Chapter 6 - Ignorance as Comfort Food
“The welfare of the people has always been the alibi of tyrants.”― Albert Camus (b.1913)
The irony of our current dystopian predicament rests largely in the mistaken perception that what we take to be predictive of that which is to come, is actually descriptive of what is here right now. Our ability to see that for ourselves, is chiefly dependent on our willingness of spirit and openness of mind to see things as they are personally REVEALED, rather than as we are TOLD they are or even as we might PREFER them to be.
Admittedly, only a relatively small percentage of people at any given time in history, have shown themselves ready to meet that requirement - to see things as they are. I wish I knew why the number of people willing to submit to external programming is so great or why their fundamental resistance to changing their views is so agonizingly difficult to undertake … but so it seems to be.
I do observe though that people’s readiness to entertain different perspectives increases when the grip of distressing circumstances is relaxed. This helps explain why the stresses never abate and why FEAR is always tyranny’s first weapon of choice, and why people tend to shy away from vigorously pursuing radical awakenings, at least until they have exhausted all more comfortable options and are left with no other choice but to change… or to suffer hard consequences.
As nation-states take on some of the ritual characteristics of a ceremonial death cult, the NWO plutocrat priest class who constitute its core, and who are already fully possessed of a satanic-level morality, give themselves over to completely advancing the plan for transnational governance in its full Techno-Fascist form. Their game plan calls for them to obstruct human progress by making sure that common people stay petrified in fear and thus incapable of even comprehending what’s happening to them, much less anticipating what their fate might be if they don’t start to see with longer-distance vision, the catastrophic endgame that awaits humanity.
Consider for a moment how distanced and “disgusted” many Techno-Liberal “control subjects” have become with many of their now “former” friends and family, whom they have come to regard as social “pariahs,” simply because they insisted upon their inalienable right to speak their peace and to question the $trillion+ mass media narrative; regarding the virus, the mask, the social distancing, the TV “science” and the “take one for grandma” quarantine/injection justifications.
Those who come to accept the media’s version of the one “propaganda” RELIGION as gospel, and who feel justifiably “holy” in their virtue-signaling, will ultimately find themselves trapped in a Twilight Zone-like dimension where all authentically contrarian ideas or impulses will need to be forsaken and publicly renounced, if one would be allowed to continue their virtual existence as dots on a screen within the massive panopticon surveillance state simulation.
Out of sight of media cameras, the elite “bloodline” circles (which like all powerful circles operate within ever more powerful circles) and councils (within councils) of central bankers, insurance magnets and all their many competent ordained minions, (including of course their ancillary military and media arms) are solidly united behind the current plague scenario and the “safety/security” narrative, which must not be questioned and which cannot be sustained without the perpetual blurring of facts and the censoring of all sources of independent thought and research that might possibly provide the general public with unbiased and transparent evidence.
And even though the public has been conditioned now for decades to accept whatever the “technocratic” oligarchy pushes their way, it is nonetheless disturbing to see the masses of those we know to be good and decent people, including most poignantly, our own family and friends, fall so fully under the magic spell, which would have them spring into action on command like an army of robotic droids to defend the oligarchy’s demented, perverse narrative, and to fiercely castigate all those who might choose NOT to surrender their right of choice to the government’s mandates.
When the elaborate roll-out of the George Floyd psychodrama took place in May of 2020, many of us old hands rolled our collective eyeballs at the obvious and heavy-handed nature of the false flag operation, as well as the all too predictable DIVIDE and CONQUER national pep rally that soon followed, and yet no amount of insight and disbelief was enough to stop the dog-whistle media from delivering to the entrained Techno-Liberal masses, repeated blasts of the same blunt marching orders to instantly fall in line behind the simplistic misdirected “woke” sloganeering of defeating racism and prejudice… wherever they were told it might be hiding… and this sadly, was exactly what happened.
The initial directive was then amplified at exponential levels across the greater global media landscape, causing millions to become suddenly hyper-focused on “racism,” as if centuries of identically brutal murders and public lynchings of blacks were no longer relevant… as in fact, they weren’t really… because NONE of those earlier horrors had the full “Propaganda Operating System” (POS) seal of approval and blessing of the oligarch’s DEEP STATE apparatus… while this one absolutely did - and to the magical exclusion of any faint whispers of doubt or skepticism.
