Future Of The Dark Web

Posted on May 8, 2024 by jamesq

How are folks’ experiences on the internet going these days? How is the censorship going for you? Do you like having all your news filtered … purposefully manicured , and groomed – so that you buy into all that is intended to shape your opinions? How do you like having your First Amendment rights trashed and stepped on? Are you good with the symbiotic relation between big tech, government and defense agencies?

Americans as a whole seem to love it that way. After all , their congressmen and president serve as their guardians…. keeping them safe. Do Americans want to have guardians or representatives? Continue reading →

Pay to Play Social Media

Posted on May 7, 2024 by jamesq

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X or Twitter if you prefer, is treated as if it is a bastion of free speech. Believe it if you wish. Pay to play social media is a variety of censorship itself. It is just stealth in nature. Social media wants users who can be used as resources. That is not all that social media wants. Few have not observed that there is an organized effort going on to make resources out of all of humanity. The presence of social media in this effort is critical.

It is not that no one takes censorship seriously. Plenty do but all of the censorship they know about is the squelching of well known icons of wisdom.

The most serious and destructive censorship is that applied to the overall population. Hardly a soul notices. Fear is that if the overall population gets involved, public discourse will head in all different directions. That makes it hard to lie to everyone. Who wants to compete with multitudes of opinions and takes on things? Lies work better when told to a homogeneous trusting audience.

The elite’s solution is to provide only pay to play social media platforms. That way, users hover around already known voices but interaction with one another is highly unlikely and virtually impossible. This is the way it works in the echo chambers. Folks end up thinking they are hearing material that will make a difference. It doesn’t. Very little insight makes it out of the echo chambers. Free speech yes but it is quarantined.

TIK Tok seems to be more of a public forum. It is being attacked and thwarted for that reason. Safety for Americans efforts are a farce. Risk is part of life especially for the young. Remove all of the risks they are prone to take and they become adults without the ability to assess risk. If our leaders wanted to protect citizens from harm as an only goal, they might re-impose a return to the 55 mph speed limit. That would save more lives than preventing them from something they might find on Tik Tok.

It is known by a few, that neither the Fantasy Free Advantage or Fantasy Free Economics is allowed to post much ….anywhere. I have been able to post on Quora and X. I do not have a premium account on X. It is cheap but pay to play is against my principles.

This morning when I logged into X to make comments, this is what showed up on my screen.

I was able to unlock the account but it is limited now and pretty useless.

Here is a sample of the types of comments I make. I suppose they are what is being deemed as unusual activity

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Organized crime controls our healthcare industry. The health of the population is not even a consideration.

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While protests continue and elections are ongoing, it is business as usual for the likes of Henry Cuellar and the rest of our elected psychopaths.

We all have the option of getting involved. Or, the other option is for folks to keep telling each other favorite stories in these echo chambers.

The truth is distasteful, I admit. Outside of pornography, in all of history, only the truth has ever been censored. Lies don’t need to be censored. Lies, in time, get busted anyway. The truth is a threat to all who make a living telling lies because the truth, once apparent, never disappears.

Coming Headwinds of the United States and Citizens

Posted on April 28, 2024 by jamesq

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Fantasy Free thinking requires thinking in the light of reality. That is what the Fantasy Free Advantage is. Gain the fantasy free advantage. See the world the way it is. You will be early. You will be right.

The United States has dismantled its free market system and replaced it with a manipulated and managed debt – based economy. Create debt and GDP increases. Stop and the economy tanks. We are at the point where debt cannot be increased any longer..

It takes free market forces to generate a recovery. There will be no recovery. The essential ingredient of free market forces is missing.

Earnings in all income classes are going to decline, especially for professionals. For example, doctors overseas make a fraction of what they earn in the U.S. Not to pick on doctors, this is true of all professions. Poor schools and declining education levels leave American citizens from being ignorant to highly under – educated.

Social media is losing influence. That will continue. People are no longer fascinated.with it. The providers know this, even while pretending otherwise. Social media losing its influence strikes a huge blow to the consortium trying to take over the world and make resources out of inhabitants. The consortium has always counted on social media to homogenize the population and manage their thoughts and opinions. Social Media is becoming impotent. More on social media – Big Changes Coming Social Media. The decline in influence of social media presents a serious obstacle to the parties aspiring to control the world and make resources out of its citizens. The internet is increasingly being regarded as if it was a phone book, nothing but ads and no meaningful information.

