Zeitgeist: Moving Forward ~ Is This Evolution or Future Shock?

Zeitgeist: Moving Forward (Peter Joseph)

 History Documentary | Reel Truth History

Video Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiWNjXuXwI4

May 25th, 1987: Lantern Triad Reunited Onstage in Bennett Hall

~ DIOGENES OF SINOPE, ANCIENT GREEK PHILOSOPHER ~

Diogenes of Sinope (c. 404-323 BCE) was a Greek Cynic philosopher best known for holding a lantern (or candle) to the faces of the citizens of Athens claiming he was searching for an honest man. He was most likely a student of the philosopher Antisthenes (445-365 BCE) and, in the words of Plato (allegedly), was “A Socrates gone mad.” He was driven into exile from his native city of Sinope for defacing currency (though some sources say it was his father who committed the crime and Diogenes simply followed him into exile).

Diogenes' Beliefs

Diogenes came to Athens where he met Antisthenes who at first refused him as a student but, eventually, was worn down by his persistence and accepted him. Like Antisthenes, Diogenes believed in self-control, the importance of personal excellence in one's behavior (in Greek, arete, usually translated as `virtue'), and the rejection of all which was considered unnecessary in life such as personal possessions and social status. He was so ardent in his beliefs that he lived them very publicly in the market place of Athens. He took up residence in a large wine cask (some sources claim it was an abandoned bathtub), owned nothing, and seems to have lived off the charity of others. He owned a cup which served also has a bowl for food but threw it away when he saw a boy drinking water from his hands and realized one did not even need a cup to sustain oneself.

DIOGENES FAMOUSLY REQUESTED ALEXANDER THE GREAT TO "GET OUT OF MY SUNLIGHT".

This much can be said with more or less assurance but any other details become increasingly uncertain owing to the many fables which grew up around Diogenes and his time in Athens. Even the claim that he was Antisthenes' student has been challenged as a fable. It seems clear, however, that Diogenes believed what people called `manners’ were simply lies used to hide the true nature of the individual. He was known for brutal honesty in conversation, paid no attention to any kind of etiquette regarding social class, and seems to have had no problem urinating or even masturbating in public and, when criticized, pointed out that such activities were normal and that everyone engaged in them but hid in private what he did openly.

According to Diogenes society was an artificial contrivance set up by human beings which did not accord well with truth or virtue and could not in any way make someone a good and decent human being; and so follows the famous story of Diogenes holding the light up to the faces of passers-by in the market place looking for an honest man or a true human being. Everyone, he claimed, was trapped in this make-believe world which they believed was reality and, because of this, people were living in a kind of dream state. He was not the first philosopher to make this claim; Heraclitus, Xenophanes, and, most famously, Socrates all pointed out the need for human beings to wake from their dream state to full awareness of themselves and the world. Plato's famous Allegory of the Cave is devoted to this very theme. Diogenes, however, confronted the citizens of Athens daily with their lifelessness and shallow values, emulating his hero Socrates whom he never met but would have learned of from Antisthenes. Although it seems many people thought he was simply mentally ill, Diogenes would have claimed he was living a completely honest life and others should have the courage to do the same. 

Plato & Alexander the Great

This behavior of Diogenes was informed in part by the belief that if an act is not shameful in private then it should not be shameful in public. The rules by which people lived, then, were non-sensical in that they forced people to behave in a way different from how they would naturally have behaved. Manners and etiquette were both regarded by him as staples of the false life in the dream world and should not be indulged in. Accordingly, he insulted his social superiors regularly, including Plato and Alexander the Great. When Plato defined a human being as "a featherless biped", and was praised for the cleverness of the definition, Diogenes plucked a chicken, brought it to Plato's Academy, and declared, "Behold - Plato's human being." Plato then added "with broad, flat, nails" to his definition. This is not the only time Diogenes insulted Plato publicly but is the best known incident.

In the case of Alexander the Great, both Diogenes Laertius and Plutarch relate how, when Diogenes was living in Corinth, Alexander came to the city and was very interested in meeting the philosopher. He found Diogenes resting in the sunlight, introduced himself, and asked if there was anything he could do for him. Diogenes replied, "Yes. Get out of my sunlight." Alexander admired his spirit and said, "If I were not Alexander, I would wish to be Diogenes" to which Diogenes replied, "If I were not Diogenes, I would also wish to be Diogenes." On another occasion, when some people were discussing a man named Callisthenes and the fine treatment he received from Alexander, Diogenes said, "The man then is wretched, for he is forced to breakfast and dine whenever Alexander chooses." Another time, at a banquet for some Athenian elites, some of the guests threw Diogenes some bones and referred to him as a dog; so he lifted his leg and urinated on them. In spite of, or because of, his outrageous behavior, the Athenians loved him and, Laertius relates, when a boy broke Diogenes' cask, the people had the boy beaten and replaced the broken cask. It is unlikely, however, that Diogenes cared very much for the cask or what state it was in; to him, possessions were a trap.

