What My Little Project Here Is All About (a leftist explains her vision of utopia) - by Caitlin Johnstone

Found here. Our comments in bold.
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This leftist author has a vision, and it's the same vision all would-be tyrants, dictators, and authoritarians want: World domination. She is working toward her version of peace, cooperation, and spirituality, which of course means your version must be eliminated. You are deceived, believing a lie, living in an illusion. She's here to tell the truth.

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Every year around my birthday I’ve been tapping out an explanation of where I stand and what I’m trying to accomplish in this humble little slice of the digital universe here. As a crowdfunded writer it seems important to be fully transparent about what I’m doing and where I’m coming from so that people can decide on their own if my strange operation is something they care to support, (The author  does not believe in capitalism. Yet she's concerned that her readers get value for their money. That is a capitalist mindset. The author betrays herself and the falsity of her philosophy.)

and since my readership has grown a fair bit over the last year I figure I should repeat the yearly tradition.

In short, what you read in this space is an ongoing collaboration between myself and my husband Tim Foley geared toward awakening human consciousness and drawing humanity into my understanding of what a healthy world would look like. (She's an evangelist for her version of utopia. Lucky for us she doesn't occupy a position of power.)

All the articles, essays, poems and notes you read here are pointed toward that agenda.

When asked to describe this project I often say “I write about the end of illusions,” because from my point of view all of the major problems our species now faces are born of a misperception of what’s really happening. On a collective level human behavior is being driven by propaganda and the systems it manufactures consent for, (Everyone is deceived...)

and on an individual level we’re being driven by the delusion of ego. (Interesting in that our current system is largely leftist in philosophy. So the product of that leftism is the event horizon of her activism. Thus she wants to reform that for which she advocates. 

Irony is often lost on the ironic.)

From my point of view it’s all just illusion, so I frequently swing in and out discussing illusion’s large- and small-scale manifestations without breaking them up too much; that’s why you’ll see commentary on mass media manipulations intermingled with what look like spiritual or philosophical observations, often in the same essay. For me it’s all one issue.

I see illusions as the only obstacle to the creation of a healthy world, which in my view would look like a movement from the competition-based models of capitalism, militarism, imperialism and domination to collaboration-based models where all humans work in cooperation with each other and with our ecosystem toward the common good of all beings. (Here we have the author's world view. It's nothing more than collectivist nonsense, wrapped up in utopian language where everything is beautiful and we all touch toes and sing "Imagine."

The author is actually correct, in an ironic way. The world is indeed operating under an illusion, and there is only one obstacle to the creation of a healthy world. It is sin. In particular, the sin that views mankind as being able to save itself, which is the original lie of the enemy. 

This isn't actually an illusion, it's a delusion. Only deluded people think that given enough happy talk about a grand new world that people will change from their intrinsic evil.

Further, evil people are devoted to accumulating and retaining power. People with power cannot be persuaded to part with that power. Thus the need for ending the illusion, which actually means revolution, the overthrow of the power structure.

The only problem is, overthrowing a power structure inevitably installs a new power structure comprised of utopians bent on enforcing their vision of society. A new power structure requires eventual overthrow. Thus the utopian vision never materializes.)

The only things preventing that movement are the large-scale illusions that our rulers have been indoctrinating us with since birth about what’s real and what’s possible, as well as the small-scale illusions of ego and separation which keep us enslaved to fear, greed, and unconscious reactivity. (We would add one more thing: Her vision isn't possible.)

The prospect of a large-scale awakening of human consciousness and radical transformation of the way humans behave on this planet (As is typical for leftists, the author employs language that implies noble concepts but the meanings she attributes to her words are different than the way we would understand them. Redefining the language is a typical technique of the Left.