The social media companies had great aspirations based on homogenizing their users in order to make them advertisement friendly and easy to market to. They lacked the awareness to grasp that this would change their users behaviors. They also failed to fathom it would make online experiences dull and uninteresting. What they expected to have is a perfect population, that they could use in whatever capacity their minds could come up with. Instead. they created a diminishing mob of docile, compliant , mind – numbed hominids that don’t respond or get excited about anything. Social media will suffer immensely.

YouTube has been going spastic trying to show ads. They try one technique after another trying to display ads in ways where they don’t get automatically clicked off after 5 seconds. Google has started not responding when a search term is one they don’t like. Time is running out for them. They are running off users and burning advertisers. This is fine for maintaining stock prices but it will kill them eventually. Big tech is cooked, though that is not yet acknowledged or snapped to.

The Deep State cannot persevere unless they can manage the thoughts and opinions of the population.

Distrust of the healthcare industry and all who prosper from it is only in the beginning stages. The death rate in the United States is rising rapidly in the aftermath of the adoption of the Affordable Care Act. Once a bill has been passed, repealing it is a near impossibility. Organized crime owns the healthcare industry. There is no other explanation that explains a law that provides corporate skimming operations, spreads resources out as thin as possible, homogenizes physicians, spreads out resources as thin as possible and funnels obscene profits to those who lobbied to get the bill Passed.

The United States has a debt – driven corrupt service – based economy where prosperity has been created by producing asset bubbles. No bubbles – no prosperity. There is nothing wrong with having a debt – based economy. That being the case, there must be a demand for the services offered. What happens when our information and technology sector starts operating in retrograde while competition is growing overseas? What happens when our financial sector faces a lengthy depression? It was all built by creating bubbles. Now the bubbles are bursting. What happens to our defense industry…. independent of manufacturing, if the population adopts an anti – war , anti – imperialist posture?

Our free market system has been dismantled, so there is no way for an economic recovery to occur. Central planning cannot reboot a suffering economy. Permanent Depression.

There is nothing complicated in identifying headwinds like the ones described. No experts are needed. All it takes is an honest look at the situation in the light of reality.

A Choice for Every Society

Posted on April 25, 2024 by jamesq

Two choices. 1. Government serves the citizens. 2. Citizens serve their government. It is a choice.

This does not have to be a conscious choice. As a matter of fact it seldom is I am not sure it ever is. Folks can make a natural choice. That means the choice may be pre – programmed into the human mind by the forces of nature.

People give intellectual answers to questions like those above. When the two questions are entertained, the reply will be something like this. A typical answer might be, “Government serves the people in the United States. That is guaranteed in the U.S. constitution. We all learned that in school.”.

So, how is the situation going in the United States? Here is a link to the bills on which the House and Senate have passed and sent to the president.

Bills Passed Congress-Senate Sent to President

How many citizens have heard anything about these bills? How many care one way or another? So, U.S. citizens control their government. Given absolutely none have any knowledge of what is going on in the government….how is it that U.S. citizens are in control of their government? They don’t even know what is going on in government, other than what is purposefully fed to them.

But, of course Americans are in control of their government, right? The U.S. constitution says they are, right?

When you disregard how people, institutions and laws are officially defined – and consider only how they function – that changes everything. With that, a clear picture emerges. We are looking at belief in keeping with official definitions. This is fantasy. How a thing functions is what matters.

Your Americans have plenty of relevant information. Why are they not sharing it with the citizens? That is because citizens are deemed too naive, irresponsible and ignorant to grasp what is going on. Perhaps they are. Would it make a difference if they had relevant information? Ordinary folks do fine on juries.

If a government controls its citizens, does that mean government has a life of its own and operates independently of everyone? That is impossible. Government is controlled by perhaps a fraction of three percent of the population. Government serves this group very well. That means you as a citizen serve them also.

In a previous article For Profit Legislation, I explain that all legislation is for profit. Given human nature, it can’t be any other way. All lawmakers act out of self – interest. It behooves them to represent the upper fraction of three percent, who control government by controlling congress. The upper fraction of the population votes but votes are not all they offer. Why they offer much more is obvious. They have so much to offer in terms of benefits and consequences that they end up getting the representation ordinary citizens merely assume they have. It isn’t that they love each other. This is all completely brutal. The result is we have multitudes of abusive bills on the books which rig markets and funnel countless dollars to the top.

