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I’ve got a few technical issues with your analysis but they are meaningless to the big picture. You’re absolutely right, the institutions have been corrupted and captured from the inside .
The system needs to be fixed ASAP, if not.... I don’t think we want to go down that road.
The problem that I see is having the ability to pass reforms into law.... and for real reform we’re going to need to control the Congress and the Presidency....that’s the way the system works. It has taken a long time for everything to get corrupted to the point where we all can see it. It’s going to take a while to fix even if everything goes right ......or am I missing something?
Decentralization can happen fast. The entire music industry was unseated by a kid in his dorm room (Napster) in just a few years. Now all music is decentralized (Spotify etc).
Hierarchy always collapses from the overuse of resources, in its final stages the elite take as much as they can in the failed attempt to save themselves. Nothing new here.
The best choice to save yourself is the build local resilient systems in a small community with enough resources within walking distance to take care of everybody.
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Take a look at "The End of the World is Just the Beginning". I saw the author on Chris Williamson podcast and am halfway through the Audible version of this book. Globalism can only last as long as the USA provides free naval security for global shipping. He also has a very practical look at demographic trends, geography and natural resources on a country and continent basis. Good news for USA, France and New Zealand, bad new for most everyone else. The climate change alarmists are soon to realize that the rapid shift from carbon based fuels to insufficient renewables will create havoc for heating and food supplies.
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Take a look at "The End of the World is Just the Beginning". I saw the author on Chris Williamson podcast and am halfway through the Audible version of this book. Globalism can only last as long as the USA provides free naval security for global shipping. He also has a very practical look at demographic trends, geography and natural resources on a country and continent basis. Good news for USA, France and New Zealand, bad new for most everyone else. The climate change alarmists are soon to realize that the rapid shift from carbon based fuels to insufficient renewables will create havoc for heating and food supplies.
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“Our battle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world, and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.”
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Neoliberal is an old term often associated with a free market economy which doesn't exist. Neocon and fascist is who does control the system. Putting the blame on Neoliberals to me is blaming nothing as the free market economy doesn't exist. Its fascist propaganda.
There might be 10 neoliberals in this whole damned country.
You are 100% right. But we don’t have a term for the NEW new liberals. On the right it is the RINOs or Neocons both fit still. Got a suggestion for a new term?
The entire party for the most part is this “new” liberal to me now. To me it is those under control. Those who are too afraid to stand up to the ridiculous things their own party is doing. For example when they let Bernie Sanders get ousted by the party leaders and didn’t fight back. Or when they allow things of today like the chemical castration of children before they reach puberty based on the kids’ feelings at the time. Or when they purposely blur the line between illegal immigration and immigration- or peaceful protests and riots. Or when they advocate for men with 20+ years of testosterone to be allowed to compete in women’s sports. These are simple logical problems that ten years ago would have never been allowed. So when I say neoliberal- if I am not using that term the way it was intended, well then I am reinventing the word. To mean this new liberal ideology of today that didn’t exist ten years ago. The cultural forces of the party forced them to change, while most people didn’t want to but did anyway.
But yeah, I shouldn’t use a term that means they support free market ideas. Good point. Please suggest another term anyone!
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Yeah, this discussion is interesting. I have been thinking along the same lines for a little while now. We definitely need new terms of reference for the various groups and figures who are helping redefine politics and society. It think this is a huge part of the problem and we are too in the weeds yet to know what to really label the different cohorts. It will emerge over time. It has too.
Radical leftists is perfect. Agree- what was once liberal ideology has done a 180° in the last decade. Some people call them “woke” leftists but I don’t necessarily like that term because it implies they are ‘awake’- radical is the word!
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Excellent comment. I would have to think about a new word. The first inclination based on your comment is they've been Hararified. But that would require too much explanation.
It would require explanation. Or, you could try a simpler route and co-opt one of Harari’s terms and call them Dataists. I’m sure that would both stroke his abundantly sized ego and make him seethe at the same time.
