Yes, the "right" sucks, too, in its own ways. Yes, they are two feet connected to the same golem who is squashing the people step by step. Yes, it's all scripted ... And certainly, I hold no illusions that those in power differ a whit between right and left. They all have the same handlers, and the same goals; they merely present with different window dressing.
BUT.
As far as *individuals* are concerned, those on the "right" at least put on the facade of virtue. Is that more insidious, in the end, than the left? Maybe, but at this point in the game, I'd rather align myself with those who worship a God of false light -- even if it's a temporary allegiance, and we will eventually have to part ways -- because our common enemy is so blatant, at this point, that it would be comical if it wasn't so brutal.
I agree that it does not matter what the truth is about Charlie Kirk. I hadn't even heard of him until he was murdered, and I certainly don't think that the official story adds up. However, the response to his public assassination HAS proven to be an astonishing litmus test for "Decent Human Being" versus "Rabid Leftard Cultist." If you believe that some has-been pedophile talk-show host getting fired from his propagandist gig is a bigger atrocity than a man getting shot, you have failed the test. Period. Full stop. Similarly, if you are gleefully celebrating the death of someone whose sole "crime" was to have public opinions, you have likewise failed the test. You are a member of a cult, and that cult worships evil. Literal, boldfaced evil.
... And they aren't trying to hide it anymore, not even a little bit. I saw a bumper sticker at the local grocery Co-Op last week -- which has a reputation for being rabidly lefty -- that said something to the effect of, "Coffee, cuddles and Satanism." I am deeply respectful of the property rights of others, even those whose beliefs I find abhorrent, but that one did give me the distinct desire to smash the windshield in.
(Total tangent, but on the topic of unbelievable and abhorrent bumper stickers, earlier on this summer I saw one on the same bumper as a "Planned Parenthood" sticker that simply read, "Vaccines!" in rainbow lettering. Cannot make this up.)
Your inclusion of Islam in this article almost reads like a tangent as well, except that I think you may be hinting at a reality that we can all sense, but that is still taboo to vocalize: the Islamists worship the same entity that the Leftists do. They might call it Allah rather than Baal, but it's the same demon, whispering to them from the same playbook of pretend victimhood. Their beliefs are fundamentally incompatible with anyone who desires even a modicum of freedom. They are backwards and deranged, and entertaining any notion otherwise is foolhardy.
All beliefs are not created equal. All opinions do not have equal merit. Some are just plain stupid ... And some are just plain evil. Time to call it like it is.
"All beliefs are not created equal. All opinions do not have equal merit. Some are just plain stupid ... And some are just plain evil. Time to call it like it is."
—Well and rightly said.
"Your inclusion of Islam in this article almost reads like a tangent as well, except that I think you may be hinting at a reality that we can all sense, but that is still taboo to vocalize…"
—Yes to all you said there. But also, the proximate reason I included it is because I read Max's article first, and he includes them. I have been having similar thoughts to those he expressed, so I figured it was a good reason to write a complementary piece.
"(Total tangent, but on the topic of unbelievable and abhorrent bumper stickers, earlier on this summer I saw one on the same bumper as a "Planned Parenthood" sticker that simply read, "Vaccines!" in rainbow lettering. Cannot make this up.)"
—Their views are almost invariably a predictable package deal. The same can be said for many on the classical-liberal right, but not quite to the same Stepford degree.
" I am deeply respectful of the property rights of others, even those whose beliefs I find abhorrent, but that one did give me the distinct desire to smash the windshield in."
—I feel you!
"Similarly, if you are gleefully celebrating the death of someone whose sole "crime" was to have public opinions, you have likewise failed the test. You are a member of a cult, and that cult worships evil. Literal, boldfaced evil."
—Yes to that whole paragraph.
"And certainly, I hold no illusions that those in power differ a whit between right and left."
—There are so many layers at which things are occurring, and it is hard to know exactly what we mean when we say left and right. (Political parties? People? Ideologies? Groups?) Ultimately, we have to judge based on violations of human consent. That is the fundamental unit of moral concern—the sine qua non or right action.
Brother, I was reading along, cheering, till I encountered my name. Thank you for helping others see that our enemies come in far more flavors than 'statist.'
