To suggest that these agencies have been captured is to imply that they were ever anything but. We live in dual realities. us, and Just Us. Just Us have been getting away with it for so long that they've taken smelling their own farts to stratospheric levels of absurdity. "Can we get away with this?" yielded to, "He got away with it, dam…
To suggest that these agencies have been captured is to imply that they were ever anything but. We live in dual realities. us, and Just Us. Just Us have been getting away with it for so long that they've taken smelling their own farts to stratospheric levels of absurdity. "Can we get away with this?" yielded to, "He got away with it, damn, did you see that, let's see what else we can do?" to "everyone does it." When someone gets caught and scapegoated, it does nothing to change the underlying system, except to make the players more savvy about what they have on whom, in order to protect themselves from the same fate.
The future forks one of two ways. This continues in the same trajectories and we end up with Hunger Games, or the money implodes and the phoenix rises and we get out of here alive. The current program is not sustainable. I read today that the national debt is now at the level where expenditures average $1B *an hour.* You can ignore the laws of nature, but the laws of nature don't ignore you, and there aint nothing for free in this old world.
The direction of that fork rests solely on We The People. Unfortunately, a significant portion -- maybe even half -- of the The People are completely on board with the status quo. Whether out of pure ignorance, deluded by the propaganda mouthpieces which pass for journalism today, or a willing embrace as they see this is as somehow to their advantage.
Unless enough of The People begin to open their eyes and acknowledge the harsh reality that we are being systematically lied to, the fork to perdition is all but assured.
To your point of “We the People”: they have been anesthetized. They are happily ensconced in their little bubbles, and the media has seduced them into believing that whatever the media doesn’t agree with is a “conspiracy theory”. Anyone who raises such ideas is a tin foil hat adherent who is clearly uninformed/stupid/crazy -- if they would only “educate themselves” more via WaPo, NYT, MSNBC, they wouldn’t be so captured by MAGA.
One of the main things I’m struggling with at the moment is how the vast majority of people around me don’t seem to notice how off-the-rails things have become -- even high IQ people (two MDs and a biochemistry PhD, for example). No level of absurdity appears odd to them (eg. gender theory, invisible indigenous graves, rampant crime with no arrests/prosecution, open borders...the list is endless). Most of them say things like, “The NY Times isn’t biased -- they have opinions from conservatives, like David Brooks, and their news writing is very objective.” I couldn’t even get my DIL to say that her baby IS a boy (rather than “assigned male at birth”...and I live in a “purple state”...
Orwell’s Rabbit: I am also extremely disturbed by the lack of interest, and even a seemingly lack of noticing, by almost everyone. I’ve found that, over the past three years, there is an ‘elephant in the room’ that no one discusses, or acknowledges is there. If I try to discuss things, in a gentle way, I am met with stony silence, or a request to not talk about these things, as it causes them stress. As a result, I feel as if my relationship with most family/friends has become rather phony. It’s very isolating. Does anyone else experience this?
Absolutely. It is the operational aspect of the fact that the Powers That Be have succeeded in bringing about conditions in which the Official Narrative now constitutes Reality itself; meaning that only those who are insane or lying give voice to anything other than said prescribed Narrative. Naturally, right-thinking and loyal family members are silent/squirming/stressed when having to deal with a relative who has this ... well, I guess it could politely be called their Pachyderm Problem, as you indicate. Chris Martenson interviewed CJ Hopkins (the playwright who recently published "The Rise of the New Normal Reich," the third volume in a collection of his essays); they spoke about this phenomenon on a grander scale than the familial and immediate social circle ~ the source of the problem, and those who are responsible for manufacturing it (in fact, the subtitle of CJ's book is: "The Consent Factory Essays") ~ and the appalling fact that there *is* no more arguing and discussing when it comes to matters of the Official Narrative: see 22.23 through 30:28 at rumble.com/v17x9wd-dr.-chris-martenson-systemic-destruction-with-cj-hopkins.html. The unbearableness of this elephant for those of us who are not controlled by the Narrative is also discussed in Shaun Atwood's interview of Jay Dyer and Charlie Robinson this week, and Charlie talks about the self-censoring he considers to be the *most* horrific thing they're doing to us: " ... what you DON'T talk about, that you WANT to talk about ... I feel like that, on some levels, eats away at you." From 1:11:18 through 1:17:27 at https://www.youtube.com/live/uVXgav5fEhw?si=THb3wN7i_J2Aq-LS.
