Planet earth just surpassed 8 billion humans in 2023, all living together. Each of us living our own unique lives. We have come a long way since the beginning of human life on earth. There have been so many accomplishments, at an exponential rate, that we can all be proud of. There have been dark times in our history as well, leaving many to question what ‘humanity’ is.
On this planet, people pass each other every day. Each knowing different ‘facts’ and ‘truths’ that each believes to be undisputed. Very few seem to be concerned about finding out why the other group thinks differently than they do. There is little concern for how others came to a different conclusion. Most sure that they know the truth and others are mistaken. Billions of people, assume that others are mistaken as they pass each other by on the street or meet at work, each thinking only they know the correct answer. They know this without any discussion to find the truth or missing information that may have misled them. Billions of people content with living in a world with two truths. Two truths about topics that often amount to life or death for millions of people. Why the resistance by everyone to avoid such important conversations? Is it just to keep the peace? Is it so we don’t have to have that difficult conversation with a close friend or family member even though it may result in death to others?
It has been said that Hitler didn’t kill anyone unless you count himself. Humanity’s greatest failures seem to come from powerful people controlling others and convincing them what is the ‘right’ and moral thing to do. Humanity’s greatest accomplishments have usually come from individuals in moments of greatness and are often ridiculed by society as a whole before they are accepted and exploited by the masses. The Earth is round. The theory of relativity. The automobile (horseless carriage). The movie Men in Black had many good quotes. One of my favorite is:
“A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it. Fifteen hundred years ago everybody knew the Earth was the center of the universe”.
People as Puppets
To better understand human nature, we can look at well known experiments. Two experiments that come to mind immediately are the Milgram Shock Experiment and the Asch Conformity Experiment. In the Milgram experiment, it was found that 65% of participants would give a lethal shock to a person if directed by authority1. In the Asch conformity experiment2, it was found that: “Overall, 74% of participants gave at least one incorrect answer out of the 12 critical trials”. Regarding the study results, Asch stated: "That intelligent, well-meaning young people are willing to call white black is a matter of concern."
These experiments were done in the 1950’s and 1960’s and became the basis of understanding the chilling reality that people could be controlled by authority figures and social pressure.
Puppet Masters
Around the same time, Richard Christie and Florence L. Geis expanded on 16th century work by Niccolò Machiavelli by creating their Mach IV 20 question test3 to analyze a persons personality.
People scoring high on the scale (high Machs) tend to endorse statements such as, "Never tell anyone the real reason you did something unless it is useful to do so," (No. 1) but not ones like, "Most people are basically good and kind" (No. 4), "There is no excuse for lying to someone else" (No. 7) or "Most people who get ahead in the world lead clean, moral lives" (No. 11)
More recently, in 1998, McHoskey, Worzel, and Szyarto proposed a concept called the Dark Triad4 which described a concept of the three traits of Machiavellianism,5 sub-clinical narcissism, and sub-clinical psychopathy
Individuals high in Machiavellianism tend to gravitate towards particular careers, especially those that require a high degree of competitiveness needed to succeed.[153] High Machs are ambitious enough to cut corners and use aggressive means if it is necessary to get ahead in their careers.[153] One study found that "Machiavellianism was positively related to leadership position and career satisfaction".[154] Individuals high in machiavellian traits are especially drawn to leadership and management positions, which became an important subject in the primary literature.
It is no surprise that in todays society, we see impressionable people controlled by psychopaths. In fact, based on the Asch and Milgram experiments about 65% of the people are easily controlled by authority figures and don’t realize they are being manipulated. The Dark Triad research shows that these people gravitate toward positions of authority and they are very good at hiding it. In short, good meaning and caring people are largely controlled by psychopaths. The mechanism for this control is governments and colleges driving social pressure to the point where the puppet masters are pulling the strings of a very large portion of society. This includes key people in positions of authority and influence. These are the people that most citizens turn to for advice and direction in times of difficulty.
Controlling the Narrative
There are many ways to recognize manipulation. Ad hominem attacks focus on the opponent rather than the opposing position. Appeals to ignorance suggest that something is true until it has been disproven, unfairly shifting the burden of proof. Appeals to pity try to evoke sympathy for someone rather than taking a hard look at an issue based on its own merits. Gaslighting refers to confidently and repeatedly stating a falsehood until it is accepted as fact. It leads to denialism and conspiracy theories. Either-or thinking consists of reducing a solution to two extremes, eliminating every possibility in the middle. Oversimplification presents a complex situation in deceptively simple terms. Beware of phrases like “It all boils down to . . . ” or “It’s a simple question of . . . ”. The straw man fallacy sets up a false position for the opposition and then knocks it down. (It defeats a straw opponent rather than a real one).
