Continued from Part 1 - comparing The West with North Korea
Part 2 uses gentle criticisms to encourage freedom lovers to turn their radars away from the untrustworthy. Here goes.
Waking in stages
Hordes of ‘Awake’ people are vigilantly monitoring the bodies and institutions who consistently lie, deceive, obfuscate, slander, memory hole, gaslight and ignore. They are hoping for a reason to trust again. We are all waiting to be told that “the mistakes have been identified and will not happen again, resume your normal role in the systems you deserve.” While North Koreans are maintaining their faith in the great leader, despite all the evidence, we are maintaining our faith in our own great institutions, despite all the evidence.
Does this seem familiar?
1) I Wake up. How naive I was! The deep state, military and pharmaceutical industrial complexes have been bad actors in the world for a long time. Look at smoking, thalidomide, leaded petrol, U.S. consistently at war, disaster capitalism, treatment of whistleblowers, vaccine pseudoscience. The world trade centre was an inside job, Kennedy was assassinated by his own countrymen and the slide to corruption has not been checked since, mainstream media reports only on what is profitable - never on advertisers or true corruption, democracy is a sham, inflation is theft, evil is far more widespread than most acknowledge. Feels bad that it is true but also good to make sense of the world in a way that has no cognitive dissonance.
2) Investigate. Here is the evidence, here are the counterarguments, here is the data and statistics around the world. Here are the whistleblowers documenting how the reporting, data or story was manipulated or fabricated. Rewind, repeat for each topic.
3) Link ideas.
The Covid shot is a genetic experiment. The Nuremburg Code was setup to prevent just this. Everyone I know is a Nuremburg Code violator or supporter. Huh.
Universal Human Rights were treated like rewards for good behaviour, and half of them were denied to all citizens. The Geneva convention states that even treatment of prisoners of war like this would be a grave violation, let alone your fellow citizens. Human Rights organisations are silent on this clear worldwide decline of Human Rights. Huh.
My taxes are paying for war crimes, both overseas and locally, as well as a military grade psychological warfare campaign against us all. In the last 2 years, tens of millions of people have been killed or injured via vaccine, Lockdown or mask - then this is denied for years. Hundreds of millions were fraudulently imprisoned, and billions were subjected to the treason of ruining the economy by those responsible for it to benefit their political or economic buddies. Huh.
There are no more illusions of democracies, universal rule of law, or basic human decency under any sort of pressure or fear. Nefarious actors are openly documenting their plans to reshape the future with tyranny and inequality replacing freedom. Huh.
Feels bad to admit it, but again the sheer awfulness of it is offset by some kind of relief that, with so much undisputed evidence, this story is more accurate than my previous naive understandings.
4) Forget steps 1- 3 to focus on a local example and ignore previously linked ideas. Eg. Study reveals Myocarditis is higher in this group vs that group. Assume that should do it. Now the CDC, FDA, mainstream media, WEF, Deep State, Paedophiles, Slave traders, Warmongers will have no choice but to also wake up and join the nicer path! Dust off your hands and have a well earned rest.
1 month later - Study reveals Myocartidis is higher in this group vs that group…. O.K. the last study didn’t stop the murders, but surely this will correct the course! And so on. (Robyn documents this Myocarditis progression in more detail here)
I have followed the same iteration many times - I am only human, and though I put energy into it, my brain has the same struggle (which all humans endure) keeping the bigger picture in perspective with local examples. I keep thinking the institutions will do what they say on the label, despite them never having done so. I keep thinking the next news article will be trustworthy, the next court case will succeed, the next corrupt politician will face an investigation, etc. etc.
I have been indoctrinated to have faith in the wider systems (equivalent of a great leader), but I am breaking free!
I argue that The Freedom Community needs to do the same.
There are no Great Leaders
Let’s look at some examples:
Peter Mccullough is currently doing a speaking tour. Many in the Medical Freedom Community are excited about this. Why though? I really like him as a speaker and researcher. I love his collation of ideas and the intellectual honesty with which he presents them. But. He is one of hundreds of thousands of people who have collated research on covid crimes - and he was very slow to start compared to most. Nevertheless Kudos. However, he is also a widely published expert in Medical Science. He was a part of the establishment. He spent a career supporting vaccination without spotting all the pseudoscience, fraud, hypocrisies, injuries, whistleblowers, etc. He spent a career in the medical science, peer review process. How is that considered a positive thing among a community who knows exactly how corrupt that system has been the whole time? Why do I need to see him speak in a hall with people who have decades demonstrating more understanding of health than him sitting in the audience?