Yes, and for thirty-two years. I was jolted from a happy illusion about American freedom and jurisprudence quite violently in 1991. There were hardly any other people awake, it seemed, until the Waco massacre. And the Oklahoma City bombing. And the 9/11 events. Even as late as 2002 in the fall of the American empire it was often hard to talk openly about freedom and tyranny with people I had known for a long time. So there was a façade for them and we would talk about sportsball or whatever they thought was a safe topic.
Diane Ackerman, writing about Sam Adams, noted that he was keen to set brushfires in people’s minds. It doesn’t take a majority. But it does take perseverance. https://l5news.substack.com/p/free-at-last
Let us pray: Eternal Father please help us to free the slaves, stop the wars, and end tyranny. Please help with guidance, resources, ingenuity, endurance, fortitude, and patience. Please show us the little fires so we may pass by them. Please bring love into our lives so we remember what we have to live for. Amen.
We haven't been brainwashed in the same way they have ... (at least, not so much. We still believe plenty that isn't true). In most cases our schools and university courses were before they were taken over for propaganda.
Talking to friends, about 20% are awake, and almost all of those DON'T WATCH TELEVISION!
"anaesthetised" is right (Orwell's rabbit). TV is very like opium. It replaced religion as "the opium of the people". You sit in a pleasurable trance, achieving nothing; training yourself to think that you can get something from life without putting anything in.
Humans are much less rational than we would like to think. Almost all our mental processes are stimulus-response rather than rational.
Try "Coping with Disagreement and Being Wrong", here -
Maybe they just can't be bothered to muster your level of rage and obsession.
It wasn't an attack. Maybe they just are not concerned with these issues. If they are, not to your degree - and/or not worth getting themselves worked up over.
Thanks for your diagnosis. I’m sure you know everything about me, and all my relationships with others. Ad hominem attacks are always a strong argument.
If I have to change the behavior of other people, I'm in a world of hurt. I look at this whole thing like a weather system - I do what I can, where I can, but I try not to wail and gnash my teeth at the fact that the majority of people won't do what I want them to do.
I'm not trying to suggest altering people's behavior, or even their belief systems. Just getting them to open their eyes even a wee bit and becoming aware of other perspectives would be a huge leap forward.
The sad fact is that a majority of the people are woefully uninformed and as a result make poor choices at the ballot box, which in the end only prolongs and expands the misery imposed on the rest of us. While some may genuinely be unconscious supporters of the totalitarian Left, the end result is still the same.
It seems like the best strategy is an orthogonal one. You have the debate in forums where people who might be curious, or at least have a few doubts, can observe it, rather than going right at them. You don't convince the true believer, but that middle 40% has a chance.
“When the system is rigged, when ordinary citizens are powerless, and when whistle-blowers are pariahs at best, three things happen: First, the worst people rise to the top. They behave appallingly, and they wreak havoc. Second, people who could make productive contributions to society are incentivized to become destructive, because corruption is far more lucrative than honest work. And third, everyone else pays, both economically and emotionally; people become cynical, selfish, and fatalistic. Often they go along with the system, but they hate themselves for it. They play the game to survive and feed their families, but both they and society suffer.”
As Jordan Peterson says, you don't get away with anything. I am so glad I don't have to confront the constant pressure to compromise myself that afflicts anyone of any integrity within the swamp.
To suggest that these agencies have been captured is to imply that they were ever anything but. We live in dual realities. us, and Just Us. Just Us have been getting away with it for so long that they've taken smelling their own farts to stratospheric levels of absurdity. "Can we get away with this?" yielded to, "He got away with it, damn, did you see that, let's see what else we can do?" to "everyone does it." When someone gets caught and scapegoated, it does nothing to change the underlying system, except to make the players more savvy about what they have on whom, in order to protect themselves from the same fate.
The future forks one of two ways. This continues in the same trajectories and we end up with Hunger Games, or the money implodes and the phoenix rises and we get out of here alive. The current program is not sustainable. I read today that the national debt is now at the level where expenditures average $1B *an hour.* You can ignore the laws of nature, but the laws of nature don't ignore you, and there aint nothing for free in this old world.
The direction of that fork rests solely on We The People. Unfortunately, a significant portion -- maybe even half -- of the The People are completely on board with the status quo. Whether out of pure ignorance, deluded by the propaganda mouthpieces which pass for journalism today, or a willing embrace as they see this is as somehow to their advantage.
Unless enough of The People begin to open their eyes and acknowledge the harsh reality that we are being systematically lied to, the fork to perdition is all but assured.
To your point of “We the People”: they have been anesthetized. They are happily ensconced in their little bubbles, and the media has seduced them into believing that whatever the media doesn’t agree with is a “conspiracy theory”. Anyone who raises such ideas is a tin foil hat adherent who is clearly uninformed/stupid/crazy -- if they would only “educate themselves” more via WaPo, NYT, MSNBC, they wouldn’t be so captured by MAGA.
One of the main things I’m struggling with at the moment is how the vast majority of people around me don’t seem to notice how off-the-rails things have become -- even high IQ people (two MDs and a biochemistry PhD, for example). No level of absurdity appears odd to them (eg. gender theory, invisible indigenous graves, rampant crime with no arrests/prosecution, open borders...the list is endless). Most of them say things like, “The NY Times isn’t biased -- they have opinions from conservatives, like David Brooks, and their news writing is very objective.” I couldn’t even get my DIL to say that her baby IS a boy (rather than “assigned male at birth”...and I live in a “purple state”...
Orwell’s Rabbit: I am also extremely disturbed by the lack of interest, and even a seemingly lack of noticing, by almost everyone. I’ve found that, over the past three years, there is an ‘elephant in the room’ that no one discusses, or acknowledges is there. If I try to discuss things, in a gentle way, I am met with stony silence, or a request to not talk about these things, as it causes them stress. As a result, I feel as if my relationship with most family/friends has become rather phony. It’s very isolating. Does anyone else experience this?
Absolutely. It is the operational aspect of the fact that the Powers That Be have succeeded in bringing about conditions in which the Official Narrative now constitutes Reality itself; meaning that only those who are insane or lying give voice to anything other than said prescribed Narrative. Naturally, right-thinking and loyal family members are silent/squirming/stressed when having to deal with a relative who has this ... well, I guess it could politely be called their Pachyderm Problem, as you indicate. Chris Martenson interviewed CJ Hopkins (the playwright who recently published "The Rise of the New Normal Reich," the third volume in a collection of his essays); they spoke about this phenomenon on a grander scale than the familial and immediate social circle ~ the source of the problem, and those who are responsible for manufacturing it (in fact, the subtitle of CJ's book is: "The Consent Factory Essays") ~ and the appalling fact that there *is* no more arguing and discussing when it comes to matters of the Official Narrative: see 22.23 through 30:28 at rumble.com/v17x9wd-dr.-chris-martenson-systemic-destruction-with-cj-hopkins.html. The unbearableness of this elephant for those of us who are not controlled by the Narrative is also discussed in Shaun Atwood's interview of Jay Dyer and Charlie Robinson this week, and Charlie talks about the self-censoring he considers to be the *most* horrific thing they're doing to us: " ... what you DON'T talk about, that you WANT to talk about ... I feel like that, on some levels, eats away at you." From 1:11:18 through 1:17:27 at https://www.youtube.com/live/uVXgav5fEhw?si=THb3wN7i_J2Aq-LS.
It’s the same thing with my family. “Let’s move on not dwell on negative stuff. “ but these people tried to kill us, I can’t move on.
Yes, and for thirty-two years. I was jolted from a happy illusion about American freedom and jurisprudence quite violently in 1991. There were hardly any other people awake, it seemed, until the Waco massacre. And the Oklahoma City bombing. And the 9/11 events. Even as late as 2002 in the fall of the American empire it was often hard to talk openly about freedom and tyranny with people I had known for a long time. So there was a façade for them and we would talk about sportsball or whatever they thought was a safe topic.
Diane Ackerman, writing about Sam Adams, noted that he was keen to set brushfires in people’s minds. It doesn’t take a majority. But it does take perseverance. https://l5news.substack.com/p/free-at-last
Let us pray: Eternal Father please help us to free the slaves, stop the wars, and end tyranny. Please help with guidance, resources, ingenuity, endurance, fortitude, and patience. Please show us the little fires so we may pass by them. Please bring love into our lives so we remember what we have to live for. Amen.
Or wells Rabbit- you need to find kindred spirits. Now needed more than ever.
And that is why comment sections are so important. We find our kindred spirits here and affirm our rationality.
We haven't been brainwashed in the same way they have ... (at least, not so much. We still believe plenty that isn't true). In most cases our schools and university courses were before they were taken over for propaganda.
