Absolutely...at 88 years young, I have fought the fight since I was 15...man since his creation has attempted to control other men to do their bidding and we the unlearned ones have compromised our very souls just to get along. That time must end, now, wake up and act like your very existence depends on that action...because it does...
I have a friend who is 99, and though a retired lawyer, (or because) he cannot accept that there is a Busted News Initiative, or that these jabs just might be poison.
Now I wait, but to know that you are 88, and you never took the bait. You're great.
That salute was deprecated during FDR's presidency, but I doubt that this diminished the conformist mentality of your friend. I'll guess also that he would deny any adverse conditioning was associated with it. After all, lawyers are so special that they never become zombies of the USA's ruling class and their state.
Wow I of course never even heard about the salute change, schooled from 1968 onward...thanks Allan. Those images in your link are such a suprise to me...
I, too, was a little shocked when I first saw fotos of kids giving the American version of the Roman salute. Congress eliminated it in 1942. I think of this every time I watch some American politicians putting their right hands over their hearts and imagine them, instead, with their arms raised and outstretched.
Brother, you have written from my heart. The view from the mountaintop never ceases to amaze. The truth will make you free but it will not make you happy.
Your statement implies that happiness is impossible, which is itself an untruth. There is no way to rationally pursue happiness except by seeking and acknowledging the truth. One doesn't become successful or happy by, for example, evading all the actual requirements of building a relationship or a business. Acting on the basis of facts--the truth--is the only thing that can make one happy.
David - Respectfully, I must disagree. As far as I know, the 5 requirements for happiness are gratitude, love, friendship, interests and faith, a handy checklist to discover the cause of unhappiness in one's own life.
I agree that the accrual of knowledge is most satisfying insofar as it chases away
confusion and ignorance and invites wisdom. But Ernie is also right. Why else call it 'the awful truth'?
Happiness is a process, not a state. Once realized, it doesn't even have to end.
The truth is always here and now as absolute. Tomorrow, it might be a bit different, when it comes to decisions, but the basis for the truth is always the same.
Your essay may be one of the most profound I have encountered since this sad episode on history unfolded over two years ago.
Your point is clear: nothing changes until we change it, "Critical mass", as you put it.
I've been bouncing among trees on the edge of the mountain for 18+ months, occasionally making a flight to a higher altitude, but always returning to the forest.
I'm ready for the mountain, and thank you for your clear thoughts.
Totally inspired insight. My initial thinking was:
- In a past life I was a hiring manager. I would spend hours lying awake at night trying to think of ways to get the interviewed to reveal their nature/feelings. Your description was amazing.
- I recognize the levels you describe in those I encounter however, I have been mostly unable to help them make progress along the path to awareness. Thanks for all you do.
I've been thinking about what I call "America's German Dilemma" lately, too. You draw out the parallels and sticking points perfectly.
This confirms my thesis that we seem to import the cultures that we conquer, and wind up vanquished by them later in our own countries. In our case, we appear to have imported a warty facsimile of Weimar German, from its school system to its decadence, and are saddled with all the accompanying psychoses as a result.
To add to your comparison with another analogy, in our domestic reenactment of Germany's 'troubles,' the average American citizen is cast as the selfish NAZI anti-vaxxer standing against the noble Allies' benign attempts to "save" us from the COVID invasion. Also, the more we oppose the Cathedral's obscure agenda items, such as its taxes on energy, insurance mandates and not-so-subtle inflationary "theft" of our savings, the more we should expect the media organs to resurrect the old, stale propaganda that we deployed against Germany in WWII, and to sling it inwards at Americans.
Remember, Hillary swung that rancid cod at Trump in 2016. And it still worked!
It's been over 70 years since VE Day, and a "nice" medical tyranny presides over America, and it is the regular, skeptical citizens that are the new Jews, and that must suffer the cruel insult of being cast by Vichy corporate media as selfish NAZI-like denial-ists for their "obstinance."
In short, We Are All Germans Now. And more parallels early 1900's Atlanticists' messes will become apparent in the months ahead. That is, unless we're back at War with Russia over Ukraine, and there's no oxygen left for the deeper discussions. And that, my friends, will be another parallel to marvel at.
First time I've ever seen someone using "Nazi" properly!
There is no "we." Why would Americans, Russians and, for that matter, Ukranians, be responsible for the action of their governments? Even if there were any "fair" elections (which never existed), why would the voice of a moronic majority condemn the minority?
The bankers' shills/slaves are responsible; the rest of us are "only" humans! OK, so there is a "we," after all.
Another brilliant read. I started as a forest man 2 years ago and have evolved through 2 years of research to a mountain man. But if I am afraid to share this with my urban man friends maybe I am not really there yet. Your thoughts?