And it's not just statists now. Some have come to the viewpoint that because things are being manipulated from the shadows (to an unknown degree by an indeterminate set of shadow powers), there is really no point in paying attention to anything else. So the rabbit hole becomes everything to them, and they speak as if any person, group, or institution that is subject to manipulation from the shadows can safely be ignored because it is only the shadow power that matters. (As if manipulated people aren't real, and can't do really bad things!)
Well articulated. The eternal “it’s a psyop” is a cope — and one that allows this shit to continue because it keeps people in ostrich mode while somehow feeling superior as if they know the REAL truth. Rabbit holes aside there’s real death, real dehumanization and real disgust — which are the ingredients for genocide. I haven’t been quite right since this massive unveiling of witnessing it from people I know personally - it’s not something you can log off or unfollow. Thank you for this article.
—Oh jeez, that is a really good point. Please let me see if I am understanding. Is it this: for all the horror that psyops reveal, is it easier, emotionally, to accept that everything is being manipulated by puppet masters that it is to face the fact that the puppet masters are manipulating real people—their friends and neighbors?
Yeah. It might also just be emotionally easier to focus on a tiny cabal of shadow players. If everything is solely the fault of a small number of architects of evil, then we don't have to face the fact that many people (programmed or not) are willingly participating in evil. It's far less scary that way.
I dunno—so much is in flux and hard to understand…but I think there might be something to this.
The fact that you're not feeling quite right, whether due to the actual event or the fall-out in the form of people's reactions to it, is what classifies a thing as a psychological operation. It's not a term synonymous with 'fake'. Psy-ops are real events involving real people and real casualties. Identifying a ploy to manipulate minds via media messaging is a sure way to safeguard oneself against being manipulated. We are in a heavy demoralization stage of the op and it's paramount to take care of your alignment, or else fall victim to it. Prioritizing your well-being by being watchful and understanding the psychological tactics at play is not equal to existing in ostrich-mode. It's actually a way to exist as a warrior, deeply rooted in your agency and connected to Source. Sending you my love, sister. You can call me if you ever need someone to talk to. ❤️
But I wonder if some people are so focused on identifying the hidden hand, and on figuring out what *really* happened, that they ignore the layer of reality in which those events are real, with real impacts and involving real people…
You are oddly taking what I said both personally and out of context. "Prioritizing your well-being by being watchful and understanding the psychological tactics at play" is not what/who I'm talking about -- odd that it struck a nerve with you. The people I'm speaking about, and the ones he's mentioning, are people who literally think its fake, or who are lost on other elements of reality. Some people I know think the whole thing was AI and he's not really dead. The list goes on.
I'm not explaining past that. Do not manipulatively try to dress your presumptuous comment up as being "helpful" with your ending sentence. Your last two comments on things I've said on Substack are quite frankly, bitchy and bizarre. Whatever your head trip is at this time in your life, handle it, don't project it onto people who aren't even talking to you.
Weird. I am getting them there. I mean, I suppose I would not know if some aren't showing up, but I definitely get sme of them at least. Do you get any?
This situation has pushed me to step away from media, etc .... and what it is attempting to portray, program us with, even moreso than usual.
Just a few days in afterwards, ( I DID NOT do rabbit holes) and I was "fatigued" by the whole thing. My antennae was up and didn't accept what was put out. Then the funeral, which I knew was happening but ignored. Ughhhhh
Why do you think that it matters what label we put on them? Neither is beneficial or good.
Step away, yes. But we must not ignore reality in the process. I am trying to think of an analogy or metaphor…
Okay, let us say that as part of the process of stepping away, I physically remove myself—I buy a piece of land in the country and spend most of my time there. If, one day, I decide to visit a big city, I still need to know what neighborhoods to avoid. I still need to assess risk.
The same applies here. I have noticed that, in the process of stepping away, a number of colleagues also cease to account for the differences between ideologies and the risks they pose—as if those are just a part of "that" world, which we have left, and thus sorta kinda don't exist anymore. But that world is still real and can still affect us. So all I am doing here is reminding people to be aware of that.
No, absolutely try, it is better to try than not. Not arguing with you either, more akin to brainstorming or trouble shooting. We're on the same side of liberty and natural law.
