People are waking up thanks to people like you! Please keep pushing these pieces out. You're helping to change the world. As cliche as it sounds, it's 💯 true! Thank you. 🙏❤️
Lol…the Atlantic? Sure I’ll believe that mouthpiece of NATO.
Tell me exactly what Russia did. And no they didn’t hack the dnc computers. Crowdstrike admitted that no information left the computers. And the FBI never bothered to look at them. Good grief…you should admit that you were snookered.
Humans are herd animals. For most humans, most of the time, the fastest and surest way to wind up dead or seriously disadvantaged has been at the hands of other humans. At the same time, "our group", whether by faith, family, tribe, regiment, whatever, are the people we can trust to have our back and get us access to The Goodies.
Therefore, whatever else happens, whatever we have to do, believe absurdities, blindly follow barking insane leaders, parrot obvious lies to our detriment, do or suffer terrible things, but please whatever you do, please don't kick us out of the group!
What this also means is that when we are presented with incontrovertible proof that the group narrative is wrong or that the group leaders are mad or charlatans or worse, rather than change leaders or change beliefs or change groups, most people, most of the time will instead double down. Witness the behavior of cultists.
The process is called "cognitive dissonance" and it is abundantly documented. As alluded to earlier, there are entire religions organized around the principle.
Cognitive dissonance is not limited to stupid people. In fact, the intelligent are at least as prone, perhaps because they are better at rationalizing. In fact, much so-called "knowledge work" is basically learning symbol manipulation in order to rationalize something.
Back to Nature-Nurture. It's not that our "genetic programming" compels our brains to do such and such; that sort of genetic determinism ala ultrareductionist jerkoffs is so oversimplistic. But as you note, if human genetics as a whole leads us anywhere, it's into the group dynamic, which then acts on the individual's genetic backdrop. What then? It really depends on one's tolerance or even affinity for experiencing the role of pariah, taking that risk without emotionally disintegrating because s(he) isn't sufficiently group accepted/adulated. My first major faculty job, I took up that role of openly calling out the student-harming administration's bullshit, and talk about an eye-opener in terms of the collapse of the so-called "collegial atmosphere". Once you accept the role, you never look back.
I'm not even going into nature/nurture. I am saying that groupthink gives in-group humans advantages and out-group humans disadvantages, speaking as a whole.
Barbra Streisand sang,"People who need people are the luckiest people in the world" but I don't think so. I think people who need people (which is nearly everybody) get sad,lonely,hurt,often self- medicate with drugs,alcohol or other unwise things when the other people reject them,be it all the people around them or just That Guy. The luckiest people are the psychopathic sociopaths,of which I have known two (but good people) they so little NEED other people that the whole world could range against them but they will not leave their stance in a crisis. They stand firm. It's awesome and admirable and scary too. Wow!
It's dangerous to be TOO isolated. The noble ideal of the Lone Stranger only works in movies because we know that REALLY he's sexy and warm and fun to be with once he's overcome that unspecified traumatic event. And he kills the bad guys. We know they are bad guys because he kills them. It's kind of self-defining. I'm just seeing a contemporary analogy,oh dear. But for most people being outside the group is perilous. "We don't like you,youre not like us,you're DIFFERENT". The precursor to many a Witch Burning.
Every week Feline Resources has to come to my office and bitch that female staff ger uncomfortable when I wash my pouch on top of the conference table or somesuch.
The Laziness of human thinking continues to astound me, especially amongst my people who are amongst the laziest of them all mentally on this entire planet
The sad thing is that far too many prefer the lazy thinking and when they do try to get out of it, at this sign of discomfort, they scurry back into their mental comfyhole of stupidity
It's like the analogy of most people wanting a fit body and heading to the gym at one point in their life but when the universal toil of the gym comes (those fucking muscle pains that lasts for days or weeks 😅), most humans check out and instead seek for pills and other quick fixes
I've seen this play out too many times in the gym to have that much hope that we're gonna get a sizable majority of humans to wake up when mental pain is actually worse than physical pain, so call me a pessimist but I don't have that much Faith in the current human species to wake up from their slumber but I would rather if we had a way of catching the next generation when they're young and indoctrinating them in the Truth before they become too contaminated by society
Then again, humans are the masters of springing surprises so the current crop of humans may wake up in large numbers especially with the way Evil has become ever more blatant and in your face in 2024... I hope they surprise me, I fucking do
Wonderful thoughts Uaifo! Thanks for sharing! I really agree with you here. As an ICU nurse I watched as humanity turned its back on its families and communities while over a million people died in the US alone from Covid and even more staggering numbers of deaths worldwide. The lack of humanity at that time rudely awakened me. I stacked body bags in a corner while simultaneously being asked by my friends if I was "done being crazy about Covid yet". My point is that the world could hardly care or act right during a deadly viral pandemic so I wonder why we would expect any different here? Cognitive dissonance is alive and well around the globe. We all will suffer the consequences.
