This. "Many of the lies were already so absurd as to be laughable. That is to say that we already reached the point at which the politicians simply stand at the podium and lie to our faces. It's worse some places than others, but there is lockstep unity among the authoritarians. They believe that is the only way to carry power into the next era."
They no longer feel it's necessary to hide the lies. They can lie without impunity. And that is the most terrifying, sad and frustrating part of the surreal world in which we currently find ourselves.
Yes, the scariest part of all of this. It happens glaringly, in broad daylight, and no consequences. Lying with impunity and KNOWING it doesn't matter. Those people have to know they have this in the bag.
OK, I think the things that Matthew says are brilliant. But, none of us will get anywhere talking amongst ourselves and enlightening ourselves more, whilst meanwhile the masses are hypnotized by mass media. What's the solution?
I think the solution is low-tech, in order to bypass hi-tech. What would that low-tech be? It'd be pamphlet wars, as occurred during the birth of our country (US.) Leave pamphlets around for people to pick up.
What sort of pamphlets (or even books, like "Overcoming the Covid Darkness")? Not pamphlets on mass formation or the global predators-- I mean, seriously? Is anyone who listens to Dr. Fauci going to do anything with such a pamphlet except throw it in the garbage? No, IMHO, the very first thing we need to do is convince people that medicine is being censored. We need to convince people that early treatment for Covid-19 is being deliberately suppressed. If we can do that, they'll take the next step: they'll ask why.
In any case, one reason I don't participate so much in Matthew's other noble projects is that we don't need a few people to see and understand a lot; we need a lot of people to see and understand a little. Think about it.
I like that but much of what I've seen is of the order of: Fauci is evil. And he is. But my idea is to start with less challenging information in order to draw people in and get them thinking. Right now, people who believe in Fauci live in a bubble. They are taught that people who disagree with Fauci are lunatics and/or Trump supporters. Maybe I'll start a substack on this, with pamphlets that can be printed out by anyone and are addressed to "citizens." I think we need some basic, down-to-earth reasoning and facts that bypass tech censorship with the goal of making people stop and think rather than trying to convince them that they should come over to the anti-Fauci side. Just stop and think is enough for now. I believe that the information on early treatment for Covid-19 is very compelling and convincing: a good place to start and a good place to get people to ask why early treatment isn't happening on a large scale and out in the open. But RFK Jr is right: bypass big tech censorship. Let's get down to good 'ole hand-out literature, let people come across it.
LOL. You can tell you touched a nerve by the speed at which they get pulled down. Around my area "someone" was putting up signs and stickers with just 2 lines "IVERMECTIN" & 2cd line "FLCCC.NET" and boy those seldom lasted more than a day.
To quote Bart Simpson "Wasn't me, nobody saw it, can't prove a thing" :)
Putting stickers on community mailboxes, busses, etc. Places where plenty of people will see them. Something simple to get the conversation started. Some I've seen around are simple 2 liners:
overcoming the early treatment doesn't exist isn't one I expected this much pushback. People would rather chance long term complications of covid than take IVM/HCQ. Clearly the risk reward favors early treatment as any side effects would have to be exceedingly rare where covid is like 5-15% chance of long haul. Yet they say two sides and nothing is proven. All the articles or studies don't put a dent. FDA horse meme and twitter algo's are just too strong to overcome.
Low tech. First secure the facts with names and details . Print them out and bury them in time capsules . This will cover the back end of securing proof into the potential future of complete domination .
Develop a system of sharing information that is private secure and non traceable .
Develop a system Of trusted private network that limits knowledge of participants
And clearly indicate non violence, or it will be labelled . Likely labelled either way . But we may already be past time now .
One of the hardest thoughts for me... was realizing that those initial videos we saw being 'leaked' out of China, of people just falling in the middle of the street... were, in hindsight, definitely NOT covid, and therefore can't have been leaked by a concerned public... but information warfare.
How can I ever know what can be trusted anymore? All the institutions are glaringly corrupt. And as you've pointed out in this article, even those individuals who seem to be honest actors... well, between the US deep state, China, Soros, the WEC and the globalists, and Lord knows how many other shadowy groups, even the individuals doing what they believe is right, may very well have been manipulated and controlled.
When I was younger, I read so many memoirs of men throughout history. I wondered what I'd see in my lifetime, if there'd be half as much change as what my own grandfather saw in his. I'm nearing 40 now, and it's been... seemingly quite quiet. Perhaps it was simply the eye of a storm.
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The goal of information warfare is not to make you believe anything in particular. The goal is to make you reject and doubt any information going against that of your peer group, no matter which that is.
Splintering, division, chaos, bickering, sniping, semantic acrobatics, moral outrage over words or symbols, and fear of being manipulated are the states of mind it is supposed to invoke.
And chaos maximises stress, especially when combined with a feeling of powerlessness and inevitability. That stress wants release - which is offered through the certainty that comes woth voluntary subjugation and compliance.
Hence the ending of 1984: he loved Big Brother. That's the point of information war.