Oh for sure we’re on the same side. I have just noticed that there is a lot of despair and sense of hopelessness in the air (I even feel it myself from time to time). So I want to make sure people are pumped up and ready to rock, no matter how dark things can sometimes seem.
(And I am, of course, happy to troubleshoot specific issues with you anytime!)
"I do not plan to wallow in (or attempt to reform) the old world. I plan to work with you to build a new world in the cracks of the old."
Thanks for the Borders article. But after having read it, then returning to yours, isn't there a risk there won't be anywhere to build a new world?
Borders does a good job at creating an analytical framework, bringing together, and then dissembling into parts, the egregore of major concern. That being said, since the regime and the system (the 'old world') is also one half of the problem, isn't there a risk the two camps will lock themselves into a vicious cycle of violence consuming everything around them?
"the two camps will lock themselves into a vicious cycle of violence consuming everything around them?"
—I think that is what they are doing now. If I am understanding your meaning correctly, isn't that what they have always done?
What can we do about it? We don't ever seem to be able to stop them? We just get drawn into their crap. So building a new world—however long it takes—seems to be the only choice.
You make a valid point and I'm on the same wavelength (re: learn to dodge, etc).
Not sure it's always been the case, although right now most certainly all sides are getting manipulated by the same pyramid apex. And it goes without saying realistically reform from within is a fools errand.
It's obviously a longer discussion, but all this isn't happening by chance, so the upheaval, will consume and serve a purpose. So building alternatives shouldn't be in opposition to whatever comes out victorious (for ex. the Mormons will probably be around after, because they're innocuous to whoever is in power).
Let's play with this, using your pyramid metaphor.
1. We definitely don't want to be manipulated by the pyramid.
2. We should stop trying to reform the pyramid. That hasn't worked, and we've been trying for thousands of years.
3. We should try to get away from the pyramid. I mean, right? Why would we want to keep doing this?
4. We should not try to fight the pyramid. Fighting from within means we're still inside it. Fighting from without means war, and why would we want that? Yes, they will keep trying to manipulate, control, and extract from us. But ultimately, the goal is to get away from that rather than do battle with it. I am not opposed to defense by any means, but we should think about the broader meaning of the battle. The battle validates the pyramid's existence. The battle keeps us in the pyramid's world.
5. We should not try to build our own pyramid. Replicating the horror of the past is no way to build a future.
Well said. It has to stop. I've reached the limits of my tolerance when a pastor is told in Dearborn that he wasn't welcome there. It's disgusting when citizens do that stuff to each other but when you have Christianphobes who murderously have been victimizing us and the Jews and anyone else they can in service of their death cult with no end in sight for 1400 years and no chance at assimilation there's no way I'm going to be quiet. I was for a time after I was curious if I was giving them a chance and I know I have now and I can not be more disgusted with what Europe and the UK and even countries like Venezuela allowed with their Hezbollah presence and Iranian ties. It seems like the UN is captured and needs to be disbanded. The Chinese view Islam as a mental illness and they're kind of right. There really is no coexisting with them and they are supremisits. Let's go Crusading.
Crusading is unnecessary. The West simply has to stop pretending that down is up and black is white. And to recognize that people who say they want you conquered or dead actually mean what they say.
They lost the plot. I'm not saying let's actually go Crusading Crusading but in spirit. The West knows down isn't up and so forth, they just don't care due to that upsetting the order where the few in power, especially the liberal regimes and families and companies that have dominated the last 120 ish years. They want digital currency bc they screwed up the money and debts are through the roof and it's a mess. The replacement is on.
These systems need fresh blood and access to the systems people are trafficked through and upward mobility and building generational wealth even for the people who have long been here has been purposely manipulated while they cram communism down everyone's throats and demand loyalty to the state. Each generation gets a series of crisis that are manufactured. You know all the Clowerd Piven stuff. We're cattle to be milked and put to pasture for them for the most part. They come calling when they want to mount up defenses.
Everyone has different solutions to this problem. Mine is to be aware of it (such awareness is indeed the subject of this piece), but my focus remains on building a new type of civilization with a new type of long-term plan.
I think most people my age and yours are aware. It's the building while eliminating the fuckery that is a quandary. I'm all ears and you know I'm here for it. 🙂
How about instead of trying to liberate everyone, though, we instead just offer liberation for all those who desire it?