The above methods can be seen in many current day mainstream news reporting. They never allow a discussion, site references or allow comments on their articles. It is a one way attack on everything but the argument itself.
Propaganda
With all these tools at the disposal of news media owned by just a handful of highly manipulative billionaires, all it takes is repeating the same failed arguments over and over to the point where ‘everybody knows’ it is true. These are coordinated attacks and appear as just a news story. They have an intended outcome for the emergency that they likely created themselves. These are psychological operations to provide cover for all the nasty things that are going on at the moment. I count at least eight major psyops going on right now. To many, they are just the state of the world and there is nothing nefarious about it. To others, they are flat out lies that must be repeated over and over until they are true:
‘If a lie is only printed often enough, it becomes a quasi-truth, and if such a truth is repeated often enough, it becomes an article of belief, a dogma, and men will die for it.’
- The Crown of Life written in 1869
Bear in mind that at the heart of every Psychological Operation (psyop) there is a basis of fact. That fact is built upon and exploited until the ridiculous is reached and the opposite is achieved. An important distinction here is what is fact and what is opinion. Facts are indisputable and in the end of a logical discussion everyone will agree what is true. Opinions are beliefs that are arrived at based on values that each of us give different things. Facebook fact checkers were described in court as simply opinions. It is important that discussions be limited to facts. This is not what the official narrative wants. They want to extend it into the world of supposition and opinion so what was initially an easy topic to discuss and come to agreement on, morphs into an argument that can never end. Because the conversation on these topics is exhausted to the point where people are sick of hearing it, most people have already formed an opinion on what is true. Everyone will make the statement that they are not under the influence of a psyop (part of the definition of a psyop) and that it is the opponents view that is in error. They are exhausted at having the discussion and don’t want to revisit it. That is what makes them so powerful. Very few want to change their opinion no matter how much evidence to the contrary is presented. Their decision has already been made. To entertain new information, would require going down the road of questioning their own reasoning. Mark Twain said it best when he said: “It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.” Aldous Huxley said: “The purpose of propaganda is to make one set of people forget that other sets of people are human”
The Division
For many, where you stand on each of these issues will determine if you are insane or not. From a Democratic view, if you fail any of these tests, you will be labeled a Trump loving, Climate change denier that can’t be reasoned with. No amount of facts will convince them to change their opinion on any of these issues. From a Republican point of view, if you fail any of these tests, you will be labeled a ‘libtard’ who wants to make people defenseless, kill babies and support genocide. The Democrat vs Republican is an easy, already existing division that can be used to feed different information so the divide is strengthened even more. Independents or undecided voters may adopt a subset of these psyops which will make talking to members of either party difficult as they will be labeled as the opposing party when they disagree on a psyop. It is called a Mass Formation Psychosis and there is no breaking through it. These psyops are used as a simple test to find out what kind of thinker you are. If you don’t agree, there is simply no reasoning with you. These form a sort of catch 22 that guarantees the psychosis will continue no matter how absurd it gets.
Bear this in mind as you read through the following topics. We are being divided for a reason. That reason is so we won’t compare notes and most will be unable to talk with the other half of the population. Both sides have been given different stories, based on truth and facts (that we would both agree on) that are extrapolated to the point where any discussion with ‘the other side’ will result in arguments that have no end.
Mark Twain said: “If you catch 100 red fire ants as well as 100 large black ants, and put them in a jar, at first, nothing will happen. However, if you violently shake the jar and dump them back on the ground the ants will fight until they eventually kill each other. The thing is, the red ants think the black ants are the enemy and vice versa, when in reality, the real enemy is the person who shook the jar. This is exactly what’s happening in society today"
We all need to see these psyops for what they are. Our true enemy that is shaking the jar. Our friends, family and co-workers that have chosen the argument that we may so vehemently disagree with, are victims just as much as we are. Comparing notes is what would end the psyops and puts us all on the same side but we must first be willing to change our mind about part of what we think we know.
The eight PsyOps that I am aware of:
As you read through each of these that I have identified, try to view it from the idea that we are all being fooled using these topics. To defend what you ‘know to be true’ and ignore a new way of thinking will not result in finding the true enemy here. It will perpetuate the psychosis that many of us are victims of. We need to stop the jar shakers from causing chaos that benefits them.
Malcolm X once said, “We’re not outnumbered, we’re just out organized.”
Each of the following psyops have a basis of truth that we can all agree on. We are not allowed to have discussions at that level. The allowed discussions are always at the level that causes arguments and paints the opponent as someone who can’t be dealt with. Take the MEGA hats for example. A Republican sees that hat and envisions a better country. One without corruption and where people are prosperous. A Democrat sees the same hat and only feels rage for Trump. “I am not going to Make America Great Again” they will think without realizing what they are saying. They will do everything they can to do the opposite of what Trump wants. Rather than agree to make America Great and embrace the idea of a better country by redefining what ‘great’ is and wearing the same hats, they fall victim to the hate it was intended to produce, causing division on a topic that at the heart, we can all agree with.