Implementing her vision would require a mass revision of society, including commerce, education, religion, morality, and individuality, and a radical transformation from liberty and diversity of thought and opinion, to the suppression of dissent and religion, and the stripping of identity and purpose.)

may sound lofty and impractical, (Because it is. Plus it's oppressive and evil.)

but the way I see it our species has trapped itself in a situation where that will either happen or we’ll go the way of the dinosaur. (What precisely is wrong with extinction? The author needs to explain her values, and why we should accept them.

In our opinion, there is a third option: A move of God. Revival. Salvation. Deliverance and healing. A turning to Jesus like we have never seen. Only this will destroy this illusion, the delusion which makes her believe that we can solve our problems.)

Every species eventually hits a point where it either adapts to changing situations or goes extinct, and as we accelerate toward nuclear war and the destruction of our biosphere it seems fair to say that that crucial juncture is upon homo sapiens now.

In my analysis I’ve been focusing a lot on the US government and the empire-like international cluster of allies, partners and assets structured around it, not because it’s the only evil in our world (A moral pronouncement, as if it's self-evidently true. But we don't accept the author's morality.)

but because at this point in history it is the driving force behind the lion’s share of humanity’s troubles. (No, the repeated attempts to implement a leftist utopia, a workers' paradise, has starved and killed more people by a large margin, while America has fed, housed, and supplied the needs of countless millions of people all over the world.)

The US-centralized empire is ramping up aggressions against Russia and China simultaneously (Russia and China are innocents who are simply minding their own business.)

and working to destroy any nation which resists its goals of global conquest, (This charge of imperialism is routinely leveled by leftists against America. America has had many opportunities to conquer nations, but has never done so. England, Spain, Germany, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Korea, Vietnam, Kuwait, Iran, Iraq, Cuba - - All of which were nations we engaged in conflict. None of them are called subjects of the American empire, because there is no American empire.)

all while using its military and economic might and the most powerful propaganda machine ever devised to coerce humanity into moving in ways that don’t serve ordinary people. (The agitprop is strong in this one, Obi-Wan.)

Because the US propaganda machine is so immensely powerful, (In the grand scheme of Marxists, the power structure is always the enemy. The proletariat must rise up against the bourgeois. Any concentration of wealth is intrinsically evil, and needs to be dismantled.)

my forceful criticisms of the empire are often met with shock and suspicion by the many people who’ve been indoctrinated by it. (Everyone who disagrees with the author has been indoctrinated.)

Online vitriol is my constant companion, and I’ve been accused of being a secret agent for every US-targeted nation in the world. I guess it’s probably worth mentioning that I have never worked for or been paid by any government of any kind; some people think I’ve written for RT, but in reality RT is just one of the many outlets who’ve occasionally chosen on their own to republish my work as part of my longstanding open invitation for anyone who wishes to to use my work for free.

My funding comes entirely from people who read and enjoy my work. I’ve actually got a very interesting system for making a living doing what I do where all the financial support I receive comes my way totally unconditionally from the goodwill of my readers. Because everything I write is available to read for free (even my books come in pay-what-you-want PDF versions and consist entirely of material that’s freely available online), they’re not purchasing anything from me or expecting to receive anything in return for their gift; they’re supporting my work solely because that’s what they want to do. This gift economy-based model of survival where everyone gets to read and use all my work for free is one of the ways I try to walk my talk in the way I live on this earth, and lets me be my own kind of living sigil for the direction I’d like to see the world take. (A rare leftist who actually conducts herself somewhat consistent to her world view. Commendable, though the maxim is certainly true that you get what you pay for. If her books are free, the value must be zero.)

This has been a wild and amazing adventure, and I am so grateful for everyone who has made it possible over the years, either with funding, or with likes and shares on social media, or by pointing friends and family to this little space here. I can safely promise that I will continue fighting the machine as hard as I can (She doesn't know that she's part of the machine.)

and pulling the steering wheel toward truth and health for as long as that’s what people want me to do. I sincerely believe we can win this thing, and I feel truly blessed to get to spend my time pouring my own small portion of humanity into serving that objective.

Thank you all so much.