Holyfuckingshitwheredoibegin...

Working IT is starting to become like working for Wall St., unless you literally work in IT on Wall St., then you're double-fucked.

Information is now money. Money is now information. The Rothschilds and their lapdog Rockefellers, Morgans, Chases, Harrimans, Cheneys, DuPonts, Bushes, other assorted Bonesmen, et. al. may not have seen the Information Age coming, or seen the constructively anarchistic inevitabilities of an ungoverned, directly-democratized global instantaneous communication infrastructure and its ability to level both the economic playing field and the human marketplace of ideas, but they sure as hell envisioned and have now nearly perfected a system of centralized, worthless electronic fiat money that literally makes everyone but them poorer and destroys every country that doesn't relent to their murderous system of economic hegemony. Capitalism is a pernicious fractal algorithm that, left to iterate for more than a few generations, will completely destroy society. You can fucking quote me on that, bitches.

So that leaves us working in an industry where we are the wizards who shape information into value to humans who are willing to pay for it, and pay us for crafting value out of it for them. I see you're doing about as well as I am salary-wise. Essentially, we're sharecroppers here.

Fuck this. I know a lot of people in this industry that have ceased having fun in it. It used to feel like sitting around all day playing Atari, but that faux wood paneling and satisfying slide-switches have been replaced by bullshit projects, dickhead managers, infinitely-complex equipment, standards, protocols, practices evolving logarithmically into more complexity. The whole goddamned thing has been spiraling out of control since the transistor.

We were young enough to catch the wave while it was still fun to ride. But now it's been pyramidized by the system, just like privatizated healthcare, Amway, religion, the back of the goddamned one dollar bill... it's a scam and they fully know it. Henry Ford was famously quoted for saying there'd be a revolution overnight if the people woke up one day having realized the nature of the banking system.

I work in Search. Keywords = money. If you do paid search advertising, you can track this exact figure down to a millionth of a penny which, incidentally, is now worth more melted down than it is with Lincoln's slavery-supporting flip-flopping artificially-sweetened Log Cabin Lite head stamped on it (anything to save the Union). But anyway, big corps that shouldn't have the rights of real persons but should pay the taxes they actually owe are spending billions of dollars a year for clicks they can convert into profits. Web traffic is the new commodities market. I bet you'll see web traffic futures trading someday soon. We hold the keys to this massive, abundant, nearly-uncontrollable borderless economy, but you wouldn't know it from our fucking bank accounts would you.

Things I learn in the course of my job about building residual online income (without fucking anybody over in the process) could be applied full-time for myself if I had the time to spend on it, and I could easily make 3x what I'm currently making if I wasn't so busy paying bills with the day job. Catch-22 up my ass with a rusty wire brush.

I think everybody here who suggests you get out of IT is right. Do you ever read Cryptogon? This guy actually left a high-powered Wall St. job when he and his wife both woke up and realized the entire game was unsustainable and bound inexorably for a massive collapse, so they packed up and split for New Zealand where they bought a little farm for themselves to wait out the storm in peace, comfort and maximally-sustainable living. They sleep well at night, though it probably helps that his analysis nets him at least $1k a month in donations and gold-vaulting affiliate commissions on the frequent large buys by some apparently fairly well-off readers.

I'm not suggesting you become a farmer, though you do support sustainable farming as a very conscientious omnivore (despite the asinine runaway expense of eating real food), and I suspect (probably just can't admit that I know it like I know 1+1=2) that the only way to be truly free is to produce your own food. Ask your farmers. I guess knowing them all personally is the next best thing and for that, I commend you, suh. I'm just suggesting you find something you love enough to do in exchange for money that maximizes your liberty, like your farmers. We both know it ain't gonna happen on sysadminimum salary.

Since you apparently enjoy farting around on the web, it wouldn't hurt to try your hand during hours 25-28 of each day to build up some web properties of one kind or another. 6-12 month profitability with no startup costs and the promise of sustained residuals, or 1-2 week profitability with any capital investment whatsoever, all unlimited growth potential due to the "long tail" of natural abundance, the very opposite of the paradigmatic economy of fake scarcity currently enslaving us as chattel. In short, it's the foolish worker bee's last best chance of getting above the line being drawn through the middle of the middle class as the two lines above and below fade into history thanks to our friends, the bankers. I know a guy I hang out with in Vegas every year who makes $20k/mo in the most ridiculously simple manner with carefully-crafted Google AdWords campaigns and some carefully-researched affiliate programs, and he says he doesn't even maintain it but if he did, it'd easily double the money. Very nice guy too. Kobe filets were on him. I know somebody else who just got started making some affiliate sites and promotional blogs in the last year and is now pulling $1-2k/mo and rising, with a day job and a baby. PM me if you want a big steaming braindump.

Why the fuck do I get involved in other people's programming projects instead of my own web marketing? Programming is so thankless, economically linear and always temporary. I must be stupid.

Anyway...

The other concern here is taxes. You don't want to support a narco-criminal black-ops terrorist fascist neo-liberal technocratic globalist orwellian regime who spends most of your tax money on murderous activities around the world by literal armies of brainwashed browncoats and even more dangerous band of privatized hombres armados they now command, instead of spending it to support whacko social services like, idunno, education or solar/wind research instead of stealing our food supply to make gas and deliberately, systematically destroying free public education to ensure continuation of the great wall of socioeconomic divide between us and Them.

I've been wanting to leave the country more and more since I realized and continue to grok the scale and depth of the trouble with our empire. Speaking of the word, have you ever read Final Empire, particularly Chapter 13? I think you'd get a tremendous pile of mindmeat out of it.