Talking to friends, about 20% are awake, and almost all of those DON'T WATCH TELEVISION!
"anaesthetised" is right (Orwell's rabbit). TV is very like opium. It replaced religion as "the opium of the people". You sit in a pleasurable trance, achieving nothing; training yourself to think that you can get something from life without putting anything in.
Humans are much less rational than we would like to think. Almost all our mental processes are stimulus-response rather than rational.
Try "Coping with Disagreement and Being Wrong", here -
https://whatdoino.substack.com/p/coping-with-disagreement-and-being?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2
Jonathan Reece - thank you for this wonderful link. I'm looking forward to ruminating on this for a season - being wrong!
Thanks for your kind remarks. I do hope you get something from it.
Nice name, by the way!
Important to find kindred spirits. They’re out there, more than you think.
Definitely this.
Or take the repeated hints.
Maybe they just can't be bothered to muster your level of rage and obsession.
It wasn't an attack. Maybe they just are not concerned with these issues. If they are, not to your degree - and/or not worth getting themselves worked up over.
Trans stuff isn't on my mind.
Thanks for your diagnosis. I’m sure you know everything about me, and all my relationships with others. Ad hominem attacks are always a strong argument.
I've just had a look at "Truth's" site. It looks like the work of rather poor AI to me. I shall be ignoring it.
I see that you are a kind person...it’s a trait that is rare in the internet age (and valued by me).
" I couldn’t even get my DIL to say that her baby IS a boy (rather than 'assigned male at birth')."
How old is this kid?
Six months old.
...worrisome isn't it?
I find this mind boggling. You have to be exaggerating. No one just chooses to call their baby "they" or "it."
Welcome to the New Normal! ;-)
If I have to change the behavior of other people, I'm in a world of hurt. I look at this whole thing like a weather system - I do what I can, where I can, but I try not to wail and gnash my teeth at the fact that the majority of people won't do what I want them to do.
I'm not trying to suggest altering people's behavior, or even their belief systems. Just getting them to open their eyes even a wee bit and becoming aware of other perspectives would be a huge leap forward.
The sad fact is that a majority of the people are woefully uninformed and as a result make poor choices at the ballot box, which in the end only prolongs and expands the misery imposed on the rest of us. While some may genuinely be unconscious supporters of the totalitarian Left, the end result is still the same.
It seems like the best strategy is an orthogonal one. You have the debate in forums where people who might be curious, or at least have a few doubts, can observe it, rather than going right at them. You don't convince the true believer, but that middle 40% has a chance.
Well said.
Try "Coping With Disagreement and Being Wrong",
https://whatdoino.substack.com/p/coping-with-disagreement-and-being?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2
My guess is somewhere between Hunger Games and Phoenix Rises, but nowhere on that spectrum is a pleasant next 10-20 years.
I agree that we are in for a rough patch in many ways. I am grateful to do this now so that my children, perhaps, don't have to.
Here's an indicator.
What was the general reaction to "mandate vaccines"?
Was it "don't be ridiculous, we've known about collectivist thinking since the Nuremberg trials of the doctors"? Or "meh".
What happened with all the collectivist takeovers in the C20?
Democide on a scale 6 X larger than all the war dead of the C20.
See
What's Wrong With The Greater Good
https://whatdoino.substack.com/p/whats-wrong-with-the-greater-good?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2
“When the system is rigged, when ordinary citizens are powerless, and when whistle-blowers are pariahs at best, three things happen: First, the worst people rise to the top. They behave appallingly, and they wreak havoc. Second, people who could make productive contributions to society are incentivized to become destructive, because corruption is far more lucrative than honest work. And third, everyone else pays, both economically and emotionally; people become cynical, selfish, and fatalistic. Often they go along with the system, but they hate themselves for it. They play the game to survive and feed their families, but both they and society suffer.”
Charles H. Ferguson, Inside Job
As Jordan Peterson says, you don't get away with anything. I am so glad I don't have to confront the constant pressure to compromise myself that afflicts anyone of any integrity within the swamp.
You’ll like Naomi Wolf’s latest podcast. The power of the purse is discussed.
Agree on all points. These agencies have been captured for longer than the CDC has been FOS. That's a high bar! #GetsBumpyFromHere
And just in case you think, “they can’t ALL be in on it”
https://www.bitchute.com/video/javjF2xljAi7/