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The final goal is “post scarcity,” an economic paradigm where the ease of producing a physical object matches that of copying a digital file. Achieving such a paradigm requires the sort of  technologically competent citizenry, but in greater numbers, involved in the current 3D printing and DIYbio revolution.

And while this all sounds great, these implications have not escaped the notice of those very few who will lose in a world of distributed, balanced power – where their main point of leverage, scarcity, is eliminated. These few are of course the corporate-financier elite who have wallowed in the disparity they have exploited and indeed, purposefully perpetuated for so long. They are already taking measures to head off a revolution most people have no idea is about to unfold.

Hidden Battle Lines in the True War for Global Hegemony

So how does the global elite go about heading off such a revolution that will not just threaten the source of their seemingly infinite power, but drain it permanently?

The opposite of economic independence is economic interdependence. The opposite of a technically competent, pragmatic citizenry is a politically divided, technically ignorant population. The opposite of a world of decentralized open source collaboration is one of centralized monopolistic proprietary corporations. And it is this very world of “opposites” that is being incrementally built up around us, day by day, hour by hour, permeating every aspect of modern life, with the global elite rushing toward deadlines and supranational infrastructure to cement this paradigm of disparity in place.

The European Union, NAFTA, the Trans-Pacific Partnership, and the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) are all interwoven examples of attempts to lock humanity into a system of global economic interdependence, where centralized regulatory bodies can legislate and enforce economic policy benefiting the corporate-financier elite who are building and promoting these very networks.

One concept that permeates these “economic unions” is that of shifting over to “service economies” while industry is monopolized, heavily regulated, and isolated in nations where workers can be closely monitored and work only for monolithic multinational corporations. Western nations, like the United States which possesses both the infrastructure and the human resources to build a society fit for science fiction, is instead suffering under crumbling, outdated infrastructure – its population falling vastly short of its true potential with the average American incapable of understanding, let alone participating in the frontiers of modern science and technology. Despite this, there are still Americans that break this mold, but this is an exception the system is working to extinguish, not expand upon.

It would be difficult to dispute the decline of America as an industrial power, or defend the current state of America’s public education. Other Western nation’s are equally falling short of their true potential, with increasingly fewer exceptions to spotlight. A system designed for achieving global hegemony would include measures to condition the population to fit within the framework for control. This is being done through a combination of social engineering (and here) and sabotaging what used to be a premier education model.

Another concept that permeates all documentation associated with these “economic unions” is that of “intellectual property,” or the ownership of ideas, concepts, processes, and information. With a global economic system dominated by fully functioning enforcement of “intellectual property rights,” it would be possible to criminally persecute any and all who attempt to create on their own, business models that “infringed” on existing, dominate business models.

We already see how this system works in regards to media giants sending people to jail for merely sharing digital copies. Called “thieves,” these “criminals” are sent to prison, fined, or otherwise penalized not for depriving another of their physical property, but for depriving another of “potential profits.” It doesn’t take much imagination to see how far this abuse can go. And the concept of intellectual property has been applied beyond music, movies, and software,- it has also been applied to monopolizing life-saving medication and even genomes, the substance of life itself. As 3D printing comes of age, corporations will undoubtedly seek a pretext to curtail, contain, and control the technology, under the guise of protecting national security, intellectual property, and public safety.

An existing analog of this can bee seen arrayed against local agricultural industry. Organic farming, local farmers’ markets, and other forms of localized economics have already seen creeping legislation attempt to regulate out of existence the ability for individuals to grow their own food and/or sell it to their neighbors – perpetuating wider public dependence on big-agri monopolies and processed food giants. Similarly, there will be attempts to outlaw the possession of personal manufacturing equipment if the public is unable to quickly shift the paradigm.

And it is here that we find the true battle lines for global hegemony.

We are bombarded daily with false narratives, false struggles, and false political paradigms. The recent US Presidential “debate” is a perfect example of vast numbers of people being misdirected toward debates that don’t matter, involving political processes that in reality will change nothing. The US President has long since become nothing more than a PR front for the corporate-financier interests of Wall Street and London. Who occupies the White House is of little consequence beyond which lies will be told to sell a singular, continuous corporate-financier driven agenda.

Image: Elaborate diversions constructed to prevent us from even reaching the real battle lines. Professional spokesmen, representative not of the American people but of Fortune 500 multinational corporations and banks. Since the time of JP Morgan 100 years ago, the corporate-financier elite saw themselves as being above government, and national sovereignty as merely a regulatory obstacle they could lobby, bribe, and manipulate out of existence. In the past 100 years, the monied elite have gone from manipulating the presidency to now reducing the office to a public relations functionary of their collective interests.

Likewise, even geopolitical conflicts, wars, and strategic tensions, while life threatening and in certain aspects a matter of survival, take second place to the real battle that is being waged. The real battle being waged is one of a corporate-financier elite attempting to establish and maintain absolute domination over humanity through economic interdependency, social engineering, and other tools of modern empire. Everything else is either a means to achieve this, or a distraction to divert people’s time, energy, and resources away from the true battle lines.

As Sun Tzu stated in “The Art of War,” “supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting.” What better way of achieving this than preventing the enemy from ever finding the true battle lines to begin with?

If people are not active locally, developing independent local institutions, self-sufficient infrastructure and independent economic activity, while exposing, boycotting, and replacing the corporate-financier monopolies that dominate the current global order, they are wasting their time. There is no political football that if “kicked” the right way will save us, no candidate that can offer us salvation of any kind, and no solution at all that will ever come out of a ballot box. And while government programs and features of the current system are still necessary for the functioning of civilization, it must be understood that these are but temporary stop-gaps, and that permanent pragmatic solutions must be pursued.

It must be understood that “activism” means “activity,” not merely waving placards around and making demands of a system that has no intention to meet them. It must be understood that by “activity,” it is meant that technical, “wrench-turning” solutions must be implemented. Organic farming and local farmers’ markets are examples of such solutions already being fought for.

Getting involved in personal manufacturing, DIYbio -and in general by being producers rather than needy consumers – is another example. All technology is a double edged sword which can cut both ways. To ensure it cuts the way which benefits humanity the most, it must be humanity that wields it, not a minute, self-serving elite. This reality is especially urgent in terms of biotechnology. So where can one go to get involved?

Enter the Trenches

The trenches can be found all across the United States, and indeed, the world. While the corporate-financiers squatting over America may be purposefully sabotaging the American people, the people themselves still possess a unique drive to innovate and improve the world around them. And because of this, places where 3D printing, DIYbio, and all other forms of localized production, collaboration, and tinkering have sprung up across the nation. The Internet is full of not only resources to find existing “makerspaces” or “hackerspaces,” but enough information for individuals, their friends, family, and neighbors to create one of their own.

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