"Being in a minority, even a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad."
-George Orwell, 1984

Excerpt from Revelation: A Return to Virtue by Jayme Louis Liardi
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"While most of us recognize that lobbyists for major corporations seem to control Washington, few people know that Washington, D.C. is a corporation itself. The so-called ‘federal government’ is the Mother Corporation of a vast network of state and local governments and governmental ‘agencies’ that is actually a CORPORATE franchise system. All of these so-called government entities are for profit institutions and are listed on Dun and Bradstreet in their corporate all caps names.
After the Civil War, Congress passed the Reconstruction Act bringing all of the states under the authority of the federal government. Then the Act of 1871 formed a corporation called THE UNITED STATES. The new corporation, owned by foreign interests, moved in and shoved the original Constitution into a dustbin. With the Act of 1871, the organic Constitution was defaced — in effect vandalized and sabotaged — the title was capitalized and the word “for” was changed to “of”. The Constitution for the united States became the CONSTITUION OF THE UNITED STATES.
Then, during FDR's administration in the 30's, maritime/Admiralty (statutory) law was introduced into our courts.
The Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) was originally approved by its sponsors and the American Bar Association in 1952, and was revised in 1958 to incorporate a number of changes that had been recommended by the New York Law Revision Commission and other agencies. Subsequent amendments that were deemed desirable in light of experience under the Code were approved by the Permanent Editorial Board in 1962 and 1966.
By the middle 1960's, every state had passed the UCC into law. The states had no choice but to adopt newly formed Uniform Commercial Code as the Law of the Land. Washington D.C. adopted the Uniform Commercial Code in 1963, just six weeks after President John F. Kennedy was killed.
Today all courts (except the Supreme Court) are statutory maritime administrative courts. This change in our legal system was not authorized by the American people. It was created - by stealth - by the bankers and the BAR.
[For more details go to AntiCorruption Society.com home page: "Our government is just another corporation".]
The more people who understand what our courts have become, the fewer will hire attorneys. Attorneys are actually trained to implement this parasitic corporate-government system upon the unsuspecting public. That is where their 'expertise' lies, as attorneys Judge Dale [i], Melvin Stamper [ii], and Karen Hudes [iii] have revealed.
While many good people are working to recover a truly representative form of government (Of the people, By the people and For the people), the current corporate-government continues to attack the American population. As automation and robotization move rapidly forward, our current government corporation is implementing many programs designed to reduce the population. They have launched population control and population reduction agendas on many fronts. Here are a few examples:

• Chemtrails
• Mandatory vaccines
• Control of access to medical care and limitations to access to natural remedies
• Public water contaminated with toxic waste from the fertilizer industry aka water fluoridation
• Monopolization and degradation of food (to include GMOs)
• Endless unjustified wars
• Energy restriction under the false pretense of CO2 global warming - to include unsafe smart meters
• Wireless communication devises that emit toxic electro-magnetic radiation
• Takeover of our public school system throughout the country via Common Core

It is important that we understand our legal system and familiarize ourselves with strategies that have been formulated to restore some accountability while allowing us an alternative to the current comply or die (adhesion contracts) corporate system of unlawful statutory 'rule'. Statutes passed today are not laws; they are rules and/or regulations created by the corporations that falsely call themselves our 'government'. Again, each and every division of our so-called government is listed as a private corporation on Dun and Bradstreet. [iv] Commonly statutes/rules/regulations/ordinances are inflicted upon us by our consent or willingness to contract. So, learning how to deny consent is critical. In our statutory 'legal system', consent is presumed unless denied."

Read and download Lawfully Yours to learn how to protect yourself and your family from this corrupt and manipulative "legal" system:
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http://www.anticorruptionsociety.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/lawfully-yours-nov-2.pdf

Four years ago I began the process of Awakening--awakening to the sober reality of our times. I started to experiment with my diet, began to question the validity of what our so-called ‘authorities’ were telling us. I quickly realized that I had been lied to, that WE had been lied to. 

 I started to share my journey with you, in hopes that my process, my experiences, would help, and empower you to take action--to live a life truly in line with your heart.

So I began to advocate veganism, and the principles of pacifism. I sincerely believed that if we merely changed our diet and lifestyle, the world would change; By eliminating the toxic foods and embracing a truly healthy diet, we would simply think straight and be able to revolt against the tyranny that is wrecking havoc on not only human sovereignty, but on the natural world in which we depend on.