We all need to realize that each of the PsyOps give the excuse for humans to be evil to others and feel righteous while doing it. Thank you Margaret Anna Alice for all the Huxley quotes.
“The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people that they will have a chance of maltreating someone. Men must be bribed to build up and do good by the offer of an opportunity to hurt and pull down. To be able to destroy with a good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior ‘righteous indignation’—this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats. In any cause, the best or the most atrocious, zeal is always intoxicating. A world without zeal would be a world deprived of many simple but savage pleasures: but at least half its present excuses for interfering and bullying would have been taken away from it.” - Aldous Huxley
1. Global Warming/Climate Change
Global warming was the first deception that I fell for. Even though when I grew up in the 1970’s they told us we were headed for an ice age and all life on earth could come to an end. Next it was the ozone layer that was going to kill us. I spent much of my childhood worrying about these things (as well as hiding under by school desk to avoid a promised looming nuclear holocaust). There is no denying that the weather is changing or that we should care about the environment and leave a better life for our children. That we can all agree on. That is the basis of truth for this psyop.
The deception is the claim that cutting CO2 emissions is the path to save our planet from certain death. According to Al Gore 15 years ago, we only had 5 years to live due to our pollution habits. I am all for cutting pollution. Toxic gasses that cause cancer should be eliminated. Exhaust that makes people sick is a good thing to avoid. Most of us can agree on this. But that isn’t how the narrative is framed. If you ask most people what we need to do to solve pollution, they will say cut CO2. CO2 accounts for only 0.04% of our atmosphere. It is what we breathe out and plants breathe in. They tell us in order to be ‘green’ we must cut our CO2 levels. The absurd argument they present is: In order to be ‘green’ we need to eliminate what makes plants green. No real pollution is being restricted in this global ‘pollution control’ effort, only that which is good for the environment.
2. Gun Control
Another hot topic is guns. People are either ‘pro gun nuts’ or ‘anti-gun and pro-life’. The second amendment is a part of the bill of rights for a reason; so people can make the choice of whether they want to own a gun or not. No one is forced to own a gun. Even if they don’t want one now, they have the option to buy one at any time they want or feel they need one in the future for sport or to protect themselves or someone they care about.
The government can not infringe on this in any way (though they do with varying levels of permits). The heart of the debate right now is school and event shootings. This is the basic level of the argument that we can all agree on. Save the children. Stop the horrific loss of innocent lives. Where we diverge in opinion is how to accomplish this. The argument of ‘less guns would be better’ is a simple sound bite that makes sense if you don’t think about it too much. When you really think about it though, and break people into the three groups of gun possession the picture becomes clearer. The three groups are: (1) Citizens who are responsible and have never done any harm, (2) Police and Military who are responsible for enforcing laws and civil disturbances and (3) Criminals who intended to do harm or commit crimes using a gun as a weapon. The third group is the excuse given to take guns away from the first group. No one is proposing that the Police or Military give up their weapons and you will never take them from criminals.
We are shown many stories of how guns are used to harm others. Rarely are we shown stories where a victim saves their own life by using a gun as a defense.
“Battered housewife stops her abusive husband from killing her and her children.“
”Elderly couple defend their home from intruders.”
”Good Samaritan stops school shooter from killing students.”
The important thing to realize about shootings is that the motivation behind them is a person wants to kill or do harm to others. A gun is just one tool that they use to do it. If guns aren’t available, they will find some other way to do it. What needs to be solved is why does a person want to harm others. Is it a dysfunctional society? Is life just too hard? Was there someone who used thought control to manipulate a weak mind to cause harm to others? Banning guns is not going to solve these problems, it will only leave people defenseless and allow the threat to remain. We need to be able to defend ourselves and others and not wait for police or military to rush to our rescue.
”When seconds count, the police are only minutes away.”
The US government recently supplied Ukrainian citizens with automatic weapons and have sold almost every country that was on our ‘enemy’ list weapons at one time. To have them wanting to discuss the topic of gun control for its citizens says something very strongly about their intentions.
The bottom line here is that owning a weapon of any type is a choice. How you use it describes who you are. Either you protect others with it or cause harm to others. Losing the right to own a gun does not change who you are or how many senseless deaths continue to occur.
When guns were a problem on airplanes, they didn’t put up a sign “gun free zone” and cross their fingers. They put air marshals on planes and gave some pilots weapons. Most mass shootings require a gun or similar weapon to arrive to stop the carnage before the killer runs out of ammunition.