There are now a huge number of people reading evidence of widescale corruption in the whole medical supply chain, from education, accreditation, science funding, data collection, peer review, policy implementation and overall impact on health. Yet these same people still appeal to authority if someone has a worthwhile credential, still act as if the FDA could ever have the public’s interest at heart, or could ever be trustworthy. I don’t know what to make of it when I see people piece together that the FDA has knowingly been murdering citizens, but still think ‘FDA approval’ is a thing worth caring about. These are the same people who ardently followed the class action lawsuits against mandates, and could easily see the corruption there (which led to, for example, 27 of 27 being dismissed in corrupt NSW, Australia) and yet who still act like there is a judicial system which is anything like the way they want it to be.
There are people who understand the capture of the political class, gerrymandering, election fraud, the illusion of a two party system as inevitably representing vested interests such as the Deep State, who still pretend that voting counts and that they live in a democracy.
U.S. government statistics said there were weapons of mass destruction in Afghanistan and that billions of dollars did not go missing and glyphosates are safe, and on and on. Why would a U.S. government statistic have more weight for me than some guy at the pub. it shouldn’t. The guy at the pub might still be wrong, but at least he isn’t actively at war with me. He should have more of my trust.
I see so many freedom fighters get excited about “Mainstream media finally acknowledges ….” Why should I care? Why do freedom lovers spam quotes from Bill Gates and not this C.J. Hopkins piece which is far more in line with reality than anything Bill says?
Do I practice what I preach? Not yet. I still, occasionally, catch myself worshipping credentials, reference scientific articles as settled science, or pretend that something the German government says has more weight to it than something Eugyppius types, though that author is a more reliable source of honesty than the entire German establishment. But I am breaking free!
To be clear, I’m not suggesting we ignore what the treasonous psychopaths are saying. I still try to keep track of the widening gap between what the indoctrinated are exposed to and what the alternate narratives or censored controversies are on topics. As a teacher, this seems a useful thing to do, especially if clearly demonstrating the lies of propagandists manages to break through to the propagandised (though it rarely does). As a survival mechanism, I’d also like to keep track of the dehumanisation efforts.
Does De-indoctrination have a flavour?
What I am suggesting is that we all aim to act proportionate to the patterns we observe. For example:
We observe governments manipulating, deleting, doctoring, or hiding datasets. Act like it. Here is Matthew Crawford’s take to on how that would look.
We observe Universities and academic institutions compromising themselves. We know groupthink is rampant in these places, and we know that they were less than useless at so much which was ‘expert’, ‘science’, ‘research’, ‘rights’ or ‘truth’ related. Act like it. Treat an ‘expert’ telling you there was a pandemic the same way you would treat Anthony Fauci telling you he should be trusted without question.
We observe institutions acting completely captured, and regulators being most likely to do the exact opposite of their stated reason for existing. Act like it. Treat CDC announcements the same as your 3 year old telling you what their pet rock said about why they were allowed to eat all the chocolate.
We observe corporate journalists and media have taken on the role as agents of psychological warfare. Act like it. Become your own media source, support independent journalists, and try to keep in mind the tactics which might be used to distract you (briefly outlined in part 1 and explored in more detail by many others).
Admit that we often don’t know and don’t hear. Catch yourself if you say “I would have heard about ….” No you haven’t, and no you wouldn’t. Act like it. Act like Epstein was murdered, but don’t pretend to know the extent of the how’s and why’s. Act like whatever you learn online about Jamal Khashoggi comes from the same source that found zero vaccine deaths, tyrannical policies and human rights abuses for the last 2.5 years. Give at least a little credence to the homeless guy on the corner telling the wall that they are trying to kill him. He may be Daniel McBride or the version of Julian Assange who got a dose more torture.
Reserve a special type of distrust for Medical Research. We know it has been used to justify harming humans for decades. We know about the ridiculous holes in the peer review system, the academic journal system, the funding, the conducting and the publishing of medical research. We know how variable the human body is, how many permutations the interactions of it’s systems can have, and how terrible - just plain awful - we have been at institutionalising trust or developing systems to try to overcome the problems in research, diagnosing individuals, creating policies or directing money to improve health. Treat a doctor as every bit as indoctrinated as our North Korean friends. Treat your allopathic hospital and pharmaceutical prescription as the major cause of death and disease it clearly is, while also being a source of potentially really helpful techniques, technologies and people. Treat your acupuncturist who has been upholding the Hippocratic Oath (while so many others pissed on it) with the respect they have earned.
Try to keep in mind the scale of what goes on. Corruption can waste well over 100% of our productivity. It can waste the next generation’s gains as well. Cheerleaders of tyrants will not just dehumanize you, they will setup systems of oppression which last generations. Use this sense of scale to direct your energy: especially if you are tempted to infight or fracture with someone who cannot be anywhere near your real enemy, or get distracted by an issue which cannot be anywhere near the battle which most aligns with your values.
We know the trend of false flags, conspiracies, shadowy organisations manipulating behind the scenes. Work to differentiate conspiracy fact from fiction, but operate with the confidence that in the age of censorship, conspiracy facts are as widespread as bullshit arguments. In fact, develop the same tools to analyse a conspiracy claim as you have to analyse a claim about a distant planet (which you also cannot easily verify exists).