Once passed, odds are nearly one hundred percent, a bill will never be repealed. Most laws become feeding frenzies on federal money. In our universe, all entities serve something or somebody. Democracy provides a unique platform where servitude comes out even. It works the same way in free markets. In the United States we have neither. Servitude is ongoing but it never comes out even.

The big payoff to viewing life in the light of reality is that there are no surprises. Gain the Fantasy Free Advantage, which is the light of reality, and what is obvious becomes apparent immediately.

Trouble Shooting Democracy the Fix

Posted on April 23, 2024 by jamesq

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Wherever you live, surely you have noticed that citizens are concerned that democracy based governments around the world are not functioning properly. There is a solution.

Since I am in the United States, what I am going to suggest here is based on observations of our system. In the United States there are two possible solutions. One is to change the method of choosing members of the House of Representatives to a jury system. If you think issues of passing laws are so complex that ordinary citizens would not be able to handle the job, you are wrong. I am not talking about a jury of 12 citizens. I am talking about a jury the size of the the membership of the House of Representatives. They would not have to be underpaid like jurors in court trials are paid.

The second method is slightly different and would entail the equivalent of a fourth branch of government. It would still be based on picking a jury. The role of the public jury would be to rule on the constitutionality of any law passed by the House and Senate and whether or not the law would be good for the citizens of the country. The decision would be made just like decisions are made in a jury trial. Notice that of our institutions, the jury system works very well, not perfect but very well. Our system of government, the way it is now is failing. The second system suggested is the better of the two.

When our leaders formed the country they anticipated issues with democracy. That is why the United States is organized as a Republic. The fear was that the masses would vote everyone else’s money into their pockets. That was a reasonable fear to have but they did not anticipate other ways the system could be corrupted.

As it has turned out, in a democratic system, it takes a very unlikely set of personality characteristics to get elected to a high office. Only folks with a political personality have the manipulative skills necessary to get elected to a high office. Political personality is like a euphemism for psychopath. The races are so competitive that the truth gets pushed out of the political dialog.

The founding fathers also expected that ordinary citizens would be more independent minded than it turns out they are. What determines how citizens vote. They vote for the candidate who tells them what they want to hear. That is not the truth. Voters serve only as a resource candidates use to win elections.

Today the United States government is used as a marketing tool for rigging markets and forcing citizens to buy goods and services they wouldn’t otherwise. For sure, self government won’t survive if folks are not willing to make necessary changes required to make it work properly.

The truth is a hard sell. Fantasy Free Economics gains readers one at a time. Major search engines simply do not list blogs which disagree with their political agenda. As long as folks share the link to this blog and others speaking out against the grain, the truth will at least trickle into the public consciousness.

Living With Artificial Intelligence

Posted on April 18, 2024 by jamesq

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You can live with artificial intelligence. That is because you are alive. It is touted as the wave of the future. It may very well be. Most new advancements initially get dismissed by many and put in the “will never catch on” category. Yes, being alive, you may prefer to live without it. However, you may not be able to avoid living with it.

Certainly, Artificial Intelligence will be used to accomplish many wonderful things. Lives may be improved and enhanced. Fortunes will be made. It also provides ways to manage larger populations more efficiently with less effort. That is great for folks who appreciate being managed. It can make decisions for you. Is that good? It is great for multitudes who prefer others to make decisions for them. Thinking is work. Work is routinely avoided. Few people can concentrate intensely for perhaps an hour without getting fatigued. Limiting thinking is avoiding fatigue.

So far, I have only been involved with two aspects of Artificial Intelligence. That is with respect to voice cloning and customer service experiences. With voice cloning it works great.

With respect to customer service operations, it obviously cuts costs for companies. For this reason, they have all convinced themselves that it is good for customers as well. Let’s look at that in the light of reality.

So far, on balance, it is to the detriment of customers. Artificial intelligence is a virtual entity. Customers are living beings, only treated as if they are virtual in nature. Attempts to sound friendly and insightful are simply irritating. While expenses are reduced considerably on the parts of companies, customers are assumed to have all the time in the world, regardless of what each may earn on an hourly basis. How impressed will a guy making $100 per hour be with spending an hour dorking around with a machine for an hour trying to explain what his question is. This is a big disconnect which will eventually be to the detriment of companies providing the customer service.