So it was, that this initial “staged” event led directly to the highly publicized roll-out of the “BLACK LIVES MATTER” mini-series delivered straight into every American living room and smartphone, the effect of which was to rouse masses of “Techno-Liberals” to take to the streets in selected DNC-controlled (near to Federal Reserve locations, as well) across America in complete contradiction of the social distancing and mask mandates.
And all this took place right in the middle of a supposed global “pandemic” that was delivering economic devastation to our own and other economies around the world… and yet even these absurd and bald-faced scenarios somehow managed to unfold without a hitch. After 20 years of witnessing similar machinations, I know only too well what the media is capable of convincing us – and that NONE of it has the least bit to do with the truth.
With customary restrictions so easily suspended for officially “approved” purposes, the major social media networks, like the true military surveillance and propaganda platforms that they were ALWAYS designed to be, soon began to maniacally censor their users’ posts and comments, building to a point a year later, where the outright disappearance of our “friends'' from these various platforms has become an everyday occurrence, just as the paid fact-checkers’ version of current events assumes ever greater visibility, distribution and volume over any alternative underfinanced narratives that skeptics like myself might turn to in the interests of veracity.
As each of us is so easily downlisted or disappeared now by such closed system algorithms, even our friends may not notice our absence or that of other brave souls who advocated for perspectives that ran counter to the dominant media POS narrative. Even such innocuous patterns as these play their part in the overall revisionism of our history.
It should be clear by now, after many months of intermittent “LOCKDOWNS” (with plenty more to come) that as far as the operations of the oligarchy’s Matrix-like “CONTROL GRID” are concerned, NOTHING except the standard “WHO could have guessed?” theory of random events will be tolerated or allowed to publicly propagate.
According to their “complicit” and thoroughly “fact-checked” media, there is NO fascist plan in place… NO plan at all… NO New World Order… NOTHING to be concerned about. Rich people must always be deserving of their wealth and our admiration. According to their story, we’re just going through a rough patch here … Everyone NORMALIZE right now, so that those crazy conspiracy theories don’t cause your troubled mind to be drawn under the influence of any other sources of information than those that operate under the trusted control of “official” and institutional SCIENCE and TRUTH.
As Einstein famously suggested, "Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.” And yet, is that not exactly what we are doing, over and over? Have we not in fact gone irreversibly INSANE at this point? After 20 months of allowing the state direct access to our psychologies, have we not to varying degrees become literally “brainwashed?” It would be difficult to argue that we have not.
It is easy enough to understand WHY people kowtow to the sharpened and forceful threats embedded within propaganda… out of fear of reprisal of course, but also out of a need to avoid struggle and the responsibility of having to do something to stop it or to perhaps be morally obliged to act on socially “unapproved” thoughts and unpopular instincts even though we know instinctively, that they are wrong!
If the situation were different than it is and if there had EVER existed the possibility that things MIGHT actually return to the “old” normal - as is the wide-spread hope, then there might be some small shred of justification for being patient and letting Gates, Fauci, the Pharma/Vax companies, the Central Bankers, the Insurance tycoons, the Mega-Corps and the Great Resetters complete their hocus-pocus bullshit.
But that’s NOT how things are and not how I (and many millions of others) are seeing it either. However, you choose to see things and irrespective of your own personal decisions, the Deep-Staters/Great Resetters are not going to relax their focus on the globalists’ “end-game” … which we can clearly see now is built upon a nasty formula of miserable economic devastation, centralized global technocratic governance as well as brutal militarism, deteriorating states of health, relentless tracking, bio-surveillance and legal scapegoating.
In such a surreal state, Techno-Liberal consensus thinking is always installed like Lady Gaga (in place of Lady Liberty) at the head of the parade, to keep the public constantly instructed as to what to think, what to value and how to behave… not a lick of which EVER encourages critical thinking.