Do you see what I mean? Yes, running away from the fuckery does not stop the fuckery. And yes, the fuckery continues to mess with us. But that seems to be the case no matter what we do. When has it not?
So what I am suggesting is that we build small pockets where the fuckery doesn't exist. Then we expand those pockets…
Certainly operations we only guess at are underway behind the curtain, and certainly wealth and power own both of our pretend political parties. I get more of my news from the meme lords I follow than from corporate media. I’ve been sitting in this waiting room ten minutes, with my back to a tv and my hearing aids turned off, and I still feel slimed. I just refused pop everything back in the 90s, especially the infantilized BUY OUR FALSE DICHOTOMY NOW NOW NOW news cycle. But that doesn’t mean that what’s happening isn’t important.
Even if you take the cultural anthropologist’s view that most mass movements are evidence of systemic forces, it is pertinent to watch those forces at play, especially when certain behavioral boundaries are crossed. Disengagement need not mean inattention, and ignorance is seldom good strategy.
Social collapse always takes the most optimistic sector of the populace by surprise, and pretending the mass movements on ‘left’ and ‘right’ are inducing equivalent behavioral deviations in their adherents is optimistic indeed. One has only to observe the ‘right’s’ reaction to ‘their’ partisans’ incursions against speech, or peer through slatted blinds at the totalitarian ‘left’s’ ecstatic chanting crowds, to know where today’s liberal-minded remnant have gathered, for the time, and what they must oppose.
Christopher calls out Islam and its violent cult behaviors correctly, but I cannot help thinking that the problem with the escher-esque religious mind of any flavor is its insistence that its fantasies trump reality. Question what I know for a fact, you get a shrug and a chuckle. Question what I’m gritting my teeth to make believe, and murder sprouts black in the marrow of my bones.
"with my back to a tv and my hearing aids turned off, and I still feel slimed."
—Oh God, totally. I always sit as far away as I can!
"I just refused pop everything back in the 90s, especially the infantilized BUY OUR FALSE DICHOTOMY NOW NOW NOW news cycle. But that doesn’t mean that what’s happening isn’t important."
As you know I have zero faith in politics, politicians (with a few exceptions such as JFK and Lincoln) or the whole left/right BS charade. In addition I believe all religions, which all have a bit of true divine knowledge trapped in mostly psychopathic worship of an evil "god" (Satan) and utter BS to control the masses and put them against each other.
The "god" of the Old Testament and Jewish Torah murdered over 24 Million people in his "holy" book. Islam is an Abrahamic religion too. Catholics against Protestants, Sunni Muslims vs Shia Muslims, Judaism which is against everybody who are not Jewish and have a mandate from their "god" to steal from, murder every man - woman - child - animal in a targeted area (Just like Gaza today), Hindus vs Moslems, Christians vs Muslims, Christians vs Native people on 4 continents, Communists against so many. I believe your picking on Muslims is very western.
Though I would disagree with some specifics, I will certainly agree with the notion that there is plenty of culpability for ugliness and horror to go around.
On the last notion, though, the opposite is true. Most people in the West know all about the brutality of the Crusades (which were certainly brutal), but don't know anything of the nearly 1,000 years of relentless hamming of Europe by expansionist Islam. They see the Crusades as an unprovoked atrocity, with no knowledge of anything else. Almost 800 battles dropped down the memory hole.
There is plenty of sin to go around, but no one is better than Westerners at building pluralistic, tolerant, prosperous societies that everyone wants to come to, and then holding themselves exclusively culpable for all the sins of the world.
Completely 100% agree.
Yes, the "right" sucks, too, in its own ways. Yes, they are two feet connected to the same golem who is squashing the people step by step. Yes, it's all scripted ... And certainly, I hold no illusions that those in power differ a whit between right and left. They all have the same handlers, and the same goals; they merely present with different window dressing.
BUT.
As far as *individuals* are concerned, those on the "right" at least put on the facade of virtue. Is that more insidious, in the end, than the left? Maybe, but at this point in the game, I'd rather align myself with those who worship a God of false light -- even if it's a temporary allegiance, and we will eventually have to part ways -- because our common enemy is so blatant, at this point, that it would be comical if it wasn't so brutal.