3. Trump Derangement Syndrome
Trump is a controversial actor and business man. He became a candidate for president when running against Hillary Clinton. People either love him for what he can do to ‘drain the swamp’ or hate him for his crass attitude. I wrote an article about my view on his role here. Trump was clearly obnoxious to listen to, especially following the eloquence that Obama had when speaking. His ‘mean tweets’ and public comments over 4+ years drove many to hate everything he had to do with. The three year Russia probe started on day one of his presidency gave many hate for him and hope that he would one day be in jail for his crimes. When that returned nothing, the impeachment was started. An impeachment for Joe Biden’s crimes of all things. Nothing that Trump was accused of ever amounted to anything substantial. This continual persecution caused further division with more and more hate on the left and hopes of a rematch in 2024 on the right. The left wanting Biden because he isn’t Trump and the right wanting Trump because this time he can win. As with the other psyops, there are other choices than the arguments we are allowed. The only allowed discussion is a rematch between the two worst choices we have.
RFK Jr is a strong candidate for the left with a family history of greatness in the Democratic party. His approval rating is much higher than Biden and a simple debate between the two would be nothing but good for the country. That will not be allowed because the powers behind the psyops demand that Biden must be protected. RFK Jr attended the house committee on censorship where the first motion was ironically to stop him from speaking. When this didn’t work, they called him an anti-vaxxer and anti-semitic, compared him to a mass murderer and wouldn’t allow him to respond to these accusations. In this ‘land of the absurd’ what they did in attacking his character was to link him to other psyops that were already going on so that some people would ignore everything he had to say.
On the right, there is Vivek Ramaswamy who has growing support and is asking questions that everyone wants asked. Both candidates would be accepted by either side if the other candidate won. Not so with a Trump and Biden rematch. The candidates are pre-chosen and no grass roots efforts will win over the psyop that is keeping the false narrative alive.
4. Covid-19
Covid represents the largest of all of these psyops. The basis of truth is that Covid-19 is a disease and people have died from it. It was initially sold as a naturally occurring disease that was the most dangerous disease of our time. We were told initially through the imperial college and the work of Dr. Neil Ferguson that the future was dire. Fatality rates in the 5% range and millions dead if we didn’t take extreme precautions. We were shown videos of people in China dropping dead in the streets. It was a scarry time for most. What we know now is that the infection fatality rate (IFR) was about 0.2% and the R0 value (how many people you will contaminate if nothing is done) was 2.5 about the same as the annual flu. Despite that revelation just a few months in, we were told by our government and health departments to go into lockdown, wear a mask (often two masks) and just two weeks to flatten the curve. When we were allowed out of our homes, we were told to stand on X’s that were 6 feet apart to help stop the spread. When your the line moved forward, you were to move to the next previously infected bubble and wait there until the line moved again. Restaurants had plastic bubbles to eat in or tables six feet apart and you were told to put on a mask until you walked to the table where you could then take them off for the hour or so while you were eating. Many unquestioningly followed the orders. Others saw the ridiculousness of the procedures.
Today, we know that the virus was not naturally occurring, it was created in a lab using taxpayer money. There is no doubt about this because of the characteristic ‘cleavage’ point used in many lab created viruses to make them infectious to humans. It has also been proven that the funding paper trail using Echo Alliance to the bio lab exists. We know that the WEF hosted a ‘practice event’ just months before the virus was released called Event 201.
The Cochrane Institute issued a report that proved that masks had no beneficial effect in slowing the spread of the virus. It has been known for decades that when dealing with a pandemic, it is best policy to lockdown the elderly and fragile and let the rest of society go about their business. This is especially true when the IFR is well under 1%. In other words, with Covid-19, if you do nothing, only 99.8% of society will remain. The news quotes numbers of people over multiple years instead since 0.2 percent of eight billion people is still 1.6 million people and that sounds much scarier than you have a 99.8% chance of surviving. There were many other mistakes made such as banning ivermectin, HCQ and using dangerous drugs such as remdesivir at a cost of $3,000 per treatment and using ventilators or sending infected people to nursing homes that had healthy elderly patients. All of these actions were the exact opposite of established procedure.