Hoping for the best put preparing for the worst, comrades. Forever and always rooted in reality and dedicated to the protection and safety of all humans, especially our most vulnerable.
Damn, sorry about your rude awakening to the shittiness of the human species.. Yours was a real rough one
And you are absolutely spot on about how absolutely mindfucking it is to see how humans can be so heartless in the face of tragedy and deep losses, the absolute uncaring nature of man at its core is a marvel even onto the gods
My own rude awakening was when the BBC documentary on one of the most pastors to come out of my country TB joshua came out early this year and completely exposed the man as the satanic occultic filthy shit of human scum that he is with hardcore evidence of all the rapes and ritual killings he had going on in that cult he calls a synagogue... And I was so certain my people will all condemn him unanimously after this exposition and to my everlasting surprise and shame for the pigs that unfortunately share the same blood with me, only a few condemned and most dismissed the documentary or viciously and adamantly defended the dead fucker
I won't lie, a piece of my Soul died when that happened and it opened my eyes to see that a lot of people might be wearing human masks but they are actually Soulless Demonic vampiric avatars that deserve nothing but death and extinction for all the evil that they defend
Bless you. You are from Nigeria a place and a people very dear to my heart. I am so sorry that you, too, know all too well the cruelty and evil of this world. Pure hearts are a force that evil cannot understand. They may have succeeded in breaking pieces of our spirits, but they can never touch our pure hearts and beauty. Those are ours. Thank you for the information, I will watch this documentary purely to honor you and your people 🕊️❤️🫶🏽 Cheers
You know what they say, "don't get too close to your heroes" or something like that and I would say that goes double for my people
You hear of Burnaboy, Rema, Felakuti and the likes and you feel we're not so bad but those are exceptions to the rules and if my people ever sense you are of no use to them financially, then the mask comes off and what you see will frighten the devil himself
A year ago, I would have been here preaching about the flawed but essentially good people that we are but in the last couple of months, they have taught me I who is flesh and blood same with them, what monsters they truly are, especially when you are financially down
And fair warning, those documentaries (there are 3 parts) are quite graphic in detail and even I was feeling a Soul pressure so deep, it was worse than crying could help absolve while watching the debaunchery that is that occultic filth
The window we have is the one that is closing on the ghouls that are leading us off the cliff: they are desperate and panicking, hence the obvious deceits and blatant lies; they are impoverishing their own people; and perhaps the biggest one, they are now in utter foolishness/suicide facing up against Russia, China and others who have far superior industrial bases and conventional military strength.
It may all end in nuclear disaster, or there is a chance the West will take such a calamitous defeat that it will help Western populations take their countries back from the global, US-led ghouls that are destroying us all.
And you're right, the ghouls really have lost the plot this year for some reason and this is the best time for the western populace to seize back control of their society before the US leads them and all of humanity off the cliff... Irreversably, through this idioctic warmongoring of theirs
It's up to the citizens of the western Nations to rise up and collectively shut down the madness of their leaders and that window of opportunity is now like you said and the next couple of years will show us what choice the people made either ways like Catlin said
Catching them young and indoctrinating them. It's been done over and over. And always with the intention of instilling the "right values". As a kid in the 1960s every influence from school, media, parents,even pop songs was to hate nobody,love everybody,tolerate,not judge,care, help,be friendly towards etc etc sounds lovely until you grow up.