To be truly free, and live a virtuous life of complete awareness, was the ultimate meaning of one's existence. As Diogenes Laertius writes,

On one occasion he was asked, what was the most excellent thing among men; and he said, `Freedom of speech.' He was in the habit of doing everything in public, whether in respect of Venus or Ceres; and he used to put his conclusions in this way to people: `If there is nothing absurd in dining, then it is not absurd to dine in the market-place. But it is not absurd to dine, therefore it is not absurd to dine in the market-place'. 

This was in reference to the prohibition on eating in the Agora (the public market) which, like all such prohibitions, Diogenes ignored.

Source: https://www.ancient.eu/Diogenes_of_Sinope/

On Memorial Day in 1987, I walked down Fair Street toward a house where the Catalyst lived, known as the "Fairwynde Zoo" by people who visited him there. Before reaching the door, I was met in the street by a mutual friend who just arrived for a visit from off-island. The Phoenix was not expected to appear, and when he did I knew, as Apex of the Lantern triad, that we would perform "The Clasp" together upon reunion of the "Three Brothers" in third density. Triad was initially formed at the Steps in Stone Alley on July 11th, 1979, the day Skylab fell from orbit and disintegrated over the Indian Ocean. Then, onstage at the Little Theatre in Bennett Hall of the 1st Congregational Church, on the set for "Philadelphia, Here I Come!" the Three Brothers connected via Threefold Clasp and the Lantern Triad was re-formed on island where it was created!

~ Joseph David Henry Ware Bryan-Royster ~


Charlie Noble Restaurant. 15 South Water Street, Nantucket
 (formerly known as Cy's Green Coffee Pot and The Atlantic Cafe)

The Georgia Guidestones ~ A forecast for George Orwell's 1984?

The Georgia Guidestones are a granite monument erected in 1980 in Elbert County, Georgia, in the United States. A set of 10 guidelines is inscribed on the structure in eight modern languages and a shorter message is inscribed at the top of the structure in four ancient language scripts.

Coordinates 34°13′55″N 82°53′40″WCoordinates: 34°13′55″N 82°53′40″W

Location Elbert County, Georgia, US

Material Granite

Height 19 ft 3 in (5.87 m)

Opening date March 22, 1980

The monument stands at an approximate elevation of 750 feet (230 m) above sea level, about 90 miles (140 km) east of Atlanta, 45 miles (72 km) from Athens, Georgia and 9 miles (14 km) north of the center of the city of Elberton.

One slab stands in the center, with four arranged around it. A capstone lies on top of the five slabs, which are astronomically aligned. An additional stone tablet, which is set in the ground a short distance to the west of the structure, provides some notes on the history and purpose of the guidestones. The structure is sometimes referred to as an "American Stonehenge". The monument is 19 feet 3 inches (5.87 m) tall, made from six granite slabs weighing 237,746 pounds (107,840 kg) in all.[2] The anonymity of the guidestones' authors and their apparent advocacy of population control, eugenics, and internationalism have made them a target for controversy and conspiracy theory.

Contents

1 History

2 Description

2.1 Inscriptions

3 Explanatory tablet

3.1 Physical data

3.2 Guidestone languages

3.3 Astronomical features

4 Interpretations

5 References

6 Further reading

7 External links

History

In June 1979, a man using the pseudonym Robert C. Christian approached the Elberton Granite Finishing Company on behalf of "a small group of loyal Americans", and commissioned the structure. Christian explained that the stones would function as a compass, calendar, and clock, and should be capable of withstanding catastrophic events. Joe Fendley of Elberton Granite assumed that Christian was "a nut" and attempted to discourage him by giving a quote several times higher than any project the company had taken, explaining that the guidestones would require additional tools and consultants. Christian accepted the quote. When arranging payment, Christian explained that he represented a group which had been planning the guidestones for 20 years, and which intended to remain anonymous.