Doesn't feel like a hurricane to me, but more like a tsunami stemming from the eruption of a whole bunch of volcanoes erupting in sequence. What do you think about transhumanism?
I think that any genetic modifications made (already or impending) to humans will ALL be found to be detrimental, or deadly, in the long run. (Say 3 generations). The most common result of GMO's are UNPREDICTABLE RESULTS. See Jeffrey Smith GMO Microbiome...
Okay, but now on the flipside, you're being subjected to multiple videos of young athletes just falling in the middle of competitions while also being told of multiple people across all walks of life "dying suddenly and unexpectedly." A huge part of this messaging is done by people who want you to believe it's the vaxxines. If you're willing to say the Chinese videos were information warfare, what prevents us from saying these circulated videos of athletes and tales of folks dying in the night are *not* information warfare, especially when we add in that these videos are often circulated and passed fortward by individuals doing what they believe is right?
A huge part of this messaging is done by people who want the truth about the jabs and know something is not right with them. Most of the good analysis on elite athletes I've seen is questioning an excess of events like this year to year. I try to distinguish between clear propaganda and someone questioning what is really happening. When you have clear gaslighting, censorship (https://www.bbc.com/mediacentre/2020/trusted-news-initiative-vaccine-disinformation), outright lies from the medical mafia, and intent (https://www.weforum.org/agenda), what is left? Blindly believe everything you are told by the system?
Thomas Sowell from dismantling America: "If eternal vigilance is the price of freedom, incessant distractions are the way that politicians take away our freedoms, in order to enhance their own power and longevity in office."
If you already accept there had been a dialectical progression *away from* the system's propaganda, then the answer to "what is left?" doesn't need the rhetorical followup of going *back to* believing everything told to a person. There is obviously the further reaches of "walking away from Omelas," the kind of position where a person realizes that neither of these sides or positions in a programmed disagreement ("red vs blue" structured dual dynamics) has one's best interests at heart.
How do you know the messaging is done by people who want the truth? Look at the major antivaxx messaging centers populated by the dissenters: they are already forming into silos, coordinating their messaging, agreeing to form consensus responses, using prepacked memes and slogans and phrasing, with the same model of cults of personality forming around key individuals. If the behaviors a person is supposed to identify indicating "mass formation" are enough to declare system supporters to be mass formed, a person with truth on the mind and flowing through their heart will also take notice of the formation of the masses taking —already taken!— place among the antivaxx. You can see comment after comment on sites such as Mathew's, such as badcattitude, on all the bitchutes or othertubes, and see how repetitive and echoing they are, as though people cannot help themselves but become part of a social group.
They cannot simply walk away from all of the crowds. And if you challenge those who make it their purpose in life to challenge the system, you will also see just as much gaslighting —did you really only think that the other option was to believe "blindly everything you are told by the system?" or were you trying to set up a dilemma you think rhetorically forces a person down the path of agreeing with you? There are many options, not all of which involve allowing one's self to become unwittingly, unflinchingly walked into a social movement that's also emotive, also structured around neurolinguistic programming, and also prone to using unconscious techniques of mass formation.
Remember, what I was asking about are the videos of the people collapsing as a result of a pervasive, dangerous thing. At first, those videos of collapsing Chinese terrified people into siding with those who want to protect us from the pervasive, dangerous thing. Then those videos became curious anomalies, they had to be something other than the result of a pervasive, dangerous thing: they became indicative of a psychological operation designed to effect certain behaviors in the audience. And then when the same kind of videos start appearing *in the exact same underground places of the Internet* but this time show scenes and images that support people's fears of a new pervasive, dangerous thing —mass vaxxinations— we're supposed to go along with the notion that now we're only questioning the narrative, because now we know the surface narrative supports the imposition of this pervasive, dangerous thing; we're not supposed to take the important lessons of what we have learned and step back even further from our emotional responses, we're supposed to understand that we're in a great and global war against a great and global terror that spreads a pervasive and dangerous thing, and failing to focus on this —to get distracted along the way by asking too many questions about the people encouraging us to ask questions while posting memes— is to support the system that takes away out freedoms to ask questions and enhancing the power of those who silence oppositions.
Cetera asked "How can I ever know what can be trusted anymore?" This, to me, seems a question from someone who feels disconnected from and discouraged by being around a living physical community. Put aside all talk of institutions. Think about neighbors, family members, ecclesia, fellows, coworkers, colleagues, lovers, friends. Some of us are trustworthy in some things, miserable and lousy in others. Some of us are salt of the earth; some need lots of salt to taste right. Some of us are wonderful as partners; some you just have to tolerate and forebear. Trust comes in flavors, intensities, temporalities, but so much of it is just conformity with a model a person openly shares or behaviorally demonstrates. They will show you by their actions and tell you through their words how much your model coheres with their being-in-your-life. Maybe that's what you see in what Sowell is saying about "vigilance" and applying it to one's life. My point here is that we know whom we can trust by going into what we think our concept of trust is, and then going outward into where we live and share space with others. If we are finding, over and over, we cannot trust the people around us, then we are no longer in a space where we *should* live and share space with others.
When everyone around a person is no longer acting with critical appreciation for the diversity of life and opinion, then it is time to walk away from all of them, head for the mountains, and live among the other goats. God has moved to take all of the sheep and herd them.
The Chinese collapse videos were broadcast far and wide on the MSM. The dropping soccer players are not. Only when it is a huge name like Kun Aguero gets given air time briefly and always with the disclaimer "It's not the vaccine" repeated ad nauseam. That's a big difference.
You are correct that we should always question everything an authority tells us regardless of if we agree with them or not.
And I agree with that but his example was extremely poor. There was no verification of the dropping Chinese but there sure has been for the soccer players and other athletes. 500+ and counting.
I've been a theoretical physicist for 3 decades with a fair number of reasonably cited publications, but I feel exactly the same as you. The details and graphs and analyses are all important to get the foundations right, but it's the big picture that is really critical.
In my writing I've tried to emphasize this and eschewed overly technical stuff. This battle is won in hearts, not minds.
In a kind of Jungian synchronicity I've only just completed a piece of writing that has some connection to yours I think
I'm very concerned about the direction things are going and I think it is a wider issue than just the hysteria over covid. I would very much like to be proven wrong, to be told that I'm an idiot and to get a life.
Rudolph: good piece. We should expect more hysterias after the covid one passes. My hope is that there are more of us skeptics than there are true believers. Looking forward to perusing your other posts.
It would appear to me that the truth really hasn’t mattered at all for a very long time. That’s been the hardest for me. I feel like I’m living in an alternate reality, walking in a world that to me, seems upside down, and yet apparently, I’m the one that’s not right.
How do we get back to truth? I don’t know if we have to expose everyone. Or if it all has to burn (although I really would prefer that). I think it has to at least start to crumble. There has to be an ember we can find, that once ignited, refuses to extinguish. Considering all the exposure to the lies already, it’s hard to fathom which one will finally wake people up. But I’m committed to trying.
Your commenter Rikard said “power trumps truth” and I think we have seen that that is true, at least in the short term. I can’t help but think that in the long term, truth always prevails. It has to.
Keep fighting the good fight. I’m right there with you ✊.
I've still never had the time, but the PLO titles are mine when I want them. The Winstar regulars don't get it yet, but I cash 90% at the hi/lo there (meaning twice in the last two years, sigh). :)
For every one of us, there is a list of things we'd like to return to normal. Those things we want to enjoy again. Travel. Games. Not having to worry when a loved one plays injectible roulette.
Thank you for your tenacity and integrity. This whole situation has been in the making for an unbelievably long time. I really appreciate what you are doing.
I think there is something missing in this sentence: "The fact that nobody in public health bothered to point out that 20% of all COVID deaths, which might really mean a high proportion of those deaths that are truly primarily causal of COVID-19, is yet another reason to conclude that our entire public health system is fully corrupt and needs to be held to account." 20% of all COVID deaths... ? What completes this thought?
Mathew, your work is important and inspiring to us all. This is a war (perhaps The War) between good and evil. The enemy wants to not only change the world, they seek to change the definitions of right and wrong.
I feel it all started with the VISA debit cards...I am dumping mine, will have to manually go to the credit union...oh wait, I took all my money out of there...right...ok...under the bed with it!! The safest place...
Something is still going on in China, ground reports are not matching the CCP reports. Wuhan games is where some people came home unwell & I’m very cautious about the Olympics coming up.
A lab leak in my mind has definitely happened. Initially I thought it had to do with a vaccine for SARS. America has dropped the ball, We can see that there has been some involvement on some level, either funding, starting but abandoning GOF that China then decided to continue..but I’m sure that until how this came to be is out fully in the general public it’s not going to end
This is way too overwhelming. The more the one knows, the more one is burdened by the knowledge. Will this need a total destruction of civilization to start over again? The results of things becoming more and more global. When I see and hear about the effects of globalization, I think about Africa, living in their own realities (good or bad), and then western civilization imposed upon them (good and bad), which they eventually adopted more or less. Is the jihadism a reaction to Western domination? I think so.
About mass formation - it is just an extension to the well known reality that we are (more or less) a product of our environment. Except that environment has become global and techniques of psychological manipulation and thought domination are constantly found in the media, and even in movies. The only way to resist that is to choose your own environment and adhere strictly to it (as much as possible), like the Amish.
From a faith perspective, the scriptures constantly talk about the evil of humans. They also show how kingdoms rise and fall. Evil can prevail but it will always fall. When I am overwhelmed I look to the Rock, and stop breaking my head over things I cannot figure out. Psa 131
Keep up the good work, Mathew, but don't be overcome by it.
I'll add that I like your third paragraph. I first became skeptical of the narrative when they railroaded HCQ; since then, researching COVID and the forces at work behind the scenes have overwhelmed me. I believe we are witnessing the emergence of the ten kings (Rev 17). But there can be only one King of kings.
But I have to criticize your statement re: choosing your own environment. That way lies a different sort of echo chamber. (Even the Amish came out strongly in support of Trump; they could see what was coming!) No. We must turn our eyes to the Word, being shrewd as serpents and innocent as doves, fully aware, fully discerning, fully living. This is the challenge I set for myself, though I fall far short.
Mmm. Definitely in the parts of Africa where jihadism was encroaching, colonialism and Christian evangelism served as a buffer. I know that from the history of the country I live in - Burkina Faso. I don't know if that reason would hold for southern Africa, though where there was essentially no Islam. And that does not explain the sudden rise in jihadism in the past few years here in West Africa. Why now?
Going back even further, from my reading of early Christianity, Rome imposed itself on the eastern and African Christianity in a way that created much resentment. The conflict made the situation ripe for a Mohamed to come along, sweep across North Africa, where Christians were more open to the Muslims than they were to Rome Christianity. So in a sense, Jihadism against Western Christianity and political and religious power goes right back to the beginning.
Well, you're just in the thick of it, aren't you?!
I am no friend of Rome, and without doubt commitment to Christ often must be distinguished from commitment to a denomination. But I don't think it's sufficient to say that Rome's impositions irritated the north Africans into an openness for receiving Mohammed's teachings. I would look deeper than that. Certainly, this or that tribe or city might have a deeper faith (which ultimately can only be measured in the individual) than another, and that would come into play, but I would still look deeper. If I recall correctly, Islam really took off in north Africa when the Berger's converted; they were on the fringe of Christian territories, and the appeal of Islam for them was that it didn't require the sort of heart conversion that Christianity requires. Just say the words, press the jihad, humble the dhimmi, and you're good. Islam's triumph did not come from persuasion; it came from military conquest and promises of loot and slaves.
I would caution against an expectation of finding perfect correspondence of cause and effect in every region. Rather, consider the question: why were the Europeans in South Africa? They were there because the jihad had closed their overland trade routes with the east. The colonies began as resupply ports and grew from there. Why were the Europeans in the Americas? They traveled west looking for a shorter trade route to the east and also in hopes of finding allies in China and India to help repel the jihadists.
I would say James O’Keefe is an exceptionally brave man. I hope the Almighty will protect him for his courage and bravery he displays. A person of the highest integrity. Few and far between.
RE Dyslexia - Bret Weinstein mentions having Dyslexia. There is something about this learning pattern that is good for critical thinking. Can't help but speculate that it has some inherent qualities that resist falling in to groupthink. I want to learn more about Dyslexia.
Awesome. I've been struggling to read the BS inverse EVIL CABAL language. I thought it was just Google, Scientology, MSM, and Lockstep Groupthink Schills, intensionally confusing, mass psychosis, grammer. Glad to know we're critically able to bring it to it's knees no matter what our weakness's, or better yet, strengths may be.
This. "Many of the lies were already so absurd as to be laughable. That is to say that we already reached the point at which the politicians simply stand at the podium and lie to our faces. It's worse some places than others, but there is lockstep unity among the authoritarians. They believe that is the only way to carry power into the next era."
They no longer feel it's necessary to hide the lies. They can lie without impunity. And that is the most terrifying, sad and frustrating part of the surreal world in which we currently find ourselves.
Yes, the scariest part of all of this. It happens glaringly, in broad daylight, and no consequences. Lying with impunity and KNOWING it doesn't matter. Those people have to know they have this in the bag.
They can laugh with impunity. Impunity = exemption from punishment, therefore, they lie with impunity or without punishment.
OK, I think the things that Matthew says are brilliant. But, none of us will get anywhere talking amongst ourselves and enlightening ourselves more, whilst meanwhile the masses are hypnotized by mass media. What's the solution?
I think the solution is low-tech, in order to bypass hi-tech. What would that low-tech be? It'd be pamphlet wars, as occurred during the birth of our country (US.) Leave pamphlets around for people to pick up.
What sort of pamphlets (or even books, like "Overcoming the Covid Darkness")? Not pamphlets on mass formation or the global predators-- I mean, seriously? Is anyone who listens to Dr. Fauci going to do anything with such a pamphlet except throw it in the garbage? No, IMHO, the very first thing we need to do is convince people that medicine is being censored. We need to convince people that early treatment for Covid-19 is being deliberately suppressed. If we can do that, they'll take the next step: they'll ask why.
In any case, one reason I don't participate so much in Matthew's other noble projects is that we don't need a few people to see and understand a lot; we need a lot of people to see and understand a little. Think about it.
RFK Jr site started a sticker campaign a couple months ago - you can download and print them out and stick them wherever appropriate. I thought that was brilliant. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/child-health-topics/health-freedom/defender-days-sticker-gallery
I like that but much of what I've seen is of the order of: Fauci is evil. And he is. But my idea is to start with less challenging information in order to draw people in and get them thinking. Right now, people who believe in Fauci live in a bubble. They are taught that people who disagree with Fauci are lunatics and/or Trump supporters. Maybe I'll start a substack on this, with pamphlets that can be printed out by anyone and are addressed to "citizens." I think we need some basic, down-to-earth reasoning and facts that bypass tech censorship with the goal of making people stop and think rather than trying to convince them that they should come over to the anti-Fauci side. Just stop and think is enough for now. I believe that the information on early treatment for Covid-19 is very compelling and convincing: a good place to start and a good place to get people to ask why early treatment isn't happening on a large scale and out in the open. But RFK Jr is right: bypass big tech censorship. Let's get down to good 'ole hand-out literature, let people come across it.
I totally agree with you Jim, and hope you do publish/make available some pamphlets or flyers. The RFK stuff is a model, and not the only one.
I like that. i’ve already Stapled Notices up where I live and I intend to do more.
Hey!!! That's great!! I wonder if you can share here some of the ideas you've stapled up. I've been thinking of doing exactly that
i wrote pericarditis, myocarditis, think twice--- always ripped down!
And there are cameras everywhere but as long as one is aware of that ..
But due to "mask requirements" it is easy to avoid being identified. Ball cap, hoodie, mask & sunglasses.
LOL. You can tell you touched a nerve by the speed at which they get pulled down. Around my area "someone" was putting up signs and stickers with just 2 lines "IVERMECTIN" & 2cd line "FLCCC.NET" and boy those seldom lasted more than a day.
To quote Bart Simpson "Wasn't me, nobody saw it, can't prove a thing" :)
That's beautiful. Short and to the point and everyone knows what it means
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Putting stickers on community mailboxes, busses, etc. Places where plenty of people will see them. Something simple to get the conversation started. Some I've seen around are simple 2 liners:
IVERMECTIN
FLCCC.NET
"It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into."
Jonathon Swift
overcoming the early treatment doesn't exist isn't one I expected this much pushback. People would rather chance long term complications of covid than take IVM/HCQ. Clearly the risk reward favors early treatment as any side effects would have to be exceedingly rare where covid is like 5-15% chance of long haul. Yet they say two sides and nothing is proven. All the articles or studies don't put a dent. FDA horse meme and twitter algo's are just too strong to overcome.
Low tech. First secure the facts with names and details . Print them out and bury them in time capsules . This will cover the back end of securing proof into the potential future of complete domination .
Develop a system of sharing information that is private secure and non traceable .
Develop a system Of trusted private network that limits knowledge of participants
And clearly indicate non violence, or it will be labelled . Likely labelled either way . But we may already be past time now .
Gutenburg would agree. I will do my part.
One of the hardest thoughts for me... was realizing that those initial videos we saw being 'leaked' out of China, of people just falling in the middle of the street... were, in hindsight, definitely NOT covid, and therefore can't have been leaked by a concerned public... but information warfare.
How can I ever know what can be trusted anymore? All the institutions are glaringly corrupt. And as you've pointed out in this article, even those individuals who seem to be honest actors... well, between the US deep state, China, Soros, the WEC and the globalists, and Lord knows how many other shadowy groups, even the individuals doing what they believe is right, may very well have been manipulated and controlled.
When I was younger, I read so many memoirs of men throughout history. I wondered what I'd see in my lifetime, if there'd be half as much change as what my own grandfather saw in his. I'm nearing 40 now, and it's been... seemingly quite quiet. Perhaps it was simply the eye of a storm.
The goal of information warfare is not to make you believe anything in particular. The goal is to make you reject and doubt any information going against that of your peer group, no matter which that is.
Splintering, division, chaos, bickering, sniping, semantic acrobatics, moral outrage over words or symbols, and fear of being manipulated are the states of mind it is supposed to invoke.
And chaos maximises stress, especially when combined with a feeling of powerlessness and inevitability. That stress wants release - which is offered through the certainty that comes woth voluntary subjugation and compliance.
Hence the ending of 1984: he loved Big Brother. That's the point of information war.
Propaganda works best when it is not truly convincing. quite the opposite in fact. It is a show of force
Doesn't feel like a hurricane to me, but more like a tsunami stemming from the eruption of a whole bunch of volcanoes erupting in sequence. What do you think about transhumanism?
I think that any genetic modifications made (already or impending) to humans will ALL be found to be detrimental, or deadly, in the long run. (Say 3 generations). The most common result of GMO's are UNPREDICTABLE RESULTS. See Jeffrey Smith GMO Microbiome...
Okay, but now on the flipside, you're being subjected to multiple videos of young athletes just falling in the middle of competitions while also being told of multiple people across all walks of life "dying suddenly and unexpectedly." A huge part of this messaging is done by people who want you to believe it's the vaxxines. If you're willing to say the Chinese videos were information warfare, what prevents us from saying these circulated videos of athletes and tales of folks dying in the night are *not* information warfare, especially when we add in that these videos are often circulated and passed fortward by individuals doing what they believe is right?
A huge part of this messaging is done by people who want the truth about the jabs and know something is not right with them. Most of the good analysis on elite athletes I've seen is questioning an excess of events like this year to year. I try to distinguish between clear propaganda and someone questioning what is really happening. When you have clear gaslighting, censorship (https://www.bbc.com/mediacentre/2020/trusted-news-initiative-vaccine-disinformation), outright lies from the medical mafia, and intent (https://www.weforum.org/agenda), what is left? Blindly believe everything you are told by the system?
Thomas Sowell from dismantling America: "If eternal vigilance is the price of freedom, incessant distractions are the way that politicians take away our freedoms, in order to enhance their own power and longevity in office."
If you already accept there had been a dialectical progression *away from* the system's propaganda, then the answer to "what is left?" doesn't need the rhetorical followup of going *back to* believing everything told to a person. There is obviously the further reaches of "walking away from Omelas," the kind of position where a person realizes that neither of these sides or positions in a programmed disagreement ("red vs blue" structured dual dynamics) has one's best interests at heart.
How do you know the messaging is done by people who want the truth? Look at the major antivaxx messaging centers populated by the dissenters: they are already forming into silos, coordinating their messaging, agreeing to form consensus responses, using prepacked memes and slogans and phrasing, with the same model of cults of personality forming around key individuals. If the behaviors a person is supposed to identify indicating "mass formation" are enough to declare system supporters to be mass formed, a person with truth on the mind and flowing through their heart will also take notice of the formation of the masses taking —already taken!— place among the antivaxx. You can see comment after comment on sites such as Mathew's, such as badcattitude, on all the bitchutes or othertubes, and see how repetitive and echoing they are, as though people cannot help themselves but become part of a social group.
They cannot simply walk away from all of the crowds. And if you challenge those who make it their purpose in life to challenge the system, you will also see just as much gaslighting —did you really only think that the other option was to believe "blindly everything you are told by the system?" or were you trying to set up a dilemma you think rhetorically forces a person down the path of agreeing with you? There are many options, not all of which involve allowing one's self to become unwittingly, unflinchingly walked into a social movement that's also emotive, also structured around neurolinguistic programming, and also prone to using unconscious techniques of mass formation.
Remember, what I was asking about are the videos of the people collapsing as a result of a pervasive, dangerous thing. At first, those videos of collapsing Chinese terrified people into siding with those who want to protect us from the pervasive, dangerous thing. Then those videos became curious anomalies, they had to be something other than the result of a pervasive, dangerous thing: they became indicative of a psychological operation designed to effect certain behaviors in the audience. And then when the same kind of videos start appearing *in the exact same underground places of the Internet* but this time show scenes and images that support people's fears of a new pervasive, dangerous thing —mass vaxxinations— we're supposed to go along with the notion that now we're only questioning the narrative, because now we know the surface narrative supports the imposition of this pervasive, dangerous thing; we're not supposed to take the important lessons of what we have learned and step back even further from our emotional responses, we're supposed to understand that we're in a great and global war against a great and global terror that spreads a pervasive and dangerous thing, and failing to focus on this —to get distracted along the way by asking too many questions about the people encouraging us to ask questions while posting memes— is to support the system that takes away out freedoms to ask questions and enhancing the power of those who silence oppositions.
Cetera asked "How can I ever know what can be trusted anymore?" This, to me, seems a question from someone who feels disconnected from and discouraged by being around a living physical community. Put aside all talk of institutions. Think about neighbors, family members, ecclesia, fellows, coworkers, colleagues, lovers, friends. Some of us are trustworthy in some things, miserable and lousy in others. Some of us are salt of the earth; some need lots of salt to taste right. Some of us are wonderful as partners; some you just have to tolerate and forebear. Trust comes in flavors, intensities, temporalities, but so much of it is just conformity with a model a person openly shares or behaviorally demonstrates. They will show you by their actions and tell you through their words how much your model coheres with their being-in-your-life. Maybe that's what you see in what Sowell is saying about "vigilance" and applying it to one's life. My point here is that we know whom we can trust by going into what we think our concept of trust is, and then going outward into where we live and share space with others. If we are finding, over and over, we cannot trust the people around us, then we are no longer in a space where we *should* live and share space with others.
When everyone around a person is no longer acting with critical appreciation for the diversity of life and opinion, then it is time to walk away from all of them, head for the mountains, and live among the other goats. God has moved to take all of the sheep and herd them.
The Chinese collapse videos were broadcast far and wide on the MSM. The dropping soccer players are not. Only when it is a huge name like Kun Aguero gets given air time briefly and always with the disclaimer "It's not the vaccine" repeated ad nauseam. That's a big difference.
You are correct that we should always question everything an authority tells us regardless of if we agree with them or not.
He's saying that there is an alternative media which may be a controlled opposition.
And I agree with that but his example was extremely poor. There was no verification of the dropping Chinese but there sure has been for the soccer players and other athletes. 500+ and counting.
"Only the truth demands active and trained suppression."
Another fabulous piece - thank you.
I've been a theoretical physicist for 3 decades with a fair number of reasonably cited publications, but I feel exactly the same as you. The details and graphs and analyses are all important to get the foundations right, but it's the big picture that is really critical.
In my writing I've tried to emphasize this and eschewed overly technical stuff. This battle is won in hearts, not minds.
In a kind of Jungian synchronicity I've only just completed a piece of writing that has some connection to yours I think
https://rudolphrigger.substack.com/p/obsessive-constrictive-disorder
I'm very concerned about the direction things are going and I think it is a wider issue than just the hysteria over covid. I would very much like to be proven wrong, to be told that I'm an idiot and to get a life.
I love your writing!
Rudolph: good piece. We should expect more hysterias after the covid one passes. My hope is that there are more of us skeptics than there are true believers. Looking forward to perusing your other posts.
I have the chills. Very powerful.
I sense the wonderful searing honesty of the truth seeker in your prose.
THANK YOU for caring, for thinking deeply, and for sharing your insights.
It would appear to me that the truth really hasn’t mattered at all for a very long time. That’s been the hardest for me. I feel like I’m living in an alternate reality, walking in a world that to me, seems upside down, and yet apparently, I’m the one that’s not right.
How do we get back to truth? I don’t know if we have to expose everyone. Or if it all has to burn (although I really would prefer that). I think it has to at least start to crumble. There has to be an ember we can find, that once ignited, refuses to extinguish. Considering all the exposure to the lies already, it’s hard to fathom which one will finally wake people up. But I’m committed to trying.
Your commenter Rikard said “power trumps truth” and I think we have seen that that is true, at least in the short term. I can’t help but think that in the long term, truth always prevails. It has to.
Keep fighting the good fight. I’m right there with you ✊.
I've seen you play some great hold em.
I've still never had the time, but the PLO titles are mine when I want them. The Winstar regulars don't get it yet, but I cash 90% at the hi/lo there (meaning twice in the last two years, sigh). :)
For every one of us, there is a list of things we'd like to return to normal. Those things we want to enjoy again. Travel. Games. Not having to worry when a loved one plays injectible roulette.
Thank you for your tenacity and integrity. This whole situation has been in the making for an unbelievably long time. I really appreciate what you are doing.
I think there is something missing in this sentence: "The fact that nobody in public health bothered to point out that 20% of all COVID deaths, which might really mean a high proportion of those deaths that are truly primarily causal of COVID-19, is yet another reason to conclude that our entire public health system is fully corrupt and needs to be held to account." 20% of all COVID deaths... ? What completes this thought?
Fixed, thanks.
Mathew, your work is important and inspiring to us all. This is a war (perhaps The War) between good and evil. The enemy wants to not only change the world, they seek to change the definitions of right and wrong.
Thank you Matthew. Important piece. Keep speaking no matter what.
Ernst Wolff postulates an orchestrated collapse of current financial systems and destruction of fiat currancies.
https://youtu.be/W6HtPufV_ok
Tests of the CBDC are taking place everywhere
Why ex IMF head and current ECB head is interested in vaccines and calls Schwab in her twitter post?
https://mobile.twitter.com/lagarde/status/1434441968403234818
Why the current IMF head and ex WB head is interested in vaccines?
https://streamable.com/tuchus
BIS head about CBDC:
https://streamable.com/inefu0
Why countries report vaccine status to IMF?
https://www.imf.org/en/Topics/imf-and-covid19/Policy-Responses-to-COVID-19#P
http://archive.today/u2l9q
Maybe indeed the plan is to add to VaxPass a DigitalID and cryptowallet with CBDC with expiration date?
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/who-working-digital-wallet-store-vaccination-certification-official
https://www.thalesgroup.com/en/markets/digital-identity-and-security/government/identity/digital-identity-services/digital-id-wallet
Europe:
https://www.nfcw.com/2021/06/01/372591/eu-to-lay-out-plans-for-europe-wide-digital-identity-wallet/
France
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxvNzzgoJX8
Poland:
https://m.wirtualnemedia.pl/m/artykul/nbp-cyfrowy-pieniadz-banku-centralnego
Ukraine:
https://biznes.interia.pl/waluty/aktualnosci/news-ukraina-przyspiesza-prace-nad-cyfrowa-hrywna,nId,5550415
Fed w USA też:
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/20/the-fed-this-summer-will-take-another-step-ahead-in-developing-a-digital-currency.html
China will use digital yuan during Olimpic Games. App on iOS and Android is ready
https://cyfrowepieniadze.pl/chiny-uzyja-cyfrowego-yuana-podczas-io/
1. I do not believe extra-terrestrials are on Earth.
2. Christine Lagarde is an extra-terrestrial.
There is a lot I still need to sort out.
So Christine Lagarde is not on Earth? Where IS she?
I feel it all started with the VISA debit cards...I am dumping mine, will have to manually go to the credit union...oh wait, I took all my money out of there...right...ok...under the bed with it!! The safest place...
Putting all these vids together is overwhelming to watch. Thank you. I am now going into my closet and weep for humanity
Something is still going on in China, ground reports are not matching the CCP reports. Wuhan games is where some people came home unwell & I’m very cautious about the Olympics coming up.
