I feel as if my vote doesn't matter. I fear for rule of law breaking down. I fear the government confiscating my guns. I'm scared for the America my daughter will grow up in. I'm not a conspiracy guy, but I feel as if the left elite is winning the battle. I'll go down swinging - promise you that. Hold the line, my fellow pedes. We're all we got.
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I look at this period similar to the protestant reformation. It used to be that bibles were copped by hand and only %2 or so of the population could write, so they were extremely expensive, only the elite had them, only the elite controlled them. But then cheap paper came about, and the printing press, and soon everybody had bibles, and they would learn to read them, and find out that the elite were doing just the opposite of what was written, and they revolted. From that moment on, you had constant wars between religions, and churches doing all sorts of crazy fear mongering and guilt trips and such to maintain control over the people.
Today, we are in the information age. They are losing control over the media, they are losing control over the vote, they are losing control over the education system, they are even losing control of the money, which is information about value over time and value relative to other things. They are guilt tripping and fear mongering everything. This puts the elite in a bind, because controlling people with direct physical force is 10x more expensive than controlling them with information. There is no easy way to put the cat back into the bag.
This is why I think we are winning. We are here despite all parts of the system being completely against us. They can't shut us up, they can't shut us down, the more they try the more they fail. Their hatred and mis-information didn't stop Trump from getting record popular support, and from all of us knowing that the election was rigged. Their news apparatus keeps doubling down, and keeps losing money, meanwhile the alt media has never been larger or more popular.
I'm reading about Martin Luther now with my son. I, too, was struck by the parallels from 1500 and today.
In 1500, the printing press spurred literacy and woke up the masses. This led to destabilization of the old order as people started to question things.
In 2021, we have the internet. This led to a very similar erosion of power for the ruling elite.
In 1500, the church controlled the schools, the charities, did infrastructure, ran the universities, and provided all the imagery that society used to see itself. That's why paintings and statues were so important to iconography. It provided the language that the people used to craft their own myths, culture, etc.
In 2021, the imagery is not Christian imagery anymore. It's . . . well, let's just say it owes more to a certain famous mercantile group. They control all media, all universities, all financial centers and institutional power.
Heresy is not questioning Jesus, but questioning a certain event from World War Two.
This group (like the old corrupt Catholic Church) does NOT want to give up power. But power is slipping away as people are starting to doubt the veracity of their narratives.
Control-by-guilt is no longer working.
"You're inherently evil and racist and bad, but you can offset this by giving money for indulgenc---- er. . . uh . .. reparations".
Even the control grid of 2021 bears a striking resemblance to the Catholic control system. (It's significant to remember that "catholic" means "global," "universal".) It was the first form of globalism. Back in 1500, your sinfulness was bringing on Armageddon. But it could be held at bay if you gave your money to the church. Today, a very similar global control system is making the claim that your sin is causing global warming. But your selfishness and evil can be offset by paying a global tax to shadowy unaccountable oligarchs who will have access to the slush fund.
Just as the Catholic Church was a death cult, with nuns who refused to breed. We have global waring fanatics who refuse to breed due to the "carbon footprint" babies cause. Watch one "secular nun" here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wj2xHsR8p5c
What we're seeing now is a cult . . . but one that acquired institutional power.
And like the Catholic church, this new cult demands that you believe certain things as articles of faith. And if you dare question them, you're a Heretic," a "denialist".
But they're losing, because truth doesn't fear inquiry. It costs a whole lot more to maintain a lie. When you start arresting people for daring to look deeper into historical events . . . when you begin censoring people and criminalizing legal behavior (and de-criminalizing criminal behavior), the people start to lose faith in you.
Eventually, Martin Luther won. And, as a result of this, kingdoms fell . . . to be replaced by republics (which are forms of government that arise when the middle class expands). If history is any judge, we're likely to see a huge collapse, where political paradigms shift and the old post-WWII power structure collapses, to be replaced by something new. Perhaps we'll get our republics back, after Rule-by-Banker comes to an end.
Yeah back then, if you didn't listen to the priest, you would burn in eternal hell, today if you don't listen to the "scientist", you and your children's world will burn for the rest of humanity with climate change.
This is a classic information war, and nothing is new. They're trying all the control and manipulation tactics that have been done before. One thing I've come to accept about information wars though is that unlike conventional wars they don't have a clean ending, they just tend to slowly burn out. Even today, the guilt complexes from that era linger on. These battles will probably linger on and on, and play out over and over again and again all over the world. But at least at some point, most reasonable people will be able to toss aside their garbage and move forward economically in spite of them. The old US banking cartel is on the verge of collapse, once that happens the flood gates will open.