When the vaccines were made available, they changed the definition of vaccine and immunity to allow a gene therapy to be referred to as a vaccine. The media made comparisons between mRNA and the MMR vaccine and anyone who questioned it was an anti-vaxxer. We were all told that getting everyone vaccinated with this experimental vaccine was the only way out of the pandemic. We were told that it would stop the infection and transmission of the virus. Then we started seeing what they called the occasional ‘break through’ infection and the story changed to: “some people may get the virus, but the case would be less severe than without the vaccine”. This is known as an unfalsifiable statement. A statement that can never be proven false since no one knows how sick they would have gotten. People were denied access to restaurants, fired from their jobs and shunned by society if they didn’t comply. We were offered free donuts and million dollar lottery’s if we complied. It wasn’t about being sick, but because we didn’t take an experimental vaccine that did nothing to curb the spread but instead extended it. At the time, there appeared a consensus of the experts. “Trust the science” we were told and we were given two scientists to trust (Fauci and the CDC Director). We were never allowed to hear from anyone else on the subject. Social media was busy censoring and banning any doctors that questioned the official narrative. The Twitter files (Thank you Matt Taibbi) showed us that the FBI paid social media to silence what they knew at the time to be true statements by medical professionals. Some of those censored and/or banned include: The Bakersfield Doctors, Americas Front Line Doctors, mRNA inventor Dr. Robert Malone, Former Pfizer scientist Dr. Michael Yeadon, the most published Cardiologist in the country Dr Peter McCullough and three professors from the leading universities of Stanford, Oxford and Harvard who wrote the Great Barrington Declaration. The GBD is a document signed by over 900,000 medical professionals stating that the pandemic was being handled in the wrong way. All of these people had the courage to speak out against what was going on at the risk of losing everything. The facts were never debated with them, instead their voices were silenced and their characters attacked. They have since all been proven to have been right. One of the three professors that started the GBD was Dr. Jay Bhattacharya from Stanford University. He went on to join with Missouri and Louisiana in their court cases against Biden. After about a year of motions, appeals and testimony (including deposing Fauci and getting many ‘I don’t recall’ answers) the case was won and it was proven in court that the federal government using the Whitehouse and FBI had violated first amendment rights of millions of people. It proved that all of these doctors were wrongly silenced. Voices that were so important for an honest discussion in the past 4 years of lockdowns, masking, ivermectin bans and deadly hospital treatments were not allowed to question the draconian measures that were used.
Today we know a quite different story than were we told from the start. Almost everyone we know has had the virus at least once. Those that were vaccinated often have had it multiple times since. Studies today show the chance of catching and contracting the virus actually goes up if you have been vaccinated. People are still getting boosters thinking that this may save their life while VAERS now shows that over 90% of all vaccine related deaths in its recorded history have come from the Covid vaccines. Many of us don’t know anyone who died from the virus. Those that do, don’t know very many. Again, this isn’t about whether people get sick from the virus, but what the best course of action to minimize its impact. Certainly keeping it alive for four years was not the best thing for most of us.
None of the measures implemented, vaccine included, helped reduce the severity or length of the virus. What was sold as an accidental natural occurrence turned out to be created by the government in a lab with our tax dollars. What could have been the seasonal flu and over in a few short months protecting the fragile and elderly became an over four year event putting them at risk for extended periods of time. Vaccine induced variants kept perpetuating the need for more suffering at the hands of misguided authority figures worldwide. Those that did this to us never apologized or faced the consequences for what they did and are still in a position of power to do it again. Many who lost their job, house and way of life are still damaged by arrogant decisions that were made despite millions of voices of reason saying otherwise.
5. BLM (Black Lives Matter)
On April 30th 2020, Governor Whitmer of Michigan was the target of a march of angry citizens and legislature members. “Rednecks storm capitol” many headlines read. Whitmer’s lockdown orders were being challenged. "We can no longer allow one person to make decisions for 10 million people," said Michigan Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey. “We are finally going to have the discussion of who killed Grandma” I thought. The official narrative was being challenged. This happened though the first few weeks of May 2020. It continued to build until on April 25th, George Floyd was arrested in Minneapolis for passing counterfeit money. The short clips of video footage that the world saw distracted everyone from Whitmer’s battle with the people of Michigan. Overnight, suddenly everyone was talking about Black Lives and police brutality. This was not the first black man to be killed by a white cop. For many, it was clearly a racial issue. How could it be anything else? We all saw the video, many times over, repeated on every news station in the world. How could the story be anything else?
If you watched the full bodycam video, you would see Floyd saying he couldn’t breathe siting by himself on the sidewalk. You would see the cop ask him if he was on drugs because he was foaming in the mouth. You would see him getting more and more agitated and unable to contain himself. If you read the autopsy you would see that he tested positive for Fentanyl (at fatal levels), Methamphetamines and THC.
What started in early May 2020 as a protest to end the lockdown, turned into a national riot and looting protest which was tolerated in the name Black Lives Matter. No longer was our government concerned with keeping people isolated and the country began cheering on riots in May, defunding the police in July and ending with a Governor Whitmer Kidnap plot in October. We never returned to the lockdown questions, the narrative had been changed.