If they're true friends you don't want to lose, start slow. Avoid party politics and culture war triggers. Play dumb by asking questions that expose fallacies and absurdities using scientific studies. Use media sources they trust that may have slipped the truth out. Keep expectations very low. Find friends at sea or curious enough to embark on the journey.
i casually asked my bro, practicing doctor for 30+ years, what he thought of Dr. F. , does he think he's on the level? My bro said, 'sure, why would he not be on the level?' My heart sunk.
Idk. Probably so. ER doc in mi. drank the kool-aid. I used to rely on him for advice. Now i'm afraid of that other than minor things. wants me and another 'sane' sibling to 'get the vax' for our well being. that won't be happening.
Actually, being a Covidian is a religion; it is based on an exstential need that creates a sense of community.
Asking questions only makes the dedicated followers develop more details of their faith, forcing them into a deep rut of a one-way road to hell.
As about 40% of humans are followers, they can be swayed by questions as long as they haven't dedicated themselves to the "cause." After anyone has, they are willing to die in order to protect their imaginary community... Psychotic and plain stupid; they pose danger even to their most beloved ones, forget about friendships...
I tend to ask only one question: Even if this is the plague that will kill 99%, would you like to "survive" muzzled, "tested," monitored, and injected every three months with some stuff whose ingredients are trade secrets and the manufacturers are exempt from liability?
I'd like to say that I'm on my mountain, but as with all parables like this, I suspect identifying yourself as being in the victory position is a trap, like announcing you've achieved enlightenment.
So I suspect that what I feel is THE mountain is perhaps just a very high hill, or a sub peak.
I suspect this because my every day is filled with hate and anger. Urban man isn't welcome on my mountain, and in fact the thing I like best about my mountain is the unobstructed field of fire. I don't want to reason with Urban Man or pray for him or give him anything because for two years Urban Man has howled for my death and worse from behind his filthy blue paper mask. Fuck him and his journey and his redemption. I hope he's eaten by wolves the moment he strays outside his beloved sheepfold and realizes his folly while watching his intestines slide down their gullets.
All I know anymore is rage and I crave all-out war (but not in any real, actual sense, dear monitors; I categorically reject all political violence and you should too) and guillotines and nooses. Not one fucking apology has made its way up to my mountain and I do not forgive without apologies.
And it's eating me alive and I know it's bad for my health. The only good days are the ones I manage to go without thinking about covid or thinking about the future.
So I'm probably not actually on the mountain. This is probably a case of premature ascension.
Self awareness is a good attribute to have. I suspect there will be no apologies. Most who wanted us dead will pretend it never happened and carry on. Keep the fire going around the hill as a warning to these rats but don't let it keep you from climbing higher.
Welcome to the club! I've been like that since the age of 10, when I realized that "belonging" to a group of people is simply impossible on fair or realistic terms... :)
Not on topic, but my other favorite sentence out of her mouth was "The closest I"ve ever been to pate de foie gras is Mother Goose". I was never part of the in group either for all my life...my sister was Prom Queen, etc etc. but me, I hung out with the rejects, gearheads, etc.
I am so with you. My hatred for what has been done is also eating me alive. I work with kids in school. I can barely get through the days anymore seeing what they have done to the innocents...as if the War on Poverty wasn't enough
Children are not born "good" and they are anything but "innocent." I doubt there is a single "innocent" person on the Earth.
Also, when a parent muzzles their child, it becomes natural selection; exactly what the eugenicists are aiming for. It seemed to be working, and now with the graphene shedding from the injected, it's hard to get deployed.
Seems to me the first step in climbing the mountain is not giving a shit what The Urban Man thinks. That said, he WILL make a lot of loud noises when you tell him with words or actions to GFH.
So the first step is developing courage, not so easy today in cancel culture when most are not economically self-sufficient.
That's when the lightbulb turns on, a seminal moment of clarity...which takes courage to admit and go forward.
We have been told that the group is more important than the individual, and if you disagree you alienate "friends" and the collective will try to destroy you.
Choosing "the road less travelled by" is a difficult decision for most. So it does take courage.
Sorry, I've never particularly cared about what "I was told," because I always knew that it was about my decisions and my responsibility, when it comes to my life, and I would have considered it a violation against my privacy or, even my life, if anyone had tried to say otherwise. I have encountered tens of thousands of people in my life, yet nobody challenged me on that department.
If I can "alienate" "friends" by speaking my mind, they are no friends of mine. The "collective" is only a bunch of morons, unable to coordinate beyond preconditioned responses.
As 5-year old, one cannot make those choices because we know only what we're told and a limited life experience.
