Come on guys, politics is an illusion. You’re watching a soap opera while America is being sold off from both sides. Take control and stop waiting for a politician to fix your problems for you. They are the cause of them:
The media - both news and entertainment - have now politicized nearly everything in our society as an extremely powerf…
Come on guys, politics is an illusion. You’re watching a soap opera while America is being sold off from both sides. Take control and stop waiting for a politician to fix your problems for you. They are the cause of them:
The media - both news and entertainment - have now politicized nearly everything in our society as an extremely powerful mechanism of control.
Most people will not act to secure their future, so long as they feel they have an advocate fighting for them in the public or political arenas. This is why Republican vs Democrat equals divide and conquer (we fight amongst ourselves while they decimate our support systems and establish totalitarian control). The human mind is binary. Our thought process can often be boiled down into terms (often ultimatums) of – this or that – and our adversaries understand - very well - the art of this war.
(Instead of you taking control of the system or working to prepare for the worst (growing a garden, digging a well, strengthening your community, gathering supplies, and becoming resilient) you hold out hope for a politician to sweep in and solve your problems for you. There is only one place this lack of action can take us. Power corrupts and Washington DC is as corrupt as they come.)
They know that politicization (pitting us at each other throats regardless of relationship status - neighbor, co-worker, friend, family) is so effective at manipulating us because most emotionally connect their personal belief system to the belief system of their political party, and so then any attack on their party – legitimate or otherwise – is interpreted by their brain as an attack on themselves. Reason and logic then jump out the nearest window as raw emotion takes the helm, thus making them even more susceptible to the predatory controlling influences.
These are extremely damaging and misfortunate exploits of human nature. Worse, these exploits are as easy to activate as flipping a light switch for the majority of the population - and they are currently being employed to their maximum known extent.
Brilliantly said. I wish I could write like that. I've been trying to get that message out for most of my life. To deaf ears. I'm convinced that most people want to be coddled anymore. They don't want to be free. If I dare to mention any truth going on I'm told I'm "negative". When I've told people that their liberty is up to themselves and not up to a huge corrupt government, I'm told that I'm a "Trump Hater". Haha. When I try to explain I hate *all* of these monsters and all evil, bloated, war-mongering government on the planet I'm told I'm a "conspiracy theorist." Oh well. I just continue to live the freest life I can live, even when it is uncomfortable and/or scary. I believe that most of us who are living as free as we can can only set the example because most of the public anymore just can't grasp the concept that they don't need a king to have a good life. It's astonishing to me that people just don't get it. I never thought I'd see a time in my life where people were afraid to be free. And that's kind of where we are at. It takes courage to be free and I think we've gone way past the expiration date on courage in America.
Don't despair. My college aged kids have endured my silent statements of fact for a decade. Youngest now openly pushes back. Once, I said to him, "You probably think I'm crazy." His reply? "No. I think you're so smart you twist what you read into your belief system." I laughed at that, then added: "I was once smart like you, believed all the idealistic things I was exposed to. Life experiences and facts that drove the outcomes taught me the error of my ways. You believe in ideals, just like I did. But men and organizations work with a more sinister code of conduct. You either learn the code and adapt, or you're betrayed and abused by it. Choose wisely."
A few weeks later, independent of that conversation, daughter relayed something to me that really helped. She was playing a board game with friends, and was asked two questions. First, if she were stranded on a deserted island and could chose only one person to be there, who would it be? Second, if she were under attack by a gang or riot and could chose only one person to help, who would you choose?
Without hesitation, she chose me for both answers.
THEY ARE LISTENING, LEARNING, EVEN IF THEY'RE NOT SHOWING IT.
I don't look like anything imposing or intimidating or macho outdoor survivalist. But I am smart, and I NEVER quit learning to DO things... fix everything, make many things, grow food (very poorly at first), and LEARN-LEARN-LEARN. For a decade now, I've been learning about the nefarious crap our gov't does and preparing for self-reliance. And they've been watching, listening. They know more than you think.