I championed all of the causes that any good college student does--I followed the herd. Climate Change, Minority rights, feminism, and the rest of it. I truly believed that what I was doing was the right thing--that we were the underdogs fighting the establishment.

I fell under the spell of the political buzzwords not truly understanding what I was getting myself into--I chose a side, not knowing all of the facts.

My emotions were being manipulated and I didn’t even know it.

As this was occurring, I continued to fall deeper and deeper into the rut that is the internet celebrity culture. I made videos about what I ate, and what I did on a daily basis--merely following the so called ‘leaders’ in the health and fitness community. I began to notice that the good I was supposedly doing was in vain, that I was merely perpetuating this culture of non-action and narcissism.

Around this time I began to wonder why every presidential election felt like theatre; why nothing ever changes despite the existence of so many pure hearted young people like myself?

Are we progressing like they say we are, or are we regressing--moving further and further into decadence.

I was confused and frustrated--there must be something that I am missing here. We seem to talk about change instead of actually making the change happen. 

It was not until I graduated from university that I became aware of the programing that was being done to me and my fellow students.

Under the guise of critical thinking, my professors led their classes like any good shepard--there seemed to be a silently enforced rule. You are never to say anything that challenges the orthodoxy:
    Question the tenets of Feminism? You’re a misogynist and sexist
    Question the flooding of migrants from third world nations into Europe and America? You’re a racist and a bigot
    Question the morality of Israel and their murder of countless Palestinians? You’re an anti-semite and  hater

There are many examples I could share with you--certain things that if you criticized, you would be labeled and ostracized from society. 

Why can’t we discuss all sides of a topic in a rational manner? Why am I called a name when I merely want to examine the facts without the bias?

There came a point after my graduation from the Indoctrination Center, that I began to question the so-called truths that were pushed into my impressionable and idealistic mind.  

Not knowing where to begin, I started with a simple thought exercise; I began to seek and understand the direct opposite of the views I held to be true. 

If I believed race to be a social construct-- now it was a biological reality
If I believed that all human beings are absolutely equal--now they were all different and unique

I was actively breaking down the programming that had been installed into my mind, one thought, one idea at a time.

Now that I was out of the Indoctrination Center, my true education began.

I studied books such as:
Plato’s Republic
Aristotle’s Politics and Rhetoric
Horace and Virgil
Tacitus and Cicero

The Epic tales of:
The Bahagatva Gita
and the sacred stories of the pre-christian Gods of the North

As well as the lives and philosophies of American geniuses such as:
Washington, Jefferson, Adams and Franklin

Without the filter that is our current cultural paradigm, I was beginning to develop my own opinions of these often overlooked works of art.

I was also looking into perhaps the most hot-button period of history--World War II

I began to seek out the history without the propaganda-- I wanted to understand the mind of the supposed most evil man in history. So I studied the events leading up to the war, the german Weimar Republic, WWI and the climate of Europe in the early 20th century. And yes, I read Adolf Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf'.

I quickly realized that I was not being given all of the facts--that what passes for history is merely rehashed propaganda from the war.

 That the world we are living in is the world created by the Victors.

These discoveries left me confused, I did not know who or what to believe;

Do I accept the supposed facts and worldview being presented in an unrelenting manner by the establishment, by ‘the system?’

Or do I follow those ideologies and truths that are acting against it, that are working to create an alternative to this capitalistic, exploitative, and unsustainable globalist tyranny.

Knowing that anything endorsed and supported by this unjust system simply cannot be trusted, I went down the uncomfortable path

Confused and afraid, I simply went with my heart

So i began to follow the trail of other patriots and freedom fighters before me, on a quest for truth, justice and an end to exploitation and enslavement.

For this past year I spent countless hours studying, thinking and exploring--I needed to make sure that I was on the right path and have not simply gone a downward spiral into an uneducated cesspool of hate-mongering and paranoia.

What I have learned is this:

WWII was a turning point in human history. A battle of opposite ideologies. Nationalism vs Globalism, International Communism vs ‘Nazism’ 

Our world today is the world of the victors, the world of the so-called Allies.

