it's a very long story but the gist of it is, i'm a life scientist who found himself living in a death culture. i was only in medical research because the navy never expanded the programs i studied for and i declined their most generous offer of making me an NFO and flying off to exotic lands to kill little brown people for control of their mineral rights and strategic agricultural products such as coca, opium and marijuana.
fisheries, which is my area of specialization, in the early 80's didn't have any jobs and at that time the employment situation was so bad, people with bachelor's degrees couldn't compete with the people with higher degrees. that's what happened with the navy. the few non-combatant billets there were that i was looking for were getting scooped up by people with professional degrees.
there was money available for medical research and that's what i did until reagan dried up the money in favor of inflating the defense budget. my field didn't have any jobs in the public or private sector and i was sick of the animal torture i was surrounded with in medicine.
i adapted by practicing the arts and falling in with people i call F-troopers; migrant artisans who work at flea markets, fairs and festivals all over the country. at the moment, i'm living in an artists cooperative house in south austin.
the statement is not nonsense. those people own the governments and their forebears have controlled governments going back into antiquity. nothing has really changed in the way society runs in the past 5000 years that my ancestors have been recording it. competing church/state empires ruled by the people most willing to lie, cheat, steal and kill to achieve their goals and who are the best at it.
buckminster fuller calls the people who really run the world, the great pirates. the people who control the trade routes, particularly the sea lanes, are the people who are really the ones dictating to everybody else and fuller paints a clear picture of their game going all the way back to constantine in his book, 'operating manual for spaceship earth'.
