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Duchess's avatar

We have ignored the fundemental brilliance and the warnings from our Founders.

Two words "Limited Government".

They knew.

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“it’s the coke vs pepsi selection of ‘who’s going to be doing the suppression and rapacious taking this time?’”

This analogy is more appropriate than you may realize as BlackRock and Vanguard basically own both Pepsi and Coke and create the illusion of competition—just like they do with their two parties! (https://organicconsumers.org/who-owns-world-blackrock-and-vanguard/)

It seems we are in synch as I just wrote a similar piece reflecting on my escape from political tribalism, which I encapsulate thus:

“Shedding my own labels peeled away the cognitive biases that had inhibited my ability to appreciate the perspectives of those outside my in-group, and it helped me see through the lies told to keep my in-group enslaved to an ideology that served the rulers rather than the people.”

• “My Two-Year Stackiversary: Lattice of Coincidence + The Courage to Face the Truth” (https://margaretannaalice.substack.com/p/my-two-year-stackiversary-lattice)

I also sketched out my core values, a process I encourage everyone to try as it helped me clarify my inner guiding principles versus those that had been implanted by cultural indoctrination tools such as education and propaganda. These are the five top-level core values I wound up with:

• anti-tyranny | pro-liberty

• anti-fear | pro-courage

• anti-hatred | pro-love

• anti-illusion | pro-reality

• anti-destruction | pro-creation

Here is a Note I wrote on this topic for those who want to read further:

https://substack.com/profile/1727692-sherman-alexie/note/c-15370018

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