Tell me about it, I had to go the university twice and then covid prolonged my starting work life and so it was until last year at the age of 29 that I finally entered the workforce with my naive mindset that if you keep your side of the bargain honestly, then other humams and corporations will also do same.... Boy was I wrong! 😅
I got sacked nov last year a month after being the only intern to win an award at my company even though I was up against my direct boss and his own direct boss who was an MD of the company... My reward, the fucking sack letter
Ever since then, I've come to learn the values we get indoctrinated with as kids are the complete opposite of how to survive as adults as if you dont lie and cheat, the system will do its best to break you till you conform to the other side
So I understand a 💯 about what you mean about growing up and seeing the values of the world flip on its head but the more we can have mentors that don't cave to the system for the young ones to look up to, the more we can actually save humanity I feel
What you've told me is more horrible than anything I've EVER experienced and I'm appalled and I feel deeply for you. Yes,you have learned a hard lesson. It's good to be trusting and kind and honest but just keep a slight cynical tinge. COVID disrupted so many lives (as it was intended to do). I hope you find an even better job and a good path through life.
And boy am I cynical now as when I got sacked, I had a fantastic relationship with my dad and felt he would have my back and support me during that time.. Boy was I wrong yet again, little did I know the man was just waiting for me to fall so he could backstab me at my lowest.. I've lost faith in humanity since then and especially my evil people.. I don't trust anyone at all
As for trying to get a job, I've gotten two this year and somehow they've both fallen apart in just over a month into it as they turn out to lie on core aspects of the terms of the contract and wait till I'm fully in before they reveal it to me... My ex second job just revealed themselves to me last month so I'm back to being unemployed yet again cuz corporations are just fucking demonic lying entities
So like I said, the last couple of months has been a real eyeopener for me into how truly evil this world is and my innocence and naivity were rudely and brutally murdered by all around me... Life is a fucking bitch
I am going to pray for you,at home and in churches I find ( I'm away for a bit) and in our city Cathedral. Please don't give up HOPE. This is a testing time for you,sadly I've been through such in my life,and personally I can't see the point. People say it's to challenge you but I think it's just a waste of your precious time and if God(who is my best friend and puts up with my angry railing at him), didn't when he "made you" give the gifts and abilities to overcome the challenges then I think thats mean of him. In books and movies,the hero/heroine overcomes the challenge and ends up rich,successful and universally loved but books and movies are not real life. I would advise you,be a little bit canny. Whatever job you get next,keep a bit back,DONT put 100% in,notice who to chum up with,play the game. I can't believe I'm saying this but it's how the world works. In War + Peace that I am listening to on Audible there is a young man called Boris,he's a chancer and opportunist. Like all of his class he goes into the Army at Officer Level and he soon sees that behaving in the way he was taught at school won't get him advancement and he cottons on that the REAL RULES of life are not the ones you are taught. It's a good insight. But it doesn't mean criminal behaviour or rudeness,it means noting every advantage and using it. I don't know if I've helped you at all. I'm a bit shocked to discover how cynical I AM. But it's got me through life so far. Don't give up on hope,love and trust. It's all still around us.
"If you’re among those who’ve gone from fully believing the mainstream propaganda worldview to realizing that everything you’ve been trained to believe about the world is a lie,...." Then many of the people you know will start to avoid you. They will accuse you of being too angry. They proudly say that they have stopped listening to the news, all news, mainstream or not and suggest you do the same. And then they will go back to their phones and their social media.
In his book The Trial of Julian Assange, Nils Melzer wrote: “The problem really is not that we do not know the truth, but that we do not want to know it.” And that’s the truth!
Humans cannot take very much reality...that poet said it,and it's true. I live in a total fantasy world as the real world hurts and rejects me. No one notices anyway,lol.
Some years ago I wanted to make a bumper sticker that had on the top line "NPR" tilted to the left and "FOX" tilted to the right (as in Italics). The second line and third line would then read: "Same Propaganda" - "Different Slant"
For years I have realized that we have been lied to all of our lives - by the government, the news media, the schools we attended as children. One example: "Christopher Columbus discovered America." Well then, I say that "Pocahontas discovered England."
But in general, the lies and the truth have been interwoven in such a fine mesh that it's very difficult to determine which is which.
Freud's nephew, Edward Bernays, intensified and began the professional march of advertising & public relations culture which dominate the West today.
We have a window for a critical mass to reject it as not only are the deceits presently obvious, but that critical mass are increasingly impoverished.
Difficulty is, since the 1980s, these ghouls have demoralised and broken up societies to such an extent that the only large organised forces opposing the Western dystopia are other powerful states.
Perhaps the pressure from outside and within will eventually collapse the Empire. If this is possible then the West's financial and political structures will have to be gutted. Right now they are akin to the compacted dung of the Augean Stables and we know what Heracles had to do to clean them.