Christian delivered a scale model of the guidestones and ten pages of specifications. The five-acre land was apparently purchased by Christian on October 1, 1979, from farm owner Wayne Mullinex. Mullinex and his children were given lifetime cattle grazing rights on the guidestones site. The monument was unveiled on March 22, 1980, before an audience variously described as 100 or 400 people. Christian later transferred ownership of the land and the guidestones to Elbert County.

The stones defaced with polyurethane paint and graffiti

In 2008, the stones were defaced with polyurethane paint and graffiti with slogans such as "Death to the new world order". Wired magazine called the defacement "the first serious act of vandalism in the guidestones' history". In September 2014, an employee of the Elbert County maintenance department contacted the Federal Bureau of Investigation when the stones were vandalized with graffiti including the phrase "I Am Isis, goddess of love".

Description

Inscriptions

A message consisting of a set of ten guidelines or principles is engraved on the Georgia Guidestones[8] in eight different languages, one language on each face of the four large upright stones. Moving clockwise around the structure from due north, these languages are: English, Spanish, Swahili, Hindi, Hebrew, Arabic, Traditional Chinese, and Russian.

Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature.

Guide reproduction wisely — improving fitness and diversity.

Unite humanity with a living new language.

Rule passion — faith — tradition — and all things with tempered reason.

Protect people and nations with fair laws and just courts.

Let all nations rule internally resolving external disputes in a world court.

Avoid petty laws and useless officials.

Balance personal rights with social duties.

Prize truth — beauty — love — seeking harmony with the infinite.

Be not a cancer on the earth — Leave room for nature — Leave room for nature.

Explanatory tablet

An explanatory tablet is set alongside the stones

A few feet to the west of the monument, an additional granite ledger has been set level with the ground. This tablet identifies the structure and the languages used on it, lists various facts about the size, weight, and astronomical features of the stones, the date it was installed, and the sponsors of the project. It also speaks of a time capsule buried under the tablet, but spaces on the stone reserved for filling in the dates on which the capsule was buried and is to be opened have not been inscribed, so it is uncertain if the time capsule was put in place.

The complete text of the explanatory tablet is detailed below. The tablet is somewhat inconsistent with respect to punctuation, and misspells the word "pseudonym". The original spelling, punctuation, and line breaks in the text have been preserved in the transcription which follows (letter case is not). At the top center of the tablet is written:

The Georgia Guidestones

Center cluster erected March 22, 1980

Immediately below this is the outline of a square, inside which is written:

Let these be guidestones to an Age of Reason

Around the edges of the square are written translations to four ancient languages, one per edge. Starting from the top and proceeding clockwise, they are: Babylonian (in cuneiform script), Classical Greek, Sanskrit and Ancient Egyptian (in hieroglyphs).

The guidestones' "Astronomic Features"

Undated instructions for the site's time capsule

On the left side of the tablet is the following column of text:

Astronomic Features

1. Channel through stone

indicates celestial pole

2. Horizontal slot indicates

annual travel of sun

3. Sunbeam through capstone

marks noontime throughout

the year

Author: R.C. Christian

(a pseudonyn) [sic]

Sponsors: A small group

of Americans who seek

the Age of Reason

Time Capsule

Placed six feet below this spot

On

To be opened on

The words appear as shown under the time capsule heading; no dates are engraved.

Physical data

On the right side of the tablet is the following column of text (metric conversions added):

PHYSICAL DATA

1. OVERALL HEIGHT – 19 FEET 3 INCHES [5.87 m].

2. TOTAL WEIGHT – 237,746 POUNDS [107,840 kg].

3. FOUR MAJOR STONES ARE 16 FEET,

   FOUR INCHES [4.98 m] HIGH, EACH WEIGHING

   AN AVERAGE OF 42,437 POUNDS [19,249 kg].

4. CENTER STONE IS 16 FEET, FOUR-

   INCHES [4.98 m] HIGH, WEIGHS 20,957

   POUNDS [9,506 kg].

5. CAPSTONE IS 9-FEET, 8-INCHES [2.95 m]

   LONG, 6-FEET, 6-INCHES [1.98 m] WIDE;

   1-FOOT, 7-INCHES [0.48 m] THICK. WEIGHS

   24,832 POUNDS [11,264 kg].

6. SUPPORT STONES (BASES) 7-FEET,

   4 INCHES [2.24 m] LONG 2-FEET [0.61 m] WIDE.

   1 FOOT, 4-INCHES [0.41 m] THICK, EACH

   WEIGHING AN AVERAGE OF 4,875

   POUNDS [2,211 kg].

7. SUPPORT STONE (BASE) 4-FEET,

   2½ INCHES [1.28 m] LONG, 2-FEET, 2-INCHES [0.66 m]

   WIDE, 1-FOOT, 7-INCHES [0.48 m] THICK.

   WEIGHT 2,707 POUNDS [1,228 kg].

8. 951 CUBIC FEET [26.9 m³] GRANITE.

9. GRANITE QUARRIED FROM PYRAMID

   QUARRIES LOCATED 3 MILES [5 km] WEST

   OF ELBERTON, GEORGIA.

Guidestone languages

Below the two columns of text is written the caption "GUIDESTONE LANGUAGES", with a diagram of the granite slab layout beneath it. The names of eight modern languages are inscribed along the long edges of the projecting rectangles, one per edge. Starting from due north and moving clockwise around so that the upper edge of the northeast rectangle is listed first, they are English, Spanish, Swahili, Hindi, Hebrew, Arabic, Chinese, and Russian. At the bottom center of the tablet is the following text:

Additional information available at Elberton Granite Museum & Exhibit

College Avenue

Elberton, Georgia

Astronomical features

The four outer stones are oriented to mark the limits of the 18.6 year lunar declination cycle.[9] The center column features a hole drilled at an angle from one side to the other, through which can be seen the North Star, a star whose position changes only very gradually over time. The same pillar has a slot carved through it which is aligned with the Sun's solstices and equinoxes. A ​7⁄8in (22 mm) aperture in the capstone allows a ray of sun to pass through at noon each day, shining a beam on the center stone indicating the day of the year.

Interpretations

Yoko Ono praised the inscribed messages as "a stirring call to rational thinking", while Wired stated that unspecified opponents have labeled them as the "Ten Commandments of the Antichrist".

The guidestones have become a subject of interest for conspiracy theorists. One of them, an activist named Mark Dice, demanded that the guidestones "be smashed into a million pieces, and then the rubble used for a construction project", claiming that the guidestones are of "a deep Satanic origin", and that R. C. Christian belongs to "a Luciferian secret society" related to the "New World Order".  At the unveiling of the monument, a local minister proclaimed that he believed the monument was "for sun worshipers, for cult worship and for devil worship". Others have suggested that the stones were commissioned by the Rosicrucians, with conspiracy theorist Jay Weidner observing that the pseudonym of the man who commissioned the stones – "R. C. Christian" – resembles Rose Cross Christian, or Christian Rosenkreuz, the founder of the Rosicrucian Order.  Alex Jones's film Endgame: Blueprint for Global Enslavement proposes that the guidestones are a harbinger of self-appointed elites who intend on exterminating most of the world's population.

The most widely agreed-upon interpretation of the stones is that they describe the basic concepts required to rebuild a devastated civilization. Author Brad Meltzer notes that the stones were built in 1979 at the height of the Cold War, and thus argues that they may have been intended as a message to the possible survivors of a nuclear World War III. The engraved suggestion to keep humanity's population below 500 million could have been made under the assumption that war had already reduced humanity below this number.

The guidestones were briefly shown and discussed in the 1986 documentary film Sherman's March, and were featured extensively in a 2012 episode of Mysteries at the Museum, a "Monumental Mysteries Special" featuring Don Wildman.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Guidestones

~ Italian MP,Sara Cunial,Blasts Bill Gates in the Italian Parliament ~

Video Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyH2ZCrBSQ0

THE PARTY AT THE END OF TIME: Game Over, Curtain Call!

Amherst Sustainability Festival on the Common, Earth Day 2018

(Dream this morning as I awakened into Consciousness) I AM at an outdoor gathering, standing at the head of a line while ordering a submarine sandwich from one of several vendors carts clustered in the food service area of a shady park. A Summer Festival atmosphere surrounds me while people are moving in many directions as performers on a nearby stage are playing music, happily singing. ~ J.D.H.W. Bryan-Royster

WTF? The world is in Lockdown to prevent the spread of COVID-19! This crowd is much larger than the groups of 10 people that most states in the USA say are allowed, and aren't we supposed to be practicing "social distancing" and stay 6-feet apart at all times? I realize this and step out of the line and walk away from the vendor, a bit confused as I hear his voice echo behind me. I wake up at this point because the dream stops making sense according to my present reality. However, I miss the company of having lots of people around me the way life used to be, before this new worldwide pandemic burst from Wuhan, China - then subsequently swept around our planet Earth.