I would argue that government is the *source* of almost all of our problems. No politician will ever agree to a free and open system because the system selects for sociopaths. We can send all the angry letters we want, but at the end of the day our "representatives" are going to do what’s best for *them*, not *us*. Conventional American politics died with JFK.
I think that our best option is to be as self-sufficient and outside the system as possible. The government is ignoring reality, but reality will win at some point. When it does, things are going to start crashing down fast. This will be our opportunity, not to build back better, but to *not build back at all*.
The CDC is already losing whatever shred of credibility it once had. How long before the TSA, FBI, CIA, and others follow?
I think the government has fallen into the control of the globalists, they have been bought, blackmailed, controlled with the promises of money and power- they are not on our side - but I think there are puppeteers above the government
Yes, but what we could do - the safest way to get there - is to design our own new system and plug it into the good parts of the existing one. Like this:
People need to wake up and realize:
1) everything you think you know is wrong
2) Your government WANTS you dead
3) What is going on today has been more than 10 years in the planning
4) This has been done to every Western major Democracy at the same time.
5) Everything you think is right is wrong (Global warming, Overpopulation, Peak oil, etc.)
6) The Constitution has been completely violated in the past 10 years and laws have changed so
that you have no rights.
7) You are a wage slave. If you survive, they want to turn you into a digital slave.
8) It is much later than you think.
9) History rhymes - it doesn’t repeat. This has happened before.
10) And no one is coming to save you/us.
11) The globalists are using advanced (AI) psyops to manipulate, trick, and control you.
Thank you. Very important point I forgot.
I’ve got a few technical issues with your analysis but they are meaningless to the big picture. You’re absolutely right, the institutions have been corrupted and captured from the inside .
The system needs to be fixed ASAP, if not.... I don’t think we want to go down that road.
The problem that I see is having the ability to pass reforms into law.... and for real reform we’re going to need to control the Congress and the Presidency....that’s the way the system works. It has taken a long time for everything to get corrupted to the point where we all can see it. It’s going to take a while to fix even if everything goes right ......or am I missing something?
Decentralization can happen fast. The entire music industry was unseated by a kid in his dorm room (Napster) in just a few years. Now all music is decentralized (Spotify etc).
We need to use technology
To hold our representatives accountable. We can’t defeat the old system. We need to make a new one and plug it in to the old one. Like this:
https://joshketry.substack.com/p/what-we-need-is-a-transparency-movement
Hierarchy always collapses from the overuse of resources, in its final stages the elite take as much as they can in the failed attempt to save themselves. Nothing new here.
The best choice to save yourself is the build local resilient systems in a small community with enough resources within walking distance to take care of everybody.
Start by planting and tending a garden.
Agree- being as self sufficient as possible is hugely empowering and makes one a lot less likely to get caught in the vortex of fear propaganda.
Exactly!
Yes. We all must Have the courage to speak out .
Start with just one or two people you know but keep it up
Thank you Josh
1000% on board! I need to do better at determining who are the local infiltration of commies.
Take a look at "The End of the World is Just the Beginning". I saw the author on Chris Williamson podcast and am halfway through the Audible version of this book. Globalism can only last as long as the USA provides free naval security for global shipping. He also has a very practical look at demographic trends, geography and natural resources on a country and continent basis. Good news for USA, France and New Zealand, bad new for most everyone else. The climate change alarmists are soon to realize that the rapid shift from carbon based fuels to insufficient renewables will create havoc for heating and food supplies.
Take a look at "The End of the World is Just the Beginning". I saw the author on Chris Williamson podcast and am halfway through the Audible version of this book. Globalism can only last as long as the USA provides free naval security for global shipping. He also has a very practical look at demographic trends, geography and natural resources on a country and continent basis. Good news for USA, France and New Zealand, bad new for most everyone else. The climate change alarmists are soon to realize that the rapid shift from carbon based fuels to insufficient renewables will create havoc for heating and food supplies.
“Our battle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world, and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.”