But somewhere between, say, 5 and "adulthood" one has to make choices, and often those choices vary from what we thought and did as a child.
That is when courage comes in.
I think we all, at some point in our young lives, had to make a tough decision between going along with "friends" and doing what we knew, based on our growing awareness of our place in the world, was the more correct thing to do.
Which took courage.
And may have changed our relationship with the world forever, for better or worse.
Now toady, many decades into life, it's a lot easier to blow off "the crowd" because you truly don't give a crap.
Courage now is far easier than courage back then.
I do appreciate your noble comments. Not that you care... ;-)
By the age of five, our "conscience" is formed, usually by our immediate contacts. I guess, I was "lucky" in the ghetto to have honest parents.
I still have reservations about "courage." Can we EVER be courageous? Yeah, acting even when we are afraid is supposed to be brave. That's definitely stupid, not brave. Brave comes from fighting for something greater than I am, even when I am alone. At that point, fear sunsides, so again, there is no "courage" involved. And I am alone, as I have always been. Do I have something greater than I am?
And I do give a crap, but I cannot save people who decide against their best interests and even try to argue about it.
Absolutely...at 88 years young, I have fought the fight since I was 15...man since his creation has attempted to control other men to do their bidding and we the unlearned ones have compromised our very souls just to get along. That time must end, now, wake up and act like your very existence depends on that action...because it does...
I have a friend who is 99, and though a retired lawyer, (or because) he cannot accept that there is a Busted News Initiative, or that these jabs just might be poison.
Now I wait, but to know that you are 88, and you never took the bait. You're great.
Given your friend's age, if he was raised in the USA, he probably was goaded into performing this servile gesture as a child:
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=bellamy+salute&t=ofa&iax=images&ia=images
That salute was deprecated during FDR's presidency, but I doubt that this diminished the conformist mentality of your friend. I'll guess also that he would deny any adverse conditioning was associated with it. After all, lawyers are so special that they never become zombies of the USA's ruling class and their state.
Wow I of course never even heard about the salute change, schooled from 1968 onward...thanks Allan. Those images in your link are such a suprise to me...
I, too, was a little shocked when I first saw fotos of kids giving the American version of the Roman salute. Congress eliminated it in 1942. I think of this every time I watch some American politicians putting their right hands over their hearts and imagine them, instead, with their arms raised and outstretched.
What an amazing piece.
This is a Beautiful Poetic Summary. I love the way you word TRUTH!!
Mountain tops give you a good view but sitting here on top of the world, above the 64th parallel, one sees it all even better.
Civilization, it was great while it lasted.
Brother, you have written from my heart. The view from the mountaintop never ceases to amaze. The truth will make you free but it will not make you happy.
"The truth will make you free but it will not make you happy."
Perfectly stated.
Ernie - You have written a hard but necessary lesson for the climb - knowledge leads to sorrow. We will find our happiness in other ways. Thank you
Your statement implies that happiness is impossible, which is itself an untruth. There is no way to rationally pursue happiness except by seeking and acknowledging the truth. One doesn't become successful or happy by, for example, evading all the actual requirements of building a relationship or a business. Acting on the basis of facts--the truth--is the only thing that can make one happy.
David - Respectfully, I must disagree. As far as I know, the 5 requirements for happiness are gratitude, love, friendship, interests and faith, a handy checklist to discover the cause of unhappiness in one's own life.
I agree that the accrual of knowledge is most satisfying insofar as it chases away
confusion and ignorance and invites wisdom. But Ernie is also right. Why else call it 'the awful truth'?
I kinda' like Fielding's definition of love: it's esteem and gratitude.
Humans do more than enough to themselves to cause unhappiness, but most of the time, it's boredom.
Happiness is a process, not a state. Once realized, it doesn't even have to end.
The truth is always here and now as absolute. Tomorrow, it might be a bit different, when it comes to decisions, but the basis for the truth is always the same.
There is only one truth.
If that doesn't make us happy, what else would? Ignorance, indifference, or pure evil?
What is "happy," after all?
Incredible post, thank you so much. 🙏❤️
Your essay may be one of the most profound I have encountered since this sad episode on history unfolded over two years ago.
Your point is clear: nothing changes until we change it, "Critical mass", as you put it.
I've been bouncing among trees on the edge of the mountain for 18+ months, occasionally making a flight to a higher altitude, but always returning to the forest.
I'm ready for the mountain, and thank you for your clear thoughts.
Indeed: until one accepts personal responsibility, there is no life for the person.
Once you let everything go, you don't have to climb anymore; you will fly.