Politics IS an illusion. Some insiders even write about it ("Deep State" by Mike Lofgren, 2016 comes to mind. Lofgren, a career REPUBLICAN staffer on Capitol Hill, for some "bigger than average" Senators and Congressmen). He saw "how the sausage is made". Lofgren notes that on the things that matter, both parties are invested in the status quo and their "sponsors". America is a largely controlled society with the veneer of a "constitutional republic". He notes several examples, including health care and the Middle East, both controlled by powerful lobbies which promote policies (and Congress legislates accordingly) that are OPPOSED by a majority of Americans.
A lot of it has to do with the relatively very high (relative to America's level of affluence) level of ignorance among Americans. Public education has completely failed for many people. Most schools have failed to develop the vast majority of young Americans to their full potential--and a big factor is many American kids come from broken homes (or "non-conventional familis), or when they don't, American parents are too busy with BS to get their kids in the mindset that school is important. They offload their kids to schools that look like prisons, to baby sit them.
In "Bowling Alone" by Robert Putnam (circa 2005, by Putnam, a liberal Ivy League professor, who in this very book, with HIS research, shreds many liberal illusions) referenced a study that showed the average US high school graduate from 1948 was more proficient in math, basic science, English, and history than the average US college graduate 50 years later.
One example: despite the lies of the US government ("victory is around the corner!") and the pro-US media coverage of the Vietnam war until the Tet Offensive, in the mid-1960s millions of Americans were opposing the war. Today, a plurality of the public went along with COVID and the vaccine, hardly anyone protested the US role in Ukraine, and Americans who protest US policy in Palestine are deplatformed or fired.
Today's twenty-somethings are more adept at using TikTok, Facebook, and smartphone than those of the 1990s in Putnam's book, so we should be OK.
And mobs are composed of individuals under that influence, seeking equilibrium at the lowest common denominator. The covid psyops being a supremely successful example of the phenomenon.
basically, 95% of political discourse is emotional, not rational.
this is why really smart people can get online and post the most idiotic takes that won’t hold up to an ounce of scrutiny. and the powers that be know this. at some level, the recent drone swarm and double terrorist attacks on New Years are an aspect of this. it’s all fear, emotion and distraction. these incidents are being used to distract us and manipulate us to some unseen end.
Come on guys, politics is an illusion. You’re watching a soap opera while America is being sold off from both sides. Take control and stop waiting for a politician to fix your problems for you. They are the cause of them:
The media - both news and entertainment - have now politicized nearly everything in our society as an extremely powerful mechanism of control.
Most people will not act to secure their future, so long as they feel they have an advocate fighting for them in the public or political arenas. This is why Republican vs Democrat equals divide and conquer (we fight amongst ourselves while they decimate our support systems and establish totalitarian control). The human mind is binary. Our thought process can often be boiled down into terms (often ultimatums) of – this or that – and our adversaries understand - very well - the art of this war.
(Instead of you taking control of the system or working to prepare for the worst (growing a garden, digging a well, strengthening your community, gathering supplies, and becoming resilient) you hold out hope for a politician to sweep in and solve your problems for you. There is only one place this lack of action can take us. Power corrupts and Washington DC is as corrupt as they come.)
They know that politicization (pitting us at each other throats regardless of relationship status - neighbor, co-worker, friend, family) is so effective at manipulating us because most emotionally connect their personal belief system to the belief system of their political party, and so then any attack on their party – legitimate or otherwise – is interpreted by their brain as an attack on themselves. Reason and logic then jump out the nearest window as raw emotion takes the helm, thus making them even more susceptible to the predatory controlling influences.
These are extremely damaging and misfortunate exploits of human nature. Worse, these exploits are as easy to activate as flipping a light switch for the majority of the population - and they are currently being employed to their maximum known extent.
Excerpt from https://tritorch.com/folly
Brilliantly said. I wish I could write like that. I've been trying to get that message out for most of my life. To deaf ears. I'm convinced that most people want to be coddled anymore. They don't want to be free. If I dare to mention any truth going on I'm told I'm "negative". When I've told people that their liberty is up to themselves and not up to a huge corrupt government, I'm told that I'm a "Trump Hater". Haha. When I try to explain I hate *all* of these monsters and all evil, bloated, war-mongering government on the planet I'm told I'm a "conspiracy theorist." Oh well. I just continue to live the freest life I can live, even when it is uncomfortable and/or scary. I believe that most of us who are living as free as we can can only set the example because most of the public anymore just can't grasp the concept that they don't need a king to have a good life. It's astonishing to me that people just don't get it. I never thought I'd see a time in my life where people were afraid to be free. And that's kind of where we are at. It takes courage to be free and I think we've gone way past the expiration date on courage in America.