I agree that it does not matter what the truth is about Charlie Kirk. I hadn't even heard of him until he was murdered, and I certainly don't think that the official story adds up. However, the response to his public assassination HAS proven to be an astonishing litmus test for "Decent Human Being" versus "Rabid Leftard Cultist." If you believe that some has-been pedophile talk-show host getting fired from his propagandist gig is a bigger atrocity than a man getting shot, you have failed the test. Period. Full stop. Similarly, if you are gleefully celebrating the death of someone whose sole "crime" was to have public opinions, you have likewise failed the test. You are a member of a cult, and that cult worships evil. Literal, boldfaced evil.
... And they aren't trying to hide it anymore, not even a little bit. I saw a bumper sticker at the local grocery Co-Op last week -- which has a reputation for being rabidly lefty -- that said something to the effect of, "Coffee, cuddles and Satanism." I am deeply respectful of the property rights of others, even those whose beliefs I find abhorrent, but that one did give me the distinct desire to smash the windshield in.
(Total tangent, but on the topic of unbelievable and abhorrent bumper stickers, earlier on this summer I saw one on the same bumper as a "Planned Parenthood" sticker that simply read, "Vaccines!" in rainbow lettering. Cannot make this up.)
Your inclusion of Islam in this article almost reads like a tangent as well, except that I think you may be hinting at a reality that we can all sense, but that is still taboo to vocalize: the Islamists worship the same entity that the Leftists do. They might call it Allah rather than Baal, but it's the same demon, whispering to them from the same playbook of pretend victimhood. Their beliefs are fundamentally incompatible with anyone who desires even a modicum of freedom. They are backwards and deranged, and entertaining any notion otherwise is foolhardy.
All beliefs are not created equal. All opinions do not have equal merit. Some are just plain stupid ... And some are just plain evil. Time to call it like it is.
"All beliefs are not created equal. All opinions do not have equal merit. Some are just plain stupid ... And some are just plain evil. Time to call it like it is."
—Well and rightly said.
"Your inclusion of Islam in this article almost reads like a tangent as well, except that I think you may be hinting at a reality that we can all sense, but that is still taboo to vocalize…"
—Yes to all you said there. But also, the proximate reason I included it is because I read Max's article first, and he includes them. I have been having similar thoughts to those he expressed, so I figured it was a good reason to write a complementary piece.
"(Total tangent, but on the topic of unbelievable and abhorrent bumper stickers, earlier on this summer I saw one on the same bumper as a "Planned Parenthood" sticker that simply read, "Vaccines!" in rainbow lettering. Cannot make this up.)"
—Their views are almost invariably a predictable package deal. The same can be said for many on the classical-liberal right, but not quite to the same Stepford degree.
" I am deeply respectful of the property rights of others, even those whose beliefs I find abhorrent, but that one did give me the distinct desire to smash the windshield in."
—I feel you!
"Similarly, if you are gleefully celebrating the death of someone whose sole "crime" was to have public opinions, you have likewise failed the test. You are a member of a cult, and that cult worships evil. Literal, boldfaced evil."
—Yes to that whole paragraph.
"And certainly, I hold no illusions that those in power differ a whit between right and left."
—There are so many layers at which things are occurring, and it is hard to know exactly what we mean when we say left and right. (Political parties? People? Ideologies? Groups?) Ultimately, we have to judge based on violations of human consent. That is the fundamental unit of moral concern—the sine qua non or right action.
I have no idea why I answered all this backwards!
Brother, I was reading along, cheering, till I encountered my name. Thank you for helping others see that our enemies come in far more flavors than 'statist.'
And the very same to you, hermano.
And it's not just statists now. Some have come to the viewpoint that because things are being manipulated from the shadows (to an unknown degree by an indeterminate set of shadow powers), there is really no point in paying attention to anything else. So the rabbit hole becomes everything to them, and they speak as if any person, group, or institution that is subject to manipulation from the shadows can safely be ignored because it is only the shadow power that matters. (As if manipulated people aren't real, and can't do really bad things!)