Lisa M. Harrison ~ Deconstructing the Construct, Episode 73

Video Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OOYHieOk1k

INKY, THE HALLOWE'EN CAT, MEMORIAL in Studio/Office

~ THE SIGN OF INKY: A REVERSAL OF FINANCIAL IMPROVIDENCE~

May 15, 1974 - May 15, 2019

Ever since my personal dream of establishing an intentional community in the woods of Central Maine collapsed along with my unfinished camp in the Town of Stetson, this endeavor was lost until I came to live at Sirius Community in September of 2015 as a participant in the Immersion Program. I left my home in New Bedford, Massachusetts & Susan (my wife of almost 30 years) to resume pursuit of “Life in the Woods” like unto Henry David Thoreau. Our two children, Mary & David, were grown with lives of their own to live - she in Boylston, MA near Worcester while he moved out of state to Crossville, TN. In September of 2016 we amicably divorced, walking into the Courthouse together after a quick breakfast, untying the knot of our union (she with counsel and I pro se), then went out for lunch in the Historic District of “The Whaling City.”

Sirius Community was founded in 1978 by Gordon Davidson & Corinne McLaughlin, the same year I erected the 24’ x 36’ wood frame camp in Stetson. Both of them were former members of the Findhorn Community in Scotland. A year later Bruce Davidson, Gordon’s younger brother, & his significant other Linda Reimer, came to Sirius in Shutesbury, Massachusetts to help build the Eco-village where I began exploring membership in 2015. I started this process by renting a room in the Hearthstone Village at a nearby house owned by a local musician. I walked up Baker Road for Saturday “Joyful Productivity” work circles, followed by a lunch cooked in their vegetarian kitchen and clean-up duties. I gravitated toward the Hobart mechanical dishwashing machine that I already knew how to operate from previous experience on Nantucket Island and in Bar Harbor, Maine.

On July 1st, 2016 I joined the residential program as I continued to explore membership at the Community for much of the next year. I lived in what was called “The Connecting Space” as it used to be a play yard for two families living in The Lighthouse and Kailasa at the time. It was made into a studio apartment, which became “My Space” for the next 4 years. I also knew it as “Hermitage of the 9th Archetype,” because my oversoul is represented by the Hermit card that appears in many Tarot decks, including the Universal Rider-Waite Tarot: my preference during metaphysical interpretation sessions with clients.

Stability in my life was up-ended February 26-27, 2019 when I moved hastily from “My Space” into an upstairs room with two male roommates at the Community Center. Saturday, was the weekly “Joyful Productivity” work circle from 9 AM - 1 PM (with a call put out to all who joined the circle to help move me into the East Wing Apartment). Several people came & moved all belongings, after packing them in boxes, and placed them into my new space which was a bit smaller & required use of the loft ladder for ac   cess. Loft in the Connecting Space was only for storage (plus a guest on Futon mattress who never came back to use it, after I failed to make room for her to sleep up there & asked her to leave in the middle of a cold dark night). When everything was moved by lunch time my room was a chaotic jumble that took weeks for me to organize. Eventually, I had it livable and figured out how to navigate through storage boxes to locate anything I needed. I was not destined to remain at the Community Center for very long because change was in the wind for me and I would soon be on the road.

During my stable period in the Connecting Space, I participated in a private online members group & connected with a woman near my age who lived in the “Sooner State" of Oklahoma named Patricia. We were corresponding occasionally, via Zoom during private member calls, but our relationship “ramped up,” when her house went up for sale, was emptied (movers were carpetbaggers, to say the least) and then sold. She temporarily relocated to rural Arkansas. The experience she had living there “bottomed out” on December 24, 2018 when a relative in Tulsa scooped her up from there and let her live in his home, with all ten of her animals: 6 dogs & 4 cats! I was “pinged” when this woman sent me an emergency message that she was booted from this private members group. I inquired about why she was kicked out, but the answer that I received was, “She knows why. She just isn’t telling you.” This Facebook Messenger chat became daily for us, many times with cameras rolling, so it was only a matter of time before we fell in love online. I lived to see her green eyes & beautiful smile on camera beneath her fiery red hair, though artificially colored now. By April 5, 2019 I made a conscious decision to meet Patricia in density & board a bus from Springfield, Massachusetts directly to Tulsa. My friend Geni drove me to the bus station downtown where my journey from the state that has served me as home, for the most part, since I originally stuck out my thumb to hitchhike across the country from California, the state where I was born & raised, to “seek my fortune” on May 10, 1971. I was ready to begin a new adventure when I decided to board that Greyhound Bus that would bring me to meet my newfound love interest.

