We're suffering from society-wide Stockholm syndrome. People have been kidnapped/enslaved/brainwashed for so long they now think the slave-master is necessary or even good.
Did you see my post yesterday where I said exactly that?
"We assume we must be ruled. We grant legitimacy to those who claim authority over us. We assume there is nothing we can do about it. And thus we adopt the mentality of a slave species."
Apparently, many people in my district expect the government to take care of ALL their personal problems.
Somehow, I got a call today to participate in a town hall hosted by Rep. Greg Murphy. (He hasn't figured out that I am NOT a registered Republican.) I managed to get into the queue to ask a question. Rep. Murphy had talked ad nauseam on the state of the economy, so the first thing I did was agree with his assessment. Then I asked how he could vote to send billions of dollars to Ukraine and Israel, knowing the state of the economy and how proliferate spending hurt us all. I also mentioned that Israel had funded Hamas, which he denied. He hemmed and hawed with the usual platitudes and I was summarily dismissed. But he friendly conversed with callers complaining about their social security benefits and prescription costs.
So I must assume that most citizens really don't give a damn about freedom, and they expect personal protection from the government; not from foreign adversaries, but from their personal financial woes.
I feel inclined to write Rep. Murphy a letter and explain what I believe is his number one priority: to protect my freedom and rights. Sadly I don't think he gives a damn. Should I waste my time and write it anyway?
I want you to be happy and optimistic. But I want you to be so for REAL reasons, not because of a false hope that that salvation lies within the system. There is hope, great hope. But it lies elsewhere.
Right now I think I'm teetering between black and clear pill. I KNOW the system is finished, but I still occasionally look at it. I know there is no entity that can save it, and I'm working on being optimistic regardless, and I am happy, just disgusted with the majority of humanity. That last part delays my optimism.
I have started getting used to the feeling of disdain for the bulk of humanity—for the fact that they didn't (and probably won't) stand up to tyranny when it was staring them right in the face. It is just baked into my cake now. I have lower expectations, and that makes me happier.
My point of the post was to show how people not only expect the government to protect them, but to solve their personal problems. As a bonus, I got the first hand "pleasure" of seeing how our representatives are completely clueless. He probably believes the BS he spewed.
Yup. That is why I shared that "Are We Rome" pamphlet, in which Reed talks about how similar we are in that respect (expecting government to do/solve everything for us) to Imperial Rome. Fascinating and disturbing how little humans change.
I suspect the globalist bankers will forgive all government debt if they accept the digital currency. Rewards and sanctions. They will get what they forgave back in only a few years with them getting a small cut of every transaction that is made , with cash that does not happen.
As a bonus for the governments they get taxes on every transaction ever made, They will see it as a win, win. Plus they know everything you buy and can lock your bank account if needed like the Canadian truckers. JMHO.
It is just a thought or a gut feeling. Why else would governments be spending these outrageous amounts of money with no regard to solvency? Is the question I asked myself, and this is the only logical answer that I could come up with.
They could always do it the old fashioned way by inflating their way out and devaluing the currency, but that will devalue our credit rating like it just did and limit their spending to some degree.
My mind is not made up on any answer, these are just ideas.
Well, one possible explanation for why they would spend like this, knowing it is unsustainable and will lead to econopocalypse, was expressed by John Maynard Keynes in that famous quote:
"In the long run, we're all dead."
Each individual politician is incentivized to get us much out of the system while he is alive and in office, but has no incentive to care about the future. Hoppe totally nails this concept in "Democracy: The God That Failed."
The idea that corporations, not governments, are in control is to some extent a fallback position for leftists.
Some leftists are forced to admit to themselves the damage done by government overreach, but no leftist can publicly admit that. E.g. Bill Maher does not want to lose his leftist audience and HBO show.
Matt Taibbi and even Russel Brand are in the same boat.
So these people can remain leftists by saying that corporations control the government and so corporations are to blame for the government overreach.
It's just another absurd lie, of course. As you show. Governments have always had the power. The government regulators now have MORE power over corporations than ever.
We're suffering from society-wide Stockholm syndrome. People have been kidnapped/enslaved/brainwashed for so long they now think the slave-master is necessary or even good.
100%!
Did you see my post yesterday where I said exactly that?
"We assume we must be ruled. We grant legitimacy to those who claim authority over us. We assume there is nothing we can do about it. And thus we adopt the mentality of a slave species."
SLAVE SPECIES.
Yep! That was on-point!
We are emancipating ourselves!
Apparently, many people in my district expect the government to take care of ALL their personal problems.
