woensdag 31 januari 2018
World of Warcraft: Looking for Group
Blizzard Entertainment's World of Warcraft: Looking for Group is a ten-year anniversary celebration of the company's monumentally successful launch of the World of Warcraft online gaming platform. Stemming from a line of real-time strategy
games
in the 90's, WoW is the world's premiere online gaming arena and was home to over twelve million players at its peak in 2010.
THE MAGIC WATERLILY
There once was a magic waterlilly. It drifted all alone in a moat, that completely surrounded an old, medieval castle. Why was the water plant magical? The waterlilly split up during the night. So after one night, there were 2 waterlillies, the next morning 4, the day after that 8 and so on, and so on. After 20 nights half of the moat was felled with these beautiful flowers. The question is: How long will it take, before the lillies cover all the water.
Think about it; the question is crucial to decide, wether you are part of the problem or part of the solution. When your answer is 40, you don't understand the consequences of exponential growth. A method widely used in economy, banking and enterprise. Economy is based on growth, like the waterlilly is based on growth. Exponential growth, which means that the moat will be filled with waterlillies the next morning! An economy based on exponential growth needs disasters and throwbacks, to start all over again.
But we reached a limit. Oil for instance is getting scarce. The reserves are limited, while in the prognoses, we can grow on forever. It means that the oilcompanies are willing to risk enormous environmental disasters, to fulfill our short-time needs. Those same companies are having a huge profit, due to global warming. The North Pole-region can be exploited and polluted as well. Having no alternative, at least not one that they know of, citizens are manipulated to accept an environmental collapse, as a result of our behavior.
Let me illustrate my point, with a Chinese fairy-tale. The emperor had promised the inventor of the game of chess, that he would fulfill any wish. The emperor saw the importance of the invention and the pr-qualities of his generosity. The inventor seemed a simple man and the emperor invited him near his throne and asked him to utter his wish.Slowly formulating the man said, while producing his chessboard.“I wish me one grain of wheat on the first quadrant of the board, 2 on the next, 4 on the third ..” His Royal Highness interrupted his guest and said: “I will fulfill your wish. Come back in a week.”Shortly after the inventor left the palace, the treasurer of the Emperor came and said, that the wish could not be fulfilled! After a while, the wheat designed to a quadrant, would be equal to the production of wheat of the whole Empire. In total the board had 64 quadrants. The last amounts would be astronomical.
The Emperor sat down for a while, after which he ordered the inventor and his family to be killed. In that way, the belief in the supreme powers of the Emperor would not be challenged. Machiavelli would have agreed.
MK-ULTRA
Yesterday night I
watched the third movie based on the character of “Jason Bourne”
(the Bourne Ultimatum). It's an appetizer for the fourth movie, that
will reach the theaters near you this week.
In
the third episode Jason Bourne fights its way into his own past to
learn who he really is.
I
did read the books and saw the first two movies a long time ago.
In
that phase I did not know anything about mind control . conditioning
and projects like MK-Ultra. The Bourne movies were just entertainment
or distraction to me. I had no idea then, that Jason Bourne was a
reality. In the third movie Jason finally reaches his “birth-place”.
On the way he has to kill people like him, who are working for the
enemy (the CIA). They want to get rid of him, because he has become a
renegade with a mission. A task-force is send after him, with the
order to kill him. In the end Jason Bourne gets to know his real name
and is told that he willfully volunteered for a new life as a lethal
hitman, who only follows orders and asks no questions.. As a kind of
initiation-rite he kills some-one, whose head is hidden in a bag. At
that moment he becomes Jason Bourne and starts his training. There
exist tens of thousands of young man and woman like Jason all around
the world. Special forces, Marines, Seals or Intelligence agencies,
they all train human beings, to become indoctrinated and brainwashed
special agents, to perform like, Jason Bourne, special missions,
where no prisoners are taken. The Mossad is “famous” for these
kind of operations. They kidnapped “Eichmann” out of Argentina
and the whistle blower Vanunu, that revealed the existence of the
Israeli atomic-bomb, out of a foreign hotel. The USA has a secret hit
list of people (including their own citizens), who have to be
liquidated to prevail in the global war of terror. President Obama is
even proud of the results. The Al-Qai'da leaders are mostly
eliminated as are the Taliban. Regularly drone-attacks are performed
in Pakistan to hunt them down. Jason Bourne is alive and kicking.
The
scene in which Webb becomes Bourne reminds me of a African ritual.
Here rebel leaders regularly kidnap young boys to turn them into
soldiers. Here too the young soldier has to kill an innocent victim
to prove his loyalty to some kind of guerilla leader. Jason does the
same, bound by blood and guilt.
Soon
wars and violence will be over. What will happen to Jason and his
friends? HOW WILL THEY FIT IN?
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