Could you imagine a day where you would not use or need money for anything, yet you could have everything you wanted? It seems like some type of fairy tale at first. But once you begin to start peeling back the layers of your societal conditioning and get to the core of what Michael Tellinger is really saying in his book – Ubuntu Contributionism – you move from the space of fairy tale to the land of clear eyed optimism. You begin to be able to clear away the dust on the trail of how to get to Ubuntu from where we are today. By the end of the book, you no longer imagine a giant chasm with no way to get across, but the emergence of a path, that is no easy trek, but is one that can definitely (and should be) travelled. As you allow yourself to imagine further, you see yourself arriving in a land of paradise – where every person on the planet is happy, lives in peace, lacks for nothing, and has all the tools at their disposal to explore their creativity on a daily basis.
Sounds wonderful right? So what is stopping us?
One thing – Money.
We’ve been trained, mentally conditioned, to believe that the medium of exchange we call money is an absolute necessity for people to “provide” their time and expertise to other people. What we forget is that money actually doesn’t do anything. People do everything.
We are repeatedly told that our problems are insurmountable and that it is all very complicated and that only money can solve the world’s problems. We now know that this is a lie – because money does nothing. People do everything – people grow the food, build the bridges, and solve the mathematical equations and create the most beautiful works of art. People do everything in great spirit and joy when they are allowed to do so. Money is the obstacle that prevents us all from creating and thriving.
The concept of Money, we feel, gives them the incentive to do those things. But what if everyone did everything for free? If everyone “freely gave away” their time and everyone equally shared in the fruits of each other’s labor and creativity, then we wouldn’t need money. You could have everything you wanted because it was all being made without money and shared freely.
A move towards a world without money, is a giant step towards higher consciousness and a highway to enlightenment. UBUNTU Contributionism is a system for a new world of evolved and conscious beings that realize the importance of unity and equality. Because we are a deeply divided species, on every possible level, there is no unity and equality present on our planet. We need to re-learn the basic principles of unity and equality – which will be difficult for many, based on the gluttony and greed that has taken a firm hold of the world disguised in many cloaks of glitter.
What Michael Tellinger shows is that in UBUNTU, since everything being freely shared without the drag of things like profit mark-ups, patent licenses, interest and debt payments, and other things which add “cost” within a capitalist system, you in fact would create much more material goods and services with less resources. Actually, you would need only to work 3 hours per day in a job which matches your skills and desires, in order to share in all the abundance the UBUNTU System produces.
There would be no duplication of efforts as competition would be a thing of the past, and since everything would be shared freely – as one person, team, or company developed a better way of doing things, they would share it with whoever in the world also wanted to use their ideas or technologies. Innovation wouldn’t stop because the profit motive was eliminated, innovation would actually skyrocket!
A Money System Designed to Create Debt Slaves
Certainly, the current system of capitalism and money produces good things – builds infrastructure, allows for the development of creative services and products, and has allowed for technologies to be developed that connect people around the globe. Unfortunately it also produces some very bad things – creates massive inequality, constantly pushes for over-consumption in order to achieve growth, and strips away the earth’s resources at an unsustainable pace.
Money is created primarily by private banks and lent out at interest. The interest can only be repaid if the economy and money supply constantly inflate. Prices emerge from the use of money in markets to trade goods between people and firms; but the process does not work at the edges of the system, that is, with the input of natural resources or the output of pollution. Much economic growth comes from transforming preexisting natural systems and services—land, oil, gold, trees, fish, water—into money; but the Earth does not trade or haggle over price, it just passively supplies, up to a point. If money, as Tolstoy said, is a new form of slavery, then the planet is the biggest slave of all. – Excerpted from THE EVOLUTION OF MONEY by David Orrell and Roman Chlupatý.
It is gravely sad, that in America, the wealthiest nation on the earth, that 25% of children live in poverty and 75% of adults live paycheck to paycheck. And though the world is swimming in money, still 2/3 of the world’s population live on less than a few dollars per day and in precarious health and safety conditions. Yet, since the crash of 2008, the world went from $50 Trillion in debt to close to $200 Trillion in debt. A 300% increase! Where did all the money go?
It goes to one place – a global banking syndicate – people who set up our global money system to do exactly what it is meant to – create an interest rate driven debt system that skims the world’s wealth directly into their pockets and leaves billions of people and governments in debt and without the adequate food, water, shelter and other resources they rightfully should have.
To understand the Global Banking Syndicate – you only need to look at one thing – the privately run Federal Reserve Banking System that most developed countries operate under. You then need to look under the hood and realize that these institutions are not part of or controlled by the governments they operate in – they are private companies that are owned by a group of banking families that have been controlling our money supply for hundreds of years. And, when a country needs to create money, they do so and charge the country interest for the privilege. Imagine that, a country pays interest to some other entity for its own money!
So, when in 2008 the banks caused the biggest financial disaster in the history of the U.S. and needed to be bailed out, the U.S. Government borrowed that money from the “U.S. Federal Reserve Bank” which is owned by foreign bankers, paid interest on that money, and then turned around and gave it back to the same bankers who caused the problem in the first place. It was the biggest theft of public money in the history of the world – some $150 Trillion dollars over the last eight years. All in plain sight for everyone to see. An amazing feat of sleight of hand and illusion the world has ever experienced. The bankers caused the problem, got paid for it, left the major countries with mountains of debt, and then hid the money away in places like Panama (and the ten to fifteen other offshore havens they have created over the last fifty years).