A lab leak in my mind has definitely happened. Initially I thought it had to do with a vaccine for SARS. America has dropped the ball, We can see that there has been some involvement on some level, either funding, starting but abandoning GOF that China then decided to continue..but I’m sure that until how this came to be is out fully in the general public it’s not going to end
All I have right now are questions regarding what might be going on in China. It'shard to trust anything right now.
This is way too overwhelming. The more the one knows, the more one is burdened by the knowledge. Will this need a total destruction of civilization to start over again? The results of things becoming more and more global. When I see and hear about the effects of globalization, I think about Africa, living in their own realities (good or bad), and then western civilization imposed upon them (good and bad), which they eventually adopted more or less. Is the jihadism a reaction to Western domination? I think so.
About mass formation - it is just an extension to the well known reality that we are (more or less) a product of our environment. Except that environment has become global and techniques of psychological manipulation and thought domination are constantly found in the media, and even in movies. The only way to resist that is to choose your own environment and adhere strictly to it (as much as possible), like the Amish.
From a faith perspective, the scriptures constantly talk about the evil of humans. They also show how kingdoms rise and fall. Evil can prevail but it will always fall. When I am overwhelmed I look to the Rock, and stop breaking my head over things I cannot figure out. Psa 131
Keep up the good work, Mathew, but don't be overcome by it.
I'll add that I like your third paragraph. I first became skeptical of the narrative when they railroaded HCQ; since then, researching COVID and the forces at work behind the scenes have overwhelmed me. I believe we are witnessing the emergence of the ten kings (Rev 17). But there can be only one King of kings.
But I have to criticize your statement re: choosing your own environment. That way lies a different sort of echo chamber. (Even the Amish came out strongly in support of Trump; they could see what was coming!) No. We must turn our eyes to the Word, being shrewd as serpents and innocent as doves, fully aware, fully discerning, fully living. This is the challenge I set for myself, though I fall far short.
I agree with you on HCQ, but I have a different view of Trump. I will stop there.
If you want to understand jihadism, please read Raymond Ibrahim's Sword and Scimitar.
Spoiler alert: Colonialism was the result of jihadism, not the other way around.
Mmm. Definitely in the parts of Africa where jihadism was encroaching, colonialism and Christian evangelism served as a buffer. I know that from the history of the country I live in - Burkina Faso. I don't know if that reason would hold for southern Africa, though where there was essentially no Islam. And that does not explain the sudden rise in jihadism in the past few years here in West Africa. Why now?
Going back even further, from my reading of early Christianity, Rome imposed itself on the eastern and African Christianity in a way that created much resentment. The conflict made the situation ripe for a Mohamed to come along, sweep across North Africa, where Christians were more open to the Muslims than they were to Rome Christianity. So in a sense, Jihadism against Western Christianity and political and religious power goes right back to the beginning.
Well, you're just in the thick of it, aren't you?!
I am no friend of Rome, and without doubt commitment to Christ often must be distinguished from commitment to a denomination. But I don't think it's sufficient to say that Rome's impositions irritated the north Africans into an openness for receiving Mohammed's teachings. I would look deeper than that. Certainly, this or that tribe or city might have a deeper faith (which ultimately can only be measured in the individual) than another, and that would come into play, but I would still look deeper. If I recall correctly, Islam really took off in north Africa when the Berger's converted; they were on the fringe of Christian territories, and the appeal of Islam for them was that it didn't require the sort of heart conversion that Christianity requires. Just say the words, press the jihad, humble the dhimmi, and you're good. Islam's triumph did not come from persuasion; it came from military conquest and promises of loot and slaves.
I would caution against an expectation of finding perfect correspondence of cause and effect in every region. Rather, consider the question: why were the Europeans in South Africa? They were there because the jihad had closed their overland trade routes with the east. The colonies began as resupply ports and grew from there. Why were the Europeans in the Americas? They traveled west looking for a shorter trade route to the east and also in hopes of finding allies in China and India to help repel the jihadists.
Bergers : I think you meant Berbers, right?
Yes
> "What does it mean if it turns out that the truth doesn't matter at all?
This is a really good point.
If you control the information flow you control truth. They control the information flow.
Truth only matters if it **reaches** (enough of) the right people.
There are 4 parameters that need to align for the magic to happen. They control 2 maybe 3 of them.
I would say James O’Keefe is an exceptionally brave man. I hope the Almighty will protect him for his courage and bravery he displays. A person of the highest integrity. Few and far between.
RE Dyslexia - Bret Weinstein mentions having Dyslexia. There is something about this learning pattern that is good for critical thinking. Can't help but speculate that it has some inherent qualities that resist falling in to groupthink. I want to learn more about Dyslexia.
Awesome. I've been struggling to read the BS inverse EVIL CABAL language. I thought it was just Google, Scientology, MSM, and Lockstep Groupthink Schills, intensionally confusing, mass psychosis, grammer. Glad to know we're critically able to bring it to it's knees no matter what our weakness's, or better yet, strengths may be.