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Hitler was born out of "democracy." And so was communism by the western elite. That tells me that democracy is in fact, the demonstration of an emerging totalitarian oligopoly. Because power that destroys social power (community) is toxic power (The few in command of the many.)

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Right on.

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The demon in democracy audiobook https://youtu.be/vykuVA6E-ak?si=L-pybWOjXfS33mij

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Thanks. Have you read it yet?

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Yes, it's a good one

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👍

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Sep 17Liked by Christopher Cook

Yes, a very few. People don’t realize how few 96% of our media is run by 6 people.

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Sep 17Liked by Christopher Cook

You can simply ignore the media and trust that they will never tell it like it is. This is what I do. Listening or absorbing the MSM gains you what?

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Sep 18Liked by Christopher Cook

It’s true I always ignore the mainstream media. However, a good portion of idiots still believe in it and really have to come out of their coma.

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Sep 17Liked by Christopher Cook

Seems like the 60:40 divide of people is as unstable as a mixture of oil and water. Given that we 40% cannot overcome the votes of the 60%, surely we can only get the society we want by living in countries or states where libertarianism is the ruling ideology. Countries do declare themselves to be communist or socialist, we need territory that declares for libertarianism.

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Yep. And one of many advantages of that is that it does not impose anything on the 60%. They can live how they want, and so can we. Especially if we use the principles of panarchism to allow people to remain in their homes and choose the services or governance they wish.

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Sep 17Liked by Christopher Cook

"They can live how they want, and so can we. "

Sorry to spoil the mood, but recent history tells us the exact opposite.

Anyway, I'm just rushing towards my own conclusion here, which is something no one really wants to articulate.

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Well, from OUR standpoint, they can live how they want. I realize that that is theoretical, in the sense that they probably will not afford us the same courtesy. But that, at last, can be our philosophical starting point.

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Sep 17Liked by Christopher Cook

Right. Have you noticed how it's always us who have to be the good guys.

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Perhaps that is the way of things—for good guys to be good and bad guys to be bad.

That does not tie our hands entirely, however.

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Sep 18Liked by Christopher Cook

Magnificent Chapter and footnotes. This one both figuratively and literally hits home. If Americans' society were to revert back to the self regulating and sustainable living. Meaning to be "self-sufficient again" by utilizing the latest technologies in place of the ox and plow. Growing and raising their own food supplies. Utilizing small energy management systems in the communities. Thereby decentralizing the strangle hold. There's a lot more to this than I will detail in your space here but the point is that we should consider how much influence that convenience has fed the machine in place of our basic needs. Evolving into working for those basic requirements of life itself. To this point where humanity has actually gone backwards to Kingdom. Without realizing that fact.

America is where the home is our individual Kingdoms. Or it was, for that matter. I believe that is the greatest fear of the ruling types. Therefore, in some way has been circumvented through the fabrications of the entire monetary systems that which is controlled.

And you know where I'm going with that.

We might debate about it further but essentially it's definitely time to pass the proverbial boton and upscale to what worked in the first place. It sounds like going backwards but that's hyperbole actually.

Don't believe the hype that is being spread across the sphere of the political dumpster fire set by Fascist Marxist ideologies from the career political parasite elitists.

Just say No to working for energy, food, water, clothes, home, transportation or communication because these are basic necessities of modern society.

Damnit, I'm going way past my minutes again but it's time to reinvent America. Not burn it down and hand it over to what has already been done without realizing what that actually means. There are several more intelligent and good people like Christopher who put great effort into solutions to problems that are actually more realistic than whatever any government office or beaurocrat has in store. As illustrated perfectly by this chapter.

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Thanks, Orion!

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Sep 18Liked by Christopher Cook

Likewise‼️🤜👑🤛

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Sep 18Liked by Christopher Cook

I'd be interested to know what that is, Skidmark. Don't worry. I don't bite; very hard.

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Sep 19Liked by Christopher Cook

As luck would have it, I feel sick tonight so maybe I'll stay home tomorrow and write the whole thing down.

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Sep 17Liked by Christopher Cook

To break away from government and its tyrannical clutches, one needs to live totally independent of just about everything. That means hunting and growing your own food, avoiding the medical system, creating your own power, living totally off the grid, being prepared to defend your outpost, perhaps living in the wilds, exiting the banking/monetary system, going for days and weeks without being clean, and a million other things that must be done.

Can you even own land free and clear of the government? I don't know. But for 97% of the country, living apart from the government is not gonna fly. We have become to conventionalized. The problem is all along we never expected to be forced into making decisions that require near extreme measures to retain our freedom.

200-300 years ago, people lived more freely and could endure tremendous hardships. Since then, we have become marginalized as citizen slaves who have become irrelevant and subject to being exterminated like rats. I suppose each of us needs to decide on what hill we choose to be king of or die on. A gruesome but more than ever necessary decision.

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All each of us can do is move in the right direction, right?

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Sep 17Liked by Christopher Cook

100% on point, also my conclusion.

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Good question. Mattias Desmet’s analysis also matches up with Solomon Asch’s Conformity experiment (which he references) where 30% are easily programmed, 30- 40% are aware of the truth but afraid to speak up and only 10-30% are not afraid to call a duck a duck – basically at least 60% are “programable hordes” and Covid-19 also proved this theory correct. Has anyone done a study on the intelligence of the first 30%?