In August, Kyle Rittenhouse defending black owned businesses shot aggressors and was crucified in the media and tried for murder. Because Black Lives matter, why wouldn’t a person defending their businesses be a hero? Perhaps ending the riots was against the approved narrative. Perhaps it was because he was white. Perhaps it was part of the second amendment challenge going on. Perhaps it is because the BLM funding is by Act Blue who also funds the DNC. Their terms state: “In the event that a campaign or committee (a) fails for 60 days to cash a check from ActBlue which includes your contribution (after ActBlue makes repeated attempts to work with the campaign to ensure all checks are cashed), or (b) affirmatively refuses a contribution earmarked through ActBlue, your contribution will be re-designated as a contribution to ActBlue.” At the time, the BLM website stated that they were fully funded which would direct funds given to BLM to ActBlue and DNC members by BLM simply not cashing a check.
The phrase “Is it okay to be white?” has gotten a lot of attention lately. It got Scott Adams, the author of Dilbert comics banned for saying it. This illustrates the absurd level of the BLM movement. It is no longer about equal rights, but using race to decide who gets more rights and who gets less. Even if it is the opposite of the horrors committed against blacks we know from history, it is still racism to claim that any life is worth less than others or that people aren’t allowed to say it is okay to be any race.
6. Trans/Gay Rights
The basis of fact here is that Gays and Trans people have had their fair share of hate in our recent past. Similar to racism, homophobic trends in society have made it very difficult for trans and gay people to live their lives as they wish. There is no disputing this fact and while some people may disagree strongly with this lifestyle, most people would agree that each person should make their own choices and not be subjected to hate for doing so. It is my belief that more love on this planet is never a bad thing.
Where this topic gets absurd, is when people are forced to live in others lifestyles that used to be private and to receive hate if they don’t. Children being read stories by drag queens. People getting fired for using the wrong pronoun. Losing a job to someone when you are the most qualified, but are not gay or trans. Losing a swim race because a biological male decides to compete in a woman’s swim race because that person identifies as female. Some medical journals are now stating that certain diseases are more prevalent in people assigned male at birth. They could have said people with XX or XY chromosome to be specific, but we are living in the absurd and can’t be factual or we will be called insensitive. We have come a long ways from “don’t ask don’t tell”.
7. Elections - Jan 6th
The Basis of Fact here is that for this election we had mail-in ballots which removed any chain of custody. We will never know what the real true votes were. The election is over and certified and there is no changing who is currently president. Any arguments about who won are opinions that can never be supported by facts. The facts are gone forever. That should be our discussion, to make the next election based on facts and chain of custody.
The media and the White House paints a picture that our country was almost overthrown by domestic terrorists. They showed clips that depict an angry mob storming the capitol and trying to lynch the Vice President. Representatives claim that their lives were in danger and it was a miracle that all of these ‘almosts’ didn’t happen.
The Jan 6th Committee found many people guilty of ‘trespassing’ and sent them to jail based on the video clips that were shown repeatedly in the media. This is quite different from the sedition claims in the media. No one was charged for treason or even being a terrorist, just trespassing. Simone Gold a physician from Front Line Doctors also served jail time for trespassing. She never entered the building but stood on the lawn and used a bull horn to talk about the handling of the pandemic.
The full video has now been released and it is now confirmed that congress lied to us by showing misleading clips and playing them over and over. Fist bumps from guards giving people tours showed a different story than congress told us. None of these representatives have faced any charges for what they did and the people they sent to prison with a lie.
8. War justifications
Ever since 9/11 and the declaration of the ‘War on Terror’, war has been big money. The 1997 document from the think tank Project for the New American Century titled Rebuilding Americas Defenses was a blueprint for how to revive a military that was no longer needed. It outlined many changes they wanted to make in order to make America strong militarily again. In order for this military dominance they said it must first have two or more wars in the middle east. This could not be accomplished without what they called a in the document a “New Pearl Harbor”. The authors of this document were Bush’s cabinet years before he was even on the ballot.
On 9/12 the list of seven countries to be invaded were already decided. Much of the military and other contractors were hired out. Paid mercenaries from various countries around the world were used to fill in for lack of troops. Contractors that brought in supplies and did much of the rebuilding were initially done by Halliburton (Vice President Cheney’s Company - Cheney was also a PNAC signatory). Blackrock has invested in Halliburton and has since gotten most of the contracts in just about every country the US has invaded since. With their assets now in the Trillions, they control most of the worlds corporations and governments. They have enough influence to recommend wars that they themselves profit from while controlling much of the media that is used to manufacture consent from the people. The people are told these are humanitarian efforts to sell the wars. Blackrock profits on the weapons, supplies and rebuilding after the destruction as well as the extraction of resources once the country is captured.
In the past 20 years we have replaced the Taliban with the Taliban, we have converted Libya into a slave trade state from a healthy democracy and now we are using the Ukrainian people as pawns in a proxy war against Russia. Up next is helping Israel commit genocide against Palestine.