It is important to understand the limitations of technology. Machines can only use math. Math has a basic downside in that all it can produce is a number. Numbers become accepted as reality. In the right circumstances a number is perfect. When math is used to describe human behavior or create it, math is completely flawed. That is why with economics – I examine the forces in nature which make the numbers what they are. I let the other guys, who are many, deal with models and statistics. I am always ahead of the numbers. I appreciate their work. It is there to be used as a resource for me to use when I need it.

The firms who adopt Artificial Intelligence for customer service operations see only their new cost savings. The number attached to that looks good. No focus on how it affects business overall, no worries as to how many customers it eventually runs off.

Customer service has been technology based for a long time. For myself, if I end up going to customer service, it is only because of something so bizarre that it requires an actual sentient being to figure it out. It. With Artificial Intelligence customer service, my goal turns out to be finding a way to get past it and talk to a real person.

What Is Most Relevant In These Trying Times?

Posted on April 4, 2024 by jamesq

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This is a question I answered on a public forum where I am apparently still welcome and for now uncensored .

Are Americans crazy? I say no. What we can see is mal-adaptive behavior. As
previously mentioned the evolution of free markets and democratic systems, in terms of economics is of greater influence than the invention of the wheel. What we are seeing worldwide are populations consumed and absorbed in instinctive behavior. The emergence of free markets and democratic principles changes the way mankind reasons intellectually. It does not change the adherence to instinctive behavior. Continue reading →

Robert Kennedy Jr’s Vice President and his Chances

Posted on April 1, 2024 by jamesq

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I don’t like the fact that she is a billionaire.

Never trust a politician or billionaire.

She is two out of three.

As for Kennedy, I think he has a good chance of being elected.

Based on today, he has no chance at all. Live life as if it is a still picture and that is good enough.

Recognize life as a moving picture and his chances improve significantly.

Odds are truly great that one or more events will occur between now and November. The country could very well enter a crisis period between now and then. All of the ingredients are in place. Continue reading →

The Dangerous Three Percent

Posted on March 26, 2024 by jamesq

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Perhaps three percent of the population is born genetically different than the rest of us. In almost every capacity they look and act like the rest of us. But, they are born with an elevated thirst for power and an insatiable need to control others. They are highly intelligent. They also possess most and frequently all of the characteristics of psychopaths.

The psychopathic behaviors most common to career politicians are. 1.) lack of remorse, shame, or guilt 2.) glibness and superficial charm 3.) manipulative and conning Continue reading →

Happiness Power Fantasies and Euphemisms

Posted on March 25, 2024 by jamesq

Happiness is not possible if the universe is taken at face value. The struggle to survive is brutal. Fantasies create happiness and fantasies keep people happy. Euphemisms are substitutes for truths because truths can be harsh. Fantasies come and go but in time certain fantasies become symbiotic.

Once a symbiotic relationship takes root between two or more fantasies more fantasies are added to the relationship over time. Belief systems of large aggregations of people arise out of the symbiotic relationships between the various fantasies that are prevalent in the group. The more fantasies on which life is based the happier are the members of the group. Since fantasies are not based on anything real, truth can completely disappear. An entire country can become so filled with happiness created by fantasies that the society in question falls apart.

Power is a stand alone incentive. Power is always sought more by some but some by everyone. The one thing power and fantasies have in common is that neither is ever relinquished. Both must be taken by force.

Fantasies can be harmless and in small quantities, perhaps beneficial. When whole countries become stable and prosperity increases more and more, fantasies are added to the national mindset. When fantasies become too unrealistic the country collapses.

Prior to and during WWII, the German people had a fantasy that Aryans were superior to all other human beings. That idea made a lot of Germans happy and fueled all kinds of activities and efforts for a number of years. That fantasy was removed by force by the other countries in the world.

Power is grabbed easily when a leader can create a popular fantasy, then validate that one as well as other already present. Both the fantasies and power had to be removed by completely destroying destroying Germany.

When citizens vote they give all kinds of reasons why they vote one way or another. People claim to vote their pocket book, the constitution, their conscience. None of that is true. People vote their fantasies.

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Dying For HealthCare

Posted on March 25, 2024 by jamesq

Americans have opted to remove all remaining vestiges of the free market system from their health care system. Do not be too quick to applaud them for that decision. The only health care system in the world that is worse than healthcare provided in classic socialist countries and democratic socialist countries, is the system that has been created here in our non-democratic socialist economy.