Well articulated. The eternal “it’s a psyop” is a cope — and one that allows this shit to continue because it keeps people in ostrich mode while somehow feeling superior as if they know the REAL truth. Rabbit holes aside there’s real death, real dehumanization and real disgust — which are the ingredients for genocide. I haven’t been quite right since this massive unveiling of witnessing it from people I know personally - it’s not something you can log off or unfollow. Thank you for this article.
“'it’s a psyop' is a cope"
—Oh jeez, that is a really good point. Please let me see if I am understanding. Is it this: for all the horror that psyops reveal, is it easier, emotionally, to accept that everything is being manipulated by puppet masters that it is to face the fact that the puppet masters are manipulating real people—their friends and neighbors?
Yes because one keeps you detached from accountability and responsibility - the other doesn't.
Yeah. It might also just be emotionally easier to focus on a tiny cabal of shadow players. If everything is solely the fault of a small number of architects of evil, then we don't have to face the fact that many people (programmed or not) are willingly participating in evil. It's far less scary that way.
I dunno—so much is in flux and hard to understand…but I think there might be something to this.
The fact that you're not feeling quite right, whether due to the actual event or the fall-out in the form of people's reactions to it, is what classifies a thing as a psychological operation. It's not a term synonymous with 'fake'. Psy-ops are real events involving real people and real casualties. Identifying a ploy to manipulate minds via media messaging is a sure way to safeguard oneself against being manipulated. We are in a heavy demoralization stage of the op and it's paramount to take care of your alignment, or else fall victim to it. Prioritizing your well-being by being watchful and understanding the psychological tactics at play is not equal to existing in ostrich-mode. It's actually a way to exist as a warrior, deeply rooted in your agency and connected to Source. Sending you my love, sister. You can call me if you ever need someone to talk to. ❤️
Real people and real casualties—exactly.
But I wonder if some people are so focused on identifying the hidden hand, and on figuring out what *really* happened, that they ignore the layer of reality in which those events are real, with real impacts and involving real people…
Absolutely there are people out there doing that. 100%!
You are oddly taking what I said both personally and out of context. "Prioritizing your well-being by being watchful and understanding the psychological tactics at play" is not what/who I'm talking about -- odd that it struck a nerve with you. The people I'm speaking about, and the ones he's mentioning, are people who literally think its fake, or who are lost on other elements of reality. Some people I know think the whole thing was AI and he's not really dead. The list goes on.
I'm not explaining past that. Do not manipulatively try to dress your presumptuous comment up as being "helpful" with your ending sentence. Your last two comments on things I've said on Substack are quite frankly, bitchy and bizarre. Whatever your head trip is at this time in your life, handle it, don't project it onto people who aren't even talking to you.
I didn't get a notification for this tag. Ugh.
Hoo boy.
I didn't either, btw. I just happened to read your article and was surprised to see my tag!
Where do you normally look at your notifications?
Desktop and phone! In the little 🔔activity section.
Weird. I am getting them there. I mean, I suppose I would not know if some aren't showing up, but I definitely get sme of them at least. Do you get any?
I do! I get many. But not the one from you. 🤷♀️
This situation has pushed me to step away from media, etc .... and what it is attempting to portray, program us with, even moreso than usual.
Just a few days in afterwards, ( I DID NOT do rabbit holes) and I was "fatigued" by the whole thing. My antennae was up and didn't accept what was put out. Then the funeral, which I knew was happening but ignored. Ughhhhh
Why do you think that it matters what label we put on them? Neither is beneficial or good.
It's best to isolate, step away. No?
Step away, yes. But we must not ignore reality in the process. I am trying to think of an analogy or metaphor…
Okay, let us say that as part of the process of stepping away, I physically remove myself—I buy a piece of land in the country and spend most of my time there. If, one day, I decide to visit a big city, I still need to know what neighborhoods to avoid. I still need to assess risk.
The same applies here. I have noticed that, in the process of stepping away, a number of colleagues also cease to account for the differences between ideologies and the risks they pose—as if those are just a part of "that" world, which we have left, and thus sorta kinda don't exist anymore. But that world is still real and can still affect us. So all I am doing here is reminding people to be aware of that.
I get it. Thanks
I just realized that I missed this part: "Why do you think that it matters what label we put on them? Neither is beneficial or good."
Does it bother you that I did so?
Agree.
The obsession with equalising everything also needs to stop.
Things that are equal in some respects are not equal in every respect.