Each of these is sold with a speech containing the words “The New Pearl Harbor happened today” (PNAC words and Bush’s words on 9/12) followed by the words ‘unprovoked attack’ to play the victim so that war becomes necessary. The costs of all wars since 9/11 totals around $8 trillion dollars. Quite a number when you consider that the PNAC document claimed that the military was in danger of becoming irrelevant. It isn’t just about the dollar amount, but the control of countries, officials, corporations and the public as a result of these wars not to mention the loss of innocent human lives.
In Summary
All of these PsyOps are a way to fool people, create division and censor speech. When things are difficult to talk about, people avoid them. People are easily offended by many of these discussions. Thomas Paine said: “He who dares not offend can not be honest”. We are censored by social media (proven by Missouri vs Biden). Silenced by friends and family in order to keep the peace. We are gas lighted by the media. If you speak out on one of these difficult topics, trying to return to a logical discussion, people will attempt to drag you into the opinion and belief realm where no consensus can occur. As Joe Friday from Dragnet said: "All we know are the facts, ma'am."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asch_conformity_experiments
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machiavellianism_(psychology)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_triad
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machiavellianism_(psychology)#:~:text=Individuals%20high%20in%20machiavellianism%20tend,get%20ahead%20in%20their%20careers.
Hi Mike,
Thanks for inviting me to read this piece. I have a lot of sympathy with what you present here, most especially in the way that the topics you've chosen to reflect on have been polarised and thus distorted. However, it is the nature of my engagement with thoughts such as these that I will tend to single out points of disagreement or areas where there is greater ambiguity than you might be suggesting. This does not mean I disagree with your overall themes; on the whole, we are quite well aligned here (especially on the utter mess that was COVID-19, but also on many of your other chosen topics).
You choose to call these situations a 'psyop', and although I'm not against the idea being flagged here (the distortion implied does occur, and there is a motive behind the acts taken to create and sustain the distortion) I personally resist this terminology. I prefer to talk about these as 'rifts', although even this term is not entirely helpful. I dislike 'psyop' largely because it reinforces the idea of a shadowy cabal controlling events from behind the scenes. I personally suspect this risks overstating the actuality, and in so doing reinforces the idea that we have less power than in fact we do. If there is a shadowy cabal manipulating events behind the scenes they are doing it very badly. There are certainly wealthy individuals doing stupid things with vast funding, but I don't think this equates to these lunatics being in control. Most likely, nobody is in control in the way this phrase is usually used. So on the whole I find it more plausible that other, more basic aspects of human nature suffice to explain the entire horrendous situation.
You are clearly writing from a US perspective, so from this neck of the woods (where I currently live, incidentally, although it's not where I'm from) the situation falls out into the blue team and the red team. I find it helpful to do away with the names of the parties, which are extremely misleading (now more than ever). Because of the cost of running elections in the US (owing to its size as much as anything), those who own the majority of the wealth have aligned with one or another team, and the two teams have ended up, slowly but inexorably, aligned with commercial interests. The red team, for instance, is aligned with oil companies and weapon manufacturers (among other things), while the blue team has become - albeit only quite recently - with pharmaceutical companies, tech companies, and, even more recently, with weapon manufacturers, who have apparently decided to hedge their bets. (The blue team resolutely opposes weapons 'at home' but seems extremely dedicated to sending them abroad and asking everyone to foot the bill).
Every polarisation begats demonisation, and so too this has happened in the US. Cognitive dissonance (which in a political or ethical context I like to call 'moral horror') drives this split, and the split is, I suspect, sufficient to explain much of the nonsense that occurs downstream, possibly all of it. When we encounter what seems to us unthinkable, we will recover from the shock by either dismissing the relevance of what we've encountered (if we can) or making out the other people as monsters (if we can't), this is moral horror in a nutshell. The desire for censorship, for instance, comes about because moral horror so successfully allows for the demonisation of the other side of the rift that all manner of despicable things suddenly sound reasonable.
When you say 'we are being divided for a reason', I feel this plays into the shadowy cabal interpretation - which is not to dispute that we are witnessing great exploitation of divisions to 'divide and conquer'. However, there's another side to this. It is a remarkable quality of the way that legacy news media has operated that it requires sensational stories in order to drive eyeballs, and the divisiveness is therefore available both as a cause ('divided for a reason') and as a symptom (divisive stories 'sell'). I rather suspect it's a bit of both, but even this is a step beyond the shadowy cabal interpretation, which as noted above risks demotivates people in terms of breaking out of this cycle of nonsense.
Again, it's not that the divisiveness doesn't happen, and it's not that there isn't motivation behind the divisions - it's rather that there are many layers of these motivations that happen to align in the divisions. To put this another way, nobody is in control, but some people have more influence than others. I feel it is important to appreciate that nobody is truly in control, least of all the President of the United States. One thing about the current administration is that it has made it far clearer how irrelevant the figurehead is to what is being pushed forward, since Biden, unlike most of the terrible presidents before him, is clearly not capable of being in charge. Honestly, I rather suspect nobody is.