Totally inspired insight. My initial thinking was:
- In a past life I was a hiring manager. I would spend hours lying awake at night trying to think of ways to get the interviewed to reveal their nature/feelings. Your description was amazing.
- I recognize the levels you describe in those I encounter however, I have been mostly unable to help them make progress along the path to awareness. Thanks for all you do.
I've been thinking about what I call "America's German Dilemma" lately, too. You draw out the parallels and sticking points perfectly.
This confirms my thesis that we seem to import the cultures that we conquer, and wind up vanquished by them later in our own countries. In our case, we appear to have imported a warty facsimile of Weimar German, from its school system to its decadence, and are saddled with all the accompanying psychoses as a result.
To add to your comparison with another analogy, in our domestic reenactment of Germany's 'troubles,' the average American citizen is cast as the selfish NAZI anti-vaxxer standing against the noble Allies' benign attempts to "save" us from the COVID invasion. Also, the more we oppose the Cathedral's obscure agenda items, such as its taxes on energy, insurance mandates and not-so-subtle inflationary "theft" of our savings, the more we should expect the media organs to resurrect the old, stale propaganda that we deployed against Germany in WWII, and to sling it inwards at Americans.
Remember, Hillary swung that rancid cod at Trump in 2016. And it still worked!
It's been over 70 years since VE Day, and a "nice" medical tyranny presides over America, and it is the regular, skeptical citizens that are the new Jews, and that must suffer the cruel insult of being cast by Vichy corporate media as selfish NAZI-like denial-ists for their "obstinance."
In short, We Are All Germans Now. And more parallels early 1900's Atlanticists' messes will become apparent in the months ahead. That is, unless we're back at War with Russia over Ukraine, and there's no oxygen left for the deeper discussions. And that, my friends, will be another parallel to marvel at.
Excellent analysis. Sadly the historical comparisons become clearer.
First time I've ever seen someone using "Nazi" properly!
There is no "we." Why would Americans, Russians and, for that matter, Ukranians, be responsible for the action of their governments? Even if there were any "fair" elections (which never existed), why would the voice of a moronic majority condemn the minority?
The bankers' shills/slaves are responsible; the rest of us are "only" humans! OK, so there is a "we," after all.
Another brilliant read. I started as a forest man 2 years ago and have evolved through 2 years of research to a mountain man. But if I am afraid to share this with my urban man friends maybe I am not really there yet. Your thoughts?
If they're true friends you don't want to lose, start slow. Avoid party politics and culture war triggers. Play dumb by asking questions that expose fallacies and absurdities using scientific studies. Use media sources they trust that may have slipped the truth out. Keep expectations very low. Find friends at sea or curious enough to embark on the journey.
i casually asked my bro, practicing doctor for 30+ years, what he thought of Dr. F. , does he think he's on the level? My bro said, 'sure, why would he not be on the level?' My heart sunk.
Does his salary depend on nih funding? Apparently Fauci and gates control 90% of US medicine which is why so few docs speak out.
Idk. Probably so. ER doc in mi. drank the kool-aid. I used to rely on him for advice. Now i'm afraid of that other than minor things. wants me and another 'sane' sibling to 'get the vax' for our well being. that won't be happening.
Smart. There's only risks now with the sniffles variant. Even before there was hardly any benefits beyond a couple demographics.
They hang on to the mistake of their lives for "dear life." Of course, they become killers and they will never have any real life...
Actually, being a Covidian is a religion; it is based on an exstential need that creates a sense of community.
Asking questions only makes the dedicated followers develop more details of their faith, forcing them into a deep rut of a one-way road to hell.
As about 40% of humans are followers, they can be swayed by questions as long as they haven't dedicated themselves to the "cause." After anyone has, they are willing to die in order to protect their imaginary community... Psychotic and plain stupid; they pose danger even to their most beloved ones, forget about friendships...
I tend to ask only one question: Even if this is the plague that will kill 99%, would you like to "survive" muzzled, "tested," monitored, and injected every three months with some stuff whose ingredients are trade secrets and the manufacturers are exempt from liability?
gratefully received, eloquent and to the point, thank you!
Bravo!
I'd like to say that I'm on my mountain, but as with all parables like this, I suspect identifying yourself as being in the victory position is a trap, like announcing you've achieved enlightenment.
So I suspect that what I feel is THE mountain is perhaps just a very high hill, or a sub peak.
I suspect this because my every day is filled with hate and anger. Urban man isn't welcome on my mountain, and in fact the thing I like best about my mountain is the unobstructed field of fire. I don't want to reason with Urban Man or pray for him or give him anything because for two years Urban Man has howled for my death and worse from behind his filthy blue paper mask. Fuck him and his journey and his redemption. I hope he's eaten by wolves the moment he strays outside his beloved sheepfold and realizes his folly while watching his intestines slide down their gullets.