The public’s acquiescence to the authority of the singular POS mono-story narrative, which pushes all other alternative scenarios aside and outside the media frame, means that competing narratives are excluded from ever entering the “public” conversation, which as always, is tightly restricted by the social engineers, dutifully at work inside of today’s digitally retrofitted and monstrously expanded “Ministries of Truth.”
Putting Covid-1984 aside for a moment, (imagining that such an option is even possible) the various absurdities we have faced, including Biden’s pre-announced “victory,” the Capitol “insurrection” farce, the knee-jerk demonization of all things Trump, the elevation of the “white domestic terrorist” threat to replace the obsession with Putin and Russiagate, the media’s open advocacy of all things “transgender, anti-racist, anti-fascist and anti-police” as well as the magical black memory hole into which have been stuffed Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, Hunter Biden, child-sex trafficking, JFK, 9-11 and so much more… the total effect has been to leave our pummeled brains churning through constantly repeating wash cycles… even though in the privacy of our own minds, we might be silently SCREAMING for help.
It is in the nature of false flag psychological operations - so-called “PsyOps” - such as the one we are immersed in right now, to push the already frazzled majority of the public in the direction of wildly heightened states of repression, silence, trauma, depression and despair, even while they are told NOT TO WORRY and to passively accept what they are told by way of cheesy mind-numbing explanations.
I think what many are coming to see is that few, if any of us, are above the dissemination of propaganda, the pull of peer pressure and powerful consensus where even the most intelligent of people might well surrender their hold on logic once their minds have been sufficiently overwhelmed with messages of FEAR. (False Evidence Appearing Real)
Whether or not we will EVER at some point, overcome the gravitational pull of this A.I.-powered media spell is a fair enough question to pose, but the answer to that must be weighed against the evidence, which tells us that once digital information has been as fully “weaponized” (as it is now) and once it has been integrated into the Control Grid’s Propaganda Operating System (POS) software, as it is now, that there also arises a huge wall of disincentives that prevent ANY sort of actual observable data or unmasked “experience” of reality from penetrating the propaganda’s polished and fully programmed “simulacrum” of the truth. Once the digital dictatorship is in place, it’s a done deal.
To compare, 18 years of constant U.S. involvement in the murder and maiming of the indigenous peoples of the Middle East (recently rebooted post-election by the Biden and Israeli governments) - have never seemed to matter all that much to the American public - at least not enough to trigger the level of vitriol that one black man’s death in Minneapolis ignited almost overnight.
One might rightly ask, how is such a twisted scenario even POSSIBLE?
If you have not by now come to see the “SORCERER”-level powers wielded by the tightly coordinated media and propaganda industries over mentally and physically weakened populations, then merely raising the specter of such a question will not likely occur to you.
One could make the case that the media has ALWAYS interpreted for us what’s important and what’s not. This is just as true as saying that education has ALWAYS been about indoctrination or that modern medicine has always been about profits, prescriptions and population control. And yet, in the “pandemicized” context of today’s sweeping technocratic economic reset, and given the exponential amplifying power of high-speed networks and unprecedented computational power, the mass dissemination of whatever the control grid elects to deploy has proven so effective that vast masses of people can now be made to line themselves up on the very SAME side of the very SAME story, all at the very SAME time... OVER and OVER again, while simultaneously convinced that they are exercising their FREE WILL!
Something at the core of our so-called REALITY has mutated, so as not to resemble what existed in earlier times, when we were more dependent upon nature for our survival. Such losses in the authenticity of our lives have put tremendous new pressures on each of us in terms of how we must navigate our lives and daily choices.
We can see all sorts of top-down directives and ritual humiliations playing out inside of the SHELTER-IN-PLACE orders; the absurd MASKING mandates, the public SHAMINGS and the public’s cowering COMPLIANCE to the government’s orders to close businesses, schools, sports, concerts, churches, and state offices. (Personally, I would NOT have believed that such a level of TOTAL submission was possible, but I clearly underestimated the predator’s intention combined with the perversely powerful pull of fear and the perceived threat of reprisal from both the powerful and our peers.)
Is it any wonder then that so-called “patriots,” constitutional populists, libertarians, anarchists, free thinkers, gun rights activists and many devout Christians are so enraged by these manifold macro-aggressions by Techno-Liberal consensus reality, with its globalist communitarian agendas, all of which go squarely against traditional and once-common moral convictions as they undermine the primacy of personal “liberty,” responsibility and morality? This is especially egregious when those traditional civic values are repeatedly being brought under such venomous counter-attack by our OWN government!
(As difficult as it is to entertain the idea, it needs to be asked what happens when all these law-abiding and freedom-loving people - and particularly gun-owners (or recently discharged military personnel) start to feel that they have NOTHING left to lose? This is not to say that those in power are not expecting or anticipating such reprisals - but what will that mean for YOU?)
All this surrender of free will to authority that is now being required of us, is an embarrassment to moral people everywhere, who have all their lives been led to believe in the principles of freedom, democracy, morality and civic responsibility.
Clearly, when it comes to amplifying social divisions, pride has been eliminated, which makes it not surprising that people, left more alone than ever and forced to decide about the Covid injection, might tend to default on the side of the consensus view held by their friends and family.
At the same time, we have already seen untold numbers of family and friends being forcefully separated from each other in most unkind ways. This is a genuinely TRAGIC development, as well as a powerful indicator of just how far down the slippery slope towards abject servitude we as a nation have descended.
Under such pressure, the classic divide & conquer strategies get pushed to peak crescendos - as fractiously divisive and silly issues like masks, social distancing, “shots” and social justice mandates get constantly pounded into our heads.
As the level of the shrieking cacophony and animosity escalates, so does the frequency of the conflicts that arise over our culture’s broader use of WORDS. I have on numerous occasions this past year, had the matter boil down to a disagreement with old friends over our respective definitions of a word like “SCIENCE.”
Once the media’s definition of the term is picked up, weaponized and deployed, rationality thereafter gets sorely tested as people become increasingly DISTRUSTFUL of each other’s “presumed” definitions, which makes peaceful resolution of differences not easy to resolve.
My own definition of science involves methodical research of course, but it also rests upon deep skepticism, based on the role that I know money, regulation, education, politicization and media coverage have long played in its funded, commercial and profit-directed aspects. This becomes an especially noticeable challenge when people I have long held in high regard, tell me that Fauci, Gates, the NIH and the CDC, and the newsreaders on MSNBC and CNN are practicing “science” and thereby “doing their best” to arrive at their recommendations for the public health, in accordance with what they CONVINCE themselves (if not you and I) is the latest and most thorough research available. Some kind of low point there that we must suffer our way through.
For the brave legion of dissenting science and health professionals though, who have FIERCELY questioned those “TV science” recommendations, or dared to offer informed and contradicting alternative research of their own, there is no room at the corporate media “inn” for them… and almost no room left on social networks either, which are obviously now wholly in the service of the same one massive Deep-State fact-choking POS mind-control operation.
And if you don’t think that this is the case at all, then there you go. What is to be done with you or I … or any of us? Perhaps little, except to let the insanity play itself out, while you and your family try and stay “unaltered” by media or pharma parasites - assuming the members of your family are still able to embrace each other, which more and more, rather like the status of our self-chosen pronouns, cannot be simply or safely assumed.
What this Tower of Babel-type conflict around the meaning of words also suggests to me, is a more internal struggle over what is meant by the fundamental concept of the “INDIVIDUAL” – or by the very concept of “self?”
In my own experience, coming of age as I did amidst the rococo pomp of the late 1960’s, and the globulous avatar fluidity of rave culture of the 90’s, the term, “individual” for me always implied being “independent” and liberally “tolerant,” by way of living my life relatively unencumbered by other people’s values and judgements.
So many decades of free and unquestioning dedication to one’s own conscience and morality allowed me the freedom to adopt positions and beliefs based almost solely on my own direct experience and personal investigation - which kept me from being overly influenced by slothful consensus, that was then called “establishment” thinking and which is now – at least according to me - called the Propaganda Operating System (POS.)
Flash forward to today though, and people are more and more feeling the need and social pressure to align with more society-wide corporate-controlled “brands” of consensus thought, which combine to support this weird new virtual simulacrum of reality that fully supports ONLY the most limited and popular sets of “approved” positions and behaviors. And remember too, that this is happening, not just among ignorant or weak-minded people, but among highly intelligent and successful classes of professional people as well.
Additionally, the very idea of “SUCCESS” has also been redefined. It too has moved from a condition based largely upon one’s own metrics and criteria, derived from the actual experience of hard work and remaining true to oneself ... over to a new more externally-imposed definition of success, based upon what “normie” society (increasingly defined by consensus derived from propaganda programming and data collection) determines are the most essential attitudes, behaviors and outcomes it wants (and increasingly EXPECTS) you to embody, reflect and propagate.
Certainly, we are seeing a lot of references in these shaky times to the coming role of onerous Chinese-style SOCIAL CREDIT SCORES, and to the power of say Universal Basic Income (UBI) to keep people docile and compliant. The expanding forms that control takes in our surveillance state are becoming more self-evident, which further suggests that ONLY Big Tech; A.I., the BLOCKCHAIN and constant sensor data has a hope of ever successfully keeping track of all that data.
When our more foundational values are so eroded in this way, and when traditional institutions of government become obviously “militarized” against the people, when financial insecurity increases so exponentially, then the public’s attention shifts instinctively to grab at whatever appears SOLID enough to possibly hold their weight and keep them afloat in a sea of roiling troubles.
Such acts of desperation are clearly reflected at the macro-level in the corporatocracy’s obsession with maximizing short-term profits and shareholder value. (Imagine how destabilizing it will be when months of hyperinflation bring about a dramatic devaluation of the dollar, and when your paycheck, all your online accounts and the fortunes of your family are centrally tied into your digital money account, which in turn will be tied to your “Vaccine/ID Passport” - all of which can be summarily limited turned off without your consent or participation.)
Almost everywhere you turn today, celebrated billionaire “ethics” have taken a tight grip on our psyches - resulting in our thinking that we have no choice but to put our heads down, grab those paychecks and not draw unwanted attention to ourselves… for fear of somehow falling “outside the lines” and finding ourselves marginalized or exiled from the majority view reality/TV “game show.”
Witness the media’s constant elevation of billionaires in the press, including Jeff Bezos, (the astronautical owner of the Washington Post,) Marc Benioff, (owner of Time Magazine) or Gates himself, who when he headed Microsoft bought into his own television network, MSNBC… which remains the most prominent public media platform for Techno-Liberal misinformation of the 100% purely Deep State /POS variety.
Are these morally bankrupt robber baron billionaires being substituted for “real” heroes simply by virtue of their playing the role of “philanthropists?” Stupid as that might sound, it would seem to be the case, at least when the case is constantly being made that way by the POS.
I think a big part of the problem is that our view of what is HEROIC is no longer defined as it once was, as constituting selfless and courageous acts boldly taken in the face of mortal danger. (Curiously enough, the refusal to comply with vaccine mandates is creating opportunities for everyday people to boldly step into their own heroic light.)
Instead of such acts of individual integrity, we are rather sold elaborate propaganda campaigns that extol those who have succeeded at thinking and acting in strictly materialist and morally suspect ways. In this way, does the media further tell us how to think and whom to admire… as if we were constantly watching trailers for a movie that does not need to be made, because the short meme-like trailers are all that really matters in freeing us from any more authentic need for “reasonable” or even close to genuinely heroic narratives.
There is no selflessness or sacrifice in such acts of faux-heroism. Without selflessness or sacrifice, where there is no suffering or risk of death, there is no heroism… just more self-promotion.
This sort of inflationary marketing is everywhere present in our popular arts and entertainments, and especially in movies, pop music culture. What do our current crop of movie protagonists and pop stars tell us about the times we inhabit? Who are the heroes that kids are given to look up to today?
In movies, we see an abundance of superhero movies; all of which are predicated upon some sort of predictive merger of man and superman... man and machine. And as far as pop music goes, it has long been fully reliant on its manipulations of the digital “spectacle” that erects impenetrable barriers to true authenticity.
