Before The Firestorm

A good wrap of the Federal Reserve's Chairman Jerome Powell's testimony to Congress last week is available here:

http://www.richardmartinswakeupcall.podbean.com/


Appreciation goes out to one of our friends here - TaoOfJonze - who reminded me just the other day, of that scene in that milestone movie Apocalypse Now, in which Martin Sheen's character, Captain Willard, is in a trench with some other soldiers, and he asks them all 'who is in command here?'

One guy goes: 'Ain't you?'

And then of course you get the dramatic depiction of another soldier, roused from sleep while the fighting is actually going on, who lets off a High Explosive M79 grenade launcher round, killing the enemy out in the darkness -, who is then directly asked by Captain Willard: 'Hey soldier, do you know who's in command here?' To which that soldier sardonically responds 'Yeah!'

This is from the Burning Man festival - pure Satanic
ritual...

And to a very large extent that is really the modern world context put into a nutshell right there.

Apocalypse Now is a very great movie in so many ways but it has no capacity whatsoever to provide answers. In the end, Coppola gives us the standard 'there is sufficient nobility within man' (in this case within the character of Captain Willard, who does not stay on to take over from Kurtz after he assassinates him per the command of his generals).

So the reality is we're left with having to acknowledge that Mankind can get itself into a complete mess in which there is no clear-cut understanding of who, or even what is the governing principal which is in command - but also having to live on, hopeful that some inner light will struggle to cast a small light out at some point.

'Apocalypse' means to unveil, and to reveal.

The movie revealed a darkness inside the heart of some men...

Changing the energy - going into the deep freeze...

...Unable to be resolved apart from terminal violence, in other words, murder and an abjectness of suffering which is complete madness.

I have been somewhat struggling right here on these pages to explain to all readers, that there are some amazing positive things going on behind the scenes - to do with the Middle East Silver Fund that we have started. And these advances will financially benefit everyone here, necessarily it may be in modest ways first as we start and expand the scope of the digital token step by laborious step.  

And what I mean by 'struggling to explain' is not about the money side, the capital side, the performance side - that is just numbers over time. It is about what it even means to attain a wealth benefit today.

Apocalypse Now gives you the sound and true knowledge that inside the heart of man is where the battle is also fought.

You can make any amount of money you care to name, but without the inner game, where do you get your fulfillment from, your sense of achievement, attainment?

What is the goal that any of us is seeking to attain?

For those of us who have had big money in the past, the last thing the answer can be, is the same mansion, or car that everyone else who is 'wealthy' has.

And there's your problem if you are someone who is into these 'motivation'/'law of attraction' ideas... Well, at least I'm saying it is a problem. Because everyone else's mansion is what got us into this mess in the first place. If you 'envision' what is driving everyone else's idea of wealth, you will eventually attain to their lifestyles, to their function in the world. In other words, you will have become Kurtz (Marlon Brando's character).

And so, this is my absolute outright explanation of what you will likely see and read over coming articles here: I am going to swing it away from what is your typical 'vision' of material wealth (and I will mainly stick to the material side of things; I don't think that's a conflicted position - the material is a reflection of the conceptual), and introduce counterpoint arguments, as it were, to what is commonly regarded as a lifestyle of material wealth.

And I will guarantee you this - you follow what I'm saying and you will attain real material wealth. But it will be on the new horizon, not on the horizon that is already starting to drift into the past, into history.