On one path you have globalism. 
This is the world of capitalism/communism. The world of cheap Chinese imports for the rich and a life of perpetual wage slavery for the poor. The world of uninspiring ‘modern’ art and architecture. The world of mindless consumerism and atheistical materialism. The world of blind ‘equality’: All races, cultures and ethnicities are the same, the sexes are the same, each individual is essentially the same. In our sameness, in our equality we are all one homogenous goop, rootless and without an identity, able to be exploited by the tyrants, our alleged representatives that we have in power today. If you have no identity, one will be installed into you by the kosher forces of The State. 
Make no mistake, they may say that they are for ‘multiculturalism’ ‘diversity’ and ‘equality’ but their actions would say otherwise. This is the ideology that brought us colonialism, slavery and the chain stores of suburbia. This is our current world--the world of Globalism.

This is our world today--the world of the so-called “Allies”

We too are at a turing point in human history; it is five minutes to midnight and we are quickly running out of time.

Will it be Globalism or will it be Nationalism.

Time to make a choice.
Time to choose a side.

Oil
Cars
CAFO
Waste
Prison
Google
Growth
Apathy
Sprawl
Rococo
Walmart
Fracking
Suburbia
Highways
Recycling
Monsanto
Strip Malls
Hand Outs
Cul-de-sacs 
Hybrid Cars
Imperialism
Credit Cards
Big Business
Cloud Seeding
Nuclear Power
Wind Turbines
A 'Living Wage'
Vacant Housing
 High Technology
Single Use Items
Celebrity Culture
Photovoltaic Cells
Electronic Devices
Drive-Thru Coffee 
 Cell-Phone-Zombies
Industrial Agriculture
The 8-Hour Work Day
Planned Obsolescence 
LEED Certified Buildings
Geothermal Heat Pumps
Petroleum Based Plastics
The Church of Technology
Cellophane Covered Brocoli
Human Imposition Over Nature
Conversations Via Text-Messages
Eating a Meal With Plastic Utensils
Shopping On a Smartphone After Thanksgiving Dinner

Wisdom
Empathy
Compost
Evolution
Education
Reflection
Urban Life
Dark Skies
Awareness
Restoration
Reinvention
Biodiversity
Community
Social Justice
Reforestation
Revitalization
Local Markets
Rail Networks
Slowing Down
Bioregionalism
Organic Farming
Walking to Work
Restored Wetlands
Urban Acupuncture
Time Off From Work
Reclaimed Materials
Windows That Open
Ecological Corridors
Historic Preservation
The Renaissance Man
Passive Solar Buildings
Daylighting Waterways
Daylight Working Hours
Watershed Boundaries
Pocket Neighborhoods
Envisioning The Future
Hour-long Shared Meals
Understanding The Past
Fresh Locally Grown Food
The Cultivation of Virtues
Apprehending The Present
Continuously Asking Questions
Naturally Based Fabrics and Materials
Wholesome Plant-Based Home Cooked Meals
Creating With Inert and Biodegradable Materials
Understanding and Embracing The Nature of Decay
Understanding Ones' Integration With Their Environment
Cultivating Strength, Wisdom and Courage in Our Communities
A Society That Values Collective Well-Being Over Individual Wealth
Setting Boundaries to Limit Our Affect on Natural Systems and Other Species
Time to Relax, Cook, Enjoy Nature, Spend Time With Loved Ones, and Embrace Life

It can be argued that the modern way of thinking in the US has become heartless and homogenized through the dominance of a few corporations. The American education system is more concerned with producing productive consumers instead of groundbreaking free thinkers, and as an institution whose sole purpose (like all other markets in capitalism) is to make a profit. The media and entertainment sectors promote disinformation and entertainment over real knowledge. "News" stations only report and broadcast what is in the interest of the viewing public, not in what is the best interest of the local communities. It is a system that is more focused on continuing this veil of consumer inadequacy, it is portrayed as a happy and unified American culture, when in fact it is more and more polarized and segregated. 

Americans have become stuck in this "one size fits all" system of thinking, a result of society’s pressure to maintain the status quo. Our once diverse and unique landscapes have become like popular culture. The force of industry takes over--dominating and erecting a homogenized alternative where, there were once distinct ecosystem. Through the examination of lawn culture, we will examine how and why our culture has come to embrace the monoculture and its false sense of unity instead of diversity, uniqueness, and variability found in unadulterated nature. Simplicity is one word that could be implemented to fight this sense of destruction.
Simplicity is the one word we can use to help bring us back to a sense of community, diversity, virtue, intelligence, and forward thinking. All of these different themes tie into the idea of the monoculture and lack of diversity in our culture. Through the education system, media, and our landscapes, we have created a system that is not only unsustainable but is crippling the human spirit. For how can we thrive as a species when our creativity and diversity is being trampled on by a practice of suppression, depression, and exploitation?