To restate it for those who might have missed it, my primary premise in this extended essay is to expose how I believe that we, as 21st Century humans, are being methodically trained and programmed to quite literally reimagine ourselves AS “machines” - as entities that can be coded to perform in a seemingly limitless number of ways, just as we are being programmed now when it comes to gender, race, sexual orientation and social identifications, all of which together serve to pull us farther away from any PHYSICAL and ENERGETIC connection with our own self-directed ground of being or with that of the earth and each other.
Such stories as were common in earlier eras, even into the 1970’s, are nearly impossible to find today. Little wonder that few Westerns are made anymore.
Such stories predicated upon raw individualism, bravery and even spiritual faith that through a series of trials reveal vulnerable but triumphant human souls, rather than “battlemechs” of the superhero variety, are now few and far between. Those earlier heroes, such as you might find in a John Ford movie, would today likely be labeled as poisonously patriarchal, insensitive, racist or misogynist. Fine, but whither then goes COURAGE and PURPOSE? These are the two qualities that I feel we are MOST in need of restoring for ourselves and for each other today.
In the face of such a glaring need, are we to settle for conforming to the dictates of popular opinion as it gets slow-cooked over the coals of public relations? With traditional morals no longer providing us a compass, one might even come to believe that nothing is really worth fighting for and certainly not risking one’s life for anymore, and that we are so overpowered by the corrosive effects of authoritarian control systems and the harsh dictates of the techno-fascist surveillance state, that such older nostalgic idea of heroes must be done away with too.
It should be remembered that our arrival at such a state of systemic powerlessness has long been an intrinsic part of the oligarch’s stated goals to convert us from autonomous “beings” into replaceable (and disposable) “assets,” which can then be mathematically tracked and “ritually” stacked on the blockchain, where we can be more easily upgraded or “cancelled” at any time.
To turn back to the political perspective, could it be that the SUM of all the many “Divide & Conquer” strategies that the oligarchy has spent decades fostering, is finally wrapping up its work? We hear a lot about “late-stage” capitalism. Perhaps capitalism was something of a decoy all along, an easy form of distraction and bribery… and is the oligarchy’s actual “final solution” the masterful swapping out at the last minute of late-stage capitalism for end-stage HUMANITY and a constant state of tyranny.
Are we now so distant and removed from the world of our grandparents and parents, or from body and spirit, from love and community, or from the verdant earth, that we have become willing and oblivious enough to allow (in our time of “fractalized” identifications) what our ancestors would NEVER for a moment have allowed in their time - the complete corruption and eradication of personal integrity and individuality?
If we are to ever escape this world circumscribed by incessant propaganda, mind-control technologies and our steady conversion into machine-like “cyborgs," then we must push ourselves to see past all that we are TOLD, past the virtual world of the social engineers, past all that is being HIDDEN from us, so that we might reconnect with our “SACRED” consciousness in order to help piece ourselves back together again… in ways that no longer betray posterity, break our hearts or corrupt our souls. I
The challenge we face, as we have long been told, is an immense and imposing one, even as it was clearly detailed so long ago.
“We shall crush you down to the point from which there is no coming back. Things will happen to you from which you could not recover if you lived a thousand years. Never again will you be capable of ordinary human feeling. Everything will be dead inside you. Never again will you be capable of love, or friendship, or joy of living, or laughter, or curiosity, or courage, or integrity. You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty, and then we shall fill you with ourselves.” -- George Orwell (1984)
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ALL CHAPTERS:
Prologue - Trivial Accessories to the Machine
Chapter 1 - All your Cyborgs Will Be Techno-Liberals
Chapter 2 - That Which Tallies the Numbers, Sets the Rules
Chapter 3 - All Rebellions Must Be Scheduled in Advance
Chapter 4 - Binge-Watching the Incomprehensible
Chapter 5 - A Propaganda OS as State Religion
Chapter 6 - Ignorance as Comfort Food
Chapter 7 - Their War to End All Wars
Chapter 8 - Was there Something We Forgot?
Chapter 9 - In Any Other World
Epilogue - Preparing Our Souls for the Ancestors
Thanks Mark, it's as if I had a second, smarter, autonomous brain, to screed all the dark thoughts I'm thinking between screeds on vaccines and cannabiz...