What are your thoughts on the Deagle Report?

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"Has anyone done a study on the intelligence of the first 30%?"

—Not of which I am aware. But smart people are often quite programmable.

"What are your thoughts on the Deagle Report?"

—I do not know much about it, but in general, population decline seems inevitable.

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Sep 17Liked by Christopher Cook

Re intelligence of programmable people.

Check out the testings (and terrors) that survivors have experienced. Often from birth or even in utero.

Or the ‘gifted programs’ in our public edu.

They know how to intentionally traumatize and cause disassociation, and then program those traumatized parts. We can learn a TON from the survivors that have found enough grounding and are bravely speaking out. At least that’s my personal opinion (and what I’m striving to gain the courage to do).

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I don’t know much about the subject, but it is certainly interesting. I know others for whom trauma is a focus

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Sep 29Liked by Christopher Cook

It’s complex, for sure. The more I learn, the more I’m convinced the majority of us have been intentionally and collectively traumatized as well (in addition to those personally perpetrated upon).

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What’s weird for me is that a lot of the “conspiracies” I believed in in my early 20s really are turning out to be true. Or so it very much appears!

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Oct 1Liked by Christopher Cook

Wow, so you’ve known a lot of this for some time now… that makes sense. I’ve only started in the last 5-10 years and there is SO MUCH. I REALLY appreciate you breaking things down!!

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Sep 19Liked by Christopher Cook

Great statistics. It's interesting to know people like that which seems to be the entire problem in the whole scheme of things. Statistics technicians are actually not productive to a society. 🤷‍♀️

There's several arguments about the facts that scheduled and preplanning is not beneficial for a healthy social fabrication. Because it has more to do with profit than quality of work.

Please don't be offended.

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No offense taken. I agree - stats can become very misleading and can be crunched into whatever a person wants them to be. Still, I found Solomon Asch's Conformity Experiment to be very interesting nevertheless.

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Sep 19Liked by Christopher Cook

That's refreshing because I surely don't want to be a statistic either. 😁

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A few wee bits I would address in this very good piece. You say:

"...all in the name of fighting manmade viruses and manufactured “insurrections.”"

The "manmade virus" was a mind infection, inserted into Our society over 100 years ago by John D. Rockefeller by teaching "viruses" and "contagion" as truths when neither to this day have been proven. The Media was used to inject fear based on these lies...

Another bit:

"Between 1783 and 1918, we overthrew or neutered nearly every monarchy on the planet and replaced them all with “democracies” of one sort or another."

The psychopaths in control created for-profit corporations, calling them "governments," claiming democracy, but They count the votes and tell Us who "won" (who They appointed). They use these corporation to create fear, hatred and divide to keep Us conquered...

"By and large, democratically elected governments are not stopping them—they are abetting them.

As the People in the "governments" work for the psychopaths in control, it is no surprise They are aiding and abetting...

"There is no collective blob-entity with its own will, its own feelings, its own thoughts."

BINGO! We are an aggregate of Individuals - as are all groups of living beings on Our planet. Whereas all the others' stigmergy is intact, Our Human stigmergy is quite disrupted...

What in the World is Stigmergy? (article): https://amaterasusolar.substack.com/p/what-in-the-world-is-stigmergy

But yeah... I have absolutely no intentions of consenting to be ruled, and You outline well why I will not. Thank deeply for Your work!!!

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Sep 17Liked by Christopher Cook

Brilliant Christopher!

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> There is no “the people.” There is no collective blob-entity with its own will, its own feelings, its own thoughts.

One thousand percent true!

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It is always annoying when people point to "a bad government that doesn't represent the people." While for short times there can be governments not supported by their populations, if, in the long run, one or several tyrannical governments stay in power, it only means that most of the people in the country support this spirit.

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Sep 17·edited Sep 17Author

Heck, even something as innocuous as the sprinkler park they recently put up at the rec center near us is tyranny. We are forced to pay for it through violence. Nothing more need be said about it.

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Sep 17Liked by Christopher Cook

Or they’ve been coerced into thinking they support it. Or exhausted into paralysis.

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I see that there is a lot of influence from big state and business actors, but I am convinced that the individual can make sound decisions if they want to.

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Sep 29Liked by Christopher Cook

Agree, with enough determination and perseverance. Realizing there ARE choices that can be made, and by them is a huge first step.

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I understand through the author of "The Psychology of Totalitarianism," the statistician and professor of clinical psychology Mattias Desmet, that a cognitive error on the part of enlightenment thinkers put mankind on is current path away from freedom and toward totalitarian rule over themselves. Mankind did so by mistaking "complex" physical systems for "non-complex" physical systems in the construction of models of these systems that were used in their attempts at gaining a degree of control over the outcomes of the events of the future for for these physical systems, where a "complex" physical system exhibits one or more "emergent properties," each of which is a property of the whole physical system and not of the separate parts of this system. Today, this mistake is made by our misnamed "progressives."

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It sure is.

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Sep 20Liked by Christopher Cook

Another good piece as usual, thanks Christopher!

I think I might have found a typo, but please correct me if I'm wrong. You wrote: "The press, academia, and all the other mechanisms of information dissemination will always end up on the *state* of the government." I think you meant "side" of government rather than "state," right?

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Thank you, and thank you for the typo note. It was indeed a typo, but even if it were not, I would still appreciate you letting me know!

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