Alan Watt Redux #197 "Leisure Versus Tunnel Vision" - 1/19/25

An article, The Technocratic Blueprint - Is Leisure necessary for our survival as cultures and individuals? - Cryptocurrency - World of the Individual - Pre-made Tunnels - Tunnel Vision and Thinking - Curiosity of Childhood, Psychological Tunnel Syndrome - Leisure Class Philosophers - Ancient Mysteries - Study of Control of People - Creation of Low-level Masonry - Intelligentsia to Rule Public - Parallel Secret Government running Show, Some People are Born knowing Something is Wrong - Reece Committee - Investigation of Philanthropic Foundations funding Communist Groups - Carroll Quigley -Dialectic - Supra-Government In Charge - One Dominant Minority - Deception of the "Great Unwashed Masses" - Planned Conflict through Mass Migrations - Circuses of Ancient Rome - Deviancy, Government Authorized Casinos - Selling Fear - Gold and Silver - Work on Oneself - Analyzing - Real Experiences, New Age Deactivation - Craving for Supernatural and Power, Religion and Science, Facing the Facts, Asking the Right Questions, Forgiving Oneself, Empathy for Others - Survival Instincts. (Song: "There But For Fortune" by Phil Ochs - Live at Vancouver 1968).

Audio - Alan Watt "Cutting Through The Matrix" LIVE on RBN: "Not Safe in Your Holmes" - July 24, 2012
https://www.cuttingthroughthematrix.com/CTTM2012/Alan_Watt_CTTM_LIVEonRBN_1135_Not_Safe_in_Your_Holmes_July242012.mp3

Transcript - Alan Watt "Cutting Through The Matrix" LIVE on RBN: "Not Safe in Your Holmes" - July 24, 2012
https://www.cuttingthroughthematrix.com/transcripts/Alan_Watt_CTTM_LIVEonRBN_1135_Not_Safe_in_Your_Holmes_July242012.html

Original Audio, Topics - Alan Watt - Blurb - "Tunnel Vision - Brought to You by Those with Vision" June 6, 2007 (Scroll to bottom of page)
https://www.cuttingthroughthematrix.com/radio/Alan_Watt_CTTM_Blurbs_JunDec2007.html

Transcript - Alan Watt - Blurb - "Tunnel Vision - Brought to You by Those with Vision" June 6, 2007
https://www.cuttingthroughthematrix.com/transcripts/Alan_Watt_Blurb_TunnelVision_June062007.html

Trump shares poor photoshop job of himself, Elon Musk and allies as superheroes
https://metro.co.uk/2024/08/30/trump-photoshop-elon-musk-dc-comics-superheroes-21523059/

Opinion: What Vivek Ramaswamy leaves out of his story of South Asian success
https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2025/01/09/opinion-what-vivek-ramaswamy/

Opinion: Does America need more meritocracy?
https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2025/01/12/opinion-does-america-need-more/

The Technocratic Blueprint
https://stylman.substack.com/p/the-technocratic-blueprint

In Defence of Judy Wood - David A. Hughes on Camp 1, 2, and 3
https://dhughes.substack.com/p/in-defence-of-judy-wood

Read Yuval Harari's blistering warning to Davos in full (2020)
https://www.weforum.org/stories/2020/01/yuval-hararis-warning-davos-speech-future-predications/

Cryptocurrency Is a Giant Ponzi Scheme
https://jacobin.com/2022/01/cryptocurrency-scam-blockchain-bitcoin-economy-decentralization

Jeffrey Tucker
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Tucker

Norman Dodd on the Reece Committee and the Influence of Tax Exempt Foundations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTWTMf-KmaE

Alan Watt - Blurb - "Sing Your Song and Steal Some Time" Feb 28, 2007
https://www.cuttingthroughthematrix.com/transcripts/Alan_Watt_Blurb_SingYourSong_Feb282007.html

Josef Pieper, Philosopher, Author: Leisure - The Basis of Culture
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Pieper

Some videos to illustrate:

Gopher tunnel - live trap
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Yx_3DZrRg8

Mithraism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOg2hVgs2mg

Pythagoras and His Weird Religious Cult
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgR6YrJDUR8

How Athenian Democracy Was Born
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Amu6zhlCJO0

The Game of Greed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQXUSUMSSf4

Can I Profit At The Casino Only Playing Slots?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0STK3-K-Yg

China's $3.4 Billion Dollar Shipping Container Casino
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mW33GWnDHn8

Homeless in Vancouver - That's the SHAME of Canada
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxTJyCmrTts