[Stoves] The meaning of 'Global Alliance', was Re: report with dissapointing results from cleaner cookstoves (Crispin)
neiltm at uwclub.net
neiltm at uwclub.net
Sat Dec 10 21:04:01 CST 2016
You can call this an off topic, conspiracy theorist rant if you like, and
I have no desire to repeat or continue it, so feel free to ignore, but my
intention is to write to share what I feel I have learned in a different
sphere of life that has a bearing on the very on topic question here of
what is GACC, and the prospects for genuinely helping the world's poorest
to attain a better quality of life and health which I have no doubt is
everyone's honest intention and endeavour here. Here it is, then I'll
shut up:
On 10 Dec 2016 at 13:32, Tom Miles wrote:
> We do have an impact. I got a call this year to suggest that this list be
> shut down. Somebody didn't like the criticism and "misinformation". So I
> suspect that people involved in funding stove development projects monitor
> the list. I refused to shut the list down.
I recognise your experience. I started the first UK based LISTSERV
mailing list in 1997 for elective home educators based in the UK (AKA
'homeschoolers' in the US). And the first outside the US I think. Boy
was that some learning curve!
We learned the hard way and repeatedly that doing anything of any
significance autonomously, outside the control of the state, attracts
takeover and subversion of your purposes to theirs and which are
invariably hostile. There is nothing like making lawful but unwanted
choices, (by power and vested interest), for making interesting
discoveries such that we never really had a 'rule of law', that
government is the principle law breaker for example. As home educators
we live battling with that dark reality endlessly and with increasing
pace and menace, and I should probably write a book about it - it should
be chronicled.
It is important to recognise that in Orwellian newspeak the word
'Alliance' is about coralling all of any particular activity, aspiration
or body of thought or belief into a forged consensus chosen by state and
or corporate and banking interests and designed to marginalise and
suppress any expression that falls outside its plan for how whatever it
is, is to serve the ruling elite interests. It strives towards
absolutism as any lie has to in order to reduce its exposure to truth
which can expose it. It is otherwise literally indefensible by any
rational discourse or enuiry, and thus must resort to tyranny.
A couple of examples which I can probably find links to if anyone is
interested enough to ask me, but from increasingly fraying memory:
The history in England for example of the Anti-bullying alliance was
specifically designed to suppress the original anti bullying grass roots
initiative by the name of 'bully online' I think it was. The discoveries
being made and articulated about the nature of bullying by this group
with a particularly perceptive and enlightened founder were putting stuff
out about the fundamentally psychopathic nature of bullying, and that of
institutions which bully. It was getting too close to the bone basically
to an understanding of the nature of power itself, and furthermore it was
really helping victims of bullying, and so the anti-bullying alliance was
formed with a constitution, a set of rules, and a bogus theory and
useless and traumatic practice for pretending to combat bullying that was
impossible for bullyonline to sign up to. In this way the original and
excellent initiative to help victims of bullying and raise awareness
about it and its true nature was itself bullied into the sidelines by the
hostile action of bullies basically, and the last thing they wanted was
to be properly understood! Power is a relationship and its victims were
beginning to work out how to disengage from their half of the
relationship, thereby ending it.
The other example is the 'Children's Rights Alliance for England'. This
was dominated by the 'big 5 children's charities' most of which were
actually actively hostile to any real idea of children's rights, but who
controlled the voice of all the small NGOs and children's rights
charities. I know this as I was (naively) part of helping to found a
small children's rights charity which naively allowed itself to get
swallowed up by it, where other similar genuine groups experienced the
same smothering of their voice both within the so called alliance and
through the louder public voice of the alliance, that drowned out their
voice. One of our number actually got the job of publicity secretary for
a couple of years during which time the 'alliance' actually started to
say the sort of things it should be saying, so it is sometimes and in
some ways, for some time at least possible to subvert such monolithic
institutions into what they claim to be, but such breakthroughs tend not
to last. While they do last they lend false credibility to the
institution as good well meaning honest people always do, and without
whom they might be seen for what they really are. They encourage
engagement, just don't do a long term audit on where it is getting you.
The very concept of children's rights was and is actually a clever Trojan
horse construct, enshrined in the UNCRC designed to fulfill the
collectivist agenda of the primacy of state ownership and control of
children, not their parents as their primary influence and responsibility
for them. In this world view, this globalists view, parents are toxic to
their children and the state is their 'voice' and protector ensuring
their human rights against the violations of their parents. Not merely
'parent of last resort' there to rescue children from abusive or
neglectful parents, but there as primary parent to ALL children, and
these changes pass quietly into law. Everywhere! It starts to act as a
mechanism for homogenising or cloning the species, of decreeing the only
orthodox pedagogy, setting the curriculum for education, setting out how
the worlds institutions are to go about fulfilling their obligations to
ensure children's rights (which they define, sometimes bizarly, like the
child's right to be coerced into school - a compulsory right).