May 15, 2019 is Patricia’s birthday. I AM sitting in the gazebo at the Riverview RV Park in Sand Springs, Oklahoma as a black cat appeared from behind parked cars, moving left, then crossing behind a bulldozer at a construction site for the new Community Center, before reappearing on the other side of it. This date, back in 1974, was the date when my “Hallowe'en Cat” (Inky) disappeared outside of my cottage on Nantucket Island, where I was living with my first wife at the time. Patricia is the key, through synchronicity of her birthday in 2019, showing me an involuntary “Curse of Improvidence,” which had sent me financially down the drain in 1974, is removed by Mother-Father God. I received the “Sign of Inky” to seal this truth as fact. The curse is GONE!                                                                   

Patricia Vallee, a.k.a. Amber Moksha Majjama passed away on July 15th, 2019 in Colorado Springs, CO. after we traveled cross-country in her Chevy Silverado truck pulling a blue and white retro-style travel trailer she called her caravan, as she considered herself a modern-day Gypsy. Starting this trip in Sand Springs, Oklahoma we traversed over 700 miles to arrive at the base of Pike's Peak in Colorado Springs where she connected with her long-lost daughter Kristina, and her husband John. Then they put me onto a Greyhound Bus to California where I shared lunch with my brother Howard and sister Laura before returning to Sirius Community in Shutesbury, MA to collect my belongings and settle in Crossville, TN where I live in an apartment downtown. Today is the 4th Sign of Inky I have received since she vanished outside my rented cottage on the island of Nantucket. First sign came when I lived in the Connecting Space at Sirius; 2nd sign came while in Oklahoma with Amber at the River View RV Park; 3rd sign was between the two apartment buildings where I live presently in Crossville. TN. Today, a 4th sign appeared when I observed a black cat crossing in front of my building. I know, for sure, that Inky is watching over me from the other side of the veil...

Joseph David Henry Ware Bryan-Royster

An Insider's Take: Why the Federal Reserve is Bad for America...

A Federal Reserve insider pulls back the curtain on the secretive institution that controls America’s economy

After correctly predicting the housing crash of 2008 and quitting her high-ranking Wall Street job, Danielle DiMartino Booth was surprised to find herself recruited as an analyst at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, one of the regional centers of our complicated and widely misunderstood Federal Reserve System. She was shocked to discover just how much tunnel vision, arrogance, liberal dogma, and abuse of power drove the core policies of the Fed.

DiMartino Booth found a cabal of unelected academics who made decisions without the slightest understanding of the real world, just a slavish devo­tion to their theoretical models. Over the next nine years, she and her boss, Richard Fisher, tried to speak up about the dangers of Fed policies such as quanti­tative easing and deeply depressed interest rates. But as she puts it, “In a world rendered unsafe by banks that were too big to fail, we came to understand that the Fed was simply too big to fight.”

Now DiMartino Booth explains what really happened to our economy after the fateful date of December 8, 2008, when the Federal Open Market Committee approved a grand and unprecedented ex­periment: lowering interest rates to zero and flooding America with easy money. As she feared, millions of individuals, small businesses, and major corporations made rational choices that didn’t line up with the Fed’s “wealth effect” models. The result: eight years and counting of a sluggish “recovery” that barely feels like a recovery at all.

While easy money has kept Wall Street and the wealthy afloat and thriving, Main Street isn’t doing so well. Nearly half of men eighteen to thirty-four live with their parents, the highest level since the end of the Great Depression. Incomes are barely increasing for anyone not in the top ten percent of earners. And for those approaching or already in retirement, extremely low interest rates have caused their savings to stagnate. Millions have been left vulnerable and afraid.
Perhaps worst of all, when the next financial crisis arrives, the Fed will have no tools left for managing the panic that ensues. And then what?
DiMartino Booth pulls no punches in this exposé of the officials who run the Fed and the toxic culture they created. She blends her firsthand experiences with what she’s learned from dozens of high-powered market players, reams of financial data, and Fed docu­ments such as transcripts of FOMC meetings.

Whether you’ve been suspicious of the Fed for decades or barely know anything about it, as DiMartino Booth writes, “Every American must understand this extraordinarily powerful institution and how it affects his or her everyday life, and fight back.”

Link: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWobMCzu1wg