All I know anymore is rage and I crave all-out war (but not in any real, actual sense, dear monitors; I categorically reject all political violence and you should too) and guillotines and nooses. Not one fucking apology has made its way up to my mountain and I do not forgive without apologies.
And it's eating me alive and I know it's bad for my health. The only good days are the ones I manage to go without thinking about covid or thinking about the future.
So I'm probably not actually on the mountain. This is probably a case of premature ascension.
Self awareness is a good attribute to have. I suspect there will be no apologies. Most who wanted us dead will pretend it never happened and carry on. Keep the fire going around the hill as a warning to these rats but don't let it keep you from climbing higher.
What if I cannot get any higher? I don't want to associate with the sheep anymore, and it is lonely.
People are all by themselves in their lives; they just fail to notice... You are already higher, because you have.
Ray, thank you. For some reason, I feel comforted.
Welcome to the club! I've been like that since the age of 10, when I realized that "belonging" to a group of people is simply impossible on fair or realistic terms... :)
Not on topic, but my other favorite sentence out of her mouth was "The closest I"ve ever been to pate de foie gras is Mother Goose". I was never part of the in group either for all my life...my sister was Prom Queen, etc etc. but me, I hung out with the rejects, gearheads, etc.
I had a college roomate who would say the most extraordinary but memorable one liners...one of my favorites was "I never could stand my peer group"
The monsters are not gone, only taking a break.
As long as Germ Theory prevails, there will be an endless succession of "viruses" and "pandemics."
I am so with you. My hatred for what has been done is also eating me alive. I work with kids in school. I can barely get through the days anymore seeing what they have done to the innocents...as if the War on Poverty wasn't enough
Children are not born "good" and they are anything but "innocent." I doubt there is a single "innocent" person on the Earth.
Also, when a parent muzzles their child, it becomes natural selection; exactly what the eugenicists are aiming for. It seemed to be working, and now with the graphene shedding from the injected, it's hard to get deployed.
I am at the top of the mountain with wounds that bleed from time to time.
Seems to me the first step in climbing the mountain is not giving a shit what The Urban Man thinks. That said, he WILL make a lot of loud noises when you tell him with words or actions to GFH.
So the first step is developing courage, not so easy today in cancel culture when most are not economically self-sufficient.
No, the first step is to realize that most people don't give a s**t about you. At that point, why would you care about what they think?
That's when the lightbulb turns on, a seminal moment of clarity...which takes courage to admit and go forward.
We have been told that the group is more important than the individual, and if you disagree you alienate "friends" and the collective will try to destroy you.
Choosing "the road less travelled by" is a difficult decision for most. So it does take courage.
Like taking the red pill...
Sorry, I've never particularly cared about what "I was told," because I always knew that it was about my decisions and my responsibility, when it comes to my life, and I would have considered it a violation against my privacy or, even my life, if anyone had tried to say otherwise. I have encountered tens of thousands of people in my life, yet nobody challenged me on that department.
If I can "alienate" "friends" by speaking my mind, they are no friends of mine. The "collective" is only a bunch of morons, unable to coordinate beyond preconditioned responses.
As an adult, I agree fully.
As 5-year old, one cannot make those choices because we know only what we're told and a limited life experience.
But somewhere between, say, 5 and "adulthood" one has to make choices, and often those choices vary from what we thought and did as a child.
That is when courage comes in.
I think we all, at some point in our young lives, had to make a tough decision between going along with "friends" and doing what we knew, based on our growing awareness of our place in the world, was the more correct thing to do.
Which took courage.
And may have changed our relationship with the world forever, for better or worse.
Now toady, many decades into life, it's a lot easier to blow off "the crowd" because you truly don't give a crap.
Courage now is far easier than courage back then.
I do appreciate your noble comments. Not that you care... ;-)
By the age of five, our "conscience" is formed, usually by our immediate contacts. I guess, I was "lucky" in the ghetto to have honest parents.
I still have reservations about "courage." Can we EVER be courageous? Yeah, acting even when we are afraid is supposed to be brave. That's definitely stupid, not brave. Brave comes from fighting for something greater than I am, even when I am alone. At that point, fear sunsides, so again, there is no "courage" involved. And I am alone, as I have always been. Do I have something greater than I am?
And I do give a crap, but I cannot save people who decide against their best interests and even try to argue about it.
And yes, we both care, don't we? :)
great work...entertaining and informative...sure makes those 'rebels' look pretty disingenuous...i'm with Clapton and Morrison
How about Roger Waters?