Taking an industry out of the free market realm and replacing it with a system of collective non economic decisions changes the incentives of all who are part of the healthcare system. That is because governments are not capable of making economic decisions. A child with a dollar in a candy store makes economic decisions. The child gets as much candy as is possible to buy for a dollar. Only the candy with the highest utility to the child gets purchased. The child cannot buy all he wants. But, out of self interest must economize. That is an economic decision.

Governments don’t make economic decisions. They can’t. Government committees make the worst economic decisions. Who gets what out of government is determined by political power. Governments can only make political decisions.

When you see a doctor, you will notice a distinct decline in goodwill. That is because goodwill is caused by the free market system. It disappears when it is replaced with something else. I will call it what it is. Non-democratic socialism is fascism. With fascism, who gets what is determined by political power. When two or more people interact in any market, goodwill is an essential ingredient.

In our fascist healthcare system, your doctor does not work for you. Interaction between the insurance company and providers is what determines the doctors income. Your doctor gets paid by getting kick backs from pharmaceutical companies for giving vaccinations and other things. Insurance companies pay doctors to promote their participation in feeding frenzies on government money.

When a change is made from free market to a system of economics by force (fascism), your doctors incentives change. In our fascist system your doctor has an incentive to function as a clerk instead of a doctor. Performing as a clerk pays better than spending time patients. So, doctors engage in more clerk activities and spend less time with patients.

One important aspect of fantasy free economics is that people and institutions are studied based on how they function, not how they are defined. It doesn’t matter how much education a doctor has or how esteemed the position is,the doctor is a clerk if the doctor functions as a clerk.

Medicine becomes more driven by the needs of the pharmaceutical industry, insurance companies and healthcare professionals. Patients are not really of much importance at all. Importance in a fascist type market is guided by political power. Benefits trickle down from the top. Few benefits make it all way down to the position of patient.

Profits are maximized by homogenizing and standardizing patients and searching for profitable conditions to treat. Patients are treated on a statistical basis. If it doesn’t show up as an out of range statistic on a lab test chances are it will never be noticed.

The death rate in the United States is already rising. It will continue and get much worse. Many who want to get well and remain well are finding very good cures and remedies by seeking their own information.

While patients are getting very poor results out of their medical doctors orthomolecular medicine is a different story. I recommend that everyone start accumulating information in that area. The work of Andrew Saul PHD is very impressive. With our healthcare system having morphed into fascist medicine, it is going to get much harder for people and families to find cures for maladies and maintain good health.
Americans have opted to remove all remaining vestiges of the free market system from their health care system. Do not be too quick to applaud them for that decision. The only health care system in the world that is worse than healthcare provided in classic socialist countries and democratic socialist countries, is the system that has been created here in our non-democratic socialist economy.

One important aspect of fantasy free economic is that people and institutions are studied based on how they function, not how they are defined. It doesn’t matter how much education a doctor has or how esteemed the position is,the doctor is a clerk if the doctor functions as a clerk.

The death rate in the United States is already rising. It will continue and get much much worse. Many who want to get well and remain well are finding very good cures and remedies by seeking their own information.

Flaws in Human Nature

Posted on March 22, 2024 by jamesq

I have to confess. I was born without the capacity to indulge in euphemisms. From birth, I have never been able to take comfort in something that is untrue and certainly could not believe something was true when it wasn’t. As a small child there was not even one second when I believed in Santa Clause. In elementary school, I remember having an epiphany that teachers were as likely to lie as were the children. Continue reading →

Logical Reasons For Legalizing Marijuana

Posted on March 21, 2024 by jamesq

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One important aspect of any law is how effective the law is in preventing the behavior it is designed to prohibit

When I taught high school I became certain that heavy marijuana use by teens and pre-teens destroys any chance they have of gaining much academically, by going to school. As a special education teacher, I learned that many of the students who qualified for the special education program were heavy marijuana users, A great number of those qualifying around middle school were actually stoned on the day they were tested. Marijuana was present all over campus and any student who wanted some did not have to look hard to find it Continue reading →

Why Does Government Grow?

Posted on March 20, 2024 by jamesq

Government grows every time a bill is passed. Bills get passed as a way of rewarding Americans with political power. Only a few have enough political power to get what they want out of government. Bills are passed as a way to extract wealth and income out of the general population. Continue reading →

Natural Law And Issues of Life

Natural Law Issues Of Life Reality