Bubble. I am here because most of my life is lived in a bubble of science. People in my world have little knowledge outside the propaganda. They believe israel is not committing Genocide, Ukraine is winning the war, and China is trying to take over the world. Meanwhile, they live in an evil military empire with a facade of democracy.
Just one more barrier to break through, Ms. J! You can do this.
Governments "are a gang of thieves writ large", as Murray Rothbard said. They never own anything they haven't stolen. They can never be trusted. All government officials are immediately targeted for blackmail. They do what they're told, or the bribe offered goes up, and if they dare have too much integrity to take bribes from the puppeteers, they are done away with.
Representative government is always corruptible. And therefore always corrupt.
“accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed." - Declaration of Independence (1776)
But, Is Your "Form", My "Form"??? "A Republic, If you can Keep it" Equal Application of the Laws, Honest Elections, National Borders, Real Money, would be initial practical steps to take.
Revolution or Restoration is in the eye of the beholder, what seems to be vital is practical real world viewpoints.
An education in the Founding Principles as you have done is also Vital as the path to take, imo.
Congratulations dear Caitlin, FB refuses to copy your articles now ...I've been posting them for years ...I guess that's a sign of your growing influence? Or maybe that I need to find another social media platform? I LOVE your voice! XX
I don’t think it’s laziness. That’s victim blaming. I think we believe the propaganda because we’ve had authoritative fathers and external authorities and we crave their acceptance. And the cognitive dissonance said authority figures have taught us prevents us from opening to our true circumstances.
(Feral, I'm guessing you already know all this stuff (based on your comments) - still, the book poses some very interesting thesis(s) and questions about human's relationships with power).
It is difficult to convince ourselves that we are cattle to be Hurd, manipulated, milked,and killed whenever our overlords wants. A lamb or a cow is not anything similar to free sovereign human?
Remember there was zero death from the flue, and all deaths were attributed to covid. Including the death of George Floyd. As long as the media is not nudging us to think, get angry, protest....WE EN MASS WILL NEVER ACT, especially in America. Our Europeans friends go to the streets, but, we don't have anyone to tell us to go to the streets.
There must be an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. Pope Francis has said what is needed, now he must do what is needed by going to Gaza and standing for peace, justice and freedom.
People are waking up thanks to people like you! Please keep pushing these pieces out. You're helping to change the world. As cliche as it sounds, it's 💯 true! Thank you. 🙏❤️
So true. Thanks to Caitlin I have been questioning the things I believe to be true and look to see if they really are.
Propaganda is the powerful tool for the PTB because it’s easy to get people to believe it.
Russia gate for example is still believed in be true even though it’s been debunked.
Russiagate debunked? Perhaps by those who wish that it is not believed, for their own nefarious reasons. Other views are available - https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/08/russiagate-wasnt-a-hoax/615373/
Lol…the Atlantic? Sure I’ll believe that mouthpiece of NATO.
Tell me exactly what Russia did. And no they didn’t hack the dnc computers. Crowdstrike admitted that no information left the computers. And the FBI never bothered to look at them. Good grief…you should admit that you were snookered.
"the Kremlin scheme to hack and leak Clinton campaign emails."
hmm, so there were e-mails to be leaked.
do you think they ought not to have been?
Ehh?
Humans are herd animals. For most humans, most of the time, the fastest and surest way to wind up dead or seriously disadvantaged has been at the hands of other humans. At the same time, "our group", whether by faith, family, tribe, regiment, whatever, are the people we can trust to have our back and get us access to The Goodies.
Therefore, whatever else happens, whatever we have to do, believe absurdities, blindly follow barking insane leaders, parrot obvious lies to our detriment, do or suffer terrible things, but please whatever you do, please don't kick us out of the group!
What this also means is that when we are presented with incontrovertible proof that the group narrative is wrong or that the group leaders are mad or charlatans or worse, rather than change leaders or change beliefs or change groups, most people, most of the time will instead double down. Witness the behavior of cultists.
The process is called "cognitive dissonance" and it is abundantly documented. As alluded to earlier, there are entire religions organized around the principle.
Cognitive dissonance is not limited to stupid people. In fact, the intelligent are at least as prone, perhaps because they are better at rationalizing. In fact, much so-called "knowledge work" is basically learning symbol manipulation in order to rationalize something.