So the ultimate purpose of any state institution calling itself a Global
Alliance for whatever, will not be primarily pursuing the Clean
Cookstoves, the eradication of bullying, or genuine human rights of the
child except sufficiently incidentally to retain sufficient credibility
to retain sufficient engagement, mostly uselessly struggling to make the
institution fulfill its purported function. No one for example has ever
been able to show me where in the institutions of state education the
legacy of any educational reformer since the late 19th century can be
found. All of it has been successfully anihilated or radically subverted
into a lip service that turns its language and terms into their opposite-
into travesty. Yet lively reform movements, discussions, actual
practice, much hope might manifest for a time, but inevitably the thing
withers dies and disappears like sandcastles after the tide has swept the
beach.
If two thirds of the worlds population cook on wood/biomass fires, this
must have huge potential as a new market as is clearly understood here.
I can't tell you whether that is slated to be for more efficient biomass
cookstoves, whether corporate or locally produced, or whether it is a
scam to find new markets for oil and costly infrastructure, (and both
have been held forth), or whether the former might be a 'process'
intended to go though a process of disillusionment, and
opinion/aspiration engineering towards a predetermined outcome of the
pursuit of the latter. I always find it difficult to second guess and
predict how something is going to unfold, but you can be sure that there
is a plan. Global governance itself, a plan being worked for and
traceable back at least as far as the early 19th century, unless you want
to count the Roman empire, has been steadily pursued across all those
generations to the point where it is currently being taken out of the
realms of conspiracy theory ridicule of anyone noticeing what is going
on, (and you can easily read the globalists plans in their own words
now), and being openly declared as an inevitable and unstoppable
necessity, and in fact already reality.
The main agenda of any state originated so called 'alliance' will never
be the stated one. That will always be merely the vehicle (specifically
a trojan horse) for a covert agenda, and what that agenda is is never any
real mystery, being variations on a theme of ways to consolidate power,
wealth and control over a subject species and biosphere. All governance
as we have ever known it is fundamentally the expression and working out
of psychopathy by psychopaths. UN charters make libertarian government
actually illegal. I discovered that by reading them - they are specific
collectivist prescriptions. To the real architects of GACC, or whatever
globalist institution it is and there is no aspect of life of any
significance not controlled by them, whether children have human rights,
whether any of us meaningfully do, or whether a healthy population is
supported by state healthcare or made sicker by it as Ivan Illich so
eloquently explained, or whether children learn what they need to learn
to thrive in the world under state education, is of no real interest to
the real architects of our world. We are merely their instruments.
These agendas, these hopes and aspirations are ours alone, and they are
exploitable and exploited without conscience. That is the human
condition and the real explanation of why nothing ever works properly,
and why we are put into endless struggles to try to make 'our' world work
properly, and to humanise it - to be properly responsive to real human
need, and that of the species we share the planet with. Given sufficient
awareness that that is so, our condition could change, and that is
something to work towards however bleak or remote a prospect it might
seem, but that remains our current species condition.
I see good work going on here. I see talented people like Crispin
working within the monolithic global institutions and successfully
carrying out work of real integrity and worth, subverting them into doing
what they should be doing, helping people with real help that is wanted
and on their terms and improves lives - no compromise. But what is the
overall direction of travel, of change going to be? Pascal encouraged us
to think local as you might say by saying that it is incredibly hard to
help even one person, that's where the temptation to help all of humanity
all at once comes from. Actually I think it comes from megalomania. The
thing that stops the world changing for the better one individual at a
time is through the interference of the plans and their coercions of
'globalists'.
All of us who do such useful work in whatever sphere of life it may be,
whether the good teacher who genuinely helps their student pursue their
dreams, their goals, or the surgeon I owe my life to because he saved my
father's life as a boy with a pioneering operation in his home because he
was too ill to travel to hospital. This all goes on, mostly despite the
institutions which monopolise the work, and which always get in the way
of it one way or another whilst monopolising its facilitation. They all
exist for other purposes primarily, and our purpose as defined by the
real architects is to be their useful idiots - honest dupes, and to
clothe the institution in credibility, and ensure engagement in a
lifetime of struggle to reach its supposed goals which are never reached.
The best and truest working assumption I know is to assume, without
evidence to the contrary, that just because an institution is corrupt,
and they all are by their nature, Max Weber understood this 100 years
ago, that doesn't mean the individual striving within it is corrupt also.
This I think is much more often than not going to be their truth,
because most of our species is fundamentally decent, which means the
conflicts we so often get into are misattributions through identifying
the individual with the fundamental corruption of the institution thy
struggle to work within. That does our master's work for them - divide
and rule.
You all know what you are doing here. What helps and what doesn't, or
you are striving towards a better understanding. Until the day comes
when we
successfully deinstitutionalise our lives, and create and sustain our own
societies we are burdened with the molestations and distortions of the
likes of GACC etc. Subvert them into what they claim to be, and if you
can't do that, bypass them. Engage in parrallel dialogue and practice as
far as is possible. Whatever it takes to do the real work which then
stands as a critique of phony agendas, even as they pretend to own your
work.
Keep it real.
I'll shut up now.
Best wishes, Neil Taylor
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