Don't despair. My college aged kids have endured my silent statements of fact for a decade. Youngest now openly pushes back. Once, I said to him, "You probably think I'm crazy." His reply? "No. I think you're so smart you twist what you read into your belief system." I laughed at that, then added: "I was once smart like you, believed all the idealistic things I was exposed to. Life experiences and facts that drove the outcomes taught me the error of my ways. You believe in ideals, just like I did. But men and organizations work with a more sinister code of conduct. You either learn the code and adapt, or you're betrayed and abused by it. Choose wisely."
A few weeks later, independent of that conversation, daughter relayed something to me that really helped. She was playing a board game with friends, and was asked two questions. First, if she were stranded on a deserted island and could chose only one person to be there, who would it be? Second, if she were under attack by a gang or riot and could chose only one person to help, who would you choose?
Without hesitation, she chose me for both answers.
THEY ARE LISTENING, LEARNING, EVEN IF THEY'RE NOT SHOWING IT.
I don't look like anything imposing or intimidating or macho outdoor survivalist. But I am smart, and I NEVER quit learning to DO things... fix everything, make many things, grow food (very poorly at first), and LEARN-LEARN-LEARN. For a decade now, I've been learning about the nefarious crap our gov't does and preparing for self-reliance. And they've been watching, listening. They know more than you think.
Politics IS an illusion. Some insiders even write about it ("Deep State" by Mike Lofgren, 2016 comes to mind. Lofgren, a career REPUBLICAN staffer on Capitol Hill, for some "bigger than average" Senators and Congressmen). He saw "how the sausage is made". Lofgren notes that on the things that matter, both parties are invested in the status quo and their "sponsors". America is a largely controlled society with the veneer of a "constitutional republic". He notes several examples, including health care and the Middle East, both controlled by powerful lobbies which promote policies (and Congress legislates accordingly) that are OPPOSED by a majority of Americans.
A lot of it has to do with the relatively very high (relative to America's level of affluence) level of ignorance among Americans. Public education has completely failed for many people. Most schools have failed to develop the vast majority of young Americans to their full potential--and a big factor is many American kids come from broken homes (or "non-conventional familis), or when they don't, American parents are too busy with BS to get their kids in the mindset that school is important. They offload their kids to schools that look like prisons, to baby sit them.
In "Bowling Alone" by Robert Putnam (circa 2005, by Putnam, a liberal Ivy League professor, who in this very book, with HIS research, shreds many liberal illusions) referenced a study that showed the average US high school graduate from 1948 was more proficient in math, basic science, English, and history than the average US college graduate 50 years later.
One example: despite the lies of the US government ("victory is around the corner!") and the pro-US media coverage of the Vietnam war until the Tet Offensive, in the mid-1960s millions of Americans were opposing the war. Today, a plurality of the public went along with COVID and the vaccine, hardly anyone protested the US role in Ukraine, and Americans who protest US policy in Palestine are deplatformed or fired.
Today's twenty-somethings are more adept at using TikTok, Facebook, and smartphone than those of the 1990s in Putnam's book, so we should be OK.
"A lot of it has to do with the relatively very high (relative to America's level of affluence) level of ignorance among Americans." ~ SocratesDetroit
Contrast that with ...
What do Russians want in 2025? | BBC News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jc_4jOUrJgs&t=1s
Mob psychology at work.
And mobs are composed of individuals under that influence, seeking equilibrium at the lowest common denominator. The covid psyops being a supremely successful example of the phenomenon.
Planet of the Chimps, Part 1.
"Election Day 1948" 10/30/48 cover of the Saturday Evening Post.
https://www.parkwestgallery.com/election-day-tribute-to-norman-rockwell/
Same shit, different era.
basically, 95% of political discourse is emotional, not rational.
this is why really smart people can get online and post the most idiotic takes that won’t hold up to an ounce of scrutiny. and the powers that be know this. at some level, the recent drone swarm and double terrorist attacks on New Years are an aspect of this. it’s all fear, emotion and distraction. these incidents are being used to distract us and manipulate us to some unseen end.
what that end is more inscrutable…