Back to Nature-Nurture. It's not that our "genetic programming" compels our brains to do such and such; that sort of genetic determinism ala ultrareductionist jerkoffs is so oversimplistic. But as you note, if human genetics as a whole leads us anywhere, it's into the group dynamic, which then acts on the individual's genetic backdrop. What then? It really depends on one's tolerance or even affinity for experiencing the role of pariah, taking that risk without emotionally disintegrating because s(he) isn't sufficiently group accepted/adulated. My first major faculty job, I took up that role of openly calling out the student-harming administration's bullshit, and talk about an eye-opener in terms of the collapse of the so-called "collegial atmosphere". Once you accept the role, you never look back.
I'm not even going into nature/nurture. I am saying that groupthink gives in-group humans advantages and out-group humans disadvantages, speaking as a whole.
I've been a pariah all my life. I now know I was born one. It's not that fun.
Jane:
You are NOT a pariah.
You are your own person.
Well said Feral Finster!
A stamp of approval from Einstein. Highly sought after.
His first wife would agree for sure.
Expert sarcasm
Barbra Streisand sang,"People who need people are the luckiest people in the world" but I don't think so. I think people who need people (which is nearly everybody) get sad,lonely,hurt,often self- medicate with drugs,alcohol or other unwise things when the other people reject them,be it all the people around them or just That Guy. The luckiest people are the psychopathic sociopaths,of which I have known two (but good people) they so little NEED other people that the whole world could range against them but they will not leave their stance in a crisis. They stand firm. It's awesome and admirable and scary too. Wow!
The happiest humans I have known were successful sociopaths.
Given steady supplies of money, power, drugs and bedmates and they are happy as can be. "Truly I say to you, they have their reward in full."
It's dangerous to be TOO isolated. The noble ideal of the Lone Stranger only works in movies because we know that REALLY he's sexy and warm and fun to be with once he's overcome that unspecified traumatic event. And he kills the bad guys. We know they are bad guys because he kills them. It's kind of self-defining. I'm just seeing a contemporary analogy,oh dear. But for most people being outside the group is perilous. "We don't like you,youre not like us,you're DIFFERENT". The precursor to many a Witch Burning.
Wise words from a wise cat, Feral.
Lol. Ever tried to herd cats? Even herding one cat?
You can sometimes herd cats with a can of tuna. Unlike humans, though, cats tend to focus on the real and material.
My secretary tried bribing me with sashimi to get me to go to the vet for my annual checkup.
Didn't work. I'm not getting in that cat carrier, not for an entire sushi bar.
Feral, sorry if this is too personal, but are you neutered?
I saw a funny meme the other day, a cat sitting at a table. The caption was: We need to talk.
What happened to my testicles?
😂
Of course I am not neutered!
Every week Feline Resources has to come to my office and bitch that female staff ger uncomfortable when I wash my pouch on top of the conference table or somesuch.
The Laziness of human thinking continues to astound me, especially amongst my people who are amongst the laziest of them all mentally on this entire planet
The sad thing is that far too many prefer the lazy thinking and when they do try to get out of it, at this sign of discomfort, they scurry back into their mental comfyhole of stupidity
It's like the analogy of most people wanting a fit body and heading to the gym at one point in their life but when the universal toil of the gym comes (those fucking muscle pains that lasts for days or weeks 😅), most humans check out and instead seek for pills and other quick fixes
I've seen this play out too many times in the gym to have that much hope that we're gonna get a sizable majority of humans to wake up when mental pain is actually worse than physical pain, so call me a pessimist but I don't have that much Faith in the current human species to wake up from their slumber but I would rather if we had a way of catching the next generation when they're young and indoctrinating them in the Truth before they become too contaminated by society
Then again, humans are the masters of springing surprises so the current crop of humans may wake up in large numbers especially with the way Evil has become ever more blatant and in your face in 2024... I hope they surprise me, I fucking do
Wonderful thoughts Uaifo! Thanks for sharing! I really agree with you here. As an ICU nurse I watched as humanity turned its back on its families and communities while over a million people died in the US alone from Covid and even more staggering numbers of deaths worldwide. The lack of humanity at that time rudely awakened me. I stacked body bags in a corner while simultaneously being asked by my friends if I was "done being crazy about Covid yet". My point is that the world could hardly care or act right during a deadly viral pandemic so I wonder why we would expect any different here? Cognitive dissonance is alive and well around the globe. We all will suffer the consequences.