Well said.
No, absolutely try, it is better to try than not. Not arguing with you either, more akin to brainstorming or trouble shooting. We're on the same side of liberty and natural law.
Oh for sure we’re on the same side. I have just noticed that there is a lot of despair and sense of hopelessness in the air (I even feel it myself from time to time). So I want to make sure people are pumped up and ready to rock, no matter how dark things can sometimes seem.
(And I am, of course, happy to troubleshoot specific issues with you anytime!)
❤️🙏
"I do not plan to wallow in (or attempt to reform) the old world. I plan to work with you to build a new world in the cracks of the old."
Thanks for the Borders article. But after having read it, then returning to yours, isn't there a risk there won't be anywhere to build a new world?
Borders does a good job at creating an analytical framework, bringing together, and then dissembling into parts, the egregore of major concern. That being said, since the regime and the system (the 'old world') is also one half of the problem, isn't there a risk the two camps will lock themselves into a vicious cycle of violence consuming everything around them?
"the two camps will lock themselves into a vicious cycle of violence consuming everything around them?"
—I think that is what they are doing now. If I am understanding your meaning correctly, isn't that what they have always done?
What can we do about it? We don't ever seem to be able to stop them? We just get drawn into their crap. So building a new world—however long it takes—seems to be the only choice.
You make a valid point and I'm on the same wavelength (re: learn to dodge, etc).
Not sure it's always been the case, although right now most certainly all sides are getting manipulated by the same pyramid apex. And it goes without saying realistically reform from within is a fools errand.
It's obviously a longer discussion, but all this isn't happening by chance, so the upheaval, will consume and serve a purpose. So building alternatives shouldn't be in opposition to whatever comes out victorious (for ex. the Mormons will probably be around after, because they're innocuous to whoever is in power).
Let's play with this, using your pyramid metaphor.
1. We definitely don't want to be manipulated by the pyramid.
2. We should stop trying to reform the pyramid. That hasn't worked, and we've been trying for thousands of years.
3. We should try to get away from the pyramid. I mean, right? Why would we want to keep doing this?
4. We should not try to fight the pyramid. Fighting from within means we're still inside it. Fighting from without means war, and why would we want that? Yes, they will keep trying to manipulate, control, and extract from us. But ultimately, the goal is to get away from that rather than do battle with it. I am not opposed to defense by any means, but we should think about the broader meaning of the battle. The battle validates the pyramid's existence. The battle keeps us in the pyramid's world.
5. We should not try to build our own pyramid. Replicating the horror of the past is no way to build a future.
So what defeats a pyramid?
Wind. Time. Grains of sand.
THAT is our model.
Well said. It has to stop. I've reached the limits of my tolerance when a pastor is told in Dearborn that he wasn't welcome there. It's disgusting when citizens do that stuff to each other but when you have Christianphobes who murderously have been victimizing us and the Jews and anyone else they can in service of their death cult with no end in sight for 1400 years and no chance at assimilation there's no way I'm going to be quiet. I was for a time after I was curious if I was giving them a chance and I know I have now and I can not be more disgusted with what Europe and the UK and even countries like Venezuela allowed with their Hezbollah presence and Iranian ties. It seems like the UN is captured and needs to be disbanded. The Chinese view Islam as a mental illness and they're kind of right. There really is no coexisting with them and they are supremisits. Let's go Crusading.
Crusading is unnecessary. The West simply has to stop pretending that down is up and black is white. And to recognize that people who say they want you conquered or dead actually mean what they say.
They lost the plot. I'm not saying let's actually go Crusading Crusading but in spirit. The West knows down isn't up and so forth, they just don't care due to that upsetting the order where the few in power, especially the liberal regimes and families and companies that have dominated the last 120 ish years. They want digital currency bc they screwed up the money and debts are through the roof and it's a mess. The replacement is on.
These systems need fresh blood and access to the systems people are trafficked through and upward mobility and building generational wealth even for the people who have long been here has been purposely manipulated while they cram communism down everyone's throats and demand loyalty to the state. Each generation gets a series of crisis that are manufactured. You know all the Clowerd Piven stuff. We're cattle to be milked and put to pasture for them for the most part. They come calling when they want to mount up defenses.