I hope I have made clear why I resist framing these issues in the way that you do, even though I don't disagree with your concerns (I don't have time to go through all the rifts you choose here one by one, although I'm sure we could have an interesting discussion about every one of them).
One more thing. You say:
"Facts are indisputable and in the end of a logical discussion everyone will agree what is true. Opinions are beliefs that are arrived at based on values that each of us give different things."
This is something that has picked up the name 'the fact-value distinction', and it grew out of certain early twentieth century philosophical trends, including and most notably something called 'the Vienna circle' i.e. a group of nerds who met in Vienna and ended up having an astonishing degree of influence on thoughts about facts and values later in the century. But the fact-value distinction is powerfully and dangerously misguided, and indeed has caused enormous mischief over the years. The intuition you are drawing upon here consists (as is so often the case) of both a true and a misleading element. The true aspect is that there is such a thing as a true description (or, perhaps better, descriptions that lean towards the truth) - but the truth is not equivalent to facts, as such.
If I may give an analogy, the facts in a criminal case are statements that capture partial elements of events (and these facts may contradict one another, at least in the way they are presented). A true account of what happened is always possible, but it is not inevitable, and neither is it indisputable. The collection of available facts sets a limit to what is achievable. The court case is, in its ideal case at least, an attempt to assemble the truth from the facts. The facts are not truth, they are more akin to signposts to the truth. Or, to put this another way, facts are not the bearers of truth, but rather knowledge produces facts as a side effect, and we can therefore attempt to retrofit facts into a partial version of the truth.
But beyond this, the facts are not indisputable - or rather, the indisputable facts are the boring or irrelevant facts. The boiling point of water at a certain gravity and atmospheric pressure is an example of an indisputable fact in the sense you want here. But this is radically less than what is required to determine truth on a topic such as climate, the environment, gender metaphysics, disease etc. For more on this idea, see this piece, "After Universities", from September:
https://strangerworlds.substack.com/p/after-universities
You say there are two worlds, by which you mean the world of the red team and the world of the blue team. Aye, but there are not solely these two worlds, and the greatest deception is perhaps the one you don't mention here - that these two worlds are the only available worlds, an illusion that the parties trying to ride the favour of their associated teams have a joint vested interest in maintaining. There are many more than two worlds, but the great danger, as you suggest, is in coming to think that the world we inhabit is the only true world and everyone else has it wrong.
The truth is more fragile and elusive than this; it takes effort to assemble it. We can inch closer to the truth only by being able to speak to one another, in order to build bridges between these worlds. This is the project I am attempting at Stranger Worlds. Of course, I can only do this on a small scale... it will take much more than this to effect change, but I hope to be part of that change if and when we can form alliances with common principles. At the moment, even this feels far, far away, but I maintain my faith that the wretched state of affairs we are currently living through can be ended through the cooperative actions of people such as ourselves.
Many thanks for the invitation to read this essay. As I say, I have great sympathy for your perspective here. But I feel, as I so often do, that the truth retreats from us, and seeing through various sets of deceptions, illusions, psyops, political commitments or whatever, isn't enough to get us to truth. Perhaps, though, it is the start of that journey.
With unlimited love,
Chris.
How do you think human life on Earth started? How far back do you think our history extends?
Figuring it out: We depend on intellectuals and academics to do this. Most of us don't have the bandwidth in our lives or minds to do this work. We are more or less forced to rely on "experts" or "God" for a fair number of our beliefs. I haven't even bothered to go out into space and see for myself if the Earth is globe-shaped. I know of some people who have. And there WERE people in the ancient past who knew this and could even go out and make sure if they really wanted to.
Psychopathy: I have never heard of the Machs test. I have heard of the Dark Triad, though see this as a psychology insider term. Have you heard of Łobaczewski and his Political Ponerology? Hubbard and his work on "Suppressive Persons?" Desmet and his work on Mass Formation?
Propaganda: This became a "thing" during the rise of mass marketing and Public Relations, which was the specialty of Freud's cousin Edward Bernays. However, psychological operations go way back, before the time of Earth.
Who is shaking the jar? That is what Hubbard refers to as the Third Party. These are psychopathic people.
Here are some other psyops I can think of:
1) The evolution of biology on Earth / humans are the only intelligent life form in the universe.
2) You only live once / reincarnation cannot be proven.
3) The death and resurrection of Jesus as depicted in the New Testament.
4) 9/11 as depicted in the relevant government reports, as well as many other major political disasters.
5) Your mind is in your brain, and you can't leave your body, or ever be really free.
6) An asteroid impact destroyed all the dinosaurs 70 million years ago.
That's enough for now.
You're right. Much of what we think we know is true is not actually true. And that's been the situation for a long long time. A REALLY long time!