Hoping for the best put preparing for the worst, comrades. Forever and always rooted in reality and dedicated to the protection and safety of all humans, especially our most vulnerable.
Damn, sorry about your rude awakening to the shittiness of the human species.. Yours was a real rough one
And you are absolutely spot on about how absolutely mindfucking it is to see how humans can be so heartless in the face of tragedy and deep losses, the absolute uncaring nature of man at its core is a marvel even onto the gods
My own rude awakening was when the BBC documentary on one of the most pastors to come out of my country TB joshua came out early this year and completely exposed the man as the satanic occultic filthy shit of human scum that he is with hardcore evidence of all the rapes and ritual killings he had going on in that cult he calls a synagogue... And I was so certain my people will all condemn him unanimously after this exposition and to my everlasting surprise and shame for the pigs that unfortunately share the same blood with me, only a few condemned and most dismissed the documentary or viciously and adamantly defended the dead fucker
I won't lie, a piece of my Soul died when that happened and it opened my eyes to see that a lot of people might be wearing human masks but they are actually Soulless Demonic vampiric avatars that deserve nothing but death and extinction for all the evil that they defend
Bless you. You are from Nigeria a place and a people very dear to my heart. I am so sorry that you, too, know all too well the cruelty and evil of this world. Pure hearts are a force that evil cannot understand. They may have succeeded in breaking pieces of our spirits, but they can never touch our pure hearts and beauty. Those are ours. Thank you for the information, I will watch this documentary purely to honor you and your people 🕊️❤️🫶🏽 Cheers
You know what they say, "don't get too close to your heroes" or something like that and I would say that goes double for my people
You hear of Burnaboy, Rema, Felakuti and the likes and you feel we're not so bad but those are exceptions to the rules and if my people ever sense you are of no use to them financially, then the mask comes off and what you see will frighten the devil himself
A year ago, I would have been here preaching about the flawed but essentially good people that we are but in the last couple of months, they have taught me I who is flesh and blood same with them, what monsters they truly are, especially when you are financially down
And fair warning, those documentaries (there are 3 parts) are quite graphic in detail and even I was feeling a Soul pressure so deep, it was worse than crying could help absolve while watching the debaunchery that is that occultic filth
Very well put, Uaifo. Insightful too. Thanks.
The window we have is the one that is closing on the ghouls that are leading us off the cliff: they are desperate and panicking, hence the obvious deceits and blatant lies; they are impoverishing their own people; and perhaps the biggest one, they are now in utter foolishness/suicide facing up against Russia, China and others who have far superior industrial bases and conventional military strength.
It may all end in nuclear disaster, or there is a chance the West will take such a calamitous defeat that it will help Western populations take their countries back from the global, US-led ghouls that are destroying us all.
Thanks again.
You're welcome Anthony 🙂
And you're right, the ghouls really have lost the plot this year for some reason and this is the best time for the western populace to seize back control of their society before the US leads them and all of humanity off the cliff... Irreversably, through this idioctic warmongoring of theirs
It's up to the citizens of the western Nations to rise up and collectively shut down the madness of their leaders and that window of opportunity is now like you said and the next couple of years will show us what choice the people made either ways like Catlin said
Catching them young and indoctrinating them. It's been done over and over. And always with the intention of instilling the "right values". As a kid in the 1960s every influence from school, media, parents,even pop songs was to hate nobody,love everybody,tolerate,not judge,care, help,be friendly towards etc etc sounds lovely until you grow up.
Tell me about it, I had to go the university twice and then covid prolonged my starting work life and so it was until last year at the age of 29 that I finally entered the workforce with my naive mindset that if you keep your side of the bargain honestly, then other humams and corporations will also do same.... Boy was I wrong! 😅
I got sacked nov last year a month after being the only intern to win an award at my company even though I was up against my direct boss and his own direct boss who was an MD of the company... My reward, the fucking sack letter
Ever since then, I've come to learn the values we get indoctrinated with as kids are the complete opposite of how to survive as adults as if you dont lie and cheat, the system will do its best to break you till you conform to the other side
So I understand a 💯 about what you mean about growing up and seeing the values of the world flip on its head but the more we can have mentors that don't cave to the system for the young ones to look up to, the more we can actually save humanity I feel
What you've told me is more horrible than anything I've EVER experienced and I'm appalled and I feel deeply for you. Yes,you have learned a hard lesson. It's good to be trusting and kind and honest but just keep a slight cynical tinge. COVID disrupted so many lives (as it was intended to do). I hope you find an even better job and a good path through life.