Our consumerist and biophobic society has come into play largely due to the media, entertainment, and news outlets of mainstream broadcasting. Biophobia--as David Orr explains in his book Earth in Mind, ranges, 
“From discomfort in ‘natural’ places to active scorn for whatever is not manmade, managed, or air-conditioned. Biophobia , in short, is the culturally acquired urge to affiliate with technology, human artifacts, and solely with human interests regarding the natural world” (Orr 131). 
This, I argue, is the great divider between those that have a deep love for nature and those that are averse towards it. Our mainstream media blasts the public with advertisements telling us that we need to buy product “x”, and commercials that influence us to act a certain way. Programs portray how “Americans” act and live, as well as what makes a successful “American” family. Ideas are shown in sitcoms that push the mainstream, the status quo, and the consumerist ideals on the public. Instead of informative or provocative television programs, stations are littered with these sorts of mindless examples of entertainment that further push this idea of biophobia on their viewers; why would you want to climb a mountain if you could just watch a documentary on it? Even the programs that display nature only work to further alienate the public from the realities of the natural world, for how can one even begin to know what a mountain has to teach them, if all they know is it’s pastoral representation on the screen in their living rooms? 

The mainstream news media pummels the public with sensational and mindless rubbish instead of reporting on matters that will inform the public and help create a better society. So instead of informing us with truth, they bombard us with disinformation, either fluff or arbitrarily intense stories to keep us in a perpetual state of fear so we never go out of our mental and physical comfort zones. As Thoreau states in Walden, 
“And I am sure that I never read any memorable news in a newspaper. If I read of one man robbed, or murdered, or killed by accident, or one house burned, or one vessel wrecked, or one steamboat blown up, or one cow run over by the western railroad, or one mad dog killed, or one lot of grasshoppers in the winter,--we never need read another. One is enough. If you are acquainted with the principle, what do you care for a myriad instances and applications?” (Thoreau 100). 
This "information" is not real information because real information propels action, most things we hear on TV are not actionable or relevant in our lives and therefore not useful information. Thoreau suggests that we need not concern ourselves with the news for it has lost all meaning and serves us no good. Thoreau explains that there is no point in reporting and reading these instances, it does no good. Thoreau would agree that if the news were acting as news it would be informing the public on many pressing matters such as critical bills in congress or environmental issues at hand. This creates a society of obedient workers who, for their own protection, stay within their safe confines of their established lives. A society where those putting their necks on the line for fundamental change are viewed through the lens of the camera as terrorists and beamed to Americans as lunatics, and scoundrels. As Orr states, the only way society can come out of this negative cycle is by fostering good communities and raising children who exhibit biopholia; 
“Real communities foster dignity, competence, participation, and opportunities for good work. And good communities provide places in which children’s imagination and earth sensibilities toot and grow” (Orr 143). 
As Orr explains, as a society, we need to focus on our communities to foster the change we want to see in the future. This “Biophobia” as Orr calls it, is the foundation to the human distance from nature in not only the media but also through education and our landscapes. 

Having gone through this country’s school system, I have to say it does not harness the individuality and creativity of each student. The school system is a factory where homogenized packaged products are created, and the process to make each “product”  the same; rinse and repeat, the system goes on and on. This system does not allow the innate creativity in children come to life. As explained by Throeau, it is evident how unique and intelligent children are, 
“Children, who play life, discern its true law and relations more clearly than men, who fail to live it worthily, but who think that it is wiser by experience, that is, by failure” (Thoreau 102). 
Instead of nurturing these valuable and innate curiosities in children, we choose to ‘educate’ them so they can grow up to be productive members of society. One thing is for certain, I do not think I have grown up to be a productive member of our capitalist society, for all I want to do is change this society. 

But what happens to freethinkers in this kind of environment; surely they must succumb to this process somehow? If one manages to get out of the American education system relatively unscathed, and if one manages to avoid the deadly cycle of the “college-career-house-family”, then what? These last are not inherently bad things, but they tend to allow us to become complacent and content with the state of things, because we then have a lot more to lose if we go against them. So if one manage to make it, that is, able to follow their passions and be free, then they have a chance at changing or altering the status quo to something that favors creativity, virtue, and diversity. What does it say about our education system, that, for us to have a chance at making a change, we have to get past the very thing that is in place to ‘educate’ us. For this system seems to deaden us, not invigorate us, as illustrated by David Orr, 
“Life ought to excite our passion, not out indifference. Life in jeopardy ought to cause us to take a stand, not retreat into a spurious neutrality” (Orr 137). 
As mentioned earlier, the more settled we become, and the more we have to lose, the more we become jaded and settle for indifference among the very issues we used to be passionate to change. As Orr points out, life should be about living your passion with vigor and not living indifference through complacency. 

