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I’m as sure as I can be that we’re moving into a totalitarian tyranny marked by mandatory digital ID & cashless CBDC.

So far, so unremarkable. Most of us have arrived here some while ago.

Why do it? The powerful move from high level control of events but little control over individuals to machine control of every individual.

What will they do with that power?

Kill almost everyone is my surmise.

mRNA injections have no protective value. Their design intent is to injure, maim and kill. Please note, I’ve spent my entire professional life doing things like this, putting molecules & mechanisms together, in order to test medical hypotheses, in pursuit of novel medicines. This is called “rational drug design”. Structural motifs & resulting biology are linked. It’s not luck.

Govts have agreed to acquire ten more jabs per person. They’re all mRNA format. That’s not survivable.

Look at the moving parts: WHO is controlled by Gates and his backers plus WEF/Schwab and his backers.

WHO will be used to require lockdowns and injections. All that’s needed is a media tale of certain pandemics with associated nasty ways to die.

Turn up for your mRNA jab, designed to produce just such symptoms & in some, death. This can go on for years, titrating the population downward until whatever the objective is reached. This top down conttol by the remote & anonymous WHO is hard to resist if your local leaders recognize the authority of WHO. Those who say they cannot repeat this, I disagree. I think most people have now been trained & will mostly do what they’re told.

But please note, they won’t need your cooperation & consent. They just need to create rules that mean your resistance hurts you very immediately. Say your digital ID becomes invalid if you miss your jabs. It’ll be anonymous. There’s nobody you could argue with.

Bottom up control seems likely as well, an expression of which is 15 minute cities. Again, impossible to resist if your local law enforcement chooses to align to the control grid. They will. Incentives are in place: money and preferment if they comply. Financial ruin and a destroyed reputation if you resist.

Notice the near term objectives I started with are the pivots of control, whether we’re to be pinned in ghettos & subject to permissioning, moment to moment, or if we’re to be culled.

It’s possible they’ve not decided everything yet, and they don’t need to. Once the control grid is in place, the decisions demanded of the top controllers become simplified. Do they move resources around to feed & care for the global prison population? We won’t be able to care for ourselves.

Few people are willing to concede that we might be under threat as existential as I paint. That denial ensures they won’t go all in to oppose tyranny, as they might if they appreciated deeply that if they don’t, it’s the permanent end of freedom.

I argue that the plot around the perpetrators so far signals their totalitarian inclinations. Some have been transparent, like WEF’s Harari. There’s no role or requirement for 90% of the population, he asserts. Then there’s “build back better”, stated first iirc by King Charles III, then numerous others, before anything was broken.

I inferred they intended to destroy everything first, then BBB.

Unfortunately, the steps required to have complete control aren’t complicated (making it work in real time may well be very complicated!).

Digital ID to some doesn’t even sound new. But despite the myriad digital tools, there’s nothing that’s of common format & designed to be interoperable in real time.

Again, “digital money”, most people are fervently sure that we’ve been using it for years. But CBDC isn’t like current clearing bank use of credit and debit cards in that the latter isn’t real time at any level beyond “is the cardholder good for the funds in question for these goods or services?” Real time enables YOU, the proposed transaction, your location, your prior transactions, validity of your ID, privileges associated with you, specifically. All this cannot currently be done, but with CBDC it certainly can.

Obviously cash must be removed. So I assume it will be. We could come up with all manner of ways to do it. One of my favorites is De La Rue. How in the world did one company end up printing so much of the world’s important currencies? Imagine something bad was to befall their plate room and the plates destroyed?

Few people have the big picture. I know mine is fuzzy but I’m afraid it fits everything & clashes with nothing (as far as I can discern). Or so I think. If I’m definitely wrong I’d be relieved.

I’ve tried to put myself in the position of national leaders. Are they all stupid and have no idea where we’re headed? Or do they know, but they’ve chosen to believe the assurances they’re been given? Or do they believe in the cause?

I think the myth those people who transduce senior perpetrators orders & make real stuff happen at ground level have been told “This is about saving humanity and the world from destructive climate change”.

A bad essay but there you go.

Almost nobody will accept this. I’ve been saying it for years yet virtually nobody acts as if they’re under threat. Why is this?

1. It has been said that humans would rather die with the herd than to leave the herd.

2. Most of us know good v bad well enough. Few of us believe that’s the wrong axis entirely. It’s good v evil. If you don’t believe in evil, your mind down plays any of the things I warn about.

3. My logic is completely wrong (or, as others would have it, I’m off my chump).

4. We feel completely helpless anyway. Why even consider accepting this might be the plan, if nothing can be done?

5. Other explanations I haven’t thought of.

At very least, I recommend & have for quite some while, the use of cash for almost everything, even if sacrifices are involved.

I’m resolved not to sign up for digital ID, even if the consequences are severe. I think these two steps are the only chance we have of preventing a major & irreversible turning point in human history being passed.

I’d love to be completely wrong.

Best wishes

Mike

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I "liked" your comment, but actually don't like it, though I do think it is correct.

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I know many people making at the very least provisional plans to leave Canada. We all are looking for safer countries than here. Isn’t that amazing! Canadians realizing Canada, the most coddled nation on the planet, is not safe anymore.

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Fight!

If you won’t, I assure you it’s not safe anywhere.

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Indeed. It will come to it sooner or later. Because of the 2nd Amendment, the US is the only nation on earth capable of disrupting the plans of these evil people, imo. Hence, the Biden administration and Democratic states have mounted a full-scale assault on semi-automatic rifles, the most effective weapon available to Americans.

Thanks, again, Dr Yeadon for going out on a limb from the very beginning to warn us. My family and I appreciate the risk you took and are forever grateful to you for convincing us to avoid the first round of poisonous injections. We are still in the fight!

May God bless you for your efforts to warn mankind.

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If it were just me, fine. But I have grandkids.

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I am not letting my grandkids be sterilized. Or, vaxed behind our backs.

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I understand, but wanting safety is an illusion that we have all been trained into. There is no place to go. We must find the courage to stand for something or fall for anything. Believe me, I am no more courageous than average. I am in the US, and it's nuts here, even in Texas!

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It is not as good as it could be in Texas - that is for sure - but it is much worse elsewhere. I live in two places, Houston and Philadelphia (western suburbs of both places actually), and the day to day of these places under Covid were very different.

Houston shut down for a couple of months in the spring of '20, and then after started to open up, although masks persisted for quite a while. Philadelphia, on the other hand, was full on panic for years. I remember talking to my two best friends in Philadelphia in the summer of '21 and telling them that since June of '20 I have been dining out every day here in Houston. They thought that I was crazy - they had been out of their house exactly once. And these are the typical deep blue Obamacrats that dominate much of the suburbs. Smart people, but naive in so many ways. (Don't get me started on our very different positions on the vaccines.)

Although I love Philadelphia in many ways (nice city, beautiful countryside, etc) I will probably be relocating to Texas permanently, due to the different political take down here.

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Nonlinearity.

You may be absolutely spot on in your analysis but, in my view, this will not be a smooth, controlled slide into the NWO. There will be moments of nonlinearity that will threaten to bring the whole system crashing down. Sure, they will do their best to hold onto the reins at all times, but humanity is more complex than they surmise. Just look at what a single individual such as yourself has been able to do. It is NOT trivial. Our actions as individuals ripple out into the world in ways we cannot fathom. I've always thought that the most poetic fate would be to change the world without even knowing it. I think you've already done that. The full extent of your impact will never be known to you, but it is most certainly real and substantial.

God bless you, sir.

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God bless you too. Amen.

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Except that it Has been a smooth controlled slide into totalitarianism. I think they have non-linearity covered. How that's possible is another anomaly to add to the pile. It is fascinating to watch.

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Switching "on" CBDCs is an issue of delicate timing. A "goldilocks" question.

Iain Davies has recorded an episode of Geopolitics & Empire podcast on this subject which I will be listening to with interest very shortly.

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Mike, keep putting it out there. I'm listening and I know others are also. You've been the canary in the coal mine, for me at least, for quite some time now.

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Dr. Yeadon, I have followed you for years now and observed, read, listened to videos, and thought much about it all. From the start I knew something was way off so when I read or heard your videos and other brave warriors I could begin to form a picture. A picture that was very disturbing but seemed to match the crazy things going on! Like you, I feel almost no one wants to believe the degree of control the psychos have planned for us all. I have observed many folks feel helpless to change it. Particularly, my religious friends who believe it is all spelled out in the Bible anyhow, and God will be handling it by getting rid of Satan and the bad guys. I so much want to believe that bc the anxiety of it all and having only a few who believe the scale of it all makes me feel too alone. Although, it does seem more folks are waking up but wondering if there is enough that can be done in time to stop it all? Perhaps, too many (all by design) are a bit burned out and want to enjoy life rather than stress even more than they have been doing in recent years.

Is it true you are now living in Oxford, England? If yes, do enough people there believe it, since they are experiencing it firsthand via the restricted allowance to leave only 100x a year in and out of Oxford? Do you feel those opposing it have enough power to stop it at this late stage?

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I’m in Canterbury which, like Oxford, is a pilot for 15 minute city.

I’m not aware of significant resistance.

I don’t know how to resist.

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you do know how to resist Mike, you're already doing it. And I know the feeling, Ive been seeing us all in the last trilogy of the lord of the rings, climbing the mountain, see what side we fall in as we it becomes clearer that you're either with the decentralized lot or the centralized lot.

we resist by having strong relationship to place, our resources and each other. its a daily practise and may you always know you're own way home.

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The first person who stands and claps for an ovation isn't the one who starts it. It is the second person who stands. That's when the rest of the audience stands up. You don't have to be first, but don't you dare let momentum (and Freedom) die because you were too afraid to be the second person to stand. (I tell this to myself too)

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Such a great point, powerful too.

On fear, and I’ve never been a physically brave person, to those who are scared to speak out: imagine what’ll happen if you don’t speak out.

Also on fear. Do not give it to them.

Fear has been extremely important to their control agenda. Any kind of fear will do. It confuses the intellect and inhibits action.

Find a focus that dissolves fear. The power of the perpetrators wanes substantially as soon as you do that. Maybe it’s prayer. Comedy, perhaps. Or communion with others of faith or simply resolve. Perhaps it’s determination to be normal despite the absurdities. Preparations that ensure you’ve always at least one major move. Boot out fear.

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I like to say, "Okay, so you see something frightening. So, view life from here as an adventure."

And maybe..."Get on with it, hobbit."

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There's a very good short video which captures this - dancing guy at the festival. It's quite fabulous!

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I viewed a town hall type meeting video of a woman somewhere in England talking about all of it. Ive seen a few other similar type videos of ppl resisting. I suppose you might be at great risk to go out to those type of meetings and openly resist. I imagine it’s different than you being in a video than being in person? Thats the prob, is how do we resist? Even a close friend who sorta gets it, said when I said to him, I was trying to use cash mostly to fight them, that he “liked his rewards from credit cards too much to use cash instead”. I replied “freedom isn’t always free”, to no avail. 🤦🏼‍♀️🤷🏼‍♀️

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Dr Yeadon - there are quiet little circles! Even here in Ohio, I have heard about a study group led by a woman, can't remember city (& I'm of British ancestry, sorry - it isn't one of the university towns nor London) where they're getting informed about CBDCs, 15-min cities, etc. I learned of this group from a lady near my town - and I too didn't know anyone personally who was informed in my area until 3 wks ago!) I hope you find such a group - thanks for all you've done - I was following Robin Monotti in 2020, where I learned of you.

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People like Charles Eisenstein point out that resistance isn't just heroic stop the trains/Maquis action - using cash wherever possible, informing people (which you've been doing tirelessly for 3+ years!) I wonder if those British "People's Health Alliances" will work out?

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It's easier for people to say "yes ma'am" and hope the next guy says "no sir"... But then nobody ever says "no sir", and we will get digital ID. As surely as we have got men competing in women's sports.

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Step by step, inch by inch, the world slides into madness over several generations, and it goes mostly unnoticed by the youth because it's all they have known. When the old guys like me are gone, there will be no one to remind them that things have indeed changed and gone off.

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A couple of rather silly observations about cash

a) I've been inside the deLaRue print works somewhere in NE England while working on a project with a couple of entrepreneurs. I think it was just to impress me how important they were as the context seems rather vague now, 30+ years on.

b) I've been using cash a lot more recently (I bank with Nationwide, a mutual, which hopefully gives me a bit of protection) and Nationwide have been running a cash-back scheme with supermarkets - I've had a couple of small payments automatically made to my account recently. So this could be interpreted as a joint operation of incentives NOT to use cash...

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The mRNA is certainly unpredictable and will likely cause problems. It will likely cause our own cells to make more spike protein.

But we have hard research that shows the jabs have high levels of the spike protein, and the SP can enter most of the cell types in our body, causing many different problems. For the studies one can start here: https://wordsalad.info/tag-spikeprotein.html

Dr Chesnut is actually doing the studies to see how the spike protein works and how to stop it or minimize the damage. https://wmcresearch.substack.com/

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Apr 4, 2023·edited Apr 5, 2023

Not sure why you doubt yourself - your logic is straightforward, clear, complete, with no fuzziness - your analysis makes 100% sense. I see it exactly the same and "am as sure as I can be."

I have no doubt whatsoever even though it's unbelievable. Everything lines up and nothing is left out, all the anomalies point in the same direction. It all makes sense even though it shouldn't. Part of your doubt may be that you recognize the near preternatural brilliance involved, and also recognize there can be no normal agenda behind it.

What's happening is unprecedented in our experience so it is difficult to believe, as it should be - but more difficult would be to disbelieve what you are plainly seeing in sharp focus with your own mind.

You correctly add that other unseen explanations may exist, but they'd not weaken your analysis a bit. At worst they'd add insight to the mechanism of this totalitarian roll-out or to the driving agenda. The conclusion of slavery and depopulation as an endpoint would stand.

I see a wild card ignored by most, the absolute fact (if you do the research) of UFOs being real, whatever they are. The documentation is detailed and massive. So much so it has to somehow affect our reality and worldview. Anyone who looks into this phenomenon has to agree there is something big there. Who knows what it is. Could be ET visitors, but most probably not. It is far stranger than that.

And that's what makes it important. Despite all the data, it is indecipherable. It is both real and not real - at the same time! That makes it crazy. It does not make any sense at all - but it does exist in our reality. It has similarities to quantum physics in that it upends everything that you thought was real. Researchers call it an ontological shock. This may be why most people avoid thinking about it, while others spend their lives studying it.

We've never experienced anything like this and simple logic tells me that when you have UFOs that are crazy and a totalitarian takeover, also crazy, they are somehow related. They each - logically - make the other more possible, and maybe necessary. How else can you have two near impossibilities temporally related? This wild card has to be accounted for, somehow.

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Stuck record here! RFK Defender podcast did an episode recently called "Are UFOs Real" or something similar. I will determine to listen following your comment. RFK has another episode recently about chemtrails which I did listen to and the interlocutor was very convincing. I'm glad RFK is not cowed by "convtroversial" subjects. One of the good guys,

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RFK is good at everything cuz he's a real smart guy, but he's not an expert on this UFO phenomenon which really requires an expert because it is impossible to understand. If RFK has an episode titled "Are UFOs Real," that's 1950s thinking - we are far beyond UFOs being real. Far more interesting is what's inside and what are they doing?

Try this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUXh-aO-JtQ

And then this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EebPP1ci1IE

Then just poke around on your own which allows the universe, which is conscious and responsive, to personally present what is best for you.

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The people who are implementing things have been selected for being already compromised. Many of them are going to do what they are ordered to avoid being exposed as criminals, pedophiles, or other tawdry things. Some expect to be rewarded while being the last two be eaten. Some are addicted to power or something else they only get if they cooperate.

We also should allow for the possibility that the people at the top of this madness are willing to nuke cities. Maybe that's among the reasons Barack Obama is relocating to Kenya.

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You just answered a question I posted on twitter earlier - why does Jacinda Ardern accept a high-profile post with prince William's charity instead of slipping away into anonimity with her ill-gotten millions?

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Unfortunately, everything you say makes complete sense.

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I don't think you are wrong but I don't think it is hopeless either. Being connected to ourselves, each other and to a sense of Spirit embodied in the Natural world is important. There will need to be a lot of compassion and a lot of healing for the many who have been impacted by the attempt at totalitarian control which has been creeping along for decades and decades. But I do think we can do it, that there is hope. Where there is life there is hope. Time for humanity to grow up and become emotionally and spiritually mature. We need to work mindfully within our inner realms to heal our trauma, individually and collectively. And those who are able are actively spreading the awareness around the globe of what is going on and how we can respond to it. For some of us everyday folk of which I consider myself one, using cash as much as possible is a very practical contribution towards stopping the agenda. It is also a subject that people who still believe in the Covid Narrative are more likely to listen to and be supportive of. So it's one of those issues that could unite disparate groups. On that note of finding our common values rather than focusing on our differences what about Robert F Kennedy Jnr as a political candidate. I don't know what he can achieve here but by golly it is inspiring and fills me with hope. You may have already heard this but if not it is a beautiful and important conversation about the things that really matter the most in life. Thank you for speaking out Mike and know that there are many who feel a deep appreciation for your work. (-: https://charleseisenstein.substack.com/p/why-we-care-a-conversation-with-rfk

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> Those who say they cannot repeat this, I disagree. I think most people have now been trained & will mostly do what they’re told.

Sadly, I believe your are spot on with this insight.

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Depressing, isn’t it?

When I was at school, I knew I was different.

I assumed, badly off from what was proper.

Who knows? Is NOT doing what others do so badly off?

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Apr 4, 2023·edited Apr 4, 2023

> Who knows? Is doing what others do so badly off?

Reply: I think you may have meant "Is not doing what others do so badly off? If that is what you meant, I would say not at all.

>Depressing.

There was a time when I would have been profoundly depressed. No longer. We have no idea of how amazing we are made. The gene therapy TRANSFECTION is proving the point beyond any doubt. These people whoever they are have grabbed a tiger by the tail. Now they can't let go. But the end game is already known.

Lynn Margulis PhD microbiologist (deceased) prolific collaborator with James Lovelock (deceased) in establishing Gaia Theory hidden away in Earth System Science, said we should not declare war on the microcosmos as it will not go well for us. Also the work of Francisco Varela on the immune system (See Gaia II ) which he said was another cognitive system is also buried away. Reading these people inspires me.

Sadly those that would rule the world have declared war on the microcosmos. They have no idea how out of their depths they are. 4 billion years of experience that is also humble (like you) trumps a few hundred or thousand years of imperial/godlike aspiration that fires this madness.

Thank you for all you do. Be well,

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Our hope is individuality and being different.

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Hi Mathew,

My take:

I don't think we are at a crisis of government but rather a transition to a new form of world government from the previous UN form.

They have been setting up the laws and groundwork for decades (perhaps centuries).

In order to implement the new totalitarian-light form of government (with public acceptance as much as possible to reduce the likelihood of rebellion) they still need an enemy.

No longer the communists/capitalists/"other" religions etc. they need a reason for every police force in every country to now implement the draconian laws they have been frantically legislating for half a century and more, on their own families.

They need the internal enemy.

Everything we have seen until now, the blatantly obvious plandemic, the blatantly obvious medical apartheid, the exposure of everything evil they have done to us over the last century, the clear election fraud, and now bringing drag queens to kindergartens, is being done to try and drum up an internal angry segment of the community "the anti-government domestic terrorist" segment, to justify to the wider public implementing the draconian controls. Anti-government = conspirator, anyone who doesn't follow the government narrative on anything.

So it is just a transition to the new stage.

The transgender agenda also plays into the population control aspect, the break down of the family unit (easier to manipulate kids with mother-country) and elevating this segment for even further social apartheid against hetrosexual individuals.

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Here's where I find this take unappealing: The current ruling cabal...already had globalist, hegemonic power. They could not have embarked on the current path without that.

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I suspect that they are after much more power, much more control... Like the way that when a customer "owns" something, whether a product like a new car, or even owning freedom by saving money, and owning property ...

Either way once a product is bought, the customer's income to the business is now lost until they need that product again.

The most profitable businesses are those that have customers on subscription... Electricity companies for example...

So let's say you have people on a subscription life... You don't own you rent almost everything... and even your freedom is reliant on you renting every thing, saying yes to your boss always, because you can't save enough to buy property, as you can't buy property, it's owned...

Private Public partnerships now corporations have infiltrated governments this way, corporations now rule government, so they have undue influence in shaping policy, and seek to serve their own interests now to the point of changing laws that were to protect the citizen from exploitation, to laws the ensure the citizen can be exploited.

This is why the factories are in China, slave labour and citizens have no rights. Under the merger of governments due to private corporations steering them in this direction, so we will eventually have billions on a subscription plan life ... Reliant on being a good citizen (good customer) or your life will get very hard indeed. Vaccine mandates were just the start of enforced consumerism. Now you'll have no car, you'll just Uber (or equivalent), you won't go where you're not allowed, you won't buy what your not allowed, you won't have access to forbidden information, you won't be able to save money it must be used for nominated purposes... Just a few guesses at this stage, but I think they want the world like China, freedom to exploit you and get away with it...

Private public partnerships should have been rejected when first proposed, but they weren't... This merger of governments and industry is first step towards the type of fascism mentioned above (my take)

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Apr 4, 2023·edited Apr 4, 2023Liked by Mathew Crawford

The subscription model forces you to make payments, with interest which they control, on both essentials and near essentials, such as entertainment, your phone, or internet connection. That makes it difficult to quit your job and noncompliance at work risks losing your house. When you own something they own you.

This makes the subscription model an addiction model. Price is uncoupled from supply and demand when you need essentials like food, water, energy, transportation, healthcare, and shelter. The subscription model makes everything inelastic, ending economic freedom and collapsing the market system. It's the direct road to slavery.

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it's technocratic

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IMO the software subscription model is bad for consumers. It is a higher cost for business and that means that money cannot be used to hire actual people.

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Apr 4, 2023Liked by Mathew Crawford

It seems to be "total control" under the illusion of free choice, to prevent rebellion.

CNN refers to this article - that is the feeling they give - https://hir.harvard.edu/public-health-and-overpopulation/

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Yes. They went after the powerful middle class of the United States. They split the nation into competing cultures, neutering the participation in markets of half the population. They want the result to mimic the Tibetan cultures in which the lama class lorded over the serfs who lived a poor, subsistance lifestyle, barely getting by or starving.

I guess the point I'm making is that we are spanning economic epochs, so there is great upheaval regardless, making this the time to pull off a next level of control as the dollar dies and weakens most everyone at once, economically speaking.

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Apr 5, 2023·edited Apr 5, 2023

> They want the result to mimic the Tibetan cultures in which the lama class lorded over the serfs who lived a poor, subsistance lifestyle, barely getting by or starving.

Reply: Valid point. It would be as forcefully said pointing the finger at feudal Europe. Lets not forget the native American Indians feudal life on reservations at this very moment, after being driven off the lands they used to live, many tribes exterminated.

Then there is the near extinction of the Maasai in Africa with the large corporate farms claiming private ownership of the land. A a bare minimum the Maasai have rights accrued by hundreds or thousands of years of their pastoral migratory way of life.

But those damn Tibetans are so very bad.

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Yes, there are serfdoms closer to home. The point was not "only Tibetan slavery/serfdom bad," but rather, "They oligarchs specifically picked the Tibetan model." This is why the Western bastardization of buddhism is specifically written and broadcast by the CIA, which brought in the Dalai Lama and coordinated (scripted his talks and false explanations of his own culture and nation) the building of their pseudoreligion around him---so that it would be a message from further away. That makes it easier to confuse people with.

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Apr 4, 2023·edited Apr 4, 2023

We don't think of corporations and synthetic personage afforded to corporations of every form as also being a form of AI.

We should.

They are formally alien non-human persons born of the chartering government parent (also a corporate entity) from which it issues.

Synthetic personage. Bot-like. Drones. Zombies. The declared tax status matters little. Remember all political parties are first and foremost a corporation of a particular form, surrounded and enabled by a sprawl of PACS, NGOS and a sprawl of various corporate species.

They have already subsumed and mostly replaced the human citizen as the primary influence of domestic governance; this they have done, as they have also made some humans disproportionately powerful; some untouchably so; some unfathomably wealthy; some corporations have become unstoppably pathological amplifiers of the disordered personalities and psychopathies of the most ambitious who claw their way into the executive suite of what is always a fascist culture ruling that particular corporate entity. Every corporation is an officially governed state of being, however abstract.

These non-human persons in the law are themselves governments; governance entities. They are the children of the parent government from which they spawn. As they metastasize in our economy and politics, the human individual becomes increasingly surrounded and subsumed.

What movie is this?

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Nicely put. Is it possible for humanity to decide to de-incorporate these parasitics entities? Will the financial reset make such a decision redundant? (i.e. if a corporation is deprived of it's single overriding compulsion, does it have a function at all?)

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Apr 5, 2023·edited Apr 5, 2023

No need to de-incorporate, they are useful in their proper role as non-human persons.

But corporations of any type have ABSOLUTELY NO BUSINESS BEING INVOLVED IN OUR ELECTORAL POLITICS, including the political parties, NGOs, foundations, trusts, unions or trade associations.

American Citizens are the nation named The United States of America. The incorporated governments that manage the day to day business of this nation and its states, counties and municipalities as fiduciaries and stewards of its citizens and residents, are necessary corporate entities and essential to the vital function and mutual security of the American Citizen person and their rights and property.

The tail must not wag the dog. This is the core problem we now face.

If it can't engage the electoral process as a living human person and lawfully cast a lawful vote on a designated election day, it has no business being involved in our elections, electoral politics or election processes.

The failure to impose and enforce this principle is the problem. That is the boundary most abused. That is the root of the serial disenfranchisement of the American Nation and its citizens from the governments and related institutions to which we entrust our mutual fate.

Our Constitution was not drawn to make a more perfect union Of The Corporation, By The Corporation and For The Corporation.

But that is increasingly what we have with each passing day.

Therein we find The Hard Problem.

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> Is it possible for humanity to decide to de-incorporate these parasitics entities?

Only if we all work together.

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> What movie is this?

At it's core this could be any zombie movie. Or Judge Dredd. (I think that movie was called "Demolition Man".) Or dystopian novels like 1984 or Logan's Run.

The zombie movies started out when malls were being built in America to increase consumerism. They were a metaphor for people who mindlessly consume. This is why the first George Romero zombies in the 1960s ate brains then the victim became a zombie themselves.

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I think at the very top of the hierachy there is a committee or shared agreement on the big issues => we saw this with the global pandemic.

Underneath, the psychopaths can all compete with each other for a bigger piece of the pie.

But once in a while, not so often, the big players step in and direct the path of the planet. The rest of the time, just funneling the $$$ to keep the big picture moving in the right direction.

That's the picture I'm building.

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Speaking of top of the hierarchy, this video from a couple of days ago starts out addressing a bit of what you say: The Committee of 300, the Club of Rome. Stuff most people don't know about, going back a hundred years and in play today.

The video is by JJ Couey (Gigaohm Biological); if you haven't yet discovered him, I hope you will be thrilled that you have. The video I reference is a thorough look at the background behind covid and the development/introduction of the vax, and looks at things from many different angles, a lot of what-ifs. Good stuff, beginning to end. Gets into the biological aspects of the "virus". Also takes a deep dive look at Malone, all the way back to his talk in front of the WHO in 2011. I highly recommend.

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1782037505

It will flesh out your big picture quite a bit more.

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Thanks!

I'll try and get to it - problem I have with all the committee / club of Rome stuff is verifiability. Am sure there are things, but nowadays, ya know...

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Yes, I do. It is undeniable at this point, though, that there is some global governance at work to which all (most?) governments defer. The global lock-step evidenced by the Covid restrictions and vax mandates leave no question as to the existence of such a group.

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Oh for sure, just saying I don't know names, who exactly is behind it etc and we can't trust info out there because whoever IS behind it will certainly be putting disinfo out.

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They've got to be awfully smart to intervene in a complex system and be consistently correct and not collapse the system. It would have been a lot easier 100 years ago. With so many moving parts now, there has to be a self-learning self-regulating modular mechanism in place. If you consciously intervene from the top you will soon make a non-recoverable mistake that ends the system.

No person is smart enough to to do what they're doing, something else is happening beyond our understanding. We need to think differently. It seems that the Singularity, which is something we cannot understand, may be real. Bizarre anomalies should increase as we get closer.

Research on the UFO and abductee phenomena say much of the phenomena is beyond strange, now termed "high strangeness," and not normal like the usual outer space aliens of the 1950's, but more like paranormal or interdimensional or DMT experience. We may all start having these experiences.

The researchers who have been studying this for decades say things have been changing, that there seems to be a progression leading up to something.

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Yeah, but only for four years at a time. Then another set of grifters got the loot.

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But, they needed a way to retain it when fiat money went "poof"...

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And they are so narcissistic and techno-utopian that they want to live forever as well.

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Unfortunately, I think you are spot on the mark... Or very close to it... Agree with everything you put so well... The elites tear everything apart, so psychologically people (in the west) don't know if they're coming or going... Change what is "correct think" so quickly and often... The polite and compliant nature of most citizens funnels them into being compliant with the latest "altruistic" scam, no matter how much it goes against their original morals, to be "inclusive" of fringe lunacy, now they'll be ready for the new tyranny, as finance crashes, pandemics and/or other engineered disaster happens - their confusion will make them grasp upon authority to keep them safe... Without realising that same authority has been weaponised against them, creating the havoc and confusion they are experiencing... A society with Stockholm Syndrome loyal to their new masters, never suspecting they've been duped.

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Well the confusion + the enticements, the discounts on the artificially expensive food and power....

Stockholm + the paranoia they are injecting via the news AND the conspiracy theory groups counternarrative (also exaggerated).

I built my comment a bit off this nice piece I just read... https://cjhopkins.substack.com/p/the-new-normal-left?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

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Very good article, I liked the end summation,

"That said, one thing I’m sure about is, if you don’t want to end up eating the bugs and owning nothing and being happy in your AI-monitored 15-minute city while you wait for your social-credit app to update your vaccination record so you can access your CBDC account and make another minimum payment on your ever-deepening credit-card debt, it would probably be a good idea to try to understand what is actually happening."

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To my mind this is all part of a common theme of destroying the development of healthy personal boundaries at a generational level. This makes people easy to control and to exploit. https://garysharpe.substack.com/p/systemic-personal-boundary-violations Imagine how easy it would be for the psychopaths to take control if there were no pesky Gen Xers to get in the way. Is there some unspoken collusion between the gerontocracy/baby boomers and the indoctrinated “digital native” newer generations, to skip a generation by excluding the troublesome Gen X from the seats of power?

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If you read Strauss and Howe, you'll see that in their theory Boomers and Millenials (a term they coined) are dominant types of opposite polarity, while GenX (who they called 13ers -- Doug Copeland's label hadn't really stuck yet) and now Zoomers (who didn't exist yet when S&H were writing, but they analyze the Silent generation that came between the WWII-fighting GIs and the Boomers) are recessive types of opposite polarity. Recessive types rarely attain leadership roles, although they do much of the work. They claim that there's a four-part cycle in American history that they trace all the way back to the late 1500s.

https://archive.org/details/GenerationsTheHistoryOfAmericasFuture1584To2069ByWilliamStraussNeilHowe

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Interesting, I will dig in to this. Is this related to "the Fourth Turning" type ideas?

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Yeah, that's the name of their 1997 followup book.

https://www.amazon.com/Fourth-Turning-American-Prophecy-Rendezvous/dp/0767900464

Amazing to me how people throw these labels around without a clue where they came from.

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fyi, a Boomer can't be older than 77, and many of the politicians generally lumped in with them (Biden, Trump, Pelosi, Schumer, etc) are actually older, and belong to the group called the Silent Generation. Imo, people within a year or two of birth at one of the shifts may have traits from both.

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Interesting, yes I guess the geroncracy is getting very old. What are the traits of the Silent Generation?

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We are the most dangerous generation to the power structure.

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Apr 4, 2023Liked by Mathew Crawford

Many agendas in play, at various levels. I still wonder where the 'need to know' level started as many high profile people seemed to not know? Can it be summarised as 'jab the West, nuke the rest'?

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This is a plan on the level of a global factory, with many parts. People only get information on a need to know basis, so collecting the puzzle pieces has not been easy. And most people sleepwalk through it all. Gotta have time to raise that family, and all, right?

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The trans trend appears to be propelled by money. I can’t remember the exact number, but if someone started hormones at 16 and continues on with transition surgery and follow up appointments, by the time they’ve lived a normal life, they (or their insurance) will pad Pharma’s pockets by over a million bucks.

To each their own, as they say. It’s your body, do as thy wilt. After all, if you’re willing to cut off your naughty bits, you must really want it.

However.

There’s gotta be informed consent and no, children can absolutely not understand the implications of embarking on such a change. I’ve seen photos of post-transition surgeries that would turn anyone off had one seen them before making their decision. And those are the successful surgeries. Most kids are just exploring their desires and limitations and some might just need some therapy but to say the answer to all of that is gender switching is simply absurd.

I call it a trans trend because it has become a fad, one that is, mindnumbingly, driven forward by some of the parents. In Chicago, more than half of my kids’ friends are now a ‘they’- a fact proudly boasted by their blue parents on FB. This display of how “liberal”these people are lacks total self awareness as they use their own kids as pawns in a virtue signaling game.

The first time I met a trans person was in the 90s. She was born intersex, but the docs in the 60s deemed her a boy until she decided she wanted to be a woman in her late 30s. After that, I’ve had a few friends, well before the trend began, who I believe are genuine about how they feel about their gender. But all of them are performers who switch in and out of character and it didn’t seem out of place for them to be the opposite gender. They played the role well. Not in a performative way for an audience, but for themselves, as who they felt they wanted to be. And in America, that is ok.

Could some drugs have a side effect of reduced testosterone or estrogen resulting in some kind of misfiring in the brain? Sure. Could cultural pressure of acceptance create more of that which requires accepting? Possible. I don’t see enough compelling evidence to claim that technocracy is behind it as a way to depopulate. The ROI doesn’t seem high enough. You can sterilize people more efficiently than convincing them they’re the opposite gender. And the erosion of “family values” and the family as an institution seems to have better results through more commonly accepted methodology as well. I simply don’t see transgenderism as a policy for control.

I honestly thing it’s a spiritual thing. Don’t laugh. But most folks walks around not knowing who they are, not understanding they can have a purpose or a gift to share in service to humanity. This lack of awareness that they ought to be seeking some bigger questions results in discomfort. The reaction to discomfort is to seek out ways to ease it which are usually superficial and sometimes, damaging. It reminds me of one of my favorite quotes:

“For reasons unexplained, every person in the world is born with a large gaping hole in the center of their chest. While not uncomfortable, it is widely considered unsightly and pretty much everyone tries to fill it with something. Some people fill it with religion, others just buy a bunch of stuff, and some even fill it with other folks. I left mine alone though because I found out if you run against the wind at just the right angle, it makes a whistling noise.” -Aaron Diaz

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Apr 4, 2023·edited Apr 4, 2023Liked by Mathew Crawford

"The first time I met a trans person was in the 90s. She was born intersex, but the docs in the 60s deemed her a boy until she decided she wanted to be a woman in her late 30s. After that, I’ve had a few friends, well before the trend began, who I believe are genuine about how they feel about their gender. But all of them are performers who switch in and out of character and it didn’t seem out of place for them to be the opposite gender. They played the role well. Not in a performative way for an audience, but for themselves, as who they felt they wanted to be. And in America, that is ok.

Could some drugs have a side effect of reduced testosterone or estrogen resulting in some kind of misfiring in the brain? Sure. Could cultural pressure of acceptance create more of that which requires accepting? Possible. I don’t see enough compelling evidence to claim that technocracy is behind it as a way to depopulate. The ROI doesn’t seem high enough. You can sterilize people more efficiently than convincing them they’re the opposite gender. And the erosion of “family values” and the family as an institution seems to have better results through more commonly accepted methodology as well. I simply don’t see transgenderism as a policy for control."

You're one of the first people I've seen in these circles, that may actually understand some of us. Your level headed interpretation is appreciated. I'd like to say though, I'm not this way because I "lack awareness" or am in "discomfort" from "bigger questions". I've never had any trouble tangling with "bigger questions" or with finding my place in the world. I live this way, because I want to, have always wanted to, and to live any other way, would be lying to myself, and living for those around me. It's not about "filling a hole". It's about being honest with myself, and not playing the role everyone in the world thought I should, but playing the one that brought me personal happiness, regardless of how those who couldn't accept my choices viewed me. I speak for no one else, but I would not be surprised if many people feel the same way. Some are also likely jumping on something they see as a cultural fad with little thought, as they do indeed lack direction. But I can assure you, for some of us, it's the complete opposite.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4jzzDYLgro

Seeing more trans people will prompt the emergence of more. It's simply to be expected if those who are in the closet, think there is more acceptance for them. The only trans "agenda" that really exists, is convincing 50% of America that we as individuals, are out to infringe upon their lives, by funding creepy shit like drag queen story hour, or for some reason, allowing children access to body altering drugs they have absolutely no business taking. By having politicians fight tooth and nail over how to classify us, and how to treat us. It's always ironic to me, when this political battle causes individuals who claim to value "personal choice" and "freedom" to completely flip flop on those ideals, and demand removal of my access to personally chosen body altering procedures or drugs. Do we prevent genetic women from getting breast implants? No. Do we outlaw plastic surgery, because those who may desire it can't "accept themselves for who they we born as"?

No. We allow personal choice and freedom (except when it's coming from people who make us uncomfortable that is). I call these individuals fair weather freedom lovers, as that is what they are. Hypocrites. Yet drawing attention to this clear logical discrepancy, generally earns me nothing but an insistence that my opinion is irrelevant, because I must be "crazy" to live this way.

You simply can not understand the amount of vitriol this politicization is causing for us. I get death threats and called a "groomer" all the time. I just want to live my life for myself. Most people are not aware many of us (the more private members, who generally keep our thoughts to ourselves) don't agree with the politicization being thrust upon us. Propaganda works both ways, and here in America, it generally has 1 overarching goal. Political division. Trans people have always existed, and using our growing acceptance as a political weapon is shameful, and very damaging. Seeing individuals like you gives me hope however, that I may not have to live my entire life at the center of a debate I literally want nothing to do with. Wanna call me a man? I don't care. Wanna call me a woman? I still, don't care, as again, I live this way for myself, not for others. And to others making statements about things they can't understand, no it's not a "short term fad" for many of us. I contemplated this for an entire decade before I acted on it (and before it was at the forefront of every discussion), which is saying something, when the average life span is only like 70-90 years

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I appreciate that you took time to write so much calmly from your own experience. I'm glad that you seem to suffer less than do many people who live outside of some norm. Suffering varies both with the individual and with context, and it's a shame when people fall under constant stress for any reason.

I'd like to challenge this assertion: "Trans people have always existed"

While this is likely technically true, I suspect that in the span of a few decades, the numbers exploded from a tiny proportion, x, to perhaps 100x or 1000x. If I'm right, and if it makes a difference in whether humanity can be steered into a eunuch-Mandarin serfdom, then it's an extremely important topic to untangle. How much is biochemical and how much is fad? I honestly don't know the answer to that question, and the tiny number of people who might have such data are keeping it hidden. How much of the implosion of equilibrium in sexual dimorphism has been thrust on the populous with an agenda attached? Aside from personal questions about sexuality focused around each individual, the structure of society is the larger question that I'm trying to unravel.

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Apr 4, 2023·edited Apr 4, 2023Liked by Mathew Crawford

I agree with your points. I can't say how much is fad, and how much is not. All I can really offer is my personal experience. Me wanting to be this way my whole life, yet never even hearing the word "transgender" in a public setting, until I was 26 (I grew up in a very rural, conservative region, and these topics were very seldom discussed through my childhood and a large portion of my adult life), is the indication I take to know that somewhere, someone is just like me, and likely people of this nature have always been around. Outside of that, I don't like to postulate, but I'm sure you gathered from my response, that I hate the politicization as much as you do. So I can't say, "trans people have always existed in the numbers claiming today" rather, I'm just trying to say, "there likely has always been a set portion of the population, that feels the way I do." I have absolutely no clue how much is fad, though I will say, I've met a few... that are definitely pretending, i.e. jumping on a "movement" that may give their dull lives meaning. Some will be influenced by seeing acceptance though. I have trouble parsing the two honestly

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We all have trouble parsing the two, which is why the LARPing is so effective.

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Scary thoughts for sure. The ROI is indeed low, but when you put it into context along side chemical poisoning through things like endocrine disruptors, it does become more disturbing ( https://topdocumentaryfilms.com/the-disappearing-male/ )

There is also the thought I originally alluded to, that being, it's a perfect hot button topic to stoke political division. I can't deny the clear pushing of the "ideology" onto children in schools either. We are in a long, drawn out war against western male sperm counts from my perspective, so I literally, can't refute any of your points. In fact they hold a lot of merit. It just makes me sad, to be used as a political sword, so I do my best to bridge the gap between the two waring factions this nation has been driven to. Thanks for listening Mathew, as usual, you have my respect, and I agree with your opinion

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I very much appreciate your response and I fully acknowledge that you are not a part of the fad I’m referring to. If it’s rooted in authenticity, and by your comment I assess that it is, people ought to be not only allowed, but encouraged, to be who they want to be and be left in peace to be that way. When I say that everyone is filling a hole, I’m not implying that every trans person is doing so but that every person is filing it up with something and some people decide to cling on to an identity as the thing. That can be anything, although being a minority of some sort seems to be a fad at the moment. Black folks do it. Immigrant folks do it. Gay folks do it, etc. That isn’t to say that there aren’t authentic trans people out there who have discovered the mystery of life and happiness and run against the wind at the right angle to let the whole make a whistling noise. But some folks take that hole and fill it with their identity. And some of it is authentic and some not. And some of it is victimized and some not. And some take victimhood and use it to oppress. And some take others’ victimhoods and, as you say, weaponize it for political gain. All of my trans friends are turned off by the “trans movement.” They know it’s not serving them. Just like all of my black friends are turned off by white liberals who use them as pawns in their political fetish. But I recognize that trans people were ridiculed for so long, (death threats - unacceptable!) the pendulum had to, inevitably, swing the other way and now we all have to add our pronouns in our bylines. If you want to do that - do it, if you don’t- dont. We got so many more serious things to have disagreements about.

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Terrific quote and I’m saving the whole video to watch in a bit. Thank you for bringing a chair to the uncomfortable table. We all need to have these hard conversations because evolution is a group project.

I think you’re right about people moving on once “they’re done LARPing their way into victimhood” (I hope you don’t mind me stealing that for future use because it’s brilliant phrasing). I’m sorry about the pain you’ve been caused by people whose hatred is misdirected or even simply those who allow hatred to govern their psyche.

There are lots more who feel the same as I do, but, like you, we’re quiet. Some of us are afraid of being dragged on social media. But since courage is in short supply lately, I feel inspired by your feedback to get a bit louder. Hope to catch your perspective more around the Substacks.

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Apr 5, 2023·edited Apr 5, 2023Liked by Mathew Crawford

Courage is lacking in this world. Those who would drag you for voicing your perspective are not worth acknowledging, especially when it's so level headed. I assure you, people like me, need people like you in the world. You'll probably see me around here, I like Mathew's work a lot. Oh, and steal away. That's the whole reason I say anything, to do my best to push the cultural zeitgeist in a direction that doesn't end with us all killing each other over idiotic labels

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Very astute response. The defining factor to me, is whether or not, the individual is just that, an individual that arrived at the conclusion, through the process of individuation. I am this way because it is the conclusion I came to after achieving a discovered self https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qr4wvDz9kJ0&t=346s

People whose sense of self is constructed, rather than discovered, are the most likely to jump onto an external "fad" to give themselves meaning. Unfortunately for us, this is a philosophical sickness that permeates and defines the lives of most people in western culture. As such, I am forced to come to the conclusion, that most people are indeed, jumping on a "fad".

Don't worry too much though. We face a lot of stigma. So much that it makes living this way a very difficult battle. I'm sure many will abandon this battle for the next new shiny toy, once it is dangled in front of them, and they have had enough of LARPing their way into victimhood. That will of course, harm real trans people who would rather die than de-transition, but we're ready and waiting for that reality.

P.S. Pronouns are stupid. People who respect me call me "she" because I ask them to. I also hate the pronoun fad, and I don't foist my personal preference on others. Your perception is a boon to us, and I'm sure your friends feel the same. Thank you for trying to understand us, rather than hate us

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Apr 4, 2023Liked by Mathew Crawford

I am in agreement that such parents, and the medical and psych professionals that promote trans, are all mentally ill with Munchausen's by Proxy, now called something like inducement of false disease in another. They get group culture and belonging, and media approval, which are their payments for participation. Pretty sad they offer up the child's future for a transient sense of self-satisfaction.

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I completely agree the trans fad is about spirituality, or rather a lack thereof, and a wonky attempt to fill that hole ... and thus it is indeed hopefully just a fad rather than a burgeoning toxic religion.

I appreciate you mentioning the intersex component, as these are the people who are being completely forgotten during this hijacking of trans identification. Even outside of being born intersex, I don't think its inheritantly toxic to "performatively" switch between genders; as always, it comes down to intention. And whats going on right seems absolutely manufactured and funded by shadowy characters.

If this is indeed just a short term fad, I feel like there is a chance of surviving the upcoming storm on an existential level. Otherwise, the reckoning will be vicious.

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We are being tested on so many levels. Authenticity will be a most powerful quality as we get squeezed into the next level of evolution. And you’re right, the reckoning will be vicious for those whose intent isn’t genuine.

A “burgeoning toxic religion”, indeed.

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Absolutely agree that we are involved in a spiritual war right now. Due to being locked in my 1000 sq ft condo for years I had ample time alone in solitude and this helped open my eyes to the nature of what we are facing. The trans agenda is designed to steer people away from the paths they embarked on when incarnating during this era. Prior to birth we all choose are parents and gender, no one is ever born in the wrong body(maybe those who have major karmic trauma in their past). By brainwashing people to think they are in the wrong body it causes negative energy in the astral plane, causes them to lower their own personal power. I think the plandemic may end up backfiring on these puppeteering assclowns, too many people have gone through what I have and awakened to see the war that is before us.

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Thanks.

We are - some % of the collective - beginning to see how the many dots (smaller agendas) are often connected to longer term, larger goals and how easily agendas have rolled out, given how gullible we've been.

I think the transhumanism and kunlangeta go fully together. Why would you look to morph a human species into something synthetic is you weren't looking for full control? It's a lot of effort, but it must be perceived as worth it for the long haul. Why would anyone gut the best qualities of a thing? they must be threatening to a full take-over.

Eliminating human qualities eliminates unpredictability but it also flattens and deadens. Who would do that? Remove the best qualities?

For me, we don't get through this time without eventually coming to terms with the non-human bit, the cosmic level story going on in the background and those AI like synthetics who infiltrated our planet a long time ago.

Of course we don't need this part to be horrified at where we are, do we? Still, it's, imo, essential to fully grasping what's happened on our planet and the degree to which humanity has been enslaved.

Thanks, will check out the video.

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I think it is, as you say, that centralized power and wealth will always attract a certain class of the morally empty who will attempt to capture as much for themselves as they can, by whatever means come to hand. They will form networks of like-minded individuals, the test for membership being complete abandonment or overriding of the innate sense of duty -- the substitution of the natural urge to altruism with self-seeking lust for money and power. That’s been so normalized that people will go so far as to deny that natural ethical awareness even exists and to claim that unrestrained selfishness is both normal and good.

This little delusion is going to come crashing down. They think now is their time to make their move, but it will backfire badly before long -- once the misery they cause becomes intolerable, the toll becomes apparent, then with surprising speed will come the unpredictable resolution. It’s going to get crazy.

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Children are being drugged and mutilated and I don't get it. I think until you are an adult you should just get counselling perhaps?

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Apr 4, 2023·edited Apr 6, 2023Liked by Mathew Crawford

Those are four excellent observations regarding the interwoven fabric of money and power.

Number three seems more speculative. Regarding transgenderism, wouldn't it be more efficient in terms of power to be against it as you'd be on the side of the majority against a minority?

If you really wanted to speculate, transgenderism could be an alien initiative to get people used to accepting the aliens who seem to be mostly transgender. That's a wild speculation, though based in fact, although one could further speculate the same about decreasing CO2 and trying to cool the planet - neither of which is realistic or necessary. In fact both are detrimental to human and plant (food) life, but maybe preferable to aliens or alien Ai hive-mind soft bots (as they seem to be). Modifying the mix of microorganisms might also be helpful. Of course this would be terraforming which is a conspiracy theory.

People fail to realize how tightly woven is the fabric of global power. The pillars don't just support but make the synergy robust, maybe bulletproof. They each scratch each other's back in a way I call displaced corruption. Everyone gives favors as they can to each other and everyone profits. There are no more direct bags of cash under the table. Instead, favors are given according to one's position to members of the club with no quid pro quo expected or needed. Hillary gives to Hunter who gives to Bill who gives to Joe who gives to Hillary.

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Transgenderism as a common phenomenon has been pushed quickly so that there isn't a lot of "majority advantage", and the idea of making a eunuch class hasn't yet crossed a lot of minds, so it's easier to get away with. Those in power can push levers in education, religion, media, and elsewhere to create acceptance. They can cancel those in their way.

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Apr 4, 2023·edited Apr 5, 2023

Yes, good points. Have not much considered transgenderism. It seems to be more common than I realized. According to a Pew report 5% of kids say they are transgender, no doubt due to environmental factors causing the precipitous decline in testosterone as well as the increase in estrogen levels. We don't want to leave anyone out. Not clear how it would support a totalitarian agenda. Could be misdirection.

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Apr 4, 2023·edited Apr 4, 2023

~ 30 years ago: The culture began to agree that fornication is fine

~ 15 years ago: The culture began to agree that Homosexuality is fine.

~ 5 years ago: The culture began to agree that Transgenderism is fine.

Most of the people in this audience likely view fornication and homosexuality as perfectly acceptable. In 10 years, most of the people in this audience will find transgenderism perfectly acceptable. Why wouldn't they? We kicked God and His moral system to the curb and we decided that we humans are the appropriate definers of right and wrong. In another 10 years, transgenderism will be normalized, as we've seen done before with other sexual behaviors, and most of us will memory hole that we ever had problem with it in the first place. Why wouldn't we? We've already done so many times before.

Romans 1:28-31 - "Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done. They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy. Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them."

Having abandoned God, we will continue defining terms and morality as we see fit, until it inevitably leads to destruction. Why wouldn't we? You may feel it's otherwise, but who are you to say Transgenderism isn't some beautiful expression of self? Transgenderism has not just crept up on us recently. We are just moving along the natural continuum of moral decay, which always occurs when a civilization decides to pull their moral code out of their rear end; rather than from on high. We don't need the DoD, CIA, Pharma or China's help to install this insanity in our society, though they'll help as it serves them. We are just an immoral people, with immoral leadership and a wretched "morality" of our own devising. We desire to be seen as "good" by engaging in our new insane rituals and by finding new ways to one-up the last iteration of our beloved perversions.

*WE*, the people and our abandonment of a fixed, eternal morality are the "root of the insanity."

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Apr 4, 2023·edited Apr 4, 2023

Exactly. From "one nation under God" to one nation under judgment.

https://www.gotquestions.org/why-am-I-here.html

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You are right. Nietzsche's madman speech makes the same point in dramatic language.

The notion of "human rights" comes from Christianity, which posits that each and every human is made in the image of God and deserving of respect.

Dostoevsky wrote in "The Brothers Karamazov" that "without God, all is permissible." I am afraid we are living through that warning.

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If the disintegrating global economic system collapses suddenly, in "out of control" fashion, it won't matter how many mansions, yachts and billions the Uber-wealthy possess in a post-apocalyptic world. You can only be one place at one time. So it appears that those at the top of our "pyramid scheme" economic paradise have been creating a sort of "controlled demolition" of the current levers and structures of that system - so that they can maintain "control of" the inevitable disintegration of a neoliberal capitalist shit-show that clearly has "no need whatsoever" for the vast majority of we the world's population. We are all ever more superfluous to the creation of and maintenance of wealth.

I think of the "Woke" assault on language as very much part of this "controlled demolition" of what we might call "objective reality" itself. Now that human being standing in front of you waving his penis about - magically becomes - "a woman" - because he "says so." If they can change the definition of what a "woman is" - it's no problem whatsoever to change the definition of concepts like - what a pandemic is - what a vaccine is - what herd immunity is - what a coup is - what a proxy war is - what an unprovoked invasion is - and what a Nazi is. Objective reality itself is being subjected to this "controlled demolition" - and only heretics and witches dare point this out for fear of being expelled from our new Woke "polite society" of collective idiocy.

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Watch the Bilek video posted above. She explains it well ...and it's terrifying.

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Wonder what will happen with China, Russia and other countries. I mean, do they plan on getting rid of most of their populations too? How could they be so psycho to kill off most of the world? Its beyond satanism.

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Last year there was a book I wished to purchase titled Georgia Guidestones Commitment to World Depopulation: Mandatory Vaccines, by Nick Daniel Huntley. It was available on several websites, but all of a sudden it disappeared, as if it never existed:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59421532-georgia-guidestones-commitment-to-world-depopulation

A few months later the Georgia Guidestones disappeared as well.

A book I was able to purchase and enjoyed reading, Humankind: A Hopeful History, by Rutger Bregman, shares what I believe - that most people have good hearts. Sadly, there are a few people with strong psychopathic tendencies. The latter seem to end up in one of two places: prison, or positions of power. Kevin Barrett wrote an excellent article some years ago titled "Twilight of the Psychopaths" that opened my eyes to this reality.

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I intuitively figured this is what has been occurring before our very own eyes. This confirms and ties it all together. Thank you.

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With the number of commercials for HIV meds, one wonders if both the "gay" and trans movements weren't perpetrated, propagated and pushed by big pharma and the psyops power brokers. Promote the behavior, sell the lifelong, high-dollar meds, further fund the dystopian nightmare. There is a better Way. Be in the Word. https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Timothy%203&version=NIV

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Certainly the primary AIDS introduction era seemed to be a practice of part of the plan.

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I agree with your approach. Be in the Word. Amen

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Good points. I shared this video in a post of my own several days ago and like her talk. This does all go through to economics of course and far more. I am expanding in these themes later today.

https://open.substack.com/pub/kwnorton/p/transgendered-neutered-vaxxed-extinct?r=boqs0&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

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Thank you for this informative article, and thank you to Mike Yeadon and other commenters for their views.

The so-called "climate crisis" plays a part, and I would like to share my thoughts. Back in 1929, a famous actor and singer from the United States was working with a theatre group in London, England. He stepped outside and saw a group of impoverished men marching through the streets, and joined with them to learn about their travails. The group of Welsh coal miners had been put out of work and they and their families were starving. The actor and singer, Paul Robeson, (and some of the theatre group, as I recall) paid for the men to have a full meal, and supported them other ways. Paul Robeson later made a movie, The Proud Valley, with many of the miners from the Rhondda Valley in South Wales.

Many years later, in order to break a coal-miners' strike, the Prime Minister of England, Margaret Thatcher, introduced the "climate crisis" under the guise of "global warming." It's funny how the parties in power won't let a good crisis go to waste, whether so-called "liberals" or "conservatives."

Paul Robeson was born 9 April 1898 and died in 1976. His 125th birthday will be this Easter Sunday, and many celebrations are planned. I just began reading his 1958 book, Here I Stand, for the second time. I highly recommend it to understand how the Power Elite have been controlling people and destroying lives for a long, long time.

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I believe it's always about power and money. That should be our first supposition, always.

And part of the mechanism for gaining and maintaining power and money is the age-old, tried-and-true strategy of divide and rule. Racism, sexism and classism are less potent go-to's these days. Even divides over religious ideologies can't stir up much of a fervor anymore. Hence a new point of contention is needed. I think the two new, you're-with-us-or-against-us points of contention are the jab and trans. These are the issues that inspire the greatest controversy and societal divisions. I think the jab controversy was an unintended extra benefit, but the trans controversy is intentional. Anyway, that's how it seems to me.

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And Ukraine

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