Thanks for the support, means a lot 😊..
And boy am I cynical now as when I got sacked, I had a fantastic relationship with my dad and felt he would have my back and support me during that time.. Boy was I wrong yet again, little did I know the man was just waiting for me to fall so he could backstab me at my lowest.. I've lost faith in humanity since then and especially my evil people.. I don't trust anyone at all
As for trying to get a job, I've gotten two this year and somehow they've both fallen apart in just over a month into it as they turn out to lie on core aspects of the terms of the contract and wait till I'm fully in before they reveal it to me... My ex second job just revealed themselves to me last month so I'm back to being unemployed yet again cuz corporations are just fucking demonic lying entities
So like I said, the last couple of months has been a real eyeopener for me into how truly evil this world is and my innocence and naivity were rudely and brutally murdered by all around me... Life is a fucking bitch
I meant last week and not last month is when the company revealed they are liars
I am going to pray for you,at home and in churches I find ( I'm away for a bit) and in our city Cathedral. Please don't give up HOPE. This is a testing time for you,sadly I've been through such in my life,and personally I can't see the point. People say it's to challenge you but I think it's just a waste of your precious time and if God(who is my best friend and puts up with my angry railing at him), didn't when he "made you" give the gifts and abilities to overcome the challenges then I think thats mean of him. In books and movies,the hero/heroine overcomes the challenge and ends up rich,successful and universally loved but books and movies are not real life. I would advise you,be a little bit canny. Whatever job you get next,keep a bit back,DONT put 100% in,notice who to chum up with,play the game. I can't believe I'm saying this but it's how the world works. In War + Peace that I am listening to on Audible there is a young man called Boris,he's a chancer and opportunist. Like all of his class he goes into the Army at Officer Level and he soon sees that behaving in the way he was taught at school won't get him advancement and he cottons on that the REAL RULES of life are not the ones you are taught. It's a good insight. But it doesn't mean criminal behaviour or rudeness,it means noting every advantage and using it. I don't know if I've helped you at all. I'm a bit shocked to discover how cynical I AM. But it's got me through life so far. Don't give up on hope,love and trust. It's all still around us.
I love you Jane.
"If you’re among those who’ve gone from fully believing the mainstream propaganda worldview to realizing that everything you’ve been trained to believe about the world is a lie,...." Then many of the people you know will start to avoid you. They will accuse you of being too angry. They proudly say that they have stopped listening to the news, all news, mainstream or not and suggest you do the same. And then they will go back to their phones and their social media.
Very true. The man who sees does not become King in the Land of the Blind. He becomes an outcast weirdo talking nonsense.
True, but I avoid them too
In his book The Trial of Julian Assange, Nils Melzer wrote: “The problem really is not that we do not know the truth, but that we do not want to know it.” And that’s the truth!
Humans cannot take very much reality...that poet said it,and it's true. I live in a total fantasy world as the real world hurts and rejects me. No one notices anyway,lol.
Some years ago I wanted to make a bumper sticker that had on the top line "NPR" tilted to the left and "FOX" tilted to the right (as in Italics). The second line and third line would then read: "Same Propaganda" - "Different Slant"
For years I have realized that we have been lied to all of our lives - by the government, the news media, the schools we attended as children. One example: "Christopher Columbus discovered America." Well then, I say that "Pocahontas discovered England."
But in general, the lies and the truth have been interwoven in such a fine mesh that it's very difficult to determine which is which.
Thank you Caitlin.
Excellent piece. Thanks.
Freud's nephew, Edward Bernays, intensified and began the professional march of advertising & public relations culture which dominate the West today.
We have a window for a critical mass to reject it as not only are the deceits presently obvious, but that critical mass are increasingly impoverished.
Difficulty is, since the 1980s, these ghouls have demoralised and broken up societies to such an extent that the only large organised forces opposing the Western dystopia are other powerful states.
Perhaps the pressure from outside and within will eventually collapse the Empire. If this is possible then the West's financial and political structures will have to be gutted. Right now they are akin to the compacted dung of the Augean Stables and we know what Heracles had to do to clean them.