We currently have an unprecedented combination of several perfectly-precedented factors in this country:

First, we have a scam economy perpetrated by a small group of international bankers and other wealthy upper-1%-ers bent on incrementally destroying national sovereignty around the world in order to create a technocratic totalitarian global economic-military-industrial panopticon police state dictatorship under their private, capitalist control. They've nearly perfected this system in England without anyone noticing, so you don't want to move there. Canada is close behind, but the good old USA is leading the pack as with anything unsustainable and hegemonic.

Second, the federal government has been seized by cabal of ridiculous ideologues who have performed an ingenious slow coup over the course of several supposed elections through the use of systematic vote fraud and voter manipulation. Upon seizing power, they have systematically destroyed every useful federal government function in favor of purely unsustainable capitalism through privatization.

Then they perpetrate the largest false-flag attack ever performed on a country's own citizens, and do so just sloppily enough to leave a distinct trail of evidence and revision for anyone to follow.

Then, through the CIA's drug importation operations in Jeb's home state which trained the pilots, Marvin's ownership of the security firm in charge of the WTC complex which stood down bomb-sniffing dogs the week before (long enough for engineers to power-down security and wire up the buildings the weekend before), the law changes which handed Cheney operational control of our air defenses, and the zionist scumbag lab worker that stole bioweapon spores from the Army which ended up in only the offices of those few lawmakers opposed to blanket-acceptance of the doublespeak-named megalaw that instantly, quietly destroyed our "goddamned piece of paper" upon which the Republic ("if you can keep it") was founded. Then they repealed the fucking Magna Carta. The fucking MAGNA CARTA!

Where does it end? Ask Orwell, ask Huxley, ask Thompson. Ask Kay Griggs if you can handle it. The open source software "gotcha" of having nobody to complain to but yourself has prepared we geeks and tech-wizards of the world to become more than complainers like the insipid hell desk callers some of us deal with regularly (much like Congressional aides), and actually want to fix the world to resemble that which we've modeled online.

But this raises an interesting point which was made to me one night last November at an In-N-Out Burger in Las Vegas (the one in the off-ramp nook over by the Orleans at the south end of the Strip). I was sitting there explaining the big picture, particularly the proven facts of 9/11, to the Fox-news-watching Republican owner of a popular single-word dot-com domain who is seated across from me, drunk from an afternoon of open bar revelry, wearing the In-N-Out Burger paper hat, saying "if you really think that's what the government is doing then you should just leave the country and never come back." then proceeds to, in all seriousness with checkbook suddenly in-hand, to offer me a five-digit sum of money "RIGHT NOW" if I will actually leave the country and never return.

My initial reaction was that it wasn't nearly enough money, and he wasn't willing to pay anything close to a hundred grand, so after one last chance offer, the checkbook went away and he devoured a handful of wild-style fries.

That's when the hippie from Humbolt County pipes up, slowly, to say: "Dude, like, you could just leave, but like, you could stay and fight."

The kid may have a point, then again, his point may ring as hollow as the points lodged in Bhutto's head, or Kennedy's for that matter. Is being a boy scout patriot really worth fighting for? Has it ever been?

The globalists may be right about one thing -- national borders are unnecessary. As unnecessary as their global government, global currency and global ID card. We just need to redraw the lines in the only way that should make sense to an Earth-bound global society of primates -- bio-regionally. So I guess you can either stick around and try to fight the Man without getting killed in order to start to build a more sensible working order where you live now, or since you're a sovereign citizen of planet Earth, go pick another place you actually want to live in that surrounds you with a community of helpful people who can work towards the same goals of building a sustainable habitat and environment where people have the luxury of self-expression, creativity, liberty and thus true transcendent happiness instead of this evil, penetrating negativist bullshit toxic corporate consumerist culture

So the question that's been on my mind is... how far away is far enough?

You have to escape the Empire before it fully consumes your immediate vicinity and prevents you from leaving freely, and just like the one before it, the sun never sets upon this Empire, and it's like a robot programmed to destroy all countries and governments by algorithmic iteration of its own natural tendencies. Your options are limited, and bound by what you're interested in doing with your life, and probably to a lesser extent which languages you speak, though you're already fluent in Earth's de-facto official language (sorry Shat, my man).

I'd love it if Cancun or Toronto were far enough away, but they aren't. Venezuela has become an exemplary social democracy, and would be a lovely place to live as long as the entrenched mega-terrorists don't end up invading it or foment a violent coup through their established operatives in the media and government down there. I know a hydrodynamic purification expert who moved to El Salvador because they're "way freeer", although I'm not sure why. Ecuador just kicked the bastards out, but they're letting even bigger bastards in, so probably not there. Generally, I thinkt he Bolivaran socialist experiment in Venezuela and surrounding mexicanese appetizer-sized countries is a valuable one, and I'm in favor of just about anything the gummint doesn't want us to have. Like guns, LSD or even weed, there's probably a very good reason or twelve for it. Free thinkers undermine fascism.

Anyone have any better ideas of where to go? There's lots of great resources and first-hand wisdom at EscapeArtist.com, like this little gem: "The Internal Revenue Service recently decided to be clever. Their theory was to check an expatriates' tax status when the expat went into a U.S. embassy to renew his or her U.S. passport. However, unbeknownst to the IRS, expats are no longer renewing their U.S. passports. What expatriates are now doing is getting second passports from another nation before their U.S. passport expires"

So perhaps that's the trick. Get out while you can, and get a passport from somewhere else ASAP. Make sure you don't need to ever come back, because they might not let you in.