used in sports, politics, and business. Everyone is intent on conquering.
The new era is going to see a lot of the existing system destroyed. It simply cannot exist. Energetically it cannot operate. It is in direct opposition to how the world is going to be.
Technology is one of the main characteristics of this shift. While many debate when the new period started (if it even did), the main thing to understand is we are transitioning. This process could take a couple hundred years to fully evolve. However, one thing we are going to notice is the move towards organization that are non-hierarchical.
I am such a believer in cryptocurrency and blockchain because it is all part of the larger paradigm shift I studied for the last decade. What we are seeing was written down thousands of years ago. This is not new stuff. The world is presently living under the control of a few since we have a "pyramid" system in place. The few on top control the many on the bottom.
The monetary system is at the core of this. It is what enables the idea of scarcity to exist. This is not natural. The universe actually is an abundant entity. Take energy for example. Oil and other fossil fuels are finite. Yet, the sun provides enough energy on a daily basis to power the planet many times over. Energy is abundant; we just live in a system of scarcity.
Food is the same way. There is more than enough food on the planet to feed everyone. The reason why there is starvation is it is not distributed to all. I once read that Americans throw out 25% of the food they purchase. Yet the media wants to claim there is not enough.
Cryptocurrency is teaching people a very valuable lesson: the one of money. Many ask how can cryptocurrency have any value since it is "made up"? Exactly. All money is made up; the Central Banks create it out of thin air. The difference is that cryptocurrency goes from creation to an individual as opposed to fiat, which goes to a bank before getting into people's hands in the form of debt.
There is an esoteric battle going on that few look at. I believe the elites who are in charge are well aware of these powers. For this reason, they also understand their time is ending. None of this information is a great secret. They did a masterful job keeping it from the masses throughout history. Yet, the time for change is upon us. Cryptocurrency is just one item in a long list of technologies that we are going to transform our society. By doing this, we are also going to be able to tap into powers within ourselves that we did not know existed.
One of the reasons people are so lost is they do not have time to research, go within, and learn what they can do. Instead, we are stuck on a treadmill of working ourselves to the bone to enrich someone else. This is the system they set up for us. We are continually taught to fight, "to never give up". Sadly, the fight never ends.
I am one of the most bullish people in the world about STEEM because it fits perfectly within the paradigm that is being created. STEEM will not be the only one. In fact, there are going to be thousands upon thousands of different blockchains that give people the opportunity to earn rewards. When I write about the Age of Abundance, I am not kidding. There are going to be tokens all over the place creating wealth for people.
This throws a lot of people who hang onto the old models that they were taught. It is important to not overlook the fact that much of what we know about economics, finance, and politics was designed by those who are enslaving us. They are all intellectual exercises that support scarcity and the world we live in. It creates fear of an alternative paradigm because that would mean loss of control. So they paralyze the population with thoughts of dire consequences if there is a shift.
The lessons of the Internet are very clear. Any industry that it enters results in two things: Abundance and the destruction of the existing entities. We saw this with information purveyors (newspapers, magazines), record companies (16 years of losing money on their recorded music), video rental companies (Blockbuster/Movie Gallery), and communications (how is AT&T long distance division doing these days?).
We now see the Internet coming to money. The new era will not exist with a world run by bankers. Quite simply, they have to be destroyed. The energy that is coming out of people in the form of ideas is going to amaze the world over the next decade. This is the true revolution. The power of blockchain and cryptocurrency is decentralization. The centralized structures are going to crumble like a building in an earthquake. We already see many of the bankers showing their concern.
Some of this might see far-fetched. If that is the case, do some digging; take a look around you. Look what is starting to happen. There are thousands of different examples of this shift taking place right before our eyes. There are so many entities that are makes moves today that really amount to nothing more than just trying to hang on. They are antiquated yet do not know it.
If one is willing to do this, then all fear fades away. The tokenized world is one of the first steps in a multi-tiered process that is going to unleash humanity from the bonds of the scarcity model. The world is about to experience growth that it never envisioned. We will see the other half of the world population come online in the next 10 years. At that point, the true power of humanity will be revealed.
One person with an idea and the means can change the world. Picture what that world will look like when 7B-8B have that ability.
That is the Age of Abundance.
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You're right on target.
The biggest problem that I see around me is that most people can never step off of that treadmill. Most people that I know are working way more than 40 hours per week, more like 60 and 70 hours.
These people don't have a single credit card not because they don't want to put their faith into the government but because they simply have never been able to have good credit.
When they do have a free moment they don't even use it to enrich themselves, but instead drown themselves and alcohol.
I've tried to get a ton of people involved with cryptocurrencies and especially with steam it and I've even managed to get a few to do it. However for the most part people can only look straight ahead because if you turn your head for even a minute you fall off the track. It's a long way to the bottom.
This is the one thing I founnd worrying. The elites would not sit iddle accepting the end of their dominance. Either they get in the game and secure their position for the future or they would do everything to destroy the future we hope for.
You bet they will.
Consider Test society, where an elite profits from slave labor and their quality of life depends on that profit. Then automation makes human labor obsolete. What profit is it to the elite to harm their former slaves? Would not their now unlimited profits be greater than their profits from slaves before?
What they exert and spend on harming the former slaves not only profits them nothing, it costs them quality of life they could purchase with what they will spend on harming the slaves.
In the real world things are much more complex, but there is far more incentive to the elite to spend on their quality of life rather than harming former slaves.
As the paradigm shifts destroying the future for 'commoners' decreases the quality of life of the 'elite'. Playing nice pays best.
Technology makes life better. Politics makes life worse.
The game you are seeing has been in the works for a long time.
The political class gains power by dividing and conquering the people. They do this by feeding the people a false dichotomy between left and right.
When one studies the history of the left/right split one finds that both sides of the split came from the same source.
The ideals of progressivism flow from an idea called "The Divine Right of Kings." This ideal held that the bounty of the kingdom flowed from the King.
After losing the US Revolution, Philosophers working for the King in the United Kingdom and Prussia developed a new ideology that simply changed the worlds. Progressivism holds that the bounty of the earth flows from the state.
The really bizarre thing came with the creation of Conservatism. This ideology called "Conservatism" was created King William IV in an effort to rebrand the Tory Party in the wake of electoral reform.
Both the Progressive Left and Conservative Right were created by the Tories.
Progressives and Conservatives claw at each other's eyes ... but both of the two ideologies end up creating a centralized state and a centralized economic system. More on Conservatism
i like the way that you place the paradigm shift in relation to money, food, etc. LOL
the paradigm shift is related to energy and a spiritual awakening ... either way its happening. the world has shifted a while ago ... if you'd like more info i'm happy to share. this is all native american ancient prophecy btw.many of us are just happening to wake up more and more.
Had to re-steem this, this is the type of post that makes people think...
'Cryptocurrency is just one item in a long list of technologies that we are going to transform our society. By doing this, we are also going to be able to tap into powers within ourselves that we did not know existed.' Oh, I hope that is so!
Your work always makes me feel so excited.
I'm glad Kenny added you to TribeSteemUp. I always say you're my inspiration on Steemit.
Thank you for the kind words.
I am honored to receive them and that you feel that way about my writing.
I am glad you find value in it.
I just fear that fact that the new paradigm is technology based runs the risk of just increasing the gap between those that have and those that don't. A high percentage of the world doesn't have access to the technology that we do and even those of those receive a highly restricted version. How we do we make sure they don't get left behind in this new world?
Many nations have an advantage in that they dont need to go through the extended buildout that the western countries did. In the next few years, we will start to see the development of SpaceX and others satellite services that blanket the world.
Within 10 years, the entire planet will be on the internet....the question is how many countries will restrict it? That will unfold as time goes by but I am sure that we will see more technology that gets around government censorship.
I hope we can find a way to get internet to the masses. I agree satellite will get the internet there. We just need some cheap tech and the means to distribute it (and provide power). I hope other countries won't restrict it... but I am sure some will.
Great post!
totally agree with you.
You have wrote a very good article that touches upon the future of humanity. With abundance going around, we do not have to be worried whether we have the basic needs met in the near future. We will all be doing what we love and what we were gifted to do here on Earth. I hope that humanity will become better with the blockchain and that we will be enjoying abundance as much as those that believe that humanity is becoming better and better as the days pass. God bless!