Nocola Tesla was a scientist specializing in Direct Current (DC) derived from machinery that derived its power from Electromagnetic sources.  The goal was to put out more energy than was put into the machine in a ratio that made it feasible to use the machine for social energy delivery.  Tesla achieved this with numerous machines, all of which have disappeared along with their blueprints care of the US Patent Office and various corporate interests who have bought them and put them away from the mainstream understanding.  Tesla’s machines produced significantly more energy than they used to produce the energy and used a source that was non polluting, limitless and readily available in the magnetic field of the Earth itself.  He was a preimminent scientist in his day as well as a recognized genius.  He was not, however, a member of the corporate elite and was also not, in any sense of the word, an effective marketing mind.  Tesla wanted to give the energy away because he felt that every human being had a right to the energy that the Earth produced like rain and that because of this no one person owned it.

Thomas Edison was a scientist specializing in Direct Current (DC) derived from machinery that derived its energy from fossil fuels.  The goal was to produce more energy than was put into it in order to use the machine for social energy delivery.  Edison achieved this with numerous machines, all of which were presented to the best corporate minds of the day and with certain marketing modifications, such as the transformation of Direct Current (DC) into Alternating Current (AC) which could be set at various frequencies to be able to power various kinds of appliances which could be back end sold to the energy users, was able to parlay his form of energy into the industrial complex that existed in his day.  Edison’s machines produced significantly more energy than they used to produce the energy and use a source that was heavily polluting, limited and conditionally available in the crust of the Earth.  He was a preimminent scientist of his day, a contemporary of Tesla and was a recognized genius.  He was an astute business man as well with an eye on personal wealth rather than the abundance of all individuals.

The discoveries of these two men delineated the two paths that the world could have gone on to achieve the technological society that we live in today.  These two discoveries were the decision that humanity was presented with.  One decision was limitless, clean electromagnetism and free energy for all or limited, dirty fossil fuel and rationed energy for all.  The corporate strangle hold on the political system was as strong in those days as it is now, eventhough perhaps not so complex and entrenched.  For this reason, the decision to charge for electricity and enter it into the market instead of making it a fundamental right of all human beings was the course decided upon by the corporate elite who control the political process and consequently what happens to all the Earth’s inhabitants.

There is much talk about solutions to the problem, but all of them center on the upkeep of the for profit model that excludes the everyday citizen from participating in the abundance of technology and resources, until today…

I have stumbled upon something that everyone should read about.  It is humanity’s last best hope to regain what was lost and save itself from the precipice that it is about to go over in the name of the will of the rediculously small in number greed mongers who control literally EVERYTHING.  Check out The Orion Project and get involved!  Pass it on to all your friends and everyone you know well or even slightly.  Heck pass it on to mailing lists of people you don’t know.  Do whatever you can to make this an issue.  The Orion Project has an activist arm that helps you do just that.

At the end of the day, more light is being shed every day on the nature of the way our world is run.  Every day this light is showing us that resources concentrated in the hands of just a few is tantamount to a death sentence for the human race or a number of the human race that exceed the limits of such a control based system.  Eventually humanity is going to be faced with the stark contrast between the abundance and sustainability of a participatory ownership model and the scarcity and unsustainability of a control based greed model.

What do YOU choose?  Read the facts.  Study history.  Look it up.  Google Tesla Vs. Edison.  In the end you are looking at the Global Corporate square in the eyes and you are also seeing your reflection in them.  Every day we make decisions to use the ease and convenience of the corporate slave drug.  It lulls us into a sense of well being and survival when it should be setting off every survivalist alarm that nature has provided us with over countless eons of time.  We must rediscover the need for personal sustainability within the auspices of the social framework that we all live in from microbes to humans and beyond.

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Submitted by Benjamin Alexander De Mers

Benjamin is the CEO of I Am Marketing and Media Services, a global provider of marketing and media services.  Benjamin also publishes around the web for various ezines, newsletter and blogs on a variety of subjects from Internet neutrality to alternative energy.