Neoliberal is an old term often associated with a free market economy which doesn't exist. Neocon and fascist is who does control the system. Putting the blame on Neoliberals to me is blaming nothing as the free market economy doesn't exist. Its fascist propaganda.
There might be 10 neoliberals in this whole damned country.
Please don't include me in we either! Hahaha!
You are 100% right. But we don’t have a term for the NEW new liberals. On the right it is the RINOs or Neocons both fit still. Got a suggestion for a new term?
The entire party for the most part is this “new” liberal to me now. To me it is those under control. Those who are too afraid to stand up to the ridiculous things their own party is doing. For example when they let Bernie Sanders get ousted by the party leaders and didn’t fight back. Or when they allow things of today like the chemical castration of children before they reach puberty based on the kids’ feelings at the time. Or when they purposely blur the line between illegal immigration and immigration- or peaceful protests and riots. Or when they advocate for men with 20+ years of testosterone to be allowed to compete in women’s sports. These are simple logical problems that ten years ago would have never been allowed. So when I say neoliberal- if I am not using that term the way it was intended, well then I am reinventing the word. To mean this new liberal ideology of today that didn’t exist ten years ago. The cultural forces of the party forced them to change, while most people didn’t want to but did anyway.
But yeah, I shouldn’t use a term that means they support free market ideas. Good point. Please suggest another term anyone!
Yeah, this discussion is interesting. I have been thinking along the same lines for a little while now. We definitely need new terms of reference for the various groups and figures who are helping redefine politics and society. It think this is a huge part of the problem and we are too in the weeds yet to know what to really label the different cohorts. It will emerge over time. It has too.
It’s an old one but I really think it fits....radical leftist. Nothing liberal about them at all.
Radical leftists is perfect. Agree- what was once liberal ideology has done a 180° in the last decade. Some people call them “woke” leftists but I don’t necessarily like that term because it implies they are ‘awake’- radical is the word!
Excellent comment. I would have to think about a new word. The first inclination based on your comment is they've been Hararified. But that would require too much explanation.
It would require explanation. Or, you could try a simpler route and co-opt one of Harari’s terms and call them Dataists. I’m sure that would both stroke his abundantly sized ego and make him seethe at the same time.
Absolutely YES!
Our only weapon against them is government
I would argue that government is the *source* of almost all of our problems. No politician will ever agree to a free and open system because the system selects for sociopaths. We can send all the angry letters we want, but at the end of the day our "representatives" are going to do what’s best for *them*, not *us*. Conventional American politics died with JFK.
I think that our best option is to be as self-sufficient and outside the system as possible. The government is ignoring reality, but reality will win at some point. When it does, things are going to start crashing down fast. This will be our opportunity, not to build back better, but to *not build back at all*.
The CDC is already losing whatever shred of credibility it once had. How long before the TSA, FBI, CIA, and others follow?
I think the government has fallen into the control of the globalists, they have been bought, blackmailed, controlled with the promises of money and power- they are not on our side - but I think there are puppeteers above the government
Right. The sooner people understand this, the sooner we can make real progress.
* Encourage more people to participate in “cash only” Friday.
* Boycott Starbucks and any future establishments that announce they are going “cash less.”
* Try to refrain from purchasing through Amazon and other big box stores.
* Get your “Fitbit” and “iWatch” off your wrist. They are harvesting your data (steps, sleep, cookies.)
* Be kind to your fellow neighbor recognizing their fear is real to them. Help them overcome by example.
* Question everything.
* Turn off the MSM propaganda.
* Listen closely and say it out loud when you recognize the bs.
https://tobyrogers.substack.com/p/who-is-they?r=8ztdu&utm_medium=ios worth a read
At this point, we need a new system. It’s already broken and beyond repair.
Yes, but what we could do - the safest way to get there - is to design our own new system and plug it into the good parts of the existing one. Like this:
https://joshketry.substack.com/p/do-we-need-to-re-infiltrate-our-own