Yet most of us continue on our daily slog without putting the pieces together of the massive crimes taking place right in front of our eyes. As Michael Tellinger mentions in the book, the character Morpheus captures this apathy aptly in the movie the Matrix:
The Matrix is a system, Neo. That system is our enemy. But when you ‘re inside, you look around, what do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters. The very minds of the people we are trying to save. But until we do, these people are still a part of that system and that makes them the enemy. You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of the are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it.
Sound familiar? Look around, the same people who are being taken advantage of on a daily basis by a system set up to keep them miserable and in financial slavery, is the same system they vociferously defend as the only thing that can get them out of their misery. It’s a brilliant and sad con – you’re victims actually fight for your right to abuse them. They are addicted to the poison you’re giving them.
But over the years, there have been some very prominent people who saw through the system and spoke out:
“Jesus entered the temple courts and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves. It is written,” he said to them, My house will be called a house of prayer, but you are making it a den of robbers.” – Matthew 21:12-13
“The refusal of King George 3rd, to allow colonies to operate an honest money system, which freed the ordinary man from the clutches of the money manipulators, was probably the prime cause of the revolution.” – Benjamin Franklin
Franklin’s angst was not to end there, as the bankers did not give up…
The First Bank of the United States was set up in 1791 as the first private bank in the USA by the Rothschild banking family. It was at this time that we start reading the spine-chilling statements by the bankers and other industrialists regarding their global perspective. The patriarch of the Rothschild empire at the time Mayer Amschel Rothschild made his intentions clear with his infamous, ‘Let me issue and control a nation’s money and I care not who makes the laws.’ Twenty years after the launch of the private central bank, the U.S. Congress refused to renew the charter and voiced their intention to go back to a state issued value-based currency on which the people paid no interest to any banker. Once again we see the level of influence by the bankers on global political affairs when Nathan Mayer Rothschild issued a blatant threat against the U.S. Government. ‘Either the application for renewal of the charter is granted, or the United States will find itself involved in a most disastrous war.’ After a resolute U.S. Congress refused to renew the charter for the First Bank of the United States, Nathan Mayer Rothschild blurted, ‘Teach those impudent Americans a lesson. Bring them back to colonial status.’ Shortly after this inflammatory statement Britain launched the war of 1812, financed by the Rothschild controlled Bank of England to re-colonize the United States and force them back into slavery under the Bank of England. The plan was to plunge the United States into so much debt through the war that they would be forced to accept a new central bank – and the plan works. The United States Congress was forced to grant a new charter for yet another private bank that supplied the currency and provide the public with loans at interest, the Second Bank of the United States. Once again, private bankers were in control of the nation’s money supply and did not care who made the laws of how many British and American soldiers had to die for it. – Tellinger, UBUNTU Contributionism
Over the subsequent years, other presidents have tried to stop this madness. They realized that a nation not controlling its own money supply and paying interest to banking cartels made no sense at all. One president was actually successful in getting rid of them for a while:
In 1832, US President Andrew Jackson successfully campaigned for his second term as President under the slogan, ‘Jackson and No Bank’. (He said) ‘Gentlemen! I too have been a close observer of the doings of the Bank of the United States. I have had men watching you for a long time, and am convinced that you have used the funds of the bank to speculate in the breadstuffs of the country. When you won, you divided the profits amongst you, and when you lost, you charged it to the bank. You tell me that if I take the deposits from the bank and annul its charter I shall ruin ten thousand families. That may be true, gentlemen, but that is your sin! Should I let you go on, you will ruin fifty thousand families, and that would be my sin! You are a den of vipers and thieves. I have determined to rout you out, and by the Eternal (bringing his fist down on the table) I will rout you out!’ Jackson succeeded in blocking the renewal of the charter for the Second Bank of the United States and went on to become the only president to actually pay of the national debt created by the bankers. – UBUNTU Contributionism
But the bankers of course did not give, up, they came back again and again and they ramped up an unsavory collaboration with corporations which prompted Abraham Lincoln to say:
I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country…corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed. I feel at this moment more anxiety for the safety of my country than ever before, even in the midst of war. –Tellinger, UBUNTU Contributionism
If you connect the dots and follow the trail of bread crumbs, you will end up coming to some uncomfortable truths about our history and the wars we have been involved in. From Woodrow Wilson, to Dwight Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, and even Ronald Reagan, you will see a line of presidents who have tried to free the U.S. from this scourge. Michael Tellinger does a wonderful job in the UBUNTU book of giving a good overview of those issues. I encourage you read the book to learn more about this important understanding of our past and current economic system. Also, see the excellent TedxTalk by Dr. James Glatfelter of how the world is essentially controlled by 800 corporations which are mostly owned by a criss-cross holding of banker / shareholders. This concentration of power in the hands of a shockingly small number leaves us all vulnerable.
But for now, let’s move on to Part Two of this article, and look at some of the key features of how the UBUNTU Contributionism System works in action.
~Jay Kshatri
www.ThinkSmarterWorld.com
