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Cathleen Manny's avatar

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?

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Alice in Wonderland's avatar

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.

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Sue Hilda's avatar

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.

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Jim Davidson's avatar

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.

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