There needs to be a drastic overhaul in not just education but our core societal values. Working with nature and respecting its laws is the only way for us to progress. As David Orr explains, 
“The ecological crisis, in short, is about what it means to be human. And if natural diversity is the wellspring of human intelligence, then the systematic destruction of nature inherent in contemporary technology and economics is a war against the very sources of mind” (Orr 140). 
Thus, we must value the human spirit and the earthly spirit if we are to mend this massive self inflicted wound. Looking inward one can see that this is the only way to live life, like Thoreau, I find that the simpler I make my life and my affairs, the more fulfilling my life becomes. To clarify simplicity, I mean that we can only truly find happiness when we look inward and find what our passions are by dusting off the mind of matters that really do not add to our happiness; Thoreau would agree that being able to count your responsibilities on one hand is essential, 
“I had three pieces of limestone on my desk, but I was terrified to find that they required to be dusted daily, when the furniture of my mind is all undusted still, and I threw them out the window in disgust. How, then, could I have a furnished house? I would rather sit in the open air, for no dust gathers on the grass, unless where man has broken ground” (Thoreau 37-38). 
By getting rid of the clutter of one’s mind, one can begin to dissect and figure out what thoughts or relations one actually needs to be happy. This is simplicity. It is not monoculture, or universal legislation, it is realizing each and every person’s unique characteristics and goals; this same principle can be applied when address the idea of landscape.

How did this idea of unity and the United States become this abstract application for which we grotesquely apply to the entirety of the country--a “one size fits all” approach. Michael Pollen, author and activist explains the absurdity in this approach;
“In a country as large and geographically various as this, it is probably inevitable that we will favor abstract landscape ideas---grids, lawns, monocultures, wilderness---which can be applied across the board, even legislated nationally; such ideas have the power to simplify and unite. Yet isn’t this power itself part of the problem? The health of a place generally suffers whenever we impose practices on it that are better suited for another place; a lawn in Virginia makes sense in a way that a lawn in Arizona does not” (Pollan 190). 
This mode of thinking that embraces one American ideal has become so ingrained in our culture that we barely notice it now. Take the lawn in Arizona example; instead of looking at the natural landscape and mimicking and implementing it’s tendencies on our own property, we adhere to the homogenized, centralized monoculture of green lawns. Ripping up, and destroying the natural land to implant this false flora. As Pollen suggests, it would be revolutionary for the people of this country to say that planting a garden and not a lawn is patriotic because it shows respect for the land, as well as planting a tree on ones property means believing in our future. Pollen would agree that people need to be aware that a lawn in Arizona is unsustainable and goes against our common sense, so why should we have one? Becoming unified in a more simplistic and natural way, would contribute more to unity and community building than having unified landscapes. We put our blinders on and don’t even realize the absurdity of the situation, it is what people have done before, so it’s what we do now. As the example of the lawn suggests, we should instead take this approach of simplicity, turning ourselves over to nature, and using her as a guideline to live healthy, unique and sustainable lives.

Through the use of the word simplicity, we can address these very problems that we see in our society today, this approach could be very effective at preserving nature as well as individuality. Instead of trivial “news” we can have a methodology that values true education to the public with news of important and pressing matters, and solutions to boot. This of course, is hypothetical. So, until then, I shut off the television, throw out the newspaper and open books, many, many books. Instead of an “education” process that promotes the idea of a homogenized population instead of the unique thoughts of the individual, we can have a formula that teaches to the child and to his/her abilities and skills, creating a more creative and free thinking population later on. This too, is hypothetical, so until then we can do our best by supplementing our children’s education with home education, garden education, insect education, virtuous education... without these we will continue to see a population of “sheep” rather than of leaders. 

The “one size fits all” approach that most of modern American culture has become to embrace is suffocating the life out it’s people, the ground, the trees, the animals, the water, the plants, and the insects. All are being drained of life by this monoculture model.  It is, however, not a death sentence; it is possible to change. By looking inward first, and figuring out how one can become more sustainable, less hypocritical, and more caring in life, then one can move onto their relationships...

To be continued in my book "I AM JAYME"








An Essay By Jayme Liardi