Here are some of my heuristics for wading through the swamp of seemingly crazy conspiracies:
1) does the conspiracy add to understanding, or dramatically change the response? Eg. If it is an evil plot by masonic satan worshippers or simply a bid for profits by a greedy corporation seems to change little in practical terms, so i put less energy into investigating or discerning here.
2) is there a paradox or clear hypocrisy to clarify? Eg. I am not aware of any claims of dramatic evil in the regulation of school stationary suppplies, but there is lots of verifiable claims to investigate in water supplies, so there is seemingly less burden of proof in a flouride conspiracy
3) follow the money/power/biases. Eg. If you are a corporation who clearly states you will harm consumers to benefit shareholders, i will presume this is the case without any evidence. I will similarly presume humans are biased, and power seekers will seek power.
4) what do the known liars say, and how loudly are they saying it? Eg. I think only the most dangerously naive think any info about ukraine is complete or even close to accurate by the time it reaches we civilians.
5) have i proven discerning in the past? Does the conspiracy have predictive power in what i can observe? Eg. I have had terrible discernment and predictive powers about human nature or politics, so i am far more skeptical of my read on those conspiracy claims, vs medical or economic conspiracies where my sources, analysis or predictions have proven more trustworthy.
6) can the conspiracy be presented with intellectual honesty? Or is it a loose collection of vague claims, personifications and unclear pattern recognitions.
This means it’s working
Practical examples of ‘acting proportionate to what we observe’ are already around us. One example:
Tess Lawrie started her Covid career as a whistleblower. She was brave, well researched and spectacularly right. But, she had her radar pointed at the W.H.O, and at corrupt doctors. She woke a few people up, but ultimately, she was trying to fix the W.H.O. - she was trying to find reason to rejoin the folds of the great institution. Until she accepted reality: the W.H.O will never be fixed and their ‘pronouncements’ should be jeered. She then re-directed her energy and is now active in the World Council For Health, an institution which is not (currently) trying to depopulate and enslave the globe.
Tess was previously known for providing robust academic references, yet now writes Substack articles with a markedly different tone. Perhaps she, like myself, thinks that it is a little bit silly to keep referencing the academic world which proved itself so corrupt. She now references song lyrics and personal realisations about mind control.
It’s as if the propaganda of a great leader or great institution has no power over her at all.
This is a really thought-provoking piece. Sometimes, when I'm sifting through the giant file in which I store ideas for Substack posts in order to choose what to write about, I ask myself 'Why am I doing this? Why am I am trying to bring these studies, these statistics, these instances of blatant propaganda, these examples of institutional corruption and incompetence, to the attention of my readers (and hopefully, the broader public)?' I don't have a complete or satisfactory answer to that question.
Partly, it's the compulsion of the child who sees that the emperor is naked, and just has to point it out to other people who don't seem to see it (or pretend that they don't).
Partly, it's to reassure those who have 'woken up' but are being pressured hard to comply, or gaslit so hard that they're beginning to doubt their own sanity, that they have good reason to stand firm.
Partly, it's to provide ammunition to people who are getting into debates with family and friends (and I know that a lot of my readers use my articles for this purpose!).
Partly, it's that I feel compelled to document what's going on, so that if we lose this battle and the history of COVID is written by the agents of the predator class, future revisionist historians will have something to go on.
Partly, it's to provide some role modelling for how to conduct critical appraisal, rather than jumping on bandwagons such as 'everything that gets published in the medical literature is Rockefeller Medicine and therefore can't be believed', which is patently untrue.
Partly, it's that I know that even though the systems of academic production and publication are thoroughly corrupted, there are individuals within those systems who are ethical, and who are trying to get the message out both to fellow academics and to the general public. I cited several studies by people like this in my post on the myocarditis hustle, which you kindly linked to. Reading such studies is like watching a hostage video: you know that the hostage is trying to communicate something while staying within the bounds that their captors have imposed, at threat of their lives. These academics are risking their careers by doing research that challenges the narrative; the least I can do is to ensure that their work products gets seen by at least some of the public. You could argue that they are validating the system by staying within it and that if they want to live with integrity they should instead exit the system entirely (like Tess Lawrie, for whom I have enormous admiration), but I think that's a simplistic approach to a complex problem. Eventually, people like Tess, Bret Weinstein, Heather Heying, Jordan Peterson, Mathew Crawford, El Gato Malo and others who recognise how broken the current system is, will hopefully be able to build a new one that actually works (i.e. serves as a mechanism for gaining closer and closer approximations to an accurate understanding of reality) and communicating these for the betterment of humankind). But that's a long, slow process. Academics who wish to tell the truth don't have access to such a system yet, so they're doing their best to work within the system that currently exists.
Well said Shane. It is indeed a silly earth! Thank you for your thoughtful and insightful writings, so useful at this time