Forgot to add Mark Twain: "It is easier to fool people than tell them they are being fooled."
But community is only the people you like. The nice,amiable,pleasant attractive ones. The rest can go starve
Bubble. I am here because most of my life is lived in a bubble of science. People in my world have little knowledge outside the propaganda. They believe israel is not committing Genocide, Ukraine is winning the war, and China is trying to take over the world. Meanwhile, they live in an evil military empire with a facade of democracy.
Ukraine is winning ha ha ha.
Irony intended.!!
You're right. I live in a nice community but am aware I'm in it but not of it.
Just one more barrier to break through, Ms. J! You can do this.
Governments "are a gang of thieves writ large", as Murray Rothbard said. They never own anything they haven't stolen. They can never be trusted. All government officials are immediately targeted for blackmail. They do what they're told, or the bribe offered goes up, and if they dare have too much integrity to take bribes from the puppeteers, they are done away with.
Representative government is always corruptible. And therefore always corrupt.
Caitlin - as a person formerly involved in pushing agendas to the media, I can confirm that laziness is the secret sauce of success in this activity.
“accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed." - Declaration of Independence (1776)
But, Is Your "Form", My "Form"??? "A Republic, If you can Keep it" Equal Application of the Laws, Honest Elections, National Borders, Real Money, would be initial practical steps to take.
Revolution or Restoration is in the eye of the beholder, what seems to be vital is practical real world viewpoints.
An education in the Founding Principles as you have done is also Vital as the path to take, imo.
An excellent article
Congratulations dear Caitlin, FB refuses to copy your articles now ...I've been posting them for years ...I guess that's a sign of your growing influence? Or maybe that I need to find another social media platform? I LOVE your voice! XX
Haha... do you still use those platforms...
spread the word... we have moved locations
I don’t think it’s laziness. That’s victim blaming. I think we believe the propaganda because we’ve had authoritative fathers and external authorities and we crave their acceptance. And the cognitive dissonance said authority figures have taught us prevents us from opening to our true circumstances.
Power selects strongly for sociopathy.
Check this book out if you have the time: "Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How it Changes Us" by Brian Klass (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59220130-corruptible)
AND/OR this YouTube video->Why do we get the wrong leaders? Brian Klaas at Science and Cocktails (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_Oab42VZRE) and "Why psychopaths rise to power | Brian Klaas" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpyIZ4DGIK8)
(Feral, I'm guessing you already know all this stuff (based on your comments) - still, the book poses some very interesting thesis(s) and questions about human's relationships with power).
I think you’re trying to say we’re pack animals naturally so we look to be led or lead depending on personality type. Most follow a leader
It is difficult to convince ourselves that we are cattle to be Hurd, manipulated, milked,and killed whenever our overlords wants. A lamb or a cow is not anything similar to free sovereign human?
Remember there was zero death from the flue, and all deaths were attributed to covid. Including the death of George Floyd. As long as the media is not nudging us to think, get angry, protest....WE EN MASS WILL NEVER ACT, especially in America. Our Europeans friends go to the streets, but, we don't have anyone to tell us to go to the streets.
Where's the Goddess of Cutting Through the Bullshit when you need her, eh?
Sophia is a state of mind.
Like a muscle, it can be cultivated.
Re-membered.
Energy never lies.
There must be an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. Pope Francis has said what is needed, now he must do what is needed by going to Gaza and standing for peace, justice and freedom.
Please sign the petition and share widely.
https://chng.it/CRQ7qw4Gzn
Code pink
https://www.codepink.org/cnngaza?utm_campaign=12_15_pali_update_alert_3&utm_medium=email&utm_source=codepink
Let us also support UNRWA. If our governments won’t act in accordance with humanity, then we will. https://www.unrwausa.org/donate
Also we can all support the brave doctors who have gone to Gaza: https://palestinian-ama.networkforgood.com/projects/206145-gaza-medical-supplies-oct-2023
Let us make our donations to honor Aaron Bushnell, or in memory of Hind Rajab.
Here’s a new petition to excommunicate Joe Biden: https://www.change.org/p/excommunicate-president-joe-biden-bf979783-ac08-4576-a53f-c786ea23dc9c
These are a few small things we can do. If we can do more, let us do more.
Who is Pope Francis? The godless communist POS? LGBTQ,WEF, UN, ...Keep dreaming the Catholic church has been infiltrated for more than 200 years.