Somehow, I got a call today to participate in a town hall hosted by Rep. Greg Murphy. (He hasn't figured out that I am NOT a registered Republican.) I managed to get into the queue to ask a question. Rep. Murphy had talked ad nauseam on the state of the economy, so the first thing I did was agree with his assessment. Then I asked how he could vote to send billions of dollars to Ukraine and Israel, knowing the state of the economy and how proliferate spending hurt us all. I also mentioned that Israel had funded Hamas, which he denied. He hemmed and hawed with the usual platitudes and I was summarily dismissed. But he friendly conversed with callers complaining about their social security benefits and prescription costs.
So I must assume that most citizens really don't give a damn about freedom, and they expect personal protection from the government; not from foreign adversaries, but from their personal financial woes.
I feel inclined to write Rep. Murphy a letter and explain what I believe is his number one priority: to protect my freedom and rights. Sadly I don't think he gives a damn. Should I waste my time and write it anyway?
My answer, for what it's worth, is this:
The system cannot save itself. The system will not be fixed from within the system. Nor is the system worth saving. We must evolve to the next level.
I can see continuing to work within the system, but only for the reasons I lay out here: (https://christophercook.substack.com/p/should-you-vote) Only to buy time.
Economically, we are doomed. I think Leonard Reed says that well enough here: https://fee.org/media/14973/arewerome.pdf
I know it seems like I am black-pilling you, but I am actually ultimately trying to clear-pill and free-pill you. (For an understanding of what that means, read here: https://christophercook.substack.com/p/red-pill-blue-pill-clear-pill-free-pill)
I want you to be happy and optimistic. But I want you to be so for REAL reasons, not because of a false hope that that salvation lies within the system. There is hope, great hope. But it lies elsewhere.
Right now I think I'm teetering between black and clear pill. I KNOW the system is finished, but I still occasionally look at it. I know there is no entity that can save it, and I'm working on being optimistic regardless, and I am happy, just disgusted with the majority of humanity. That last part delays my optimism.
I have started getting used to the feeling of disdain for the bulk of humanity—for the fact that they didn't (and probably won't) stand up to tyranny when it was staring them right in the face. It is just baked into my cake now. I have lower expectations, and that makes me happier.
I completely understand. The black pill is in my rear-view mirror, but I can still see—and feel—it off in the distance!
My point of the post was to show how people not only expect the government to protect them, but to solve their personal problems. As a bonus, I got the first hand "pleasure" of seeing how our representatives are completely clueless. He probably believes the BS he spewed.
Yup. That is why I shared that "Are We Rome" pamphlet, in which Reed talks about how similar we are in that respect (expecting government to do/solve everything for us) to Imperial Rome. Fascinating and disturbing how little humans change.
I suspect the globalist bankers will forgive all government debt if they accept the digital currency. Rewards and sanctions. They will get what they forgave back in only a few years with them getting a small cut of every transaction that is made , with cash that does not happen.
As a bonus for the governments they get taxes on every transaction ever made, They will see it as a win, win. Plus they know everything you buy and can lock your bank account if needed like the Canadian truckers. JMHO.
Oh my goodness—debt forgiveness in exchange for CBDC. What a terrifying thought.
It is just a thought or a gut feeling. Why else would governments be spending these outrageous amounts of money with no regard to solvency? Is the question I asked myself, and this is the only logical answer that I could come up with.
They could always do it the old fashioned way by inflating their way out and devaluing the currency, but that will devalue our credit rating like it just did and limit their spending to some degree.
My mind is not made up on any answer, these are just ideas.
Well, one possible explanation for why they would spend like this, knowing it is unsustainable and will lead to econopocalypse, was expressed by John Maynard Keynes in that famous quote:
"In the long run, we're all dead."
Each individual politician is incentivized to get us much out of the system while he is alive and in office, but has no incentive to care about the future. Hoppe totally nails this concept in "Democracy: The God That Failed."
Very good thinking on your part, and food for thought.
The idea that corporations, not governments, are in control is to some extent a fallback position for leftists.
Some leftists are forced to admit to themselves the damage done by government overreach, but no leftist can publicly admit that. E.g. Bill Maher does not want to lose his leftist audience and HBO show.
Matt Taibbi and even Russel Brand are in the same boat.
So these people can remain leftists by saying that corporations control the government and so corporations are to blame for the government overreach.
It's just another absurd lie, of course. As you show. Governments have always had the power. The government regulators now have MORE power over corporations than ever.
Agreed.
That said, I used to defend corporations rather more reflexively and generally. I no longer do that!
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