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The Solari Report 2015-01-22
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2014 Annual Wrap Up Web Presentation
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“My preference is to live neither as dependent or victim, rather to look reality squarely in the face and use the resulting intelligence to live a free and inspired life. This includes building wealth in changing times.” – 2014 Annual Wrap Up
By Catherine Austin Fitts
This week on The Solari Report, Jon Rappoport joins me to discuss the most intimate part of our 2014 Annual Wrap Up.
How do we manage to live a free & inspired life? How do we create a vision for our future which is more attractive to our time and attention than the shrieking and manipulations around us? How do we calmly navigate in the midst of political instability and volatile financial and commodity markets?
As always Jon helps us to live the life we choose to lead, not the one others attempt to herd us into.
Enjoy the web presentation for the Wrap Up first – you will get essential perspective on what is happening and what’s ahead.
In Money & Markets I will review recent geopolitical and financial developments.
In Let’s Go to the Movies, I will discuss the new Denzel Washington action thriller “The Equalizer”.
Talk to you Thursday!
Hi Catherine,
Thanks for the inspiring presentation with Jon. The discussion about looking far into the future reminded me of Olaf Stapledon’s “Last and First Men”, a science-fiction book from the 1930s. It looks two billion (!) years into the future of humans. While the book is mostly about history-as-future philosophy and leans towards collectivist viewpoints, it’s unique in the large number of societal and technological permutations which are imagined, inevitably provoking one’s own imagination.
Summary: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_and_First_Men
Review: https://www.kirkusreviews.com/features/looking-far-far-future-olaf-stapledon/
Free ebook: http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2028/last-and-first-men
Full text in HTML: http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0601101h.html
For example, this excerpt is about eugenics in a musical culture:
“It was amongst the rebel peoples that the biological interest of the race, hitherto subordinate, came into its own. Mating, at least among the more devout sort of women, began to be influenced by the desire to have children who should be of outstanding musical brilliance and sensitivity. Biological sciences were rudimentary, but the general principle of selective breeding was known. Within a century this policy of breeding for music, or breeding “soul,” developed from a private idiosyncrasy into a racial obsession. It was so far successful that after a while a new type became common, and thrived upon the approbation and devotion of ordinary persons. These new beings were indeed extravagantly sensitive to music, so much so that the song of a sky-lark caused them serious torture by its banality, and in response to any human music of the kind which they approved, they invariably fell into a trance. Under the stimulus of music which was not to their taste they were apt to run amok and murder the performers.”
After reading this book, one may be inclined to convert contemporary news stories into page references 🙂
Rich
Rich:
I would be laughing so hard that I might cry…except for the sobering reality of the truth in what you say.
I have not read Stapledon. Will take a look,
Catherine