Everyone has different solutions to this problem. Mine is to be aware of it (such awareness is indeed the subject of this piece), but my focus remains on building a new type of civilization with a new type of long-term plan.
I think most people my age and yours are aware. It's the building while eliminating the fuckery that is a quandary. I'm all ears and you know I'm here for it. 🙂
How about instead of trying to liberate everyone, though, we instead just offer liberation for all those who desire it?
Do you see what I mean? Yes, running away from the fuckery does not stop the fuckery. And yes, the fuckery continues to mess with us. But that seems to be the case no matter what we do. When has it not?
So what I am suggesting is that we build small pockets where the fuckery doesn't exist. Then we expand those pockets…
Certainly operations we only guess at are underway behind the curtain, and certainly wealth and power own both of our pretend political parties. I get more of my news from the meme lords I follow than from corporate media. I’ve been sitting in this waiting room ten minutes, with my back to a tv and my hearing aids turned off, and I still feel slimed. I just refused pop everything back in the 90s, especially the infantilized BUY OUR FALSE DICHOTOMY NOW NOW NOW news cycle. But that doesn’t mean that what’s happening isn’t important.
Even if you take the cultural anthropologist’s view that most mass movements are evidence of systemic forces, it is pertinent to watch those forces at play, especially when certain behavioral boundaries are crossed. Disengagement need not mean inattention, and ignorance is seldom good strategy.
Social collapse always takes the most optimistic sector of the populace by surprise, and pretending the mass movements on ‘left’ and ‘right’ are inducing equivalent behavioral deviations in their adherents is optimistic indeed. One has only to observe the ‘right’s’ reaction to ‘their’ partisans’ incursions against speech, or peer through slatted blinds at the totalitarian ‘left’s’ ecstatic chanting crowds, to know where today’s liberal-minded remnant have gathered, for the time, and what they must oppose.
Christopher calls out Islam and its violent cult behaviors correctly, but I cannot help thinking that the problem with the escher-esque religious mind of any flavor is its insistence that its fantasies trump reality. Question what I know for a fact, you get a shrug and a chuckle. Question what I’m gritting my teeth to make believe, and murder sprouts black in the marrow of my bones.
"with my back to a tv and my hearing aids turned off, and I still feel slimed."
—Oh God, totally. I always sit as far away as I can!
"I just refused pop everything back in the 90s, especially the infantilized BUY OUR FALSE DICHOTOMY NOW NOW NOW news cycle. But that doesn’t mean that what’s happening isn’t important."
—Yes, I feel this exactly.
Well said
Thank you.
Great article! I wish this was better understood by more people. You’re one of the few authors that keeps me on Substack. Thanks.
Thank you. I respect your views, and so it is comforting to find you on a similar page.
And please stay on Substack—I will keep doing my best to keep you here!
Christopher I agree with title and subtitle.
As you know I have zero faith in politics, politicians (with a few exceptions such as JFK and Lincoln) or the whole left/right BS charade. In addition I believe all religions, which all have a bit of true divine knowledge trapped in mostly psychopathic worship of an evil "god" (Satan) and utter BS to control the masses and put them against each other.
The "god" of the Old Testament and Jewish Torah murdered over 24 Million people in his "holy" book. Islam is an Abrahamic religion too. Catholics against Protestants, Sunni Muslims vs Shia Muslims, Judaism which is against everybody who are not Jewish and have a mandate from their "god" to steal from, murder every man - woman - child - animal in a targeted area (Just like Gaza today), Hindus vs Moslems, Christians vs Muslims, Christians vs Native people on 4 continents, Communists against so many. I believe your picking on Muslims is very western.
Though I would disagree with some specifics, I will certainly agree with the notion that there is plenty of culpability for ugliness and horror to go around.
On the last notion, though, the opposite is true. Most people in the West know all about the brutality of the Crusades (which were certainly brutal), but don't know anything of the nearly 1,000 years of relentless hamming of Europe by expansionist Islam. They see the Crusades as an unprovoked atrocity, with no knowledge of anything else. Almost 800 battles dropped down the memory hole.
There is plenty of sin to go around, but no one is better than Westerners at building pluralistic, tolerant, prosperous societies that everyone wants to come to, and then holding themselves exclusively culpable for all the sins of the world.